Compared with Rock Lee, Neji Hyuga's early strength progressed even faster. At the time of Chunin Ninja Exams, the reason why Rock Lee challenged Sasuke was that he had to defeat Sasuke, the genius of the current chief graduate, before he would challenge the previous chief graduate Neji.
As both partners of Might Guy Team 8, there is no doubt that the two of them have had many opportunities to compete against each other.
Being able to be successfully promoted to Jōnin at the age of fifteen under relatively peaceful conditions without Ninja Wars, Neji's talent is indeed second to none among Konoha 12.
In this world, Neji has been taught carefully by his father Hizashi Hyuga since he was a child. Even with Hyuga Hiashi's consent, Hizashi also taught Neji many things that only Main Branch can inherit from Gentle Fist Style.
This is much faster than the Neji that had to figure out Rotation in the original time and space.
There is no need to spend too much time on those detours, and with the guidance of a strong father who is also ranked high in Konohagakure, it can only be said that it is reasonable for Neji to have the current strength.
In Orochimaru's view, the strength of Neji, who is less than fifteen years old, has almost reached the level of Jōnin. As long as Neji performs a sufficient number of high-level tasks and accumulates merits that reach the qualifying level, Orochimaru will most likely agree to promote him to Jōnin.
Because he's really not bad.
But compared to Neji, Hinata's talent as a ninja is indeed somewhat lacking.
In the original work, they were all fifteen years old. When Neji was promoted to Jōnin, Hinata had just become Chunin not long ago.
Although Hinata mustered up the courage to save Naruto when Pain invaded Konohagakure, which shocked everyone at the time, but to be honest, Pain did not use much strength at all at that time. When facing Twin Lion Fists, he was dodging the whole process and did not even attack.
However, this was also the case for Nagato's main body in the previous battle. Due to the overloaded use of Super·Shinra Tensei, it caused a great burden on the body. He even vomited blood while fighting Hinata, which caused Deva Path Pain's disorder. Otherwise, Hinata might really have no chance of saving Naruto.
However, at that time, it was probably because Naruto exploded that Hinata was able to achieve such a brilliant record, which gave Naruto a chance to breathe. This also made Naruto explode again after understanding Hinata's intentions.
However, compared to most ninjas, Hinata's talent is actually quite good. Coupled with the resources Hyuga Clan can provide, only by cultivating a certain strength can he have the capital to rescue Naruto.
"Guard·Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!"
At this moment, Hinata's little face was covered in sweat, and she used this "absolute defense" ninjutsu originally created by herself.
Her strength was too much to deal with these Puppet, and she had to enter a defensive state at this moment.
"Huh? Miss Hinata?"
Neji, who owns Byakugan, can naturally see the current situation of Hinata not far away from him.
"Gentle Fist Style·Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm!"
Neji turned around, exerted force at the waist and hips at the same time, and finally transmitted it to his hands, firing an air cannon at super fast speed towards the Puppet who besieged Hinata.
Gentle Fist is not only capable of close combat, otherwise Hyuga Clan would not have gained such a great reputation among Shinobi World. This move Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm is A rare long-range attack among the Hyuga Clan's Gentle Fist, it can release high-density Chakra in the form of a palm strike at an extremely fast speed, and hit Gentle Fist out of the air.
Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm created a path between Neji and Hinata. Neji came to Hinata in a few steps to share the pressure for her.
There were a lot of Puppets in front of them. Coupled with the advantage of quantity, if two Byakugans hadn't been able to observe their surroundings in all directions, other ninjas with similar strength might have suffered more losses.
"Miss, let's use that trick!"
"Yeah!"
Hinata nodded his little face, turned around and clapped his hands at the same position as Neji, and made an action very similar to Neji's previous release of Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm.
It's just that the two of them are mirror images of each other at this moment, bringing their respective hands closer together, releasing a shock wave that is much more powerful than Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm.
"Gentle Fist Style·Eight Trigrams Empty Wall Palm!"
