"Amazing, my Bobo!"
Bai Chanyi moved with light steps, emerging from his body. Her delicate form solidified from ethereal to real, and she extended her fair, tender hand, interlocking her fingers with his. She tilted her head slightly, her wine-red eyes brimming with a smile.
"No, you're the amazing one!"
Yu Zhibo was a little unaccustomed to Bai Chanyi's intimate gesture. However, seeing her act as if it were natural, he decided to pretend not to notice.
A look of awe appeared on his face. "Directly from A-rank Tier Six to A-rank Tier Thirteen. Such an increase is practically like cheating."
"It's because both Bobo and I completely trust each other that we can achieve such a high degree of fusion!"
Bai Chanyi said with a smile. After absorbing the memories of a few female university students, she was no longer the naive little white fox or black cat. Ever since she met Yu Zhibo, she had been thinking about how to advance their relationship.
"Our Heavenly Fox clan are naturally born auxiliary sacred beasts. Spatial and wind attributes are integrated into our bloodline. In ancient times, when we were at our peak, countless powerful individuals sought to form marital alliances with us. However, we are also a race of love. If it's not true love, we cannot merge!"
Bai Chanyi looked at Yu Zhibo with a smile, her gaze bold, her affection completely unhidden.
Yu Zhibo couldn't help but touch his nose.
He always felt that after Bai Chanyi transformed, she became much more proactive, which made him a little uncomfortable.
Bai Chanyi's lips curved slightly as she continued, "My father's spatial power was gradually derived from multiple mergers with my mother. Bobo, if you want it, you can merge with me a few more times. You might even awaken spatial abilities then."
Yu Zhibo pondered for two seconds. "Do you mean a literal merger, or..."
Upon hearing this, Bai Chanyi couldn't help but chuckle. Her wine-red eyes became alluring, and she brought her cherry lips close to Yu Zhibo's ear, whispering softly, "Bobo, whatever you want, you can have~"
Yu Zhibo: Σ(°△°|||)
'It worked! It worked!'
Seeing Yu Zhibo's reaction, Bai Chanyi felt a surge of joy.
As she spoke, she repeatedly reviewed a memory of the female university student and her experiences in her mind: when facing the boy you love, you can appropriately make intimate gestures to hint at romance, which can greatly increase the chance of a successful relationship.
Intimate gestures... right?
=￣w￣=
Bai Chanyi blinked, then lowered her head to look at the hands she and Yu Zhibo were holding. It felt insufficient. She blinked again, glanced at Yu Zhibo's sharp jawline, and after a moment's thought, parted her cherry lips and gently took his earlobe into her mouth.
Boom!
As a novice, Yu Zhibo felt the energy within him begin to surge. Then, his nose felt a warmth, and two streams of blood flowed from his nostrils.
"Hahaha~"
Yu Zhibo let out an awkward laugh and moved a few steps to his right, evading Bai Chanyi's intimacy. While summoning a water ball to clean his nosebleed, he said awkwardly, "I didn't expect merging to have the side effect of a nosebleed!"
At the same time, he roared inwardly: What the hell is going on? Am I possessed?
Yu Zhibo touched his chest, feeling a sensation akin to a heart attack.
"Hehe, do you like it, Bobo?"
Bai Chanyi, who had been feeling shy, couldn't help but giggle upon seeing Yu Zhibo even more bashful than her, a mischievous glint in her eyes.
"Alright, no more fooling around!" Yu Zhibo coughed lightly and said authoritatively, but the pounding of his heart like a drum indicated that he was far from calm.
"Mhm, mhm!" Bai Chanyi saw that she had gone far enough and her small face turned extremely serious.
Because the female university student's memories had told her to know when to stop. Excessive proactivity was only readily accepted by perverts, while high-quality gentlemen would only feel startled and choose to distance themselves.
Her Bobo was a gentleman, not a pervert, so she chose to stop.
"Chanyi..." Yu Zhibo slowly began.
'He even changed my name!' Bai Chanyi rejoiced in her heart. The dating experience from university was indeed effective!
"Mhm, mhm, Bobo, tell me!" Bai Chanyi quickly responded, while simultaneously searching her mind for the next dating tip. A certain "tips for meeting your boyfriend" caught her attention.
This is... black stockings?
Bai Chanyi's face showed a thoughtful expression.
Then she heard Yu Zhibo say, "Why don't you transform into your true form..."
"Ah? Bobo, do you think I'm ugly?"
Bai Chanyi's eyes widened, and she imagined how the girl whose memories she had merged with would react in this situation.
The next second, her face showed a look of about to cry.
Hmm... the university student's memories had mentioned that girls should learn to show their vulnerable side to arouse the protective instincts of boys.
Bai Chanyi understood instantly. With tears welling up in her big eyes, she looked at Yu Zhibo aggrievedly and said, "You used to always hug me, but ever since I transformed, you haven't actively hugged me once~"
A little person appeared in Yu Zhibo's mind, complaining: 'This is a battlefield, okay! Can you stop being so flamboyant? Why did the whole dynamic change after you transformed? Didn't I already hug you when you came out of the spatial portal!'
