Chapter 335 Five Self-Created Ninjutsu

PS: Readers who read the previous chapter yesterday or this morning can re-download and read it again. I felt there was a problem around noon, so I revised it.

“Today, we begin the final training for Constant State: maintaining the Breathing Technique throughout the day,” Muzuki announced.

The most crucial aspect of Constant State is being able to maintain the Breathing Technique twenty-four hours a day. While Obito and Kakashi’s Breathing Technique limits have increased, they haven’t truly completed the Constant State training yet.

“Is it Full Concentration, or is normal breathing fine?” Obito scratched his head and asked.

If it was Full Concentration, he couldn’t even last an hour doing nothing, let alone a whole day.

“Normal breathing is fine, and you don’t need to do too much training,” Muzuki replied with a smile.

The concentrated breathing for Constant State is relatively concentrated, different from the extreme concentration of breathing during combat. Obito and the others haven’t yet undertaken full-day breathing practice; it needs to be a gradual progression.

Hearing this, Kakashi nodded. If that was the case, even though he hadn’t fully recovered, he could still participate in the training.

“That sounds pretty simple,” Obito chuckled, thinking this was a relaxing training session after the Chunin Exams.

“Of course, to motivate you, if you fail to maintain the breathing state, you’ll have to do one problem for each lapse. If you don’t resume within ten minutes, you’ll get an additional problem,” Muzuki stated the training rules.

Although his disciples were all diligent, punishment rules were necessary to give them a greater sense of urgency.

While it was hard to say for others, Obito and Might Guy were very receptive to this approach.

After hearing Muzuki’s words, the smile on Obito’s face instantly vanished, gradually replaced by a solemn expression. His premonition seemed to be correct; it was the dreaded problem-solving training again.

Although Muzuki’s problems helped him achieve good results in the Chunin Exams, it didn’t make Obito like doing problems. Just thinking about those black-and-white test papers made his head start to spin.

“The training is very arduous,” Might Guy said with a look of facing a formidable enemy. Even someone as diligent as him had not yet managed to maintain the Breathing Technique state all day.

If Might Guy had to do problems, he would rather fight a Kumogakure Jonin for another hour.

Under Muzuki’s arrangement, all disciples except Rin Nohara began the final Constant State training.

Rin Nohara had only been exposed to the Breathing Technique for too short a time; her Water Breathing hadn’t even reached the introductory level yet, so Constant State training was too early for her.

Furthermore, Rin Nohara’s current training focus was on Medical Ninjutsu. Her role in the team was primarily healing. Given the current power of Rin Nohara’s Ninjutsu, it was better to save her Chakra for healing rather than using it for combat.

However, it was a pity that on the day the Chunin Exams ended, he took Rin Nohara to Tsunade’s house but failed to successfully entrust Rin Nohara to Tsunade.

Otherwise, with Rin Nohara’s talent in Medical Ninjutsu, she could have learned a lot by studying with Tsunade.

It wasn’t that Tsunade looked down on Rin Nohara, but rather that Tsunade had business in the Land of Fire’s capital recently, so she couldn’t teach for the time being.

Although he really didn’t want to do problems, Might Guy didn’t change his training plan, as the strength gained from training was his own.

However, it was very difficult to complete the training perfectly on the first try, and after two hours, the first person who couldn’t maintain the Breathing Technique appeared.

“Kakashi, one time,” the Shadow Clone assigned to watch Kakashi recorded.

“Kakashi, are you serious? You stopped after such a short time,” Obito immediately scoffed upon hearing this.

“It’s just one problem. Do you think I’m like you? Even ten wouldn’t faze me,” Kakashi said calmly, taking a breath.

He was constantly trying to enter the Transparent World, and each attempt required concentrating his breathing to the extreme. Even without much training, the consumption was exceptionally high, and occasional breaks didn’t help.

Kakashi could feel that he was close to the true Transparent World, so he focused intensely on training for the Transparent World, even temporarily setting aside Armament Haki.

If Muzuki knew Kakashi’s guess, he would tell Kakashi that he was indeed correct.

In Muzuki’s assessment, Kakashi’s proficiency in Transparent World had already reached ninety points, just ten points shy of truly mastering Transparent World.

“Just keep bluffing. When it’s time to do problems, you’ll be suffering alone,” Obito pouted, thinking Kakashi was just being stubborn.

