Chapter 484

The Rain Country, the headquarters of the Ninja Order.

Muyue, Yahiko, and the others were discussing the location for the Ninja Order's main base.

Times had changed; now the Ninja Order's status matched that of the Rain Village, so they couldn't just pick any place to settle—they had to consider it from multiple angles and aspects.

"How about a village in the central part of the Rain Country? That way, our Ninja Order's power can radiate across the nation and bring better order to the Rain Country," Yahiko said enthusiastically.

His greatest wish right now was to restore peace to the Rain Country, and setting the base in the center would allow Ninja Order ninja to reach all parts of the country as quickly as possible.

"You want the Ninja Order's every move to take place right under the Rain ninja's noses?" Kakuzu countered.

The Rain Village was built in the central region of the Rain Country. Given the disparity in manpower between the two sides, it wouldn't be difficult for the Rain Village to keep an eye on the Ninja Order.

Although they were currently coexisting peacefully, in Kakuzu's eyes, an enemy that wasn't fighting yet was still an enemy—they had to be treated with caution.

"If we choose the center, it's inevitable that the Rain ninja will be wary of us," Chi Chang added.

When the peace talks were held, Hanzo had already shown deep wariness toward the Ninja Order. If the Order moved right next to the Rain Village, Chi Chang guessed Hanzo might not even be able to sleep peacefully.

While Hanzo's sleep quality wasn't their concern, it wasn't impossible that seeing the Ninja Order grow stronger day by day might make him panic and tear up the treaty, starting a civil war.

For the Ninja Order, the longer time passed, the more advantageous it was for them.

"Then let's not choose the center," Yahiko said, realizing he had indeed overlooked things. He looked back at the large map of the Rain Country on the table, searching for a position favorable to the Ninja Order.

"Nagato, have you found any good spot?" Yahiko asked casually as he looked at the map.

"Since our goal is to restore peace, I think the east is a good choice," Nagato replied after thinking for a moment.

Nagato always kept Muyue's words in mind: before taking action, you must be clear about your purpose.

"The east has been thrown into chaos by the Leaf-Rock War and the Sand-Cloud War. If we can calm the situation there, it should help significantly with the peace of the entire Rain Country..."

As he spoke, Nagato noticed everyone else was looking at him. Thinking he had said something wrong, his voice became timid.

Yahiko happily patted Nagato on the shoulder. "Nagato, I feel like you've improved so fast. You think about things much more comprehensively than I do."

Nagato gave a slightly embarrassed smile. He didn't think he was as capable as Yahiko; he just remembered a lot of what Muyue had said and analyzed it with the available information.

"Calming the chaos in the east would indeed be great for peace in the Rain Country, but the danger there might be even greater than in the center," Kakuzu warned.

The eastern part of the Rain Country was close to two battlefields—above was the Rock vs Leaf battlefield in the Grass Country, and below was the Cloud vs Sand battlefield in the River Country.

Wedged between them, the eastern Rain Country had become like a sieve; it was perfectly normal to run into ninja from any major village there.

Because of this environment, the eastern Rain Country currently had the highest concentration of rogue ninja and was the most active area for ninja organizations.

"After all, our Ninja Order is still lacking a lot of mid-level power," Kakuzu pointed out the Order's most critical weakness at the moment.

Even for a ninja village, their high-level combat strength wasn't weak—they had a powerhouse like Muyue who could suppress a demigod like Hanzo, and promising young talents like Nagato.

But when it came to the mid-level, they fell far short; most of the Ninja Order's ninja couldn't even beat the experienced chunin of the Five Great Villages.

No matter how chaotic the east was, nobody would be foolish enough to provoke Muyue or Kakuzu, but the other Ninja Order ninja wouldn't be so lucky. If conflict broke out, fighting would be inevitable.

Nagato's expression immediately turned hesitant. He opened his mouth to retract his suggestion—he didn't want his comrades to face danger.

"Of course, I'm not saying we can't go. A dangerous environment can hone skills, and maybe it'll be better for the whole Ninja Order," Kakuzu said, cutting Nagato off and then falling silent.

Hearing Kakuzu's words, Nagato hesitated again. He couldn't decide whether going east was a good idea all of a sudden.

"Let's put it to a vote and let everyone decide," Muyue said.

Going east actually favored Muyue, since Leaf was east of the Rain Country; the eastern Rain Country bordered the Fire Country, close to Leaf, making travel convenient.

