Knowledge-based items were more miscellaneous, such as the Kasugai Crow training manual, cultivation notes for various Breathing Styles, Shinobu Kocho’s medical notes, the prescription for Muzan turning into a demon, the proportions of various poisons, swordsmith forging insights, and Tamayo’s research notes on demons, etc.
Uchiha Bing desperately wanted to learn Tamayo’s medical methods to see if he could research a demon-transforming drug without side effects like eating humans and fearing sunlight, but he felt that with his brain, step-by-step poison and medicine making might be okay, but independent research would probably be too much.
After all, medicine was a bottomless pit, and Tamayo’s medical skills were god-like—that was because she had studied for four hundred years, and he didn’t have that much time to fully master those medical skills.
It is valuable for a person to have self-awareness, and Uchiha Bing always had a very clear grasp of his own limitations.
Medical skills and poisons could be studied slowly in the future; the top priority was to first improve his survivability and combat power.
After all, the graduation exam was coming up soon, and once he became a Ninja, he would have to fight Ninjas from enemy countries, and the Third Shinobi World War was also approaching fast.
The only things that could directly enhance combat power were undoubtedly talents and skills.
Since he could slowly practice the various Breathing Styles and major sword forms sold in the skills section at his leisure, the only thing he should prioritize purchasing was talent.
Among the talents, the Transparent World and Demon Slayer Mark awakening had to be acquired in the future, but he didn’t have the money right now so he wouldn’t consider them yet.
So what other talents should he choose?
As a member of the Uchiha Clan, he had already unlocked a single-tomoe Sharingan, which was currently sufficient in terms of dynamic vision.
If he encountered an enemy in battle whose speed exceeded the observation range of his dynamic vision, his body wouldn’t be able to react in time either.
Then, as an Uchiha, what he lacked the most should be perception-related things: Inosuke’s tactile perception?
Or Tanjiro’s olfactory perception?
Or Agatsuma Zenitsu’s auditory perception?
The Trio’s innate abilities were all very good; what should he do if he wanted all of them?
Uchiha Bing scratched his head.
Due to economic issues, he could only forcibly make a choice.
The five-sense talents of the Five could all be bought later when he had money, but the top priority was to choose the one that suited him best.
As the saying goes: Keep eyes on all sides and ears open to all directions.
Eyes and ears have always been an exceptionally well-matched pair of senses.
The Uchiha’s eyes paired with Agatsuma Zenitsu’s hearing should allow him to survive very well in the Third Shinobi World War.
After all, Agatsuma Zenitsu’s hearing could also be called a minor Transparent World.
Its hearing was so strong that it could hear the heartbeat and blood flow inside a living organism, and even discern people’s inner thoughts, executing lightning-fast swordsmanship with eyes closed as if walking on flat ground. Read this novel at novelping(.)com for the best experience.
Most importantly, Agatsuma Zenitsu’s hearing allowed him to hear sounds normally while sleeping and remain conscious during sleep.
This meant that it was almost impossible for him to be ambushed, and he could even subjectively enter the Total Concentration Breathing state while sleeping, fighting with his body’s instincts.
Uchiha Bing felt that among the five, Agatsuma Zenitsu’s talent seemed to be the strongest: full-map perspective + emotional perception + automatic auto-battle + absolute pitch.
Unfortunately, due to his personality, Agatsuma Zenitsu lacked the motivation to grow stronger in the early stage.
However, when he became serious, he instantly killed Upper Rank Six with a single slash.
Sound Hashira Uzui Tengen, upon receiving the news after the decisive battle in the Infinity Castle, would probably suspect if he had been played.
Hearing would be enough for perception in the early stage, which required consuming two thousand influence points.
What else did he need?
Strength?
Or speed?
Uchiha Bing carefully browsed the Demon Slayer World mall and finally locked his gaze on the talents of the Hashira.
There were currently three hesitant options: the Mist Hashira’s swordsmanship talent, the Stone Hashira’s physical talent, and the Love Hashira’s physical talent.
The Mist Hashira was widely recognized as the ceiling of talent in demon slayer, becoming a Hashira two months after holding a blade, awakening the Demon Slayer Mark first and then the Transparent World, and dying in battle in the Infinity Castle at the age of fourteen.
If he hadn’t encountered Upper Rank One too early, growing with such talent, he would have been the contemporary Tsugikuni Yoriichi by his twenties.
Needless to say, the Stone Hashira’s physical talent possessed born divine strength, making him the strongest in the Demon Slayer Corps in three hundred years.
Even before learning any Breathing Style, he could abuse demons purely with brute force.
In the decisive battle, he was the only existence who simultaneously activated all three: the Demon Slayer Mark, Bright Red Nichirin Blade, and the Transparent World, which could be described as the ceiling of hard power.
The Love Hashira’s physical talent was also very strong; her muscle density was eight times that of a human, her strength and speed were balanced, and her defense was extremely powerful.
She once took an attack from Upper Rank Four head-on and her body remained intact.
As a tank-type swordsman, she bought enough time for her companions during the decisive battle.
This made it difficult to choose.
Uchiha Bing analyzed calmly: the Mist Hashira’s talent was indeed very good, but talent was ultimately just talent.
The Mist Hashira died at fourteen, and he was only twelve now.
Frankly speaking, he hadn’t even passed his twelfth birthday, or seriously speaking, he was eleven and a half years old.
If talent was not cashed in, it was just talent.
The priority to improve now should be survivability, so which one should he choose between strength and defense?
The Stone Hashira’s talent was simply having great strength, which went without saying in terms of attack, but when facing Ninjas, it seemed a bit lacking in terms of survival.
The Love Hashira’s talent not only had powerful physical defense, but the eightfold muscle density also brought strength and speed that were not bad either.
After hesitating repeatedly, Uchiha Bing chose the balanced enhancement of strength and speed.
Purchasing the Love Hashira’s talent, influence points were reduced by another two thousand.
With six hundred influence points remaining, Uchiha Bing flipped up and down through the mall, and finally spent one hundred to buy a revolving lantern.
Uchiha Bing knew very well that not everyone had a revolving lantern before death, and in the perilous Ninja World, mastering the prerequisite condition of a revolving lantern, this kind of memory-kill, was truly necessary.
With five hundred influence points remaining, Uchiha Bing didn’t spend them all at once, but kept them as a backup.
There weren’t many things that could be bought with this amount of influence points, and none of them were what he urgently wanted to obtain.
Uchiha Bing ended his shopping, and the pure white space in front of him instantly vanished.
In a split second, he returned to the Ninja World.
Looking at the training ground of the Uchiha Clan compound, Uchiha Bing had a dazed feeling of having experienced a fleeting dream.
A young Uchiha boy ran over from afar; it was Kogoro, the child next door.
Uchiha Bing clearly heard the sound of every step the boy took when his feet landed as he ran, could hear the sound of his body’s clothes rubbing against each other during movement, his breathing, his heartbeat, and the sound of his blood flowing.
The two of them were about thirty or forty meters apart.
Being able to hear this person’s blood flow sound from so far away, this effect far exceeded the hearing displayed by Agatsuma Zenitsu in the original plot.
Uchiha Bing shifted his attention away from the youth Kogoro and tried his best to listen to the distant sounds.
He discovered that the entire Uchiha Clan compound was within the range of his hearing.