Chapter 23: This Guy Is a Monster
"He actually mastered it…"
Yamada Tsuyuki had completely forgotten about teaching. He tightly gripped Li Jie xuan's hands.
When he sensed the surging chakra inside Li Jie xuan—chakra at the level of a genin—his face went blank. "How could something like this be possible?"
He himself was thirty years old, a chunin, with no girlfriend. This child, not even four years old yet, already possessed genin-level chakra—and his girlfriend was even a princess of the Senju clan.
Looking at it that way, his thirty years of life really had been lived like a dog…
"Teacher, does this mean I have the same aptitude as the Sage of Six Paths?"
Li Jie xuan smiled and delivered a fatal blow to Yamada Tsuyuki.
In an instant, the entire classroom erupted into discussion…
Yamada Tsuyuki froze stiff. After a long while, he finally turned his head back and forced his mouth open with great difficulty. "This… um…"
If he nodded, that would be far too outrageous. Could this child really be the next Sage of Six Paths? Words like that weren't something a mere chunin like him had the right to say.
But if he shook his head, he himself had clearly acknowledged it earlier.
For a moment, Yamada Tsuyuki was drenched in sweat. There was no trace left of the laid-back ease he'd had when they first met.
Just then, Li Jie xuan suddenly leaned close to Yamada Tsuyuki's ear and whispered, "Teacher, if you give me one hundred thousand ryō, I'll help you cover this up…"
"What? One hundred thousand ryō?"
Yamada Tsuyuki's eyes went wide. "Is this kid extorting me?"
"Teacher, don't overthink it."
Li Jie xuan smiled amiably as he reassured him. "Isn't a genius with the aptitude of the Sage of Six Paths worth an investment of one hundred thousand ryō?"
Between the lines, Li Jie xuan was clearly implying that he wanted to take Yamada Tsuyuki on as his underling…
Were these really words a four-year-old child could say?
A chill ran down Yamada Tsuyuki's spine. Feeling Li Jie xuan's sly gaze, he froze completely. To hell with precocious—this is an old monster rejuvenated!
At that moment, Yamada Tsuyuki's guess came infinitely close to the truth…
In the end, however, Yamada Tsuyuki still gave in. With trembling hands, he pulled out a thick stack of banknotes from his pocket—this was his entire month's salary!
Li Jie xuan grinned as he snatched the one hundred thousand ryō from Yamada Tsuyuki's hands. Turning around, he burst into laughter. "Haha! Everyone, actually, I already learned chakra by following behind Uncle Might Guy for a long time!"
At the critical moment, Li Jie xuan still sold Might Guy out.
No helping it—Li Jie xuan wasn't the type to take money without doing the job!
Besides, although Might Guy didn't know any ninjutsu at all, as long as Li Jie xuan didn't say anything and Might Guy didn't say anything, who would know?
Knowing that Li Jie xuan was helping him out, Yamada Tsuyuki hurriedly nodded along with an awkward laugh. "Haha, Li Jie xuan, don't make jokes like that again next time, okay?"
"But still, for someone as young as Li Jie xuan to have already mastered chakra—that's very impressive."
Yamada Tsuyuki smiled as he walked back to the podium. "Just now, we talked about chakra cultivation. Next, let's talk about the basic methods of using chakra!"
The class seemed to return to normal. Most people believed Li Jie xuan's explanation. After all, Li Jie xuan himself had said it—this was just a joke…
After all, having a Sage of Six Paths as a classmate was simply too unreal…
However, a few gazes were full of disdain for this explanation.
"What a formidable opponent!"
Beneath long black hair, dark yellow snake-like pupils trembled slightly. Thanks to eyesight far beyond that of ordinary people, Orochimaru clearly saw the sinful exchange of silver notes.
Unlike Orochimaru, Tsunade subconsciously believed that Li Jie xuan was a genius who could be spoken of in the same breath as the Sage of Six Paths. A woman in love truly had no rationality at all…
"Am… am I really not suited to being a ninja?"
In the distance, Hyuga Yizu trembled faintly in fear. Even if others were fooled by Li Jie xuan's lies, Hyuga Yizu—who had exchanged blows with Li Jie xuan just yesterday—knew the truth all too well.
Yesterday, Li Jie xuan hadn't had even the slightest trace of chakra on him!
"This guy… is a monster!"
Hyuga Yizu stared hard at Li Jie xuan, then lowered his head in fear…
He couldn't beat a monster like this!
He would definitely be sent by his father to the Land of Fire and spend his entire life as a civilian…
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