This move is the two-player version of Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm. It is one of the most powerful moves among Gentle Fist. Under this violent shock wave, a large number of Puppet in front were hit to the ground and turned into parts.
"Great, if this keeps up, we should be able to defeat these Puppet soon!"
Hinata panted slightly, his little face full of excitement.
"No, Miss, the number of enemies seems to be increasing!"
Neji shook his head with his face still extremely solemn.
"Huh? This is..."
Within the sight of Hinata and Byakugan, a large number of Puppet appeared again, and many of them even looked much more powerful than the Puppet they had encountered before.
The visual range of Byakugan is enough to see things within a radius of one kilometer. At the same time, if the ability of Byakugan is developed through hard work, the viewing distance can be improved. Obviously, in this regard, Neji is better than Hinata.
"You'd better stop first, I already have a rough idea of your current level."
Orochimaru slowly walked between the two of them.
"But, Lord Hokage, we still have some strength left and can continue to fight!"
"Okay, Neji, these Puppets will be very troublesome for even the many powerful Jōnins in the village to deal with. Unless they are at the level of Kakashi or Shisui, they can be solved perfectly. You and Hinata's performance is already very good."
Orochimaru shook his head, Neji and the others should have fought against the more common Puppet here, but these Puppet who are coming now are not simple.
During the conversation, those Puppets had already arrived, and the one kilometer journey was actually not that far for a ninja.
Each of these Puppet is quite tall, with a moon symbol tattooed on his forehead Forehead Protector. His face is pale and strange, and the lower half of his face is wrapped in circles of bandages.
The leader, Puppet, was wearing a black robe, his movements were more agile, and he looked even more extraordinary.
The energy contained in this Otsutsuki Puppet is more powerful than the other Puppet. In addition to the two exposed arms, there are also two arms under the black robe.
In the original time and space, the Otsutsuki Puppet leader even successfully injured Hyuga Hiashi and kidnapped Hinata. Moreover, when Naruto was unable to use a ninjutsu that could cause great damage due to concern for the villagers and buildings in Konohagakure, he really succeeded.
From the moment these Puppet appeared, their eyes were fixed on Hinata.
Before Toneri started the eye-replacement surgery, he specifically issued an order requiring these Puppet not to harm Byakugan Princess during battle, and to snatch Byakugan Princess away at all costs.
These strange situations made Neji immediately stand up and stand in front of Hinata when he realized something was wrong.
He doesn't know why these weird Puppet are targeting Hinata, but he will protect them anyway.
However, these Otsutsuki Puppet will show mercy to Hinata, but not Neji.
In an instant, each Puppet raised his hands high, and a yellow ball of light condensed between his hands and struck towards Neji and Orochimaru.
"Earth Release·Multiple Earth Style Wall!"
Orochimaru clapped his hands, and several wide earth walls rose from the ground in front of everyone. Although they trembled under these Chakra light balls, they were still blocked in the end.
But the next moment, the leader Puppet stretched out four hands and drew a circle in the air, condensing a large number of Chakra light balls and flying towards Multiple Earth Style Wall.
One of the several Earth Style Wall was knocked to the ground, but was blocked by Neji who used Byakugan to detect the attack in advance and used Rotation.
The blue-white spherical Uzumaki formed by Rotation collided with these yellow luminous spheres. In the end, these yellow light spheres were gradually worn away.
According to common sense, turning around is an "absolute defense" that can bounce away all physical attacks from all angles, but in fact it is mainly to block attacks within the range that it can withstand, even in the original time and space, was obtained After the strengthening of Naruto Nine-Tails Chakra, Neji and Hyuga Hiashi at that time even blocked an attack from one of Ten-Tails's palms.
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It's just that these Chakra light balls are obviously not physical attacks. If it is some ordinary ninjutsu, Neji may not have the ability to bounce them back. However, these Chakra light balls are a bit weird, making Neji unable to do this.
As all these yellow light balls dissipated, Neji also turned around and looked at the Puppet on the opposite side panting.
