Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

The spacetime rift created by the collision of the Kamui vortex and the Tailed Beast Ball suddenly contracted into a black hole.

The mysterious figure's hand, which he tried to pull back, was bound by quantum chakra chains. Beneath the bandages, a wide grin stretched to his ears: "You thought this was the end?" His voice suddenly split into a male-female reverberation. The dark red moon at the center of the altar oozed a pitch-like substance. "You yourselves opened the gates of Yomotsu Hirasaka."

Sasuke's Chidori spear suddenly pierced through the mysterious man's right shoulder.

As the Amaterasu Black Flame burned along the puppet strings toward the altar, the White Zetsu corpses parasitizing the rock strata suddenly let out a shriek.

Kakashi's Rinnegan suddenly displayed a terrifying image—emerging from the depths of the black hole were clearly the souls of the Allied Shinobi Forces hanging on the Ten-Tails' Divine Tree.

The seal is complete! Naruto knelt on the ground, the Nine-Tails' cloak fading into a thin mist.

But Hinata's Byakugan suddenly snapped open, and her trembling fingertips pointed to the edge of the black hole—from the gaps in the torn bandages of the mysterious man, the vermilion chakra unique to Sunagakure was seeping out.

At the same time, the sound of rocks cracking came from the bottom of the altar, and a puppet scroll engraved with Chiyo's name was absorbing natural energy.

The spacetime rift suddenly trembled violently, and tree-like cracks appeared on the surface of the black hole that trapped the mysterious person.

Before Sasuke could sheathe his Kusanagi sword, the black liquid on the hilt suddenly came to life and seeped into his skin.

On the western cliff face of the battlefield, the Flying Thunder God Technique seal left by the Fourth Hokage twenty years ago is now resonating with the black hole, emitting an eerie blood-red light.

Chapter 283 Learned to Predict?

The buzzing sound of the space-time rift caused rubble to fall in a flurry. Kakashi pressed down on his wildly throbbing Rinnegan with one hand, the illusion of the corpse hanging from the Ten-Tails God Tree still lingering on his retina.

Naruto leaned against the cracked edge of the altar, panting. The mist of Nine-Tails chakra crystallized into tiny crystals on the tips of his hair.

The vermilion chakra was flowing backward! Hinata's Byakugan meridians bulged, and her pale pupils reflected the crimson light surging beneath the mysterious man's bandages, and the forbidden technique scroll from Sunagakure recorded... Her voice was swallowed by Killer Bee's sudden roar of the Tailed Beast Ball, and the Eight-Tails' tentacles, carrying lightning, crashed into the black hole barrier.

Shikamaru grabbed Temari, who was almost blown away by the blast wave, and used Shadow Binding Technique to create a spider web on the ground: the Flying Thunder God Technique left by the Fourth Hokage twenty years ago—look at the pattern of blood! His dusty fingertips traced the rock wall, where a tree-like pattern that was perfectly symmetrical to the cracks on the surface of the black hole was emerging.

The mysterious man's black robe suddenly swelled into a sphere, and the black rod formed by Yin-Yang Escape shot out from the gap in the quantum chain.

Sasuke spun around and severed three spikes that were aimed at Hinata. The black liquid on the Kusanagi sword had already spread to his elbow: Puppet Strings! He roared and unleashed Amaterasu Fire, but the black flames strangely collapsed into ink dots when they touched the dark red moon in the center of the altar.

Natural energy is gathering towards that scroll! Naruto suddenly pointed to the bottom of the altar, where the puppet scroll with the name Chiyo engraved was emitting rainbow light.

The Sage Mode markings on his forehead flickered uncontrollably, and the vortex formed by the Nine-Tails' chakra and natural energy shattered his voice: Hinata spoke of a spatial node... at the angle between the scroll and the Flying Thunder God Technique!

Kakashi's Rinnegan suddenly bled, and he trembled as he formed the Si hand seal: It's not an angle... it's the point of overlap of four-dimensional coordinates! The light of the Raikiri illuminated his pale face, and the coordinates of the Flying Thunder God from twenty years ago and the puppet scroll of today formed a Möbius strip in spacetime!

The mysterious man's maniacal laughter shattered a rock pillar within a ten-meter radius. Beneath the shards of bandages, the skin revealed burn marks from a Sand Village headband: "Clever brats." His voice suddenly shifted to Granny Chiyo's aged tone, and three chakra chains snapped in response. "But have you forgotten?"

