However, it wasn't until Li Fan clicked into the Exchange interface that he suddenly realized the gold content of these skill points was incredibly high!
Exchange:
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Lightning Nature Chakra (10 Skill Points)
Wind Nature Chakra (10 Skill Points)
Fire Nat... (10 Skill Points)
Water Nat... (10 Skill Points)
One-Tomoe Sharingan (100 Skill Points)
Two-Tomoe Sharingan (200 Skill Points)
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Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan - One Pair (Random 2 Abilities, 20,000 Skill Points)
Rinnegan - One Pair (30,000 Skill Points)
Lower Grade Affection Fruit (1 Skill Point. Can be used on any target. Upon use, the target immediately gains 2 affection points.)
Medium Grade Affection Fruit (2 Skill Points. Upon use, the target immediately gains 5 affection points.)
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Medium Grade Affection Doubling Fruit (20 Skill Points. Using this fruit allows the host to double the designated character's existing affection daily, capped at 100.)
High Grade Affection Doubling Fruit (40 Skill Points. Allows the target to double their existing affection daily, capped at 200 affection points.)
A Vow of Gold (20 Skill Points. Randomly obtain a peerless beauty with a random identity and 100 affection points.)
One-Click Max Affection (600 Skill Points. Can make the target's affection soar to 300 within three seconds. Note: Can only be used when face-to-face with the target.)
Never Abandon (500 Skill Points. When used on any female, can immediately raise her affection to 200 points within ten seconds. The difficulty of affection declining increases by 100 times. Can only be used face-to-face.)
Eternal Companionship (700 Skill Points. When used on any female, can immediately raise her affection to 300 points within ten seconds. The difficulty of affection declining increases by 100 times. This effect persists even through reincarnation. Can only be used face-to-face.)
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Looking at the densely packed exchange interface in front of him, Li Fan never expected that these good items, with a few exceptions...
Could actually be exchanged for so few skill points.
And after seeing those astonishing affection items...
Li Fan instantly thought of a different kind of perpetual motion machine.
Li Fan let out a soft breath. Now, he no longer had to worry about the future.
This was clearly an invincible "cool novel" scenario in another sense. As long as he honestly stabilized his development in the early stages...
However, to be safe and verify his guess, Li Fan still silently recited in his heart:
"Exchange for one High Grade Affection Doubling Fruit and use it on Yasha Lian."
"Exchange successful. Deducted 40 Skill Points. Remaining: 370 Skill Points!"
"Usage successful. Yasha Lian's affection increased from 9 points to 18 points!"
"Host successfully increased affection by 9 points. Gained 9 Skill Points!"
Sure enough, just as he thought, even affection gained using items could yield corresponding skill points!
Li Fan's heartbeat involuntarily accelerated.
Looking at it this way, based on the exchange rate difference...
If he spent 40 skill points to exchange for a High Grade Affection Doubling Fruit and used it on anyone...
Then a few days later, he would get a return of over a hundred skill points.
That was a 3 to 4 times return!
As long as he didn't randomly exchange for other combat items in the early stage...
And only used affection items to desperately increase their affection...
Then he would soon be able to double his accumulation of skill points.
Accruing a thousand, or even several thousand skill points in a few days would be no trouble at all!
This was basically a zero-cost, high-profit venture. No, accurately speaking, he did pay a small price.
He only paid a mere one year of his lifespan to activate the system.
Compared to the harvest, this was nothing.
Having finished thinking about the system matters...
Li Fan shifted his thoughts to the upcoming Third Great Ninja War.
Although Li Fan had watched the original anime and manga several times...
Strictly speaking, that was nearly seven or eight years ago.
Since entering university, Li Fan had stopped following Naruto closely.
Especially after he started working, every day was repetitive, numbing labor.
He had forgotten much of the plot he had seen before.
Now that Li Fan was physically in this world, if he didn't sort out these plot points properly, it wouldn't do.
Meanwhile, Yasha Lian, who was silently standing guard at the door, suddenly felt a shiver in her heart.
She involuntarily turned her head to look at the door, her beautiful eyes full of worry.
One hour later, the group had finished discussing the general regulations and took their leave one by one.
When Jonin Aoki walked out the door, he turned back to glance at Li Fan.
Li Fan waited for everyone, especially the Chiyo siblings, to leave before he stood up.
For the past hour, he had basically been in a spectator state.
