The next morning, at the ninja school.

"The Water Release: Hidden Mist Technique is the signature ninjutsu of our Hidden Mist Village. Among you, perhaps only a few will have the opportunity to learn this technique, but I require all of you to understand the Hidden Mist Technique and learn how to fight within its enveloping range..."

At the front of the classroom, the young teacher was earnestly lecturing.

However, most of the students clearly were not paying attention to him.

To the right of Jiang Chuan Qi, two students had evidently not yet recovered from the excitement of the previous day's practical test and were animatedly discussing several thrilling duels from yesterday.

"Whoosh~ thud!"

A kunai, slicing through the air, narrowly missed the head of a student in the front row and went straight into the desk of the two students still buzzing with excitement.

The young teacher coldly stared at the two students who were momentarily stunned by the sudden kunai.

"What? Do you want to come up and share your understanding of the Hidden Mist Technique?"

"If you are lucky enough to graduate and become a ninja but know nothing about the Hidden Mist Technique, do you plan to just stand there with the enemy in the mist waiting to die when your team leader uses it on a mission?!"

"Uh? Speak up!!"

As the young teacher's tone rose, nearly all the students fell silent, obediently focusing on the front.

However, Jiang Chuan Qi was the exception, as just a moment ago, his attention had been completely captivated by a guy sitting in the front row who was shorter than the other students in his class.

Though the other party had not been paying attention and was daydreaming out the window, at the moment the Chunin teacher threw the kunai, he suddenly turned back and seemed to show signs of preparing a defensive posture.

‘So, the guy Matoi Zabuza has indeed improved his strength? It seems he didn’t use his full power during yesterday's test.’

Ever since Jiang Chuan Qi had crossed over and discovered he was in the same class as this eyebrowless killer star, he had been observing Zabuza, intentionally or not, knowing they would take the graduation exam together.

Jiang Chuan Qi had inquired about the previous year's exam format, which involved throwing all students onto an island and giving each a token; only those who obtained two tokens could board the ship and graduate from the ninja school.

According to Jiang Chuan Qi's estimation, Zabuza's strength at that time must have been clearly above that of these students.

Perhaps in four months, Zabuza might already possess the strength of a newly promoted Chunin, which would make it possible for him to kill all the hundred or more civilian candidates participating in the exam.

Yes, only civilian students participated in this cruel graduation exam; in fact, the Hidden Mist Ninja School only had civilian students.

Although the Hidden Mist Village's ninja school was modeled after the system established by the Second Hokage, it was different from Konoha Village, where even the Hokage's son or the genius boy from the prestigious Uchiha clan would attend school alongside civilians.

The Hidden Mist Ninja School only admitted children of civilians, war orphans, and small clan ninjas.

It was said that when the Second Mizukage first established the ninja school, some side descendants of bloodline or secret technique families were admitted.

However, since the Third Mizukage implemented the Blood Mist Policy, capable families generally opted for internal training, declaring their children to the village as ninjas only after they qualified.

After all, this kind of assessment still had some luck involved, and no one wanted their children to be wasted for no reason.

This separation further led to an increasing rift between the ninja factions and civilian factions within the Hidden Mist Village.

Jiang Chuan Qi speculated that this was also why Zabuza, after committing such acts of slaughter against students, did not suffer any backlash and could still become one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen in the future.

The dead students had no background, and Zabuza's actions conformed to the rules while also proving his ninja talent; naturally, no one would pursue his responsibility.

This cruel ninja world is indeed so cold and ruthless.

At first, after Jiang Chuan Qi had just passed through the bewilderment of crossing over, he began to feel a bit inflated, thinking that as a transmigrator with a golden finger, he would easily defeat Matoi Zabuza in five months.

However, his first lottery draw gave him a heavy blow, with ten prizes that provided minimal boosts to his combat power.

From then on, Jiang Chuan Qi also realized the reality; the lottery was indeed unreliable. If his luck was bad and he didn’t put in the effort, he might not even be able to defeat ordinary students during the graduation exam.

