socalfunplaces Chapter 481 Kawa-style and Kumo-style, Kaguya and Style 1
Chapter 481 Kawa-style and Kumo-style, Kaguya and Style 1
Chapter 481 Kawa-style and Kumo-style, Kaguya and Ichi-style
In the cold, desolate space, an asteroid tumbles in the darkness.
The vast and desolate surface is scarred by meteorite impacts, crisscrossed with ravines. There is no atmosphere, no moisture, only iron-gray and dark red rock layers.
This is a desolate place far from life, hardened by countless meteorites to the point of being as hard as steel, making it an excellent training ground where one will not be disturbed.
At this moment, on a relatively flat wasteland of this asteroid, two figures are colliding and crossing at a speed that exceeds the limits of human visual perception.
No, to be more precise, one figure was attacking frantically, while the other simply stood quietly in place, defending with one hand.
Bang! Boom!
The few wisps of air churned and exploded, producing short, sharp pops.
Kawakita's chakra condensed in his limbs and fists, transforming into the purest speed and power; around his Byakugan, fine blue veins bulged menacingly.
In his vision, the world became clear and slow, every texture of the ground, every floating speck of dust, all were within his sight.
But when he focused his gaze on the figure in the distance, the clear view brought not the pleasure of being in control, but a sense of powerlessness that arose from the bottom of his heart.
He saw those near-perfect muscles, those terrifyingly fine bones; even though they were just standing there, without making any movement, he couldn't find the slightest flaw.
It's like a towering mountain, blocking all paths of attack.
"Hoo—" Chuan Shi let out a deep breath and said earnestly, "Senior Yun Shi, I apologize for any offense!"
Bang!
With a sudden burst of power, Kawashiki unleashed a force capable of shattering the earth. The ground seemed to be trampled by a giant foot, instantly cracking and scattering upwards. He transformed into a blur, appearing before Otsutsuki Kumoshiki. His right fist tore through the thin airflow, creating a cone-shaped air blast that broke the sound barrier, and slammed straight into Otsutsuki Kumoshiki's face.
Faced with this punch, Otsutsuki Kumoshiki stood still, only slightly tilting his head.
Whoosh!
The force of the punch grazed his cheek, and the airflow ruffled his gray hair.
Although the terrifying power gathered in his fist missed its target, it slammed heavily into the giant rock several meters behind Yun Shi.
Boom!
The massive rock, several meters high and as hard as steel, seemed to have been struck head-on by a battering ram and instantly snapped in half.
The upper half of the rock tumbled and flew out, crashing into the distant rock wall. The debris slowly scattered in the low-gravity environment, leaving the surrounding ground riddled with holes.
With his punch missing, Chuan Shi didn't stop. Using his waist strength, he twisted his body and swept his left leg like a battle axe, cutting the air with a sharp hiss as it swept towards Yun Shi's head.
In response, Yun simply raised his arm to block Chuan's sweeping leg, his muscles twitching slightly to a degree imperceptible to the naked eye.
With a soft "snap," Kawashiro felt as if he had kicked a piece of rubber with unimaginable elasticity. Most of the force was bounced back, and the recoil made his calf go numb.
boom!
The force surging through his legs was diverted, slamming him hard into the rocks beside him. A crack several meters deep instantly spread out, and countless fragments of rock were thrown into the air by the enormous impact.
"The power is strong, but it's too scattered."
Yun's calm voice reached Chuan's ears: "The limbs and bones need to be united as one. Strength should be as easy as using your own arms and fingers, controlled at will. Dispersing so much energy is just a waste of effort."
Upon hearing this, Chuan Shi gritted his teeth, used the force of the recoil to forcefully twist his body, and slammed his left elbow, carrying the full force of his body, into Yun Shi.
But before he could fully unleash his power, Yun Shi stretched out his hand, fingers spread, and as if he had foreseen the future, intercepted and pressed it against the front of Chuan Shi's forearm, the source of his power.
Bang!
With a muffled thud, as if gently stopped by an invisible mountain, the power of the Sichuan style was forcibly halted, frozen in mid-air, extremely awkward.
"The exertion is too obvious and too slow." Yun Shi calmly commented, looking at his face, which was slightly contorted from exertion.
"You have a good talent for the Byakugan, but its purpose isn't to help you find weaknesses, it's to help you find the line of power, and then cut it."
