Fame Spreads Through Konoha

Bang!

Just as the Earth Dragon Bullet struck Chentian, a foot clad in green kicked the earth dragon's head.

Then Might Guy's voice rang out. "Konoha Taijutsu Secret Technique—Konoha Strong Whirlwind!"

The earth dragon shattered beneath the powerful kick, and the violent airflow instantly knocked Chentian to the ground.

"Phew! I survived!"

"Chentian, are you all right?"

After kicking apart the earth dragon, Guy instantly appeared before Chentian and helped him up with a worried expression.

"I'm fine. I just need to go to the hospital to stop the bleeding. I won't die." Chentian shook his head indifferently, then added, "Quick, help me over to the corpse!"

???

When I put question marks, it wasn't because I had a problem—it was because you had a problem!

Looking like he was about to die from blood loss, the first thing he wanted was to go over to a corpse?

Though he couldn't understand it, Guy still helped Chentian over to the black-clothed man's body.

Seeing the white, blue, and purple cards beside the black-clothed man's corpse complementing one another, Chentian nearly jumped up in excitement.

"System, collect all the cards!"

[Ding, the white card grants +1 Strength. Absorb it?]

[Ding, the white card grants +1 Speed. Absorb it?]

[Ding, the blue card is the Substitution Technique. Absorb it?]

[Ding, the purple card is the Earth Dragon Bullet Technique. Absorb it?]

[Ding, the blue card is the Earth Wall Technique. Absorb it?]

Eight or nine system notifications rang out in succession, and Chentian felt he had never heard such wonderful sounds before.

"Absorb them. Absorb them all!"

The normally pleasant absorption process became unbearable due to Chentian's excessive blood loss. His eyes rolled back, and he immediately fainted.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! ...

All of a sudden, more than a dozen Konoha ANBU appeared around Might Guy and Chentian, surrounding them completely.

When Guy saw one ANBU with a head full of white hair, his eyes immediately lit up. "Kakashi, Chentian was assassinated. He fainted from blood loss, so I'll take him to the hospital first!"

With that, Guy immediately carried Chentian away at full speed. When the ANBU tried to stop him, Kakashi stopped them.

Though Guy casually calling out his name annoyed him, Chentian's injuries did indeed require immediate treatment.

"Clean up the battlefield. Bring the corpse back for information gathering. I'll report to the Third Hokage!"

After decisively assigning the tasks, Kakashi immediately headed for the Hokage Building.

None of this had anything to do with Chentian. With Might Guy running at full speed, Chentian soon arrived at the hospital.

Chentian's injuries actually weren't serious. He had only fainted from excessive blood loss.

Under the treatment of the Mystical Palm Technique, he quickly recovered completely. He merely needed to lie down for a while longer for his blood to replenish.

There would be no major aftereffects, only a period of weakness.

After confirming that Chentian was all right, Guy left the hospital to notify Minato and Kushina.

Not long after Guy left, Chentian slowly woke up. The moment he regained consciousness, his hands began forming seals.

Only after realizing that the black-clothed man was already dead did he relax. Letting out a breath, he muttered, "I survived!"

After moving his body and confirming there was no major problem, Chentian began to review the battle.

First, his body was too weak. Although his chakra reserves were plentiful, he couldn't handle close combat against his opponent.

As a result, several taijutsu techniques he knew couldn't be used, and he could only be kicked around like a ball.

Second, he knew too few ninjutsu, whether for attack or defense.

No matter how abundant his chakra was, it was useless without ninjutsu. A mere Fireball Technique couldn't defeat an enemy at all.

"I have to say, I was lucky enough. If that black-clothed man had used ninjutsu from the start, I probably would've died long ago! And killing him at the end was luck too. Even I hadn't expected it!"

It seemed that in the future, he needed to focus on collecting ninjutsu and improving his physical attributes. Nintaijutsu would work too. That way, his chakra wouldn't just be for show.

As he decided on the key direction for his future development, Chentian remembered that the black-clothed man seemed to have dropped a huge haul after dying. He immediately opened the system panel to take a look.

