Chapter 167: Speedrun Missions

"There are two difficulties in learning False Darkness: one is compressing the Lightning Nature Chakra to ensure power, and the other is control—when you need to sweep a large area, you can split the lightning spear into multiple bolts to guarantee the attack range."

Muyue demonstrated again and continued explaining.

"Compression and splitting..." Kakashi looked thoughtful, and then Muyue's words kept echoing in his mind. As Kakashi kept thinking, in his memory, the Muyue who released False Darkness gradually turned into Kakashi himself.

"I see." Kakashi looked as if he suddenly understood.

Watching the proficiency of False Darkness on Kakashi's panel skyrocket, Muyue felt that the enhanced teaching skill was pretty good.

Kakashi's False Darkness proficiency had just shot up to over twenty points.

Then it was Kakashi's turn to practice the jutsu himself.

Following the memory in his head, Kakashi formed hand seals step by step and performed the jutsu.

"Lightning Release: False Darkness!"

Kakashi opened his mouth and spit out a bolt of lightning that struck a tree not far in front of him. However, unlike Muyue, Kakashi's lightning didn't sweep a large area or even fell a single tree—it only scorched the spot where it hit.

Seeing the failure, Kakashi immediately fell into reflection, recalling the steps he had taken to perform the jutsu and wondering which step went wrong.

"Compressing lightning isn't as easy as you think. You need to get more familiar with that feeling." Muyue spoke up, pointing out the mistake.

Explaining the principles and techniques of various jutsu in a simplified way never seems hard. Rasengan is about highly compressing chakra and controlling it into a sphere with constant disordered motion, and Chidori is just making the converted lightning chakra sharper through shape transformation.

But actual training is a different story—these techniques are not so easy to master. It's like math: the teacher tells you that you just need to grasp certain formulas to solve the problem, but those formulas are hard to master.

Muyue let Kakashi try twice more on his own, then he taught Kakashi again from the beginning, emphasizing and demonstrating the places where Kakashi had made mistakes.

This was Muyue's preferred teaching style: letting students learn with problems in mind, so that when he demonstrated again, Kakashi would pay more attention to his own mistakes.

"So that's how it's solved." Kakashi nodded to himself, raising his opinion of Muyue by another notch.

In terms of strength, Muyue was an excellent ninja, and in teaching, Muyue was also an extremely outstanding teacher.

Kakashi had been taught by many people—not only the teachers at the ninja academy but also several jonin instructors, and his father had also taught him.

But just in terms of teaching, Muyue truly gave Kakashi a very novel feeling. Knowledge kept flowing into his brain, and while studying with Muyue, his thinking seemed to become more active.

"He really is a reliable teacher. Maybe I can ask him about training problems in the future," Kakashi thought to himself.

【Disciple Hatake Kakashi trust level increased. Current trust level: 2】

Muyue was not surprised by Kakashi's level-up.

Trust level 2 isn't hard—it roughly means feeling this person is quite reliable. His other three disciples all started at trust level 2, which shows that.

The higher the trust level, the harder it becomes. The distance from trust level 2 to trust level 3 might be larger than the distance from one to two repeated five times, and going from 3 to 4 is even more difficult.

Muyue felt that Might Guy and Obito already trusted him very much—they were practically the people they trusted most after their fathers and grandmothers—yet even so, they hadn't reached trust level 4, which shows just how hard it is.

Moreover, Kakashi's promotion to level 2 was also the result of Muyue's design.

To raise trust, Muyue established an excellent persona: strong in ability, knowledgeable, a good cook, and having unique insights into ninja.

Then the next day, Muyue deliberately let Kakashi spar with Might Guy and Obito. Understanding each other was real, but making Kakashi feel a sense of urgency was also the goal.

Two former loser friends were now about to surpass him, the genius ninja. Muyue didn't believe Kakashi's heart would remain unmoved.

It was at this moment that Kakashi discovered his new instructor was an excellent teacher with superb teaching skills. Of course, he would want to learn from his instructor.

Muyue was professional when it came to handling disciples. It was hard for Kakashi to reach level 3 at the current stage, but pulling up trust to level 2 wasn't difficult.

After the morning training ended, Muyue took the students to continue doing missions in the afternoon.

"Today we're going to do more missions than yesterday afternoon. We'll do ten in one go!" Obito said excitedly as he approached the Hokage Building.

"Are you stupid? Even if each mission takes half an hour, ten missions would still take five hours." Kakashi said speechlessly.

Some missions could be completed quickly by relying on connections and strong mobility, but labor missions like picking up garbage took at least an hour or more.

"It's not even two o'clock yet. Even if it takes five hours, it'll be before seven. That's not too late." Obito felt his goal was fine.

"Use that rusty brain of yours to think properly. Can you really finish every mission in half an hour? Turning in missions also takes time." Kakashi's words gradually became aggressive.

"Isn't it just a lack of confidence? I can understand you. After all, I won all three missions yesterday." Obito said smugly.

Yesterday's three consecutive wins were a sharp weapon for him to attack Kakashi.

"Kakashi, want to have another contest today? See who can complete more missions first." Obito challenged, feeling great about beating Kakashi.

"It seems I need to show you what a true ninja is." Seeing Obito still daring to act cocky, Kakashi decided to teach Obito the harshness of the ninja world.

"How could a contest like this be without me!" Might Guy also joined in.

"Alright, today's mission target is ten. If you complete them, I'll treat everyone to my special homemade cooking." Muyue said with an encouraging smile.

If Obito and the others really could do ten, then his chakra would increase. Kakashi was also a disciple now, so completing commissions would give an extra reward.

After arriving at the Hokage building, in order to save time on submitting missions, Muyue took on five commission missions at once.

"This team completes missions so fast. At this rate, there will soon be no odd jobs left for them." The ninja who registered missions for Muyue exclaimed.

D-rank missions were the only ones without any danger. Many odd job missions were subsidized by Konoha or simply issued by Konoha itself. For ordinary teams, one or two a day was fine, but at the pace of Muyue's squad doing seven missions in one afternoon, they were really not enough.

"Then what will happen when they come to take missions?"

"Let them wait and train first. According to the rules, they can't take C-rank missions yet."