Chapter 123

"Explosive Ball Dance?"

Hearing the name Chitose said word by word, Mukahi Gakuto's heart tightened; the match had already reached this point, and that guy actually still had a trump card!

Cold sweat slid down his forehead, and he smiled sheepishly: "However... no matter what move it is, in front of the Talented Radiance ultimate move, it is all futile.

Right? Atobe."

Atobe's eyes opened silently, not responding to Mukahi Gakuto's question, only a cold light flashed in his eyes.

"It's starting!"

Swish!

"This point is the forty-second ball!"

The tennis ball rolled into the air, and the Talented Radiance ultimate move was activated simultaneously, but this time the number of balls needed for the rally rose sharply, clearly Ju Juping was putting great pressure on Chitose at this moment.

Boom!

Chitose in mid-air twisted his waist and abdomen, his back muscles twisting to bring the racket, cleverly pressing toward the hovering tennis ball, his wrist turned, and the tennis ball cut into the opposite service area with a clever angle.

Hum~

The tennis ball bounced with a light sound and disappeared.

"I say it's the next ball!"

Oshitari Yuushi clenched his fists, seemingly firmly believing in Chitose, but his voice was a bit strained when he spoke.

A loud shout suddenly came from the court, attracting everyone's attention.

Colorful stars flickered in the milky-white aura, the rolling of the aura made his clothes fly, his fluffy curly hair swayed, and Chitose's eyes reflected the upcoming rally scene, just a slight tremor...

He suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze uncertain, his emotions seeming to undergo huge fluctuations, and in the instant of the lightning-fast clash, he suddenly changed his words.

"... It's the sixty-first ball!"

Hearing this, Mukahi Gakuto off the court showed an expression of disbelief: "Chitose, he, did you all hear that, he actually modified the absolute prediction!"

The sky full of ball shadows disappeared, like fireworks extinguished, the only tennis ball reversed and stretched into a golden line.

But until the tennis ball flew past his side and out of the court, he still hadn't been able to find the real tennis ball among that pile of ball shadows.

The referee's voice fell, and intense discussions immediately erupted outside the court.

Taking a deep breath, the pores on his body closed instantly, the tiny beads of sweat that overflowed were blown by the cold wind and evaporated, he opened his mouth, revealing blood-red gums, laughing like a lion at its prey.

Chitose's body shook, his right eye suddenly experiencing intense phantom pain, and the Talented Radiance aura on his body was like a torch being blown by a gale, flickering uncertainly; the colorful light spots were like sparks on charcoal, trying their best to bloom with heat.

Swish!

Rushing forward to meet the ball, Ju Juping appeared in the midfield, his black clothes rustling.

Tap, tap.

"Don't focus on the ball count, no matter how many balls this point takes to entangle...

As long as the Talented Radiance ultimate move is still making predictions, Ju Juping is still in Chitose's grasp; he is just making a futile struggle like a trapped beast!"

The moment he saw the tennis ball fly out of bounds, Kikumaru in the audience sat up straight, his face full of horror, and then he thought of something, looking at Bu Er Zhou Zhu beside him with flickering eyes.

And at this time, Ju Juping's body changed again, his black pupils revealing dominance.

The black-red aura almost condensed into substance, the air on the court suddenly became viscous, like gel; the audience near the court edge were almost suffocated, everyone was wrapped in it, unable to struggle.

"Ju Juping scores, 0-15!"

Chitose's eyes shrank to the size of needle points, Talented Radiance was pushed to the limit by him, his yellowish-brown eyes rapidly sweeping over the many ball shadows one by one.

And the faces of others were also full of uncertainty; the absolute prediction of Talented Radiance had actually been corrected, which was something that had never happened before.

"Can't see through it!"

"So fast!"

Boom!

His arm swinging the racket left only a blurry shadow in the air, and only a blast that made the eardrums ache was heard; the tennis ball that had disappeared instantly drew a wave of air on the court, and in an instant, a sky full of ball shadows appeared, filling the entire court.

Ju Juping grinned, revealing blood-red gums, the lion's aura was completely released by him, the veins on his arms were knotted like long snakes, and his whole person exuded the terrifying aura of a top predator in the food chain.

At this time.

"Sixty-first ball?

Wrong.

With a plop.

The lion-like sound of breaking through the air roared and rolled on the court, booming in the ears of all the audience.

"No, no way?"

Watching the countless ball shadows flying toward his half again, a cold light flashed in Chitose's eyes.

Seeing this sprint, Kamio Akira's eyes lit up immediately; there were many things worth learning from Vice-Captain Tachibana's way of utilizing his whole body's muscles.

Leaping into the air, Ju Juping pulled his right foot up to his waist and abdomen, his right arm bent with the racket in front of his chest, his left upper arm stretched out, his muscles like a winch, his bones like a frame, and the terrifying aura spread in all directions like a hurricane under this strange posture.

What's more terrifying was that this glue-like air poured into their nasal cavities, went down the trachea, and the viscous glue completely blocked their lungs.

