Chapter 177 Harvest

【Disciple Might Guy, Uchiha Obito, Kakashi Hatake diligently completed their entrusted missions, receiving a growth reward of Chakra +900. An additional reward of Chakra +450 was granted because they were led by their teacher.】

The total reward from the three disciples combined was one thousand three hundred and fifty points of Chakra.

Although there were no additional rewards like Ninjutsu, this amount of Chakra was quite good.

It’s important to know that Muzuki’s initial Chakra limit was only a little over four thousand. This mission alone increased his limit by over a thousand.

Of course, if only the amount of Chakra gained is considered, then constantly doing D-Rank missions would actually yield a higher return.

Doing ten D-Rank missions a day would give Muzuki a return of four hundred and fifty points of Chakra, meaning three days would equal the earnings from this A-Rank Mission.

There were some problems with doing D-Rank missions. Firstly, the students wouldn’t gain much improvement, it would purely be doing missions for the sake of doing missions, and Konoha didn’t have that many D-Rank missions to assign to them.

However, this A-Rank Mission allowed for physical training while traveling, various forms of cultivation when resting, and combat experience growth when encountering Ninja, stimulating their development. Overall, it was more beneficial for the students’ strength growth.

Muzuki glanced at his current status panel.

【Name: Hayate Mugetsu】

【Chakra: 33200】

His Chakra growth was excellent, getting closer and closer to his goal of fifty thousand Chakra, as the rewards from his disciples completing entrusted missions alone provided nearly two thousand points of Chakra.

Muzuki didn’t return to his home but went directly to Minato’s house.

Muzuki was lucky; Minato wasn’t accompanying Kushina at the moment, nor was he on a mission. He was at home reading a book.

Seeing Muzuki, Minato remembered the Sealing Technique scroll and handed the well-preserved scroll to Muzuki.

Muzuki didn’t just take the item and leave; he chatted with Minato for a while.

“Minato, if you’re going on an overseas mission recently, it’s best to be careful. You might encounter attacks from Hidden Cloud Village Ninja,” Muzuki warned with a serious expression.

Muzuki then told Minato about his experiences on this mission, repeating what he had told Hiruzen Sarutobi.

This mission wasn’t a secret one, so there was no need for confidentiality.

“Such a thing actually happened,” Minato’s expression also became somewhat serious.

This was no small matter. If Konoha truly believed its Ninja were ambushed by Iwagakure, then Konoha would definitely actively commit more Ninja to the war with Iwagakure, making the great war even more intense.

Muzuki’s experience on this mission also made Minato re-evaluate Muzuki’s strength.

Previously, because Muzuki was a Chunin teacher at the Ninja Academy, and although he later became a Special Jonin, it was due to his outstanding teaching ability. In Minato’s impression, Muzuki’s strength was at the Chunin level.

According to the results of this mission, Muzuki’s strength might not be weak; his previous failure to be promoted to Jonin might have been due to insufficient merit or other unmet requirements.

Muzuki’s strength didn’t affect Minato’s friendship with Muzuki, but Minato still hoped his friends were stronger, because this was wartime, and anything could happen. Lacking strength could easily lead to trouble.

“I’ll be careful, Muzuki. You be careful too, and try not to accept missions related to Land of Grass and Land of Hot Springs,” Minato replied earnestly.

These two small countries were the points of conflict between Konoha and Iwagakure, as well as Kumogakure, and would become increasingly dangerous as the war progressed.

Muzuki smiled, nodded, and left. He currently had no plans to go to such dangerous places; staying in the surrounding areas was fine.

Muzuki had a clear understanding of himself. At this moment, his output limit was not low, but he lacked sustainability. He could beat a Jonin like he was beating his son, but facing powerhouses like the Third Tsuchikage and the Third Raikage, he could only use Thunder Breathing to escape.

The Chakra limit was one problem, and another major problem was the speed of Chakra recovery.

Muzuki’s Chakra recovery speed did not match his Chakra limit.

Muzuki knew why this was the case: his Chakra limit was raised by the system through unknown means, which was different from normal cultivation.

Muzuki’s current Chakra volume was more than five times that of an ordinary Jonin, but his current Chakra recovery speed was at best only slightly stronger than an ordinary Jonin, and that was due to the improvements from his continuous Breathing Technique training.

This caused Muzuki to be at a disadvantage in prolonged battles. When everyone’s Chakra was nearly depleted and they were furiously refining more, Muzuki’s recovery effect would be inferior to others.

Of course, this problem was smaller than the Chakra limit problem, because such situations rarely occurred during combat, and a higher limit was still more important.

However, it was ultimately a flaw, and Muzuki really wanted to resolve it. He thought of many solutions.

For example, developing a Sealing Technique to store Chakra based on Tsunade’s idea, releasing the stored Chakra when it’s insufficient. Although it’s a temporary solution, it’s a good plan. A similar plan would be to capture a Tailed Beast and put it in his body as a charging treasure, but his current strength doesn’t allow for that.

For a permanent solution, Muzuki could only think of changing his physique, possessing a Senju physique or an Uzumaki physique. With a Sage Body, he wouldn’t have to worry about endurance.

However, changing one’s physique was too difficult. Hashirama cells could easily get him killed, and it was hard to find Senju and Uzumaki disciples to get them through the system, and he no longer had any disciple slots.

