Mirage Flower, Moon Reflection, Cultivation Method, and Sage Mode

System, a novel reader, crystal clear.

Chinjao the old thief's previous two works, Stealing the Myriad Worlds System from Douluo and Treasure Exchange System from Battle Through the Heavens, were both system novels. The protagonist uses the system to act cool and slap faces all the way, eventually gathering a harem, crushing the heavens and the earth, and reaching the pinnacle of life.

But what the hell is this "Loli-con" thing?

Could it be that it wants to lead him down a path of crime?

Give him a person, a wife or a mature woman would be fine too.

However, this Kyōka Suigetsu is not bad. It is the Zanpakutō of the Bleach world's big boss, Aizen Sōsuke. With it, even if he doesn't reach Aizen's level, at least in this world, few people will be able to hurt him.

Just as Chiya was complaining in his heart, Uchiha Izumi walked over and sat down beside him. "Chiya-kun, what are you thinking about?"

"N-nothing." Chiya looked at Uchiha Izumi with a guilty conscience.

"Chiya-kun, I just heard from Itachi that your family also... Actually, when you encounter something like this, you don't have to keep it inside. You can just cry it out. My mom and dad also..."

Uchiha Izumi spoke to comfort him, but even as she said this, she ended up crying first.

And just at this moment, the system prompt sounded again:

"Ding, as the strongest Loli-con, how can you just watch the little loli in front of you be sad?"

"1. Comfort the little loli. Reward: Heavenly Steel Art from the Buliangren world."

"2. Ignore her. Reward: A pair of Danzo's old, worn-out underwear from the Naruto world."

"Is a martial arts world technique even useful in this world? But what the hell is this Danzo thing?" Chiya's mouth twitched violently. He had no choice but to comfort her. He gently stroked Uchiha Izumi's little head and said softly, "It's okay, cry. It's good to let it out. Once you're done crying, everything will be fine. I think if your family were still alive and saw you safe and sound, they would definitely be happy for you."

He definitely did not want that old thief Danzo's underwear.

Hearing Chiya's words, Izumi could no longer hold it back, and with a wail, she began to cry in Chiya's arms.

The crowd of refugees nearby heard the girl's heart-wrenching cries and were reminded of their own lost loved ones, all of them beginning to weep in unison.

For a time, in the massive shelter, from eighty-year-old grandmothers down to the Uchiha Second Pillar, everyone was wailing and howling.

And just then, the system prompt sounded in Chiya's mind again:

"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the mission. Reward: Zanpakutō Kyōka Suigetsu. Do you wish to extract it now?"

"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the mission. Reward: Technique Heavenly Steel Art. Do you wish to extract it now?"

"Intercepted the plot so quickly?" Chiya looked at the sobbing little loli in his arms, then at Uchiha Itachi in the distance, who looked anxious and was busy coaxing the Second Pillar, feeling somewhat stunned.

What he didn't know was that in the original story, the reason Uchiha Izumi liked Uchiha Itachi wasn't because the latter was exceptionally outstanding, but rather because Uchiha Itachi appeared like a hero during the Night of the Nine-Tails, when she was at her most helpless and desperate, and saved her.

A hero saving a beauty—this phrase never goes out of style anywhere.

Not to mention for Uchiha Izumi, who was in the midst of her emotional awakening.

"Do not extract for now." He didn't know in what form the rewards would be issued. If a Zanpakutō and a secret manual suddenly appeared out of thin air, he would surely be targeted by Konoha.

One must know that in order to monitor the Uchiha, there were many Root ninjas hidden all around!

That old guy Danzo loved collecting special abilities more than anything.

After a long while, Uchiha Izumi had cried enough. She rose from Chiya's arms with a slightly flushed face, her voice still carrying a hint of a sob. "S-sorry... I was supposed to be the one comforting you, but I ended up crying first."

Chiya shook his head to show it was fine. He looked up toward the direction of the Nine-Tails' roar until the sound suddenly vanished, only then withdrawing his gaze and murmuring in his heart, "Looks like it's about to end."

In the end, the Nine-Tails' Rebellion concluded at the cost of the Fourth Hokage couple and countless ninjas' lives.

From then on, Konoha's Fourth Hokage, the Yellow Flash of the ninja world, the legendary ninja Namikaze Minato, passed away.

It is said that to protect the village, he paid with his life to seal the powerful Nine-Tails that had nearly destroyed Konoha.

The entire ninja world was deeply moved by his spirit of sacrificing everything for the sake of the village.

Of course, while they were moved, there were certainly many who gloated.

People like the Third Tsuchikage Ōnoki, the Fourth Kazekage Rasa, and the Konoha ninja Danzo—these types of people were practically wishing for the Fourth Hokage to sacrifice himself.

The former two were happy because Konoha's power had been weakened, while for Danzo, it was purely because with the Fourth Hokage dead, he felt he finally had a chance to ascend to power.

At the same time, within Konoha, the conflict with the Uchiha clan, which had finally begun to ease due to the Fourth's rise, erupted once again.

The Konoha high-level officials, led by Danzo, openly expressed strong suspicion toward the Uchiha clan.

They accused members of the Uchiha clan of controlling the Nine-Tails to trigger the rebellion.

They forcibly relocated the Uchiha clan's residential district to the edge of Konoha, far from the village center, and even increased Anbu surveillance.

Even though the Third Hokage knew this would incite Uchiha resentment toward Konoha, he still chose to tacitly approve of Danzo's actions.

From this point on, the conflict between the Uchiha clan and Konoha began to spiral into an almost irreconcilable state.

The next day, Konoha held a grand funeral for the Fourth Hokage couple and the many fallen ninjas.

After a passionate and tragic speech by Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Konoha began to enter the full swing of reconstruction.

Because Chiya's parents were both ninjas and his father had sacrificed himself while intercepting the Nine-Tails, he was not sent to an orphanage like the common civilians, and was instead allocated a separate residence.

He would receive a monthly subsidy that kept him from starving until he graduated from the Ninja Academy.

However, Chiya didn't care about any of this. Knowing the darkness of Konoha, he had no sense of belonging to the village.

The moment he was assigned his living quarters, he shut the doors and windows tight, silently summoning the system in his mind.

"System, extract Kyōka Suigetsu and Heavenly Steel Art for me."

As the words left his lips, Chiya felt a flash of golden light before his eyes and instinctively squeezed them shut. When he opened them again, a sheathed katana with a pale green hilt had already appeared before him.

As for his mind, it was now flooded with the usage methods for Kyōka Suigetsu, as well as the cultivation technique from the world of the Buliangren: the Heavenly Steel Art.

Chiya first attempted to use Kyōka Suigetsu, only to discover that every time he released it, it consumed his chakra. Given his original body—a frail six-year-old who had only just learned the method of chakra refinement—it simply could not sustain the continuous release of Kyōka Suigetsu.

He then immediately tested the Heavenly Steel Art, and an unconcealable look of joy instantly bloomed across his face.