Chapter 523: Teaching Blue Flame, Riolu Evolves

After a simple explanation, Muyue began to demonstrate.

A large amount of chakra condensed in Muyue's palm, and then a blue flame appeared above his hand.

When the blue flame in Muyue's palm reached the size of a fist, both Shisui and Obito could clearly feel the heat radiating from the flame.

"This flame is extremely hot." Shisui wiped the sweat from his forehead and thought to himself.

The blue flame Muyue released looked only the size of a fist, but the energy contained within it was astonishing.

"What a cool flame!" The more Obito looked at Muyue's flame, the more he liked it.

Ordinary fire release techniques are red. Just by looking at the color of the blue flame, Obito knew this fire technique was extraordinary.

Then Muyue tossed the blue flame onto a rock.

Under Obito and Shisui's astonished gazes, the rock rapidly melted into lava, while the blue flame continued to burn, with the fire even showing signs of spreading to the surroundings.

"The compressed blue flame has an extremely high temperature and can easily melt metal and rock." After saying this, Muyue called Yamato over.

"Yamato, use your full-strength water release and see if you can extinguish the blue flame."

Yamato nodded and began forming hand seals to gather chakra.

Obito felt a bit excited inside—could it be that this flame was impervious to water release?

Master Muyue would no longer have to worry about me being countered!

Obito felt he had previously misjudged fire release. It wasn't that fire release techniques were weak; it was that he hadn't yet learned truly powerful fire release techniques.

"Fire release, you are the best release technique." Obito silently repented in his heart.

"Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique!"

Since it was for extinguishing a fire, Yamato used a large-area water release with plenty of water volume.

A massive water sphere was expelled by Yamato and crashed onto the burning blue flame on the ground.

A large amount of water was vaporized, spreading white mist that quickly dissipated.

"Master Muyue, is this flame truly unquenchable?" Obito asked excitedly, looking at the blue flame still burning fiercely.

If it was a fire technique that could not be put out, then it was a sure-kill move. As long as it hit, the opponent would either be burned to death or have to immediately amputate the struck part.

"It's not truly unquenchable, but the vast majority of water release ninja in the ninja world lack the ability to extinguish it."

With that, Muyue used a water release technique to put out the blue flame.

"I see." Obito was a bit disappointed; he had thought it was a flame completely immune to water.

"Does Hanzo have the ability to extinguish the blue flame?" Obito asked after a moment of thought.

Although he had never interacted with Hanzo, Hanzo was someone Obito really wanted to challenge.

There were two main reasons. First, defeating Hanzo would allow him to show off in front of Jiraiya, because a young Jiraiya had lost to Hanzo, and even with teammates, he couldn't win.

Second, defeating Hanzo might earn him a cool title.

"Probably not," Muyue replied.

Obito's eyes lit up; at least when dealing with Hanzo, the blue flame could be considered an inextinguishable flame.

"Master Muyue is so modest. Even Hanzo can't extinguish the blue flame with water release. There can't be more than three people in the ninja world who can put out the blue flame with water release, right?" Shisui thought to himself.

Shisui felt that even counting Muyue, who had just demonstrated water release, three might be too many.

Since Hanzo was already a top-tier water release ninja well known in the ninja world, and even he couldn't do it, Shisui figured only the Third Mizukage had a chance.

The reason he estimated three was considering that there might be hidden water release masters.

"Besides this method of compressing the flame to increase temperature and burning power, the blue flame can also be released like an ordinary fire technique."

With that, Muyue gathered chakra in his throat and spat out a blue pillar of fire.

Everything the fire pillar swept across was incinerated.

"If your control over the blue flame reaches a certain level, you can even perform more advanced manipulations."

"Fire Release: Blue Flame: Great Fireball!"

Muyue formed a Tiger seal in her hands and spat out a vast sheet of blue flame that coalesced into a fireball.

Boom!!

The blue fireball crashed to the ground, unleashing a terrifying might far exceeding that of an ordinary Great Fireball.

When the explosion smoke dissipated, Obito and Shisui looked over and saw a large crater where the flat ground had been, with everything around turned to black ash.

"It seems the control is very flexible. If one's skill is sufficient, they could enhance it through shape transformation," Shisui thought to himself.

The principle behind the ninjutsu Muyue had just performed was not merging different ninjutsu together, but rather using the Blue Flame as a base and releasing it via the method of the Great Fireball.