On one hand, it was because he was trying to recall the plot.
On the other hand, it was because Li Fan could reverse-engineer the general direction based on the events of the original work.
But when it came to specifics, like personnel allocation or changing border defenses, he, a modern man who lived a peaceful life, didn't understand these things.
Although Li Fan had read many historical novels and other-world "kingdom building" novels...
The situation in the ninja world was different, and he dared not discuss military strategies on paper.
Li Fan had only walked a few steps when he suddenly smelled a faint fragrance.
Although Li Fan wasn't familiar with this scent, he wasn't a stranger to it either.
Li Fan looked strangely at Pakura, who had started following closely beside him.
"Pakura, what's wrong?"
Pakura tucked the beautiful hair on her forehead behind her ear. A hint of shy redness was faintly visible on her cool, snow-white face.
Her gaze fell on Li Fan's face, which wasn't incredibly handsome but could be called above average, and then she quickly turned her head away.
"Nothing. It's just that we haven't seen each other for half a month. Won't we grab a meal together?"
Only then did Li Fan remember that his affection with Pakura had already reached 29 points.
In Pakura's eyes, he was already a good friend.
Li Fan hesitated. Before transmigrating, he hadn't had a girlfriend, nor did he have any female friends.
Returning to his rental apartment after getting off work at 9:30 PM...
He would spend half an hour scrolling through news and videos, an hour playing games...
And the last half hour showering and doing laundry, going to sleep around 11:30 PM. He was a very standard shut-in corporate drone.
To be honest, his experience in communicating with women was practically zero, so Li Fan was a bit hesitant.
Although Pakura turned her head away on the surface, she had been secretly observing Li Fan from the corner of her eye.
When she saw that Li Fan didn't speak and the expression on his face clearly showed hesitation...
Her brows furrowed for an instant, and she involuntarily crossed her arms over her chest.
Her cool, beautiful face began to be covered with a layer of icy frost, and her usually emotionless voice clearly sounded somewhat resentful:
"What? Is the future Lord Fourth Kazekage starting to despise me, an old friend?"
A look of embarrassment immediately appeared on Li Fan's face, and he shook his head to defend himself:
"How is that possible? I was just considering where we should go to eat."
Seeing his anxious expression, inexplicable joy rose in Pakura's heart.
The lines of Pakura's face immediately softened, but her tone began to return to its usual coolness:
"Where to eat? Going to those restaurants in the village is too troublesome."
"If the two of us Jonin go out to eat together, a bunch of people will definitely join in for the fun. Besides, the food in those places isn't good."
After giving reasons to reject eating out, a blush she didn't even notice appeared on Pakura's face. She tilted her head slightly:
"I recall you haven't been to my house yet. Our relationship is so good, yet you haven't even visited my home. That's really unreasonable."
"Let's go to my place. You can taste my cooking while we're at it."
Hearing words that could be interpreted in various ways...
Although Li Fan understood that with only 29 affection points, nothing would likely happen with Pakura...
She was probably just hosting him as a good friend.
But as a man—especially a wizard who had been single for twenty-three years—
Li Fan couldn't help but cast his gaze toward Pakura's twin peaks, which appeared even more prominent because of her crossed arms.
Then, Li Fan naturally shifted his gaze to her pure white underarms, revealed by her sleeveless outfit.
The skin of her underarms was smooth as snow, without a single hair, radiating a dazzling luster.
Then Li Fan moved his gaze downward, skipping over her exaggerated wasp waist, and looked directly at those long legs.
He looked all the way down to Pakura's exposed white toes in her ninja sandals.
Those crystal-clear toes were very round and pressed together in a diagonal line—a very obvious Egyptian foot shape.
The big toe was full and round, white as a pearl, while the other four toes were exquisite and slender, like white snow.
Looking at these toes, which were like works of art, Li Fan couldn't help but imagine the shape of her entire foot after taking off the shoe. It must be incredibly beautiful.
The Sand Village had constant sandstorms, with a storm every few days. Even the entire Land of Wind was a hellhole.
coupled with the scorching sun and rare cloudy days...
He didn't know how these female ninjas of the Sand Village managed to keep their skin so white in such a harsh natural environment.
After staring for a few more seconds, Li Fan finally reluctantly withdrew his gaze, nodded, and walked toward the door.
If this were back in modern times before his transmigration, Li Fan certainly wouldn't have dared to stare straight at a woman's body like this for a dozen seconds.
