Chapter 581: Muyue's Pokémon Hatches

: mayiwsk

After sending the intelligence back to Konoha, Mu Yue set up camp nearby with his troops, awaiting a response from the higher-ups.

How to deal with so many prisoners was no small problem.

"Mu Yue-sensei, do you have time now?" Obito walked up to Mu Yue's tent and asked.

"I have time. Come in," Mu Yue's voice came from inside the tent.

After receiving permission, Obito entered Mu Yue's tent.

As he got closer, Obito noticed Mu Yue holding a scroll, reading something.

Obito had good eyesight and vaguely saw a few characters, which seemed to be "Izanagi"?

He didn't pay too much attention to the scroll's content, scratched his head a little sheepishly, and said:

"So Mu Yue-sensei, you're studying. I must be disturbing you."

Mu Yue put down the Izanagi ninjutsu scroll and said with a smile:

"It's fine. I already understood this technique fairly well some time ago, but recently I had a whim to study it a bit more."

After Shimura Danzo's death, Mu Yue not only obtained all of Root's overt assets, but also some items that Shimura Danzo had secretly collected.

The Uchiha clan's forbidden technique Izanagi was one of them.

"Is there something you want to see me about?"

"Nothing much, I just wanted to ask you some questions, Mu Yue-sensei," Obito replied honestly.

"At the very beginning, why did you choose to divide our forces? The ambush from Kirigakure must not have been anticipated, right?"

After the battle, Obito reviewed based on the intelligence he knew, wanting to learn from the advanced experience of the Immortal Mu Yue, but after careful analysis, he found many points he didn't understand.

If one were to say the Immortal Mu Yue predicted everything perfectly, that didn't seem to be the case. He remembered that on the battlefield, aside from Mu Yue, there was not a single ninja who wasn't surprised or nervous.

For such an important war decision, Mu Yue should not have concealed it from the vice commander or the squad leaders of each department.

"Are you recently learning how to wage war?" Mu Yue asked curiously.

He knew Obito would self-improve in his spare time, but he didn't expect Obito to also learn this kind of knowledge.

"Yes. Even though I don't lead a team now, I can't always follow behind you, Mu Yue-sensei," Obito nodded.

His dream was to become Hokage. As Hokage, when Konoha is in danger, he must step forward to protect Konoha, and that might require commanding ninja forces in battle.

"It's good that you have this idea, but this isn't a good case study. This battle was won mainly because of my personal strength," Mu Yue began to explain.

"The reason I split our forces was mainly because Advisor Homura's defeat made me aware of one piece of intelligence: Kirigakure's intelligence capabilities might be superior to ours. So I..."

From an observer's perspective, watching this battle would probably leave only one impression: Mu Yue's strength was overwhelming.

But in fact, only Mu Yue himself knew that he was fishing from the start, and encountering Yagura was within his expectations.

"So that's how it is!" Obito showed an expression of sudden realization.

There was an information gap between them. He didn't know the intelligence from Homura Mitokado's battle, nor did he know the outcome of the contest between the intelligence units.

But even after knowing everything, it was still not easy to learn. The personal strength required was too great. Obito figured that if he trained for another ten years, he might barely be enough.

"Mu Yue-sensei, thank you. I'll stop disturbing you..."

Just as Obito was about to leave, a dazzling green light suddenly appeared inside the tent.

Obito looked curiously and saw that a ninja beast egg was glowing, just like when Charizard hatched, except the color was green.

"It's going to hatch after all," Mu Yue thought as he looked at the Pokémon egg.

While in Konoha, this Pokémon egg would occasionally emit a green light with healing power.

"Which Pokémon will it be?"

Before the Pokémon egg displayed its healing power, Mu Yue had thought it might be Rayquaza inside.

After it showed its ability, Rayquaza could basically be ruled out. Rayquaza can't emit green light to heal.

However, he still couldn't determine the specific Pokémon. There was more than one legendary Pokémon with healing ability, and if you added non-legendary but special Pokémon, there were even more.

Soon the green light faded, revealing a small, adorable green figure.

Its head was somewhat like an onion, with large blue eyes surrounded by thick black eye-rings, a pair of slender green antennae on its forehead with blue tips, and a pair of transparent little wings on its back.

Its hands had only three fingers, and its feet had no toes; the whole creature looked like a fairy-tale pixie.

"So it's Celebi—a true mythical Pokémon." Muyue recognized the Pokémon instantly.

"I wonder if it still has the ability to travel through time after localization." Muyue thought.

