Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

As Naruto carried the injured Sand Village ninja through the main street, the vegetable stall owner suddenly overturned a whole basket of tomatoes, splashing bright red juice onto Naruto's orange trousers.

"This is the third time this month!" The shopkeeper slammed the iron pot down at Kankuro's feet. "You ninjas are a jinx!"

Shikamaru crouched in the shadow of the memorial stone, using the tip of his kunai to pick up a clump of sand that shimmered with purple light.

His shadow was three degrees fainter than usual, with unnaturally jagged edges.

“Seven barrier nodes have been infiltrated,” he said, turning his kunai in the moonlight, purple light spots dancing on Asuma’s name. “The enemy had grasped Konoha’s defense cycle at least half a month in advance.”

"Are we just going to sit here and wait to die?" Naruto slammed his fist on the mission notice board, and three S-rank wanted posters fluttered into a puddle.

The wound on the back of his hand was oozing a blue fluorescence, where slug fission bodies were repeatedly bursting and recombining.

Sasuke suddenly grabbed his wrist, his Sharingan glowing dark red in the twilight: "Don't move, there's something moving in your veins."

The Hokage's office was filled with the smell of medicinal cotton late at night.

Tsunade used a chakra scalpel to cut open the lower leg of a corpse, revealing glowing capillaries between the muscle fibers.

“Residual traces of reverse necromancy.” She tossed the blood-stained tweezers into the tray, the metallic clanging startling the drowsy Shizune. “The enemy is using our victory for teleportation and location tracking.”

Shikamaru's sand table simulation continued until dawn.

He deliberately left three defensive loopholes, using stardust brought by the Wind Kingdom caravan to mark the trap areas.

As the first rays of sunlight pierced the clouds, the Hyuga branch family ninjas discovered tiny crow feathers appearing at all the trap sites.

Sasuke kicked a loose stone slab while on patrol.

When you lift it up, you find a semi-solidified purple viscous liquid with three rosary beads bearing tooth marks floating in it.

Just as he was about to reach out, Kakashi's Lightning Blade suddenly shattered the entire stone slab, and the flying shards drew blood from Sasuke's cheek.

"Don't touch it," a muffled voice came from behind the mask. "This thing is mimicking chakra fluctuations."

The secret service discovered gnawed rations at the third training ground, each with a perfectly semi-circular notch.

Shino's parasites died suddenly nearby, their carapaces covered with tiny fluorescent spots the size of pinholes.

When Haiyi tried to read the insect corpse's memories, the crystal ball suddenly leaked a black liquid, reflecting a figure forming a hand seal—the person's left little finger was missing its second joint.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword flicked up half a dead branch in the bushes, and a slight tremor suddenly came from the tip of the sword.

He crouched down, and moonlight shone through the gaps in the forest onto the moss, where a few drops of dark purple slime were wriggling along the cracks in the rocks.

The Sharingan's three tomoe spun rapidly, and tiny sealing runes appeared on the surface of the mucus—exactly the same as those found under the stone slab last night.

The medium for reverse psychic magic. He took out the scroll to take a sample, but suddenly his feet sank into a layer of soft, decaying leaves.

The mycelium-like fluorescent substance instantly wrapped around the ankle, causing a needle-like burning pain to the skin.

Three kunai grazed past his ears and embedded themselves into the tree trunk; Shikamaru's Shadow Binding Technique barely managed to cut off the spread of the fungus.

Inside the medical tent, Sakura's chakra scalpel sliced ​​open Sasuke's trouser leg, revealing spiderweb-like purple spots on the skin eroded by the fungal hyphae. "Don't move!" She pressed down on Sasuke's trembling leg. The green light of her Healing Palm Technique exploded with tiny sparks upon contact with the toxins. "These fungal hyphae are devouring chakra. If you had used Fire Release just now, your whole leg would be ruined."

The tent flap was suddenly lifted, and Naruto rushed in, bringing with him the cool night breeze.

The blue fluorescence on the back of his hand was even stronger than yesterday, and the slug's cytokines were forming a translucent cocoon at the wound. The bottom-of-the-barrel guy couldn't even see through the trap. Sasuke turned his head away and coughed, dark red blood splattering onto the gauze.

What did you say? Naruto grabbed Sasuke by the collar, and the two of them crashed into the equipment rack.

