Chapter 549: Teaching Observation Haki

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"If nothing unexpected happens, I should be able to stay in Konoha for a while. During that time, I'll train you all." Minato Namikaze said with a low cough.

Awkward as it was, he still wanted to take on the responsibility of an instructor in his free time.

Obito and the others were Minato Namikaze's only three disciples. It couldn't be helped if he was too busy with the war to attend to them, but if he didn't take on his due responsibility when he had free time, then he wouldn't be Minato Namikaze.

Then Minato Namikaze brought the three of them aside.

Since most of Obito and the others' abilities were learned from Muyue, Minato Namikaze didn't need to give too much guidance in ninjutsu.

Moreover, unlike Muyue who had a meticulous training plan, Minato Namikaze hadn't trained Obito and the others for quite some time.

In this situation, Minato Namikaze believed the most effective training was real combat.

Real combat training was something that everyone from genin to jonin did; it was a jack-of-all-trades training method.

"Fighting against sensei Minato..." Thinking of Minato's Flying Thunder God Technique, Obito couldn't help ruffling his hair.

He really wanted to learn that jutsu, but he didn't want his opponent to have it—it was too troublesome.

No matter how powerful his Blue Flame or Kakashi's Mindless Slash was, it meant nothing if they couldn't hit anyone.

Kakashi looked indifferent; only challenging training was meaningful. If their opponent was someone they could easily defeat, that wouldn't be training anymore.

Rin Nohara wore a thoughtful expression, quickly analyzing all of Minato's abilities in her mind.

"Are you ready? If you're ready, let me know in advance." Minato Namikaze said with a smile.

Kakashi nodded, Rin Nohara also nodded, and seeing this, Obito indicated there was no problem.

"Then let's begin!"

Shushushu!!

The moment Minato Namikaze finished speaking, he immediately pulled several Flying Thunder God Kunai from his ninja tool pouch and flung them toward the group.

"Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!"

Obito rapidly formed hand seals and spewed thick flames condensing into a massive fireball.

Boom!

The explosion of the fireball knocked the incoming Flying Thunder God Kunai aside.

Dealing with the Flying Thunder God, Obito had no great method; he could only try to keep the Flying Thunder God Kunai from getting close to him.

"Summoning Technique!"

"Summoning Technique!"

Kakashi and Rin Nohara both performed the Summoning Technique, calling out their respective Pokémon.

Summoning beasts were also part of one's strength; there was no reason not to use them.

"Awoo!"

As soon as Lycanroc came out, it immediately howled, locked its eyes on Minato Namikaze standing opposite Kakashi and the others, and quickly gathered chakra.

Milotic protected Rin Nohara behind itself, activated its chakra, and used Aqua Ring, creating a layer of healing water around its body.

"Rock Slide!"

Lycanroc subjected the large amount of gathered chakra to earth-nature chakra nature transformation, creating a massive boulder and hurling it toward Minato Namikaze.

"Lightning Release: False Darkness!"

Kakashi focused his breath, strengthened his lightning-nature chakra nature transformation, gathered a large amount of chakra, and used Lightning Release, spitting out a broad sheet of sharp lightning.

Minato Namikaze had no intention of taking it head-on; he immediately used the Flying Thunder God Technique to flash away.

"Summoning Technique!"

Taking advantage of the time when Minato Namikaze wasn't attacking, Obito also summoned Charizard.

"Roar!"

Looking at the nearby Milotic, Charizard let out an excited cry, even its desire to give Obito the first flame of the new day weakening considerably.

Noticing the atmosphere on the field, Charizard became even more excited—this meant fighting side by side with the goddess.

Without a word, Charizard flew into the sky, gathered chakra, and slashed wind blades at Minato Namikaze.

After using the summoning beast, Obito activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to enhance his observational ability.

When fighting Minato Namikaze, the power of ninjutsu was secondary; being able to touch Minato Namikaze was the real point.

Obito's group and their summoning beasts each unleashed ninjutsu with all their might. For a time, explosions rang out incessantly, and their training site quickly became a mess.

"They're all quite impressive summoning beasts," Minato Namikaze thought to himself.

Obito and the others had also summoned beasts on the battlefield, but at that time Minato Namikaze's mission was arduous, and with over three thousand people on the battlefield, it was too chaotic for him to notice the performance of Obito's summoning beasts.

Now, fighting against Kakashi and the others, Minato Namikaze realized that Obito's summoning beasts were all extraordinary in strength—Rin Nohara's summoning beast was even stronger than Rin herself.

"In that case, I'll have to get a bit more serious." Minato Namikaze formed hand signs and split into two Shadow Clones.

