Mangekyō Sharingan!

The school forum at Tianhai No. 1 High School had gone completely wild.

As one of the people involved, Lin Qianqian had also had her mood affected by the forum posts.

But she believed the truth would speak for itself, so she did not pay much attention to what everyone was saying.

There was nothing going on between her and Zhou Fan anyway.

She did not need to explain herself to them.

Rather than explaining, she was more focused on cultivating.

The two Mid-Grade Spirit Stones she had received after completing the punishment mission were not much, but they were better than nothing.

She immediately began absorbing the spiritual energy inside the Spirit Stones.

Soon, she had drained all the spiritual energy from both Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.

Her cultivation shot straight from second tier, 1 star to second tier, 3 stars!

The spiritual energy in Mid-Grade Spirit Stones really was pretty good.

It was just a shame that she could have received a High-Grade Spirit Stone.

With a High-Grade Spirit Stone, she might even have broken through to second tier, 4 stars!

[Successfully advanced to second tier, 3 stars!]

[New skill acquired-Paper-Style Clone!]

[Paper-Style Clone: Creates up to 3 Paper Clones, which share spiritual energy equally with the original. Paper Clones possess independent consciousness. Even if the original is affected by Genjutsu, a sealing technique, a Cursed Seal, or similar effects, the Paper Clones can still act freely without being affected.]

Lin Qianqian's eyes immediately lit up. "They can act freely even if I'm caught in Genjutsu?"

This technique was great!

Her greatest weakness right now was her lack of resistance to Genjutsu.

If she could gain a way to counter Genjutsu, she would have an answer to Zhou Fan's Genjutsu during their next comparison.

As long as she solved the Genjutsu problem.

Then Zhou Fan would no longer pose much of a threat to her.

In Lin Qianqian's eyes, only Zhou Fan's Genjutsu was particularly troublesome. His other superpowers were strong too, but not beyond her ability to handle.

"But this Paper-Style Clone only keeps the clones from being affected when the original falls under Genjutsu. It doesn't grant outright immunity."

"If only there were a way to become completely immune to Genjutsu."

Lin Qianqian was not content with things as they stood.

The Paper-Style Clone Technique was certainly good.

But she wanted something better.

Until she could leave Zhou Fan far behind!

"This is only the beginning. I absolutely won't let my guard down this time!"

"I only lost the first comparison because I underestimated him."

"This time, I'll treat Zhou Fan as a real opponent."

"Until I catch up to him and surpass him."

"And crush him beneath my feet!"

Clearly.

This beautiful campus belle was deeply unhappy about losing to a Beginner Boss in her very first comparison.

She had always considered Zhou Fan the Beginner Boss the system had arranged for her.

If she could not even get past a Beginner Boss like Zhou Fan, how was she supposed to challenge the Intermediate Big Boss later on?

Next time, she would not fail!

[Envy +1 +1 +1...]

[Resentment +1 +1 +1...]

Zhou Fan woke up.

Emotion points were still pouring in without pause.

"Why is there so much resentment? Just how much do these people hate me?"

Getting emotion points was a good thing.

But this much "resentment" was a bit much to take.

With so many people resenting him.

He was almost afraid someone would throw a sack over his head the moment he stepped outside, and then some pervert would do unspeakable things to him.

"But it looks like my emotion points have gone up quite a bit."

Zhou Fan checked his emotion point balance-52,023!

"Holy crap!"

"I've finally saved up fifty thousand emotion points!"

Fifty thousand emotion points were enough to redeem the Mangekyō Sharingan!

For the sake of the Mangekyō Sharingan, he had forced himself to resist all kinds of temptations.

It had taken so much effort to save up fifty thousand emotion points!

"System, redeem the Mangekyō Sharingan for me!"

[Ding! 50,000 emotion points consumed!]

[Successfully redeemed "Mangekyō Sharingan (Madara Uchiha)"!]

[Left eye: Comprehensively enhances ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Genjutsu. Power +300%!]

[Right eye: Comprehensively enhances spiritual energy. Spiritual energy capacity and quality +300%!]

The original work had never revealed the abilities of Madara Uchiha's Mangekyō Sharingan, so Zhou Fan had not known exactly what they were.

Only now that the system had shown them did he find out.

"Both eyes directly enhance my own capabilities."

"Sure enough, fancy mechanics can't beat pure stats," Zhou Fan remarked.

Who cares about your fancy tricks? I'll crush an entire army with raw power!

(The original work really never explained Madara's Mangekyō Sharingan abilities, and I didn't feel comfortable inventing special abilities outright, so I could only use this approach to avoid hurting the reading experience.)

(If you have any good ideas, feel free to share them. Let's discuss them reasonably.)

[New dōjutsu unlocked-Third Power: Susanoo!]

[Forbidden Dōjutsu unlocked-Izanagi!]

[Izanagi: A Forbidden Dōjutsu of the Sharingan. Upon activation, it can turn any events unfavorable to the user within a certain period into illusions, while turning favorable events into reality.]

[Cost: After use, the Sharingan will become permanently blind!]

Izanagi, the ultimate dōjutsu!

This technique was undoubtedly powerful. Each Mangekyō Sharingan could activate it once.

Having two Mangekyō Sharingan was equivalent to having two extra lives.

Although using it even once would leave that eye permanently blind.

Compared with losing his life, it was still worth it.

After awakening the Mangekyō Sharingan, Zhou Fan's strength received an all-around boost.

He jumped straight from second tier, 1 star to second tier, 3 stars!

His strength skyrocketed!

Zhou Fan immediately activated his Mangekyō Sharingan. Three pitch-black tomoe spun, then slowly connected, sharp as blades and radiating an icy ocular power.

"So this is... the Mangekyō Sharingan!"

At that moment.

Zhou Fan felt the world before his eyes change.

It became more transparent, clearer than ever before.

"These eyes... can see through all darkness!"

This was not merely an increase in ocular power.

It was an unprecedented transformation!

[Special warning: The dōjutsu of the Mangekyō Sharingan have severe side effects. The more they are used, the further the user will descend into darkness, until permanent blindness occurs!]

The Mangekyō Sharingan was undoubtedly immensely powerful.

But power came at a price.

The more he used its dōjutsu, the worse the side effects would become.

There were two ways to eliminate those side effects. The first was to evolve it into the eternal Mangekyō Sharingan!

This was the best solution.

Only eternal light could dispel the darkness.

Evolving the eternal Mangekyō Sharingan required two pairs of Mangekyō Sharingan from blood relatives.

Zhou Fan had no way to obtain Uchiha Izuna's Mangekyō Sharingan.

But!

With the mighty system on his side, he could directly redeem the eternal Mangekyō Sharingan with emotion points!

There was nothing the mighty system could not handle. If there was, he just needed to pay more!

The second method was to obtain Hashirama Senju's cells. They could not only enhance the Mangekyō Sharingan's ocular power, but also counteract its side effects.

This method would work too, because Zhou Fan had already unlocked "Hashirama Senju" as a bond target.

As long as he had emotion points, the mighty system could give him anything!