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Chapter 368 The Choice! (Please Subscribe)

A few days ago, the Hyuga family residence.

"Eight Trigrams: Four Palms!"

Three-year-old Neji, with his white eyes devoid of any sclera, pounded on his father with all his might.

boom! boom! boom!
Hyuga Hizashi easily blocked Neji's Eight Trigrams Four Palms with one hand, a satisfied smile appearing on his face.

"Well done, Neji!"

Hyuga Hizashi squatted down, rubbed Neji's dejected little head, and said with a smile.

"Really?" Neji's little face lit up with joy, but then he hesitated and said, "But I haven't been able to hit your pressure points even once, Father."

Hyuga Hizashi burst into laughter upon hearing this: "My father is a Jonin of the Hyuga clan. It would be abnormal if you hit him!"

Neji tilted his head and thought about it, and it seemed to be true. His mood immediately improved.

After training for a while, the father and son left the training room.

On the way home, Hyuga Hizashi looked at his son running around ahead of him, and his gaze softened.

Hyuga Hizashi was not unmoved by Maki's promise to release the caged bird; the fact that he secretly hid Hyuga Tsubasa's body is proof of that.

But after the initial impulse subsided, Hyuga Hizashi hesitated again.

The system of main family and branch family has existed for a long time, and he doesn't know what will happen to the Hyuga clan if the caged bird's confinement is lifted one day.

Change requires a driving force, whether it be courage or hatred.

However, Hyuga Hizashi currently lacks these motivations, or rather, his current drive is insufficient to propel him forward.

Wait, let's wait a little longer!
Hyuga Hizashi didn't know what he was waiting for; he just wanted to wait a little longer.
"Is he Tsubasa's younger brother?"

".I see."

Before dinner, Hyuga Hizashi received some news.

The boy who died during the night the Cloud Ninja raided the Konoha camp was the eldest son of the main branch of the Hyuga clan, and he was already three years old.

Hinata Yuya, Hinata Tsubasa's younger brother, will also have the Caged Bird Seal engraved on him today.

Thinking of that boy who longed for the sky, Hizashi Hyuga's mood immediately became gloomy.

"Let's go take a look."

After hesitating for a while, Hyuga Hizashi finally decided to go and visit him.

"Father, are you going out?"

The food was all on the table, but his father started putting on his coat. Neji couldn't help but ask.

"Okay! Dad has to go out for a bit. You and Mom can have dinner together."

Hyuga Hizashi looked at his son with some apology, patted Neji's head reassuringly, and then turned and left.

Neji stood at the door, watching Hyuga Hizashi's departing figure.

For some reason, he always felt that his father was in a bad mood.

After leaving the courtyard, Hyuga Hizashi headed west, changing directions several times, until he arrived at the courtyard of a branch family.

"From this day forward, your life no longer belongs to yourself. Protecting the Sōji will be the meaning of your existence. Do you understand?"

An elder of the main family with a smooth forehead spoke sternly to Hyuga Yuya, who had his head bowed.

Hinata Yuya remained silent, staring blankly at the ground, seemingly lost in thought.

"Hmm? What kind of attitude is this?" The Zong family elder frowned, thinking of someone who displeased him.

"Remember your identity. Protecting the main family is the inherent mission of the branch family and the foundation upon which the Hyuga clan has been passed down for thousands of years."

"Don't be like your disrespectful brother. What's wrong with fleeing to the front lines?"

"Once we're separated from the family, we're separated for life. Even in death, we'll still be the ghosts of the main family!"

As an elder of the main family, how could he not know the purpose of Hyuga Tsubasa's volunteering to go to the front line?

However, someone always has to risk their life. Rather than letting someone else do it, it's better to let Hinata Tsubasa, that unruly troublemaker, do it. It would be better if he died.

Upon hearing his brother's name, Hinata Yuuya abruptly raised his head and stared intently at the elder of the main family.

When the elder of the Zong family saw his reaction, especially that familiar look in his eyes, he instantly became furious: "Bastard! What kind of look is that? Is this how you treat the Zong family?"

The elder of the clan made a hand seal with his right hand, and the Caged Bird Seal on Hyuga Yuya's forehead immediately activated.

A sharp pain shot through him, as if someone were clamping his head tightly with iron clamps. Hinata Yu also clutched his head in agony and collapsed to the ground, howling in pain.

"what"

"what"

Upon seeing this from outside the courtyard, Hyuga Hizashi's heart clenched, and he took a step forward, intending to stop him.

But after taking only half a step, he stopped again.

