Naruto: From Fake to Real, Deceiving the Ninja World.

Naturally, they were unaware of the extent to which the accumulated conflicts between the branch family and the main family had intensified, and still believed that the two sides were in a state of mutual distrust and maintaining a fragile balance.

Upon returning, she saw the corpses of the branch family guards. Her first reaction was that there had been an invasion by foreign enemies, and she immediately rushed to the clan chief's residence to report it.

However, even with the worst premonition, she never imagined that all of this would be related to Hyuga Neji.

Even so, if she could, she still wouldn't want to kill Hyuga Neji.

She didn't care about Hyuga Neji's life or death; what she cared about was Hyuga Kumokawa's feelings.

Because of Hyuga Kumokawa's attitude towards Hyuga Neji, although he was very strict during training, both the main family and the branch family knew that he cared about Hyuga Neji.

"If the clan leader is still alive, and when Yun Chuan returns from his trip, perhaps... perhaps there is still a glimmer of hope to save Hyuga Neji's life..." Hyuga Aoi thought to herself.

Just as she was trying to speak again to calm Hyuga Neji down.

Swish!

Hinata Himon's figure suddenly vanished from his spot, unleashing the Body Flicker Technique to its fullest extent, shooting off like an arrow with a rapid whooshing sound.

He tried to slip past Hyuga Neji and rush straight towards the entrance to the secret room behind him.

His movements were so fast that ordinary ninjas couldn't react in time, and couldn't even catch a glimpse of his afterimage.

However, the moment he arrived beside Hyuga Neji.

Hyuga Neji didn't even turn his gaze, but suddenly raised his other free hand.

There were no hand seals, and not even any signs of activating the Byakugan.

He simply raised his palm forward, facing the direction from which Hyuga Himon was charging, and thrust it out.

hum!

A highly compressed and solidified chakra, almost visible to the naked eye, burst forth from his palm like a cannonball, blasting towards Hyuga Hinata beside him!

"what?"

Hyuga Himon's pupils suddenly contracted, his keen intuition and experience as a Jonin triggering an unprecedented and frantic alarm.

At the critical moment, relying on his rich combat instincts, he forcibly reversed the momentum of his forward charge, turned around, raised his arm, poured all his chakra into his palm, and swung it out!

Bang! !

The two forces collided, but the expected stalemate did not occur.

What followed that muffled thud was not the explosion of chakra colliding, but the dense, chilling cracking sound of bones breaking under unbearable pressure!

Click! Click!

A series of crisp, fine sounds, like dry leaves being crushed, burst forth from Hyuga Himon's arm bones, as well as the shoulder blades, collarbones, and ribcage connected to them!

"Ugh!!"

Hinata only had time to let out a short, distorted scream, feeling as if he had not been met with an impact of chakra, but rather had crashed head-on into a solid wall!

Like a kite with a broken string, he was powerless to resist and was blasted away by the terrifying impact, his body twisting in the air.

Boom! !

His back slammed heavily against the hard stone wall with a thud that sent chills down one's spine. Spiderweb-like cracks instantly spread across the wall surface from the point of impact!

"puff!"

A large mouthful of thick blood mixed with shattered internal organs spurted from Hyuga Himon's mouth, raining down on the ground and sliding down the walls before he collapsed to the ground.

The limbs were bent at bizarre angles, clearly broken and shattered. Each weak and painful twitch was accompanied by more blood gushing from the mouth and nose.

He struggled to lift his head, his face filled with pain and fear, and looked at Hyuga Neji, who was still standing there. He forced out a broken and terrified voice from deep in his throat:

"How, is it possible?!"

When did Hyuga Neji become so strong?!

Hinata Aoi's pupils narrowed involuntarily. She subconsciously pulled Hinata away from Neji, shielding Hinata behind her, and adopted a Gentle Fist stance, her body tense.

She could see that the principle behind Hyuga Neji's palm strike was the same as that of the "Eight Trigrams Empty Palm"—both involved compressing chakra and then using it to strike the enemy's vital points with fierce force.

