Ninja School

Yes, the ninja school has excellent classes.

Yesterday, when he heard that the Ninja School was enrolling students in advance, Masumi found out through well-informed colleagues.

Students who graduate from the higher classes will likely be assigned to a jounin captain, while most common classes can only receive a chuunin captain.

Jounin captain, Masumi was very excited. Originally, his positioning was wrong, but now that he has a relatively accurate positioning, his goal is naturally different from before.

Mental power test, I discovered that I am the fusion of two souls.

At the very least, you can tell just by what I feel when reading these days that my energy is obviously much better now than in my previous life.

As long as you sleep about five hours a day, you will be able to feel energetic throughout the day.

Of course, this does not require strenuous exercise.

In the days following the time travel, Masumi had to do certain training every day, with the main content being running and squatting. Of course, it is not very intense. It was originally preparation for the official enrollment this year.

I thought that even if I wasn't young enough, I would still have to take the test shamelessly. As long as I could meet the standards, the ninja school teacher would not refuse me.

Ninja schools are now enrolling students in advance. Although Masumi has a chance, it doesn't give him enough time to practice.

Moreover, this body did not exercise much before and is now just getting used to long-term exercise.

This is also the reason why Masumi lacks confidence in himself, or why he is scared by the memories of his previous life, always thinking that everyone is a monster like the Twelve Little Strong.

In fact, many ninja families have already started training in various aspects even younger than Masumi.

Although they do not practice chakra refinement, their physiques are far superior to Masumi's.

Along with a much more generous diet and, with the guidance of a teacher, they can indeed surpass Masumi and others by a great margin.

And someone like Masumi, with average talent, an average family, and even a father who just became a chuunin, would definitely have a starting point that is at least a little behind the children of wealthy families.

If there are no adventures after tomorrow, then the end of life will be a chuunin, and it will be the kind of chuunin who barely becomes a chuunin with the advantage of experience after adulthood.

If there is a war, he will just be a relatively high-level cannon fodder.

Now Masumi has an adventure. Although there is no old man and no system, he at least has a mature soul and may have some talent in illusions and other aspects.

As for the hidden clumsiness, haha!

How is that possible? Ninja training doesn't just involve talent. The process requires countless resources.

Various foods and medicinal materials to improve physical fitness, various ninja tools used for training, and various ninjutsu inheritances all require payment.

One could say that ninjas are high-income, high-consumption people. Therefore, although Masumi's parents were ninjas, they didn't leave many resources for Masumi.

Masumi took a tour of his house and found two ninjutsu scrolls in his parents' room.

One is Earth Release: Mud Wall, the other is Earth Release: Stone Spears, one for defense and one for attack.

At this point, some might say that two ninjutsu are very good, and Masumi thought so at first.

But after looking closely, he was very confused. Mud Wall requires seventeen seals and Stone Spears requires fifteen seals.

In other words, Itachi Uchiha would take two or three seconds to perform it, which would be enough time to be stabbed multiple times.

In the memory of the previous life, except for Kakashi and Zabuza, no one used so many seals to perform offensive and defensive ninjutsu.

Speaking of which, I must mention the relationship between seals and ninjutsu.

First, it's not necessary to form seals to perform ninjutsu. The function of seals is to mobilize chakra more smoothly.

Beyond that, the function of the seal might just be to display the form.

After reading the descriptions of the two ninjutsu, Masumi knew that in the beginner stage of performing a ninjutsu, it is necessary to practice forming seals.

This seal is not the same as the one Masumi practiced alone before. Masumi's practice could only exercise finger flexibility.

The true seal is that each seal can mobilize the chakra of the body. Driven by various hand seals, the chakra completes the necessary route to perform the ninjutsu and is then released from the body.

Therefore, in the beginner stage, to perform ninjutsu, it is necessary to form seals to mobilize the chakra.

After many uses, the body and soul adapt to this chakra flow route, so the seal can be simplified to some extent.

Therefore, in the previous life, when Naruto started to learn the Shadow Clone Jutsu, he needed to form eight seals, but afterward, he only needed one seal.

It is because of the enormous amount of chakra in Naruto's body that, after using the Shadow Clone Jutsu numerous times, the chakra is long accustomed to this flow route.

Furthermore, the ninjutsu recorded in Konoha's Sealed Book have long been simplified versions by masters. Perhaps the Shadow Clone Jutsu originally required a dozen or even dozens of seals in the initial stage.

After making this assumption, Masumi believed that others should have simplified Mud Wall and Stone Spears in his hands. Even if they couldn't make a seal-less version, there should be versions with three or five seals.

Of course, the price of this version is definitely much higher than the product in Masumi's hands.

His thoughts returned, all the previous children had left, and finally, it was Masumi's turn to test.

The first round is the easiest, checking perseverance and endurance, with everyone doing a long run.

During the long-distance run, there will be a Chuunin instructor slowly chasing after you. Students caught by the instructor will fail.

Although they are not eliminated directly, the chance of joining the upper class is definitely lost. Those who are not caught will be scored based on their speed.

