Revitalizing the Uchiha clan starts with becoming a Kage.

266. A performance that left everyone else in the dust (Third update)

It wasn't a particularly difficult assessment.

However, some people will still fail. Although it was mentioned before the assessment that the final result would be based on all three scores, and failing a single subject would not prevent graduation, it would be best if all three scores were passed or even excellent. This is the opinion of the vast majority of candidates.

Therefore, many people have no choice but to cheat when they can't do the questions themselves. However, some people's methods are so bad that not only the Chunin in charge of proctoring the exam, but even the other students taking the exam will notice. Such students should never be allowed to pass the exam!

Those who lack basic skills and, most importantly, lack self-awareness, will be the first to die in future missions. They will also easily expose their teammates' positions, making it perfectly reasonable to declare this group of candidates' graduation assessment a failure.

This is just the first written test!

Of the 423 candidates, 70 or 80 were eliminated in advance. Among the remaining candidates, there were still some who failed the final written test. However, these people have not lost their qualifications and still have the opportunity to see how they perform in the next two assessments!

However, the gap established in the first round is basically irreversible unless one has exceptional talent. After the first round, the second round of assessment is much more standardized!

This has been the assessment model for several previous years.

Especially during wartime, as long as one can successfully master the Three Body Techniques and have a certain foundation in physical skills and illusion techniques, one is almost guaranteed to graduate and then be dispatched to the battlefield!

How did the thousands of deaths and injuries in each ninja village during every Shinobi World War come about?

The majority of them were contributed by these cannon fodder ninjas.

It's not that all the leaders of the five great ninja villages are brain-dead. It's possible for one or two to be brain-dead, but it's common for a group of them to be brain-dead together. It's not that they don't know that these people are almost certain to die on the battlefield, but that there's no way to avoid such a situation!

Every ninja village made this choice with a heavy heart, because if you didn't, you might be overwhelmed on a certain front by the enemy's sheer numbers. One cannon fodder genin is nothing, but the combined combat power of a hundred or a thousand cannon fodder genin is quite considerable!

In other words, we can consider ourselves to be in a time of peace.

This allows the ninja village to have more leisure and resources to slowly train the new recruits in the ninja academy. Shoji deliberately increased the difficulty of this part, not only requiring them to use the corresponding ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu according to the established template!

We also need to assess these newbies' coping skills in specific situations!

Let's take illusion as an example!

The most important thing is to be able to identify and dispel even the most basic illusions!

However, it is obvious that these newbies still lack experience. They are qualified and even have many excellent performances in ninjutsu and taijutsu, but a large number of them fail in genjutsu!

In other words, the final result depends on the overall performance. If it is required that every assessment be satisfactory, then a quarter or even a fifth of the people who pass this graduation assessment will be considered to be very lucky!

'It's still a little lacking!'

Shoji, who had been monitoring these newbies' graduation assessment, looked at their performance in the second round of assessments. Although he appeared calm, he secretly shook his head and thought to himself.

However, Shoji didn't realize that he was still a little too biased towards his own subjective opinion. By the standards of the five great ninja villages, the performance of most of these newbies was considered qualified. Shoji was just in a high position and subconsciously judged these newbies according to the standards of the twelve koto in the original work.

If each of them can meet the general's expectations.

Iwagakure could have easily crushed the other four great ninja villages and swept through the entire ninja world long ago! How could they still maintain the current balanced situation?

Geniuses are a minority; ordinary people are the norm!

This is an unchanging truth in any world.

It's because they're rare that they're called geniuses!

This is why Itachi, Deidara, and Kurotsuchi are so different from others. This was true in the first written test, and it was also true in the second test of ninjutsu, taijutsu, and genjutsu. They were able to react the fastest!

Especially Itachi, who can use all kinds of techniques with ease!

To put it bluntly, Itachi in his current state would not seem out of place at all if he went to participate in the Chunin Exams, given his personal strength, magnanimity, methods, and awareness!

'This truly deserves the title of genius!'

Looking at Itachi like this, Shoji truly realized how outstanding Itachi Uchiha was in the original work. The only regret is that this guy went down a twisted path in the original work.

'In this life, I won't allow you to go down the wrong path again!'

Watching Itachi leave the examination room early and then wait for Deidara and Kurotsuchi to come out, and then gather together to discuss the third test, a faint light appeared in Tsukasa's eyes as he thought to himself in the depths of his heart!

A performance that left everyone else in the dust!

This is simply unmatched by anyone else.

Itachi, Deidara, and Kurotsuchi's performance was the most outstanding in this group, and they were undoubtedly top-tier. Even the best group in the other groups was fundamentally different from Itachi, Deidara, and Kurotsuchi's group!

In the third assessment, the three of them quickly found the scrolls needed for their group through intelligence analysis and location selection. Although they encountered some obstacles along the way, these so-called obstacles were a complete joke to Itachi and his companions.

Forget Itachi and Deidara, Kurotsuchi alone could wipe out an entire team by herself!

A task completed with ease.

As they stepped out of the designated training ground, the three of them became the group that completed all the assessments the fastest and was the most outstanding in this graduation assessment, making them the well-deserved number one!

This was an outcome that everyone expected.

Itachi was originally the top student in the ninja academy, easily winning first place in both theory and practice!

Kuroto and Deidara are essentially a matter of personality.

They were a bit slow in the theory class, but their talent as ninjas was widely recognized. These three even formed a team, so if they weren't number one, it would truly be an injustice!

Undoubtedly the best performance.

When the three of them stepped out of the examination room and were immediately announced as qualified by the proctors and presented with Iwa ninja headbands, their expressions remained completely unchanged.

