"Mission accomplished! This is youth! Neji, let's see who can stand upside down and get back to the village first!"

"No."

"Eh? Neji, are you tired? If teacher Gai were here, it would definitely make everyone full of energy! But it's not bad for us to complete the mission occasionally, after all, this is youth!"

A watermelon-headed man in a green tights who looked overly energetic was noisy all the way and didn't look like a ninja, but his companion, the white-eyed boy, always looked indifferent.

Another girl with two buns couldn't help but say at this time: "Lee, this is not a problem of youth. Now we are four or five days away from the village, even if we walk!"

"Is that so? Then take this opportunity to make a breakthrough! If we can't get back to Konoha within two days, how about frog jumping around the village fifty times?"

"..."

"..."

That's right, the white-eyed boy is Hyuga Neji, and the passionate watermelon-headed man is naturally Rock Lee, and the girl with the buns is Tenten.

This time, they were on a B-rank mission without Might Guy. Normally, a Chunin would have to lead the team.

Neji was slightly relieved at this moment. After all, he was the one leading the team. Rock Lee's presence could hone Neji's leadership skills...

But it was finally completed without any danger. At this time, the three of them were on their way back to Konoha, passing through a forest in the western part of the Land of Fire.

Normal people would bypass the forest when they were in a hurry, but ninjas didn't have to...

"By the way, the Chunin Exam is coming up again soon. We must pass it this time! After that, we can do S-rank missions, right?" Rock Lee's eyes were about to burst into flames. "

It's impossible... S-rank missions and Chunin Exams are completely different things!" Tenten couldn't help but complain.

However, at this moment, Neji seemed to have noticed something, and suddenly stopped, and gestured to the other two to stop.

Unexpectedly, it had no effect at all!

Rock Lee and Tenten seemed to have not seen his gesture, and they "passed" by him directly...

"Huh? Lee, Tenten!" Neji said in surprise.

His voice obviously failed to reach him. Rock Lee and Tenten had no intention of stopping, but they did not shake him off. Instead, they strangely began to circle around him.

The two were still talking, not realizing how strange their behavior was!

"Who are you? We are ninjas from Konoha. Did you recognize the wrong person?" Neji asked as he tried to calm down.

Obviously, he also understood that the person who could do this silently must be stronger than their level.

But no matter how he thought about it, he had no clue... The previous mission should have been completed completely? Why would someone attack them?

If it was an attack against Konoha, then it would be a bit of a waste of talent to target the three Genin!

"Not bad, I can give you an eight for calmness." Suddenly, a figure appeared on the tree branch in front.

It did not appear "suddenly" by speed, but it seemed as if it had been there from the beginning, but was just seen by him. This was the first time Neji had encountered such a situation since he awakened his Byakugan.

"Who are you? Do you want to see me?" Ningci understood a little bit at this time. The reason why he didn't get hit by the illusion was probably not because of the Byakugan.

It was the intention of the weirdo in front of him who was wearing a red cloud and black cloak and a demon mask on his head!

"It doesn't matter who I am... I have a gift for you to meet you, I'll give it to you first." The weirdo said.

Well, this weirdo is of course Guan Liyuan, who has no bottom

line in shirking the blame... Guan Liyuan said that there was a space distortion on his palm, and then a cylindrical transparent vessel as long as a palm and as thick as a wrist appeared in his hand, and he threw it towards Ningci!

Ningci didn't see what it was yet...

Normally, the instinct of a ninja at this time should be to dodge.

But at this moment, another instinct made Ningci stand still and catch the transparent vessel...

The moment he caught it, Ningci himself was shocked. I don't know why, he just didn't want this thing to fall to the ground!

And when Neji saw what was inside clearly...

"This, this is..."

That's right, the transparent container was filled with some unknown yellowish liquid, and soaked in the liquid was an eyeball with a white pupil!

The container and the liquid were of course prepared by Orochimaru, after all, Guan Liyuan was not old enough to be interested in corpses.

