Chapter 47: Panel Greatly Improved
[Name: Muyue Hanyu]
[Age: 18]
[Chakra: 8000]
[Skills: Teaching, Fire Style: Head Hardship, Mystical Palm Technique, Wind Style: Pressure Damage, Earth Style: Earth-Style Wall, Eight Gates Released Formation...]
[Evaluation: You have mastered seven chakra nature transformations and are proficient in Fire Style and Water Style. If it's just a clash of power, ordinary Jonin will be overwhelmed by you. You only need to continue increasing your chakra to become a powerful individual.]
Compared to immediately after last month's exam, the panel data saw another significant increase. This month, due to the training missions, the chakra increase was particularly noticeable. When he transmigrated, it was April. The total chakra increase from April to May was one thousand, rising from four thousand three hundred to five thousand three hundred. Including the five hundred chakra from the early May exam, it was five thousand eight hundred. From the end of the early May exam to early June now, it has increased by quite a bit, directly from five thousand eight hundred to eight thousand, a total increase of two thousand two hundred chakra.
Muyue once envied the seven thousand chakra points of a Root Anbu Jonin. In just two months, he had already surpassed them; now he had a thousand more chakra points than a Root Anbu Jonin. However, Muyue knew it would be difficult to maintain this rate of chakra increase from June to July. The reason for such a large increase was the settlement of Obito's training mission, and currently, no new training missions have appeared. There are also no exams from June to July; the final exam is in mid-July.
Aside from the pleasing chakra increase, Muyue also received a series of rewards, including proficiency in Water Release Chakra Nature Transformation, proficiency in Fire Style: Head Hardship, and mastery of Yin Release Chakra Nature Transformation. These rewards were very helpful for improving Muyue's raw strength; otherwise, simply having a lot of chakra without skills would be quite awkward. Proficiency in various chakra nature transformations was the reward Muyue most wanted to obtain at the moment. After mastering Water and Fire nature transformation proficiency, not only did the upper limit of ninjutsu output for the corresponding attributes increase, but Muyue felt that if he worked hard for a few years, he might even be able to develop the Boil Release Kekkei Genkai.
If he mastered proficiency in all seven nature transformations, Muyue dared not imagine what he could develop—perhaps hand-crafting a Truth-Seeking Orb? Muyue thought it might not be enough; proficiency was not the highest level, and it would probably require one more level higher to hand-craft a Truth-Seeking Orb. However, even if he couldn't hand-craft a Truth-Seeking Orb, there was hope for developing various Kekkei Genkai.
"Obito, Kakashi, it's great that you both got first place!" Nohara Rin said with a sweet smile, congratulating Obito and Kakashi. Both were her good friends, and getting first place together was the best outcome.
"Hehe, it's also thanks to your cheering down there, Rin," Obito said, his face slightly red, thanking her with excitement as the scene he had envisioned twenty days ago came true.
It would be even better if Kakashi's name wasn't there, Obito added mentally.
"Tied for first place, so it's a draw," Might Guy said, deep in thought. Up until now, all his battles with Kakashi had been losses; there had been no wins or draws. Seeing Obito successfully tie with Kakashi in ninjutsu, Might Guy felt a stir in his heart and wanted to fight Kakashi again.
"Kakashi, to celebrate you getting first place, let's have a fight!" Might Guy was very quick to act.
"I refuse. What kind of celebration is that? Getting first place in this kind of competition doesn't even need celebrating," Kakashi said, rejecting Might Guy while also subtly putting down Obito.
Obito immediately wanted to start a verbal battle with Kakashi, but seeing Muyue and Asuma arrive, he stopped himself.
"Obito, you brat, were you secretly holding back during exams before? You suddenly got so strong," Asuma jogged over to Obito, patted his shoulder, and joked.
"No way, it's all thanks to learning from you, Asuma," Obito replied. Back when he was practicing tree climbing, he managed to persevere because of the example of Asuma that Muyue told him.
"Haha,
I should be learning from you, using Fire Style so impressively," Asuma just took it as friendly flattery and put his arm around Obito's neck with a laugh.
"Muyue-sensei," Nohara Rin, Obito, and Might Guy greeted Muyue as he walked over from behind. Because Muyue often substitute taught for Class 4, Section 2, Nohara Rin was quite familiar with him.
"Well done," Muyue said with a encouraging smile, not saying too much, and quickly left with Asuma. He had actually reminded his three disciples not to reveal their relationship when others were present, and just act like a teacher and student at school. Muyue didn't explain the reason, letting his disciples fill in the blanks. Even so, Muyue felt it was better to have less contact when others were around; Obito at this time was truly unreliable.
Before leaving, Muyue performed an appraisal on Kakashi.
[Name: Kakashi Hatake]
[Chakra: 2500]
[Potential: S]
[Evaluation: Suitable for cultivating Lightning Style and Earth Style, recommended for discipleship]
Looking at Kakashi's panel, Muyue's heart instantly stirred. With two thousand five hundred chakra at the age of eight, the value of that was extraordinary. He had used appraisal on many Chunin teachers at the Ninja Academy, and most were around 1500-2500, meaning eight-year-old Kakashi already surpassed many Chunin in chakra. If he took him as a disciple and raised his trust level, the chakra provided would certainly not be small.
Muyue quickly abandoned this somewhat tempting idea. Kakashi wasn't as easily fooled as Obito, and he was currently a Chunin. Why would he learn from a Chunin teacher like Muyue? "Kakashi is only S-rank; does that mean if there's no Six Paths bloodline, potential can only be S-rank at most?" Muyue thought of another question. Having appraised many people, he knew that potential was not equivalent to talent. Otherwise, how could Obito and Might Guy, with the same S-rank potential, have such a huge gap compared to Kakashi during their academy days?
Rather than talent, Muyue thought potential represented a person's possibilities. Families with Six Paths bloodlines had greater possibilities, hence higher potential. For example, among the Hyuga and Uchiha clans, Muyue had never seen anyone with potential below A-rank. Despite such high potential, neither clan had all Jonin, and the two B-rank "gatekeepers" even became Special Jonin in the story.
After Muyue and Asuma left, the four, including Obito, discussed and finally decided to go eat ramen to celebrate. Because he won first place, Obito generously offered to pay for their ramen. However, during the ramen meal, Obito and Kakashi couldn't help but bicker.
"Have you ever gotten first place in your class at the Ninja Academy?" Kakashi asked calmly. "When you can stay first in your class before graduation like me, then come argue with me about winning or losing."
Obito was speechless; he had never gotten first place in his class, not even first in his group. Might Guy even stopped eating his noodles; he had been hit by Kakashi's area-of-effect attack, as he had never gotten first in his class either. At the same time, Muyue, who was teaching Asuma, received a system pop-up.