Celebi's combat ability is not outstanding among the many mythical Pokémon, but it possesses one ability that is bug-level in any world — time travel.

Moreover, it can not only travel through time itself but also bring others along, going either to the past or the future.

Muyue felt it should retain that ability, since it's a major feature of Celebi, and system localization wouldn't remove key traits.

For example, One Piece's physical techniques, once localized, had roughly the same effects, only with the addition of chakra usage.

"Teacher Muyue, is this your summoning beast? It looks like one that only uses medical ninjutsu." Obito asked casually.

Fortunately it was Muyue; if this were Kakashi's summoning beast, Obito's words would have turned into "it looks weak."

"Bi~" Celebi let out a cheerful sound, flapped its wings, flew over to Muyue's side, and rubbed its head against Muyue's face.

Muyue stroked Celebi's head and said to Obito:

"Don't let this little one's cute looks fool you; it's actually quite strong."

That Celebi's combat ability isn't outstanding is only in comparison to other mythical Pokémon; compared to ordinary Pokémon, Celebi's strength is by no means weak.

"Bi!"

Celebi stood on Muyue's shoulder and lifted its little head slightly, as if telling Obito not to look down on it.

"Huh!" Obito's eyes widened as he carefully examined the little onion head.

Looking at Celebi's slender arms and legs on its tiny body, Obito was curious where its strength lay.

Since Muyue said Celebi was strong, it had to be strong—there was no need to doubt, because Muyue would never lie about something like that.

After failing to see anything remarkable, Obito scratched his head, said goodbye to Muyue again, and walked out of Muyue's tent.

Meanwhile, Muyue began checking Celebi's status panel.

Name: Celebi

Chakra: Skills: Wood Style (Skilled), Space-Time Power (Beginner), Yang Release Nature Transformation (Mastered), Yin Release Nature Transformation (Skilled), Water Release Nature Transformation (Skilled), Earth Release Nature Transformation (Skilled), Telekinesis …

Pokémon have always had considerable chakra, but the fact that Celebi already had a hundred thousand right after hatching still made Muyue sigh with emotion.

Back then, he had worked hard for a long time just to grind his chakra up to a hundred thousand points; for Celebi, that amount was already at birth what most ninja could never reach.

"It really did keep the ability to travel through time." Looking at the Space-Time Power in Celebi's skill list, Muyue wore a thoughtful expression.

Time travel is just too powerful.

Not to mention anything else—if Muyue had had Celebi right after he first crossed over, he could have traveled directly to the time when Naruto enrolled in the Ninja Academy and taken him as a disciple, and his growth would have been much faster.

Naruto not only had great talent, but he was also a chakra monster, which could bring Muyue a lot of feedback.

Although traveling to the past could allow him to take Hashirama as a disciple, Celebi's time travel could alter history, and unless there was a great need, Muyue didn't want to travel to the past and change history.

If by accident he ended up erasing his own existence, that would really suck.

Muyue first signed a contract with Celebi, then created a Shadow Clone and used Flying Thunder God to teleport to a remote location to familiarize himself with Celebi's various abilities.

Data on the panel was just data; it was actual performance that would let Muyue better understand Celebi's capabilities.

Muyue used his Byakugan to find a wild boar, stabbed it nearly to death with a kunai, then had Celebi heal it.

Bathed in a green healing light, the wounds on the boar's body healed rapidly, leaving not even a scar.

"Healing is definitely a strong point…" Muyue thought as he watched the wild boar dash away.

The newborn Celebi already surpassed Nohara Rin's Milotic in healing ability.

Next, Muyue tested Celebi's Wood Style.

Although its proficiency wasn't very high, with the boost of a hundred thousand chakra, it was still decent; Muyue felt it was more than enough to handle a jōnin.

As for time-space power, Mu Yue did not let Celebi take him through time and space.

Now that Celebi had just hatched and was not yet familiar with its abilities, what if it accidentally took him to the battlefield of the two brothers of the Sage of Six Paths and Kaguya Ōtsutsuki from several thousand years ago? That wouldn't be good.

Although the probability was very low, it was not impossible.

"If I use the power of the Dragon Vein and combine it with Celebi's time-space power, could I precisely travel to another parallel world?" Mu Yue showed a thoughtful expression.

Compared to the past or future, a parallel world was a better choice, as it would not cause uncontrollable changes due to the butterfly effect of time travel.

Finally, Mu Yue used Transformation to scan Celebi, and then used Transformation.

