Healing Technique! (Second Update)

Gong Yi returned home and let out a long sigh as he looked at the dusty room.

Compared to dangerous missions, it is much better to stay at home and conduct research!

Ding!

Mission successful: Intelligence from the Land of Rain has been successfully brought back to Konoha!

Reward: One hundred Scholar Points, one low-level Scholar Skill!

Hearing the long-lost sound of the system, Gong Yi's face lit up with joy. After all the life-and-death struggles, this moment had finally arrived.

Opening the system panel, Gong Yi began to browse.

Age: Eight years old
Ninja Rank: Chunin
Physique: 50 points
Spirit Power: 35 points
Chakra Basic Attributes: Wind, Lightning, Water, Fire, Earth; Strongest Attribute--Earth
Weapons: Iron Kunai, standard Shuriken
Scholar Points: 230 points (Scholar Points can be used to exchange for Scholar Skills or upgrade Scholar Rank.)
Scholar Rank: Level 1 (Can possess a maximum of three Scholar Skills)
Scholar Skills: Low-level Recovery Technique, Gravity Technique, Spirit Refining Technique
Current Research Projects: 0
Completed Research Projects: 8 (Reduced the chakra required for the C-rank Ninjutsu Earth Style Wall by half!)(Reduced the chakra required for the C-rank Ninjutsu Headhunter Jutsu by half!)(Reduced the chakra required for the Rock Pillar Spear by half!)(Self-created B-rank defensive Ninjutsu Rock Armor)
Missions: Undying Xiaoqiang mission completed, Land of Rain mission brought back to Konoha completed!

Gong Yi looked at the 230 Scholar Points and the newly acquired Scholar Skill, Spirit Refining Technique, and revealed a gratified smile.

Originally, his Scholar Points had risen to 130 points by researching how to halve the chakra consumption of Ninjutsu and by self-creating the B-rank defensive Ninjutsu Rock Armor.

With this mission completed, he gained another hundred points, bringing the total to 230.

This was certainly good news.

It meant that Gong Yi could proceed with other plans.

First, he would use 100 Scholar Points to upgrade the level of his Recovery Technique.

During this mission, if the level of his Recovery Technique had been higher and his state had recovered faster, the combat process would have gone much more smoothly.

Not to mention that after being seriously injured, it took him a full ten days of recuperation before he could return.

Furthermore, the Recovery Technique provides excellent auxiliary effects during daily training; upgrading it is definitely not a loss!

He acted as soon as he thought of it!

Gong Yi did not hesitate and allocated 100 Scholar Points to the Recovery Technique.

"Host has upgraded Recovery Technique, obtained intermediate Scholar Skill: Healing Technique!"

"Healing Technique: Can rapidly restore physical fatigue, mental exhaustion, and chakra depletion. It also has a 100% healing effect on internal and external injuries!

If you wish to improve the Healing Technique, you can advance it to the high-level Scholar Skill Creation Regeneration after mastering a large number of medical skills or by investing 1,000 Scholar Points."

Looking at the description of the Healing Technique, Gong Yi beamed with joy.

As expected, the next stage of the Recovery Technique not only retained its original effects but could also treat internal and external injuries.

And the next stage of the upgrade was actually Creation Regeneration!

Although there was no description for Creation Regeneration, just hearing the name allowed Gong Yi to imagine its general effects.

"Regeneration, huh!"

Gong Yi wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth; he shouldn't get ahead of himself.

One thousand Scholar Points!

That was not something he could obtain in a short period of time.

He had spent a full four years accumulating the previous 130 Scholar Points, and that was after completing a difficult mission that nearly cost him his life.

Putting aside such unrealistic thoughts, Gong Yi tried using the Healing Technique.

A green light permeated from the inside out.

In that instant, Gong Yi felt completely at ease, so comfortable that he almost groaned aloud.

Inside Gong Yi's body, the meridians damaged by the battle were set right, and all sorts of hidden injuries were completely healed.

"I thought I had already recovered, but I didn't expect there to be so many hidden internal injuries."

Gong Yi nodded to himself. Internal injuries are things that cannot be seen or touched, yet they are terrifying.

Countless famous ninjas have died after their accumulated internal injuries finally erupted.

The fact that this Healing Technique could effectively treat internal injuries made the 100 Scholar Points well spent.

Yet that was not all; after his body was healed from within, Gong Yi suddenly felt a tingling, itchy sensation all over.

"Hiss!"

Gong Yi shuddered, hurriedly stripping off all his clothes.

What met his eyes was a truly ghastly sight.

Across his robust frame, the scars left behind by past battles were now churning and roiling, as if insects were crawling beneath his skin.

Those scars bulged and surged under the green light before finally sloughing off.

Grayish-brown dead skin drifted slowly onto the bed.

Gong Yi shivered, then broke into a smile.

"I never expected this thing to have the side effect of removing scars and whitening skin!"

Gong Yi's complexion had originally been somewhat dark, given that he exercised daily and had been baked by the sun more times than he could count.

His body and hands were covered in calluses.

This Healing Technique had not only mended his internal injuries but had also erased his battle scars, even adjusting his calluses and skin tone in the process.

He quickly hopped off the bed to take a shower!

Afterward, Gong Yi looked into the mirror and rubbed his chin.

"Huh, I'm starting to look a bit like a pretty boy. It's a pity about those scars; they were the mark of a man!"

Gong Yi stopped dwelling on the matter; the better the effects of the Healing Technique, the happier he naturally was.

He shifted his focus back to the system.

"I still have Scholar Points left. Although I could upgrade another Scholar Skill, the potential of the Gravity Technique hasn't been fully tapped yet, and I haven't even used the Spirit Refining Technique, so there's no need to upgrade them in the short term."

"But I can't let them go to waste; I must increase my strength as quickly as possible!"

"I'll upgrade my Scholar Rank!"

"A Level 1 Scholar Rank limits me to only three Scholar Skills. Upgrading it will allow for two more Scholar Skills, permit more than two research projects to be conducted simultaneously, and even change the number of tasks and their rewards."

"The Third Great War is about to break out; one more Scholar Skill means one more chance at survival. A few more tasks will also accelerate the acquisition of Scholar Points. Yes, that's the decision."

Having made up his mind, Gong Yi immediately upgraded his Scholar Rank.

Compared to the changes brought by the Healing Technique, the Scholar Rank upgrade was quite unremarkable.

This was a change in the rules, and the effects would not be visible in the short term, only manifesting over time.

Gong Yi stopped paying attention to that and turned his gaze toward the "Spirit Refining Technique."

"This is a skill I obtained through blood, sweat, and tears after completing the second task. I wonder how effective it will be?"