"This means all the Fire Release techniques I learned before can be upgraded!" Obito grew even more excited.

Mastering this Blue Flame Fire Release essentially pulled all other Fire Release techniques up from the ground level.

Because this commotion was quite large, it attracted the attention of other disciples and Pokémon who were training.

"Blue flame." Kakashi immediately noticed the distinctive trait of the Blue Flame.

"Roar!" Charizard let out a worried cry.

If Obito learned such a powerful Fire Release, then when it beat him up—oh, I mean, helped him train—it would be dangerous.

Thinking of this, Charizard trained even more seriously. It had to be stronger than Obito; otherwise, the good situation it had worked so hard to achieve might turn back into Obito making it suffer.

"And then, you can do this too."

Muyue changed her breathing, switching to Flame Breathing, and then concentrated that breathing into the Flame Breathing Chakra Mode.

"Fire Release: Blue Flame • Flame Fist!"

Muyue gathered a large amount of chakra in her palm, compressed it, and then performed a nature transformation, swinging a fist wreathed in blue flame.

Boom!

The ground struck by Muyue's fist once again left a huge black crater.

"Fire Release: Blue Flame • Blazing Charge!"

The next moment, Muyue focused all her chakra, and the Blue Flame blazed up from her body, making her look like a man of fire.

Obito's eyes widened—this was way cooler than an ordinary Blazing Charge.

Muyue's demonstration drove Obito's motivation to learn the Blue Flame to new heights.

Powerful and cool, he had to learn it. Wasn't this way better than any Blast Burn?

"First of all, I need to make one thing clear: with your current Fire Affinity chakra nature transformation ability, you are not yet capable of learning to use the Blue Flame," Muyue reminded them.

As a signature move of a legendary Pokémon, the localized Blue Flame possessed extraordinary power but also had very high requirements.

Obito said nothing, silently listening as Muyue continued.

After all, Muyue had just finished a series of demonstrations; it was impossible that she would suddenly stop teaching. There had to be a turning point.

"But fortunately, you have mastered the Flame Breathing Chakra Mode. The Flame Breathing Chakra Mode can enhance your nature transformation ability, allowing you to barely meet the requirements," Muyue said next.

"In other words, in your future studies, you may often need to use the Flame Breathing Chakra Mode. It will be very hard, so you need to be prepared."

Learning theory can be done by just listening to lectures, but ninjutsu involves not only theory but also long hours of practice and attempts.

As the disciples' current trump card, the Breathing Chakra Mode consumes a great deal of chakra and stamina. Turning it into a routine training method—describing it as "hard work" is no exaggeration.

"Muyue-sensei, I can take the hardship. Are there any other equally powerful Fire Release techniques? I can handle even a bit more hardship," Obito said with a grin.

Obito always held one belief: no matter how hard or tiring the training, as long as it allowed him to beat Kakashi and make Rin Nohara look at him with admiration and joy, it was all worth it.

"Wait until you can use the Blue Flame proficiently," Muyue said, tapping Obito on the head precisely with her index and middle fingers together.

She herself didn't even have a Fire Release as strong as the Blue Flame.

"The key to the Blue Flame lies in the concentration of the Fire Affinity chakra nature transformation..." Muyue formally began teaching the Blue Flame.

In the moment she started lecturing, Muyue granted both Shisui and Obito Enlightenment.

Enlightenment has a cooldown of one week and lasts for two days, so Muyue would generally apply the Enlightenment buff to her disciples depending on the situation.

If there was new content or techniques to teach, she would use it immediately.

If not, then wait until the last two days to use it.

Try to make the Enlightenment buff play a greater role as much as possible.

"If you have doubts, don't keep them bottled up inside—just ask directly," Muyue said during the break.

He also had a Doubt-Resolution skill. If Obito and the others had inner doubts and sought guidance, then it would be a triple stack of Teaching, Enlightenment, and Doubt-Resolution.

However, even with the triple stack, due to the inherent difficulty of Blue Flame, Obito and Shisui still did not find it easy to learn.

It wasn't until the afternoon training session was nearly over that Obito's proficiency in Blue Flame barely reached level one.

Shisui had reached level one at the start of the afternoon training, but by the time it was almost over, he was still at level one and hadn't broken through to level two.

Clearly, learning a powerful skill like Blue Flame was no simple matter; it was a long-term battle.

"So hard! As expected of the strongest Fire Release!" The difficulty of Blue Flame didn't dampen Obito's enthusiasm; instead, it made him look forward even more to the boost in strength he would get once he succeeded in learning it.

