Naruto: Traveling Through Time Starting with Seizing the Dragon Vein

[Mission Requirements: Please go to the swings at the Konoha Ninja Academy training ground at 17:00 this evening. You are required to express extreme loneliness, desolation, and a sadness of longing for friends yet being ostracized.]

[Task Reward: 1000-2000 Contribution Points (based on role-playing performance)]

"One to two thousand contribution points?"

Matt Kay's eyes nearly popped out of his head. "I only get 20 points for throwing a thousand punches, and this kid can get a thousand or two thousand just by sitting there and spacing out?"

Not only Naruto, but also the very next second after this golden mission popped up.

Sasuke, Shikamaru, Choji, many children, and even a few Konoha commoner aunties and Chunin uncles who happened to be passing by in the hall all had their system panels simultaneously ring with a "ding"!

[Triggering the Extras' Coordination Mission: The Indifferent Bystander]

[Mission Requirements: Please go to the Ninja Academy training ground at 17:00 this evening. When you pass by Naruto Uzumaki sitting on the swing, be sure to give him a look of disgust, loathing, or even fear. And in a low voice (make sure he can hear you), say the lines: "Look, that's that little fox demon brat," and "Don't go near him, it'll bring bad luck."]

[Task Reward: 1000 Contribution Points!]

The hall fell silent for a moment.

Several older women from Konoha stared at the rewards on the panel, their eyes instantly turning green with envy!

1000 contribution points!

That's almost two months' worth of living expenses for a single family in the ninja world.

"Oh! I'll take this job! It's just rolling your eyes and swearing, right? I was a pro at arguing in the market back in the day!"

"Let's go together! I'm going home now to process my feelings of disgust!"

Kakashi's dead fish eyes twitched wildly as he watched the villagers instantly transform into fanatical veteran actors.

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It was 17:00 PM.

In the real world, on the playground of the Konoha Ninja Academy.

The setting sun, as red as blood, cast long shadows of the trees on the playground.

A gentle breeze blew by, and the wooden swing with its ropes creaked and groaned.

Four-year-old Naruto was sitting alone on the swing, wearing his orange outfit.

He gripped the rope with both small hands, head down, his legs dangling helplessly in mid-air.

According to the script, he should be very sad right now.

But... Naruto held back for a long time, but he just couldn't cry.

He had a big meal cooked by his mom Kushina last night, and today his dad Minato made him ride a horse...

"No way, 2000 contribution points can buy that latest chakra hoverboard... I have to cry!"

Naruto bit his lip hard, frantically recalling the most tragic thing in his life.

"Ramen... Yes! Imagine if Ichiraku Ramen went out of business, I'd never be able to eat a big bowl of chashu ramen again in my life!"

Thinking of this, Naruto's nose suddenly stung, and tears finally streamed down his face.

"Action!" (Action!)

Under the shade of trees in the distance, several Konoha aunties and Chunin uncles who had received their missions exchanged glances, took a deep breath, and began to enter.

They deliberately walked past the swing in groups.

“Look at that child…” an older woman said with a look of disgust.

"Shh! Keep your voice down!" The middle-aged man next to Naruto glared at him fiercely. "That's the incarnation of the Nine-Tailed Fox! Hurry up and leave, don't get tainted by bad luck!"

Not far away, Uchiha Sasuke stood with his hands in his pockets, leaning against a large tree as required by the script.

He turned his head slightly, glanced at Naruto on the swing with a cold look out of the corner of his eye, snorted, and turned to leave.

"Squeak... squeak..."

Under the setting sun, a lonely swing, indifferent villagers, and a forlorn blond orphan.

It was like a fleeting moment in fate.

Chapter 264 "Corrective Force" Strength Test

"Ding!"

[SSS-level personal performance mission: The Lonely Swing, completed!]

[Extras' cooperation task completed!]

This was accompanied by an electronic notification sound that rang simultaneously in everyone's mind.

The atmosphere that was quite sad a second ago shattered completely in the next second with a "snap"!

"Unfortunately, only 1,200 points were credited..."

Naruto muttered to himself, looking sullen.

In his opinion, he had performed so well just now, and even shed tears. He should have been able to reach the 2000-point cap!

Could it be because when I was crying just now, I was thinking about Ichiraku Ramen going out of business, and the system deducted points from my "emotional purity" score?

Upon hearing this from a distance, Uchiha Sasuke put his hands in his pockets, his lips curling into an uncontrollable, wild grin.