He rubbed his temples and said, "I'm not ready yet. Can you give me some time to adapt..."
"Okay~" Bai Chanyi said with a smile.
"..."
One minute later...
Yu Zhibo's neck was embraced by a pair of dark cat paws. Bai Chanyi, in her ink jade form, was entirely hanging on his chest, her black tail swaying contentedly, like a large pendant.
Yu Zhibo sighed, not questioning why the ink jade hadn't transformed into a white fox. This was already good enough.
Recalling the scenes from earlier, although they were a bit abrupt, they were actually quite interesting. As Yu Zhibo thought about it, a smile involuntarily appeared on his face.
Then, he supported the ink jade's hindquarters with his right hand and turned his gaze to the battlefield.
This time, he hadn't used the Tai Chi Heavenly Emperor Soul-Slaying Sword, and one of his eyes was only a two-tomoe Sharingan. Yet, after merging with Bai Chanyi, he had directly killed the Long-Necked Sea Beast by forcefully crossing sixteen tiers.
The fusion bonus with Bai Chanyi was simply exaggerated to the extreme.
"But next time, if it's not necessary, it's better to fight using Edo Tensei. The consumption is too terrifying!"
Yu Zhibo silently sensed the changes in the Pure Land space. He found that after unleashing a large number of skills, he had lost over a hundred strands of immortal energy. His spiritual energy was completely depleted, and he had also consumed over a million points of spiritual energy, equivalent to ten A-rank dark energy spirit crystals.
While contemplating, he suddenly felt his lips become wet. Bai Chanyi was licking his lips.
Such a lick-cat!
"Chanyi, no lewdness!"
Yu Zhibo said righteously, then lifted the black cat's hindquarters and pushed her head to the side of his neck. The cat's whiskers and ears brushed against his neck, causing a slight tickle.
"Okay, meow~" The ink jade hugged his neck, her dark cat head resting on his shoulder.
Yu Zhibo breathed a sigh of relief.
In the following time, Yu Zhibo, holding the ink jade, began to command the beasts summoned by Edo Tensei to slaughter the sea beasts. While continuously harvesting souls and collecting plant beasts, he also absorbed many heroic spirits who had not perished in the great battle.
Not every transcendent could have their souls protected by righteous energy like Yu's parents. Therefore, many Chinese transcendents died in battle. Those who had not comprehended their origin power, after suffering terrible attacks, would have their souls annihilated along with their bodies, leaving no time for absorption.
Even so, Yu Zhibo's left eye had absorbed dozens of heroic spirits. These souls retained their appearance at the moment of death, but their expressions were blank and they lacked consciousness. Perhaps after absorbing Yin energy later, they could become vengeful spirits, but Yu Zhibo had no intention of doing so. He would simply preserve them for now, and if he had the chance to find suitable vessels later, he could allow them to be reborn.
What Yu Zhibo noticed was that after several days of arduous battles and continuous hunting by the undead army, the main quest was finally completed when Zhu Yan tore apart the last sea monster.
"Congratulations to the host for successfully killing 100 A-rank transcendent creatures and obtaining the Sage Body. Do you wish to claim it now?"
As the system prompt sounded, Yu Zhibo saw a small golden sun floating next to the system panel in his mind's space, emitting a supremely yang and sacred power. It seemed to contain some kind of rule, somewhat like Yang Release energy, but much purer.
Yu Zhibo unhesitatingly issued the command: "Claim!"
As his thought fell, Yu Zhibo felt his head suddenly clear. The golden sun next to the system panel transformed into a golden energy that injected into the sequence core hovering above his Nascent Soul. It then began to spin wildly, releasing myriad brilliant golden powers.
Beneath the Nascent Soul, the golden cushion formed by immortal energy began to emit wisps of black energy under this power. These black energies, once they appeared, began to rage wildly, with faint, eerie roars emanating from them, causing Yu Zhibo's gaze to narrow.
"How can there be such evil energy within seemingly sacred and pure immortal energy? It's suspected to be some kind of curse. My feeling is correct. If I had integrated this immortal energy into my Nascent Soul when I advanced to A-rank, my soul would likely have been contaminated!"
"This isn't demonic energy. Is the destruction of the Eternal Night world related to these black energies? What exactly is it?"
Yu Zhibo felt a sense of lingering fear, somewhat fortunate that he hadn't integrated the immortal energy back then, but chose to suppress it beneath his Nascent Soul. Although it would cause some restraint when using it, it wouldn't contaminate him.
"Chanyi has the Heavenly Fox body. When her bloodline concentration reaches a certain level, she will directly enter A-rank without integrating immortal energy and suffering contamination. However, many other transcendents are likely contaminated. After all, unless they are exceptionally gifted, to ascend to the divine rank, they will inevitably use immortal energy to forge the bridge to the abyss, and thus inevitably integrate their Nascent Soul with immortal energy, ultimately leading to soul contamination."
