Ninja World: I, Kisame Hoshigaki, am no longer human!

She formed a hand seal for a spirit summoning spell, and as a puff of white smoke dissipated, a black tea cauldron appeared on the floor in front of the two of them.

Kisame picked up the tea pot and sensed it with his chakra. Sure enough, Shukaku was imprisoned inside, emanating a frenzied chakra.

"very good."

He nodded, bent down, and placed a large hand on Gallo's shoulder.

"What are you going to do?" Garuda asked instinctively.

The next second, she felt dizzy and, with a scream, was sucked into the Elysium Box by Kisame.

Temari and Kankuro, who were standing nearby, stopped crying and stood there dumbfounded when they saw this.

Kisame waved his hand and put the two little devils into the Box of Bliss, where they went to keep their mother company.

"Looks like I've made quite a haul this time," he muttered to himself.

He came for the Dragon Vein, but before finding it, he had already obtained the One-Tailed Shukaku, as well as the three geniuses Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara, which was another unexpected bonus.

However, whether it's a coincidence or not, Kisame always seems to run into widows with children, whether it's Yuki-onna, Natsume, Mikiko, or Karura.

Thinking of this, he smiled and shook his head, then lightly leaped into the underground passage.

Kisame did not want to reveal his true form—the Kun—so he planned to take away the dragon vein of Loulan as soon as possible before Sasori and the others from Akatsuki arrived.

He walked deeper into the passage along the sloping slope.

As Kisame ventured deeper underground, the passage became increasingly spacious, with a network of ventilation pipes crisscrossing the walls. Every few meters, lights were installed and remain lit to this day, a truly remarkable sight.

After walking through the passage for about ten minutes and descending more than a hundred meters, Kisame finally saw a spacious underground palace in front of him.

Kisame noticed that the floor tiles of the main hall were carved with many intricate patterns and characters. They meandered and combined in an incomprehensible way to form a huge sealing spell that faintly shimmered with light.

As for Maki and the others who arrived here before Kisame, they were gathered in the center of the hall, surrounding a purple crystal that was more than two meters tall, marveling at it.

The amethyst crystal was covered with numerous chains. Inside the translucent crystal, a dragon-shaped energy surged violently, constantly crashing against the crystal walls and roaring.

This is the sealed dragon vein.

Because its energy was so immense, it even developed sentience over a long period of time, just like a real dragon. Once freed from its restraints, it would soar into the sky.

Kisame pondered for a moment, then decided not to reveal himself immediately, but instead remained hidden in the shadows, waiting to see what would happen.

Sure enough, the group of Sand Village ninjas quickly urged Sara to open the seal on the Dragon Vein.

"Yes."

Sarah responded numbly, still under the control of the illusion, and mechanically walked to the dragon vein, placing one palm on the crystal surface.

"Come on, let's witness the power of the dragon vein. Hopefully, this thing won't disappoint."

Maki murmured, his gaze intense.

A snap.

As Sara channeled her chakra into the crystal, the chains binding it quickly snapped and fell to the ground.

The dragon vein, which had been trapped for so long, was finally freed at this moment.

"Roar!"

The chakra dragon within the crystal let out a deafening roar, then slammed into the amethyst even more violently. In an instant, it smashed numerous cracks into the crystal's interior, and the dragon vein's energy surged forth from those cracks like a flood bursting its banks.

"Such a massive amount of chakra..."

Maki was both surprised and delighted. Although the dragon vein had only leaked a small portion of its energy, it was already enough to be awe-inspiring.

If this dragon vein could be turned into a weapon, it would be able to easily destroy the entire Amegakure, just like Nagato did to Sunagakure, an eye for an eye.

Thinking of this, Maki and the other Sand Village ninja were extremely excited.

Kisame, hidden in the shadows, also showed a look of surprise.

Kisame was quite knowledgeable about chakra reserves. He himself was a tailless tailed beast and had close contact with several tailed beasts, as well as extraordinary beings like the live slug.

But at this moment, the dragon vein chakra within this amethyst surpassed all others, giving him a feeling of infinite regeneration and endlessness, as if it were inexhaustible.

What exactly is a dragon vein? Is it something from outer space, something born of nature, or something created by humankind?

Just as Kisame was lost in thought.

"I can't control its power anymore!"

At the edge of the crystal, Sarah was pale and covered in sweat, looking utterly exhausted.

As soon as she finished speaking, she collapsed to the ground and lost consciousness.

"Now it's our turn to take over this dragon vein."

Maki glanced at Sarah lying on the ground, unconcerned, and immediately ordered, "Sealing squad, move out!"

Several ninjas stepped forward and stood at the four directions of the crystal. They took out huge scrolls, spread them out on the ground, and then skillfully performed hand seals, attempting to control the dragon vein.

