Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

When he saw the vortex pattern emerging at the intersection of the runes, his usually lazy right eye suddenly narrowed: the Fourth Hokage had also used this composite sealing technique to seal the Nine-Tails, but the structure here was even closer to...

The sound of something cutting through the air severed Kakashi's voice at the end.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword collided with Samehada, which suddenly slashed down, sparking purplish-red embers. Kisame's bluish-gray face emerged from the distorted spatial ripples, and the serrated blade barely grazed the boy's neck, scraping against the Susanoo's bones with a teeth-grinding sound.

Young people these days really don't know any manners. Kisame grinned, revealing a mouthful of sharp teeth. The hilt of his Samehada sword, wrapped in bandages, suddenly extended, bypassing the Kusanagi sword like a venomous snake and heading straight for Sasuke's heart. At least one should greet an elder.

The buzzing sound of the Rasengan severed the bandages. As Naruto stood in front of Sasuke, the tailed beast claws of the Nine-Tails' chakra cloak gripped Samehada's barbs tightly.

The violent clash of two streams of chakra created a gale that overturned the mud within a ten-meter radius, revealing the stark white bones buried beneath the swamp.

It seems the Nine-Tailed Demon has learned to guard its food? With a flick of Kisame's wrist, Samehada suddenly split into hundreds of tentacles covered with suckers, each tip glowing with the blue light of Water Release chakra. But wild dogs that steal their prey usually die the fastest.

Amidst the shrill sound of countless high-pressure water blades tearing through the air, Kakashi's Lightning Blade cleaved a charred passage through the cluster of tentacles.

Blood beads seeped from the dark tattoo on the back of his neck due to chakra overload, but his Sharingan precisely locked onto Kisame's true form: Team 7, 30 degrees southwest, form a swastika!

Hinata's Byakugan meridians surged, and the Bagua formation created by Gentle Fist acupressure perfectly blocked the water clone that emerged from the ground.

Her trembling fingertips left afterimages as she formed hand seals, and the chakra sphere formed by the Rotation Technique protected Shikamaru at its center.

Twelve kunai, each bound with an explosive tag, shot out using the centrifugal force of the Reincarnation technique, only to be swallowed up by Kisame's suddenly surging chakra the instant they touched the hem of his clothes.

Good tactics. Kisame's pupils suddenly turned into vertical slits, and the chakra absorbed by Samehada formed a phantom of a three-headed giant shark behind him. It's a pity you haven't seen the real Tide yet.

The entire swamp suddenly boiled and bulged, with tens of thousands of water droplets suspended in the air, each droplet reflecting Kisame's ferocious smiling face.

As Killer Bee's eight-tailed tentacles wrapped around Temari and Gaara, propelling them into the air, the swamp below transformed into a whirlpool a kilometer in diameter, and the stone monument rising from the center of the whirlpool was being washed more and more clearly by the water.

"Look at the inscription!" Onoki, protected by the Sand Shield, suddenly exclaimed.

The cuneiform script began to recombine after absorbing the water flow, and the latter part of the prophecy was gradually emerging.

But Kisame's giant shark phantom suddenly opened its blood-red maw, and the stone tablet shattered before everyone's eyes.

Naruto's golden-orange chakra cloak suddenly swelled, and his nine tails wrapped around Sasuke, who was about to fall into the vortex.

Blood spurted from the corner of his eye dripped onto the fragments of the stone tablet, and a familiar pattern flashed in his mind—the gap in the technique that sealed the Nine-Tails twenty years ago perfectly overlapped with the trajectory of Kisame's chakra flow at this moment.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto roared, slamming the Rasenshuriken into the center of the vortex with that technique!

As the Chidori of Raikiri and the roar of the Tailed Beast Ball exploded simultaneously, Kisame's cold laughter was suddenly interrupted by a discordant pause.

He looked down at the shadow that had somehow wrapped around his feet. Samehada's slash towards the ground was half a second slower than usual—that half a second was enough for the lightning to penetrate the gill slits of the three-headed giant shark phantom.

