"What was that?!"
Hiashi Hyuga's heart skipped a beat. He instinctively swept the area he had temporarily cleared with his Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven using his Byakugan, but saw no one worth noting.
Underground!
A Jonin's reaction speed and combat experience made his body execute the Body Flicker Technique the instant the thought arose.
But while he was fast, something else was faster.
Several lightning-fast afterimages shot out from the ground beneath Hiashi Hyuga's feet, tightly wrapping around his left leg, which had risen roughly three centimeters off the ground.
"This is..."
His Body Flicker Technique was interrupted. Hiashi Hyuga hurriedly looked down and discovered in shock that a thick, long branch with tender green leaves had bound his left leg!
What was this?
Yet even more branches burst from the ground, resembling giant pythons. Without another thought, he made Chakra erupt once again from every acupuncture point across his body.
"Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven!"
The surging Chakra energy spun at high speed, shredding the branches around his leg and all the branches reaching toward him.
At that moment.
Hiashi Hyuga had already prepared to leap away the instant the Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven ended and temporarily escape this place.
"An interesting move, but before absolute power..."
"Wood-da-da!" (Useless!)
Suddenly, that wildly arrogant shout rang out again.
At the same time, two thick tree trunks rapidly shot up from the ground on either side of his bowl-shaped blue sphere of energy.
[Bang----]
The two trunks, covered in lush green branches and leaves, quickly formed enormous wooden palms and clapped together.
The entire Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven burst like a balloon on the spot, with surging blue Chakra currents violently spilling out through the fingers of the wooden palms.
"Urgh..."
Clamped between the two palms, Hiashi Hyuga