Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

Back off! Just as Kakashi's Kamui vortex tore open a spatial rift, the entire desert suddenly rippled like a curtain.

Naruto felt someone piercing his tailbone with an ice spike, and Kurama's roar and the Ten-Tails' shriek resonated in his eardrums.

As he staggered and grabbed Sasuke's sleeve, he saw black blood tears seeping from his friend's Rinnegan, while further away came Killer Bee's screams as he was torn apart by space.

The darkness came without warning.

When Naruto collapsed onto the cold ground, Sage Mode automatically activated over his entire body.

But this time there was no familiar surge of natural energy; some viscous substance was devouring his chakra.

He groped his way towards the direction he remembered and threw a punch, but the golden light from the Rasengan was swallowed whole by the darkness, and even the echo was chewed up into nothingness.

Nine Lama?

Sasuke?

Kakashi-sensei! His shout turned into a sweet, metallic taste on his tongue.

When a sudden burning pain shot through the back of his left hand, he saw the reverse summoning contract from Mount Myōboku festering on his skin, the deep purple scars gradually outlining the wedge-shaped pattern unique to Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.

A kind of oppressive force, similar to a glare but even more violent, crushed his knees.

Naruto coughed up blood and propped himself up. The ball of light that the Six Paths Yang Power condensed in his palm reflected a horrifying scene—countless floating meteorites were forming a giant Tenseigan above his head, and Neji's face at the moment of his death was reflected on the surface of each rock.

When he tried to form the Shadow Clone Seal, he discovered that each of his fingertips was wrapped with the cursed chain of the Hyuga main family.

Is this... the future you see...? He trembled as he touched the rampaging reverse-current chains on his chest, suddenly understanding why the Fourth Hokage's kunai wailed in Kakashi's hands.

As a cracking sound, similar to the resonance of the Byakugan, echoed from the depths of darkness, he unhesitatingly shattered the sealing talisman binding his right arm—if the Ten-Tails' chakra could tear through space, then Kurama's complete form might be able to...

Chapter 491 The Caged Bird Curse

The rotation of the meteorite swarm suddenly stopped.

Naruto's pupils contracted to vertical slits, his beastly eyes reflecting the crimson light that slowly opened at the end of the darkness.

It wasn't the Sharingan or the eye of a tailed beast; some ancient, more thirsty gaze was seeping out from the spacetime rift.

He heard his own rapid heartbeat gradually synchronize with the sound of some kind of machinery, and when he instinctively adopted the Gentle Fist starting stance, he discovered that the Caged Bird Seal on his palm had somehow transformed into the Samsara Wedge Seal of the Otsutsuki.

The crimson light in the darkness split into thousands of points of light, and as Naruto took a half step back, the sand that his boots sank into suddenly made a crisp sound like bones cracking.

The lingering echo of the Ten-Tails' shriek reverberated deep within his cochlea, while Kurama's chakra surged violently the moment it touched the wedge-shaped lines on his palm—those wandering red pupils were not the eyes of living beings; each ray of light had a tomoe (magatama) suspended in the center, rotating in the opposite direction, like a deformed product reassembled from torn Sharingan fragments.

Thirty-two whooshing sounds simultaneously attacked from different dimensions.

Naruto spun around and unleashed a chakra cloak that swept across the void, but the beast's claws tore apart some kind of gelatinous spacetime rift.

The first black shadow to pounce appeared as a distorted humanoid shape in Sage Mode perception, but what covered its surface was not ninjutsu chakra, but the Caged Bird Curse Seal, which originated from the same source as the meteor shower.

As the monster's claws grazed his ribs, the splattered blood droplets congealed in mid-air into the Hyuga clan crest.

The technique of summoning spirits! He bit his thumb and slapped it onto the blood-stained sand, but the purple scars formed by the festering reverse spirit contract bounced the technique back into his meridians.

As he staggered backward in excruciating pain, seventeen or eighteen red pupils suddenly converged into a ring above his head.

