Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

As the cheers reached their peak, Naruto suddenly felt that Hinata in his arms was incredibly light.

A chakra crystal specially made by the Land of Snow slipped out from the girl's sleeve. The crystal contained a scene from their battle when they were twelve years old, when they fought together in the Forest of Death to defeat the rogue Amegakure ninja. But where there should have been a kunai in their memory, there was now a metal needle made of the same material as Pain's black rods.

Sasuke paused almost imperceptibly in the act of wiping the Kusanagi sword.

The Rinnegan reflected in the sword showed a fading memory—not the face of the black-robed leader, but the ramen shop where he and Naruto had their first meal together in Team 7 when they were young.

But in the picture, Kakashi-sensei is holding a black ring in his right hand, the same style as the Akatsuki ring.

As the Raikage's hearty laughter shook the remaining snow from the treetops, Naruto suddenly noticed an unnatural shadow at the edge of the battlefield.

The silhouette of the shadow resembled neither a tree nor a rock, but rather a figure wearing a vortex mask, leaning against the remnants of the Kamui vortex in the exact same posture as Obito.

But when he looked closely, he saw that Shikamaru had thoughtfully tossed up a ninja chess piece, and the pattern formed by the piece landing was exactly the Akatsuki organization's red cloud symbol.

The night wind stirred up fragments of broken chakra, and Hinata murmured softly in Naruto's arms.

Her Byakugan retained a faint golden halo, which, when reflected in Naruto's azure pupils, momentarily overlapped with the shape of Kaguya Otsutsuki's Rinne Sharingan on her forehead.

In the distance, a blood-tear-like crack suddenly appeared on the newly carved face of the Seventh Hokage Rock under the moonlight.

Chapter 341 Divine Might Vortex

The moonlight coated the cracks in the Hokage Rock with a layer of silver frost, and Naruto's hand holding Hinata suddenly tightened.

The golden halo left behind when the girl's eyelashes trembled was very similar to the floating chakra crystals he had seen in Kaguya's space, and it was now reflecting his increasingly solemn face.

Something was wrong. His hoarse voice startled Kirabi, who was resting against the broken wood. The rapper's dark circles under his sunglasses were still stained with blood.

Sasuke, who was not far away, suddenly sheathed his Kusanagi sword, the sound of metal scraping together carrying a taut, string-like tone.

The moment Kakashi looked up from the scroll, Naruto noticed that his right index finger was unconsciously rubbing a certain spot—where the old headband from Team 7 should have been, but now it hung empty in the moonlight.

When the Hokage said he was going to organize an investigation, Naruto saw his teacher's left hand, hidden behind his back, crushing a black fragment into powder.

I went to the northern cliff. Sasuke's cloak swept across the ninja chess pieces scattered on the ground, and the red cloud pattern stirred up by the night wind happened to cover the strategic map that Shikamaru had just drawn.

As the black-haired youth pressed his temple and sighed, Naruto rushed out and grabbed his best friend's sleeve. The two intertwined chakras scorched spiral marks on the snow.

Hinata's Byakugan snapped open: 300 meters to the southwest... something is reorganizing chakra. Her voice was weak from the pain of using Rejuvenation, but her finger pointed precisely to the location of the remnants of the Kamui vortex.

Naruto suddenly remembered the strange shadow from three hours ago; fragments of Obito's goggles were still stuck at the bottom of his ninja tool bag.

As the Raikage smashed through the icy bushes with his warhammer, Onoki was hovering ten meters in the air, looking down at the battlefield.

The old man's dust-style white light swept across Naruto's profile, and he suddenly saw that each of the ice crystals crushed by the crowd contained a Rinne Sharingan pattern the size of a fingernail.

This discovery made his stomach churn, and Kurama's chakra uncontrollably overflowed from his fingertips.

The worst performer. Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly appeared in front of Naruto, and the image of Kakashi fiddling with his ring in the ramen shop, reflected in the Rinnegan, was cracking.

Naruto turned around abruptly and bumped into the Hokage as he bent down to examine a remnant of chakra. The moonlight outlined the shadow under his mask into the silhouette of someone wearing a vortex mask.

Shikamaru's pieces suddenly formed a triangle in the southeast, and Temari's three-star fan immediately whipped up a hurricane.

In the instant the sandstorm blinded him, Naruto saw that Gaara's Sand Eyes were oozing a dark red substance, much like the blood and tears seeping from the fresh crack in the Hokage Rock.

As the Nine-Tails' chakra enveloped his entire body, he heard the snickers of the Black Zetsu from Kaguya's dimension resurfacing deep within his eardrums.

"Leave the southwest corner to me." Naruto's shadow clones, created through hand seals, all rushed towards the danger zone marked by Shikamaru.

