"Brat, I'll crush your bones inch by inch!"
Dosu's roar, filled with cruelty and savage delight, accompanied high-frequency sound waves powerful enough to tear eardrums as they tore into Shengu Xuan's body like an invisible meat grinder!
"Bzz-boom!"
The high-frequency sound waves struck the ground where Shengu Xuan stood, instantly triggering a violent explosion! The hard stone paving shattered inch by inch like a biscuit struck by a sledgehammer. Countless fragments shot skyward amid smoke and dust, completely engulfing Shengu Xuan's figure!
"Got him!"
Dosu landed and looked at the dust-shrouded area, a vicious sneer curling his lips.
"Hmph, worthless trash who couldn't take a single hit. He didn't even know to dodge. His organs have probably been shaken into a puddle of mush by now."
In the stands, quite a few Genin gasped.
"What a terrifying attack! It doesn't even give you time to form hand seals!"
"That Shengu Xuan didn't even scream. He's probably dead already..."
"So this is what the Sound Ninja can do? That's terrifying!"
Naruto gripped the railing tightly, his knuckles whitening from the force. Although he knew Shengu Xuan was strong, his heart still clenched when he saw that terrifying attack land directly.
"Xuan! Are you all right?!" Naruto shouted.
Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze piercing the dust as though trying to make out the situation within.
"Is it over?" Gekko Hayate coughed twice, preparing to announce the match's result.
Yet just then.
A languid, indifferent voice, even tinged with impatience, suddenly came from within the dust.
"Hey, hey, you..."
The entire arena instantly fell deathly silent!
The sneer on Dosu's face abruptly froze, and his one exposed eye instantly filled with incredulous horror!
"Th-this is impossible!"
A breeze blew past, and the dust gradually dispersed.
Shengu Xuan still stood quietly in place, both hands in his pockets. The paving beneath his feet had been completely pulverized, forming a deep crater two meters across.
But!
Forget bleeding from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth-not even Shengu Xuan's ordinary casual clothes or a single strand of his hair showed any sign of disarray!
Those high-frequency sound waves, powerful enough to shatter internal organs, had struck his body like a breeze brushing over a mountain ridge, causing not the slightest disturbance!
The Dog Talisman, the divine authority of immortality! An indestructible body!
Before the Dog Talisman's absolute defense, never mind a mere Genin-level sonic attack-even a direct bombardment from a Tailed Beast Bomb was something Shengu Xuan could withstand without batting an eye!
"Did you just say you were going to crush my bones?"
Shengu Xuan slowly raised his head. His pitch-black eyes held neither anger nor killing intent, only utter indifference, as though he were looking at some lowly crawling creature.
"With that breeze of yours... that doesn't even qualify to scratch an itch for me?"
"Monster... what kind of monster are you?!"
Dosu completely panicked! The ultimate killing move he took such pride in had not even wrinkled his opponent's clothes! That defense, which defied all reason, instantly shattered his mental defenses.
Refusing to accept it, he raised his right arm again and frantically squeezed out the chakra within his body!
"I don't believe it! I don't believe you're really unscathed! Die! Die! Die!"
"Resounding Sound Drill: Maximum Output!"
"Bzzzz-!!!"
High-frequency sound waves several times more violent than before became almost tangible, distorted ripples, bombarding Shengu Xuan in an overwhelming barrage!
Faced with this frenzied counterattack, Shengu Xuan merely sighed helplessly.
"What a racket."
He slowly pulled his right hand from his pocket.
"Since you like playing with sound waves so much..."
Deep within Shengu Xuan's eyes, an ancient-looking totem of the character for "ox" blazed to life!
The Ox Talisman! The divine authority of strength!
It bestowed upon its bearer absolute strength capable of uprooting mountains, with might that overshadowed the world!
Shengu Xuan formed no hand seals and mobilized no chakra. He simply clenched his right fist.
Then, facing the raging sound waves rushing toward him, he casually threw a punch!
"Then I'll show you what... absolute violence means!"
"Boom-!!!"
One punch struck, shocking heaven and earth!
There were no dazzling displays of ninjutsu, only physical strength of the utmost purity, unleashed in an instant!
Under the terrifying power of that punch, the air before Shengu Xuan was forcibly compressed to its limit, then exploded!
A terrifying, translucent blast of air, visible to the naked eye, instantly ripped through Dosu's sonic attack with unstoppable force!
"Crack!"
Before the force of Shengu Xuan's punch, the sound waves Dosu took such pride in were as fragile as glass, shattering in an instant!
"What?!"
Dosu only had time to let out a desperate cry.
The next second, the terrifying shock wave from that punch slammed into his chest!
"Bam!"
Dosu's body underwent a horrifying deformation in an instant! The metal sound amplifier on his arm was crushed flat into a metal disc by the shock wave! His breastbone instantly caved in, and his entire body flew backward at a speed almost impossible to follow with the naked eye, as though a speeding train had struck him head-on!
"Rumble!"
Like a cannonball, Dosu's body smashed through three thick stone walls at the edge of the arena in succession, finally embedding itself deep in a load-bearing pillar dozens of meters away, his fate unknown!
The violent air currents generated by Shengu Xuan's punch even swept through the entire arena!
The Genin in the stands staggered under the blast, and even the Third Hokage and the Jonin had to raise their arms to shield themselves from the terrifying force of the punch!
Such was the terrifying might of a single punch!
The entire arena was as silent as the grave.
Everyone stared dumbfounded at the black-haired boy as he slowly withdrew his fist and slipped both hands back into his pockets.
There had been no chakra fluctuations.
No hand seals.
With nothing but pure physical strength, nothing but a casual punch, he had blasted a powerful Sound Ninja to pieces along with the ninjutsu he took such pride in!
What kind of terrifying monster was this?!
"Gulp..."
Someone swallowed with difficulty. The sound was particularly clear in the deathly silent arena.
Gekko Hayate looked at Dosu, embedded in the pillar and now completely unconscious, then at Shengu Xuan's indifferent face. He was so shocked that he even forgot to cough.
He took a deep breath and announced in a trembling voice:
"The... the winner! Shengu Xuan!"
In the stands.
An unprecedentedly grave look flared in Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi's eyes. At some point, his grip had cracked the pipe in his hand.
"No chakra... pure physical strength... this level of destructive power even surpasses Tsunade's monstrous strength..."
The Third Hokage took a deep breath, his gaze fixed firmly on Shengu Xuan.
"Just where... did this Shengu Xuan come from?!"
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