"Seal!"
On Monday afternoon in the Southern Forest, Mu Yue was practicing the One-Finger Sealing Kushina had taught him.
Since it was a Sealing Jutsu meant to seal Chakra, Mu Yue used his own Shadow Clone as a test subject.
"Unable to gather Chakra. It worked," the Shadow Clone reported.
"But I feel like I could break through it if I used my full strength," the Shadow Clone added.
Mu Yue nodded. No wonder Minato had said this Sealing Jutsu had no practical combat value.
He had only just learned it, yet a Shadow Clone with half his Chakra could break through it instantly. Its restraining power was truly pathetic.
"But I've learned it, at least. Could it be that I have a talent for Sealing Jutsu?" Mu Yue wondered.
Kushina had given him the Sealing Jutsu only last night, and he had mastered it today. According to Kushina, that made him a Sealing Jutsu genius.
Strictly speaking, he had trained for less than half a day. He had practiced for a while last night, then again for a short time this afternoon.
All kinds of possibilities flashed through Mu Yue's mind: the original owner's innate talent, his own talent, or the result of the two combined...
The reason did not matter. This was unquestionably good news.
Even without looking ahead to learning those powerful Sealing Jutsu, it gave him hope of breaking the Root curse seal right now.
After reading books on Sealing Jutsu and curse seals, then learning another Sealing Jutsu, Mu Yue already knew that curse seals were actually a minor category of Sealing Jutsu.
The Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal was essentially a Sealing Jutsu, albeit a rather special one.
There were generally two ways to deal with Sealing Jutsu.
The first was to forcefully break it