Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

Hinata's scream was drowned out by the deafening roar.

Thick black liquid seeped from the cracks on the surface of the stone gate, and solidified instantly upon contact with air, forming the keratinous layer of the Outer Path Statue.

Orochimaru's Kusanagi sword suddenly emitted a mournful cry, and the serpentine patterns on its blade began to move in reverse. The warning from the Uchiha stone tablet... He licked the black liquid that had splattered on his lips and sneered. It seemed the Ten-Tails' chakra had awakened something prematurely.

Summoning Jutsu: Roof Collapse! Tsunade's slug clone was sucked into a shriveled sac by the talisman before it could fully form.

The Raikage's Lightning Release armor erupted with blinding light as he smashed through three boulders hurtling towards Temari, his right arm sizzling from the corrosive black liquid. "Little girl from Sunagakure!" he roared, swinging his charred arm. "Will your brother's sealing techniques be of any use?"

Gaara's Sand Shield crumbled into quicksand the moment it touched the stone gate, and Shukaku's chakra transformed into a hurricane that enveloped everyone.

The young Kazekage's pupils suddenly contracted into vertical slits: These talismans... were rewriting the memories of the tailed beasts! His Sand Eyes saw a terrifying scene—the chakra of the seven tailed beasts was being reorganized deep within the talismans, and the chaotic energy in the center clearly carried the oppressive aura of Kaguya.

Naruto-kun! Hinata's Gentle Fist shattered the incoming black spikes, and as she turned, her left arm was cut open by rubble.

She stumbled and fell into the golden chakra of Sage Mode, and the Caged Bird Seal on her forehead suddenly became hot.

As Naruto embraced her, the girl's Byakugan suddenly reflected an astonishing scene—Neji's shattered chakra was curled up deep within the stone gate, and those fragments that should have dissipated were being pieced back together by the gravity of the Rinnegan.

Killer Bee's eight tailed tentacles suddenly froze in mid-air.

For the first time, the rapper's expression turned serious. He stared at the dark red substance seeping from the crack in the stone door, its color strikingly similar to the Night Moon Clan massacred in the Blood Moon Night of Kumogakure. "Little Naruto," he said, pressing down on the boy's trembling shoulder. "This time, we'll probably have to use that..."

Shikamaru's shadow was still lingering around the Raikage's feet. He stared at the six-pointed star made of gold dust by Temari and suddenly remembered the broken monument he had seen in the forest of the Land of Frost three days ago.

The moss-covered carvings gradually overlapped with the runes on the stone gate, and a terrifying thought sent a chill down his spine—this mountain might not be a mountain at all, but rather a sealed...

As another boulder hurtled toward them, Shikamaru caught a glimpse of a broken talisman at the bottom of the stone gate out of the corner of his eye. It was the very pattern he had copied with pebbles in the forest.

He opened his mouth to say something, but his words were drowned out by the even more violent sound of the mountain collapsing.

Amidst the rustling sound of sand and gravel falling, Shikamaru's pupils suddenly contracted.

He stared intently at the afterimages of the runes reflected on the Thunder Shadow Armor, as if the mist from the Frost Country forest three days ago had pierced through time and space to envelop him.

At that time, he was squatting in front of the moss-covered broken stele, and the marks he made with pebbles matched perfectly with the missing parts at the bottom of the stone gate.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Shikamaru's voice was hoarse from being overly tense. He tore off the bandage wrapped around his wrist, and the crooked rubbings on it glowed faintly as chakra was poured into them. The third inverted triangle talisman in the southeast—try to inject chakra into its mirror image!

Kakashi's Mangekyou Sharingan spun violently, and the talismans reflected on his retina began to disintegrate in reverse.

As he concentrated his lightning chakra into his left ring finger, a clicking sound, like bones dislocating, suddenly came from deep within the stone gate.

The inverted triangular talismans that had devoured the Nine-Tails' chakra began to writhe like living things, piecing together vortex-shaped spatial rifts under the moonlight.

So that's how it is... Kakashi's breathing suddenly quickened. He remembered the stone tablet he saw at Kannabi Bridge twenty years ago. These weren't sealing techniques at all, but rather altered spacetime coordinates! His fingers traced afterimages on the surface of the talisman, each touch causing dark red liquid to seep from the stone gate. When the seventh node was lit, the entire mountain suddenly emitted a roar like a dying behemoth.

The stone door cracked open with a screeching sound, and Killer Bee's Eight-Tails tentacles suddenly straightened. Wait! He stopped Naruto from rushing in, using his ninja sword to flick a piece of rock through the crack in the door.