But ever since Li Fan transmigrated into the Naruto world, possessed a Golden Finger, and just convinced everyone at the meeting...
His personality began to undergo extremely subtle changes unknowingly.
That is, the hidden personality within his heart began to gradually reveal itself.
This change was currently very small; even he himself hadn't noticed it.
Pakura twisted her perky buttocks, taking elegant steps as she silently followed behind Li Fan, her face slightly flushed.
She had naturally noticed Li Fan's blatant visual scan of her body that lasted for a dozen seconds just now.
If it were anyone else doing this, the hot-tempered Pakura would have already attacked.
But facing her best friend Li Fan, who was also her only close male friend...
Let alone attacking, she couldn't even bear to scold him, fearing it would destroy this friendship.
Moreover, Pakura felt an inexplicable joy and happiness in her heart that she didn't quite understand herself.
When Yasha Lian saw Li Fan walk out the door, her eyes lit up immediately.
She wanted to speak, but then she saw Pakura following closely behind Li Fan.
Seeing this scene, Yasha Lian fell silent for a moment.
The light in her eyes dimmed slightly, but her gaze drifted uncontrollably toward Pakura beside Li Fan.
After just glancing at Pakura for a few seconds, Yasha Lian quickly withdrew her gaze, only to find her eyelids becoming heavier and heavier.
She smiled self-deprecatingly in her heart and finally canceled her thought of inviting Li Fan to her home as a guest.
Li Fan didn't know Yasha Lian's thoughts.
After greeting Yasha Lian as usual, he walked toward the stairs going down.
Pakura followed closely beside Li Fan.
As she passed Yasha Lian, she gave her a meaningful look.
Although Li Fan didn't notice it just now...
Pakura had clearly seen the complex look in this little female Chunin's eyes.
Yasha Lian quickly sensed Pakura's gaze.
The two women soon made eye contact, and both discovered the complex emotions in each other's eyes.
Soon, Yasha Lian avoided Pakura's gaze and turned her head to the side.
Seeing this, the smile lines on Pakura's beautiful face deepened, and she felt inexplicably happy.
Yasha Lian secretly clenched her pink fist. She looked down at her own figure, where she could see her white toes at a glance.
Her heart was filled with indignation. So what if you have a good figure? So what if you're a Jonin?
With my talent, I'll be a Jonin in a few years too.
Judging by my sister's figure, in a few years, my figure will be just as good as yours!
Minutes later, just as Li Fan walked downstairs and turned his head to say something to Pakura...
A rough male voice interrupted the words he hadn't yet had time to speak:
"Lord Li Fan, I would like to spar with you!"
Hearing this somewhat familiar male voice, Li Fan immediately turned his head to look at the speaker.
He found a muscular man in his forties with a short beard and a rugged appearance.
Li Fan's heart skipped a beat. He hadn't even had time to exchange for items to improve his combat power yet.
Why was someone coming to challenge him so quickly?
Li Fan naturally recognized the burly man speaking. It was the Aoki Jonin who had often taken the lead in the meeting just now.
He pondered internally, Strange. I didn't say anything to slap him in the face during the meeting.
Although there were indeed some words that might have offended him a little...
But mostly, I was calmly stating facts. It shouldn't be enough to warrant a challenge over such a small matter.
It's not like I have a taunt-able face.
At this moment, Li Fan was also in a state of confusion as a participant in the events.
The words he just said at the meeting naturally wouldn't have offended Jonin Aoki that much.
But Jonin Aoki wasn't challenging him because of that small matter either.
Pakura, who was only half an arm's length away from Li Fan, saw Jonin Aoki speak up to request a spar. From a bystander's perspective, she immediately understood what was going on.
Pakura looked around.
It was only past four in the afternoon. A large number of Sand ninjas were walking around the first floor of the office building, handling various affairs.
Li Fan, Pakura, and Aoki were all at the top of the Sand Village pyramid.
The three of them stopping outside the first floor of the office building, seeming to discuss something, naturally attracted the attention of many people.
After seeing the situation, some ninjas merely glanced a few times before burying their heads back into their work.
However, a small portion of ninjas quietly stopped what they were doing, pricked up their ears, and chose to watch.
Seeing this situation, Pakura glared at Jonin Aoki with dissatisfaction, her emerald-green eyes full of anger.