As he coughed up blood and dragged Naruto away from the blast radius, the unique Lightning Release seal of the Hidden Cloud Anbu appeared on the back of his neck.

The afterimage of the Eighty Gods' Vacuum Strike! Tsunade suddenly shouted as she smashed the fourteenth Truth-Seeking Ball.

Beneath her tattered clothes, the Wet Bone Forest Contract Symbol was burning the skin on her chest.

A black-robed figure seized the opportunity to attack her back, but Gaara's Shukaku Shield blocked it—the sand was clearly mixed with clay fragments from Deidara's self-destruction.

Temari suddenly grabbed Shikamaru's wrist, and the warmth of the Sand Village code on her palm made Shikamaru's pupils shrink.

When the man in black robes formed the hand seals that fused the five elemental chakras once again, this strategist, who hated trouble the most, tore off the protective talisman given to him by his father.

Amidst the smoke and dust from the detonating tags, his modified Wind Release: Sky Bullet actually tore open a spatial rift.

Found it! Blood tears suddenly streamed down Hinata's Byakugan.

Her trembling fingertips pointed to the back of the black-robed man's neck, where the vein patterns of the corpse's bones overlapped with Kimimaro's curse mark.

Naruto's shadow clones collectively formed Sage Mode hand seals, and within the hurricane of natural energy, Sasuke's Amaterasu suddenly changed to the color of Obito's Fire Release technique.

As the eighteenth black-robed figure emerged from the space-time rift, Rin's shouts echoed from Kakashi's Kamui dimension.

Beneath his tattered headband, the Sharingan left by Obito suddenly began to rotate on its own.

Before he completely lost consciousness, he saw the phantom of the Akatsuki gathering appear in Onoki's Dust Release, while Sasori's puppet strings were entangled in Granny Chiyo's chakra blade.

Shikamaru's pupils suddenly contracted to the size of pinpoints.

Three senbon needles wrapped in lightning passed by his ear. Amidst the sparks that exploded on the rock wall, he saw the Nara clan emblem floating around the necks of the black-robed figures—it was a variant of the Shadow Binding Technique that he had improved when he was fifteen.

A sharp pain shot through his left rib as the kunai, formed from solidified iron sand, pierced through his armor. Blood seeping from the wound strangely crystallized into hexagonal ice crystals in mid-air.

The Kazekage's phosphorus powder mixed with Lightning Release chakra! Temari's exclamation was shattered by the explosion.

As Shikamaru staggered backward, he discovered that his shadow was pinned to an ice crystal matrix created by the enemy.

The cracking sound of his seventh rib breaking reminded him of the rainy night during the Chunin Exams when he was surrounded by the Sound Ninja, but this time, what was wrapped around his ankle was a puppet string mixed with the Nine-Tails' chakra.

Kakashi's Kamui vortex exploded three inches above Shikamaru's head.

The moment the space distorted and tore apart the three black-robed figures, the leader wearing a dark gold mask suddenly stepped out from the blood mist.

The man's left hand was forming the hand seals for the Water Mirror Technique, while his right hand held a flame fan identical to the one Obito had. The sealing symbols densely covering the fan ribs emitted the eerie green phosphorescence unique to Orochimaru's laboratory.

"Kakashi-sensei, your Kamui was delayed by 0.3 seconds." The leader's voice was like sandpaper rubbing against bronze.

The trajectory of his fan swing was exactly the same as Obito's move at Kannabi Bridge sixteen years ago, but what he stirred up was a sandstorm mixed with dust-escape particles.

Kakashi's headband was blown off by the strong wind, revealing the tomoe that were spinning wildly in his Sharingan eyes—the arrangement of those tomoe was clearly the same as when Shisui activated Kotoamatsukami.

Sasuke's Chidori spear pierced through three ice crystal puppets, and the lightning suddenly refracted towards Naruto when it touched the leader's back.