There are many children in Masumi's group who are obviously much physically stronger than the average person.

Both their explosive power and endurance are far superior to Masumi and others.

They were far ahead from the start, and the three-thousand-meter run took less than half the time it took Masumi. It's not that Masumi is hiding his strength; it's just that the hardware gap is too big.

In this way, he also benefited from the assault training from some time ago.

Otherwise, Masumi was sure that even if he persisted in running to the end, he would definitely be overtaken by the Chuunin instructor who followed slowly.

What made Masumi more uncomfortable was not the fact that he lost to those ninja disciples, but the fact that among the many ordinary students, Masumi's physical strength was mediocre.

Standing at the finish line, Masumi held his knees and gasped rapidly. Although the exam speed was not much faster than usual, under the pressure of the Chuunin instructor, the physical effort was much greater than usual.

Especially in the final sprint, the Chuunin instructor shouted to speed up. Masumi and others were so scared that they did their best, which made their throats feel like they were about to catch fire.

Looking at several family members trying to compete with each other not far away, Masumi pursed his lips and did not cause trouble.

My competitors are not this group of people.

Turning his attention to some teachers, he found that they were looking at him.

After thinking about it, he realized that the entrance exam was not difficult for the children of those families and they would surely be able to join the upper class.

What really needs to be evaluated are the students themselves, who come from ordinary ninja families or civilians. The teacher needs to select those with potential among them and focus on them.

After observing for a while, Masumi was a little disappointed. The teachers' attention was basically not on him. It was on some children with better grades, including civilian children.

Masumi no longer looked at the teachers but turned his attention to other test sites. The strength test was not as good as the physical fitness test. Even with his small body, he did not know if he could pass.

His advantage is his spiritual power, but how should he express his spiritual power?

After a while, after everyone had almost rested, the instructor arranged for Masumi and others to conduct the second test. Stone pillars of different sizes were placed in the testing field.

A Chuunin instructor introduced: "There are a total of thirty stone pillars of different sizes. If you can lift one of the top fifteen, you will pass, and the others will fail. Specific results will be ranked according to weight. You can try several times, and the best results will be recorded."

Masumi curled his lips, understanding a bit the meaning of the evaluation.

In the previous round, the Chuunin instructor's pursuit did not mean much; whether he was caught or not did not affect his performance. The final result still depended on everyone's speed.

But there was an instructor chasing them, which obviously disrupted everyone's pace, including Masumi's.

The same goes for the second round. In fact, before being able to use chakra, everyone's physical strength is fixed, and the weight of the stone pillar that can be lifted is also fixed.

At this moment, besides testing strength, the exam should also test the students' choices.

If you are not sure about your positioning and try many things beyond your ability, it will not only consume a lot of physical energy but also affect the teacher's evaluation.

After all, if a ninja has a wrong positioning of their own strength, the consequences will be disastrous. Of course, it will also work if they have a protagonist's aura like Erzhu Rong.

After the instructor finished explaining the rules, while others were still hesitating, Masumi was the first to step out and stand in front of the fourteenth stone pier.

Taking a deep breath, he lifted the stone pier step by step according to the lifting method he had seen in his previous life.

The moment he lifted it, Masumi stepped back and let it go, allowing the stone pier to fall to the ground, raising a cloud of dust on the dirt ground.

Masumi did not try the thirteenth stone pier again but turned around and walked toward the open space, waiting for others to test.

Under Masumi's careful observation, he clearly felt that many instructors were paying attention to him. This attention was not because he was the first to get up, but because of Masumi's understanding of himself.

"This kid is pretty good. I didn't notice it in the physical fitness test just now. Riku-senpai, what was this kid's score earlier?"

The Chuunin in charge of recording flipped through the record book and said, "The physical fitness test is average and just above the median among civilian ninjas."

Another Chuunin next to him asked curiously, "What's the matter? Is there something special about this kid?"

Riku smiled and said, "There's indeed something special: he came to enroll early, and the matter was reported to the government. Master Tsuchikage and the village elders decided to enroll other students early as well."

"Ah?" Several people around were a bit surprised. Although they had heard about this, they hadn't paid much attention. Now that they had met the real person, they couldn't help but look at Masumi a few more times.

Masumi naturally noticed that the teachers were looking at him and was secretly pleased. This time, he gave himself a score of 90 points, maintaining a calm expression, and began to turn his attention to the other students.

Perhaps unhappy that Masumi had stolen the spotlight, a guy who was a head taller than Masumi walked up to the tenth stone pier and lifted it in one go.

Then, he looked provocatively at Masumi, gritted his teeth, and lifted the ninth.

After thinking for a moment, he tried the eighth again. He missed and failed this time. However, he was not discouraged and even looked at Masumi with a proud expression.

Masumi was pleased when he saw this scene. Comparison only hurts.

If this guy had lifted the eighth from the start, he might have managed to lift it. Now, his performance in the second round directly raised Masumi's evaluation to 95 points. And he silently said in his heart,

"Thanks for the help."