Chapter 145: Naruto, I See Darkness on Your Forehead
With Li Jiexuan's true strength, killing the Seven Treasures Pirates would only have taken a few rounds. But what came after their deaths was far more troublesome…
Of the more than ten thousand townspeople in Seven Treasures Town, only a little over two thousand chose to submit. The remaining eight thousand were devoured by Manda and the Great Roc!
Killing one man is a crime. Slaughtering ten thousand makes you a hero!
This Kage-tier treasure chest had not come easily…
"Open the treasure chest!"
As usual, there was a beginner training scroll, along with a mid-level ninja tool. The luck was so-so. As for training scrolls, there was no need to hesitate—they were best used immediately.
He just didn't know which storyline he would be stepping into this time…
Opening the scroll, familiar Konoha buildings appeared once more. Li Jiexuan's consciousness gradually faded.
"Heh… looks like I'm back in a familiar place again."
Seeing the red letters on a white background of Ichiraku Ramen, Li Jiexuan slipped inside with practiced ease.
"A large bowl of ramen!"
After finishing one bowl, he still couldn't figure out which arc this was. Naruto wasn't around. Sasuke wasn't either. Nothing special seemed to be happening nearby, and he didn't even spot a single ninja he recognized.
Clear skies stretched endlessly overhead.
Walking out of Ichiraku, Li Jiexuan shook his head helplessly. Without encountering any plot characters—and lacking proper identification—he couldn't just start stirring up trouble.
But before he could finish that thought—
Boom!
Dark clouds rolled in as if conjured by magic, blanketing the sky. Violent thunder brewed within the clouds…
"Do I have some kind of jinx bloodline?" Li Jiexuan's eyes widened. "That lightning isn't going to strike someone, is it?"
Before he could finish speaking, a thick bolt of lightning crashed straight down—
Boom!
The Hokage's red office building was blasted apart, flames roaring into the sky.
"… "
Li Jiexuan fell silent. It wasn't that he really believed he had some jinx bloodline. It was because he suddenly remembered which arc this was—the Kurama Yakumo arc, widely regarded as one of the biggest bug-level bloodline abilities in the entire series!
"Gulp…"
Just thinking about that woman made him swallow hard.
In theory, she could instantly kill Six Paths Madara!
Who knew the anime would introduce such a broken genjutsu user? She was practically a fusion of Ma Liang's magic brush and the Death Note!
Anything she painted could become reality, as long as she wished it. Which meant that if she painted Six Paths Madara onto a canvas—and then painted him dead—
Then Six Paths Madara would be dead!
In a certain sense, Kurama Yakumo was practically the author of Naruto himself—Masashi Kishimoto!
Just as Li Jiexuan was shivering at the thought, Kurenai Yūhi happened to pass by, muttering that they had to begin taking action. It seemed the plot had officially started.
But this time, Li Jiexuan had no intention of interfering. He obediently retreated back into Ichiraku and ordered a second bowl of ramen.
With his zero-level resistance to genjutsu, going to provoke Kurama Yakumo would only end in a miserable death.
One fan opened, and suddenly you're drifting through the cosmos among the stars—no one could withstand that…
Li Jiexuan declared that during this arc, he absolutely would not meddle. He would do nothing!
"System, give me a syringe!"
What was he planning to do? Wasn't it obvious?
With such a powerful bloodline ability like Kurama Yakumo's, how could he not at least try? How could he face the countless predecessors of the infinite-flow genre who lived by the creed of plucking feathers from passing geese and risking life for profit? Li Jiexuan slurped his ramen thoughtfully.
Although he wanted to get involved, no matter how he calculated it, he wasn't Yakumo's opponent…
According to the plot, Yakumo's mind would soon completely collapse, and she would be controlled by her inner demon. When Kurenai tried to eliminate that inner demon, Yakumo would attack her instead. After that, she would drag both Kurenai and Naruto into an illusionary space and beat them senseless…
But in the end, with Naruto's cooperation and unbeatable talk-no-jutsu, she would kill her own inner demon and reform!
It had to be said—this was a textbook Naruto story. If brute force didn't work, he powered up with Nine-Tails chakra and crushed the opponent. If that still wasn't enough, he relied on talk-no-jutsu…
Naruto's talk-no-jutsu had been inherited from the Third Hokage and even surpassed him. After all, with nothing but words, he convinced Nagato to sacrifice himself and revive all the Konoha ninja he had just killed—
Essentially trading his own life to give Konoha's ninja a one-day tour of hell!
That alone proved how terrifying Naruto's talk-no-jutsu truly was. And if that was the case…
Then getting Naruto to persuade Kurama Yakumo to draw her own blood into a syringe didn't seem impossible at all!
With that thought, Li Jiexuan chuckled softly, pulled out the syringe he had prepared earlier, and ruthlessly stabbed it into his spine, forcibly extracting the Nine-Tails chakra that the First Hokage had previously injected.
"Still hurts quite a bit…"
The agony felt like his spine was being torn out alive, leaving him weak and pale.
"But now I can meet Naruto."
Smiling, Li Jiexuan stepped out of Ichiraku. The reason for extracting the Nine-Tails chakra was naturally to approach Naruto.
Naruto wasn't hard to find. Just listen carefully—the noisiest place in the village would undoubtedly be him.
"Leave it to me! I absolutely won't let Teacher Kurenai abandon you guys!"
Naruto was as warmhearted as ever, enthusiastically making promises even though the matter had nothing to do with him.
Li Jiexuan quietly waited nearby until Naruto was alone…
Two small stools. A signboard reading "Fortunes Told Without Error."
Wearing sunglasses, Li Jiexuan stretched out his hand to stop Naruto.
"Big brother, I see darkness gathering on your forehead. Are you troubled by something?"