Holy Arrow

The sudden turn of events left the big man stunned.

Then an even more unrestrained, mocking laugh burst across his face.

"You expect this sort of trash to save you and your daughter? Hahahaha!"

"I know the ninjas of those great nations better than you do."

"They put on righteous faces, but they're filthy to the core."

He roughly pinched the woman's chin, forcing her to raise her head.

"Accept your fate. If you serve me well, maybe I'll grant you a quick death and leave your corpse intact."

The woman did not respond. She merely kept murmuring, "Come back... come back..."

She stared blankly at the hole in the wall where that figure had vanished, a trace of regret flashing through her eyes.

She had spent her life treating the sick and saving people. She had never murdered or committed arson, yet misfortune had struck her again and again lately.

And now, because of one moment of softness, she had brought this fiend upon herself.

Heaven truly was leaving her no way to survive...

The big man still would not stop. His face remained full of mockery as he continued provoking her.

"As for your daughter, I've already found her a good place."

"Don't you like ninjas from the great nations? How about selling her to one?"

The woman, who had been somewhat despondent, went mad again upon hearing this.

"Beast... Even if I die, I'll curse you! Even as a ghost, I won't let you go!"

She bared her teeth and stretched her head forward, trying to bite the big man.

But all she received was his booming laughter.

"If you put it that way, I really want to find out what a ghost tastes like..."

At the same time.

The moment Hyuga Qingchuan left the house and escaped the big man's line of sight, he sprinted toward the slope beside it.

The space inside the house was too small.

There simply was not enough distance!

With his current low fusion rate, his control over Quincy abilities was not strong.

He had never used Holy Arrow before, so there was no way he could instantly form an arrow powerful enough to kill the big man.

Within seven steps, the big man could kill him before he finished forming the arrow.

Besides, the moment he showed any intent to attack, the big man would certainly be fully on guard. Whether the arrow could hit him at all was uncertain.

Therefore, he could only go outside.

As a Hyuga who relied on close-range Taijutsu, he had been chopped down by the big man as easily as a chicken.

Once he left the house, the big man would not take him too seriously.

And that was indeed the case.

Consumed by lust, the big man completely ignored him inside the house.

His Byakugan vision pierced through the trees and wooden walls, firmly locking onto the big man's movements inside.

At the same time, he continuously calculated the distance that would allow the arrow to reach its greatest speed.

Soon, he stopped beneath the shadow of a large tree on the slope.

He extended his right hand and poured chakra into the back of it.

The blue Quincy Cross Sigil suddenly lit up, faint light flowing across it.

An exquisite Spirit Bow formed from blue-white light particles instantly materialized in his hand!

He took a deep breath, looked toward the wooden house again, and suppressed the uncertainty in his heart.

This was his first real battle. Life and death rested on this one arrow!

Gritting his teeth, he continued pouring in chakra with all his might.

The Spirit Bow abruptly changed shape, rapidly expanding and transforming.

In the end, it became a massive Light Bow nearly as tall as a person, pure and powerful energy rippling across its frame.

His left hand drew the bowstring through the air, and a blue-white arrow made entirely of highly condensed light slowly took shape along with his movement!

To ensure a killing blow, he desperately squeezed out the little chakra that had only just recovered within his body.

He frantically drew upon the incomparably active Natural Energy around him, gathering, compressing, and solidifying it!

Although this distance would let the arrow achieve its greatest speed and reduce the big man's reaction time,

once the arrow left his range of control, it would gradually dissipate. The farther it traveled, the more severely it would fade.

He had to ensure the arrow retained a certain level of power when it struck the big man.

Blue-white light particles gathered around him under an invisible pull.

The arrow grew thicker and more dazzling. The surrounding light particles swirled toward it as though summoned, producing a faint hum.

His Byakugan locked firmly onto the big man. His gaze sharpened, and he released the bowstring!

BOOM!!

The blue-white Holy Arrow shot from the bow like lightning tearing through the night sky!

