Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 259 The Illusory Image Suddenly Changes, Naruto Arrives

In the blink of an eye.

A month passed quickly.

The phantom image of the ruins of Loulan city appeared for longer and longer periods each time, becoming increasingly solid.

Five days ago, Xiao Yezi also saw the phantom image of the ruins of Loulan city.

At the same time, Li Yao sensed that the dragon vein's energy was getting stronger and stronger, even affecting the nearby weather across a world.

Nowadays.

just now.

Under the influence of the dragon vein's power, endless gales whipped up a sky full of yellow sand.

In this desert where yellow sand flies everywhere, a ruined city stands there. If you don't pay attention, you can't tell that it is an illusion. It is very solid.

"It's been a day."

Amidst the howling winds in mid-air, a spherical barrier enveloped the clay bird, shielding Li Yao and Xiao Yezi from all the gusts of wind. Li Yao frowned as he looked down at the city ruins and murmured to himself.

The phantom image of the ruins of Loulan has existed for a day and has not disappeared.

The energy fluctuations of the dragon vein also seem to have reached their strongest level in recent times.

However, the spell sealing the dragon vein in the phantom is still there. If the seal is not broken and the dragon vein energy is not fully released, it will be impossible for it to be transmitted across a world to this world and be detected by Li Yao.

"What should we do?"

Li Yao was anxious, but there was nothing he could do. Separated by a world, he could only watch and couldn't affect the sealing technique set up by Minato in that world.

However, if this continues, the energy intensity of the dragon vein will obviously reach its peak and then decline, and the phantom of the city ruins will disappear from this world forever.

It's unknown how many years it will be before it appears again.

Li Yao didn't want to wait that long.

"How amazing! A mirage across a world! Unbelievable! The power of the dragon veins! The power of time!"

"if……"

Looking at the illusory image of the city ruins below, a thought suddenly flashed through Xiao Yezi's mind, but then she remembered Li Yao's explanation of parallel worlds, and her heart sank again.

The mother in the parallel world is ultimately not the mother she lives with day and night.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yezi shifted her gaze from the illusory city ruins below and turned her head away, trying to avoid thinking about it.

"Huh... what's that?"

Just as Xiao Yezi shifted her gaze from the phantom of the city ruins, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure appearing at the edge of the phantom, which immediately drew a surprised exclamation from Xiao Yezi.

She stared intently, and saw a... black line that looked like a puppet rushing towards her.

"Uncle, it looks like a puppet-like thing is coming this way!"

Little Leaf quickly reminded him.

Upon hearing this, Li Yao frowned. With his chakra perception and soul perception abilities, there was no one within a radius of fifty kilometers except for some small desert animals.

How could a puppeteer have quietly entered Xiao Yezi's field of vision without him noticing?

With a hint of doubt, Li Yao turned his head and followed Xiao Yezi's gaze. His heart skipped a beat, and surprise flashed in his eyes.

There really are puppets coming this way!

However, it is not a puppet of this world, but a puppet in the phantom world of the ruins of Loulan city.

"There are still people!"

Little Leaf spoke up.

Following the puppet were four more people. Little Leaf looked closely and said, "They're from Konoha. Why are they... wait, something's not right!"

At this moment, Xiao Yezi suddenly realized that at such a close distance, it was impossible for her not to sense the other party's chakra.

"Uncle, they are people from the phantom!" Little Yezi suddenly exclaimed excitedly.

She realized that the puppets and people she saw were not from this world, but from another world.

This is incredible.

She thought the illusory image of the city ruins beneath her feet was just an image, like a photograph, and that nothing dynamic would appear.

Unexpectedly, living people and moving puppets appeared in the phantom.

At this moment, Li Yao stared intently at the four people who had fought alongside the puppet, his eyes shining.

One of them, with his signature blond hair and six long, thick black cat whiskers on his face, is none other than our Naruto.

The other three are easily recognizable from their appearances: Sakura, Yamato, and Sai.

"them?"

"Could it be...?"

