Senju Nawaki

On August 9th, in the 20th year of Konoha, a loud, clear cry of an infant echoed through the Senju clan's residence. The Senju clan had finally added a new member, welcoming a brand-new little life.

Shen Shu felt completely overwhelmed. He discovered that he had somehow turned into an infant, held in the arms of a red-haired woman whom he found strangely familiar.

Looking at the surrounding furnishings, the clothing worn by the people in the room, and the language he couldn't understand at all, he knew he must have transmigrated!

In his previous life, Shen Shu was an aging shut-in from China. Regarding his memories before the transmigration, he only remembered that he was fiddling with a strangely shaped wooden carving that looked like a seed while watching Naruto, reminiscing about his lost youth. Then, suddenly, there was a loud bang; he felt his vision go black, and he knew nothing more.

Although as a shut-in, he would often fantasize about what he would do if he ever transmigrated.

But when it actually happened to him, he was like Lord Ye who loved dragons—completely falling apart. Thinking of his parents from his past life and his status as a virgin (no fog), he couldn't help but feel a surge of sorrow, letting out an even more heartbreaking cry.

At this moment, the woman lying on the bed, looking haggard, said something, and Shen Shu was passed by the red-haired woman into her arms.

Seeing the woman holding him look at him with eyes full of maternal love, Shen Shu was moved by her affection and, for a moment, actually stopped crying.

He knew that this gentle woman before him must be his mother in this life. Seeing her haggard appearance, Shen Shu forced a smile to comfort her.

Seeing Shen Shu's smile, the woman's eyes filled with sweet joy. She extended her index finger to gently stroke his cheek, then said a sentence in a soft tone.

Shen Shu would later learn that the words his mother said to him were: "Nawaki, I hope you can live happily with a smile forever."

This was the first sentence she said to Nawaki, and also the last.

After saying this, she gave instructions to a blonde girl of about ten years old guarding the bedside, then closed her eyes forever and stopped breathing.

Shen Shu originally thought she was just too tired and had fallen asleep. It wasn't until the blonde girl began to sob softly and eventually burst into loud wails that he realized his mother in this life—the woman who had just touched his heart with her gentle maternal love—had left him forever. Having just calmed his emotions, Shen Shu could no longer suppress the grief in his heart and began to wail loudly.

Hearing her younger brother's cries, the blonde girl clumsily picked him up while tears streamed down her face, gently patting his back. However, neither the sister nor the brother could soothe the pain in their hearts; the two figures, one large and one small, shed tears recklessly, venting the emotions within them.

The red-haired woman nearby, watching the two weeping siblings, turned away, unable to bear the sight. Two lines of tears flowed from the corners of her eyes, eventually merging into a stream on her chin and hitting the floor like raindrops.

In the 21st year of Konoha, a small figure was looking at himself in the mirror, whispering to himself: "I really look like Naruto! No! It should be that Naruto looks like me! I am an elder who is more than twenty years older than him!"

This exquisitely carved, cute little boy was none other than Shen Shu, who had transmigrated from Earth. One year after his arrival, he had long since mastered the language of this world and figured out exactly what kind of world he was in.

This world was the Naruto world, the anime he had been watching before he transmigrated. The red-haired woman he saw when he was born was his grandmother, Mito Uzumaki, and that blonde girl was his own sister, the future one of the Sannin, the Fifth Hokage, Tsunade!

And he himself was that important supporting character who stepped on an explosive tag trap at twelve, only to have his internal organs ripped out and die a miserable death: the young clan head of the Senju, Nawaki Senju!

Nawaki Senju's father had died in an accident during a mission before he was born, and his mother had died in childbirth after giving birth to him. Now, his only remaining close direct relatives were Tsunade and Mito.

As the only male descendant of the Senju clan's direct line, he had shouldered the heavy responsibility of revitalizing the Senju clan since birth.

As a descendant of the First and Second Hokage, he was born an inheritor of the Will of Fire.

Nawaki didn't care about the so-called Will of Fire at all; he only wanted to fulfill his mother's dying wish: to live happily with a smile.

But as a transmigrator who knew the plot, he knew how difficult it was to achieve this in a world filled with conspiracies and slaughter!

Take the original Nawaki Senju he knew from his past life: this original body had practiced diligently since childhood without a single day of rest, possessing the Kekkei Genkai of both the Senju and Uzumaki clans, yet he still died in the Second Shinobi World War.

Therefore, to survive, one must possess power far beyond ordinary people; at the very least, one must reach the strength of a Jonin before the age of twelve.

Do not underestimate a Jonin. As the number one village in the ninja world, Konoha currently had fewer than three hundred active Jonin in total, and a large portion of them were lower-tier Special Jonin. The number of Chunin and Genin already exceeded eighty thousand, making the proportion of Jonin less than two percent—truly one in a hundred. This was only achieved after ten years of accumulation following the Second Hokage's establishment of the Ninja Academy; before that, the number was even lower.

His original body was only a Genin at twelve, which shows how difficult it is to become a Jonin.

