Naruto: Pay-to-Win Ninja System

With five newly joined clan members and others like Nonou,

Shimoku directly teleported back to the [Homura Hidden Village] a thousand miles away.

Since the battle was over, there was no need to worry about chakra consumption anymore.

After returning to his village,

Nonou naturally took great delight in sending all those rescued orphans to the newly built [orphanage] for placement and care.

As for the five new clan members, Shimoku also ordered someone to take them away and settle them down.

However, considering the shock they had experienced tonight,

it'd probably take them ages to recover from this night's shock.

After dismissing these people,

Shimoku finally relieved himself of burdens and came to the hot spring pool in the backyard.

Two Fire Releases later,

the water turned comfortably warm, steam curling up around him.

Shimoku leapt right into it and sank down with a sigh.

Meanwhile, a little sea turtle quietly slipped away from Shimoku's grasp.

It swam alone to the edge of the pool, intending to hide farther away.

Because if Shimoku kept rubbing against it, its turtle head would be rubbed raw!

"Hoo~"

"Freakin' awesome! Real damn comfy!"

Shimoku let out a cheerful sigh while soaking in the hot spring, feeling extremely relaxed.

No one knew whether it was because the spring felt nice, or because he was emotionally moved by tonight's successful operation.

"Tsk tsk tsk."

"Konoha must be scrambling big time by now."

"Tailed Beast charging straight at your face! Time for Konoha to start panicking..."

Shimoku mused amusingly.

Future consequences aside for now.

At this period, the deterrent power of a Tailed Beast still weighed heavily.

Then, he recalled every detail of what happened carefully again.

After double-checking everything was good to go,

did Shimoku excitedly shut his eyes, submerging his consciousness into the system, preparing for yet another shopping spree.

[Host: Shimoku

Attributes: Fire, Water, Wind, Lightning, Earth, Yin

Chakra: 72 Cards

Ninjutsu: [Flying Thunder God Technique] (S-Rank Time-Space Ninjutsu), [Eight Gates Release Formation] (S-Rank Taijutsu), [Spirit Transformation Technique] (S-Rank Spiritual Jutsu)...

Kekkei Genkai: Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan

Taijutsu: One Thousand Years of Death, A Thousand Flames Blades...

Special Skill: Chakra Extraction Method

Special Weapon: Dragon-Weaving Blade

Current Balance: Coins]

Seeing that full ten thousand coins, Shimoku once again showed a bright smile.

Indeed, Konoha was truly the best place!

Being the top among the Five Great Hidden Villages, it really overflowed with wealth!

Three backup vaults—only one of them held as much as four million taels (a traditional Chinese unit of weight, often used for currency).

And that didn't even count the first seventy million taels (traditional units of weight) he'd sneakily taken earlier; clearly, Konoha was far richer than [Iwagakure Village].

A perfect cash cow like this—truly priceless!

In the future, once Konoha grows fat again, he could just keep harvesting.

After some reflections, Shimoku wasted no time.

He immediately entered the system store and instantly exchanged for another powerful ability he had long admired.

[Confirm: Do you wish to spend Coins to acquire 'Sage Body'?]

"Confirm!" 

Originally, Shimoku had hesitated a bit whether to choose other powerful forms like the [Immortal God Body] or [Tailed Beast Form], which granted near-immortality...

But, considering the prevalence of sealing techniques in the ninja world.

In the end, he still chose the [Sage Body], which offered a more significant boost to overall strength.

The next moment.

Ten thousand coins scattered like snowflakes once again.

Instantly, the System began transforming Shimoku's body.

Beneath an indescribable mighty force,

every cell in Shimoku's body was rapidly transformed, enhanced, and refined.

Cellular vitality, bone density, muscle resilience—all surged exponentially.

Far surpassing even the time when Orochimaru had transplanted Hashirama's cells into him.

Even those few incomplete Hashirama cells within his body were completely assimilated and integrated, fully transforming into pure Sage Body cells unique to Shimoku.

Actually, the ability of the [Sage Body] is quite straightforward, consisting of only three aspects:

1: Chakra reserves rivaling those of a Tailed Beast;

2: Tremendous vitality and regeneration capabilities;

3: Exceptional physical strength;

And with these three enhancements combined, any ordinary ninjutsu becomes extraordinary when wielded by someone with a Sage Body!

Indeed, ninjutsu power correlates with chakra quantity.

