Chapter 205 Ideas for developing new breathing techniques

Minato’s letter was concise and didn’t contain anything too important; it could be summarized as, “I’m going to the battlefield for a mission, please take care of Kushina’s meals.”

Of course, the actual content wasn’t that direct; it was more roundabout and included thanks.

Although Minato’s letter didn’t discuss anything too important, his departure for the battlefield held some significance for Muzuki.

Perhaps the probing attacks had ended, and the two warring sides had begun their formal engagement.

While the Third Shinobi World War was expected to last about four to five years, it wouldn’t spend the first four years on probes and then rapidly reach its climax in the final year.

However, this had little to do with Muzuki at present; as long as the intensity wasn’t on the level of ten thousand Iwagakure troops assaulting the border, he, as a Special Jonin specializing in teaching, would generally not be assigned war missions to fight on the battlefield.

This was the only advantage of being a teacher at the Ninja Academy; unless it was the worst of times, teachers wouldn’t be sent to the battlefield.

After finishing Minato’s letter, Muzuki began to organize his upcoming improvement plan.

First was Obito, who would soon yield rewards; his birthday was only twenty-one days away, and if all went well, it would be another Perfect-level skill.

After Might Guy’s birthday, Muzuki directly asked Obito what he wanted for his birthday gift.

Obito usually talked a lot, but when Muzuki actually asked him, Obito couldn’t say much and finally said that anything from Muzuki would be fine.

Obito’s answer was within Muzuki’s expectations, not because of Obito’s awkward personality, but because Muzuki was usually too good to them, and in such a situation, Obito would feel even more embarrassed to trouble Muzuki.

The reason Muzuki asked, despite knowing the answer, was to instill in Obito the thought, “Teacher Muzuki cares about me a lot and is very serious about my birthday gift,” which would help trigger the emotional outburst later.

About ten days after Obito’s birthday, he would be able to get a test reward.

That’s right, during their internship, they still had to return to school to take exams as usual; this was a rule set by Muzuki.

This was the last regular exam Obito and the others could participate in; the next final exam would be the graduation exam, which only tested the Three Body Technique.

Besides the birthday rewards and exams, Muzuki’s improvement plan mainly focused on his disciples’ training plans, as their improvement equated to his own.

Obito’s Breathing Technique had already progressed a certain distance in the introductory phase, and Muzuki was preparing to give him new Breathing Technique special training, aiming for the next realm of Breathing Technique: Constant State.

Constant State meant maintaining Total Concentration Breathing twenty-four hours a day, even while sleeping.

Of course, this Total Concentration Breathing wasn’t the extreme Total Concentration Breathing, but a relatively concentrated one, equivalent to a slightly weakened Total Concentration Breathing; completing this step of cultivation would lead to a qualitative change in physical ability and greatly enhance the effects of the Breathing Technique.

Besides the new Breathing Technique training, Muzuki was trying to find a way to help Obito awaken his Sharingan.

There were too many benefits to awakening the Sharingan: powerful dynamic vision and genjutsu amplification, and it could also enhance Chakra.

This was why the Uchiha Clan had so many Jonin; as long as they awakened their Sharingan and didn’t die, normal development would lead to Jonin status.

Although Shisui was able to awaken his Sharingan on his last birthday, Muzuki didn’t think Obito would be able to awaken his on his birthday.

Shisui’s trust level three came much later than Obito and Might Guy’s, but he was the first to reach four; the emotional outburst that night was too great, which led to the Sharingan’s manifestation.

And Obito might be the one with the highest trust level among his disciples, so there wasn’t as much room for a big outburst.

Muzuki’s current idea was to increase the difficulty for Obito and the others the next time they encountered enemies, to stimulate them.

For Might Guy, the focus was still on Eight Gates, first reaching the level of opening the Third Gate.

Shisui could participate in the Constant State training of Flame Breathing with Obito, and then it would be about training the Sharingan to enhance Haki.

As for Kakashi, the first priority was to get him back to normal, then the main focus would be Thunder Breathing with Armament Haki as a secondary focus.

After organizing his upcoming tasks, Muzuki headed to the South Border Forest.

When Muzuki arrived, he found it was business as usual, with all his disciples training.

Seeing all five disciples neatly lined up, Muzuki was a little surprised; although Obito wasn’t lazy, he wasn’t as passionate about training as Might Guy, and he really did rest during rest times.

“It seems everyone is very motivated today,” Muzuki praised with a smile.

Might Guy showed two rows of white teeth and gave a thumbs-up in affirmation.

Kakashi silently continued his various Breathing Technique movements, offering no comment.

Obito forced a smile to show agreement.

Seeing his disciples’ high enthusiasm for training, Muzuki quickly began today’s teaching.

Since Might Guy and Obito had not yet mastered Yin Release Nature Transformation, they hadn’t begun formal training in Armament Haki.

Currently, Obito’s Yin Release Nature Transformation proficiency had reached around seventy points, which could be considered a victory in sight, while Might Guy’s was much lower, with only twenty-something points of proficiency, requiring a lot more effort.

Through unremitting efforts, Kakashi’s Thunder Breathing proficiency finally broke through ten points; he could now basically use breathing to enhance his physical abilities, and although the enhancement was moderate, it was a breakthrough from nothing.

Shisui had also made some progress with Armament Haki; twenty days of arduous training finally brought his Armament Haki proficiency to twelve points, and he was gradually getting a feel for it.

Rin Nohara’s Chakra control had advanced to a higher level, allowing her to master the basics of Mystical Palm Technique, and her explosive power had increased further, while the study of Mystical Palm Technique also got on track.

To further enhance Rin Nohara’s strength, Muzuki was trying to develop a new Breathing Technique to teach her.

He had mastered three major Breathing Techniques, one of which had even reached the Perfect level, so he could be said to be quite knowledgeable about Breathing Techniques.

Without developing a stronger one, developing a Breathing Technique of a similar level was achievable.

However, his knowledge of Medical Ninjutsu was insufficient, so he certainly couldn’t develop a Medical Breathing Technique, but Muzuki had Water Release Chakra Nature Transformation with over seven thousand proficiency, so he could develop a Water Breathing for Rin Nohara to use, as Rin Nohara’s innate attribute happened to be water.

With Water Breathing and Mystical Palm Technique mastered, Rin Nohara shouldn’t be easily captured during wartime.

At the end of training, Obito eagerly ran to Rin Nohara to share his experiences.

“Rin, you absolutely can’t imagine how exciting our mission experiences were! Two C-Rank Missions, one turned into an A-Rank and one into a B-Rank, and each time we encountered formidable Ninja enemies,” Obito said excitedly, feeling like he’d been holding it in for too long.

Then, Obito vividly described how he quickly defeated powerful enemies.

Rin Nohara smiled and applauded, giving him face and praising him.

“That’s truly exciting! You three are all amazing, just like when the teachers talk about their mission experiences.”

“Hehe, it’s also because Teacher Muzuki is amazing; other interns seem to only get odd jobs in the village,” Obito felt satisfied looking at Rin Nohara’s smiling face, feeling that the trip was worth it.

Kakashi was about to leave directly after finishing, but he stopped when he heard Obito and Rin Nohara talking and only left after Obito finished speaking.

If Obito had embellished the story, he would have mentioned how Obito almost got injured due to carelessness, but this time, what Obito said was largely factual.

Headache, diarrhea, unable to write, so today’s update will be shorter, there’s still one more chapter coming soon.