Chapter 636: Moon-Moon Pokémon Hatching

After sending the intelligence back to Konoha, Muzuki set up camp with his troops nearby, awaiting a reply from the higher-ups.

Dealing with so many prisoners was no small problem.

“Teacher Muzuki, are you free now?” Obito asked, walking to Muzuki’s tent.

“Yes, come in,” Muzuki’s voice came from inside the tent.

Only after receiving permission did Obito enter Muzuki’s tent.

As he approached, Obito realized Muzuki was holding a scroll, seemingly reading something.

Obito’s eyesight was good, and he vaguely made out a few words, something like “Izanagi”?

He didn’t pay too much attention to the scroll’s content, scratching his head a little awkwardly and saying:

“So, Teacher Muzuki, you were studying. I must have disturbed you.”

Muzuki put down the Izanagi Ninjutsu scroll and said with a smile:

“It’s fine. I had already understood this Ninjutsu quite well some time ago. I just had a sudden urge to study it again recently.”

After Danzo Shimura’s death, Muzuki not only gained all the visible assets of Root but also some items Danzo Shimura had secretly collected.

The Uchiha Clan’s forbidden Ninjutsu, Izanagi, was one of them.

“Are you looking for me for something?”

“Not really, I just wanted to ask you some questions, Teacher Muzuki,” Obito replied honestly.

“At the very beginning, why did you choose the strategy of dividing the forces? The Hidden Mist ambush should not have been expected, right?”

After the battle, Obito reviewed the intelligence he knew, hoping to learn from Sage Muzuki’s advanced experience, but upon careful analysis, he found many things he didn’t understand.

To say that Sage Muzuki was prescient didn’t seem to be the case; he remembered that apart from Muzuki, no Ninja on the field was not surprised or nervous.

For such an important war decision, Muzuki shouldn’t have hidden it from the deputy commander or the squad leaders of each department.

“Are you studying how to fight recently?” Muzuki asked curiously.

He knew Obito would self-improve when he had free time, but he hadn’t expected Obito to study this kind of knowledge.

“Yes, although I don’t need to lead a team right now, I can’t always follow behind you, Teacher Muzuki,” Obito nodded.

His dream was to become Hokage, and as Hokage, when Konoha faced danger, he would definitely need to step forward to protect Konoha, which might require commanding Ninja forces in battle.

“It’s good that you have this idea, but this isn’t a good case study. The main reason this battle was won was due to my personal strength,” Muzuki began to explain.

“The main reason I divided the forces was because Advisor Yan’s defeat made me realize some intelligence: Hidden Mist Village’s intelligence capabilities might be superior to ours, so I…”

From an outsider’s perspective, this battle would likely only evoke one feeling: how strong Muzuki was.

But in fact, only Muzuki himself knew that he was fishing from the start, and encountering Yagura Karatachi was within his expectations.

“I see!” Obito showed a look of sudden understanding.

There was an information gap between them; he wasn’t aware of the intelligence from Advisor Yan’s battle and didn’t know the outcome of the intelligence teams’ struggle.

However, even knowing everything, it was still difficult to learn from; the required personal strength was too great. Obito estimated that even if he trained for another ten years, it might barely be enough.

“Teacher Muzuki, thank you. I won’t disturb you any further…”

Just as Obito was about to leave, a dazzling green light suddenly appeared inside the tent.

Obito looked curiously and found that it was a Nin-Beast Egg glowing, just like when Charizard hatched, except the color was green.

“As expected, it’s about to hatch,” Muzuki thought, looking at the Pokémon Egg.

When it was in Konoha, this Pokémon Egg would occasionally emit a green light with healing power.

“Which Pokemon will it be?”

Before the Pokémon Egg displayed its healing power, Muzuki had thought it might be Rayquaza inside.

After displaying its ability, Rayquaza could basically be ruled out; Rayquaza couldn’t heal while emitting green light.

However, it still couldn’t pinpoint the exact Pokemon; there was more than one legendary beast with healing abilities, and if you added non-legendary Pokemon with special traits, there were even more.

Soon, the green light receded, revealing a small, cute green figure.

Its head resembled an onion, with large blue eyes surrounded by thick black circles. It had slender green antennae on its forehead, with blue tips, and a pair of small transparent wings on its back.

Its hands had only three fingers, and its feet had no toes. The entire creature looked very much like a little fairy from a fairy tale.

“So it’s Celebi. It really is a legendary beast,” Muzuki instantly recognized what Pokemon it was.

“I wonder if it still has the ability to travel through time and space after localization,” Muzuki thought.

