Seventh Birthday, No Fanfare

At first, Chentian had not cared about the titles of chunin or jonin. But when he thought about how powerful Konoha's genin would become in the future, he immediately refused Minato's appointment.

He even declared righteously that Kage-level experts were nothing special, and that Konoha's strongest would always be its genin.

That was why he wanted to become a glorious genin. Chunin and the like could forget it.

Minato was left utterly bewildered, completely unable to comprehend Chentian's thought process.

As far as he knew, wasn't a Kage-level expert capable of instantly killing hundreds of genin as easily as playing around?

He, Minato Namikaze, a Kage-level expert, had once instantly killed fifty jonin in one go!

Since when had Konoha's genin become so ridiculously formidable that they actually looked down on Kage-level experts?

Why did he, the Hokage, know absolutely nothing about this?

Because of this, Chentian's young fans later all declared that they wanted to be genin.

This led to Konoha producing a group of powerful genin, including Naruto and Sasuke.

The major ninja villages all issued orders that missions could be abandoned without punishment upon encountering Konoha genin.

Of course, that was all in the future. In any case, after refusing Minato, Chentian remained a Konoha genin.

Chentian's chunin exam came to a temporary end, but the other participants remembered him deeply. After returning to their respective villages, they spread stories of his deeds like mad.

Chentian knew nothing about any of that. All he knew was that while everyone else was still miserably taking the exams, he was happily celebrating his birthday at home.

That day happened to be Chentian's birthday. He had turned seven.

Minato had rare free time to celebrate Chentian's birthday with him, and he invited Kakashi and Might Guy, who were closest to Chentian.

Besides them, there were only Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and a few others.

Chentian could only sigh that he had no clout at all. There were only this few people.

After the lively birthday banquet ended, it was naturally time for the exciting gift-opening session.

The first gift was naturally from Kushina. It was nothing much, just an ordinary sword sheath.

She had clearly seen that the sheath of his newly acquired sword had been blown up, so she had specially prepared one for him.

It was not valuable, but Chentian liked it very much.

As for something truly valuable, if Konoha had it, there was nothing he could not get. What did he need expensive gifts for?

The second gift was from Minato. Inside was the Flying Thunder God scroll that Chentian had been coveting.

He had not picked it up before, and he would not get another chance later. It was not like he could kill Minato, right?

So he could only train it himself. Fortunately, his talent for space was quite good, and this gift was excellent as well.

The gifts after that were a little bizarre, making the corners of Chentian's mouth twitch so hard they nearly cramped.

Might Guy's gift was a green bodysuit, his proudest creation. Chentian could only say that he did not appreciate it.

Kakashi and Jiraiya both gave him Make-Out Paradise. One was a collector's edition, while the other was a specially signed edition.

To Kakashi and Jiraiya, those things truly were their most precious and proud possessions. The fact that they were willing to give them away showed just how close they were to Chentian.

So Chentian could only accept their goodwill through gritted teeth, then use the gifts to prop up a table leg.

Tsunade's gift was much simpler and more direct: a training scroll for the Strength of a Hundred. Chentian was delighted.

But what shocked him most was Orochimaru's gift. It was not some snake-related thing, but fifty percent of all income from his inventions!

That was no small matter. Konoha's current development basically relied entirely on Orochimaru, and his income was even greater than Konoha's as a whole.

Even at only fifty percent, Chentian would receive several billion a year. He could practically crush people to death with money.

Chentian had happened to spend all his savings recently, so now he no longer had to worry about running out of money.

Forget everything else—he would first go buy tens of thousands of explosive tags to play with.

After his birthday, Chentian became idle. Every day, he practiced the Strength of a Hundred and the Flying Thunder God, with nothing else to do.

A month later, the chunin exams finally ended, and Chentian had learned the Strength of a Hundred, though he had only barely entered the beginner stage.

On the system panel, the words Strength of a Hundred LV1 had appeared.

However, the Flying Thunder God was not so easy. He was still exploring it and could not master it for the time being.

After the people from the other villages left, he could no longer hold himself back. After informing Minato, he left Konoha.

The people from the bounty exchange had come all the way to Konoha to kill him. How could he not strike back at them?

After leaving Konoha, he did not act blindly. Instead, he took out the map he had drawn after asking Jiraiya and the others.

It marked more than a hundred bounty exchange locations, all of which Jiraiya and the others had learned about over the years.

There were bounty exchanges in every country. Although their headquarters were not listed, Chentian planned to wipe out every one of these locations.

Minato, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and the others had wanted to help, but Chentian refused them all.

He would naturally kill his own enemies himself. Besides, he could obtain cards from them, and Chentian did not want teammates who would steal his kills.

His first target was in the capital of the Land of Fire. After putting away the map, Chentian set off.

But before he could make a move, people from the bounty exchange had already blocked his path.

Everyone who had gone to Konoha before had died, and they did not know the exact cause. They assumed Konoha had taken action.

So the force sent to ambush Chentian was not particularly strong: only three ordinary jonin and nine chunin.

"Kid, you should feel honored that we came to deal with you personally!"

"Idiot!"

Muttering a curse, Chentian could not be bothered trading insults with them. If he could fight, why waste time talking?

While they were still spouting threats, he had already summoned three shadow clones. Water Dragon Bullet, Earth Dragon Bullet, and Fire Dragon Bullet came roaring at them.

Meanwhile, his main body unleashed the more powerful Majestic Destroyer Flame, displaying the might of an entire jonin squad by himself.

No sense of fair play!

Seeing Chentian attack without a word, the twelve of them were immediately thrown into a flurry.

But jonin were still jonin. With the three working together, they managed to block Chentian's attack.

Once techniques such as the Earth Style Wall and Water Style Wall dissipated, three miniature Tailed Beast Bombs came flying straight at them.

Having run out of chakra, Chentian's three shadow clones vanished at the same time.

But he did not care in the slightest. Even miniature Tailed Beast Bombs were not so easy to block. Otherwise, why would jinchuriki be called weapons of war?

"Rumble...!"

"Rumble...!"

"Rumble...!"

Explosions rang out one after another. Caught off guard by Chentian's relentless attacks, the twelve ninja could only defend themselves, completely unable to retaliate.

Under the miniature Tailed Beast Bombs, the nine chunin died on the spot without even a chance to struggle.

The three jonin, on the other hand, had some skill and each used their own methods to endure the attack.

But before they could regain their senses, Chentian had already appeared before them. Lightning Blade whistled through the air in his hand, and two heads fell straight to the ground.

"How is this possible? You're not a jinchuriki, so why can you use Tailed Beast Bombs?"

The remaining jonin was presumably their leader. He had actually evaded Chentian's attacks twice in succession.

However, he was still stunned by the matter of the Tailed Beast Bombs and had yet to come back to his senses.

It was clear just how badly this had shaken him.

Chentian curled his lip. Could they not say something else? Every person who saw him use a Tailed Beast Bomb said the same thing. Boring!

Even so, the attacks in Chentian's hands did not slow in the slightest. As that jonin dodged Lightning Blade, Chentian had already followed up with another attack.

"Strength of a Hundred Punch!"

Chakra surged through his right hand. Before the jonin could steady himself, Chentian savagely slammed a fist into his head.

"Bang!"

Like a watermelon exploding, the jonin's head burst apart as well.

That was the advantage of taking the initiative. To evade the initial assault, they could only desperately flee in a passive state until Chentian killed them all.

Of course, all of this was built on Chentian being stronger than them. Otherwise, even striking first would have been useless.

Chentian was quite satisfied with his results. Since all the enemies were dead, it was time to collect the cards!