His footsteps moved quickly toward the back corner of the right court, and his wine-red racket swept and slashed at one of the many ball shadows.

Ju Juping leaned his upper body forward, his arm and shoulder muscles contracted, his knees slightly bent, and his calves tensed in an instant.

Thump! Thump!

Everyone's cheeks were flushed, as if they couldn't breathe, and their hearts had to pump violently to supply oxygen to their brains.

"Explosive Ball Dance!"

Boom!

The tennis ball exploded out, and the air vibrated violently.

His heart sank; the tyrannical lion aura was interfering with Talented Radiance's control over the match.

"Disrupt your rhythm!"

Tap!

His right sole stomped hard on the ground, his left foot used the forward thrust, and one step covered a distance of nearly two meters, just like a lion leaping over a stream, appearing at the spot where the tennis ball disappeared as if teleporting.

"Chitose's Talented Radiance was actually cracked by Ju Juping in this way..."

His chestnut-colored messy hair covered his forehead, but Bu Er didn't care at all, his delicate face revealing rare emotional fluctuations.

How strong was the Talented Radiance ultimate move?

As someone who had experienced it, he knew it better than anyone.

His eyes lowered, Bu Er recalled the scene of his match against Chitose...

When Talented Radiance was activated, he felt like a storm petrel flying over an endless sea.

At the beginning of the clash, the sea surface was sunny and calm, without a single ripple, the wind light and the clouds thin.

But once the ball count reached the number predicted by the opponent, the originally quiet and peaceful sea surface changed suddenly, dark clouds covered the top, and the surging waves swept over like mountains.

The opponent's attack came at him like a storm, every ball he caught felt like dodging a wave, but no matter how he struggled, he would eventually make a mistake at the predicted ball count, thereby losing the point.

And just now...

When Ju Juping clashed with Chitose, Bu Er seemed to see a huge, majestic lion standing on the sea surface.

It danced its limbs, stirred up huge waves at the start, disturbed the sea surface, and then, before the waves could strike, its fierce claws suddenly tore through the sea area, and with a long roar to the sky, it violently rushed out of the sea prison.

"This is the aura a Lion King should have."

Looking at the shocked crowd at the venue, Yuuki Satoru's eyes showed some complex colors.

Compared to the original passerby-like development, at this very moment, the high-spirited Ju Juping was the style he should have had.

The Lion King who made a great name for himself in the nationals as a first-year, known as the two heroes of Kyushu.

When Chitose Senri only mastered the No-Self Realm and had not yet developed the God Concealment and Talented Radiance ultimate moves, Ju Juping had already developed Wildness to the second stage, and on the basis of Roaring Lion, derived the even more powerful and drastically changing Explosive Ball Dance.

Even if he had been trapped in self-blame and guilt for nearly two years, and even lost to Kirihara in the Kanto Tournament, his reputation swept away.

But when he revealed the Lion King's style again, crushing Bu Er before the National Tournament, making him realize the strength of a national-level player; in the National Tournament, the held-back Explosive Ball Dance transcended Chitose's Talented Radiance prediction.

This old lion, who had not regained his former glory, still displayed strength that was a rare star on the national stage.

Facing the move Talented Radiance, Sanada would choose to use Hard to Know Like Shade, using multiple action modes to confuse Tezuka; Bu Er would enter the Mind's Eye state, using intuitive play to crack Niou's absolute prediction.

Both were perfect cracking moves.

But only Ju Juping's way of tearing through Talented Radiance head-on with Explosive Ball Dance was more to Yuuki Satoru's liking.

Because he himself also used the intense sound waves caused by Thunder Beast·Kui Niu to crush Tezuka's Talented Radiance head-on.

This was the Budongfeng style!

Moreover, in Yuuki Satoru's view, Ju Juping's talent and potential were not at all inferior to Sanada and Bu Er.

It was just that his past experiences forced his tennis path to end; Bu Er and Sanada were active on the world stage, while he could only become an obscure spectator with Chitose off the court.

Yuuki Satoru didn't know if he had ever felt regret or unwillingness when he saw his former opponent shining on the court.

But fortunately.

Everything had started over, there were no more regrets, and Ju Juping would definitely have a day to stand on the world stage.

Yuuki Satoru always believed in this point.

"Kippei..."

Chitose's yellowish-brown eyes trembled slightly, he raised his head and looked at Ju Juping not far away, "I knew it, you would definitely try every means to break through my cage."

"Just didn't expect it to be so fast..."

He returned to the service line, the hand holding the racket trembling slightly, as if there was a heart beating in the handle.

Can I win?

Chitose didn't know; the moment Talented Radiance was broken, he could no longer answer this question.

The corners of his mouth grinned to reveal his teeth, and the dark skin made his teeth look even whiter; he also couldn't determine what situation the match would move toward next, but...

Hum! Hum!

The No-Self aura rose and rolled, his gray-white clothes moved without wind, the milky-white light flowed into his limbs and bones, and in the transition, the No-Self aura suddenly turned into two different forms.

