Chapter 61: Sealing Talent

"Seal!"

On Monday afternoon, in the southern forest, Mu Yue was practicing the One-Finger Seal that Kushina had taught him.

Since it was a sealing technique used to seal chakra, Mu Yue used his own Shadow Clone for the experiment.

"Unable to condense chakra, it's a success," the Shadow Clone reported.

"But it feels like I could break through with full force," the Shadow Clone added.

Mu Yue nodded; no wonder Minato said this sealing technique had no practical combat value.

Although he had just learned it, the fact that a Shadow Clone with only half his chakra could instantly break through meant the binding strength was utterly pathetic.

"But at least I've learned it. Could I have a talent for sealing techniques?" Mu Yue thought to himself.

Kushina had given him the sealing technique last night, and he had mastered it today. According to Kushina, he would be considered a sealing technique genius.

Strictly speaking, he had practiced for less than half a day—he trained for a while last night and a short period this afternoon.

Many guesses flashed through Mu Yue's mind: the original body's own talent, his own talent, or the result of both combined…

The reason didn't matter, because this was an absolute good news.

Even without looking to the future to learn those powerful sealing techniques, just within the present, it gave him a glimmer of hope for breaking the Root cursed seal.

After reading books on sealing techniques and cursed seals, and then learning a sealing technique, Mu Yue already knew that cursed seals were actually a small category of sealing techniques.

The Tongue-Cutter Seal was essentially a sealing technique, a relatively special one.

Sealing techniques could generally be resolved in two ways.

The first was to directly break through with overwhelming chakra, and the second was to use the corresponding unsealing technique to remove the seal.

Relying on chakra to forcefully break the seal—Mu Yue thought this method was very unreliable, because the Tongue-Cutter Seal wasn't low-level; if he could break it by force, killing Danzo would probably not be difficult.

So Mu Yue planned to learn more sealing techniques, then study his own Tongue-Cutter Seal, and eventually develop an unsealing technique for it.

He had deliberately saved a jutsu mastery scroll for sealing techniques.

The system rewards chakra nature techniques he hasn't mastered by directly granting some corresponding nature transformation knowledge, so Mu Yue speculated that if he directly raised a sealing technique to the mastery level, he could also gain some sealing technique knowledge.

Mu Yue didn't intend to use the mastery scroll on the One-Finger Seal; he felt this technique was equivalent to the Three Basic Techniques of sealing, and using the mastery scroll on it would be a waste.

After finishing his disciples' training, Mu Yue went straight to the main city area.

Since Kushina and Minato had treated him to a meal yesterday, Mu Yue naturally invited them to his home for dinner.

Today, Mu Yue made chili fried eggs, tempura, and potato stew with meat.

Mu Yue's personal favorite was chili fried eggs; it was a dish his mother often made for him in his past life.

Mu Yue really loved eating eggs—he could accept them steamed, boiled, fried, or deep-fried. Plus, he also liked spicy food, so he rarely made chive fried eggs at home; it was almost always chili fried eggs.

First, crack the eggs into a bowl, quickly whisk them with chopsticks until frothy, then directly pour the chili into the egg mixture and stir, and then pour it into the pan.

Although with the chef skill boost, he had surpassed his teacher, but whenever he made this dish, he would recall memories of his past life.

"Mu Yue, what's wrong? Are you afraid of being spiced by your own cooking?" Kushina joked as she watched Mu Yue pick up a piece of chili fried egg and not eat it for a while.

"So amazing, chili and eggs fried like this actually turn out so delicious," Minato praised.

If he were to cook, he would definitely never combine chili and eggs, let alone fry them together so roughly.

"Yeah, chili fried eggs are delicious." Mu Yue stopped reminiscing, showed a gentle smile, and then put a piece of chili fried egg into his mouth.

"Mm, delicious."

The three chatted while eating, and eventually the conversation turned to the sealing technique Mu Yue was learning.

"Mu Yue, can you perform that One-Finger Seal now?" Kushina asked.

Mu Yue shook his head and said, "Every time I rehearse it in my mind, it goes smoothly, but I just can't use it successfully. It feels like something is missing."

Mu Yue didn't plan to reveal that he had learned it in half a day; that would be too astonishing, because even Kushina said she had learned it in one day.

Wherever Kushina was, there were bound to be monitoring ANBU, and he didn't want to appear too exaggerated.

He planned to pretend it took him seven days to master it, which wouldn't make him seem too talented but would show that he had some aptitude for sealing techniques.

"This is normal. Very few people can learn it in one day. Your situation is normal," Minato said reassuringly.

He was worried that Muyue might be affected by Kushina's earlier words, causing a problem with his mindset.

"Right, as long as you can learn it within a month, there's no problem," Kushina added.

"If there's anything you don't understand, just ask us, don't be shy," Kushina said while wolfing down her meal.

Minato also nodded, indicating it was no problem.

"As long as I'm not troubling you," Muyue said with a smile.

……

Thursday afternoon, Konoha South Forest.

"Obito: eighty-five problems. Might Guy: thirty problems," Muyue announced the combat results for this afternoon.

"Only eighty-five!" Obito couldn't help but show an excited expression.

He felt that the beating he took from Kakashi wasn't for nothing. This was the fewest problems since the battle rules changed, showing he had improved — getting hit less and landing more hits.

Obito planned to offset forty percent with training, do ten percent that day, and put the remaining fifty percent on installment. After allocating, he even felt the problems weren't that many.

"Thirty problems!" Might Guy clenched his fists in disbelief. This was the most problems since the rules changed.

Even if he maxed out the conversion rate of problems to training, he'd still have to do twelve problems.

"Not bad, you've both improved a lot. If you want to put problems on installment today, I'll waive the interest," Muyue said with a smile.

Obito's eyes lit up immediately, feeling he could put more on installment.

Might Guy thought it over — no interest on installments, that was basically free. Why not? So he also applied for installments with Muyue.

After training, Might Guy found Shisui, hoping he could help him with some intensive training.

Obito's progress gave him a strong sense of crisis. Although his advantage was still large, Obito wasn't allowed to use ninjutsu during battle — not even half his strength.

Might Guy recalled Muyue's words: combat was also an important part of improving strength — not the training-style fights like with Obito, but real all-out battles.

"Full strength?" Shisui asked.

Might Guy nodded in confirmation.

"Then I'll make my move," Shisui warned in advance.

Might Guy also tensed his muscles, ready to burst into taijutsu at any moment.

But in the next instant after Shisui finished speaking, a large tree burst from the ground and bound Might Guy.

While Might Guy was still wondering what ninjutsu Shisui had used, the tree binding him suddenly vanished, and Shisui was already holding a kunai to his neck. The battle was over.

Might Guy understood what had just happened — he had fallen for Shisui's genjutsu.

"The road to becoming the strongest is still long," thought Might Guy, who had been one-shot.

"Please! Again!"

The road might be long, but Might Guy would not give up!

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