9 Setting the Path

"So, what was the second thing you wanted to trade?"

"Right, well it's something only I can make and it's related to the profound art I practice called Ninjutsu. The effectiveness changes depending on my own strength."

With a quick one handed tiger sign, Jin changed the air into crystals and shaping it into a jade green box that could seal off the inside to prevent leaks. Isolating whatever was inside from the outside. Placing the box down on the table, he clasped his hands together as if in prayer before slowly separating them as a blue crystal with a faint white glow took shape between them. The wooden table growing new sprouts after being bathed in just the light the crystal gave off and shocking the old merchant.

After reaching the length of roughly fifteen centimeters, he stopped growing it and rejoined his hands together while the crystal turned into powder between them and fell into the box. Jin closing it after he was finished and looking toward Hongyi, whose eyes were still wide open and staring at the box as well as the budding branches that sprung from the table.

"That shouldn't be possible. This wood is long dead and can't produce new limbs, yet..."

"Pure Yang, my pure yang energy is vitality, physical energy, and can breathe life into anything with form. It's also handy for dispelling poison and healing injuries so long as too much damage hasn't been done to the body or preserving someone's life force if they are about to die, though the later part would require me to be much stronger than I am now.

Due to the profound art I practice, so long as one either has the time to practice and know the method, or have a born affinity, any element can be used unlike other profound arts that stick to a central theme. So far I've gained some mastery over Yin, Yang, as well as crystals."

"I see, so that explains your appearance if you have an abundance of Yin qi in your body."

Nodding to himself, Hongyi missed the subtle twitch in Jin's expression. The young man giving an audible whisper in a low voice. "I was born this way..."

This time it was Hongyi's turn to surpress the urge to shout. His bewildered expression returning to normal. "My apologies for assuming."

Letting out a deflated sigh, Jin waved his hand telling the man he didn't mind it that much. It was better to simply get used to it than be upset. While he would have preferred his old looks, his current ones weren't bad, it could even be considered a few levels up. So long as he gave a smile at the right time, it could be lethal to the hearts of men and women alike. Though, if a guy was stupid enough to try anything funny...

Curbing the dark laugh that threatened to break free from his throat, Jin gave a cough and straightened up in his seat.

"Anyway, what do you think, senior Xia? Would this be valuable or not? I'm sure if you were to auction it off to those sects after showing the effect it has on plants, they would try to snatch it up for their medicine gardens or for whatever old monster of an ancestor they have."

"So long as the effects last long enough, it would be more valuable than Profound Opening Powder, relatively speaking since it would be most of the older generation buying it for themselves rather than their descendants."

"I see, that make sense. Well then, I'll leave it to senior to arrange since I'm only interested in how much it would be worth. You can decide what to do with the profits, whether to split them between us, invest in the city, or keep it to yourself.

Besides, selling it once would be a stroke of fortune on your part. Any more and people will start asking where it came from and that would certainly lead to a bad time for everyone involved."

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After coming to an agreement and settling the details, they parted ways with one of the servants leading Jin to the courtyard used for guest for him to settle in.

Given that he didn't have much with him, he decided to reveiw his current system and see the progress he made with his affinities. He sitting on the bed in the room and speaking under his breath. "Raven, open the system screen please."

[Acknowledged.]

║ { [Status▼ ] [Ninjutsu▼ ] [Store▼ ] [Storage▼ ] [Contracts▼ ] [Missions▼ ]

{Status}

[Name: Jin Byakuren

Age: 14

Gender: Male

Cultivation Level: True Profound 1st Level

Body Cultivation: Beginner

Potential: Unlimited

Bloodline: Degraded Ootsutsuki (Uchiha)

Skills: Design; Beginner Kenjutsu; Profound Qi Control (5th Level)

Nature Affinity: Yin (9th Level), Crystal (Evolved from Earth Release), Yang (7th Level), Wind (Beginner), Lightning (Beginner)

