Hyuga Yu's Wind Style produced two primary mechanical effects:
First, the high-pressure ring formed by Wind Style: Almighty Push [Tianzheng] possessed powerful repulsive and stagnant forces. In essence, it increased the density of the air to create an unimaginable pressure differential. Any object attempting to break in from the outside required massive energy to overcome this pressure, much like trying to dive into the deep sea.
Furthermore, the gas within this high-pressure ring was not static. Driven by countless atomic-scale Wind Style: Chakra Scalpels, the airflow rotated at high speeds to create intense viscous resistance.
This was somewhat similar to Naruto's Rasenshuriken. This type of high-speed, flowing chakra was something that Hiruko's Dark Style [Meidun] could not simply absorb.
However, every jutsu has its flaws and the potential to be broken.
At this moment, Hiruko—trapped directly by the high-pressure ring—personally experienced this immense, high-speed wind pressure and responded with two specific actions.
"First: Storm Style: Thunder Cloud Inner Wave!"
He raised his palm, and a vast expanse of dark clouds appeared centered around his body. The lightning within the dark clouds mixed with water mist to form dazzling laser beams. Hiruko concentrated these lasers generated around him, but he did not use them to attack Hyuga Yu directly. Instead, he reshaped the Storm Style lasers into ten points of light surrounding his body, aiming them at ten specific directions of the invisible "high-pressure cage."
The next instant—
Zzzzt!!!
The light flared!
Ten laser beams shot out, as countless streams of plasma pierced through the stagnant high-pressure air ring!
The essence of Hyuga Yu's Wind Style was the manipulation of air particles, but the lasers generated by Storm Style were highly concentrated, high-energy plasma beams. It was not a physical projectile, nor did it require air particles as a medium. The moment the plasma beams fired indiscriminately, they directly ionized the air molecules in their path, turning them into conductive plasma channels. In short, Hiruko used Storm Style to "burn" a ring of temporary "vacuum" channels through Hyuga Yu's Wind Style.
In that heartbeat, the resistance generated by the high-pressure air ring plummeted!
Within that spark of time, Hiruko gained a "space" where he could briefly move. His expression turned ferocious as he spread his arms and pushed his palms outward!
"Second: Steel Style: Hardening!"
Steel Style was a technique even stronger than Kakuzu's Earth Style: Earth Spear. It allowed the user to harden their body, granting immense physical defense and strength.
At this moment, the palms Hiruko pushed outward generated a savage, monstrous strength, firing a massive air cannon through the uncontrolled plasma channels!
From an outside perspective, it appeared that as Hiruko spread his arms, the dark clouds around him expanded violently in all directions, forcibly shattering Hyuga Yu's Wind Style: Almighty Push!
The invisible high-pressure ring vibrated violently as its structure was completely destroyed. Violent and chaotic air currents disturbed and pushed between the two of them.
Just before the Tenseigan: Spirit Sphere—swung by Hyuga Yu via his Chakra Beads—could touch Hiruko's chest, the storm arrived!
—BOOM!!!
An endless river of wind blades exploded within a thirty-meter radius of Hyuga Yu!
Using the massive force of the wind, Hiruko propelled himself outward. Mid-air, he crossed his arms and performed a 720-degree gymnastic flip, instantly opening the distance between himself and Hyuga Yu!
The fluorescent green Spirit Sphere lost its target.
Seeing that the Chakra Beads became extremely unstable once they were more than three meters away from him, Hyuga Yu immediately pulled them back, decomposing them into a single bead that floated and rotated behind his back.
Meanwhile, Hyuga Yu stood his ground against the massive oncoming reaction force, not retreating a single step. On the surface of his body, twelve meridians suddenly glowed brightly!
Under the influx of the massive reaction force, the 309 acupuncture points [Tenketsu] throughout his body lit up one by one—a total of 52 were now shining!
"Hiss... Hooo..."
Yu exhaled a long trail of white mist, his physical strength and intensity rising sharply in that moment.
He frowned, looking at Hiruko, who had been thrown fifty meters away. His gaze narrowed slightly. "A bit troublesome..."
"And... I have injuries on me. Once more than 200 of the Twelve Regular Meridian points are lit, activating the points near my chest and heart will affect my wounds."
"Therefore, I must completely enslave him before the Twelve Regular Meridians are fully activated. Otherwise, it will be a case of diminishing returns."
Yu's gaze scanned his own body like an X-ray, finally landing on the six ribs that had just been reset in his chest. The heavy blow he took from Yagura Karatachi three days ago had not yet fully healed. The acupuncture points and meridians in his chest area were shattered and required at least half a month of Meridial Reconstruction and the Mystical Palm Technique to reconnect and repair. If he forcibly drove the full form of the Twelve Regular Meridians now, it would inevitably result in more serious injuries... or even be life-threatening.
At this thought, Yu's face darkened. His gaze slowly fell upon Hiruko. Under the combined influence of the cyan chakra and Dark Chakra within his body, a hint of uncontrollable ferocity flickered across his face.
