“Mr. Chokata, we’re going in!”
“Yeah!”
Chiba Daisaburo’s “momentum” was clearly much stronger than Toshisuke’s, and in this battle of “momentum,” it gradually appeared as though the “western wind was about to be overpowered by the eastern wind.”
Her body bent into a power-generating arc; her delicate toes, unclad in socks, firmly gripped her sandals; both feet braced strongly against the ground; even through layers of clothing, Chiba Daisaburo could clearly feel the muscles in Toshisuke’s calves, thighs, waist... essentially every part of her body tensing and engaging.
“Here it comes!”
Also standing in the center of this “storm,” Toshisuke, at this moment, spoke in a tone imbued with a sense of sacredness, solemnly enunciating:
This time was different from the previous one. Chiba Daisaburo could clearly see how Toshisuke restructured her stance.
This was a rare sight only seen in duels between top martial artists.
The “formless air wave” erupting from Toshisuke’s body was indeed “momentum”!
But Chiba Daisaburo did not show any signs of complacency.
Crunch——!
Toshisuke sensed something in her heart, and with a thought—
Standing in the center of this hair-raising “storm,” he assumed a stance, tightening every nerve and muscle in his body, ready for anything!
In that moment, Toshisuke felt her entire being suddenly enter a mystical state.
At that time, that incredible scene appeared once again in front of Chiba Daisaburo — Toshisuke, at a lightning-fast speed, pulled the thrusting sword back, returning to the Flat Cyan Eye stance, with its tip once again precisely targeting his body!
Although Toshisuke’s height was only 1.55 meters, at this moment, her figure seemed even taller than the 1.80-meter-tall Chiba Daisaburo!
These fragments slowly dissolved, merging with her “spirit.”
There’s no mistake.
Upon saying that, waves of robust “momentum” erupted violently and recklessly, centered on Chiba Daisaburo.
In the blink of an eye, Toshisuke arrived in front of Chiba Daisaburo, using the sword raised in a Flat Cyan Eye stance, and leveraging the momentum of her dash to quickly thrust forward with the impetus of a white rainbow piercing the sun!
The sword tip pierced the air, and the “whirring” sound of breaking wind approached Chiba Daisaburo once more!
Chiba Daisaburo thought... no, he was certain—that Toshisuke’s strike concentrated all the power of her entire body, which was why it had such great force.
A tremendous “formless air wave” erupted from Toshisuke’s body! Like a mountain, it pressed toward the opposing Chiba Daisaburo!
Pa— Chiba Daisaburo used the wakizashi in his left hand to block this thrust from Toshisuke.
“Toshisuke...!” In a state of overwhelming emotion, Zhouzhu suddenly stood up with a “whoosh,” his fingers trembling slightly from excitement. “Have you finally reached this level...?”
Buzz——!
The two waves of “momentum” clashed intensely in mid-air! The atmosphere around them instantly changed! A fierce, intense aura condensed into a wild “storm,” ravaging every corner of the arena!
In the next instant when Toshisuke nodded vigorously in agreement, an unimaginable scene unfolded in the arena, occurring on Toshisuke’s body!
“Profound Technique—”
But at that moment, his pupils were shocked to the size of pinholes by the scene before him.
Toshisuke thrust the bamboo sword once again!
Because Toshisuke’s second strike came too fast, too suddenly, with almost no interval from the previous strike, Chiba Daisaburo, having no psychological or physical preparation for it, defended himself very precariously.
The clash of “momentum”!
This was not a technique an ordinary person could achieve... to replicate such a skill, swordsmanship that had reached a divine level and powerful muscle explosiveness were indispensable.
Toshisuke stomped on her hind foot, and her figure shot out like a bolt!
It was as if there was an invisible rope. One end of the rope was connected to each muscle in Toshisuke’s body, and the other end attached to the sword in her hand—with her whole body’s muscle force, the rope tightened, using a motion akin to dragging an ox from a mire, pulling the sword back in front of her to its optimal attacking position!
The muscles pulled and reacted to each other.
The grating sound of the bamboo sword’s body grinding was so piercing that it made people want to cover their ears tightly.
Chiba Daisaburo instinctively wanted to use the tachi in his right hand to launch a counterattack against Toshisuke.
Looking at Toshisuke, who suddenly unleashed “momentum,” Chiba Daisaburo, after a brief period of surprise, displayed a look of ecstatic excitement.
Counterattack? There was no time for that! Chiba Daisaburo hastily raised the tachi he had prepared to use for a counterattack against Toshisuke to brace for the imminent heavy blow.
At that moment, Aoto beside Toshisuke, Chiba Daisaburo across from her, and everyone in the audience, including the old monsters like Kiryu, Chiba Dingji, Saito Mijuro, and Zhouzhu, all showed expressions of astonishment.
The recoil transmitted back through the sword to his palm made Chiba Daisaburo secretly click his tongue.
In the end, under Chiba Daisaburo’s grim determination and full effort, he managed to deflect Toshisuke’s sword, barely escaping danger with a pounding heart.
At this instant, the Toshisuke in front of him withdrew the thrusting sword back to her front at an unbelievable speed, returning to the Flat Cyan Eye stance... the speed of resetting the stance was so quick it was as if she had never launched an attack on Chiba Daisaburo just moments before!
The “thing” that shattered within her “spirit” just before completely splintered into thousands of fragments.
Upon seeing this strike and withdrawal from Toshisuke, a movement worthy of the title “Divine Skill,” those familiar with the Natural Reasoning Heart Stream, led by Aoto, understood—the move was one that only Toshisuke, who had refined the swordsmanship of the Natural Reasoning Heart Stream to an incredibly proficient level and who possessed immense physical explosiveness and reaction speed, could execute!

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