Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

The moment the ice crystals shattered, a dozen pale figures leaped from the ground, black liquid seeping from the curse marks on their foreheads. They were Jugo's people! Mizuki emerged halfway from the ice, but her cellular activity was three hundred times greater than normal!

Naruto suddenly knelt down, and his Tailed Beast Cloak turned into a strange silvery-white color under the erosion of the blue-gold patterns.

Kakashi's Lightning Blade cleaved through the mutated creature that tried to approach, and his Sharingan caught a glimpse of blood seeping from the sealing array on the boy's back: Kurama, you are actually actively fusing with natural energy.

"Shut up!" Naruto roared, tearing his upper body clothes apart. His Sage Mode eyeshadow twisted into a spiral shape. "I can feel... all the test subjects are calling for what's inside me..." His words were interrupted by black blood gushing from his throat. Hinata's Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms instantly sealed all the chakra points in his body.

Sasuke's Susanoo suddenly condensed into his armor form. He leaped to the highest point of the ice cliff and surveyed the battlefield: five miles to the southeast, there were remnants of Ryuchi Cave's chakra. Snake-like slime seeped from the cracks in the Kusanagi sword. I need to confirm a certain hypothesis.

Now is not the time to be reckless! Sakura's monstrous strength smashed three attacking mutants, green medical chakra wrapped around Sasuke's ankle, your eye power has already... Her persuasion was interrupted by the Thunder God Sword that suddenly pierced the ground, and the reinforcements from Kumogakure finally tore through the blizzard barrier.

Killer Bee's Eight-Sword Style slash cleared a safe area, and his mutilated right arm suddenly extended octopus tentacles: something inside Naruto was resonating with the experimental subject! The Eight-Tails' chakra suddenly materialized into a giant claw, forcibly pulling a wavy black mist from Naruto's abdomen.

Tsunade's summoning slugs split into hundreds, attaching themselves to everyone's wounds: "All Jonin, heed my command! Assemble at the Frost Country border in three hours!" Her Yin Seal began releasing stored chakra. As for Team 7...

Sasuke's Susanoo wings fully unfurled at that moment, and the hurricane he created as he swooped down overturned two medical tents. "I said I'd check!" Purple chakra arrows exploded into signal flares in mid-air. "If that loser dies, I'll personally destroy Konoha."

Naruto struggled to reach out his hand amidst the chaos, and the perception of Sage Mode suddenly pierced through the hundred-mile-long icy plain.

A figure wearing a vortex mask flashed through the consciousness space, and Kurama's roar shook the sealed space, causing rubble to fall.

When his gaze refocused, he only saw Sasuke turn into a purple dot of light on the horizon, while Kakashi's Sharingan was oozing blood.

As Sasuke's chakra aura suddenly fluctuated violently five miles to the northeast, Naruto was crushing the head of the seventh test subject with his Rasengan.

Ice shards mixed with black slime splattered onto the Sage Mode face markings, and he suddenly clutched his chest and knelt on one knee—Kurama's chakra tentacles were forcibly breaking through the seal.

That guy... Naruto's throat tasted even stronger of blood.

Through the sensory network constructed by natural energy, he saw the purple Susanoo's skeleton being pierced by more than a dozen bone spikes covered in mucus.

Sasuke's chakra flickered like a candle in the wind, while an even more dangerous surge was encircling him from the southeast.

The medical team stayed behind! Tsunade's monstrous strength smashed through the ice to form a temporary shelter, and the golden patterns of the Hundred Healings Technique stood out prominently in the blizzard.

She gripped Naruto's collar so tightly she nearly crushed his headband. Using a shadow clone to transmit coordinates, she had to... within three minutes.

Before he finished speaking, the boy had already transformed into a golden streak of light and broken through the icy mist.

As it sped along, the tailed beast's outer garment continued to peel away, revealing blue and gold patterns spreading beneath its skin.

Kakashi's Lightning Blade cleaved through the three mutated creatures blocking his path, and his Sharingan revealed the sealing array on the boy's back, its blood seeping out: Don't let the Nine-Tails...

At the edge of the icy plain, a black rocky mountain rises abruptly, with Susanoo's tattered wings wedged between the rocks.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword was stuck in the ice, the bandages wrapped around the hilt soaked in blood and turned dark brown.

Seven test subjects with cursed seals splitting their foreheads are taking turns ramming into the purple chakra barrier, and the bone spurs extending from their palms even bear the unique patterns of Wood Release.

