Naruto: Traveling Through Time Starting with Seizing the Dragon Vein

"BOOM—!!"

The violent explosion kicked up a cloud of smoke and dust, and a large section of armor on the back of the centipede was blown to pieces, revealing the intricate mechanical wiring inside.

"We did it!" Naruto had barely landed back on the ground before he could even celebrate.

However, the next second, a scene that shocked him appeared.

With a blinding flash of purple light, the dragon vein's immense chakra surged wildly into Centipede's wound like a waterfall flowing backward.

In less than a second, the shattered armor piece healed completely at a speed visible to the naked eye, without leaving even a scratch!

"What... what's going on?! He's impossible to kill!" Naruto's eyes widened.

"Don't stop, Naruto! His power source is the underground dragon vein of the entire city. As long as his chakra doesn't run out, he is truly immortal!"

Minato Namikaze's forehead was covered in cold sweat, and his body transformed into a golden lightning bolt, frantically weaving through the dense rain of lasers.

He threw out more than a dozen kunai in an attempt to sever the chakra channels connecting the centipede to the ground, but as soon as those channels were severed, new tentacles immediately grew and burrowed back into the ground.

"Die! Die! Die!"

The centipede opened its abyss-like maw, and a high-energy chakra cannon with a diameter of over five meters began to condense wildly, the violent energy distorting the surrounding air.

"not good!"

Minato instantly activated the Flying Thunder God Technique, grabbed Naruto, and narrowly teleported dozens of meters away.

"boom!!!"

A purplish-black beam of light pierced through the entire underground space, and wherever it passed, whether it was metal, rock, or combat puppets that couldn't dodge in time, everything was instantly vaporized by the high temperature!

The violent shockwave, carrying scorching heat, crashed all the way up to the high platform where Sarah was.

Sarah clung tightly to the railing, the wind whipping her long red hair into a frenzy.

Her pale face was devoid of color, and her pupils trembled, reflecting the terrifying, apocalyptic scene below.

monster.

That was a godlike monster that could not be defeated by human power!

"Did you see that?"

Uchiha Tsuki's voice clearly reached Sara's ears.

“That is what you call ‘power that doesn’t belong to anyone.’ Now, it belongs to An Lushan.”

Moon walked to Sarah's side, looking down at the fierce battle below, her tone filled with cruelty:

"This is the reality of the ninja world. Ideals without power are more laughable than waste paper. Although those two Konoha ninjas are strong, their stamina will eventually be exhausted under the endless consumption of chakra. Once they die, Centipede will carry this power out of the earth, turning your people into an unstoppable machine and turning the entire Five Great Nations into scorched earth."

"And you, this noble queen, can only stand in the desert, watching all this happen, indulging in self-pity over your pure ideal that 'it should never belong to anyone.'"

Moon's words were like the sharpest poisoned dagger, slicing Sarah's unrealistic fantasies to pieces, one cut at a time.

"no, do not want……"

Sarah's legs finally gave way, and she slowly knelt down on the cold metal floor.

Images flashed through her mind of the emaciated civilians in the underground arsenal, her mother's gentle smile from years ago, and then she looked down at Minato and Naruto, who were being driven into grave danger by the Centipede Laser...

If she does nothing, everyone will die!

Her persistence was utterly a joke in the face of such absolute destructive power!

As for revenge, what does she have to take?

"Let's go. While they can still hold off Centipede for a while, I'll take you away from here."

Uchiha Yue turned around, as if he was about to form hand seals to use the Body Flicker Technique, as if he really wanted to completely extricate himself from the matter.

"and many more!"

Just as Yue turned around, a pair of trembling hands gripped his black turtleneck cloak tightly.

Sarah lowered her head, tears streaming down her face.

When she raised her head again, the weakness and innocence in her emerald green eyes had been replaced by madness.

"If...if I give you the power of the dragon vein..."

Sarah bit her lip hard until she tasted blood.

"Can you really kill him? Can you really save my people?"

With his back to her, Uchiha Tsuki finally managed a satisfied smile from the corner of his mouth beneath his mask.

He slowly turned around, his scarlet Sharingan eyes radiating a captivating and eerie light in the dim purple glow, like a demon responding to the prayers of its followers.

"The contract is established, Your Majesty."

Chapter 8 Uchiha Tsukuyomi's Mangekyou Sharingan

The moment the words left his mouth, Uchiha Yue's aura completely changed.

If he was like a skilled stealth fighter before, then now he is a demonic sword that has finally been sheathed and is ready to drink its fill of blood.

He wrapped one arm around Sarah's waist, his figure like a black lightning bolt, plummeting from the high platform and landing steadily in the now-razed central hall.

