Rasengan

Chen He felt as if the entire world had gone mad. An elite jonin? This assassin, who had been stabbed over four hundred times by that little devil Li Tong, was an elite jonin?

Silence!

An eerie atmosphere enveloped everyone by the lakeside.

This was something no one could accept!

It was completely inexplicable.

If Li Tong had been hiding his strength all along, then how could he have been easily captured by the Konoha Anbu? Even within the Konoha Anbu, the number of elite jonin was limited, and the ninja who had captured Li Tong that time was merely a jonin.

It was impossible for Li Tong to have hidden his strength before joining Konoha, and since joining... it had only been half a month. In half a month, growing from a genin to someone capable of killing an elite jonin!

This was absolutely impossible!

"Captain, are you..." Chen He suddenly spoke, hesitating as he asked, "Are you sure you didn't misjudge?"

Anbu ninjas never dared to question White Fang. As the youngest and strongest Anbu captain in history, White Fang's ability was beyond reproach, but today's situation was too peculiar.

"There is no mistake!" White Fang said with absolute certainty. "Uesugi Kama, before he betrayed Kirigakure, used a sickle as his weapon. In the first year after his betrayal, he was constantly hunted by the Kirigakure Anbu. Since few ninjas used sickles, it was a traceable characteristic. To avoid being found through this, Uesugi Kama abandoned the sickle and turned to practicing with the common katana. He could execute unique sickle techniques using a katana, which is why he was known as the 'Sickle Without Hook'."

"Captain, you mean..." Chen He sensed something amiss; White Fang knew far too much about Uesugi Kama.

"The Anbu Intelligence Division has records of my engagement with Uesugi Kama," White Fang added. "I fought him during a mission four years ago. I wasn't an Anbu captain then. Because that mission involved top-secret intelligence, the records were classified as top-secret, accessible only to the Hokage and me."

Four years ago?

Chen He recalled that four years ago, White Fang had just been promoted to elite jonin!

White Fang had fought Uesugi Kama with the strength of an elite jonin, and neither had managed to get the better of the other. By that logic, Uesugi Kama was undoubtedly an elite jonin!

In the bathroom, Li Tong was still soaking in the wooden tub.

He had already consumed most of the ninjutsu cards, leaving only two C-rank secret technique cards. Due to the unique nature of secret techniques, Li Tong had to carefully read the detailed explanations on the cards.

Secret Technique: Water Concealment: Using this technique, one can use the refraction of light in water to become invisible. It produces no ripples, aura, or chakra fluctuations. Other ninjutsu cannot be used while in the state of Water Concealment, and the effect is dispelled upon taking damage.

Secret Technique: Rapid Costume Change: Using this technique, one can quickly change their entire outfit.

These were two non-offensive auxiliary ninjutsu. Although they were only C-rank, their effects were quite practical. Compared to underwater invisibility, Li Tong preferred the Rapid Costume Change; for someone with his cleanliness habits, changing clothes several times a day was a hassle.

Snap! Snap!

After consuming the two secret technique cards, Li Tong had now mastered one A-rank ninjutsu, four B-rank ninjutsu, and nearly thirty C-rank ninjutsu, including Fire Style: Flame Bullet, which he had consumed three times, making its power comparable to a B-rank ninjutsu.

Judging solely by the number of techniques mastered, Li Tong was at least a jonin.

But in reality, because of his chakra, it was hard to say if Li Tong could fight a jonin head-on. His chakra reserves might be higher than an average chunin, but he likely didn't measure up to an elite chunin.

Lying back in the tub, Li Tong opened the Reputation Shop again.

Li Tong currently possessed thirteen thousand reputation points. Three thousand of these had been earned over the past half-month by killing sixty-seven people and completing various achievement storylines, while the remaining ten thousand were part of a kill reward.

Li Tong still had two cards that could be used on the Reputation Shop. The Lock Card could lock an exchange item, keeping it unchanged for a month—meaning that once Li Tong locked an item, the Reputation Shop would only refresh the other nine items each time it refreshed.

There was also the Reputation Shop Refresh Card, which forced a one-time refresh of the shop.

"Oh! Right, there's also the kill reward."

Thinking this, Li Tong took the A-rank Ninjutsu Random Card out of his Item Space.

"Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, bless me!" Li Tong muttered. With a flick of his wrist, the card spun and flew out, hitting the ceiling beam at an angle, rebounding, and spinning back into his hand.

With a sense of ceremony, Li Tong held the card up, closed his eyes, and bit down hard to crush it.

"Ding! Host has randomly obtained the A-rank forbidden technique: Rasengan!"

"Rasengan!" Li Tong's eyes snapped open.

The signature ninjutsu of the original protagonist, Naruto Uzumaki! Created by his father, the Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze. Joy lit up Li Tong's eyes. It wasn't just about how explosive the power of this technique was, but because Li Tong could actually use it!

Although it was an A-rank ninjutsu, its power came from the tearing force generated by chakra compression and rotation, rather than relying on nature transformation. The strength of the Rasengan depended entirely on how fast it rotated; in other words, this technique relied entirely on skill to exert power, not on the amount of chakra.

Since Li Tong had gained the ability to perform the Rasengan by consuming a card, the technique was directly imparted to him by the rules upon consumption. He didn't need to train; he could fully master the technique of making chakra rotate at high speeds.

The reason the Rasengan was classified as a forbidden technique was that the technique was too difficult; if one wasn't careful, it would explode right in their hand.

Li Tong had absolutely no such problem!

"Ha! A-rank ninjutsu! Rasengan! Haha!" Li Tong laughed. He had two reasons to laugh: first, this technique was one of the best in close-quarters combat, and second, this technique did not exist in the current world of the Hokage!

This meant Li Tong could use it openly and claim it as his own original creation!

Splash, splash...

Li Tong excitedly kicked up water in the tub.

Whoosh!

A figure appeared out of thin air in front of the tub, staring at Li Tong with eyes as calm as an ancient well.

White Fang!

He had arrived too suddenly!

Li Tong was startled. Still in his excited pose of splashing water, his body froze for a second before he immediately hugged his shoulders and shrank back into the water, looking at White Fang as if he were a pervert, acting as though he were terrified White Fang might molest him.

"Lord White Fang, can you not knock before entering?" Li Tong said.

"How did you kill Sickle Without Hook?" White Fang asked, getting straight to the point without any wasted words.

"Who?" Li Tong feigned ignorance, though his heart gave a jolt.

Did White Fang realize that guy was an Elite Jonin? No way, right? The corpse had been stabbed into a pulp, but if that weren't the case, how could White Fang come here to ask such a question?

"He was an Elite Jonin, a professional assassin hired through the Black Market! How did you kill him?"

As expected, White Fang knew!

Li Tong immediately put on an expression of extreme shock, blinking at White Fang in disbelief as he exclaimed, "An Elite Jonin?"

"Correct!"

"Lord White Fang, how do you know he was an Elite Jonin? That's impossible. Your analysis must be wrong; how could I possibly kill an Elite Jonin?"

"It's not analysis. I know him!"

"What?"

"I said I know him!"

Damn it! Li Tong nearly cursed out loud, his mouth twitching. How could he be so unlucky that the Elite Jonin he killed happened to be someone White Fang knew?

He should have checked his fortune today.

"Answer my question: how did you kill him?" White Fang's voice deepened.

"Uh... we were underwater at the time, and he choked."

A familiar-sounding answer.

It was the same excuse Li Tong had used when he killed Hyuga Anan.

White Fang stared at Li Tong with a look that clearly said, "Do you take me for an idiot?"