Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

The core of the formation is the seventh barrier pillar in the northeast corner! She screamed and spat out a mouthful of blood, as the chakra sphere formed by the Rejuvenation Technique tore a gap in the black tide.

Naruto and Sasuke exchanged a glance and simultaneously charged toward their target.

The Nine-Tails' chakra cloak and the Chidori stream intertwined in the air, creating a dazzling band of light. Just as the black shadow teleported to block it, Gaara's sand hand suddenly emerged from the ground and grabbed his feet.

This delay of less than half a second allowed the Rasengan and Chidori to hit the barrier pillar simultaneously. The moment the purplish-black pillar shattered, the gravity field of the entire space returned to normal.

The shadowy figure let out a beast-like roar, and the hole in its chest suddenly expanded into a vortex.

As he reached out to grab the nearest Naruto, Kakashi's Lightning Blade pierced through his right hand, which was forming hand seals.

The viscous black liquid splashed onto the sand, corroding the bluestone slabs of the training ground into honeycomb-like holes.

It wasn't over yet. For the first time, the shadowy figure's voice carried emotion, and ten black tentacles suddenly sprouted from the severed end of its missing little finger.

These tentacles frantically absorbed the remaining energy from the barrier pillar, condensing into a black sphere with a diameter of 100 meters above everyone's heads.

Sand Protection! Gaara's Sand Shield and Kankuro's Puppet Defense Line rise simultaneously, and Tsunade's Yin Seal begins to dissipate.

Just as the black sphere was about to fall, the shadowy figure suddenly twisted into mist, dissipating along with the deadly attack in the air into a suddenly appearing spatial rift.

The training ground fell into dead silence, with only twelve broken barrier pillars emitting wisps of smoke.

Naruto slumped to the ground, panting heavily, as the Nine-Tails' chakra cloak slowly faded away.

Sasuke knelt on one knee, supporting himself with the Kusanagi sword. The stinging pain from the cursed seal made his Sharingan tremble uncontrollably.

Spatial fluctuations were detected three kilometers to the southeast. Hinata's Byakugan swept across the ravaged battlefield, her voice slightly weak, but... the signal was rapidly weakening.

Kakashi picked up the half-melted kunai from the ground. The residual chakra on the metal surface caused his pupils to shrink slightly—this peculiar frequency fluctuation was exactly the same as that of the mysterious person who appeared in the Uchiha clan's territory on the night of the blood moon seventeen years ago.

The allies of Sunagakure began assisting the Konoha Anbu in clearing the battlefield, while Gaara's Eye of Sand remained suspended above the training ground.

When the medical team rushed into the field with a stretcher, everyone noticed that Sakura's right arm was covered with black lines that were slowly creeping along the veins toward her heart.

The setting sun dyed the Hokage Rock blood red, and Tsunade stood in front of the broken barrier pillar, her knuckles clenched until they turned white.

On the sand at her feet, half of a black tentacle, not yet fully evaporated, was twitching slightly, like a dying venomous snake.

The sand and gravel on the training ground rustled in the night wind, and the remains of the twelve barrier pillars were gilded white by the moonlight.

Kakashi rubbed the half-melted kunai with his fingertips, the residual chakra on the metal surface piercing his nerves like tiny steel needles—the frequency of fluctuations recorded by the Third Hokage with a sealing scroll under the blood moon seventeen years ago in the Uchiha clan's territory perfectly matched this moment.

The spatial fluctuations in the southeast direction disappeared. Hinata's Byakugan rippled as she pressed her slightly trembling wrist.

The medical team was lifting Sakura onto a stretcher. Black lines had already crept up her collarbone. Sakura's nails dug deeply into her palms, but she managed to keep from letting out a cry of pain.

Shikamaru suddenly kicked away the pebbles at his feet, his shadow stretching long and thin in the moonlight: ten surprise attacks, each twenty-three minutes apart, each increasing chakra consumption by 7%. His sand-covered fingers traced parabolas in the air; this guy was using us to calibrate some kind of meter.

Naruto suddenly propped himself up, his skin, now devoid of Nine-Tails chakra, flushed an unnatural red.

A commotion arose from the villagers outside the training ground, and the flickering torchlight resembled a swarm of fireflies in the night.

An old woman wearing a brown headscarf was pointing at the ruins of the barrier pillar and crying out: "If we can't even protect the Hokage Rock, how can we protect our children!"

