To Luo Yu, these rogue ninjas were walking treasure troves.
Under his strange gaze, the rogue ninjas felt prickles down their backs, their tension mounting.
After weighing his options, Wan Xiong made an immediate decision. "Retreat!"
His opponent might have specialized in only one area and had little chakra left after unleashing that Great Fireball.
After all, there was no such thing as a genius who excelled at everything.
But he didn't dare take that gamble.
"There's nowhere you can run from me."
Luo Yu snorted. The Hashirama cells inside him stirred, and sharp wooden spikes grew from his arm.
Then he casually flung the spikes out.
A wooden spike easily pierced the fleeing sensory-type rogue ninja, then sprouted numerous branches. His corpse instantly became a gruesome sight.
This was Advent of a World of Flowering Trees.
Although the Ninja Association had no information on Advent of a World of Flowering Trees in its records, Luo Yu estimated that its overall capabilities would earn it at least a three-star ninjutsu rating.
Only Jonin or above would be able to learn it.
"Wood Release!"
Bai Siyao sucked in a sharp breath.
The young man before her was not only proficient in Fire Release, but also possessed the rare kekkei genkai, Wood Release!
Now Bai Siyao truly felt inadequate.
Wan Xiong, meanwhile, congratulated himself on his wise decision to flee.
With that thought, he escaped into the woods and took out a ninjutsu scroll with trembling hands.
It was a life-saving scroll that was exceedingly rare among low-level ninjas, containing a single use of Secret Technique: Camouflage Invisibility.
Its value could even rival that of a white-quality legacy fragment.
Suppressing his reluctance, Wan Xiong glanced at Luo Yu pursuing him and decisively opened the scroll.
The next instant, a layer of specially processed chakra surged from the scroll and covered his entire body.
Wan Xiong's figure gradually faded.
Before he vanished completely, he gave Luo Yu a sinister look. "That uniform... you're a student at Tengyang No. 3 Middle School, aren't you?"
"You dared ruin my plans. I'll remember your face and track down your home!"
"You and your family can live in fear, waiting for me to take my revenge!"
As his words fell, he disappeared completely under the scroll's ninjutsu.
Revenge?
Hearing Wan Xiong's vicious declaration, Luo Yu smiled calmly. "Still dreaming?"
"I'll use this eye to show you reality."
As he spoke, three tomoe appeared in his right pupil once more.
Before the Sharingan, which could detect the flow of chakra...
Wan Xiong, who was using chakra-generated camouflage to conceal himself, had nowhere to hide.
Noticing the change in Luo Yu's pupil, Wan Xiong was horrified. "An evil Sharingan brat!"
"You can actually control the Sharingan! And it has three tomoe!"
"Are you from the Imperial Capital Jun Family?"
The Imperial Capital Jun Family?
The knowledge Luo Yu had learned in history class surfaced in his mind.
The Imperial Capital Jun Family had obtained the Uchiha legacy in an otherworldly secret realm during ancient times.
As a result, only members of the Jun Family could naturally awaken the Sharingan.
Without the Jun Family's bloodline, even someone who obtained a Sharingan through other means would ultimately struggle to control it.
Realizing that his invisibility had been exposed, Wan Xiong knew his only option was a desperate fight to the death.
"Clone Technique!"
Wan Xiong immediately created two clones. His real body mingled among them as he grabbed a shuriken and lunged at Luo Yu.
The clones produced by the Clone Technique could not inflict actual damage. The real threat was his true body.
In an instant, the three tomoe in Luo Yu's pupil spun rapidly, transforming into the pattern of Kamui.
Five seconds of intangibility began.
Luo Yu's body became like a phantom, and the shuriken passed straight through him.
For a moment, Wan Xiong even had the illusion that he had succeeded.
But after passing through Luo Yu without feeling any resistance, he came to his senses.
"Could I already be trapped in a Sharingan genjutsu?!"
