The weakest Long-Eared Rabbit was worth around two million Federal Coins. So what about the stronger Magic Beasts?
The system's existence gave Su Bai confidence that he could grow stronger in a short time!
"Maybe I can get my family settled before Nine Provinces Academy opens!" Su Bai stared fixedly at the Long-Eared Rabbit's corpse, his heart brimming with ambition!
Half a day later.
"Gentle Fist!"
Boom!
Veins bulged beside Xia Xueqing's beautiful eyes. Combining her family's Gentle Fist Taijutsu with the Byakugan, which could see through the body's meridians, she beat a Long-Eared Rabbit until it was badly injured and sprawled on the ground, unable to move!
"Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm!" Xia Xueqing cried out. She thrust her palm toward the head of the immobilized Long-Eared Rabbit and struck from a distance!
Boom!
The attack caved in part of the rabbit's head. Blood immediately poured from its eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Its limbs struggled violently a few times, then fell still.
Xia Xueqing lowered her hands and slowly exhaled, calming her nerves.
"Congratulations, Xueqing. You hunted a Long-Eared Rabbit all by yourself." Su Bai smiled as he walked over from a distance.
Xia Xueqing shook her head at him and said earnestly, "I'm still nowhere near as good as you. I struggled with that rabbit for ages. You cast a single Genjutsu, and the Magic Beast turned into a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. You could kill it whenever you wanted."
She compared herself to Su Bai.
Su Bai's entire hunt had taken less than a minute.
The Double Suicide Decapitation Technique had trapped the Long-Eared Rabbit underground so it couldn't escape, and the Hell Viewing Technique had ensnared it in a Genjutsu, leaving it completely unable to react to attacks from the outside.
Then Su Bai had struck it down in one smooth motion. The whole process had been clean and decisive.
But what about her?
She had fought the Long-Eared Rabbit for a full twenty minutes, even with the Byakugan and Gentle Fist, not to mention the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm she had just learned from her father... She was still too weak.
Maybe Su Bai's Sharingan really is the foremost bloodline limit among the Dojutsu. Xia Xueqing looked at his eyes and thought.
Su Bai hadn't activated his Sharingan, but for the first time, the girl found herself doubting her own eyes...
Chapter 54: Two-Tomoe Sharingan
Xia Xueqing watched Su Bai approach. Her graceful figure trembled, and her pretty face was filled with fear.
"Su, Su Bai, don't. I'm scared..."
"Don't be. It'll be over soon."
"Ah, no!"
"Xueqing, bear with it. It'll be done in a moment."
The sound of a sharp blade rang out. Xia Xueqing covered her eyes with her pale hands, peeking through her fingers at the man she feared—Su Bai!
Su Bai clumsily butchered the Long-Eared Rabbit with the blade in his hand. Before long, he had finished cutting up the huge carcass.
He packed the meat into five snakeskin bags and put them in his Storage Scroll, then wiped the blood from his blade.
"Phew, all done."
"This is worth two million Federal Coins. It'd be such a waste to throw it away."
Xia Xueqing had just said she didn't want the Magic Beast's corpse. To Su Bai, who had known what it was like to be poor, that was practically a crime!
So he couldn't hold back any longer. Just as he had done with the Long-Eared Rabbit he'd killed himself, he butchered this poor rabbit too.
"Ugh, that's disgusting!" Xia Xueqing bent over and retched. Miao Qiu stepped forward, patted her back, and said with a laugh,
"You'll have to get used to this kind of thing. Otherwise, you'll be at a disadvantage."
"Sister Miao, I know what you mean, but, but..." Whenever Xia Xueqing saw the scraps of flesh on the ground, waves of nausea rose in her stomach.
Suppressing his own revulsion, Su Bai walked over to the girl.
His stomach felt awful too. Watching someone else butcher an animal looked easy enough, but when he did it himself, he realized how difficult it was.
Especially when he had to use a knife to separate the bones and flesh of an animal that had been alive only moments ago, piece by piece, then reach in with his hands to pull out its organs... It was an experience he wouldn't wish on anyone.
"Xueqing, we're not students anymore. We're ninjas."
"Ninjas have to learn to be strong. Understand?"
Su Bai comforted Xia Xueqing as if he were soothing a child. She stared at him blankly for a moment, then nodded firmly!
"Haha, Chu Yuan, your two students are pretty good at handling this." Not far away, Li Lei leaned against a willow tree with a cigarette between his lips and teased him.
Chu Yuan didn't seem to hear the mockery in his voice. He smiled and said, "Honestly, Brother Li, when we first got to the Wasteland Zone, I was worried Xueqing would act like a spoiled princess. Her family is so well-off that she's never had to struggle her way up like the rest of us."
"But I never expected her to be so level-headed. She does whatever I tell her to. That really surprised me."
"Yeah, now that you mention it, that makes sense. People have different ways of doing things because their lives follow different paths." Li Lei flicked away his cigarette and called out to Su Bai and Xia Xueqing.
"Let's go back and get some rest."
The two of them quickly packed up and followed Li Lei back to the shopping mall where they had left their vehicles.
The smell of blood and corpses in the Wasteland Zone would attract Magic Beasts, so they had no choice but to leave the battlefield and return to a safe place.
Ten minutes later, they reached the mall rooftop and sat down to rest.
They had been out for most of the day and were long overdue for a meal. Each of them took out the compressed rations they had brought and began eating.
It wasn't that they had no other food. Storage Scrolls were convenient; they could easily fit a cooking stove inside.
