Naruto finished muttering his complaints when the prompt rang in his ears once more.
[Ding! Reminding the host, would you like to save the 1% discount commodity page? If not saved, the next search will directly clear it.]
Hearing this, Naruto was startled. "Save."
After the 1% discount commodities were saved, Naruto began to ponder how he could meet the conditions to exchange for the Domesticated Hashirama Cells.
Although 1,000,000 silver taels was a little bit less compared to 5,000,000,000, it was still not something he could afford right now, was it?
Sell the house? Where would he live in the future?
Robbery... It seemed that at present he could only rob some pocket money from little kids, which was far from enough.
Suddenly.
A giant blade slashed across Naruto's mind, and he couldn't help recalling his previous conversation with Aunt Ichiraku.
"Aunt Ichiraku said she can sell 500 bowls of ramen a day... At the ordinary price of 90 taels per bowl, 500 bowls... wouldn't that be 45,000 taels?"
You don't realize until you tally the small accounts, but tallying them gives you a fright.
45,000 taels in 1 day, 450,000 taels in 10 days.
Wouldn't 30 days mean... Gross Profit's turnover directly reaching 1,350,000 silver taels?
"Goodness me, it turns out the Ichiraku House is the hidden boss of Konoha? So wealthy?"
"Ramen that tastes so mediocre has a monthly income of over 1,000,000 silver taels. If I... did it like this?"
Robbing the Ichiraku House was out of the question.
Perhaps at this moment in Konoha, Aunt Ichiraku was the only one who truly treated him well, and a person had to have a bottom line.
"In that case... I might as well do this."
Naruto was extremely nervous because the item he was about to search for might genuinely not exist in the Naruto World, so he wasn't sure if he could obtain it.
But how would he know without trying?
Search: [500 grams of Lotus MSG].
The scene shifted.
A bag of crystal-clear, granular Lotus MSG appeared in his field of view.
Looking again, the cost required for the exchange was only 10 silver taels, or 1 negative point, or 1 shock point, and Naruto almost danced for joy.
As everyone knew, the raw materials for extracting MSG were wheat and other grains. The scientific name for MSG was sodium glutamate, and the extraction method was extremely complicated, involving processes such as the isoelectric point method, ion exchange method, metal salt method, and hydrochloric acid hydrolysis-membrane electrodialysis method.
The finished product was a colorless or white columnar crystalline powder, easily soluble in water, with a strong meat-like umami flavor. Adding 0.1 to 0.15 grams of sodium glutamate to 1 gram of salt yielded the best flavoring effect, increasing the umami flavor by 4 to 6 times.
Naruto was certain that with a manufacturing process this complex, given the distorted tech tree and industrial standard of the Naruto World, there was a high probability no one had studied or extracted it yet.
"I seem to see huge business opportunities. If I can convince Aunt Ichiraku to cooperate, I feel like all kinds of ninjutsu, taijutsu, and secret techniques will be a total breeze."
Afterward, Naruto tried searching for seasonings such as chicken bouillon, black pepper, Donggu, Lee Kum Kee, Hong Jiujiu, Red Lantern, and Thirteenth Aunt, among other specialized restaurant seasonings.
As expected, they were all very cheap, and to him could be obtained at the cost of a tiny price.
Having found a way to earn silver taels, Naruto's horizons suddenly broadened.
After activating the Lucky Money function, he still had 78 negative points, 40 shock points, and 10,000 silver taels.
He had to spend this little money frugally.
Since he had the routes and channels to make money, the next step was to prepare for acquiring shock points.
As for negative emotion points, he naturally came with a halo for them, so he didn't need to worry at all.
On the contrary, shock points required improvements in his strength to obtain.
After thinking about it, this time Naruto no longer searched for various heaven-defying items; staring blankly because he couldn't afford to buy them after searching was pointless, so he might as well go for something affordable and practical.
Search: [Standard Genin Taijutsu Insights].
[Standard Genin Taijutsu Insights]
Exchange requires 1,000 silver taels, or 1,000 shock points, or negative points.
"Exchange with silver taels."
[Ding! Confirm?]
"Confirm."
[Ding! Exchange successful. Information infusion countdown: 3 seconds. 3, 2, 1.]
The countdown ended.
A large number of Genin combat scenes appeared out of thin air in Naruto's mind, as incomparably real as actual combat practice.