But relying solely on chakra volume to measure combat strength is absolutely erroneous.

For example, during the early days of the Hokage, Naruto had a chakra rating of 10 compared to the Third Hokage's 5—does that mean he could beat him?

The Fourth Raikage also possessed tailed beast-level chakra and speed surpassing Hashirama's—but could he defeat Hashirama?

Take another instance—the First Hokage Hashirama's Wood Release, aside from its absurd ability to suppress tailed beasts.

Offensively and defensively, it didn't truly qualify as supreme. Its primary strengths lay in its versatile functions, precise control, and comprehensive abilities.

Later on, Lord Madara also obtained the Wood Release ability.

Yet when they truly fought seriously, the First used Wood Release while Madara still relied on Susano'o.

This shows that the real power didn't stem from Wood Release itself.

It was the First Hokage himself—and specifically, his [Sage Body]!

In short, even using the same ninjutsu with equal amounts of chakra expenditure, the power demonstrated by someone with a Sage Body will inevitably surpass that of a regular ninja by far.

This is what makes the Sage Body so terrifying!

...

This full-body transformation lasted much longer than ever before.

The full-body transformation took nearly ten minutes to complete.

As soon as it ended,

Shimoku clearly sensed the terrifying enhancement in both his power and chakra inside his body!

Along with cellular activity dozens of times greater than a normal person's!

He felt like, in his current state, he could go ten rounds in one night…

Ahem—

Seven times a night would still be no problem.

At the same time, the terrifying surge of strength made Shimoku eager to try it out.

The next moment, Shimoku slightly bent his finger and flicked.

"Zeng—"

A violent burst of chakra surged forth, directly shaking apart all the spring water in the entire pond, causing it to scatter and float upward.

Creating a vast spread of hazy, dreamlike rainbow droplets floating like snowflakes.

Then, the endless droplets quickly gathered together into a massive rotating water sphere, spinning rapidly.

Clearly, after obtaining the [Sage Body],

Shimoku's mastery over chakra shape transformation and nature transformations had instantly skyrocketed to an entirely new level.

A mere thought was all it took to fully control chakra's flow and transformation.

That's completely absurd!

The moment was surreal. And then came the terrifying aura suddenly surging from Shimoku—

It was enough to send a certain Three-Tails scurrying to the bottom of the pond, trembling in fear...

"Phfft—"

Shimoku dispersed the chakra.

The massive water sphere crashed down, reforming into a pond in an instant.

Then, excitedly, Shimoku pulled up his personal system dashboard and began scanning through it.

[Host: Shimoku

Elements: Fire, Water, Wind, Lightning, Earth, Yin, Yang

Chakra: 1800 Chakra Points

Ninjutsu: Flying Thunder God Technique (S-rank · Space-Time Ninjutsu), Eight Gates Release Formation (S-rank · Taijutsu), Spirit Transformation Technique (S-rank · Soul Ninjutsu)...

Kekkei Genkai: Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan → Rinnegan (18%)

Taijutsu: One Thousand Years of Death, A Thousand Flames Blades...

Special Skill: [Chakra Extraction Method]

Special Weapon: Dragon-Weaving Blade

Current Balance: 892 coins]

At this moment, seeing the 1800 chakra points displayed on his system dashboard, and feeling the vast ocean-like chakra within his body,

Shimoku revealed another bright smile.

Now *that's* impressive!

Compared to the previous two-fold increase after transplanting Hashirama's cells, this time obtaining the complete Sage Body form directly increased Shimoku's chakra by fifty times!

1800 Chakra Points!

It was already comparable to the chakra reserves of a Tailed Beast!

In fact, even the One-Tail to Seven-Tails might not possess such an immense amount of chakra...

Moreover, Shimoku clearly knew

this wasn't even the limit of his current Sage Body's potential!

As long as he kept training hard and unlocking his body's true limits,

He would definitely achieve further breakthroughs! Continue growing stronger!

Even increasing the chakra boost multiplier up to a hundredfold is possible!

After all, neither Asura, the Sage's son, nor Hashirama, the First Hokage,

Were born infinitely powerful.

They too had taken a gradual journey of cultivation and growth to ultimately achieve their ultimate power!

Therefore, the potential of the [Sage Body] was indeed amazing.

Of course, aside from these obvious enhancements,

The extremely noticeable [Rinnegan] progress bar at 18% on the personal system template also caught Shimoku's attention greatly.

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