Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

The Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release armor erupted with blinding lightning.

When his thunderous fist slammed into the ground, the underground river lurking beneath the swamp suddenly boiled, and the conductive water mist coated the sand barrier with a layer of blue light.

Sasuke's Sharingan instantly detected the chakra blockage point three inches below Kisame's left rib, and the Chidori Sharp Spear, imbued with lightning chakra, precisely pierced it.

Little octopus brother! Killer Bee's sunglasses shards were still embedded in his cheek, but the Eight-Tails' tentacles had already wrapped up Naruto and thrown him into the air, giving him a surprise gift!

The Nine-Tails' chakra cloak traced a golden-red trail in the air.

When Naruto's Rasengan and Sasuke's Chidori resonated, Kakashi's Flying Thunder God Kunai, which he had set up beforehand at the top of the barrier, suddenly activated.

The force field generated by the spatial distortion amplified the power of the composite ninjutsu tenfold. Kisame's three heterochromatic eyes on his back exploded simultaneously, and the splattered slime corroded honeycomb-like holes in the sand wall.

You...how dare you! Suddenly, all of Zetsu's spore clones withered, and when the main body peeled off from behind Raikage, it brought with it a large string of blood droplets.

His half-black, half-white body began to melt, dripping like candle wax onto the glass sand. How could Mother's grace be more than that?

Onoki's Dust Release suddenly swept across, evaporating Zetsu's unfinished words along with half of his body into atoms.

However, the cunning Tsuchikage immediately noticed something amiss—the disintegrated Zetsu did not scream, but instead remained in place like a shed snakeskin.

The sand barrier suddenly trembled violently.

Gaara knelt on one knee, his sand-like right arm frantically absorbing the negative emotions on the battlefield. The stone tablet fragments summoned by Kisame suddenly floated up and pieced together into a complete obelisk inside the barrier.

When Naruto landed, he stumbled and fell to Hinata's side, only to find that the black blood seeping from the girl's wound was outlining unfamiliar totems on the sand.

No! Black blood is suddenly flowing from Kakashi's Sharingan. He's using our attack to complete a sacrifice!

As if to verify his judgment, Kisame's shattered scales suddenly vaporized.

The once infamous rogue ninja from Kirigakure laughed wildly, foul-smelling blood spurting from the gill slits on his neck: "How delightfully foolish... Who do you think you defeated?"

His spine suddenly burst open segment by segment, and twelve tentacles covered with bone spurs burst out of his body.

Even more terrifying is that the tips of those tentacles are covered with miniature versions of Jue, each mini Jue forming hand seals in sync.

Spiderweb-like cracks began to appear on Gaara's sand barrier, and through the cracks, one could see the moon in the night sky being stained with blood.

"Sand Rain!" Gaara roared, accompanied by the rustling sound of sand rubbing against sand.

The suspended sand particles were suddenly magnetized, forming an impenetrable metallic storm.

However, just as the iron sand was about to shred Kisame, the miniature Zetsu on those tentacles suddenly exploded en masse, and the splattered slime etched teleportation array patterns onto the iron sand.

Tsunade's Yin Seal had spread to her neck. She smashed the attacking tentacles with a punch and turned to shout at Kakashi: He's deliberately stalling for time!

That stone tablet...

Before the words were finished, the obelisk soaked in blood suddenly emitted a humming sound like a whale's song.

The black chakra flowing on the inscription solidified into a physical form, which turned out to be an ancient-looking trident.

Kisame's tattered body suddenly began to collapse, twisting and deforming as if swallowed by a black hole, while at the same moment, all twelve tentacles pierced into the stone tablet.

Stop him! Kakashi's Lightning Blade had already pierced the stone tablet, but it was deflected by a black barrier that suddenly appeared.

His headband was blown away by the blast, revealing the old wound that throbbed with pain along with his Sharingan; the halberd was...

A thunderous roar swallowed up the rest of the words.

Kisame's body had swelled into a huge ball of flesh, its surface covered with vascular-like protrusions, each of which pulsated rhythmically.

The Raikage, who was closest to him, suddenly groaned. His prized Lightning Release armor began to backfire uncontrollably, with lightning patterns creeping up his skin and neck.

He was sacrificing himself! Onoki's Dust Release sphere hovered in his palm, yet he hesitated to release it. These chakra fluctuations... were reminiscent of the meteor summoned by Madara Uchiha years ago...

Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly felt a burning pain.

He saw something pulsating inside Kisame's swollen body, a rhythm that reminded him of the ancient stone tablet beneath the Nanga Shrine.

When he tried to warn Naruto, he found the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki standing in the center of the battlefield, holding Hinata in his arms. The black blood seeping from the girl's wounds had spread into a complete sacrificial array.

Naruto!

"Get out of there!" Kakashi's roar was drowned out by another round of explosions.

Kisame's tentacles plunged into the earth, and the entire swamp suddenly collapsed into a vortex, with countless pale arms reaching out from the ground to grab at everyone's ankles.

Killer Bee's eight-tailed tentacles had just wrapped around Temari when they were suddenly entangling in the swampy mud.

The most terrifying change occurred in the instant the moonlight shifted.

The trident on the obelisk suddenly flew up automatically and pierced straight into Kisame's body, which had swelled to its maximum size.

The moment the halberd tip pierced through, time seemed to be paused—the flying sand froze in mid-air, the lightning on the Raikage armor solidified into tree-like patterns, and even the drops of blood dripping from Hinata's wound hovered before Naruto's eyes.

Then, the world started turning again.

Kisame's bloodshot eyes suddenly bulged out of their sockets, and his vocal cords had mutated into gill-like structures, emitting a laugh that sounded like rusty gears rubbing against glass: Witness... the surge of the River of the Dead....

Chapter 321 The Grand Funeral at Huangquanjin

The moonlight refracted into eerie angles in the frozen air.

Naruto knelt in the center of the gradually crystallizing swamp, Hinata's cold fingers trembling slightly in his palm.

The black lines that spread from the girl's wounds were climbing along the veins of the Nine-Tails' chakra, each branch precisely biting into the pale arm that was emerging from the crack in the ground.

Chakra...flowing backwards...Killer Bee used his tailed beast-transformed teeth to tear apart the mud binding the Eight-Tails' tentacles. The dark red tailed beast ball flickered in his throat. This was no ordinary sealing technique! The newly grown scales on his tailbone suddenly stood upside down—the pale hands gripping his ankles all had swirling pupils at their knuckles.

Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly burst forth with a dazzling purple light.

Through Kisame's translucent, swollen skin, he could see countless tiny chakra threads weaving some kind of three-dimensional sealing array.

As the fourth magatama rotated to the center of his pupils, the stone tablet of the Naga Shrine in his memory suddenly overlapped with the array in front of him—it was the Yomizu Grand Funeral! He swung out the Kusanagi sword and pinned down the tentacle that was trying to pull Temari away, a forbidden technique used to sacrifice tailed beasts during the time of the Sage of Six Paths!

Kakashi had already pulled off his headband, revealing his Sharingan.

The three tomoe spun wildly in his blood-red pupils, yet he was still unable to decipher the black runes floating in the air.

As a symbol resembling the Rinnegan brushed past the Raikage's solidified Lightning Release armor, he suddenly realized something and turned around, shouting: Shikamaru!

Can the art of shadow imitation be extended to obelisks?

Not enough distance! Shikamaru's sweat was flowing back into his hair along the shadow chains, unless—he caught a glimpse of Onoki's figure suddenly taking off, the old man's rocky wings unfolding behind him, dust falling in a flurry.

"Let me close the distance." The Third Tsuchikage formed the hand seals for the Earth Dragon Bullet, but let out a muffled groan the instant the technique was completed.

The newly formed bone spurs on his back suddenly pierced through his robe, their blood-soaked tips landing precisely on a floating rune.

The entire swamp suddenly emitted a shrill scream like a baby crying, and the severed tentacles that Sasuke had cut off suddenly spurted out dark green viscous liquid.

Naruto felt Hinata in his arms suddenly start convulsing violently.

The girl's pale lips parted and uttered words chilling to the bone: Hyuga... Caged Bird... The blue curse mark on her forehead was absorbing the Black Blood Array. As the third tomoe appeared in the center of the curse mark, the Nine-Tails' chakra within Naruto suddenly surged uncontrollably toward the array's eye.

Don't touch her! Gaara's Sand Shield suddenly turned into quicksand that enveloped Naruto, but upon contact with the black blood, it solidified into honeycomb-like crystals.