But as the leader of the Ninja Order, Muyue naturally couldn't make the final decision based on personal reasons.

In the end, they followed Muyue's suggestion: they explained the pros and cons to all Ninja Order ninja and let over a hundred of them vote.

When the votes were tallied, Nagato was surprised—the eastern option, which was clearly more dangerous, had the most votes.

Nagato didn't understand. Most of the ninja in the Order were weaker than Yahiko and Konan, so why would they be willing to go to the most dangerous east?

In the past, Nagato would have kept his thoughts to himself and brooded over them.

But now he had a teacher he could trust, so Nagato chose to go directly and ask Muyue.

"If you want to know the answer, you shouldn't be asking me—you should go ask the people who voted," Muyue said, taking Nagato to find those ninja who had voted for the east.

"I myself am from the eastern part of the Rain Country. In fact, that place isn't just chaotic now; it was already like that during the Second Ninja World War. If the Ninja Sect can bring peace there, it counts as a small contribution to my homeland. As for danger? When has being a ninja ever been without danger?"

What surprised Nagato even more was that many of those who voted were ninjas from the local area, who understood the dangers of the east very well.

"Although the east is dangerous, there are also many ninjas there, which is beneficial for strengthening the Ninja Sect's power."

Some believed that danger also brought opportunities for the Ninja Sect's development.

"Did you get the answer you wanted?" After asking around, Muyue asked Nagato.

Nagato nodded, then lowered his head. "Compared to them, I seem indecisive and too conservative."

Muyue smiled slightly and patted Nagato's head. "Maybe it's because you're too kind and don't want to see your comrades get hurt. That's not a bad thing."

"The east is indeed dangerous. We can suspend the Ninja Sect's activities for the next two months and conduct special training to improve strength. I will serve as the special training instructor, and I can even invite Rain Ninja to join, so they can also contribute to matters in the east."

Muyue wanted to test the attitude of the Rain Ninja and then pull off something big, to see if he could sprint for a higher level of class rewards.

He felt that if he could get seventy percent of Rain Ninja of Chunin rank and above to attend class, plus all the Ninja Sect ninjas, the probability of success was still quite high.

If even that wasn't enough, then he would really have to hold a Five Kage Summit and then open a class to sprint for higher rewards. Amegakure was already one of the stronger ninja villages below the Five Great Ninja Villages.

Besides the issue of location, the Ninja Sect actually had a bunch of miscellaneous matters, such as determining the organizational structure and conducting ninja rank certification for Ninja Sect members.

The leader of the Ninja Sect was naturally Muyue, who was widely expected. As for other departments, since the Ninja Sect was still small, Muyue didn't make things too complicated, only provisionally setting up a Military Department with Kakuzu as its head.

"The reason everyone gathered together is for the peace of the Rain Country and the peace of the Ninja World. That is exactly what the Ninja Sect is doing, so there is no need for the Akatsuki to exist anymore."

As the Ninja Sect officially got on track, Yahiko formally announced the dissolution of the Akatsuki. From then on, there would only be the Ninja Sect, no longer the Akatsuki.

Yahiko's thinking was simple: the Ninja Sect itself was an organization, and the entire Akatsuki had joined the Ninja Sect. That made the Akatsuki an organization within an organization, completely unnecessary to exist.

"Are you sure, boss? If that's the case, you won't be our boss anymore," Ittan teased.

He was a founding member of the Akatsuki, but at that moment he had no opposition, because he felt the Ninja Sect was just a larger Akatsuki, only with a changed name.

"That's not necessarily true. Teacher Sōsuke said he would form a special action squad codenamed 'Akatsuki'. If I become the captain and transfer you to be a member, then I'd be your boss again," Yahiko laughed.

"If we compete, I won't give in to you." Ittan refused to be outdone, declaring he would turn the tables and become the boss.

Besides Ittan, the two Akatsuki founders, Nagato and Konan, also had no objections to Yahiko's decision.

The more one truly wanted to fulfill the ideals of the Akatsuki, the less anyone would oppose this resolution, because the Ninja Sect was already walking the path of the Akatsuki's ideals.

Muyue did not change the ninja ranks; they remained the universally used Jonin, Chunin, Genin across the ninja world.

However, Muyue did not adopt the standards of Amegakure; instead, he certified according to Konoha's standards.

Since the organization was still just starting out, Muyue lowered the standards in theory; most with sufficient strength could become Jonin.

In the end, five people became full Jonin: Muyue, Kakuzu, Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato.