Yomotsu Hirasaka has always had two doors—

Now! Naruto's body erupted with a golden and blue chakra cloak, and his nine fox tails whipped up the floating dark red moon, slamming it toward the overlapping coordinates.

Hinata's Gentle Fist Chakra precisely cut into the blind spot of the energy vortex, and the 360-degree Reverse Barrier bounced the scattered fragments of spacetime back at the mysterious man.

Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly oozed black blood. He staggered and plunged the Kusanagi sword into the crack in the altar: Amenotejikara! His right arm, corroded by the black liquid, instantly swapped places with the rock at the scroll's location.

When the scroll inscribed with Chiyo appeared in his hand, the Flying Thunder God Technique from twenty years ago suddenly projected a semi-transparent phantom image of Minato Namikaze.

"Father..." Naruto's murmured words were drowned out by the roar of the spacetime shattering.

Crimson runes erupted from the resonance point between the scroll and the Flying Thunder God Technique, weaving together in the air to form a massive sealing array.

The mysterious man's mouth, which had been torn to the roots of his ears, froze for the first time, and his left arm, which was parasitizing the corpse of the White Zetsu, began to quantize and decompose.

It's not over yet! Kakashi's Rinnegan suddenly reflected the Divine Tree deep within the black hole, and the hanging ninja souls were extending semi-transparent hands—Naruto!

The sealing array is absorbing our chakra memories!

The moment the giant hand formed from the Nine-Tails' chakra lifted the Rasenshuriken, Naruto saw the crimson crane pattern of Sunagakure flash within the blood-red runes.

As the Sage Chakra collided with the spacetime rift, he vaguely heard Minato Namikaze's voice piercing through twenty years: "Sever the chain of cause and effect..." The smoke condensed into purplish-red particles in the afterglow of the spacetime distortion. As Sasuke propped himself up with the Kusanagi sword, the undried black liquid on the hilt was seeping into the rock layer along the crack.

Killer Bee's octopus tentacles were the first to sense the cessation of the spatial tremors. He wiped the scabs off his face, and shards of his sunglasses reflected a seven-layered rainbow between his fingers: Yo!

This rap battle is a victory for justice!

Don't move. Kakashi's Rinnegan was still bleeding, but he precisely grabbed Hinata's wrist as she tried to rush towards Naruto.

A faint healing chakra emanated from his palm, which bore the scorch marks of the Lightning Blade. The gravitational field left by the spacetime trap would tear... Before he could finish speaking, the sleeve of the girl's snow-white kimono suddenly burst open, and dozens of hair-thin spatial rifts flashed around her.

Naruto's golden-blue chakra cloak suddenly surged, and the Nine-Tails' materialized claws barely blocked Hinata's path.

When those deadly spatial rifts collided with the crimson beast claws, they produced a crisp sound like shattering glass. The bottom-of-the-class student has actually learned to predict? Sasuke chuckled, flicking away the quantum residue from his blade, but his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan remained fixed on Naruto's back—where a wisp of black mist was moving along the Sage Mode runes.

Because of Hinata's Byakugan... As Naruto turned around, a thin veil made of Kurama's chakra gently wrapped around the girl's bleeding fingertips.

His silly, goofy grin was a stark contrast to his earlier, time-tearing display of power. Whenever I acted recklessly, her chakra fluctuations would resemble those of a frightened rabbit.

Shikamaru's Shadow Binding Technique suddenly wrapped around their ankles: "Flirting can wait until we've cleaned up the battlefield!" He pointed to the quantized remains of the mysterious figure, a body covered in Sand Release burn marks, decomposing into red sand. These grains of sand possessed magnetic properties; if they drifted into the still-open spacetime rift...

It would trigger a chain reaction just like it did twenty years ago. Temari's three-star fan stirred up a whirlwind, and the iron sand was precisely slammed into the sealing scroll just as it was about to touch the edge of the black hole.

When she turned to glare at Shikamaru, her earlobes were still flushed from being entangled by the shadow: Couldn't a smart person have reminded me sooner?

The meteor shower formed by the Earth-Exploding Star finally stopped. As the last sliver of the black hole rift closed under the watchful gaze of Minato Namikaze's phantom, a cracking sound suddenly came from the bottom of the altar.

The puppet scroll, inscribed with the name Chiyo, unfurled automatically, revealing the chakra markings of the past Kazekage of Sunagakure beneath the yellowed talisman paper.

Kakashi's Rinnegan suddenly stung – the arrangement of those markings was exactly the same as the sealing array of Konoha's barrier team during the Nine-Tails' attack twenty years ago.