The blood vessel in his left eye suddenly burst, and the blood droplets condensed into the shape of a miniature hourglass in mid-air. This formation was devouring time and space!

Kisame's head, which had swelled to five times its original size, suddenly turned towards the Fourth Raikage.

A fish-gill-like laugh escaped his throat: "Back on Turtle Island... your brother's screams..." Before he could finish speaking, the obelisk trident piercing his chest suddenly split into three white bone chains, which respectively bound Killer Bee, Naruto, and a surge of chakra somewhere in the distant forest.

The half of Jue's body that had emerged from the ground suddenly blossomed into a pitcher plant-like flower bud.

When the sticky nectar dripped onto Gaara's Sand Armor, everyone heard a crisp sound similar to Tobirama's Crystal Mirror shattering.

The clouds that had been split open by the lightning suddenly began to rotate in reverse, and the moonlight gathered in the center of the distorted vortex into the shape of three tomoe.

Now! Sasuke's Susanoo suddenly drew its bow and arrow, but the arrow, burning with Amaterasu fire, shot towards the array at Naruto's feet.

The instant the black flames and black blood came into contact, Hinata suddenly opened the unique azure pupils of the Tenseigan.

Uncontrollably, she raised her hand and formed a secret hand seal that had been lost to the Hyuga clan. Suddenly, eighty-one sealing talismans appeared on the spherical barrier that covered the battlefield.

Kakashi's Sharingan finally detected the point of spacetime distortion.

He tore off the seal on his right arm and summoned the Flying Thunder God Kunai, which was sealed in the Divine Might Space.

When the runes on the kunai's surface connected with Shikamaru's extended shadow chains, the entire swamp suddenly fell into a state of weightlessness—all the chakra flows heading towards the center of the formation strangely stopped.

"Kurama!" Naruto roared, channeling his last bit of chakra into the cursed seal on Hinata's forehead.

As the phantom of nine fox tails unfolded behind the girl, the pale arms that had been gripping the crowd suddenly snapped off at the wrists.

What gushed out was not blood, but countless black mists with distorted human faces.

Kisame's skin finally reached its limit.

In the instant before the explosion, his bulging eyes suddenly turned towards the dense forest in the southeast, and a winding, moving shadow was reflected in the bloodshot whites of his eyes.

The insect emitted a sharp chirping sound, and suddenly thousands of vines with the Flying Thunder God technique shot out from the pitcher plant's flower bud.

Don't even think about escaping! The Fourth Raikage was enveloped in boiling Lightning Release chakra, but the moment he touched the vines, he was teleported to the top of the obelisk.

His powerful punch shattered the magatama relief on the top of the monument, and the flying shards formed a new array in mid-air—the Yin-Yang Release mark used by the Sage of Six Paths when sealing Kaguya.

Chapter 322 In order to resurrect...

Just as Naruto's Nine-Tails chakra was about to be completely extracted, a slippery sensation suddenly wrapped around his ankle.

It wasn't a pale arm from the swamp, but a deep purple object with reflective scales.

He heard Hinata in his arms let out a short cry of surprise. In the girl's bleeding Tenseigan, a pale face flashed by on the treetops in the distance.

Three blue-scaled pythons suddenly sprang from Orochimaru's sleeve, their snouts precisely biting Kisame's throat as he was about to explode.

The moment the snake's fangs pierced the skin, the blood vessels that had swollen to the point of transparency suddenly contracted back to normal, causing the white bone chains on the obelisk to creak under the strain.

That's a truly nostalgic smell of chakra. Orochimaru's tongue brushed against his lower lip, his golden vertical pupils reflecting the melting pitcher plant petals.

His left hand suddenly twisted into a hand seal, and a kind of purple chakra with a sulfurous smell seeped into the swamp through the cracks in the ground. The black mist faces that were about to touch Naruto's brow suddenly cried like babies, and vanished into thin air the moment they touched the Nine-Tails' chakra.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword spun in his palm, leaving afterimages, while Susanoo's bow and arrow remained unreleased.

He stared at the newly formed snake scales on Orochimaru's nape, his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan penetrating the skin to see the Heavenly Curse Seal writhing on the other's spine. "What are you doing here?" His voice was colder than Kakashi's Flying Thunder God Kunai frozen in mid-air.

Orochimaru didn't turn around. Suddenly, the python coiled around Kisame opened its jaws and spat out a scroll soaked in preservative.