Although they belonged to a different lineage, this elder of the main family could not control the Caged Bird Seal in his head, but Hyuga Hizashi understood the thoughts of these main families very well.

If he were to step forward to stop it, Hinata Yuya would only suffer more torment.

“Tsubasa.” Hyuga Hizashi clenched his fist.

After an unknown amount of time, when five-year-old Hinata Yuya no longer had the strength to even wail, the elders of the main family finally ended the punishment.

"Don't let me see that look in your eyes again, or else..."

After giving a cold snort, the elder of the Zong family turned and went back.

The members of the branch family then stepped forward and helped Hinata Yuya walk outside.

Hyuga Hizashi silently followed, until Hyuga Yuya was taken home, where he saw Hyuga Yuya's mother holding her son in grief.

Hyuga Hizashi seemed to see his wife, holding Neji and crying bitterly.

When they got home, it was already late at night. Hyuga Hizashi quietly went to Neji's bedroom.

Looking at his sleeping son's innocent face, Hyuga Hizashi finally felt his motivation.

After the hot water in the teapot cooled down and boiled again, Hyuga Hizashi finished recounting his personal journey.

"I see."

Mu Sheng put down his teacup.

He could understand Hyuga Hizashi's earlier hesitation, after all, the existence of the Caged Bird Seal did, in a sense, protect them, the branch families.

As the two major families of ocular techniques in Konoha.

The conditions for outsiders to use the Sharingan of the Uchiha clan are extremely harsh; even Kakashi was reduced to a three-second man after it was absorbed.

Danzo Shimura also needed Orochimaru to transplant Hashirama cells into him in order to barely withstand the Sharingan's erosion.

However, the Byakugan of the Hyuga clan is different; it is compatible with various ports, plug and play, and everyone who has used it says it's great.

If it weren't for the existence of the Caged Bird Seal, the Hyuga clan would have long been prey coveted by various forces in the ninja world.

Putting everything else aside, that old scoundrel Danzo Shimura would definitely resort to underhanded tactics.

Furthermore, Hyuga Hizashi wasn't the type of person with a strong fighting spirit.

Perhaps his greatest struggle in life was the murderous intent his son, Hyuga Neji, would feel towards Hinata of the main family after being branded with the ugly Caged Bird Mark.

Even so, he was tortured by Hiashi Hyuga using the Caged Bird technique.

Oh dear, that's terrible!

"Aren't you worried about the consequences of the 'bird in a cage' being broken now?"

Hyuga Hizashi hesitated for a moment, but still spoke his true thoughts. "Master Katsu, to be honest, I haven't figured out where the Hyuga will go after losing the Caged Bird Seal."
It is like soaring into the sky, freely flying in the vast sky!

Or perhaps, having forgotten how to fly, it will plunge headlong into the mud beneath its feet.

A hint of confusion flashed in Hizashi Hyuga's eyes, but then his resolve hardened: "But I want to find a key for Neji, a key that can unlock his cage!"

"Whether to break free of the cage and soar into the sky, or to continue living a peaceful life in the cage, let Neji make his own choice!"

"As a father, all I can do is give him the freedom to choose!"

Hyuga Hizashi never had any grand ambitions. Compared to using the Caged Bird Seal to seize power from the Hyuga clan, he cared more about his family.

"Hizashi, you are a good father!" Mu Sheng was moved by Hizashi Hyuga's words.

As a father himself, Mu Sheng could understand his feelings.

Although he had quite a few children, across several worlds, the total number was at least several thousand, if not ten thousand.

"Give me what you've prepared, and I'll break the Caged Bird Seal as soon as possible!"

"Thank you, Lord Kakeru!" Hyuga Hizashi bowed deeply.

He then presented the scroll containing Hyuga Tsubasa's body, rose to take his leave, and departed from the Kanbara family.

Bang!
Mu Sheng opened the scroll, examined Hyuga Tsubasa's body, and then put it away.

In fact, he had already collected the corpses of the Hyuga clan, but he hadn't really refined or 'comprehended' them.

The Hyuga clan's bloodline limit is in their eyes, but the "True Body of Chakra" chapter on skin, flesh, and bones does not yet involve the eyes.

Mu Sheng didn't put too much thought into it.

"It's just in time to start researching the true form of chakra—the internal organs chapter, so let's begin with the eyes!"

Mu Sheng adjusted the order of refining and comprehending, putting the refining of the White Eye and the Caged Bird first.

"Get the job done!"

Seeing that the refining panel had begun analyzing the Byakugan, Mu Sheng felt relieved and went upstairs to sleep.

