Chapter 99: The Caged Bird Released

Chunin Exam, competition venue.

Rather than an exam, it is more like a competition that focuses more on performance.

The circular arena, which is about 100 meters in diameter, simulates the sparsely populated grassland in the wild to provide a more realistic ninja fighting experience.

The stands were packed with people, literally every seat was occupied.

Ten minutes ago, after saying goodbye to the little girl and his father-in-law, Luo Yi followed the other contestants into the venue under the leadership of referee Genjian Shiranui.

The contestants are Naruto, Shikamaru, Shino, Neji, Gaara, Kankuro, Temari, the late Sasuke, and Toth who has not yet shown up.

"This official competition is up to you." Xuan Jian, who was wearing a ninja hat backwards and holding a thousand books in his mouth, reminded the candidates, "Relax and face the audience."

Sitting in the middle seats of the stands were the Third Hokage and the Fourth Kazekage, both wearing formal Kage attire.

Even though the Sand Village's plan has been exposed, the competition is still carried out as usual. On the one hand, the Fourth Kazekage Rasa is almost desperate, and on the other hand, the person sitting in the stands is no longer the real Rasa.

"Dear guests, thank you for gathering here to participate in the Chunin Exams held by our Konoha Village!" Hiruzen walked to the front of the stage and said in a loud voice, "Next, the 10 contestants who passed the preliminaries will compete in the official competition! Please enjoy!"

After a brief opening statement, the first round of the match began: [Uzumaki Naruto VS Hyuga Neji].

"It's outrageous..." Luo Yi glanced across the stands, then followed others to the examinee lounge.

The reason he said this was that he found Hinata and Kiba sitting in the ordinary audience seats; Hanabi and Hiashi were also sitting quite far away.

There are so many people in the auditorium, so we don't need to be careful about being attacked at this time, right?

...

The confrontation between Naruto and Neji is almost identical to the original.

If there is any difference, it is that Neji's soft fist has become much stronger after learning from Luo Yi's true Baguazhang. The Hyuga beyblade and Konoha's small colorful flags are spinning more happily.

At least five minutes were spent telling the bloody history of the main and branch families of the Hyuga clan, and a sealing technique "Bird in a Cage" was demonstrated and explained in public.

"Starting to have awkward conversations in the middle of the game, right...isn't this how the original game did it as well?" Luo Yi, who was watching the game in the lounge, criticized this behavior of dragging out the game regardless of the occasion.

To be honest, the "Soft Fist: Eight Trigrams Sixty-four Palms" was indeed pleasing to the eye, and it was really hard for Naruto to cooperate with the beating.

What a perfect target. I hope he will cooperate with me next time, Luo Yi thought irresponsibly.

What follows is that Naruto goes to the Nine-Tails to collect chakra rent, a classic outrageous moment.

Luo Yi couldn't complain easily.

"It's terrible." He lay on the windowsill of the lounge and observed carefully.

Nine almost materialized orange chakra auras lingered around his body, and the previous scars on his body were healed as before, and the meridians that were blocked by acupoints were unobstructed.

Naruto's temperament became somewhat violent and evil, and he raised countless sand just by standing there.

The feeling of oppression given to the spectators was so terrible, not to mention Ningji who was in the middle of it. It was already amazing that he could maintain his fighting spirit and continue fighting.

"Ningji has a stronger gentle fist, and Naruto has learned the "Tailed Beast Chakra Coat" in advance..." Luo Yi observed carefully.

The last part is the personality correction Rising Dragon Fist of "Wait until I become Hokage, and then I will change Hyuga", which concludes the main storyline.

Luo Yi discovered that if he did nothing, the plot would occasionally go awry and force him to take action; on the contrary, no matter how much work he did, it would return to normal to some extent.

...

The infirmary in the examination room.

"You two wait outside the door. I'll go in alone and come out after talking to him for a few words." Rizu paused before reaching out to open the door, then turned to Luo Yi and Hua Huo and gave instructions.

“Yeah.”*2 Well behaved.

As expected, Hiashi came to visit Neji and told him the truth about how Hizashi died as a substitute for him. In the end, he even apologized to a junior by kneeling down and kowtowing.

"I'm not begging for your forgiveness, but... please believe that what I said is true." The head of the clan put aside his dignity and status, hoping to exchange it for the spiritual freedom of the younger generation.

