Kakashi supported himself on the ground and vomited until there was nothing left to vomit.
He rolled over, away from his vomit, and laid on the ground.
Yasu had just asked him to feel that sensation properly, so he replied: "I felt it. It was like drinking a cup of hot water in the cold winter. That warm current filled my whole body. For a moment, I felt full of power, but that power disappeared instantly, as if it had never existed. I don't know if it was just my imagination."
Yasu crossed his arms and leaned against a tree, nodding. "That's not an illusion. That's the feeling of blood absorbing oxygen to strengthen the body. Remember that feeling well. Consciously breathing for a long time will allow oxygen to spread to every cell in your body. This can improve your self-healing ability, stabilize your mind, and invigorate your spirit."
"This is just the beginning. Once you've mastered Total Concentration Breathing, there's also Total Concentration Breathing: Constant, which means maintaining Total Concentration Breathing at all times."
Kakashi sighed and said: "I will work hard, Teacher Yasu."
After resting for a while, he voluntarily put on his mask.
The feeling of being full of power just now made him feel the sweetness of the total concentration breathing.
If he could maintain it, he would definitely become stronger.
Yasu continued to move through the Land of Grass with Kakashi.
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Seven months later.
It's now the second year.
Kakashi, who was resting during training, asked suspiciously: "Teacher Yasu, what are you looking for?"
Kakashi looked at his teacher marking an X on the map, puzzled.
Yasu marked an X on the map every time he arrived at a place. Kakashi guessed that he might be looking for something, but he didn't ask much. And he also thought that his teacher might be doing a mission.
And abruptly asking about mission details is a major taboo for ninjas.
But after so long, Kakashi realized that his teacher might not be doing a mission, so he asked today.
Yasu put away the map and said: "Looking for someone."
Kakashi asked curiously: "Is it a mission? I don't think so, right?"
In the past six months, Kakashi had also figured out his teacher's temper.
For example, in combat situations, he was deadly serious, but he was usually more easygoing.
Yasu shook his head. "It's not a mission. I just want to find her."
Kakashi suddenly became a little gossipy. "Is this person very important to Teacher Yasu?"
"Yes, very important."
Seeing Kakashi's gossipy eyes, Yasu twitched his lips: "Alright, don't ask too much. Whether I can find her is still a question. Let's go back to the Konoha base first."
He was also very helpless now.
For seven months, he and Kakashi had searched almost all of the Land of Grass, except for the Hidden Rock base.
But he hadn't seen any redhead, not even a woman who looked similar.
Instead, he and Kakashi found many hidden rock ninja bases during this time.
After reporting these hidden bases to Sakumo through summoning beasts, and Sakumo immediately sent people to remove these hidden bases.
The rock ninjas were also very puzzled. Most of these bases were hidden underground. How could the Konoha ninja find them as if they had X-ray vision?
And true, finding these bases relied on Yasu's Observation Haki.
Under the perception of Observation Haki, hiding underground was useless.
And Kakashi lived up to his reputation as a genius, he had now mastered Total Concentration Breathing, and his current mask was just a regular mask.
By using the Thunder Breathing through the breathing technique, Kakashi had truly succeeded in learning the six forms of the Thunder Breathing.
In high-intensity battles, his strength was steadily improving.
However, he couldn't successfully perform Seventh Form: Flaming Thunder God.
Continuing to train, Kakashi tried to use it over and over again, but he still failed.
So, he walked up to his teacher with some frustration and asked, puzzled: "Teacher Yasu, I succeeded with the first six forms, so why can't I successfully perform the last form? I was able to perform it smoothly even before I mastered Total Concentration Breathing."
Yasu explained: "The seventh form is a special move that combines other sword forms. You were able to use it before because you were only using an empty shell. But now you've now mastered the breathing technique, and you should be very clear about the power of Thunder Breathing when used with the breathing technique. There's a world of difference between Thunder Breathing with the breathing technique and Thunder Breathing without the breathing technique."
"So, the fact that you can't use the seventh form smoothly now means that you haven't fully understood the first six forms. When you fully understand the first six forms, you will naturally be able to successfully perform Seventh Form: Flaming Thunder God. Also, don't always focus on the Seventh Form right now. What you need to master first is Total Concentration Breathing: Constant."
"When you use the breathing technique, your eyes can keep up with your own speed, but when you don't use the breathing technique, you can't see clearly at all. Only by mastering Total Concentration Breathing: Constant can you normalize your dynamic vision. After you learn it, I can teach you the faster Thunderclap and Flash: Godspeed in the future, but that requires you to learn Total Concentration Breathing: Constant first."
"Yes, I will immediately practice Total Concentration Breathing: Constant."
Kakashi took out a rubber ball and poked a small hole in it.
Yasu's method was to have Kakashi blow up the rubber ball, and then gradually progress until he mastered Total Concentration Breathing: Constant.
He then took Kakashi back to the Konoha base while training.
Two days later, Yasu and Kakashi returned to the Konoha base.
At this time, Sakumo was holding a meeting with several Jonin.
Because Yasu was also a Jonin and a disciple of Orochimaru, and his achievements in the Land of Hot Water were also very outstanding, he was fully qualified to attend the meeting with them, so Sakumo let him in.
But Kakashi didn't come in. He wasn't qualified to participate in this meeting yet.
After Sakumo exchanged a few words with Yasu, he continued the meeting.
Listening to the content of their meeting, a glint of light flashed in Yasu's eyes.
He didn't expect to come back so coincidentally. It seemed like it was about to begin.
The content of Sakumo's meeting was information that Konoha had sent.
Important personnel from the Hidden Rock, the Hidden Cloud, and the Hidden Mist had secretly met.
The three ninjas each received a scroll and rushed back to their respective ninja villages.
Konoha's higher-ups speculated that the contents of the scroll were likely a plan for the future strategy of the three major ninja villages of Rock, Cloud, and Mist.
The Cloud ninja's scroll was not successfully intercepted in the Land of Hot Water.
The Mist ninja's scroll also failed to be intercepted.
So, this mission fell on Sakumo's shoulders, ordering him to intercept the Rock ninja's scroll in the Land of Grass.
Sakumo was selecting the people to carry out this mission, and he would personally lead the team to carry out this mission.
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