The stone transformed into crystalline sand the instant it passed through the light barrier, only to reform into scorched meteorite iron three seconds later. Spacetime turbulence... Orochimaru's vertical pupils gleamed with excited gold; it seemed a secret even older than Ryuchi Cave lay hidden behind the door.

Sasuke's Chidori pierced the darkness and stepped in first. In the instant the lightning illuminated the scene, everyone saw countless prism-like walls extending into the void.

Naruto helped Hinata up and followed closely behind. Suddenly, tears welled up in the girl's Byakugan eyes—on the walls that flowed with chakra, the torn pages of the forbidden book passed down through generations of the Hyuga main family appeared.

This is... Temari almost dropped her three-star fan. She saw the Kazekage Tower of Sunagakure collapsing in a certain prism, while Gaara's Sand Shield turned into a rain of blood.

The Raikage's roar shook the space, and the scene in front of him showed that the Hidden Cloud Village had been hit by a meteorite, and the statue of the Fourth Raikage was reduced to half a charred arm.

Kakashi's Sharingan suddenly burned with pain, and the scene he glimpsed almost made his heart stop—seventeen-year-old Obito was standing on Kannabi Bridge, holding Rin's body, while the girl who should have been a phantom suddenly turned her head and smiled at him.

Beneath the forehead protector soaked in cold sweat, six scars began to bleed.

Don't stare! Onoki's Dust Release barrier suddenly unfolded, but it couldn't stop the image from being eroded.

Cold sweat trickled down the Third Tsuchikage's face as he saw the arm of a comrade whom Onoki, the Scaleless, had personally executed in his youth, reaching out from the mirror. These illusions were devouring chakra! His roar was tinged with rare panic, and everyone sealed their chakra points!

A chilling laugh suddenly erupted from all directions.

Hinata's trembling finger suddenly pointed to a certain spot. In her Byakugan vision, a dark shadow without a meridian system was moving along the prism.

Naruto's Sage Mode sensed a surge of malice, but the moment he condensed the Rasengan, all the images suddenly began to reverse.

Watch your step! Just as Shikamaru's Shadow Binding Technique was completed, the ground suddenly turned into a viscous black swamp.

Sasuke's Amaterasu Fire burned in the void, only to be swallowed by the darkness and reduced to a pale flame.

Killer Bee's Eight-Tails Chakra Cloak fluctuated violently, and he saw the scene of the Yotsuki clan's massacre on the octopus tentacles.

"Found you..." Obito's voice mingled with laughter, sometimes near, sometimes far, while Kamui's vortex appeared and disappeared behind a certain prism.

But the first to react was not Kakashi, but Gaara, who was trembling all over—the young Kazekage's Sand Eyes were reflecting an even more terrifying scene: deep within Shukaku's chakra core, half of Madara Uchiha's face was curled up.

As the last ray of moonlight was swallowed by the creeping darkness, Temari suddenly noticed that the gold dust on the Sanxing fan was being reassembled.

The tiny particles pieced together revealed the sinister smile that Black Zetsu had shown during the Five Kage Summit.

The sound of dripping liquid echoed from the depths of the labyrinth; a malice more ancient than the tailed beasts was quietly awakening amidst the refraction of countless prisms.

Chapter 333 Whispers of the Schemer

The chill in the Prism Labyrinth suddenly solidified, and Black Zetsu emerged halfway out of the viscous shadow, its asphalt-like skin shedding dark purple flakes.

He tapped the mirror beside him with his knuckles, each tap causing the gold-plated puzzle pieces to writhe eerily. How touching, seven lost lambs holding a tea party in a slaughterhouse. The moment the last syllable was deliberately drawn out, Naruto's Rasengan tore through the air.

"Don't touch them!" The orange chakra enveloped the boy as he roared and exploded, but the moment it touched Black Zetsu's forehead, it was refracted into a rain of light by the twelve prisms.

When the Seventh Hokage candidate staggered to the ground, three thin, long wounds on his left shoulder were oozing pale golden blood—the black shadow clones that moved across the mirror had fingernails sharper than lightning chakra blades.

Thirty-six Black Zetsu simultaneously grinned, their hoarse laughter echoing across the mirrored surface.

Before Shikamaru's shadow could even wrap around Temari's ankle, the ground suddenly surged like boiling water, swallowing the Sand Village female ninja's three-star fan into the dark swamp. Concentrate! Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly contracted, but Amaterasu's flames were once again twisted into pale flames, instead igniting the illusion of annihilation that appeared on Killer Bee's octopus tentacles.

Hinata's Byakugan suddenly became misty.