The Sage of Six Paths' chakra cloak scorched Naruto's shoulder, and the Nine-Tails' roar shook the rocky roof, sending dust flying. His chakra was mimicking our coordination! Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly shed tears of blood, which condensed in the air to form the Yin Seal pattern of Sakura's Hundred Healings Technique.

Killer Bee's eight-tailed tentacles emerged from the ground, but became semi-transparent the moment they wrapped around the leader's ankle.

In the cold light reflected from the sunglasses, the Eight-Tails roared in surprise: This guy has the chakra remnants of all the tailed beasts in his body! The leader's fingertips lightly brushed across his tentacles, and the Lightning Release Armor passed down through generations of Kumogakure began to erode Killer Bee's meridians in reverse.

Eight Trigrams Empty Palm! Hinata's Byakugan suddenly bulged with veins.

Twelve Sand Village puppet parts flew out from the shattered ice crystal fragments, each part bearing the Caged Bird Seal of the Hyuga branch family.

When Naruto's clone's Rasengan collided with these parts, the shockwave from the explosion drew the trajectory of the Myoboku Toad Oil Flame Bullet in the air.

Coughing up blood, Shikamaru twisted his shadow into the Sealing Coffin Formation recorded in ancient Nara texts.

When the seventeenth sealing talisman was imprinted into the ice crystal matrix, he saw the code his father had written on the back of the medical record before his death—those seemingly messy ink dots now perfectly overlapped with the patterns on the enemy's mask.

Temari's fan blade suddenly changed direction, severing the puppet strings by his ear. As the Sunagakure ANBU's intelligence code seeped into the curse mark on his collarbone along with the blood droplets.

"Uncle!" Naruto's Nine-Tails chakra suddenly surged to a dark red.

Just as the ninth tail of the Rei-fox cloak was about to take shape, Killer Bee's complete eight-tailed form finally broke through the strange spatial confinement.

The Tailed Beast Ball, formed from condensed blue-purple chakra, shattered the entire rock wall. As moonlight poured down, everyone saw the pattern of Obito's Mangekyou Sharingan seeping out from the cracks in the black-robed leader's mask.

Onoki's Dust Release barrier enveloped the battlefield at that moment.

The old man's hands, covered in age spots, formed the "Hai" seal used when the Akatsuki gathered, and the phantoms of the Six Paths of Pain kept flashing in the floating dust particles.

The shattered Truth-Seeking Ball fragments suddenly floated into the outline of the Gedo Mazo, with slug slime from the Shikkotsu Forest slowly dripping from the Mazo's eye sockets.

Now! Kakashi's right eye suddenly emitted an unprecedented crimson light.

Within the crack in the Kamui dimension, Rin's medical ninjutsu chakra resonated with the sealing power of the Totsuka Blade.

Sasuke's Amaterasu Fire transformed into the color of the Earth Release: Earth Wall technique, which Kakashi excelled at as a child, while Naruto's shadow clones simultaneously formed the final hand seals of the Fourth Hokage's Flying Thunder God Technique.

Just as the Eight-Tails' perfect-form Tailed Beast Ball was about to engulf the black-robed leader, the entire battlefield suddenly plunged into absolute darkness.

It was neither night nor fog, but some kind of nothingness that devoured all chakra fluctuations.

Shikamaru's Shadow Binding Technique emitted a crisp, crackling sound like shattering ceramic in the darkness. He heard his father repeatedly chanting a variation of the Reaper Death Seal before his death, which was now striking everyone's heart as space distorted.

Killer Bee's roar abruptly stopped.

The Eight-Tails' chakra flickered and burned like a candle flame pressed into the deep sea, struggling in absolute darkness.

Naruto felt the Nine-Tails' roar suddenly turn into a terrified whimper, and the purple light of Sasuke's Rinnegan dimmed rapidly as if ink had been splashed on it.

Kakashi's hand, which was trying to activate Kamui, froze in mid-air. The blood droplets flowing from his Sharingan transformed into the shape of the Sword of Love that Obito had left him years ago as they fell.

