Progress and Changes part 3

A large drill made of wind and fire appeared around Brant's body and drilled a hole through the Trent and sent flames burning across the battlefield in a massive explosion of scorched wood and metal slag.

Brant then placed his hand on the ground as he landed and swept his feet out in a low to high spin kick, "Tertiary Lotus Kick! Shinigami's Scythe."

A large blade of wind gushed out cutting through a portion of her army, "Secondary Lotus Fist! Vorpal Cut!" Brant slashed out with an open hand and used his the tips of his fingers like a blade, space cracked around Tenai's pawns and shattered them like glass.

Before Lee could continue, the Generals and Commanders made their moves, once they joined in, Brant went on the defensive, swords, arrows, axes, and many other Weapon Intents were wielded by the Golems causing Brant to move around and dodge like a drunken buffoon.

"Primary Drunken Lotus Dance!" Brant shouted as a pink aura surrounded his body, the strong scent of God-Wine was emitted from his sweat as he suddenly made his move.

The Commanders that had bows were the first to go, he flung his body at them and kicked them into dust as he fell to the ground on his back.

The army surrounded him, but he slammed his hands onto the ground and spun his legs like a windmill as he kicked out causing a tornado of sharp blades made out of Martial Intent to cleave through them.

The King and Queen stepped in and caused the formation to undergo a qualitative change, with the King and his sword, and the Queen's Saber, the two cut down the space in front of Brant and cleaved through his protective gear.

Brant flew back with blood coming off of his chest and suddenly removed four bracelets that he was wearing. Two that were tied around his wrists and ankles.

A massive crack appeared in the arena and the four bracelets sunk into the earth like a hot ball of metal in snow.

Brant suddenly moved so fast that he turned into a blur, fist and kick impressions appeared on the broken golems as the entire Sand-Wood Army was slaughtered.

Before Brant could reach Tenai, she waved her hands and collected the entire army into one Golem, "Sand-Wood God's Fist!"

A mighty Dyrad appeared and met Brant's attack head-on, a considerable explosion swept across the battlefield and caused a massive crater to appear in the center of the arena.

Tenai sat inside the center of the Giant Dryad's head and controlled it like a warship puppet, gun turrets made of Sand-Wood, and Essence Beams shot out across the battlegrounds, chasing Brant around like he was an ant to be burned with a magnifying glass.

Brant Lee grunted as he was hit by several attacks, bloodshot across the grounds as he barely managed to survive each one, he then raised his arms as he shouted, "Secondary Lotus Fist! Vorpal Cut!" Brant slashed out with an open hand and used his the tips of his fingers like a blade, space cracked around Tenai's turrets and shattered them like glass.

"Tertiary Lotus Fist! Titan's Rage!" Brant slammed the ground and caused the earth to move like a wave that encircled Tenai, just as the ring formed, mountainous rocks shot out of the ground and pierced through the Giant Golems waist, holding in place.

It looked like Brant had made a dress out stone for the Dryad Golem, he didn't stop to admire his work as he dashed up the stone surface and punched upward in a graceful arc, "Quaternary Lotus Fist, Leaf Dragon Uppercut."

Brant's life energy nurtured the wood from the Dryad Golem to form new leaves and join his attack as a massive flood dragon made of wind and leaves embued with razor-sharp Martial Intent exploded outward.

The Dragon Tore through the Dryad's neck and sent the head flying off into the distance, Tenai then broke down the entire golem and wrapped the materials around her body, the giant Dyrad then condensed itself down into a fine suit of armor.

Before Brant could react, she disappeared from his sight and reappeared at his side, a fierce punch was thrown out as Brant barely managed to move his head back.

Space shattered around her fist causing Brant to jump back and reposition himself, Tenai however, had different plans.

The moment he lept back, thick tree branches shot out of her armor and chased after him, Brant's legs were grabbed as he felt the inertia of his body suddenly shift.

Being pulled back in, Brant quickly unleashed his best technique as he shouted, "Quinary Lotus Fist; Tyrant Overlord's Fist!"

A massive spiraling Lotus shot out from his fist, the space around it quickly started to crack and shatter the branches around him, the lotus continued traversing towards Tenai eating up everything in its wake.

"Sand-Wood God's World Shattering Fist!" Tenai's hand turned into a massive axe and cut down with all her might, the two attacks clashed and caused a massive spatial storm that sent the two flying out of bounds, a loud booming noise was heard as the land around their positions turned into massive fractures and piles of debris.

Kibo appeared on stage and waved his hand, the two beat-up contestants appeared on stage and were given pills to recover.

Kibo raised up Tenai's hand and said, "Because Brant hit the out of bounds area first, Tenai wins by default."

A loud roar was heard from the crowd and cheers echoed throughout the region, Tenai then bowed to everyone before saying, "I don't accept this win, I will forfeit the next match."

Tenai looked at Brant and smiled and said, "We'll settle things next time."

Brant didn't have time to respond before she turned into sand and joined her family in the crowd.

Rock Lee appeared on stage and hugged his son, "You did the best you could, I'm proud of you."