Even though the seal on my body is already a done deal...

"Excuse me, both of you." After watching his father-in-law stand up, Luo Yi pushed the door open without losing face and brought the little girl in as well.

"You..." Rizu was a little surprised, but he believed that his future son-in-law would not do anything meaningless.

"Luo Yi?" Ningji had a complicated attitude towards this future brother-in-law.

He got a lot of inspiration for his cultivation from Luo Yi's fighting and even from Luo Yi's acupoint therapy for Hinata, so objectively he had to call him teacher.

But the feeling this person gave him seemed to be even deeper than that of his own family.

"Hello, brother-in-law," Luo Yi was already able to call himself a relative, "To celebrate your liberation from the shackles of the spirit, let me help you untie the shackles of the body."

"What... do you mean?" Even though he thought of the correct answer the first time, Neji still couldn't believe it.

For Neji, the only thing that could be called "body shackles" was "a bird in a cage." And this sealing technique, as he had just explained on the field, was a cruel seal engraved on the nerve center of the brain that would not disappear until death.

"Just as you thought, I can destroy the "bird in the cage." Luo Yi was not interested in watching the uncle and nephew rolling their eyes at each other, so he went straight to the point, "Is it okay, father-in-law?"

"No, of course not... Wait, he really won't be hurt?" After a moment of surprise, he could not hide his worry. Rizu had never lost his composure like this before when he was outside.

Neji took in all of this.

Can boiled eggs be turned back into raw eggs? The answer is no, at least with the current level of technology, protein changes are irreversible.

But in the world of ninja, people who have been dead for half a century can be resurrected for you, so...

"So is this really an idealistic world as Pian Yi said?" Luo Yi sighed, stretched out his hand and touched the mark on Ningci's forehead, slowly injecting Yin-Yang Release Chakra.

Under the natural attribute restraint, there is no need to do any extra operations, just "harmlessly pass", Yin-Yang escape can easily peel off the seal woven by ordinary chakra, and then completely remove it from the human body.

Finally it fell into Luo Yi's hands.

"So... this is the principle of the sealing technique..." I didn't expect that I could get extra benefits by helping out.

The so-called sealing technique can be analogized as a string of codes written in chakra, which is implanted in the meridian system of the sealed person and performs related operations such as "damage" or "destruction" under specific conditions. During the period of the sealing technique, it can also convert the chakra of the sealed person into energy to maintain the seal like a parasite.

It's really vicious.

Luo Yi directly crushed the sealing technique "Chakra Code" in his hand and assimilated the remaining chakra into his own chakra.

By the way, a small wisp of Yintun Chakra just ran into Neji's body, which must be what Pianyi mentioned as "collecting thoughts".

"Is this... over?" Hiashi couldn't believe it. Why did it feel like removing the seal was easier than placing it?

"You ask him." Luo Yi said he would not look at the advertisements but the efficacy, and invited the patients to speak in person.

Neji seemed to be still not recovered.

The "cage" that had imprisoned him for nearly ten years was destroyed so easily in the blink of an eye?

I felt more relaxed than ever before, yet I was inexplicably a little breathless.

"There's still a lot of time, so you two... just have a heart-to-heart talk." Luo Yi felt that he couldn't get a five-star review now, so he was ready to run away before a manly tearful and sad scene began. "Hanabi and I will leave first."

Who wants to see a man cry?

...

The air outside is still better. The smell of disinfectant in the infirmary can make people smell lung nodules.

"Luo Yi..." Huo Huo, who had been silent all the way, finally spoke.

"Hmm?" Luo Yi was particularly happy as he had resolved a matter that he was reluctant to part with.

"Destiny can be changed, right?" Her cousin's change touched her like never before.

The strongest graduate of the previous class of the ninja school lost to the last one of this class, and the sealing technique that was kept secret by the branch family disappeared in the blink of an eye. This was only the first game of the Chunin Exam, but the impact was so great.

"I can't say for sure. Maybe 'changing destiny' is also a part of the predetermined destiny. But so what? Don't think that fate is your enemy. Isn't it good to pursue a free life with your own will?" Luo Yi explained patiently.

"Well, just like my destiny, I met Luo Yi." Although she only had a vague understanding, Hua Huo still squeezed his hand.