The information infusion was very fast, and just as Naruto was still immersed in the combat insights, it abruptly ended.
"My base combat power has received a significant boost, enough to reap shock points in the Ninja Academy with this. Next, the showboating divine skill of throwing techniques also needs to be upgraded."
Immediately search: [Intermediate Throwing Techniques].
[Intermediate Throwing Techniques]; Exchange requires 5,000 silver taels, or 1,000 shock points, or 1,000 negative points.
"Just intermediate throwing techniques cost me 5,000 silver taels... And I haven't even searched for max level yet."
Glancing at the balance of 9,000 taels on the panel, Naruto could only grit his teeth and make the exchange.
Once the exchange succeeded, a large amount of throwing techniques regarding shuriken and other ninja tools was immediately infused into his mind.
Slowly waking up, Naruto reached back and took out ten shuriken from his canvas bag, crossing his arms and throwing them out with a fierce swing.
Buzz, buzz, buzz...
The ten shuriken spun rapidly in the air, whistling as they shot fiercely toward the circular target on the opposite wall.
Clang, clang, clang...
Not a single one missed the target, and almost all of them hit the bullseye.
The cheat's effect could be described as immediate. Naruto smiled as he pulled all the shuriken off the circular target and stowed them back into his canvas bag.
Suddenly.
[Ding! Received 90 negative emotion points from an Anbu Elite.]
[Ding! Received 90 negative emotion points from an Anbu Elite.]
Naruto was slightly stunned, but didn't care. Instead, he sat cross-legged on the floor of his own accord to condense chakra.
Up on a large tree canopy outside the house.
"What do you say this kid isn't sleeping or cultivating in the middle of the night, messing around with what?"
"That's right, can't he just be honest? Monitoring this kid every day makes me feel like I'm getting lazy."
The night was long.
The two Anbu Elite could only stare blankly at Naruto's house.
However, this was merely an appetizer; the true torture was about to be staged.
Early the next morning, just as dawn broke.
Naruto left his house looking refreshed with his canvas bag on his back, running toward the training ground he frequented.
The two Anbu Elite had stared wide-eyed at each other all night. Just as their shift change was about to arrive, they never expected Naruto to stir up trouble again, and with heavy depression in their hearts they followed along.
[Ding! Received 90 negative emotion points from an Anbu Elite.]
Hearing this, Naruto roared neurotically, "I'm going to be Hokage!!!"
[Ding! Received 1 negative emotion point from the surrounding villagers.]
[Ding! Received 90 negative emotion points from an Anbu Elite.]
The continuous system prompts filled Naruto with fighting spirit.
"Yeah, another day filled with seventy thousand."
Meanwhile.
In the throwing training ground within the Uchiha Fiefdom, Sasuke had started warming up early.
"It was only because I was careless last time that I was pinned down by Naruto, leading to my defeat. My Fire Release and throwing techniques didn't get to play out at all. Next time I fight him, I must accentuate my strengths and avoid my weaknesses, and I can't match her brute force."
After calm analysis, the defeat in last night's battle left Sasuke unsettled for a long time; she was clearly very strong yet lost to Naruto because of carelessness.
Soon, one boy and one girl began to sweat profusely in different training grounds.
Two hours later, around six-thirty.
Naruto packed up his kunai and shuriken, stuffed them into his canvas bag, and headed back the way he came.
Having worked up a foul sweat and with his clothes heavily stained by perspiration, naturally he couldn't wear them anymore.
After a quick shower, he changed into a white T-shirt, black cropped pants, and brown sandals, then strolled out of his front door and walked toward the Ninja Academy.
Along the way, he even stopped by Ichiraku House to get a bowl of ramen to eat.
Cultivation was strenuous physical labor; how could one grow stronger without eating a good meal?
Yet even though he sped up his eating, by the time he arrived at the Ninja Academy, he still arrived right down to the wire before class.
Just as Naruto was about to rush into the Ninja Academy, a timid voice came from his right-hand side.
"Big Brother Naruto."
Turning his head to look, Naruto froze on the spot.
Those large Byakugan eyes were full of spirit, and the neatly tailored light-white attire set off the strength behind her clan. There was shyness and minor injuries on her slightly timid face, but upon seeing the newcomer she couldn't help plucking up the courage to greet him proactively, appearing immensely embarrassed. ─=≡Σ(((つ•̀ω•́)つ
"Little Brother Hinata..."
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