Celebi’s combat ability wasn’t outstanding among many legendary beasts, but it had a bug-level ability in any world—time and space travel.

Moreover, not only could it travel through time and space itself, but it could also take others with it, traveling both to the past and the future.

Muzuki thought it should retain this ability, as it was a major characteristic of Celebi, and the system’s localization wouldn’t erase characteristics.

For example, the effects of Pirate’s body techniques were similar after localization, just with the addition of Chakra usage.

“Teacher Muzuki, is this your Nin-Beast? It looks like it can only use Medical Ninjutsu,” Obito asked casually.

It was only because it was Muzuki; if this were Kakashi’s Nin-Beast, Obito’s words would have turned into “looks very weak.”

“Bi!” Celebi made a cheerful sound, flapping its wings and flying to Muzuki’s side, rubbing its head against Muzuki’s face.

Muzuki stroked Celebi’s head and said to Obito:

“Don’t let this child’s cuteness fool you; it’s actually quite strong.”

Celebi’s combat ability not being outstanding was relative to other legendary beasts. Compared to ordinary Pokemon, Celebi’s strength was naturally not weak.

“Bi!”

Celebi stood on Muzuki’s shoulder, slightly raising its small head, as if telling Obito not to underestimate it.

“Eh!” Obito’s eyes widened as he carefully examined the little onion head.

Looking at Celebi’s delicate body with its thin arms and legs, Obito wondered where its strength lay.

If Muzuki said Celebi was strong, then it must be strong; there was no need to doubt, as Muzuki wouldn’t lie about such things.

After failing to see anything, Obito scratched his head, said goodbye to Muzuki again, and walked out of Muzuki’s tent.

Muzuki, meanwhile, began to look at Celebi’s panel.

【Name: Celebi】

【Chakra: 102000】

【Skills: Wood Release (Proficient), Space-Time Power (Beginner), Yang Release Chakra Nature Transformation (Mastered), Yin Release Chakra Nature Transformation (Proficient), Water Release Chakra Nature Transformation (Proficient), Earth Release Chakra Nature Transformation (Proficient), Telekinesis…】

Pokemon’s Chakra had always been considerable, but Celebi having 100,000 right after hatching still made Muzuki a bit emotional.

He had worked hard for a long time to get his Chakra to 100,000 points, while Celebi was born with a Chakra volume that most Ninja could never reach.

“As expected, it retained the ability to travel through time and space,” Muzuki showed a thoughtful expression, looking at the Space-Time Power in Celebi’s skills.

Time travel was simply too powerful.

Putting everything else aside, if Muzuki had Celebi when he first transmigrated, he could have directly traveled to the period when Naruto attended the Ninja Academy, taken him as a disciple, and developed much faster.

Naruto not only had great talent but also a massive amount of Chakra, which could provide Muzuki with a lot of feedback.

Although traveling to the past offered a chance to take Hashirama as a disciple, Celebi’s time travel could change history. If there wasn’t a great need, Muzuki wasn’t too keen on traveling to the past to alter history.

What if he ended up erasing himself? That would be too messed up.

Muzuki first signed a contract with Celebi, then split off a Shadow Clone to use Flying Thunder God to transfer to a secluded place to familiarize himself with Celebi’s various abilities.

The data on the panel was just data; only actual demonstration could help Muzuki better understand Celebi’s abilities.

Muzuki used his Byakugan to find a wild boar, stabbed it to near death with a Kunai, and then had Celebi heal it.

Under the green healing light, the wild boar’s wounds rapidly healed and recovered, leaving no scars whatsoever.

“Healing is its strong suit…” Muzuki thought, watching the wild boar immediately run away.

The newly hatched Celebi’s healing ability already surpassed Rin Nohara’s Milotic.

Next, Muzuki tested Celebi’s Wood Release.

Although its proficiency wasn’t very high, with the boost of 100,000 Chakra, it was quite impressive. Muzuki felt it was more than enough to deal with a Jonin.

As for Space-Time Power, Muzuki didn’t have Celebi take him through time and space.

Celebi had just hatched and wasn’t familiar with its abilities yet. It wouldn’t be good if it accidentally took them to the battlefield where the Six Paths Sage and his two brothers fought Ōtsutsuki Kaguya thousands of years ago.

Although the probability was very low, it wasn’t impossible.

“If I use the power of the Dragon Veins, combined with Celebi’s Space-Time Power, can I precisely travel to another parallel world?” Muzuki showed a thoughtful expression.

Compared to the past and future, a parallel world was a better choice, as it wouldn’t cause uncontrollable changes due to the butterfly effect of time travel.

