Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

She noticed that the treetops, which should have been swaying in the wind, were now all motionless, pointing towards the northern mountain peaks.

On Shikamaru's shadow map, the light spots representing everyone are approaching a constantly moving blank area—where the spatial coordinates are reset every ten seconds.

The concentration of natural energy was excessive. The Sage Mode markings on Naruto's face began to flicker, and tiny cracks appeared on the Truth-Seeking Balls on his back. Kurama said the chakra flow here felt like it was being...

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly displayed hundreds of overlapping afterimages, each of which was repeating the disintegration motion of Black Zetsu when he was knocked away.

He reached out and pressed on Naruto's shoulder, and the ripples generated by the resonance of their chakra caused the space a hundred meters in front of them to refract like a mirror.

In those shattered mirrors, countless stone tablets can be vaguely seen floating in the air, each with a blood-red Moon Eye inscription carved on its surface.

As the first ray of moonlight pierced through the clouds, Kakashi's Sharingan suddenly saw Obito's phantom flash by in the mist.

The ghost, forever frozen at the age of thirteen, raised his right hand, his index finger pointing towards the entrance of a canyon hidden by vines.

Deep within the canyon, fluorescent substances resembling white spores flicker and undulate like a starry sky.

The Raikage's Lightning Release armor emitted an uneasy buzzing sound as he discovered that his chakra was being reordered by some kind of rule.

The Fourth Tsuchikage's Dust Release barrier suddenly went out of control, and Kaguya Otsutsuki's face appeared in the white light.

The entire pursuing force's ninja tool bags trembled simultaneously, and tiny black dewdrops seeped from the surfaces of all the metal items.

Watch out! Gaara's Eye of Sand suddenly exploded into golden dust in mid-air, and the warning text formed by the sand grains was swallowed by the mist before it could take shape.

Naruto, who was charging at the forefront, suddenly felt his right foot sink into some kind of gelatinous space, and the air touched by the Nine-Tails' chakra cloak rippled with seven colors.

Thirty meters behind him, Sasuke's Kusanagi sword automatically unsheathed, its tip pointing directly at a huge, taking shape in the mist.

When the hooting of an owl pierced the deathly silence, the group finally saw the landscape ahead—a canopy of trees that blotted out the sky, woven into a dome under the moonlight, and fluorescent patterns resembling human meridians appearing on the surface of the vine-entwined tree trunks.

Even more disturbingly, all the chakra sensing techniques that entered the edge of the forest returned the exact same blank frequency.

Chapter 330 All Illusions Lacked a Scent

The moment the Nine-Tails' chakra carried Naruto into the mist, the spores floating in the air suddenly turned around.

Just as Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan captured the chakra threads seeping from the cracks in the tree bark, the vines throughout the forest suddenly began to writhe like a swarm of snakes awakened from their slumber.

Don't touch those fluorescent lights! Kakashi's Lightning Blade tore apart three vines that were wrapped around Shikamaru, and the flying wood chips turned into blood-red ice crystals in mid-air.

Temari's fan blade cleaved through the mist, but the gale hurled even more spores toward Killer Bee's face.

The eight-tailed tentacles, wrapped in chakra, swept across, and the shattered spores pieced together a distorted kaleidoscope pattern above everyone's heads.

Naruto suddenly froze on the spot.

The flames of the Nine-Tails' cloak seemed frozen, and his pupils reflected the image of Sasuke being pierced through the heart by the Kusanagi sword, followed by Hinata's Byakugan shattering in the sandstorm, and the blood seeping from Kakashi's mask staining the pages of Icha Icha Paradise.

The boundary between reality and illusion was dissolved by some viscous substance. He saw the torrential rain of the End Valley when he was twelve years old mixed with the spore rain of this moment, washing everyone into pale silhouettes.

"The worst of the worst!" Sasuke's Amaterasu burned a charred circle around Naruto's feet, but the spores touched by the black flames suddenly cried out like babies.

Onoki's Dust Release beam enveloped the entire area, but refracted into a rainbow prism the moment it touched Naruto's chakra cloak.

Within the prism fragments, the Third Tsuchikage saw his shattered body being devoured by tree roots.

Naruto's fingernails dug deeply into his palm.

The stench of blood mixed with the sweet aroma of spores flooded his nostrils, and the Nine-Tails roared in agony deep within his consciousness: This is not Tsukuyomi!

These hallucinations would actually manifest in his body! He saw Sakura trying to save Neji in the medical tent—a mission that was supposed to be classified—but now he could clearly hear the sound of each chakra thread breaking.

Naruto-kun

A gentle call pierced the blood-red curtain.

Hinata's Byakugan veins bulged as she stepped into the Dust Release barrier, ignoring the Sunagakure advisor's attempts to stop her.

