Yemu Hyuga followed beside Neji, and soon noticed that someone was quietly tailing them behind.
This tracking technique was far too shoddy.
If it were in his past life, he might not have been discovered.
Yet in this world, without a cheat, some actions were practically riddled with flaws.
Neji Hyuga and Yemu beside him exchanged a glance, both detecting the anomaly behind them.
Soon.
The two vanished in a flash using the Body Flicker Technique.
They appeared over by a patch of bushes.
Within their field of view was a black-haired girl in black clothes with a cute expression, holding tree branches in her hands as she cautiously squatted inside the bushes.
Her delicate little face bore some dust, and her expression was nervous; the Uchiha Gunbai on her back revealed her family background.
The moment he saw this Uchiha Gunbai, Yemu Hyuga dawned upon a realization.
If he remembered correctly, Uchiha Itachi should be initiating the Clan Annihilation Night right around this recent point in time.
At this thought, when Yemu Hyuga looked toward this black-haired girl, his gaze carried a hint of complexity.
"Who are you? Qingxue Uchiha? Why are you following us?" Neji Hyuga recognized Qingxue Uchiha and took the lead to issue a questioning demand.
His gaze carried unfriendliness.
Because of the death factor of his father, Hizashi Hyuga.
This caused Neji Hyuga to maintain a pessimistic fatalism when looking at this world.
Therefore, Neji currently disliked interacting with strangers.
"Um... Yemu, I didn't mean to stalk you; I just wanted to see what you and him are actually up to?"
Qingxue Uchiha crossed her fingers and lowered her head, not daring to look Yemu Hyuga in the eye.
Actually, she suspected that the two might have a thing, but she was also terribly afraid that Yemu Hyuga would hate her.
Should Yemu hate her, then Qingxue Uchiha felt that living might not hold much meaning anymore either.
"Yemu??"
Neji Hyuga wore a strange look, continuously shifting his gaze back and forth between Yemu and Qingxue.
There were some question marks over his head.
"You two, since when have you gotten this close?" Neji asked quite perplexed.
You had to know that directly addressing someone by their given name was considered a behavior of being on extremely good terms in this world.
"This is a long story, so I won't explain."
Yemu Hyuga shook his head.
His mouth opened, but words lingered on his lips unsaid.
Only he knew what kind of dire straits the Uchiha Clan was actually in within Konoha right now.
Daring to wander around so close to evening.
If things went poorly, Danzo would snatch them away to become experimental toy white mice.
"We're going to have a special training session, do you want to come?" Seeing that Qingxue Uchiha seemed to be on very good terms with Yemu Hyuga, Neji Hyuga took the initiative to extend an invitation.
At least this Qingxue Uchiha didn't put on that punchable expression from time to time like Sasuke Uchiha did.
Qingxue Uchiha raised her gaze slightly, looking at Yemu Hyuga with evasive eyes. "Um, can I come?"
Yemu Hyuga nodded.
No matter what, this was still his girlfriend from his past life.
Though he didn't harbor many feelings for Qingxue Uchiha right now, and even felt somewhat terrified of her.
He didn't view her as an enemy, either.
Besides, Qingxue Uchiha still provided him with quite a few emotional value points.
Qingxue Uchiha felt a surge of joy inside, a smile hanging on her face as she revealed a cute little dimple.
This made Neji Hyuga knit his brows.
He always had the illusion that his good bro was about to get snatched away.
Soon, the three of them arrived over at a rocky hill.
This was the secret training base for Yemu and Neji.
Since the Hyuga Clan did not possess elemental heritage ninjutsu, their moves were basically taijutsu developed based on jujutsu.
Furthermore, utilizing the Byakugan for assistance to perform tenketsu strikes and the like was the conventional attack method of the Hyuga Clan.
Simply put, the Hyuga Clan focused on body conditioning.
The rocks were covered with numerous cracks and handprints, and many stones had even turned into debris-this was the training result of Neji and Yemu over this past year.
Neji Hyuga came over to Yemu's side, and looking at Qingxue Uchiha sitting on a stone not far away, he leaned close to Yemu's ear and whispered quietly, "Yemu, can that woman be trusted?"
Seeing Qingxue Uchiha unusually quiet for once, Yemu Hyuga nodded. "Yeah, at least she won't do anything to hurt... um... she can be trusted, I guess."
Yemu Hyuga's words paused, as he had been quite confident initially.
Yet recalling his past-life memories made him somewhat uncertain again.