Additionally, there were two Tokubetsu Jonin, one of whom was Ittan from the Akatsuki.

Fifty-two people became Chunin. Most of the ninjas who had traveled around the Rain Country with Muyue now had Chunin-level strength.

There were sixty-eight Genin in total.

【Disciple Nagato trained hard and studied diligently, achieving significant growth within the Ninja Sect. Rewards obtained - Chakra +3000, Sealing Technique Mastery Scroll, Unknown Pokémon Egg (hatchable only by Nagato)】

【Disciples Nagato, Hatake Kakashi, Might Guy, Uchiha Obito, and Uchiha Shisui studied hard under your guidance, achieving significant growth in overall abilities. Rewards obtained - Unknown Pokémon Egg (hatchable only by Hanyu Muyue)】

After Muyue finished handling the Ninja Sect affairs, two messages quickly popped up before his eyes.

Muyue calmly returned to his room, which was set up with a sealing technique, and then took out his own Pokémon Egg.

Based on past experience, once a Pokémon Egg reached the hands of the bound hatcher, one could see a faint outline. Muyue was quite curious about what type of Pokémon the system would give him.

The starter Pokémon from various regions? Or those pseudo-legendaries with high base stats? Or perhaps legendary Pokémon?

But when Muyue activated his Byakugan and looked at the large egg, something unexpected happened: he actually couldn't see what was inside. A strong green light obstructed his vision.

Muyue deactivated his Byakugan and put the Pokémon Egg back into the system space. For him, not being able to see was actually a good thing; it proved that the Pokémon inside was likely not ordinary.

Of course, it could also be that this was the teacher's Pokémon Egg, and the system had enhanced anti-peeping measures, which was why he couldn't see it.

Muyue had a relatively good mindset; he could accept either outcome.

Because as long as it was a Pokémon, it would be enough to crush most summoning beasts in Naruto.

Next, Muyue did not immediately hand the Pokémon egg to Nagato. Instead, he said he was going out for a while and told the ninja of the Ninja Sect to be careful.

From the perspective of the Ninja Sect ninja, Sōsuke had been staying at the Ninja Sect all along, so the origin of this Pokémon egg was a problem.

Actually, if Black Zetsu wasn't lurking in the shadows, Muyue wouldn't have cared, because his disciples certainly wouldn't dig into its origins.

But considering that White Zetsu was watching, Muyue had to put on an act, because his alter ego could not be exposed yet.

With the Transformation Skill in play, even if Sōsuke and Hanyū Muyue shared some similarities, Black Zetsu and Uchiha Madara would never suspect they were the same person.

To prevent any accidents, Muyue left a Shadow Clone at the Ninja Sect to guard against Black Zetsu causing trouble.

After leaving the Ninja Sect, Muyue's main body rushed back to Konoha overnight, because he had to teach the Anbu the next morning. An S-rank evaluation for an intermediate class was also a reward, not something to pass up.

……

After becoming Muyue's disciple, Yamato went to the Southern Border Forest more often, not just on Sundays anymore.

Yamato was very happy, because this way he could spend more time with Muyue each day, not just two or three hours in the evening.

However, what Yamato didn't expect was that the Muyue at the Southern Border Forest was actually a Shadow Clone.

At first, he didn't know, because Muyue's Shadow Clone's various behaviors made it impossible for him to tell it was a Shadow Clone.

Not until a training session ended and Muyue turned into white mist and disappeared before his eyes did Yamato realize that the Muyue who had been teaching him all along was a Shadow Clone.

"When Teacher Muyue is busy, he sends a Shadow Clone to teach us," Kakashi explained, seeing that Yamato was a bit confused.

As someone who had been through it, Kakashi could even guess what Yamato was thinking.

"You're thinking 'Teacher Muyue is so responsible, it's great to be his disciple,' right?" Kakashi said calmly.

Yamato covered his heart area and stared at Kakashi in surprise. How could this person read minds?

"Actually, you should be covering your brain. It's your brain that's thinking fundamentally," Kakashi corrected.

Yamato immediately changed his posture, covered his brain, and looked at Kakashi warily.

"You and Obito probably have more in common," Kakashi finally commented.

Yamato looked at Kakashi with confusion, not understanding what Kakashi meant.

Obito, who was about to go home but got caught in the crossfire, flew into a rage. He wasn't that dumb.

"You're the one who has more in common with him!" Obito couldn't help but curse.

