Chapter 755: Becoming the Founder of the New Immortal Technique! (First Update)

Five months passed, and Muzuki’s Yin Release Chakra Nature Transformation was the first to reach Perfect Grade, becoming Muzuki’s fifth Perfect Grade Chakra Nature Transformation.

At the same time, Yin Release Chakra Nature Transformation was also the first Perfect Grade Nature Transformation not directly rewarded by the system.

However, in Muzuki’s opinion, there wasn’t much difference between the two; the latter just felt more natural in the beginning.

Even for the Perfect Grade Chakra Nature Transformation directly rewarded by the system, Muzuki had all the cultivation memories and insights, he just needed a little time to digest them.

Since Muzuki also spent a lot of effort teaching Breathing Technique, and because Breathing Technique is more universally applicable, Muzuki’s Breathing Technique also saw significant gains.

Muzuki used Balanced Breathing as a foundation, mixing in Yang Release Breathing and Flame Breathing to create a brand new Flame Breathing.

No, this Breathing Technique can no longer be called Flame Breathing, because to activate this new Breathing Technique, in addition to profound Breathing Technique mastery, the level of Yang Release also cannot be low.

Besides stronger physical enhancement, the new Breathing Technique also has a very special effect.

When in Breathing Technique Chakra Mode, the new Breathing Technique merges Fire Release and Yang Release Chakra, resulting in a stronger Chakra.

It appears similar to Fire Release Chakra, but its power is much greater.

Evidently, this is already extremely close to the Sun Breathing Muzuki envisioned.

The reason it’s only close and not considered Sun Breathing is because Muzuki’s direction for developing Breathing Technique changed significantly after he started cultivating Sage Mode.

What he needs now is not ordinary Breathing Technique, but Sage Art Breathing Technique!

For the past few years, Muzuki has been developing Sun Breathing towards Sage Art Breathing Technique.

However, the current new Breathing Technique still lacks a crucial step to become Sage Art Breathing Technique: the Sage Mode guidance technique, a secret method used to guide and perceive natural energy.

Without a guidance technique perfectly adapted to the Breathing Technique, the Breathing Technique Sage Art cannot establish its own system.

Fortunately, as Muzuki’s Sage Mode proficiency continues to increase, Muzuki is very close to solving the final problem.

Another three months passed, during which Muzuki did not give any more lectures.

Achieving the system’s high standard for course completion is not easy; it’s very mentally taxing without extensive prior preparation and can hinder the progress of other cultivation.

During these three months, Muzuki focused on researching Breathing Technique and cultivating Sage Mode.

He went to Mount Myōboku once a week to cultivate for two days, utilizing the Enlightenment skill to boost the efficiency of his Sage Mode cultivation.

A new week arrived.

Looking at the refreshed Enlightenment skill on his panel, this time Muzuki did not go to Mount Myōboku to seek guidance from Great Toad Sage, but instead went to his study.

At this point, his Sage Mode proficiency had reached over 14,900 points, just a hair’s breadth away from breaking through to Perfect Grade.

Muzuki believed that the moment of breaking through to Perfect Grade was very important and might help him develop Sage Art Breathing Technique.

Upon arriving at his study, Muzuki took out all his material related to Sage Mode and Breathing Technique and laid them out in the room.

Then Muzuki used Enlightenment on himself, used Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu to create a large number of Shadow Clones, and together with the Shadow Clones, he reviewed the material.

Shadow Clones do not receive the benefits of the Enlightenment skill, but they can transmit a large amount of information and thoughts into Muzuki’s brain the moment they dispel.

“Using Breathing Technique to absorb external energy and merge it with Chakra to produce stronger Chakra…”

“The cause of natural energy erosion, the breakdown of natural energy…”

“The balance of movement and stillness in Sage Mode, the stability of merging with nature…”

Inside and outside the room, Muzuki’s Shadow Clones stood, each holding several pieces of material and contemplating.

This peculiar scene lasted for a total of forty-six hours.

During this time, Muzuki neither ate nor rested; he did nothing but read and think.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

At the forty-sixth hour, the Shadow Clones cultivating Sage Mode formed hand signs and dispelled themselves, and a large amount of Sage Art thoughts and insights appeared in Muzuki’s mind.

Under the boost of the Enlightenment skill, Muzuki’s mind was incredibly clear, and he rapidly integrated the thoughts and insights.

If Muzuki had been observing his system panel at this moment, he would have noticed his Sage Mode proficiency rapidly changing.

14,950

14,959

14,969

…

When only the last hour of the Enlightenment state remained, Muzuki’s Sage Mode, which had already reached 14,999 proficiency, jumped again.

