Experience Points

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Experience Points
Alias(es)	经验值
Affiliation	Naruto's system
Occupation/Role	System currency and progression resource
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Experience Orb manifestation	1	Blue, intangible orbs become visible only to Naruto; interaction with a bearer produces Experience Points and gradually shrinks the orb.
Saiyan Shop access	4	Naruto spends 100 Experience Points to unlock the Saiyan Shop; Saiyan Blood costs 10 points per drop.
Lottery Panel access	10	Naruto spends 10 Experience Points to activate the Lottery Panel; each draw costs 10 points.
Data Panel access	14	Naruto activates the Data Panel with 10 Experience Points, allowing his accumulated points and Saiyan Blood to be displayed.
Experience Interface upgrade	69	Upon reaching 50% Saiyan Bloodline, Naruto selects a free upgrade that standardizes all story-character gains at +3 Experience Points.
Full system upgrade	85 88 115	A 500-point upgrade takes three years and prevents Experience Point acquisition while underway. Once complete, it adds the Disciple-Recruitment and Wish functions.
Wish Function upgrade	119 120	The Greater Holy Grail can upgrade the Wish Function; afterward, the Wish Gate displays numerous selectable wishes rather than a single wish per opening.
World Stone evolution	141	The World Stone adds a new acquisition channel: gratitude, admiration, worship, and similar reputation-based emotions grant fractional Experience Points.
Soul Skill enhancement	153	Experience Points can raise leveled Soul Skills such as Insight and Healing; Naruto raises Insight from LV1 to LV5.

Mechanics

Experience Orbs

Experience Points initially manifest through blue Experience Orbs surrounding certain individuals. The orbs are visible only to Naruto, cannot be touched, and shrink as he gains points through conversation or other interactions 1.

Naruto first concludes that major plot characters possess Experience Orbs after finding them around Hinata, Sakura, Ino, Sasuke, Kiba, Shikamaru, Choji, Shino, and other familiar academy students 4 8. Orb size appears to reflect a character's narrative importance: Sasuke's is the largest among his classmates, while Ino's is smaller than Sakura's and Hinata's 7 8.

• An orb can diminish to a ping-pong-ball size, causing Naruto to stop collecting from Hinata out of concern for possible consequences 8.
• The Nine-Tails' orbs can recover after having been reduced, showing that at least some sources replenish 14.
• Orbs can disappear entirely after repeated collection 15.
• Hinata, Sakura, and Sasuke are later identified as permanent Experience Point sources capable of producing points indefinitely 137.

Acquisition

Naruto earns Experience Points by prompting reactions from eligible targets. Conversation, teasing, praise, provocation, and simple gestures can all trigger gains.

• Talking, cooking, and spending time with Hinata repeatedly award +1 1 2.
• A wink toward Hinata grants +1 11.
• Provoking Sakura and Ino's argument creates repeated +1 notifications, including points generated by their reactions to each other 7.
• Challenging Sasuke and drawing the class into the exchange triggers a chain reaction of gains from multiple students 8.
• Shadow clones can absorb Experience Points from Naruto's classmates 15.
• Naruto can rapidly farm a person's orb in Tsukuyomi Space until it shatters 137.
• The Disciple-Recruitment Function allows Naruto to receive Experience Points generated by disciples and by their interactions with plot characters 115.

Point Values

Before the Experience Interface upgrade, gains vary by target.

Source	Documented gain	Notes
Hinata, Sakura, Ino, Sasuke, and most classmates	+1	Common rate for academy-era plot-character interactions 1 7 8 11.
Kakashi	+2	His Experience Orb is approximately comparable in size to the Nine-Tails' despite yielding a lower value 19.
Nine-Tails	+3	Gives higher-value gains despite an orb slightly smaller than Hinata's; Naruto speculates that combat power may influence the value 5 6.
Third Hokage	+3	Naruto speculates that age may affect gains, though he cannot confirm the rule 26.
All story characters after interface upgrade	+3	The Chapter 69 upgrade removes the prior age restriction and standardizes story-character gains.
Reputation-based sources	+0.1 to +0.8 or more	Gratitude, admiration, and worship from Hope City residents produce fractional gains after the World Stone is absorbed 141.
Divine Servants	+3 each	Ten newly created Divine Servants immediately provide separate notifications 165.