Kankuro, the puppeteer from Sunagakure, suddenly ripped off the bandage on his right arm, and the crow puppet's claws plowed a deep trench in the sand: "Kage-sama, there are traces of Magnet Release mixed in with the remnants of the barrier." The grains of sand he twirled between his fingertips shimmered with an eerie indigo blue, like poisoned fireflies.

Tsunade slammed her fist into the broken pillar, and the crack instantly spread three meters: the medical team was to prioritize the transfer of the wounded, and the sealing team was to rebuild the barrier within fifteen minutes.

Kakashi and Team 7 are in charge of the eastern district. The members of Sunagakure... She glanced at the Sand Eye floating behind Gaara and asked for his assistance in investigating the city's water system.

The shadowy figure appeared for the third time at midnight.

The first to notice the anomaly was an old servant of the Hyuga main family, whose eighteen white camellia trees he was pruning in the courtyard were simultaneously oozing an ink-like liquid.

When the secret service arrived, the entire Nanga River was overflowing into the residential area, and hundreds of crows with red pupils were floating on the surface.

Not a physical attack! Shikamaru's Shadow Sewing Technique pinned down three villagers with bloodshot eyes, their kunai aimed at the nest of fledglings under their own eaves. He was using genjutsu to incite negative emotions!

Naruto's shadow clones created ripples on the water's surface, and the Nine-Tails' chakra cloak burned the skin of those who fell into the water.

A child he had rescued suddenly bit his wrist, the wound from which a purplish-black liquid oozed. Hinata!

That crooked willow tree at the three o'clock position!

The moment the soft fist shattered the tree trunk, the twenty-seven villagers who were fighting each other collapsed to the ground.

Hinata fell into Naruto's arms, her Byakugan eyes, which had been held in place for too long, were now bloodshot. A willow leaf stuck to the end of her hair brushed against the boy's burning earlobe.

Watch out! Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly appeared between the two, the blade grazing Naruto's nose and severing a black tentacle that had emerged from the ground.

The stinging pain from the cursed seal caused his Sharingan to twitch slightly. As he turned around, his Sand Village headband brushed against the bandages hanging from Sakura's stretcher, unaware that a villager who had just woken up was groping to pick up a kunai.

Tsunade infused the chakra from the Yin Seal into a medical scroll, and the green fluorescence illuminated the sand table in the Hokage's office.

The black chess piece representing the enemy was trembling at the location of Konoha Hospital, while the black jade chess piece representing Sasuke suddenly cracked with imperceptible lines—three streets away, a young Jonin clutched his shoulder, which was suddenly throbbing with pain, and the Kusanagi sword reflected the distorted faces of the villagers behind him in the moonlight.

Chapter 357 Magnetic Reverse Seal

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword was stuck in the sand for half a second, which was enough for the manipulated villagers to stab him in the right shoulder with kunai.

The dark purple liquid spread along the metal lines. He staggered and bumped into the edge of the stretcher, seeing Sakura struggling to stick her hand out from the pile of bandages—the green light of medical chakra swarmed towards the wound like fireflies.

"Don't touch it!" Sasuke slapped Sakura's hand away. Cursed seal patterns suddenly crept up her neck; the poison would transfer through chakra. He ripped off half of his blood-stained headband and saw Naruto staring at Sakura's trembling fingertips. Unconsciously, the Nine-Tails' chakra burned through the bluestone slab beneath their feet.

Kakashi lifted his headband, revealing his Sharingan, the three tomoe spinning rapidly in the moonlight: three chakra holes were visible in the northwest corner. He flung out a kunai crackling with lightning, piercing through three villagers who were slashing their own throats with the kunai—priority was due to this.

For every ten minutes of delay, twenty people suffer cardiac arrest. Gaara's Eye of Sand hovers above the medical team, sand grains drawing black mist from the mouths and noses of the unconscious. The Fourth Hokage's misjudgment led to the Nine-Tails' rampage. Do you want to repeat the same mistake?

A metallic clanging sound suddenly rang out from the southeast corner.

Five Sand Village ninjas collapsed to the ground, clutching their bleeding ears, as the villagers they were purifying suddenly opened their mouths and emitted a high-pitched shriek.

