Chapter 136: Eight Gates Chakra

On Friday morning, Gang Zitie got up early and headed to the ninja school.

"Hongdou, good morning." Gang Zitie greeted.

Although they occasionally argued, the three brothers still had a pretty good relationship.

"Good morning." Hongdou responded with a giggle.

"Hehe, today's breakfast is red bean soup and sweet bread. Not bad." Hongdou hummed an unknown tune, sharing her breakfast with Gang Zitie, looking in a very good mood.

"Today is a good day." Gang Zitie said.

"Later, we'll go to school and see our exam results."

"Ah, the results come out today?" The smile on Hongdou's face gradually began to fade.

Although she had thought about reviewing before the exam, in the end she only started studying on the last day.

Right after the exam she thought she had done well, but the previous two exams had proven that her feelings weren't very reliable.

"What's so bad about results coming out? Then you can ask Muyue-sensei for a reward again." Gang Zitie said deliberately, a smile appearing on his face.

Although he wasn't as good as Hongdou in practical combat, in theoretical grades he could crush her.

"Hongdou, you look so happy, you must have done really well. When you tell Muyue-sensei, he'll definitely reward you with dumplings." Gang Zitie snickered.

Hongdou was speechless—she really didn't know how she did. If she regressed like last time, not only might she not get dumplings, but her head would definitely get a knock.

"Zitie, Hongdou, good morning." Shenyue Chuyun walked up and greeted them.

"Sigh, I feel like I might have gotten a decent score, but my feelings don't seem to be very accurate." Hongdou said a little dejectedly.

"Don't overthink it. I think this exam wasn't very hard, and your score will definitely be higher than last time." Shenyue Chuyun said with a smile.

Without a doubt, he was fooling Hongdou. This exam was harder than last semester's final, and since there wasn't much time to review, he felt he wouldn't be able to maintain a perfect score.

"Hongdou, I haven't forgotten the taunts from the special training." Shenyue Chuyun thought to himself.

During the summer special training there were no theory exams, and they had been taunted plenty by Hongdou for being weak. Now that regular school was back, he had to get his revenge.

When Gang Zitie heard Shenyue Chuyun say the exam was easy, he immediately understood. They exchanged glances, and Gang Zitie nodded and said:

"Yeah, this exam was actually pretty easy. Your feeling must be right. Maybe your score will be really high this time—over ninety, even."

"Really? You two think you did well too?" Hongdou's eyes lit up.

Those two tricksters—when they said they'd do badly before, they still got over ninety or one hundred. Now they said they did well, so they must be sure of a perfect score. It seemed the exam really wasn't hard.

"Mm." Shenyue Chuyun and Gang Zitie both nodded with smiles.

"Heh heh, then let's hurry up and go see the results." Hongdou showed a cheerful smile again.

"Muyue-sensei, good morning."

On the way, the three also met Muyue, who was heading to school as well.

"Mm, good morning." Muyue nodded in response.

"Muyue-sensei, is there a reward if I improve this time?" Hongdou asked with a grin.

"Oh? Quite confident in your exam results?" Muyue asked with a smile.

"Not really. I think getting ten points more than last time shouldn't be a problem." Hongdou thought for a moment and decided to be conservative.

"Alright then. If you improve by five points, I'll reward you with one serving of dumplings. If you improve by ten, I'll give you two. But if you don't improve..." He said, holding up two fingers.

Hongdou instinctively touched her head and immediately understood.

But she wasn't panicked at all, because last time she only scored seventy-eight. If this exam was easier, even if she couldn't get eighty-eight, scoring eighty-three to earn one serving of dumplings should be easy.

"Chuyun, Zitie, why are you two smiling so happily?" Hongdou suddenly noticed that Shenyue Chuyun and Gang Zitie were smiling even more happily than she was.

"Of course we're happy for you. Maybe you'll score over ninety and get three servings of dumplings at once." Gang Zitie said with a laugh.

"Right, someone like me and Zitie have no room for improvement anymore." Shenyue Chuyun also said cheerfully.

"A perfect score really has no room for improvement." Hongdou had originally wanted to punch Shenyue Chuyun for showing off his grades, but because she was in a good mood, she let it slide.

After arriving at school, the three went straight to the bulletin board to look for their results.

Relying on their excellent agility, the three managed to squeeze to the front and began looking for their results.

“Mitarashi Anko…” Anko muttered her name under her breath as she quickly searched for her own results.

“Hey, what’s going on? Did I misread it?” Anko stared at her score, starting to doubt her life—it wasn’t what she had expected.

