The blush on Akatsuki's beautiful, jade-like face became even more obvious, like a fully cooked crab.
She smiled beautifully, her eyes rippling with brilliance, and agreed in a soft voice:
"Understood."
Then the two began to chat idly.
The setting sun shone on the two through the window, forming two long, overlapping shadows in the room.
An hour later, Li Fan watched the figure of the beauty gradually receding.
Li Fan didn't close the door and stretch until Akatsuki's figure was no longer visible.
That hour-plus chat just now was the happiest conversation Li Fan had ever had with the opposite sex.
Before transmigrating, when Li Fan chatted with the opposite sex, it was at most a routine greeting with no follow-up.
That time with Pakura didn't count.
He only chatted with Pakura for a few minutes that time before being interrupted by that guy Aoki.
Thinking of this, Li Fan couldn't help but think of the soft, elastic sensation tightly pressed against the back of his head.
He smiled, sat back in the chair he was sitting in before, and opened the system exchange interface.
Li Fan began to raise the affection of the nine people from before, increasing it from eighty to one hundred.
After a flurry of operations, he exchanged for High Grade Affection Doubling Fruits again.
In this way, once midnight passed, the affection of these nine people would immediately reach two hundred.
Now Li Fan possessed a total of one thousand skill points.
Once they doubled...
Counting Pakura and Yasha Lian, he would have around two thousand skill points the next day.
Thinking of this, Li Fan began to browse the exchange page, looking for things that could quickly improve his strength.
First, he excluded things like the Mangekyou Sharingan and Rinnegan on the first page.
Too expensive, and very troublesome.
After exchanging, he would have to exchange for an Uchiha bloodline body additionally.
And if he used these things now, how would he explain it to others?
Say that he was actually a mixed-blood?
Li Fan turned to the second page and found that the first item was the Pure Uchiha Bloodline Body, priced at one thousand skill points.
Li Fan glanced at it and continued scanning downwards.
After some time, Li Fan stood up and moved his body slightly.
Looking at the sky outside the window, which had turned completely dark, and touching his stomach, he decided to go eat first.
After hastily eating some dry rations, Li Fan sat cross-legged on the bed in the master bedroom on the second floor, looking in front of him with a slight frown.
At this moment, Li Fan had already turned to the seventieth page of the exchange interface.
Although during the reading process of these seventy pages, Li Fan found many interesting good things...
Those interesting good things were all related to women or economy.
There was nothing that helped his own strength.
Either the price was too high, or exchanging for it was of little use.
Li Fan kept his frown, continuing to use his mind to control the scrolling, scanning ten lines at a glance quickly.
After another period of time.
"Found it."
Li Fan suddenly jumped up and clapped his hands excitedly.
Fortunately, he was rational at this moment and didn't say anything strange.
He just clapped his hands to vent his excitement.
After clapping his hands, Li Fan took a few deep excited breaths.
He sat on the bed with his legs splayed out, hands resting on his legs, staring at the air in front of him.
Exchange:
Page 123 (123 / 900 Billion)
Perfect Substitution (1000 Skill Points. Can replace all of a character's strength. Note: Only applicable to characters whose full memories are possessed...)
...
After watching for a few seconds, the excitement on Li Fan's face gradually turned to calmness.
Just now, he got excited just seeing the beginning, but he hadn't seen the last half-sentence.
If this last half-sentence didn't exist...
This skill would be an existence with super high cost-performance ratio.
But this last half-sentence made this Perfect Substitution somewhat useless (like a chicken rib - tasteless but wasteful to discard).
Because this thing could only be used on characters whose full memories were possessed.
It didn't mean just knowing roughly about the character's life experience.
But possessing all memories from the beginning of memory to the end of life.
Li Fan stared at this Perfect Substitution expressionlessly. This thing seemed to be tailor-made for him.
Li Fan narrowed his eyes slightly, and many thoughts involuntarily popped up in his mind.
But soon, these thoughts were forcibly suppressed by him.
Just like how Li Fan suppressed the negative emotions generated in his heart during his 9-to-9, 6-days-a-week work before.
"Heh, isn't coming here the dream I dreamed of before? Now that I'm really here, what am I suspecting? Really."
Li Fan's muttering suddenly came from the quiet bedroom.
This muttering was extremely quiet, so quiet that only he could hear it.
Then Li Fan stood up, stretched a big lazy stretch, and a smile reappeared on his face.
Yes, regardless of whether this skill was tailor-made for him or just a coincidence, he couldn't control it.
Against an existence that could create this kind of system, even if he had any thoughts, what use would they be?
Instead of living in various speculations every day, scaring himself and adding trouble...
He might as well honestly strive to lead the Sand Village and have the last laugh in the upcoming great war.
And incidentally satisfy his long-held dream.
"Exchange Perfect Substitution!"
"Please select the substitution candidate. Current substitution candidate: Rasa."
"Select Rasa!"
"Ding. Exchange successful. The host will receive the transfer expected to take three minutes. During this period, please do not engage in strenuous exercise and wait patiently."
Li Fan lay directly on the bed, looking calmly at the ceiling, and incidentally tried his best to feel the possible changes in his body.
A few seconds later, Li Fan felt an extra force in his body.
This force constantly circulated through his internal organs.
And every time it passed through the heart, he could clearly feel this force getting stronger and stronger.
"Is this Chakra?"
