Neji's voice echoed in the hallway, filled with the malicious joy of revenge.
He felt as though he had already seen this Demon Fox, who had once crushed his dignity into the trash, get his limbs broken amid the siege of the clan head and clansmen, and forced to kneel and beg for mercy like a stray dog!
However, facing his barking, the playful smile on Naruto's face slowly faded away.
His blue eyes gradually turned toward Neji, the playfulness and laziness within them vanishing, replaced by a bottomless, heart-palpitating coldness.
It was the indifference of looking down upon ants, the apathy of a deity gazing upon the mortal realm.
The instant he was fixed by those eyes, all of Neji's words and glee stuck in his throat, unable to spit out a single syllable.
A chill originating from the depths of his soul surged without warning from his tailbone straight to his crown!
"Noisy."
Naruto opened his lips slightly and spat out two words.
The voice was very soft, yet it instantly froze the previously tense atmosphere in the entire hallway.
An extremely terrifying, deeply oppressive aura began to slowly rise within his body, as if a primordial beast that had slumbered for hundreds of millions of years was slowly opening its eyes at this moment.
Haku, standing behind Naruto, felt it most acutely.
Her exquisitely beautiful face instantly turned pale, her body trembling slightly and uncontrollably, but in those misty eyes, there was not a shred of fear—only extreme adoration and fanaticism!
She knew that Lord Naruto was about to get serious!
"Old man-in-law."
Naruto no longer paid attention to the frozen Neji, casting those cold eyes back toward Hyuga Hiashi and saying leisurely, "I call you father-in-law to give you face, to give Hinata face. You wouldn't really think that with just these dozen or so people of yours, this tiny Hyuga Clan, you could stop me?"
This statement was made casually, yet it was filled with boundless arrogance!
Hyuga Hiashi trembled all over with anger, shouting sternly, "Arrogant brat, take him down!"
Before his voice finished falling, the twelve Hyuga elites behind him moved simultaneously, the stances of the Gentle Fist instantly unfurling, and a dozen figures crisscrossing to pounce on Naruto from all directions, sealing off every single escape route!
Yet in the very next second.
Naruto's eyes snapped wide open!
No hand seals!
In that instant, all color faded completely from those eyes that were originally as blue as the sky, transforming into a pure silver-white to the extreme, one that defied verbal description!
Within those eyes, there were no pupils, no impurities, only a vast, boundless silver-white star river, as if reflecting the origin and truth of the entire world!
Pure Byakugan, activate!
"Hum!"
A sharp piercing pain came from the depths of his eyeballs, as though these eyes that did not belong to this world were rejecting his body!
Massive amounts of chakra began to consume at an astonishing rate, and traded in exchange for it was unprecedented--God's Perspective!
The first to rush to close quarters was precisely Neji, who had been clamoring the loudest!
He blasted out with a palm straight at Naruto's chest, a distorted joy plastered across his face!
However, Naruto didn't even look at him, his figure merely leaning slightly to the side.
"Clap!"
Neji's sure-to-hit palm brushed past the corner of Naruto's clothing by a hair's breadth!
How is this possible?!
Neji was inwardly alarmed; within his proud Byakugan field of vision, Naruto clearly hadn't made any superfluous movements at all!
Before he could change his technique, a palm had already ghosted onto his shoulder.
"Your pride is too cheap."
A cold voice rang in his ear.
The next moment, an irresistible, vast pupil power poured tyrannically into Neji's body through Naruto's palm, like a breached torrent!
"Ugh, ahhh--!"
Neji let out a shrill scream, feeling as though his meridian system had been thrown into an erupting volcano!
The chakra within his body was instantly blown to smithereens, and that activated Byakugan of his sent forth a tearing-like excruciating pain. The veins at the corners of his eyes burst with a pop, blood streamed down, and his vision instantly plunged into utter darkness!
His proud Byakugan was forcibly deactivated!
"Bang!"
Neji's legs went soft, and he dropped straight to his knees, his entire body convulsing, unable to stand ever again.
