Chapter 575: Yamato Drops Coins, New Perfect Skill

"Yamato's trust level is also maxed out." Looking at the sudden pop-up, Mu Yue nodded slightly.

The importance of trust level is beyond doubt; a higher trust level not only provides more chakra feedback but also has a chance to drop higher-level skills.

"I wonder what perfect-rank reward will appear this time." Mu Yue felt a bit of anticipation.

Every disciple who reaches trust level four gets one guaranteed chance at a perfect-rank reward.

Perfect-rank skills are too precious—even for Mu Yue now, there aren't many, and each one is a vital component of his strength.

Mu Yue's ideal reward would be a perfect-rank chakra nature transformation, preferably the one with his lowest proficiency.

A ninja's strength is inseparable from chakra—even taijutsu consumes chakra—and chakra nature transformation, as one of the fundamentals of chakra, can drive improvements in multiple abilities.

If Mu Yue's Lightning Release chakra nature transformation reached perfect rank, then the power of his One-Strike No-Thought would skyrocket, his Lightning Release under the Thunder Breathing Chakra Mode would also greatly increase in power, and all his various Lightning Release chakra techniques would become stronger due to the enhanced nature transformation.

Suppressing all kinds of thoughts, Mu Yue continued reading the Wood Release ninjutsu scroll left by Hashirama Senju.

It wasn't entirely for show; Mu Yue was indeed studying Wood Release.

Setting aside Hashirama Senju's legendary reputation, Wood Release itself was quite strong—offensive and defensive alike, with a special advantage against tailed beasts.

As it approached seven in the evening, when Mu Yue was about to teach the ANBU squad leaders and platoon commanders, the memory from his Shadow Clone flowed into his mind.

"Yamato's new training plan... I'll do it when I get back, and I can also pop the skill drop." Mu Yue didn't pause and quickly walked to the training ground of the teaching team.

After school, Yamato found Mu Yue's Shadow Clone in the Southern Forest and asked Mu Yue for advice on how to balance school and training.

Although the Shadow Clone wasn't aware of the increase in Yamato's trust level, because making a reasonable training plan required some time, it didn't give an immediate answer.

This made it convenient for Mu Yue to pop Yamato's gold coin tomorrow.

Today's disciple return slot had already been used, so even if the trust level broke through, he couldn't pop it immediately.

The next afternoon, Mu Yue went directly to Yamato's home after returning from the Ninja Academy.

Mu Yue arrived slightly earlier than Yamato; he stood nearby for about three minutes before he saw Yamato.

"Teacher Mu Yue." Yamato was a little surprised to see Mu Yue, then noticed the things Mu Yue was holding.

Yamato immediately thought of his own consultation from the day before and felt a bit moved.

Not only had Mu Yue helped him complete the training plan as quickly as possible, but he had also delivered it directly to his home.

"Teacher Mu Yue, please come in." Yamato hurriedly invited Mu Yue inside.

Mu Yue nodded and walked into Yamato's home.

"Teacher Mu Yue, wait a moment, I'll get you a glass of water." Yamato initially thought of making tea for Mu Yue, but remembered that he had no tea leaves at home.

First, Yamato didn't drink tea himself, and second, he had no need to entertain guests.

Mu Yue placed the secret medicine and training plan he was holding on the table and, instead of directly talking about training, asked Yamato about his feelings about school.

"How have the past two days at school been? Getting used to it?"

"Except for the classes on ninja knowledge being very boring, everything else is fine." Yamato answered honestly.

Most students enjoy classes related to ninja skills and dislike pure academic classes like history and Japanese, but because of his background, Yamato's feelings were the opposite—he liked history and culture and such.

"So it seems you don't dislike going to school." Mu Yue said with a smile.

Yamato nodded in agreement.

It wasn't that he didn't dislike it—he actually quite liked it. If attending school didn't interfere a little with training, he might have been willing to stay at the Ninja Academy longer.

"Make the most of your school life. Once you graduate, returning to school won't be the same as being a student." Mu Yue reminded him.

With that, Mu Yue picked up the things he had brought and placed them in front of Yamato. "This is the new training plan I've made for you, and here are the training secret medicines for one semester."

"Thank you for your trouble." Yamato expressed his gratitude.

He truly felt lucky to have met Mu Yue. If he had remained in Root, although someone would teach him training and he wouldn't starve, his life certainly wouldn't be this good.

He likely wouldn't have been able to attend school, would have rarely met a senior like Kakashi, and would have lacked a good teacher who cared for him in every way.

You have gifted your disciple training secret medicines. The disciple is extremely grateful. Reward for super crit: obtained—Wood Release (Perfect)

As the information popped up, a flood of Wood Release training memories surfaced in Mu Yue's mind.

