[Who are you calling an idiot?!]
The cold electronic voice suddenly came alive, startling Jiang Naruto.
Holy crap, the system just spoke!
[Don't change the subject! From time immemorial, everyone who's received a system from me has been overwhelmed with gratitude! If you don't explain yourself, I'll take the system back!]
Good grief! From the sound of it, was there really a system distribution department in the vast multiverse? Had they even built an entire supply chain?
Jiang Naruto's mind instinctively snarked to itself. He glanced around, confirming no one had noticed his strange behavior, then quickly schooled his expression.
Steadying himself, Jiang Naruto calmly asked,
All right!
Is this place TM Naruto?
[...]
[Yes!]
You hesitated!
Jiang Naruto's eye twitched. He clenched his fists. You had to be kidding—how could they even send out the wrong system?
I want to file a complaint! Your service is worse than those Indian scammers!
[You're Naruto! Not only is that your name, you just awakened the Uzumaki Clan's Adamantine Sealing Chains!]
That TM is a Martial Soul!
And another thing: my name is Naruto, not Naruto! What the hell do I have to do with Naruto?!
[...Translation... Translation errors are normal...]
The system's guilty excuse was obvious to everyone.
Jiang Naruto was devastated. This thing clearly knew it had messed up but was still stubbornly refusing to admit it. Did the system department have no supervisors? Couldn't someone rein in their employee?
A smart employee would have quietly deleted the complaint hotline the system had left behind. Now Jiang Naruto was truly calling to the heavens with no answer and crying to the earth with no response.
Damn it!
If he really used this Silly System, it might issue some Naruto mission like "Defeat Pain" with death as the penalty for failure. Then he'd be left staring helplessly into space, waiting to die.
Jiang Naruto's mind raced.
This person on the other end was all bluster. They were impossible to reason with head-on, so he'd have to try a softer approach. Even if he had to beg, he'd get this Silly System replaced.
Jiang Naruto stopped shouting in his mind and instead tried to reason with it as calmly and logically as he could.
Since you say I'm Naruto?
Fine.
Naruto was a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki from birth, but I'm just an ordinary person. Where's the Nine-Tails? Where is it?
[Kurama has been issued. Any other questions?]
That's right, I'm Naruto!
Actually, I changed my name to Naruto to disguise myself and avoid persecution by the Pot Kage. My true identity is Uzumaki Naruto!
I can't believe you saw through my years of lying low at a glance!
[I knew it! I'm one of this year's outstanding employees. How could I possibly make a mistake? Though, you people are partly to blame. You're always transmigrating between Douluo and Naruto, and it's got me all mixed up.]
You admit you sent me the wrong system?
[...]
[Naruto: Better Naruto System is at your service.]
The human touch vanished from the electronic voice. It reverted to its original, stiff tone. Naruto opened his mouth, then lowered his eyelids halfway. Without a doubt, the stubborn, muddleheaded idiot on the other end had run off.
Since things had come to this...
Having a system was better than having none. It was a little stupid, but he could make do.
Naruto called for the system in his mind. As expected, that stiff electronic voice rang out again. With a little prompting, the system provided instructions.
[This system is dedicated to creating a better Naruto!]
[One: Write the host's legendary life as Naruto. The system will record the host's legendary experiences as Naruto and provide relevant secret information about Naruto.]
[Two: Major Event Witness. As Naruto, witness important events in the Ninja World. The host will be rewarded according to the significance of the events they experience.]
[Three: Trait Tags. The host's actions will generate trait tags. Wearing these tags will improve the host's cultivation speed, learning efficiency, combat instincts, and other abilities.]
The system was pretty simple.
Naruto breathed a little easier. At least the other side had some shame. There were no forced missions or functions that killed you for failing to complete them.
But he was in Douluo right now. Why would he need secret information about Naruto? And Major Event Witness had nothing to do with him either. This dumb system had three functions, and two of them were completely useless!
Jiang Naruto twitched his lips, feeling his teeth ache.
He could explore the trait tags later. First, he'd check out this Kurama.
As long as Kurama was real, he wouldn't be losing out even if the system itself was totally useless.
Jiang Naruto raised a hand to cover his lower abdomen. In the crowd of children, no one would notice. He'd felt a faint warmth coming from his belly ever since earlier, and then there was what that stubborn, muddleheaded idiot had said!
Adamantine Sealing Chains!
Black chains burst from Naruto's palm, but they seemed like phantoms, passing straight through the fabric and into his body.
Around Naruto's navel, a mysterious pattern had appeared, traced in countless dense, tadpole-shaped symbols.
The symbols trembled, turning according to Naruto's guidance.
The Eight Trigrams Seal!
The seal Namikaze Minato had left on Naruto to contain the Nine-Tails.