He deliberately ignored Hinata's hesitant gaze behind him, just as he ignored the wedge-shaped mark that suddenly appeared on the back of his hand—the pattern perfectly overlapped with the scars Momoshiki had left on him.

Sasuke's Susanoo suddenly cleaved through the night sky, and countless fragments of memory exploded like prisms in the torrent of purple chakra.

Naruto saw Kakashi's right hand in one of the fragments; the black ring was absorbing the Sharingan power that Obito had left him.

When the real Kakashi shouted for everyone to scatter, he noticed that his teacher's right hand was trembling inside his ninja tool pouch.

At twelve o'clock. Just as Shikamaru finally pieced together the complete strategic map with the chess pieces, Killer Bee's eight-tailed tentacles had already overturned the entire frozen ground.

Amidst the swirling snow and mist, countless firefly-like chakra points of light were coalescing into some kind of talisman. Hinata's Byakugan suddenly detected that each point of light had a miniature Rinne Sharingan rotating at its core.

When Naruto's Rasengan illuminated the rock wall, everyone saw the newly formed traces of chakra—they were neither like remnants of ninjutsu nor like natural energy, but rather like someone using a brush dipped in starlight to trace the sealing array of the Sage of Six Paths in the void.

As Sasuke's Chidori spear pierced the crevice in the rock, a resonance, similar to the roar of the Gedo Mazo, suddenly came from underground.

Snow stopped.

Naruto's Rasengan trembled violently in his palm, and the golden halo formed by the Nine-Tails' chakra illuminated the patterns beneath the ice layer in exquisite detail.

Those wispy purple chakra threads were melting at a visible speed, etching patterns on the snow resembling the toad oil talisman of Mount Myōboku, yet strangely turning at the end towards the serpentine totem of Ryūchi Cave.

They're trying to escape! As Naruto leaped into the air, his ninja boots crushed the moon's reflection on the ice.

The moment the nine chakra tails unfurled behind him, Kakashi's kunai suddenly appeared across his chest, the metallic gleam revealing the scar on his left eye from his time as a Jonin in the Anbu.

Look closely at the cracks in the ice. Kakashi traces the area illuminated by the Rasengan with his index finger.

Naruto then noticed that the seemingly escaping chakra had actually woven a spiderweb-like trap beneath the ice—deep within each crack lay a Rinne Sharingan the size of a fingernail, slowly rotating with the flow of chakra.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly plunged into the snow between the two, and the Chidori Stream wrapped around the sword blasted a three-foot-deep crater in the ice.

Amidst the flying ice shards, dozens of purple chakra fragments scattered and fled like startled centipedes. The Uchiha's eye power could see through any trap. The tomoe in his Rinnegan spun rapidly, the sword tip pointing directly at the collapsing chakra node in the northwest.

Kakashi's grip on Naruto's shoulder suddenly tightened: the same pattern of luring and pursuing the puppet silk during the Sasori incident in Sunagakure thirteen years ago. His voice was soft, but Naruto keenly caught the subtle tremor in his teacher's Adam's apple—a characteristic symptom Kakashi used before using Kamui when Team 7 was attacked by Pain.

Kirabi's rap suddenly went off-key.

The moment the eight-tailed tentacles burst forth from the body, the entire cliff began to tremble.

As the Raikage's warhammer struck the epicenter, Onoki's Dust Release white light illuminated the dark figure falling from the clouds.

The old Shadow Guard's rock armor gleamed with a bronze luster under the moonlight, and the dark red stains on the scroll in his hand resonated eerily with the fragments of Obito's goggles in Naruto's ninja tool bag.

"Look what this old man has found on the border of the Land of Frost." Onoki's unfurled scroll fluttered in the wind and snow, and the chakra floating between the ancient characters caused the Nine-Tails to roar within Naruto.

As the white light of Dust Escape swept across the scroll's surface, the dark red stains suddenly twisted into cuneiform script from Kaguya's era, each stroke oozing the viscous fluid unique to Black Zetsu.

Sasuke's Susanoo bow suddenly turned southeast: the earth's ley lines at the twelve o'clock position were flowing abnormally. His voice carried the anxiety recorded in the Uchiha Scrolls.

Naruto looked in the direction of the arrow and saw that Shikamaru's ninja chess pieces were arranged in the snow to form the six-pointed star formation unique to the Otsutsuki clan, while the hurricane stirred up by Temari's three-star fan was blowing the chess formation towards the direction of the Divine Tree ruins.

Kakashi suddenly pressed his right hand against his left eye: Everyone, step back ten meters! His warning overlapped with Obito's shout at Kannabi Bridge twenty years ago.

As Naruto retreated, he noticed that what was seeping from between his teacher's fingers was not blood, but a grayish-white substance resembling the shell of the Gedo Mazo.

