Chapter 47: Earth-Style Wall
"Byakugan—activate!"
As chakra began to circulate, bulging veins erupted around Hyuga Bozhen's eyes, making him look ferocious.
It was said that the Byakugan didn't just grant X-ray vision, but also possessed a terrifying three-hundred-sixty-degree field of vision with virtually no blind spots!
That's right—only with the Byakugan fully activated was this the Hyuga clan's true combat state...
The battle had only just begun!
"Space-Time Kunai!"
Li Jie Xuan lightly flicked his wrist, the sharp space-time kunai just about to leave his hand.
"It's useless. The kunai hidden in your hand was already seen through by me."
Hyuga Bozhen curled his lip disdainfully. "In front of the Byakugan, any little trick is meaningless!"
"Just because you say so?"
Li Jie Xuan refused to believe it and threw the kunai anyway. Sure enough, it was effortlessly deflected by Hyuga Bozhen...
"If these are the only tricks you have, then everything is already over."
There was no emotion in Hyuga Bozhen's pure white eyes. "Eight Trigrams—One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms!"
It was the same Eight Trigrams opening move, but in the activated Byakugan state, Hyuga Bozhen's speed and power had clearly risen to an entirely new level. He even faintly suppressed Li Jie Xuan—no matter how Li Jie Xuan dodged, those relentless Eight Trigrams strikes clung to him like chewing gum!
Just activating the Byakugan had instantly reversed the situation!
An elite Chunin of the Hyuga clan really was troublesome...
The Eight Trigrams strikes grew faster and faster. Even with three Gates of the Eight Gates open, it was becoming difficult to cope!
Sharp gusts of palm wind were already carving wounds—large and small—across Li Jie Xuan's body...
But Li Jie Xuan didn't want to open the fourth gate, the Gate of Injury!
Once the Gate of Injury was opened, even if he defeated Hyuga Bozhen, collapsing unconscious in such a miserable state was not something Li Jie Xuan wanted.
After offending the Hyuga clan and going to such lengths to engineer this battle, Li Jie Xuan didn't just want to win—he wanted to win beautifully!
"Substitution Jutsu!"
Li Jie Xuan's chakra reserves were only at the Genin level, so he had avoided using ninjutsu up until now. But the moment he began using ninjutsu, the outcome of this battle was destined to be decided very quickly!
"Bang!"
Hyuga Bozhen's chakra-coated palms smashed the substituted log into splinters. He burst into laughter. "Looks like you've run out of tricks!"
"Eight Trigrams Palm!"
Hyuga Bozhen lunged toward Li Jie Xuan, laughing wildly. "Let's see how much chakra you really have!"
Although Substitution Jutsu was basic, at its core it was still a highly advanced space-time ninjutsu!
Each use consumed a staggering amount of chakra. With Li Jie Xuan's Genin-level reserves, he could only cast it eight times at most.
That was already the result of days of hard training—before that, he might have run completely dry in fewer than three uses...
Hyuga Bozhen charged in with fierce momentum. Without any hesitation, Li Jie Xuan formed hand seals with both hands:
"Snake—Goat—Monkey—Boar—Horse—Tiger!"
"Fire Style: Great Fireball Jutsu!"
As chakra surged, Li Jie Xuan puffed out his cheeks and violently spewed forth a massive fireball.
"What!?"
"He can actually use the Great Fireball!"
"At only three years old, he can already use a C-rank ninjutsu!"
Even Hyuga Bozhen couldn't help widening his eyes. Up until now, Li Jie Xuan had already given him far too many shocks!
Just what kind of genius was this three-year-old child?
The blazing orange flames of the Great Fireball roared straight toward Hyuga Bozhen. At this speed, there was absolutely no way for him to dodge it!
Victory and defeat seemed already decided!
However...
"Eight Trigrams—Rotation!"
Pale blue chakra flames burst forth from all around Hyuga Bozhen's body. As he began to spin, those chakra flames formed a perfect hemispherical barrier, firmly protecting him inside.
The flames raged wildly, yet Hyuga Bozhen—standing within the Eight Trigrams Rotation—was completely unscathed!
No matter how fierce the Great Fireball's flames were, they were still ordinary fire, and could only slowly die out...
As the flames extinguished, Hyuga Bozhen's Rotation came to a stop as well...
"Huff… huff…"
Li Jie Xuan gasped violently for air. Even the Eight Gates state had faded, and his entire body looked as if it had just been hauled out of water—utterly drained!
Seeing this, Hyuga Bozhen nodded inwardly. That was more like it. Even if Li Jie Xuan was extraordinarily gifted and could use a highly destructive technique like the Great Fireball at the age of three, he was still just a three-year-old child and couldn't sustain prolonged combat!
Now—it was time to end this battle!
"Gentle Fist Technique—Eight Trigrams Air Palm!"
Hyuga Bozhen grinned viciously as he gathered all the chakra in his body and forcefully unleashed sixty-four palms.
Eight Trigrams Air Palm was a variant ultimate technique derived from the Hyuga clan's Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms. Through exquisite chakra control, it released a full sixty-four chakra shockwaves from the palms—terrifyingly powerful!
Invisible shockwaves shot straight toward the tiny Li Jie Xuan. Hyuga Bozhen was confident that as long as this attack hit, Li Jie Xuan would die without question!
As the shockwave rushed toward Li Jie Xuan's face, Hyuga Bozhen could already picture his death. That small body would be blown into a cloud of minced flesh, splattering the entire forest...
"Dragon—Snake—Goat!"
A sudden voice rang out. Li Jie Xuan curled his lips into a bizarre grin. "Earth-Style Wall!"
"Rumble—"
Earth and stone exploded upward as a solid earthen wall abruptly rose in front of Li Jie Xuan. No matter how violently Hyuga Bozhen's Eight Trigrams Air Palm slammed into it, the wall stood unmoved!
"This—this is actually a B-rank ninjutsu!"
"And it was released in just one second!"
Everyone in the grove was utterly stunned. No one could have imagined—
That Li Jie Xuan, only years old, could actually use a B-rank ninjutsu belonging to elite Chunin, or even Jonin!
Hyuga Bozhen was also startled by the sudden Earth-Style Wall. Li Jie Xuan's talent had already surpassed the conventional definition of genius by far.
At just three years old, being able to cast a B-rank ninjutsu—this was simply monstrous!
An existence like this, given just a bit of time, would definitely become a leading figure of Konoha!
But Hyuga Bozhen quickly steadied his emotions. No matter how talented Li Jie Xuan was, the arrow was already on the bowstring—there was no choice but to release it!
"So what if it's Earth-Style Wall—break it for me!"
Hyuga Bozhen intended to forcibly shatter Li Jie Xuan's Earth-Style Wall with sixty-four consecutive Eight Trigrams Air Palms!
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