Chapter 196: Jiraiya’s Status Panel

【Name: Jiraiya】

【Chakra: 160,000】

【Potential: S+ (Base Potential + Sage Mode)】

【Skills: Fire Release Chakra Nature Transformation (Mastery: 6,200/15,000), Sage Mode (Entry: 499/500)…】

Jiraiya’s status panel was also quite terrifying. Setting aside Kushina, whose specific situation was unclear due to the question marks, only Hiruzen Sarutobi slightly surpassed Jiraiya in terms of Chakra.

Besides Chakra, Jiraiya possessed a highly proficient Fire Release Chakra Nature Transformation. Additionally, he had many other mastery-level skills. Muzuki took a quick glance and saw that his variety of Ninjutsu was quite complete, and he had even mastered many functional Ninjutsu.

Muzuki hadn’t expected that Sage Mode could also increase potential values. This was the first time he had seen a skill capable of boosting potential. Thinking about the performance of Sage Mode in the later stages of the story, he felt it was quite reasonable.

The ceiling of Sage Mode was simply too high. Not even mentioning the power of Naruto and Hashirama’s Sage Mode, the unfathomable depth of the Three Great Sages alone proved that Sage Mode was no simple matter.

Muzuki compared Jiraiya’s panel with Hiruzen Sarutobi’s. He felt that if they both went all out, it was hard to say who would win between Hiruzen Sarutobi and Jiraiya.

Hiruzen Sarutobi had a near-perfect Combination Ninjutsu and more mastery-level Nature Transformations. He had mastered many mastery-level Ninjutsu, and he virtually had no weaknesses in Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, or Genjutsu.

Jiraiya wasn’t as versatile as Hiruzen Sarutobi, but his near-proficient Sage Mode could offset many of Hiruzen Sarutobi’s advantages. Furthermore, Jiraiya could summon the Sages of Mount Myōboku for assistance.

It was hard to say who would win in a fight between Hiruzen Sarutobi and Jiraiya now, but Muzuki was certain that in another ten years, Hiruzen Sarutobi would definitely not be able to beat Jiraiya. Jiraiya was the type who accumulated strength over a long period to break out later.

In the later stages, Jiraiya’s performance could be called the limit for an ordinary person. Of course, the exception of the Eight Gates had to be excluded. After all, Sage Mode could be activated repeatedly, whereas the Gate of Death meant death without Yin-Yang Release.

Muzuki really hoped his disciples would grow up faster and give him massive boosts to his Chakra. Muzuki also took a look at Minato’s panel; it was several thousand points higher than when he first met Minato.

【Name: Minato Namikaze】

【Chakra: 47,600】

This was the value of a high-speed growth period. Muzuki believed that after Minato joined the war, his growth would become even faster. The current Minato was still a long way from becoming the Yellow Flash who would end the war.

Silently noting down Jiraiya’s panel, Muzuki continued to research his Sealing Technique… Perhaps they were stimulated by each other, but ever since that clash, Muzuki’s disciples had all become more diligent. They even stayed in the South Border Forest to cultivate after Muzuki dismissed them.

Obito was consolidating his improved Breathing Technique, preparing to deal with his arch-rival, Kakashi, once he finished.

Meanwhile, Kakashi was undergoing high-intensity Breathing Technique training, wanting to master Thunder Breathing as soon as possible to avoid losing to Obito. Having lost to Might Guy and Shisui, if he lost to Obito next, he would have no one left to lose to.

Might Guy utilized every possible moment to train, heading towards the second and third gates of the Eight Gates according to Muzuki’s plan.

Shisui was working hard to learn Armament Haki to consolidate his status as the invincible eldest disciple.

Rin Nohara was also working very hard on her Taijutsu and Medical Ninjutsu. She also wanted to participate in the training battles among Muzuki’s disciples.

