Eight Gates Released Formation, Breaking Through Physical Limits

"That crude brute again. He really is a perfect match for that useless trash."

The Hyuga Clan members did their best to hide the disgust and contempt in their eyes. Although they looked down on Might Guy, they did not speak up to stop him outside the Hyuga Clan compound.

Because doing so would have been discourteous on the Hyuga Clan's part.

"Good morning!"

Meeting their gazes, Might Guy flashed them a grin, his pearly white teeth gleaming dazzlingly in the sunlight.

Unbothered by the Hyuga clansmen's dismissive attitude, Might Guy patted the dust off himself and walked inside.

"Roar! Yunchuan, wake up, wake up!"

Making his way expertly to Hyuga Yunchuan's courtyard, Might Guy shouted energetically, "The trumpet of morning training has sounded! Youth will not wait for those who sleep in!"

"Come in, Senior Guy."

Hearing the voice from inside the room, Might Guy grinned. After saying excuse me, he entered the house.

Without even glancing toward the bedroom, he headed straight for another room.

"Yunchuan, you're at it again..."

Might Guy spoke as he pulled open the door and entered, but the words on his lips abruptly caught in his throat the next moment.

It was not because of the various strange training equipment arranged throughout the room, but because of the figure standing before a floor-length mirror that covered an entire wall.

His upper body was bare as he hung from a horizontal bar, iron weights wrapped around his legs.

Click! Click!

Whenever he slowly extended his arms and lowered himself, his movements were flawlessly precise. The instant his toes lightly touched the ground, he pulled himself back up.

Orange-red light from outside the window cast a hazy glow over Hyuga Yunchuan's tall, lean, sharply defined body, as though coating him in a faint layer of gold.

Might Guy also noticed the pool of water beneath his feet. It had clearly accumulated from dripping sweat, showing that he had maintained this movement for a long time.

"Yunchuan, you..."

The experienced Might Guy stared wide-eyed as he watched Hyuga Yunchuan rise and fall on the bar. Unable to stop himself, he asked, "Don't tell me you haven't slept all night?"

The muscles across his bare upper body were taut, veins slightly bulging. The muscles in his arms were like steel cables, tangled together as they bore the strain of the weight, almost as if their groans could be heard.

Hyuga Yunchuan did not respond, but Might Guy did not mind. Instead, he grew excited.

With his experience, he could naturally tell that Yunchuan's body was already nearing its limit. He had even opened the first gate of the Eight Gates Released Formation.

It removed the brain's restrictions, allowing him to unleash one hundred percent of his physical ability, overloading his body's energy to increase his attack and speed.

Even so, his arms, thighs, and every other weight-bearing part of his body had reached their limits. His once-standard movements were beginning to slow.

And slowing down meant even greater physical exertion. Every movement was a challenge to the body's limits.

But this was youth!

How could youth stand still?

Yet as time passed, Hyuga Yunchuan still did not stop. Might Guy's smile gradually faded, and his brows slowly furrowed.

If this continues, he'll leave hidden injuries behind.

Even someone as crazed as him, who broke past his limits every day, had to soak in medicinal baths daily to avoid leaving hidden injuries behind.

At Hyuga Yunchuan's current intensity, continuing any longer would be too much.

"Yun—"

Just as Might Guy was about to speak up and persuade him to stop, the scene before him changed.

"Hoo."

Hyuga Yunchuan slowly exhaled a dense stream of white mist. White vapor rose from his body, while the sweat pouring from him evaporated instantly under the intense heat. It was caused by his rapidly accelerated metabolism raising his body temperature.

Eight Gates Released Formation: Gate of Healing.

It removed the restriction on physical fatigue, overloading the body's energy to restore stamina and offsetting the fatigue caused by the Gate of Opening's energy consumption.

In this state, every cell in Hyuga Yunchuan's body seemed to breathe. Power flowed through his blood vessels and bones like magma, his body temperature climbing to a scalding heat.

The limit representing his stamina had been shattered, and the threshold for his body's collapse surged upward once more. Hyuga Yunchuan's figure steadied again, and the howling wind from his rising and falling surged like crashing waves!

Boom!!

The weights carrying terrifying mass finally struck the ground, and the deafening impact jolted Might Guy out of his shock.

"Hiss!" Looking at Hyuga Yunchuan wiping away his sweat with a towel, he sucked in a breath. But excitement and joy quickly spread across his face as he asked eagerly, "Yunchuan! You can already open the Gate of Healing?!"

Hyuga Yunchuan raised his head slightly, but the moment Might Guy met those eyes, he instinctively took a step back.

Those eyes...

Before Guy could get a clear look, he only felt a stabbing pain in his eyes and blinked. When he opened them again and looked at Yunchuan, the sensation had already vanished.

"Senior Guy, what's wrong?"

Hyuga Yunchuan still seemed to be the same Hyuga Yunchuan, wearing a gentle, harmless smile.

"Ah, n-no, it's nothing." Might Guy scratched his head in confusion.

But soon, as he looked at Hyuga Yunchuan, two streams of tears ran down his face. Choking with sobs, he said, "Yunchuan, your youth burns too fiercely! This is just... just too moving, sob sob! I must learn from you!"

"...Senior Guy." Hyuga Yunchuan looked somewhat helpless and could only smile. "Please wait a moment, Senior Guy. Excuse me while I take a shower first."

"Mm, mm, mm."

Seeing him nod to himself as he wiped away his tears, Yunchuan picked up his clothes and entered the shower room.

He walked into the shower stall, removed his clothes, stepped onto the smooth tiles, and reached out to turn on the water valve.

The showerhead let out a faint hissing sound. Cold water flowed down through his loosened black hair, passed over the shadowed lines of his butterfly-like shoulder blades, washed over his bulging muscles, and gradually soaked his entire body.

The water flowed like a stream running through mountain rocks. The chill did not make him feel the slightest discomfort; it did not even lower his skin temperature.

[Bloodline: Ōtsutsuki Clan (5% → 5.5%)]

[Bloodline Limit: Unknown · Stage One (10% → 12%)]

After glancing at the panel, Hyuga Yunchuan lowered his head and slowly clenched his fists. His bones cracked sharply, and the air let out a brief explosive pop.

Crack! Crack!

Then he exhaled. His heartbeat and blood flow gradually slowed, while the overheated muscles and tendons from his exercise slowly returned to normal.

"I never expected the Eight Gates Released Formation to stimulate the potential of my bloodline and raise its purity."

Feeling that power, unlike anything he had known before, Hyuga Yunchuan's lips curved upward. "It's like unlocking the shackles binding my body. This feeling... is truly intoxicating."

He had never neglected his taijutsu training, so although he was slender, he did not look bony. However, the muscle contours he had trained were not especially well-proportioned, like people who only trained their upper bodies and ended up with an imbalanced overall physique.

But after being altered by the Ōtsutsuki bloodline, the contours of the muscles across Hyuga Yunchuan's body gradually became harmonious, distributed in the most suitable manner for exerting force rather than looking top-heavy and useless despite being impressive to the eye.

If his former self had been a furnace containing flames that still shone brilliantly, then his current self was an active volcano that appeared dormant while magma churned beneath the surface.

Hyuga Yunchuan could feel that the Gate of Healing, which had stalled him for two years, was now far from his endpoint.

Moreover, he could feel these eyes stirring. They were only a little short of awakening their ability.

Terrifying, silent power lay hidden within these eyes.

This was the power he had completely mastered, the power that truly belonged to him.

With this confidence, I dare use lies to turn the Hyuga upside down! A surge of impulse rose within Hyuga Yunchuan.

He never considered using this power to steadily grow stronger. Instead, his first instinct was to use it to pry open even greater lies and deceive more people—stronger people.

Only that made him feel the joy of being alive.