However, it turned out that Maki and the others had underestimated the power of the dragon vein.

How could something that even Kisame was cautious about and dared not approach easily be controlled by a bunch of rabble?

boom!

The chakra dragon inside the crystal opened its massive mouth and spewed out a dazzling beam of light that instantly pierced the crystal and spread rapidly, engulfing the entire hall.

what? !

Maki and the others were horrified. Under the beam of light, the few ninjas from the sealing squad who were closest to the crystal vanished into thin air in terror.

It is the power of space and time.

Kisame's gaze sharpened upon seeing this.

The legend that the Dragon Vein's power can distort spacetime seems to be true. Those Sand Village ninjas have all been sent into the spacetime turbulence by the Dragon Vein, and most of them will only face being pulverized to pieces.

"Scatter!"

Maki shouted and, along with the rest of the group, retreated rapidly, quickly avoiding the range of the pillar of light. However, no one paid any attention to Sarah, who lay unconscious on the ground, and she was about to be swallowed by the pillar of light.

call out.

At the critical moment, a chakra thread shot out from not far away, wrapped around Sara's body, dragged her over, and saved her life.

Maki and the others didn't notice this scene because they were too busy taking care of themselves.

Boom!

After the beam of light that spewed from the dragon vein expanded to its limit, the dazzling light engulfed the entire underground hall, followed by a violent explosion that caused the hall to collapse.

In an instant, the stone pillars inside the hall collapsed, the ground caved in, the pipes broke, and dust filled the air, engulfing everything.

Maki and the others quickly gathered together and used Earth Release ninjutsu to create a temporary shelter to withstand the impact.

On the other side, after Kisame rescued Sara, he casually put the unconscious Sara into the Box of Elysium. Then he looked at the center of the hall and saw a dragon-shaped chakra burst through the dome and head straight for the ground.

The dragon vein has escaped.

However, Kisame wasn't in a hurry to give chase, because even if his clone caught up with the dragon vein, it might not be able to seal it. In that case, it was better to leave it to his main body outside—Kun—to handle.

Moreover, Kisame soon discovered that the commotion caused by the dragon vein was not limited to that.

In the underground hall, after the dust gradually settled, several unfamiliar figures appeared.

206. Ninja from the Future

Rumble.

A violent tremor, as if an earthquake, came from beneath the Loulan ruins. The already dilapidated buildings within the ruins shook violently during this tremor, collapsing even more completely.

Swish.

At that moment, a dazzling beam of light shot into the sky from the Queen's Palace in the heart of the ruins. Within that beam of light, a lifelike dragon could be faintly seen, baring its fangs and roaring.

Tens of kilometers away.

"That is……"

In the desert, a hunchbacked, burly man dressed in an Akatsuki uniform looked up at the pillar of light at the Loulan ruins with surprise in his eyes.

This person is Sasori of the Red Sand.

As a former genius ninja of Sunagakure, he became a rogue ninja after assassinating the Third Kazekage. Now, he has been recruited by Nagato and joined the Akatsuki organization.

Not long ago, Sasori received intelligence from his spy Yura, saying that remnants of the Sand Village had discovered the legendary Dragon Vein in the desert. Sasori was very interested in this and came here immediately.

He withdrew his gaze and quickened his pace, heading towards the ruins.

call out.

In the sky, as the beam of light pierced through the heavens and earth, the dragon vein moved further and further away from the ground, and soon broke through the thick clouds and arrived above the sea of ​​clouds.

At this point, it was finally free, no longer under human control or confinement.

However, for the dragon vein, freedom was so fleeting. It never imagined that a greedy creature had already been lurking above the sea of ​​clouds, waiting to ambush it.

A gigantic creature, hundreds of meters long, appeared above the dragon vein, blocking out the sunlight and casting a huge shadow.

The Kun opened its mouth, like a whale sucking in water, and the sea of ​​clouds below immediately began to churn violently. Many clouds were torn apart and flowed into the Kun's deep maw like seawater.

Even the dragon veins within it cannot escape the fate of being devoured.

"Roar!"

It roared in defiance, its body struggling violently, but it was all in vain. For the Kun's power lay in devouring energy, making it the nemesis of energy-based creatures like dragons.

Thus, this giant dragon, formed from infinite energy, was swallowed by the Kun and gradually dissipated, starting from its tail.

Meanwhile, underground.

When the dragon vein broke free from its crystal seal, its immense energy not only permeated heaven and earth but also distorted spacetime, opening an unknown passage.

"Cough cough cough."

A coughing sound came from the dust of the underground hall. As the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, three unfamiliar, young figures appeared.

"Ouch, that hurts..."

A loud, boisterous voice rang out first.