Kakashi didn’t argue further with Obito. After a few minutes of rest, he re-entered the Breathing Technique state.

Once his body recovered, he still wanted to challenge Shisui. Since there hadn’t been any internal disciple battles for some time, he didn’t know what level Shisui’s strength had reached. To defeat Shisui, Kakashi would try to strengthen himself as much as possible during this period, as improving one’s strength was always the right thing to do.

Soon, after two and a half hours, the second person who couldn’t maintain the Breathing Technique appeared, none other than Obito, who had mocked Kakashi earlier.

Kakashi didn’t speak, merely glanced at Obito and then let out a soft chuckle.

“Flame Breathing Chakra Mode consumes a lot of Chakra!” Obito explained loudly, his small face flushed.

Normally, it wouldn’t have been an issue, but he had just practiced some Ninjutsu like Flame Charge, which consumed too much, causing him to break concentration.

Everyone was busy training, and no one responded. Obito recovered for a few minutes and then re-entered the Breathing Technique state.

After five hours of training, the instances of failing to maintain the Breathing Technique became more frequent. Everyone had to concentrate intensely on their breathing just to barely keep going.

Even during the lunch break, Muzuki still made everyone maintain the Breathing Technique.

Due to the morning’s exertion, the afternoon was even more grueling, with more instances of failing to maintain the Breathing Technique.

When the day’s training ended, Muzuki announced everyone’s results.

“Kakashi, thirty-four problems. Obito, thirty-two problems. Guy, thirty-one problems. Shisui, twenty-eight problems.”

“Everyone worked hard today. You can go back and rest early. Tomorrow’s training content will be the same,” Muzuki reminded them.

Currently, Kakashi and the others could still rest well. Once they reached the stage where they had to maintain the Breathing Technique even while sleeping, they would find it very difficult to get proper rest.

“Again tomorrow?!” Obito stumbled, almost falling to the ground when he heard this.

Since graduating, Muzuki rarely conducted consecutive problem-solving training; it was usually about once a week.

In a daze, Obito seemed to see mountains of problems and seas of test papers crashing down on him, a miserable life about to begin.

“Although the training is a bit tough, I believe you will complete the Constant State training very quickly. When you do, I’ll make a big meal to celebrate,” Muzuki encouraged with a smile.

Obito swallowed the words he wanted to say. Muzuki had so much faith in them; how could he easily give up?

He couldn’t blame Muzuki for the many problems; it was his own fault for not practicing his Breathing Technique enough. If his Breathing Technique was good enough to maintain constantly, then he wouldn’t have to do any problems.

Because the summer special training was still ongoing, Muzuki only sent a Shadow Clone to teach Obito the next day, while his main body went to instruct the students in the summer special training.

At this point, the summer special training was roughly halfway complete.

On this day, Muzuki gathered Group B and Group A and announced a new course.

“From now on, Group B and Group A will temporarily have classes together. Next, we will be learning Ninjutsu!” Muzuki announced.

Group C would also learn, but because their curriculum was a bit behind, it wouldn’t be their turn until after today.

“We can even learn Ninjutsu!” A student’s face lit up with joy. They had thought that teaching Nature Transformation was already good enough, but they never expected this free special training to also teach Ninjutsu.

Almost all of Group B and Group A were Genin, with only a small number of very excellent Ninja Academy students. But for Genin, learning Ninjutsu from Muzuki was a very rare opportunity.

After all, this was a formidable individual who could fight a Tailed Beast, and his teaching ability was exceptionally strong.

“What kind of Ninjutsu will it be?” Shiranui Genma was very excited.

He still remembered Muzuki’s demonstration on the first day of the special training. If it were those five Ninjutsu, learning them would truly be a huge gain.

“This course is not mandatory. If any of you feel that these Ninjutsu won’t be of much help to you, you don’t have to learn them, because the Ninjutsu I’m about to teach are some low-level Ninjutsu I created myself,” Muzuki explained.

When Muzuki decided to teach Nature Transformation, he developed five Ninjutsu himself for teaching purposes. After all, merely learning Nature Transformation without learning specific Ninjutsu wouldn’t be helpful for combat.

Although he had mastered many low-level Ninjutsu, for most students, even C-rank Ninjutsu like Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique and Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique were not easy to learn and use.

