Talent Point Allocation

After experiencing death twice, Lin Chuan woke up in a fairly clean room and heard someone calling him. He thought he was hallucinating—how could anyone be calling him when he lived alone?

He suddenly snapped back to his senses, rose to his feet, and warily surveyed his surroundings. The house was not in ruins, there were no sounds of fighting, and no blinding white flashes of blades. Only then did he relax.

Just then, the task prompt in his mind sounded again.

[Please select a novice task]

[Task One: Become a Six Paths level powerhouse]

[Task Two: Refuse to eat beef one hundred times]

[Task Six: Eat beef three times]

[Return upon completing the task] [Death upon failing the task] [Task countdown: ten, nine, eight...]

Seeing the same tasks as before, he impatiently shouted, "I won't eat beef. I choose six..."

He did not blush in the slightest as he chose Task Six. A man living between heaven and earth could not act on impulse. The situation was still unclear, and he might not be able to complete the task of not eating beef. If that happened, he would really kick the bucket. Better play it safe and choose the task with fewer requirements.

[Task Six: Eat beef three times (0/3)]

He tried to open the task in his mind, hoping to see a more detailed description. With only a prompt telling him to eat beef, how was he supposed to meet the standard? Then he heard another shout, as though someone were calling his name.

"Have you been deaf this whole time? Do you want to be late on the first day of school, Chuan?"

"Say less, dear. Chuan might be going to Ninja Academy. He was probably too excited to sleep last night, which is why he can't get up..."

A middle-aged woman opened Lin Chuan's bedroom door and saw him sitting on the bed in a daze. Lin Chuan had clearly heard her but said nothing. Furious, she strode over, grabbed his ear, and yanked it, making him howl in pain.

"Hiss! It hurts, it hurts! Easy, easy!" Lin Chuan kept protecting his ear as he followed the woman out of the bedroom. Under her urging, he got dressed, washed up quickly, slung on his backpack, and headed to Ninja Academy.

Damn it, the cheap parents arranged by that dogshit planner were a little unreliable. They were way too violent. Lin Chuan kept rubbing his ear as he finally figured out his situation.

This time, he had transmigrated to Konoha, possessing a passerby named Chiba Lin Chuan. He had just reached the age to attend Ninja Academy, and today was its opening day.

After transmigrating three times, he discovered that each time, he possessed some passerby. If he had not transmigrated, that passerby would not even have had a name. Only after he transmigrated did the person gain one, with a similar name derived from his own.

Then there were his cheap parents. His mother was an ordinary person, while his cheap old man was a ninja—a Chunin who had retired due to injury. Their family circumstances were decent. Both parents were alive, all four of his limbs were intact, he had enough to eat and wear, and he was rather good-looking—actually a little handsome...

Overall, this was a pretty good starting setup, the best of his three lives. It counted as a minor guarantee. That dogshit planner still had a bit of conscience, after all. As the saying went, having both parents alive was the highest-tier setup in the ninja world. What more could he ask for?

Things like Red Eye Syndrome and Byakugan Syndrome were not important right now. Staying alive came first. If he failed the task, he could not return and would die in the Naruto world, then keep transmigrating forever. He did not want to somehow become a missing person.

The thing that had sent him transmigrating was nothing like the Lord God, and he had no idea what it was. It did not respond even when he asked. All he could do was curse that dogshit planner. If they had not watched Naruto, they should not have designed a Naruto game. How ugly was it to put out a half-finished product? The entire panel had only two functions: personal information and task prompts.

[Transmigrated World: Naruto]

[Transmigration Time: Year 57 of Konoha]

[Transmigration Location: Konoha]

[Possessed Person: Chiba Lin Chuan]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 6]

[Place of Origin: Land of Fire, Konoha, passerby]

[Life: 0 points]

[Bloodline: Passerby]

[Talent: Passerby]

[Strength: Passerby]

[Chakra Nature: None]

[Throwing: (Kunai Fixed-Target Throwing)] [Ninjutsu: (Non-Attribute Ninjutsu)] [Taijutsu] [Genjutsu] [Other Functions]

This transmigration took place in Year 57 of Konoha, which was a relatively peaceful period. After doing a little math, he realized it was Naruto's era. He seemed to be in the same class year as Naruto, though he did not know whether they could end up in the same class.