Muzuki was very satisfied with his disciples’ state. Thus, he abandoned the competitive training he had originally planned, intending to wait until this wave of effort from his students passed before bringing them more cultivation blessings.

After Muzuki decided to imitate Tsunade’s Yin Seal, his progress accelerated. However, Muzuki soon encountered a new problem: his knowledge of Medical Ninjutsu was becoming insufficient.

Since he was going to perform this Sealing Technique on his own body, some knowledge of Medical Ninjutsu was essential.

Muzuki’s knowledge of Medical Ninjutsu came from the Medical Ninjutsu he obtained through teaching. Just as the system would grant a bit of Nature Transformation when it provided a Ninjutsu of an unmastered attribute, Medical Ninjutsu came with its own inherent medical knowledge.

However, the levels of those Medical Ninjutsu Muzuki possessed were relatively low, all at the entry level. Muzuki thought for a moment and used a Ninjutsu Proficiency Scroll on the Mystical Palm Technique.

He had saved up four Ninjutsu Proficiency Scrolls, so using one wasn’t a big deal, and the Mystical Palm Technique was highly practical.

After the Mystical Palm Technique was upgraded to the proficient level, a lot more medical knowledge appeared in Muzuki’s mind. Muzuki once again threw himself into the development of the Sealing Technique.

Then he discovered that because his previous knowledge of Medical Ninjutsu was sparse, he hadn’t noticed many things. What he lacked was even more than he had imagined; even using the remaining three scrolls together might not be enough to make up for it.

After all, these were Proficiency Scrolls, not Mastery Scrolls; they only raised a skill to the proficient level.

Muzuki thought to himself that practicing it on his own was unlikely. Currently, he had only found himself talented in Sealing Techniques; in other areas, he was quite ordinary.

‘Should I go find Tsunade?’ Muzuki thought to himself.

At this time, Tsunade was still in Konoha. If he was lucky, he might run into her at a casino.

However, he didn’t need to rely on luck because Jiraiya had been coming over for free meals for several days in a row. As long as Muzuki had a good enough excuse, following Jiraiya to see Tsunade wouldn’t be much of a problem.

But if he were to ask Tsunade for help, his level of Medical Ninjutsu and Sealing Techniques would surely be exposed. After all, if you want Tsunade’s help, she can’t help you unless you explain things clearly.

Muzuki thought it over and decided he would look for Tsunade, but not right now. He would wait a bit longer.

He would wait until he had boosted his apparent strength a bit more and increased Jiraiya’s favorability toward him.

Going now, as a teaching Special Jonin—even with the background of a former Root member—his performance would still be a bit too much out of the ordinary.

‘I’ll study Sealing Techniques a bit more to improve my level,’ Muzuki decided on his next course of action.

A week after the combat training, Kakashi mastered the Yin Release Nature Transformation. Because he had spent more energy on Thunder Breathing, it took Kakashi over ten days to reach the entry level for Yin Release Nature Transformation.

Thus, Muzuki officially began teaching Kakashi Armament Haki.

【You taught your disciple Armament Haki. Due to the disciple’s immense gratitude, a critical reward was triggered. You have obtained Earth Release: Earth Dragon Spear (Proficient).】

Under Muzuki’s efforts, Kakashi successfully triggered another small reward, yielding a decent offensive Earth Release technique.

“We won’t be training today. We’re going to take a mission,” Muzuki said when they gathered in the morning.

Because of the previous accident, he still didn’t know how much Chakra a normal C-Rank Mission would provide. If the reward was good, he wanted to take his disciples to grind for some Chakra.

C-Rank Missions usually required leaving the village, so he could also take his disciples to train outside the village without it being as much of a hindrance to training as D-Rank missions.

“Muzuki-sensei, what rank of mission are we taking?” Obito asked.

“C-Rank.”

“Yay!” Obito couldn’t help but cheer.

According to the information sent by Minato, Tsunade was currently within Konoha during the Third Shinobi World War.