Chapter 363: New Teaching Reward

"This Body Flicker Technique is called Flash Step, and its special feature is the ability to stack bursts to enhance movement speed." Muyue began to explain.

After all, it was a modified version, and calling it "Shave" in the world of Naruto would indeed feel odd, so Muyue named the weakened Shave "Flash Step".

Although Flash Step wasn't very Naruto-like either, Muyue couldn't think of any good names—he certainly couldn't call it "Mu Body Flicker" or "Yue Body Flicker," as that would be a bit too arrogant.

"And precisely because of the stacked bursts, it puts much more pressure on the legs than an ordinary Body Flicker Technique." Muyue reminded them again.

"Stacked bursts?" The ninja below looked confused.

Concentrating chakra and then releasing it in a burst was something they understood clearly—that was the process for an ordinary Body Flicker Technique—but they had never heard the term "stacked bursts."

Muyue knew that explaining it with words alone would be hard to grasp. With his left hand he picked up a large tree leaf, and with his right hand he picked up three smaller leaves. Then, using Fire-nature chakra, he set the large leaf in his left hand ablaze. "This is an ordinary Body Flicker Technique."

Immediately after, Muyue used Fire-nature chakra to ignite the leaves in his right hand. Although each single leaf was smaller than the large leaf in his left hand, the three leaves burning together created a bigger fire than the single large leaf.

Muyue raised his right hand slightly higher and said, "And this is Flash Step!"

Muyue's vivid and intuitive explanation instantly gave the ninja below a general idea of Flash Step's development concept.

Of course, they only understood the development concept—they still didn't grasp the underlying principle. But no one thought there was a problem, because it was clearly a fairly advanced chakra control technique that couldn't be explained in just a few words.

Next, Muyue began the formal teaching. First he explained chakra control in detail, then broke it down into demonstrations. He was so meticulous that the ninja felt like they were being chewed up and spoon-fed.

This surprised and delighted many ninja. Normally, with a class of dozens, instructors rarely taught this thoroughly; such detailed guidance usually only happened in one-on-three or one-on-one instruction.

If on the first day Muyue had left them with the impression of a young, promising, and powerful ninja, then on the second day he gave them the impression of a dedicated, responsible, and highly capable teacher.

People who took Muyue's class for the first time always felt pleasantly surprised. With the boost from the system and his experience from his previous life, he was truly unique in the entire world when it came to teaching.

Although he was a bit older than Muyue, Sarutobi Shinji could now sincerely call Muyue "teacher." Because when it came to teaching, Muyue was truly giving his all. Among the thirty ninja, each one had been individually coached by Muyue, and during the teaching process, he hardly ever rested.

When the day's teaching ended, Muyue saw the teaching settlement appear on the system panel as he had hoped.

【Intermediate teaching completed. Beginning settlement.】

【Evaluation: A】

【Reward obtained: Shadow Imitation Technique】

【First intermediate class completed. Acquired skill: Enlightenment】

【Enlightenment: Allows a person to enter a forty-eight-hour state of enlightenment. (Usable times per week: total disciple slots + 1. Effects do not stack. Unused uses are not accumulated.)】

【Enlightenment state: Clear mind, increased comprehension. (Cannot enter the enlightenment state again within five days after it ends.)】

"So it really does relate to the students' strength as well." Muyue nodded inwardly as he looked at the black text lines on the panel.

The description of this class was vastly different from before; from the text alone, it was clear that this was a higher level.

The rewards were also different. Previously, whether teaching a large class or a small one, Muyue had never gotten any secret techniques as rewards. Now it seemed that the reward pool for ordinary classes simply didn't include secret techniques.

However, Muyue's focus wasn't on the Shadow Imitation Technique. Although it was a secret technique, its attributes were mostly invested in support. Muyue was more interested in the skill called Enlightenment.

This unpretentious name was clearly not a ninja technique, but something similar to the Chef or Professor skills.

The Professor skill's status was unquestionable; it had contributed a lot to the growth of Muyue's disciples.

The Chef skill, though just a life skill, was surprisingly practical and had played a significant role on many occasions.

After reading the description of the Enlightenment skill, Muyue immediately felt it was a skill specially prepared for his disciples and himself.

Enlightenment was different from Professor—it had limited uses, and the number of uses happened to be total disciple slots plus one. The extra one was clearly for the teacher himself.

