Yuan Long Wanted to Cough Up Blood

Mei Terumi chuckled smugly at that. "Naturally. He'll agree whether he wants to or not!"

The next day!

"You damn brat, don't push your luck too far!!"

Looking at the smug Ye Liangnai before him, as well as the Mizukage's order in his hand, Yuan Long was so furious he wanted to cough up blood.

Mizukage's order: Ye Liangnai was permitted to enter Yuan Long's Treasure Pavilion, where various techniques were stored, to study for two days.

He was to be granted access to all techniques except forbidden jutsu, and no one was allowed to obstruct him.

What kind of joke was this? Ye Liangnai was Mei Terumi's younger brother, his sworn enemy.

Yet now, he had to help this enemy grow stronger. Was there anything more humiliating than that?

No!

"Mizukage-sama, what were you thinking? How could you agree to such an unreasonable demand?!"

But in the end, Yuan Long still allowed Ye Liangnai inside.

No matter how furious he was, he alone did not dare defy the Mizukage's authority.

"Then I must thank Elder Yuan Long. I'll definitely come visit you often in the fut—"

"Get out! Get the hell out!"

Before he could finish, Yuan Long cut him off with a roar.

So agitated that he spat out a mouthful of blood, he fainted on the spot.

"This has nothing to do with me, okay? Don't look at me like that!"

Ye Liangnai shrugged innocently at the surrounding guards before entering the Treasure Pavilion.

He had not come here solely for Lightning Release ninjutsu.

Disgusting Yuan Long was one purpose. The other was to learn secret techniques such as Sealing Jutsu and Barrier Jutsu.

Infiltrating Kumogakure required extreme caution. There might be ears behind every wall, and there were simply too many unpredictable factors.

If he mastered Barrier Jutsu, he would have something to rely on for sensing, trapping enemies, concealment, and more.

As for Sealing Jutsu, that was meant for dealing with Obito Uchiha.

Ordinary ninjutsu could not handle his Kamui.

"What a vindictive little brat. Yuan Long only set you up once, and you retaliated immediately!"

"Hehe, I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of surprise you'll bring me!"

"But it would be even better if you died in Kumogakure!"

In the Mizukage's Office, 'Yagura' chuckled softly.

The order Obito Uchiha had given him was to do everything possible to create conflict between Mei Terumi and Kirigakure.

To force her into rebellion!

And the best way was to get Ye Liangnai killed!

Two days later!

"Hehe, as expected of the Treasure Pavilion. There really are quite a few good things here!"

Ye Liangnai rose from a corner, opened the door, and walked out.

"This sunlight is really blinding!"

After squinting and adjusting to the light outside, Ye Liangnai finally saw Elder Genryu standing before him.

"Thank you, Elder, for granting me access to these techniques. I'm deeply grateful. I've gained a great deal!"

Ye Liangnai thanked him with exaggerated gratitude.

Yuan Long merely snorted. "Hmph. It's good that you learned something. Then the painstaking effort the Mizukage and I put into you won't have been wasted."

"The Cipher Unit is ready. Hurry over for training. Once the training is complete, get to your mission."

"If you mess up the mission, it won't just be me who won't let you off. The Mizukage won't let you off either!"

Yuan Long sneered inwardly. So what if I let you study inside? It was only two days. How many ninjutsu could you possibly learn?

At most, three to five C-rank ninjutsu. As for secret techniques, it would already be impressive if you learned even one!

Learning three to five C-rank ninjutsu would barely improve his strength at all.

That way, Yuan Long would not feel as though he had cultivated an enemy.

"As expected of the Elder. Your arrangements are truly thorough. Farewell!"

Ye Liangnai immediately leaped away. After he left, Yuan Long entered the Treasure Pavilion.

He wanted to see exactly which ninjutsu Ye Liangnai had learned!

This must be your first time seeing so many ninjutsu. You probably had no idea where to begin!

But you only had two days, so you had no choice but to make selections! And you definitely chose the C-rank ninjutsu closest to you!

Even with his eyes closed, Yuan Long could picture Ye Liangnai's frantic appearance.

When he opened his eyes and looked around, he immediately showed an unsurprised expression.

The A-rank ninjutsu had not been touched. Only two B-rank ninjutsu had been touched. The C-rank ninjutsu were the ones that had been touched the most.

"Hehehe, a brat is still a brat. No sense of the bigger picture or long-term development at all."

"You only know that you should learn more, but you don't understand that learning deeply is better than learning widely!"

"So what if you learn so many C-rank ninjutsu? Your strength won't improve much at all!"

"I thought you were smart, but it seems you're nothing more than an idiot!"

Then he arrived at the secret techniques section and saw the Barrier Jutsu and Sealing Jutsu Ye Liangnai had studied.

"Foolish. You actually deluded yourself into trying to learn Barrier Jutsu."

"I thought learning so many C-rank ninjutsu was already stupid enough. I didn't expect you to do something even stupider!"

"It seems you're just a reckless brute with muscles for brains! Without your sister planning things for you, you're nothing!"

He firmly believed that coming to study in the Treasure Pavilion had definitely been Mei Terumi's idea. With Ye Liangnai's intelligence, there was no way he could have thought of it himself.

Then he walked out of the Treasure Pavilion looking utterly refreshed.

Ye Liangnai's foolishness truly put him in a wonderful mood.

On the way!

"I didn't expect most C-rank ninjutsu to have the potential for multiple enhancements. That's quite an unexpected gain!"

"It's a pity there wasn't enough time. Otherwise, I could have roughly checked the enhancement potential of A-rank and B-rank ninjutsu."

"But there's no rush. Give me some time to enhance them, and I'll be able to use C-rank Lightning Release ninjutsu more smoothly than A-rank ninjutsu!"

"That old man Yuan Long is probably thinking I'm incredibly foolish right now, maybe even that I'm no threat at all!"

"Unfortunately, you don't understand what I'm thinking! You think I gained nothing, but in truth, I gained a whole lot!"

Thinking this, Ye Liangnai raced toward the Cipher Unit!

Here, he saw Kisame Hoshigaki up close for the first time.

The excited smile on Ye Liangnai's face instead made Kisame Hoshigaki's skin crawl a little.

"Let's begin the cipher training!"

The one guiding Ye Liangnai's training was none other than Suikazan Fuguki, one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen and the wielder of Samehada.

Kisame Hoshigaki merely assisted, carrying out various movement commands like a machine.

Ye Liangnai learned quickly. After all, this concerned his life, so he could not afford to slack off.

Kisame Hoshigaki, how will you respond to my offer?

As he trained, Ye Liangnai glanced at Kisame Hoshigaki and thought this to himself.

He had already prepared what he would say. Now it depended on whether Kisame Hoshigaki would be as easy to persuade as he was in the original story.

During a break.

"Kisame Hoshigaki, please wait. There are a few things I'd like to ask you about!"

At the corner of a room in the Cipher Unit, Ye Liangnai called out to Kisame Hoshigaki like a ghost.