But there were too many Magic Beasts in the Wasteland Zone. Cooking might attract their attention, so the group had to make do with ready-to-eat food.
In less than ten minutes, they had finished eating. Li Lei turned to Su Bai and Xia Xueqing. "Hurry up and restore your chakra. This afternoon, we're going to hunt Iron-Horned Sheep. We won't have time to look after you two then."
"Yes, Brother Li," Su Bai and Xia Xueqing replied together.
They both knew that in the morning, the others had just been playing along with them. A Chunin team wouldn't waste its time on low-level Magic Beasts like Long-Eared Rabbits.
Su Bai leaned against a water tank on the rooftop, closed his eyes, and looked at the panel in his mind.
His Yin Attribute needed only two more points to reach level five. He already had one, and the point that had refreshed early that morning made two.
Originally, he had planned to save the point in case his chakra proved inadequate when facing a Magic Beast. He could then add it to his chakra to handle the danger.
But after fighting the Long-Eared Rabbit that morning, he had realized he had more than enough chakra. So now he planned to level up his Yin Attribute first and awaken the Two-Tomoe Sharingan.
"Let's do it. I want to see what benefits the Two-Tomoe Sharingan will bring me!"
With a thought, Su Bai used both available points on his Yin Attribute. Several notifications immediately appeared before his eyes.
"Your Yin Attribute has leveled up..."
"Your Sharingan has evolved..."
"You have obtained Copy Eye..."
"You have obtained Hypnosis Eye... The system has automatically converted it into enhanced Genjutsu..."
Boom!
As soon as the notifications appeared, a wave of murderous bloodlust surged without warning through Su Bai's mind. His head nearly felt as if it would explode!
But then another powerful mental force rushed in and filled the gap, bringing him back to normal.
Outside.
Su Bai's face suddenly turned deathly pale, catching the attention of the sharp-eyed Xia Xueqing.
"Su Bai, you..."
"I'm fine. Just a little tired."
Su Bai hurriedly stopped her from asking more. The others glanced at him but paid no attention.
Inside, Su Bai was in turmoil. He couldn't calm down for a long time!
"Th-this means the Two-Tomoe Sharingan can copy Ninjutsu?"
"And it enhanced my Genjutsu too?"
Su Bai was stunned.
In the original story, wasn't the Sharingan's ability to copy Ninjutsu unlocked only with the Three-Tomoe?
As for the Hypnosis Eye... Wasn't that a kind of Genjutsu? It was convenient that the system had converted it directly into enhanced Genjutsu.
It seemed that although the Sharingan on Blue Star had outrageously strong side effects, its power wouldn't disappoint him!
The Two-Tomoe Sharingan could already do what the Three-Tomoe could in the original story... So what would happen when he unlocked the Three-Tomoe?
Could it awaken the Mangekyo's abilities right away?
Su Bai knew exactly what ability his Mangekyo Sharingan would have.
It was the utterly unbeatable Dojutsu, Kamui!
With just one eye, Obito had toyed with the entire Shinobi World. He moved in and out of the major shinobi villages as casually as someone admiring fish or flowers.
Hashirama Cells had certainly helped, but the main reason was that his Mangekyo ability was simply too overpowered!
If unlocking the Three-Tomoe gave him the Mangekyo's abilities... wouldn't he take off like a rocket?
Even getting just part of them would be enough!
Intangibility, a separate dimension, Susanoo, spatial distortion... Every one of those abilities was absurdly powerful!
Level seven...
Su Bai's eyes settled on the Yin Attribute entry on the panel in his mind.
"Yin Attribute: LV5 (1601/3200)"
"By that calculation, the next level needs 6,400 experience?"
"If I rely on the system to refresh one Attribute Point a day, I can level up in only three months... Yeah, that's not long!"
"Besides, I have missions too, so it'll definitely take less time!"
Su Bai glanced at the mission section of the panel again.
"Mission cooldown: 30:56:45..."
"Only one more day until the mission refreshes."
Chapter 55: First Ninjutsu Copy
Su Bai knew that the value of his Copy Eye far exceeded its value in the original story.
That was because ninjas on Blue Star had to learn Ninjutsu through Ninjutsu Scrolls. The scrolls acted as a catalyst, unlocking Ninjutsu for the ninja.
In the original story, Ninjutsu could be passed down from master to student, or an undamaged Ninjutsu Scroll could be used to teach an unlimited number of people.
But Ninjutsu Scrolls on Blue Star didn't work that way. They were single-use, with each scroll usable by only one ninja.
When a ninja opened an Ninjutsu Scroll, the information inside would appear in the ninja's mind. Afterward, the scroll became blank and lost its value.
And Ninjutsu Scrolls could only be obtained in the mysterious, dangerous Secret Realms. Every scroll had been brought back from a Secret Realm by ninjas who had risked their lives. That was why they were so valuable: even the cheapest D-rank scroll could sell for over a million Federal Coins.
"With Copy Eye, I'll be free of the restrictions imposed by Ninjutsu Scrolls!"
Su Bai suppressed his excitement and clenched his fists tight. He knew the value of Copy Eye was immeasurable!
With Copy Eye, he wouldn't have to spend a fortune to obtain Ninjutsu like other ninjas, or risk his life exploring Secret Realms.
All he had to do was copy other people's Ninjutsu. He could even save the time normally needed to learn it!
Once he copied it with his Sharingan, he could use it right away!
"I can't wait to try it!"
Su Bai looked toward Chu Yuan and Li Lei.
One was a Fire Release Chunin, while the other was a Lightning Release Genin known for how rare Ninjutsu were. They were his best targets to copy from right now.
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