Exchange Function Activated

Lu Bian: [Kakashi, your progress is a bit fast.]

Kakashi Hatake: [But it's quite impossible to catch up to your progress.]

Kakashi Hatake: [My ninja training here is based on chakra, which requires mixing the physical energy produced from the one hundred and thirty trillion cells in my body with spiritual energy to form chakra.]

Kakashi Hatake: [The practice of Ultimate Boundless Qigong is similar to the process of extracting chakra, only it is simpler and involves only physical energy.]

In a training ground within Konoha, Kakashi Hatake was practicing Ultimate Boundless Qigong. He and Lu Bian monitored each other's daily training, checking in every day in the Chat Group.

As a genius ninja, Kakashi's talent for cultivation was top-tier, and the chakra and magnetic field systems within his body did not interfere with each other; instead, they reinforced one another.

With his day-to-day persistence in practicing Ultimate Boundless Qigong, Kakashi could clearly feel his physical energy strengthening, and his previously somewhat meager chakra extraction volume had increased significantly as a result.

Because he bore the burden of a Sharingan, Kakashi was consuming chakra at every moment.

Practicing Ultimate Boundless Qigong brought only positive changes to Kakashi, making him appear much more "diligent" overall.

"Kakashi!"

"Guy?"

"Are you practicing your newly learned fist techniques today too! Come and spar with my vigorous fist techniques!!"

"Be careful not to lose to me."

"Failure is also a part of youth~! In any case, I won't admit defeat!! Awooo~!"

Might Guy let out a strange cry, and his daily spar with Kakashi began. Both held back their strength, not exhausting their power, aiming to win through fist techniques and maneuvers.

The combat area was consciously restricted to the training ground; Kakashi did not want more people to know that he was undergoing a new round of training.

"Gwah~~!!!"

Might Guy went flying.

"You won again! Kakashi!!"

"It was alright~!"

"Next time, I will definitely win it back!!" Might Guy shouted aloud.

"I'm hungry, Kakashi. Shall we go eat together?"

"It's about time, let's go together."

Kakashi and Might Guy walked toward the village together.

"Hehe!"

Along the way, Might Guy kept grinning foolishly.

"What are you laughing at?" Kakashi glanced at Might Guy.

"Nothing, I just wanted to laugh," Might Guy replied.

"Did you think of something funny?"

"It's just, I've caught a disease where I want to laugh whenever I see Kakashi," Might Guy said.

"What?"

"You're the one who asked," Might Guy said.

"I'm just happy to see you looking much more radiant."

"I'm laughing when I see you, but I don't mean to mock you."

"Fine." Kakashi walked toward the barbecue restaurant.

"Eating barbecue?" Might Guy followed Kakashi into the barbecue restaurant.

"I'm going to cure this disease of yours where you want to laugh whenever you see me," Kakashi said to Might Guy.

"Don't!"

"Can you not cure it?"

"I'll cure half of it today."

The two ate barbecue and split the bill, though Might Guy felt a sting in his wallet. Originally, he didn't need to eat so well for dinner; a simple bowl of ramen would have sufficed.

Training, training.

Still training!

Lu Bian's life consisted only of chatting in the group and training.

With his hands behind his back, Lu Bian's current training involved abandoning his hands and using only his two legs.

Front kick, side kick, back kick, hook kick, combo kicks, spinning back kick...

Lu Bian unleashed a dazzling array of leg techniques, darting and shifting through the mountain forest with sharp, fierce movements. He would have to wait until his cells reorganized and restored his hands before he could resume practicing fist techniques.

Training in the mountain forest, the trees in the mountains suffered; branches and trunks were snapped off by Lu Bian's kicks. Lu Bian collected the branches and trunks he had kicked off, loaded them onto a donkey cart, and hauled them out of the mountains to sell in town.

Lu Bian lived a simple and plain life within the borders of the Dali Kingdom.

Selling timber didn't earn much money, and whatever he did earn was spent by Lu Bian on alcohol.

Taking a few sips of wine before training allowed Lu Bian to reach a state of tipsy self-forgetfulness, and this self-forgetful practice pushed him to improve his magnetic field cultivation at a faster pace.

The Ultimate Arhat Fist was transformed by the tipsy Lu Bian into his own Drunken Dream Arhat Fist.

The Dali Kingdom was far from the Central Plains, and its forms of entertainment were not as numerous as those in the capital of the Great Song, so drinking was one of the few "entertainments" available.

Villages throughout the Dali Kingdom enjoyed brewing their own wine, and they brewed it quite well; the locals also had impressive alcohol tolerance, and Lu Bian integrated into the local culture, making drinking one of his own hobbies as well.

A year passed...

Lu Bian's magnetic field cultivation reached the twentieth heaven.

He began to attempt the cellular reorganization of his own hands.

He removed the cloth strips wrapped around his hands, revealing his terrifying palms.

Missing fingers, torn ligaments, shattered bones... The magnetic field power of the twentieth heaven restored Lu Bian's hands bit by bit to a healthy state.

He flexed his fingers, finding them as nimble as they had been before.

During the year or so that his hands were crippled, Lu Bian had trained his feet to be just as nimble as his hands, but humans were ultimately more suited to using their hands.

"Finally... I can grasp things with my hands again."

Lu Bian: [My hands have recovered.]

Lu Bian: [Hand.JPG]

Shi Tianwu: [Congratulations.]

Kakashi Hatake: [What about the new feature? Group Leader, is it here yet?]

Lu Bian: [It's here, I'm activating it now.]

[The Chat Group has added the Item Exchange Function]

Lu Bian: [We can now exchange items with each other.]

Kakashi Hatake: [Can we exchange anything?]

Lu Bian: [Not everything can be exchanged.]

Lu Bian: [Only ordinary items can be exchanged; special items cannot.]

Lu Bian: [As for what constitutes a special item that cannot be exchanged, we will need to explore that slowly.]

Lu Bian: [I have a basket of Jianshouqing mushrooms here. Does anyone want to try them? Let's trade.]

Kakashi Hatake: [Do you want some Three-Color Sticky Rice Dumplings? I happen to be right in front of a shop.]

Lu Bian: [Jianshouqing for your Three-Color Sticky Rice Dumplings, you're getting the better end of the deal, Kakashi.]

[Lu Bian and Kakashi Hatake have performed an exchange...]

[Exchange successful]

Lu Bian was in the resource-rich lands of Dali, where the mountains and plains were covered in wild mushrooms every rainy season. The Matsutake mushrooms that were precious ingredients to Kakashi were fed to pigs where Lu Bian lived.

Lu Bian: [Be careful, Kakashi. If you get poisoned by Jianshouqing, it's no different from being caught in a genjutsu.]

Kakashi Hatake: [As long as they are cooked thoroughly, it'll be fine, right?]

Lu Bian: [As long as they are cooked, they will definitely be fine.]

Lu Bian held a box of Three-Color Sticky Rice Dumplings in his hand. It was said to be one of the five great delicacies of Konoha, the favorite snack of Itachi Uchiha, and also a favorite of Anko Mitarashi.

Kakashi carried a basket of Jianshouqing and Boletus mushrooms, bought the other ingredients for stir-frying the mushrooms at the shopping street, and walked quickly toward his home. He had always heard Lu Bian brag about how delicious Jianshouqing was, and today, he would verify it for himself.