When the first ray of dark red light pierced the darkness, everyone discovered that the ground beneath their feet had transformed into the skin texture of a demonic golem.

Floating in the air were no longer ninja tools, but the fragmented chakra of past Kage. The Wood Release cells of the First Hokage were multiplying wildly at the Black-Robed Leader's fingertips.

What's most suffocating is the technique that's taking shape—it's neither like the Reaper Death Seal nor the Infinite Tsukuyomi, but rather something that combines the characteristics of all forbidden techniques and has never been recorded in any scroll.

The Two Scales Technique, passed down through generations in Iwagakure, suddenly rose from the ground, but the scales were made up of the corpses of Akatsuki members.

When Onoki attempted to activate Dust Release, Madara Uchiha's flame fan mark appeared on his withered palm.

When Tsunade's Hundred Healings Technique chakra touched the edge of darkness, it suddenly transformed into the Wood Release remnants left by Hashirama Senju at the Valley of the End.

In absolute silence, the black-robed leader's mask shattered completely.

The face that appeared caused Kakashi's chakra to become instantly disordered—it was neither Obito nor any known enemy, but a superposition of the faces of all the fallen warriors.

When his fingers finally completed that forbidden seal, the flow of chakra throughout the entire ninja world momentarily paused.

Chapter 340 Take All You Need

Kakashi's fingers dug deeply into his palm, and beads of blood dripped down along the spiral patterns left by Kamui.

The chakra remnants of past Kage flickered in the void, like fireflies scattered by the wind, cutting the mottled shadows on Onoki's face into shards of pottery from the Warring States period.

His wrist, covered in age spots, trembled within the dust sphere, while Madara Uchiha's flame mark gnawed at his bone marrow along his meridians.

This is not ninjutsu at all... Tsunade's Hundred Healings Seal throbbed between her brows, and the moment the remnants of Wood Release grew out of her chakra, her grandfather's straw hat from her memory suddenly pressed down on her, causing her to kneel on one knee.

The shattered Thousand Hands emblems embedded themselves in the earth, connecting with the bluish-purple veins bulging on the skin of the Outer Path Demon Golem, forming a network that transformed the entire battlefield into the alveoli of some enormous creature.

The flames of Naruto's Nine-Tails cloak suddenly dimmed to embers, and he saw Sasuke's Rinnegan crack with spiderweb-like blood vessels in the chakra turbulence.

Further away, Temari was using her Three Star Fan to cut the chakra threads binding Gaara, while those translucent threads kept pouring out from the scales of the Two Scales Technique—with Deidara's shattered right arm and Sasori's heart hanging from the two ends of the scales.

"Don't look down, I'm telling you!" Killer Bee's rap was mixed with blood and foam, and dark green pus was oozing from the parts of the eight-tailed tentacles that were stuck to the golem's skin.

Suddenly, Samehada on his back emitted a mournful cry like that of a baby, and the scales on the blade peeled away layer by layer, revealing half of White Zetsu's twisted face inside.

The black-robed leader's fingertip spell was finally complete.

When the mark that fused the Reaper Death Seal and the Infinite Tsukuyomi pattern lit up, all the dust floating in the air suddenly stopped, and even the Fourth Raikage's lightning armor solidified into blue amber.

Kakashi's Sharingan saw the truth at that moment—the floating chakra of the past Kage was being sucked into the vortex at the center of the technique, and what emerged from the depths of the vortex were the shattered fragments of the moon from when the Sage of Six Paths sealed Kaguya.

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata's Byakugan suddenly emitted a pale golden light. She staggered through the chakra turbulence, and the hem of her Hyuga clan robes was scorched by the acid secreted by the golem's skin.

The moment she touched the Nine-Tails' cloak, seventeen delicate chakra balls floated out from her sleeve—chakra that she had secretly collected during each encounter since the Chunin Exams, tinged with Naruto's aura.

Naruto felt that the temperature pressing against his back was even hotter than the Tailed Beast Cloak.

