Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

Now! Kakashi tore through space and pulled Tsunade back, while Guy, covered in blood, tumbled out of the Kamui vortex.

The lingering heat of the seventh gate of the Eight Gates Formation had not yet dissipated when this man, who was always too hot-blooded, actually tore a half-second gap in the Soul Lamp Barrier using physical techniques.

Naruto felt his heart suddenly resonate with Sasuke's, and in the light bursting from the wedge mark, the phantom of the Sage of Six Paths' staff appeared between the two.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly saw through all the flaws in the flow of chakra, while Naruto sensed the pounding hearts of everyone present.

Sass give!

To shut up!

The Nine-Tails' chakra and Susanoo merged perfectly to form an emerald-colored giant, with the Six Paths Truth-Seeking Balls arranged in a swastika seal above the throne.

When the mysterious leader tried to escape from Yomotsu Hirasaka, he discovered that the Raikage's Lightning Release armor was combining with the sand through Killer Bee's octopus ink, solidifying the space around him into an conductive cage.

Sage Art: Yin Yang Release - Rasenshuriken!

Indra's Arrow - Revised!

Within the torrent of gold and silver energy, Hinata's Gentle Fist Chakra, Gaara's Shukaku Sand, Granny Chiyo's Puppet Strings, Temari's Wind Blade, and Shikamaru's Shadow Binding Technique were simultaneously injected into the attack core.

In the silence, heaven and earth collapsed into pure white specks of light, and the shrill scream of the shattering throne of bones shook the glaciers within a hundred miles.

As the light faded, the mysterious leader's mangled body turned to ashes.

Those wedge-shaped marks struggled and twisted like living things, eventually converging into the nine-tomoe pattern of the Sage of Six Paths.

His remaining right eye stared at the mark on Naruto's hand, a relieved smile creeping onto his lips: The key... will eventually unlock...

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly pierced through the dissipating remains of his body, and the purple light of his Rinnegan shone brightly: Explain yourself!

What key? Yet only half a blood-stained Uchiha clan crest drifted down from the ashes, gently resting on Hinata's pale cheek in Naruto's arms.

The Raikage knelt on one knee, panting heavily, his Lightning Release armor still crackling; Onoki rubbed his aching back and grumbled as he tallied the Iwagakure casualties; Temari's three-star fan was stuck in the ice, and she was using Sand Village bandages to bandage Kankuro's puppet arm; Killer Bee celebrated his victory with an impromptu haiku, only to be criticized by the Eight-Tails for having completely wrong rhymes.

Naruto gently wiped away the scabs from Hinata's eyes, the girl's Byakugan reflecting the lingering Sage Mode markings on his face.

Just as he was about to say something, Sasuke suddenly tapped his headband with the hilt of his sword: "You loser, the mark on your collarbone..."

Kakashi walked over and placed his hand on the shoulders of the two men. The bloodstains on his mask had already congealed. "Let Lady Tsunade examine them when we get back to the village." His Sharingan, however, was fixed on the spatial rift in the air that had not yet closed, where faint chakra fluctuations similar to those of Kaguya could be heard.

The moment the wind and snow began to howl again, everyone suddenly heard the last whisper coming from where the mysterious leader had vanished.

The sound echoed deep within everyone's consciousness, carrying with it a chilling pleasure—

Sacrifices to the Ten-Tails, enjoy your last moments of peace.

Chapter 345 Let it be clear

The cheers on the icy plain were shattered into pieces by the howling wind.

The medical ninja moved among the haphazardly lying wounded, while the hemostatic medicine sealed in the scroll drew green arcs in the air.

Naruto gathered his chakra in his palm and watched as the ice crystals on Hinata's eyelashes turned into water droplets and rolled down. He suddenly remembered the Chunin Exams when he was sixteen, when she lay quietly in his arms in the same way.

The wounded were prioritized for transport back to Konoha Hospital. Tsunade tore off her blood-stained headband, the slug splitting off her shoulder gleaming with a pearly sheen. "The Jonin team is staying—including the three of you." She tapped Naruto's Konoha headband on his forehead with her finger, the metallic clang causing Sasuke's Kusanagi scabbard to vibrate slightly.

