His hands instantly finished forming hand seals.
“Earth Release: Rock Gun Technique!”
Rinya violently spat out over a dozen gravel stones from his mouth.
The gravel expanded rapidly in the wind, transforming in the blink of an eye into dozens of heavy, giant boulders that rained down on the four opponents like heavy artillery.
The four Iwagakure Chunin were scared out of their wits on the spot.
“Are you kidding me?! How does he know our Village’s secret technique?!”
“Dodge, quickly!”
A chorus of miserable screams rang out.
The heavy boulders broke their bones and ruptured their tendons on the spot.
They coughed up blood and collapsed one by one, instantly losing their ability to fight.
Rinya lowered his hands and curled his lips.
“The power is a bit disappointing.”
He didn’t have even a shred of Earth-attribute Chakra in his body.
Forcing himself to release this A-rank Ninjutsu severely compromised its lethality, making it completely incomparable to the Iwagakure squad leader Jonin he had killed earlier.
As for whether his catching-up Konoha teammates would suspect him of stealing and learning an enemy Village’s Ninjutsu?
What a joke, he was an Uchiha who had awakened the Sharingan!
A single sentence like “I copied it with my eyes during the battle just now” would perfectly shut everyone’s mouths.
No one would be able to find any fault with that.
Feeling the remaining one-third of his Chakra inside his body, Rinya did not draw his Kunai to rush forward for close combat.
Ninjas were all a bunch of suicidal mad dogs.
What if one of those bastards was hiding an Explosive Tag and planned to drag him down with them?
Wouldn’t he end up sinking in a shallow ditch?
If he could blast them from a distance, he would absolutely never engage in face-to-face melee combat!
Just do it!
“Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!”
Rinya took a deep breath, and a standard fireball crashed down with a roar.
The four heavily injured and dying Iwagakure Ninjas had no room to struggle at all, going straight to the Pure Land.
[Ding! Killed four Chunin, obtained 12 Plunder Points!]
Hearing the system prompt, Rinya grinned.
“Fortunately, I was careful and didn’t use the triple-power mutated version of the Blazing Fireball.”
“Otherwise, if these four were directly burned to ashes, the system wouldn’t even be able to recognize the corpses, and the reward gift pack would be completely ruined.”
Rinya could not wait to step forward, reaching out to touch the four charred corpses one by one.
“Plunder!”
[Obtained: 2.5 Kakashis of Chakra.]
[Obtained: 0.2 points of Physique (Note: 1 point is equivalent to a normal Genin’s physique).]
[Obtained: Three months of lifespan.]
Rinya’s breath suddenly caught.
Physique attribute!
This was absolutely an extraordinary, god-tier reward!
In the Ninja circle, the vast majority of people were glass cannons with high attack but low defense.
But the big shots who truly stood at the top of this world were all monsters who had sanctified their physical bodies.
Senju Hashirama’s abnormal recovery power, the Hidden Cloud Village Raikage’s physical body resisting a Tailed Beast head-on, and Might Guy’s Eight Gates all required a terrifying physique as support.
Not to mention the Ōtsutsuki Clan flying all over the place in the later stages, who could shatter mountains and rivers with just their physical strength.
Before this, Rinya had been worrying about what would happen as he accumulated more and more Chakra in the future, and his frail twelve-year-old body wouldn’t be able to bear it, causing him to explode and die.
Now that the physique reward had appeared, his worries were completely gone!
Rinya without hesitation, directly absorbed all 2.5 Kakashis of Chakra and 0.2 physique.
His dried-up meridians were instantly filled, and his Chakra limit was directly raised by a notch.
The fatigue from days of traveling and fighting was swept away, and his entire body felt so comfortable he felt like he was about to fly.
“Rinya… W-what are you doing?”
A horrified voice suddenly came from behind him.
Rinya turned his head.
Hyuga Shinichi had caught up at some point and was staring at him with a look as if he were looking at a pervert.
Rinya followed the other’s gaze and looked down.
Instant social death!
One of his hands was pressed firmly against a male Iwagakure Ninja’s mangled chest muscle, and his face still wore a blissful, intoxicated expression from just absorbing the attributes.
This scene—forget Hyuga Shinichi, even a dog would find it perverted!
If it were a female Ninja, it would be one thing, but making this kind of expression while pressing on a grown man’s corpse, he wouldn’t be able to wash himself clean even if he jumped into the Yellow River.
“Cough…”
Rinya retracted his hand as if he had received an electric shock.
Stiffening his face, he glared back fiercely, “I’m checking if the enemy is completely dead! What if they play dead and launch a sneak attack? Do you believe me?”
As he spoke, his Two-Tomoe Sharingan emitted a cold murderous intent.
He looked very much like he would beat him up as well if he dared to say a single “no”.
Hyuga Shinichi cold sweat poured down his face, and he shook his head like a rattle.
“I believe you! Of course I believe you!”
Hyuga Shinichi let out a couple of dry laughs and quickly turned to slip away.
“Since you’ve solved everything on this side, I’ll go help Lord Senju and the others! Your Chakra consumption must be huge, so rest here for a bit!”