After witnessing the power of Blue Flame, Obito unilaterally declared that Blue Flame was the strongest Fire Release, with Wild Dance of the Fire Dragon at most second place.

Letting out a long breath, Obito looked at the other disciples.

Kakashi was still running together with Lycanroc to practice coordinated attacks, Yamato was diligently training in the breathing method, Rin Nohara and Milotic were training in Water Release, and Might Guy was wiping sweat off the panting Riolu.

"Another fulfilling day has passed. Once my injuries fully heal, we can do high-intensity training together," Might Guy encouraged.

Because his injuries had not fully recovered, Might Guy's training volume was currently low.

However, Might Guy wasn't just standing by idly; he would wipe Riolu's sweat, hand it water, and use verbal encouragement to give it the strength to continue training.

"Riolu." Riolu relaxed its body and showed a happy smile.

Although its daily life with Might Guy consisted mostly of various kinds of training, Riolu was very happy.

The next moment, a dazzling white light bloomed on Riolu's body.

The sudden appearance of the white light attracted the attention of everyone present and the Pokémon.

"Guy's summoning beast has evolved too," Obito said, staring at the white light with curiosity, wondering what Riolu would look like after evolving.

Would it be a transformation like Milotic's, almost like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, or a rapid development like Lycanroc's, where some features of Rockruff could still be faintly seen?

At the same time, Obito felt a bit regretful—his idea of learning Blue Flame and defeating Might Guy together with Charizard would ultimately never come to pass.

"I wonder what abilities Riolu will master after evolving," Kakashi said, also paying close attention to Riolu's evolution.

Although the reason was unknown, it was certain that every Pokémon, after evolving, could master some ninjutsu and taijutsu.

Among them, Milotic had gained the most—from knowing no ninjutsu at all to mastering numerous Water Release techniques and even learning Medical Ninjutsu.

Although Charizard and Lycanroc's improvement was not as great as Milotic's, it was still very noticeable.

Thinking of this, Kakashi glanced at Zorua beside Shisui.

Actually, Kakashi was really looking forward to Zorua's evolution.

Because Zorua's genjutsu ability was truly special—if it was strong enough, it could definitely play a significant role in battle.

But for some reason, Shisui's Zorua had hatched relatively early, yet still hadn't evolved.

There had been Riolu to keep Zorua company, but now Riolu had also evolved, leaving only Zorua that hadn't evolved yet.

Noticing Kakashi's gaze, Zorua stared back with wide eyes: "What are you looking at?"

Kakashi silently turned his gaze back to the evolving Riolu.

Zorua puffed out its chest and raised its head proudly—it had won.

Shisui tapped Zorua on the protruding fur on its head with his finger: "Why are you being proud?"

When the white light dissipated, a majestic Lucario appeared before everyone's eyes.

Compared to the cute Riolu, Lucario had a kind of cool handsomeness.

During its Riolu stage, the round lumps on the backs of its paws had turned into sharp bone spikes, and a slightly smaller bone spike had also grown on its chest.

Aside from that, most of the changes in Lucario were growth; many traces of Riolu could still be seen.

"It doesn't look like much of a change," Obito commented.

Compared to the evolution of other Pokémon, Lucario and Riolu do not change much; it feels like Riolu simply grew up.

Kakashi nodded; what Obito said was indeed correct.

Rockruff evolved into Lycanroc. Although it didn't grow wings like Charizard, its body's fur changed quite a bit, while Riolu and Lucario still share the same color scheme.

"You've become strong all of a sudden." Might Guy happily gave Lucario a thumbs up, feeling happy for Lucario.

If not for his injuries not having healed yet, Might Guy would have wanted to test Lucario's strength with a battle.

With examples like Milotic, Charizard, and Lycanroc before them, all the disciples knew that after a Pokémon evolves, its strength greatly improves.

"Luc!" Lucario also used its paw to imitate Might Guy and gave him a thumbs up.

Right now, it felt very strong.

After evolving, it not only learned a large number of moves, but its Aura also increased a lot.

"Want to test your strength? Have a battle with Lycanroc?" Kakashi looked at Might Guy and Lucario.

Awkward, just yesterday I said I'd keep updating, today I have to write 4k again.

I'm a bit stuck; the detailed outline written earlier has been used up, and I haven't had time to supplement new ones.

(Love Fuzhu ifzzw)(:)