The genius of Naruto is a bit ordinary.

Xia Li leaned back in his chair, also thinking, why should he become stronger?

When he first came to this world, he was full of confusion. At that time, not only did he not think about becoming stronger, he didn't even think about living in this world.

Then Sinai slowly helped Xia Li find a reason to live, but for the sake of that strong mother, he could not die easily.

When he began to seriously consider how to survive in this dangerous world with all kinds of abilities and bloodlines running rampant, he came to the conclusion that he needed to become stronger and take his life into his own hands.

To this end, he not only worked very hard in training, but also was always thinking about how to report his performance to the Third Hokage.

After all, in a class like that, with Naruto and many descendants of families, it would be hard not to be noticed by the Third Generation as long as he performed far better than others.

Then he took advantage of the fact that the Third Hokage was old. He was no longer the ninja hero who dominated the ninja world. Old people would usually be reminded of the past when they saw things, and would make decisions that they would never make when they were young.

Not to mention the Sandaime Hokage, who had a soft personality to begin with.

He has a clean background and lacks resources for cultivation, but the talent he displays is far superior to any of the children from those families.

The fact that he could perform so well under such conditions of scarce training resources only proved that Xia Li's talent was by no means ordinary. With training, he could at least be an excellent jonin, and there was a high probability that he could even become a ninja like the Sannin.

Therefore, Xia Li also successfully attracted the attention and investment of the Third Hokage.

However, his plan at that time was still to replace Sakura and become a member of Team 7. After all, although he had thought about becoming a disciple of the Three Ninjas, that was really too ambitious.

Moreover, given the situation of the three ninjas at the time, Xia Li actually didn't think that they would return to the village to specifically accept him as their apprentice.

Therefore, if he wanted to obtain better resources, his target could only be Sakura, but plans could not keep up with changes, and he unexpectedly became Jiraiya's disciple.

Although it seems that Jiraiya did not teach Xia Li anything, this identity also made Xia Li's path less full of obstacles, and things that he could not do before could now be done openly.

Therefore, Xia Li never complained about Jiraiya's "partiality". After all, the most important thing for Xia Li was his identity as Jiraiya's apprentice.

Even if Jiraiya is willing to teach, Xia Li himself may not be willing to learn, as he has his own arrangements and plans!

After that, Xia Li's strength continued to grow, and now, with his strength, he no longer needs to worry about survival.

Even before those monsters came out, Xia Li was already the strongest in the ninja world. Only Naruto in the Fairy Fox mode could compete with Xia Li, but Xia Li still did not give up on becoming stronger.

It's not just because of the enemies in the future, but also a very important point is that this world has too few interesting toys to provide Xia Li.

To the extent that now Xia Li’s greatest pleasure is to feel his strength growing little by little.

After all, becoming stronger is a kind of pleasure for Xia Li.

Moreover, Xia Li also thought that if he could reach a strength that no one before him had ever reached, would he be able to gain the ability to travel through the world? In this way, he might be able to go back to his own world and take a look.

Even if there are countless worlds, it doesn’t matter if he can’t find his previous world. When that time comes, it will be fun to go to other worlds and play around.

As for worrying about future enemies, Xia Li is no longer worried now. Naruto has now reached the strongest state before Six Paths Naruto. Is there any chance that something could go wrong?

Even if Xia Li's plan did not succeed, it would not be worse than the ending of the original book, so Xia Li was completely relieved.

At this time, Xia Li slowly walked to the window and looked at the sky in the distance.

Sometimes he feels a little bored, so he has to find something interesting to do.

Just at this moment, Nara Shikaku walked in with a scroll, and Xia Li returned to his seat again.

"What happened again?" Xia Li asked and took the scroll from Nara Shikaku's hand.

"Hokage, it's a request from the Sand Village. A rebel ninja named Baizu has appeared in the Sand Village. Now the Sand Village is also hunting him down, but unfortunately he hides every time." Nara Shikaku gave a brief explanation.

"So, the Sand Ninjas want to ask us to help them capture the rebellious ninjas in the name of alliance?" Xia Li asked.

"Yes." Nara Shikaku nodded.

"Just charge the other party according to the standard level." Xia Li said casually. Even if they were allies, it was impossible to help the other party for free.

"Yes." Nara Shikaku responded, and then he arranged for someone to handle it. All matters such as arranging ninjas, as long as they were not high-level tasks, were handed over to Xia Li.

At this moment, Xia Li paused, because he saw the details on the scroll. The other party disappeared in the destroyed country of Loulan?

Suddenly, Xia Li narrowed his eyes, and his heart was filled with turmoil.

"Wait a minute!" Xia Li called out to Nara Shikaku.

"Is there anything else you need me to do, Lord Hokage?" Nara Shikaku was a little surprised. In his opinion, this was just an ordinary task.

