"You've been sparring with me in Taijutsu with weights on this whole time?" Ino asked.
Hinata looked confused, weights? What weights?
"These two things that look like watermelons, you really didn't feel they were heavy? I knew it before, but I never imagined they were *this* heavy! Hinata, you've worked so hard! This constant forward lean must really affect your Eight Trigrams Palm, right? It must be because of this that you haven't been able to master the Rotation. See, the movements are all distorted."
Ino feigned seriousness, even striking two opening stances for the Eight Trigrams Palm.
Hinata was incredibly embarrassed. In the spiritual world, she was still steaming. Her friend was good in every way, but sometimes she spoke too freely. How was she supposed to respond to that? I didn't want this!
Ino was still a bit uncomfortable with the physical weights. Hinata was short and wore long clothes and pants, a very conservative style, which made Ino, who was used to shorts and crop tops, very unaccustomed. She had to move her limbs a bit.
After roughly gaining her balance, she concentrated Chakra in her eyes.
Ino felt that her Yin Release Chakra, which formed her spirit body, automatically decomposed a small part at that moment. The decomposed substance then flowed into Hinata's eyes, operating in a manner similar to Chakra pathways according to the unique structure of the eyes, and formed a brand new energy stored within the eyes. This should be Dojutsu Power.
If Hinata's original Dojutsu Power was 1, then the Dojutsu Power stored in these Byakugan was now 5.
Hinata was about to explain how to activate the Byakugan's abilities, but Ino instantly activated the Byakugan.
Ino thought for a moment, then returned control of the body to Hinata, before taking control twice more.
Hinata: "..."
"It's nothing, I discovered a small secret about Dojutsu Power. I have to say, your Bloodline Limit is quite interesting."
Hinata didn't find it interesting at all.
Ino found that after she took over the body again, her own Yin Release didn't react. Was the previous method of decomposition and forming Dojutsu Power only possible once per person? Did she have to rely on her own training after that?
The secrets of the Byakugan seem to be no less than those of the Sharingan.
She stopped studying the Byakugan and instead used this tool to observe her surroundings.
"Amazing! Wow, the whole world feels different to me!" Ino finally experienced the great power of the legendary eyes. No wonder those Ōtsutsuki all said Ninja were monkeys and primitives; their perspectives truly were different.
"I see that Snow Ninja. Her armor is very interesting; it seems to have an energy shield-like thing. This thing can resist my Spirit Transformation Technique and Genjutsu."
Actually, if Ino had charged in, she couldn't have been stopped, but she didn't want to expend mental energy, as this soul-derived energy recovered too slowly.
Ino didn't know the Eight Trigrams Palm. She knew nothing of the palm techniques, breathing methods, or methods of exerting force, but the value of the Byakugan far outweighed these martial arts of the Hyuga Clan.
Fubuki Kakuyoku had just activated her Chakra armor, gathering Chakra, and was about to use Ice Prison Jutsu to trap the dazed Konoha Ninja not far away, when suddenly her vision blurred. The opponent, like a ghost, rushed in front of her, two fingers like hooks, aiming directly at her eyes.
A little brat wants to fight me?
"Ice Release: Swallow Snow."
She had just formed two hand signs when Ino abruptly grabbed her wrist, pulled it to the side, interrupting the hand sign formation, then delivered a high kick, fiercely striking the Female Ninja's chin.
Ino used Tsunade's Painful Sky Foot technique with this kick. The Female Ninja saw stars, and five or six blood-stained teeth flew out.
Her body shook in mid-air, her back muscles tensed, and a mechanical device on her Chakra armor at her back quickly unfurled two mechanical wings. She tried to fly into the sky to gain the upper hand in the battle.
"You scum, you deserve to die..."
Before she could finish, Ino once again grabbed her ankle, her hand like a vice, directly crushing the Female Ninja's ankle.
"Too slow! Your every move is under the surveillance of these eyes. I have to say, your luck is bad, and your Taijutsu is also bad."
Ino barely moved from her spot, slamming the opponent to the ground, her knee pressing against her abdomen. She picked up a nearby pestle, seemingly used by civilians to grind herbs, raised both arms high, big end down, and pounded it onto the Female Ninja's face!
The Female Ninja was smashed, her face covered in blood, her nose crooked, and one eyeball nearly burst. Ino pounded her three or four more times.
The Female Ninja's Taijutsu was unusually poor. She placed her hopes on her Chakra armor, increasing the armor's output power, trying to defeat this embarrassing Konoha Ninja with brute force.
"Oh? What an interesting little device." Ino marveled. Kakashi had mentioned this Chakra armor before, but at that time, Kakashi was still young, focused solely on missions, and didn't pay much attention to things unrelated to missions. He only knew it was an industrial product of the Land of Snow combining technology and Ninjutsu.
The moment the Female Ninja activated her Chakra armor, Ino, through her Byakugan, saw that the armor was stimulating several important acupoints on the human body. The method was similar to the Spirit Transformation Stimulation Technique she planned to use on Hinata, except the armor stimulated the surface, while the Spirit Transformation Technique stimulated the actual Chakra pathways.
The Female Ninja's Chakra armor mainly stimulated the major acupoints on the human spine, temporarily gaining some physical energy and enhancing her own Chakra.
After just two quick glances, Ino, who was a Medical Ninja after all, roughly understood the principle of this thing.
It sounds simple, but actually achieving it was quite ingenious.
Unlike the Eight Gates, which opens the human body's restrictions one by one, this thing continuously stimulated the Female Ninja's spine, where the corresponding acupoint was the Gate of Limit in the Eight Gates.
Relying on scientific equipment, she had almost reached the state of opening one of the Eight Gates.
The Chakra armor was even more valuable than Ino had expected.
Ino grabbed the Female Ninja's wrists and forcefully twisted them in the opposite direction.
The wrist bones instantly snapped. The broken wrist bones pierced through the skin, and from the fracture, one could see twitching, contracting blood vessels.
One second the Female Ninja was still cursing, the next she felt immense pain in both hands. With fingers connected to the heart, this physical tearing caused her to pass out from the pain.
"Ino, you're amazing!" Hinata knew her friend liked to hear people praise her a bit. Now that the enemy was easily defeated, she took on the role of praise.
Ino jumped twice in place, hinting, "I'm still a bit unaccustomed. Otherwise, with your eyes, I could defeat this guy within three moves. This guy is really messed up; she keeps trying to use Ninjutsu at close range. Don't you think she's stupid?"
Hinata's tone was perfunctory: "Yes, yes, you're the best!"
Ino nodded: "Your words are still not sincere enough; they need to be filled with passion. But I really do think I'm pretty amazing."
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