"But I didn't win!" Brant shouted.

Lee laughed and said, "No, but you did learn something, yes?"

Brant looked over at Tenai who was being thrown in the air by her parents, aunt Temari, and her Uncle Gara.

"Yes!" Brant shouted as he pumped his fist, "I won't lose next time, I just need to train harder!"

Kibo nodded his head and said, "Since it's like this, this match will be considered a draw, with both participants losing, let the next match begin."

Taka and Shibamaru's fight was fierce, although the Uchiha and Senju Clans had made peace, they still had a strong streak of rivalry between them, the two battled to their hardest and caused many shocking waves of aw to spread across the faces of the spectators.

Taka eventually got the upper hand, however, Shiba managed to pull Taka out of the ring and won by landing on top of him.

Needless to say, Taka had a bright red face as Madara and Tobimaru appeared separating them.

Next up was Sadara V.S Rei.

The two weren't expecting to fight so soon since they were on the same team and all, however, they gave it their all causing the entire arena to split into two pieces, Sadara won by surrounding Rei with her Yin-Yang Lotus Flames.

Though Rei lost, it was only because she tried to absorb the Amaterasu Fire in an attempt to temper herself.

Unfortunately, Rei ended up harming herself in the process, although she was in great pain, she managed to make a small Source Pool seedling of the Amaterasu Fire, which surprised Kibo, as he wasn't able to do the same.

His daughter's special physique saved her from burning to a crisp, however, she was still badly wounded and forced to forfeit, after being healed, Kibo comforted Rei and congratulated Sadara on her victory with a head pat.

The battles continued, Shibamaru V.S Bourto, Bourto won by sealing Shibamaru in a powerful Array.

Tenma Hyuga V.S Genji, Genji won with just using his Asura Avatar.

Sutoromaru V.S Sadara was a spectacular fight, lightning and fire sent out millions of star-like explosions as Kibo had to step in and reinforce the arena himself to keep the barrier from shattering.

They pulled out all the stops, however, Sutoromaru came out on top, he was actually already a Minute God, Genji grinned as he looked over at his teammate, "When did he?"

Genji then looked to Kibo and said, "Did you help him?"

Kibo grinned at his son, "No, he was ready to go through with his tribulations, I just acted as his Dao Guardian and mentioned that he should either do one of two things. One, he could make he could create a Myriad Lightning Source Pool, or use the Myriad Lightning to evolve the Purple Lightning Kakashi created into a Heavenly Ranking Lightning. I think you can figure out which one he chose."

Genji looked back and watched as Sutoromaru unleased his Purple Absolute Zero Domain, a pure white domain of ice appeared around the entire arena, ferocious purple lightning dog-faced Flood Dragons flew across the surface of the ice and flying into the ice and coming out at another location, every time they passed through the Absolute Zero Ice, they got stronger and stronger.

Sutoromaru floated in the center of the area and held a purple lightning dragon in the palm of his hand, the once ferocious lightning that seemed to possess a will of its own was completely tame in his hand, sparks of purple lightning rippled off his skin as his eyes glowed with a vibrant purple Shinsharingan.

Kibo didn't know exactly how Sutoromaru's Heavenly Purple Lightning measured on the 101 Heavenly Lightning Rankings, and because it was a new type with incredible growth potential, Kibo could only compare it against the memories he took from the Otsutsuki.

At most, it had reached the top 50.

"I win Sarada." Sutoromaru bragged as he disappeared and reappeared next to her.

Sarada couldn't move, it was as if time had frozen around her, even her thoughts had slowed, it took her a full minute to process Sutoromaru's "I win Sadara." and in this time she had already been removed from the arena and returned to normal.

The crowd went nuts, Sutoromaru was now the youngest Minute God in history, not even Kibo managed to reach that in his late 20s. One had to know that that Genji and the rest were only 26 and 27 years old.

Genji had suddenly made up his mind before he noticed, large tribulation clouds appeared above his head, Clone-Kibo frowned as he said, "Couldn't you have picked a better place for this?"

After waving his hands, Kibo created dozens of God Arrays to protect the crowd from his son's tribulation, almost as if they were connected, Kibo's daughter started her tribulations as well.

Clone-Karin waved her hand and placed her inside the array, next to her brother.

The two knew that they could absorb each other's lightning and reach a whole new stage, it came to them when they fused, the thought of absorbing each other's lightning instead of their own would temper and bring balance to their bodies, therefore, upgrading their Unique Physiques to the next level.

The gargantuan lightning bolts crashed down on the two 999 times, just like Kibo's they were in the shape of celestial versions of themselves, during the fight, they constantly fought against each other's Divine Tribulation Lightning, forming a Source Pool of Myriad Tribulation Lightning inside their bodies, bit by bit, their Natural Yang-Yin, and Yin-Yang Bodies transformed into Perfect Yuan Physiques, Yin and Yang became equal and formed into a new essence called Grey Matter, something far greater than even Kibo anticipated.

Once they completed their transformations, they looked at each other and smiled.

Kibo congratulated them both as their mothers came over and hugged them, "You two did well, I hope to see what you are capable of."