Under the operation of the sequence core, the black energy separated from the immortal energy was quickly annihilated, leaving behind only brilliant golden, extremely pure immortal energy.
Subsequently, this immortal energy began to seep into the Nascent Soul, making its body more solidified. It sat cross-legged in the void of the dantian, with a pair of huge Mangekyo Sharingan slowly rotating behind it. Its body seemed to be cast from pure gold, emitting a sacred golden light.
Concurrently, the sequence core above the golden Nascent Soul rotated slowly, absorbing the free-floating immortal energy in the heavens and earth. Like a millstone, it continuously ground and purified it. Then, wisps of black energy were expelled and annihilated.
After completing this process, pure immortal energy descended from the sequence core and was absorbed by the golden Nascent Soul.
Upon fully absorbing the immortal energy, the golden Nascent Soul's eyes suddenly opened, emitting golden light. Then, its voice began to echo in the void of the dantian space:
"Weaving the heavens and earth, profoundly contemplating creation, creating existence from non-existence, bringing life from death!"
Following the grand and magnificent voice, the small Nascent Soul figure spread its hands, and countless immortal energies transformed into golden rivers, surging towards the four limbs and hundred bones of Yu Zhibo's body, then spreading to every cell, modifying his body.
Under the modification of the pure immortal energy, every cell in his body was coated with a layer of gold, which then permeated into it, making it more solid, capable of containing more spiritual energy, immortal energy, and origin power.
"This terrifying vitality, is this the Sage Body?"
Yu Zhibo was deeply shocked. He could feel his physique constantly improving, and even his realm was beginning to loosen.
Among these, the most obvious was the constant surge of energy from various parts of his body. At this moment, the spiritual energy and immortal energy in his body began to increase exponentially, and his physical body fed back mental strength, causing flashes of inspiration in his mind, making it unprecedentedly clear.
All the actions of the small Nascent Soul were not controlled by him, but followed a certain instinct, uniting with the origin power within his body to rapidly modify and strengthen his physique.
The modification of the Sage Body was still ongoing. Yu Zhibo could feel that once the modification was complete, his rank would likely leap to A-rank Tier Ten or above.
Furthermore, he had a vague direction for the next evolution of his Mangekyo Sharingan.
In the original Naruto, the Rinnegan was the eyes of the Sage of Six Paths, known as the Eyes of the Sage. However, it was clear that there was no Sage of Six Paths in this world. Madara's reason for awakening it back then was by combining Yin Release and Yang Release, allowing the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to evolve into the Rinnegan.
Yang Release controlled by the body's life energy as the source, injecting life into form.
Yin Release controlled by the imagination's mental energy as the source, creating form from nothing.
Hashirama was the Sage Body, representing the extreme of Yang Release; while Uchiha Madara's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan represented the extreme of Yin Release.
Therefore, after integrating Hashirama's cells, Uchiha Madara was able to combine Yin and Yang, allowing his Sharingan to evolve into the Rinnegan.
So, Extreme Yang Release + Eternal Mangekyo = Rinnegan!
Based on this, Yu Zhibo, having now obtained the Sage Body and with the Eternal Mangekyo in his left eye, should have met the conditions for awakening the Rinnegan. However, in reality, he didn't feel any sign of awakening it.
"Kishimoto doesn't understand Naruto at all!" Yu Zhibo had such a realization.
Naruto itself had many loopholes. For example, in the battle with Hashirama, Madara activated Izanagi, changing his destined death. According to the settings, once Izanagi was activated, one eye would be permanently lost. So where did Madara's two Rinnegan come from?
The answer was simple: it was forcibly set for the sake of plot progression.
The evolution of the Rinnegan was not simply a combination of Yin and Yang. At least, after he obtained the Sage Body, his Yang Release reached its extreme, but his Yin Release had not reached the level of merging with the extreme Yang to evolve the Rinnegan.
This involved the power of laws.
Terrifying defensive capabilities, endless vitality, and the ability to imbue form with life.
Yu Zhibo began to understand that the settings in Naruto were not applicable in the current world. Some had been "demonically modified" by the system, while others had evolved into new forms of existence influenced by the world's power system.
If the Sage Body was an evolutionary form of Yang Law in this world, then the Mangekyo Sharingan, even the Eternal one, had not reached an equivalent level. It was still the extreme of Yin below the laws.
"Is it because the Mangekyo Sharingan I merged with is second-hand? Or is it for other reasons?"
"This is so troublesome!"
Yu Zhibo scratched his head. Kishimoto had left too many bugs in Naruto, but his brain development was extensive, and his intelligence had become extremely high. After thinking for a while, he murmured,
"So, do I need to reach Tier 50 and evolve Yin Release into a Law to achieve the evolution of the Rinnegan..."
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A two-in-one chapter. Thank you to 殇 婼 for the "blade" (gift), user 16234785 for the "urge to update" (gift), and other friends for their small gifts and likes.
I'm not asking for gifts anymore, I'm afraid of being scolded.