He won... Naruto staggered and slumped to the edge of the altar, the Nine-Tails' chakra receding back into his body like a receding tide.

Hinata's exclamation was drowned out by the sudden burst of cheers from the crowd. When she realized that her palm was pressed against Naruto's chest, the boiling chakra instantly turned her fair skin the color of a boiled shrimp.

Hey, a Jinchuriki's heart isn't a toy. Killer Bee used his tentacles to pull up the medical kit, but deliberately let the bandages dance in comical trajectories in the air.

Sasuke silently wiped the Kusanagi sword, when he caught a glimpse of Naruto quietly grasping Hinata's trembling fingers.

As he turned to walk toward the broken rock pillar, a smile appeared on his lips that he himself did not even notice.

As the cheers subsided, Shikamaru suddenly used a kunai to lift half of the bandage: "Something's wrong. Look at the back of Naruto's right hand." The setting sun pierced through the prism left by the space-time barrier, and on Naruto's arm, which was holding Hinata, the mark formed by blood-red runes was absorbing the surrounding light.

Within the vortex of Sage Chakra that spontaneously formed, the crimson crane crest of Sunagakure pulsed, sometimes bright, sometimes dim, as if a life that had been dormant for a thousand years was breathing through Naruto's skin.

Kakashi's headband suddenly emitted a metallic groan, and the lingering sting from the Rinnegan reminded him of the spirits hanging on the Divine Tree—the rhythm of those translucent hands bending and stretching was perfectly synchronized with the frequency of the runes' flashing light.

Chapter 284 The Curse Searches for a Host

The setting sun cast an eerie purplish-red hue on the runes on the back of Naruto's right hand, and the wings of the Sand Village's Red Crane Crest suddenly began to vibrate beneath his skin.

The medical bandage turned to ashes the moment it touched Hinata's fingertips. Killer Bee's pupils behind his sunglasses suddenly contracted: "Yo~ This isn't an ordinary burn. Hinata's chakra circuits have been drained by 20%~" The octopus tentacles formed from the tailed beast's chakra suddenly wrapped around Naruto's wrist, but burst into dazzling sparks the moment they touched the runes.

"Don't touch it!" Kakashi's Lightning Blade carved a scorched trench in the ground, forcibly separating the group.

Beneath his raised forehead guard, the burn marks left by the Rinnegan were bleeding. "This is the Yin-Yang Release restriction, older than the Six Paths Sage's stone tablet." As the chakra overflowing from Naruto's fingers began to erode the basalt of the altar, Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly trembled like a dragon's roar—the six-tomoe jade inlaid in the hilt resonated with the runes.

"In your Sunagakure puppet scrolls," Shikamaru suddenly pressed his kunai against Temari's throat, "was there anything similar recorded?" His Shadow Imitation Technique snaked across the ground to form a sealing array, but he was shocked to find that his chakra was being drawn away by the runes in the opposite direction.

The gold dust flowing on Temari's three-star fan suddenly solidified into the face of Granny Chiyo: "I have seen this before—on the body of the Second Kazekage after it was drained of its life force."

Naruto felt as if millions of sand ants were gnawing at his bone marrow, and Kurama's roar echoed in the depths of his consciousness, sometimes near, sometimes far.

As he enveloped the runes with Sage Chakra, memories of twenty-seven battlefields from the Warring States period suddenly flooded in—the necks of those sacrificed ninjas all shimmered with the same crimson crane pattern.

“This isn’t power…” He swallowed hard, the metallic taste rising in his throat, and looked at Hinata’s eyes where the same lines had appeared. “It’s a curse searching for a host!”

Killer Bee's Eight-Tails chakra suddenly transformed into a seven-stringed lyre, and his rapping voice was mixed with the buzzing of the Tailed Beast Ball: "Idiot! Use the Demon Chains to bind me in reverse!" Eight octopus tentacles formed the hand seals of the Cloud Concealment Technique in the air, but made the runes burst with even more light.

Sasuke's Amaterasu Black Flame and Naruto's Sage Art Rasengan simultaneously blasted towards the rune, but at the moment of impact, they were absorbed into pale energy threads—those threads were weaving the meridians of some kind of creature.

"Stop!" Kakashi's Kamui vortex sent everyone flying, and the blood flowing from his left eye drew the Flying Thunder God Technique seal on the altar. "This is not chakra, it is natural energy materializing!" When Naruto discovered that the runes were beginning to devour Hinata's chakra meridians, the Nine-Tails' chakra cloak suddenly flowed back into his body—all the orange light turned into chains that bound his heart.

