Chapter 771: A Frail Soul

On Hokage Rock.

"Dog System, you have let me down so much."

Lian Ye is very upset about the Heavenly Curtain privately playing the footage.

If Qianshou Feijian in this timeline learns about the Second Personality early, even slight vigilance would stop the Second Personality from emerging.

Wouldn't he in this timeline then be unable to awaken the Kaleidoscope Sharingan without pain?

That feeling of waking up after a nap to discover one's eyes have opened.

It's truly beyond words how satisfying it is!

【Dog Host, it's just an ordinary timeline, what are you so concerned about?】

It has found in the host's memories that the other has frequently used dragon veins to traverse and cause mischief.

After each wrongdoing, they soothe themselves by employing parallel timelines.

Lian Ye: "……"

Fine, having something to chatter with isn't bad.

After all, those who once kept him company are all gone.

"Tsk, I kind of miss Tuan Tuan."

As the words faded, his silhouette disappeared from Hokage Rock as if he had never appeared.

Qianshou Feijian Residence.

"Tuan Cang, come over to my place again tomorrow at noon for fun!"

Lian Ye stands at the doorway, warmly seeing his friend depart.

"Alright."

Zhi Cun Tuan Zang nods at the scene.

He originally planned to leave the village for a mission, but set it aside due to the Heavenly Curtain.

Moreover, with his friend's invitation, there is naturally no reason to decline.

He'll arrive a bit early at noon and conveniently grab lunch.

One should know Lian Ye's cooking is superb.

Usually, aside from Teacher Feijian, few get to feast.

Zhi Cun Tuan Zang leaves the Senju Clan Land and instinctively looks back.

He always feels a pair of eyes watching him from behind.

But when he looks back, he finds nothing abnormal.

This feeling is truly strange.

Lian Ye hides in the shadows, watching Zhi Cun Tuan Zang's back and sighs silently.

He almost couldn't resist appearing before Tuan Cang a moment ago.

Since Tuan Tuan left, he hasn't even had anyone to talk to.

Seeing the young Tuan Cang now, it would be false to say his heart isn't stirred.

But he knows this isn't his timeline, and the Tuan Cang before him isn't the Tuan Tuan he knows.

Although Lian Ye misses his good brother dearly, he wouldn't look for a replacement...

If he hadn't almost manifested just now, Zhi Cun Tuan Zang wouldn't have sensed anything abnormal.

Lian Ye continues to hide in the dark, seeing Zhi Cun Tuan Zang off as he returns home.

He stands at the doorway for a while, then his figure silently vanishes.

When he reappears, he is already on Hokage Rock.

"Time really flies!"

Lian Ye looks at Konoha Village below, his eyes filled with emotion.

In a few decades, the village will undergo earth-shattering changes.

【Host, are you bored?】

The system's voice suddenly comes through.

【I found something interesting deep in your soul; I think you'll be interested...】

"What is it?"

Lian Ye's face shows surprise.

The system says there is something in his soul's depths, but what could that be?

The system doesn't answer immediately, hesitates a moment before speaking slowly.

【A frail soul.】

At those words, Lian Ye's eyes widen sharply, "A frail soul?!"

He probably guessed whose soul the system referred to.

If nothing unexpected, it's the Second Personality that Qianshou Feijian eliminated.

More precisely, it's the original owner of this body!

The true Yuzhi Bo Lianye!

With the system's help, Lian Ye enters the mental space.

His mental space contains nothing; looking around, all he sees is blankness.

There is no sense of direction; everything is a white haze.

【Come with me.】

In the mental space, the system becomes a blue orb of light, guiding his way ahead.

Lian Ye saw the situation and immediately followed.

The System floated ahead, and he followed behind.

In this way, after an unknown amount of time, a small black dot suddenly appeared in the white, boundless space.

Because it was too far to see what it was, but the black dot was unusually conspicuous in the white space!

Lian Ye immediately quickened his pace.

Before long, he arrived at the spot where the black dot was.

He saw a twenty‑something‑year‑old youth, Lian Ye, floating face‑up, eyes tightly shut, his chest gently rising and falling with his breath.

"System, what is his condition?"

Lian Ye looked at his younger self and for a moment could not figure out the situation.

【His soul has suffered severe damage; without external factors, he cannot awaken.】

Qianshou Feijian had once eradicated him, but fortunately he was not completely killed.

Only the soul was severely damaged.

Yet at this moment his state is no different from death.

According to the System's explanation, a shattered soul normally cannot be repaired.

If no external aid is provided, he will remain in a perpetual coma.

Until Lian Ye dies and then dissipates…

"System, is there any way to cure him?"

He really wants to know what happened to the Original Body.

After the Second Personality was "eradicated" by Qianshou Feijian back then, he inherited the Second Personality's memories of the experiment.

As for anything else, he knows nothing at all.

Afterwards he asked Qianshou Feijian, who said he also did not know the reason.

The matter was left unresolved.

The Second Personality seemed to have no malice toward him, and after occupying the body it did nothing out of line.

If possible, he wants to cure it.

【Of course it can.】

The System has a huge amount of shock value on Ninja World natives, and taking a portion to heal a shattered soul is very easy.

It took advantage of the dog host's inattention and silently siphoned off more than half of the shock value onto its account.

Lian Ye saw this but showed no reaction.

Even the System was stunned.

It was the first time it saw such a desire‑less host; with previous hosts it only deducted a few "hundreds of millions of points", and the other would curse as if their mother had died.

In contrast, Lian Ye, upon seeing it, had no reaction.

In fact, he truly felt nothing.

The System is optional to him; when it should have arrived, it didn't.

Now that it has arrived, it truly is useless.

In Lian Ye's view, the System's only function is to keep him company in conversation.

Now it has another use: to heal the Original Body's shattered soul…

【Host, don't you have anything you want to tell me?】

The System asked cautiously.

Perhaps out of insecurity, it no longer prefixes "Host" before the word.

It was scolded a lot before; now not being scolded feels a bit unfamiliar.

"What are you saying?"

Lian Ye stared at his younger self in front of him, his face showing no anger at all.

"If you're idle, just help me cure him."

【No problem!】

A blue aura appeared on the young Lian Ye without any warning.

As time passed, the long‑comatose Yuzhi Bo Lianye's fingertip twitched slightly.

Immediately after, his eyelid quivered, as if he could open his eyes at any moment.

Lian Ye was not anxious about this; he quietly waited for the other to awaken.

Soon, the comatose Yuzhi Bo Lianye opened his eyes.

Staring at the pale space, he was momentarily unable to react.

His memory remained at the moment he was defeated by Qianshou Feijian…