In their own view, this was an expected outcome.

267. Three students per class

Unless someone can directly confront them, or even be better than them, it would be strange. As the three finished their assessment, other groups also completed their assessment tasks one after another. Unlike Itachi and his two companions who left the examination room with ease, the groups that completed their tasks later all had one or two members injured, or even all of them were injured.

Since the scrolls were allowed to be stolen, it was only natural that battles would break out between the examinees. If they couldn't steal Itachi, Deidara, and Kurotsuchi, surely they could steal from others? Even the Uchiha Izumi team, which had outstanding performance in all aspects within the Ninja Academy, was coveted by other teams!

One-on-one attacks probably won't work, so let's team up with other groups to gang up on them. There's no rule against that.

While intelligent people are a minority, they are certainly not zero; these are the people who make the right choices at the right time.

Serious injury resulting in death during the assessment is definitely unacceptable!

This was merely an internal graduation assessment within the ninja academy; their Iwagakure was not as bloody and cruel as Kirigakure.

The Jonin and Chunin proctoring the exams will forcibly stop the fighting before things get serious. But before that, they welcome any clashes within the rules. Ninjas aren't flowers grown in a greenhouse; experiencing some setbacks is a necessary thing!

This special assessment can also allow these prospective genin to accumulate some valuable experience before truly stepping onto the grand stage of the ninja world!

It can be said that this graduation assessment truly tested the qualities and abilities of these ninja academy graduates in all aspects!

Then, until the very last moment of the final assessment!

Ultimately, based on the hard standards, a total of 264 people from 88 groups passed the Ninja Academy graduation exam. These people can directly receive Iwagakure headbands at the moment the exam ends. Generally speaking, they are already considered to have become qualified Iwagakure genin!

Of course, there is a possibility that they might be 'returned' later, but that is a rare occurrence in Iwagakure!

The more than one hundred people who did not pass the assessment directly are not without a chance; they will have a second review opportunity.

Based on the results of the three exams.

Aside from a few truly terrible graduates who are 100% guaranteed to have to "go back to the drawing board," a considerable number of people still have a fairly high chance of graduating. Of course, if these people pass the review and obtain the Iwa ninja headband, their group assignments will most likely need to be reconfigured.

Because in the same group, not all three people can pass the review at the same time.

Itachi, Deidara, and Kurotsuchi naturally didn't need to worry about this. Including Izumi, the first batch of young clan members who were sent to the Ninja Academy to study also passed the test for early graduation!

According to the rules, these younger members of the clan will be dispersed and assigned to other groups. Of course, they won't be assigned randomly. Onoki knows better than anyone how important the Sharingan is to the Uchiha clan!

Don't even mention that this is a taboo of the Uchiha clan!

Onoki would not allow any problems to arise with his Uchiha bloodline limit!

If any outsider dares to covet it!

Onoki will teach him a lesson in no time!

This is the key to the complete prosperity of their Iwagakure village, and Onoki will absolutely not allow anyone to touch it!

Therefore, Onoki would definitely value these youngest generation of Uchiha clan members who were the first to truly receive the traditional culture of Iwagakure and graduate. Even if he didn't arrange it himself, he would specifically instruct Yoto to pay attention to the distribution issue!

After the three assessments are completed, the list of candidates who are allowed to graduate will be released, and after a limited second class reassignment, the next step will be to welcome the class leaders that these fresh genin value most!

Although most people know that their team leader is definitely a Chunin, there are big differences between Chunins. In the ninja team system, the strength and status of the team leader have a great advantage!

Once you've chosen the right person to follow, even an ordinary person, you might still have a chance to make a name for yourself in your ninja career!

Talent is one aspect, but opportunity is another!

The original work almost entirely depicts the daily lives and missions of the main characters, but in reality, in this ninja world, out of more than 100,000 ninjas (including those from small ninja villages), 80 to 90 percent are just ordinary people!

It is far more difficult for them to stand out than for those geniuses!

Graduation and class assignment will be their first opportunity, and whether they can meet an outstanding team leader can largely determine their future!

As for the teams that are qualified to be led by Jonin, that goes without saying. 'Kage-level' is ultimately a minority in the ninja world, and Jonin is already the pinnacle of the ninja world's pyramid!

It represents strength and status!

A team that can be specially assigned a Jonin to lead a class must be a team with special status that is valued by the higher-ups, or a team with exceptional talent!

Itachi, Deidara, and the Kurotsuchi team are examples of this.

The three of them could all guess that their team leader must be a Jonin, they just didn't know which one.

At the moment the assessment ended.

The three people who just walked out of the examination room.

"Uchiha Itachi, Deidara, Kurotsuchi!"

After a proctor from the ninja academy, who was also a faculty member, handed the three Iwa ninja headbands, which symbolized their graduation, to them.

"Your squad leader has ordered you to assemble at 8:00 AM tomorrow in the open area of ​​the third training ground in the east!"

The proctor looked at the three of them with a very serious expression and spoke.

"Huh? Tomorrow morning? Iwahara-san! Do you know who our squad leader is? Which Jonin is he?"

As Onoki's only direct granddaughter, Kurotsuchi knew almost all the teachers at the ninja academy. After hearing these words, her eyes lit up, and she took two steps closer with a smile. She looked up at the teacher in front of her and said with bright eyes.

"I wouldn't know that, Kurotsuchi. Didn't the Tsuchikage tell you directly?"

Yanhuang was naturally very familiar with the personality of this 'princess' from his own village.

He could only manage a wry smile, but he genuinely didn't know who the team leader was for Itachi, Kurotsuchi, and Deidara's squad.