The huge gap made Jiang Chuan Qi consider whether he should seek refuge with a bloodline family to survive and develop or break a leg before the exam to secure a chance to repeat the year.

After all, due to the massacre by Zabuza this year, the killing elimination system would be canceled for next year’s exam, allowing him to safely become a ninja.

After all, coming to such a dangerous world, he definitely wanted to be part of the privileged class of ninjas. Moreover, he had a golden finger; he just needed more time to develop.

However, yesterday he drew the Water Release: Water Flowing Ring, a medical ninjutsu of the water release, which sparked some new ideas in Jiang Chuan Qi.

‘I still need to visit Aunt Keiko at the hospital after school today.’

While Jiang Chuan Qi was still thinking about his upcoming plans,

"A normal Chunin fully using the Hidden Mist Technique has an initial range of 10 square meters; how long would it take to expand to cover an area of 3600 square meters of forest?"

"Jiang Chuan, you answer."

The teacher at the podium likely noticed that Jiang Chuan Qi, who had been actively answering questions in class, was zoning out, so he called on him to stand up and answer.

"Okay... okay!"

"First, we can consider the conventional Hidden Mist Technique as a circle. The diffusion speed of the normal Chunin's Hidden Mist Technique is about xx... Because of the impact of the forest on the ninjutsu... so the time taken is @#%..."

"Good answer, pay attention in class."

As Jiang Chuan Qi sat down, he secretly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and upon seeing Lan Zai, who had already slumped over and fallen asleep on the desk, he almost couldn't maintain his fake smile.

Fortunately, the questions in the ninja school were at an elementary school level, slightly combined with some ninja knowledge, and because he had left a good impression on all the teachers with his recent performance, he was not drawn out as a negative example.

【Ding! Completed 50 correct answers in class, unlocked achievement "Starlight Anya! Debut!"】

Not bad, he also casually achieved a new accomplishment.

To avoid attracting the bad mood of the teacher, who looked less than pleased at the podium, Jiang Chuan Qi decisively focused his thoughts and paid attention to the lecture. Moreover, the courses at the ninja school would indeed be beneficial for his future ninja career.

......

The afterglow of the setting sun filtered through the dense mist, scattering fragmentarily on the playground, the buildings and trees on campus appearing somewhat hazy in the mist as students trickled out of the classrooms in small groups.

"Qi, you're going this way today; are you not going to the training ground?"

A familiar classmate looked at Jiang Chuan Qi's hurried figure and asked in confusion.

"I have something today; we can talk about training another day."

Jiang Chuan Qi replied with a bright smile, his feet not stopping as he quickly ran toward the Hidden Mist Hospital.

The Hidden Mist Hospital was not too far from the ninja school, reportedly established at the same time as the Hidden Mist Village.

Although both ninjas and civilians in the village received treatment at this hospital, due to the prevailing atmosphere in the Hidden Mist Village, the hospital was not given much importance and appeared quite old compared to the school.

The cylindrical stone brick building was covered in moss; without the large character for "medicine" on it, one could hardly tell it apart from the ordinary residential buildings next door.

Most passersby were ordinary civilians from the village.

As Jiang Chuan Qi was about to step in, he saw a figure in a white coat conversing with a nurse in front of the building.

It was indeed strange; although the medical technology in the ninja world was quite bizarre,

it had long been recognized that blood and stains easily harbor bacteria causing infections in patients, and the easily soiled white could readily reveal these stains for timely replacement and cleaning to ensure medical hygiene; moreover, white also helps to calm the psychological state of patients.

Thus, many years ago, doctors in the ninja world began wearing white coats, which was quite similar to the medical systems of his previous life.

While Jiang Chuan Qi was lost in thought, the doctor seemed to have finished explaining things to the nurse.

Turning around, he happened to see Jiang Chuan Qi standing in a daze in front of the building.

"Little Qi, what brings you here today?"

A middle-aged woman with blue long hair and a gentle demeanor was the first to speak, walking over to Jiang Chuan Qi.

Seeing this, Jiang Chuan Qi also put on his signature smile and obediently replied,

"Aunt Keiko, I have some things I want to ask you, so I came directly after school."