While Yagyu was thinking about these matters, the chief examiner of the first exam, Konoha's interrogation expert Morino Ibiki whose head was covered in scars, arrived together with the proctor team in a very imposing manner.
The moment he appeared, Morino Ibiki displayed extremely strong authority and directly suppressed the vast majority of the candidates present.
Then under such circumstances where every candidate had their own thoughts and the atmosphere became extremely tense, the first round of the Chunin Exam, the written test portion, officially began.
After receiving the exam paper, Yagyu glanced around at the candidates inside the exam hall.
Almost everyone's expression changed immediately and they revealed difficult expressions.
Only a very small number of academic geniuses and the Chunin who had been deliberately placed among the candidates and knew all the standard answers, began writing on their papers like emotionless examination machines.
Yagyu shook his head lightly.
Since he knew the true meaning of this written test, he did not care too much about the first round.
"Simple questions."
After glancing at the exam paper that made many others feel their scalp go numb, Yagyu felt absolutely no emotional fluctuation in his heart.
"I might as well answer them anyway. After all I carry the reputation of being the top student. If I cheat in the exam, wouldn't that mean I am actually weak?"
It did not take long.
Yagyu had already finished answering every single question on the exam paper.
After finishing the test paper, he leaned back slightly in his chair and began watching the cheating methods of the other candidates with interest.
To be honest, they were very clumsy.
This exam was meant to test the candidates' intelligence gathering abilities.
Clumsy methods would naturally be eliminated.
Gradually, more and more candidates were disqualified from the first exam.
The number of remaining people continued to decrease.
One hour later, the candidates remaining in the exam hall had become very few.
When the time was almost right, just as Yagyu expected, Morino Ibiki began the second stage of the exam.
He announced that the extremely important tenth question would soon be given.
Then he began using interrogation style psychological pressure, crushing the candidates mentally and testing their psychological endurance, which once again scared away a considerable number of candidates.
Under the continuous pressure imposed by Morino Ibiki,
Naruto Uzumaki, who could no longer endure the tension, suddenly stood up.
With nothing but pure passion and determination, he gave an extremely energetic and passionate speech.
His natural talent for talk-no-jutsu, which had already begun showing its power, instantly stabilized the hearts of the remaining candidates inside the exam hall and strengthened their determination.
Watching the entire process from beginning to end, Yagyu could not help but sigh slightly in his heart.
"As expected of the reincarnated inheritor of Asura's chakra. Only a hot-blooded fool like Naruto Uzumaki can bring the emotional influence carried by Asura's chakra to its absolute limit."
Yagyu himself also possessed Asura's chakra.
However, in reality he rarely triggered this type of emotional influence.
And in fact, he did not need such a thing at all.
Just as Morino Ibiki was explaining the true purpose of this exam and the meaning behind the final question,
Bang.
The classroom window was suddenly smashed open.
Immediately afterwards, a black cloth flew out and was nailed in front of the podium by two kunai.
Anko's heroic figure appeared in front of all the candidates.
"It is not time for you to relax yet. I am the chief examiner of the second round of the exam."
Under the confused gazes of everyone present, Anko gave a rather exaggerated and somewhat silly self introduction.
As her teammate, Yagyu simply could not bear to watch.
However, it had to be said that Anko's extremely good figure at this stage attracted the attention of quite a few students.
"That woman…"
Yagyu glanced at the carefree Anko and complained silently in his heart.
"Her clothing style is really quite bold."
Of course, Yagyu only made a brief comment in his mind.
Although Anko's entrance felt a bit embarrassing, she was still the chief examiner, and all the necessary information for the candidates was still clearly explained.
And thus, the first day of the Chunin Exam ended just like that.
Later that evening, inside a barbecue restaurant located in Konoha's food district, two large private rooms had been reserved.
Team Seven, Team Eight, and Team Ten, together with Yagyu who alone counted as a one man team, all the graduates from their class had gathered together.
"A sudden gathering like this is really troublesome."
While eating barbecue, Shikamaru Nara complained with his usual lazy tone.
Hearing Shikamaru's words, everyone glanced at him speechlessly.
However, nobody became angry.
After all, everyone knew exactly what kind of personality Shikamaru had.
The group chatted casually while eating, discussing the missions they had carried out after graduating.
Even Yagyu, who usually spoke little, talked quite a lot during the gathering.
"By the way."
Kiba Inuzuka fed some meat to his ninja dog Akamaru while turning to look at Yagyu.
"In the second exam tomorrow, you will be participating alone. Are you really going to be fine?"
Although Yagyu was extremely powerful, ninjas normally operated in squads.
Fighting alone inevitably caused some inconvenience.
Everyone else looked at Yagyu with varying degrees of concern.
After eating the barbecue that Ino had grilled for him, Yagyu put down his chopsticks and smiled.
"Relax, I will be fine. Since everyone is gathered here today, I will share some information about the other candidates."
When they heard Yagyu say this, all the rookies present focused their attention on him.
Among the new generation of ninjas, Yagyu was the recognized leader.
Perhaps outsiders did not fully understand this, but the rookies present trusted him greatly.
Therefore the intelligence he possessed was considered extremely important.
"In tomorrow's exam, the sand user Gaara and a female ninja from the Grass Village."
Yagyu spoke calmly.
"If you encounter those two, it would be best to avoid them. None of you currently have much chance of defeating them."
After saying this,
Yagyu's gaze fell on Uchiha Sasuke who had remained relatively quiet.
"Sasuke, the same advice applies to you. You must understand one thing. A truly strong person does not only possess great power, but must also possess a strong heart. A temporary defeat is nothing to be ashamed of."
He paused briefly.
Then Yagyu spoke with a slightly thoughtful tone.
"No one wins forever, and no one loses forever. Win too much and you will be punished, lose too much and you will also be punished."
Even someone like him who possessed cheat like talent, had experienced defeat during his growth.
When he previously sparred with the Third Hokage, he had lost countless times.
And when he faced Uchiha Itachi earlier, that battle could also be considered a defeat.
Failure itself was not frightening.
What was frightening was refusing to admit failure.
After hearing Yagyu's words,
Sasuke was momentarily stunned.
He glanced briefly at Naruto Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno.
Then he replied.
"I understand. Don't worry, I will not act recklessly."
Hearing this answer,
Yagyu nodded.
He did not say anything further.
He had already said everything that needed to be said.
Whether Sasuke would truly listen depended entirely on himself.
However, it seemed that Yagyu's words had some effect.
The current Uchiha Sasuke was far better than the Sasuke from Yagyu's memories during this same period.
There was still a chance to save him.
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