The Gate of Opening removed the brain's usual restrictions and restraints on the body, allowing it to unleash one hundred percent of its physical ability.
The Gate of Healing removed the limits imposed by fatigue, overloading the body's cells with energy to rapidly restore stamina and offset the exhaustion caused by opening the Gate of Opening.
The Gate of Life accelerated the heart and lungs, speeding up the flow of blood throughout the body. It was the final safe zone of the Eight Gates, and green Chakra energy began to burst forth from all over the body.
At that moment, Rock Lee felt the stamina he had expended earlier rapidly returning, and he charged straight at Shiro.
Shiro also understood now. Lee had actually become capable of bypassing the restrictions of the first two Gates and opening the third Gate of Life directly?
What a monstrous guy.
The two of them kept appearing in every corner of the arena. Their bodies were their strongest and proudest weapons, as they relentlessly attacked one another.
Clash after clash, collision after collision, left the arena battered and ruined once more.
As their fierce exchange continued, the passion in the spectators' hearts was completely ignited. They kept waving their arms and shouting at the two fighters in the arena.
"Spirited kid! Go, Shiro! Go!"
"Rock Lee, I'll never call you dead last again! You're a real genius!"
"Shiro! Keep it up! Don't lose to that spirited kid from Konoha!"
Whether they were from Konoha or Hidden Sand, many of them had once looked down on the taijutsu-only ninja from their own village.
Whether it had been out of jealousy—why could he become a ninja despite having no talent for ninjutsu or Genjutsu?
Or out of disdain—if you had no talent, shouldn't you just obediently