Chapter 8: Coins Dropping
"The difficulty of this ninjutsu lies in instantly compressing a large amount of chakra into the shape of a fire dragon." Muyue explained the release techniques of the ninjutsu to Shisui while demonstrating.
Since Muyue had recently acquired proficient-level chakra shape transformation, he also took the opportunity to tell Shisui a lot about chakra shape transformation operations.
"I see. I think I understand a bit now." Shisui nodded and prepared to try it himself.
Shisui's hands swiftly danced through the hand seals, his chakra burst forth, then he compressed and shaped it.
"Fire Style: Great Dragon Fire Technique!"
Shisui opened his mouth and spat out a one-meter-tall fire dragon that shot into the sky, spun around once in the air, and plunged into the water.
Clap, clap.
Muyue smiled and applauded Shisui, saying:
"I thought you might need to try a few times before succeeding. It seems I underestimated your talent."
Muyue was genuinely a little surprised. Without even using his Sharingan to copy, Shisui had learned a B-rank ninjutsu in one go—wasn't that too fast? Was this the value of double S-rank talent?
"It's because you taught me well, Master Muyue." Shisui said humbly.
He didn't deny that he learned things a little faster than ordinary people, but he truly felt that Muyue taught very earnestly and well.
Except for the first demonstration when he showed off with only a single hand seal, Muyue used full hand seals for all subsequent demonstrations, slowing down the pace while explaining.
"Besides, I can't really say I've mastered it yet—I can only use it." Thinking of Muyue's Great Dragon Fire, Shisui felt he still had a long way to go before truly mastering it; he was far behind in both the size and number of fire dragons.
"Then I'll demonstrate the mastered Great Dragon Fire Technique for you a few more times." Muyue smiled.
He was very satisfied with Shisui's humility and diligence. Looking at the chakra that was increasing day by day on the panel, he knew Shisui hadn't been idle when he went home either.
Time always passed quickly when one was serious. As Shisui immersed himself in Muyue's teaching, the sky had quietly darkened.
When Shisui released the Great Dragon Fire, he noticed the firelight was exceptionally bright, and only then did he realize it was almost dark.
An odd thought arose in his heart: Could Master Muyue's gentle voice be some kind of ninjutsu technique that made one forget the passage of time?
"Master, I need to go back." Shisui bid Muyue farewell and prepared to go home.
"I've recently summarized my experience in training chakra shape transformation as well. Take this and read it when you go back." Muyue took out a pamphlet and handed it to Shisui.
Shisui paused for a moment, then accepted the pamphlet Muyue handed him, bowing in thanks.
Although he didn't say many pretty words, Shisui's respect for Muyue had grown even deeper in his heart.
He felt that Muyue was an excellent teacher. Even though they had only known each other as master and disciple for four days, Muyue never held back anything; the more important the knowledge, the sooner he taught it, never keeping it to himself.
Watching Shisui's departing figure, Muyue curled his lips into a smile. As expected of his strongest gold mine—he had struck good stuff again.
[You gifted the disciple the Shape Transformation Training Manual. Due to the disciple's great gratitude, the reward crit. You obtained the ninjutsu Wind Style: Pressure (Proficient).]
In an instant, a large amount of techniques and usage methods for Wind Style: Pressure flooded into Muyue's mind, along with some knowledge of wind-natured chakra nature transformation.
Muyue was very satisfied with this reward.
Wind Style: Pressure was a very strong ninjutsu, one of the top-tier among wind techniques, with a wide range, strong destructive power, and could be linked with his fire-style ninjutsu.
Moreover, the wind-nature nature transformation gifted by the system would also help him develop nature transformation for the Rasengan.
Originally, he had planned to develop fire-nature chakra nature transformation for the Rasengan himself, but since he had wind, he would definitely develop it toward the Rasenshuriken first.
After a few days of exploration, Muyue had roughly figured out the mechanism of the teaching reward feedback.
The reward was influenced by two factors: one was the quality of the gift he gave, and the other was the disciple's degree of gratitude for the gift, with the latter having a heavier weight.
On the second day, he gave Shisui a string of snacks, and the system gave him ten shuriken.
On the third day, he gave Shisui food he had made himself, and the system gave him fifty points of chakra.
Both were food, but the reward on the third day was noticeably better, obviously because the third one had more "heart and intention" and Shisui liked it more.
Now that he understood the mechanism, Muyue began to plan how to get Shisui to produce a big drop. He intended to go to the school tomorrow to check Shisui's records and find out his birthday.
The fifth day since crossing into the world of Naruto.
Muyue originally only had one class today, but a third-year teacher in the office had something to do and asked someone to take over his class. Muyue naturally wouldn't pass up such an opportunity to help others.
Two lessons: one gained twenty Chakra, one gained the Great Fireball.
This was the first time Mu Yue obtained a ninjutsu he already knew, but pleasantly surprised, the duplicate ninjutsu system directly increased the cultivation experience of that ninjutsu.
If it were a game, he should have a one-life Great Fireball, or a strengthened +1 Great Fireball.
"Teacher Hanyu, you're too easygoing. If you keep this up, other teachers will definitely ask you to substitute for them," Ueda Aya said somewhat worriedly.
Mu Yue thought to himself, there's such a good thing? Then he would love it.
"We're all colleagues, it's fine. Besides, I really enjoy teaching students," Mu Yue said with a smile.
Ueda Aya didn't know what to say for a moment, because looking at Mu Yue's expression, she felt he truly meant it.
She felt it was unbelievable. Could such a good person really exist in the world? Substituting without extra pay was basically working for free.
Time quickly came to the weekend.
The ninja academy was similar to his previous life: Monday to Friday school, weekends off.
Because of the earlier agreement, at eight in the morning, Mu Yue brought Obito and Might Guy to the place where he and Shisui trained, starting "special training."
"Why do we have to wake up so early on a holiday?" Obito wailed, lying on the desk Mu Yue had prepared in advance.
"Early? I think it's okay," Might Guy scratched his head, unable to empathize with Obito.
Mu Yue handed the two the exam papers he had prepared in advance. These were papers he had written based on their teaching progress, since they had only been in class for five days; he couldn't just give them last year's monthly exam papers.
Moreover, given their situation, Mu Yue didn't plan to have them tackle difficult problems; just getting the easy points would be enough to pass.
"Teacher Mu Yue, this is..."
Before long, Shisui, who was preparing to train, also arrived. Seeing Obito and Guy enduring the torment of the exam papers, his expression was very puzzled.
"They are fourth-year students. I'm tutoring them. You go ahead and train; it won't be a problem," Mu Yue explained.
Shisui's arrival was no coincidence; he had called him last night.
As for the purpose, Mu Yue thought it would be interesting for the higher-grade students to do boring exam papers while watching lower-grade juniors train ninjutsu.
Everyone, give some feedback, or else I'll think I'm playing a single-player game.
End of Chapter
