Naruto: Becoming Stronger by Pampering Your Sister

After placing Xiao Li in a safe place, he immediately ran towards Sasuke's direction. In his eyes, Shi Li had been beaten almost to a pulp by Naruto and Sasuke.

One used verbal sparring, the other feigned innocence; every word they uttered seemed designed to find a flaw in Shi Li's character. Most importantly, their eyes were glued to each other the entire time, completely ignoring Shi Li.

Shi Li cursed inwardly, "Doesn't he have any pride?"

"hateful!"

Shi Li raised his right hand, which could turn people to stone, and forcefully poured a large amount of chakra into it, laughing wildly: "I'm going to turn you all into my specimens."

But at that moment, a white light flashed to his side, and with a hiss, blood spurted out and splashed high into the air. His right arm was severed and slowly fell to the ground.

At the same time, his right arm, which he had finally managed to activate, dimmed as a result.

"Ahhh!"

After a brief moment of stunned silence, Shi Li immediately clutched his severed arm and howled in pain, a truly pitiful and tragic scene.

"My hand, my..."

Shi Li's howling stopped abruptly, a large amount of thick blood spilled from his mouth, his body trembled, and after struggling a few times, he fell into a pool of blood with his eyes wide open in anger.

"What happened?" Naruto stared blankly at the scene, completely bewildered.

Sasuke glanced indifferently at the stone's physical form and said, seemingly to something else, "Orochimaru wants him."

"Heh, he didn't say he wanted it alive. Besides, all he wanted was that arm." Neji appeared in front of Shi Li in an instant and said coldly.

"So dirty."

Neji poured water on the bloody severed arm on the ground, then took out a white cloth, wrapped it up, and held it in his hand.

"Although your strength is still the same, your vision seems to have broadened." Neji turned to look at Sasuke and said calmly.

"I am a genius of the Uchiha clan." Upon hearing Neji's words, Sasuke's face turned from green to white, and he said matter-of-factly.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, he was greeted by a crystalline fist that grew larger and larger in his pupils.

boom!

Neji punched Sasuke in the stomach, knocking him to the ground, and then said to Naruto, "We have other things to do, you guys handle this mess yourselves."

"Wait! What does Orochimaru want this arm for?" Naruto asked.

"I don't know about that," Neji replied, then picked up Sasuke, who had fainted on the ground, and disappeared.

Inside the palace, Tayuya, Hinata, and Sakura were still arguing fiercely when Neji suddenly appeared before them, dragging Sasuke along.

"Tayuya, it's time to go." Neji tried his best to keep his tone calm, otherwise he wasn't sure if he could leave today if the three women continued to pester him.

"Oh."

Tayu also obediently listened to Neji's words, lowered her pretty face, and skipped over to Neji, looking like a girl next door. She lowered her head, as if waiting for Neji's caress and praise.

"Damn it!" Neji thought to himself, cursing as he felt his scalp tingling, as if it were about to explode. Without a doubt, Tayuya was doing it on purpose, just to humiliate him.

At this moment, Hinata and Sakura's eyes were glowing green, radiating an extremely dangerous aura. The powder keg had reached its limit and felt like it was about to explode.

Without hesitation, Neji brought down four fingers, even more forcefully than before, and slammed them down heavily on Tayuya's head.

"Ah!" Tayuya opened her eyes wide, looking pitiful, but Neji didn't buy it at all. Who told you to try to harm me?

Honestly, there are always treacherous subjects trying to harm me.

"Neji-nii, aren't you going back?" Hinata blinked her big eyes, crossed her arms in front of her chest, looking both expectant and nervous.

Sakura wanted to try to persuade her, but she knew what Neji was thinking. Besides, Hinata was clearly more qualified to ask Neji than she was. She felt a pang of jealousy, but there was nothing she could do.

"Ah." Neji nodded, and after a brief farewell, he left with Tayuya and Sasuke.

At the port, Sasuke slowly woke up. The first thing he did was look at Neji. Three tomoe slowly flowed in his blood-red eyes as he glared angrily at Neji.