"Lord Hokage, these Puppet and Chakra... are a little weird, and even give me an indescribable feeling!"
"Oh?"
Orochimaru's eyes lit up.
These Puppets may very well be the special Puppets created by the Otsutsukis on the moon using the power of Tenseigans. If you can study them, you may be able to bring some inspiration to your own use of the power of that Giant Tenseigans.
"If that's the case..."
Orochimaru said that he was moved.
He was still interested in studying something he had never seen before.
"Sage Seal, open!"
"Immortal magic·Inorganic Reincarnation!"
The earth trembled, and countless stone tentacles emerged from the ground, twisting towards these Puppet.
Many Otsutsuki Puppet were caught off guard and controlled by the stone tentacles. Even if they turned their hands into blades or iron claws, they could not control the stone tentacles imbued with Senjutsu Chakra.
The remaining Puppet jumped to avoid it, and no longer attacked at close range. They just released Chakra light balls in an attempt to destroy these stone tentacles.
However, as time went by, there were more and more tentacles, and the space for those Puppets to dodge became smaller and smaller. Except for the leader, the black-robed Puppet, all the other Puppets were captured.
Orochimaru raised his eyebrows and immediately increased the output power of Senjutsu Chakra, making the number of these stone tentacles not only more, but also much faster.
"How can you still struggle after being trapped? It seems like this Puppet is indeed special."
Orochimaru held his chin in one hand and looked around at the man in front of him who was bound by tentacles in a strange posture.
As for Tortoise Shell Binding, how did he master this S-level "Forbidden Jutsu"...
That's when Orochimaru realized that it was not wise to fight Taijutsu when fighting with Tsuna Teuchi. Taijutsu This is Tsunade's Specialty, and Orochimaru's own specialty has been ninjutsu since he was a child, and now he has an extremely huge amount of Chakra. If he uses this aspect to fight against Tsunade...
Ahem!
With some embarrassment, he dismissed some unhealthy thoughts from his mind. Orochimaru then used Sealing Jutsu to seal all these Puppet, and then sealed them in the sealing scroll. He also channeled some Python to swallow these scrolls, so that these Python could return to Ryūchi Cave with the scroll.
"Then the next step... should be..."
"Huh?"
Orochimaru frowned, and moved Neji and Hinata, one in each hand, and Flying Thunder God with them.
The next moment, a huge stone statue rose from the ground, roared and waved its giant palm towards the direction where Orochimaru and the others were, even smashing all the stone tentacles around them.
"Is this... the stone statue of Hamura Otsutsuki?"
On the ground in the distance, Orochimaru appeared with Neji and Hinata next to Snake Shuriken stuck on the ground.
The giant Taiseki statue in front of him has two horns on its head and a circle of Tomoe patterns around its neck. There are no eyeballs in the two eyes, which are empty and dark.
Orochimaru realized the danger just now because he realized that while he was using Inorganic Reincarnation, a huge human-shaped stone appeared around him that he could not control.
That's because the stone statue in front of you also contains Chakra of extremely high quality!
"Are you...Byakugan Princess, my future wife?"
A Chakra figure covered in green slowly fell from the sky to Hamura Statue, looking directly at Hinata with a pair of mysterious blue eyes.
"What do you want to do to the eldest lady!"
Neji hurriedly defended himself in front of Hinata. The veins around his pair of Byakugan were exposed, and he stared coldly at the green and glowing weirdo in front of him.
"Nothing."
Under Toneri's gaze, Neji felt his eyes swell and hurt, but even so, he still held on and looked at Toneri unyieldingly.
"Your Byakugan is also very pure. It's just a pity that compared to us living on the moon, you who are also Branch Family are just birds trapped in a cage."
"But you are too weak. Compared to you, this one seems to be the enemy I really value!"
Toneri's eyes moved to Orochimaru.
"If I can deal with you here, then I can directly destroy Shinobi World, and then..."