The Nine-Tails' chakra cloak suddenly surged, and he felt the wedge-shaped mark on the back of his hand absorbing the energy emanating from the Onoki Scroll.

These talismans were mimicking the Yin-Yang Release of the Sage of Six Paths. Onoki's Dust Release scorched the surface of the scroll, and the old man's levitating height dropped another three feet, but the arrangement of the core chakra... His voice abruptly stopped, because Shikamaru suddenly shot a chess piece towards the center of the scroll—the characters stained with Black Zetsu's slime were reorganizing, forming a pattern exactly like Naruto's Karma seal.

The Raikage's Lightning Release armor roared: "Get to the point!" His warhammer slammed into the snow, creating a spiderweb-like pattern of cracks.

Killer Bee's eight-tailed tentacles suddenly pointed to the sky, and in the clouds reflected by the rapper's sunglasses, countless firefly-like chakra points were converging to form the outline of some kind of giant Tenseigan.

They were learning. Cold sweat beaded on Onoki's forehead as the text on the scroll began to devour his chakra. These talismans were analyzing our techniques, just like... The old man suddenly coughed violently, and the white light of Dust Release swept uncontrollably toward Naruto.

Sasuke's Susanoo wings blocked the attack in time. As the purple chakra collided with the white light, the pulse of the Gedo Mazo suddenly came from beneath everyone's feet.

Kakashi's Kamui vortex tore open a spatial rift at that moment, but Naruto noticed that his teacher's space-time ninjutsu was half a beat slower than usual.

As the rift swallowed part of the out-of-control Dust Release, he saw that Kakashi's right little finger had a ring-shaped mark similar to the Akatsuki's ring, its dark red color exactly the same as the stains on the scroll.

Thirty miles to the northwest. Hinata's Byakugan suddenly bled, and a thin mist-like chakra barrier rose in the direction she was pointing, with more than twenty chakra sources simultaneously forming hand seals. Her voice was drowned out by the Nine-Tails' roar, and Naruto's Yang Release chakra surged uncontrollably towards the mark on the back of his hand, projecting a golden Rinnegan phantom from Momoshiki's descent onto the snow.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly rested against Kakashi's neck: "Since when did you start cultivating the chakra of the Gedo Mazo?" His Rinnegan reflected the grayish-white substance that had not yet dissipated from Kakashi's right hand.

The Raikage's warhammer and Killer Bee's Eight-Tails tentacles turned at the same time, but were frozen in mid-air by Onoki's Weighted Rock Technique just before they were about to collide.

The wind and snow suddenly stopped.

All natural sounds disappeared into some kind of viscous barrier, and even the Nine-Tailed Fox's roar turned into a slow-motion silent film.

Naruto saw the white mist he exhaled linger in the air, condensing into countless tiny ice crystals, each containing a miniature Rinne Sharingan.

When he tried to turn around and remind everyone, he found that even moving his eyeballs required overcoming an invisible resistance.

Chirabi's sunglasses slipped down to the tip of his nose, and the rapper's bloodshot eyes struggled to turn southeast.

His eight-tailed tentacles, like insects trapped in amber, drew wavy chakra ripples in the frozen air.

Naruto followed his gaze and saw Shikamaru's chess pieces moving on their own in the still snowstorm, piecing together the originally scattered formation into a complete Reaper Death Seal.

Sasuke's Susanoo wings suddenly shattered into chakra fragments, each fragment reflecting a different memory—a profile of young Kakashi in front of the memorial stone, and the moment Obito's mask cracked in the Kamui vortex.

When Naruto was finally able to turn his neck, he discovered that Kakashi's mask had fallen off at some point, and black runes resembling Yin-Yang Release were spilling from his pale lips.

The earth's veins... are breathing... Gaara's Eye of Sand suddenly bursts open, and dark red sand suspends in the barrier in the shape of blood tears.

Temari's three-star fan unfolded automatically, but it couldn't stir up even the slightest airflow, and the chakra crystals embedded in the fan ribs were fading at a visible speed.

Onoki's Dust Release white light suddenly went out, and the old man fell like a puppet with its strings cut.

Just as he was about to touch the ground, Naruto saw all the words on the scroll come to life, swimming like countless black tadpoles toward the ring-shaped mark remaining on Kakashi's right hand.

The Nine-Tails' chakra cloak suddenly contracted, and he felt the wedge-shaped mark on the back of his hand begin to burn, as if someone were using a red-hot iron to carve a seal on his skin.

Sasuke was the first to regain his hearing.

The metallic scraping sound of the Kusanagi sword being sheathed tore open the barrier, followed by an overwhelming whistling sound.

Naruto saw countless kunai gleaming in the moonlight, weaving a silver net, but he couldn't hear any shuriken slicing through the air.

When the first kunai grazed his ear, the Nine-Tails' warning finally exploded in his sluggish nerve endings—the blades weren't tethered by explosive tags, but by miniature Rinne Sharingan patterns.

