Chapter 599: Shinobi World Martial Arts Tournament

"Teacher Nagasawa." Neji skillfully walked into the office building of Konoha University and entered the principal’s office on the top floor, greeting Nagasawa.

"It’s Neji. Is there something you need?" Nagasawa asked with a smile.

"I want to participate in this year’s Shinobi World Martial Arts Tournament." Neji directly stated his purpose.

For ordinary students, Neji, who had already taken first place in the university league, was already an insurmountable mountain that they could only look up to.

But Neji had no intention of stopping there, because he had ideals and ambitions, and they were very great.

He wanted to break the main and branch family system that the Hyuga had maintained for a thousand years, and break the Caged Bird that oppressed all members of the Hyuga branch family.

If he wanted to accomplish this relatively peacefully, Neji had to demonstrate absolute strength and absolute talent.

He wanted to become the most talented Hyuga in a thousand years and the strongest Hyuga in a thousand years.

With someone like him breaking the thousand-year-old traditions, no one would dare say anything.

Taking first place in the university league could only prove that you were the strongest among university students, but the Shinobi World Martial Arts Tournament was different. The Shinobi World Martial Arts Tournament was an event for experts from the entire Shinobi World.

As long as you entered the finals, even if you lost in the first round and only achieved a top-64 ranking, you could still obtain quite a few rewards while becoming famous throughout the Shinobi World.

If you could enter the top eight or even take first place, then you would truly be a top-level expert of the Shinobi World, recognized as such by the entire Shinobi World.

Neji was very confident in himself. Eleven years of painstaking training with Nagasawa was the foundation of his confidence.

Even if he could not take first or second place, he should still have a chance of making the top four or top eight.

By then, with honors surrounding him, even his uncle, the clan head, would have to seriously consider whether he should abdicate and make way for someone more capable.

"This year’s tournament..." Nagasawa’s expression became somewhat subtle.

"Teacher, is there something wrong with this tournament?" Neji asked when he saw Nagasawa’s strange expression.

The first Martial Arts Tournament had the most prestige because, at that time, Nagasawa wanted to establish its reputation, so he directly brought a large number of experts from the Shinobi Alliance to participate.

The Five Great Villages’ Kage, the leaders of other ninja villages, the higher-ups of various ninja villages, and even the legendary figure Six Paths Sage had all appeared. Nagasawa himself had also participated, so its prestige could be imagined.

Although there were still many experts in the following tournaments, the grand spectacle of the first tournament never appeared again.

Nagasawa had his own considerations for not participating afterward. If he participated, there would be no suspense about first place.

After all, Nagasawa alone was in a league of his own.

"You could say that you’re either lucky or unlucky." Nagasawa thought for a moment before deciding to reveal some information to Neji.

"Several aliens from the Otsutsuki clan once came to the Shinobi World. You know about this."

Neji nodded. Quite a few people knew about the Otsutsuki matter now, though the question was how much they knew.

Those who knew little only knew that there was a group of aliens called the Otsutsuki who had ill intentions toward the Shinobi World and had already come here once.

Those who knew more knew that the shinobi inheritance of the Shinobi World had a great connection with the Otsutsuki clan, and they also knew about the various events that had occurred.

As Nagasawa’s disciple, Neji naturally belonged to the group that knew more.

"Could it be that someone from the Otsutsuki clan has come to the Shinobi World again?" Neji’s heart tightened, and his expression became serious.

Neji knew what the Otsutsuki represented.

Even someone as powerful as Six Paths Sage, the progenitor of shinobi, had exhausted every means and could only deal with an ordinary Otsutsuki.

To the Shinobi World, any new Otsutsuki member was an extremely dangerous enemy and posed an enormous threat to the Shinobi World.

Nagasawa nodded, confirming Neji’s words.

"Then why..." Neji was just about to ask Nagasawa why he had not summoned the experts of the Shinobi World to fight the enemy and instead continued as usual, but he suddenly fell silent.

Because Neji did not believe that Nagasawa would fail to do something that even he knew about. Nagasawa must have had another plan.

As if seeing through Neji’s thoughts, Nagasawa spoke with a smile.

"Doesn’t it feel too peaceful, as if nothing happened?"

Neji nodded.

"The people who came this time are within the limits of what I can deal with. As long as they make any move, I will immediately take action."

According to the power system of the starry sky, the Otsutsuki members who had come this time were a High God and a Mid God.

With such a lineup, even Nagasawa five years ago could have dealt with them easily.

After all, five years ago, Nagasawa could already rely on the combination of Death God Chakra Mode and Sage Mode to unleash the strength of a Peak God.

Although Nagasawa had not achieved a qualitative breakthrough to reach the Super God level during these five years, his quantitative accumulation was still substantial, and he had progressed very far along the path of a Peak God.

With the strength to suppress them at any time, Nagasawa naturally had no need to immediately take action upon sensing the Otsutsuki’s arrival.

After all, the entire Shinobi World was currently within his perception range, and every move those two Otsutsuki made was under his watch.

Nagasawa would naturally deal with the two of them in the most cautious manner.

After all, the Otsutsuki clan possessed far too many strange abilities. The more preparations he could make, the more preparations he would make, so as to avoid any unexpected failure.

"They may want to test the depth of the Shinobi World, so they signed up for this Shinobi World Martial Arts Tournament." Nagasawa said.

Neji finally understood why Nagasawa’s expression had been so subtle when he had said earlier that he wanted to participate in the Shinobi World Martial Arts Tournament.

It turned out that even an Otsutsuki would be participating in the Shinobi World Martial Arts Tournament.

"Teacher, should I still participate?" Neji was momentarily unsure.

The Otsutsuki clan was no joke. Nagasawa could casually say that he could easily handle them, but Neji did not think he had such strength.

Six Paths Sage had never been stingy with his abilities. Neji had once gone to seek guidance from that progenitor of shinobi and had only felt that he was unfathomably deep, absolutely not an opponent that Neji could defeat at his current stage.

"If you want to participate, then participate. Just surrender when you’re about to die. If you miss this Shinobi World Martial Arts Tournament, there won’t be another one." Nagasawa said with a smile.

Putting aside the danger, the overall strength of the participants in this Shinobi World Martial Arts Tournament would definitely surpass that of any previous tournament.

"I’ll participate!" Neji thought for a moment and said firmly.

Danger existed alongside opportunity. Neji, who was determined to change the entire Hyuga clan, had long been prepared for this.

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Experts from the Martial Arts Tournaments in various regions emerged one after another. Coupled with extensive publicity to warm up for the Shinobi World Martial Arts Tournament finals, everyone became increasingly eager for this Shinobi World Martial Arts Tournament, and discussions about the tournament could be seen everywhere.

"There are so many experts this time. Even Kakashi, the vice principal of Konoha Ninja University, is participating. He rarely takes part in activities. I heard that his Sage Mode has already been cultivated to an extremely terrifying level, making him the second person to master Breathing Style Sage Mode!"

"Nonsense, which Martial Arts Tournament doesn’t have many experts? But there really are especially many this time. Besides some renowned experts, there are also quite a few new faces we’ve never seen before."

"But there should be no suspense about first place this time. After all, that person is actually participating."