Shikamaru's Shadow Stitching Technique arrived half a second too late; the controlled pregnant woman had already pressed her kunai against her bulging belly.

Naruto suddenly grabbed Hinata's hand and pressed it to his chest, and the Nine-Tails' chakra surged into his Byakugan along the meridians.

The girl's vision instantly pierced through the twelve layers of barriers, and she saw the black talismans floating in the hospital's underground drainage pipes.

As she uttered the name of the drain outlet in the Guiwei position, her golden-orange chakra had already torn apart three layers of floor tiles.

The dark figure emerged from the cross-section of the sewage pipe, its bluish-gray skin covered with sealing runes.

Naruto's Rasengan swelled to three times its normal size in his palm, but was deflected by the sudden explosion of swamp gas before it could hit him.

As the nine chakra tails swept away six supporting pillars, the black shadow transformed into three hundred red-eyed crows and swooped towards the emergency room.

Come back! Kakashi's Lightning Blade pierced through seven crows, the smell of burnt feathers mixed with the stench of blood filling his nostrils.

He saw Naruto crush the last crow with his bare hands while the chakra cloak burned the skin on his forearm.

Gaara's sandstorm suddenly enveloped the entire medical area, wrapping twenty villagers who were self-harming in cocoons.

Amidst the rustling of sand, Ebizo's voice pierced the chaos: "The magnetic release traces on the southeastern barrier pillar are reverse seals!" This Sand Village advisor's puppet strings were pulling on the ankle of an Anbu ninja—who was holding an explosive tag, about to press it against his heart.

As the shadowy figure reassembled itself amidst the pile of crow corpses, Naruto had already leaped into the air, stepping on the falling concrete blocks.

The aura of the giant Rasengan illuminated his cracked lips and the suddenly split breastplate of the shadowy figure—three magatama-shaped grooves were absorbing the negative emotions around them.

The moment the two forces collided, all the glass in the emergency room shattered into powder simultaneously.

As Hinata used her Reincarnation skill to protect the blood transfusion bag, she saw Sasuke using his Kusanagi sword to support himself as he walked towards the gap in the barrier, with Sakura's medical kit leaving a trail of blood behind him.

Concrete fragments floated in the chakra turbulence, Naruto maintained a Rasengan with a diameter of two meters in his right hand, and suddenly grabbed the Nine-Tails' cloak that was burning his skin with his left hand.

The moment the orange chakra faded, he heard Kakashi shout from the ruins fifteen meters away: "Magnetic Release Reverse Seal requires iron sand—Gaara!"

The sandstorm suddenly contracted into three tornadoes, carrying the building debris as they crashed into the southeastern barrier pillar.

Chapter 358 Emotion Amplifier

The sandstorm suddenly contracted into three tornadoes, carrying the building debris as they crashed into the southeastern barrier pillar.

The three-tomoe grooves on the shadowy breastplate emitted a shriek, and Naruto's back teeth ached as he discovered that those grooves were absorbing the fear permeating the medical area—every time the villager wrapped in the sand cocoon convulsed, the shadowy breastplate that had cracked healed an inch.

Chidori!

Sasuke's roar was tinged with the stench of blood.

He used the Kusanagi sword, which was inserted five centimeters into the reinforced concrete ground as a fulcrum, to propel the lightning bolt toward the right rib of the shadowy figure.

The attack, which should have pierced the body, instead sliced ​​off half of the breastplate, and twenty-three crow clones poured out of the gap, three of which smashed the last intact glass in the emergency room.

As Naruto dodged the crow's claws, his right shoulder collided with Sasuke's bleeding left arm.

The moment the two stood back to back, the Rasengan and Chidori went out simultaneously—they smelled the same burnt smell, a mixture of the Nine-Tails' chakra burning their skin and the backlash from the Lightning Release damaging their muscles.

Your eyes... Naruto glimpsed blood seeping from Sasuke's pupils.

Mind your own business. Sasuke smashed the swooping crow with the hilt of his sword; a stray feather grazed the crow's neck, drawing a trail of blood. That guy's weakness was...

The sound of the explosion drowned out the rest of the sentence.

The dark forces entangled by Ebizo's puppet strings suddenly burst into flames, and the shockwave from the exploding tags inside the sand cocoon overturned three medical tents.