Amidst the sound of shattering glass, Sasuke's Sharingan suddenly widened: You're the one who acted recklessly!

If you hadn't shattered the barrier stone yesterday...

Shut up, all of you! Tsunade slammed her hand on the iron hospital bed, and cracks instantly spread across the bed frame.

Her clothes were covered in stardust powder, indicating that she had just arrived from the sealing team. The stardust trap at the southeastern barrier point had been triggered, and the enemy was using your chakra fluctuations to locate you.

Shikamaru squatted in front of the sand table and arranged the three magnetic chess pieces at an obtuse angle.

The area he had deliberately left untouched was now glowing with an ominous red light, and the Nara clan's secret potion traced the path of raven feathers on the sand table's surface. Six hours ahead of schedule. He bit his finger and wrote a series of equations on the scroll; the blood, still wet, was shaken off by the sudden vibration of the sand table.

At midnight, Hyuga Tokuma opened his eyes, veins bulging, in the watchtower.

Fish-scale-like ripples appeared on the surface of the barrier membrane, and seven stardust traps simultaneously lit up with eerie blue flames.

Just as he was about to sound the alarm, his throat was suddenly gripped by an invisible force—the shadow of a crow cast by the moonlight was tightly clutching his neck.

The ancient bell at Nanga Shrine chimed without wind, its sound waves shattering windows along the way.

Kakashi opened "Icha Icha Paradise," and a jet-black feather drifted down from between the pages.

As he leaped onto the roof, all the ninja dogs in Konoha howled at the moon. The three brothers of Inuzuka Claw, Haimaru, huddled in a corner, their fangs dripping fluorescent green saliva.

A column of purplish-black smoke rose from behind the Fire Shadow Rock, and the twelve barriers simultaneously emitted shrill whistles.

Tsunade tore off her bandages and rushed out of the medical ward, her wet blonde hair resembling a battle flag under the moonlight.

She saw Naruto's Rasengan illuminate the training ground, while Sasuke's Chidori slashed in the exact opposite direction—at the point where their attacks met, space suddenly twisted into a vortex-shaped black hole.

A pale hand emerged from the black hole and slammed onto the barrier membrane, instantly causing spiderweb-like cracks to spread across the entire sky.

A shadowy figure wearing a crow tengu mask slowly emerged, its left hand, missing the second joint of its little finger, forming the seal of the snake.

He stood on the Byakugan of the Hyuga clan, his pupils reflecting the scene of the Nine-Tails' rampage twelve years ago.

As the first fragment of the barrier began to fall, a strange reverse flow of chakra appeared in everyone's body.

Chapter 355 The Prelude to Space Displacement

Suddenly, a whirlpool of cold wind erupted from the center of the training field, making the hairs on the back of Naruto's neck stand on end.

He gritted his teeth and pushed the Rasengan to an even higher intensity, the azure light making Sasuke's Chidori arcs appear dimmer.

The chakra accumulated by the two collapsed suddenly when it touched the edge of the black hole, like a stone falling into a deep pool.

"Watch out for spatial fluctuations!" Kakashi's shout cut through the distorted air.

He precisely pierced the black hole three inches to the right, and the previously dissipated chakra flow suddenly solidified into a solid chain in mid-air—this was a modified version of the Four Symbols Sealing Technique he learned in "Make-Out Paradise".

The shadowy figure's tengu mask cracked, revealing half of a pale, paper-white face.

The hand missing its little finger flipped and formed a hand seal, and twelve stone pillars engraved with dark runes suddenly appeared around the training ground.

Sasuke's Sharingan suddenly contracted, and these barrier pillars that were supposed to protect the perimeter of Konoha were transformed into spatial coordinates.

Multiple Shadow Clone Technique! Naruto's thirty-six clones simultaneously formed hand seals, but froze at the very moment they were about to complete the ninjutsu.

He felt as if the chakra in his meridians was being gripped by an invisible hand, and the roar of the Nine-Tails exploded deep in his eardrums.

In the distance came the sound of Kankuro's puppet joints grinding together, and the red threads of the Crimson Secret Technique: Hundred Puppet Manipulation, which had just been unfurled, drooped limply to the ground.