Killer Bee's eight-tailed tentacles finally broke free from their restraints, but when they swung them, they touched some kind of invisible barrier.

The moment the rapper's sunglasses shattered, Naruto saw hundreds of dark figures rise from the snow. Their chakra was stiff like that of puppets with their strings cut, but the speed at which they formed hand seals was so fast that it tore through the visual afterimage.

Kakashi's Kamui Vortex fully expanded at this moment, but what surged from the spatial rift was not the familiar alternate dimension, but...

Chapter 342 I Can Help

The moonlight condensed into a layer of silver frost on the snow. Kakashi's Kamui vortex suddenly trembled violently, and countless writhing black runes surged out from the spatial rift.

These words entwined around the eight tailed tentacles like living things, and Killer Bee's pupils behind the shards of his sunglasses suddenly contracted: Idiot! Bastard!

These guys are devouring chakra!

The kunai near Naruto's ear suddenly exploded with a purplish-red halo, and the Rinne Sharingan pattern on the explosive tag opened its three tomoe in the night sky.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword barely severed three shuriken, but the fourth grazed Hinata's hair, drawing a line of blood on her snow-white clothes. "Don't get distracted!" he hissed, a thin line of blood seeping from the six-tomoe Rinnegan in his left eye.

"Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms!" Hinata's delicate shout rang out clearly amidst the explosion.

Her pure white eyes reflected the three dark figures that were flanking her, and pale blue chakra swirled in her palm.

The moment her Gentle Fist struck her enemy's chest, she felt as if she had hit some kind of viscous liquid. The chakra that should have damaged her meridians was instead completely devoured by the black curse mark on her opponent's chest.

Naruto's shadow clones disintegrated continuously amidst the smoke and explosion.

The Nine-Tails' chakra cloak shrank to just a thin layer, and the wedge-shaped mark on the back of his hand was so hot that the blood vessels under the skin were visible.

As the seventh clone was bound by the incantation around his neck, he caught a glimpse of Hinata leaping into the air—the shy girl who always hid behind the tree and peeked at him, now using her Heavenly Reversal technique to engulf three enemies in a chakra hurricane.

Watch out on the right! Kakashi's Lightning Blade tore through two dark figures, cold sweat seeping from beneath his mask.

The ring-shaped mark remaining on his right hand was burning hot, and the black tadpole-like characters that had burrowed into his skin seemed to be resonating with something.

The anomaly in the Kamui dimension caused his Sharingan to produce double images, and each time he formed a hand seal, it felt like moving his fingers in a sticky swamp.

A barrier of Earth Release suddenly rose in the direction where Onoki fell, and the white light of the Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release was stained with an eerie black color.

The Raikage's Lightning Release armor carved scorched furrows into the snow, while the Sand Village's puppet strings entangled the Kazekage's gold dust, making the entire battlefield seem to be divided into countless barriers that devoured each other.

Eight Trigrams Empty Palm! Hinata's chakra shockwave knocked the shadowy figure that was attacking Naruto back three steps, but she herself was thrown back by the recoil.

As she fell beside Naruto, the hem of her haori was covered in mud and snow, and a bead of blood from the corner of her mouth glistened in the moonlight. "I...I can help." Her Byakugan, which had been wiping away the blood, suddenly widened. Behind Naruto-kun!

The Nine-Tails' chakra, accompanied by a storm, shredded the five kunai into pieces, and Naruto's hand, which was supporting Hinata, was incredibly hot.

He saw the black lines spreading across the girl's neck, the chakra devoured by the cursed seal flowing backwards along the Gentle Fist acupoints. "Back off!" His Tailed Beast Cloak suddenly swelled, only to find wisps of black energy mixed into the originally orange chakra.

Suddenly, Killer Bee's roar came from the other side of the battlefield, and the eight-tailed octopus tentacles were corroded by the spell and riddled with holes.

A dark red tailed beast cloak appeared on the rapper's right arm, but before the tailed beast ball could fully form, it was pierced by black chains that appeared out of nowhere. These bastards... are extracting tailed beast chakra! Veins bulged behind his sunglasses as he simultaneously slashed at the void where the chains were wrapped around him.

Sasuke's Amaterasu Black Flame suddenly flared up, but mysteriously extinguished the moment it touched a mysterious ninja.

As he staggered backward, his Kusanagi sword pierced the snow, allowing him to regain his footing. His Rinnegan reflected the swirling kaleidoscope pattern beneath the enemy's mask. Kakashi!

These are... Before he could finish speaking, the Divine Might Vortex suddenly opened above his head, and a spatial rift carrying black runes rushed towards him.

"Gentle Step Double Lion Fist!" Hinata's sharp shout tore through the spell barrier.