Chương 84: Hongdou's most prized disciple!

Watching Team 6 leave, Naruto felt quite envious of Yoshinari and his team for having such a mentor.

Unlike their teacher Kakashi, who spends all his time watching over the young prince while urging them to work.

Moreover, they always have to share the rewards from D-rank missions with Kakashi, the lazy bum, every time they get their hands on one. This is just too unreasonable.

If Kakashi-sensei isn't up to the task, then they'll have to fight for it themselves!

Yang Cheng and the others have already received C-level missions. As their peers, it wouldn't be good to fall too far behind them.

So soon, after Naruto's persistent pleading, Team 7 also received a mission to escort a man named Tazuna to the Land of Waves.

Anko was still somewhat indignant as her three students dragged her away from the Hokage's office.

In her opinion, with Yang Cheng's strength, killing ordinary rogues and thugs would be no challenge at all.

Over the course of more than a month, the more Hongdou learned about her student, the more surprised and excited she became.

The Third Hokage was right; given Anko's personality, she was indeed unsuitable to be a Jonin instructor.

However, she is extremely dedicated to her students when it comes to responsibility, a quality that puts her miles ahead of anyone else in terms of chakra measurement.

Perhaps it was because he had been betrayed by his teacher as a disciple, or perhaps it was due to the influence of his friend Kurenai Yuhi.

In conclusion, Hongdou was quite concerned about the education of her students.

Furthermore, they held no prejudice against those who came from humble backgrounds as ninjas.

Of the three, Yang Cheng has the best talent. Although Hong Dou does indeed pay more attention to and like him more, she won't favor the other two.

Completely disregarding everything.

For the past month, Class 7 has been disbanding after completing D-level missions, but Class 6 is different.

While cleaning the sewers, Anko teaches them to control their chakra and walk on water.

When catching cats, Anko teaches them how a ninja can perfectly conceal their presence.

And after each mission, she would take the time to give the three of them some pointers, teaching them some shurikenjutsu and other techniques.

Overall, although Hongdou has a lively and childlike personality, this also has its advantages, namely that she can get along well with her students.

For this reason, Yang Cheng, Ben Ai Ling, and Luo Chuan Wu all deeply respected this teacher.

Ling and Wu were of average ability, but after more than a month of instruction from Hongdou, they have become much stronger.

While not quite on par with the Twelve Konoha Genin, he's certainly far stronger than most ordinary ninjas.

As for Yang Cheng, there's even less to say.

Anko is Orochimaru's personal disciple, and Orochimaru was once trained by the Third Hokage to become Hokage.

In other words, Anko is a true treasure trove. What she learned and inherited from Orochimaru is a tremendous asset for Yang Cheng, who comes from a commoner ninja background.

In order for Hongdou to teach him more, it is definitely necessary to appropriately showcase his talent and strength.

In just over a month, Yang Cheng had learned from Hongdou the Hidden Shadow Snake Hand, the Snake Shedding Style Advanced Substitute Technique, the Summoning Technique, and so on.

I won't go into detail about Hidden Shadow Snake Hands and Snake Shedding Substitution Technique, they are Orochimaru's signature ninjutsu.

The key point is that Yang Cheng also gained the approval of Ryuchi Cave and signed a spirit contract with the snake-like spirit beasts there.

You should know that this is one of the three great sacred sites for summoning spirits. When the time is right, he can go to the White Snake Sage to learn some immortal techniques. Then, during the Ninja War, he will at least be a high-level NPC.

Yang Cheng's talent and eagerness to learn also won Hong Dou's favor.

Therefore, he held nothing back from Yang Cheng and treated him as his personal disciple.

In the Naruto world, there is a significant difference between students and disciples.

The relationship between the instructor and the student is just a normal teacher-student relationship. Although the teacher will teach some things, he will definitely hold back some of them.

However, it's different for direct disciples. As disciples who inherit the ninja way and its traditions, their teachers will impart all their knowledge to them.

This includes various forbidden and secret techniques.

Yang Cheng and Hong Dou are now clearly in a master-disciple relationship.

In the world of Naruto today, Anko is probably the person who understands Yang's strength the most.

Because aside from the Crimson World's Freedom Technique, which Yangcheng hadn't shown to Anko, Anko, as his teacher who taught him day and night, knew roughly about Yangcheng's other abilities and strength.

He possesses an enormous amount of chakra far exceeding that of his peers, superb combat skills, impressive taijutsu and swordsmanship, and even a certain degree of self-healing ability.

But when she learned about Yang Cheng's abilities, Anko couldn't believe it at first that Yang Cheng was actually a commoner ninja.

Especially given his enormous chakra reserves and self-healing ability, Anko now strongly suspects that Yang Cheng may possess the bloodline of the Senju or Uzumaki clans.

After the Senju clan declined, some of its collateral branches began to integrate into some commoner families in Konoha.

Therefore, it is not impossible that Yang Cheng possesses the bloodline of the Senju clan.

Hongdou was naturally pleased that her disciple was so talented and outstanding, especially since she was by nature a restless person.

If Yang Cheng hadn't wanted her to keep it a secret for the time being, she would have already run to her friend Xi Ri Hong and bragged about it.

Who says Anko can't teach disciples? Just ask any genin in Konoha right now, who can beat her Yangcheng?

No, let alone genin, even chunin, there shouldn't be any chunin in Konoha right now who can beat her disciple.

With a massive amount of chakra as a foundation, proficiency in powerful ninjutsu, considerable taijutsu skills, and self-healing abilities to sustain her power, Anko isn't entirely confident that she can consistently outclass her disciple.

After spending time together, she had come to know her proud disciple well. The extremely low-key Yang Cheng must have been holding back something.

Rin and Takeru are already considered excellent genin, while Yangcheng possesses strength comparable to a special jonin.

This is also why Anko was quite dissatisfied with the Third Hokage for only giving them a C-rank mission.

Even without Mitarashi Anko in the team, Yang Cheng could easily complete a B-rank mission on his own, even if he were alone.

But their current Team Six, with its current setup, is going to take down ordinary people who aren't even ninjas. Isn't that using a sledgehammer to crack a nut?

"Teacher Anko, are the ronin and bandits we're tasked with eliminating located within the Land of Waves?"

Hearing Yang Cheng's question, Hongdou also looked up and said, "Yes, is there a problem?"

They're nothing but some bandits and thugs; with your current strength, you can easily take them down.

Although it's only a C-rank mission, considering you haven't experienced real combat yet, letting you see some blood this time is a good idea.