The Hyuga's Root of Illness

Is there disagreement within the Main Family regarding the future form of the Hyuga Clan?

Hearing this, Hyuga Yu frowned slightly. After a moment of thought, he noted down this piece of information.

Then, he looked at Hizashi Hyuga and suddenly asked:

"Why are you helping me?"

Hyuga Yu had somewhat guessed that Hizashi Hyuga would help him in secret, but this judgment was based on Hizashi's identity and future information.

In reality, Hyuga Yu didn't truly understand Hizashi Hyuga as a person.

This person only appeared in others' memories in the original work, and memories are often the most subjective.

What kind of person is Hizashi Hyuga—

A brother who revered his older sibling?

A sacrificial lamb with a grand vision?

Or perhaps, just a silent father who loved his son, Neji?

Therefore, Hizashi Hyuga's answer next would determine the extent to which Hyuga Yu could cooperate with him.

At this moment, Faced with this question, Hizashi Hyuga clearly froze for a moment. He hadn't expected Hyuga Yu to be so direct.

However, he didn't ponder for long before speaking, "You think I'm helping you because of my identity, my past?"

Hyuga Yu remained silent for a moment before replying, "You are different from us Caged Birds, who were imprisoned and protected from birth."

"You are the one most qualified to hate."

"You are right." Hizashi Hyuga nodded calmly.

No expression could be seen on his face, or rather, what he showed at this moment was an extreme, numb "poker face."

He spoke:

"In the past, I deeply resented the Main Family, resented their harsh system, and resented my elder brother, Hiashi Hyuga, who showed no mercy."

"On the day I lost the selection, I even conceived the idea of killing this absurd clan entirely, slaughtering every last member."

"You might find it hard to understand, but at the time, I didn't think such a thought was extreme or terrifying. It was like feeling hungry and needing to eat, or thirsty and needing to drink. After suffering injustice, one naturally desires revenge!"

"Even now, I still believe that if I were to personally slaughter all the Main Family members of this clan, I wouldn't have any psychological burden."

"However, as I stepped out of the high and mighty Main Family residence, came into contact with more Branch Family members, and saw the vaster and more dangerous ninja world..."

"I gradually realized,"

"For someone like me, who has even a little talent, the Caged Bird is the hardest cage to break free from, but for ordinary clan members, it is the safest fortress."

"I began to ponder—"

Hizashi Hyuga's brows furrowed deeply, a hint of confusion in his eyes.

"Is the system of Main and Branch Families a cure or a poison?"

Hyuga Yu looked at him and asked, "Did you find the answer?"

"No."

Hizashi Hyuga shook his head with regret, looked at Hyuga Yu, and sighed.

"Talking more is not as good as letting you see for yourself."

Then, he adopted a starting stance for Gentle Fist towards Hyuga Yu.

The next moment, "Whoosh!"

A storm of azure Chakra erupted around Hizashi Hyuga. This Chakra was so dense that it almost condensed into a phantom humanoid armor on Hizashi Hyuga's body surface.

Hizashi Hyuga's voice echoed:

"Cultivating Gentle Fist to its limit only allows one to perform the seventh step of Gentle Fist Style, Eight Trigrams 128 Palms. And controlling the Hyuga Clan's special Chakra to its extreme only forms this ordinary layer of Chakra armor on the body's surface."

"After reaching this level, I gradually discovered that the Hyuga Clan's strongest technique is not the Eight Trigrams Palms: Mountain Breaker, recorded as the strongest Nintaijutsu, but—"

Hizashi Hyuga's gaze shifted, and he waved his palm towards the sky.

A massive amount of Chakra gathered and condensed in an instant, releasing from the acupoints in his palm, forming a compressed air cannon to the extreme!

"—BOOM!!!"

With a wave of his palm, a grotesquely thick, invisible air cannon shot out, piercing the sky for about 600 meters.

Finally, it slowly dissipated.

The immense disturbance attracted several prying gazes, but upon seeing that it was Hizashi Hyuga causing the commotion, these gazes quickly shifted away.

