Agricultural Summoning Technique

Fugaku Uchiha summoned a Ninja Cat. The cat held a scroll in its mouth and placed it in Fugaku's hand.

Cat Granny possessed exceptionally high intelligence among Summoning Beasts. She was the old matriarch of the Empty District, gathering intelligence from outside the village for the Uchiha Clan and forging Ninja Tools for the village as well.

Cat Granny knew many Summoning Beasts, including Ninja Bulls—one of them a bull named Qiongqi.

Qiongqi's family had been Summoning Beasts raised by Land of Rain ninjas for generations. War frequently broke out in the Land of Rain, so Qiongqi escaped and wandered the ninja world, visiting many Summoning Beasts, including Cat Granny.

After Fugaku formed hand seals with both hands, he used the Summoning Technique. An enormous yellow bull over twice a man's height appeared before everyone.

Qiongqi looked strangely at the large crowd before him. There were ninjas, but there were farmers too.

Minato happily looked at the bull and said:

"Guangxia, this is a Ninja Bull with chakra. It has immense strength and is excellent at farm work."

The moment Qiongqi heard that they wanted him to work the fields, he immediately prepared to dispel the Summoning Technique and flee this hellhole.

They actually dared to make Lord Qiongqi do farm work? That was menial labor he had never done even as a child in the Land of Rain.

However, Fugaku directly activated his Three-Tomoe and cast Genjutsu on Qiongqi.

Three tomoe immediately appeared in Qiongqi's bovine eyes. He had already fallen under the Genjutsu.

Fugaku had an extremely high talent for Genjutsu. Among the younger generation of the Uchiha Clan, he was the strongest in Genjutsu.

Seeing Fugaku easily suppress Qiongqi's restlessness, Minato continued:

"The new ninjutsu we want to research is how to make chakra-bearing Summoning Beasts help us with farm work.

Ordinary water buffalo are already great helpers in agriculture, but normal water buffalo are still too weak.

We need to conduct an experiment spanning several years.

If this Ninja Bull breeds with ordinary female water buffalo, we can obtain a new generation of water buffalo with superior genetic traits.

Then, if you use chakra to cultivate this new generation of water buffalo, you can produce large numbers of Ninja Bulls with chakra.

They won't need much chakra. Just a little will greatly improve their farming efficiency.

I call this ninjutsu: Summoning Technique: Ninja Bull Qiongqi's Vast Multitude of Descendants!

This is a branch of agricultural ninjutsu: Agricultural Summoning Technique!"

A wonderful system notification rang out, making Minato's heart jolt.

Host chakra amount: 162 units.

As the Host's reformation brings the Autumn Fruit Organization significant progress, it has begun developing the Agricultural Summoning Technique.

The Host is rewarded with 50 units of chakra. The Host's chakra amount is now 212 units.

After speaking, Minato stared blankly at Ninja Bull Qiongqi.

Seeing Minato's dazed expression, Jiraiya came over and said:

"Minato, there's no need to feel sorry for Qiongqi. Under your arrangement, he'll be breeding with more than a dozen young cows. If I were a bull, I'd be overjoyed."

Minato was somewhat helpless. His teacher was far too improper—he was actually thinking about breeding young cows at a time like this.

"Uh... Teacher, although I'm happy for Qiongqi too, he is being coerced through Genjutsu. I still feel a little guilty."

Fugaku gritted his teeth and said nothing.

He was the one controlling Qiongqi with Genjutsu! Later, he would have to manipulate Qiongqi into breeding. Just thinking about it made him feel ashamed. Why were this teacher and student feeling guilty instead?

Qiongqi's huge bovine eyes were dull, utterly unaware of the fate awaiting him.

Yoshimaru circled around Qiongqi, who stood over twice a man's height, then looked at the water buffalo that were only as tall as a person. Somewhat confused, he said:

"Teacher, you have plenty of experience in this area. I have a question: with such a huge size difference between Qiongqi and ordinary water buffalo, can they actually mate?"

Jiraiya said with great confidence:

"Don't worry about that! Cows can handle it. No matter how big the size difference is, they can handle it. I've even seen a 2.2-meter-tall man marry a 1.5-meter-tall woman."

Akimichi Jirokuma was deeply puzzled. His mother always complained that he and his father were too fat, but compared to a height difference of 2.2 meters and 1.5 meters, they were not that excessive, were they?

Jiraiya sharply turned his head and suddenly looked at Minato.

Uncontrollable chakra spilled from Minato's body, flattening the surrounding weeds.

Minato's chakra amount had suddenly increased, leaving Jiraiya utterly astonished.

Just now?

Jiraiya did not know exactly what had happened. He only knew that Minato's emotions had surged just now, causing him to lose control and leak chakra. And the small amount of chakra that leaked out proved that Minato's strength had improved at an astonishing rate.

With this amount of chakra, even an Elite Chunin would be no more than this, right?

Jiraiya suddenly said, "Minato, after teaching the Autumn Fruit Organization ninjutsu here for two weeks, we'll return to the village."

"Return to the village?" Minato asked in confusion. "Teacher, you actually took the initiative to say we should return to the village. That's quite surprising."

"Haha, it is surprising. Not because I'm tired of wandering around outside, but because you all are going to take this year's Chunin Exams." Jiraiya said proudly:

"My disciple becoming a Chunin at eleven? Easy as pie!"

Akimichi Jirokuma and Haneina exchanged glances, so shocked that their jaws nearly dropped.

They had been fooling around with Minato. Who would have thought Minato was about to become a Chunin?

"Teacher, are the two of us taking the Chunin Exams too?"

"Of course. You'll be going with Minato. But don't put too much pressure on yourselves. Just treat these Chunin Exams as a chance to broaden your horizons," Jiraiya said.

"This year's Chunin Exams are the first since the ninja world war. Many people are watching Konoha, wanting to see how well its strength has recovered.

Before we left the village, the Cloud Hidden Village sent word that they would be sending people to participate in Konoha's Chunin Exams.

The Cloud Hidden Village is one of the top three ninja villages, with strength on par with Konoha."

Minato asked, "Top three ninja villages? What does that mean?"

Jiraiya said:

"Although the ninja world places the Five Great Ninja Villages side by side, the Sand Hidden Village and Mist Hidden Village are a tier weaker.

Konoha Village, Stone Hidden Village, and Cloud Hidden Village are the top three ninja villages. Their strength is evenly matched."

Minato felt somewhat moved. So the ninja world had its own top-three hierarchy as well.

Minato was full of confidence regarding the Chunin Exams.

The average chakra amount of a Jonin was 200 units, while Minato had just received a large amount of Power of Reformation from the system, bringing his chakra amount to 212 units.

Judging from chakra amount alone, Minato already possessed Jonin-level strength.

The only issue was that he lacked combat experience, and his ninjutsu repertoire was rather limited.

His strongest ninjutsu right now was the Summoning Technique, followed by some Wind Release techniques and a small number of Earth Release techniques.

Minato possessed an enormous amount of chakra but lacked sufficient means to use it. His actual combat strength had been improving somewhat slowly.

In the time ahead, Minato planned to use his immense chakra amount to rapidly increase his overall strength.

The original Minato Namikaze's talents included the Body Flicker Technique, Sealing Technique, Flying Thunder God, Rasengan, Sage Technique, and more.

He could not access Sealing Technique, Flying Thunder God, Sage Technique, and the like for the time being, but he could begin training the Body Flicker Technique and Rasengan as soon as possible.

Training according to the original body's talents would surely yield twice the result with half the effort.