Those pearly chakra streams pierced through his rampaging chakra cloak, weaving Neji's Heavenly Reversal pattern at his heart.

As Hinata's hair brushed against the back of his neck, she smelled sandalwood, a special fragrance from the royal family of the Land of Snow—the last vestige of her thoughts that she had hidden in the lining of her headband when she secretly infiltrated the Daimyo's mansion in the Land of Lightning to carry out a mission.

Why... Naruto's Sage Mode facial markings were fluctuating violently. He saw Hinata's whites of her eyes being eroded by blood red, a harbinger of the backlash from the Caged Bird Technique, a secret technique passed down through the Hyuga main family.

The girl's blood-stained fingers gently touched his heart, where the old wound from the battle with Pain, inflicted by the black rod, still remained.

Because Naruto-kun said he wanted to become Hokage. Hinata's voice suddenly became clear, as if she had returned to the echo of her childhood in the Forest of Death when she was twelve years old, peeking at the boy's training through the thirty-seven beech trees.

All 361 acupoints on her body simultaneously emitted the unique azure light of the Tenseigan, and the Gentle Fist chakra transformed into a sixty-four hexagram array. "This time it's my turn. Take everything you need from Hinata Hyuga."

The Nine-Tails' shriek shattered the solidified lightning armor.

When Kaguya's spatial power within Naruto collided with Hinata's pure Byakugan chakra, the flames burning on his Tailed Beast Cloak suddenly faded from orange-red, and instead revealed the moon-white glow unique to Hamura Otsutsuki.

The Six Paths Truth-Seeking Balls floating in the air began to rotate counterclockwise, each ball reflecting Naruto from a different timeline—in one of the fragments, the Seventh Hokage's robes were fluttering in the wind and snow.

Suddenly, a tearing sound came from Kakashi's Kamui dimension, and the fragments of Obito's Shinobi Sword automatically pieced together to form the shape of a spacetime kunai.

Before he completely lost consciousness, he saw the First Hokage's Wood Release cells bloom into a night-blooming cereus in the black-robed leader's palm, and sleeping in the flower's stamen was none other than the headband that Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju had exchanged during their youth.

As the moonlight re-condensed amidst the shattered chakra turbulence, the moon-white light dancing at Naruto's fingertips transformed into a pillar of light that pierced through the heavens and earth.

The rotating Truth-Seeking Balls reflected the totems of the Ten-Tailed Beasts on the surface of the pillar of light. The moment the Sixty-Four Hexagrams array completely merged with the sandalwood incense of the Hyuga Shrine, the forbidden runes surging from the black-robed leader's mouth suddenly emitted a crisp sound like porcelain cracking.

This is... Hamura's... Onoki's Dust Release sphere suddenly went out, and his age-spotted eyelids twitched violently.

The two scales technique, which had been suspended in the air, shattered into fine sand. Each grain of sand reflected the giant Tenseigan that he had seen floating in the clouds at the border of the Moon Kingdom when he was a child.

The black-robed leader's Adam's apple bobbed beneath his mask, emitting a hoarse laugh. The Wood Release cells of the First Hokage in his palm suddenly grew wildly, blooming a night-blooming cereus with Uchiha fan patterns within his flesh and blood.

But the moment Naruto's beam of light touched the petals, the patterns symbolizing the alliance between Hashirama and Madara suddenly rotated in the opposite direction, pouring all the absorbed chakra of the past Kage back into the void.

Retreat! Kakashi's Kamui vortex suddenly expanded three times, and the Mangekyou Sharingan pattern in his left eye resonated with Obito's Sword of Love.

The headband fragments floating across the battlefield suddenly stood upright, like broken swords stuck in an ancient battlefield, cutting the reversed chakra into glowing feathers.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword pierced through the solidified chakra flow at that moment.

The blood vessels of the Rinnegan intertwined in his pupils to form the shape of a tomoe. When the sword was three inches away from the black-robed leader's throat, he saw the same Yata no Kagami pattern as Itachi's Susanoo appear on the other's chest.