But when Mu Yue looked at his own status panel, he did not see Celebi's time-space power.

"As expected, it didn't work." Mu Yue was not surprised.

Transformation had its limits. It could copy the Sharingan and the Ice Release, but it couldn't copy the Rinnegan.

And traveling through time was undoubtedly a very noble ability, so it was within Mu Yue's expectations that it couldn't be copied.

Finally, Mu Yue canceled the Transformation and returned to the camp with Celebi.

The first thing Mu Yue did upon returning was to dispel his Shadow Clone and receive the clone's memories.

After carefully checking, Mu Yue found that no one had come to ask him about the green light during that time.

That was normal. The hatching light was dazzling, but not too exaggerated. Blocked by the tent, not many people noticed it.

Moreover, since it was Mu Yue's tent, no one would ask, because Mu Yue was too powerful.

After tidying up the tent, Mu Yue went out and took Celebi to meet his disciples.

As his summoning beast, Celebi would spend a long time with Obito and the others from then on.

"Teacher Mu Yue, what kind of ninja beast is this? So cute." Rin Nohara's eyes lit up as she looked at Celebi, which resembled a fairy-tale elf, feeling it was even cuter than Zorua.

"Bee." Celebi, upon hearing Rin Nohara praise her, made a happy sound and circled around Rin Nohara.

"You can call it Celebi," Mu Yue replied.

In the Naruto world, there was definitely only this one Celebi, so there was no need to worry about duplicate names.

"Kakashi, want to make a bet?" Obito suddenly asked Kakashi.

"Bet on what?" Kakashi moved his gaze from Celebi and looked at Obito.

"Bet on Celebi's strength. I bet it's very strong!"

"No bet." Kakashi flatly refused.

"Why?" Obito looked at Kakashi in shock.

(He wouldn't even bet even though Celebi looked so weak.)

"Because it's Teacher Mu Yue's summoning beast," Kakashi answered calmly.

In fact, there was another reason: he smelled the aura of Obito trying to set him up.

The moment Obito opened his mouth, Kakashi knew what he was thinking.

Obito was speechless, because that answer really had no flaw.

One day later.

The reply from the higher-ups reached Mu Yue. Mu Yue took his disciples and four hundred ninjas to the Land of Grass to support Jiraiya.

Land of Grass, Konoha ninja forces encampment.

Jiraiya sat gloomily inside the tent, looking at the map and studying how to defend next.

This time, the Iwagakure forces once again displayed that same unpredictable intelligence capability as before. Jiraiya felt there might be a spy infiltrating.

But he conducted a thorough investigation and couldn't find one.

"They've really developed some incredible technology. If only they could put that effort into other areas," Jiraiya sighed.

Although he knew there might be a spy among the troops, the fact that even chakra could be disguised was just too overpowered. Even with Jiraiya activating Sage Mode, he couldn't tell.

"Mu Yue, hurry up and come," Jiraiya thought silently in his heart.

He has already submitted a request to Konoha's high command, asking for Muyue to lead a team to provide support.

Currently, only Muyue's sensory jutsu can crack the concealment of the Iwa spies, and Muyue himself is also a rare and powerful ninja.

Jiraiya is not a warlike person, but right now he is also getting annoyed with Iwa.

Whenever something happens in Konoha, Iwa always seizes the opportunity to kick them while they're down, causing him to have to come to the battlefield from time to time, so much that he hasn't been able to work on his writing for a long time.

"If I'm going to write a new book, using Muyue as a reference seems not bad. A top-level strongman respected by everyone, who also has extraordinary culinary skills — that's a good element." Jiraiya stroked his chin and thought.

For his second book, he didn't want to write about a ninja slowly growing stronger, because he felt the plot would repeat itself.

As an author, Jiraiya did not want to write repetitive content.

Jiraiya thought about Muyue's experiences, and an idea flashed through his mind.

"A strongman who becomes disillusioned with the village due to some incident, thus giving up his position to teach at the Ninja Academy. At first, he doesn't take his teaching duties seriously, just treating it as a way to pass the time and live his life, but in his interactions with the students..."

Although Muyue only gradually became a renowned strongman after leaving the Ninja Academy, and he was never disillusioned with the village — after all, he wasn't writing a biography of Muyue, just borrowing elements.

"No, I should be thinking about how to defend now." Jiraiya forcefully interrupted his own thoughts.

He is indeed very interested in writing, but protecting Konoha is more important.: mayiwsk