The mud, carrying fragments of the stone tablet, churned in the vortex. Shikamaru's pupils suddenly contracted—Kisame's Samehada tentacles, seemingly dancing haphazardly in the lightning, were actually each precisely piercing the eye sockets of the white bones beneath the mud.

After absorbing chakra, the skulls that had been soaking for twenty years strangely revealed dark red patterns similar to those in the swamp runes.

So that's how it is... Shikamaru's index finger suddenly pierced his palm, and blood dripped onto the Nara family's ancestral star compass.

When the members of Team 7 formed a battle formation as Kakashi instructed, only he noticed that Kisame would intentionally or unintentionally crush a piece of gravel with a whirlpool pattern before each Water Release technique.

The moment the water blade grazed his ear for the eighth time, Shikamaru's blood-stained compass suddenly emitted an indigo light.

He ripped off the mithril pendant hanging around his neck, and the twelve prismatic metal pieces embedded precisely into the crater previously created by the explosive tags.

These seeds of Nara's secret medicine, buried underground, grow wildly under the stimulation of blood and chakra.

Bagua Formation: Thorn Cage!

Kisame's cold smile froze at the corner of his mouth.

Thousands of wisteria vines burst forth from the ground, each vine surface adorned with incantations of shadow mimicry.

Even more deadly is the mucus secreted from the vines, which causes Samehada's chakra absorption rate to drop by 30%.

When he tried to split the vines, he found that his movements were being interfered with by twelve mirror images of thorns that were being replicated simultaneously from all directions.

Mixing gold dust from the Land of Wind with Nara's secret medicine, it seems Sunagakure and Konoha should have formed a marriage alliance long ago. Killer Bee's lips suddenly curled into a smile behind his sunglasses, and the Eight-Tails' tentacles wrapped around Naruto, tossing him high into the air.

The chakra of the two tailed beast cloaks resonated the moment they came into contact, and the golden and blue halos intertwined to form a spiral pillar of light.

Super Tailed Beast Rasengan!

For the first time, astonishment appeared in Kisame's pupils.

His vaunted chakra-devouring ability proved as fragile as paper before the combined energy storm of the two tailed beasts.

As the ball of light, carrying lightning, pierced through his chest, everyone clearly heard a crisp sound like a shell shattering—it was the tortoise shell seal hidden beneath the Akatsuki's black robes disintegrating.

They won? Temari's three-star fan was still in the hand seal position when the Sand Village's specially made chakra sensing talisman suddenly spontaneously combusted and turned to ash.

She looked at Kisame kneeling in the scorched earth and suddenly noticed a blue tattoo, similar to the vortex stone tablet, faintly visible beneath his shattered mask.

Hinata's Byakugan suddenly stung.

From her perspective, Kisame's dissipated chakra did not dissipate; instead, it flowed along the network of bones beneath the swamp toward the center of the vortex.

The fragments of the stone tablets, soaked in mud and water, are reassembling half a human face in a strange rhythm.

Be careful! He has...

Before Hinata could finish speaking, Kisame's battered body suddenly convulsed and swelled up.

Its originally bluish-gray skin cracked inch by inch, revealing the bluish-black scales underneath.

Most disturbingly, three tentacles covered with suckers emerged from his broken spine, each with a bloodshot eyeball embedded at its end.

What a nostalgic pain. Kisame's voice became like an underwater volcano roaring. His newly grown claws easily tore through the thorny cage. You didn't actually think that Akatsuki's rogue ninja would be so easily eliminated like cannon fodder, did you?

The swamp suddenly fell silent.

The water droplets suspended in the air stopped falling and instead began to rise in the opposite direction.

Onoki's Dust Release technique had only condensed halfway when it was crushed into light dust by some invisible force.

Under the horrified gazes of the crowd, cuneiform script, perfectly matching the prophecy on the stone tablet, appeared on the chakra wings that slowly unfurled behind Kisame.

Kakashi's Sharingan suddenly started bleeding.

Fragments of memories from the night of the Nine-Tails twenty years ago resonated with the chakra fluctuations of the mutated Kisame before him.

When he saw the Rasengan re-formed in Naruto's palm, he suddenly realized that his most terrifying conjecture was becoming a reality—these seemingly accidental battles might all be a sacrificial ritual meticulously arranged by someone.