He instantly comprehended some Wood Release techniques he was still learning, and gained deeper insights into those he had already mastered.

"Then just train hard—that is the best reward for me." Mu Yue smiled and patted Yamato on the head, laughing.

Although it was not the basic chakra nature transformation he had envisioned, in a sense it was even better.

Because improving proficiency in a Kekkei Genkai is much harder than in normal nature transformations.

The feedback proficiency from teaching requires that the students actually learn it. That is to say, if Mu Yue taught Wood Release or Ice Release, it would not have the same effect as normal nature transformations, because these are truly difficult to learn by studying alone.

Unless Mu Yue were teaching a group of ninja who already possess Wood Release and Ice Release, that could work, but the ninja world does not have that many ninja with Kekkei Genkai.

After exploding the gold coins, Mu Yue did not leave immediately; instead, he had dinner with Yamato, and only then returned to the training team to prepare for the evening classes.

After the training team's work was finished, Mu Yue used Flying Thunder God to teleport outside Konoha, then used Lightning Breathing to travel to the southwestern part of the Land of Fire.

That area is remote, economically underdeveloped, and far from every battlefield, making it a good place for experimenting with jutsu.

Mu Yue quickly walked to an uninhabited large mountain, then carefully surveyed the surroundings using Byakugan, Transparent World, Kenbunshoku Haki, and other abilities.

After confirming there was no one, he began his practice.

"Wood Release: Birth of Dense Woodland!"

As Mu Yue rapidly formed hand seals, a large amount of chakra in his body quickly transformed into Wood Release chakra, driving the growth of trees from the ground.

Boom!!

A large number of trees burst from the earth and grew rapidly, increasing the density of the forest on the already lush mountain to an eerie degree.

Looking at the vast expanse of thick trees, Mu Yue nodded slightly.

Although he had never seen Hashirama Senju's Birth of Dense Woodland, he had seen Shimura Danzo's stat panel and watched Danzo perform the technique.

The Birth of Dense Woodland he casually performed was far superior to Shimura Danzo's in both range and tree thickness; it should not be considered real estate-level Wood Release.

"Wood Release: Advent of a Flowering Tree World!"

Mu Yue once again gathered a large amount of Wood Release chakra.

Bang! Bang!

One after another, extremely thick vines emerged from the earth, rapidly growing larger and then producing flower buds.

Advent of a Flowering Tree World is an enhanced version of Birth of Dense Woodland; the vines it creates are longer and thicker than the trees from the latter, and it can also release pollen that makes people unconscious.

To prevent Shimura Danzo from mastering this jutsu, Mu Yue had prepared corresponding medicine and breathing masks at that time.

However, Shimura Danzo never learned it, so Mu Yue's preparations went unused.

Since there were no enemies, Mu Yue simply canceled the jutsu without releasing the pollen.

"Wood Release: Wood Human Technique!"

Boom! Boom!

As Mu Yue poured in a massive amount of chakra, the trees beneath his feet expanded further, then merged and transformed, ultimately forming a giant wooden humanoid about forty meters tall.

Standing atop the towering wooden humanoid, Mu Yue looked down at his surroundings and experienced a unique exhilaration.

Whether it is powerful or not aside, piloting a Gundam is indeed cooler.

Mu Yue controlled the wooden humanoid to swing its fist at a small mountain peak.

Bang!!!

The moment the fist made contact, the mountain peak shattered, with rocks of various sizes flying in all directions.

The wood from Wood Release is different from ordinary trees; its hardness varies according to the strength of the chakra.

For example, Hashirama Senju's Wood Human could even grab a Tailed Beast Ball and throw it back.

After that one strike, Mu Yue canceled the Wood Human and cleaned up some traces.

"Still lacking the Sage Mode," Mu Yue thought as he refined chakra on the spot.

If one were to speak of Hashirama Senju's most impressive Wood Release technique, it would have to be the True Several Thousand Hands in Sage Mode.

The giant wooden humanoid, sitting on the head of the True Several Thousand Hands, looked as small as a toy, and it could grab the Nine-Tails with one hand as if catching a chick.

If all the arms of the True Several Thousand Hands attack at once, they can even directly shatter Uchiha Madara's Armored Susanoo.

Even in a version where cheaters run rampant in the later stages, this is an extremely powerful jutsu.

"Should I contact Jiraiya or Tsunade?" Muyue thought as he traveled.

Actually, obtaining Sage Mode wasn't difficult for him; the three sacred lands all have their own sage arts, and Muyue had good relationships with both Tsunade and Jiraiya, so he could go to Mount Myoboku or Shikkotsu Forest to train in sage techniques through them.

However, Muyue always had a concern: the mysterious sacred land ancestors.