Sure enough, upon seeing Neji Hyuga and Yemu engage in such an intimate act, Qingxue Uchiha arched a brow, her pitch-black pupils concealing swirling thoughts.
"Whatever, anyway, my techniques will be figured out by others sooner or later." Neji Hyuga waved his hand, his face immediately carrying excitement. "Yemu, I've figured out how to improve the previous Eight Trigrams Palm ninjutsu."
"Because our Branch Family Byakugan is restricted and cannot achieve a 360-degree blindspot-free view, it prevents us from utilizing Yang Release Chakra to activate the Eight Trigrams Diagram."
"However, if we alter the ninjutsu stance, we can achieve the effect of the Eight Trigrams Consecutive Palms."
Seeing that Yemu seemed uninterested, Neji assumed he didn't believe him. "Yemu, attack me from my blind spot."
"Brother Neji, you're not joking?" Yemu Hyuga was somewhat doubtful.
Neji Hyuga rubbed his head, and looking at the shattered stones not far away, his gaze carried apprehension. "Ahem, you'd better go a bit easy; I really don't want to be smashed to smithereens."
There was no help for it.
This guy was an absolute monster.
He himself was merely improving his taijutsu.
Whereas Yemu seemed to have evolved a whole new set of fist techniques based on the Eight Trigrams Gentle Fist.
Originally, the Byakugan was only used to assist in striking tenketsu, but on this monster, the Byakugan had become a one-hit-KO weak-spot locking device.
"Then I'm coming."
Yemu Hyuga loosened his wrists; naturally, he hadn't come here to bully Neji Hyuga.
His training targets had always been those massive boulders.
"Alright, remember to come from my blind spot. Once I make up for the visual flaws of the Byakugan, I'll tell you the secret." Neji Hyuga was eager to try.
He also wanted to learn Yemu Hyuga's fist technique, but unfortunately found it didn't suit him.
Uh...
Yemu Hyuga's expression froze.
If he told Neji that his Byakugan actually had no restrictions, he wondered what Neji would think.
Under the bloodline suppression of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, the so-called Byakugan flaws had long since been remedied.
After all, how could a Caged Bird Seal meant to target the Byakugan and suppress brain nerves possibly suppress the bloodline of the Ōtsutsuki Clan?
Looking at Neji's serious expression.
Yemu shook his head, deciding against telling him this cruel truth.
Whoosh!!
His thoughts settled.
In a flash, Yemu's body vanished.
Swift as the wind, quiet as the forest, fierce as fire, immovable as a mountain, moving like thunder!
Bang!!
Only a muffled sound echoed in the air.
Neji Hyuga didn't react at all.
To be precise, even though his Byakugan saw Yemu approaching, his physical speed simply couldn't keep up.
His entire body was sent flying backward violently.
Right as he was about to crash into a large boulder behind him.
A figure appeared behind him, using a single hand to prop up his back.
!!!
Cold sweat broke out on Neji Hyuga's forehead, and it took him a few seconds to snap back to reality.
He looked at Yemu Hyuga standing behind him, his pupils trembling.
Both of his hands were completely numb and temporarily paralyzed.
Had he not protected his chest with his hands in advance.
Neji Hyuga didn't even dare to imagine what would have happened.
Sustaining fractured bones and tendons would probably be considered the lighter outcome.
[Neji Hyuga feels shocked, harvested emotional value +200]
"Brother Neji, are you alright?" Yemu Hyuga asked with concern.
"Nothing much. Thanks to you pulling your punches; even though my Byakugan saw your attack, my body simply couldn't react in time." Neji Hyuga shook his head with a wry smile.
Within his gaze, a hint of dejection even lingered.
There was no helping it; Yemu Hyuga's talent and strength pressed down on him like a massive mountain, leaving him utterly unable to catch a breath.
This made him, the so-called Hyuga genius, look exceptionally ridiculous.
Yemu Hyuga seemed to know what Neji was thinking.
He lightly patted his shoulder. "Brother Neji, I'm going off to train by myself. You should do your own training too."
With that, Yemu Hyuga walked over toward a large boulder. His goal for tonight was to smash this five-meter-tall boulder to pieces with his bare hands and then go home.
As for Neji's dejection, Yemu expressed understanding.
There was simply no helping it; in this world, if you didn't use cheats, you were destined to remain nothing more than fodder-tier character.
You could even put it this way.
The entire Hyuga Clan was basically a collection of fodder-tier existences.
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