Chains Of Heaven

Running away, I tell you, is not something I enjoy doing. At all.

That fight ended up much harder than I expected and despite killing some of them I still am having trouble now due to the sealing of part of my meridians.

Their eyes are a cheat, definetly a cheat.

As they could see through the earth I sent their way they could see where the places were lighter and where they were tougher, thus they could avoid most of the damage of what I was doing. Not only that, someone amongst them shot an arrow through my shoulder, which is still hurting.

The worst part was that one of them managed to hit me with his palm.

Of my meridians that single strike sealed at least 10% of them. It is troubling that this happened since that means that my fighting capacity dropped by at least 10% and I got some internal injuries. Until I slowly break the seal my fighting capacity will drop. Not only that, the more I fight the more pressure I will put on those sealed meridians, risking causing internal damage and wound me further.

If there is one saving grace is that they really are not that good with ranged attacks. At least most of them if the arrow person is anything to go by. If they had cooperated long and short distance attacks I would likely not have done so well.

After emerging through the ground I continue to run. I must find somewhere safe to be since if there is one thing the Hyuga are good at is seeing from a distance.

To avoid that I must set up an illusory formation so as to ensure that they are unable to see me from a distance.

If they actually enter or get close enough it should be possible for them to see me, but it should buy me the time for what I will do next.

I took one of the bodies of a Hyuga clan member. I do not feel comfortable with my actions, but their eyes are a problem so I must figure out exactly how they work and see to it if I can do something about their vision. If I can block their sight or something of the sort.

Unfortunately, simply touching the corpse is not enough. With a d.e.s.i.r.e to sigh I went to work.

From the moment he died his eyes closed, it was a bit strange considering each one I've killed closed their eyes the moment they died.

Using my fingers I tried to pry them open but it did not work. Frowning a bit I looked at the information in my Library of Heaven's Path about his body and understood the root of the problem.

There is a formation inside his body. It seems able to seal the eyes and if one forces it too much the eyes are just destroyed. They probably put them so as to ensure no one would be able to take their eyes.

No matter, a formation of this degree can hardly be considered anything special in my eyes.

After a few minutes, I completely unravel it, breaking it apart completely.

With this done I can open his eyes. In front of me, I see his pupilless eyes staring at me. Using my knowledge on medicine I perfectly remove the eye while keeping it and it's capacity intact.

With it in hand now I look in the Library of Heaven's Path to see information about it.

Byakugan Eye

Description: the result of a mutation in the eyes of members of the Hyuga clan. These eyes can see through objects and inside other's bodies and profound veins. The higher the purity of the blood of a member of the clan the more powerful this becomes. Those with 70% can see the tensing of muscles to predict the movements of their enemies. Those at 85% can see the movement of the profound energy in their opponent's body to predict the next attack with each extra percentage meaning an advancement in how precise one can predict, and at 100% it is said that they can predict even the future and thoughts of their opponents.

This pair of eyes in question is at 47%, it can see up to 340° angle around the user and is able to see the profound veins and meridians of those up to 5 levels above the user.

Flaws:

- The Byakugan can see through objects and people, but the more profound energy or complex the structure the less this eyes can see;

- Eyes with a purity of 65% and bellow cannot see through beguilement formations, those of higher capacity can but only to a degree depending on the level of the formation;

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There were more weaknesses but none I could effectively use. And this is just fan-f.u.c.k.i.n.g-tastic, now I wasted some of my time here without much to show for it except knowing that I must hurry.

As my energy recovered to a degree I started moving again. I had to advance and go look for the others, I already must have delayed them enough by now.

I collected the formation and started moving again, entering the ground as I did so since there is no point fighting them all. Whenever I could not sense anyone around I would emerge and walk above ground, at the slightest hint that there was someone approaching I'd move underground again.

This process of moving underground and when possible move above ground repeated itself many times for the next eight hours straight until I finally stopped to rest.

I have had a feww meetings with some of them. Knowing they were after my life I chose not to hesitate, being forgiving is only for those who do not show their willingness to kill me. Being kind is one thing, being stupidly kind is another quite different.

To all of them, I pulled them underground before they could properly react and hit them with my chains or my spear depending on what would work best.

They already are my enemies, after all, and if not for me stalling them here I do not wish to imagine what would have happened with Cai'er, Bibi Dong, and Medusa. I will not go out of my way to kill them, but I certainly won't hold my hand when I see one of them alone and that I can eliminate silently. The more of them I eliminate, the less pressure I will feel moving forward.

Moving forward I avoid beast after beast. I am entering the medium parts of this place by now but the Hyuga are still running in my heels. Their eyes are cheating, their vision is far too good and they seem to be catching up with the fact that I am eliminating them when moving as well.

Seeing that my state is deteriorating now I look for somewhere to hide, I could hide inside or on top of a tree but with what I know of the Byakugan I will not risk it.

Instead, I manipulate the Earth, opening a deep cave that travels very deep. Entering it I close it back again to the point I only have space enough for me to rest on, but I know that if I were to completely close it I might suffocate so I opened many holes coming out of my 'air pocket' underground. Just to be safe I spread them out some and created some false holes mixed in.

If a regular Hyuga tries to look underground they will not be able to see very deep and what they will see will at most be curious, not an actual indication of my presence. Of course, I set up the illusory formation again as a precaution. Unless a Hyuga has eyes with at least 75% purity there is no way they will be able to find me, and I doubt there would be someone with such pure eyes in a group like that, or at least I hope there isn't any.

That is the best way to survive this whole ordeal, and I will do just that. After the hell I have been through I refuse to die just like that. I will survive!