Deep within the swamp, the crimson runes on the last fragment of the stone tablet were greedily sucking up the blood spilled by the crowd.

Chapter 319 Don't Let Anger Consume You

The chakra vortex above the swamp roared like a whale's cry, and Kisame's three heterochromatic eyes on his back simultaneously shrank into vertical lines.

When the spiraling water blade grazed Killer Bee's Thunder Plow Blade and exploded, everyone heard a crisp sound as space was torn apart.

"Three o'clock!" Kakashi's headband was already off, and his Mangekyou Sharingan spun wildly in the blood.

Before he could finish speaking, Shikamaru's Shadow Imitation Technique had already entangled the pale figure emerging from the mud.

However, the bound Zetsu suddenly split in two, with one half of its body transforming into a man-eating flower that bit at Temari's nape.

"Iron Sand Rain!" Gaara's sand shield just in time to wrap around Temari, and the iron sand collided with the sharp teeth, creating blue-purple sparks.

This move left his left shoulder wide open, and Kisame's tentacles shot out like sharks smelling blood.

At the critical moment, Lei Ying's fist, wrapped in lightning, slammed the tentacles into the ground, instantly crystallizing the mud within a ten-foot radius into glass.

Naruto stared at the Rasengan flickering in his palm, the Nine-Tails' chakra surging wildly through his meridians.

As the third wave of water blades struck, Hinata's Byakugan suddenly glowed with a soft light.

The girl's slender figure was like a butterfly passing through a storm. Her soft fist touched the air and created ripples, forcefully deflecting the fatal blow that was supposed to pierce Naruto's chest.

"Don't get distracted!" Hinata's rebuke trembled as she turned around, and the blood droplets that fell from her right arm condensed into blood coral in the turbulent flow of chakra.

Naruto's pupils contracted sharply as he saw three suction cup tentacles emerging from the shadows behind Hinata, their fangs poking out. Time seemed to stretch out into thick syrup.

The world lost its color in an instant.

When the crimson chakra cloak suddenly erupted, even Naruto himself couldn't tell whether it was Kurama going berserk or the burning rage of his heart exploding.

He watched helplessly as the tentacles pierced Hinata's right shoulder, and the girl plummeted into the boiling swamp like a kite with a broken string, the blood droplets in her hair reflecting shattered starlight in the moonlight.

"Eight Trigrams Empty Palm!" Neji's voice seemed to come from the distant depths of the water.

The moment the sandstorm engulfed Hinata, Naruto heard a beast-like roar burst from his throat.

The six fox tails shattered the thorn cage within a hundred-meter radius, but also made the cuneiform script on Kisame's wings shine brightly.

Kakashi's kunai pierced deep into his left arm, the pain pulling him out of the fragments of memories from the Nine-Tails Night.

Twenty years ago, when the Fourth Hokage sealed the Nine-Tails, those blood-red runes floating outside the barrier were now resonating with Kisame's chakra deep in the swamp.

He suddenly realized something, turned around and roared at Onoki, who was forming hand seals: "Stop using Dust Release! Those light fragments..."

It's too late.

The dust particles floating in the air suddenly swirled back and condensed into a prism amidst Zetsu's maniacal laughter.

When the beam of light, refracted by the seven chakra natures, pierced through Killer Bee's octopus tentacles, the Eight-Tails' mournful cry shook the clouds.

Kisame's scales began to peel off, but each scale that fell to the ground transformed into a piranha and pounced on the injured ninja.

“This is not a mutation.” Tsunade smashed the swarm of fish with a punch, and the slug split was struggling to stitch up the wounds of the injured at her feet. “His cells are regressing to their ancestral state... or rather, evolving towards some ancient form.”

As if to confirm her judgment, two more tentacles covered in bone spurs sprouted from Kisame's spine.

The newly grown tentacles plunged straight into the swamp, and the ground beneath their feet suddenly began to pulsate.

Before Shikamaru's shadow could shrink, it was lifted high into the air by the surging mud waves. The last thing he saw was Zetsu growing out of the Raikage's Lightning Release armor, like a fungus parasitizing lightning.