He saw the afterimages of his companions reflected in the center of each tomoe—the black blood flowing from Sasuke's Rinnegan was being swallowed by spatial folds, Killer Bee's broken tentacles were carbonizing into ash under the starlight, and half of a bloodstained Konoha headband was floating deep within Kakashi's Kamui vortex.

Naruto's back, soaked in cold sweat, slammed against the icy barrier, and he was startled to realize that a matrix of meteorites had been erected around him.

On the surface of those suspended rocks, Neji's blurred face suddenly opened his Tenseigan at the same time, and the azure beams of light intertwined to form a cage that pinned him to the spot.

Kurama's roar created a resonant shockwave in his chest cavity, but the Tailed Beast Ball was absorbed by the matrix before it could take shape. Instead, it activated the Caged Bird Seal to climb up along the chakra cloak.

Don't let your emotions consume you. Jiraiya's voice suddenly pierced the chaos of his mental space from his memory, and Naruto's trembling fingertips touched the ninja tool pouch at his waist.

As the three red-eyed monsters tore through the meteorite barrier and launched their attack, the Wind Demon Shuriken he threw with a backhand, imbued with Sage Chakra, was distorted in trajectory by the spatial turbulence the instant it sliced ​​through the enemy's body—the spinning blade suddenly reflected a scene that horrified him: Hinata's Tenseigan was being devoured by the Caged Bird Seal, and the blood blooming in her snow-white pupils overlapped with the scene of her enduring the wounds inflicted by Pain's black rods to protect him.

The tailed beast bone spikes that erupted from the chakra cloak pierced through the two monsters, but their remains turned into liquid curse seals that seeped into the sand.

Naruto, panting heavily, knelt on one knee and discovered that the reversed pattern of the Mount Myōboku toad rune was appearing on his cut wrist.

The meteor shower surrounding the matrix began to rotate in sync, and Neji's voice suddenly rang out simultaneously in seventeen different tones: "The fate of the main family... the fate of the branch family... are all puppets on strings..."

A sudden, intense pain spread from the wedge-shaped markings to his heart, and Naruto saw his spurting blood drawing the veins of a giant Tenseigan in the air.

When the matrix completed its third rotation, all the red-eyed monsters suddenly froze, kneeling towards the center of the meteorite cluster, revealing wedge-shaped protrusions on the back of their necks that shared the same origin as the Ash Bones of Kaguya's Shared Kill.

Kurama's chakra suddenly roared in the mental space, and Naruto instinctively tore off the bandage on his right arm.

Amidst the acrid smell of burning sealing talismans, he saw the blood vessels beneath his skin being torn apart by two forces: the Yang energy originating from the Sage of Six Paths shimmered with a golden glow, while the Karma seal of the Otsutsuki clan spread out with deep purple veins.

When the Ten-Tails' mournful resonance emanated from the spacetime rift at the center of the matrix, an ancient pressure surpassing the power of the tailed beasts caused his Sage Mode to automatically advance—eyeshadows similar to the Six Paths Mode appeared on his eyelids, but deep within his pupils swirled a composite pattern of the Caged Bird and the Rinnegan.

At this moment, the meteorite matrix completed phase tuning, and all Neji's faces simultaneously revealed a compassionate smile.

The sand beneath Naruto's feet suddenly collapsed into a vortex. In the instant he fell, he glimpsed the Tenseigan core floating high in the sky opening its bloodshot True Eye—the pattern in that pupil was clearly the Caged Bird Seal magnified a million times.

Chapter 492 Unique Secret Technique

The sand formed a spiraling curtain in the gale, and the moment Naruto fell into the abyss, the Nine-Tails' chakra transformed into a crimson tailed beast robe that enveloped his entire body.

Countless Neji faces shimmered on the meteorite's surface, while indigo chakra seeped from the wedge-shaped protrusions on the back of their necks, weaving a birdcage barrier that enveloped the sky.