While Wan Xiong stood stunned, Luo Yu unleashed Advent of a World of Flowering Trees again.
With the Sharingan seeing through Wan Xiong's movements, he was impaled before he even had time to dodge.
[Attribute points +5!]
Since his enemies were also apprentices, the attribute-point drop rate remained at forty percent.
Two of the three rogue ninjas had dropped attribute points.
Luo Yu nodded in satisfaction, then opened Wan Xiong's backpack.
Aside from some food and water, it contained a Storage Scroll.
The chakra signature of the Nameless Fire Release Legacy was emanating from this Storage Scroll.
"What a haul!"
Luo Yu grinned from ear to ear.
Even setting aside the Nameless Inheritance inside it, the Storage Scroll itself was an extremely valuable tool.
These scrolls connected to storage spaces of varying sizes, making them especially convenient for storing items.
Apart from wealthy second-generation ninjas, usually only Chunin owned them. These rogue ninjas must have obtained theirs illegally.
He injected chakra into the scroll and opened the storage space.
Alongside some novice ninja essentials, ninja tools, and Explosive Tags, there were indeed five fragments of the Nameless Fire Release Legacy.
Delighted, Luo Yu put all his belongings into the Storage Scroll, then tucked the scroll into his bag.
Next, he allocated eight attribute points to stamina.
His stamina panel immediately updated.
Stamina: 18 (+30%)
With eighteen stamina and the bonus from the Hashirama cells, Luo Yu's physical constitution had already surpassed Novice Rank Two.
But the Book of Ninja awarded for leveling up had not arrived.
Could the bonus from the Hashirama cells be excluded from the level assessment?
While Luo Yu was puzzling over this, Bai Siyao approached him with an admiring expression. "Big brother, you saved me!"
"Thank you!"
"To repay you for saving my life, I'm handing my big sister over to you! Feel free to use her however you like!"
Ever since seeing that he possessed both Wood Release and the Sharingan, she had silently decided that Luo Yu was her future brother-in-law.
Besides, he really was handsome.
If her sister knew she had found her such a fine partner, she would definitely grin from ear to ear.
Luo Yu's mouth twitched at her words.
"That won't be necessary. You're... Bai Siyao!"
Looking at the delicate, pretty face drawing closer, Luo Yu recognized her on the spot.
After all, Bai Siyao was a genius girl who had passed the Trainee Exam while still in middle school, and she was quite famous in Jiangli City.
There was also her older sister, Bai Mengyao, a Jonin studying at Imperial Capital University.
Both sisters were the sort of exemplary children other parents always held up as models.
So Luo Yu knew a little about them.
"I saved you purely out of a sense of justice, with a little extra cash on the side. How could I accept your sister?"
Luo Yu spoke with righteous conviction, leaving the little girl utterly awestruck and even more ashamed.
Big brother was so noble, yet all I could think about after being rescued was helping my sister claim him for herself. That was really improper.
Seeing that it was getting late, Luo Yu borrowed Bai Siyao's phone and dialed the contact number listed on the wanted notice.
"What?! You ran into Wan Xiong's gang?!"
After hearing Luo Yu's account, the receptionist on the other end immediately grew anxious.
"Keep yourself safe and make sure they don't spot you. Send us your coordinates, and we'll dispatch people right away."
"What?! They've all been killed already?!"
Hearing the confident voice on the other end, the receptionist was clearly taken aback.
"All right. We'll come over immediately to verify it."
Ten minutes later.
A five-person squad dispatched from the military base arrived at the scene.
Leading them was the very officer who had tried to dissuade Luo Yu earlier.
The moment he saw Luo Yu, he froze.
Wasn't this the young fellow who insisted on leaving the city earlier?
Could he have taken down Wan Xiong and his men?
The officer dismissed the thought as soon as it arose.
No. How could a ninja student with only five stamina and five chakra defeat three vicious rogue ninjas?
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