Chapter 354: The Thunder God Meets the Forest Beast
"Who’s there?!"
Hyūga Hizashi was startled. Instinctively, he activated his Byakugan and scanned the area around him but saw nothing unusual.
Underground!
With the reaction speed and combat experience of a jōnin, his body had already executed a Shunshin the moment the thought occurred to him.
But even though he was fast, some things were faster.
From beneath Hizashi’s foot, shadows shot upward like lightning, wrapping tightly around his left leg.
"What is this...?"
His Shunshin was forcibly halted. Hizashi quickly looked down, shocked to see that it was a thick tree branch with green leaves coiled around his leg!
More branches burst up from the earth, writhing like serpents. Hizashi didn’t hesitate. At once, chakra surged from every tenketsu in his body.
Rotation!
A violent torrent of chakra spun at high speed, instantly tearing apart all the branches wrapped around him and those still reaching out.