Chapter 21: The Team from the Mist Ninja Village
Yue Yan read all ten questions and miserably found that he didn't know how to answer a single one.
Sure enough, only a true academic genius like the future Master Sakura would have the possibility of answering all the questions correctly on their own.
Sighing silently to himself, Yue Yan decided to answer the questions according to the requirement of gathering intelligence. He scanned the classroom, looking for the Chunin who had been planted there.
However, although Yue Yan found a few suspicious people, he couldn't be completely sure. Just as he was thinking about giving it a try, he noticed a young boy in the front right.
Ibiki Morino, the future head of the Anbu Torture and Interrogation Division, a sadist who played mind games even when hosting the Chunin Exams.
At present, Ibiki was still a young lad and not the scar - faced hulk he would become in the future. However, seeing the disdain in his eyes towards the test questions, Yue Yan knew that this guy might be an academic genius on the same level as Master Sakura.
You're the one.
Yue Yan released an extremely weak electric current. As long as Ibiki made any move, he would be able to know everything and replicate it.
After all, as a medical ninja, he had extremely high precision in chakra control. Moreover, it was just to sense the movements of one person, and it wasn't difficult to achieve.
As Yue Yan scribbled down the answers, he couldn't help but sigh with relief that he had developed this [sensory ninjutsu] early. Otherwise, he would have been eliminated in the first round of the Chunin Exams. If this gets out, it'll be a real shame for the time - travelers' army!
While answering the questions, Yue Yan didn't forget to use the electric current to send the answers to Asuma and Hong.
As for Asuma and Hong, after they felt an electric current flowing into their bodies, they knew that Yue Yan had gotten the answers. So they relaxed their bodies and followed the guidance of the electric current to start answering the questions.
After finishing writing, Asuma looked at the full answers on the test paper and couldn't help but sigh that Yue Yan was truly reliable.
Soon, the first round of the exam ended. More than three hundred candidates took the exam, and half of them were directly eliminated. The remaining candidates would go through group battles and one - on - one battles to select the final Chunin.
After the exam, when each team got their lottery numbers, they all twitched at the corners of their mouths and couldn't help but curse Konoha for being so shameless.
The reason is simple. Konoha stated that this lottery would be conducted by all the team captains together to ensure absolute fairness and justice. However, the final result was that in the first round, each team would face off against a ninja from the same village.
After all, there weren't many teams from other ninja villages participating in the Chunin Exams. And in order to advance to the next round, they had to step on the ninjas from their own village. Anyone would curse like crazy.
However, Konoha didn't care at all. If you wanna join, then join. If not, just get out! Konoha doesn't give a damn about you.
After this incident, basically all the teams from other villages were holding back their anger, planning to teach the Konoha teams a lesson when they met them.
Yue Yan's team was up against fellow village ninjas, but just a few minor characters who didn't even show their faces in the original work. Asuma and Hong could easily handle them, while Yue Yan himself acted as a dedicated medical ninja, cheering Asuma and Hong on from the rear.
After defeating their first-round opponents, the three of them went to the spectator stands to gather intelligence.
Yue Yan himself focused on watching the battles between ninjas from other villages.
However, in Yue Yan's opinion, these battles were just so - so. Even though there was a possibility that some were holding back, he still thought that the ninjas from other villages participating in the Chunin Exams had mediocre strength.
There was no help for it. The genin in this Chunin Exams were already the elites of each village. It was just that Yue Yan's standards were too high, making them seem ordinary. After all, Yue Yan was using the combat power performance in the original work as a standard.
Only Kakashi's battle was a bit interesting. He single - handedly finished the battle almost before Obito Uchiha and Rin even had a chance to act.
In addition, Yue Yan noticed a team that seemed to be quite good. Judging from their Forehead Protectors, they were genin from the Mist Ninja Village.
There was a girl with red - currant colored hair, a boy with a bandaged lower face, and a boy from the Kaguya Clan with a crazy expression who used the Shikotsumyaku.
There wasn't much to say about the Kaguya Clan boy. He was simply a battle maniac. Even when facing fellow village ninjas, he would just charge forward and pierce two holes in the opponent's chest.
As for the boy and the girl, they were proficient in Water Style ninjutsu. Although they basically defeated their opponents with a single move, they still held back.
In the next round, this Mist Ninja team faced a Rock Ninjas team of comparable strength.
After the Kaguya Clan boy charged forward first, the boy and the girl also found their opponents.
This time, with comparable strength, their battle wasn't as easy.
Therefore, they had to use some of their hidden tricks. The red - currant haired girl used the Water Stream Whip, which required a high degree of shape transformation of water - attribute chakra. The bandaged boy formed a long series of hand seals and then used the Water Dragon Bullet Technique.
"Water Stream Whip and the Water Dragon Bullet Technique with forty - four hand seals..."
Yue Yan, who was watching the battle, twitched the corners of his mouth a bit and had already guessed who these two were.
One was the Fifth Mizukage, Mei Terumī. The other was the Demon Man Zabuza Momochi, who in the future would fight the Sixth Hokage, defeat the reincarnations of Indra and Shura, and whose killing intent would scare the direct disciple of the Fifth Hokage into sitting slumped on the ground.
The only tough guy who could beat Team Kakashi like that was Zabuza. After all, it was this lineup that would fight the Chakra ancestor, Kaguya Otsutsuki in the future.
Shaking his head, Yue Yan pulled his wandering thoughts back and his expression turned serious.
It's okay dealing with the other unknown minor characters, but these two, although young, are not easy to deal with. Plus, there's that Kaguya Clan teenager who fights like a mad dog, which makes the situation even more troublesome.
Just as Yue Yan was thinking about how to deal with these three, Asuma and Hong walked over.
"Yue Yan, I noticed you've been observing that Mist Ninja team for a long time. Is there any problem?"
"They're strong. At least they're in the first - tier of the Chunin Exams participants."
Hearing Yue Yan's words, Asuma shrugged.
"Maybe you're overthinking. I think this team is only a bit tough because of that guy who can extract his bones as weapons. The other two are just average."
It's not that Asuma is arrogant. Facing the Shikotsumyaku user who only knows close - range combat, he can just use ninjutsu to blast the opponent to death. As for Terumi Mei and Zabuza, in this water - less environment, it's still relatively easy to deal with them.
Seeing Asuma's confident look, Yue Yan didn't say much. Anyway, this Chunin Exams is held on Konoha's territory. Even if the opponents are strong, the examiners won't let anything happen to Asuma, the son of the Third Hokage.
It's good for him to suffer a setback. It's better to suffer in a safe environment than to lose his life on the battlefield.
After that, the matches continued. Yue Yan's team didn't encounter opponents from other villages, and they safely passed the first round.
The second - round matches are three days later. This period is used for the ninjas to recover and gather intelligence.
After Yue Yan's team successfully advanced, Hizashi Hyuga, who was not short of money, generously treated everyone to a barbecue to celebrate the team's advancement to the next round.