“Help me check what score I got.” Anko rubbed her eyes and said.

“Seventy-seven points.” Kotetsu answered with a smile.

He hadn’t even checked his own score yet, looking for Anko’s first. One look and he knew it was certain—he was definitely going to get hit.

“Yeah, I see seventy-seven too.” Izumo also spoke up.

“No way, why seventy-seven? Didn’t you guys say this exam was pretty easy?” Anko was very confused.

“It’s over, no dango for me. When I get back to the classroom, Teacher Muyue is definitely going to bonk me on the head.” Anko’s expression turned gloomy again.

“Can I take a leave? I feel a little dizzy already, maybe I’m sick.” Anko tried to avoid it.

“I think Teacher Muyue probably won’t believe that.” Kotetsu tried to suppress his smile by turning his mouth down, but still couldn’t hide the amusement on his face.

Thinking about the bragging Anko had done in front of Muyue, and what would happen when Anko went to the classroom, Kotetsu couldn’t help himself.

Seeing the weird expression on Kotetsu’s face, Anko also glanced at Izumo. Feeling that something was off, she asked, “What scores did you two get?”

“Ninety-eight.” Izumo replied.

“Ninety-seven.” Kotetsu answered.

“Didn’t you say it was easy? How come your scores are lower than last time?” Anko started cracking her knuckles.

Obviously, the whole “easy” and “improvement” thing was just the two of them ganging up to fool her.

“This exam covers this semester’s material, it has no necessary relation to last semester’s scores.” Izumo tried to explain, but as he thought about stepping back, he noticed Kotetsu had already slipped away.

“Izumo, hang in there! Show some spirit! The one standing in front of you is just someone who got eliminated in the first round of the practical exam!” Kotetsu cheered from a distance.

“This Kotetsu is extremely disloyal. How about we join forces and punish him first?” Izumo asked with a serious expression.

Anko chose to lock Izumo’s neck with her arm and gave him a few sharp flicks to the head, then sprinted toward Kotetsu.

After getting revenge on the two jerks, Anko walked into the classroom and tried to act like nothing had happened.

But when she saw the exam paper on her desk, she knew it was all futile.

“Teacher Muyue, bring it on. I’m ready.” Anko had a resigned, lying-flat posture.

Slap!

Muyue, as Anko had expected, gave her a whack on the head.

“You didn’t review again, did you?” Muyue said.

“Hehe, I did review a bit, but there wasn’t much time.” Seeing that Muyue only hit her once, Anko chuckled and her mood improved.

She had only received one hit from Muyue, but she had hit Izumo and Kotetsu three times each—she came out ahead.

Seeing this, Izumo and Kotetsu also secretly lamented that Muyue’s punishment was too light—she should have whacked her hard ten times.

In the morning was ninjutsu class, so Muyue didn’t go over the exam paper.

Originally, the exam papers were to be handed out during the afternoon theory class, but since it was her own class, Muyue brought them along and gave them out.

[Disciple Uchiha Shisui cultivated diligently and achieved a perfect score in the academic assessment. Reward: Chakra +300, Ninjutsu Proficiency Scroll]

[Disciple Uchiha Obito cultivated diligently and achieved an excellent score in the academic assessment. Reward: Chakra +250]

[Disciple Might Guy cultivated diligently and achieved a good score in the academic assessment. Reward: Chakra +200]

Exam reward settlement: another 750 points of Chakra and one Ninjutsu Proficiency Scroll obtained.

Muyue glanced at her latest status panel.

[Name: Yusheng Muyue]

[Chakra: ]

Chakra had successfully broken through twenty thousand, reaching the level of Eight Small Ka.

After finishing the morning classes, Mu Yue’s panel changed again. Although the change was not large, this kind of timely positive feedback gave people the motivation to keep working hard.

During the afternoon class, Mu Yue chose to call out names and read out scores, letting people pick up their test papers.

Under normal circumstances he wouldn’t do this, because doing so would make some people feel uncomfortable even walking a short distance.

But this time the situation was different. Except for his own Class 1-1, the other classes hadn’t been taught by him before, and this time their scores generally increased by a lot.

“I actually got seventy points this time. When I get home, my mom will definitely praise me. I improved by more than thirty points in one go.”

“Your improvement is indeed huge. I’m not that good; I only improved by a little over ten points.”

“How many points did you get?”

“Eighty-five.”

“Konoha damn it!”

The classroom was filled with a joyful atmosphere, as everyone discussed how much their grades had improved.