"Neji!"
Hyuga Hiashi roared and made his move personally!
As the head of the main house, his Gentle Fist had long since reached the pinnacle of perfection!
"Gentle Fist Art: Eight Trigrams Palm!"
He thrust out with both palms, the air pressure whipped up by the palm wind even causing the air to emit low groans, moving so fast that only afterimages remained!
Yet within Naruto's silver-white eyes, Hiashi's movements, the flow of chakra inside his body, and even the contraction of his muscles in the next instant were as clear as lines on the palm of a hand!
Too slow!
Full of openings!
Naruto did not meet the attack head-on; amidst Hiashi's airtight palm shadows, he stepped forward instead of retreating, walking leisurely as if strolling in a courtyard, and extended a single finger, poking toward an apparently undefended gap on the front of Hiashi's chest at an incredible angle.
That was one of the central nodal points for the circulation of Hiashi's entire body's chakra!
Hyuga Hiashi's pupils constricted sharply. He wanted to change his technique, wanted to fall back to defense, but was terrified to discover that all his follow-up moves and all his variations seemed to have been anticipated in advance by the opponent. This single finger landed precisely on the exact point where his old force was spent, his new force had yet to be born, and his entire body was at its most sluggish!
"Puff!"
The finger connected.
There was no earth-shattering loud noise, yet Hyuga Hiashi acted as though struck by lightning, his entire person instantly freezing!
He only felt a supreme, incredibly tyrannical pupil power invade along the fingertip. The chakra that had previously circulated smoothly inside his body instantly scattered like soldiers meeting their sovereign, halting in its tracks!
Before this power, his proud main house Byakugan even emitted cries of sorrow and submission originating from the deepest depths of his bloodline!
"This... this is... a Perfect Byakugan whose purity surpasses that of our founding ancestor!!"
Hyuga Hiashi expended all his strength to squeeze out this exclamation laden with endless tremors from the depths of his throat, stumbling a foot back, taking three staggering steps thud, thud, thud, and slamming his back heavily against the wall before barely managing to avoid kneeling on the spot!
His face was filled with worldview-shattering shock and terror.
In the flash of lightning, the two strongest had already fallen in defeat!
The remaining ten branch-family jounin only then reacted, roaring as they attacked!
Naruto didn't even look back, merely sweeping his peripheral vision. Silver-white starlight circulated within those eyes, and an invisible ripple of pupil power instantly diffused outward!
"Ah-- my eyes!"
"Thud! Thud!"
The movements of those ten elite jounin came to an abrupt halt, as if they had simultaneously been hit by a binding jutsu!
They let out miserable screams in unison, their hands clamping tightly over their eyes. The veins within their Byakugans bulged out one by one, as though steel needles were churning inside.
Under this absolute suppression targeting their bloodline, their Byakugans were instantly suppressed, and the circulation of their chakra was forcibly cut off. One after another, they collapsed limply to the ground, rolling in agony.
The entire process took no more than ten seconds.
Deathly silence filled the hallway.
Only the suppressed breathing and painful groans of those Hyuga clansmen remained.
"Hah..."
Naruto slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, those silver-white eyes instantly reverting to blue as a trace of blood slowly oozed from the corner of his eye.
His complexion was slightly pale, his breathing also faintly rapid.
The power of these eyes was far too tyrannical; even with the recovery rate of his Perfect Sage Body, keeping them activated for a long time would bring about a massive burden.
Yet he still stood straight, his hands tucked back into his pockets, acting as though he had merely performed an insignificant triviality.
Slowly, he took a step forward.
"Tap."
The crisp sound of footsteps echoed in the deathly silent corridor like a tolling death knell, fiercely hammering against Hyuga Hiashi's heart.
Looking down from above, he gazed upon this ashen-faced Hyuga clan head, a cold curve once again hooking the corner of his mouth.
"Clan Head Hiashi... Now, do you think I am worthy of Hinata?"
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