Muzuki was now working towards temporary solutions because he happened to have a genius-level talent for Sealing Technique.

Returning home, Muzuki began to examine the contents of the scroll.

To Muzuki’s surprise, Hiruzen Sarutobi was unusually generous this time, giving him three Ninjutsu at once.

However, they weren’t all Sealing Technique; one was a Wind Release Ninjutsu. Hiruzen Sarutobi wrote the reason on it: this Wind Release Ninjutsu had nothing to do with Muzuki’s performance at the Ninja Academy but was a special reward for Asuma’s improved strength due to Muzuki’s tutoring.

“Vacuum Sphere, now I have one more advanced Wind Release that I can use openly,” Muzuki thought as he looked at the Ninjutsu name.

After all, it was free, so even if he already knew it, Muzuki felt it was a gain.

Muzuki ignored the Vacuum Sphere that he had already learned and looked at the remaining two Sealing Technique.

“Fire Sealing Method, Evil Sealing Method,” Muzuki read the names of the two Sealing Technique, and some memories appeared in his mind.

He remembered the Evil Sealing Method was the Sealing Technique Kakashi used to seal Sasuke’s cursed mark, and as for the Fire Sealing Method, Muzuki knew what type of Sealing Technique it was based on the name.

Konoha’s Sealing Technique were basically learned from the Uzumaki Clan, and Muzuki’s Sealing Technique knowledge came from Kushina, meaning he learned the purest Konoha Sealing Technique. After a while of looking at these two B-rank Sealing Technique, Muzuki pretty much understood their principles.

The Evil Sealing Method’s essence was to isolate Chakra that didn’t belong to the original body; it was also a Ninjutsu for sealing Chakra.

The Fire Sealing Method was slightly different. The Fire Sealing Method didn’t seal Chakra, but it could seal flames generated after Chakra Nature Transformation.

Before transmigrating, Muzuki occasionally wondered while watching anime why no one sealed Ninjutsu into sealing scrolls and then used them as Ninjutsu.

After learning Sealing Technique, he knew the difficulty of this operation. For example, if you used the Fire Sealing Method to seal a Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique into a scroll, what you released wouldn’t be a moving Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique, but a ball of stationary flames, which would be meaningless in actual combat.

However, there were Sealing Technique that could seal Ninjutsu and then release them. The Uchiha’s Transcription Seal could do it. Itachi put Amaterasu into Sasuke’s eyes, and Uchiha Madara sealed Izanagi into his own eyes to revive himself.

Based on his current Sealing Technique knowledge, Muzuki judged that this should be an ability exclusive to the Sharingan, allowing the sealing of Dojutsu within the Sharingan, and was unrelated to ordinary Ninja.

Although neither of the two Sealing Technique was particularly top-tier, Muzuki was still satisfied. He could use these two Sealing Technique to master and practice more Sealing Technique knowledge.

Extracting and improving the Evil Sealing Method’s Chakra isolation effect would help with his temporary solution to the Chakra flaw. The Yin Seal’s form of sealing Chakra was also essentially a layer of Chakra isolation.

In the time that followed, Muzuki basically studied Sealing Technique until night.

He first learned the Evil Sealing Method, wanting to quickly master the Sealing Technique for isolating Chakra.

Muzuki had been studying Sealing Technique for almost eight months now and was no longer a Sealing Technique novice. After two hours of study, his proficiency in the Evil Sealing Method reached fifty.

He didn’t plan to use a proficiency scroll; a Sealing Technique of this level wasn’t worth it for him, unlike the Four Symbols Sealing.

Muzuki estimated that if he wanted to learn the Four Symbols Sealing, he would have to rely on Minato and Kushina; Hiruzen Sarutobi might be reluctant to give it.

The Four Symbols Sealing is a stronger Sealing Technique than the Five Elements Seal. Konoha used the Four Symbols Sealing to seal the Nine-Tailed. Within the Vortex Sealing Technique system, the Four Symbols Sealing belongs to the top tier.

Sealing Technique with stronger effects than the Four Symbols Sealing either have restrictions, such as the Adamantine Chains which can only be performed by members of the Uzumaki Clan, or require a great price, such as the Corpse Reanimation Seal and the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing, both of which require the caster’s death.

Before going to bed, Muzuki organized the experience gained from this out-of-village mission.

His strength was more effective than he had imagined; even a twenty-thousand Chakra Bloodline Jonin could be easily crushed by Muzuki.

In that battle, Muzuki actually held back a lot. If he wanted to, he could have directly activated Thunder Breathing with the Mark to instantly kill everyone. He could achieve that with the speed burst of Thunder Breathing.

However, to train his combat ability, he didn’t do that.

Perhaps because of the Byakugan and Transparent World, even though it was his first time in a deadly fight, Muzuki felt no tension and not much emotion after killing people.

“The enemy was too weak; if their Chakra was doubled, it would be more or less the same,” Muzuki thought.

He said it was to train his combat ability, but he didn’t train much because the strength gap was too large; if Muzuki used a little more force, the opponent couldn’t withstand it.

“Not considering Chakra recovery levels, my current strength should be similar to Minato and the Fourth Raikage,” Muzuki speculated.