Is this... the real caged bird? Naruto's right arm bandages were torn apart by the gale, and the golden and purple veins under his skin intertwined like living things.

The low growl from the Nine-Tails made his eardrums ache: "Boy, that Reincarnation Eye is analyzing the power of the Six Paths!"

The Ten-Tails' resonance pierced through the spatial rift, and the composite pattern in Naruto's pupils suddenly rotated in reverse.

The excruciating pain from the spontaneous advancement of Sage Mode made his vision go black, but the stench that rushed towards him made him instinctively throw out the Rasenshuriken—the ninjutsu that was supposed to tear through space strangely collapsed into chakra specks when it touched the red-eyed monster.

Twenty-seven humanoid beings emerged from the sandstorms from all directions, fragments of the Reincarnation Eye embedded in their foreheads reflecting an ominous purple light.

The first monster to pounce had its arms mutated into All-Kill Ash Bones. When Naruto rolled to dodge, his left shoulder was still grazed, leaving a deep wound that exposed the bone.

Before the blood even hit the ground, it was swept up by the sand and dust and flew into the sky, drawing new runes on the surface of the caged bird's barrier.

The eighth attack pattern evolved. Naruto, panting, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth as a Truth-Seeking Ball barrier suddenly appeared behind him, blocking the three bone spikes.

The wedge marks on the back of those monsters' necks were synchronized with the flow of chakra within his body. Whenever the power of the Nine-Tails erupted, the corresponding tailed beast cloak patterns would appear on their skin.

Kurama's sharp fangs nearly crushed the cage of the mental space: they were learning our combat data! Golden chains shot out from Naruto's palm, but were reversed and injected with Sage Chakra the instant they wrapped around the monster's neck.

The backlash from the natural energy originating from Mount Myoboku caused his meridians to tremble violently, and as he staggered backward, he collided with a phase-tuned meteorite matrix.

Countless fragments of memories suddenly flooded into his consciousness: the bulging veins on Sasuke's forehead when he activated the Rinnegan, Hinata's trembling fingertips when she bandaged his wounds, and the light of the Lightning Blade that Kakashi tore open when facing the Ten-Tails' split body.

On the meteorite surface Naruto was leaning against, Neji suddenly shed two streams of bloody tears: Run... This time loop is...

The warning came to an abrupt end.

Seven gray bones pierced through Naruto's limbs, pinning him to the meteorite surface. In the midst of excruciating pain, he saw the blood mist he spewed out reconstructing the cursed seal patterns of the Caged Bird.

The Nine-Tails' chakra could no longer keep up with the erosion of the Karma seal as it repaired the wound. The seal on his right arm had long since burned to ashes, revealing purple veins spreading beneath his skin like a circuit board.

Is this... the end again? Naruto's Sage Eyeshadow began to fade, but the core of the Tenseigan in the sky suddenly emitted a blinding light.

A familiar chakra wave pierced through the barrier—it was the energy frequency left over from Sasuke's Indra's Arrow during the battle at the Valley of the End three years ago.

The pupils, which were on the verge of dilation, suddenly contracted.

Naruto bit his tongue to force himself to wake up, and with difficulty, he formed the Child Seal with his right hand, which had been pierced by the nail.

Kurama's roar and the Ten-Tails' wail resonated in the mental space, and the monsters that were about to deliver a fatal blow suddenly froze—the wedge marks on the back of their necks were absorbing the blue chakra leaking from the Tenseigan.

"So that's how it is..." Naruto coughed up blood and laughed, his face, covered in blood, revealing his usual stubbornness. "You're all being controlled by a higher power too." The nine chakra tails exploded with a roar, and the Truth-Seeking Balls transformed into black rods, shattering the gray bones that bound him.

During the fall, he saw the golden and purple chakra overflowing from his wounds merging into an unprecedented shimmering white light.

