If You Don't Break the Precepts, How Can You Master the Precept-Breaking Blade?

A moment later, Itachi shifted his gaze from Iron-Arm Panda and began observing his surroundings.

When he saw quite a few warrior monks practicing with oddly shaped, broad-backed, straight-edged precept knives,

his eyes lit up slightly.

"Monks use blades?"

"Is this why the Fire Temple is purchasing weapons from the Uchiha Clan?"

Itachi looked curiously at the warrior monks swinging their precept knives, surprise showing on his delicate little face.

Fugaku Uchiha had come to the Fire Temple today not only to pray for the child in Mikoto's womb.

There was actually another important matter of business to discuss.

A weapon order.

In the past, the warrior monks of the Fire Temple had hardly used weapons.

Even when they did, they mainly used staves.

Blades were even rarer.

Now that Guy had taught them the two blade techniques, "Precept-Breaking Blade" and "Mercy Blade,"

the Fire Temple naturally needed to acquire the appropriate weapons.

The Kubikiribōchō was powerful, but clearly unsuitable for most monks.

So Guy had drawn up a design based on the style of Shaolin precept knives he remembered.

He handed it over to the temple's steward to have the weapons custom-made.

The Uchiha Clan excelled at forging.

Naturally, the Uchiha had received this purchase order.

The first batch alone consisted of over a hundred precept knives, with more to follow.

Fugaku Uchiha had also taken the opportunity to come in person while praying for blessings.

On the surface, he was praying for the child.

In truth, he was also there to finalize the details of the future business.

Guy stepped forward and explained:

"That's right. The Fire Temple now has two exceptional blade techniques: the Mercy Blade and the Precept-Breaking Blade."

"We're purchasing your clan's weapons precisely so we can practice these two techniques."

"Mercy Blade? Precept-Breaking Blade?"