Enemy attack

Daoist Master Sanfeng had made a fortune from the battle.

He seized the opportunity to exchange his earnings for vast amounts of chakra.

His strength rose along with it, reaching the elite jonin level.

Others had risked their lives outside, only to earn contribution points in the four figures.

Daoist Master Sanfeng, meanwhile, had simply hidden in the village drawing talismans and somehow raked in a fortune.

That was the advantage of having a specialized skill!

Ye Chen, who had also buried himself in research inside the village, was having a very different experience.

He stopped his work with a resigned sigh.

After nearly a thousand fusion experiments, he still had not managed to construct a stable fused Rasengan.

Ye Chen grumbled helplessly:

"Looks like I was being too fanciful."

Despite saying that, he remained convinced that his research was headed in the right direction.

The Rasengan could definitely be fused and upgraded.

After all, this world's rules had been built around Naruto.

The Big Ball Rasengan and Super Jade Rasengan in Naruto were both advanced versions of the Rasengan.

Ninjutsu that could be achieved in the original story should not have been so difficult to reproduce in this Naruto world.

Then... where was the problem?

Ye Chen gently rubbed his chin, sinking into thought.

If the chakra used to construct the Rasengan was too heterogeneous to fuse stably...

Then how had Boruto Uzumaki managed, by a stroke of luck, to fuse wind and lightning release chakra into a Rasengan in the original story?

Could a fused Rasengan only be constructed by a single person?

Ye Chen frowned slightly, then quickly shook his head.

He used the power of nature to simulate chakra of different attributes. In theory, that should have fully satisfied the conditions for one person to construct a fused Rasengan.

Yet the fusion experiments kept failing.

Something must have gone wrong somewhere...

Ye Chen racked his brains, but still could not figure out where the problem lay.

Left with no choice, he put his research on hold for the time being.

He let out a long breath, and a passing thought reminded him that the Hidden Jun Village was currently fighting the Kusagakure ninja.

For the sake of his research, he had simply muted the system notifications.

He had not checked the system messages for half a day and had no idea how far the battle had progressed.

He restored the system notifications to their default settings, and countless messages immediately flooded his ears.

[Ding! Player San Feng has advanced to elite jonin. You have received an equal amount of chakra feedback.]

[Ding! Player One Sword Opens the Heavens has advanced to elite chunin. You have received an equal amount of chakra feedback.]

[Ding! Player Emperor of Sinking has advanced to elite chunin. You have received an equal amount of chakra feedback.]

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Notifications of the players' advancements kept ringing in Ye Chen's ears.

Ye Chen froze briefly. He had not expected the players to grow stronger so quickly.

That player San Feng, in particular, had actually reached elite jonin.

That made him the strongest person in the entire Hidden Jun Village, aside from Ye Chen.

Curious, Ye Chen immediately called up player San Feng's status panel.

Player: San Feng.

Level: Elite jonin.

Chakra attributes: Wind, lightning, fire.

Contribution points: 1200.

Ninjutsu mastered: ...

Ye Chen had thought highly of this inheritor of Daoist traditions from the start.

But he had never imagined that this player possessed such enormous potential.

How long had it even been since the servers opened?

And he had already reached elite jonin.

If the "locals" learned of this, they would be so ashamed they might wish they were dead!

They had devoted decades to training, only for someone else to surpass them in less than a month.

Talent like that would surely shatter the locals' understanding of the world.

Even Ye Chen could not help marveling:

"As expected of the Third Calamity. Their potential for growth is terrifying."

Of course, Ye Chen was also extremely curious about how Daoist Master Sanfeng had grown stronger so quickly.

With a wave of his hand, he activated the system's playback function.

A sphere of light flickered before Ye Chen, displaying what player San Feng had done during the battle.

After watching it, Ye Chen was speechless.

"Holy crap, that actually worked?"

With nothing but talismans, Daoist Master Sanfeng had actually become the biggest winner of the entire battle?

Aside from Ye Chen, of course.

The entire Hidden Jun Village belonged to him.

The players within it were merely his workers.

Whatever they earned, Ye Chen received an equal share.

He was the very picture of someone lounging at home while profits fell into his lap.

Ye Chen had already broken through to become an early shadow ninja.

Yet after receiving an enormous amount of chakra feedback, he had not received a notification that his strength had advanced. That puzzled him.

So he pulled up his own status panel again.

Host: Ye Chen.

Occupation: Village chief of the Hidden Jun Village.

Strength: Early Kage level.

Chakra value: 1,500,000

Advancement requirement: 500,000

Ye Chen could not help clicking his tongue.

He vaguely remembered that his chakra capacity had passed the one-million mark when he broke through to Kage level.

Over the course of a single battle, he had received a total of 500,000 chakra in feedback.

Yet he still needed another 500,000 chakra to advance.

No wonder Kage-level ninja were so rare in the Naruto world.

And powerful Kage-level ninja were rarer still.

The amount of chakra required simply to advance from early Kage level to mid Kage level doubled.

It was little wonder that those powerful Kage-level ninja could often take on a thousand enemies alone.

Still, Ye Chen was not worried in the slightest.

As long as those "workers" under him put in a little more effort, his strength would keep increasing even if he stayed home and did nothing.

That was what it meant to win without lifting a finger.

Gathering his thoughts, Ye Chen switched the view and began checking on the other players.

The commotion outside the village had stopped, leaving nothing but wreckage strewn across the ground.

The other players were now out in the wilderness in groups of three or five, exploring new areas and hunting monsters!

They had earned enormous rewards from this battle.

They had all upgraded their gear, and their strength had increased considerably.

That was especially true of the second batch of players to enter the game.

They had reaped the benefits of the war between ninja villages, and most had reached elite genin in a very short time.

Given time, even breaking through to chunin would not be difficult.

After one battle, the veteran players were all smiles, while the new players had also profited handsomely.

And Ye Chen, the ultimate beneficiary, was steadily growing stronger as well.

It seemed that this battle had ended in a win for everyone.

Except Kusagakure, of course...

Ye Chen's brows drew together slightly, and he murmured:

"The battle ended just like that? That doesn't seem right."

He clearly remembered the elite jonin presence he had sensed in the woods.

With someone like that among them, would Kusagakure really slink away so meekly?

Ye Chen slapped his thigh and declared:

"No, it's a trap!"

Without wasting another moment, Ye Chen flew straight out of his residence.

Hovering in midair, he searched the village for anything unusual.