However, this power and speed are completely different from "Bagua Empty Palm".

How could such a rapid and terrifying impact be unleashed so instantly without any hand seals, activation of the Byakugan, or even any charging up of energy?

How could one possibly mobilize such a large amount of chakra instantly with ease?

Hyuga Neji raised his lowered eyes, and Hyuga Aoi, who was staring intently at him, met his gaze. She narrowed her Byakugan and asked in a serious tone, "What's wrong with your eyes?"

Seeing those eyes, which were clearly different from the white ones, she sensed the power hidden deep within them, a faint, suppressed, heavy, suffocating feeling.

How could Hyuga Neji have changed so much in just a few days?

Chapter 258 Neji: You guys didn't know, did you? The Byakugan can also evolve through emotional stimulation.

"Get out of the way," Hyuga Neji said calmly.

"Neji, you can't lay a hand on Hinata." Hyuga Aoi said tautly, "If you lay a hand on Hinata again, it will be truly irreversible!"

"I said, move aside." Hyuga Neji's tone suddenly turned icy. "This is the last time I'm reminding you!"

"Otherwise, you'll end up like those other head families, dying by my hand!"

After saying that, he slowly raised his hand, which was covered in sticky blood, and pointed it at Hyuga Aoi, who was standing in front of Hinata.

The stench of blood in the air seemed to instantly become even stronger and more pungent.

"What did you say?"

Upon hearing this, Hinata Aoi's expression changed drastically, and a strong sense of foreboding instantly gripped her heart.

"Hyuga Neji!"

Hyuga Himon, slumped in a pool of blood in the corner, let out a hoarse, twisted roar, blood gushing from his mouth: "Cough! Cough cough! What, what did you do to the main family?!"

"What have you done?"

Hyuga Neji slightly turned his head, glancing at the dying Hyuga Himon, his face revealing undisguised killing intent.

“Now that I’ve already taken action against Hyuga Hiashi, do you think I would spare their lives?” he said.

These words struck Hyuga Aoi and Hyuga Himon like a thunderbolt into their minds.

Despite their suspicions, hearing this cold admission with their own ears still struck them like a thunderbolt, their blood seemingly freezing instantly.

"why?"

Hiding behind Hinata Hyuga, Hinata could no longer distinguish between fear and anger ignited by this cruel truth. Her voice trembled as she said, "Why did you have to do that..."

"Of course, it's for these eyes!"

Hyuga Neji interrupted her, his hand slowly rising with a twisted and fanatical expression, his fingertips gently stroking his eye sockets with a chilling obsession.

"You don't know?"

"The Byakugan, like the Sharingan, can be evolved by those with exceptional talent through extreme emotional stimulation!"

"These eyes are called the Tenseigan!"

His expression gradually became crazed and ferocious, his mouth twisting into an almost manic arc.

"So, I killed Hiashi Hyuga! I killed those old guys from the main family! I killed them all!" His face was filled with a morbid, intoxicated ecstasy as he snarled.

"With their blood and lives, with all the anger and hatred that had been building up in my heart! I finally got it, the power to break free from my cage!"

This is of course a lie.

Neji Hyuga always remembered his father's dying words. He was not a madman like Itachi Uchiha and would not harm Hinata or other innocent people in order to awaken the Tenseigan.

However, the power of those eyes was too strong and too tempting; even in its current incomplete form, it had already boosted his strength.

If other branch families or outsiders knew that the true way to awaken the Tenseigan only requires the so-called Otsutsuki bloodline and a large number of Byakugan, it would be a mistake.

Then, all the Hyuga clan members, including Hinata, will inevitably face endless attacks.

Therefore, he could only lie and say that the way to awaken the Tenseigan was the same as that of the Mangekyou Sharingan, which relied on strong emotional stimulation.

The only difference between it and the Sharingan is that it relies more on the release of pent-up emotions, rather than the Uchiha clan's method.

Since he is the only one who knows about the Tenseigan and the only one who made the Byakugan evolve, he has the sole right to explain, and it is useless for others to doubt him.

