The Eight Trigrams Two Hundred Fifty-Six Palms is a maneuver of the Gentle Fist fighting style. It is essentially a doubled version of the Eight Trigrams One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms performed at twice the speed. This technique is used to close off the flow of chakra through two hundred and fifty-six chakra points of an opponent's Chakra Pathway System. This eliminates their ability to use chakra for quite some time and makes it difficult for them to move. Once someone is within range of Hyoujin's field of divination, he assumes a Gentle Fist stance and begins to deliver the attack: