Yue Squad

Only one step remained between him and victory. That was what Uchiha Dust thought at that moment.

After all, in Uchiha Dust's view, Uchiha Yue could not possibly risk serious injury just to keep him from passing the test. Uchiha Dust had already proven his strength in their earlier fight. Therefore, he felt certain that Uchiha Yue, standing in his way, would dodge this attack and let him pass the hundred-move test smoothly.

Uchiha Fugaku, who was watching from the side, shared the same thought.

When he had just seen three Uchiha Clan elites suffer severe injuries at Uchiha Yue's hands and lose consciousness, Uchiha Fugaku had felt as though the sky itself had darkened. Three Uchiha Clan elites had been taken down by Uchiha Yue, perhaps even losing any chance of further improvement in the future. Even Uchiha Fugaku found such a loss painful.

In the end, it was thanks to Uchiha Dust that Uchiha Fugaku found a sliver of hope.

Yet at the time, Uchiha Fugaku had not believed that Uchiha Dust could withstand more than eighty of Uchiha Yue's moves through his own strength. After all, Uchiha Yue had already displayed his terrifying combat power before Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Dust, and the others. Even Uchiha Fugaku found such strength frightening, let alone enduring a full eighty moves from Uchiha Yue.

And yet, such an almost impossible thing had happened to Uchiha Dust.

Every time Uchiha Fugaku counted another move for Uchiha Dust, he silently thanked Uchiha Dust's luck. As the Uchiha Clan's patriarch, Uchiha Fugaku had clearly realized that Uchiha Yue had been distracted by other thoughts during the battle. That was why he had failed to notice himself instinctively dodging Uchiha Dust's attacks time and again. At the time, Uchiha Fugaku had thought that it would