First Stage Fallen Light

"Because our relationship has become closer?"

"The first stage of the Path of Darkness?"

Hearing the words in his ear, and feeling a deadly crisis pounding in his heart, Keith's face turned even more grim.

However, Muneyoshi did not give him a chance to reply.

In a flash.

Muneyoshi opened his eyes, Dark Markings the corners of his eyes instantly spread across the entire whites of his eyes, turning his pupils a deep black, with only a ball of fire flickering in the very center.

The shadow continued to expand, enveloping his entire body.

Without yielding an inch, under the Universal Gravitation pull of the air mass, Muneyoshi's body was like a small boat tossed about in a storm.

Streaks of dark lines, flickering with a faint firelight, emerged from his racket, as darkness relentlessly devoured all the light around him.

Finally, it all coalesced into a single, explosive strike.

Tread!

Muneyoshi stomped his foot hard on the ground, his body shrouded in shadow colliding head-on with the surging column of air that Keith had unleashed, Universal Gravitation.

"Boom!"

The massive gust of air and wind pressure whipped Saeki Muneyoshi's clothes into a flutter, and his hair danced wildly.

But this time, his body was not thrown into the air as before; instead, it stood upright like a rock.

His feet seemed rooted to the spot, rooted to the spot, without retreating an inch.

After the racket and tennis ball made contact, a burst of black and blue light collided and intertwined on the racket face, and the purplish-black racket face seemed to transform into a vortex.

Through constant collisions and cutting, it directly devoured the massive wall of air.

Hiss hiss hiss...

Watching the tennis ball still spinning on the racket face, Muneyoshi kept shaking his wrist, using Sweet Spot Technique to deflect the force.

His face was now completely dark, revealing no expression, as if he were standing in the shadows.

Until the ever-spinning tennis ball was once again "ignited" by his immense mental strength.

Hiss...

Suddenly, the lights on the field seemed to dim.

Upon seeing this, Keith's expression subtly changed. Suddenly, he felt a tingling, tearing force stimulating his body in several exposed areas.

"Falling Bright!"

A cold, low groan instantly echoed throughout the stadium.

The pale yellow tennis ball was now completely enveloped in a purplish-black light, which flickered and danced like burning Glowing Flame.

As the tennis ball was returned by Muneyoshi, the black Light Ball flew across the space of the court and began to expand continuously.

Like Black Hole that devours light, it swallows everything in sight.

The black shadowy aura grew larger and larger. Keith and Lin Xiu could clearly feel a kind of energy that only they could use being continuously injected into the black aura.

The colorless aura was tainted by the black light, and as it continued to merge, it became increasingly terrifying. In the blink of an eye, a Darkness Shot containing black energy roared back.

"Gas!"

"It's about the use of ki! He actually learned ki after just a few balls..."

Lin Xiu, sitting on the referee's stand, was utterly shocked.

He thought Keith's understanding of ki was genius-level, but he never expected Muneyoshi's talent to be even more terrifying.

Moreover, Muneyoshi, who had already mastered the Path of Darkness, became even more terrifying after absorbing the theory of Qi.

The black gas cloud did not form an exaggerated wall of gas like the one formed by Universal Gravitation; instead, it became very condensed.

Even so, the black cloud of gas was enormous.

It could cover half the field.

In Keith's view, the tennis ball became enormous at that moment.

It came rolling in.

"He actually absorbed all my energy!"

"He only touched the balls a few times, yet he completely grasped the use of Qi!"

Seeing Saeki Muneyoshi's astonishing skills and unimaginable "talent," Keith was too shocked to speak.

When Saeki Muneyoshi used the technique of incorporating ki into his Darkness Shot, he launched this counter-attack that flew into his own half of the court.

Looking at the enormous tennis ball that seemed poised to crush everything, his mind went completely blank.

"Keith!"

Seeing that his friend had been completely overwhelmed by Muneyoshi's attack, Lin Xiu let out a roar.

The roar startled Keith was feeling somewhat helpless and confused.

Years of tennis training came in handy at this moment; even though he was already terrified, Keith instinctively gripped his racket tightly.

As the giant tennis ball hurtled towards him, Keith grabbed his racket and met it head-on.

Then...

Boom!

Even before the racket touched the tennis ball, Keith's arm began to tremble uncontrollably.

His racket creaked and groaned as if in agony, lasting only a second.

"Ah..."

With a scream, Keith himself and his racket were sent flying by Saeki Muneyoshi's shot.

After the tennis ball pierced Keith's racket and sent Keith flying, its momentum continued, still creating a tremendous roar on the iron net behind him.

A terrifying dent was left in the wire mesh, and the tennis ball was stuck firmly in the very center of the dent.

The surface of the tennis ball became incredibly smooth, the yarn completely disappeared, and wisps of blue smoke rose from the intense heat generated by the friction.

Lin Xiu's eyes were filled with fear and terror, and he looked at Muneyoshi with deep wariness.

If that ball had hit me, I would have died!

Thinking of this, Lin Xiu's face turned deathly pale. He could no longer care about the rule of non-interference and rushed into the arena.

"Keith..."

At this moment, Muneyoshi was not paying attention to the situation on the other side, but was constantly savoring the feeling of that ball just now.

This move, combining the Path of Darkness with the theories of spiritual power and qi, finally allowed Muneyoshi to take another step forward on the path of Darkness Shot.

This allowed his Darkness Shot to finally take its most solid step and enter the first stage.

The power of that shot was astonishing.

Muneyoshi was also somewhat surprised, but after all, he had fought against Byōdōin.

After comparing his own experiences, he discovered that the power of his first-stage full-power burst was comparable to Byodoin's Byōdōin -First Stage Shining Shot.

In other words, judging from the power of this single shot, Muneyoshi's attack power has already entered the realm of the Different Dimension Realm.

However, his claim of mastering this Different Dimension Realm is largely unfounded.

After hitting that shot, Muneyoshi realized that his body was almost completely exhausted.

Not only was his physical strength severely depleted, but his mental energy was also extremely exhausted.

It was like playing a tiebreaker for four or five hours straight.

I'm so exhausted.

Muneyoshi smiled wryly to himself upon realizing this, for it was just like when he had comprehended the Path of Darkness before.

Even with all his strength, he can probably only hit a tennis ball like that twice at most now.

His basic five-dimensional attributes are dragging him down significantly.

Such situations are extremely rare.

Aside from Sanada in the original work who mastered the Black Dragon Multiple Slash, there is probably no one else whose strength was not fully realized due to insufficient foundation.

Now we need to add Muneyoshi to the list.

In tennis, the development of basic skills complements the development of advanced techniques. Generally, once basic skills are developed, the corresponding techniques can be developed and applied simultaneously.

Of course, there are also very rare geniuses who can create incredibly powerful world-class techniques before they have reached a certain level of skill.

That's how Sanada was in the original work.

Sanada's Black Dragon Multiple Slash is a world-class technique with extremely powerful capabilities.

However, when he first created it, his skills were far from sufficient to use it perfectly. It was only through continuous training and improvement of his fundamentals that he gradually began to master it.

The same is true for Muneyoshi today.

However, this means that Muneyoshi will have to change his approach to training and improvement.

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