Seeing Obito's indignant expression, even though Yamato didn't fully understand, he felt somewhat insulted.

"Not admitting it, huh? Then let's prove it with facts," Kakashi said lightly.

Ever since Charmander hatched, Obito had been getting a bit cocky. He needed to show Obito who was the vice-captain of the team.

Kakashi took out three test papers from his ninja tool pouch.

"This is a test paper I compiled from the topics Teacher Muyue taught. Let's see who truly understands," Kakashi said, waving the papers.

Obito was dumbfounded. Playing dirty, huh? Instead of ninja tools, he had test papers in his pouch.

Yamato scratched his head, a bit confused by this turn of events.

This incident clearly started with him, but somehow he felt like an innocent person dragged into it.

"These are all problems that Teacher Muyue has explained. No one would fail problems that have been explained, right?" Kakashi said while looking at Rin Nohara.

"Rin, don't you think so?"

"Even if it's explained problems, it's hard to get them all right, after all, it's been a while, and people's learning abilities differ. But passing shouldn't be too difficult?"

Rin Nohara looked at Kakashi, then at Obito, and said hesitantly.

Kakashi pretended to sigh. "Rin, you have a point. I didn't consider the ability issue. Between teammates, we should save face a bit. This test paper... maybe I'll just..."

Kakashi made a motion as if to stuff the test paper back into his pouch.

Obito couldn't stand it anymore. With a completely new test paper, he indeed might not pass. But if it was all problems they had done before, how could he fail? Absolutely impossible!

He would pass!

"Hold on, Kakashi. Today I'll show you the true value of scoring 80 on the Chunin Exam written test!" Obito confidently grabbed Kakashi's hand.

At the same time, Obito grabbed Yamato, who was about to go home. He wanted to use the scores to prove that he was smarter than Yamato.

Kakashi's lips curled up slightly—Obito was just too easy to read.

Then Kakashi showed three identical test papers to Obito and Yamato, and then gave one to each.

Yamato stared at the black characters on the white paper, gradually doubting his own existence. He recognized each character, but when they were combined, they became unfamiliar.

"Is this the script of the Land of Fire? It must be a foreign script that just looks similar."

Seeing Yamato about to faint, Obito couldn't help snickering. This was an inevitable part of becoming Muyue's disciple.

"Should I suggest to Teacher Muyue that we restart the problem-solving training?" Obito kind of wanted Yamato to experience the installment plan of doing problems, which ended up as a hell of an ever-growing mountain of questions and sea of papers.

Recalling that hellish time, Obito's body instinctively shuddered, and he quickly shook his head.

This was a Pandora's box that absolutely must not be opened. Once opened, Yamato wouldn't be the only one suffering, because Muyue always treated everyone equally—if there were test papers, everyone would have to do them.

As distracting thoughts kept rising in his mind, Obito inadvertently glanced and saw that Kakashi had already completed several problems.

This instantly startled Obito, who hadn't done a single problem, and he hurriedly started working.

But once he started, Obito discovered a serious problem: he had some memory of these questions, but he couldn't recall what Muyue had said about how to solve them; he only remembered his own thought process from back then.

"Damn it, that means I only memorized the wrong answers." Obito felt a sense of desolation in his heart.

His previously firm belief that he could pass the exam began to waver.

Obito took a deep breath. He still had one last trump card—though a bit shameless, it could guarantee a passing score and prevent him from being proven wrong by his own words.

"Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall!"

A thin wall topped with a dog head rose between Kakashi and Obito, blocking Obito's line of sight.

Obito: "..."

His trump card was gone.

He had originally planned that if worst came to worst, he would secretly activate his Sharingan and copy a little.

Obito grew a bit agitated and instinctively started scratching his head and cheeks.

But when Obito saw Yamato beside him, already lost in the three philosophical questions, he couldn't help laughing out loud, and his irritation diminished considerably.

Looking at Yamato now, Obito felt as if he were seeing his former self.

Next, Obito did his best to solve the problems. Based on past experience, he avoided using his own way of thinking, hoping to make slightly fewer mistakes.

"I'm done." An hour later, Kakashi put down his pen and used chakra to lower the earthen wall back to the ground.

There weren't many questions on this test paper, and they had all been taught before, so Kakashi finished quite quickly.

"Senior Kakashi, please take away this paper written in some unknown foreign script." Yamato, trying to think about the test content, was already somewhat delirious.