Li Yao's heart suddenly began to pound violently. He looked down and stared intently at the altar below. If he was not mistaken, the Naruto world within the illusory image was currently experiencing the plot of the Lost Tower movie.

In that case, the sealing technique of the fourth generation in the phantom will be lifted. When the dragon vein erupts, it may be able to break through the barrier of the world and reach him. He may be able to travel through time and space through the power of the dragon vein and enter the Loulan world to find the real dragon vein.

"Little Leaf, you should leave here first."

Li Yao turned to Xiao Yezi and said.

"Uncle, look!" Little Yezi pointed in the direction the puppet in the phantom was running from.

"Huh...?" Li Yao was taken aback.

As Naruto and his companions fought their way through the puppets, the illusory city ruins in his eyes were changing... no, becoming clearer, or rather, the multiple illusory city ruins were being identified as a single illusory city ruin.

It turns out that the city ruins phantom that Li Yao and the others saw earlier was not a phantom of the Loulan ruins in a parallel world of Naruto, but rather a combination of many.

Li Yao had assumed it was ruins, so he could understand why it looked out of place and hadn't paid much attention to it.

Now, with the arrival of Naruto and his four companions and the puppet, multiple phantom images of the Loulan ruins are moving towards the one that is confirmed.

Therefore, the surrounding city ruins are changing as Naruto and his companions move forward.

Soon, Naruto and the others, along with the puppet, arrived at the altar.

The area quickly turned into a flat plain, buried by yellow sand with only a few ruins visible, and the altar that Li Yao had seen earlier disappeared.

Shortly after, during the battle, Naruto shattered the puppet with a Rasengan, and then the explosive tags attached to the broken puppet fragments detonated.

call out!

A watercolor tiger rescued Naruto and brought Sakura to a collapsed wall, where Yamato and Sakura were talking to Naruto.

Li Yao couldn't hear their conversation, nor did he have time to listen at that moment.

"Little Leaf, you should leave here first."

Li Yao planned to see if he could enter the Loulan world of the Lost Tower through the Dragon Vein, as there might be some unknown dangers.

"No, I want to go too."

Xiao Yezi's eyes were firm. She knew what Li Yao was thinking, but she couldn't watch him take the risk alone.

In particular, what if Li Yao goes into that world and can't come back?

Xiao Yezi couldn't believe how she would live in a world without the older man.

"Alright, whatever you say."

Since Xiao Yezi wanted to go with them, Li Yao didn't stop her; he respected her choice.

Bang!

Li Yao created a shadow clone outside.

Xiao Yezi and I quickly followed the phantom image of the large hole opened by the puppet, and entered underground with Naruto and the other three, and then came to a building.

A huge, circular pit, with a raised cylinder in the middle, surrounded by four human-shaped stone sculptures, in the center, a Flying Thunder God kunai is stuck in an eye-shaped object, connected by black spell patterns.

That was the sealing technique that the Water Gate applied to the dragon vein.

At this moment, in the phantom image, a thin, pale man emerged from behind the humanoid stone sculpture, placed his hands on the eye-shaped object, and began to absorb the sealing technique left by Minato.

Li Yao and Xiao Yezi were already floating above the sealing spell, waiting for the seal to be broken, the power of the dragon vein to erupt, and then they would travel to that world.

The four Naruto members in the phantom couldn't see Li Yao and Xiao Yezi at all. They noticed the thin, white man's actions, and Naruto rushed over first, followed closely by Yamato and Sakura.

But it was too late; the thin, pale man pulled out Minato's Flying Thunder God Kunai.

The seal on the dragon vein has been broken.

In an instant.

The power of the white-purple dragon vein erupted, and a huge white-purple energy beam shot out.

Li Yao and Xiao Yezi, who were in the very center, were instantly pierced through by the dragon vein power in the phantom.

"No!"

"How could it not work?!"

Li Yao's expression changed instantly. Although the energy fluctuations of the dragon vein he sensed were so strong, as if he were actually in it, it did not change the fact that the power of the dragon vein did not directly affect him and Xiao Yezi.

(End of this chapter)