Even so, Yusheng did not immediately merge with Ashura's chakra. After taking a few deep breaths, he closed the virtual panel and shifted his gaze back to the training ground. After rounds of physical combat had concluded, the first small test for the first-year students finally came to a close. Smiling as he bade farewell to his enthusiastic classmates, Yusheng returned home, finally removing the mask-like smile from his face.

While changing his shoes at the entrance, Yusheng summoned the virtual panel and clicked on a golden light orb with his finger. Just like in a game, a confirmation box asking whether to use it immediately appeared before him. Taking another deep breath, Yusheng clicked on [Yes].

Whoosh—

In an instant, the golden light orb from his spatial backpack burst forth like a meteor, transforming into a golden beam of light that flowed into Yusheng's body. Immediately, a flash of golden light enveloped him, resembling an upgrade effect from a game. Then… then there was nothing.

"This effect, I can only give it a three out of ten," Yusheng muttered with a hint of sarcasm, then began to feel his body up and down, as if trying to sense any changes. Naturally, there were no changes at all. Yusheng knew that even if there were changes, they wouldn't be in his appearance but rather within.

Thus, Yusheng went to the living room, sat cross-legged on the tatami mat, and began to close his eyes to extract chakra. Though he was just an ordinary civilian without any bloodline abilities, Yusheng was now a genius. At least until graduation, he would be a remarkably dazzling civilian genius.

His soul was that of an adult from another world, allowing him to possess advanced thinking like those prodigies. The same reason for his soul made Yusheng's mental energy different from that of ordinary people. Chakra was the product of the fusion of physical energy and mental energy. Originally, Yusheng's mental energy was "over the limit" for his age, but due to his very ordinary physical energy, his chakra amount was not unusual.

When mixed together, the amount of chakra produced was also quite ordinary. But now, as Yusheng extracted chakra as usual, the physical and mental energy bursting forth from one hundred and thirty trillion cells was like a child's urine suddenly turning into a faucet being turned on. After mixing the two, the chakra vortex within Yusheng's body rapidly grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.

If someone were to use Byakugan or Sharingan to peer into Yusheng, they would notice that the blue vortex within him was slowly enlarging, its color becoming more vivid. After some unknown length of time, Yusheng finally stopped extracting chakra, slowly opened his red eyes filled with shock, and murmured, "Is this the feeling of being OP? How could I possibly win?"

The experience of a casual player and a spender is entirely different, and the experience of a spender and a cheater is also different. Casual players only have to grind, spenders only have fun, while cheaters have even more fun. Just extracting chakra for a while, the amount surged to several times what it was before, and Yusheng finally understood how cruel the phrase "bloodline supremacy" really was. Only by cheating could one turn the tide!

After the shock, Yusheng suddenly laughed, "Hehe… I suddenly feel like life has become meaningful, and the world has become exciting." It was as if dawn had broken, and the bumpy road had suddenly become incredibly smooth.

After regaining his composure, Yusheng's mood became tense again. The next moment would be the greatest test, the moment to prove the level of his golden finger. For the next few days, Yusheng lived as usual, playing the role of a six-year-old child, forcing himself to endure discomfort while playing with those children, integrating into a small group like those in Japanese manga.

During this time, Yusheng did not enter any space with his consciousness while sleeping, nor did he see the floating white-haired old man. Yusheng did not know whether the Sage of Six Paths was secretly observing him. But for these years, he had to act like a child and could no longer talk to himself.

If he had nothing to do these days, it would be great if it was because his golden finger's level surpassed everything else. However, Yusheng did not dare to bet on that. Only by staying vigilant could he survive safely until he reached the pinnacle.

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Time came to the second half of the year 54 in Konoha. Winter, with heavy snow falling. Unbeknownst to him, it had been five months since Yusheng merged with Ashura's chakra. During this time, Yusheng's improvement was very apparent. In terms of chakra amount, apart from Naruto, no one, not even in the sixth grade, had more than him, let alone first-year students. Such an astonishing change had occurred in less than half a year.

Yusheng couldn't imagine what level his chakra would reach after graduation. It was certain that it would definitely be measured in "K." Although the amount of chakra does not represent strength, a massive amount of chakra allows one to be reckless. Those with less chakra have to be careful in battle. In contrast, Naruto could use the forbidden technique of Multiple Shadow Clone Technique like an ordinary ninjutsu, and each of those shadow clones could perform an A-rank Rasengan.

This sea of clones technique could completely make up for the lack of battle experience. If such a "physical monster" worked hard, then Kisame Hoshigaki would be the best example. Yusheng would not waste his talent like Naruto. Even before entering the ninja school, when he successfully extracted chakra, Yusheng, as a time traveler, had already practiced climbing walls with his feet at home to lay a good foundation for chakra control.

Now that his chakra amount had increased, Yusheng immediately started learning the cheat technique, which was… the Shadow Clone Technique. Although Yusheng was currently an orphan, he came from a ninja family. His home was a two-story independent house, one of the legacies left by his parents in this life, fortunately not destroyed by the Nine-Tails back then.

When he was three years old, Yusheng was sent back to his home after living in the orphanage and began learning to live independently. During this time, the village did not confiscate Yusheng's house. While cleaning, Yusheng discovered several scrolls. These scrolls were part of the legacy left by his parents, including chakra extraction methods, basic Body Flicker Technique, and several low-level ninjutsu scrolls and the Shadow Clone Technique.

In Yusheng's eyes, the most precious of these scrolls was naturally the Shadow Clone Technique. For others, the Shadow Clone was not a cheat technique at all; after all, once the shadow clones were dispelled, the fatigue would be transferred back to the original body. If the fatigue exceeded the limit, a person could be literally worked to death. Ordinary ninjas could use at most one or two shadow clones to assist in training.

Yusheng and Naruto, who had the Sage Body, were exceptions, able to withstand fatigue on a massive scale. Naruto was even more of an exception, as besides having a Sage Body, he was also a Jinchuriki of the strongest tailed beast. If he wanted to die, the Nine-Tails wouldn’t let him.