The ground beneath her feet was crushed, forming spiderweb-like cracks, and the strong winds caused the barrier to tremble continuously.
"How is this possible! This kid has such terrifying Chakra bursts! This level of pressure can probably only be unleashed by a Kage!"
"Such terrifying pressure, it seems like space itself is trembling!"
"Is this really a Konoha kid and not a Tailed Beast in the flesh?"
"Ling is actually this strong! I feel like my body can't move, I've lost the will to resist!" Obito exclaimed.
Some Stone Ninja cried out in alarm. He had only felt this sensation when Ōnoki was angry; it felt as if the world had frozen, and everything in front of him was blurred by this Chakra burst.
Dozens of Ninja in the stands stood up, their mouths agape, watching such terrifying Chakra pressure erupt from that small, adorable figure.
The contrast and shock it caused were no less than a young Nine-Tailed using an adult Nine-Tailed Ball. Even Minato was somewhat surprised; he hadn't expected Ling to have reached this stage.
The Sand Ninja Jonin opposite Ling was now drenched in sweat. He felt that the stone giant from the Gōriki no Jutsu in front of him was also somewhat unreliable.
"Boom!"
The ground collapsed, stirring up a sky full of dust. Ling directly used the Pain Sky Kick technique to make her speed reach its extreme, breaking the sound barrier in an instant and covering dozens of meters to arrive in front of the Stone Ninja's stone giant.
Ling's fist condensed a massive amount of Chakra. With the help of Curse Power protecting her arm, Ling's Super Strength Fist could unleash even more Chakra.
In the stands, only the Jonin observing from a distance could barely make out the afterimages caused by Ling's movement, meaning that even they would not be able to react to Ling's speed.
Ling threw a punch, like the swing of an ancient demon god's fist, and also like a meteor falling to the earth, incredibly fast, the air itself cracking and wailing.
As if it had shattered the void, the air in front of her fist was compressed to its extreme, and then, as the fist exceeded the sound barrier, large areas of vacuum appeared around the fist.
Ring after ring of sonic boom clouds encircled Ling's slender arm, and a brilliant white light burst forth as Ling's fist struck, blurring everyone's vision.
The greatest sound is silence; for an instant, all sound vanished, mainly because the sound frequency exceeded the human hearing range, but it was still trembling violently.
The air was shattered, forming a two-meter diameter vacuum cavity. The stone giant, directly facing Ling's fist, instantly shattered into tiny, invisible dust, as if made of paper.
Subsequently, this dust, under the force of the punch, began to be enveloped by the deformed vacuum cavity, transforming into a vacuum column, which, like a laser, instantly pierced through the Cloud Ninja Jonin's chest, tearing through dozens of meters of the battle arena's thick wall.
Then, the vacuum cavity could no longer maintain stability, and the terrifying atmospheric pressure squeezed it out of existence, but the moment the atmosphere closed, it was like a raging wave crashing against the shore.
A terrifying tremor ensued. The aftermath of Ling's punch directly caused one-third of the battle arena's surrounding wall to shatter, and clouds of smoke rose, obscuring the situation within.
Chaotic Chakra continued to rage, causing Natural Energy to fluctuate violently. Ling calmly walked out of the smoke, quite satisfied with her normal Super Strength Fist.
The main reason was that her control over the force was not concentrated enough; otherwise, it should be comparable to Might Guy's Evening Elephant when he opens the Eight Gates.
Calming the surging Chakra within her body, Ling gently exhaled a turbid breath. Enka's Reversal Technique began to heal the subtle internal injuries caused by this strike.
By the time she had taken three steps, Ling had fully recovered, and by then, the smoke had dispersed, revealing the destructive power of that world-shattering punch to everyone.
First, there were the gouges left on the ground by the sonic boom clouds generated by Ling's extreme speed. Then, there was an arc-shaped gouge perpendicular to the first, formed by the sonic boom clouds that spread out around her arm when she shattered the stone giant with her punch.
Next was the Cloud Ninja Jonin, whose chest was shattered, with only a little flesh connecting his body, and he was deader than dead, his blood staining the ground.
Finally, the battle arena wall, which had been directly collapsed by the aftershocks, was now strewn with rubble, allowing a direct view of the outside of the arena.
From the air, the entire battle arena was missing a section, and the vacuum column formed by Ling's punch had created a hundred-meter-long gouge in the ground outside the arena.
At its end, the vacuum column lost stability, forming a fan-shaped depression. This sight left everyone present speechless.
"This kid, with a bounty of 320 million Ryo, is indeed terrifying to the extreme. It makes sense that she's been bountied so much."
"Damn it, it's best not to encounter this kid on the battlefield. A squad might not even be enough for her to kill."
"We must record this Uchiha Ling's information. After returning to the Village, we must have the Kage think of a solution."
"If Ling had used this much power when hitting my head before, would I have died already?" Obito touched his head, somewhat grateful that his head was still attached.
"Ling is so strong, if she ever gets violent with me in the future, will I be miserable? I heard Minato-nii's girlfriend Kushina also has Super Strength. He must have a hard time, right?" Shisui's mind wandered.
"Ah, no, for some reason, she always reminds me of Kushina? But Kushina isn't as scary as Ling." Minato scratched his cheek, recalling Kushina's rampages.
"Yosh! This is youth! When I'm older, I'll also develop Taijutsu techniques like Ling's. Youth must not be wasted!" Might Guy burst into tears, his fighting spirit ignited.
"Can I still catch up to Ling? She's three years younger than me and already so much stronger. I really am not a genius." Kakashi thought, looking at Ling, who was writing and drawing on a scroll with dead fish eyes.
Faced with such a punch, even a Tailed Beast would probably be knocked out. Ninjutsu performed by a Jonin would also be hard-pressed to cause such destruction, let alone this being a Taijutsu punch.
There was no need for an announcement; Ling had won. Before she could even rest for a moment, it was announced that the final winners, the Cloud Ninja Jonin, the Sand Ninja Jonin, and Uchiha Ling, would engage in a free-for-all to determine first place.
As it turned out, Ling didn't even need to step into the arena. The frightened Cloud Ninja Jonin and Sand Ninja Jonin both directly conceded. They didn't want to follow in the footsteps of that Cloud Ninja Jonin.
Thus, Ling easily secured first place in the Chunin Exams, making her promotion to Chunin a certainty, and the Chunin Exams officially concluded.
Led by Minato Namikaze, the Konoha Ninja walked along the Stone Bridge out of the Amegakure. Kakashi, Might Guy, and Shiranui Genma's squad returned directly to Konoha.
Ling's Anbu squad, however, was to rendezvous with Minato and the Anbu who had arrived from Konoha.
Along the way, Obito looked at Ling's fist with some lingering fear.
He hadn't been afraid all those times Ling had hit his head before, but now, seeing the result of Ling's punch, he seemed to have developed a fear of Ling's fist.
However, thinking of his Rin, who was the gentlest, and would definitely not be as terrifying as Ling, Obito couldn't help but smile foolishly again.
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