Black blood suddenly seeped from the Byakugan beneath the shadowy figure's feet, and the scene of the Nine-Tails breaking free of its seal twelve years ago was played back at an accelerated pace on the pupil.

When the scene froze on the moment the Fourth Hokage unleashed the Reaper Death Seal, the ground of the entire Hidden Leaf Village began to tremble.

Tsunade smashed through the outer wall of the medical department with a punch and leaped into the arena, her wet bandages fluttering in the wind.

The reverse flow of chakra is a precursor to space displacement! Shikamaru's Shadow Imitation Technique drew complex geometric shapes on the ground, and everyone's meridian system's Dui acupoints were locked! His voice was crushed by the suddenly increased pressure, and the three members of Team 7 simultaneously knelt on the ground.

Kakashi's headband slipped down, revealing his crimson Sharingan, the three tomoe spinning wildly in his pupils.

He saw that the trajectory of the black shadow's hand seals was 70% similar to the Fourth Hokage's Flying Thunder God Technique, but the missing knuckles made each change have an eerie pause.

As the shadowy figure teleported to the northwest corner of the training ground again, Kakashi thrust his Lightning Blade into the void half a second in advance.

The sound of metal clashing made Xiaoying's eardrums ache.

The way the shadowy figure used a kunai to block the Lightning Blade overlapped with a rainy night in Kakashi's memory—the angle of a block used by an Uchiha clan member who should have died during the Battle of Kannabi Bridge thirteen years ago.

"Hokage-sama!" Hinata's Byakugan suddenly bulged with veins, and a phase difference appeared in the chakra flow of the southeast barrier pillar! She forcefully broke through the chakra reversal and used Rotation Tensei, the spinning chakra ball propelling the falling barrier fragments into the sky.

Gaara's Sand Shield timely enveloped the out-of-control fragments, but was stained black the moment it made contact.

A slight smile played on the corners of his mouth beneath the mask, and the seal he maintained with his left hand suddenly shifted to the seal of the underworld.

Kakashi's Lightning Blade suddenly veered off course, his right hand, crackling with lightning, thrusting straight at Naruto's back.

At the critical moment, Sasuke's Kusanagi sword plunged between the two, and the resonance between the lightning chakra and the sword sparked dazzling flames.

"The worst student!" Sasuke's Sharingan shed tears of blood, and the forced rewriting of chakra flow caused warm liquid to gush from his nostrils.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Naruto rolled away from the danger zone, and for the first time, the Nine-Tails' chakra cloak uncontrollably revealed two tails.

The dark figure drifted back three zhang, and its missing left hand began to form a series of hand seals.

The twelve barrier pillars in the training ground simultaneously lit up with a dark purple light, and the falling debris from the sky suddenly hovered in a circular array.

Tsunade smashed the last piece of the barrier debris blocking her way and rushed into the battle, only to find that her monstrous fist mysteriously dissipated into specks of light three inches before touching the dark figure.

This was no ordinary space-time ninjutsu. Kakashi's Sharingan finally caught the crucial detail—every time the shadow shifted position, the pupil of the Hyuga Byakugan beneath his feet contracted once, and the Nine-Tails illusion from twelve years ago advanced by one frame.

The shadowy figure suddenly pressed its left hand, which was forming a hand seal, onto the ground, and thick black liquid gushed out from the spot where the little finger was missing.

These liquids spread rapidly along the light path of the barrier pillars, instantly drawing a reverse pentagram array with a diameter of ten zhang in the center of the training ground.

When the first drop of black liquid touched Naruto's shadow clone, which had not yet been withdrawn, the clone suddenly froze and turned towards the Hokage Rock, beginning to form the starting stance for the Reaper Death Seal.

As the black liquid on the shadowy figure's left hand meandered across the ground in strange patterns, Kakashi's Sharingan suddenly detected the unusual rhythm of the chakra flow.

He threw out three kunai with explosive tags, but they mysteriously stopped in mid-air two meters away from the dark figure, and the sparks from the burning talismans began to rotate counterclockwise.

The gravitational field is changing! Shikamaru's forehead was covered in cold sweat. He tried to use his shadow to bind the Hyuga Byakugan under the shadow's feet, but found that his chakra threads broke into several pieces as soon as they extended.

Three members of the Dark Guard on the east side of the training ground suddenly knelt down on one knee, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the surface of the animal masks they wore.

