The Pedantic Hyuga Trio

"Ah—!!!"

"Elder Xuande!!!"

After a brief dead silence came the terrified screams and furious roars of the other Main House elders.

They sprang up from their cushions, their faces filled with horror, rage, and disbelief.

A Branch House member had actually dared to kill a Main House elder in the family's core grounds!

This completely overturned the authority and deeply ingrained beliefs they had held for decades!

The oldest and most senior Main House elder was trembling with fury.

Pointing at Tianyi, his voice hoarse and shrill, he said:

"Hyuga Tianyi! You... you are outrageously bold! You dared to kill a Main House elder in full view of everyone!

Your heart deserves condemnation! Your crime deserves extermination! Everyone, seize this traitor!!"

He roared, just like the other elders, who were equally shocked and enraged.

Almost instinctively, they hurriedly raised their hands, intending to form hand seals and activate the Caged Bird curse mark!

However, they had once again severely underestimated the absolute suppression of Magnet Release at such close range.

And they had overestimated their own reaction speed in the face of such a sudden upheaval.

Within the sensing and control range of the magnetic field, especially within this mere dozen meters or so,

the movement of all metal was at Tianyi's whim.

And forming hand seals took time, even if it was only a fraction of a second.

To metal fragments accelerated to their limit by magnetic force, that fraction of a second was eternity.

Tianyi's gaze was as cold as ancient ice, without the slightest hesitation.

Since he had already made his move, and since they still intended to use the method he hated most—the Caged Bird—to deal with him,

then... don't blame me.

"Screech, screech, screech, screech—!!!"

A series of faint yet teeth-grating cutting sounds rang out