Although only four disciples appeared on his system panel, the total disciple slots were five. One was still unused, so Muyue's panel showed that the Enlightenment skill had six uses available.

After returning home, Muyue immediately applied Enlightenment to himself. After using it, the Enlightenment skill entered a cooldown countdown. Seven days later, the number of uses would return to six, regardless of how many had been used before the refresh—unless Muyue's disciple slots changed.

After using the skill, Muyue didn't feel many physical changes, only that he seemed a bit more clear-headed.

He immediately took out the Flying Thunder God scroll and began studying, wanting to see if he could make progress under the buff.

However, after studying seriously for two hours and then consulting Minato for another two hours, he still made no progress. The proficiency had not yet broken through zero.

Regarding this, Muyue had three theories: first, the Enlightenment skill had only a moderate effect; second, he truly had no talent in space-time ninjutsu, and Enlightenment could not create something from nothing—there were things that just couldn't be forced without talent; third, a mix of both—Enlightenment's effect wasn't particularly strong, and his space-time talent was so garbage it might as well be nonexistent.

To verify his thoughts, Muyue then threw himself into another three hours of intense study of Sealing Techniques.

To verify her own thoughts, Mu Yue once again studied sealing techniques intensely for three hours.

Once he started learning, there was no stopping him. Although it was already late at night, Muyue couldn't bring himself to stop studying because he had just solved a problem that had troubled him for a week—a small difficulty he encountered while improving the Yin Seal.

"The awakened state provides a considerable boost to learning ability." Muyue let out a breath, drank some hot tea, and thought to himself.

In his estimation, this difficulty would have taken him at least another five days to solve. Yet today, he solved it in three hours. This doesn't mean three hours of the awakened state equals five days of non-awakened state, but it does prove the effect of the awakened state to some extent.

Muyue kept studying until 3 a. m. before lying down to sleep. He felt that this buff was a bit unintelligent—if only he could pause it, because otherwise the time spent sleeping was simply wasted.

Usually Muyue was quite busy; otherwise, he would have wanted to pull an all-nighter for two days to study sealing techniques. With his current body, staying up for two days straight had no effect.

But if he stayed up for two days and also worked at high intensity, that could cause his condition to decline. The Anbu Root training sessions required a lot of his energy, and then he also had to use Shadow Clones to teach his disciples.

Compared to those few hours of the awakened state, Muyue preferred to stay at his peak at all times in case of unexpected incidents.

The awakened state could be used for two days each week, but some accidents, if not prevented successfully, would be hard to reverse.

Muyue woke up at exactly 7:30, quickly had breakfast, and then his main body headed to the training ground to start the third day of teaching.

While teaching, Muyue noticed something unusual. After teaching for half a day, he found that his understanding of the Shave technique had deepened somewhat.

Muyue understood the principle that teaching benefits teachers and students alike, but the effect had never been so noticeable before. Clearly, it was again thanks to the awakened state.

The ninjas undergoing training didn't understand what was happening with Muyue; they only felt that Muyue's condition was even better than yesterday, and his explanations were clearer and easier to understand.

【Intermediate Teaching Completed】

【Evaluation: A】

【Reward Received: Inuzuka-Style Beast Imitation Ninja Art】

Seeing today's reward, Muyue could basically confirm that the reward for intermediate teaching was various rare secret techniques.

A large amount of memory flooded into Muyue's mind, and much knowledge about the Beast Imitation Ninja Art appeared in his mind.

The Inuzuka clan's Beast Imitation Ninja Art mainly imitates ninja dogs. In terms of chakra nature transformation classification, it counts as Yin Release, but the Beast Imitation Ninja Art is mostly output through taijutsu, strengthening the body through the Beast Imitation Ninja Art and then using powerful taijutsu.

After acquiring the Beast Imitation Ninja Art, Muyue discovered it was a rather comprehensive secret technique. With the support of the Beast Imitation Ninja Art, Muyue could achieve a sense of smell tens of thousands of times that of an ordinary person, even able to sniff out the strength of chakra. Even this single effect could be considered a form of sensing ninjutsu.

Whether it was the Nara's Shadow Secret Technique or the Inuzuka's Beast Imitation Ninja Art, Muyue had some research interest in them, because these Yin Release and Yang Release secret techniques were indeed more mysterious than the five basic natures.

For example, with the Beast Imitation Ninja Art, could one develop a version that imitates mythical animals?