[Host: Chentian]

[Strength: 26]

[Speed: 27]

[Constitution: 23]

[Mental: 26]

[Chakra: 1010]

[Talent: Space Talent LV3.]

[Taijutsu: Shuriken Basics LV2, Basic Taijutsu LV3, Konoha Great Whirlwind LV4.]

[Ninjutsu: Fireball Technique LV5, Earth Wall Technique LV4, Earth Dragon Bullet Technique LV3, Substitution Technique LV6.]

His four core attributes, such as Strength and Speed, had each increased by one or two points, but what truly mattered were the Earth Wall and Earth Dragon Bullet!

One B-rank ninjutsu and one C-rank ninjutsu greatly enriched Chentian's offensive options.

"Hehehe!"

For a moment, Chentian grinned like an idiot. Patients and family members passing outside the room gave him strange looks, wondering whether they should call a doctor for this foolish child.

It was no wonder Chentian was so happy. This sudden battle had left him with a vast amount of chakra but no way to use it. It had been unbearably frustrating.

But with these two ninjutsu, along with the Substitution Technique, and paired with his chakra, Chentian could leap from the strength of a Ninja Academy student to that of an elite chunin.

"If I fought that black-clothed man again now, it would still be unclear who would win!"

Clenching his fist tightly, Chentian brimmed with confidence.

Bang! When Kushina entered the ward and saw Chentian grinning foolishly, she immediately relaxed. She slapped his forehead and said, "What are you grinning about? Do you know you almost died?"

As she spoke, Kushina's eyes began to redden, tears glimmering in her crystalline eyes.

Then, as if afraid she had hurt Chentian, she gently rubbed his forehead with her right hand.

The sudden attack instantly interrupted Chentian's foolish grin and brought him back to his senses.

Seeing the tears glimmering in Kushina's eyes, Chentian's heart softened as well. "Aren't I fine? I don't even have a single wound."

As he spoke, Chentian deliberately held out his arm for Kushina to see.

Whoosh!

"Xiaotian, how are you?" Suddenly, a figure appeared in the ward, truly making his voice arrive before he did.

Before Chentian could even clearly see Minato, his concerned voice had already sounded.

After much explanation and a promise not to go to dangerous places in the future, Kushina and Minato finally let Chentian off the hook.

Minato even deliberately placed a Flying Raijin mark on Chentian before he could finally feel at ease.

Under the protection of the future Fourth Hokage and the current Nine-Tails jinchuriki, Chentian swaggered home.

He had originally planned to find a publishing house today, but now he could only put that aside.

After taking Chentian home, Minato went to the Hokage Building.

He had already asked Chentian about what happened. Now, he still needed to report it to the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Upon learning that Chentian had single-handedly killed an elite chunin, Minato and Kushina were both shocked. But after learning the process, they couldn't help finding it both amusing and absurd.

To die to a Fireball Technique, a ninjutsu that had never killed anyone before—that black-clothed man had truly been unlucky enough.

Under Minato's authority, he handled all the follow-up matters himself, and Chentian had nothing more to do with it.

He also no longer had to face questioning and investigation from the ANBU.

After arriving at the Hokage's office, Minato did not hide anything and truthfully told Hiruzen Sarutobi everything.

"Chentian..."

Taking a puff of smoke, Hiruzen Sarutobi murmured the name.

From the description alone, he had already realized how monstrously gifted Chentian was.

For a mere five-year-old to single-handedly kill a chunin was no simple feat. Although luck had accounted for most of it, Chentian firing more than a dozen Fireball Techniques was an undeniable fact!

More than a dozen Fireball Techniques already qualified him as a chunin, not to mention that Chentian had not even exhausted his chakra.

Once Chentian grew up and learned enough ninjutsu, just how strong would he become?

Hiruzen Sarutobi did not know, but he should probably be able to exchange a few moves with the First Hokage!

While the Third Hokage was pondering this, Danzo of the Root also received a report from his subordinates and learned of all Chentian's achievements.