Name: Hanzo
Chakra: 130500
Skills: Water Release Chakra Nature Transformation (Mastery: 6100/15000), Fire Release Chakra Nature Transformation (Mastery: 2000/15000), Water Body Flicker Technique (Mastery), Fire Release: Exploding Flame Array (Mastery)...
Among the Kage-level powerhouses Mu Yue had appraised, Hanzo was one with relatively few skills. He had only two mastery-level Nature Transformations, and most of the Ninjutsu he had mastered was Water Release.
Though he had fewer skills, that did not mean Hanzo was weak. His proficiency in Water Release Chakra Nature Transformation was quite high, and he also possessed several mastery-level Water Release Ninjutsu.
Mu Yue, who knew the plot well, also knew of some of Hanzo's abilities that had not appeared on the panel—poison.
Hanzo had a Summoning Beast named Ibuse that could spew highly toxic, large-scale poison mist. Furthermore, Hanzo himself had implanted an Ibuse poison sac, which was why he wore a mask at all times.
Without the mask, the poisonous gas produced by Hanzo's breathing alone could paralyze anyone nearby.
Mu Yue had to admit that poison users like Hanzo somewhat countered Breathing Techniques. Using a Breathing Technique in poisonous gas would only cause the toxins to invade the body faster.
Mu Yue had understood this flaw of Breathing Techniques from the beginning, which was why he had always been planning to improve them. However, improvements of this degree were even more difficult than creating a Breathing Technique from scratch, so progress had been slow.
Mu Yue had two ideas: mitigation and a complete cure.
Mitigation meant adding detoxification or poison resistance effects to Breathing Techniques. A complete cure meant changing how Breathing Techniques operated so they no longer relied on normal breathing.
The former was much simpler than the latter, so Mu Yue planned to improve them step by step in cycles.
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