Kakashi crouched at the edge of an ice crevice, picking up a pinch of snow with a burnt smell from his fingertips.

The three tomoe of his Sharingan slowly rotated: the lingering traces of Yin-Yang Release in space were very similar to those left behind when Obito activated Infinite Tsukuyomi. As he spoke the second half of his sentence, his peripheral vision caught a glimpse of the reddened diamond-shaped mark on Naruto's collarbone.

But it's closer to Kaguya's chakra fluctuations. Onoki floated into the air, the white light of Dust Release flickering in his palm. "When I attended the Five Kage Summit," he said, "the Raikage mentioned the ancient texts of Kumogakure that record..."

"The Ten-Tails' container said." The Raikage suddenly interrupted, his fist, covered in lightning armor, slamming into the ice. Arcs of electricity crackled through the spiderweb-like cracks. "If what that guy said before he died was true, we might only be killing one of the sacrifices now."

Killer Bee's octopus tentacles on its shoulder suddenly straightened, and the low growl of its eight tails shook the ice field.

Naruto felt Kurama's chakra surging wildly through his meridians and hurriedly pressed his abdomen.

This action made Sasuke sneer. The purple light of his Rinnegan swept across the half-melted Uchiha clan crest on the ice: You loser, you're not scared now?

"Shut up, all of you!" Tsunade suddenly roared, the shockwave from her Super Strength Fist sending snow flying within a five-meter radius.

She ripped open the breastplate to reveal a deep purple diamond-shaped mark, and the chakra scalpel precisely cut open Naruto's collar: Sage Chakra was eroding his heart, and the Nine-Tails had to be resealed within three days.

Temari's three-star fan crashed to the ground, and iron sand seeped from the ice, enveloping Kankuro's trembling puppet arm.

Shikamaru suddenly ripped the hair tie, letting his black hair be tossed about by the wind: Orochimaru had infiltrated the Cloud Village's forbidden jutsu library last month.

These words caused the Eight-Tails' chakra cloak to surge instantly, and the Raikage's Lightning Release armor emitted a screeching sound.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword was held three inches in front of Shikamaru's throat, the blade reflecting the Amaterasu black flames dancing in his pupils: Explain yourself.

He traded a secret medicine from the Sound Village for the Second Tsuchikage's Impure World Reincarnation research scroll. Shikamaru pulled out half a dried snake scale from his ninja tool pouch; when the Sand Village puppeteers found it on the border of the Land of Wind, it was stained with the blood of the Cloud Village's Anbu.

Kakashi's headband suddenly slipped down, revealing his bleeding Mangekyou Sharingan.

He stared at the spatial rift on the ice surface that was gradually dissipating, and a voice seemed to come from a very far place: Orochimaru extracted Kaguya's cells back then.

Naruto suddenly grabbed Sasuke's wrist, which was holding the sword, and the golden cloak of the Nine-Tails' chakra and the purple light of the Rinnegan exploded in the twilight.

A faint cracking sound came from deep within the ice, as if something was moving along the earth's veins.

Hinata's Byakugan snapped open from her unconscious state, revealing deep blue veins etched across her temples: "Naruto-kun... thirty miles to the southwest..."

As the wind swept snowflakes over everyone's heads, and the moonlight illuminated the ice field, long, thin shadows appeared inexplicably in the gaps between the ice ridges that should have been empty.

They contracted rapidly like a startled swarm of snakes, but before disappearing, they left behind a viscous residue of chakra in the air—an aura that resembled the decaying sage talismans in the caves of Mount Myōboku.

The tremors on the ice field suddenly intensified, and the Rasengan that Naruto had gathered in his palm exploded in the night with golden light.

As the nine chakra tails swept across the ice, the previously still shadows suddenly twisted into sharp spikes, climbing up Sasuke's Susanoo skeleton.

Back off! Sasuke's Kusanagi sword cleaved through three bolts of lightning, but the blade pierced through the shadows and struck directly into the ice.

The jet-black spikes liquefied upon contact with Kakashi's Lightning Blade, turning into a viscous chakra fluid that enveloped his right arm.

Amidst the deafening roar of a thousand birds singing, swirling patterns appeared on the surface of the mucus.