Considering this, Muzuki utilized his extensive Ninjutsu knowledge to further reduce the power of Ninjutsu, developing five D-rank Ninjutsu.

“Developed by Muzuki-sensei himself!” Asuma’s spirits lifted. These were developed by Muzuki-sensei, and even if they were lower ranked, Asuma felt they had more potential than ordinary Ninjutsu.

Because Muzuki was a Ninjutsu genius. Asuma still remembered that when he first met Muzuki, Muzuki only knew Fire Release and Water Release, but now he could use Ninjutsu of all five elements at will.

“Fire Release: Minor Fireball Technique!”

Muzuki had the students spread out, then formed hand signs and exhaled a fireball half a person tall, leaving scorched marks on the ground.

Fire Release was Muzuki’s strongest Ninjutsu at the moment. Not only had his Nature Transformation level reached perfect, but he also had a large number of proficient Fire Release Ninjutsu. Therefore, this D-rank Fire Release was the fastest Muzuki developed.

Muzuki also conveniently developed advanced versions: the C-rank Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique and the B-rank Fireball Sea Technique.

“Wind Release: Wind Slash!”

Muzuki formed hand signs again, and a sharp, strong wind erupted from his palm, leaving scratches on the large tree next to him.

This was the most difficult of the five low-level Ninjutsu Muzuki developed, because for Wind Release to have offensive power, the level of Nature Transformation could not be too poor.

“Water Release: Water Impact!”

“Lightning Release: Electric Beam!”

“Earth Release: Rock Spike!”

Muzuki quickly demonstrated the remaining three Ninjutsu. Water Impact was spitting out a water pillar, Electric Beam was spewing out a current, and Rock Spike was controlling the ground to protrude rock pillars for attack.

He basically had ideas for subsequent development for these Ninjutsu. For example, Water Impact could increase its shape transformation to become thinner and increase penetration, while Electric Beam could also advance towards Pseudo-Darkness.

Muzuki was very satisfied with the S-rank evaluation reward, so he would continue to hold the special training. If the Ninja who had participated continued to participate, they could learn advanced Ninjutsu.

“If last year’s special training was like this, that would be great.” A student couldn’t help but exclaim after watching.

He had graduated a few months ago, but his instructor had not yet started teaching them Ninjutsu, only taking them to do some training.

If he could master this kind of Ninjutsu while still in school, he would truly be far ahead.

Being able to master a technique like Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique or Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique at the Genin stage could be considered excellent. Genin who had just graduated generally relied on Taijutsu and Ninja tools for output.

Many civilian Genin empathized with this; the path of a civilian Ninja was indeed too difficult.

If they encountered a teacher who knew their Chakra nature, it was fine, but if their innate nature was Water, and they encountered someone specializing in Fire Release, it was truly uncomfortable.

After the demonstration, Muzuki separated five Shadow Clones to teach the corresponding elemental Ninjutsu.

Most of the students who could learn went to learn. After all, Muzuki taught so well, and it’s always good to have more skills.

Of course, it also depended on the situation. Nara Shiosui’s team did not have anyone learning, because they all relied on family secret techniques, and learning these would not help them much.

“They’ve already started learning Ninjutsu!” Kotetsu Hagane looked at the activity of Group B and Group A with great envy.

Then Kotetsu Hagane couldn’t help but ask Muzuki’s Shadow Clone in Group C: “Muzuki-sensei, when will our Group C learn Ninjutsu?”

Kotetsu Hagane looked at Muzuki nervously, very afraid that Muzuki would blurt out that they wouldn’t learn.

“According to your current progress, probably in about four days,” the Shadow Clone Muzuki thought for a moment and replied.

It wasn’t that he was biased, but Group C’s progress was indeed slower, so it would be a bit later.

“Alright!” Kotetsu Hagane was very excited. He could finally learn other Ninjutsu. He was so tired of practicing the Three Body Technique.

Perhaps because they could only learn the Three Body Technique in school, the Ninja Academy students had great enthusiasm for learning Ninjutsu.

After knowing it was due to progress, the students in Group C diligently learned Nature Transformation, all wanting to learn Ninjutsu as soon as possible.

This drive made them meet the requirements one day earlier, and after three days, they also followed the Shadow Clones to learn Ninjutsu.

After two weeks of learning Ninjutsu, a new practical exam coincidentally arrived. Many students gained a deeper understanding of Ninjutsu during combat. Being able to use Ninjutsu and using Ninjutsu effectively in combat are two different things.

