Demon Refining Test: Life Imprint

Demon Refining Pot Testing and Life Imprint

After the huge shock came a much calmer calculation.

The storage function solves the problems of hiding and carrying supplies, making it a sharp tool for stealth, confidentiality, and even combat. The refining function points directly to the source of power!

He just did not know what the specific usage effect would be.

He immediately took action to test it.

His gaze swept across the room, locking onto those training kunai and shuriken in the corner.

He got up to pick up the kunai and shuriken, and with a single thought, one of the kunai instantly vanished from the spot, appearing within that gray, one-cubic-meter space.

With another thought, the kunai returned to its original place.

The process was completely silent and as obedient as his own arm.

Uchiha Hara thought for a moment, then placed the kunai on the bed. This time, without touching the kunai, he tried to store it.

As a result, the kunai just lay on the bed, not moving at all.

It seems that it must be an item I physically touch in order to be stored.

Next, he looked toward the edge of the tatami mat, where there were a few unremarkable small stones used to prop up the table legs.

He picked up one, communicated with the Demon Refining Pot mentally, and issued the instruction to Refine.

The stone in his hand vanished instantly, and immediately after that, he felt the faint spiritual light within the Demon Refining Pot space flicker ever so slightly before it ended.

Had the Demon Refining Pot been repaired? He did not know.

Had the space grown larger?

It did not seem to show.

It must be because inanimate objects have too little energy, but as long as it can refine them, that's fine! Uchiha Hara instantly thought of countless ways to use the Demon Refining Pot.

To say nothing of the long term, this thing would definitely make digging tunnels and underground architecture very fast.

Finally, there was the most important test.

His gaze drifted to the corner of the room, where there was a small mouse hole.

Although Uchiha Hara was young, he was also a reserve ninja who had successfully cultivated chakra, so it was naturally impossible for him to be helpless against a mouse.

Mainly because he was all alone and often felt lonely, so he did not care when there were mice in the house, treating them as his little companions instead.

Not only did he not drive the mice away, but he also often fed them.

However, the one who liked mice was the original owner, not the current Uchiha Hara, and he certainly would not hold back against a mouse.

He held his breath, concentrated, and waited patiently.

Before long, a dusty mouse poked its head out and crept out.

Uchiha Hara's gaze sharpened, and with almost no hesitation, his fingers flicked covertly. A tiny shuriken blade, previously hidden in his cuff, shot out and pierced precisely through the mouse's head.

The mouse twitched twice and stopped moving.

He walked over, picked up the mouse corpse that still retained some warmth, and communicated with the Demon Refining Pot once more.

Refine!

The mouse corpse in his hand vanished instantly.

This time, the changes in the Demon Refining Pot were still not obvious, but the feedback was very clear.

A small, grain-sized, dark red gelatinous mass that trembled slightly appeared in the center of the space, emitting a faint fluctuation of life energy.

At the same time, that message surfaced once more: Acquired [Rat Blood Essence].

That stream of information had been very chaotic before, but now it was becoming increasingly clear, and it even carried the flavor of a system notification.

He wondered if it was because the Demon Refining Pot had adapted to him as its master, and thus used the notification display method he was most familiar with.

Such a big mouse, and after refining it, it's only this big?

Uchiha Hara took out this [Blood Essence] and held it in his palm.

This thing was like jelly, somewhat resembling a medicinal pill, and felt soft when squeezed.

He could sense the vitality contained within it, but at the same time, he also detected a faint, non-human manic and chaotic intent lingering about it like background noise.

Why are there still impurities in this? Can this even be eaten? Uchiha Hara frowned. A dignified Innate Spirit Treasure, even if damaged, shouldn't have impurities when refining a mouse, right?

Besides, even if there were impurities, couldn't it just absorb them as inorganic matter?

Perhaps sensing Uchiha Hara's dissatisfaction, another stream of information welled up.

In an instant, Uchiha Hara understood.

It turned out that this mass of impurities looked like impurities, but in reality, they were not. They were the life imprint of the mouse as a living creature, an existence that distinguished racial traits from the level of refining rules.

Put in an online game, it would probably be called: Rat Bloodline.

However, after being refined by the Demon Refining Pot, the rat bloodline would not turn Uchiha Hara into a rat; instead, it would allow him to gain some of the rat's racial traits.

As for what racial traits rats had, Uchiha Hara did not really know, but it was definitely beneficial and harmless.

At that moment, he also understood the function of the Demon Refining Pot: it could help people refine the essence of all spirits and transform into divinity.

If this were in the Primordial World, by refining tens of thousands of kinds of living beings, he might be able to acquire tens of thousands of innate divine abilities.

Pity this was the Ninja World, and Uchiha Hara did not even know if he could find living beings with innate divine abilities.

However, even without innate divine abilities, it did not matter. A cat's agility, a snake's infrared vision, an eagle's far-sightedness, and a frog's dynamic vision were all very good racial traits, and blessing them onto a ninja would be quite wonderful as well.

Besides, even without this life imprint, the blood essence itself was an incredible treasure.

Repair damage, strengthen the foundation of life!

This body currently lacked this the most!

The hidden injuries left from the original owner's training and long-term malnutrition all needed the most fundamental vitality to make up for them.

