After recuperating at Bubu Pharmacy for half a month, Yucheng had recovered completely. He had to admire Baizhu's medical skills. With injuries like his, he would have had to spend nearly half a year in hospital in the world of Naruto.
During those two weeks of recovery, Yucheng had not been idle. He had been checking his body and how compatible his abilities were with the world of Genshin Impact.
Fortunately, Yucheng seemed to have brought everything he had gained in the world of Naruto over completely intact. As a qualified Chunin of the Uchiha Clan, his abilities were entirely genuine, without the slightest exaggeration.
Beyond that were basic ninja skills such as standing on walls, walking on water, and scaling walls and rooftops.
Even his greatest advantage as a member of the Uchiha Clan amounted to only a pair of Sharingan that had just awakened their second tomoe. He had only awakened them on the verge of death in the world of Naruto, amid overwhelming despair and unwillingness to accept his fate.
Though it sounded rather unimpressive, that level of combat strength was enough to put him head and shoulders above ordinary people in the world of Genshin Impact. Against a Vision bearer, however, it would probably fall short.
But Yucheng knew that none of those things were the most valuable asset in the world of Genshin Impact. That distinction belonged to his chakra refinement technique.
Teyvat contained seven kinds of elemental power: Hydro, Pyro, Electro, Cryo, Anemo, Geo, and Dendro. These seven elements originated from the Seven Dragon Sovereigns of ancient times. However, Phanes, The First Throne, had descended upon Teyvat from another world and defeated the Seven Dragon Sovereigns.
Afterward, he had created a new world inhabited by humans, and humanity had stepped onto the stage of history. But human bodies were too frail to withstand the side effects of violent elements entering them, so the vast majority of humans lacked the ability to wield elemental power.
This was very similar to senjutsu chakra in the world of Naruto. If humans absorbed too much natural energy while practicing senjutsu, their bodies would begin to petrify.
Yet the gods always showed humanity some favor. The Heavenly Principles would bestow Visions upon certain exceptional individuals as gifts. Visions thus became external magical organs that allowed humans to wield elemental power. With a Vision, they could avoid being corroded by violent elemental energy when absorbing elemental power.
Unfortunately, Visions seemed to be exclusive to their owners. Once a Vision recognized an owner, only that person could wield it. Even if someone stole his Vision, they could not use it. When its owner died, the Vision became an empty shell, attractive but useless, with considerable value as a collectible.
Still, there were exceptions to everything. The Tianquan Ningguang's Vision, for instance, had been an empty shell she had acquired. While she was toying with it and drafting an auction plan, it had suddenly blazed with light. The empty Vision had actually recognized her as its owner on the spot, much to her disappointment.
The chakra refinement technique he had brought from the world of Naruto gave him limitless possibilities in the world of Genshin Impact. He was certain he had no Vision, yet he could still perform the Great Fireball Technique.
Chakra was a special energy produced by evenly mixing the physical energy generated by the human body's 130 trillion cells with spiritual energy. This energy came from the human body itself, rather than being absorbed from outside.
In theory, anyone could produce chakra, then use their own chakra nature to convert it into the corresponding element and release it, accomplishing the feat of wielding elemental power without relying on a Vision.
If others learned that he possessed this technique, Snezhnaya alone would probably resort to desperate measures. They might even dispatch a Harbinger to personally take him back and hand him over to The Doctor to force the chakra technique out of him. After all, the Delusions they had painstakingly researched would suddenly lose their market.
On one side was a completely harmless chakra technique with a somewhat higher barrier to entry; on the other were Delusions that could only be used at the cost of life force. The superior choice was obvious.
With that in mind, Yucheng decided to find an opportunity to obtain a fake Vision as a cover. Until he found one, he would never reveal his ability to use ninjutsu in front of outsiders.
However, as far as Yucheng knew, apart from a certain Anemo Archon who neglected his duties and a certain penniless Geo Archon, only Yoimiya in Inazuma seemed to possess the craft of making fake Visions. The Sakoku Decree and Vision Hunt Decree were in effect there now. Surely he would not have to make a trip to Inazuma just for this?
After Yucheng recovered, he was more or less forced to join Bubu Pharmacy's staff under Baizhu's smiling gaze. The reason was simple: he had to pay off half a month's medical expenses. It was not much, merely a hundred thousand Mora, but to Yucheng, who had just arrived in this world without a penny to his name, it was an astronomical sum.
Mora was a currency created by Morax, the Geo Archon, and circulated throughout Teyvat. From what Yucheng knew of Genshin Impact, its purchasing power was bewildering. In the game, Taroumaru had a private stash of 180,000 Mora, Sayu earned 200,000 Mora a month, and a certain mysterious white floating spirit who doubled as Emergency Food ate through 300,000 Mora a month in food expenses alone.
Prices in Teyvat were roughly a hundred times those in the real world. In other words, one yuan had about the same purchasing power as a hundred Mora. By that calculation, a hundred thousand Mora was roughly a thousand yuan. Yucheng felt that was an acceptable price for fifteen days of medical treatment, so he readily agreed.
After thinking it over, Yucheng decided to stay at Bubu Pharmacy as a temporary herb gatherer, accompanying Qiqi under her guidance. As a large pharmacy in Liyue Harbor renowned far and wide, Bubu Pharmacy had an enormous demand for medicinal herbs. Some commonly used herbs could be purchased from herb merchants.
But certain special herbs, such as qingxin and violetgrass, grew among towering mountains and rugged ridges. Herb merchants stocked very little of them, and their prices were high, so herb-gathering children like Qiqi were needed.
At first, when Baizhu heard that Uchiha Yucheng wanted to become an herb gatherer, his immediate reaction was to object. Sending a boy who had only just recovered from serious illness to climb all sorts of mountains and gather herbs was simply treating his life as worthless.
But Yucheng demonstrated his physical skills on the spot. Under Baizhu's horrified gaze, he actually jumped straight down from Bubu Pharmacy, landed safely without using a Wind Glider, then easily returned to the pharmacy high above with a few more jumps.
Seeing this, Baizhu stared at him and considered it for a long time before finally agreeing to Yucheng's request. However, since he was unfamiliar with medicinal herbs, Baizhu had him accompany Qiqi to gather them.
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