In the original work, aside from the Great Toad Sage of Mount Myoboku, the ancestors of Ryuchi Cave and Shikkotsu Forest didn't have much screen time.

What Tsunade and the others summon are only independent-consciousness clones of the Slug Sage.

Although they had little plot relevance, these sacred land ancestor sages should not be underestimated.

For example, the Great Toad Sage has the power to foresee the future and has lived from the era of the Sage of Six Paths to the present. Its prophecies run throughout the entire Naruto series.

A long-lived being wielding sage technique power—Muyue didn't believe the Great Toad Sage's strength could be weak.

What if it saw Muyue's future, was dissatisfied with that future, and wanted to interfere? Then Muyue would be walking right into its hands.

As for the Slug Sage, Muyue knew too little about it. The unknown itself is a risk.

With such concerns, plus the fact that Muyue was previously in a golden period of power growth and studying other things also gave considerable boosts, spending time training in the high-risk Sage Mode had average cost-performance, so he didn't try to contact the sacred lands to train in sage techniques.

After returning to Konoha, Muyue placed his Pokémon egg beside him and continued studying the Breathing Method.

He always kept the Pokémon egg with him, storing it in the system space whenever he went out.

Muyue cast aside distractions and quickly entered a state of focus.

He needed Sage Mode, but it wasn't urgent, because even if he had Sage Mode now, he couldn't learn the True Several Thousand Hands.

The True Several Thousand Hands is a sage technique that even Hashirama Senju found a bit strenuous to use. The consumption is imaginably enormous; Muyue currently couldn't bear such an extreme amount of chakra.

An hour later, Muyue stopped his research and prepared to go to bed.

Just after Muyue turned off the lights, suddenly a faint green light emanated from the Pokémon egg, then quickly disappeared.

At the same time, Muyue inexplicably felt his body become a bit lighter.

Out of curiosity, Muyue activated his Byakugan to look at the Pokémon egg, but unfortunately, he still couldn't penetrate that layer of light to see the creature inside.

"It should be about to hatch. If it's a legendary Pokémon, after some training, combined with my strength, maybe I can visit those sacred lands," Muyue thought.

From the system-localized Pokémon moves, one could tell that the localized legendary Pokémon would be no simple matter in terms of strength. With a legendary Pokémon as a summoning beast, plus his own strength, escaping would certainly be possible.

"Jonin Chen, if you detect any abnormalities, please fire a signal flare immediately. I will dispatch troops to support you," Mitokado Homura said to Teacher Chen.

Teacher Chen had decent strength and sufficient seniority, so Mitokado Homura decided to let him lead another team to eliminate the Kirigakure.

"I understand, Advisor Homura. The same to you," Teacher Chen nodded.

His strength and seniority meant he did not need to address Mitokado Homura as 'Lord.'

"Move out!"

Mitokado Homura and Teacher Chen each organized their troops and headed in two different directions.

Mitokado Homura knew the Kirigakure's assassination abilities were strong, so he brought two Jonin from the Hyuga clan and had them take turns activating their Byakugan to scout the situation while traveling.

"Lord Homura, there is a thick fog ahead created by Kirigakure ninja. We cannot estimate the number of enemies!" the Hyuga Jonin reported as they neared the destination.

The Byakugan can see chakra through ordinary smoke, thus judging the number and strength of enemies.

But a jutsu like the Hidden Mist Technique is different; the mist itself is made of chakra, so through the Byakugan, all that is seen is chakra.

"Wind Release ninja, step forward! Use Wind Release to blow away the mist, slow down, and continue advancing!" Mitokado Homura ordered after thinking.

Having prepared for so long, he wouldn't retreat just because of a patch of fog.

Otherwise, there would be no need to fight—there are plenty of Kirigakure ninja who can use the Hidden Mist Technique.

Thus, Mitokado Homura led the troops steadily forward.

"Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique!"

Suddenly, a giant water dragon burst out from the mist.

"Earth Release: Earth Flow Wall!"

Homura Mitokado reacted extremely quickly, forming hand seals at lightning speed to create a huge earth wall, blocking the water dragon.

"How dare you attack first," Homura Mitokado said, his eyes fixed on the small figure walking out from the increasingly thinning mist.

"Heh, why wouldn't I dare?" Yagura sneered.

"About five hundred enemies!" the Hyuga Jounin quickly observed as the Mist Concealment Technique gradually wore off.

Homura Mitokado looked calm, just as he had imagined. It seemed the battle would be easy.

Because he had brought a full eight hundred ninja.

"No, there are a large number of Kirigakure ninja approaching from afar!" another Hyuga Ninja discovered a significant fact.

Homura Mitokado's expression suddenly changed.: mhtxs

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