Before he finished speaking, Yun's hand, which was pressing on Chuan's forearm, trembled slightly, and a shockwave came through. It was not a violent impact, but rather like ripples on water, spreading throughout Chuan's body.
Chuan Shi felt a tingling and weak sensation throughout his body, and the power he had gathered instantly dissipated by 70-80%. He was unable to control himself and was about to retreat backward.
But the next moment, he stomped his foot into the ground to stop his retreat. All the muscles in his body tensed up instantly, and his power was forcibly restrained and compressed, converging towards his right fist.
There are no fancy footwork, no superfluous movements, just the most direct straight punch.
But the speed of this punch was faster than the sum of all the previous attacks, leaving only a clear cloud of air in place before blasting towards Yun Shi's chest, which was inches away.
Seeing this, Otsutsuki Kumoshiki's eyes flickered slightly, but he remained standing in place without dodging.
He used the same hand, only changing from a palm to a fist. Just as simply and precisely, he met the Sichuan-style fist head-on with a punch, and they collided.
boom!!
A deafening roar, as if two giant mountains were colliding in the most brutal manner, resounded. The impact, visibly spreading outwards from the point where the two men's fists collided, was the center of the impact.
The surrounding hard rock layers seemed to have been violently scraped by a giant, breaking and churning into huge waves of dust tens of meters high, which rushed in all directions.
Chuan Shi felt an irresistible, terrifying force surging up his arm, and couldn't help but groan as he was sent flying backward.
Click click click —
His feet carved two furrows in the ground until his back slammed heavily against a protruding boulder, cracking it and sending pebbles tumbling down before he finally came to a stop.
"Ahem!"
Kawashiki leaned against the rock pillar, breathing heavily. His right arm hung limply, trembling, and his fist was a bloody mess, with his white knuckles visible. Every breath was accompanied by burning pain.
The veins around his eyes bulged even more menacingly as he looked up at the slowly dispersing dust in the distance.
Ōtsutsuki Kumoshiki remained standing in the same spot, without moving an inch, and even the rocks beneath his feet were perfectly intact.
As the strongest being on his home planet, he was like a child wielding a giant hammer in front of his opponent.
Despite their seemingly intimidating presence, they couldn't even touch the hem of their opponent's clothes, and could only unleash their pent-up rage onto the asteroid beneath their feet.
but----
But in the deeper recesses of Chuan Shi's eyes, an unprecedented brightness emerged.
"That punch was pretty good."
Looking at the disheveled but bright-eyed Kawashiki, Otsutsuki Yunshiki said calmly, without much praise in his tone, "Continue."
"You haven't even begun to master physical techniques until you can force me to move an inch."
"Until every bit of your strength hits where it's meant to hit."
Upon hearing this, Chuan Shi took a breath, forcibly calming his churning blood and qi, closed his eyes, and recalled the slight tremor he felt when the power surged just now.
When he opened his eyes again, his gaze was filled with an even purer focus. His figure vanished from the spot once more, and he transformed into a straight silver streak, rushing towards Otsutsuki Kumoshiki.
boom!Boom!
His fists, feet, elbows, and knees transformed into an even more ferocious offensive, becoming a dazzling array of afterimages that attacked Otsutsuki Kumoshiki, who stood still, from all directions.
Each strike was powerful and heavy, enough to leave a deep crater in the hard ground and to tear the air apart with a short, sharp explosion.
However, his chakra was no longer blatantly displayed, his attacks were no longer chaotic, and wherever his fist passed, the space seemed to ripple with subtle waves.
Every strike was delivered with all one's might, yet every strike was blocked.
Otsutsuki Kumoshiki merely raised one hand. That hand was fair and slender, and looked unremarkable, yet it seemed like an insurmountable chasm.
No matter how sharp and fierce Chuan-style attacks are, when you're inches away from him, they'll always be met with the back of that hand...
With palms and fingers, use subtle angles and pressure to flick, guide, and press.
The violent force was like hitting a smooth, tough wall, easily deflected and dissipated, and slammed into the rocky ground beside it.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The scene was one of utter devastation, with the ground shattered and crisscrossed by ravines.
The surrounding floating pebbles were shaken into even finer dust by the repeated impacts.
But the Sichuan-style offensive did not stop or stagnate at all. On the contrary, under this near-limit pressure, the movements and punches became more and more rounded and the transitions became more and more fluid and natural.
