Earth Release: Hardening Technique!
When the Land of Demons ninja began performing the technique, Hyuga Sho's eyes widened.
A light purple beam shot out from his left eye.
The air split... an eye-piercing strike!!
The technique, unleashed instantly through the eyeball, shot directly toward the opponent's neck.
Such a vicious skill.
Let alone the Land of Demons ninja, who had never seen anything like it.
Even the shrine maiden Miroku was greatly shocked.
"Eh?"
However, through his Byakugan's observation.
Hyuga Sho detected that this fellow was not dead.
"Petrification!"
The ninja, whose neck was injured but whose vital points remained unharmed, shouted.
Layer upon layer of rock wrapped around his arm, forming a limb far thicker than his thigh.
"Die!"
The Land of Demons ninja leaped high into the air and hammered a fist toward Hyuga Sho, who was carrying the shrine maiden on his back.
Faced with an enemy charging at him with such thunderous force, how could Hyuga Sho dodge?
The former laughed loudly, raised his layers of growing stone, and smashed them toward Hyuga Sho like a stone pillar.
Hyuga Sho neither dodged nor retreated. He raised his right fist and ruthlessly slammed it into the opponent's stone arm.
"Idiot! You actually dare to fight my Earth Release with your flesh? You're finished!!!"
But at the instant the two fists collided, the Land of Demons ninja realized that he had been careless—and that he had been catastrophically wrong.
The arm covered in black bone armor and the stone arm paused slightly in midair.
The next moment, a thunderous boom and terrifying force erupted directly.
Starting from the fist covered in bone armor, the formidable power advanced step by step.
It spread through the opponent's entire stone arm. A series of cracking sounds rang out, and the stone