However, the three people present did not know that he was lying.

Looking at Hyuga Neji's blood-covered face, with its genuine and heartfelt ferocity and madness, and listening to the twisted yet self-consistent logic in his words.

Hinata and the other two felt a bone-chilling cold rush from the soles of their feet to the top of their heads, as if even their souls were trembling.

The Byakugan of the Hyuga clan, like the Sharingan of the Uchiha clan, can unleash even greater power through extreme emotional stimulation.

Why was this never recorded in the clan's official records?

Why did the imperial family never mention this throughout history?

How did Hyuga Neji find out?

Thinking of this, Hinata Aoi seemed to suddenly remember something. The surprise and doubt on her face faded, replaced by an uncontrollable anger: "It's you!"

"You killed all those clan elders who died one after another in the clan before!"

“That’s right.” Hyuga Neji readily admitted, “When I infiltrated the forbidden library, I intended to steal the main family’s secret techniques, but I unexpectedly discovered the secret of the Tenseigan!”

"Then, that old guy saw it, and I had no choice but to use his life to verify the truth of this secret!"

"Cough! Cough cough! Bastard! Beast!" Hyuga Himon coughed up blood as he used his last strength to curse, "You are destroying the foundation of the Hyuga clan!"

Hyuga Neji's smile vanished abruptly, leaving only a cold and obsessive killing intent. He said in a cold voice, "If Uchiha Itachi could do it, why can't I, Hyuga Neji, do it?"

"I only hate that I'm not extreme enough, that my hatred for the main family isn't deep enough. I'm still one step away from truly having the Tenseigan!"

"Do you want the tragedy that befell the Uchiha clan to repeat itself in the Hyuga clan?"

Hinata Aoi's face was grim, her voice trembling with anger: "Those dead clansmen, their anger, fear, and resentment before their deaths..."

"They will all become nourishment for the Hollow after they die, and the entire branch family and the entire Hidden Leaf Village will be implicated because of your madness!"

"That's right!" Driven somewhat mad by the immense impact and the despair of impending death, Hyuga Himon screamed and cursed at the top of his lungs, "You slaughtered your own family, you committed a heinous crime!"

"You will definitely be punished, you will pay the most terrible price for this, and the spirits we become after death will surely kill you!"

Besides anger and madness, his face also showed intense jealousy—jealousy that Hyuga Neji was able to break free from his prison!

Why, why was Hyuga Neji able to obtain such great power? Why was Hyuga Neji able to break free from the fate of being a caged bird?

Why not me?!

"You mean retribution?"

As if he had heard the most absurd joke in the world, Hyuga Neji first let out a low, suppressed laugh, "Hehehe... Hahaha!!!"

The laughter grew louder and more manic, turning into a deafening, endlessly mocking and indignant hysteria that sent chills down one's spine!

Neji Hyuga's laughter abruptly stopped, his blood-stained eyes blazing with hatred and resentment as he glared at Hinata Hyuga and roared, "Retribution! Retribution!"

"If there really is such a thing as retribution in this world, if there really is a god who can justly deliver judgment..."

"Why doesn't He punish the ancestors who created and developed this caged bird spell and rules?"

Why does He turn a blind eye to this centuries-old, high-sounding oppression? Why does He allow such evil to continue in the name of 'tradition' and 'rules'?!

"Why?!"

Bang!

He took a sudden step forward, and his raised fist slammed into Hyuga Hinata's body.

"Ah!!" Hyuga Himon let out a shrill scream as he was embedded deep into the cracked stone wall, spitting out more blood and fragments of internal organs.

"Why are the children who have separated from the family branded with this damned slave mark?"

Bang!

Hyuga unleashed another punch, silencing Hyuga Himon's scream and leaving only broken, gasping breaths.

"Why was my father, who was born just moments apart from Hiashi Hyuga, pushed out by those old guys to become Hiashi Hyuga's scapegoat?"

Bang!

Kaka! Click!

A punch sent a series of fine cracking sounds through Hyuga Himon's body.