Konoha, reported by the Fourth Hokage at the start.

Chapter 325 Naruto Arrives

"The rising sun, the rising sunlight!"

Accompanied by a beautiful song that was light yet tinged with sadness, Naruto woke up in front of a tomb, rolled over, and stared blankly at the five round windows above where the sunlight shone.

"Where is this?"

Naruto was puzzled. One second he was chasing the centipede and being sucked in by the power of the dragon vein, and the next second he was in this place.

"A burning longing..."

Just then, Naruto suddenly noticed a beautiful song echoing in the secret room, and quickly got up to look in the direction of the sound.

A beautiful red-haired girl dressed in red was sitting on the top of a giant rubble, softly singing a song, with two tears streaming down her face.

"Hey, where is this?" Naruto asked.

"what!"

As soon as Naruto started singing, the girl noticed there was a strange boy there. She was startled and quickly jumped away, running into a passage.

"Hey, wait a minute!"

Naruto instinctively chased after him, but was blocked by an invisible barrier at the entrance of the passage.

At the same time, at the other end of the passage, several humanoid puppets with large eyes rushed towards Naruto.

However, after passing through the barrier at the entrance of the passage, the chakra threads on the puppet were stripped off, and the puppet immediately fell apart into a pile of parts.

The barrier appears to prevent the passage of chakra.

Seeing this, Naruto had no choice but to climb up in the direction of the light shining in from above, and soon broke through the window and came to a world full of tall buildings.

Before Naruto could even be shocked at where he was, two humanoid puppets wielding sharp longswords arrived.

"As expected... this is troublesome!"

At the bottom of the Dragon Vein Pit, while Naruto and the Centipede Puppet were fighting, Li Yao, with a gloomy expression, sensed the large-scale changes in the nature of the Dragon Vein's chakra.

Now, let alone half a year, Li Yao doesn't know if he can figure out the nature changes of all the chakra in the dragon vein in a year.

The arrival of Naruto was crucial, and it brought more than just a dramatic fluctuation in the nature of the Dragon Vein chakra.

The Dragon Vein Chakra became unstable from the moment Naruto arrived.

This instability is not a change in nature, but rather an instability inherent in the dragon vein chakra itself.

Moreover, this instability is showing a trend of continuous intensification.

Once this instability reaches a critical value.

Li Yao had a strong premonition that by then, the dragon vein chakra would collapse and dissipate on its own without needing to be sealed.

It's like entering a cyclical incubation period prematurely, and it's irreversible.

"Damn it... Fuck!"

Li Yao cursed fiercely, venting his frustration.

It seemed like the dragon vein chakra would be successfully copied in just six months, but then this happened.

But Li Yao was helpless and could only continue to focus all his energy on sensing the changes in the nature of the dragon vein at its bottom. He no longer had the mind to deal with Centipede and Naruto's group.

Li Yao didn't care if those people didn't come here to damage the dragon vein.

If they come... then we'll see how things go.

Li Yao's eyes flashed, and he suddenly thought, what would happen if Naruto died here?

"The outcome probably won't change!"

Li Yao frowned slightly, then shook his head. The periodicity of the Dragon Vein Chakra is itself a kind of spacetime characteristic, and it will not change because of Naruto's death.

Alright, let's continue sensing the dragon vein's chakra.

Li Yao focused his mind and immersed himself in sensing the changes in the nature of the dragon vein's chakra.

outside.

Naruto was knocked down to the bottom of the street by four puppets and injured his leg. At the critical moment, he received help from Minato's team and defeated the four puppets.

The father and son met for the first time, but neither recognized the other.

However, seeing Naruto's headband and age, Minato already had a vague guess.

As the village's little sun, and given that it was the early stages of the Third Shinobi World War, he knew almost all the village's young ninjas, but he had never met Naruto.

Recalling the intelligence he had recently gathered, the quick-witted Minato guessed something, but he wasn't sure yet.

When Minato said that this was Loulan, Naruto was shocked. Minato appeared calm on the surface, but his heart stirred. He then told Naruto to leave Loulan.

Naruto naturally didn't leave. After Minato and the others left, he went out and rescued Queen Sara of Loulan, only to get slapped a few times in the process.

Later, Minato and his two companions arrived. Naruto, mistakenly believing that they had come to kill the Queen of Loulan, rushed forward, resulting in the classic scene of a father capturing his son.

After that, Minato and Naruto shared some information with each other, and Minato finally confirmed that Naruto was also someone who came from the future.

Naruto was completely confused by the talk of time travel and other such things.

Fortunately, both sides quickly realized that they shared the same enemy: the centipede.

Unlike Li Yao, who immediately hid himself to sense the dragon vein's chakra after transmigrating.

When Baizu traveled through time, Loulan was a prosperous city, but it was far inferior to what it is now.

After Baizu ascended to a high position and secretly controlled Loulan, he had contact and battles with the outside world because making puppets required a lot of materials.

Its powerful puppetry skills had long attracted the attention of some people.

It was only because it was during the final stages of the Second Shinobi World War, and the desert surrounding Loulan often experienced changes in terrain due to wind and sand, which acted like an illusion array protecting Loulan.

Therefore, no other hidden villages have paid much attention to it.

Just a few days ago, a former queen of Loulan went through great hardships to finally find Konoha and explain the situation inside Loulan, which led to the arrival of Minato and his group.

Through the investigation over the past few days, Minato has confirmed that Centipede is also a person from the future.

Based on Naruto's current account, Centipede traveled to this era by absorbing the space-time sealing technique, thus triggering a space-time ninjutsu. Therefore, killing Centipede or resealing the Dragon Vein would allow Naruto to return to his own era.

In order not to affect future development, Minato did not tell Naruto his true thoughts, only saying that defeating the centipede would be enough.

The two sides then split into two teams. Naruto was responsible for protecting Queen Sara of Loulan, while Minato's team, under the pretext of being familiar with the area, was responsible for searching for the location of Centipede.

But it's impossible that Shuimen didn't know that the person most familiar with this place was Queen Sara of Loulan.

The centipede's purpose in coming to Loulan was clearly for the power of the dragon vein, so the place where the power of the dragon vein gathers is most likely where the centipede is hidden.

As the Queen of Loulan, Sara knew best the distribution of the dragon vein's power in this city, and also knew where the dragon vein gathered.

However, Minato deliberately ignored this point and sent Naruto to protect Sara.

"Minato, isn't the Queen of Loulan the key to finding Centipede?" Akimichi Choza of Minato's team asked, voicing his doubts.

"No, that child is the key to finding Centipede." Minato shook his head and explained, "Both he and Centipede traveled from the future. Because of the characteristics of time-space resonance, the two of them are most likely to meet."

(End of this chapter)