Blazing! The scorching flames turned into a huge fireball, whistling away with visible heat waves. The diameter of Mikoto's fireball exceeded two meters, making it even more powerful than the one Uchiha Yoruki released when he fought Minato a year ago. Mikoto never thought she could defeat Hizashi, who had the Byakugan, with shurikenjutsu alone. It was just a cover to prevent Hizashi from getting close and to buy time for herself to seal.
"What a powerful girl!" Nawaki exclaimed with twinkling eyes. At Mikoto's age, being able to release such a large-scale fireball showed she was undoubtedly a genius. A genius from the Hyuga branch who could practice palm rotation and a female genius from the Uchiha!
"It's a pity. The palm rotation was once known as an absolute defense. The Great Fireball is only a C-level ninjutsu. I'm afraid it will be difficult to hinder Hyuga Hizashi," Nawaki said with regret. Mikoto's plan was very good, but Palm Rotation's defense was indeed very strong, and the Great Fireball might not work.
"Indeed, but it's not easy for Hyuga Hizashi to take on the Great Fireball this time," Minato said, narrowing his blue eyes. With Mikoto's background, her understanding of the Hyuga clan should not be much less than Nawaki's. After seeing Palm Rotation, she still did it, so there must be reasons.
Indeed, Palm Rotation is very strong. Even if he wanted to break it now, it would not be easy. But everything in the world is relative. Under Palm Rotation's absolute defense, it consumes a huge amount of chakra. With high-speed rotating chakra to form a defense, Hyuga Hizashi couldn't sustain it for long. The high-speed rotation was getting slower and slower in Minato's eyes. But under the huge fireball, if Hyuga Hizashi withdrew the Palm Rotation, it would be tantamount to seeking death!
Boom! The huge fireball collided with the high-speed rotating chakra, and Hyuga Hizashi's figure was immediately covered by thick flames.
"Did it work?" This eye-catching battle attracted the attention of everyone present, but Hatake Sakumo, standing alone opposite the crowd, didn't care. With his vision, even without watching, he could predict the battle's progress. After the huge fireball hit the target, Mikoto was not careless and took out several shurikens in both hands again.
When the fire in the field gradually weakened, the rotating azure chakra appeared in front of everyone again, and the Palm Rotation suddenly collapsed. Hyuga Hizashi's breathing became heavy.
"Sure enough, he defended it," Minato said, not surprised at all. Hyuga Hizashi's current state was also completely within his expectations. Mikoto forced him to continue the Palm Rotation with a continuous attack that even the Byakugan could not dodge. With Hizashi's current state, even if Mikoto fought him in close combat, the power of her Gentle Fist would definitely not be as strong as before.
However, Mikoto still intended to do a final test. She threw the shuriken in her hand directly and started to quickly form seals with both hands again.
"Fire Release: Phoenix Flower Jutsu!" A series of small fireballs wrapped the shuriken thrown by Mikoto and rushed towards Hizashi.
"Really cautious," several Genin sighed. Although Mikoto was only a student of the ninja school, her combat awareness was better than theirs. In such a wide venue, the power of Phoenix Flower was limited. The reason why Mikoto did this was to test Hizashi's current state.
Just now, he rushed towards Mikoto, so he couldn't defend against Mikoto's high-speed and tricky shuriken with his Byakugan. However, this moment was different. With the Byakugan, Hizashi used physical skills to dodge Mikoto's attacks one after another. The agility of his actions was not as good as before, and even the last shuriken passed through his arm. Fortunately, his hands were wrapped with white tape, so he was not injured.
But if Mikoto wanted to win, she had to break the chakra mark on one of the two vital points on Hizashi's body, so she still had to fight him in close combat. The purpose of consumption had been achieved. Even Hizashi's Gentle Fist might not be able to defeat Mikoto's physical skills under such consumption.
The cautious Mikoto threw a few more shurikens and then rushed towards Hizashi. Her purpose was very clear, that is, the mark on Hizashi's forehead. For a ninja who specializes in Taijutsu, his chest is more difficult to attack than his forehead. This is determined by the structure of the human body.
"Did Mikoto win?" Nawaki said. Hizashi's condition looked extremely bad, but for Mikoto, even if she released C-level ninjutsu in succession, the consumption was far less than that of the revival. Just when everyone thought Mikoto had won, Hyuga Hizashi actually took the starting position of the Gentle Fist, but the difference was that there seemed to be a very strange pattern slowly taking shape under his feet.
"What is that?" Nawaki's pupils shrank. Hizashi ignored the shurikens that Mikoto had thrown before and rushed towards her, while his hands also attacked quickly.
"Eight Trigrams Four Palms!" He hit two shurikens with both hands very accurately and knocked them down with his bare hands.
"Eight Palms!" The speed of his hands not only did not slow down but became faster and faster, and he actually knocked down all the shurikens at once. The speed was too fast. Mikoto, who was rushing towards him, had no time to react, so she had to fight him head-on with Taijutsu. At this moment, Hizashi Hyuga became faster and faster, as if he had thrown dozens of palm strikes in an instant, making her overwhelmed.
"Sixteen Palms, Thirty-Two Palms!" The speed of his punches became faster and faster. From Minato's point of view, it was no less than the speed of the previous rotation. Finally, Mikoto could no longer resist his high-speed Taijutsu, and her defense collapsed. In the next second, Hizashi Hyuga seemed to have thrown dozens of palm strikes.
"Sixty-Four Palms!" These attacks hit Mikoto's body solidly, hitting most of her upper body. The chakra mark on her chest was also directly shattered and collapsed.
The reversal of victory and defeat took only a few seconds. When the battle was over, Mikoto sat on the ground, and Hizashi, who had used Sixty-Four Palms, knelt on the ground directly, with both arms shaking.
"This kid can actually coordinate the Byakugan and Sixty-Four Palms to knock down Mikoto's shuriken. Hiashi can master the Air Palm. What a pair of genius brothers," Hatake Sakumo couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and looked at Mikoto in the field.
"But if that little girl opened the Sharingan, she would be able to predict Hizashi's movements. In this duel, she didn't lose in strength but in the rules." The standard of passing is to shatter the chakra mark on the opponent's body, which is beneficial for ninjas of the physical school like the Hyuga. In terms of strength alone, the two little guys are almost equal, but in terms of combat awareness, Mikoto is better.
"They are all good seedlings," he couldn't help but sigh, but he didn't know how many of these geniuses would survive in the future.