But Naruto wasn't Naruto. This Eight Trigrams Seal was completely under Naruto's control!
Just as he'd thought!
Feeling the seal respond to his commands, Naruto's lips curled upward. He loosened it slightly, leaving a passage just wide enough for his consciousness to slip through. Let's see what this Nine-Tails is really like!
Jiang Naruto opened his eyes again.
The light was dim. A familiar, dilapidated sewer appeared before him. In the middle of a pool of stagnant water, the enormous Tailed Beast was nowhere to be seen. Instead, there was... a person?
Naruto's pupils slowly widened.
The person in the distance turned around in surprise at the same time. She wore a Papal Robe and a magnificent, tall crown. Even a three-year-old would know what that outfit meant on the continent!
The Pope of Spirit Hall—Bibi Dong!
Holy crap?
Where was the giant Nine-Tails I'd imagined?
"So that's how it is, Dong Trumpet."
Since the "Tailed Beast" was completely under his control, Jiang Naruto relaxed. Whether this was Kurama or Dong Trumpet, anyone inside Naruto's stomach was a trumpet to him.
"Huh?"
Bibi Dong arched a brow on her exquisite face.
The chains around her clattered, letting out a shrill wail. An angry roar exploded in Jiang Naruto's ears. "Are you Tang San's man too?! Did you come here to lower my guard?"
Though her Soul Power had been completely sealed, Bibi Dong's near-hysterical, bloodcurdling roar left Naruto briefly stunned.
As soon as she finished speaking, Bibi Dong turned her head. The veins bulging in her neck crawled up her cheeks as she swept her gaze across the dark corners.
She knew.
If she was imprisoned, those people would definitely be hiding in the shadows, watching her!
"Where's Tang San? Where is that despicable wretch? Get out here!"
"Where's Xiao Xue?!"
"I lost, and I accept my defeat. Do you really think I'm some ridiculous captive who'll wag her tail and beg for mercy?!"
"..."
Bibi Dong's voice grew hoarser. Her body trembled faintly as the chains clattering around her tightened. The pain struck directly at her soul; even she could barely endure it.
But it still wasn't enough!
"Ah!!"
Pain couldn't stop Bibi Dong in her current fury. A broken, unrecognizable shriek escaped her lips as she forced her Soul Power to surge against the Eight Trigrams Seal!
Crack!
A crisp sound echoed through the empty space. The first thing to give way was the body formed from Soul Power.
On the exposed expanse of white skin, black cracks appeared, burning with blood-red Soul Power like fissures in a shattered clay jar.
This was bad!
Naruto's face paled.
At this rate, she might... die!
Bibi Dong wasn't some life-loving, tsundere Nine-Tails. Faced with the Eight Trigrams Seal, the Bibi Dong of this moment really would blow herself up right in front of Naruto!
Jiang Naruto hadn't expected things to develop like this. This crazy woman didn't care if she lived! Naruto held out his hand, controlling the chains in the air and trying to ease the seal's pressure. But Bibi Dong wouldn't have it! Instead of backing down, she fought even harder!
"Calm down!"
"You filthy little thieves can kill me or dismember me as you please! But you think this ridiculous trick will work? You really think I'm weak and easy to bully?!" Bibi Dong turned her head. At that moment, she was truly a Rakshasa incarnate, glaring at Jiang Naruto with blood-red eyes!
The deadly killing intent radiating from the Rakshasa made every hair on Naruto's body stand on end.
This woman wasn't interested in reason at all!
Still, from what Bibi Dong had said, Naruto had pieced together the timeline. She'd just lost, cared about Qian Renxue, and hated Tang San. This had to be Bibi Dong, who had just died after the Battle of the Two Gods!
No wonder.
One moment she'd been fighting Tang San to the death, and the next she'd opened her eyes here. Add in Bibi Dong's tragic past, and anyone would be furious—and blame Tang San!
Faced with a Bibi Dong in this state...
"Looks like words won't get through to you. See for yourself."
With that, Jiang Naruto pulled back his consciousness and ducked out, vanishing from the Sealing Space.
Naruto's disappearance did nothing to quell Bibi Dong's fury. The black cracks spread, and a storm of Soul Power poured from them.
The next moment, it was as if space had fallen into a strange stillness. Bibi Dong, raging in fury, suddenly paused and froze in place. Before her eyes, a translucent image appeared over the dark sewer scene.
The first-person view made Bibi Dong instantly understand whose eyes she was seeing through. Sounds from the outside world seeped through the seal into her ears.
A dim room. A crowd of little children, their heads bobbing. Beyond all those heads, Soul Power sparkled as a Spirit Master in Spirit Hall attire finished awakening a girl's Martial Soul.
Was this Spirit Hall?
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