Fortunately, as a transmigrator, he had his own golden finger: the mysterious seed that had transmigrated along with his soul.

After a year of exploration, he had figured out the origin of this seed. It was a Seed of the Divine Tree generated by the combination of the legendary primordial spiritual root, the Heavenly Building Wood, and fragments (well, actually powder) of the primordial supreme treasure, the Jade Plate of Creation.

Although this Seed of the Divine Tree was far less powerful than its parent body, it possessed the characteristics of both a spiritual root and a spiritual treasure, and it contained vitality that could allow it to grow, sprout, and become a spiritual root once again. At the time of his soul's transmigration, this treasure had completely merged with Nawaki's soul, and Nawaki became its sole master.

As a combination of a primordial spiritual root and a spiritual treasure, the Seed of the Divine Tree not only inherited the growth characteristics of the Building Wood but also possessed the creation functions of the Jade Plate of Creation.

The Jade Plate of Creation was a supreme treasure born from the evolution of the Great Dao, capable of evolving all things in the world and the three thousand Great Daos.

The Seed of the Divine Tree inherited this creation characteristic; as long as it absorbed enough belief power, it could evolve different things and rules to achieve some incredible feats.

However, because the fragments were too incomplete, the laws within them had completely disappeared. To evolve something, one must have a real-world object as a template, which could only be achieved after the Seed of the Divine Tree scanned and analyzed it.

For example, if Nawaki wanted to create a pistol, first, steel must exist in this world, and second, he would need to know the specific structure of the pistol, or simply take a pistol as a template and hand it over to the Seed of the Divine Tree for analysis before it could be manifested and replicated.

In short, anything that did not exist or that Nawaki himself did not understand could not be manifested out of thin air. Even with an infinite amount of belief power, it would be impossible to achieve.

For instance, Nawaki could currently use himself as a template and spend belief power through the Seed of the Divine Tree to bestow the Kekkei Genkai of the Senju and Uzumaki clans upon others.

However, he could not manifest the Wood Release Kekkei Genkai for himself; he could only do so after obtaining the cells or blood of Hashirama Senju and having the Seed of the Divine Tree analyze them to create the corresponding template.

Another example: if he wanted to learn a certain ninjutsu, he had to see someone else use it with his own eyes, or obtain the training method for that ninjutsu, and then have the Seed of the Divine Tree scan and analyze it before he could spend belief power to redeem it and immediately comprehend and use it.

In general, although there were limitations on the conditions for use, as long as Nawaki was given enough time and belief power, he would one day be able to learn all the ninjutsu in the world and obtain all the Kekkei Genkai!

So, what is belief power? And how can it be obtained?

As the saying goes, all things in heaven and earth are created by the mind. Belief power is born from the thoughts of all living beings. As long as there is enough belief power, one can use creation to achieve all kinds of incredible things.

The thoughts and ideas that humans have in their daily lives all belong to belief power, but these are very chaotic and cannot be utilized.

As the master of the Seed of the Divine Tree, Nawaki could absorb and utilize any belief power generated because of him—whether it was love or hate, worship or contempt, or even jealousy, annoyance, or fear. As long as it was a strong emotion directed at him, it could be utilized.

In other words, if he had enough prestige in the ninja world, he could quickly and continuously obtain belief power!

Through a year of repeated experiments, Nawaki summarized a method for measuring the amount of belief power.

According to Nawaki's tests, manifesting any substance of the same mass consumed the same amount of belief power, whether it was sand or gold.

Therefore, he defined the Wish Power required to manifest one gram of matter as a basic unit, calling it one point of Wish Power. In other words, every point of Wish Power could manifest one gram of any known substance.

He defined the unit for measuring the generation rate of Wish Power as Reputation, where each point of Reputation generates one point of Wish Power per day.

Nawaki Senju is the young clan head of the Senju clan. Due to his status, he carries the expectations of both the Senju clan and Konoha, so he has received attention from many sides since his birth. Although he has not deliberately done anything major to boost his Reputation, many people have heard his name.

It can be said that his status is an innate advantage, and it brought him 10 points of initial Reputation. Over the course of a year, relying on his initial Reputation, he accumulated a total of over 3,600 points of Wish Power. Since the affection (bond) that Mito and Tsunade have for him is already fixed at the maximum, each of them also provides Nawaki with 10 points of Wish Power every day.

Relying on his own statistics and calculations was too troublesome, so he combined his experience from web novels in his past life to create a Wish Power System. This system can not only track Wish Power and Reputation values but also manifest his own status through data.

Since the core of the system was transformed from the artifact spirit of the Seed of the Divine Tree and is an intangible object, while the template is merely a simple program system, it only consumed 1,000 points of Wish Power.

Because the core is an artifact spirit, the Wish Power System mutated. It not only possesses high intelligence but also infinite potential. It can store unlimited data without ever reaching a cap, and it can even analyze changes in the surrounding environment to autonomously issue Reputation quests, helping Nawaki obtain Wish Power points.