"Hey Naruto, my extra mission's limit is 1000 to 1500 points, and I got 1250! Your main character mission only got a barely passing score? You're not very good, your acting is terrible."

"Bullshit! I acted so convincingly!"

Naruto instantly bristled like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, jumping off the swing: "Your turn and cold snort just now were as stiff as a piece of wood! Only the system was blind to give you so many points!"

"That's still better than you, you idiot whose mind is filled with nothing but ramen!"

As the two little ones argued face to face as usual, the villagers who had just "bullied" Naruto all showed loving, aunt-like smiles.

However, this playground, filled with a joyful and cheerful atmosphere, was in turmoil.

Above the clouds, thousands of meters high.

Uchiha Yue crossed his arms and quietly looked down at the farce unfolding below.

"Corrective force..."

Uchiha Yue murmured softly to himself.

He recalled the "Nine-Tailed Night" from a few years ago.

At that time, although he possessed the Mangekyou Sharingan, his overall strength was only at the Kage level.

When he tried to forcibly tear chakra from the Nine-Tails and slightly change the ownership of the "item of destiny", how terrifying was the counterattack of the corrective force that he provoked?

The nine-tailed fox tail that defied the laws of physics and lashed directly at his head forced him to voluntarily relinquish his chakra in order to barely quell the world's malice.

Faced with the corrective force at that time, all he could do was "obey" and "exploit the bug".

But now, everything is different.

Uchiha Yue clenched his fist slightly.

He has unlocked the perfect version of the [Yangxian Mode].

In addition, there's the Chakra Network, which serves as the "battery" for tens of millions of people throughout the ninja world.

Even among the Otsutsuki clan who consumed the fruit of the Divine Tree, he would definitely be among the top-tier powerhouses!

Otsutsuki Isshiki would probably be instantly defeated by him.

Just how strong he is, even he himself cannot accurately assess.

Furthermore, because he has been using the dragon vein to travel through time and space over the past few years, he has forcibly changed the course of many parallel universes, causing those worlds that have lost their core logic to completely collapse.

Consequently, the corrective force inevitably concentrated entirely within this main spacetime!

The oppressive force of the corrective power became extremely strong, but as a result, it became increasingly easy to perceive and capture!

That little 'personal performance' just now was Yue's test of her corrective power.

In the original story's timeline, Sasuke Uchiha was not actually present in the classic scene where Naruto sat alone on the swing, isolated from the world.

But today, Yue forced Sasuke to appear here as an "extras" through the mission system, and even arranged for him to roll his eyes at Naruto.

This is an extremely minor alteration of "fate"!

Due to the increased corrective force, the corrective force reacts quickly.

When it detected that Sasuke, the "key NPC," was about to appear in a place where he shouldn't be, it immediately took action.

Just as Sasuke was on his way to the Ninja Academy training ground, the exterior wall of a dilapidated building suddenly collapsed, crashing into Sasuke's path in an attempt to stop him and correct this plot error.

Meanwhile, Uchiha Yue used [Ten no Naka no Su] high in the sky to knock away the billboard and forcibly escort Sasuke to the film set.

Just as Yue forcefully stopped the "unexpected arrangement" of the corrective force.

He clearly felt an invisible resistance crashing into his gravitational field from a distance!

Although that power was formless and intangible, the impact it unleashed in an instant was absolutely equivalent to the full force of a Kage-level expert's attack!

"boom--"

Ultimately, this invisible force was easily blocked and crushed by Uchiha Yue's immense ocular power.

Then there is no more then.

There was no spacetime storm, nor did it trigger a higher-level divine punishment to annihilate them.

The sky remained blue, and Naruto and Sasuke below continued their bickering.

Perhaps the underlying logic of the corrective force believes that this minor alteration of fate is not enough to affect the direction of the core plot in the future;

Or perhaps, at these non-lethal mission points, the corrective force is programmed to use only so much power.

In short, this minor change in fate only required the intervention of Kage-level energy.

"I really want to know, if the core script is completely torn apart, just how strong will this corrective force be at its full extent?" Yue stroked her chin, her eyes filled with curiosity.

But soon, his rationality suppressed this fervor.

"However, let's take it one step at a time." Yue chuckled, gathering the golden chakra into her body. "I can't be too reckless before I've used up all my trump cards. What if... the power of the corrective force is even stronger than I am now?"

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