He pushed open the doors to the villa's combat training grounds.
The grounds before him were several times larger than even the dojo's.
Luo Yu found the sight grand and impressive.
Inside the grounds.
An elegant, poised woman with a single ponytail, dressed in a tracksuit, was teaching a little girl flying kicks.
The thick tracksuit, the kind reserved for PE teachers, did nothing to hide her graceful figure or her long, beautiful legs.
Instead, it made her striking presence look even more spirited and dashing.
"Sis, that little brother-in-law I found for you is here."
The little girl practicing flying kicks spotted Luo Yu immediately.
When Luo Yu noticed her, he froze.
Wasn't that Bai Siyao, the girl he had rescued before?
Then the poised woman beside her had to be her older sister, Bai Mengyao.
Bai Mengyao was the Taijutsu genius who had burst onto the scene in Jiang Li a few years ago.
According to rumor, she had suddenly awakened the legacy of the Taijutsu master Might Guy during training one day, and her path as a ninja had soared ever since.
Later, her exceptional performance while representing Jiang Li at an intercity exchange event had earned her special admission to Imperial Capital University, where the Land of the Dragon's ninja prodigies gathered.
Now, after two years of training at Imperial Capital University, Bai Mengyao was already a Jonin capable of holding her own.
Even at Imperial Capital University, which teemed with geniuses, that was an outstanding achievement.
Like Rock Lee's legacy, Might Guy's legacy could advance from its initial blue quality to purple quality as its inheritor trained in the Eight Gates.
However, that required mastering the sixth gate, the Gate of View.
"Brother-in-law?" Luo Qingyu stiffened at Bai Siyao's choice of address.
Had her little brother really found another woman behind her back?
Bai Mengyao casually brought a hand chop down on Bai Siyao's forehead, wearing a kindly expression. "Keep talking nonsense, and I'll make you run a hundred laps around the villa!"
After her sister's warning, Bai Siyao became much more obedient, her eyes brimming with tears as she put on a pitiful, harmless look.
"You must be Luo Yu. Thank you for saving my little sister back then."
Bai Mengyao smiled at Luo Yu.
Luo Yu replied politely, "It was no trouble."
Curator Jiang slapped his forehead. "So you already know each other! Then there's no need for introductions."
Bai Mengyao nodded and explained, "My instructor sent me here to serve as an examiner for the exchange event in a few days, so I returned to Jiang Li early."
"I've been resting while waiting for the event to begin."
"Siyao told me that Luo Yu, the Ninjutsu genius who's recently made a name for himself in Jiang Li, was the one who saved her life. That's why I offered to coach him."
"It's my way of repaying him."
"Otherwise, I was planning to put Siyao through some serious training over these next few days."
Hearing that, Bai Siyao felt rather relieved. Luckily, her brother-in-law was taking the heat for her.
"Sorry for the trouble, Mengyao." Luo Yu smiled.
With the full support of Might Guy's inheritor, wouldn't he be able to open the Gate of View for fun whenever he liked once he learned it?
Hearing Luo Yu address her so familiarly as Mengyao without any hesitation made Luo Qingyu uncomfortable.
Why did he have to sound so affectionate?
Were her black stockings not good enough anymore?
Soon, Luo Yu and Bai Mengyao took their places on opposite sides of the center of the grounds.
Luo Qingyu, Curator Jiang, and Bai Siyao sat down in the seating area beside the grounds.
After hearing that their new home had a swimming pool, Luo Qingyu had even bought an eye-catching swimsuit, hoping to enjoy herself to the fullest.
But with another woman getting close to Yu, she had no choice but to keep a closer watch.
"That little Siyao was spouting nonsense about your right eye being a Sharingan-and a Mangekyo at that?"
Facing Luo Yu, Bai Mengyao smiled.
She could believe that Luo Yu possessed a Sharingan.
But when her sister claimed that it was a Mangekyo, she had been certain the girl was making things up.