Naruto threw out three Fuma Shuriken, the Nine-Tails' chakra attaching to the blades to form golden halo: he wrapped the weapons in Sage Mode chakra! Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Hinata stagger to her feet, the bulging veins around her Byakugan looking particularly terrifying in the moonlight.

Two black rods formed by Yin-Yang Escape flew past her ears, pinning the Three Star Fan into the ice wall.

Sasuke's Susanoo suddenly spread its wings, and a purple arrow pierced through three clusters of shadows: "Defense will only cause them to multiply!" He pointed to the black veins writhing beneath the ice, the six tomoe of his Rinnegan spinning wildly, these were chakra aggregates similar to White Zetsu.

You have no idea about their attack patterns! Naruto ripped off the headband that was stuck in the slime, and Sage Chakra condensed into a frog pattern on his forehead.

As the Nine-Tailed Fox's claws shattered the two humanoid shadows, more slime seeped from the cracks and enveloped his ankles.

He felt the flow of chakra in his meridians suddenly slow down, as if he had been poured into molten lead.

The cracking sound of the ice breaking drowned out their argument.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, three shadowy tentacles broke through the defensive circle and stabbed straight at Naruto's back.

Hinata's Gentle Fist chakra exploded with blue light at the last moment. The barrier formed by the sixty-four palms was pierced by the tentacles, and the blood mist she spat out condensed into tiny ice crystals under the moonlight.

Hinata!

Naruto's Nine-Tails cloak suddenly expanded, and the golden chakra shattered the ice layer within a ten-meter radius.

Sasuke's Susanoo arrow grazed his ear and pierced the root of his tentacle, while Amaterasu's black flames burned along the veins of the shadow, emitting a burnt smell.

The chakra vortex formed by the two back to back shredded the approaching black shadow into pieces, but it could not stop the strange pulsation coming from the depths of the ice.

The Raikage's Lightning Release armor suddenly emitted a piercing crackling sound of electricity.

As his lightning-covered fist struck the core of the shadow, the slime suddenly solidified into a mirror, refracting the lightning towards Shikamaru, who was forming hand seals.

Temari's three-star fan barely blocked the fatal blow, and the sand iron shield was blasted with spiderweb-like cracks.

Thirty miles southwest! Kakashi's Mangekyou Sharingan sheds tears of blood, and the Kamui vortex pulls two shadowy figures into another dimension. These monstrous things are driving us in a specific direction!

Onoki's Dust Release swept across the icy plains, but the evaporated shadows reformed under the moonlight.

As Killer Bee's Tailed Beast Ball exploded into a mushroom cloud, the Eight-Tails' tentacles suddenly twitched and retracted into its body: Beware of chakra backlash!

They can absorb ninjutsu and transform their form!

The moment Naruto pulled Hinata back, his nine chakra tails were suddenly bound together in a tight knot by the slime.

Sasuke's Susanoo arrow grazed his shoulder, leaving a burn mark on his collarbone as it severed the shadow tentacles.

The moment their eyes met, the air seemed to freeze for half a second, a feeling of déjà vu from the Battle of End Valley years ago.

A crisp sound of bones grinding together came from deep within the ice.

The shattered fragments of shadow began to coalesce into a human shape, and ripples resembling the Rinnegan gradually appeared on his forehead.

When Kakashi's Kamui kunai pierced the forehead of one of the aggregates, fine snake scales suddenly grew from the tip of the kunai's handle.

Playtime is over, kids.

When the hoarse voice rang out against the back of Naruto's neck, the Nine-Tails' chakra reacted by exploding into sharp spikes.

Orochimaru's pale fingers emerged from the shadows, his fingertips clutching half of a bloodstained Konoha headband.

His golden, vertical pupils swept over the wary postures of the crowd, and his tongue licked the dried bloodstains on his headband.

The shadows on the ice field suddenly stopped attacking and retreated into the depths of the crevice like the receding tide.

Moonlight illuminated the writhing black substance beneath Orochimaru's lab coat, which was constantly absorbing the chakra remaining on the ice.

A semi-transparent humanoid silhouette gradually appeared at his feet, and its shape resembled that of the long-dead Uchiha Itachi.