His name had changed, and his Life Points had become zero. His guess had been right: transmigration consumed Life Points. Zero Life Points meant that if he died this time, he would truly be dead.

He also discovered that talents could actually have points added to them. Opening the talent tab revealed the eight basic ninja attributes, each with a plus sign behind it. His eight basic attributes were...

[Talent: [Nin: 3+] [Body: 3+] [Gen: 3+] [Wis: 3+] [Power: 3+] [Speed: 3+] [Spirit: 3+] [Seal: 3+] Total: 24]

"To make it out in the world, you need power and connections. Why am I nothing but a bunch of nobodies? Dogshit planner, how am I supposed to make it?"

The eight attributes of this body really were mediocre—so mediocre that there was not a single flaw to pick apart. It was as though they had been deliberately designed that way. The dogshit planner had finally heard his thoughts and given him a minor guarantee, but they were all still nobodies.

If any one of his talents had been even slightly worse, he would not have been able to attend Ninja Academy. He remembered that Rock Lee had no talent for ninjutsu, leaving his ninjutsu and genjutsu talents at only one, while his taijutsu talent stood out dramatically. Naruto's talent for hand seals was only two because of his chakra control issues, which nearly prevented him from graduating.

If he wanted to add points, his first choice would definitely be chakra. Chakra was the foundation of a ninja. Without chakra, what kind of ninja could he be? After casually casting two ninjutsu, he would be drained and left at the mercy of others.

But adding points to ninja talents required Life Points, and he had none. He had already used the three Life Points he had been given. That was what gave him the biggest headache.

Then he suddenly remembered that Life Points were also tied to resurrection. Would using them to add points be a bit too wasteful?

In any case, the eight basic ninja attributes could be improved through training. It would not be too late to grind his talents to the limit first before adding points.

At last, the final function panel was no longer grayed out, and he could open the ninjutsu section to inspect it.

[Ninjutsu]

[Non-Attribute Ninjutsu]

[E-rank Ninjutsu: Transformation Technique (Beginner: 9/100)]

[E-rank Ninjutsu: Clone Technique (Beginner: 8/100)]

[E-rank Ninjutsu: Substitution Technique (Beginner: 10/100)]

With ninjutsu proficiency that had only just reached beginner level, did using it once add one point? This body had only just learned the Three Body Technique and could barely attend school.

Of course, even those who could not use the Three Body Technique could enroll if they had special talents, like Might Guy and Rock Lee, or if they were the orphaned children of heroes. After all, heroes had shed blood for Konoha.

[Might Guy failed the Ninja Academy entrance exam at age four and was exceptionally admitted at age five. Kakashi was referring to ninjutsu here. Aside from the Three Body Technique, I cannot think of anything else, so I am using one of the Three Body Techniques as the entrance exam. The Three Body Technique also counts as the graduation exam. In truth, becoming a Genin mainly depended on the bell test conducted by the Jonin leading the team.]

This body's talents were truly awful. Fortunately, he had the Grind Panel, so the situation was not too bad.

Its throwing accuracy was also unbelievably terrible...

[Throwing]

[Kunai Fixed-Target Throwing (Not Learned: 10%)]

With kunai throwing proficiency like this, it had not even reached beginner level. He would be lucky if one out of ten throws hit the bullseye. Just what kind of trash had he possessed? Was he supposed to begin a life-changing comeback?

But this body had neither bloodline nor talent. It was not an Uchiha, not a Hyuga, and not even from one of the Twelve Konoha rookies' clans. In the bloodline-supreme world of Naruto, what could he use to make a comeback? His head?

Did he really think hard work alone could surpass genius?

That was Kishimoto fooling children. To surpass a genius, one had to spend their life.

What was so good about being a genius? Even if one was a genius, even if one worked hard, a genius was still just a scapegoat.