Chapter 334: Five Custom-Made Ninjutsu

Ninja School Teacher: I Get Stronger Just by Teaching, Main Story Chapter 252 – Five Custom Ninjutsu. PS: Readers who read the previous chapter yesterday morning can download and read it again—I felt something was off around noon and made a revision.

"Today we begin the final training for Constant Breathing State—maintain the breathing method around the clock." Muyue spoke.

The most important point of Constant Breathing State is being able to maintain the breathing method for twenty-four hours. Obito and Kakashi have already improved their breathing method's upper limit, but they haven't truly completed the Constant Breathing training yet.

"Is it Total Concentration Breathing or just normal breathing?" Obito scratched his head and asked.

If it were Total Concentration, he couldn't even last an hour doing nothing, let alone a whole day.

"Just normal breathing is fine. And you don't need to do too much training either." Muyue answered with a smile.

The concentrated breathing of Constant Breathing State is relatively focused, different from the extreme concentration used in combat. Obito and the others haven't yet trained in all-day breathing; they have to progress step by step.

Hearing this, Kakashi nodded. In that case, even though he hadn't fully recovered, he could join the training.

"That sounds pretty easy." Obito chuckled, thinking it was a relaxing training session after the Chūnin Exams.

"Of course, to keep you motivated, if you fail to maintain the breathing state, every break requires you to do one question. If you don't resume within ten minutes, another question is added." Muyue stated the training rules.

Although his disciples were generally diligent, punishment rules were still necessary to give them a greater sense of urgency.

Others might not be affected, but Obito and Might Guy definitely were.

After hearing Muyue's words, the smile on Obito's face instantly disappeared and turned serious. His premonition seemed correct—it was that damn question-answering training again.

Even though Muyue's questions had helped him achieve decent results in the Chūnin Exams, that didn't make Obito like doing questions. Just thinking about those black-and-white exam papers made his head start spinning.

"This training is really tough." Might Guy wore an expression like he was facing a formidable enemy. Even someone as diligent as he had never managed to maintain the breathing state all day.

If Might Guy had to do questions, he would rather fight the Cloud Hidden jonin for another hour.

Under Muyue's arrangement, all disciples except Rin Nohara began their final Constant Breathing training.

Rin Nohara had only been exposed to the breathing method for too short a time; she hadn't even entered the Water Breathing technique yet. Training in Constant Breathing was still too early for her.

Moreover, Rin's current training focus was on medical ninjutsu. Her role in the team was more about healing. Given the power of her current jutsu, preserving chakra to support her teammates was better than using it offensively.

Unfortunately, on the day the Chūnin Exams ended, Muyue took Rin to Tsunade's place but failed to entrust Rin to Tsunade's care.

Otherwise, with Rin's talent in medical ninjutsu, she could have learned a lot from Tsunade.

It wasn't that Tsunade looked down on Rin; rather, Tsunade had business in the Land of Fire's capital recently and couldn't teach for now.

Although he really didn't want to do questions, Might Guy didn't change his training plan because, in the end, strength training was for his own benefit.

However, it was hard to complete the first training session perfectly. Two hours later, the first person unable to maintain the breathing method appeared.

"Kakashi, once." The shadow clone assigned to monitor Kakashi recorded it.

"Kakashi, are you that bad? You stopped after just that long?" Obito immediately mocked upon hearing it.

"It's just one question. Do you think I'm you? Even ten questions wouldn't bother me." Kakashi caught his breath and said calmly.

He kept trying to enter the Transparent World. Each attempt required him to concentrate his breathing to the extreme. Even without much training, the drain was tremendous, and occasional breaks didn't help.

Kakashi could feel he was close to the true Transparent World, so he focused all his practice on that, even setting aside Armament Haki for now.

If Muyue knew what Kakashi was thinking, he would tell Kakashi that he was right.

According to Muyue's appraisal, Kakashi's proficiency in the Transparent World had reached ninety points. Only ten more points were needed to truly master it.

"Keep forcing it. When you have to do the questions, you'll suffer alone." Obito pursed his lips, thinking Kakashi was being stubborn.