The moment his toes touched the ground, Naruto clasped his hands together.

The golden light originating from the Yang power of the Six Paths intertwined with the deep purple light of the Karma seal, condensing in the palm of the hand to form a new Rasengan containing the energy of the Tailed Beast Ball.

The Reincarnation Eye fragments of the twenty-seven red-eyed monsters trembled simultaneously. They instinctively assumed the Bagua Palm starting stance, but did not know which attribute of defensive technique to copy.

This is a unique secret technique—the moment Naruto leaps up, the phantoms of seven Jinchuriki appear behind him—Super Bond Rasengan!

Chapter 493 Everyone is breaking free from their cage in their own way

Amidst the thunderous crash of the luminous white sphere hitting the ground, a ring of waves thousands of meters high was unleashed over the desert.

The dozens of defensive ninjutsu copied by the monsters were dismantled one by one by the bloodline chakra flowing inside the sphere of light when they touched its surface.

The Tenseigan shards emitted a crisp sound like shattering glass, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the Caged Bird Barrier that enveloped the battlefield.

When the smoke and dust cleared, Naruto knelt on one knee in the center of the meteorite crater, which was 100 meters in diameter.

The remaining three monsters were twitching on the sand, the wedge marks on the back of their necks faded to dark gray.

Suddenly, a beam of light shot down from the core of the Tenseigan high in the sky, and the faces of Neji, who had already died, reappeared, but the blood and tears in the corners of his eyes turned into a relieved smile.

"Watch out!" Nine Ramas's warning rang out simultaneously with the buzzing sound of the expanding spacetime rift.

Naruto looked up and saw the Caged Bird Seal in the Tenseigan pupils decomposing and recombining. A kind of energy fluctuation that transcended the chakra system made the hairs on his body stand on end.

In the lingering glow of the Bond Rasengan, he vaguely sensed more than a dozen familiar chakra trails—just like the coordinates locked by the Allied Shinobi Forces using the Telescope Technique back then.

Naruto's five fingers were deeply embedded in the scalding sand, and the remaining shimmering white light in his palm resonated with the blue energy falling from the sky.

Kurama's ears suddenly perked up: Southwest, 320 zhang! The crimson chakra robe suddenly expanded, and Naruto transformed into a golden stream of light, rushing towards the area with the densest cracks in the barrier. Along the way, the sandstorm spontaneously split open a passage—those shattered Tenseigan fragments were reflecting the unique indigo violet flashes of Sasuke's Lightning Release chakra.

At the same time, Shikamaru's Shadow Binding Technique was being pierced by the Magnet Release Sand Iron of the twenty-seven puppets.

He leaned back to dodge the senbon that brushed past his face, and the explosive tags hidden in his sleeve barely managed to stick to the puppet's joints. Damn it... Beads of sweat slid down the secret talisman behind his ear. In the smoke and dust kicked up by the explosion, he saw Temari's three-star fan tear through spatial folds. Hey!

The trajectory of the wind blade is wrong!

Temari somersaulted in mid-air to avoid the swirling sand waterfall, and frost suddenly seeped from the ribs of her three-star fan—the cold jade material from the core of Kankuro's puppet. Space was folding! Her Kamaitachi Jutsu struck the phase-distorting barrier, and the buzzing sound of Naruto's Rasengan echoed from within the storm.

The moment their eyes met, Shikamaru's shadow suddenly tripled in size, dragging the puppet into the suddenly appearing meteorite matrix rift.

So that's how it is! Shikamaru bit his finger and drew a six-pointed star in the sand. These spatial nodes would reflect the chakra attributes of his comrades! As the blood-drawn array lit up, Temari's three-star fan cleaved through the illusory image reflected by the Tenseigan, and Gaara's Sand Eye pattern suddenly appeared on the fan surface.