Spores crystallized into ice crystals at the tips of her hair, and with each step she took, vines tried to entwine her ankles, but the blue light from her gentle fist acupressure remained persistently flickering like fireflies.

That year during the Chunin Exams, your silhouette, standing before me, shone brighter than the sun. Her fingertips gently touched Naruto's bulging chakra cloak; the chakra scalpel precisely severed the spores connecting to the back of Naruto's neck. You said the path to becoming Hokage requires companions, and now... warm tears dripped onto the back of Naruto's bulging veins. Please let us be your guiding lights.

The Nine-Tails' chakra suddenly collapsed into a vortex.

When the bloodshot in Naruto's eyes faded, everyone saw that his right hand was tightly gripping Hinata's headband, and his left hand, using Lightning Release chakra, had somehow imitated Kakashi's Chidori starting stance.

The rain of spores created a strange vacuum around the two of them, and all the vines that tried to get close withered away on their own within three meters.

Sorry to make everyone... Naruto wiped the blood from his nose. The patterns of Nine-Tails Mode suddenly flickered irregularly. This godforsaken place can read memories and create illusions, but there is a flaw—his Rasengan blasted into the empty space on the left, and Obito's Kamui vortex appeared in the chakra storm that exploded. All the illusions lacked a scent!

The Raikage's armor crackled, and he froze as he cleaved the attacking vines—the flying splinters revealed their skeletal texture in the moonlight.

Orochimaru's snakes suddenly emerged from the ground, and as the Ouroboros formation protected everyone, they spat out a piece of rotten wood engraved with the Uchiha clan crest.

Before Sasuke could ask a question, the ley lines of the entire forest suddenly emitted a roar similar to that of the Ten-Tails, and the ninja manuals in everyone's arms simultaneously displayed a blood-red Rinnegan pattern.

The rain of spores condensed into ice crystals at the edge of the vacuum zone, then fell with a crackling sound at everyone's feet.

The warmth of Hinata's headband still lingered on Naruto's fingertips, while the Nine-Tails' chakra sounded a sharp alarm deep within his eardrums.

Kakashi's Sharingan suddenly turned to the southwest—three blood-stained leaves were defying gravity and hovering on the edge of the cliff.

At twelve o'clock! Just as Shikamaru's shadow climbed onto the nearest rock, the entire cliff suddenly began to writhe as if it were alive.

Thousands of spider-like golems emerged from the rock crevices, their eight metal limbs scraping together with a crisp sound like bones breaking.

When their abdominal cavities split open, what sprays out is not spider silk, but a purple chakra web with a fishy stench.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword cleaved through the oncoming spiderweb, sparks flying as the blade collided with the chakra threads. These are improved versions of Sunagakure's tools! Temari's fan blade whipped up a hurricane, but the scattered spiderwebs split into even finer meshes in mid-air. Be careful!

They absorb ninjutsu chakra!

Naruto took a half step back and crushed a piece of gravel engraved with the Uzumaki clan crest. Suddenly, the chakra cloak of Nine-Tails Mode surged.

The instant his Wind Release: Rasenshuriken collided with Sasuke's Great Fireball, a tornado of crimson and azure ripples lifted the entire spiderweb swarm into the air.

However, when the smoke cleared, the puppet shells inlaid with Rinnegan fragments absorbed all the ninjutsu energy, and murky chakra fluid seeped from their joints.

"Uncle Bee!" Naruto suddenly gave Killer Bee a thumbs up.

The Eight-Tails Jinchuriki grinned, revealing shark-like teeth, and used his octopus tentacles to entangle the Raikage's Lightning Release armor, propelling him into the air.

When the giant claw, fully transformed into a tailed beast, slammed into the ground, the rock strata within a radius of a hundred meters shattered like a fragile eggshell.

The puppet swarm disintegrated into metal fragments in the dust storm, but a broken spider limb suddenly pierced Hinata's back.

Soft Fist Technique: Bagua Sixty-Four Palms!

Hinata's swirling clothes stirred up fine, snow-like chakra dust as her Byakugan, with its prominent veins, precisely locked onto the puppet's core.

Just as his palm was about to strike the target, the piece of metal suddenly twisted into the outline of Obito's mask.

The horrific scene of Pain's attack on the village suddenly tore at her nerves, and the chakra at her fingertips momentarily froze.

What are you spacing out for! Sasuke's Amaterasu Fire grazed Hinata's ear, the black flames emitting a scream-like hiss as they devoured the puppet's remains.

His crimson Sharingan eyes shimmered with unnatural bloodshot veins, and the spider silk he had just severed left deep, bone-revealing marks on his wrists.

