Xia Huanao's statement was quite accurate. Compared to the Z-Move evolution, which could be used for an entire battle after activation, using /
This angle was completely outside of Xia Huanao's line of sight, meaning no matter what he did, he couldn't see if his opponent was using a Z-Crystal.
Xia Huanao clicked his tongue. "Got some skill there. I didn't expect there to be trainers who could dance without their Pokémon joining in."
Behind Charizard, the trainer from Lixing Nation looked at the Z-Crystal on his arm with a conflicted expression. He had just obtained this Z-Crystal recently. Although he had practiced, under the extreme nervousness of a match, he had forgotten how to perform the exaggerated dance for the "Inferno Overdrive"!
Casvidin was fuming and stood up, slamming the bench. "What are you doing!"
The referee at the edge of the field shot Casvidin a look. While Xia Huanao had made the suggestion to let him in, disrupting the tournament order was unacceptable. There was no room for favoritism here.
After receiving an angry glare from the referee, Casvidin sheepishly sat down. "What's going on?"
His teammate turned to him and whispered, "I... I forgot..."
Casvidin gritted his teeth and took a sharp intake of cold air. "I'll do it once. Watch closely."
Casvidin giving a live demonstration to his teammate on how to use a Z-Crystal was quite an amusing sight. At least Xia Huanao and Quack Quack watched with the attitude of spectators.
Casvidin's movements were quick, and his teammate was learning diligently. The problem was, while he could follow along, he shouldn't be mimicking the movements. And even if he mimicked the movements, knowing the move was "Inferno Overdrive" was one thing, but shouting it out loud was asking for trouble!
The Z-Move mechanic was in effect here. The exaggerated dance combined with the incantation would definitely trigger the move, and there was no precedent for controlling it to prevent a Z-Move from being released.
Other trainers in the arena who possessed Z-Crystals couldn't help but chuckle at the scene. To have a Z-Move unleashed so carelessly, who wouldn't cry if they were in this situation?
However, although Casvidin had noticed this early on, he didn't call a stop. On one hand, the move name "Gigavolt Havoc" was relatively short, making it hard to stop once uttered. On the other hand, Casvidin intended to catch Xia Huanao off guard. What looked like an accident was actually part of Casvidin's plan.
The plan to use his own subordinate's surprise to catch Xia Huanao off guard was at least a success in the early stages. As the Lixing Nation trainer's movements progressed, Charizard's claws suddenly erupted with powerful lightning. Immense energy gathered in front of Charizard, crackling with wild power.
Sensing the strong energy flow on the field, Xia Huanao reapplied the shuriken to his palm. "To counter a special move, one must use a special move. Quack Quack, Lin, Bing, Dou, Zhe!"
Hearing Xia Huanao shout, Mu Zhishui beside him quickly turned his head, and even Feng and Mei, who were watching from outside the field, turned their gazes. What confused them was that Xia Huanao only shouted these four words, and the remaining five were omitted. Moreover, Xia Huanao didn't even perform any hand seals, just shouted, seemingly able to unleash a powerful move this way.
Although these people were puzzled, Xia Huanao had his reasons. When he was developing his ultimate move, Xia Huanao knew about the Nine Syllable Incantation. Even on Lingyao Star, all nine characters were chanted to sound formidable. However, Xia Huanao also knew that if he displayed the full hand seals, he might be criticized by many, openly or secretly, once it was broadcast.
But the problem was, Xia Huanao knew that "Baopuzi" wrote it as "formation array proceeding forward," but he couldn't perform the hand seals. Having practiced the hand seals for "formation array proceeding forward" too many times in a famous shonen manga in his past life, he subconsciously leaned that way. After careful consideration, Xia Huanao decisively chose to omit the latter five characters, which were easier to perform. He figured that just saying "Lin, Bing, Dou, Zhe" wouldn't cause any problems.
However, he was soon met with a harsh reality: the two incantations, all ten characters, had eighteen different seals. Xia Huanao had nearly broken his fingers learning the seals for the nine characters in his past life. Asking him to learn nine more now would be like asking him to chop off his hand.
Xia Huanao, being Xia Huanao, decided that if he couldn't do all nine characters, he wouldn't do any. Following this logic, Xia Huanao decided to only chant four words. As for whether this shortened version was appropriate, Xia Huanao stated that he was already having ninjas chant the "Six Jia Secret Incantation" in another world, so whether it was effective or not didn't matter.
To get back to the point, after chanting half of the Six Jia Secret Incantation, Xia Huanao casually grabbed the air in front of him, and Quack Quack simultaneously grabbed the air in front of him with its right hand. Unlike Xia Huanao's empty grasp, Quack Quack's action was accompanied by a bow of its head as it grabbed the shuriken-shaped hat on its head. Xia Huanao flicked his right hand to his side, and Quack Quack also swung its arm, taking down the giant shuriken from its head.
This shuriken began to spin rapidly beside Quack Quack. Water currents began to surge from beneath Quack Quack's feet, converging towards the shuriken.
As the shuriken spun, its color gradually shifted from blue to other hues. Mu Zhishui beside them stared excitedly at the shuriken in Xia Huanao and Quack Quack's hands. "I can't believe I'm seeing this live. Golden Healing Shuriken, my eternal regret."
Quack Quack's shuriken didn't spin beside it for long. Xia Huanao swept his hand in a circle from in front of him to above his head. As his hand passed his chest, Xia Huanao quickly tapped his right wrist with his left hand. A blue Z-Crystal was embedded into the bracelet on Xia Huanao's wrist, and it began to glow.
After completing the demonstration, Casvidin shifted his attention back to Xia Huanao. Upon seeing the glowing bracelet on Xia Huanao's wrist, Casvidin's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets. "This is impossible, three Z-Moves?"
The shuriken in Quack Quack's hands spun rapidly above its head, growing larger and larger until it was about the same size as Quack Quack, at which point it maintained its rotation without further expansion. Xia Huanao and Quack Quack locked their gazes onto Charizard. "Go, Cascading Water Shuriken!"
As Xia Huanao forcefully threw his hand forward, the water shuriken in Quack Quack's hands also flew out. Accompanied by the whistling wind and rainbow-like colors, it charged towards Charizard, challenging its Inferno Overdrive.