Kakashi didn't argue with Obito much. After resting a few minutes, he re-entered the breathing method state.

Once his body was better, he would challenge Shisui again. Since it had been a while since their last disciple spar, he didn't know how strong Shisui was now. To defeat Shisui, Kakashi planned to strengthen himself as much as possible during this period—after all, improving one's own strength was never wrong.

Soon, at the two-and-a-half-hour mark, the second person unable to maintain the breathing method appeared—none other than Obito, who had mocked Kakashi earlier.

Kakashi didn't say a word; he just glanced at Obito and gave a snort of laughter.

"The Flame Breathing Chakra Mode consumes a lot of chakra!" Obito's face flushed slightly as he explained loudly.

Normally it wouldn't have been a problem, but he had just practiced some Body-based ninjutsu like Flaming Charge, which expended too much, causing a break.

Everyone else was busy training, so no one responded. Obito rested a few minutes before re-entering the breathing method state.

After five hours of training, failures to maintain the breathing method became more frequent. Everyone had to concentrate completely on their breathing just to barely keep up.

Even during the midday break, Mu Yue still made everyone maintain their breathing technique properly.

Due to the morning's exertion, the afternoon was even worse; the number of times they failed to maintain their breathing technique increased.

When the day's training ended, Mu Yue announced everyone's training results.

"Kakashi thirty-four, Obito thirty-two, Gai thirty-one, Shisui twenty-eight."

"Everyone worked hard today. Go back and rest early. Tomorrow's training content will be the same," Mu Yue reminded.

For now, Kakashi and the others could still rest well, but when they reached the stage where they had to maintain the breathing technique even while sleeping, they would have trouble sleeping soundly.

"We have to come again tomorrow!" Upon hearing that, Obito stumbled and nearly fell to the ground.

Since graduating, Mu Yue rarely conducted consecutive problem-solving training; it was usually about once a week.

In a daze, Obito seemed to see a mountain of problems and a sea of test papers crashing down on him—a miserable life was about to arrive.

"Although the training is a bit tough, I believe you can quickly complete the Constant Training. When that time comes, I'll make you a feast to celebrate," Mu Yue encouraged with a smile.

Obito swallowed back the words he wanted to say. Mu Yue trusted them so much; how could he give up easily?

He couldn't blame Mu Yue for the many problems; it was his own training in breathing technique that was lacking. It was his problem. If he trained the breathing technique well enough to maintain it continuously, then he wouldn't have to do problems.

Because the summer training was still ongoing, the next day Mu Yue only sent a shadow clone to teach Obito, while his main body went to teach the summer training students.

At this point, the summer training was about halfway through.

That day, Mu Yue gathered Group B and Group A and announced a new curriculum.

"From now on, Groups B and A will have class together temporarily. Next, we will learn ninjutsu!" Mu Yue announced.

Group C would also learn, but because they were a bit behind in the curriculum, it would be their turn after today.

"We can actually learn ninjutsu." Some students showed joy on their faces. They had thought teaching nature transformation was already generous, but they didn't expect this free-of-charge training to also teach ninjutsu.

Groups B and A were almost all genin, with only a few excellent Academy students. But even for genin, it was a rare opportunity to learn ninjutsu from Mu Yue.

After all, this was a tough guy who could fight tailed beasts, and his teaching ability was especially strong.

"What kind of ninjutsu will it be?" Genma Shiranui was very expectant.

He still remembered Mu Yue's demonstration on the first day of training. If it were those five ninjutsu, then learning them would be incredibly profitable.

"This course is not mandatory. If any of you feel these ninjutsu are of little help, you don't have to learn them, because the ninjutsu I'm about to teach are some low-level ones I created myself," Mu Yue explained.

When Mu Yue decided to teach nature transformation, he developed five ninjutsu for teaching purposes. After all, only learning nature transformation without specific ninjutsu wouldn't help in combat.

Although he knew many low-level ninjutsu, for most students, even C-rank techniques like Phoenix Sage Fire and Great Fireball weren't easy to learn and use.

Considering this, Mu Yue used his extensive ninjutsu knowledge to further reduce the power of ninjutsu and developed five D-rank techniques.