Chapter 331 Improved Version of Puppet Technique

His crimson Sharingan eyes shimmered with unnatural bloodshot veins, and the spider silk he had just severed left deep, bone-revealing marks on his wrists.

Killer Bee's Tailed Beast Ball was still echoing in the valley when Onoki frowned, staring at a rock that had become translucent after absorbing chakra: "The flow of the earth's veins is wrong, these puppets are..." Before he could finish speaking, the shattered metal fragments suddenly floated up and reformed, and hundreds of miniature spider puppets emerged from the shadows of the crowd, their chakra nets now carrying runes of the Sand Village Sealing Technique.

Just as Shikamaru's Shadow Imitation Technique bound the three puppets, cold sweat suddenly broke out on his forehead: These runes... are an improved version of Granny Chiyo's secret puppet technique! Before he could finish speaking, a spider silk wrapped around Temari's ankle suddenly emitted Ebizo's unique chakra fluctuations.

The Sand Village female ninja's pupils contracted, and her fan-waving motion slowed by half a beat. Three poisoned needles grazed her collarbone and embedded themselves into the rock wall.

Everyone gathers! Kakashi pulls off his headband, revealing his Sharingan, and the light of his Lightning Blade weaves an electric net through the gaps in the spiderweb.

His gaze froze as it swept over the explosive tag on the joint of a puppet—it contained remnants of his father, Hatake Sakumo's, chakra.

The inner demons that had lingered for twenty years caused Rachel to shift slightly, and three spider silk threads took the opportunity to pierce through his right shoulder.

"Teacher!" Naruto's clone grabbed Kakashi and rolled out of the spider web, the Nine-Tails' chakra burning the wounds and creating eerie purple smoke.

He then realized that each wound was drawing chakra in the opposite direction, and Kakashi's mask was being soaked in blood at a visible speed.

Using pure taijutsu! The Raikage's lightning armor erupted with blinding light, and as he tore apart the metal fangs of two puppets with his bare hands, the chakra fluid that splattered between his fingers corroded and emitted wisps of white smoke.

As Onoki's Dust Release barrier took shape above everyone's heads, the old Kage realized that the chakra needed to maintain their ninjutsu was being frantically devoured by the earth's veins.

Hinata's Byakugan suddenly trembled violently: 300 meters underground!

All the puppets' chakra threads converged... Her unfinished words were swallowed by a roar from underground.

The entire valley suddenly tilted at a 45-degree angle, and the rock strata beneath everyone's feet cracked open into bottomless ravines.

Amidst the countless fallen rubble, Temari glimpsed a slab of rock engraved with the code of Sunagakure—the secret chamber that should have been sealed away in the possession of her father, the Fourth Kazekage.

"Grab me!" Killer Bee, now fully transformed into a tailed beast, extends his octopus tentacles.

As the Eight-Tails' giant claws pierced the mountain to stabilize everyone, irregular indentations suddenly appeared on its chakra cloak—the shattered puppet remains were fusing into some kind of tumor-like object covered with Sharingan eyes, sticking to the surface of the tailed beast's chakra and multiplying wildly.

Naruto grabbed Hinata's hand and leaped onto the top of the Eight-Tails' head, his Nine-Tails Mode sensory power penetrating through layers of rock walls.

In his chakra vision, the entire mountain peak was like a kaleidoscope soaked in a pool of blood, with countless fragments of memories floating in the earth's veins.

A fragment of Obito's memory suddenly stung his nerves—the scene of Kakashi being pierced by the Lightning Blade in the Kamui dimension overlapped with reality, almost causing him to be hit by the puppet's poison needles.

Three kilometers to the southwest! Shikamaru's shadow shredded the last two puppets, his kunai carving marks with the Flying Thunder God symbol into the rock wall, where earth chakra swirled. These puppets were probably... He suddenly fell silent, because Orochimaru's swarm of snakes was dragging half a fragment of the Uchiha Stone Tablet out of the crack.

Sasuke suddenly placed his Kusanagi sword against Orochimaru's neck: You knew the secret of this mountain all along?

Hush—Orochimaru's vertical pupils reflected the distorted outlines of the distant mountains. Rather than questioning, he listened to the sound of the wind. The scales he flicked off his fingertips suddenly emitted the roar of the Ten-Tails, and the ninja manuals in everyone's arms moved without wind, revealing the incomplete portrait of the Sage of Six Paths on the yellowed pages.

Killer Bee's Eight-Tails form suddenly let out a painful growl, and the tumor clinging to the chakra cloak began to erode the tailed beast's chakra.

The Raikage's Lightning Release Armor and Sasuke's Susanoo erupted simultaneously, but were teleported away by some kind of space-time ninjutsu the instant they struck their target.