He raised his hand, and in his palm, a pitch-black Chakra Bead quickly began to hover once more!
Hyuga Yu's current limit was generating two Chakra Beads. These two beads could be enhanced by choosing one of three natures—Wind, Yin, or Yang—combining them with cyan chakra to release three powerful techniques.
They were:
Yang Release: Organic Reincarnation
Yin Release: Tenseigan Spirit Sphere
Wind Style: Bead Shuriken
These three techniques corresponded to the ultimate nature transformations of the Tenseigan chakra. Yu needed to keep one Chakra Bead as a guarantee to control Hiruko. Therefore, the key power left to him to decide the fate of the battlefield could only be used once!
"Once... is enough!"
Hyuga Yu took a deep breath, and without further hesitation, he looked up coldly. His eyes snapped open, and he raised his palm toward Hiruko.
"Wind Style: Vacuum Attraction [Tianyin]!"
The air around him was rapidly sucked into a vacuum, and a monstrous suction force like a hurricane erupted!
At that moment, Hiruko's expression turned solemn. "Is it coming?" A cold light flashed in his eyes as his hands quickly formed seals: Pig — Dog — Rooster — Monkey — Ram!
He slammed both palms onto the ground!
"Summoning Jutsu: Chimera Beast!"
In the next instant, a massive cloud of white smoke spread rapidly across a hundred-meter radius under the violent buffeting of the fierce winds. Within the white smoke, the shadow of a gargantuan creature with crimson eyes emerged!
Besides merging bloodline limits, the primary use of the Chimera Technique was to breed and create massive summoned beasts. The strongest summon bred by Hiruko—merging three giant beasts: the One-Horned Lion, the Twin-Headed Snake, and the Explosive Bird—was this very Chimera Beast!
It possessed a one-horned lion's head, a lion's body with iron armor, giant bird wings, and a twin-headed snake for a tail. It possessed infinite regeneration, feather explosions, and physical combat capabilities comparable to a Tailed Beast. It stood a full 50 meters tall!
It was like a skyscraper rising from the ruins!
The giant beast stomped its paws, and a massive airwave pushed outward!
ROAR!!!
The gale stirred by the Chimera Beast's descent rapidly surged toward the vacuum field Hyuga Yu had created. Standing atop the beast's head, Hiruko actually relied on the massive weight of the giant summon and the winds it generated to become immune to the suction of the Vacuum Attraction, forcibly breaking Yu's second wave of offense!
At this time, Hiruko stared calmly at the Byakugan youth standing in the center of the ruins. A look of realization flashed in his eyes, and a cold smile curled his lips. "The Wind Style that defeated the Seven Ninja Swordsmen... Almighty Push, Attraction, and a top-down pressure... so it's only this much."
"Relying on air pressure manipulation to form powerful Wind Style with low consumption—it's a very creative concept. Only people like you and me could create such a 'jutsu'."
"However, hmph—"
Hiruko let out a mocking sneer. "In the face of my Chimera Technique, your technical level... is still far too lacking!"
Despite his words, Hiruko was not careless. Instead, he continued to calmly analyze the intelligence on Hyuga Yu: In addition to the three types of Wind Style, during the Hidden Mist collapse incident, this brat showed the ability to single-handedly suppress the full form of the Six-Tails, forcibly revert it to its original state, and capture the Jinchuriki.
Meaning, he has an extremely powerful Taijutsu?
His gaze landed on the twelve meridians glowing on Yu's body and the star-like points of light, his eyes narrowing slightly: Even I had to avoid that level of Wind Style, yet that brat didn't move at all. Moreover, the number of glowing points on his body increased after bearing the direct force of the Wind Style.
His body can absorb 'force'... some kind of vector hollow?
Does that mean the more he is hit, the stronger he becomes? And even if you don't hit him, he'll get stronger just by hitting you???
Reaching this point in his analysis, Hiruko's mouth twitched slightly. His brow furrowed deeply, and he suddenly felt a sense of disgust, as if he were fighting a "scientist" just like himself.
What kind of broken, "garbage" mechanic was this?
"In that case, a direct attack won't work well—"
"His Wind Style can blow away the Chimera Beast's explosive feathers and fire breath. Directly controlling the beast to attack him with Taijutsu will only make him stronger."
"I haven't mastered the Dark Style I just acquired, and I didn't feel much chakra in that high-speed wind just now. Clearly, he isn't a traditional Wind Style shinobi."
"Therefore—"
Hiruko quickly ran through Yu's abilities in his mind, his eyes flashing with icy determination. "I must break all his techniques before his Taijutsu is enhanced to the level of Swift Style or Steel Style, beat him until he loses the ability to resist, implant the Puppet Curse, and take him away!"
At this moment, both sides quickly realized that the focus of this gamble between scientists and "mechanic-based" fighters was to dismantle the opponent's core system!
Whether it was Hyuga Yu's mechanism of manipulating air pressure and absorbing reaction forces, or Hiruko's flawless cooperation between Steel, Swift, Storm, and Dark Styles.
Hiruko was the first to move!
