Chapter 204: Idea for a New Breathing Style

Minato's letter was quite concise, with nothing too important; condensed into one sentence, it was roughly "I'm off to the battlefield for a mission, please take care of Kushina's meals."

Of course, the actual content certainly wasn't that blunt—it was more tactful, and there were thanks and such.

Although the content of Minato's letter didn't cover anything too significant, the fact that Minato was going to the battlefield held a certain meaning for Muyue.

Perhaps the probing attacks had ended, and both sides of the war had begun formally engaging in combat.

Even though the Third Shinobi World War would last about four or five years, it wasn't as if the first four years were all probing and only the final year rapidly reached a climax.

But that had little to do with Muyue now; as long as the intensity wasn't on the level of ten thousand Iwa shinobi storming the border, he, as a Special Jōnin specializing in teaching, would basically never be assigned war missions to fight on the battlefield.

That was the only good thing about being a teacher at the ninja academy—unless things were at their worst, teachers wouldn't be sent to the battlefield.

After reading Minato's letter, Muyue began organizing his own improvement plan.

First up was Obito, who would soon drop gold coins; his birthday was only twenty-one days away, and if nothing unexpected happened, it would be another perfect-level skill.

Right after Might Guy's birthday ended, Muyue directly asked Obito what birthday gift he wanted.

Obito talked big usually, but when Muyue actually asked him, he couldn't say much and ended up saying anything from Muyue would be fine.

Obito's answer was within Muyue's expectations—not because Obito had a twisted personality, but because Muyue was always too good to them; in such a situation, Obito felt even more embarrassed to trouble Muyue.

The reason Muyue asked even though he knew the answer was to plant the awareness in Obito's mind that "Teacher Muyue cares about me and takes my birthday gift seriously," making it easier to stir up emotions at the end.

About ten days after Obito's birthday, they could claim the reward for one exam.

That's right, even during the internship period, they still had to return to school normally to take exams—that was a rule Muyue had set.

This was the last regular exam Obito and the others could take; the next final exam would be the graduation exam, testing only the Three Basic Techniques.

Apart from fixed items like birthday gold coins and exams, Muyue's improvement plan mainly focused on his disciples' training, because their improvement equaled his own improvement.

Obito's Breathing Technique had already progressed some distance into the Beginner stage, and Muyue planned to conduct new special training for the Breathing Technique, aiming for the next realm: Constant Concentration.

So-called Constant Concentration means maintaining Full Concentration Breathing 24/7, even while sleeping.

Of course, this Full Concentration Breathing wasn't the extreme version, but a relatively concentrated one—a slightly weakened Full Concentration Breathing; completing this step would cause a qualitative change in physical ability and greatly enhance the effects of the Breathing Technique.

Besides the new training in Breathing Technique, Muyue was also thinking of ways to get Obito to awaken the Sharingan.

The benefits of awakening the Sharingan were numerous—powerful dynamic vision and genjutsu enhancement, plus an increase in chakra.

That was also why the Uchiha clan had so many Jōnin; as long as one awakened the Sharingan and survived, normal development led to becoming a Jōnin.

Although Shisui had awoken his eyes on his last birthday, Muyue didn't think Obito could do the same.

Shisui's trust level reached 3 much later than Obito and Might Guy, but he was the first to reach 4; the emotions that erupted that night were too intense, which is what triggered the Sharingan.

Obito, on the other hand, probably had the highest trust level among his disciples, leaving little room for such an outburst.

Muyue's current idea was to up the difficulty for Obito and the others the next time they encountered an enemy, to give them a little thrill.

As for Might Guy, the focus would remain on the Eight Gates, first reaching the level of being able to open the Third Gate.

Shisui could join Obito in the Constant Concentration training for Flame Breathing, and then train his Sharingan to enhance his Haki.

As for Kakashi, first make him act a little more normal, then focus on Thunder Breathing as his main subject and Armament Haki as supplementary.

After organizing what needed to be done next, Muyue headed to the Southern Border Forest.

When Muyue arrived, he found things just like usual—all his disciples were training.

Muyue was a little surprised to see all five disciples neatly present, since Obito, though not exactly lazy, wasn't as passionate about training as Might Guy; when there was rest time, he actually rested.

"Looks like everyone's full of drive today," Muyue praised with a smile.

Might Guy flashed two rows of white teeth and gave a thumbs-up in affirmation.

Kakashi silently continued doing various Breathing Technique moves, offering no comment.

Obito forced a smile to show agreement.

Seeing his disciples highly motivated, Muyue quickly started the day's teaching.

Since Might Guy and Obito hadn't yet mastered Yin Release nature transformation, they hadn't started formal training in Armament Haki.

Currently, Obito's Yin Release nature transformation proficiency had reached around seventy points—so victory was in sight; Might Guy's was much lower, only around twenty points—he still needed a lot more effort.

Through unremitting efforts, Kakashi finally broke through ten points in Lightning Breathing proficiency, and can now basically use breathing to enhance his physical abilities. Although the enhancement is modest, it is still a breakthrough from nothing.

As for Shisui, he also made some progress with Armament Haki. After twenty days of hard training, his Armament Haki proficiency finally reached twelve points, and he is gradually getting the hang of it.

As for Rin, her chakra control improved to a higher level, allowing her to get started with Monstrous Strength, which further enhanced her explosive power. At the same time, her study of the Mystical Palm Technique is on the right track.

In order to further enhance Rin's strength, Muyue is trying to develop a new breathing technique to teach Rin.

He has mastered three major breathing techniques, and one of them has reached the perfect level. In terms of breathing techniques, it can be said that he understands them quite well.

Without mentioning developing a stronger one, he is capable of developing a breathing technique of a similar level.

However, his knowledge of medical ninjutsu is insufficient, so he definitely cannot develop Medical Breathing. But Muyue has Water Nature Transformation with a proficiency of over seven thousand, so he can develop a Water Breathing for Rin. Rin's natural affinity happens to be Water.

Having mastered Water Breathing and Monstrous Strength, Rin should not be easily captured during war.

At the end of the training, Obito couldn't wait to run in front of Rin and share his experience.

"Rin, you absolutely cannot imagine how exciting our mission experience was. Two C-rank missions, one turned into A-rank and one into B-rank, and each time we encountered ninja enemies of considerable strength." Obito said excitedly, he had been holding it in for too long.

Then Obito vividly described the scene of himself quickly defeating the powerful enemy.

Rin politely smiled, applauded, and praised him.

"That's really exciting. All three of you are so amazing, just like the way the teachers talk about their mission experiences."

"Hehe, it's also because Teacher Muyue is amazing. Other interns seem to only take miscellaneous tasks in the village." Looking at Rin's smiling face, Obito felt satisfied, thinking this trip was worth it.

After finishing, Kakashi was going to leave directly, but he heard Obito and Rin's conversation and stopped; he only left after Obito finished speaking.

If Obito had added any embellishments, he would have revealed how Obito almost got injured due to carelessness. But this time, what Obito said was mostly true.

Headache and diarrhea prevented writing. Today's update will be a bit less; there will be another chapter later.