Quincy

[A racial imprint that can be integrated is currently available: Quincy]

[Integrating a racial imprint grants its talents and skills]

[Integrating racial imprint]

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An indescribable agony and surge of power exploded through his body at once! His bones wailed, and his meridians burned!

Countless unfamiliar fragments of memories about drawing a bow and firing arrows flooded into his mind like instinct, as though he had been born a master archer!

[Racial imprint integration complete]

[Racial imprint integrated: Quincy (Common, current integration rate: 10.02%)]

[You have gained the talent: Spirit Particle Affinity]

[You have gained the talent skill: Spirit Particle Gathering—The Quincy's basic ability. It gathers Spirit Particles from the surrounding air around the user, converting them into the user's own power.]

[You have gained the racial skill: Holy Arrow—Through Spirit Particle Gathering, spiritual power is used to bind atmospheric Spirit Particles into the shape of arrows, which can be fired through a bowstring to attack enemies.]

[You have obtained an item: Quincy Cross—A symbol of the Quincy that enhances the gathering of Spirit Particles. Novice Quincy often use it to assist in forming Spirit Bows and arrows.]

[The Quincy Cross has changed from a physical object into a spiritual pattern and has been inscribed on the back of your right hand.]

[You have obtained information: Quincy archery knowledge]

[Please establish yourself in this world and acquire more Energy Crystals to increase your integration rate and gain more skills and control abilities.]

[Please accumulate more Energy Crystals to open the Stone Gate and obtain support from new powers.]

[Current Energy Crystals: 0]

The back of his right hand suddenly burned, and a mysterious cross-shaped spiritual pattern formed in an instant!

In that moment, the excruciating pain of near death receded like a tide, replaced by an unprecedented sense of power filling his body!

But Hyuga Qingchuan immediately sensed that something was wrong.

Wait... there were no so-called "Spirit Particles" in the air at all!

What he could clearly sense was the Natural Energy—immensely active, intimately surrounding him!

And what drove that power into the form of arrows was not spiritual power, but the chakra that had already existed within his body...

Had this cheat been localized?

Or was it because he could not sense Spirit Particles or spiritual power?

And how was he supposed to obtain the Energy Crystals needed to increase his integration rate?

Hyuga Qingchuan had countless questions, but he had no time to investigate them.

He was still lying on the ground like a corpse, yet his mind was frantically calculating the distance, the angle, and the time needed to use chakra to imitate Holy Arrow!

The sky gradually darkened, and the light inside the wooden house grew dimmer and dimmer.

"Riiip—!"

With great interest, the burly man tore the woman's already tattered kimono into even more ragged strips.

Licking his lips, he admired the fair skin faintly visible beneath the ruined clothing, his eyes gleaming with perverse delight.

He loved this kind of scenery most.

Though he looked rough and crude, he played with refinement and cared deeply about atmosphere.

The woman's eyes were hollow, and the only remaining glimmer of light in them was fixed on the motionless figure on the floor.

That was her last—and only—hope.

Yet that figure still lay there, silent as death.

"Don't count on that trash!"

Noticing her gaze, the burly man planted a foot beside Hyuga Qingchuan and sneered. "Let me tell you a secret. I was the one who beat him into a dying dog last time too!"

"The four pieces of trash surrounded me, and I slaughtered every one of them like dogs! He was the most useless one among them!"

"If someone in the black market hadn't suddenly offered a reward for breaking that damn Curse Seal of theirs, the Branch House could've been traded for the bounty too."

"The moment I came through the door, I would've twisted his head right off!"

She abruptly looked at the burly man, her voice trembling as she pleaded, "I'll do anything you want... Please let us go, alright?"

"Let you go?"

"Let you go?"

The burly man raised an eyebrow, then suddenly flashed a wide grin.

"Come to think of it, I should thank you."

"If you hadn't saved this brat, I wouldn't have noticed he was still alive when I passed by again."

"You deserve some credit for helping me claim this bounty."

Seeing a sliver of absurd hope rekindle in the woman's eyes, he suddenly leaned closer.

With a vicious grin, he said, "So I've decided to treat you two well, then leave you with intact corpses."

"Beast!"

The woman suddenly erupted with the last of her strength. She struggled wildly, twisted her head, and viciously bit down on the burly man's neck.

"Fuck!"

"Crazy bitch!"

The burly man cried out in pain and furiously shoved the woman away.

His huge hands clamped tightly around her arms.

Like hauling cargo, he roughly dragged her toward the pillar in the middle of the room.

"Eri, run! Don't worry about Mom!" the woman cried desperately to her daughter.

"Waaah... Mom... I'm not leaving..."

"Bad man! Let go of Mom!"

Amid the chaos.

The "unconscious" figure on the floor.

Moved!

Hyuga Qingchuan abruptly rolled to his feet, flicked his wrist, and several shuriken already clamped between his fingers shot out like lightning!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The shuriken tore through the air with piercing shrieks, hurtling straight toward the burly man's face and heart!

"Lord Ninja!"

Wild joy at surviving disaster instantly erupted in the woman's despairing eyes!

The burly man was frightened out of his wits by the sudden attack. He instinctively released the woman and clumsily raised his kunai to block.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Even so, a bloody gash deep enough to expose bone was carved into his arm!

"You little bastard! You're dead!"

The burly man's face twisted as he roared and prepared to pounce, intending to tear Hyuga Qingchuan to pieces!

However!

The next second!

That figure, who had just seemed so imposing, did not even look at the result of his attack!

He abruptly turned around and threw a punch!

Boom—!

The already cracked wooden wall was smashed open with a massive hole!

Without hesitation, he leaped through it, his figure instantly vanishing into the night beyond the wall!

He ran?

He actually... ran?!

The room fell into deathly silence.

The woman's ecstatic smile froze instantly.

The receding footsteps were like heavy hammers, shattering her final illusion with every strike.

She suddenly turned around like a trapped mother beast and wailed heartbreakingly at the dark hole in the wall:

"Take Eri with you!!"

"Please! Just take her away!!"

"Lord Ninja! Come back!"

"Come back—!"