"Developed by Teacher Mu Yue himself!" Asuma perked up. These were developed by Teacher Mu Yue; even if the rank was low, Asuma felt they had more potential than ordinary ninjutsu.

Because Mu Yue was a ninjutsu genius. Asuma still remembered when he first met Mu Yue, Mu Yue could only use Fire and Water Release, but now he could freely use ninjutsu of all five elements.

"Fire Release: Small Fireball Technique!"

Mu Yue had the students spread out a bit, then performed hand seals and spat out a fireball half the height of a person, leaving a scorched mark on the ground.

Fire Release was currently Mu Yue's strongest ninjutsu; not only was his nature transformation at the perfect level, but he also had a great deal of proficiency in Fire Release techniques. So this D-rank Fire Release was the fastest for Mu Yue to develop.

Mu Yue also casually developed advanced versions: the C-rank Great Fireball Technique and the B-rank Fireball Sea Technique.

"Wind Release: Wind Slash!"

Mu Yue performed hand seals again, and his palm burst with a sharp strong wind, leaving scratch marks on the large tree beside him.

This was the most difficult of the five low-level ninjutsu Mu Yue developed, because for Wind Release to have offensive power, the level of nature transformation couldn't be too poor.

"Water Release: Water Impact!"

"Lightning Release: Electric Beam!"

"Earth Release: Rock Thrust!"

Mu Yue quickly demonstrated the remaining three ninjutsu. Water Impact spat out a water column, Electric Beam shot out an electric current, and Rock Thrust controlled the ground to protrude rock pillars for attack.

He had ideas for further development of these ninjutsu. For example, Water Impact could add shape transformation to become thinner and increase penetrative power, while Electric Beam could also head in the direction of False Darkness.

The reward for an S-rank evaluation made Mu Yue very satisfied, so the special training would continue indefinitely. If the participating ninjas kept coming, they could learn advanced ninjutsu.

"If only last year's special training had been like this," a student couldn't help but sigh after watching.

He had already graduated a few months ago, but his supervising teacher still hadn't started teaching them ninjutsu, only taking them through some basic drills.

If he could have mastered this kind of ninjutsu while still in school, he would truly be far ahead.

Even being able to master a technique like Great Fireball or Phoenix Fire at the genin stage was considered outstanding. New graduates like him usually relied on taijutsu and ninja tools.

Many civilian genin empathized with this—the path of a civilian ninja was truly too difficult.

If you happened to have a teacher whose chakra nature matched yours, that was fine. But if your natural affinity was Water and you ended up with a teacher specializing in Fire Release, it was really miserable.

After the demonstration, Mu Yue split into five Shadow Clones to teach ninjutsu of the corresponding nature types.

Basically, all the students who could learn went to learn, since Mu Yue taught so well, and more skills never hurt.

Of course, it also depended on the situation. Team Nara Enshui and the like didn't learn—they relied on their clan secret techniques, so studying these wouldn't help them much.

"They've already started learning ninjutsu!" Gou Tetsu watched the activities of Group B and Group A with great envy.

Then Gou Tetsu couldn't help but ask Mu Yue's Shadow Clone in Group C, "Teacher Mu Yue, when will our Group C start learning ninjutsu?"

Gou Tetsu looked at Mu Yue nervously, terrified that Mu Yue would say "no."

"Based on your current progress, probably about four days from now," the Shadow Clone of Mu Yue replied after thinking it over.

It wasn't that he was being biased, but Group C's progress was indeed slower, so they would start later.

"Awesome!" Gou Tetsu was extremely excited. Finally, he could learn other ninjutsu—he was sick of practicing the Three Body Techniques.

Perhaps because they could only learn the Three Body Techniques at the academy, the students of the Ninja Academy were incredibly enthusiastic about learning ninjutsu.

After learning that the delay was due to their progress, the students of Group C worked extremely hard on nature transformation, all eager to learn ninjutsu as soon as possible.

This burst of motivation allowed them to meet the requirements a day early, and three days later they also began learning ninjutsu from the Shadow Clone.

