Chapter 74: Third Kazekage Vanishes

"Holiday special training, it's finally here." Obito took a deep breath, as if he could already foresee the miserable experience of the next month and a half.

During school, at least there were five days of school to buffer, but now with a long holiday, every day is like a weekend.

Obito only hoped that combat training could return to its previous form; otherwise, with more than two hundred extra questions a day, when the holiday ended, his life would also end.

Hearing about special training, Might Guy's eyes lit up, but remembering the extra problems on weekends, he felt immense pressure.

Shisui's expression showed no change. Unlike Might Guy and Obito, he had already mastered Shadow Clone and had been having his shadow clone attend school.

Except for going once during exams, Shisui spent most of his time training at Mu Yue's place.

So even if Mu Yue said that during the holiday they would train every day like weekends, it wouldn't be much different from his usual routine.

"Rest on Thursday and Sunday; the rest of the time, come to my place for training in the morning and afternoon. You can go home at noon. If you don't go home, I'll cook." Mu Yue said.

Although they came to Mu Yue's place every day during school, except for weekends, from Monday to Friday they actually didn't train much time at Mu Yue's.

So even if the holiday was training five days and resting two, the actual training time was much more than before during school.

"Two days off a week!" Obito said in surprise.

He calculated and found that this seemed even easier than during school.

During school, from Monday to Friday they had to attend classes and also train at Mu Yue's, while weekends were full days of training at Mu Yue's.

Also, suspend combat practice. Obito, continue training the Fire Chakra nature transformation. Shisui and Guy, learn Shave with me. Mu Yue announced the new training plan for the holiday.

During the time of the Young Ninja Tournament training tasks, Obito practiced nature transformation for a while, but he only grasped the basics; he still needed to continue training.

Obito doesn't have Naruto's cheat-level vitality and chakra, so he can't use the Multi Shadow Clone training method; he can only proceed in a circular progressive way.

"No combat practice!"

If the two-day break made Obito pleasantly surprised, then suspending combat training completely made him fall in love with the long holiday.

Without combat training, there were no massive amounts of questions. Although training nature transformation was tiring, compared to doing problems, he would rather train nature transformation.

After arranging the training tasks, the disciples began their respective training.

Obito, holding a large ice block, constantly burst chakra, while Shisui and Might Guy learned the Shaving technique from Mu Yue.

Watching Mu Yue flicker around with Shisui and Might Guy, Obito, holding the ice block, felt the cold of the ice flowing through the meridians in his hand straight to his heart.

"Mu Yue-sensei, what was the physical challenge you mentioned before? I also want to learn the Body Flicker Technique." Obito couldn't help asking.

He remembered Mu Yue saying that aside from getting first in the grade, completing the physical challenge he set could also allow him to learn Shaving.

But at that time, Mu Yue directly said that Obito couldn't complete it, so Obito didn't ask what the specific challenge was.

But a month had passed, and his strength had improved significantly. Maybe he could complete the challenge Mu Yue mentioned.

"The physical challenge? That's very difficult. Are you sure you want to try?" Mu Yue split a shadow clone to communicate with Obito.

"But everyone is learning that Body Flicker Technique. If I don't learn it, won't I fall behind?" Obito said.

"Alright, I'll set up the venue today, and you can try the challenge tomorrow." Mu Yue nodded.

Obito's action was within his expectations.

The reason he didn't directly teach the Shaving Technique to all disciples but set conditions was to strengthen the training for the disciple who failed.

Rather than directly forcing training, he thought finding ways to stimulate the disciple's motivation would be better.

He would set up certain training mechanisms that could only be completed with sufficient speed and strength. To master the Shaving technique, Obito would undoubtedly push himself to rigorously train his physical body.

By the time the challenge was completed, his body would be stronger, making it easier to learn the Shaving Technique.

Moreover, as a reward obtained through his own efforts, Obito would study more seriously, since it was hard-won.

In order to help his disciples better enhance their strength, Mu Yue considered every aspect, including the students' psychology.

After training, Mu Yue went to the main city district house as usual.

Today he made sushi and tempura.

However, a small incident occurred during the meal. As the three of them were eating and chatting in a good atmosphere, an eagle's cry came from outside.

"Why at this time?" Just after finishing a sushi, Kushina said somewhat irritably.

"Let's go. It's so sudden, something big must have happened." Minato said as he stood up.

"Sorry, Muyue, we'll have to excuse ourselves for a while. An emergency jonin meeting has been called."

Whenever something major happens in Konoha, a ninja beast is sent to notify the jonin. Minato had experienced this before.

"Muyue, remember to save some for us. These meetings usually don't last long. With Minato's speed, we'll be back soon." Kushina remembered to ask Muyue to keep some food before leaving.

"There's so much, I can't finish it all by myself." Muyue smiled and nodded, wondering what major event had occurred.

Judging by the timeline, Muyue guessed it had something to do with the Third Shinobi World War.

"Is the full-scale war about to break out?" Muyue thought.

Kushina and Minato didn't make Muyue wait long; they were back in less than half an hour.

"I thought it was something huge, but it turns out the Third Kazekage of Sunagakure has gone missing." Kushina started complaining as soon as she entered the house.

"Calling an emergency jonin meeting so urgently—anyone would think the Third Hokage of Konoha had disappeared."

Hearing Kushina's words, Muyue thought to himself that a war was indeed about to break out.

Kumogakure, which had already built up its strength, was restless. With the Third Kazekage disappearing at this moment, they wouldn't miss such a good opportunity.

"No matter which Kage it is, they all have a major impact on the shinobi world's landscape. The sudden disappearance of the Third Kazekage means a large-scale war is very likely to break out." Unlike Kushina, Minato's expression was somewhat solemn.

"True, Sunagakure is in for a tough time." Kushina nodded and took a big bite of a sushi roll.

Listening to their conversation, Muyue felt conflicted.

Probably no one would imagine that the Third Shinobi World War, triggered by the Third Kazekage's disappearance, would end up making Konoha get ganged up on the worst—even though they still won in the end.

War was about to break out, and Muyue felt even less secure.

He could only tell himself that at least he was an agent in Root. Even if Danzo had a brain cramp and sent his subordinates to their deaths, Muyue would be in the later batch to be sent.

Muyue held no hope for Danzo whatsoever.

He only hoped that he could raise his strength to the so-called Kage level before the flames of war reached Konoha.

Strength is the most important thing in this dangerous world; without it, everything is empty talk.

Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday's follow-up reading is very important. Please don't put the book aside for now, everyone.