Orochimaru's talisman suddenly emerged from Sasuke's curse seal, projecting a relief of Ryuchi Cave onto the ground.

When Naruto bit his finger and pressed it onto the embossed snake eye, the rune finally revealed the outline of the three tomoe—clearly a variant combining the Uchiha clan crest and the Hyuga Caged Bird!

The roar of the mechanism turning came from the bottom of the altar, and Kakashi's Lightning Blade illuminated the peeling mural on the rock wall: the Sage of Six Paths was not piercing the Ten-Tails with his scepter, but Kaguya, whose chest was marked with a red crane pattern.

“I see…” Naruto suddenly pulled off his headband, exposing the runes completely to the moonlight. “This thing is waiting for a pair of Rinnegan as a sacrifice.” His Sage Chakra suddenly condensed into Truth-Seeking Balls, but they were stained blood-red the moment they touched the runes.

As Sasuke's Rinnegan began to spin uncontrollably, the entire altar suddenly sank into the ground—revealing beneath their feet a massive sealing array covering the entire ninja world, every single rune of which seemed to breathe.

The moonlight was suddenly swallowed by something, and Kakashi discovered that what his Sharingan reflected in the sealing array was not the starry sky, but countless Rinnegans that were opening.

The basalt powder remaining on the altar began to rise against gravity into the night sky, forming the outline of a red crane even larger than the tailed beast.

The moment the moonlight drifted across the crimson runes, Naruto's Sage Chakra suddenly exploded with a radiant light like shattered glass.

The chains formed from the Nine-Tails' chakra snapped inch by inch, and he was thrown out, his back slamming heavily against the moss-covered basalt pillar at the edge of the sealing array.

Sasuke's Rinnegan's three tomoe spun wildly, but he only had time to catch Hinata, who staggered and fell to her knees, with the ribs of his Susanoo—the red crane pattern on the girl's eye was visibly eroding the distinctive blue veins of the Hyuga clan.

The concentration of natural energy has surpassed that of Ryuchi Cave! Orochimaru's talisman projected a snake-shaped relief on the ground, which suddenly came to life and hissed as it burrowed into the crack in the ground.

Just as Kakashi's Kamui vortex swept away the flying fragments of the sealing array, Killer Bee's muscles beneath his Tailed Beast Cloak suddenly bulged with bluish-purple veins: "Idiot! Bastard!"

Chapter 285 Two opposing energies clash

This thing is stealing my Eight-Tails' chakra! The octopus tentacles on its back are uncontrollably stabbing towards the center of the altar, with each tentacle tip blooming with a crimson lotus flower of the same origin as the runes.

Shikamaru's Shadow Imitation Technique twisted into a pretzel shape on the ground, cold sweat soaking the ends of his tied-up hair: the energy flow trajectory had changed—this thing was now treating us all as chakra batteries. The tip of his kunai pried open the specially made sealing scroll of Sunagakure, and the four ancient characters of "Red Crane Burning Sacrifice" on the yellowed puppet blueprint were bleeding.

Temari's three-star fan brushed past his ear, and the gold dust, carrying the chakra left behind by Granny Chiyo, collided with the runes, but upon contact, it condensed into hundreds of red cranes poised to take flight.

"Don't use ninjutsu!" Kakashi's Lightning Blade tore through the bandages wrapped around his left arm, and the Rinnegan burn marks suddenly extended into tree-like patterns, analyzing our chakra attributes! Before he finished speaking, the six tomoe on Sasuke's Kusanagi sword automatically fell off and pieced together in the air to form the pattern of an Uchiha fan.

As Naruto struggled to his feet, Kurama's roar made his eardrums ache: "Idiot!"

Haven't you noticed yet?

Those twenty-seven memories weren't battlefields, they were twenty-seven blood sacrifices!

Hinata suddenly let out a painful whimper, her snow-white pupils reflecting the scene of Princess Kaguya being pierced by the scepter.

The breathing of the sealing array suddenly became rapid, and each array pattern bulged out like an earthworm-like blood vessel.

Killer Bee's Eight-Tails chakra tentacles suddenly changed direction and stabbed towards his own heart: Yo~ Since you want chakra~ I'll give you something special~ The purple-black light of the Tailed Beast Ball was compressed to the size of a needle tip at the tip of the tentacles, but was shredded by Shikamaru's shadow at the moment it was about to explode.

