MTLNOVEL Chapter 176: Chapter 176: From the First Time I Bullied Orochimaru, I Already Had No Way Back
Chapter 176: From the First Time I Bullied Orochimaru, I Already Had No Way Back
Naraku Uehara's guts were truly massive.
Who in the entire ninja world would dare to play Orochimaru like a monkey?
Naraku Uehara not only dared to do so, but he also played this game repeatedly. The fact that Orochimaru endured so much humiliation without turning hostile was truly a testament to his high self-control.
It could also be because his strength was inferior to Uehara's.
Perhaps in the next moment, Orochimaru would jump out and fight to the death.
Naraku Uehara was still a bit worried that he would drive Orochimaru crazy. He manipulated Obito Uchiha into the coffin and sighed, "I should look at the Scroll of Seals first. As for Orochimaru, let's just keep him in the Kamui dimension to cool off for a bit!"
Naraku Uehara felt a little happy again looking at the Scroll of Seals, unable to stop his smile, "Tsk, the Scroll of Seals! Teacher Konan will definitely love this gift. When I go back, I'll say I snatched it from Orochimaru!"
Side Mission: Obtain the Scroll of Seals (1/1). Mission completed. Reward: Unlocks the Limited-Time Exchange function.
Limited-Time Exchange Function: After exchanging any ninjutsu, skill, or summoning contract, the system will rate and recycle it, and provide corresponding gold coins, life energy, chakra energy, natural energy, and various recovery effects in return.
Naraku Uehara's eyelids twitched.
What was with this system? Last time it came up with a Skill Furnace, which Naraku Uehara never used, and now the system was pulling this exchange gimmick?
Could it be that… the system was running out of memory?
"Then I'll exchange the ninjutsu in the Scroll of Seals first!"
Naraku Uehara didn't hesitate. He directly opened the thick Scroll of Seals and began to browse through all the ninjutsu on it.
The Scroll of Seals seemed to cover all the techniques of the Konoha ninjas. Except for absolute forbidden techniques like Edo Tensei, almost all of them were there.
It even included the Flying Thunder God Technique of the Second and Fourth Hokage.
Naraku Uehara didn't care much. He also stuffed the Flying Thunder God Technique into the exchange function, lest the system crash directly.
From it, he also obtained two skills.
Side Mission: Obtain the Flying Thunder God Technique (1/1). Mission completed. Reward: Skill - Flash.
Naraku Uehara didn't even look at this skill and directly put it into the exchange list. After all, he had Riftwalk, why would he need Flash with its extremely long cooldown?
Side Mission: Obtain the Rasengan (1/1). Mission completed. Reward: Skill - Starsurge.
Starsurge: Creates a chakra star core. The star core will rapidly absorb surrounding natural energy and move forward. Its size and skill power will continuously expand as it absorbs natural energy. Can be detonated at any time. Minimum skill cost: 60 chakra. Skill cooldown: 5 seconds.
This was a skill similar to the Rasengan.
However, its power was somewhat different from the Rasengan. In short, it was a skill that needed to continuously move forward and absorb natural energy to become stronger.
Naraku Uehara deliberated for a long time and began to slowly select his skills. The first, of course, were the life-saving skills that needed to be kept.
Life-saving skills: Divine Judgment's Moment, Undying Rage, Chronoshift, Golden Body Stasis, Cell Division, My Style Secret Art! Smokescreen, and the group invincibility skill, Secret Technique! Spirit's Refuge.
Passive skills: Dark Harvest, Overgrowth, Inspiration, Transcendence, Presence of Mind. All these passive skills had to be kept; these were Naraku Uehara's foundation.
Wind Release skills: Hurricane's Howl, Wind Barrier.
Fire Release skills: Pillar of Flame, Flame Storm.
Water Release skills: Raging Wave's Howl, and from the Scroll of Seals, Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet, and Water Release: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave.
Lightning Release skill: This one only kept Maelstrom of Heavenly Thunder Prison. After all, he had used it for a long time and had deep feelings for it.
Earth Release skill: Earth Release: Mud Wall. He wanted to carve a cat on the wall later.
Wood Release skills: Grasping Roots, Stranglethorns.