"Follow the blind spot at the edge to the control panel. No matter what happens, don't look back. My shadow clone will be there to protect you."

Yue released her grip and pushed Sarah toward the massive purple pillar of light. "As for that disgusting worm with too many legs, I'll crush it piece by piece."

Sarah gritted her teeth, glanced at the moon, and then ran towards the hub, hugging the shadows of the ruins.

Meanwhile, in the center of the hall, Minato Namikaze and Naruto Uzumaki had been forced into a dangerous situation.

"Uncle! Watch out on your left!"

Naruto roared and created two shadow clones to rush forward, but they were instantly swept into a cloud of white smoke by the giant metal tail of the centipede.

Although Minato escaped death time and time again with the Flying Thunder God Technique, the high-intensity teleportation greatly increased his chakra consumption.

Faced with the centipede, which possesses unlimited regenerative abilities and doesn't even need to charge its chakra cannon, Minato, who loves gua sha (scraping therapy), can never launch an effective attack.

"Despair! Before the absolute power of the Dragon Vein, your Konoha ninjas are not even worth ashes!"

The centipede roared arrogantly, its enormous body rising high, and within its abyss-like maw, a suffocatingly dense, purplish-black chakra sphere, over ten meters in diameter, was being frantically compressed.

That was a devastating blow that could completely destroy this vast underground space!

"Damn it, there's no time to transfer such a massive amount of energy!" Minato's pupils constricted as he gripped his kunai tightly, preparing to quickly activate the Flying Thunder God Technique to take the surrounding Konoha ninjas away.

However, at this critical moment...

"Da, da, da..."

The extremely steady footsteps sounded particularly out of place on the chaotic and violent battlefield.

Minato turned around and saw the Uchiha youth wearing a black high-necked robe quickly walk in front of the two of them.

"Uchiha Tsukuyomi? What are you doing here?"

Uchiha Tsukuyomi didn't even turn his head, but slowly raised his right hand to face the terrifying chakra ball that was expanding in the mouth of the centipede.

He slowly closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, those scarlet eyes that had been slowly rotating with three tomoe-like markings underwent a chilling transformation.

The three black magatama stones stretched and intertwined rapidly like melting ink drops, eventually transforming into an extremely complex and mysterious pattern.

It was a star array with a polyhedral-like die embedded inside!

Mangekyou Sharingan, awaken!

A chilling, immense, and almost tangible terrifying power of vision erupted instantly, centered on the moon.

"That's... the Mangekyou Sharingan?!"

As a high-ranking member of Konoha, he knew all too well what those eyes represented.

That is a calamity power that exists only in the legends of the Uchiha clan and is comparable to the tailed beasts!

This information must be brought back.

"A Sharingan-wielding insect? No matter what eyes you get, it's all in vain before the Dragon Vein! Die!!!"

With a roar, the centipede unleashed its ten-meter-long chakra cannon, capable of tearing the world apart, as it hurtled toward the moon.

Faced with this devastating attack, Uchiha Yue's right eye suddenly widened, and bright red blood slowly flowed down the corner of his eye, tracing a path down his cold and handsome face.

He whispered the name of the god who symbolized the cornerstone of the world:

"Heavenly Lord!"

"Buzz!"

There was no earth-shattering explosion, nor any violent clash of chakra.

Under the extremely shocked gazes of Minato and Naruto, the space dozens of meters in front of Uchiha Yue suddenly and mysteriously "collapsed".

That's a distortion on a purely physical level.

An absolute gravity sphere, no bigger than a marble but so black it could swallow light, appeared out of thin air.

Heavenly Lord of the Middle Kingdom - A pupil technique that manipulates gravity!

Release a singularity, and then shatter everything in space.

Whether it's objects, ninjutsu, living beings, or even air, they will all be crushed into fragments by gravity.

Depending on the size of the pupil, the range of influence will also vary.

In the future vision, Yue intends to use this extreme gravity to distort the curvature of space, eventually reaching the spacetime domain where "gravity causes time dilation," in order to counter the invisible "world correction force."

At this moment, this gravitational force revealed its most brutal, rudimentary form.

The massive purple chakra cannon, powerful enough to destroy a town, was pulled into a bottomless black hole the moment it made contact with the gravity sphere!

The ten-meter-long burst of violent energy was compressed, torn, and stretched extremely roughly, and was finally sucked into that marble-sized black dot without even a spark being released!

"What?!" The centipede's face, embedded in the armor, twisted instantly. That was an attack he had extracted from the dragon vein, and it had vanished without a sound?!

Uchiha Yue sneered and activated the power of his right eye once more.

"boom--!!!"