Energy overload will trigger the second layer of restrictions! Shikamaru's kunai pinned to a cracking array pattern on the ground. Kakashi-sensei, is the array eye in the southwest direction engraved with a modified version of the Flying Thunder God Technique? His bloodied fingertips drew a secret star chart of the Nara family in the air, and twelve floating chakra points suddenly echoed the Nine-Tails chakra behind Naruto.

Temari's sandstorm swept up pebbles and formed a constantly rotating swastika seal above everyone's heads.

Sasuke's Susanoo suddenly unfolded into its complete form, and the moment the purple giant bow was fully drawn, the arrow was aimed at Naruto's brow: the loser, using Yin-Yang Release to create a chakra vacuum! The phantom of the Sage of Six Paths' staff swirled in his Rinnegan, that thing was waiting for two opposing energies to clash!

When Naruto's Sage Art: Super Tailed Beast Rasenshuriken collided with Sasuke's Indra's Arrow, the crimson light emanating from the runes suddenly collapsed into a black hole.

The entire sealing array emitted a cracking sound like a dislocated spine, and from the spatial rift torn open by Kakashi's Kamui, moonlight carrying the salty smell of the sea suddenly surged out.

The chains formed by the reverse flow of the Nine-Tails' chakra cloak were still wrapped around Naruto's heart, emitting a sickening metallic scraping sound as the black hole rotated.

Suddenly, a seven-colored rainbow was reflected from the crack in Killer Bee's sunglasses, and the eight-tailed bull demon tattoo on his neck was peeling off piece by piece like molting skin.

Shikamaru's shadow twisted on the ground into ancient characters on a prophecy scroll, each stroke oozing a bluish-purple hue from a special poison made by Sunagakure.

When Temari's three-star fan touched the floating red crane gold dust, all the ninja headbands worn by everyone simultaneously emitted a buzzing sound—the sound was very similar to the static vibration before a thousand birds sing.

Kakashi's Sharingan reflected the edges of the fading sealing array, and a tremor older than the pressure of the tailed beasts was awakening in every grain of sand.

Chapter 486 Stability is just a facade

Moonlight, carrying the salty seawater, poured down from the Divine Might Crack, condensing into tiny salt crystals at the edge of the black hole.

Sasuke's Susanoo wings remained in a defensive posture, but his purple bones were covered with frost-like crystals, each reflecting the chakra chains flowing backward from Naruto's heart.

“The phase difference of chakra transmission is 0.3 seconds.” Shikamaru’s shadow split into seven on the ground, projecting the prophetic text at everyone’s feet. “The Six Paths Yang Power remaining in Naruto’s body is producing a rejection reaction.” Sand Village poison slid down his temples, scorching black marks on the ground.

Killer Bee suddenly ripped off his sunglasses, which were now cracked like a spiderweb, and the Eight-Tails' tentacles emerged from the tattoos on his molted skin: "Idiot! Chakra should be like rhyming lyrics, yo! You need to inject it in three beats to get the rhythm right!" His impromptu rhymes created golden sound waves in the air, but they were shattered into stardust when they touched Naruto.

Naruto felt the chains in his heart devouring the tailed beast's cloak, and Kurama's roar echoed in his mental space: "Kid, those runes are eating my chakra!" As he tried to explain, his throat was blocked by a sweet, metallic liquid—blood that had seeped out and congealed into beads at the corner of his mouth.

"Get out of the way." Sasuke's Rinnegan gleamed with an unnatural bluish-gray hue, the phantom of the Tenma Spear flickering in his palm. "Forcibly breaking through the chakra barrier requires..."

"Are you going to act on your own again?" Kakashi's kunai suddenly appeared between the two, blood seeping from his Mangekyou Sharingan beneath his torn headband. "The spatial rift is devouring the prophetic text. When the venom corrodes the third '巳' character..."

His words were interrupted by a sudden buzzing sound.

The metal on all the headbands seemed to come alive, and the tremors, like the chirping of a thousand birds, caused Hinata's Tenseigan to activate automatically.

When she saw the tangled chakra veins in Naruto's body, her pale fingers suddenly clenched her clothes—those golden chains were growing backward along the meridians, about to pierce his heart.

"Wait!" Temari's three-star fan suddenly unfolded, and the red crane gold dust formed a sealing array in the air. "Similar situations are recorded in the daimyo's secret archives, when Yin-Yang Release..."

"No time!" Sasuke's Susanoo suddenly swung its giant bow, and an arrow, crackling with lightning, pierced towards Naruto's chest.

Kakashi's Kamui vortex deviated from its trajectory in a fraction of a second, and the lightning grazed Naruto's ear, creating ring-shaped ripples on the surface of the black hole.