But this time, Naruto's beam of light shattered the mirror half a step ahead—in those scattered shards of glass were all afterimages of him and Sasuke during their battle at the Valley of the End.

Farewell. Sasuke's Chidori Spear suddenly coiled around Naruto's Tailed Beast Chakra. In the instant that blue and white lightning intertwined with moonlight, the cracks on the black-robed leader's mask finally spread to his neck.

As the blade pierced the heart, everyone heard a sound like a glass container shattering, and countless pale purple specks of memory light gushed out from the crack.

The Raikage's Lightning Release armor began to flow again, and remnants of blue amber clung to his bulging muscles: This kid's chakra... Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a shower of memory fragments—a scene from the training grounds of the Cloud Village's Jinchuriki appeared in one of the fragments, and the secret chamber structure that should have been known only to the Raikage was clearly visible.

Hinata's fingertips were still resting on the old scar on Naruto's chest, and the azure light of her 361 acupoints was gradually dimming.

As Sasuke's sword pierced through the enemy, she suddenly staggered and fell into Naruto's arms. Dark red bloodstains seeped from the back of her Hyuga clan uniform—deep within the scorch marks corroded by acid, there were traces of chakra threads commonly used by Sunagakure puppeteers for repairs.

She won! Temari's three-star fan slammed into the ground, and the ribbon she used to tie her hair had somehow been replaced with the stopper of Gaara's Shukaku gourd.

As the female ninja from Sunagakure turned to look for her brother, she discovered that the scattered chakra threads were re-weaving the Sand Eyes on Gaara's back—each thread ending with a puppet joint that Chiyo had loved most in her lifetime.

Killer Bee's rap suddenly stopped on a high note, and he noticed that the severed tentacles of the Eight-Tails were absorbing the pus from the Gedo Mazo.

When he tried to remind Naruto, he discovered that the ice crystal patterns of the Snow Country's secret technique had appeared on the hilt of his Samehada sword—marks that had mysteriously appeared after a secret mission three years ago.

Amid cheers, Shikamaru's shadow quietly wrapped around Tsunade's trembling wrist.

His narrowed eyes swept across every corner of the battlefield, and at the junction of the Wood Release remnants and the blood vessels of the demon statue, he discovered a few strands of chakra remnants that did not belong to any ninja village.

When he tried to get closer to observe, the residue suddenly transformed into Shino's parasitic insect form and burrowed into the ground.

Wait! Kakashi's Kamui vortex suddenly contracted as he caught the fragment of the Sword of Shinobi falling from the sky.

The chakra that should have belonged to Obito was mixed with the Hyuga main family's Reincarnation Track, and the Lin character written in blood on the back of the fragment had strokes that were completely consistent with the black-robed leader's technique pattern.

Naruto suddenly tightened his grip on Hinata.

The sandalwood scent in the girl's hair was mixed with the smell of rust. He looked down and found that Hinata had the same Caged Bird Seal as Neji on the back of her neck, but the incantations that should have been black were now shimmering with the azure of the Tenseigan.

Just as he was about to use the power of the Six Paths to investigate, Hinata suddenly tilted her head back and sealed all his questions with a kiss that smelled of blood.

The moonlight over the battlefield suddenly dimmed for a moment.

From an angle unseen by others, Onoki quietly pressed a cube shimmering with dust-escape light into his knee—within it sealed a fragment of the black-robed leader's mask, the Iwagakure Explosion Mark drawn in blood on the inside of the fragment being exactly the same as the explosive clay formula he had taught Deidara thirty years ago.

Finally... Tsunade had been kneeling for too long. When she stood up, supporting herself on the remains of the Wood Release, she discovered that the fragments of her grandfather's clan crest were resonating with her own Hundred Healings Seal.

Suddenly, all the Thousand Hand Clan emblems that had been embedded in the ground turned towards the Hokage Rock, as if drawn by some invisible force.

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