The first step to longevity is getting enough sleep!
(Did you remember that?)

Three months later.

"White eyes, open!"

Mu Sheng stared intently, and the blood vessels around his eyes bulged.

His once black eyes had turned into a pure white, like those of someone with cataracts.

After activating his Byakugan, the scene before Mu Sheng's eyes became crystal clear, as if he had been X-rayed.

"Wow! These eyes are so big and beautiful!"

Although it's not X-ray vision, you can still see the outline of an object with your white eye, only it's black and white and translucent.

Even so, it's enough to make veteran drivers with voyeuristic tendencies ecstatic!

Of course, for Musheng, this function is nothing more than that!

"Hey! Doo-hwan is using excessive force again!"

Inside the Konoha Police Department office, Mu Sheng ate sunflower seeds while watching Uchiha Touhuan, two kilometers away, brutally beat up several villagers who had broken the law.

"Great baton, as expected of Dou Huan!"

After watching with great interest for a while, Mu Sheng shifted his gaze.

"Circling around Konoha Village. Is that Guy?"

Mu Sheng quickly noticed another strange chakra trajectory.

"The Eight Gates Formation. I can study it when I have time, but it might not be useful to me."

The principle of the Eight Gates is to release the channels in the body that restrict the flow of chakra in order to gain greater power and speed.

Mu Sheng's Chakra True Body is essentially a physical body reshaped from chakra. He doesn't need to deactivate any channels; the chakra simply circulates at its highest speed.

Mu Sheng didn't think that the Eight Gates Formation could bring him any improvement, or rather, his chakra essence was a more complete and advanced version of the Eight Gates Formation.

"What's that old man Sarutobi doing with that ball in his hand in the Hokage's office? Could it be..."

Mu Sheng thought of the famous telescope technique: "As a Hokage, how shameless of him to spy on villagers bathing in broad daylight!"

Maki condemned Hiruzen Sarutobi's actions and turned to look at Nyoyu.

"That's it? No fun!" Mu Sheng expressed his disdain for Hiruzen Sarutobi's taste.

Then he looked around at other places.

The Aburame clan, the Yamanaka clan, the Nara clan, the Root base, etc.

Musheng shouldn't get tired of a new toy within three to five days.

If the Hyuga clan knew that Maki used their Byakugan to do something like this, I wonder how they would feel.

What's even more infuriating is that Maki's Byakugan can see farther and more clearly than the Hyuga clan's.

"I remember Konoha Village was supposedly covered in explosive tags by someone named Xuan Neng! How come I didn't see any?"

"Is it not buried yet? Or has this plot not been integrated into the real world?"

Mu Sheng thought it should be the latter, after all, it would be too unbelievable that so many explosive tags were buried in the village and not discovered.

"As expected, it's a terrible original theatrical film."

Mu Sheng made a sarcastic remark and continued his act of spying and patrolling Konoha.

As a member of the Konoha Police Department, it is perfectly reasonable for him to patrol and observe Konoha and nip dangers in the bud!

"That's incredibly powerful chakra!"

"It's Kyuubi!"

In an area slightly off-center, Mu Sheng spotted a toddler of about two years old.

It contains an extremely terrifying chakra.

At this age, coupled with such powerful chakra, it must be Naruto Uzumaki!
Mu Sheng stroked his chin: "The Byakugan refinement is complete. It's time to refine the 'Analysis' Sharingan!"

He had been researching the Sharingan for a while, but he hadn't awakened it because the progress of his Chakra True Body hadn't yet involved the modification of his internal organs.

"The three-tomoe Sharingan should be available in a few days, but the Mangekyou Sharingan will take a while to develop."

After observing Konoha with his Byakugan for several days, Mu Sheng finally remembered that he had refined the 'Analysis' Byakugan and the Caged Bird Seal at Hyuga Hizashi's request.

And so, another night began.

Upon receiving the news, Hyuga Hizashi once again visited Maki Katsu at the Kanbara residence.

Inside the living room, Mu Sheng placed three scrolls of different colors on the table.

"Young sir! Here are three ways to break free of the caged bird."

"Do you want this bronze scroll, or this silver scroll, or this gold scroll?"

Hyuga Hizashi stared in disbelief at the three scrolls in front of him.

The Caged Bird Seal, which had imprisoned the Hyuga branch family for hundreds of years, was broken by Maki Katsu so quickly.

And there are three kinds!

Is the difference between geniuses and ordinary people really that big?
"I want."

(End of this chapter)