The ice shards evaporated into mist in the residual heat of the Nine-Tails' chakra, and Naruto's hand, which was around Hinata, could touch the ice crystals stuck to her back.

The frost on the girl's eyelashes was melting, and drops of blood mixed with the blood seeping from the corner of her mouth fell onto his headband.

"You bastard..." The tailed beast chakra rolling in Naruto's throat shattered the burn scabs on his collarbone.

He looked down at Hinata's pale face and suddenly remembered the Chunin Exams when he was twelve years old. This girl, who always hid behind the pillar, had also wiped away his nosebleed with trembling fingers.

The black substance beneath Orochimaru's lab coat suddenly surged, and the ice on the ground cracked with spiderweb-like patterns.

The semi-transparent outline finally solidified into a physical form—Uchiha Itachi's illusion raised his hand, and the purplish-black chakra gathered at his fingertips caused Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan to suddenly contract.

Fate's gifts always exceed expectations. Orochimaru's golden snake-like vertical pupils swept over Sasuke's stiff back, and the blood-stained Konoha headband shattered into dust in his palm.

The black matter suddenly enveloped the weasel's illusion, twisting it into a monster bound by cursed chains.

Kakashi threw out three kunai with explosive tags, but the Kamui vortex disintegrated into sparks when it touched the cursed seal chains.

As he retreated, he caught a glimpse of Sasuke's trembling fingers—tiny ice crystals were forming on the boy's fingertips as he formed hand seals, and the old wounds from the Valley of the End battle throbbed faintly in the cold air.

Enough! Suddenly, Kabuto leaped out of the ice crevice, the protective talisman paper sliced ​​open by the scalpel fluttering down.

Chapter 346 There Should Be a Limit to Showing Off.

The newly added curse mark on his neck was still bleeding, but the pupils behind his glasses shone with an astonishing brightness: You promised not to use the offerings from the Inner Four Symbols Seal!

Orochimaru's pale cheeks developed scale-like patterns, and black matter transformed into a giant python that coiled around Kabuto's waist and abdomen.

Ice spikes suddenly rose from the ground, isolating the two within a barrier filled with sealing spells.

Shikamaru's shadow seized the opportunity to wrap around Naruto's ankles, pulling him and Hinata behind a relatively safe rock wall.

There's a 63% chance it's a trap. Shikamaru bit his finger and drew a formation on the ice. The splattered blood crystals condensed on Temari's unfolded iron fan, but that Yakushi... his chakra flow is off.

As if confirming his judgment, a crisp sound of bones dislocating suddenly came from within the barrier.

Dou tore open the corroded collar, revealing a diamond-shaped mark on his chest that was frantically absorbing the surrounding chill.

The moment Orochimaru's pupils contracted sharply, seven scalpels wrapped in green chakra simultaneously pierced his pressure points.

You taught me to always have a backup plan. Kabuto wiped away the black blood that had spilled from the corner of his mouth, and the chakra threads extending from the end of the scalpel handle suddenly straightened.

The ice field outside the barrier began to tremble, and the absorbed Nine-Tails chakra seeped out from behind him, condensing into a translucent scarlet sphere of light.

Naruto suddenly pressed his hand to his chest, and Kurama issued a warning growl in his consciousness.

He saw familiar sealing patterns appear on the surface of the orb—traces of Yin-Yang Release left by the Sage of Six Paths, now twisted into a strange snake shape under Kabuto's control.

Orochimaru suddenly let out a pleasant chuckle.

The black substance receded like the tide, revealing the newly grown scales on his neck, those bluish-gray scales greedily absorbing the scarlet aura.

When the barrier suddenly shattered, everyone saw Kabuto standing frozen in place, still in the hand seal position, with the chakra threads on his scalpel somehow already wrapped around his own throat.

"Good boy." Orochimaru's fingertips traced Kabuto's bulging temples, his voice trembling from absorbing too much chakra.

A viscous, writhing sound came from beneath the ice, and the lurking fragments of shadow rose again, each reflecting the ripples of Itachi Uchiha's Rinnegan.

The scales on Orochimaru's neck made a metallic scraping sound as his chakra flowed, and the absorbed crimson light sphere condensed in his palm into a snake-shaped longsword wrapped in black mist.