Jutsu: Substitution; Transformation; Clone; Cloaking; Body Flicker; Shadow Clone; Earth Style, Mobile Core; Crystal Style, Amathyst Crystal Sword; Crystal Style, Jade Purity; Genjutsu Sharingan

Equipment: Autumm Robes (No bonus;)

SoH: Healthy (Normal)]║

The first thing that came to his attention was that his name had changed without his notificaton, though a short thought about it made sense considering that Raven did say he could use the interface with his thoughts. Next was his body cultivation which had changed from none to beginner. In most wuxia and novels of a similar genre, body cultivation relates to specializing in physical strength and close combat as opposed to the various versions of profound skills and other forms which are used from a distance. While increasing the realm of cultivation did increase a person's physical body it was never as much as what a pure body cultivator would achieve, the situation a match for the difference between a ninjutsu or genjutsu specialist and a Taijutsu master.

While the first two would have an advantage at middle and long range, it would be over for them the moment they allow the taijutsu user to enter close range. Given that he's been strengthening his body with pure yang energy which increase his natural vitality, his constant use of body flicker and practicing his kenjutsu on various beast within the eastern mountains, reaching only the beginner level while his cultivation reached the first level of the third realm made a certain amount of sense and explained why fewer people followed the path of body cultivation given that it was more difficult than just profound energy.

"I guess I should keep my body in shape with my cultivation, from what I remember a majority of cultivators on the Profound Sky continent don't do so. Everyone kept getting shocked over seeing Yun Che wield heavy swrords after all, I wonder how they would react to something like the Eight Gates or Tsunade level hits that not even a Susanoo could block completely.

Then again, there aren't many pure taijutsu styles in the naruto world. Even the Raikage's lightning chakra armor is a mix of ninjutsu and taijutsu, while Tsunade's strength is based on her being a Senju descendant and her chakra control.

...Now that I think about it, Indra and Asura were basically a traditional cultivator and a body cultivator. Anyway, I need to work on opening the Inner Eight Gates, mastering control over my profound energy for the Enhanced Strength, a sensory technique, and the two moves everyone who liked Naruto would try if they had the chance. I mean, the Chidori and Rasengan are iconic at this point and they have a bunch of different forms that either need shape transformation or nature transformation.

Oh, and Flying Thunder God. It's never a bad idea to learn to teleport."

Since other than the mission screen, which he didn't need to check to remember it was to help the Blue Wind Nation, as well as the contracts and Storage that are still locked. Opening the Ninjutsu screen, everything up to B-Rank jutsu were avaliable. E-Rank cost 5-SP, D-Rank cost 10-SP, C-Rank cost 20-SP, and B-Rank cost 40-SP. Judging from the trend, A-Rank would end up being 80 System Points and S-Rank would cost 160. Searching the Forbidden and sensory Jutsu sections, Jin found the techniques he was looking for since even the Flying Thunder God was considered under the Kinjutsu.

For sensory there was the Mind's Eye of Kagura that Karin used sense it gave the most details when looking into a person's energy that even their personality could be determined from it, costing 40-SP. The FTG was the same, though its learning difficulty laid mostly in sealing and learning to sense space which wouldn't be as hard to learn on the Blue Pole Star compared to the extremely firm space of the Realm of Gods. The seal he would have to make himself, while feeling and understanding space would be aided by his increased comprehension and learning speed.

The Inner Eight Gates, on the other hand, was a completely different monster. It cost a full 160-SP which was understandable if considering the full potential of opening the gates. The third gate allowed the use of the Primary Lotus, the fifth gate gave way to the Reverse Lotus which left even Gaara in a bad state despite him not taking the full brunt of the attacks and using his sand to absorb most of the force behind the blows. Sixth was the Morning Peacock, Seventh was Afternoon Tiger, and the Eigth Gate let loose the Evening Elephant as well as Might Gai's Night Gai.

Looking at the rising price and his remaining system points, Jin noticed something off. "Hey, Raven, I get a Realm Package for every time I break through, right?"

[Yes, that is correct.]

"How come I only got two when I'm in the third level of the Nine Mortal Realms?"