Naruto's two chakra tails swept uncontrollably towards Sasuke, who dodged, his Kusanagi sword sparking as it cut across the sand. "Don't move, you loser!" Sasuke's Sharingan widened suddenly, and three shuriken wrapped in lightning shot towards the shadowy figure's throat.

However, the weapon suddenly changed direction the instant it pierced through the black mist, grazing just past Naruto's ear.

Chapter 356 Spatial Fluctuations

"You bastard, are you trying to kill me?" As Naruto flipped and leaped up, the Nine-Tails' chakra cloak expanded by half an inch, and the azure Rasengan faintly revealed a blood-red hue.

The two's argument was shattered by the suddenly increased gravity field. Sakura tried to use her medical chakra to stabilize her companion's meridians, but found that her own chakra was flowing backward through the ground array.

Hinata's Byakugan suddenly trembled violently as she saw that the chakra flowing within the shadowy figure resonated with the sealing array from the Nine-Tails' rampage twelve years ago.

When she tried to speak up to remind them, it felt like her throat was being choked by an invisible hand, and she could only desperately gesture towards the barrier pillar in the southeast corner of the training field.

"Sand Rain!" Gaara's shout tore through the thick air, and sand and seal talismans rained down from the sky.

The shadowy figure's hand seals froze briefly, and Kankuro's crow puppet seized the opportunity to emerge from the ground, its venomous claws precisely aimed at the opponent's left hand, which was missing its little finger.

Kakashi's Lightning Blade suddenly lit up under the cover of sand and gravel, with fragments of Orochimaru's Kusanagi sword mixed in with the azure lightning.

As the shadowy figure was forced to raise his right hand to block, Sasuke suddenly threw out a Fuma Shuriken that split into twelve afterimages in mid-air, each afterimage's surface crackling with arcs of electricity from the Chidori Stream.

Eight Trigrams Empty Palm! Hinata forcefully broke through the chakra reversal and unleashed a Gentle Fist, stirring up a ring of air beneath the shadow's feet.

This well-timed interference allowed Naruto to seize the opportunity, and his Rasengan, imbued with crimson chakra, finally broke free of gravity, exploding a bowl-sized hole in the shadowy figure's chest.

However, there was no scene of blood and flesh flying everywhere; instead, flowing black substance was revealed beneath the tattered clothes of the shadowy figure.

These viscous liquids quickly filled the wounds, while simultaneously consuming all the remaining chakra from the Rasengan.

Sasuke's Chidori spear followed closely, but was completely swallowed up by a spatial rift that suddenly appeared when it touched the shadow mask.

Beware of backlash! Kakashi's warning came too late; black curse marks suddenly appeared on Sasuke's entire right arm.

These patterns resonated with the Heavenly Curse Seal left by Orochimaru, and began to draw chakra from his body in reverse.

Upon seeing this, Naruto immediately created a shadow clone and pressed it against Sasuke's shoulder. The moment the Nine-Tails' chakra was forcibly poured into the cursed seal, a piercing metallic scraping sound suddenly rang out in the air above the training ground.

The twelve barrier pillars simultaneously emitted beams of purplish-black light, and the inverted pentagram array beneath everyone's feet began to rotate clockwise.

Sand Shield! Gaara's sand wall managed to envelop the center of the array in time, but was stained black the moment it made contact.

Kankuro's puppets suddenly went out of control, and the crow puppet's claws turned around and stabbed at its master.

At the critical moment, Sakura's powerful punch shattered three puppets, and the flying wood chips drew blood from her cheek.

The shadowy figure let out a hoarse laugh, and its missing left hand suddenly formed the Tiger Seal.

The ground of the entire training ground began to liquefy, and countless black arms reached out from the ground to grab at everyone's ankles.

Tsunade's summoning jutsu was interrupted halfway through, and the slug clone's slime immediately boiled and evaporated upon contact with the black hand.

Use Fire Release to sever the connection! Kakashi's Great Fireball Technique only left scorch marks on his black hand.

Shikamaru's Shadow Binding Technique drew a complex sealing array on the ground, but the array was destroyed by the reverse flow of chakra as soon as it was formed.

Just when everyone was in dire straits, Hinata's Byakugan suddenly bulged with veins.