She saw Black Zetsu's true form hidden deep within a mirror image refracted seventeen times, but what was even more terrifying was that each clone's meridians were flowing with some kind of dark current that did not belong to chakra.

When the third clone shouted "bottom of the pack" in Naruto's voice, the girl from the Hyuga main family suddenly spun around and leaped up, her Gentle Fist stance drawing a crescent moon in the air.

The Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!

What exploded in the air was not the booming sound of chakra colliding, but the crisp sound of porcelain shattering.

The Black Zetsu clone, struck by the attack, froze in place, cracks spreading like a spiderweb from its heart, eventually shattering into a pile of black-smoking lenses.

When Naruto turned around, he saw Hinata's long hair fluttering as she finished her technique, and the dark purple shavings on the ends of her hair were exactly the same as those on Black Zetsu's body.

Well done! The Nine-Tails' chakra cloak surged again, but Naruto Uzumaki didn't notice the blush creeping up the girl's ears.

He didn't even notice that when Hinata's Byakugan pierced through one of the clones, it glimpsed countless transparent threads connecting the end of Black Zetsu's spine—the other ends of those threads were all tied to the seal on the unconscious Gaara and Shukaku.

Kakashi's mask was lifted by a corner by a strong gust of wind.

The Sharingan captured the trajectory of Black Zetsu's body leaping between the mirrors, but it was always a beat too slow.

As he finally nailed the kunai into a certain prism, the right half of Obito's face, which had been crushed by a rock years ago, suddenly appeared on the metal blade. "Watch out, teacher!" Sakura Haruno's shout and Tsunade's monstrous strength arrived simultaneously, but a viscous liquid gushed out from the shattered mirror, splashing onto the Raikage's lightning armor and making a corrosive sizzling sound.

The game time was over. All the Black Zetsu raised their hands at the same time, and the prisms hanging from the top of the maze suddenly began to vibrate at a high frequency.

Just as Onoki's Dust Release barrier was taking shape, Old Tsuchikage was shocked to realize that his bloodline limit was being reversed by some kind of force.

When the first prism shattered, the flying fragments condensed in mid-air into Obito's Kamui vortex, which engulfed Killer Bee along with the Eight-Tails' tentacles.

"Uncle!" Naruto, clad in his Tailed Beast Cloak, extended his chakra arm, but instead grabbed the Kusanagi sword that Sasuke had suddenly thrown at him.

The Uchiha descendant's Rinnegan had already transformed into its six-tomoe form. From the spatial rift he had severed, the faint roar of the Gedo Mazo could be heard. "You loser, watch your step!"

Countless mirror reflections suddenly opened their blood-red Sharingan eyes simultaneously.

Hinata wanted to remind someone of something, but her throat was choked by a surge of metallic taste—black runes resembling the Caged Bird Seal were seeping from the remains of the clone she had just shattered.

The youngest head of the Hyuga family suddenly understood why the secret acupuncture point chart of the main family would suddenly be reversed and rearranged in her mind when her Gentle Fist touched the enemy.

The Eye of Sand spun wildly in Gaara's trembling pupils.

The young Kazekage's chakra is being drained, and every grain of sand reflects an even more terrifying scene: in Shukaku's sealed space, half of Madara Uchiha's face is gradually becoming whole as Black Zetsu sneers.

When Temari's sand-gold chains finally broke through the swamp, what was pieced together was no longer Black Zetsu's sinister smile, but a star map of some ancient altar.

Naruto Uzumaki! Black Zetsu's true form finally appeared above everyone's heads. His asphalt-colored body was absorbing the moonlight refracted by the prism. You think you're really the child of prophecy? The mocking voice materialized into sound waves, shattering the last intact piece of the mirror. You were nothing more than the most suitable vessel before Mother awakened.

The entire labyrinth suddenly emitted a dying groan, and the darkness flowing in the cracks of the mirror began to converge into a shadow larger than the tailed beast.

Hinata's Byakugan suddenly went out of focus at that moment. She saw a warm golden light being wrapped around Naruto's heart by countless black threads.

And on her own palm, a mark similar to the Kaguya Otsutsuki clan crest appeared at some unknown time.

The Nine-Tails chakra surrounding Naruto suddenly collapsed into blazing white light spots, and the Sunagakure headband melted into molten iron in the energy surge.

The boy lowered his head and stared at the chakra cloak that was gradually crystallizing in his palm. Suddenly, the resolute look in Minato Namikaze's eyes when he used the Reaper Death Seal appeared in those surging golden lights.

Kurama, he flicked his finger and tapped the trembling tailed beast cage in his chest. This time, don't hold back.