"Where did you bring it from! Whose...eye is this!" Neji's emotions fluctuated obviously.

"Oh? There is only one pair of Byakugan that can be used in history, right? This is the left eye. It will probably take a while for the news of the Hidden Cloud Village to spread... Oh, by the way, even if it spreads, a Genin like you may not know." Guan Liyuan said frivolously.

Neji took a long time, as if he had finally digested the news, and then he said: "Thank you for helping me get my father's relics back... What's your purpose?"

There is no need to know how much protection the Hidden Cloud Village has for this Byakugan... Getting this Byakugan back is definitely not a simple matter!

Although Ningci was somewhat self-admiring, he absolutely did not believe that he was just a Genin now, and someone would take this thing back for no reason, just to befriend him.

"What do you know about your father's death?" Guan Liyuan asked instead.

"The Hidden Cloud Village coveted the Byakugan and took the opportunity to blackmail the village. My father did it for..."

"You should know that I don't want to hear these. I'm talking about more internal things... such as the internal affairs of the Hyuga clan." Guan Liyuan said.

"If you want to say that Hyuga Hiashi killed my father, you can stop talking! My father voluntarily sacrificed himself to protect his brothers."

Hyuga Ningci obviously believed Hyuga Hiashi's statement, but he still had a grudge against Hyuga Hiashi, and now he called him by his name in front of outsiders.

"No, your father did volunteer, but not for his brother, but for his son." Guan Liyuan said.

The blue veins around Ningci's eyes could not hide the subtle changes in his eyes...

"What do you want to say?"

"Why do you think you have the highest level of clan curse seal?"

"Because Hyuga Hiashi was moved by my father's sacrifice, so..."

"Hehe."

Out of emotion, not a deal? Guan Liyuan felt that this was as nonsense as "It's indescribable to fall in love for two hours, and then break up and give a breakup fee, it can't be considered a deal"...

Ningci was also choked by Guan Liyuan's sneer, and all the words that followed were choked back.

"What do you want to say?" Ningci asked directly.

"The reason why your father "voluntarily sacrificed" was, after all, to exchange for the freedom that was unconditionally deprived of you since you were born, right? And his life is only worth a part of it..."

Guan Liyuan's subsequent statement obviously made Ningci angry.

"Oh? Is there anything you want to refute?"

Ningci still didn't speak.

"Do you want to really get back what your father wanted to exchange for and what he deserves?"

"What did you say?"

"Do you want real freedom?"

"You want to break the clan curse!"

"That's right."

"I... can't do this, the Hyuga clan... will be completely destroyed!" Ningci said hesitantly.

If Guan Liyuan had been straightforward at the beginning, Ningci would probably have refused without even a second thought. However, Guan Liyuan now covered this statement with the cloak of "don't let your father die in vain", which made Ningci hesitate.

"No, you are just cooperating with us to fulfill the dream of your father and countless people from the branch family. As for what the people from the branch family will choose in the future without the curse seal, it is not the result of you or me to change... If Hyuga Hiashi is really worthy of being the head of the Hyuga clan, it will be the same even without the clan curse seal!

Or... because you already have the highest level of the branch family curse seal, you are not willing to protect the Hyuga clan, but the clan curse seal itself? In order to prevent the branch family from resisting, you are maintaining the clan curse seal... You are really using the thinking of the main family to regulate yourself." Guan Liyuan continued to guide and mock.

Ningci lowered his head, with a wavering look in his eyes...

"You only destroyed the curse seal that bound the branch family, not the Hyuga clan! Isn't it right to destroy something that you think shouldn't exist?

As for the result that led to the demise of the main family...it was all their own fault, not your fault, right?

Perhaps, this will be a new beginning for the Hyuga clan..."

Guan Liyuan seemed to be constantly bewitching Ningci, and even understood some of the feelings when Orochimaru bewitched Sasuke!

After all, once the research really begins, Ningci must actively cooperate, otherwise if he resists, he will still warn the main family to activate the clan curse seal...