Obito looked at Yamato with pity—this is how it is when you're tormented by the test for the first time.

Thump.

Kakashi pressed his index and middle fingers together and tapped Yamato on the head. "What nonsense are you saying? This is the script of the Land of Fire."

"Obito, are you done?" Kakashi turned to look at Obito.

Obito saw the filled-in test paper in Kakashi's hand and instantly felt the pressure. He quickly picked up his pen again and raced through his thoughts to continue solving problems.

And so, Yamato and Kakashi watched Obito work on his test for an hour.

Feeling the eyes on his back and the occasional growling sounds, Obito dared not pause for a moment. After finishing writing, he didn't even dare to check and announced he was done.

Grrr~

Yamato's stomach made another inappropriate sound.

But neither Obito nor Kakashi noticed; they were busy grading each other's papers using Kakashi's recorded answers.

"The competition between Teacher Muyue's disciples is so fierce," Yamato sighed inwardly.

Even when he was in Konoha undergoing secret training under Shimura Danzo, he had never been this hungry; the Root ninjas were quite punctual with delivering meals.

"One hundred points." Obito reluctantly returned the test paper to Kakashi and said.

Although he really wanted to give Kakashi a low score, he had to admit that Kakashi actually had something—he had written down everything Mu Yue had talked about, and it was basically accurate.

"I probably got just over fifty points. I shouldn't have spaced out and daydreamed. If I'd kept working properly, I could have passed."

While scoring Kakashi, Obito also scored himself, since he had just finished the test and definitely remembered what he had written.

Obito was glad that Rin Nohara had already left—at worst, failing would only earn him some mockery from Kakashi.

"Sixty, just barely passing." Kakashi also read out Obito's score.

Obito's face showed disbelief—had he misremembered his own answers?

"Tch, almost got to grind your face into the dirt." Kakashi muttered quietly with a look of regret.

Even though Kakashi was very quiet, since the two were close, Obito still heard a bit.

"Hey hey, you just said something absolutely unforgivable, didn't you?" Obito nearly blew his top.

But because he had passed today on his own merits, Obito was in a good mood and didn't bother arguing with Kakashi.

"So, can I go home and eat?" Yamato asked weakly.

He was genuinely hungry and just wanted to leave the South Border Forest quickly to buy some food.

"What do you want to eat? My treat." In a good mood, Obito prepared to play the generous young master for once.

After all, they shared the bond of having endured the test together—a meal was nothing.

"Saury, and yakitori." Kakashi answered first, snatching the chance.

"No problem." Obito replied with a magnanimous air, only then realizing that the one who spoke was Kakashi.

"No, saury is out, and yakitori is even more out." Obito's face flipped instantly.

Yamato was a bit numb—he felt that eating was going to be delayed again for a while.

Based on his recent experience, when the two started opposing each other, it usually took about ten minutes to reach a stalemate.

Kakashi silently pulled out a photo. "Treat me to a meal, and this photo is yours."

Obito immediately lunged for the photo, but Kakashi dodged nimbly.

"Fine, I'll treat you, but you absolutely cannot go back on it." Obito dusted himself off and reluctantly gave in.

During their internal conflict, accidentally getting an ugly photo taken by Kakashi was a pain in Obito's heart—he desperately wanted to burn that photo to ashes.

"Everyone knows that I, Kakashi, keep my promises." Kakashi swore.

In fact, Kakashi really was going to hand that photo over to Obito, because he still had a hundred identical photos at home—even giving away ninety-nine more would be fine.

Since Kakashi killed the contest with one photo, the struggle ended much earlier than Yamato had imagined.

"Finally, I can eat." Yamato felt grateful to Kakashi.

Next, Obito and Kakashi took the ravenously hungry Yamato to eat.

Since it was already evening, various street vendors selling snacks had come out. Obito simply didn't take Yamato for a proper meal, instead hopping from stall to stall.

Before starting the test, Obito had sent out a shadow clone to inform his grandmother at home, so it was fine to be a little later.

Although he didn't get a proper dinner, all kinds of snacks he had never tried still satisfied Yamato greatly—his meager living allowance wasn't enough for him to afford such things.

"Obito-senpai isn't bad either." Yamato acknowledged Obito in his heart.

Even though Obito had dragged him into taking the test, he had also treated him to a lot of tasty snacks—he was a good person.

"Kakashi, you're full now, right? Give me the photo." Obito stared at Kakashi's ninja tool pouch.