When Naruto used Rasengan to shatter the last tumor, the splashing black liquid miraculously formed a pattern of black background and red clouds in the air, representing the Akatsuki organization.

"Run!" Kakashi, clutching his bleeding shoulder, threw a smoke bomb. The remaining chakra of these puppets was sending location information to the enemy! His Sharingan suddenly caught sight of a shadow moving deep within the earth's veins. The outline of that thing reminded him of the nightmare he had been buried under the Kannabi Bridge twenty years ago.

As the group hurried along the tunnel carved out by Dust Release, Hinata's Byakugan suddenly saw an unbelievable scene—the chakra coiled at the foot of the mountain resembled neither human nor tailed beast, but rather an aggregate of countless memories and obsessions.

As she tried to see the core, a familiar chakra fluctuation stung her eyes, causing blood to well up: it was clearly the aura of the Six Paths of Pain, yet it was mixed with the trajectory of Neji's Heavenly Reversal Technique.

Wait! Temari suddenly grabbed Naruto, who was charging ahead.

Her three-star fan was stuck in a crevice in the rock, and dark red gold dust seeped from the gaps in the fan ribs—this was the highest level of warning signal from the Sand Village.

Almost simultaneously, countless sealing runes began to appear on the surface of the entire mountain, with a fragment of half a Rinnegan embedded in the center of each rune.

Orochimaru's snakes suddenly burst into flames, and the ashes spelled out the warning message of the Uchiha Stone Tablet in front of everyone.

As soon as Sasuke's Amaterasu Fire touched the ashes, the entire mountain suddenly emitted a roar similar to the awakening of the Ten-Tails.

Amidst the violent tremors, Naruto saw his Nine-Tails chakra flowing uncontrollably towards the foot of the mountain, like rivers flowing into the sea, pouring into a black hole that devours light.

Chapter 332 Natural Energy Rampage

The runes on the stone gate gleamed with a bluish-gray light under the moonlight, and Kakashi's headband was soaked with cold sweat and felt chilly.

As he reached out and touched the uneven engravings, a chilling sensation, similar to the Corpse Bone Vein technique, emanated from his fingertips. It resembled a sealing technique of the Uzumaki clan, but each triangular rune was inverted...

Get out of the way! The Rasengan that Naruto had been gathering in his palm suddenly swelled up, and the golden ball of light, carrying the Nine-Tails' chakra, slammed into the stone gate.

Sasuke's three-tomoe Sharingan suddenly contracted violently, and he grabbed Naruto by the back of his collar and staggered back three steps.

All the inverted triangular talismans on the stone gate flipped over at the same time, and the chakra that Naruto hadn't been able to retract condensed into a physical form, turning into countless kunai that shot back towards him.

Killer Bee's seven ninja swords danced in front of him, forming a silver net, sparks flying amidst the clanging of metal.

A chakra kunai pierced through his defenses, grazing his ear. The severed hair, before even hitting the ground, evaporated into a foul-smelling black mist. "You idiot brat!" The Eight-Tails' octopus tentacles shot out from his shoulder, wrapping around Hinata who was nearly engulfed by the poisonous mist. This thing was devouring life energy!

Suddenly, the ground trembled violently.

Onoki hovered in mid-air, a Dust Release barrier enveloping them. Countless boulders crashed against the cube-shaped light barrier, sparks flying. Chakra flowed through the rock strata at a 30-degree southwest angle! Hinata's Byakugan was bloodshot, her trembling fingers pressed against her temples. Those stones... were actively changing their trajectory!

Temari's three-star fan unleashed a hurricane, pulverizing the oncoming boulders into dust.

Gold dust mixed with gravel fell in a flurry, piling up into a strange six-pointed star pattern at her feet. Wait… she suddenly ripped off the bandage on her left arm; black blood seeped from the wound inflicted by White Zetsu yesterday, droplets of blood floating in the air forming the same rune as the stone gate.

Natural energy is running rampant! Naruto's Sage Mode orange mark appeared at the corner of his eye, but Sasuke interrupted his hand seals by pressing down on his shoulder.

Lightning crackled in the Uchiha boy's palm as his Chidori spear cleaved the boulder hurtling towards Shikamaru, sending flying debris slicing blood down his cheek. "You loser, look at your Nine-Tails chakra!"

To everyone's horror, the golden chakra emanating from the Nine-Tails' outer garment was being frantically devoured by the stone gate.

Kakashi suddenly pulled back his headband, his Mangekyou Sharingan focusing on the reflection of the talismans—within which Obito's Kamui vortex appeared. It wasn't absorption... he croaked as he backed away; these talismans were sending chakra into another dimension!