Before his voice could fade, Hyuga Shinichi ran off as if fleeing for his life and vanished.
Rinya watched Hyuga Shinichi’s fleeing figure disappear and let out a long breath.
He had finally managed to gloss over the socially awkward situation.
Rinya was in no hurry to go over and support them.
The leading Iwagakure Leader wasn’t dead yet, and he had just personally killed four Iwagakure Chunin.
The loot on the ground absolutely could not be wasted.
Rinya leaped back into the charred trench in a few steps, his hands quickly touching the four corpses.
“System, plunder!”
[Ding! Obtained: Earth Release: Earth Replacement x2]
[Obtained: Earth Release: Earth Shore Return x3]
[Obtained: 0.5 Kakashis of Chakra]
Hearing the voice in his mind, Rinya sucked in a breath.
Earth Release again?
He didn’t even have a shred of Earth-attribute Chakra in his body.
What was the point of getting so many duplicate Ninjutsu?
[Ding! Earth Release: Earth Replacement meets the reinforcement conditions. Would you like to consume 5 Plunder Points to perform a mutation upgrade?]
[Ding! C-rank Ninjutsu Earth Shore Return meets the reinforcement conditions. Would you like to consume 10 Plunder Points to perform a mutation upgrade?]
You can even play it like this?
Duplicate skills can be directly stacked and upgraded!
Rinya’s heart grew hot.
He swept a glance at the system panel; his Plunder Points had just accumulated to 35.
“Reinforce all!”
[Ding! Earth Replacement mutation upgrade successful! Obtained C-rank Ninjutsu: Instant Earth Substitution. Effect: No hand seals required, activates instantly to evade damage!] This story is hosted at g.com.
[Ding! Earth Shore Return mutation upgrade successful! Obtained B-rank Ninjutsu: Rock Shore Return. Effect: Defense power skyrockets by five times, instantly summoning double rock barriers for stacked defense!]
Seal-less substitution!
An absolute god-tier life-saving trump card!
On the battlefield, lacking a single hand seal action was often the difference between life and death.
With this move, anyone wanting to sneak attack him was purely dreaming!
His confidence greatly boosted, Rinya’s Chakra surged as he rushed toward the main battlefield without hesitation.
He still had to find a way to scheme another Jonin to death to get more top-tier rewards!
…
Meanwhile, at the center of the other main battlefield.
“Die! All of you, go to hell!”
The Iwagakure Leader caught sight of his subordinates burned to charcoal by the Fire Release in the distance, his eyes completely bloodshot.
Risking a direct hit from Takagi’s heavy and powerful slash, the Iwagakure Leader frantically activated his Hardening Technique, forcefully pushing the blade away with his shoulder to buy a brief moment of breathing room.
The Chakra throughout his body burned wildly.
“Earth Release: Super Earth Spear!”
Boom!
The earth was torn apart as if by a pair of giant hands!
Countless sharp rock spears erupted from the ground.
Like a wildly growing forest of death, they thrust toward all living things around with unstoppable force.
Takagi’s face changed drastically, and he retreated wildly while drawing back his blade.
Dazzling lightning coated the long sword in his hand as he shattered the approaching rock spikes like a tempest, hacking out a retreat path through the dense forest of stone.
Sarutobi Takumi’s movements were not slow at all as he slammed his hands onto the ground.
“Earth Style: Core Protection!”
A solid earthen platform rose with a crash.
The surviving Konoha Chunin nearby scrambled and leaped onto the high platform, narrowly avoiding the lethal spikes beneath their feet.
Having forced everyone back with one blow, the Iwagakure Leader did not linger to fight and rapidly changed his hand seals.
“Earth Release: Earth-Style Fish Transformation!”
His body instantly sank directly into the ground and vanished, as if melting into a swamp.
Seeing this, the other Iwagakure Jonin fighting with Senju Ken also formed seals without hesitation and plunged into the soil.
“Oh no! They’re going to escape!”
Senju Ken leaped onto the high platform and shouted anxiously, “Shinichi! Quick, use your Byakugan to find their positions!”
Hyuga Shinichi sweat profusely in anxiety.
He pushed his Byakugan to its limit, but could only shake his head in dejection.
The ground layer was too deep; the Byakugan’s ocular power simply couldn’t pierce through it.
Rinya had just arrived at the edge of the battlefield, and his Sharingan happened to see all of this with absolute clarity.
The massive-scale rock spike bombardment, although failing to kill everyone, still caused tragic casualties.
Two Konoha Chunin who failed to dodge in time had their chests pierced by thick rock spikes on the spot, their corpses hanging miserably in midair.
Drip, drop.
Warm blood dripped down the cold rocks, splashing drop by drop into the muddy water.
Rinya’s pupils contracted violently.
The companions who had been covering each other and coordinating just a moment ago had turned into lifeless corpses in the blink of an eye.
War meant people would die!
At the exact moment Rinya’s mind was severely shaken.
The flat soil beneath his feet bulged without any warning.
“Swoosh!”
An incomparably sharp rock spear erupted from the ground like a viper baring its fangs, thrusting straight at Rinya’s throat!