Naruto knelt beside Hinata, the girl's blood soaking his trembling fingertips.

The Nine-Tails' chakra was frantically repairing the penetrating wound, but with each ray of golden-red light entering the wound, black runes would emerge from under Hinata's skin.

As he looked up to find the culprit, he was met with Kisame's three rotating heterochromatic eyes—they were not human eyes at all, but rather like an ancient sea god peering into the human world through the eyes of a fish.

"Be angry, Jinchuriki." Kisame's voice was mixed with the rustling of seashells. The characters on his wings began to peel off, and each character that fell to the ground made the stone tablet fragments in the swamp tremble. "When the chains of hatred are corroded by blood, the Gate of Return to the Void will rise on Yomotsu Hirasaka."

Kakashi's Sharingan suddenly felt a burning pain.

Deep within the memories of twenty years ago, the wedge-shaped symbol that flashed by in Kurama's eyes now perfectly overlaps with the text on Kisame's wings.

He suddenly turned to look at the center of the swamp, where the blood-soaked stone tablet fragments were automatically piecing themselves together. What was seeping from the cracks was not blood at all, but viscous black chakra.

"Don't let anger consume you!" Kakashi's roar jolted Naruto out of his rage. "The negative emotions generated by these battles are sacrifices!"

As if to verify his conjecture, Jue's body suddenly split into countless spores.

Each spore that lands on the wounded will bloom into an eerie chakra flower.

Onoki, who was locked in combat with the Raikage, suddenly groaned. His right hand, which was using Dust Release, began to form unfamiliar hand seals uncontrollably, as if invisible threads were manipulating a puppet.

Gaara's sandstorm suddenly stopped in mid-air.

The young Kazekage looked down at the sand flowing in his palm; the sand, stained with black chakra, was emitting mournful cries.

As he looked up at the center of the battlefield, the gourd at his waist suddenly pulsed with an ancient energy—like a temple buried deep in the desert for thousands of years knocking on its rusty door knocker on a full moon night.

Chapter 320 The Surge of the Yellow Springs

The sand hummed sharply in Gaara's palm, like a million desert scorpions flapping their wings in unison.

The young Kazekage's pupils suddenly contracted into an hourglass shape, and the sand, contaminated by black chakra, began to actively detach from his control, surging towards the assembled stone tablet in the center of the battlefield like iron filings attracted by a magnet.

So that's how it is... Gaara's left hand, which had been hanging down, suddenly gripped the gourd at his waist, and the sealing talisman gleamed with a bronze luster under the moonlight.

His voice, as if polished by sandpaper, instantly solidified the sandstorm within a hundred-meter radius into glass-like crystals. The dormant thing within this body had finally found an object of resonance.

Tsunade, who was entangled with the spores, suddenly turned around.

She saw Gaara's right arm skin peeling off piece by piece, revealing not flesh and blood but flowing gold dust. The cuneiform characters emerging from the surface of those grains were exactly the same as those on Kisame's wings.

Onoki's Dust Release fragments suddenly all turned, gathering into a dazzling star ring around the Kazekage.

Shukaku's resentment cheered. When Gaara took his first step, the sand and gravel on the entire swamp began to tremble.

Blood and tears were seeping from the dark circles under his left eye, and the right half of his body had completely turned into sand. It seemed that the sealing technique passed down through generations of Sunagakure was not just for suppressing tailed beasts—

Before the words were even finished, the surging sandstorm suddenly transformed into a colossal wall reaching to the sky.

Tens of thousands of tons of glass sand formed a honeycomb-like barrier, refracting all the corrosive water blades released by Kisame into harmless light spots.

Temari's three-star fan remained in a defensive stance. As she gazed at her brother's back, she suddenly recalled that rainy night three years ago—Gaara, having been separated from Shukaku, lay on the operating table, and similar ancient runes had appeared beneath his skin.

"Chakra resonance frequency adjusted to the third band!" Kakashi's roar pierced through the sandstorm. Beneath his blood-stained headband, his Mangekyou Sharingan was frantically analyzing the barrier structure. "Raikage-senpai, please use Lightning Release to stimulate the underground water veins in the southeast!"