In the depths of Chuan Shi's eyes, a light began to shift imperceptibly, growing brighter and brighter, as if something suppressed to its limit was about to break free.
In the brief moment when his attack was neutralized by Yun Shi's single hand strike.
Otsutsuki Kumoshiki, who had always dealt with things with only one hand, raised his other hand, which had been behind his back the whole time.
The hand gesture appeared slow, but it was actually so fast that Chuan Shi had nowhere to dodge. Through the barely perceptible gap between the movements, it gently pressed against Chuan Shi's chest.
Bang!
A dull, unusually heavy impact rang out.
Chuan Shi was struck as if by a heavy blow, like a kite with a broken string, flying backward uncontrollably.
"puff!"
Chuan Shi couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood, but as he lost control and flew backward—
hum! !
An invisible, heavy force field suddenly descended, centered on the flying Chuan Shi.
The dust and debris that filled the air, the large and small fragments that shattered and splashed, were suddenly halted by this unexpected change in position, and then fell, pressed firmly to the ground.
Is this the oppressive aura of the White Eye?
Otsutsuki Kumoshiki narrowed his eyes and raised his head.
Kawashiki appeared directly above, high in the sky, his chakra contained to the extreme, and the veins around his Byakugan almost bursting through his skin.
He slowly raised his right arm, clenching his five fingers into a fist.
With this simple movement, chakra surged wildly in the sky behind Kawashiki, coalescing into enormous fists.
One, two, three —
Countless gigantic fists densely covered the entire sky, casting layers of shadows that completely shrouded the two people below in darkness.
"Drink!"
With a roar, Kawashiki raised his right fist, carrying all his strength and immense pressure, and slammed it down on Otsutsuki Kumoshiki below.
Countless giant fists gathered in the air, with the action of Chuan-shiki's punch, rained down like meteors from the sky, pouring down on Otsutsuki Kumo-shiki below.
Upon seeing this, a smile appeared on Otsutsuki Kumo's lips.
Boom! Boom boom boom!!
The enormous fist crashed down, unleashing a terrifying roar that reverberated throughout the asteroid, causing it to tremble violently.
Centered on the original position where Yun Shi stood, each landing of a giant fist caused the ground to collapse and expand downwards, and the rising dust turned into a mushroom cloud that shot straight into the sky!
A moment later, the giant fist in the air finally stopped falling, leaving behind only devastation and deathly silence.
The once solid asteroid has now been completely altered in shape.
Centered on the spot where Otsutsuki once stood in the cloud-like formation, the crater has become so large that it pierces through the asteroid, and one can even see into space from this side.
Smoke and dust were slowly dissipating from the two broken ends, and the entire asteroid slowly broke into several fragments, which dispersed due to inertia.
"Whoosh—whoosh—"
Kneeling on a relatively large fragment of a Buddhist statue, the beggar was panting, each breath straining against his chest as if it were about to explode.
A wave of weakness washed over me; my muscles ached, my meridians felt drained, and even maintaining a kneeling posture was a struggle.
Just now, after that attack, he almost drained his chakra.
Just then, a shadow silently enveloped him, obscuring the light from the distant stars, making it difficult for Kawashiro to lift his head.
Otsutsuki Cloud Style floated in front of him, his white robes still spotless, his long gray hair not even disheveled, and his pure white eyes quietly looking down at him.
The blow that had just struck him had not caused him any harm.
"congratulations."
The voice of Otsutsuki Kumoshiki echoed across Hibiki, remaining calm, but Kawashiki, who had known him for a long time, noticed a rare hint of a smile.
"Now, you can be given the surname Otsutsuki," Yun Shikai said.
Upon hearing this, the Sichuan-style beggar's expression froze, and confusion replaced his weariness.
What?
"I will use my accumulated merits to apply to the main clan," Ōtsutsuki Kumoshiki continued, "to request a formal strength test for you."
"As long as you pass the test and prove that you have enough strength to match this surname, you can get rid of your status as a slave, join the family, and become a member who enjoys certain rights."
"After that, you can rightfully serve as my subordinate and accompany me on various missions."
At this very moment, only two days have passed in the ninja world.
But for Otsutsuki Kumoshiki, who came from across the river of time, he had been lying dormant, managing, and accumulating for a full five hundred years in this "past" time and space.
