Chapter 126: Emergency Jonin Meeting

The next day, Obito had his Shadow Clone attend the ninja academy while his main body continued training in the southern forest.

Though the experience of class would eventually return to him, training still had to be done.

"I can't lose to Guy in the grade practical exam a month from now!" Obito thought to himself.

In his battles with Might Guy, he lost more often than he won, and Obito was unwilling to accept it—since they were both disciples of Muyue and received similar training, how could Obito admit defeat?

Moreover, Obito had never once taken first place in the grade practical exam; he felt this was an imperfection, and arguing with Kakashi would lack confidence.

"Becoming an excellent ninja starts with getting first in the grade practical exam!" Obito shouted with great fighting spirit.

Shisui beside him couldn't empathize but still said, "Good luck."

"Perceive flame, understand the power of flame." Shisui recalled the key points Muyue had explained while using the Breathing Technique and beginning fire-natured chakra nature transformation.

Since the Breathing Technique wasn't yet very familiar, requiring concentration, doing both at once caused Shisui to make several mistakes before succeeding.

Sensing the leaf in his palm had turned to black ash, Shisui lightly flicked his hand, not feeling anything special.

Shisui hadn't expected to complete the training in one go—after all, even Might Guy, who started first, was still stuck on the step of sensing elemental power. Shisui continued his nature transformation training.

Performing nature transformation and the Breathing Technique simultaneously drained Shisui's mental and physical stamina quickly, and during breaks he didn't idle, using Fire Release to ignite wood and continue sensing flame.

Though somewhat crude, this method was certainly direct enough.

By noon when Muyue's main body arrived, Shisui had yet to perceive anything special.

Upon arriving, Muyue first appraised each of them; their proficiency remained unchanged at fifteen points.

"Let's train later—eat first." Muyue said with a smile.

What used to be the happiest part of the day now made Obito a bit afraid—after all, the two spicy meals from before were still fresh in his memory.

"Spicy is fine; the first meal won't be a big deal." Obito quickly took the lunch box.

According to his experience, finishing the first meal was fine, but the problems came afterward.

As Obito expected, opening the lunch box revealed a sea of red—bright red chili peppers greeted his eyes.

"So spicy, so delicious!" Obito cried out from the heat while devouring the food aggressively.

Because Muyue's cooking was simply too good, even if it was extremely spicy, he couldn't refuse it.

How to describe that feeling? It was like someone on a diet thinking they'd eat a little less this meal, only to find a dish they loved, and unconsciously their goal of eating less turned into just not getting too stuffed.

As he kept eating vigorously, Obito's gaze grew somewhat dazed, sinking into the fiery illusion.

Once he came to, Obito quickly finished the remaining food and immediately began training in Flame Breathing, wasting not a single second.

Lunch break at the ninja academy was very short; Muyue didn't stay long before his main body returned to teach classes.

After eating, Shisui also quickly resumed training—though those heavily spiced dishes had a unique flavor, he couldn't handle eating them every day.

After school in the afternoon, Muyue first went home to cook, but to his surprise, an emergency jonin meeting was suddenly called.

"It's all those barbarians from Cloud Village—how long has it been, and this is the third jonin meeting?" Kushina believed it was entirely Cloud Village's fault.

Muyue didn't want to judge—the war was indeed started by Cloud Village—but he felt Kushina was letting a little personal emotion into it.

"Muyue, you're a special jonin now, so you need to attend too. Let's go together." Minato said with a smile of invitation.

"Mm, I'll rely on you two seniors to show me the ropes." Muyue nodded jokingly.

Immediately after, Muyue's main body went to the Hokage building for the meeting along with Minato and Kushina, leaving a Shadow Clone to deliver meals to Shisui and Obito.

On the way to the Hokage building, Minato thoroughly explained the Leaf Village jonin meeting to Muyue.

Normally, the jonin meeting was held twice a year, in January and June.

Moreover, the emergency jonin meeting and the regular jonin meeting were held in different rooms.

The regular jonin meeting took place in a standard meeting room with many tables and chairs.

The emergency jonin meeting, however, was held in an empty room with only four chairs.

Muyue and Minato arrived neither early nor late; some ninja had already come to the meeting room, but not many.

Although Minato had not yet become the famous Yellow Flash, as Jiraiya's disciple he was considered promising for the future, and many jonin greeted him.

As a newly promoted jonin, Mu Yue was a rookie that few recognized, so hardly anyone greeted him. However, he was happy to be left alone and was frantically using the Appraisal Technique to gather data on the jonin of Konoha.

Although the Appraisal Technique's potential assessment was a bit rigid, it was still pretty good for learning chakra amounts and ninjutsu.

【Name: Hyuga Hizashi】

【Chakra: 】

【Skills: Gentle Fist (Proficient: 2900/3000) ...】

【Potential: S (Base Talent + Hamura Bloodline)】

Mu Yue also glanced at Hizashi's older brother, Hyuga Hiashi, and found that their stats were similar—both had S potential. However, Hizashi had slightly more chakra, while Hiashi mastered more Hyuga taijutsu.

The Hyuga brothers, Hizashi and Hiashi, were the weakest adult S-potential holders Mu Yue had ever seen.

Both were S potential, and though Minato was five years younger than the Hyuga brothers, even if the two brothers fought together, they couldn't last three minutes against Minato.

"Their bloodline adds too much," Mu Yue thought to himself. If he had to grade them, he wouldn't even give them an S-, at most an A+.

The bloodline of the Six Paths brothers granted very high potential, but ordinary people could hardly stimulate that potential or realize it.

As time passed, Mu Yue kept appraising more and more jonin.

Anyone from the Hyuga or Uchiha had potential at least A, with high ones reaching S. Mu Yue even saw an S+ he had never encountered before.

【Name: Uchiha Fugaku】

【Chakra: 】

【Skills: Fire Nature Chakra Transformation (Mastery: 20/) ...】

【Potential: S+ (Base Talent + Six Paths Bloodline)】

Undoubtedly, Fugaku's S+ was also subject to a discount; he too hadn't turned his Six Paths bloodline boost into real strength, because Fugaku was four years older than the Hyuga brothers and fully nine years older than Minato.

At this jonin meeting, Mu Yue truly saw many high-potential fakes, mostly from the Hyuga and Uchiha; the other jonin had potential around A or B.

"Ahem." Seeing that almost everyone had arrived, Sarutobi Hiruzen cleared his throat and said, "The meeting begins."

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