Only the students of Class 1-1 were relatively calm. Among them, some improved and some declined. Overall, their average score only increased by two points, no big change.

It wasn’t because they hadn’t studied hard, but because their average score was already high. The eighty points that were rare in other classes were very common in their class.

“I’m really envious that your homeroom teacher for Class 1 is Mu Yue-sensei. He’s really great at teaching and so skilled.” During the break, someone remembered the combat scores of Class 1 on the notice board and started chatting with a friend from Class 1.

Before taking Mu Yue’s class, even if they had heard of his reputation, they never imagined that teaching ability could be so strong. Just by changing the teacher, the entire class’s grades collectively skyrocketed.

Moreover, if anyone took a look at this time’s combat scores of Class 1, they would say it was outrageous. Any random student had a total score of over thirty, and it was known that the total score for the combat exam was only forty.

As for the ninjutsu results, they were uniformly ten points, making people wonder if Class 1 and they were not using the same grading standard.

“Mu Yue-sensei is strong, but it also depends on the student. A certain someone has been taught by Mu Yue-sensei every day and has regressed two times in a row,” Gang Zitie replied quietly.

“Oh, who is this certain someone?”

“Of course it’s Hongdou...”

Gang Zitie was halfway through his answer when he noticed something off about the voice. He looked and saw that the person sitting next to him was no longer Shen Yue Chuyun but Hongdou. Then he saw Shen Yue Chuyun five seats away, smiling at him.

“Zitie, who told you to run off first this morning?” Shen Yue Chuyun said with a chuckle.

Since Gang Zitie was unfaithful, then he, Shen Yue Chuyun, wouldn't be blamed for being unkind.

“I actually wanted to say that red bean soup is really tasty,” Gang Zitie tried to explain.

“Do you think I’ll believe that?” Hongdou said with a look that said ‘Do I look stupid?’

Gang Zitie thought to himself that if he thought there was no chance, he wouldn’t have said it. But considering it might add fuel to the fire, he didn’t say that out loud.

“Class begins.”

Finally, the class bell and Mu Yue’s voice temporarily rescued Gang Zitie. Hongdou didn’t dare to mess around during Mu Yue’s class.

“Actually, this morning it was Chuyun who hinted at me with his eyes...” In order not to be alone after school, Gang Zitie directly ratted out his good buddy.

Hongdou nodded. First, listen to the class; after school, they’d deal with it together.

“Under Konoha’s call, the Kage of the other four great nations gathered together. This was the first time in the era of hidden villages that five Kage had gathered, and such a grand occasion has not occurred again to this day.

At the Five Kage Summit, Konoha divided the tailed beasts equally, and the five Kage together signed a peace treaty. From then on, the ninja world temporarily entered a stage of total peace...”

When Mu Yue finished explaining the various contents of the Five Kage Summit and its significance and impact on later generations, the bell for the end of class rang.

【Complete a large class teaching】

【Evaluation: B】

【Reward gained: Chakra +40】

Under Mu Yue’s gaze, the chakra on the panel changed.

Mu Yue announced the end of class, then went home to cook, and then headed to the South Border Forest to teach students.

“Next, what you need to learn is a more concentrated and explosive breathing based on the ordinary breathing method,” Mu Yue said to Shisui and Obito.

“This is ordinary breathing.” Mu Yue performed a Fire Nature chakra transformation on his palm, and instantly a basketball-sized flame burst out.

Then Mu Yue canceled the chakra, adjusted his breathing, and gathered chakra again. A fireball twice as large as the previous one appeared in his palm.

"And this is Total Concentration Breathing," Mu Yue said.

"Actually, your current breathing can also be considered Total Concentration Breathing, but to reach my level, you need to concentrate and then explosively focus on top of that concentrated breathing," Mu Yue explained.

"Only after completing this step of training will you have truly learned Flame Breathing. It can not only greatly strengthen your ninjutsu but also rapidly enhance your physical abilities in a short time."

Finally, Mu Yue reminded them, "You must be mindful of your physical stamina and chakra consumption. Do not use Total Concentration Breathing casually; use it only at critical moments."

A powerful enhancement also represents a powerful consumption. The explosive concentrated breathing puts significant strain on the body.

The two nodded.

"Teacher Mu Yue, what happened to your hand?" Shisui asked, pointing at the bandage on Mu Yue's finger.

Actually, he had noticed it during Mu Yue's demonstration, but he didn't want to interrupt at that time.

"I've been practicing something recently. It's a small matter, no need to worry," Mu Yue said with a gentle smile.