Chapter 806: Research

In the end, Obito announced that both teams were tied for last place and all had to complete a hundred questions.

Of course, Anko and the others could also offset the questions by doing extra training, reducing the pressure of doing them, or doing them in installments, giving them more time.

“Let me show you what true Ninjutsu is,” Obito said, puffing out his chest.

Although he had only been in the parallel world for a week, his strength had indeed improved significantly.

The pressure of battle was too great; if he didn’t improve, he might perish.

Anko and the other two showed expressions of anticipation.

Boruto’s expression remained unchanged.

Boruto’s opinion of Obito had changed quite a bit, but he still didn’t think Obito could produce a Ninjutsu that would shock him.

He was someone who had seen great things and experienced many powerful Ninjutsu up close.

“Flame Breathing, Total Concentration!”

Obito gathered a large amount of natural energy into Flame Breathing Sage Mode and immediately entered Flame Breathing Chakra Mode, enhancing his Fire Release Chakra Nature Transformation.

“Sage Art: Spiraling Sphere – Azure Flame!”

Obito extended his right hand, gathering a large amount of Fire Release Chakra in his palm, and a Chakra Ball burning with Azure Flame rapidly formed.

Originally, this was a powerful Sage Art that could only be performed when Kakatobi was in his body, but after Obito grew stronger, he could now perform it alone.

“Are you ready? It’s going to explode,” Obito’s Shadow Clone, which he had created beforehand, smiled and transferred Anko and the other three to a safe distance before the main body slammed the Rasengan into the ground.

Boom!

As soon as the Shadow Clone finished speaking, a muffled explosion rang out, dust and smoke billowed, and broken stones flew everywhere.

When the smoke cleared, Boruto looked in Obito’s direction and saw that the previously flat Training Ground now had a charred crater dozens of meters wide, and large patches of Azure Flame were still burning within the crater.

Boruto’s mouth was slightly agape; he hadn’t expected Obito to also know Rasengan, and such a powerful one he had never seen before.

“How about it? Impressive, right?” Obito waved his hand to extinguish the burning flames and walked triumphantly in front of the four.

Aside from the unreasonable Kamui, this was the strongest technique he could currently use.

“Captain Obito, I want to learn this!” Anko raised her hand and shouted at the fastest speed.

“Very good, very spirited. With your learning speed, you should be able to meet the requirements to learn Azure Flame in another twelve years,” Obito speculated, stroking his chin.

“Ah? Twelve years is too long,” Anko complained, saying she had only lived for fourteen years in total, and this requirement was too high.

“Too long? I have a common method that takes one day; do you want to learn it?”

“Yes! Yes!”

“Before you go to sleep tonight, keep repeating ‘I have mastered the Azure Flame Rasengan’ in your mind, and you might have a corresponding dream tonight.”

“Bang!”

Obito tapped Anko’s head with two fingers together and said, “If you want to learn powerful techniques, you must train diligently and build a solid foundation. Don’t think about achieving success in one go.”

Even with Lord Mu Yue’s guidance, he had trained for a long time before being taught Azure Flame.

“Then how long did it take you to meet the requirements?” Boruto asked curiously.

“About three years,” Obito replied after recalling.

“What, do you want to learn?” Obito chuckled as he reached out to touch Boruto’s head, but Boruto dodged him.

“I just asked casually.” Boruto did not answer Obito’s question.

Boruto definitely wanted to learn such a powerful Ninjutsu, but he couldn’t use Fire Release, and even a genius like him might need several years to meet the requirements.

But this wasn’t their world; they wouldn’t stay too long.

“I want to use that favor you owe me to help me find Sasuke.”

To prevent Obito from misunderstanding, Boruto deliberately called Sasuke by his name without adding any honorifics.

“Sasuke…” Obito thought for a moment, roughly understood Boruto’s meaning, and could guess a bit of Boruto’s thoughts.

If he had traveled to a parallel world similar to the past, he would definitely go see young Muzuki.

“Small matter, no need to use the favor. I’ll take you to find him tomorrow.” Obito readily agreed.

Since he also had to train Anko and the others, Obito scheduled the time for tomorrow.

Boruto had no objection to this and stayed with Obito and the others for the rest of the day.

It wasn’t that Obito insisted he stay there, but Boruto found it interesting, so he didn’t leave.

Watching Obito train Anko and the two others, Boruto felt like he was watching a live-action comic, and a rather humorous one at that.

When he acted as “training equipment” and participated in it, it became even more fun.

Happy times always passed quickly. When Obito said the training for the day was over, Boruto realized it was already past three in the afternoon.

Since everyone wasn’t very busy, after a short break, Obito and the others accompanied Boruto to stroll around Konoha.

Strolling around Konoha with more people was indeed more interesting. Boruto was in a good mood until they returned at five o’clock… “Lord Mu Yue, I’m afraid we have failed again.”

Looking at the thoroughly lifeless condemned prisoner, Orochimaru turned to Muzuki and said.

“It should be that your Chakra is too strong. Perhaps we should screen for people who are more skilled in Taijutsu; a stronger physique might be able to withstand it.”

“The problem is not in physical strength, but in the body’s ‘aptitude’.” Muzuki shook his head and said.

