Chapter 47: Major Stats Boost

【Name: Yusheng Muyue】

【Age: 18】

【Chakra: 8000】

【Skills: Teaching, Fire Release: Great Fireball, Palm Sage, Wind Release: Pressure Damage, Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall, Eight Gates...】

【Evaluation: You have mastered all seven chakra nature transformations and are proficient in Fire Release and Water Release. If it's just a clash of techniques, an ordinary jonin would be crushed by you. All you need to do is keep increasing your chakra to become a strong shinobi.】

Compared to when the exam ended last month, the stat panel had another surge.

This month, due to the training missions, the chakra increase was especially pronounced.

When he first crossed over, it was April. From April to May, the total chakra increase was a thousand, rising from 4,300 to 5,300. Including the five hundred chakra from the early May exam, that made 5,800.

From the end of the early May exam to the present, the start of June, the increase was much larger, jumping directly from 5,800 to 8,000—a total gain of 2,200 chakra.

Muyue used to envy the Root jonin's seven thousand chakra, but in just the past two months, he had already surpassed them. Now he had a thousand more chakra than that Root jonin.

However, Muyue knew it would be difficult to maintain this chakra growth from June to July.

The sudden large increase was because Obito's training mission rewards had been settled. Currently, no new training missions had appeared, and there was no exam from June to July—the final exam was in mid-July.

Besides the pleasing chakra increase, Muyue also received a series of rewards, including mastery of Water Release nature transformation, mastery of Fire Release: Great Fireball, and proficiency in Yin Release nature transformation.

These rewards greatly helped improve Muyue's actual combat strength; it would be awkward to have plenty of chakra but lack skills.

Mastery of various chakra nature transformations was the reward Muyue most wanted right now.

After mastering both the Water and Fire nature transformations, not only did the output ceiling of the corresponding elemental ninjutsu increase, but Muyue also felt that if he worked hard for a year, developing the Boil Release kekkei genkai should be no problem.

If he mastered all seven nature transformations, Muyue dared not imagine what he could develop—hand-crafting Truth-Seeking Balls?

After thinking it over, Muyue felt it might not be enough. Mastery wasn't the highest level; he probably needed one more level above that to possibly hand-craft Truth-Seeking Balls.

Still, even if he couldn't hand-craft Truth-Seeking Balls, developing various kekkei genkai should be relatively easy.

"Obito, Kakashi, you both got first place—that's wonderful." Rin Nohara showed a sweet smile as she congratulated Obito and Kakashi.

Both were her good friends, and them both getting first place together was the best outcome.

"Hehe, it's partly thanks to you cheering me on down there, Rin." The scene he had imagined twenty days ago became reality; Obito was very excited and thanked her with a slightly reddened face.

It would have been even better if Kakashi's name weren't there, Obito added in his mind.

"A tie for first place—I guess that counts as a draw." Might Guy showed a thoughtful expression.

Up until now, his battles with Kakashi had all ended in losses—never a win or a draw.

Seeing Obito successfully tie with Kakashi in ninjutsu stirred something in Might Guy, and he wanted to fight Kakashi again.

"Kakashi, to celebrate your first place finish, let's have a battle!" Might Guy was quick to act.

"I refuse. Since when is that a way to celebrate? Getting first in this kind of exam doesn't need celebrating either." Kakashi refused Might Guy while also taking a jab at Obito.

Obito immediately wanted to get into a verbal battle with Kakashi, but only gave up when he saw Muyue and Asuma approaching.

"Obito, you little rascal, were you holding back during the previous exams? Suddenly you're this strong." Asuma jogged up to Obito, patted his shoulder, and joked.

"Not at all. It's all thanks to learning from you, Asuma." Obito replied.

Back when he was practicing walking on water, he had persisted only because of the example of Asuma that Muyue had told him about.

"Haha, I should be learning from you. You use Fire Release so impressively." Asuma, thinking Obito was just flattering a friend, laughed and put his arm around Obito's neck.

"Muyue-sensei." Rin Nohara, Obito, and Might Guy greeted Muyue, who was walking up from behind.

Because he often substituted for Class 2-4, Rin Nohara was fairly familiar with Muyue.

"Good job." Muyue smiled and encouraged, not saying much. Soon he left with Asuma.

Actually, he had reminded his three disciples that when others were around, they should not reveal their relationship—just act like the normal teacher-student dynamic at the academy.

Muyue didn't explain the reason, leaving his disciples to fill in the gaps themselves.

Even so, Muyue felt it was better to minimize contact when other people were present; the Obito of this time really wasn't very reliable.

Before leaving, Muyue used Appraisal on Kakashi.

【Name: Kakashi】

【Chakra: 2500】

【Potential: S】

【Evaluation: Suitable for training in Lightning Release and Earth Release; recommended to take as a disciple】

Looking at Kakashi's panel, Muyue felt a sudden temptation.

At eight years old, he had 2500 chakra—that was no ordinary value.

He had used his Appraisal on all the Chunin instructors at the Ninja Academy, and most of them were between 1500 and 2500, meaning eight-year-old Kakashi already surpassed many Chunin in chakra.

If he took him as a disciple and raised his trust level, the chakra he provided would definitely be substantial.

Muyue quickly abandoned this somewhat enticing idea; Kakashi was not as easy to fool as Obito, and he was still a Chunin—why would he learn from a Chunin instructor like him?

"Kakashi is only S-rank too. Could it be that without Six Paths bloodline, potential maxes out at S?" Muyue thought of another question.

Having already Appraised many people, he knew that potential was not the same as talent; otherwise, even with the same S-rank potential, how could Obito and Might Guy have fallen so far behind Kakashi during their academy days?

Compared to talent, Muyue felt that potential represented a person's possibility.

Those families with Six Paths bloodlines had greater possibilities, hence their potential was higher. For example, among the Hyuga and Uchiha, Muyue had never seen potential below A.

Despite such high potential, not all members of the two clans became Jonin; the two gate guards with B- potential even managed to become Special Jonin in the story.

After Muyue and Asuma left, Obito and the other three discussed it and finally decided to celebrate by eating ramen.

Because they had won first place, Obito generously treated them, saying the ramen bill was on him.

However, while eating ramen, Obito and Kakashi inevitably argued.

"Have you ever gotten first place in your year at the Ninja Academy?" Kakashi asked flatly.

"When you can keep first place in your year until graduation like I did, then come argue with me about who wins and loses."

Obito was speechless; he really had never gotten first place in his year, not even first in his class.

Might Guy paused his ramen-eating movements, caught in Kakashi's sweeping attack, because he too had never been first in his year.

Meanwhile, Muyue, who was teaching Asuma, received a system pop-up.