Li Fan continued to lie on the bed, calming his mind to feel the sensation of that force while muttering to himself.
"Ding. Transfer complete! This transfer modification took a total of four minutes and thirty-nine seconds."
Hearing this, Li Fan stood up silently.
He sat on the bed, feeling the various ninjutsu and the most important Kekkei Genkai—Magnet Release: Gold Dust—that had appeared in his body's muscle memory.
Before this, although Li Fan possessed all of Rasa's memories...
It only felt like watching a movie from a third-party perspective.
Just like watching a movie, although he knew the effects of those moves, he didn't have the method to apply them.
But now it was completely different.
Li Fan clearly understood how to use those ninjutsu and apply Chakra.
It was as proficient as a baby knowing how to drink milk and excrete from birth—memories carved into the genes.
Li Fan walked to the window and opened the tightly closed window.
After the window was opened, sand flying everywhere was immediately blown into the house, accompanied by the whoosh~ whoosh~ whoosh sound of the wind.
Li Fan turned a blind eye to the oncoming wind and sand.
He slowly extended his right hand out the window and slowly clenched it into a fist.
"Magnet Release: Gold Dust!"
With Li Fan's soft shout.
Clatter! Clatter!
The sand accumulated on the ground outside the window all slowly flew up and slowly formed a sword shape five meters long and one meter wide.
Li Fan narrowed his eyes at the sword made of sand.
He shook his head. Not enough. Still not enough.
As Li Fan's inner thought sounded, the sword-shaped sand immediately returned to its original state.
Dense yellow sand floated in mid-air, looking both spectacular and eerie.
Li Fan looked at the sand floating in mid-air and pondered in his heart.
The utilization range of Gold Dust was still too narrow. Let alone comparing it with the Third Kazekage's Iron Sand...
It couldn't even compare to Gaara's ability to manipulate sand in the original work. It could be said to be one of the most useless Magnet Release abilities.
Perhaps it was only useful for panning for gold, using Magnet Release to control the denser gold dust.
But what use was this?
Li Fan had seen too many ways to make money when checking the exchange page earlier.
He didn't need to spend so much time and effort to make money.
Li Fan's tightly clenched palm slowly loosened, and the sand floating in mid-air slowly descended to the ground.
Finally, it fell quietly to the ground without making any noise to disturb the residents.
I still need to see if there is anything more powerful to assist me.
He closed the window, sat on the bed, quietly looked at the interface in front of him, and began to flip through it quickly.
Now he had no skill points left.
But according to Li Fan's own estimation, in another ten minutes or so, once midnight passed, he would possess close to a thousand skill points again.
He must find something that could effectively counter that guy Aoki.
"Ding. Affection of Akatsuki, Karura, Karuman, and others has reached 200. Reached the upper limit of High Grade Affection Doubling Fruit!"
"Pakura's affection has doubled to 58 points!"
"Yasha Lian's affection has doubled to 36 points!"
"Total gained: 994 Skill Points!"
More than ten minutes later, Li Fan listened to the system voice sounding in his mind.
His eyes paused slightly, then he continued to flip through the exchange page in front of him.
The obtained skill points were about the same as he had predicted earlier, so Li Fan didn't pay too much attention.
Right now, his most important task was to continue turning pages.
At this moment, Li Fan had already turned to page two hundred.
Along the way, if he encountered some interesting or seemingly useful things, he would mark them.
But he hadn't encountered anything that could improve his strength.
This system looked very impressive, and was actually very impressive.
But it couldn't even do small functions like category search or keyword search.
Li Fan didn't know how to evaluate this situation.
After another few minutes, Li Fan looked at the page in front of him, scanning ten lines at a glance.
Just as he was about to click the next page, he suddenly stopped and looked sharply at the middle!
Li Fan scanned up and down several times. After confirming he hadn't misread due to blurred vision, his breathing became slightly heavy.
The exchange page in front of him displayed:
Page 213 (213 / 900 Billion)
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Kekkei Genkai All-Round Upgrade (50 Skill Points. For every exchange, the Kekkei Genkai will upgrade to a higher level in all aspects. For every upgrade, the required Skill Points double.)
Li Fan calculated roughly and thought it was worth the risk. He nodded sharply.
"Exchange!"
"Spent 50 Skill Points. Exchange successful. Magnet Release: Gold Dust upgraded. Can control smaller volumes of Gold Dust. Chakra usage is more economical!"
Li Fan took a deep breath. He knew he had bet correctly.
"Exchange!"
"Confirm spending 100 Skill Points to exchange again?"
"Confirm!"
"Exchange successful. Magnet Release: Gold Dust upgraded. Can control a larger range of Gold Dust. Chakra usage is more economical!"
"Exchange again!"
"Spent 200 Skill Points. Exchange successful..."
"Continue exchanging!"
"Spent 400 Skill Points! Magnet Release: Gold Dust upgraded to [True] Magnet Release!"
"Phew!"
Li Fan only felt that the machine voice in his mind was so melodious at this moment that he wished he could hear it a few more times!
Although Li Fan firmly believed internally that this upgrade direction was correct...
He didn't know how many times it would take to upgrade to the effect he wanted.
But fortunately, on the last attempt, when his skill points were almost exhausted, it successfully upgraded to the effect Li Fan wanted.
Li Fan wiped a handful of sweat from his forehead with his left hand and shook his head with a sigh.
"It always arrives late just when almost everything is exhausted. What a familiar trope."