Mikoto: Silver-Tongued

Next, Qingshui began to cultivate the Mystical Palm Technique.

To outsiders, the Mystical Palm Technique and the Healing Technique were essentially the same.

But the former was an A-rank medical ninjutsu, while the latter was only D-rank.

The two were worlds apart.

If the Healing Technique could only treat external wounds, then the Mystical Palm Technique could treat both internal and external injuries.

When using the Mystical Palm Technique, one only needed to continuously output chakra from their palms to enhance the healing ability of the patient's wounds or affected areas.

But there were no two identical leaves in the world, and no two identical illnesses.

Therefore, when using the Mystical Palm Technique, one had to adjust the chakra output based on the different symptoms of different patients.

Too little chakra output would reduce the effect, while excessive output would disrupt the patient's normal internal circulation system.

Thus, this technique not only required extremely high chakra control but also demanded extensive personal experience and precise judgment.

Because of this, not many medical ninjas could master the Mystical Palm Technique.

With Qingshui's talent in medical ninjutsu, mastering the Mystical Palm Technique was naturally not a problem.

He just needed to practice more.

Another night passed without incident.

Before the sun had even risen, Qingshui was already awake.

This was an hour earlier than his usual wake-up time, as he planned to go for a morning run.

To avoid affecting his normal work hours, he had to wake up even earlier.

After his morning run, Qingshui arrived at Konoha Hospital punctually as always, just in time to meet Mikoto, who was being discharged.

Over the past few days, Qingshui had made time to visit Mikoto every day.

So, he was not surprised that she was being discharged today.

"Good morning, Qingshui."

Mikoto greeted him proactively, her smile beautiful.

Although it was morning, because it was summer, she was dressed relatively lightly, revealing her voluptuous figure.

However, compared to Tsunade, Mikoto was more conservative in personality.

So, although she was wealthy, she was not generous.

"Good morning, do you need me to escort you home?"

"You really treat me like a fragile little girl, don't you?"

Mikoto playfully chided, feigning dissatisfaction.

She even reached out and lightly patted Qingshui's body, as if to vent her displeasure, or perhaps to act coy.

Given their relationship, such an action was naturally insignificant.

Qingshui smiled and replied, "Of course you're not a little girl. You're the most beautiful and most capable Uchiha genius kunoichi."

"Hmph, smooth talker."

Mikoto withdrew her hand and said with a hint of shyness. Her charming smile indicated that she was in a very good mood.

"But I don't dislike it."

Even in a world like the ninja world, women ultimately enjoyed hearing men praise them.

After a brief exchange, Mikoto proactively took her leave.

"Alright, busy person, you go ahead and do your work. I can get home by myself."

Watching Mikoto leave, Qingshui thought of Fugaku Uchiha.

He didn't know when Mikoto married Fugaku Uchiha in the original story, but at least they weren't married now, nor were they in a romantic relationship.

Soon, Mikoto returned home, but no one greeted her.

Her parents had passed away when she was young.

If she hadn't belonged to the Uchiha clan, she would have grown up in an orphanage like Qingshui.

Since she hadn't lived at home for a while, a layer of dust had settled.

After cleaning up, Mikoto went out and headed to the Hokage Building.

In her last mission, only one disciple remained in the ninja squad she led. To accept further missions, she needed to replenish her team members.

Such personnel changes had to be arranged by the Hokage.

"Third Hokage."

As Mikoto entered the Hokage's office, she saw the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, engrossed in his work.

Only when he heard her voice did he look up at her.

"It's Mikoto. You've recovered from your injuries and are out of the hospital."

Although the Uchiha clan's reputation has always been poor, it was still much better than the situation after the Nine-Tails' attack.

At least, apart from Shimura Danzō, the Konoha higher-ups, led by Hiruzen Sarutobi, could still treat the Uchiha clan relatively fairly.

After all, Kagami Uchiha, who also hailed from the Uchiha clan, was a comrade they recognized.

Nodding, Mikoto directly stated her purpose.

"Third Hokage, when will our Team 4 be able to regroup?"

Taking a puff of his cigarette, Hiruzen Sarutobi handed two ninja files to Mikoto before slowly speaking.

"I've already made arrangements. These two will be assigned to Team 4 next. You can go meet them later."

Meanwhile, Qingshui had completed another healing.

[Completed healing for Yukiko Fukushima, reward: one Gold Orb.]

[Congratulations on obtaining the Shadow Clone Technique.]

Seeing the reward from the system, Qingshui was somewhat surprised.

Whether in his past life or this one, he was very familiar with the Shadow Clone Technique.

After all, it was one of the protagonist Naruto Uzumaki's most iconic ninjutsu.

When in doubt, make a Rasengan.

If that doesn't work, either make a bigger Rasengan, or make Shadow Clones to make Rasengans together.

And the ultimate move was to make Shadow Clones to make bigger Rasengans together.

Of course, this wasn't the reason Qingshui was surprised.

As a B-rank ninjutsu, although Naruto often used it in combat, normal ninjas couldn't do such a thing.

After all, Shadow Clones would divide the user's chakra.

For a non-"Chakra Tank" ninja, splitting half their chakra would lead to a significant drop in combat power.

It was truly not worth the gain.

As a support ninjutsu, the correct way to use the Shadow Clone Technique should be for reconnaissance.

Because of this, the Shadow Clone Technique had a hidden function.

That is, it could transfer the experience gained by the clones back to the original body, thus achieving several times the training effect.

In the original work, Naruto learned Wind Release Nature Transformation by quickly mastering it with the Shadow Clone Technique.

"With Shadow Clones, I can rapidly increase my proficiency in any ninjutsu the system rewards me with in the future."

Although the system itself would increase proficiency by repeatedly rewarding ninjutsu, the chance of repeated rewards was actually quite low.

After all, only Jonin would drop ninjutsu, and each Jonin mastered more than just one type of ninjutsu.

And with hundreds or even thousands of ninjutsu in total within Konoha, relying solely on the system, he feared he wouldn't even have a few master-level combat ninjutsu by the time the Third Shinobi World War broke out.

Soon, another day of work ended.

Qingshui, who was off work, performed hand seals and used the Shadow Clone Technique, creating one shadow clone.

"Your mission is to solely focus on cultivating Mystical Palm Technique."

The shadow clone Qingshui naturally had no objections and immediately ran towards his usual training spot.

Because it was his first time using it, Qingshui didn't dare to create too many shadow clones.

When a shadow clone was dispelled, not only experience returned to the main body, but also fatigue.

He wasn't built like Naruto Uzumaki; creating too many shadow clones at once could lead to overexertion, resulting in illness and hospitalization at best, or direct death at worst.

After the shadow clone departed, Qingshui's main body continued with his physical training.