On the Night of Genocide, a Different Kind of Fire Release!
"Ding! Soul Points detected falling within a radius of 100 meters. Do you want to collect them?"
Just as Uchiha Yi was still digesting everything that had happened, a sudden system prompt rang out beside his ear.
He froze for a moment.
Then, almost instinctively, he chose to accept.
"Collect."
"Ding! Congratulations, you have collected Soul Points ×3!"
"…This?"
Uchiha Yi was stunned.
He hadn't killed anything.
Yet the system still allowed him to collect Soul Points?
His gaze immediately fell on the system panel, where the previously empty number had quietly changed.
[Soul Points]: 3
Uchiha Yi fell into deep thought.
It seemed that Soul Points were not strictly limited to kills made by his own hands.
As long as living beings died within a certain range, their dissipating souls could be captured by the system.
This system… was simpler than expected, but far more dangerous than it looked.
"Ding! Soul Points detected falling within a radius of 100 meters. Do you want to collect them?"
Before he could fully process the implications, the system prompt sounded again.
This time, Uchiha Yi's heart skipped a beat.
Something was wrong.
Very wrong.
A faint sense of unease surged from deep within his chest, growing stronger with every passing second.
Too many deaths were happening nearby.
But no matter what, the system was currently the only thing he could rely on.
Even if it felt unreliable, it was better than nothing.
"Collect!"
"And… can you enable automatic collection?"
Uchiha Yi answered quickly.
The repeated prompts were already becoming unbearable.
"Ding! Congratulations, you have collected Soul Points ×4!"
"Automatic collection function enabled. You will no longer receive collection prompts."
As the system's voice faded, silence returned.
But the silence only made things worse.
Because the numbers on the system panel did not stop changing.
On the contrary
They began to fluctuate.
At first, the increase was slow.
Then, the jumps became more frequent.
And then faster.
And faster.
Uchiha Yi stared at the panel, his pupils gradually shrinking.
"What's going on…"
Every few seconds, the Soul Points total increased.
That meant
Creatures were dying continuously.
Nearby.
In large numbers.
"Shit…"
The realization hit him like a hammer.
His face instantly turned pale, his heart pounding violently as if it were about to leap out of his chest.
If a large number of living beings were dying within such a short period of time…
Then there was only one possibility.
The night of the Uchiha clan's extermination.
Tonight.
And it had already begun.
Nearby.
Extremely close.
So close that death was practically brushing past his doorstep.
If not for the system, he wouldn't have noticed anything at all.
The methods of ninja assassination were silent, clean, and terrifyingly efficient.
Of course
Uchiha Yi would never admit that the real reason was simply because he was too weak.
"Damn it!"
The golden finger had just arrived, and he hadn't even had time to fully understand it.
And now, the most brutal night in Uchiha history had already begun.
No warning.
No preparation.
No mercy.
They really didn't leave him even a single second to breathe.
But despair was useless.
If death was approaching, then all he could do was grab whatever chance he had and fight for survival.
By this time, his Soul Points had already accumulated to 16.
According to the system's description, it only took 10 Soul Points to draw a Fire Release–related ability.
There was no time to hesitate.
"Draw."
At this moment, no matter what came out, it would be better than waiting helplessly for death.
"Ding!"
"Congratulations. You have obtained: Fire Escape Technique!"
Fire Escape?
Not Fire Release Ninjutsu?
Uchiha Yi was stunned.
The name sounded similar, but there was clearly an extra word.
Time was tight, so he immediately opened the detailed description.
[Fire Escape Technique]
[Introduction]
A special Fire-based escape ability derived from the principles of the Five Element chakra transformations.
By making contact with flames, the user may relocate to any existing flame source within a radius of 300 kilometers, or escape from a flame they have entered.
During entry and exit, the body will suffer unavoidable flame burns. The severity depends on flame intensity and duration, potentially resulting in death.
If the user fails to exit the flame within three days, they will forcibly reappear at the original location and perish in the fire.
"…This!"
Uchiha Yi's breathing became noticeably faster.
Before this, his chances of survival were close to zero.
But now
With this Fire Escape Technique alone, his survival probability shot up to at least eighty percent.
Of course, the drawbacks were severe.
Entering and exiting flames caused unavoidable burns, and misuse could easily result in self-immolation.
It was a double-edged sword.
But compared to certain death, this risk was nothing.
What truly shocked him was the nature of the ability itself.
This wasn't a conventional Fire Release ninjutsu at all.
Before this, he had assumed that the so-called "development of Fire Release abilities" meant improving things like the Great Fireball Technique or Phoenix Flower Technique.
He never expected something like this.
The system was clearly not limited to standard ninja techniques.
This realization made his heart race.
"Continue drawing!"
One ability was not enough.
And almost immediately, the Soul Points crossed the ten-point threshold again.
Without hesitation, Uchiha Yi chose to draw once more.
There was no flashy animation.
No roulette.
The system delivered its result instantly.
"Ding! Congratulations. You have obtained: Flame-Flame Fruit (no side effects)!"
"…What the hell?!"
Uchiha Yi was completely stunned.
The Flame-Flame Fruit?
He knew exactly what that was.
Total flame control.
Elemental transformation.
Immunity to physical attacks.
And now
No side effects?
If there were no special sealing techniques or chakra restraints, this ability was downright terrifying.
For the first time, Uchiha Yi felt genuine awe toward his system.
So this was the true meaning of "Fire Release development."
Who said Fire Release was weak?
A certain famous ninja once said
"There are no useless abilities, only useless people."
Even if that man still ended up useless in the end.
But his words did make sense.
After the draw, the Flame-Flame Fruit's power fused directly into Uchiha Yi's body without the need for consumption.
The same applied to the Fire Escape Technique.
Both abilities were automatically adapted by the system to fit the Naruto world's rules.
For example, the Fire Escape Technique originally relied on mana.
Now, it consumed chakra.
With these two abilities integrated, Uchiha Yi's turbulent heart finally began to calm down.
Now
He could transform into flames.
He could enter fire.
He could escape Konoha at any moment.
With the Flame-Flame Fruit's elemental form, the drawbacks of Fire Escape were almost completely neutralized.
In theory, he could leave immediately.
But after a brief moment of thought
He suppressed the impulse.
Fortune and survival were always forged in danger.
And this night
Was far from over.