【Skill: Sage Art (Perfect Grade)…】

The moment he broke through to Perfect Grade, a large amount of Sage Art insights suddenly appeared in Muzuki’s mind, giving him a clearer understanding of the essence of Sage Art.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

At this very moment, the Shadow Clones studying Breathing Technique also dispelled themselves, and a large amount of insights and thoughts about Breathing Technique entered Muzuki’s mind.

Muzuki connected the two bodies of knowledge and contemplated, gradually gaining a completely new understanding of Breathing Technique Sage Art.

Finally, with only ten minutes left of Enlightenment, Muzuki exhaled a long breath of white air, looking at the system panel with a faint smile.

【Skill: Breathing Stream Sage Art…】

It’s done!

Sage Art Breathing Technique is complete!

Now he had not only solved the problem of the guidance technique but also largely completed the construction of the Breathing Technique Sage Art system.

“Breathing Technique Sage Art is developed. It’s time for my disciples to learn Sage Art.”

Muzuki thought to himself.

The learning threshold for traditional Sage Mode is very high and also very dangerous, so Muzuki had never let his disciples go to Mount Myōboku to learn Sage Art.

The Breathing Stream Sage Art developed by Muzuki has a significant difference in its threshold compared to traditional Sage Mode.

Breathing Stream Sage Art does not require as much Chakra as the Sage Mode of the Three Great Sage Regions.

However, correspondingly, Breathing Stream Sage Art has a certain threshold for Breathing Technique.

One must cultivate an advanced Breathing Technique to the Master Grade before they can begin cultivation.

Overall, the threshold isn’t much different.

Although Muzuki’s disciples have all cultivated Breathing Technique to the Master Grade, and their proficiency is not low, this does not mean that advanced Breathing Technique is easy to cultivate.

There are many reasons for this result.

Firstly, it was Muzuki who taught Obito and the others. Muzuki’s position in Breathing Technique is comparable to the patriarchs of the Three Great Sage Regions, and he is also a cheat-version patriarch with teaching skills and other abilities.

Secondly, Obito and the others themselves are not ordinary Ninja; they possess great potential.

It is actually very difficult for ordinary people to cultivate Breathing Technique to the Master Grade; even the proficient grade of advanced Breathing Technique is a level that most Ninja in the Ninja World cannot reach.

Of course, for Obito and others who already have Master Grade Breathing Technique, Breathing Stream Sage Art is purely a Sage Art Gospel.

Muzuki spent a month further perfecting the system, then gathered his disciples, except for Might Guy, in Six Paths City.

Muzuki only intended for Rin Nohara and Yamato to learn how to sense natural energy.

Their strength was not yet sufficient to master the complete Breathing Stream Sage Art.

He only called them over because achieving the first step could, to some extent, enhance the power of their existing Breathing Technique, and it would also make it easier for them to learn Sage Art in the future.

As for Might Guy, Eight Gates and Sage Art are inherently in conflict. Unless Might Guy doesn’t open the later gates of Eight Gates in the future, mastering Breathing Stream Sage Art would be useless for him.

At this stage, Might Guy doesn’t actually need to add any other methods; he only needs to steadily improve his physique to enhance his overall strength.

“Sage Art!”

Obito on the Training Ground was excited.

After mastering Sage Art, he could also barely be considered a small Sage.

He was one big step closer to becoming Obito Sage, like Muzuki Sage.

“Sensing natural energy and absorbing and controlling it is the first step of Sage Art, and also the most important step of Sage Art, the foundation of Sage Art.”

Muzuki tapped Obito’s head to make him settle down and began explaining Sage Art to his disciples.

“And sensing natural energy means sensing nature. You must try to integrate your breathing into nature, and through this, feel the earth and the sky, and feel the natural energy flowing in nature.”

Muzuki systematically explained the key points of the first step of Breathing Stream Sage Art cultivation.

Since this step was about building a foundation, Muzuki was not in a hurry, explaining in detail for nearly three hours before letting his disciples try to cultivate.

On the first day, none of the disciples sensed natural energy, including Kakashi, who had already mastered Transparent World.

“It seems I indeed have good Sage Art talent.”

Muzuki thought.

He used to think that his fast Sage Art cultivation was greatly related to Transparent World, but now it seems that while it played a role, his own Sage Art talent also accounted for a significant portion.

On the second day, still no one could sense natural energy.

On the third day, a change occurred. Towards the end of the cultivation session on the third day afternoon, Kakashi was the first to sense natural energy.

“Damn it, am I going to be caught up by Kakashi?”

Obito felt a sense of crisis.

Although he wielded two space-time Ninjutsu, Kakashi now also possessed a powerful space-time ability like Limitless.

If Kakashi surpassed him in Sage Art, he might truly catch up to him in strength.