Combat training was still training. Minato Namikaze couldn't really go all out, otherwise Kakashi and the others wouldn't stand a chance—they'd only get beaten, which wouldn't achieve the training effect.

The meaning of combat training was to strengthen combat ability, to train the ability to deal with different ninjas, and to increase battle experience.

If the gap was too large and the fight was one-sided, it would be difficult to get results.

When Minato Namikaze used more of his strength, Kakashi and the others immediately felt the pressure.

Because Minato Namikaze's Shadow Clones could also use the Flying Thunder God Technique, just slower than the original.

The awkward point was that even with the slower Shadow Clones, Kakashi, the fastest among Obito's group, could barely keep up.

After several exchanges, Milotic accidentally had the Flying Thunder God technique mark placed on it.

The next instant, Minato Namikaze's original body came flying in with a Rasengan, sending Milotic flying, and he also threw a Flying Thunder God Kunai.

When Rin Nohara reacted to attack Minato Namikaze, he used the thrown kunai to switch positions again, knocking Rin down with a violent elbow strike.

Since it was training, Obito wasn't too panicked; he simply immediately entered the Flame Breathing Chakra Mode.

Actually, with his current chakra, the Flame Breathing Chakra Mode would soon become unsustainable.

Because Obito had activated his Sharingan right after the battle started, and used quite a few ninjutsu, he had consumed a considerable amount of chakra.

But Obito really had no other choice, so he thought he'd take a gamble.

Half a minute later, Obito was struck on the back and fell to the ground.

A few minutes later, all three people and three Pokémon were lying on the ground gasping for breath.

"As expected, it's no good. The Flying Thunder God Technique simply can't be defended against," Obito couldn't help complaining.

He hadn't thought they could succeed from the start, after all, their opponent was their instructor, a young strongman famous throughout the ninja world.

Still, being defeated so cleanly made Obito a bit unwilling to accept it.

"Once I learn the Flying Thunder God Technique, I'll defeat Kakashi just like that!" The optimistic Obito quickly consoled himself.

Muyue had said he would teach him the Flying Thunder God, but not now; he needed to grow more over time.

Obito felt that with Muyue teaching, there was no way he wouldn't learn it.

"I still don't have enough chakra," Kakashi sighed inwardly.

If he had enough chakra, he definitely wouldn't have been so embarrassed just now.

The chakra limitation forced him to make trade-offs; in battle he could only use some ninjutsu, otherwise he couldn't even activate the Lightning Breathing Chakra Mode.

"You've already done very well. When I was your age, I wasn't as good as you," Minato Namikaze wiped the fine sweat from his forehead and praised with a smile.

Minato Namikaze said without exaggeration that the eleven-year-old Obito and Kakashi had already surpassed the vast majority of Konoha's Jonin.

Even Rin Nohara, whose combat strength was slightly weaker, was among those with strong overall abilities among Konoha's Jonin.

At this moment, Minato Namikaze's feelings were really complicated.

His disciples were so outstanding; naturally he was happy for Obito and the others, after all, he really liked them.

But Minato Namikaze knew that their excellence was not because of him as their instructor, but thanks to Muyue.

So Minato Namikaze wondered, if he hadn't been separated from Obito and the others for so long because of the war, would Obito and the others not be as excellent as they were now.

Because his teaching ability was no match for Muyue's.

This left Minato Namikaze somewhat bewildered — how had neglecting his duties turned into something good?

"Hehe, I think it's because that toad uncle isn't as good a teacher as Muyue-sensei, so he couldn't bring out all of your potential, Minato-sensei," Obito replied with a snicker, clearly pleased with himself.

Minato Namikaze said nothing.

Though he felt a bit sorry for Jiraiya, Obito's words weren't actually wrong.

Still, Minato Namikaze felt that comparing anyone's teaching ability to Muyue's would only yield one result — Muyue's teaching ability was simply off the charts.

After the final roster for the Observation Haki special training class was confirmed, the procedures were completed rapidly, and the class officially began.

The final training roster, including Minato Namikaze, totaled twenty-seven people — seven more than the initial twenty.

Among them were shinobi from Root, shinobi from certain clans, and relatives of the council elders.

By now, Muyue may not have appraised every single living shinobi on Konoha's rolls, but she had appraised the vast majority.

Relying on her excellent memory, Muyue was familiar with all the shinobi attending this special training — though it was only a one-way familiarity on her part.

The Observation Haki training differed from previous training; each day consisted of only three hours of instruction, all in the morning.

It wasn't that Muyue was unwilling to teach longer — it was because the nature of this training was different.