The crimson ocean of chakra within the sealed space suddenly surged backward, and the Nine-Tails' sharp teeth grazed Naruto's ear: "You brat, your heartbeat is giving this old man a headache." The tailed beast's sneer was tinged with a solemnity unseen for a thousand years, and its golden and red chakra cloak was suddenly coated with a layer of glassy radiance.

As the first dark purple clone lunged at him, Naruto took a half-step back, his toes carving lava-like furrows in the ground.

Sage Art: Super Mini Tailed Beast Ball!

The chakra ball, compressed to its limit, exploded in the palm of the hand, and the mirror fragments stirred up by the blast condensed into countless prisms in mid-air.

The mirror where Black Zetsu was hiding was illuminated by seventeen layers of refraction, revealing every detail of his asphalt-colored skin, which was covered with dense ancient cuneiform script under the strong light.

Naruto suddenly understood why Hinata was vomiting blood—those wandering cursed seals were exactly the same as the forbidden Otsutsuki technique depicted on the mural in the Hyuga main family's secret chamber.

Sasuke!

The Kusanagi sword of the Uchiha descendant was stuck in a spatial node, trembling incessantly.

The magatama spinning in the Rinnegan suddenly connected end to end, transforming into the creation totem recorded in the scroll of the Sage of Six Paths.

When Sasuke ignited Amaterasu Flame in his left hand and thrust forward with Chidori Spear wrapped around his right, the energy leaking from the space-time rift resonated with Naruto's Sage Chakra.

Black Zetsu's cold laugh stuck in his throat.

He was astonished to find that the trajectory of their attacks wove into a yin-yang symbol within the mirrored maze, and the maze's foundation, which had remained unmoved for millennia, suddenly trembled like the earth rumbling.

The fragments of Hinata's shattered clones floated up, piecing together Kaguya's final silhouette before she was sealed away.

Mother... The schemer's whisper was tinged with a tremor for the first time.

Suddenly, countless cracks appeared on the black Zetsu's asphalt-colored body, and translucent chakra tentacles extended from each crack, frantically seizing the Shukaku power leaking from Gaara's body.

Sand Shadow suddenly convulsed violently, and the word "love" tattoo on his left eye oozed with black liquid.

I don't think about it!

Kakashi's Mangekyou Sharingan shed tears of blood.

His trident kunai pierced precisely into the spatial folds, forcibly channeling Obito's remaining chakra into the Kamui vortex.

As the distorted spacetime engulfed half of Black Zetsu's body, Old Earth Shadow's Dust Release barrier finally broke through the energy backlash, cutting the entire battlefield into a cube of interwoven light and darkness.

Naruto suddenly heard Kurama sound an alarm deep within his consciousness.

His chakra-infused arm, which he swung around, barely blocked the mirror blade aimed at Hinata's back, and the flying shards of glass drew blood lines on the girl's pale cheeks.

The heir of the Hyuga main family stumbled into his arms, and the Kaguya clan crest that appeared in his palm suddenly resonated with the Nine-Tails' chakra.

The worst performer!

Sasuke's roar and the sound of the Kusanagi sword cutting through the air arrived at the same time.

The Susanoo skeleton of the Uchiha descendant tripled in size under the blessing of Sage Mode. The arrow burning with Amaterasu flames pierced through thirty-seven layers of mirrors, but was swallowed up by some kind of spacetime ripple the moment it touched Black Zetsu's body.

Orochimaru's cold laughter suddenly exploded above everyone's heads: "That chakra fluctuation is so nostalgic..."

Before the schemer's lingering shadow had even faded, a black rain, asphalt-like, suddenly poured down from the entire labyrinth's dome.

Temari's three-star fan stirred up a storm of gold dust, but corroded into honeycomb-shaped scrap iron the moment it came into contact with the liquid.

The Raikage's roar was accompanied by an explosion of Lightning Release chakra, but the Fourth Hokage, A, was horrified to discover that his ninjutsu and taijutsu were being assimilated by darkness.

The game should end. Black Zetsu's shattered body suddenly reformed into a phantom of Kaguya, the Rinne Sharingan between his forehead reflecting the astonished faces of everyone.

As the first note escaped from her lips, Naruto's Yang Release chakra suddenly began to boil uncontrollably in the location of his heart.

The Nine-Tailed Fox's claws tore open the dome of the sealed space: Kid, are you ready to witness true despair?

The tailed beast's warning overlapped with Hinata's exclamation.

Naruto looked down and saw countless black threads emerging from his chest, each one connected to his comrade's chakra pathways.

As he gritted his teeth and tore off the first thread binding Sasuke, two lines of bloody tears suddenly flowed from the Rinnegan of the Uchiha descendant.

Do it!