Rapid Progress in Wind Release

"Wind Release: Wind Style: Wind Tornado"

"Wind Release: Rasengan"

"Wind Release - Wind Release: Breakthrough".

"Wind Release - Great Breakthrough"

"Wind Release - Wind Release: Pressure Damage"

"Wind Release - Vacuum Sphere".

"Wind Release - Vacuum Bullet"

"Wind Release - Vacuum Wave".

"Wind Release - Wind Cutting Technique".

In an open space outside Iwagakure, Yichen had been practicing various Wind Release repeatedly these past few days.

By mastering Ninjutsu he didn't know and reducing the number of hand seals from dozens to just a few, Yichen learned almost all the Wind Release in Iwagakure.

Then came Combination Ninjutsu: Wind Release combined with Fire Release, Earth Release, Lightning Release, and even various combinations with Porcelain Release.

After a few days, Yichen understood why Han and his disciple Toda Yui able to learn Kekkei Genkai so smoothly.

Yichen, in the Little Chōmei Chakra Mode, progressed in his Wind Release training at a rate more than ten times faster than before.

Yichen had only been training for a little over a month when he felt he was almost ready to begin developing his Kekkei Genkai.

However, since Yichen is in the village, he definitely won't be able to stay idle. A month of continuous cultivation is already his limit. It's simply impossible for him to have that much time to develop his bloodline limit.

The Chunin Ninja Exams are over, but there's still a ton of stuff waiting for him to deal with.

A large number of newly Chunin need to be assigned, and some existing teams also need to be supplemented and adjusted because some members have been promoted.

Although there is Advisor Group and the Tsuchikage Assistant to help with many things.

However, some teams of ninjas with good strength or talent require Yichen to meet them personally. This is also a good opportunity for Yichen, as the Tsuchikage, to win people's hearts and promote the Will of Stone.

Moreover, Yichen needed to personally arrange things for his three disciples and Ōnoki's three disciples.

Deidara's arrangements had already been made; he went directly into the Anbu. Yichen arranged for his two companions to be Team-leading Chunin. Atsumi Akino joined the Barrier Team, and Ishinose Kiyoshi chose to be a Chunin Team-leading Chunin. Uzumaki Riori, having nowhere else to go, was forcibly assigned to the Anbu by Yichen.

Yichen went to great lengths to find a suitable Anbu Squad for Uzumaki Riori.

At first, Yichen informed the squad leaders of the Anbu about Uzumaki Riori's situation, but none of them expressed any willingness to take her in.

The teams that were at full strength all said that they had enough members and that they had just gotten used to working together, so it wasn't appropriate to change team members.

Teams that were short of members stated that their strength had improved recently and they did not need to recruit any more members for the time being.

Yichen didn't understand what was going on at first, but after asking around, he found out the reason.

During the recent Chunin Ninja Exams, the energetic Uzumaki Riori, while using her Multiple Shadow Clones Technique, mistook her opponent for someone else and ended up beating up Chunin Examiner.

Even more surprisingly, the Chunin Examiner was quite strong, was actually defeated by Uzumaki Riori's multiple Multiple Shadow Clones.

This made Uzumaki Riori famous; her identity changed from one of Yichen's students to Yichen's strange student.

Aside from Yichen, who has been focusing on his training for the past month, the entire Iwagakure probably knows about Uzumaki Riori's glorious deeds.

Finally, having no other choice, Yichen found an excuse to forcibly assign Uzumaki Riori to the White Cat Squad, making her a teammate of Suda Himezuki was still Quasi-Jonin.

As for the member who was transferred by Yichen, he was directly promoted to Special Jonin Yichen given a higher position.

Shironeko had naturally heard of Uzumaki Riori's great name, and seeing the little girl excitedly looking around at the Anbu's layout, she was also quite troubled.

If she hadn't been so close to Yichen that she couldn't refuse, she wouldn't have wanted to take the job. Anbu carry out missions, they can't just look at strength; they also have to consider intelligence. No Anbu Squad Leader could accept Uzumaki Riori's intelligence and personality.

Yichen understood all of this perfectly well; his decision to send Uzumaki Riori into the Anbu was a last resort.

Uzumaki Riori's personality means she won't grow unless she experiences more challenging tasks. Besides, other positions aren't suitable for her.

Not to mention her clerical work, as for combat ninjas, making her the Team-leading Chunin is like pushing the entire team into a fire pit.

By placing her in the Anbu and paying closer attention when assigning missions to this Anbu Squad, Yichen felt that Uzumaki Riori might still be salvageable.

At most, we can treat the White Cat Squad as a regular ninja squad.

After dealing with the matters related to this batch of newly Chunin, Yichen had to start selecting disciples from among the graduating students.

One of the disciples Yichen selected this time was confirmed: Sokai Uchiha, the Dead Last in the Advanced Class.

No one knew about his Sokai Two-Tomoe Sharingan, otherwise no one would have considered him a loser.