During those five hundred years, he did not return to the ninja world. Instead, he used his displayed bloodline and practical skills to eagerly read, learn, and understand all the knowledge he could access.
The history of the Great Wood of the Gate of Life, the mystery of the Gate of Fortune Tree, secrets about the universe, and various ingenious methods of applying the Gate of Life's power of divination.
He collected all those vast collections of books, knowledge that could not be found in the ninja world, and even the merits he gained from suppressing rebellions on colony planets and eliminating unstable factors.
If you want to take Kawashiki to the ninja world to carry out the task of planting the Divine Tree, you must give him a "legitimate" identity.
Members of this family hold a high status, undergo rigorous screening, and are subject to almost demanding requirements regarding bloodline.
In contrast, the threshold for splitting up a family focuses more on the "real value" and "competence" of the business. Strong combat skills are enough to make up for the slight flaws of the bloodline beggar.
In Yunshi's view, Chuanshi's current physical techniques are enough to open the door to the branch family, and the merits he has accumulated over the past five hundred years can now be used to promote this matter.
so----
Chuan opened his mouth, as if thinking, but felt as if his throat had been rubbed with sandpaper, his voice hoarse and bitter from the alcohol, unable to produce a complete sound.
He looked into the eyes of Ōtsutsuki Unshiki, which seemed to see through everything, without any pity or mercy, only a silent scrutiny.
Even so, this is enough for him.
This means shedding the stigma of porcelain "ware", breaking free from the shadow of Pu Shi, and no longer being an item that can be replaced or consumed at any time.
Rather, it is someone who truly has a name, an identity, and a future.
After a moment, Chuan Shi took a deep breath, and his muddled mind cleared up a bit.
"Senior Yun."
He knelt on the ground, supporting himself with his hands, and bowed his head to the Otsutsuki Kumoshiki in front of him. His voice was hoarse but very clear: "Kawashiki will never forget the kindness of being reborn."
"From this day forward, I, Chuanshi, will follow you to the side, loyal to the death, and never betray you," he said solemnly, almost as if making a vow.
What he truly cared about was not the identity of the branch family.
Rather, it is an acknowledgment of his personality as an independent individual.
Ōtsutsuki Unshiki simply looked at him, showing neither joy nor emotion at Karma's oath of loyalty, as if he were merely hearing an insignificant statement.
His gaze didn't linger on the beggar in the river; he raised his head and looked into the distance.
A figure appeared on a large fragment of a beggar's body at some unknown time, hovering silently.
It was a woman who looked very young, with a cool and refined appearance, and even a touch of girlish beauty.
She had the pale skin characteristic of the Otsutsuki clan, long blue-white hair that flowed softly down her back, and her clothes were simple and plain, without any superfluous patterns.
"Lord Yun."
She lowered her head slightly, her posture respectful but not humble, her voice clear and steady: "My name is Kaguya Otsutsuki, and I am a subordinate of Lord Isshiki Otsutsuki."
"I apologize for my intrusion and for disturbing your meditation."
"Otsutsuki Isshiki?" Otsutsuki Yunshiki's tone returned to its usual indifference, devoid of any emotion, simply repeating the boy's name.
"What is it?" he asked.
Kaguya was not surprised by his coldness. Maintaining her composure, she began, "Lord Isshiki is very interested in you. He sincerely invites you—"
"Not interested." Before he could finish speaking, Otsutsuki Yun's rejection was crisp and decisive, leaving no room for negotiation.
But then he paused slightly, a subtle, unfathomable meaning flashing deep within his eyes, and slowly said, "However—"
"Please tell Yishi that we will meet again in the future."
Yun said softly, "You are the same."
Upon hearing this, Kaguya's slightly lowered eyelashes trembled almost imperceptibly.
Under that gaze, she felt as if her heart and everything about her had been seen through by those eyes.
This includes the deep-seated resentment within oneself, and the anger that one dares not show in the slightest.
Her head drooped even lower, her heart surging with uncontrollable emotions.
"Is there anything else?" Otsutsuki asked in a calm tone.
"—" Kaguya Otsutsuki paused for a moment, then looked at Kawashiki behind him and asked, "Can you tell me what technique you just used?"
Kawashiki was taken aback, opened his mouth, and was about to ask when Otsutsuki Kumoshiki introduced him before he could even think of a name.
"Eighty Divine Void Perfume." Yun's tone was meaningful. "That technique is called Eighty Divine Void Perfume."
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