After all, she knew just how absurd it was for a teenage boy to possess a Mangekyo.
Children simply loved to exaggerate.
"I wasn't making things up!" Bai Siyao stood up to protest.
Luo Yu nodded as well. "She really wasn't lying."
As he finished speaking, the pattern of Kamui appeared in his right eye.
Sensing the lingering power to warp space radiating from that Mangekyo, Bai Mengyao froze.
Rumors had been spreading all over Jiang Li that Luo Yu had defeated a Genin First Rank Merged White Zetsu, but she had been skeptical at the time.
Now she finally understood how Luo Yu had done it.
With a Mangekyo that even Kage-level Experts could barely wield, a mere Merged White Zetsu truly had no chance to fight back.
At that thought, Bai Mengyao looked at her little sister.
Look how accomplished someone else's child was, awakening a Mangekyo at such a young age.
And then look at her!
Feeling her sister's stern gaze, Bai Siyao lowered her head in shame.
"So you want to use the Sharingan's perceptive abilities to learn my Taijutsu?"
Bai Mengyao asked.
She had heard a little about the Sharingan's copying ability.
But she had always wondered whether it could really be that miraculous.
She suspected it still depended more on the user's talent.
Luo Yu nodded slightly. "That's right. My skills are badly unbalanced right now. I've learned a whole bunch of Ninjutsu, but I don't know the first thing about Taijutsu."
"So I hope you'll teach me, Mengyao."
"Ideally, I'd like you to teach me the Eight Gates and the incredibly powerful Taijutsu that goes with it, like Reverse Lotus."
The corner of Bai Mengyao's mouth twitched. She said tactfully, "Don't rush into learning difficult Taijutsu just yet."
"Since you have no foundation in Taijutsu, let's start with the simplest techniques."
"Taijutsu isn't like Ninjutsu. You need to take training one step at a time. Don't be impatient."
Good grief, he was asking to learn the Eight Gates right off the bat.
As Might Guy's inheritor, she knew better than anyone how difficult the Eight Gates was to learn.
Unlike ordinary inherited Ninjutsu, the Eight Gates could not be mastered automatically, even with Rock Lee's or Might Guy's legacy.
Those legacies merely gave their inheritors the aptitude to learn the Eight Gates.
Besides, although opening the Eight Gates greatly increased one's combat strength, it also pushed the body beyond its limits.
Even as a Jonin, she could only open the Eight Gates three times a day at most.
Afterward, she would be utterly drained, severely disrupting her daily training.
If Luo Yu still failed to learn it after three consecutive demonstrations, she would end up stuck in bed for an entire day.
"Then let's start with Leaf Strong Whirlwind," Luo Yu suggested, settling for his second choice.
In the original series, Leaf Strong Whirlwind had a B-rank learning difficulty, the same as Shadow Clone.
On Blue Star, it was also rated a two-star Taijutsu technique, and normally only Jonin were qualified to learn it.
As for more basic Taijutsu, he felt there was no need.
Yet that suggestion once again left Bai Mengyao speechless.
Luo Yu certainly knew how to pick the good stuff.
But she herself had practiced Leaf Strong Whirlwind day and night for two weeks before barely grasping the basics.
Wasn't he being a little naive, hoping to grasp it after a single look with his Sharingan?
Moreover, Leaf Strong Whirlwind was developed from Leaf Great Whirlwind.
Leaf Great Whirlwind, in turn, was an advanced version of the basic Taijutsu technique Konoha Whirlwind.
Jumping straight into Leaf Strong Whirlwind without even learning the basic Konoha Whirlwind was like trying to fly a plane before learning to walk.
Even an outstanding student like her, with considerable talent for Taijutsu, would not dare attempt something so bold.
Fine. She would demonstrate it once for Luo Yu and let him see that Taijutsu wasn't as simple as he imagined.
Once he failed to learn it, he would probably settle down and learn basic Taijutsu from her.
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