Hinata pointed at herself with a face full of surprise, then the sisters looked at each other.
"May I ask, Hanabi, do you think you can beat your sister?"
Hanabi only hesitated slightly before nodding.
Ever since she won against her sister that one time, her sister's training had slackened.
She had been training day and night, receiving guidance from her father and many Hyūga clan members, so she had no reason to lose.
"Good, let's set a date for you to have a match."
"If Hinata wins, it proves my training is effective. If you win, and Hinata wants to go back with you, I cannot stop her, right?"
Hinata, standing to the side, wanted to say something, but Ryun smiled at her and said, "Hinata, do you lack confidence in yourself, or in me?"
Hinata could only obediently close her mouth. She clearly had enough confidence in Ryun.
This, however, made Hanabi quite angry. How could her sister trust this guy so much after knowing him for only a few days?
"Fine, I'm ready to fight anytime. Just let me know when you're ready, sister."
Hanabi displayed full confidence, then stood up, bowed to Ryun, and said goodbye to the others.
"I have sparring practice with Father tonight."
Even after Hanabi left, her voice still echoed in the ears of the three girls.
Hinata was already used to this, but Ino and Sakura were quite shocked.
Although they considered themselves hard working ninjas, compared to Hanabi, it seemed like they were just eating, drinking, and having fun every day.
This made them feel somewhat nervous and guilty, wondering if it was really okay for them to live like this.
"Ryun, can I really do it?"
Hinata finally couldn't hold back and asked.
She currently had no confidence in defeating Hanabi at all. Just as Hanabi said, she had long slacked off in her training.
Ryun, however, had a relaxed expression. "Hinata, if I'm not mistaken, your training involves Taijutsu sparring using the Gentle Fist style without using chakra, right?"
Although the Gentle Fist appears weaker and less forceful than the Strong Fist, its destructive power is no less.
It is a Taijutsu that sends one's own chakra into the opponent's body to damage their internal chakra pathway system and internal organs.
Therefore, theoretically, anyone hit by the Gentle Fist will basically be instantly killed if they don't have special defensive means.
So even during sparring within the Hyūga clan, they definitely wouldn't actually use the Gentle Fist to attack each other.
Hinata nodded. Everything was just as Ryun predicted.
This also explained why the Hyūga clan was so dedicated to training the Gentle Fist and didn't practice other ninjutsu.
When you have a means to kill with a single normal attack, would you still learn attack methods that barely scratch the enemy?
If it weren't for the later period where powerful beings were everywhere, each with their own special abilities, while the Gentle Fist remained a conventional chakra attack method, Ryun would definitely prioritize learning this combat skill first.
However, dealing with those powerful beings was still too early for Hinata. Right now, mastering the essence of the Gentle Fist could drastically increase her strength.
So, what is the essence of the Gentle Fist?
Is it the various complex Gentle Fist techniques, hitting the enemy sixty four times in one breath, or the special skill of launching the enemy into the air so they can't land?
Clearly, the one hit kill is the essence of the Gentle Fist!
In fact, the grown up Hinata finally understood the essence of the Gentle Fist.
During the Fourth Great Ninja War, she learned the Twin Lion Fists technique. This move gathers chakra in both palms to form blue lion shapes. It not only retains the Gentle Fist's one hit kill characteristic but also extends its attack range.
Unfortunately, by that time, the opponents for the Gentle Fist were already god like characters such as Pain (Tendo), so it naturally lost its chance to shine.
From this, it's not hard to see that the Hyūga clan elites also understood the weakness of the Gentle Fist.
That is, the inability to extend the one hit kill characteristic of the Gentle Fist to medium and long distances.
Although the Gentle Fist also has moves like the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm, such techniques are purely chakra shockwaves. The Gentle Fist that cannot kill in one hit has already lost its soul.
The current Hinata obviously cannot yet learn the Twin Lion Fists. So, is there any way for Hinata to master a medium to long range chakra attack method right now?
The answer, of course, is yes.
Ryun's answer was certainly not something even more outrageous than the Twin Lion Fists, like the Hair Needle Senbon or the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, but a very common method that can't even really be considered a ninjutsu.
"Hinata, stretch out your hand."
Hinata nodded and obediently stretched out her hand.
During these days with Ryun, she had gotten used to doing things like this.
Under the gaze of the three girls, Ryun extended the index finger of his right hand. Then, a line of chakra extended from his finger, deftly tying around Hinata's wrist.
Next, Ryun infused Hinata's body with the Yang Release chakra she liked so much. Her face again took on that suspicious, flushed appearance.
But now, the three girls looked at the chakra line at Ryun's fingertip with surprise and doubt, wondering why Ryun knew this technique?
"Ryun, isn't this a technique from Sunagakure? How do you know it?"
If it weren't for Ino's trust in Ryun, she would even have the urge to use the Mind Body Switch Technique on him.
"It's just changing chakra into a line. Is it that hard?"
Ryun had a relaxed expression, which actually made Ino doubt herself.
Was Ryun able to do this all through talent?
To prove himself, Ryun spread open his left hand.
Chakra appeared in his palm, then, according to his will, transformed into various geometric shapes.
The three girls watched, dumbfounded. Sakura murmured, "Why is someone with such strong talent unable to even enter the Ninja Academy?"
"Maybe I'm a late bloomer?"
Ryun smiled slightly, glossing over the topic.
He wasn't without consideration for the risk of attracting the attention of Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo again by doing this.
However, Ryun had now mastered medical ninjutsu, and learning space time ninjutsu was only a matter of time.
So he really wasn't afraid of being suspected like before. At worst, he could slip out of Konoha early to find Tsunade and acknowledge her as his master.
As long as he demonstrated enough value to be won over, someone would naturally come forward to prove Ryun's legitimacy.
"Actually, this is just shape transformation of chakra. I think all three of you can do it, it just requires gradual training."
"As for you, Hinata, what you need to do is first train to master the use of a single chakra line, then try to extend the power of your Gentle Fist through the chakra line."
Ryun had this idea, but it wasn't purely wild imagination.
In a famous scene in Naruto, Neji killed Kidōmaru by relying on this method of delivering chakra over a distance to damage the opponent's internal organs, though at that time the medium for delivering the chakra was the spider thread Kidōmaru himself spat out.
"Now, relax your body and mind. I will first guide your chakra to condense into a chakra line. You try to get a feel for it."
Hinata's eyes shone with excitement. She immediately closed her eyes and did as told.
Ino and Sakura looked at each other and hurriedly said, "We want to too!"
Ryun had said they could do it too, so they naturally shouldn't miss this chance to improve.
"Alright, then the three of you come together."
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