But now, Yichen doesn't need to guess to know that no Jonin would want a kid like Sokai.

Besides Sokai, the selection of Yichen's other two disciples was more complicated.

Sitting in the Tsuchikage's Office, Yichen picked up a student file sent by the Ninja Academy, somewhat speechless.

The Ninja Academy knew Yichen's habit of accepting apprentices every two years, and except for one time when it was interrupted for a year, there had never been any accidents. So they prepared detailed information well in advance.

Previously, the entire graduating class's materials totaled only one book, but now, one person's materials can fill almost a book.

Rubbing his temples, Yichen summoned the Anbu and said, "Tell the Jonin plan to take on disciples this year that they can start recruiting disciples now. All ninjas with this idea need to confirm their disciples within ten days."

Although the Anbu didn't understand why Yichen had given this order, they still carried it out diligently.

Little did he know, Yichen's purpose in doing this was to hope that the Jonin would finish selecting their disciples quickly so that he could read less data.

Yichen also realized that the more outstanding the student, the more information they had. As long as the Jonin who wanted to complete the S-rank mission finished selecting their disciples, his reading load could be reduced by at least half.

Yichen gave himself a thumbs up for his cleverness.

Even though he could read half the amount of material, Yichen's reading volume was still substantial.

Yichen summoned two Tsuchikage Assistant and instructed them to rank the graduating class by academic performance, starting with the lowest-performing students. He knew there wouldn't be many Jonin these students, Yichen planned to review their resumes first.

Regular Class, Class 1, Nobusada nature: Earth, has not mastered any Ninjutsu, hobbies: Tree Climbing, catching birds, cheerful and outgoing personality, gets Chakra very well with classmates...

Yichen was speechless. This student named Nobusada was a typical student who hadn't learned anything, yet his homeroom teacher had written several pages about his personality and hobbies.

There's nothing that can be done; this is the mess Yichen made himself. Who told Yichen's disciples to be so eccentric?

Everyone initially thought that having a Civilian Ninja like Tomoko was already incredibly powerful, but then look at the students who came later: Matsutani Shinya, who loved to sleep in; Yoshimura Kazumasa, who had ADHD; Kawazoe Yura, who loved Kanako...

So many students who were originally considered to be eliminated by the teachers at the Ninja Academy have now achieved far greater success than their teachers. Even the worst one Quasi-Jonin.

These teachers had thoroughly investigated the characteristics of Yichen's past students, treating this information almost like a real college entrance exam question. Each teacher had memorized this information perfectly.

What Yichen was unaware of was that one of the important criteria for evaluating teachers at the Ninja Academy was the number of students whose students were selected by Yichen to become his disciples.

The competition within the Ninja Academy is extremely fierce.

There was a lot of information, and Yichen was afraid of missing out on a suitable disciple, so even though it was mostly filler material, he still chose to read it carefully.

To be fair, although most of the content was a waste of time, some students did have a slight thought of being accepted as disciples by Yichen because of a few words from the teacher.

For example, this one, Class 5 of the Regular Class, Chiya, Chakra nature: Lightning.

Although he couldn't fully unleash Lightning Release due to Chakra Control issues, he took advantage of the fact that Lightning Release's paralyzing attacks didn't require much control, directly mobilizing the Lightning Release Chakra within his body.

This Chiya equivalent to using a Lightning Release Ninjutsu that's not even C-rank.

When he fought using Taijutsu, he suddenly released Lightning Release Chakra upon contact with his enemy, paralyzing both of them—a move that resulted in heavy losses on both sides. However, because he was prepared, he calmly responded and turned the tide of battle.

Although Chiya's talent is indeed quite ordinary, his character is admirable. If this tenacious personality were coupled with some kind of special advantage, he would be the protagonist of many novels.

Yichen felt that if there wasn't a particularly suitable candidate, he could choose him, so he added Chiya to the shortlist.

There were many ordinary students like Chiya, and Yichen kept their files.

After seven days, when all the Jonin finished selecting their disciples, Yichen had already chosen more than a dozen candidates.

"Lord Tsuchikage, this is the list of ninjas chosen by the Jonin." An assistant to the Tsuchikage handed Yichen the detailed list of Jonin chosen by the Jonin.

Yichen nodded and said, "Check the list and take away the information of the students they selected."

This was Yichen's main objective in having the Jonin select disciples, so naturally, it had to be carried out immediately.

After watching his assistant take notes for a while, Yichen was quite satisfied, as the assistant had indeed picked out about half of the documents.

However, when Yichen saw that three of the dozen or so documents he had selected had been chosen by others, he immediately became interested.

Yichen began to look through the list that his assistant had just handed him, and then he was surprised to find that the three students who were chosen were actually selected by the same Jonin teacher.

"This is interesting, Shinsuke?" Yichen felt he had met a ninja who shared the same thoughts.

"Bring me Shinsuke's file," Yichen said after the assistant finished his work.

"Yes." The assistant responded and left, returning shortly with a document.