In previous training, even when teaching Root and Anbu breathing methods, they didn't just practice breathing; there were plenty of other contents, all aimed at improving overall strength.

But this training was different. This time, the goal was to enable the sensory-type shinobi to learn Observation Haki.

The three-hour study time was the optimal teaching duration Muyue had calculated; going any longer would drastically reduce the effectiveness.

Since Minato was also attending class, on the first day, Muyue and Minato walked together to the training ground.

"Muyue-sama, Minato-sama," some sensory-type shinobi who had arrived early greeted them respectively.

The younger sensory-type shinobi addressed them as "-sama," while some veteran jonin changed "-sama" to "-san" or "-senpai" (implied by context: replaced -sama with -senpai? Actually original says "將大人改上忍", meaning they changed "大人" to "上忍" as in "Muyue-jonin, Minato-jonin"? Let's consider: "有些老資歷上忍會將大人改上忍" means some veteran jonin would change the title from "大人" to "上忍", i.e., address them as "Muyue-jonin, Minato-jonin". So translation: "Muyue-jonin, Minato-jonin".)

Muyue and Minato Namikaze smiled and responded in kind.

Then Minato Namikaze walked into the ranks of the sensory-type shinobi — he was here to learn as well, so he couldn't keep standing next to the teacher.

"The sensory ninjutsu I am going to teach you is called Observation Haki. When learning this sensory ninjutsu, you can forget the experience you had learning previous sensory ninjutsu, because the two are quite different." Once everyone had gathered, Muyue began the formal lecture.

Even though Observation Haki had been localized as a sensory ninjutsu, its training method was still very different from the sensory ninjutsu of the shinobi world.

Everyone nodded, committing Muyue's words to memory.

Before coming to class, they had all received reminders from various people that this training was very important — learning Observation Haki could even be considered their mission.

"When you first learn Observation Haki, you will be able to sense chakra within a certain range, detect attacks outside your line of sight, and..." Then Muyue began explaining the abilities of Observation Haki.

This point was also important — to prevent people from thinking that learning Observation Haki would automatically let them sense hostility.

"When your Observation Haki reaches a certain level, you can choose your own direction to train in. You can pursue a larger sensing range, or you can pursue depth and precision in sensing; sensing hostility falls under that direction."

Minato Namikaze had already been learning Observation Haki from Muyue for some time, so his expression remained unchanged.

The other sensory-type shinobi all looked astonished.

If it were shinobi who didn't understand sensory ninjutsu, they might not find it remarkable, but these sensory-specialists instantly grasped just how powerful this ninjutsu called Observation Haki was.

They immediately understood why the training method for Observation Haki differed from ordinary sensory ninjutsu — it would be strange if such a powerful sensory ninjutsu used the same training method.

Compared to ordinary sensory ninjutsu, Observation Haki not only had richer effects but also a higher ceiling.

"In the early stages of Observation Haki training, try not to use your eyes to observe; obtain information through spiritual perception."

After briefly explaining the effects of Observation Haki, Muyue led the sensory-type shinobi into formal Observation Haki practice.

Since the teaching time wasn't particularly long, Muyue didn't set aside a dedicated break period; she simply told the sensory-type shinobi to rest on their own when they got tired.

"Today's class is over. Same time tomorrow, same place." Three hours later, Muyue dismissed class on time.

The sensory-type shinobi were stunned, all wearing expressions of lingering interest.

At that moment, they wished Muyue was a teacher who liked to run overtime, so she would teach for another half hour.

Because Observation Haki was too difficult — harder than any sensory ninjutsu they had ever learned.

Of course, no one actually stopped Mu Yue to continue the lecture.

After all, this was the mighty Fierce Sun Mu Yue, who had roamed the battlefield. It was already their good fortune that he would serve as their instructor for ninjutsu.

Lecture completed.

Evaluation: S.

Reward: Perception understanding increased, Kenbunshoku Haki +10, Perception Ninja Technique. Mu Yue glanced at the lecture reward. Perhaps because the time was short and the number of ninja was small, the reward scale was somewhat mediocre.

However, Mu Yue did not care much. He wasn’t really relying on Kenbunshoku Haki to find White Zetsu; he used Appraisal Technique.

The significance of this Anbu Captain position to Mu Yue was not about boosting his Kenbunshoku Haki proficiency.

Rather, moving forward, Mu Yue could proactively conduct various training sessions to grind proficiency for the skills he wanted to improve.

Currently, Mu Yue planned to organize a large-scale sealing technique training to enhance his sealing technique level.

To further improve the Yang Seal in a short time, he needed a higher level of sealing technique.