After studying ninjutsu for two weeks, they happened to face a new practical exam. Many students gained a deeper understanding of ninjutsu through combat. Being able to use a technique and actually making it effective in battle were two different things.

After two practical exams, the special training was nearing its end, since it was originally scheduled for only five weeks.

In the final week, following the strong requests of many students, Mu Yue changed the training duration to six weeks.

"I feel like there's still so much I don't understand about ninjutsu. Since I have nothing to do during break anyway, Teacher Mu Yue, could you teach us a bit longer?"

"Teacher Mu Yue, if it really doesn't work, just cancel the weekends off. If school starts, we definitely won't learn this there."

Many students begged Mu Yue to extend the training time or hold extra classes during the holiday.

Although adding another week of classes would leave them with only a few days of summer vacation, the students didn't think it was a big deal—there would always be holidays, but the chance to learn ninjutsu was rare.

Compared to themselves, the students were more worried about Mu Yue, since teaching so many people was far more exhausting for him than for them to learn.

Faced with such diligent students, Mu Yue had no reason to refuse. No pain, no gain. Extra classes were indeed tiring, but the rewards were also greater.

However, this was ultimately an unplanned change. When Mu Yue went to Hiruzen Sarutobi's house to learn ninjutsu, he reported the matter to Hiruzen.

Now, whenever Mu Yue visited Hiruzen's house, he usually handled two things at once: first, consulting Hiruzen about ninjutsu and demonstrating his progress to reinforce his genius persona, and then reporting the progress of the special training.

Because there were especially many students this time, Hiruzen Sarutobi attached considerable importance to this special training.

"If the students are willing, adding one more week of classes is fine. It's just that you'll have to work hard, Mu Yue," Hiruzen said, lightly stroking his goatee.

When Mu Yue set up the special training, he had considered the students' vacation time. Even after the training ended, the students still had more than a week of holiday, so adding another week would not affect the normal start of the Ninja Academy. As for the genin, they had even more freedom in their schedules.

"As long as the students can learn something, I don't mind a little extra work," Mu Yue said seriously.

He meant it sincerely, because the more the students learned, the more rewards he would receive.

"If every teacher were as excellent as Mu Yue, the strength of the Ninja Academy students would definitely improve by a large margin," Hiruzen Sarutobi praised.

Hearing such sincere words from Mu Yue, Hiruzen was moved.

Normally, a ninja of Mu Yue's caliber would never teach at the Ninja Academy. With such strength, he could earn a lot of money and resources by taking missions, and completing high-difficulty missions would also enhance his reputation and accumulate experience for higher positions.

"Such an outstanding ninja should be given more rewards," Hiruzen decided to give Mu Yue additional compensation.

After discussing the extended teaching period, Mu Yue reported the students' progress from this exam to Hiruzen Sarutobi.

"Your original ninjutsu?" Sarutobi Hiruzen showed an intrigued expression.

Muyue gave Sarutobi Hiruzen a simple demonstration.

"Though they are all very simple ninjutsu, I can see your foundation in ninjutsu. You put thought into this." Sarutobi Hiruzen nodded in approval.

"When the school term starts, those teachers are bound to be shocked by the students—they've all learned new ninjutsu." Sarutobi Hiruzen said with a chuckle.

The special training that Muyue ran always brought him surprises; one could say Muyue alone accomplished what all the Ninja Academy teachers combined could not.

Sarutobi Hiruzen thought it over and decided to create a new position specifically for Muyue at the Ninja Academy.

The head of the teaching staff could not be casually removed or replaced, and Muyue had basically already reached the highest possible rank among the Ninja Academy's positions. If Sarutobi Hiruzen wanted to promote Muyue further, he would either have to give him a different position or create a new one.

Sarutobi Hiruzen planned to inspect the final exam; if there were no issues, he would make Muyue the Vice Principal of the Ninja Academy.

Since the founding of the Ninja Academy, there had never been a Vice Principal position, because the principal's identity was too special—the principal was the Hokage. What standing did anyone have to become Vice Principal?

Sarutobi Hiruzen now felt that Muyue's abilities were sufficient for him to become Vice Principal.

5k, another 3k chapter coming up shortly.