One had colorful light spots flickering in the milky-white aura, while the other was as white as milk, emitting an aura like giant waves.

"This is... Thousand Hammer Hundred Tempering."

Yuuki Satoru frowned slightly; he had played against Tezuka and knew the aura fluctuations of Thousand Hammer Hundred Tempering best, never expecting Chitose Senri to still have this trick up his sleeve.

However...

His deep gaze projected onto Chitose, and after a moment, he withdrew his gaze, his brows relaxing.

"It's just an incomplete Thousand Hammer Hundred Tempering, not yet fully formed, a product of the No-Self aura being forcibly condensed together."

Such a level was not enough to deal with Explosive Ball Dance.

However, from the increasingly excited look in Chitose Senri's eyes, Yuuki Satoru could see his incredibly bold idea.

He wanted to use Tachibana's pressure in the following games to break through his own bottleneck, and at the same time open the two doors of No-Self!

"It's coming!"

Chitose shouted, the muscles on his arms tensed like a twisted towel, his mind was completely immersed in this match, he was isolated from the outside world, his ears were silent, and he wanted to roar out loud.

Boom!

A circle of white air waves spread out in the air, the tennis ball exploded with a golden light, flew high from the bottom corner of the left service area, and then disappeared after a slight tremor.

"Then come on, Chitose!"

Ju Juping roared loudly, his whole person like a roaring lion, the dark blood-red aura following behind him, drawing a magnificent blood-colored phantom on the court, like a lion's mane spreading dominantly.

Boom!

The black racket left a winding residual shadow in everyone's eyes that had not dissipated for a long time.

Accompanied by a violent roar that stirred the heart, over a dozen tennis balls wrapped in blood-red aura whistled toward the opposite side of the court.

Boom!

Boom!

Explosive Ball Dance was hidden by Ju Juping and not used again; this move was too physically draining, he wanted to save it for the critical moment.

But even so, the threat of Explosive Ball Dance to Chitose had not disappeared at all.

It was like a reef standing tall in the sea, a fish bone stuck in the throat that was hard to swallow.

Although it was not shown, it made the prediction of Talented Radiance impossible to ignore, allowing Ju Juping to stir and disrupt Chitose's prediction at will with his fierce lion aura.

Boom!

"Game, Budongfeng Middle School Ju Juping, 2-3."

Boom!

"Game, Bing Di Xue Yuan Chitose Senri, 4-2."

Boom!

"Game, Budongfeng Middle School Ju Juping, 3-4."

Boom!

"Game, Budongfeng Middle School Ju Juping, 4-4."

Boom!

"Game, Budongfeng Middle School Ju Juping, 5-4."

Boom!

Boom!

"This match..."

The audience stretched their necks, shocked by the exaggerated rally on the court, forgetting to close their mouths.

In their eyes, only intense hitting sounds could be heard on Ju Juping's half, but the tennis ball's shadow could not be seen, while on Chitose's half, the sky full of yellow ball shadows almost densely occupied the entire half.

This court was divided by the two of them into two distinct worlds of white and black.

Boom!

A blast like a thunderclap flashed over the net and disappeared.

Its speed was so fast that even Atobe had to confirm it, yet Chitose did not think at all, rushing straight to the left baseline corner without the slightest hesitation.

Boom!

Another eye-catching baseline change-up shot, Yuuki Satoru's eyes narrowed slightly, only then finding the disappeared ball shadow on the court.

And beyond everyone's expectations, Ju Juping had actually already appeared at the tennis ball's landing spot waiting.

Boom!

Boom!

The tennis ball moved rapidly on the court, yet Chitose and Ju Juping both returned the opponent's attack in a way that was hard to guess.

"How did they do it?!"

Yuuki Satoru and Atobe's faces changed slightly; even if they were familiar with each other's ball paths, it was impossible to know the tennis ball's trajectory in advance without thinking at all.

This violated common sense!!

However, when the two were uncertain, Chitose and Ju Juping seemed to have forgotten everything, a faint smile appearing on their faces, bright and joyful.

They had entered another wonderful realm.

【Kippei, you really are here.】

【Chitose, I arrived early.】

【Chitose...】

【You say.】

【I'm sorry!】

【Haha, you mean that, don't take it to heart!】

【I'm really happy to continue playing tennis with you on the court, if I could, I'd want to play with you forever!】

【Kippei, I promise, but you can't go back on your word~】

【Mm, once promised, it won't change!】

【...】

In reality.

A homologous white aura appeared on the surfaces of Ju Juping and Chitose Senri's bodies, and both their eyes radiated golden brilliance.

No need for communication, no need for thinking; with a movement of their minds, they knew the opponent's next move.

"This is!"

Looking at this scene, the usually calm Ji Le Taizao's eyes trembled, his crossed legs subconsciously lowered, and a lingering astonishment appeared on his face.

No other reason...

This scene before him truly exceeded the experience he had gained in his professional career.

In a singles match, a Synchronized Resonance known as a doubles miracle was actually born?!!