To save Boruto and to thoroughly research the powerful divine technique ‘Karma’, Muzuki sought out Orochimaru to study ‘Karma’ together.

However, their research was not just unsuccessful; it was practically impossible to even begin.

Because the people who could bear ‘Karma’ were simply too rare.

Muzuki and Orochimaru tried for two days, and all the condemned prisoners ended up dying violently.

“So, what kind of ‘aptitude’ is it? Ninjutsu or something else?” Orochimaru asked.

“If it’s in terms of Ninjutsu, this body of mine is still acceptable.”

After exchanging memories with the parallel world’s Orochimaru, Orochimaru discovered many abilities he possessed, and Living Corpse Reincarnation was one of them.

His idea was to master the Living Corpse Reincarnation from his memories and then use his old body as an experimental subject.

“It’s highly likely to be useless. ‘Aptitude’ refers more to the talent for bearing ‘Karma’.” Muzuki replied.

People with ‘aptitude’ would not have poor Ninjutsu talent, but this did not mean that people with Ninjutsu talent would have ‘aptitude’.

Ōtsutsuki Kaguya said that finding people with ‘aptitude’ was very difficult. Even if the Ōtsutsuki relied on their strength to force the natives to come one by one as experimental subjects, it often took a lot of time to find a native who could bear ‘Karma’.

However, the Ōtsutsuki who possessed Karma had eternal lifespans as long as they didn’t die by accident, so they didn’t care about this aspect.

For them, a thousand years was not a very long unit of time.

“In that case, our research on Boruto, the victim himself, would be a good choice,” Orochimaru suggested.

Theoretically, Boruto, who had already borne ‘Karma’ for some time, was the most ideal research material.

“No.” Muzuki shook his head and refused.

Letting a twelve-year-old child cooperate with Orochimaru for research, heaven knew what kind of psychological trauma it would leave.

If Boruto’s thawing progress had already exceeded seventy percent, for Boruto’s life, Muzuki might let him choose whether to adopt aggressive therapy.

But the thawing progress in Boruto’s heart was still very low; as long as it was controlled properly, there would be no problems for a long time.

“Hmm.” Orochimaru nodded and didn’t mention it again, as if he hadn’t said that sentence.

Around six in the evening, Muzuki returned home.

Muzuki first checked Ōtsutsuki Kaguya’s condition and was then surprised to find that Ōtsutsuki Kaguya was actually watching TV, and seemed to be enjoying it thoroughly.

Muzuki was not short on money, so even the rooms he didn’t use were fully equipped, and Ōtsutsuki Kaguya’s bedroom was no exception.

Muzuki watched for a while with great curiosity, but quickly lost interest because it was a TV series about mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships, which was not within his scope of interest.

“Do you know how to slow down the thawing of ‘Karma’?” Muzuki asked.

Erasing ‘Karma’ was something even Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, a pure Ōtsutsuki, considered impossible, so a complete cure for Boruto was extremely difficult.

Slowing down the thawing of ‘Karma’ could buy more time for a cure.

“I know how to accelerate the thawing of ‘Karma’,” Ōtsutsuki Kaguya answered honestly.

The faster Karma thawed, the more beneficial it was for the Ōtsutsuki, so they naturally wouldn’t research how to slow down the thawing of ‘Karma’.

At least not in Ōtsutsuki Kaguya’s memory.

“You’ve already told me that,” Muzuki said. He had only asked casually, so he wasn’t too disappointed.

If it was just about slowing down the thawing, Muzuki actually had a very effective plan himself.

He could perform the Six Paths Sealing to seal Boruto’s Chakra. At that time, the thawing speed of ‘Karma’ would enter its minimum, becoming extremely slow, requiring sixty to seventy years to fully thaw.

However, doing so would have a problem: Boruto would no longer be able to use Chakra and could only be an ordinary person.

This was cruel for someone with excellent Ninja talent like Boruto, so Muzuki only kept that as a backup plan.

Only when the research made no progress and Boruto and his companions had to return would Muzuki bring out this plan.

At night, Muzuki sat cross-legged on the tatami, closing his eyes and sensing the Six Paths Chakra within his body.

According to Muzuki’s fantasy realm division, the Six Paths Sage was also a Six Paths Level peak expert. For the current Muzuki, there were many aspects he could learn from.

“I wonder what the reward will be this time.”

After his training, Muzuki looked at his disciples’ life missions, Shisui’s progress bar, nearing ninety percent, was particularly conspicuous.

After breaking through to Six Paths Level, the system’s help to Muzuki had greatly diminished.

Even the rewards from Kakashi’s and Might Guy’s life missions during the Fourth Great Ninja War, when settled, were merely better than nothing for Muzuki’s strength, without much significance.

He was already comprehensive enough, lacking neither offensive nor defensive means.

However, Muzuki did not underestimate the system.

The potara earrings drawn from Shisui’s life mission last time were quite extraordinary; they not only became a trump card for his disciples but also couldn’t be said to be useless to Muzuki.

It could only be said that as Muzuki’s strength increased, only the settlement rewards from high-progress life missions might be useful to him.

Currently, Shisui’s life mission was absolutely in the lead. The second highest was Obito, who was one percent away from eighty percent completion.

Third was Might Guy, currently at over seventy percent progress.

As for Kakashi, his life mission was rather special, different from the others.