The art of multiple shadow clones!

The moment the two hundred golden shadows crashed into the rock wall, Naruto's true form had already appeared inside Susanoo.

Sasuke had a bone spur embedded in his left shoulder, and the six-pointed star pattern on his Sharingan was bleeding: Mind your own business... His fist, which he threw, was enveloped in the Nine-Tails' chakra, but suddenly lost its strength before it touched Naruto's cheek.

The test subjects suddenly took a half step back in unison, and the curse marks on their foreheads simultaneously lit up with a ghostly green light.

The moment Naruto grabbed Sasuke's wrist, he sensed the stench of Ryuchi Cave mixed in with the latter's chakra: "So you really did go to find Jugo's..."

Shut up! Sasuke's Chidori Stream blasted apart the Susanoo's remains, but the lightning only shattered the illusions of the front row of test subjects.

The real attack came from underground—three sticky wood-style branches burst through the ice and instantly wrapped around the ankles of the two people.

As Sakura's powerful punch shattered the ice, green chains formed from medical chakra tightened around the neck of the third test subject. "Do you guys have to pick a time like this to argue?" Ice crystals clinging to her hair fell with her roar, and the scar on her left eye glowed red with her intense emotion.

The old wound from the Chunin Exams three years ago is more intimidating than any words at this moment.

The Rasengan in Naruto's palm suddenly turned dark gold, and the combined energy of the Nine-Tails' chakra and Sage Mode blasted the Wood Release branches into dust.

Sasuke seized the opportunity to use Amaterasu to burn away the bone spurs that had attacked him, but the black flames uncontrollably spread to Sakura's medical kit. "Restrain your eye power!" The girl's Healing Palm Technique precisely struck a vital point on the back of his neck, forcibly stopping the out-of-control eye technique.

The second wave of attacks on the experimental subjects was faster than expected.

The seven mutants suddenly merged into a three-meter-tall monster, with nine Sharingan eyes opening on its chest and rotating simultaneously.

Naruto felt Kurama inside him suddenly go silent, and the sensory network of Sage Mode was distorted by some kind of force.

It's a mixture of Hashirama cells and Sharingan! Sasuke's Kusanagi sword slashed across the monster's ribs, and the sparks it generated carried the unique scent of camellia blossoms from Konoha.

The shuriken array he unleashed as he leaped backward was completely deflected by the bone spikes. Use your Tailed Beast Ball...

No!

Natural energy is going berserk! Naruto knelt on the ground, and the sealing talisman on his neck began to rotate counterclockwise.

Kurama's cold laughter echoed in the consciousness space, and blood-red chakra was seeping out along the cracks in the seal.

Sakura's cherry blossom blast repelled the onrushing monster, and her resolute action as she tore open the bandage on her right arm screamed: "Use that!" The Yin Seal in her palm blossomed with a diamond-shaped mark passed down from Tsunade, though still immature...

When Sasuke's Susanoo bow and arrow and Sakura's Hundred Healings Technique were activated simultaneously, Naruto finally suppressed the rampaging energy within him.

The moment the azure Tailed Beast Ball collided with the purple arrow, an energy storm mixed with green medical chakra tore the monster to shreds.

The ice field was blasted into a giant crater with a diameter of 100 meters, and the flying ice crystals refracted rainbow light under the sunlight.

But before the breath of victory could even settle, more rustling sounds came from underground.

From the cracked ice crevice, dozens of experimental subjects with two horns on their foreheads were writhing and crawling out.

The Rinnegan patterns on their palms made Sasuke's pupils shrink: This is...

A sand-iron barrier suddenly descended from the sky, and Gaara's third eye of sand opened amidst the blizzard.

Kankuro's puppet crows spewed out a black poisonous mist, while Temari's three-star fan unleashed a hurricane wrapped in explosive tags.

The Sand Village reinforcements finally broke through the encirclement in the southeast, but every Sand Village ninja had an unnatural pale face—their chakra was clearly exhausted to the limit.

There are three hundred more energy sources three kilometers to the northeast. Shikamaru's shadow is still entangled with two unconscious Cloud Village ninjas. The scroll he tossed to Naruto has a complex array drawn on it. He uses Sage Mode to sense whether these things are absorbing chakra to evolve.

The natural energy that Naruto had just gathered suddenly dissipated, and Kurama's warning exploded in his mind.

