Lightning Chakra Mode exploded in the narrow, restricted passage.
Blue-white lightning tore through the air, emitting a harsh, screeching roar. Samui's right hand transformed into a blur, carrying lightning release that sounded like a chorus of a thousand birds, thrusting straight for Hyuga Xiao's heart from behind.
This strike was fast, accurate, and vicious.
The angle was so tricky that it virtually sealed off all evasion space—if Xiao were merely an ordinary elite ninja, his heart would already have been pierced.
Yet Xiao did not even look back.
The moment the lightning touched his skin, his body sidestepped half a step in a posture that defied the laws of physics. It was not the Body Flicker Technique, nor the Substitution Technique, but a subtle adjustment relying purely on muscle and chakra, allowing that fatal flash of lightning to graze past his ribs.
The aftershock of the lightning plowed a charred trench into the wall.
As expected.
Xiao's voice was frighteningly calm. He turned slightly, the azure brilliance of the Tenseigan lighting up in the dim passage, clearly reflecting the fleeting astonishment on Samui's face.
Samui reacted extremely quickly.
With her strike missing, she instantly pulled back and retreated, the speed of her hand seals blurring into afterimages. The Lightning Chakra Mode burst forth across her surface, blue-white arcs wrapping around her entire body and blowing her blonde hair upward. The air in the passage grew scorching hot due to the high-concentration lightning release, and dust rained down in rustles from the walls.
"Lord Raikage's order is—"
Samui's voice was icy cold, every word like a poison-laced kunai:
"If you refuse to cooperate, bring back your eyes."
Before her voice even faded, her figure had vanished from where she stood.
It was not the Body Flicker Technique.
It was the ultimate