Chapter 196: Jiraiya's Profile
Chapter 196: Jiraiya's Profile
Name: Jiraiya
Chakra: 160,000
Potential: S+ (Base Potential + Sage Mode)
Skills: Fire Chakra Nature Transformation (Proficient: 6200/15,000), Sage Mode (Beginner: 499/500) ...
Jiraiya's profile was equally intimidating. Aside from Tsunade, whose potential was marked with a question mark and whose exact situation was unclear to Kushina, only Hiruzen Sarutobi slightly surpassed Jiraiya in terms of chakra.
Aside from his abundant chakra, Jiraiya also possessed a highly proficient Fire Chakra Nature Transformation skill and numerous other proficient-level skills. Mu Yue glanced through his techniques and found that he had a wide array of ninjutsu at his disposal, including many functional ones.
What surprised Mu Yue was that Sage Mode could increase one's potential value. This was the first time he had seen a skill that could boost potential, and considering the might of Sage Mode in the later stages, it made sense.
The upper limit of Sage Mode was extraordinarily high. Aside from the formidable displays by Naruto and Hashirama, the three legendary Sannin alone were testament to the power of Sage Mode.
Comparing Jiraiya's profile with that of Hiruzen, Mu Yue felt that it was hard to say who would emerge victorious in a full-power confrontation between the two.
Hiruzen possessed a near-perfect combination of ninjutsu and a multitude of proficient nature transformations. He had mastered countless ninjutsu at the proficient and highly proficient levels, and there seemed to be no weakness in his ninjutsu, taijutsu, or genjutsu.
Jiraiya wasn't as versatile as Hiruzen, but his near-proficient Sage Mode could offset many of Hiruzen's advantages. Additionally, Jiraiya could also summon toads from Mount Myoboku, including powerful sages.
It was difficult to predict who would win in a battle between Hiruzen and Jiraiya at this point, but Mu Yue was confident that in ten years' time, Jiraiya would undoubtedly surpass Hiruzen. Jiraiya was the type to grow stronger with time.
In the later stages, Jiraiya's performance could be described as the pinnacle of ordinary humans, excluding the exception of the Eight Inner Gates. After all, Sage Mode could be activated repeatedly, whereas opening the Eighth Gate, the Death Gate, without the Yin-Yang Release would result in death.
Mu Yue sincerely hoped that his disciples would grow up quickly so that he could boost their chakra reserves. He glanced at Minato's profile, noticing that his chakra had increased by several thousand since their first meeting.
Name: Minato Namikaze
Chakra: 47,600
This was the value of rapid growth, and Mu Yue believed that once Minato joined the war, his development would accelerate even further. However, Minato still had a long way to go before becoming the Yellow Flash who would bring an end to the war.
After committing Jiraiya's profile to memory, Mu Yue continued to research his sealing techniques.
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Perhaps spurred on by their recent encounter, Mu Yue's disciples had become even more diligent in their training. Even after Mu Yue dismissed them, they remained in the Southern Border Forest to cultivate.
Obito was consolidating his improved breathing technique, planning to deal with the thorn in his side, Kakashi, once and for all.
Kakashi, on the other hand, was undergoing intense training with his breathing technique, aiming to master the Lightning Breath as soon as possible to avoid losing to Obito. He had already lost to Guy, then to Genma, and he refused to lose to Obito as well.
Guy was making use of every available moment to train, following Mu Yue's plan to reach the second and third gates of the Eight Inner Gates.
Genma was diligently studying Armament Haki to solidify his position as Mu Yue's undisputed top disciple.
Rin was also working hard to improve her taijutsu and medical ninjutsu, hoping to join the training battles among Mu Yue's disciples.
Pleased with his disciples' dedication, Mu Yue decided to forgo the previously planned competitive training for now, intending to reward them with cultivation benefits after this bout of hard work.
Mu Yue's understanding of medical ninjutsu came from the classes he attended, just like how the system granted him a small amount of nature transformation knowledge when it rewarded him with ninjutsu that he hadn't mastered yet. Medical ninjutsu inherently came with medical knowledge.
However, the medical ninjutsu that Mu Yue knew were all of a low level; they were only at the introductory stage. Mu Yue thought about it and decided to use one of his four Ninja Skill Proficiency Scrolls on the Palm Mystical Technique.
Using up one scroll wasn't a big deal, and the Palm Mystical Technique was highly practical.
After upgrading the Palm Mystical Technique to the Proficient level, Mu Yue gained a lot more medical knowledge, and he once again immersed himself in the development of sealing techniques.
Then he realized that due to his previous lack of medical ninjutsu knowledge, there were many aspects that he hadn't understood before. The gaps in his understanding were even more significant than he had imagined, and using up the remaining three scrolls might not be enough to compensate.
After all, these were Proficiency Scrolls, not Mastery Scrolls; they only elevated skills to the Proficient level.
Mu Yue thought about it and concluded that it would be nearly impossible for him to master it on his own. So far, he had only discovered that he had a talent for sealing techniques; everything else was average.
"Should I go find Tsunade?" Mu Yue thought.
Tsunade was still in Konoha at the moment, and if he was lucky, he might be able to bump into her at the casino.
However, he didn't need luck, as Jiraiya had been coming over to freeload meals for several consecutive days. As long as Mu Yue had a good enough excuse, it wouldn't be a problem to tag along with Jiraiya to meet Tsunade.
But if he were to ask for Tsunade's help, his medical ninjutsu and sealing technique levels would undoubtedly be exposed. After all, he would have to explain the situation clearly for Tsunade to assist him effectively.
Mu Yue decided that he would seek Tsunade's help, but not right now; he would wait for some time.
He wanted to boost his apparent strength a bit more and increase Jiraiya's favorability toward him.
If he went now, it would be a bit too much of a stretch, even with his former Root member identity, for a teacher Jonin who showed exceptional talent in sealing techniques.
"I'll learn more about sealing techniques and improve my skill level in that area," Mu Yue decided on his course of action.
A week after the sparring training, Kakashi had mastered Yin Release nature transformation. Since he had spent more energy on mastering Lightning Breath, it took Kakashi over ten days to get a grasp of Yin Release.
Thus, Mu Yue began to formally teach Kakashi about Armament Haki.
[You have taught your disciple Armament Haki. Due to your disciple's immense gratitude, you receive a Critical Hit reward: Ninjutsu: Earth Release: Earth Style Wall (Proficient).]
With Mu Yue's guidance, Kakashi successfully triggered another small explosion, this time resulting in a decent Earth Release technique.
"Today, we won't be cultivating," Mu Yue announced in the morning when they gathered. "We're going to take on a mission."
After the previous incident, he still didn't know how much chakra a typical C-rank mission would reward, so he wanted to take this opportunity to boost his disciples' chakra levels if the rewards were favorable.
C-rank missions usually required leaving the village, and he could also take his disciples to train outside. This way, they wouldn't fall too behind in their cultivation compared to taking on D-rank missions.
"Teacher Mu Yue, what level of mission are we taking?" Obito asked.
"C-rank."
"Yeah!" Obito couldn't help but cheer.
According to the information from Minato, Tsunade was in Konoha during the Third Shinobi World War.
(End of Chapter)
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