The immense kinetic force and energy it carried directly blasted apart the wooden walls along its path. At a speed too fast for the naked eye to follow, it accurately shot into the house!

Inside the house.

After smugly tying the woman's hands to a pillar, the big man flipped her exhausted body over.

His rough hands savagely groped the faintly visible snow-white flesh, and a surge of pleasure immediately rose within him.

Just as he was about to continue enjoying himself,

suddenly!

He felt an inexplicable palpitation, and an extreme sense of danger that made his scalp tingle exploded within him!

The overwhelming terror made even his erection shrivel.

Run!!

It was an instinct forged on the battlefield.

Almost reflexively, he tried to form hand seals with one hand and activate the Body Flicker Technique.

But it was too late!

The next moment!

A violent explosion rang out.

The old wooden wall before him, as fragile as paper, suddenly had a huge hole blasted through it.

A blue-white light arrow thrust through the opening and instantly pierced into him.

"Wha...?!" The big man's mind had not even processed what had happened.

He only felt his chest tighten sharply as an indescribably terrifying force tore straight through his body!

Before he could even feel pain, the enormous impact lifted his feet off the ground and violently hurled him backward!

BANG!! CLANG!

His body slammed heavily into the floor, then continued scraping across it for some distance.

It dragged out a broad, horrifying trail of blood.

He stared blankly with wide eyes, his pupils unfocused, and instinctively lowered his head toward his chest.

A hole the size of a bowl had replaced the place where his sturdy chest had been, piercing clean through from front to back.

Stunned, he shifted his gaze toward the newly blasted hole in the wall.

On the slope, the brat he had dismissed with contempt was slowly lowering the enormous Spirit Bow in his hands.

"Brat..."

His teeth clenched as rage surged straight to his head.

"You're... dead."

The big man braced both hands against the floor, his knuckles turning white as he struggled to rise.

But the moment he exerted force, his internal organs churned violently.

A scorching heat surged up, and bright red blood mixed with air gurgled from his mouth.

The woman beside him was so terrified by the sudden change that her soul nearly left her body.

She struggled to move her legs around the pillar she was tied to, desperately putting as much distance as possible between herself and the big man while shielding her daughter behind her body.

At the same time, she stared at the big man with wide eyes filled with terror.

In the blink of an eye, the beast who had killed countless people and driven her into despair

had been pierced through and left lying on the ground like a dead pig, blood pouring from him.

She repeatedly turned her head, straining to look outside the hole and glimpse the fate whose nature she could not yet tell.

Through her tear-blurred vision,

the figure she had watched leave in despair returned!

Like a god of vengeance, he suddenly charged into the house!

Hyuga Qingchuan's gaze was icy, and his movements did not hesitate in the slightest.

He took several strides to the big man, then drove one knee down hard onto his immobile neck.

His left hand clamped around the enormous head like an iron vise.

Holding a kunai in a reverse grip with his right hand, he stabbed down with ruthless precision and without hesitation!

SPLURT!

The kunai's tip easily sank into the eye socket and drove straight into the brain!

The wail came to an abrupt end.

Hyuga Qingchuan looked down coldly at the big man.

The nausea and urge to vomit he had expected never came.

Even though this body was only that of a Ninja Academy student,

its ability to adapt to bloodshed was still frighteningly strong. He remained utterly calm, as though he were accustomed to it.

Was this the Shinobi World?

It really was worlds apart from his previous life!

When he came back to himself, the big man's body had long since stopped its final twitch.

Looking at the man's death stare, Hyuga Qingchuan expressionlessly withdrew the kunai.

He tore off a piece of the man's clothing and carefully wiped the red-and-white matter from the kunai.

Only then did he turn to look at the mother and daughter beside him, whose faces were filled with disbelief.

Scarlet blood slowly slid down his face, lending his handsome features a touch of ruthlessness.

He slowly rose to his feet.

Then he walked toward them, one step at a time...