Chapter 433: Meteor Jam

"Boom!"

The ball was smashed away by a punch from Tian Lizi; even Murasakibara's death grip was useless.

"How is this possible?" Araki Masako gritted her teeth.

Murasakibara surprised her today; he was absolutely the perfect Murasakibara of her fantasies.

He had put away his laziness and was working hard to learn how to become the leader of a team.

He had picked up the responsibility he had cast aside, carried the team on his shoulders, and even entered the Zone.

Yet even with all that, he still couldn't break through that monster's defense.

Predicting the future—was there really no way to crack it?

While she was thinking, Tian Lizi and Murasakibara had already restarted and were sprinting toward the other half of the court.

Their speed was like a meteor; they treated the other eight players on the court like wooden stakes, changing direction simply to leave their defenders behind.

Fukui Kensuke still wanted to step up and delay Tian Lizi for a moment.

With a "slap," Tian Lizi smashed the ball to the left, and Fukui Kensuke moved his body in a hurry upon seeing it.

But just as he did so, Tian Lizi cut out with his other hand, changing direction to pass through from the other side.

The entire process lasted less than a second.

Fukui Kensuke cursed himself for being tricked again, but in reality, even if he hadn't been tricked, the outcome wouldn't have changed.

While he was frustrated, Murasakibara had already run past his other side like a whirlwind; the wind it kicked up was enough to lift his damp hair.

Now they could only rely on Murasakibara!

"Really troublesome."

Without needing to turn his head, the Six Eyes allowed Tian Lizi to see Murasakibara, who was in hot pursuit behind him.

His height and wingspan were both too outstanding; he was a major lethal weapon on the defensive end.

"Then try this."

Tian Lizi's eyes flashed, and with a burst of acceleration, he crossed the three-point line and arrived at the free-throw line.

Then, under the stunned gaze of the entire audience, he stepped on the free-throw line and leaped into the air.

"Jumping from a place like this?"

"What is he trying to do? Murasakibara is right next to him!"

"Could it be a dunk?"

"How is that possible? That's the free-throw line position!"

A free-throw line flying dunk in a real match was like a fantasy; even the Flying Man, His Majesty Jordan, hadn't achieved it.

In NBA history, there was only one person who could complete a free-throw line dunk in a real game.

He was the Cavaliers' leader, LeBron James.

Tian Lizi naturally didn't have that kind of ability yet; perhaps he could in the future, but for now, he was just a tender high school student.

But who said you couldn't dunk if you couldn't fly across?

As Tian Lizi jumped, the arm holding the ball pulled from bottom to top, then smashed from back to front, in a posture of a single-armed power dunk.

Yet he was clearly still several meters away from the hoop.

Only Alexandra Garcia and her disciples seemed to think of something when they saw his posture.

But...

"How is this possible?" Himuro Tatsuya found it hard to accept.

Kagami Taiga and Alexandra Garcia couldn't accept it either.

The former had only just come into contact with the Meteor Jam and hadn't even mastered the basics, yet you were telling him Tian Lizi had already completed it?

Alexandra Garcia swore to heaven that she had absolutely never taught Tian Lizi the Meteor Jam.

The two hadn't even spoken a single word; they were in a state of absolute strangers.

Her two great unique skills were only intended to be taught to her two disciples.

On the court.

Murasakibara had already leaped with all his might, not giving Tian Lizi a chance to shoot.

However, this was not a shot at all.

Seeing Murasakibara's body rise from the ground, the Six Eyes locked directly onto the direction of the hoop, and all his strength was concentrated in his right arm.

Both the force and the angle were flawless.

The next second.

"Die!"

"Boom!"

The basketball was smashed out fiercely by him, over Murasakibara, from a distance of several meters away from the hoop.

The immense power made it impossible for people to even see the trajectory of the basketball clearly; the naked eye could hardly capture a trace of it.

They only saw the basketball turn into a beam of light, falling into the net like a meteor, and finally smashing heavily onto the floor, emitting a heart-shaking loud noise.

"It really is the Meteor Jam!" Kagami was completely stunned, muttering to himself, "How did he learn it..."

"What Meteor Jam?"

Seirin's people didn't know about the Meteor Jam either; Alexandra Garcia had just started teaching Kagami this move.

She had originally intended to give Seirin a surprise, but it had been used by Tian Lizi ahead of time.

Now they knew nothing about the Meteor Jam.

"It's one of Alexandra's two great unique skills."

"The first one is the Yōen Shot that Tatsuya... and Tian Lizi used; that is an unsolvable shot Alexandra realized only after entering the professional league."

"The other one is this Meteor Jam?"

"That's right. If the Yōen Shot is a technique of stillness, then the Meteor Jam is a technique of power, capable of attacking the hoop from three meters away."

Alexandra took a deep breath.

Her own disciple hadn't even learned the Meteor Jam, yet it had been learned by a stranger—who could she reason with about this?

Moreover, looking at Tian Lizi's posture, his jumping height was no worse than her disciple's, and his accuracy was like it had an automatic guidance system; he had probably fully mastered the Meteor Jam and could complete dunks from every position inside the three-point line.

"But if this is Alexandra's unique skill, how did Tian Lizi learn it?" Seirin's people were very confused.

"Perhaps he saw it in a match, or perhaps it was a flash of inspiration he developed himself."

Regardless of which it was, the talent of that leader of the Generation of Miracles was stunning.

This was self-taught.

Kagami knew very well how hard the Meteor Jam was to learn.

"Whoa!"

The audience was boiling over once again.

They were all shocked by this gorgeous dunk—well, it should be called a shot—by Tian Lizi.

Even Murasakibara, the strongest center in the country and the best defensive player, had no ability to resist.

"This is a return gift for the dunk you made over me earlier, Atsushi."

The ball went in.

Tian Lizi had vented his anger fiercely.

Murasakibara remained silent, not because he cared about being dunked over by Tian Lizi.

He was thinking that even with full preparation, it would be hard for him to defend against such a ball, let alone now when he was completely unprepared.

The speed was too fast, the power too fierce.

The moment Tian Lizi smashed the ball out, Murasakibara felt as if he could see the air being torn apart, emitting a wail.

Himuro Tatsuya had a complex expression.

What he most wanted to learn from Alexandra Garcia wasn't the Yōen Shot, but the higher-difficulty Meteor Jam.

However, the Meteor Jam had extremely high requirements for players and had rigid conditions.

The heaven-defying jumping ability alone was enough to shut him out.

He had no choice but to settle for second best and learn the Yōen Shot from Alexandra. ===== CHAPTER 435 =====