Chapter 61: Sealing Talent (Seeking Follow-up Reading)

“Seal!”

On Monday afternoon in the South Border Forest, Muzuki was practicing the One-Finger Sealing technique that Kushina had taught him.

Since it was a Sealing Technique used to seal Chakra, Muzuki used his Shadow Clone as an experimental subject.

“Cannot condense Chakra, it’s a success,” the Shadow Clone reported.

“But I feel like I could break through it if I used my full strength,” the Shadow Clone added.

Muzuki nodded. No wonder Minato said this Sealing Technique had no practical value in combat.

Although he had just learned it, for it to be instantly broken by a Shadow Clone with only half his Chakra, its restrictive power was truly negligible.

“But I’ve learned it nonetheless. Do I have talent in Sealing Technique?” Muzuki wondered.

Kushina gave him the Sealing Technique last night, and he mastered it today. According to Kushina, he was a Sealing Technique genius.

Strictly speaking, he had only practiced for less than half a day. He practiced for a while last night, and then for a short period this afternoon.

Many conjectures flashed through Muzuki’s mind: the original host’s own talent, his own talent, or a result of both combined…

The reason didn’t matter, because this was absolutely good news.

Even if he didn’t look to the future to learn powerful Sealing Technique, just limiting himself to the present, it allowed him to see a glimmer of hope for breaking the Root’s curse seal.

After reading books related to Sealing Technique and curse seals, and then learning a Sealing Technique, Muzuki already knew that curse seals were actually a small subcategory of Sealing Technique.

The Tongue Cutting Seal was essentially a Sealing Technique, a rather special one.

Sealing Technique could generally be broken in two ways.

The first was to directly break through with overwhelming Chakra, and the second was to use the corresponding unsealing technique to release the seal.

Muzuki felt that forcibly breaking through the seal with Chakra was unreliable, because the Tongue Cutting Seal was not low-level. If he could forcibly break it, killing Danzo probably wouldn’t be difficult.

Therefore, Muzuki planned to learn more Sealing Technique, then study his own Tongue Cutting Seal, and finally develop an unsealing technique for the Tongue Cutting Seal.

He specifically saved one Ninjutsu Proficiency Scroll without using it, intending it for Sealing Technique.

The system rewarded him with certain Nature Transformation knowledge directly when he gained Ninjutsu of unmastered Chakra natures. Therefore, Muzuki speculated that if he directly raised a certain Sealing Technique to the proficient level, he could also gain some Sealing Technique knowledge.

Muzuki wasn’t going to use the proficiency scroll on One-Finger Sealing. He felt that this Sealing Technique was probably equivalent to the Three Body Technique among Sealing Technique, and using the proficiency scroll on it would be a bit of a waste.

After finishing his disciples’ training, Muzuki went directly to the Main urban area.

Since Kushina and Minato had treated him to dinner yesterday, Muzuki naturally invited them both to his home for dinner.

Today, Muzuki made chili fried eggs, Tempura, and stewed potatoes with meat.

Muzuki’s personal favorite was chili fried eggs, a dish his mother often made for him in his previous life.

Muzuki could be said to be very fond of eating eggs, whether steamed, boiled, fried, or deep-fried. Coupled with his preference for spicy food, his home rarely had chive fried eggs; it was almost always chili fried eggs.

First, he would crack the eggs into a bowl, quickly whisk them with chopsticks, then directly pour the chili into the egg mixture and stir, before pouring it into the pan.

Although his chef skills, bolstered by the system, had already surpassed his previous life’s abilities, whenever he made this dish, he would recall related memories from his past life.

“Muzuki, what’s wrong? Are you afraid of being too spicy from your own cooking?” Kushina joked, seeing Muzuki pick up a chili fried egg but not eat it.

“How amazing, chili and eggs fried together like this can be so delicious,” Minato praised.

If he were to cook, he certainly wouldn’t be able to combine chili and eggs, let alone fry them together so crudely.

“Yes, chili fried eggs are delicious,” Muzuki said with a gentle smile, no longer reminiscing, and then put a piece of chili fried egg into his mouth.

“Hmm, delicious.”

The three ate and chatted, eventually discussing the Sealing Technique Muzuki was learning.

“Muzuki, can you perform that One-Finger Sealing now?” Kushina asked.

Muzuki shook his head and said, “It goes smoothly every time I visualize it in my mind, but I just can’t perform it smoothly. I feel like something is missing.”

Muzuki wasn’t going to reveal that he learned it in half a day. That would be too shocking, especially since Kushina herself said she learned it in a day.

Where Kushina was, there were always Anbu monitoring. He didn’t want to appear too exaggerated.

He planned to pretend to have mastered it in seven days, which would make him seem talented in Sealing Technique without being overly genius.

“That’s normal. Few people can learn it in a day. Your situation is normal,” Minato said, comforting him.

He was worried that Muzuki might be affected by Kushina’s earlier words, leading to a problematic mindset.

“Right, as long as you can learn it within a month, there’s no problem,” Kushina added.

“Feel free to ask us if you don’t understand anything, don’t be shy,” Kushina said while eating.

Minato also nodded, indicating it was no problem.

“As long as it’s not too much trouble for you,” Muzuki said with a smile.

…

Thursday afternoon, Konoha South Border Forest.

“Obito, eighty-five questions. Might Guy, thirty questions,” Muzuki announced the results of this afternoon’s battle.

“Only eighty-five!” Obito couldn’t help but show excitement on his face.

He felt that the beatings he took from Kakashi weren’t in vain. This was the fewest questions since the combat rules changed, meaning he had improved, been hit less, and landed more hits.

Obito planned to offset forty percent with training, do ten percent on the same day, and installment the remaining fifty percent. After allocating, he even felt that the questions weren’t that many.

“Thirty questions!” Might Guy clenched his fists in disbelief. This was the most questions since the rules changed.

Even if he maximized the training conversion ratio, he would still have to do twelve questions.

“Good, you’ve both made great progress. If you want to do installment questions today, the interest can be waived,” Muzuki said with a smile.

Obito’s eyes instantly lit up, feeling he could installment more.

Might Guy thought about it: no interest for installments? This was a freebie, so why not take it? Thus, he also applied for installments with Muzuki.

After training, Might Guy found Shisui, hoping he could help him with some intensified training.

Obito’s progress made him feel a strong sense of crisis. Although his advantage was still significant, Obito was not allowed to use Ninjutsu during their combat, so he wasn’t even using half his strength.

Might Guy recalled Muzuki’s past words: combat was also an important part of improving strength, not training-type battles like with Obito, but truly fighting with all his might.

“Full strength?” Shisui asked.

Might Guy nodded in confirmation.

“Then I’m going to make my move,” Shisui warned him in advance.

Might Guy also tensed his muscles, ready to unleash his taijutsu at any moment.

But the very next moment after Shisui spoke, a large tree emerged from the ground, binding Might Guy.

While Might Guy was still wondering what Ninjutsu Shisui had used, the tree binding him suddenly vanished, and Shisui already had a Kunai at his throat, ending the battle.

Might Guy understood what had just happened. He had fallen into Shisui’s Genjutsu.

“The road to becoming the strongest is still very long,” Might Guy thought, having been defeated in one blow.

“Please, again!”

The road might be long, but he, Might Guy, would never give up!

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