At this moment, Hizashi Hyuga gave Hyuga Yu a helpless smile and said:

"The Hyuga Clan's strongest technique is actually the most ordinary Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm."

"The power of Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm can increase with precise control and the number of Chakra acupoints released simultaneously. When all the Chakra from the body's 361 acupoints is condensed and released with a single strike, its pure physical destructive power can even surpass Eight Trigrams: Mountain Breaker."

However, Hizashi Hyuga's tone held no pride in developing this technique; instead, it was filled with deep worry.

"And this... is actually the strongest technique of the Hyuga Clan."

At this moment, Hyuga Yu had activated his Byakugan, assessing the power of this technique.

Hizashi Hyuga's stats were roughly equivalent to Hiashi Hyuga's. This meant that this strike was delivered with stats of 8 for perception, 8 for speed, 7 for strength, 10 for hand seals, 7 for ninjutsu, and 10 for stamina.

All raw stats, not a single point wasted.

Based on the scale of the disturbed air currents, it was already difficult to calculate the final impact force. Combined with the Hyuga Clan's Chakra's characteristic of being able to pierce through Chakra, The power of this palm strike could at least directly penetrate the defense of a second-stage skeletal Susanoo. If it were two consecutive palm strikes, it was estimated that it could forcefully rip the pilot out of the skeletal Susanoo.

And then, there was nothing else.

Within Hyuga Yu's Byakugan vision, Hizashi Hyuga's Chakra reserves instantly bottomed out.

In other words, within a given time frame, even a complete Hyuga like Hizashi Hyuga could only unleash such a technique once.

Hyuga Yu suddenly understood what Hizashi Hyuga was worried about.

At this moment, Hizashi Hyuga let out a long breath, his tone heavy, and cautioned Hyuga Yu:

"The Hyuga Clan's abilities, on the surface, seem comprehensive."

"For defense, there's Revolving Heaven; for close combat, there are Eight Trigrams Palms; for mid-range, there are Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm and Eight Trigrams Mountain Breaker; for long-range, the Byakugan can evade danger; and even like you, finding a unique path with a Bow and Arrow for offense."

"But no matter which ability it is, it's not extreme enough, not absolute enough!"

"And among the strongest individuals in the ninja world,"

"Not being absolute is a fatal weakness!"

Hyuga Yu nodded in agreement.

But he knew that this was definitely not the limit of Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm. Hizashi Hyuga's strike already possessed the rudimentary form of Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, but it was still a considerable distance from more extreme attack power.

There must still be some way to enhance the power of Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm.

And this method of enhancement--

Hyuga Yu couldn't help but cast his gaze upon the layer of Chakra armor surrounding Hizashi Hyuga's body.

Of course, This was not a power Hyuga Yu could master at this moment.

The Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm: Modified, explored and improved by Hizashi Hyuga, had a very obvious problem.

Its power was immense, approaching the threshold for conventional ninja, but its consumption was equally terrifying!

Even though he already had some ideas, without resolving the fundamental issue of Chakra, Hyuga Yu still wasn't planning to delve into research on the Hyuga Clan's secret techniques.

Hizashi Hyuga calmed his slightly rapid breathing and then looked at Hyuga Yu seriously.

"You asked me why I'm helping you?"

"Then I'll tell you now--"

"It's not because of the boring Main Family and Branch Family system, but because--"

Hizashi Hyuga scanned Hyuga Yu's thoroughly modified meridians with his Byakugan, as well as his unique cyan Chakra.

"Hyuga Yu!"

"In you, I see hope for reaching the extreme and breaking this clan's ceiling!"

"In the years I was relegated to the Branch Family, more than pondering the meaning of the Main Family and Branch Family system, I could clearly see--"

"The fundamental problem of the Hyuga Clan now is not the conflict and disputes between the Main Family and Branch Family, nor is it about attacking each other to pursue meaningless status and power!"

"It is--"

"This clan has gone too long, too long, too long!"

"Without producing a true powerhouse!"