If this mission was not a request from the allied Sand Village, then Nara Shikaku might not have reported the matter to the Hokage.

"Loulan, have you heard of this place?" Xia Li asked at this time.

After thinking for a while, Nara Shikaku said, "Of course I have heard of it. It was famous for having a dragon vein there before, but it seems that the power of the dragon vein has disappeared since a certain moment.

I remember that Konoha had a mission related to Loulan before, and those who went to Loulan to carry out the mission at that time included Akimichi Choza, Aburame Shiwei, and the Fourth Hokage who had not yet become the Fourth Hokage. "

Xia Li nodded, then stood up and walked towards the archives room.

Although Nara Shikaku didn't quite understand why Xia Li suddenly became interested in Loulan, he didn't ask any more questions and followed Xia Li into the archives room.

Soon, Xia Li found the mission scroll left by the Fourth Hokage, which recorded the situation at that time.

"It's true..." Xia Li took the scroll, dusted it off, and then opened it.

Soon, Xia Li finished reading the mission records above. As expected, there was nothing special about it, and there was no mention of any people from the future.

Xia Li couldn't help but rub his temples at this time. He originally thought that there was no such task, but now it seems that it is not that there is no such task, but that something really happened in the process that he did not expect.

Otherwise, with Xia Li's personality, he would definitely take on this mission and leave traces that he could discover now.

However, until now Xia Li has not found any traces from the past, which is why Xia Li believes that there is no such task.

Xia Li narrowed his eyes. No matter what, he would join this mission, try to go back to the past, and even more so, try to see if he could change the past.

Because, how can such an interesting thing be without him?

After Xia Li returned to the office, he began to think about who to assign. He remembered that in the original book, this mission was probably carried out by Team 7, right?

In the original work, Team 7 at this time should be Yamato, Naruto, Sakura and Sai.

The arrangement in the original work is not suitable here, after all, Tenzo Sai and Naruto and Sakura are not familiar with each other.

As for Sai, Xia Li had also heard Tian Zang's report and slowly began to recover his human emotions, though he behaved a little strangely sometimes.

But Xia Li felt that Tianzang had no right to criticize Sai, because he himself was actually the same. He could only say that it was all Danzang's fault, for torturing such a good boy into this state.

Among them, Sai and Tenzo are probably the ones with the least serious cases...

After thinking for a while, Xia Li said, "Let Kakashi lead this mission, and the team members are Naruto and Sakura."

In fact, Xia Li also wanted to add Sasuke, but Sasuke probably has no time to complete the mission recently. His eyes have not recovered yet, and he is still practicing the Sage Mode.

Therefore, Xia Li could only remove Sasuke from the list.

Nara Shikaku was a little surprised. Looking at Xia Li, he couldn't help but ask, "Hokage-sama, isn't it a bit of a waste of Naruto's talent to send him out on this mission?"

After all, Nara Shikaku knows Naruto's current strength. Is this mission so difficult? Does it require Naruto to go out?

"Well, a little bit. Then tell Naruto when notifying him that he is not allowed to use the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox at will unless he encounters an emergency." Xia Li said after thinking for a while.

Nara Shikaku was a little speechless. After making sure that Xia Li was not joking, he had no choice but to leave.

Nara Shikaku was also thinking, there must be a reason why Xia Li did this?

Soon, this task was arranged by Nara Shikaku, and Nara Shikaku also told Naruto the requirements of the task as instructed by Xia Li.

Naruto immediately understood after hearing this. Was this to train his taijutsu? He agreed without thinking too much.

After Naruto and the other two set off, Xia Li's real body quietly followed. Before Naruto entered the fairy fox mode, he naturally could not find Xia Li.

A day or two later, Kakashi led Naruto and Sakura to Loulan, but the exact location of the centipede still needed to be explored.

Xia Li, who was following behind them, sensed a subtle chakra fluctuation and couldn't help but look around. They were all the unique puppet techniques of the Sand Ninjas, and the chakra that Xia Li sensed was naturally the chakra lines needed to control these puppets.

It seems that Kakashi and Sakura have noticed something, but...

Xia Li couldn't help but cover his head as he looked at Naruto walking carelessly in front of him. Suddenly, he thought, is it really a good idea to let the current Naruto master such a powerful ability as the Fairy Fox Mode?

Obviously, Naruto's experience is totally incompatible with his current strength...

Xia Li thought about it for a while and decided that he still had to assign a task to Kakashi, which was to watch Naruto accept the task.

What Naruto needs to do is to complete a lot of tasks without using the Senhu Mode to increase his experience, but in order to prevent Naruto from being used, Kakashi has to watch in secret.

Otherwise, in Xia Li's opinion, Naruto is now like a child holding a Desert Eagle, with the power to pull the trigger, but it is possible to hurt himself and his companions...

In order to avoid this, Naruto must continue to grow.

