Kusagakure retreated

Ye Chen's heart burned with excitement.

Still, the words "created from scratch" made him feel a little embarrassed.

After all, this Rasengan was something he had modified through experimentation.

The original Rasengan's requirements were so demanding that mastering it was nearly impossible for an ordinary person.

Ye Chen had no choice but to improve it.

With that in mind, calling it his own creation was fair enough.

The system truly was a wonderful thing. It had brought Ye Chen so many surprises.

Not only could he steadily grow stronger while lying at home, but it also gave him rewards from time to time.

Ye Chen absolutely loved this system.

His increase in strength and the reward of B-rank Five Elements Ninjutsu had barely stirred Ye Chen's emotions.

After all, he had grown used to such things.

But his accidental discovery of the system's evaluation mechanism filled him with excitement.

Setting everything else aside for now, Ye Chen immediately began trying to improve the Rasengan to test his theory.

When Ye Chen had "created" the Rasengan, he had pieced it together from memory. Combined with the noisy surroundings, that had naturally left it far from perfect.

Even then, he had already formed a preliminary plan for improving it.

Now, lured by the potential benefits, he immediately sped up the process.

As he recalled, the Rasengan had undergone several more improvements and upgrades.

These had gradually given the original, basic Rasengan the ability to fuse with Rasengan of other attributes.

The key to improving the Rasengan lay in its unique nature: its capacity to encompass everything.

Fusing Rasengan of different attributes would produce different ninjutsu effects.

Defensive barriers, for instance, or penetrating power, and so on.

That was the method for improving the Rasengan.

Ye Chen had already come up with some ideas when he first observed the battlefield.

On the battlefield, the players had indeed fought bravely, even fearlessly throwing themselves into danger.

Yet they had continued to lose ground.

Aside from the gap in raw strength.

There was another important factor: the chaotic mix of chakra attributes.

Chakra of different attributes could reinforce or counteract one another.

On the battlefield, the players unleashed their ninjutsu without restraint, making the chakra even more chaotic and disordered.

Some ninjutsu effects had even canceled one another out.

Attacks that could originally have inflicted greater damage ended up losing much of their power.

By contrast, the Kusagakure forces fought with discipline and seamless coordination. They were clearly veterans of many battles.

Compared with the rookie players of the Hidden Jun Village, their experience was as vast as a mountain.

Most importantly, the Kusagakure ninja coordinated so well that their ninjutsu could produce results greater than the sum of their parts.

This was also one of the main reasons the Hidden Jun Village's players had been suppressed so miserably.

From the moment he saw it, Ye Chen had been considering how to fuse the players' chakra of different attributes.

He did not need the result to be greater than the sum of its parts. At the very least, their attacks should not cancel each other out and drastically reduce their damage.

Now, the appearance of a Rasengan capable of fusion had given Ye Chen a glimmer of hope.

Of course, the chakra fusion he remembered had only been performed by a single person.

It was precisely because Naruto Uzumaki had learned the Shadow Clone Technique and played around making Rasengan in his spare time that the upgraded Rasengan had come into being.

The chakra of different ninja had inherent differences.

The thought of fusing their chakra together... was enough to make one's heart pound with apprehension.

Never mind what effects the resulting Rasengan might have; its stability alone was a frightening prospect.

Yet none of this could stump Ye Chen.

With the system's assistance, he was effectively using a cheat.

He could reproduce chakra of every attribute through the power of nature.

Through repeated simulations and fusion experiments, he could naturally develop the most stable fusion technique.

Of course, all he really needed was to ensure that the fused Rasengan did not explode in his hand.

After all, a Rasengan was meant to bombard the enemy once thrown.

The more unstable its interior, the more spectacular the explosion ought to be.

Ye Chen threw himself wholeheartedly into the grand undertaking of "invention and creation."

Under these very conditions, a terrifying fusion ninjutsu of the future quietly began to take root.

While Ye Chen busied himself with delight, the battlefield outside the village grew even livelier.

The players who had "returned to town" to exchange their points for A-rank ninjutsu immediately received a massive upgrade in firepower.

Although their proficiency with the Rasengan was low, it was at least easy to launch and required no specific windup movements.

As a result, Rasengan formed from chakra of different attributes rained down across the battlefield as though they cost nothing.

As the players kept attacking, their Rasengan proficiency soared.

The power of the Rasengan they threw also rose at a tremendous rate.

Boom, boom, boom!

A ninjutsu battlefield had actually achieved the effect of a modern weapons bombardment. What a sight.

Amid flashes of light, the Grass Ninja squads were repeatedly bombarded into retreat.

Although the Jonin leading them could endure the attacks through their own strength.

The other, lower-ranking ninja could not take it!

After the relentless bombardment, the encirclement was finally broken.

The Grass Ninja squads had no choice but to withdraw to avoid the Hidden Jun players' firepower.

As the encirclement pulled back, the pressure on all the players immediately eased. They could finally catch their breath.

His face flushed red, Emperor of Sinking saw the enemy retreating and immediately leaped out, raised his arm, and shouted:

"Brothers, those bastards are trying to run! Chase them with me! Those are contribution points on legs!"

Everyone answered his call. As though pumped full of adrenaline, the players charged out, howling.

Some of the female players abandoned all restraint and charged out howling as well.

Leading the charge was none other than the "veteran" player Dai Xiaomei.

As a female player of the new generation, she set an example.

Howling away, she ran even faster than the male players.

The players watching the livestream were thoroughly amused and flooded the chat:

"Useless at everything, number one at stealing kills!"

The comment was copied countless times, filling the livestream chat in orderly rows.

Among the players were several admirers of Daoist Master Sanfeng.

Covered in talismans, these human bombs howled as they charged toward the "routed" Grass Ninja squads.

The Jonin leading the squads all cursed:

"Lunatics! They're all fucking lunatics!"

They pushed harder with their feet and ran even faster.

On the battlefield, the newly introduced "forbidden" ninjutsu was not the only thing reaping impressive results.

The initial batch of talismans had also performed well.

It had to be said that these finely crafted talismans were much easier to use than ninjutsu.

They likewise required no preparatory movements. Simply infusing them with chakra was enough to activate them.

Moreover, their effects were not much weaker than those of ninjutsu.

Most importantly, Daoist talismans had a well-established tradition, with a thorough understanding of how the five elements reinforced and counteracted one another.

Using talismans completely avoided the worry of attacks canceling each other out, as those other ninjutsu did.

Just pick one up and throw it. The results were outstanding!

Was this not a tangible demonstration of China's ancient wisdom?

For precisely this reason, talismans had become an extremely popular "commodity" in this battle.

Daoist Master Sanfeng himself had not set foot on the battlefield at all.

He stayed tucked away in the village, concentrating entirely on drawing talismans.

Yet after a single battle, he had made a fortune.

Wars were fought with strategic resources.

War could leave people utterly destitute.

It could also make people richer than nations.

And Daoist Master Sanfeng belonged to the latter group.