He staggered and grabbed Sasuke's shoulder, noticing that the Wood Release wounds on Sasuke's arm were assimilating into his skin: These test subjects... were mimicking our techniques...

Suddenly, a series of impact sounds came from outside the sand and iron barrier, and Gaara's three Sand Eyes exploded in succession.

Temari's three-star fan was pierced by bone spikes, and strange pinkish-purple spores mixed into the hurricane.

The outermost Sand Village ninjas suddenly knelt down in unison, the unidentified bulges on their backs pulsating with the rhythm of the impact.

Retreat to the second line of defense! Just as Kankuro's puppet strings wrapped around Temari's waist, he was whipped away by a bone whip that shot out from the ground.

Gaara's absolute defense began to crack for the first time, as the black liquid mixed in with the golden sand began to corrode his chakra.

Naruto's newly formed Rasengan was stained with blood mist, and the Nine-Tails' chakra uncontrollably spilled out, forming sharp claws.

Sasuke aimed his Susanoo bow at the gap in the barrier, but the six-pointed star spinning in his Sharingan suddenly stopped.

Sakura was using Creation Regeneration to heal the wounded, unaware that blood was seeping from the scar on her left eye.

When the seventh wave of experimental subjects broke through the sand and iron barrier, a sound wave that exceeded the limits of human hearing suddenly swept across the battlefield.

All the mutants looked up at the sky in unison, and tongue-like probes emerged from the holes in their chests.

Naruto's neck hairs stood on end, and Sage Mode spontaneously activated to a dangerous level—an instinctive warning when encountering a natural enemy.

In the lingering energy ripples at the edge of the icy plain, chakra vaguely coalesced into a blurry humanoid shape.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly trembled violently, and the sealing talisman on the hilt spontaneously combusted without fire.

Sakura's medical kit fell to the ground, and the three sedatives exploded simultaneously.

All these anomalies were recorded by the Sand Village ninja using golden sand, and transmitted through some secret channel to a cave on the border of the Land of Lightning.

The swirling mask pattern drawn in blood on the cave wall is oozing fresh Wood Release sap.

Chapter 349 Art is an Explosion

The air over the ice field suddenly froze.

Deidara's shrill laughter ripped through the wind and snow, and the outstretched wings of the clay giant bird cast distorted shadows on the ground.

He hung upside down on his mount's belly, his golden braids sweeping across the ice melted by the afterglow of the explosion. Art is an explosion, huh!

But I'm not the main character today—he casually tossed down three clay spiders, revealing their gleaming white teeth in the exploding flames.

Naruto felt a metallic taste rising in his throat.

The Nine-Tails' chakra formed sharp claws that tore at the combat vest, and blood mist evaporated into tiny vortexes on the surface of the Rasengan.

He could clearly sense the restlessness sealed within his body, boiling uncontrollably just like when he faced Pain three years ago. "You bastard..." The veins on his forehead throbbed, but the eye patterns in Sage Mode suddenly contracted—three experimental subjects were rushing towards the rock formation where Shikamaru was, following the explosive blast from Deidara.

The sand and iron barrier emitted a teeth-grinding cracking sound.

Kankuro's puppet Black Ant suddenly convulsed and fell to the ground, with black slime, the same as that of the experimental subject, oozing from its joints.

Just as he was about to form a hand seal, a bone spur suddenly pierced his ankle from the ice. "Big Brother!" A roar mixed with the stench of blood burst from his mouth, and just as the pyramid formed of golden sand barely covered the clay centipede falling from above his head.

Don't get distracted! Gaara's voice had a rough, gritty quality to it.

The Sand Eye, suspended in mid-air, split into six pieces, with black liquid that corrodes chakra dripping from each crevice.

The sand in the gourd behind him was less than 30% full, yet he still had to divert his attention to control the sandstorm prison that trapped Deidara—the wings of the clay bird were gnawing at the sealed chakra.

Sasuke's Susanoo suddenly staggered and knelt on one knee.

The six-pointed star pattern in the Sharingan was stuck at a strange angle, and the vibration frequency of the Kusanagi sword resonated with the detector on the test subject's chest.

As he shot the fifth mutant with his arrow, the Amaterasu black flames clinging to the arrow were completely swallowed by the black hole in the mutant's chest. Kakashi! He turned to look at the Lightning Blade Flash in the southwest corner—these guys are evolving!

A muffled thud suddenly came from behind the icicle where the medical team was located.