On the seventh day, Nagato, who used the Shadow Clone cultivation method, became the second disciple to sense natural energy.

This further intensified Obito’s sense of crisis. Nagato was already so strong; if he mastered Sage Art, Obito would have even less hope of surpassing Nagato.

Finally, on the fourteenth day of Muzuki teaching Sage Art, Obito and Shisui simultaneously sensed natural energy and could proceed to the next step of cultivation.

“Use your breath to absorb the controlled Chakra into your body, then control that natural energy to merge with the Chakra within your body.”

Muzuki explained the advanced content to Obito and Shisui.

Breathing Stream Sage Art does not require ‘immobility’; as long as the Breathing Technique is running, natural energy can be absorbed.

However, during combat, allowing breathing to absorb naturally is certainly less efficient than absorbing natural energy wholeheartedly while standing still. Therefore, it still has a duration, but it lasts longer than Mount Myōboku’s Sage Mode.

Yamato and Rin Nohara, Yamato’s Breathing Technique level was poorer, and Rin Nohara’s Chakra was insufficient, so both progressed slowly.

Rin Nohara only sensed natural energy on the thirty-second day, and Yamato was even slower, sensing natural energy on the thirty-eighth day.

Fortunately, they didn’t need to learn anything else; being able to sense natural energy was already achieving their goal.

As for the other disciples.

Kakashi, who had the fastest progress, was already able to initially enter Thunder Breathing Sage Mode at this time, and it was perfectly done, with no abnormalities on his body.

Breathing Technique Sage Mode does not cause any physical abnormalities; not even eye shadow appears. The body simply emits a faint glow corresponding to the Breathing Technique, such as orange-red for Flame Breathing, blue for Thunder Breathing, and orange for Yang Release Breathing.

If there is any abnormality, even just a facial marking, it means that natural energy has not been controlled well, indicating that Sage Mode is not perfect.

Nagato was refining his control over natural energy, laying the foundation for mastering Perfect Sage Mode.

Obito and Shisui were striving to catch up to Nagato and Kakashi.

Due to varying progress, Muzuki used Shadow Clones to teach his disciples, while his main body moved between all disciples to provide guidance.

For Kakashi, who could already enter Thunder Breathing Sage Mode, Muzuki began practical training, allowing Kakashi to get used to Sage Mode in combat.

“When you become more proficient, you can try to enter Breathing Technique Chakra Mode while in Sage Mode. This is an important method of Breathing Stream Sage Art.”

Muzuki said to Kakashi.

Since it is Breathing Stream Sage Art, the original abilities of Breathing Technique can certainly continue to be used.

Muzuki had tried it.

Due to their common origin, using Breathing Technique Sage Art and Breathing Technique Chakra Mode simultaneously was better than when he used Mount Myōboku Sage Art to drive Breathing Technique Chakra Mode, and the power of Sage Art corresponding to the Chakra attribute would be greater.

Kakashi nodded thoughtfully.

Muzuki’s disciples all had a solid foundation in Breathing Technique. When Nagato, Obito, and the others also mastered Sage Mode, they all achieved perfect Sage Mode, with no facial markings or abnormalities.

After reaching this stage, Muzuki no longer taught them collectively. Instead, disciples could come to him with questions.

Most of the time, the disciples cultivated on their own in various locations.

Because at this stage, Sage Mode was Getting Started, and self-cultivation would not be dangerous.

During the teaching period, Muzuki also wrote some lecture lesson plans.

Therefore, Muzuki quickly resumed lecturing, continuing to improve his Chakra Nature Transformation through lectures.

This time, Muzuki focused on Chakra Nature Transformation and did not teach Breathing Technique.

Breathing Stream Sage Art was complete, and Sun Breathing was also successfully developed. He temporarily had no need to continue researching Breathing Technique.

Under Muzuki’s targeted improvement, coupled with the blessing of the Sage Body, Muzuki’s Yang Release Chakra Nature Transformation quickly broke through to Perfect Grade as well.

At this point, of the seven great Chakra Nature Transformations, Muzuki only had the final Earth Release Chakra Nature Transformation remaining at the Master Grade.

“It’s time to pay a visit to the Tailed Beasts.”

Muzuki glanced at his panel and quickly rushed to Konoha.

His Earth Release Chakra Nature Transformation was already close to Perfect Grade. Next, he only needed to hold a few Earth Release specialized sessions in Iwagakure, and breaking through to Perfect Grade was inevitable.

However, Muzuki roughly estimated Six Paths Sage’s Chakra based on Uchiha Madara’s Chakra and felt that if he wanted to manually create Truth-Seeking Orb, he still lacked a bit of Chakra and needed some help from the Tailed Beasts.