The Gaze That Crossed Space and the Venomous Snake's Fanatical Tremor

That surge of Chakra...

It was like a volcanic eruption flashing through the endless depths of the sea—searing and overbearing, yet vanishing without a trace in an instant.

The always-mocking smile on Hozuki Gengetsu's face had completely frozen.

He stared fixedly at the Hyuga clan head hundreds of meters away, kneeling on one knee with his right shoulder soaked through with blood.

No, his gaze seemed to pierce through Hyuga Hiashi's body.

"Interesting..."

Hozuki Gengetsu murmured hoarsely, with a trace of trembling even he had not noticed.

Just now, at the very instant his vaunted Water Gun Technique was about to pierce the target's heart, he had clearly sensed it.

An outside force—a surge of Chakra belonging to no one on this battlefield—had forcibly intervened!

It was like an invisible hand of God, brutally twisting cause and effect and rewriting the outcome.

Then that hand had greedily and silently "stolen" something from his technique.

That feeling was even more humiliating than being defeated head-on!

This was no longer a battle. It was mockery—a malicious game of cat and mouse!

"Heh... hehehehe..."

Hozuki Gengetsu suddenly began to laugh. His laughter was low and cold, without the slightest trace of jest.

"Hiding behind the scenes and controlling the battlefield from over a hundred miles away... Do you take me for a toy to test your subordinate's loyalty?"

His gaze suddenly sharpened like a blade!

He no longer paid attention to the Hyuga who had survived the disaster and were glaring angrily at him. Those brats were no longer qualified to be his opponents.

He had to find that person—the true player who had toyed with him as if he were nothing more than a pawn!

Hozuki Gengetsu's gaze focused on Hyuga Hiashi once more.

This time, he was not looking at Hiashi's