He put that dark red [Blood Essence] into his mouth.

The blood essence melted upon contact with the mouth, turning into a warm current that poured down his throat and then spread to his limbs and bones.

An unprecedented feeling of comfort spread out, as if parched land had been nourished by sweet rain. The sense of physical weakness was largely dispelled, and that lingering chill was replaced by warmth.

He could even feel some minor hidden injuries being slowly repaired.

However, at the same time, some extremely fragmented, chaotic images and sensations also flooded into his mind: the vigilance of moving through darkness, the greedy craving for food, the fear when facing natural enemies... This was the instinctive information belonging to the mouse, brought by the life imprint.

He frowned, discovering that the speed of absorbing and fusing the blood essence was very fast, finishing almost instantly. As for this life imprint, it seemed not to end quite so quickly and required some digestion.

Fortunately, the time required was not long; it would probably be fine by tomorrow.

Effective! And the effect is remarkable! Feeling the concrete changes in his body, Uchiha Hara felt much more settled.

The life imprint needed time to digest, but that was not a major problem.

Meanwhile, the strengthening of the life foundation brought by the blood essence would cause Uchiha Hara's basic physical stats to grow rapidly.

A ninja's chakra was formed by the fusion of physical energy and spiritual energy.

The Uchiha clan's spiritual power was naturally very strong, and having lived two lifetimes, his spiritual power was even stronger than that of ordinary Uchiha. Now, he also had a way to rapidly strengthen his body.

Therefore, the speed at which his strength grew would become extremely fast!

In novels, things like becoming a jonin at six and Hokage at eight might not even be impossible?

Although this cheat was not a system, the enhancement it brought to the host was definitely no less than the vast majority of systems.

With a cheat like this, why would I care a damn about the Uchiha? Uchiha Hara instantly discarded the idea of relying on the Uchiha from before.

Relying on the Uchiha before was because there was no choice. Now that he had the ability to stand on his own two feet, why would he care about the Uchiha?

Who would want to play with a bunch of nostril-gazing, three-views-skewed Uchiha!

Of course, although he had a cheat, it did not mean he could act recklessly.

On the contrary, he still had to play it safe.

To play it safe was not out of fear, but because Konoha had a unique political ecology: it was extremely unfriendly to geniuses.

There were two old schemers here, one sitting in the seat of the Hokage and one eyeing the seat of the Hokage.

Once they discovered a genius, they would either recruit them for their own use, or kill them if they could not be recruited.

For those who could not be killed, they would use all kinds of official methods, such as missions, and work them to death.

The more capable you were, the more endless work you would have.

When they found that this genius's strength and reputation were great enough to threaten the Hokage, they would strike from the shadows to kill him.

Oh, you say your strength is so great that neither Sarutobi nor Danzo can do anything to you, and you can be Hokage?

Then you would have to face Konoha village's heartless ungrateful villagers and the various deeply self-interested clans.

No matter how you looked at it, being a genius represented endless trouble. It was better to implement the excellent experience passed down by the Chinese nation for thousands of years: make a fortune quietly!

Playing the fool and acting as the tail-ender during the day, beating mice and rabbits at night, and increasing his life foundation with blood essence—wasn't this very good?

Wait!

Uchiha Hara suddenly thought of a problem.

Can the Demon Refining Pot only refine animals?

Can humans be refined?

Mainly because the ninja world never lacked human corpses, and human corpses had Kekkei Genkai, dōjutsu, and ninjutsu. No matter how you looked at it, the gains were greater than refining animals!

This thought flashed through his mind, and he immediately suppressed it.

It was not that he had moral cleanliness, but that this was Konoha village; the risk was too high and it was easy to expose himself.

Besides, at five years old, there were not many people he could beat.

At the present stage, small animals were the safest and most suitable 'nourishment'."

He walked toward that blurry mirror again, looking at the pale yet undeniably handsome young face in the mirror.

In those black eyes, the innocence of a child was long gone, replaced by the calmness of a deep pool and a sharp light hidden deep within, like that of a hunter.

This won't do. Doesn't a look like this expose you immediately?

Uchiha Hara frowned, then relaxed again, and began to adjust his expression, posture, thoughts, and psychology.

Then he discovered, somewhat speechlessly, that it was actually very difficult for him to return to that stubborn yet ignorant expression of a five-year-old child.

"No way, I still have to report to the Ninja Academy tomorrow. Won't this expose me the moment anyone looks at me?" Uchiha Hara frowned. Because of his bottom-ranked test score during the day, he had been dispatched by the clan to attend classes at the Ninja Academy.

As for those who performed well, they naturally received their education within the clan.

Therefore, having just decided to become an undercover agent for an intelligence organization, how could he expose himself the very next day?

"Huh?" Uchiha Hara thought of something, and his gaze shifted slightly, instantly transforming into a blank, ignorant, yet somewhat spirited appearance, much like a hamster whose destiny had been gripped by the throat.

If not a ten-percent match for a normal child's gaze, it at least had a ninety-nine percent similarity.

This posture came from the Life Imprint of a rat, which Uchiha Hara named: Rat-Eyed Myopia!

"I didn't expect the Life Imprint of a rat to have this function?" Uchiha Hara chuckled, and then nodded. "Then I'll use this posture to meet people tomorrow!"