Sakura mechanically stuffed the seventh piece of hemostatic cotton into the wounded man's abdominal cavity, and the blood flowing from her left eye congealed into dark red ice crystals on her cheekbone.

The explosive sedative solution soaked through her gloves, but she stared at the suddenly frozen experimental group—the mutated creatures that should have rushed toward the medical point had collectively turned toward the sky, the black holes in their chests expanding into eerie halos of light.

"Lie down!" Kakashi's Lightning Blade slashed out in a lightning-like arc.

As he instantly appeared in front of the medical team, twelve clay bombs exploded right in the middle of the experimental subjects.

The shockwave shattered the ice layer within a radius of 100 meters, and the flying ice shards were mixed with purple poisonous mist and gold dust.

In a fleeting moment, he caught a glimpse of Deidara making a detonation gesture high in the sky, while the clay bird that should have been trapped in the sandstorm had only half a wing remaining.

Naruto leaped into the air, stepping on the falling ice spikes.

The Rasengan fused with the Nine-Tails' chakra to form a crimson storm, but it was blocked by an experimental subject that suddenly appeared just as it was about to hit Deidara.

He watched helplessly as the monster with six scorpion tails swallowed the Rasengan, the black hole in its chest spinning and compressing energy into a dark red sphere. Damn it... Sage Mode's sensory network suddenly detected an abnormal vibration; twenty-three heartbeats simultaneously echoed from the icy abyss fissure in the southeast.

"Sand Rain!" Gaara's angry roar was accompanied by the booming of chakra.

The golden sand that should have covered the entire area only descended in a thin layer, barely freezing the three mutants that lunged at Kankuro.

Countless skeletal arms emerged from the suddenly collapsing ice cave beneath his feet. The moment the Sand Armor activated its automatic defense, the last image of the Sand Eye returned to his mind—an experimental subject with a Sharingan embedded in his chest was devouring the sealing talismans scattered by the Kusanagi Sword.

Deidara's laughter suddenly rose eight octaves.

He maneuvered clay birds soaring across the battlefield, the explosive clay fragments landing precisely in the center of each battle circle. This was a true art exhibition! The frenzied echo was drowned out by the roar, and amidst the simultaneous explosions at seventeen locations, the halos on the chests of all the test subjects suddenly flashed in unison.

The crackling sound of bones breaking came from the dust and grime mixed with ice.

Gaara's right shoulder was mostly shaved off by the black halo on the test subject's chest, and the Sand Armor sizzled as it was corroded by the liquid.

He staggered and pushed Kankuro away from the attack range of the white bone claws, and the gourd behind him suddenly cracked open with spider web-like patterns.

"Lord Kazekage!" Kankuro's roar was tinged with blood.

He manipulated the black ant's tattered body to pounce on the experimental subject, but the movement of his ten fingers controlling the chakra threads became distorted due to the penetrating wound in his ankle.

Deidara's clay spider remains suddenly reformed behind him, and the shockwave from the explosion hurled him toward a precipice strewn with icicles.

Sasuke's Susanoo Bow was instantly drawn to its full extent, but the purple flame arrow was intercepted midway by Naruto's shadow clone.

"Take care of that madman in the sky first!" Naruto leaped towards Deidara, stepping on the ice wall, his claws formed from the Nine-Tails' chakra leaving five charred marks on the ground.

The instant the Rasengan collided with the Clay Bird, the intense light from the explosion caused everyone to be temporarily blinded.

"Idiot!" Sasuke's Kusanagi sword cleaved through the experimental subject lunging at Sakura, the tomoe spinning in his Sharingan almost bleeding from his eyes. "That guy's puppet strings are still connected to Kankuro!" Before he finished speaking, the ice pillar where the medical team was located collapsed with a crash, and the black holes in the chests of the three mutants were pointing directly at the unconscious Kankuro.

Kakashi's Lightning Blade traced a zigzag lightning trail.

As he severed the five clay wires, blood from his left eye spread a dark red stain on his mask: "Sasuke sealed the gap in the southeast corner, Naruto used Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu to disrupt Deidara's vision!" His blood-stained headband flung out ice crystals with the movement. "Sakura led the medical team back three hundred meters, can Gaara still move?"

Fengying coughed up blood and phlegm mixed with sand, pressing his left hand against the collapsed ice.

The thin layer of gold sand struggled to form a barrier, barely managing to block the splash damage from yet another round of clay bombs.