After two practical exams, it also marked the end of the special training, as the special training was only five weeks in total.

In the last week, at the strong request of many students, Muzuki changed the special training duration to six weeks.

“I feel like there’s still so much about Ninjutsu I don’t understand. Anyway, there’s nothing to do during the holidays, Muzuki-sensei, why don’t you teach us for a bit longer?”

“Muzuki-sensei, if it’s really not possible, let’s just not have weekends off. If school starts, we definitely won’t learn this.”

Many students pleaded with Muzuki to extend the training time or offer make-up classes during the holidays.

Although if they took one more week of classes, their summer vacation would only be a few days of rest, the students didn’t think there was anything wrong with this. Holidays would always come, but the opportunity to learn Ninjutsu was rare.

Compared to themselves, the students were more worried about Muzuki, as Muzuki teaching so many people was much more tiring than them learning.

Facing such eager students, Muzuki had no reason to refuse. One reaps what one sows. More classes were indeed tiring, but the rewards were also more.

However, this was ultimately an unplanned change. Muzuki reported this matter to Hiruzen Sarutobi when he went to Hiruzen Sarutobi’s house to learn Ninjutsu.

Now, when Muzuki went to Hiruzen Sarutobi’s house, he usually did two things at once: first, he consulted Hiruzen Sarutobi about Ninjutsu, showed off his Ninjutsu learning progress to solidify his genius persona, and then he also reported the progress of the special training.

Because there were so many students this time, Hiruzen Sarutobi also paid considerable attention to this special training.

“If the students themselves are willing, adding an extra week of classes is fine, but it will be hard on you, Muzuki,” Hiruzen Sarutobi said, stroking his goatee.

Muzuki had considered the students’ holiday issue when setting up the special training. Even after the special training ended, students would have more than a week of vacation, so an extra week would not affect the normal opening of the Ninja Academy. As for the Genin, their actions were even more free.

“As long as the students can learn something, it doesn’t matter if I’m a bit tired,” Muzuki said earnestly.

He spoke from the bottom of his heart, because the more the students learned, the more rewards he received.

“If every teacher were as outstanding as Muzuki, then the strength of the Ninja Academy students would definitely improve significantly,” Hiruzen Sarutobi couldn’t help but praise.

Listening to Muzuki’s sincere words, Hiruzen Sarutobi was touched.

Originally, a Ninja of Muzuki’s strength would not be able to teach at the Ninja Academy, because with such strong abilities, one could gain a lot of money and resources by doing missions, and doing more high-difficulty missions could also enhance one’s reputation and accumulate qualifications for higher positions.

“Such an excellent Ninja should be given more rewards,” Hiruzen Sarutobi prepared to give Muzuki more rewards as compensation.

After discussing the extension of teaching time, Muzuki reported the students’ progress in this exam to Hiruzen Sarutobi.

“Your original Ninjutsu?” Hiruzen Sarutobi showed an interested expression.

Muzuki briefly demonstrated it to Hiruzen Sarutobi.

“Although they are all very simple Ninjutsu, they show your Ninjutsu foundation. You put thought into it,” Hiruzen Sarutobi nodded in approval.

“If school starts, those teachers will surely be surprised by the students, who will have learned new Ninjutsu,” Hiruzen Sarutobi said with a chuckle.

The special training organized by Muzuki always brought him surprises. It could be said that Muzuki alone achieved what all the teachers of the Ninja Academy combined could not.

Hiruzen Sarutobi thought for a moment and decided to add a new position specifically for Muzuki at the Ninja Academy.

The head of the teacher class could not be arbitrarily removed and replaced. Muzuki had basically reached the top of the Ninja Academy positions. If Hiruzen Sarutobi wanted to promote Muzuki further, he either had to give him other positions or could only add new ones.

Hiruzen Sarutobi would inspect the last exam. If there were no problems, he would make Muzuki the Vice Principal of the Ninja Academy.

Since the establishment of the Ninja Academy, there had been no Vice Principal position, because the Principal’s identity was too special—the Hokage. What kind of status do you have to be able to be a Vice Principal?

Hiruzen Sarutobi now felt that Muzuki’s ability was sufficient to become a Vice Principal.

5k, there’s another 3k chapter coming up.