He did not immediately control the Chimera Beast to attack. Instead, he leapt straight down from the fifty-meter height. As he landed, his toes crushed the ground!
The impact shattered the earth within ten meters, kicking up a massive cloud of dust!
Swift Style, activate!
This technique was quite straightforward: a bloodline limit that granted the user speed beyond the eye's ability to track.
In the Byakugan vision of Hyuga Yu—which already possessed enhanced dynamic visual acuity—Hiruko's figure instantly turned into an unidentifiable afterimage, streaking toward the center of the battlefield at extreme speed!
Yu immediately contracted the observation range of his Byakugan, concentrating his entire "field of vision" within a fifty-meter radius. Looking down from a god's-eye perspective, he used the Byakugan in a way that even if Hiruko used Swift Style, he could still observe the enemy's attack direction from a macro level and prepare in advance.
With only half a second of leeway, Hiruko's figure appeared within Yu's vision. Yu immediately raised his palm, aiming at an empty patch of ruins: "Wind Style: Almighty Push!"
The atmospheric pressure, which had recovered after the Vacuum Attraction was broken, fluctuated again. Centered on Hyuga Yu, a massive five-meter-thick high-pressure ring manifested, twisting the air!
Without any hesitation, Yu immediately triggered the Wind Style: Chakra Scalpel to puncture the high-pressure ring.
"—BOOM!"
A river of wind blades roared!
It whistled indiscriminately toward the surrounding 150-meter radius!
In the next instant, Hiruko's figure appeared exactly where Yu had aimed his palm, facing the most violent impact of the river of wind head-on!
However, he revealed a cold smile at that moment. "It's just fluid dynamics. I'll show you how I break it!"
"Third: Swift Style!"
Facing the river of wind blades, Hiruko's gaze was cold. Yu's Wind Style utilized high-pressure collapse and high-speed airflow to generate impact. However, the speed of Swift Style was faster than the wind itself. Following the tangent direction of the Wind Style gas ring, Hiruko immediately activated Steel Style while simultaneously using Swift Style to move faster than the flowing wind.
He created a lower pressure zone on one side of his body. By utilizing the low-pressure traction and the invulnerability of Steel Style, he made himself like a kite, rotating around the river of wind blades erupting from Yu's body without being blown away!
In this process of extremely fast rotation around Yu, he darted between the high-pressure wind blades at an exaggerated speed. This extreme velocity meant that Hiruko's contact time with the high-pressure airflow was incredibly short; before the force could act upon him, he had already changed positions. Like a constantly ricocheting bullet, Hiruko used Bernoulli's Principle to rapidly weave through the structural weak points of the Almighty Push!
The Vacuum Attraction that follows Almighty Push relies on changing the Wind Style's airflow pattern. Therefore, I must break this environment and make his 'jutsu' a dud.
Hiruko's mind raced. In the spark-filled moment of his leaps, he raised his hands and formed three seals: Ram — Pig — Rabbit!
"Storm Style Secret Technique: Demon Dragon Rain [Rankiryu]!"
In the next instant, a red beam of light erupted from Hiruko's body, shooting straight into the heavens!
The very next second—Rumble!
The sky over the Land of Hot Water suddenly darkened as countless dark clouds gathered. Having cast the jutsu, Hiruko snapped his hands together in a prayer-like seal!
Voom!
The surrounding earth suddenly vibrated!
Blue-white lightning fell from the sky!
It transformed into a dazzling white ring that, centered on Hiruko, suddenly expanded in all directions!
Crack!
Thunder resounded, and the wind suddenly died!
The white laser ring expanded a kilometer in an instant, washing the area with a massive amount of plasma fluid, creating a "no-wind zone" with a diameter of one kilometer!
The air molecules were all ionized, creating an exaggeratedly large plasma field.
In this field, Hiruko's Storm Style could even receive a 300% boost!
Following this, Hiruko stared coldly at Hyuga Yu, who no longer had any "wind" available to use. Beneath his bandages, the corner of his mouth slowly curled into a mocking smile, as if to say: Your technology... is only this much!
However, in this situation where his Wind Style was completely broken, Hyuga Yu only knit his brows slightly. He slowly looked up, opening eyes that shimmered with a cyan light.
His white pupils quietly transformed into deep, light-cyan hexagonal snowflakes!
From the moment he transmigrated, he understood one thing: in this world, the strongest thing was not the various "black technologies" of the shinobi world, nor the various peculiar ninjutsu created by shinobi ingenuity. Rather, it was the bloodline inherited from the extraterrestrial Otsutsuki Clan, and... the majestic power flowing within that bloodline!
Hyuga Yu took a deep breath. He slightly raised his hand, and a Chakra Bead rose from his palm. Wrapped in cyan chakra, it transformed into a high-brightness, fluorescent green sphere—exactly like the one that had exploded in the Yang Release laboratory!
Then, Hyuga Yu swallowed the Chakra Bead in one gulp. Within his light-cyan eyes, a ferocious light flared!
"Yang Release: Tenseigan Chakra Mode!"
"Open!"
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