Hinata's Byakugan narrowed sharply as she saw the dark figure twenty meters away pressing its right hand against the barrier pillar. The reverse-sealing Magnet Release runes had already spread to the third load-bearing beam.

"Kurama!" Naruto pressed his hand against the still-healing wound on his abdomen. The Nine-Tails' chakra was about to surge, but he gritted his teeth and suppressed it. This time... this time I'll do it myself!

The dark figure let out a hoarse laugh.

The body, which had split into fifty clones, simultaneously formed hand seals, and a shrunken magatama groove appeared on the chest of each clone.

When Sasuke's Kusanagi sword pierced through the third clone, he finally noticed something amiss—as these clones were destroyed, the dissipating black mist was being absorbed by the main body's chest armor.

"It's an emotion amplifier!" Shikamaru's voice came from the northwest corner.

He was using Shadow Imitation to control three crazed villagers; the three-tomoe sockets were charged by absorbing negative emotions, and the clones were merely...

Before he could finish speaking, the shadowy figure suddenly appeared behind Sasuke.

The moment the hand blade, shrouded in black mist, slashed down, Naruto used a kunai to block the attack, and the muscles of his right arm made a tearing sound.

The Nine-Tails' chakra instinctively wanted to heal its wounds, but the intense pain caused by its forced suppression made its vision go black.

There's a limit to how much you can push yourself! Nine-Tails roared in the space of consciousness.

Naruto tore off his headband and wiped away the blood that was covering his right eye.

The metal plate on his forehead reflected the wounded people Sakura was treating in the emergency room, the three pressure points Hinata sealed with her Gentle Fist, and the cracks in the barrier that Kakashi's Lightning Blade had cleaved open—these images made him suppress the Nine-Tails' chakra even deeper.

The shadowy figure's fifty clones began to form hand seals in unison.

Dark red runes appeared on the ground of the medical area, with a blood-red eye opening at the center of each rune.

After Sasuke wiped out the seven clones with his Chidori Stream, he knelt on one knee, and the crack in the ground where the Kusanagi sword was stuck extended three meters.

Now! Naruto suddenly rushed towards the barrier pillar.

He deliberately let the claws of his three clones tear his back, using the impact to pounce on the area with the densest magnetic runes.

When Gaara's blood-stained right hand pressed against the barrier pillar, the magnetic field lines of the reverse seal suddenly became disordered—the iron sand controlled by Gaara was emerging from the ground.

The shadowy figure emitted an inhuman shriek.

The fifty clones froze simultaneously, the magatama grooves on their chests flickering erratically.

Sasuke's Sharingan finally detected the energy flow: all the clones' chakra was being channeled to the main body's chest armor through the ground runes.

Naruto! Southwest, seven o'clock!

The buzzing of the Rasengan and the sharp sound of the Chidori exploded simultaneously.

As the azure ball of light, compressed to thirty centimeters in diameter, in Naruto's hand collided with the shadowy figure, Sasuke's Kusanagi sword was piercing the energy connection points of the three clones.

The barrier pillar emitted a crisp sound like shattering glass, and the magnetic runes that had been sealed in reverse began to flow backward.

The shadowy figure twisted and deformed under the impact of the Rasengan, while its fifty clones collapsed like melting wax figures.

But just as Naruto was about to deliver the final blow, the collapsing clones suddenly transformed into black spikes—

Three hundred sharp spikes hovered in the air, their tips simultaneously aimed at Naruto and Sasuke's hearts.

The shadowy figure's tattered body reformed behind the spikes, the three-tomoe grooves on its breastplate cracked into a spiderweb pattern, yet it continued to absorb the last vestiges of fear from the medical area.

Amidst the shrill sound of three hundred black spikes tearing through the air, Sasuke suddenly grabbed Naruto by the collar and flung him backward.

Chidori Stream exploded an electric grid between the two, and the seventeen spikes that pierced their eyes were melted into molten iron by the lightning.

Sasuke's right shoulder slammed into the flying concrete block, using the force to flip over. The Kusanagi sword spun three and a half times in his palm, and the steel cable at the end of the hilt got tangled in the steel support frame in the northwest corner.

Are you crazy?! When Naruto was thrown in front of the sand iron barrier, he saw Sasuke being lifted into the air by the steel cable.

The boy drew an arc in the air, and the lightning net formed by the Thousand Birds Stream severed twenty-three sharp spikes.