Xia Li rubbed his forehead. This was the difference between Naruto and Sasuke. If it were Sasuke, Xia Li wouldn't have to worry about these things.

Soon, the Centipede also attacked Kakashi and the other two.

Kakashi performed as well as usual, but he seemed to understand Xia Li's meaning and wanted to give experience to Naruto and Sakura, so he did not take any action.

Sakura's performance was also outstanding. She quickly realized that those were puppets of the Sand Village, and she had deliberately brought the Chakra sword with her when she learned about the mission.

It is a weapon that can assist ninjas in using chakra to condense it into the sword and can easily cut off the chakra lines.

Compared to Sakura, Naruto has much less experience. After all, Naruto had been protected too well before. Although he was very powerful, he didn't know how to use it. Facing these puppets in front of him, he chose to rush forward and fight them head-on.

The result is predictable. Naruto feels pain, but the puppet does not. Even if it is smashed, as long as the key parts are not damaged, it can still move and launch an attack...

In the end, Naruto was 'saved' by Kakashi.

At this time, Kakashi also roughly saw Naruto's problem, and he also understood more and more why Xia Li made such arrangements.

As for Kakashi's idea, Xia Li could only say that it was probably just a coincidence, and it just happened to hit upon what Naruto was lacking the most right now.

At this moment Kakashi suddenly rolled his eyes, because he suddenly had a premonition that Xia Li, who now knew Naruto's shortcomings, would probably find ways to make up for Naruto's shortcomings.

As Naruto's instructor, Kakashi felt that the task of helping Naruto make up for his shortcomings would most likely be given to him...

This gave Kakashi a headache. After all, Naruto was really torturous in this regard, even worse than Sakura.

Even so, even though Naruto had the power to easily kill the Centipede, the Centipede still escaped to the ruins of Loulan, and the other party also found the sealed place of the dragon vein.

"That is... the teacher's Flying Thunder God Kunai!" Kakashi also shrank his eyes at this time, and finally remembered what happened in Loulan. He had been here to complete a mission before!

Kakashi frowned, he thought that a centipede didn't have the ability to remove the seal of his teacher, but nothing is absolute, so Kakashi just shouted directly.

"Naruto, Sakura, stop him from breaking the seal!"

"Hehe, it's too late, the legendary copy ninja Kakashi." At this time, Baizu had already placed one hand on the Flying Thunder God Kunai of the Fourth Hokage.

"You don't have the ability to remove the teacher's seal." Kakashi said directly.

"Indeed, I do not have the ability to remove the seal of the Fourth Hokage, but I have never wanted to remove his seal!" Baizu laughed, and then a large number of spells suddenly appeared on his body.

"This is... not good, Naruto, retreat!" Kakashi shouted at this time, because Naruto was the fastest and closest to the Centipede.

However, it was too late for Kakashi to call Naruto. A strong white light suddenly emerged from the centipede's body, and this light quickly spread around and soon enveloped Naruto.

At this time, Naruto also quickly used the Fairy Fox Mode, but what surprised Naruto was that this white light seemed... not to be harmful.

"Naruto!!" Kakashi frowned at this moment, and without hesitation, he rushed directly into the light.

Finally, Sakura looked at the constantly breaking road, and like Kakashi, she did not hesitate and rushed into the light.

What they didn't notice was that above the light, a figure quietly entered the light in the first moment.

After Xia Li entered the light, he had a strange feeling. The feeling seemed a bit similar to the fight with Otsutsuki Urashiki. Is this... the fluctuation of time?

Xia Li was thinking and slowly opened his eyes. What he saw was a wonderful space. Is this space a space that allows people to travel through time and space?

At this moment, Xia Li seemed to vaguely sense a familiar breath, and around this familiar breath there seemed to be the mark of the Flying Thunder God.

Xia Li felt that he seemed to be able to use Flying Thunder God with this mark.

However, Xia Li didn't know what the result would be if he used Flying Thunder God in this space.

If he didn't use Flying Thunder God, the final result would probably be that he and Naruto or Centipede arrived at the same time.

However, it is obvious that using Flying Thunder God might be... more interesting.

Because unknown challenges are interesting. Even if he goes back to the past with Naruto, that is still a known thing. Although Xia Li is also looking forward to changing something, nothing new and unknown is more interesting.

So, after hesitating for a while, Xia Li's chakra suddenly burst out, grasped that feeling, and used Flying Thunder God.

During the use, Xia Li was also very surprised, because this was the Flying Thunder God that consumed the most chakra in his life. His current chakra amount was not comparable to the Nine-Tails, but he could still be comparable to the Eight-Tails.

Even so, his chakra was almost not enough, which shows how terrible the consumption of Flying Thunder God was this time.

But because of this, Xia Li also became a little excited, nervous and excited.

The next moment, Xia Li's figure disappeared in this special space.