"Three tomoe?" Neji asked in surprise. Wasn't it just one tomoe before?

Unbeknownst to him, when Sasuke and Naruto joined forces to fight Ishidate, he inexplicably activated his two-tomoe form, and was subsequently knocked down by Ishidate with a single punch. This caused Sasuke's pent-up resentment towards Neji to erupt all at once, leading him to activate his three-tomoe form.

A moment later, Sasuke's eyes returned to normal. He knew very well that even if he activated the Three Tomoe technique, he still couldn't defeat Neji.

Therefore, he didn't feel much joy; this power was still too weak.

Neji withdrew his gaze, sneering inwardly. He was glad Neji had some sense; otherwise, he would have received a severe beating.

A few days later, they returned to the Land of Rice Fields. They did not attempt to cross the Land of Hot Water again. Neji did not want to continue fighting the Jashin Cult to the death. Therefore, they chose the relatively slower but safest way to travel—by sea.

Inside Orochimaru's base, Neji threw Ishitaka's severed arm out.

Kabuto was startled and quickly ran to hug the severed arm. At the same time, she glared angrily at Neji. Only after confirming that the arm was alright did she hand it over to Orochimaru with peace of mind.

This made Neji chuckle to himself. It was just a severed arm, yet he treated it like a treasure. It was ridiculous. If it would break if dropped, Shi Li would never have been hired by someone at such a high price.

"Orochimaru, remember what you said," Neji urged, his voice cold. Orochimaru hadn't given any indication of his intentions. If Orochimaru was lying to him, he wouldn't mind sending Orochimaru back to his old home in the West, though he wasn't entirely sure.

"Hehe, Kabuto." Orochimaru spoke, gesturing for Kabuto to take out the scrolls from a hidden panel under the experimental table and hand them to Neji.

Neji glanced at the scroll, took it, and asked again, "What about the other reward?"

Orochimaru suddenly burst into laughter. He licked his lips and said to Neji, "She's already waiting for you."

Chapter 116 Red Lotus, I Don't Trust You

After Neji left, Kabuto came to Orochimaru, looked at the severed arm in Orochimaru's hand, and was very puzzled.

"Kabuto, are you trying to ask me what use such a severed arm is?" Orochimaru carefully examined the severed arm in his hand, as if it were a treasure.

"Yes." Kabuto was puzzled. To pay such a price for Neji to accomplish something so insignificant seemed unlike Lord Orochimaru's style.

"Heh heh, Kabuto, you'll find out soon enough." Orochimaru placed the severed arm on the lab table, his expression extremely cold, and his smile was eerily sinister.

"I must obtain the secret of the White Eye!"

Then, Orochimaru picked up a bottle of unknown liquid from the lab table and injected it into Ishitate's severed arm. Instantly, fine lines reappeared on the severed arm, centered on the large eye on the back of the hand.

……

Meanwhile, Neji had already returned to his room. Looking at the person kneeling on the ground, a smile appeared on Neji's face.

"Orochimaru told you, right?" Neji approached her, looking at the only ninja in the Naruto series who could use Crystal Release, and couldn't help but feel a little excited.

Yes, kneeling before him was none other than Orochimaru's most capable henchman—Guren.

Honglian lowered her head and said respectfully, "Yes, from today onwards, I will completely obey your orders."

This is why Neji agreed to help Orochimaru bring back the severed arm of Ishidate. Orochimaru stated in the scroll that he would give the Crimson Lotus to Neji.

"Although I don't know what Orochimaru is up to, what he's doing is exactly what I want," Neji thought to himself. Guren's Crystal Release is extremely powerful; although it fears sound waves, it is still a very terrifying ability.

If he interacts with Honglian more, he can also master this ability and improve his strength.

"Orochimaru, thank you so much." Neji chuckled inwardly. Orochimaru was really trying to improve his abilities; what a kind person.

If Orochimaru knew Neji's thoughts, he would be furious enough to vomit blood. In Orochimaru's eyes, Neji is a lecherous person, just like Jiraiya. That's why he used Guren as a bargaining chip to get Neji to do things for him.