The next day, Muyue got up at 6:50 and headed to the Southern Frontier Forest.

Yesterday he had his Shadow Clone inform the disciples to come a bit earlier in the morning.

The reason for this was naturally to apply the awakened state to his disciples. This skill couldn't accumulate uses if left unused—use it early and be done with it.

"Muyue-sensei, is today some special day? Why do we have to come so early?" Obito yawned and asked.

He hadn't gotten up this early in a long time. After all, he didn't need to go to school, so why would he get up so early and suffer?

"It's not a special day. I just think the weather has been pretty nice these days, suitable for training." Muyue smiled warmly.

He definitely couldn't reveal the awakened skill, so a casual explanation would do. With the current trust level of his disciples, they wouldn't think anything of it.

"The weather does seem pretty nice, very suitable for training Flame Breathing." Obito looked up at the sky and felt Muyue had a point.

"Then I'll need to adjust the training plan a bit." Might Guy rubbed his chin and said. Normally at this time, he would still be out jogging to warm up.

Kakashi looked indifferent. Whether it was early or late didn't make much difference to him, and Shisui felt the same way.

Shizune, looking at the excited or indifferent group, felt a bit out of place.

Because Tsunade always slept in hungover until noon, she had made Shizune's wake-up time later as well—basically getting up around 8:30. Suddenly having to get up so early, she really wasn't used to it.

Although she only needed to arrive by 7, Shizune still had to cook for herself and travel, which took a lot of time.

"Is it because Tsunade-sama is too lazy and it's affecting me?" Looking at how hardworking and diligent everyone around her was, Shizune felt that the problem was herself.

After explaining, Muyue quickly applied the awakened state to his disciples. Since he had one vacant disciple slot unused, he had one extra opportunity.

Muyue thought for a moment and finally applied the awakened state to Shizune.

Shizune would be studying under him for at least half a year, so giving her one awakened state was nothing. For the next extra awakened opportunity, Muyue decided to give it to Rin Nohara; the third week would still be Rin Nohara, and the fourth week would be Asuma.

After the awakening, Muyue gave Might Guy some pointers on the Eight Gates and then went to the training ground for the new day's session.

Obito originally thought this was just an ordinary day, until after training for a while, a flash of insight suddenly struck him, and he suddenly understood the breathing technique problem he had been unable to grasp recently.

Obito looked left and right, found everything as usual, then lowered his head with an excited expression, and immediately threw himself into extremely serious training.

"Just you wait, Kakashi. Once I perfect the Flame Breathing Chakra Mode, I'll beat you so badly that you'll be spitting teeth, right in front of Rin." Obito's fighting spirit ignited in his heart.

Shh!

Kakashi activated the Transparent World and swung a fierce lightning slash. The two-meter-tall boulder in front of him instantly exploded.

After this slash, Kakashi's movements halted, and a surprised expression appeared on his face.

Just now, he noticed a change in his Transparent World — his five senses had opened further, giving him a hint of the feeling of the Transparent World that bursts forth in desperate situations.

Kakashi knew such an opportunity was rare, so he immediately devoted himself to training with extreme focus.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Shisui continuously used Armament Haki, then punched, shattering all the surrounding large trees in a short time, causing a constant roar.

He felt he had grasped some trick that greatly increased his success rate. To verify his idea, Shisui kept using Armament Haki, refining chakra when it ran low, and immediately training as soon as it recovered.

Although Kakashi had comprehended a powerful ability like the Transparent World, Shisui thought that if he mastered Armament Haki, he might not be without a chance to fight.

"Haha, my rival! Next time, I'll be the one to win!" Might Guy suddenly laughed while training.

He was confident he could master the Fourth Gate of the Eight Gates within three days.

However, Might Guy did not plan to challenge Kakashi as soon as he mastered the Fourth Gate; he wanted to master the Golden Horizon first.

"Could it be that training early in the morning is more effective?" After training for a while, Shizune found herself in unusually good condition, and couldn't help thinking.

Shizune subconsciously glanced at Muyue's disciples, noticing that Obito and the others were exceptionally hardworking — Obito and Might Guy were even training while laughing.

Shizune's thought of resting vanished instantly. Although she couldn't train while laughing, she couldn't afford to fall too far behind.

PS: The temperature drop has been too severe recently, and my body has been affected, so updates have been irregular. I'm starting to recover now.