When the sealing seal on the scroll's surface came into contact with the vines released by Zetsu, the entire battlefield suddenly fell into an eerie silence—all the falling rubble floated in mid-air, and even the lightning on Raikage's fist solidified into solid crystals.

Naruto Uzumaki. Orochimaru's voice carried the rustling sound of a snake shedding its skin as he raised his hand to catch a drop of blood falling from Hinata's reincarnated eye.

The drop of blood, the instant it touched the pale fingertip, suddenly swelled into a transparent bubble encased in runes, its surface reflecting an altar etched with Rinnegan. Do you know why the Nine-Tails' chakra resonates with the Hyuga clan's Caged Bird Seal?

Naruto suddenly tightened his grip on Hinata's arms.

Blood seeped from the blue curse mark on the girl's forehead, and the drops of blood falling onto the wound inflicted by his sand armor unexpectedly unleashed nine golden chakra tails. Damn it!

What did you do to Hinata? His chakra cloak suddenly surged, but this time the Nine-Tails' roar was mixed with a painful tremor.

Seven pythons, each as thick as a bowl, suddenly emerged from the ground, their heads and tails intertwined to form the outline of a sealing array.

Orochimaru rose to the same height as the floating obelisk, his long black hair moving without wind in the still space: when the Sage of Six Paths divided the Ten-Tails, the Hyuga ancestor wasn't responsible for keeping the Byakugan bloodline limit. He suddenly tore open his clothes, revealing a purple mark on his chest that was perfectly symmetrical to Hinata's cursed seal, but rather a living sacrifice used to restrain the Divine Tree's true form.

Blood suddenly seeped from Kakashi's Sharingan.

In the stagnant spacetime, only Orochimaru's voice could pierce through the thickened air: the tailed beast chakra collected by Obito Uchiha during the Fourth Shinobi World War was merely a stepping stone to the true vessel. He flicked his finger, and the solidified lightning chakra suddenly refracted a scene from an underground laboratory—dozens of experimental subjects, each possessing both the Rinnegan and Tenseigan, were floating in a culture medium.

Killer Bee's tailed beast form suddenly unleashed a burst of dark red chakra from between his sharp teeth: You madman, you're still conducting human experiments! But the Eight-Tails' tentacles were suppressed by an invisible force as soon as they were raised, and the purple light emanating from the snake formation beneath Orochimaru's feet was swallowing up all the vibrations of sound.

Shh—Orochimaru pressed his raised finger to his pale lips, and a barrier carrying the scent of corpses suddenly enveloped the battlefield.

He turned to look at Gaara, who was observing the array with his Eye of Sand, and the wide grin on his face almost tore his cheeks apart: "Lord Kazekage should know best what kind of ancient inscriptions will appear in the sand when Shukaku's chakra is combined with Magnet Release."

Temari's fan ribs suddenly made a cracking sound as if they could no longer bear the weight.

She saw the hourglass-shaped blood bead in Gaara's left eye suddenly rotate counterclockwise, and a crack appeared in the usually calm voice of the young Kazekage: "The dragon vein fluctuations discovered three months ago at the Loulan ruins... were you deliberately leaving this clue?"

Orochimaru's laughter caused ripples to spread across the floating pebbles.

He raised his hand and touched Hinata's fading Reincarnation Eye membrane. Suddenly, a chakra network diagram covering the entire battlefield appeared in the girl's eyes: Akatsuki's true purpose in collecting the Tailed Beasts wasn't to create weapons of war. As his fingernails scratched Naruto's cheek, the Nine-Tails' chakra suddenly condensed into a phantom image of a horned woman—not to revive the one sealed on the moon.

The sudden wind pressure overturned the rocky wings of the Third Tsuchikage.

Orochimaru's pupils suddenly shrank to slits, and the snake scales on his neck throbbed violently, as if he had sensed something terrifying.

The python coiled around Kisame suddenly burst into flames, turning to ashes in the blue fire, and the barrier that had frozen time and space shattered with a deafening roar.

It seems a more troublesome individual has been alerted. Orochimaru's hands began to form ancient hand seals never before seen by anyone, and black patterns resembling the toad oil of Mount Myōboku appeared on his skin.

As the still pebbles began to fall again, he suddenly flung out a sword from his sleeve, tearing through space to reveal a stone tablet in the Kamui dimension engraved with the Rinnegan.