Utility skills: Summoning Jutsu (summon), Mayfly Technique (earth travel), Sky-dance Technique (flight), Natural Illusion (transformation), Hijack (skill steal), Life-Form Disintegration Ray, Nether Blade (chakra-stealing swordsmanship), Null Sphere (silence), Mutual Multiplying Explosive Tags Technique (bombardment), Edo Tensei, Shadow Secret Art: Clone, Cleanse.
Space-Time skills: Realm of Death, Riftwalk, Spacetime Rupture, Destiny, Secret Art: Merciful Soul-Guiding Fall.
Genjutsu skills: Unspeakable Horror, Sleepy Trouble Bubble.
Taijutsu skills: Spiked Defense, Turtle School Fighting Style, Crane School Fighting Style.
Perception skill: Thrill of the Hunt.
Healing skills: Heal, Mystical Palm Technique, and Starcall.
Throwing skill: Card Trick (card shuriken, card explosive tag).
Senjutsu skill: Starsurge.
Sage Mode: Ascension Ladder - Ascended.
Summoning Contracts: Nautilus the Titan of the Depths (Sea), Galio (Land), Elder Dragon (Air), Magic Cat (AFK), The Chain Warden (Soul), Ryuchi Cave (local residence).
Naraku Uehara hadn't realized for a moment that even after eliminating many rarely used skills, he was still an all-around ninja. Ninjutsu, taijutsu, genjutsu, senjutsu, and swordsmanship – he could be said to be a complete all-rounder, right?
As for the remaining skills, ninjutsu, and summoning contracts, they were naturally all placed on the exchange list by Naraku Uehara. Even the rather charming Spirit Blossom form of Cassiopeia, the Serpent's Embrace from a few days ago was tossed in by Naraku Uehara.
As a cheater, of course, his progress would be fast.
And some skills and ninjutsu were really unnecessary to keep.
The system panel clearly listed everything Naraku Uehara exchanged. After a moment, it gave a corresponding value to everything.
Among them, the gold coins alone amounted to six or seven thousand, which was more than enough for Naraku Uehara to buy new equipment.
As for life energy, chakra energy, natural energy, and other three-dimensional attributes, there was also a substantial increase. Almost every item increased by tens of thousands of points, and the recovery effects almost grew exponentially.
Damn, the Scroll of Seals was truly a treasure!
After all, how many skills did Uehara have on his own!
The first thing Naraku Uehara did was to choose to buy a Frozen Heart, and then a Frostfire Gauntlet.
Frozen Heart: Increases life energy by 800, chakra energy by 400, natural energy by 400, and adds 20% cooldown reduction.
Frostfire Gauntlet: Increases life energy by 600, chakra energy by 750, natural energy by 750, and adds 20% cooldown reduction.
This way, his skill cooldown reduction finally reached one hundred percent. It was estimated that no one would complain about this matter in the future.
For a ninja to become strong, it always required step-by-step effort!
Naraku Uehara's original attributes were already far over ten thousand. Adding the over ten thousand points stacked from Dark Harvest after destroying Kusagakure, and exchanging so many skills, ninjutsu, and summoning contracts that he had worked hard to obtain today.
Name: Naraku Uehara.
Life Energy: 52,311 (Normal state)
Chakra Energy: 51,980 (Normal state)
Natural Energy: 51,980 (Normal state)
Life Energy Recovery: 32/second
Chakra Energy Recovery: 48/second
Natural Energy Recovery: 96/second
Skill Cooldown Reduction: 100%
Remaining Gold Coins: 6,430
Naraku Uehara looked at his three-dimensional attributes with satisfaction. He wondered how they compared to Nagato's life energy and chakra energy…
After all, the chakra of these bloodline descendants was simply too outrageous!
According to Naraku Uehara's speculation, Kakashi Hatake's total chakra should exceed the Kage-level chakra threshold, definitely above 3,000 points. Unfortunately, he couldn't constantly refine and recover chakra; instead, it was constantly draining due to his Sharingan.
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And that Naruto Uzumaki, whose most of his chakra was used to suppress the Nine-Tails, a small part of his body had four times that of Kakashi Hatake, which directly exceeded the standard Kage-level…
However, having so much chakra in the body was one thing; being able to use this chakra was another.
After all, they still needed to learn how to control and guide chakra.
Naraku Uehara was a pure cheater; he didn't need to learn to control chakra.
