Neji stood alone atop the tallest stone spear, with Sasuke and Naruto nowhere in sight.
"Come out. You can't hide from these eyes."
Still, Neji knew that although the ninjutsu Hinata had taught him was immensely powerful, it wasn't enough to defeat Sasuke and Naruto.
Neji looked at the barrier protecting the spectators. Even this powerful sage art had failed to break it, merely sending a ripple across its surface.
He knew the barrier was far more formidable than it looked.
Rumble...
Not long after Neji spoke, a rumbling sound rang out.
Then one of the towering stone pillars shattered.
A purple skeletal arm reached out through the dust stirred up by the broken rocks.
Everyone then saw Sasuke beneath the enormous skeletal hand, completely unharmed.
On the other side, Naruto also broke through a stone pillar and emerged.
Neji could see that all of Naruto's shadow clones on the field had vanished.
In other words, that single attack had destroyed over a hundred of Naruto's shadow clones.
"Sage Art... Spear of the Earth... I've never heard of a ninjutsu like that."
Though Sasuke appeared unharmed, what he had manifested when Neji launched his ninjutsu hadn't been merely an arm.
It had been half a body!
But after that attack, only one arm of his Susanoo remained.
That was partly because Sasuke hadn't been able to fully manifest his Susanoo in his haste.
Even so, an incomplete Susanoo still possessed formidable defensive power.
"Any ninjutsu capable of breaking through my Susanoo's defenses is no ordinary technique."
Sasuke made no attempt to hide the fact that his Susanoo's defenses had been breached. There was no concealing it anyway.
The enormous surge of chakra he had released had been reduced to a tiny fraction before Neji's Spear of the Earth. Anyone with