Finally, Muzuki used Transformation to scan Celebi, and then used Transformation himself.

But when Muzuki looked at his own panel, he didn’t see Celebi’s Space-Time Power.

“As expected, it doesn’t work,” Muzuki was not surprised.

Transformation had its limits. It could copy Sharingan and Ice Release, but it couldn’t replicate Rinnegan.

And traveling through time and space was undoubtedly a very noble ability, so its inability to be copied was within Muzuki’s expectations.

Finally, Muzuki canceled his Transformation and returned to the camp with Celebi.

The first thing Muzuki did upon returning was to cancel the Shadow Clone and receive its memories.

After careful inspection, Muzuki found that no one had come to ask him about the green light during that time.

This was normal. The hatching light was dazzling but not overly exaggerated. With the tent blocking it, not many people would notice.

Moreover, since it was Muzuki’s tent, even fewer people would ask, because Muzuki was too strong.

After tidying up the tent, Muzuki walked out, taking Celebi to meet his disciples.

As his Nin-Beast, Celebi would spend a lot of time with Obito and the others from now on.

“Teacher Muzuki, what kind of Nin-Beast is this? It’s so cute!” Rin Nohara’s eyes lit up as she looked at Celebi, who resembled a fairy from a fairy tale, feeling it was even cuter than Zorua.

“Bi!” Celebi, hearing Rin Nohara praise her, let out a joyful cry and circled Rin Nohara once.

“You can call it Celebi,” Muzuki replied.

There was certainly only one Celebi in the Naruto world, so there was no need to worry about duplicate names.

“Kakashi, do you want to make a bet?” Obito suddenly asked Kakashi.

“Bet what?” Kakashi shifted his gaze from Celebi to Obito.

“Bet on Celebi’s strength! I bet it’s very powerful!”

“No bet,” Kakashi refused outright.

“Why?” Obito looked at Kakashi with a bewildered expression.

Celebi looked so weak, and he wouldn’t even bet.

“Because it’s Teacher Muzuki’s Nin-Beast,” Kakashi replied calmly.

There was actually another reason, which was that he smelled Obito’s intention to trick someone.

The moment Obito opened his mouth, Kakashi knew what he was thinking.

Obito was speechless, because that answer really made sense.

One day later.

The reply from the higher-ups reached Muzuki’s hands. Muzuki took his disciples and four hundred Ninja to the Land of Grass to support Jiraiya.

…

Land of Grass, Konoha Ninja Force encampment.

Jiraiya sat in his tent, looking at the map with a depressed expression, studying how to defend next.

This time, the Iwa Ninja Force once again displayed that elusive intelligence capability, making Jiraiya feel that there might be a spy infiltrated.

However, he had checked thoroughly but couldn’t find any.

“They’ve really developed incredible techniques. If only they could put this effort into other areas,” Jiraiya sighed.

Although he knew there might be a spy in the force, the ability to even disguise Chakra was truly too abnormal. Jiraiya couldn’t distinguish them even in Sage Mode.

“Muzuki, hurry and come,” Jiraiya thought silently.

He had already applied to the Konoha higher-ups, requesting Muzuki to lead a team to provide support.

Currently, only Muzuki’s sensory Ninjutsu could break the Iwagakure spies’ concealment, and Muzuki himself was also a rare powerhouse.

Jiraiya was not a warmonger, but he was getting a bit annoyed by Iwagakure now.

Whenever something happened to Konoha, Iwagakure would always seize the opportunity to kick them while they were down, making him constantly have to go to the battlefield, and he hadn’t written anything in a long time.

“For a new book, referencing Muzuki seems good. A top-tier powerhouse respected by everyone who also possesses extraordinary culinary skills, that’s a good element,” Jiraiya thought, stroking his chin.

For his second novel, he didn’t want to write about Ninja slowly growing stronger, because he felt the plot would be repetitive.

As an author, Jiraiya didn’t want to write repetitive content.

Jiraiya thought about Muzuki’s experiences for a moment, and a Flash of inspiration struck him.

“A strong individual, disillusioned with the Village due to an event, gives up their position to teach at the Ninja Academy. Initially, they don’t seriously fulfill their teaching duties, merely treating it as a means of living and passing time, but through their interactions with students…”

Although Muzuki only gradually became a renowned powerhouse after leaving the Ninja Academy, and he wasn’t disillusioned with the Village, after all, he wasn’t writing a biography of Muzuki, just borrowing elements.

“No, now I need to think about how to defend,” Jiraiya forcibly interrupted his own thoughts.

He was indeed very interested in writing novels, but protecting Konoha was still more important.