"A gift for Nagato, Hashirama cells; a gift for Teacher Konan, the Scroll of Seals; a gift for Kabuto Yakushi, the Kamui Sharingan…"
Naraku Uehara calculated the things he had recently obtained and decided to take the opportunity while Orochimaru was trapped in the Kamui dimension to go and find Kabuto Yakushi.
Otogakure Base.
Kabuto Yakushi was under a lot of mental pressure.
During the day, Kabuto Yakushi worked for Orochimaru at the Otogakure base. At night, Kabuto would think about Naraku Uehara's instructions and contemplate how he should work the next day to be more reasonable.
Recently, Orochimaru was not at the base. Kabuto was slowly learning and also thinking about how he should guide Orochimaru to break the Dead Demon Consuming Seal after he returned.
Kabuto Yakushi looked through a scroll about the Dead Demon Consuming Seal and sighed lightly, "I hope the matter Lord Naraku arranged can be more normal! A forbidden technique like the Dead Demon Consuming Seal that involves the Shinigami, how can it be broken so easily!"
"Orochimaru can definitely break it."
Naraku Uehara's figure suddenly appeared out of thin air beside Kabuto, sitting on his desk, and said with a light laugh, "As long as you find a way to guide him to find the Shinigami Mask in the Uzumaki clan's shrine, he can undo the Dead Demon Consuming Seal. It's just that the Shinigami will reap a person's soul."
"Lord Naraku!"
"Alright, alright, listen to me continue."
Naraku Uehara patted Kabuto's shoulder, motioning for him to sit down, and continued with a smile, "When the Shinigami reaps the soul of the user who summoned it, Orochimaru can completely use the Orochimaru-Style Body Replacement Technique and Living Corpse Reincarnation to let his soul escape."
After speaking, Naraku Uehara chuckled and tapped his fingers on the desk, "Of course, when Orochimaru undoes the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, he will be at his weakest. Do you understand what I mean, Kabuto?"
"…Understood."
Kabuto's expression was a bit unpleasant.
Isn't this just taking advantage of someone's crisis again?
Naraku Uehara is clearly so strong, why does he always screw over Orochimaru?
"Alright."
Naraku Uehara looked as if he had high hopes for him and patted Kabuto's shoulder with a light laugh, "After Orochimaru breaks the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, go and improve your own strength! I will arrange for you to learn the Sage Mode of Ryuchi Cave, give you Obito Uchiha's Kamui Mangekyo Sharingan. With the Mangekyo Sharingan, perhaps you can also try to transplant Hashirama cells…"
"…Yes."
Kabuto Yakushi nodded, then asked with some curiosity, "Didn't Lord Orochimaru go with you to Konoha to seize the Rashomon summoning scroll?"
"Mm."
A rare look of embarrassment appeared on Naraku Uehara's face, "I tricked him again. Now I'm afraid he'll fight me to the death, so I'm letting him cool down in the Kamui dimension for a bit!"
After speaking, Naraku Uehara told Kabuto Yakushi about his actions this time and, by the way, had Kabuto check for any oversights.
After all, Kabuto was the most intelligent of his subordinates.
"..."
Kabuto didn't say anything, just that he felt a little unwell.
So Naraku Uehara also knew that if you screwed someone over like this, they would fight you to the death. This new superior was really testing the limits of death every day; he was truly not afraid of dying!
"Alright, let's not talk so much."
Naraku Uehara waved his hand and said softly, "I'll go and loot his base first, see if there are any ninjutsu I haven't seen."
"Huh?"
Kabuto subconsciously adjusted his glasses, "But if that's the case, will you and Lord Orochimaru have a chance to reconcile in the future?"
First, he tricked Orochimaru, then he looted Orochimaru's base.
Let alone someone like Orochimaru who wanted to repay every grievance, even a selfless saint like the Sage of Six Paths would be forced into a mortal feud by him!
"He won't live that long, and besides, I already have no way back."
Naraku Uehara sighed, patted Kabuto's shoulder, and looked at him with a helpless expression, "And think about it, when have Orochimaru and I ever had a good relationship?
Back then, when I first joined Akatsuki as an intern, he said I was human experiment material. Is that a sufficient reason to bully him?
People, you really have to think carefully before you speak."
Late, late, got engrossed in the game, will update more in the afternoon or at noon!
Anyway, no less than three updates today!
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