At that moment, he wanted to blast Kakashi's ninja tool pouch with a Great Fireball—how could it be right to store not proper tools but test papers and candid photos?

"Here, take it." Kakashi handed the photo to Obito with a nonchalant look.

Obito immediately snatched it, then retreated two meters and stared warily at Kakashi, expecting him to hand it over first and then snatch it back when he wasn't looking.

After all, this was the naturally evil white-haired Kakashi—Obito had every reason to believe Kakashi would do that.

"Could I have misjudged him?" Obito muttered to himself, seeing that Kakashi made no move.

He felt that today's Kakashi was a bit un-Kakashi.

"I really enjoyed the meal today. You can keep the photo for yourself; I can't be bothered to take it." Sensing Obito's thoughts, Kakashi waved his hand and turned to leave.

Kakashi's carefree attitude made Obito feel awkward about his own caution, but to avoid any future trouble, Obito went ahead and deleted the photo with a burst of fire.

"Yamato, quickly use Earth Release to dig a hole. I'll bury the ashes." To ensure the photo never resurfaced, Obito even considered the possibility of a jutsu that could restore objects.

Yamato didn't quite understand, but having eaten his fill, he did as Obito said.

Seeing the photo's ashes buried deep underground where they would never see the light of day, Obito finally broke into a smile.

From today onward, he no longer had to fear Kakashi using that ugly photo to threaten him.

On the way home, Obito walked with a spring in his step—not only had he passed the test paper, but he had also completely destroyed that cursed photo. Today, he was truly amazing.

……

That evening, Mugetsu began developing a breathing technique exclusive to the Ninshu Sect.

One breathing technique alone wouldn't expose his alias, because the ninja world wasn't limited to Hasumi Mugetsu alone in understanding breathing techniques; others had also developed moves related to breathing techniques.

If Sōsuke suddenly used Clear Skies, that would expose his alias, since that jutsu was highly recognizable and had never appeared in the ninja world before as a secret technique.

Of course, it would really only be exposed in front of Uchiha Madara and Black Zetsu, as they knew more about Mugetsu's information.

Others would at most assume that Clear Skies wasn't a jutsu Mugetsu created alone, or that one of them had stolen the other's jutsu.

Mugetsu's development direction for the Ninshu Sect's exclusive breathing technique was similar to that of the Dark Breathing Technique.

Because orthodox breathing techniques were truly difficult to master. Kakashi and the others seemed to progress rapidly, reaching Constant State in a year or two, and some even awakened the Breathing Technique Chakra Mode ahead of time.

There were multiple reasons for this. First, the breathing techniques they practiced were suited to them, and they all had excellent talent.

Second, they often received guidance from Mugetsu's original body, benefiting from the boost of Mugetsu's teaching skills, as well as subsequent boosts from Enlightenment skills.

Even with all these buffs, Kakashi and the others had not had an easy journey. More than once, breakthroughs only came when their potential was unleashed at critical moments of life and death.

If ordinary people tried to cultivate Rock Breathing or Lightning Breathing, first of all, a large number would be stopped at the entry level, and reaching Constant State would require a huge amount of time and training.

Even after reaching Constant State, the Breathing Technique Chakra Mode was a realm most people could never attain.

As for the Transparent World, it was even more impossible. Even among Mugetsu's disciples, he couldn't guarantee that every one of them would awaken the Transparent World.

To awaken the Transparent World, one either had to be as talented as Kakashi, with a chance of awakening when potential exploded in desperate situations, or train the breathing technique to the Perfect level, which would ensure the awakening of the Transparent World.

Both conditions were extremely difficult, and could only be encountered by chance, not sought.

If they couldn't even learn the technique, then Mugetsu's teaching was meaningless. So for ordinary students, Mugetsu preferred to develop simpler breathing techniques downward for them to practice.

After all, his goal was widespread adoption, not selecting the best.

The Dark Breathing Technique was developed based on Lightning Breathing, with a core focus on instantaneous burst power.

To differentiate it from the Dark Breathing Technique, Mugetsu chose Rock Breathing as the foundation this time.

As a branch of Rock Breathing, the new breathing technique would mainly focus on enhancing physical fitness.

Mugetsu's current idea was to further split the new breathing technique into two small directions: one focusing on power enhancement, modifying Rankyaku as a supporting physical technique.

The other would focus on defense, using Tekkai as a supporting move.

After all, it was already a weakened breathing technique. If it balanced all aspects, the effect would be too weak.