Chapter 156 Shino lost the competition, won the hearts of people (Ch 156)

“Great, Shino, come on and defeat him!”

Naruto was watching in the stands and screaming with excitement, as if Shino had already won, although he didn’t quite understand the current situation.

Kiba said beside him: “Shino is the only opponent I don’t want to meet.”

He has brains, strength, and terrifying abilities.

Ya is not afraid of a strong opponent, but is worried that he doesn’t even know how he lost.

On the field, Neji closed his eyes to adjust himself, and when he opened them again, his entire aura had changed.

“I will let you know what absolute strength is! In the face of a huge gap, no matter what you do, it will be in vain!” Neji said, walking to the center of the insect swarm and assuming a soft fist stance.

Bagua Sixty-four Palms!

In a moment, he poked his fingers so hard that sparks were almost coming out.

Under his attack, large numbers of insects were blasted to pieces.

But as Shino said, although Neji’s attack frequency was very fast, it was still not faster than the reproduction speed of the insects.

However, after Ningji completed the sixty-four palms, his posture suddenly changed, and the next moment, the speed and intensity of his attack suddenly increased.

“Soft Fist·Eight Trigrams·One Hundred and Twenty-Eight Palms!”

In an instant, Neji’s hands formed an illusion, and wherever he passed, the number of insects that had already made the person with trypophobia feel numb disappeared rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Under the attack of the soft fist, not even a trace of the tiny insects was left.

Every time a finger poked out, it hit the insect’s body.

Point at a bug and the bugs disappear in large numbers.

This terrifying frequency of attacks shocked almost everyone present.

One hundred and twenty-eight palms of Bagua? !

It is already very talented for Ningji to be able to use sixty-four palms at this age. Who would have thought that he could create one hundred and twenty-eight palms of his own?

Those who knew about Hyuga’s Gentle Fist looked at Neji differently.

This is no longer a simple Genin. In times of war, he is qualified to be a Jonin.

Just like Kakashi at that time, Neji’s current strength is not necessarily weaker than Kakashi when he was promoted to Jonin.

With an attack frequency of one hundred and twenty-eight palms, the insects’ reproduction speed obviously could not keep up.

Even Shino was a little stunned. Is it so exaggerated?

His teammate Hinata could only barely deliver thirty-two strikes with her soft fist, and it wasn’t successful every time.

Shino knew that Neci was a genius, so he was mentally prepared that Neci could perform sixty-four palm strikes.

But I didn’t expect that sixty-four palms were just their routine operations, and the real limit was one hundred and twenty-eight palms.

In this way, Shino’s plan will fail.

“It seems that we have no choice but to take a gamble in advance!”

Shino acted decisively and stopped breeding the insects.

As soon as he stopped, Neji immediately noticed it. Under the gaze of his Byakugan, he could clearly see the slightest changes in chakra.

“Secret Technique: Insect Jade!”

Shino raised his hands, and the insects scattered around the arena seemed to be suddenly summoned. In an instant, they swarmed towards Neji with Neji as the center.

It looked like a black fog had formed, enveloping Neji.

“Can’t you bear it anymore?” Neji raised the corner of his mouth slightly.

All the bugs at the scene surrounded him at once. Even if Neji had a few more hands, he couldn’t resist them with his gentle fists.

But this is the result he wants now.

“Bagua Palm – Return to Heaven!”

Ningji stopped his gentle fist attack, and all the chakra points in his body released a large amount of chakra, and his body spun rapidly on the spot.

A gyroscope flashing blue light was spinning in place, smashing all the insects that surrounded it into pieces.

Shino’s insects were like moths to a flame, dying one by one.

The insect jade gathers all the insects in an instant, covers the target’s entire body, and consumes its chakra in a short period of time.

In other words, once this technique is performed, it is completed almost in the blink of an eye.

But Neji has the Byakugan, so he can react immediately and make effective responses.

Fortunately, this was something Shino had not thought of beforehand.

The insects he bred using a large amount of chakra all committed suicide on Kaiten before he could react.

Seeing this result, Shino fell silent.

The Hyuga clan really restrained them too much.

If it were any other opponent, the Insect Jade would be able to injure the opponent to some extent, and it would not be completely ineffective.

“Now that you have lost your support, you have no chance of winning!”

After finishing the Kaiten, Neji did not launch an attack immediately. Instead, he looked at Shino and said, “I told you at the beginning that you are just wasting your time doing useless things.”

“A predetermined destiny cannot be changed by anything. If hard work were useful, no one in this world would be called a genius!”

Click!

A very slight sound made Neji’s expression suddenly freeze.

“How… could it be?”

Neji’s face turned pale and his pupils contracted sharply.

“No matter how weak a bug is, I will never underestimate it.” Shino had already put his hands back into his pockets and said calmly, “If you want to know why, it’s because different bugs can play different roles.”

“I knew from the beginning that the parasitic bug’s attack would not pose a fatal threat to you, so the insect jade just now was not to decide the outcome, it was just to confuse your vision. The real attack is hidden behind it!”

“After all, you are indeed stronger than me, so it’s better to keep some things in reserve.”

On the second section of the spine behind Neji, there was a parasitic insect that was much larger than the other insects, and it was right in Neji’s blind spot.

Shino didn’t know that the branch family had a 1% blind spot in vision due to the limitations of the bird in the cage. This was the result of his own testing.

From the very beginning, scattering the bugs around was a test of Neji’s visual ability.

Neji can use the insects’ sensing to tell Shino which direction his perception is stronger and which is weaker.

The target was the second section of the spine, which happened to be the spot where Shino was sure Neji’s perception was weakest, and where a sneak attack would be easiest to succeed.

“But having said that, I still couldn’t defeat you in the end!” Shino turned to the referee and said, “I give up!”

As soon as Shino finished speaking, Neji used his soft fist to release chakra from his chakra points and killed the bugs that were parasitic on his body.

However, he was actually controlled, even if it was only for a few seconds, which made Neji’s expression as black as the bottom of a pot.

And this has little to do with the Byakugan’s weakness, it’s entirely because he didn’t expect Shino to have a backup plan.

If it wasn’t on the field, if Shino had companions, if Shino was using poisonous insects, the few seconds that Neji was controlled would be enough for the enemy to kill him several times.

Ningji had a condescending attitude from the beginning, but he almost fell into trouble in the end. One can imagine how he felt at that moment.

Tenten, who knew Neji’s personality well, couldn’t help but burst out laughing when she saw his changeable expression.

If they weren’t teammates, she would have wanted to use Neci’s previous words to taunt him.

“Ah! Shino, what are you doing? You were about to win, but why did you admit defeat? You’re really making me mad!” Naruto screamed and jumped up and down in anger.

At the scene, perhaps he was the only one who failed to see the situation clearly.

If it were him, even if he was going to lose, he would bite off a piece of flesh from the enemy before dying, and there would be no possibility of admitting defeat at all.

“Very exciting!”

“Great fight!”

“This is the most exciting fight I have ever seen.”

Unlike Naruto, everyone else started clapping.

Shino lost the game but won the hearts of the people. At this moment, he was the most handsome guy in the audience.

[PS: Although Shino lost, he still won. The author didn’t break his undefeated streak, right? This shouldn’t disappoint people…]