The ninja village levels up

Ye Chen returned to his residence once more.

He began studying how to advance the Rasengan in earnest.

As for the players registering their professions,

Ye Chen simply left that to the system.

When players came to the Village Chief's residence, the registration interface would pop up without them needing to see him.

This also spared them the trouble of lining up, and all twenty-seven players soon completed their profession registration.

Once registered, players could operate their Profession Panel themselves to check their professional status.

One of the more important features on the panel was Daily Missions.

Different professions offered different missions.

The rewards also varied greatly depending on a mission's difficulty.

In addition, the panel now had a "Rewards and Punishments Record" feature.

The players' fulfillment of their duties and their everyday conduct would all be recorded according to the "Rewards and Punishments Guidelines" Ye Chen had drawn up.

This would serve to keep the players in check to some extent.

Of course, Ye Chen had written the "Guidelines" entirely himself.

Put bluntly, they were nothing more than his own custom "slave labor" regulations.

The "Guidelines" were long-winded drivel, so naturally, the players could not be bothered to read them.

What they did not realize was that, without even noticing, they had sold their freedom to Ye Chen, their "heartless" boss.

Although the professions had different missions of varying difficulty, nothing prevented the players from completing them in teams.

For these highly active players, none of this posed much difficulty.

In groups of three or five, they bustled around Hidden Jun Village.

The earlier ninja village battle and the subsequent battle against Kusagakure's surprise attack

had left exceptionally savage "remnants" around the outskirts of Hidden Jun Village.

Naturally, such unsightly "remnants" had to be dealt with.

Players working as Sanitation Workers were responsible for clearing away the debris.

Artisan players were responsible for filling in the craters blasted out during the battles.

Gardening players had to restore greenery to the ground, completely erasing the traces of battle.

It had to be said that the lure of mission rewards brought the players' initiative to its fullest potential.

Every player followed their mission requirements, steadily improving the village's facilities.

Players working as Guards also began patrolling around the village in shifts, occasionally driving away wild beasts outside it.

Medical Care players kept preparing first-aid equipment. After all, the next ninja village battle was about to begin.

Everyone had something to do, and everything fell into order.

Ye Chen, absorbed in his research, suddenly raised his head.

A dazzling sphere of light spun in his hand.

"It worked!"

After his earlier clash with a Kage Level expert, he had gained a flash of insight.

Now, his experiments had indeed confirmed his hypothesis.

His original idea had not been wrong. He had merely gone down the wrong path without realizing it.

Chakra of different attributes could indeed be fused.

However, Ninjutsu differed from Chakra in its energy form. Fusing techniques still required taking their individual functions into account.

For example, the S-rank forbidden technique Ye Chen had used earlier, Lightning Release: Lightning Blade, possessed tremendous penetrating power.

Fusing such a technique with one focused on defense would create a certain conflict.

Of course, fusion Ninjutsu that possessed both penetrating power and defensive capabilities did exist.

But such fusion techniques were ultimately rare exceptions.

In most cases, Ninjutsu with opposing functions was very difficult to fuse.

Differences in Chakra attributes also determined differences in a technique's effects.

Even among Rasengan variants, a lightning-attribute Rasengan possessed tremendous destructive power.

An earth-attribute Rasengan, meanwhile, possessed exceptionally powerful restraining and defensive properties.

That was where Ye Chen had gone wrong before.

On top of that, Rasengan of different attributes inherently repelled one another, making fusion fraught with difficulties.

To fuse them, he naturally had to find the critical point of balance.

His previous failure had come from getting stuck in a dead end. Combined with his impatience, that had made it difficult to pinpoint the critical balance.

Now that he had sorted out his thinking and reined in his impatience, Ye Chen finally succeeded after more than a hundred experiments.

Constructing a fused Rasengan was difficult upon difficult.

Naturally, Rasengan formed by fusing different attributes would produce different effects.

Ye Chen gazed fervently at the flickering ball of light in his palm and murmured,

"The system rated the Rasengan I 'created' last time as A-rank."

"Now that I've completed the fusion, this advanced Rasengan should be at least S-rank, right?"

Ye Chen did not test the fused Rasengan's effects. Whatever the result, he only had to hand it over to the system for evaluation.

He brought up the system's controls and uploaded his newly "developed" advanced Rasengan.

While waiting for the evaluation, Ye Chen habitually switched the system's audio from mute back to normal.

Just then, an exhilarating notification rang in his ears.

[Ding! Your village's construction is complete and has met the requirements for an upgrade. Would you like to begin the upgrade?]

This village upgrade actually came with a user-friendly confirmation option.

It seemed that the higher the village's level rose, the more features would become available.

Ye Chen's eyes lit up, and he selected "Yes" without hesitation.

The changes brought by upgrading the village were what gave Ye Chen the greatest benefits.

Sure enough, once the upgrade was complete, notifications came one after another.

[Ding! Congratulations! Your village has reached level three. You can now recruit a total of thirty-six villagers.]

Ye Chen was delighted. They were about to go to war with Kusagakure, and adding new members now would greatly increase their fighting strength.

The players had tremendous potential for growth. Given enough time, they would become another batch of "fresh troops"!

The system notifications continued.

[Ding! Congratulations! Your village has reached level three. You have been awarded two supporting facilities: the Training Grounds and the Stable.]

Ye Chen was delighted once again. These two facilities had arrived at an exceptionally opportune moment.

Naturally, the Training Grounds were a place for players to spar and practice combat.

They could certainly challenge each other to PvP fights outdoors, but that would still consume resources.

The Training Grounds, however, were different.

Once players entered, every sparring match would cost them nothing.

What new players lacked most was practical combat experience.

With war just around the corner, the Training Grounds could not have arrived at a better time.

The other supporting facility, the Stable, was naturally a place to keep horses.

Players could hire warhorses there, giving them a tremendous advantage when raiding the enemy camp.

After all, there was still some distance between the two ninja villages.

Having transportation would spare them a great deal of trouble.

Besides, mobility was one of the most advantageous assets on a battlefield.

Of course, Chakra could enhance a ninja's physique.

But if they could arrive fresh and meet an exhausted enemy, why wear themselves out on a long-distance march?