Uses

Saiyan Blood Exchange

The Saiyan Shop's initial and most frequently used purchase is Saiyan Blood at 10 Experience Points per drop 4. Naruto repeatedly converts his points into bloodline growth, including 30 drops for 300 points and 30 more drops to reach 50% Saiyan Bloodline 14 69.

• 100 points unlock the Saiyan Shop 4.
• 10 points purchase one drop of Saiyan Blood 4.
• 300 points purchase 30 drops of Saiyan Blood 14 69.
• Reaching 20% Saiyan Bloodline dramatically increases Naruto's Qi 39.

System Functions and Lottery

Experience Points unlock system interfaces and fund lottery draws.

• Lottery Panel — 10 points to unlock; 10 points per draw 10.
• Data Panel — activated for 10 points 10 14.
• Lottery rewards — can include Saiyan Blood, techniques, Personal Space, Universal Capsules, food, weapons, transformation cards, and other items from the Myriad Worlds 10 69 120.
• System upgrade — costs 500 points and disables further point acquisition during its three-year upgrade period 85 88.

Wish Function

After the system upgrade, Experience Points can be spent to access wishes from other worlds 115.

• Before the Wish Function's later upgrade, opening it once costs 100 Experience Points and produces one wish 120.
• Naruto spends 900 points searching Wish Tasks before locating one that rewards the Soul Skill Voidwalking and a Soul Imprint 122.
• Wish Tasks can themselves award Experience Points; one completed task grants a Soul Imprint and 100 points 129.
• Upgrading the Wish Function through the Greater Holy Grail can award 5,000 Experience Points 119.

Soul Skill Upgrades

Experience Points can be invested directly into leveled Soul Skills. Naruto discovers this by testing Insight and Healing after acquiring them from a soul body 153.

• Insight LV1 → LV2 — improves an object's displayed information from its name to a basic descriptor, identifying an orange as a “sweet orange” 153.
• Insight LV5 — reveals a person's name, level, ability type, and affiliation; it identifies two Level Eight awakened spies from the Sunset Survivor Base 153.
• Limitation — only leveled Soul Skills display a plus sign for Experience Point enhancement; Voidwalking and Enhancement do not 153.
• Cost escalation — raising Insight becomes increasingly expensive, with LV6 requiring more than Naruto is willing to spend after reaching LV5 153.

History

Naruto first discovers Experience Points while speaking with Hinata. Each interaction produces a floating notification and reduces the blue orb around her, establishing both the system's existence and its basic collection method 1. He reaches exactly 100 points soon afterward, which unlocks the Saiyan Shop and gives Experience Points their first known use: purchasing Saiyan Blood 4.

As Naruto encounters more academy students, he learns that different characters possess differently sized orbs and develops deliberate methods of provoking reactions for points. The Nine-Tails becomes his most efficient early source, consistently yielding +3 per exchange; Kakashi later yields +2, while the Third Hokage also yields +3 5 6 19 26.

By the Chūnin Exams, Naruto finds ordinary collection increasingly difficult because many plot characters have been heavily drained and produce points more slowly. He becomes concerned that Experience Points are tied to the world's plot and that disrupting the plot could eliminate his supply altogether 85. The system upgrade later expands collection beyond Naruto's direct interactions through disciples and wishes 115.

The World Stone fundamentally changes Experience Point acquisition by turning public reverence into a resource. After Naruto saves Hope City, the admiration and gratitude of its inhabitants rapidly raise his total from a few hundred points to more than 1,000 141. This new channel remains effective in the apocalyptic world, where Naruto deliberately displays his power to cultivate worship and gain more points 151.

Trivia

• Naruto initially has no explanation for why different targets grant +1, +2, or +3 Experience Points, considering combat power and age as possible factors 6 19 26.
• The Experience Interface upgrade makes those early distinctions irrelevant by setting every story character's gain to +3 69.
• Naruto receives four thousand Experience Points after Illya becomes human, describing the reward as enough for a “crazy lottery spree” 120.