However, he didn't expect the existence of such a system; Neji only cared about Crystal Release.

"Hehe." Neji's lips curled up, and he suddenly attacked. Two large pythons suddenly emerged from beside Honglian's feet and opened their mouths to bite her.

Honglian's heart tightened, and without thinking, she immediately used her Crystal Release to create a crescent-shaped blade and slashed at the two giant pythons. But at that moment, Neji's palm suddenly entered her body, and then she gradually lost consciousness.

"The Psychic Orb is really convenient." Neji's hand emerged from Guren's body, but he left the Psychic Orb behind.

Guren only pledges allegiance to Orochimaru because she is following his orders. Therefore, in addition to obeying Neji's orders and completing tasks without affecting Orochimaru's interests, she also has to keep an eye on Neji for Orochimaru at all times.

How could Neji possibly trust someone like that?

"Only when she is completely obedient to me can I feel at ease," Neji murmured, his expression indifferent. You see, he had many secrets.

"Orochimaru, you've shot yourself in the foot." Neji smiled slightly and asked, "Right, Guren?"

“Yes!” Guren’s eyes were empty, completely devoid of self-awareness, which was exactly what Neji wanted.

"The host fought against the Crimson Lotus and received the reward [Crystal Escape: Crystal Pentagon Prison]."

Crystal Escape: Crystal Pentagonal Prison: It transforms into a large, three-dimensional pentagonal prism crystal, and any creature encased within the crystal will break as the crystal breaks.

As expected of Crystal Release, it's a very powerful ability.

Neji's eyes lit up, but he didn't do anything out of line; he simply had Guren stay to the side.

Although he now controls Guren, and under these conditions he could quickly obtain Crystal Release, Neji doesn't want to do that.

After settling Guren, Neji took out the Grell Stone, which he hadn't finished studying yet, and examined it again. Although it was just a small stone, it still gave Neji a headache.

How do you use this collection of chakra?

Tailed beasts can directly give Jinchūriki their chakra, but the Grell Stone has no life, and he cannot absorb its chakra through conventional means.

So what should be done? Should people like the Otsutsuki clan or the Moryo simply swallow it and obtain chakra from outside their bodies?

Neji lowered his head, glanced at the Grell Stone in his hand, and immediately dismissed the idea. It was too unrealistic; he didn't want to die young.

"What a pity about that book; I forgot to bring it with me." Neji was a little annoyed, but he couldn't find it now.

Although Neji's speculation was that the book only recorded some of the uses of the Grell Stone, since none of them knew the true nature of the Grell Stone, having the book as a guide was still better than him trying to figure it out on his own.

"Should we try to learn from Timothy and the others and embed the Grell Stone in our chests?" Neji looked at the Grell Stone in his hand and fell into deep thought.

“No, perhaps I should try the power of technology.” His eyes gleamed.

"Honglian, I'm leaving this to you."

Immediately afterwards, a vortex appeared around Neji, carrying him away from there. Before leaving, he gave Guren a deep look, a sinister smile appearing on his lips.

"ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss"

After he left, a small white snake slowly emerged from Honglian's robes, cautiously glanced around, and then immediately began to slither towards the door.

But just as it was about ten feet away from the door, a slightly larger green snake slithered out from the side and swallowed it whole.

At the same time, a simple mural in the room suddenly burst out with white smoke, and finally, it transformed into Neji's appearance.

"Orochimaru, you really can't let your guard down at any time. He's really troublesome." Neji beckoned, and the green snake crawled over and wrapped around his hand.

"I hope everything goes well for the main body."

Not long after, on a snow-covered land, a vortex emerged from the void, and Neji emerged from a black dot-shaped spatial rift, twisting and contorting.

"If I knew the Flying Thunder God Technique, I wouldn't have to go through all this trouble," Neji sighed. While Hollowfication was powerful, the distance he could teleport to each time couldn't be too far, let alone to the Land of Rice Fields and the Land of Snow.