Thousands of miles away, Killer Bee's tailed beast-transformed claws tore apart the last red-eyed monster, but the Eight-Tails' tentacles suddenly sensed an abnormal pulsation of the Ten-Tails' chakra. "Hey~ this rhythm is off~" The rapping stopped abruptly as he saw the chakra overflowing from his wounds being absorbed into the Caged Bird Seal on the surface of the meteorite.

As the third Tenseigan fragment rose from the ground, his pupils beneath his sunglasses suddenly reflected the light of Naruto's Rasenshuriken.

Hinata's Byakugan is bleeding due to overuse.

Among the seventeen monster afterimages she shattered with her gentle fist, a golden wedge mark suddenly lit up on the back of the neck of one of the fallen bodies. Naruto-kun... Her trembling fingertips touched that lingering chakra, and the palm wind of the Eighty Gods Vacuum Strike suddenly turned towards a certain void in the high sky—where ripples unique to the Nine-Tails' chakra were spreading.

The Truth-Seeking Ball on Naruto's back has been reassembled into a ring-shaped resonator.

As he pressed the newly formed Rasengan into the spatial rift, the twenty-seven meteorite matrices suddenly trembled in unison, and the sealing array from the Five Kage Summit reappeared beneath the sea of ​​sand. Everyone... the Sage Mark on his forehead burst forth with blazing white light, each trying to break free from their cage in their own way!

Kurama's tail suddenly coiled around three Truth-Seeking Balls that were spinning in reverse: Now! The moment Naruto leaped up, seven meteorite craters simultaneously erupted with pillars of tailed beast chakra.

When his Rasengan resonated with Shikamaru's Exploding Tag Formation, Temari's Kamaitachi Storm, Killer Bee's Tailed Beast Ball, and Hinata's Eight Trigrams Palm, the entire Caged Bird Barrier suddenly revealed a tree-like network—each branch tipped with chakra points from the Allied Shinobi Forces members.

Amidst the shrill sound of space being torn apart, Naruto saw his blood droplets floating in the arrangement of the Big Dipper.

As the last drop of blood fell into the center of the formation, his shattered headband suddenly reflected the cold light of Sasuke's Kusanagi sword.

Nine chakra tails, carrying the aftershocks of all their companions' attacks, blasted a spiderweb-like spacetime rift into the core of the Tenseigan.

In the reflection of Naruto's Mangekyou Sharingan, a familiar figure is severing the threads of cause and effect amidst lightning.

When his Rasengan finally touched the air of the real world, a sharp, chorus of birdsong echoed from the other side of the rift—along with that perpetually impatient yet reassuring snort.

Chapter 494 The Overlapping Barrier of the Meteorite Matrix

The lightning bursting from the space-time rift illuminated the sea of ​​sand in a ghastly white light, and the tremors of the Rasengan tearing through space still lingered on Naruto's fingertips.

The causal threads severed by the Kusanagi sword suddenly wrapped around his bleeding palm, and Sasuke's Sharingan glowed crimson at the edge of the meteorite crater ten meters away.

"The worst performer." Sasuke flicked away the black substance from the sword's edge; the slime made a sound like a baby crying. "Your chakra trail is still so conspicuous."

The sand swirled beneath their feet.

Kurama's chakra cloak suddenly enveloped the two of them, and three Truth-Seeking Balls spinning in reverse exploded on Naruto's shoulder, forming a serpentine black shadow that launched a sneak attack.

Sasuke's Chidori Stream followed the veins of the Tailed Beast Cloak, pinning the second wave of monsters to the scorching sand.

Two kilometers to the southeast. Kakashi's voice, mixed with the buzzing of Raikiri, pierced through the sandstorm.

Seven kunai bearing the Cloud Village Crest were driven into the barrier node to Naruto's left. Killer Bee's Eight-Tails tentacles, wrapped with fragments of the Third Raikage's Lightning Release armor, pulled Kakashi out of the spacetime turbulence.

Hinata's Byakugan suddenly opened amidst the smoke and dust.