Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

Chapter 367 The Dark Guard Code Played Backwards

Naruto rolled over and into a hollow in the tree roots, three bloody gashes instantly appearing on his right arm.

The Nine-Tails' chakra instinctively boiled, but the moment it touched the wound, it emitted a hissing sound like water being poured on a branding iron—tiny vines were wriggling in those bloodstains.

"That bottom-of-the-class guy is so noisy." Sasuke's hoarse voice suddenly came from the tree hole.

The Kusanagi sword, enveloped in lightning, cleaved through the remaining net of air blades, and the scorching mycelium on its blade writhed wildly in the lightning.

He was still clutching half of a broken senbon needle in his left hand, the dark green sap remaining at the tip dripping down his headband.

Naruto caught a glimpse of his companion's blackened fingertips and suddenly realized something: those fungi were devouring chakra! He ripped open his bleeding wristband and saw, sure enough, vine-like patterns spreading along his blood vessels toward his heart.

The protective layer formed by the Nine-Tails' chakra had turned into a light red film, fiercely fighting against the invading alien energy.

The girl's silver chain suddenly emitted a piercing clang.

Sasuke's sword swing was strangely deflected three inches in mid-air, and the lightning that was supposed to sever the silver chain instead struck Naruto's face.

At the critical moment, the Nine-Tails' chakra transformed into sharp claws that gripped the tree trunk, carrying Naruto half a meter to the side.

Lightning grazed his ear and blasted the ancient tree behind him, which the three people behind him could barely encircle, in half.

Space distortion? Sasuke wiped away the blood from his nose, and his Sharingan glowed with a scarlet light in the darkness.

He finally saw the ripples of chakra that appeared in the air when the silver chains vibrated—like the reflection of someone stirring the surface of water with the tip of a pen.

Naruto suddenly grabbed a blood-stained, decaying leaf and pressed it onto his wound.

The moment the vines touched the decaying leaves, they curled up and retreated as if they were alive. I understand! He tore off a piece of his blood-stained sleeve and wrapped it around his palm. These ghostly things work on the opposite principle of the sealing array in the Sand Village ruins; they use inanimate objects as a medium!

The girl's offensive suddenly paused for a moment.

This subtle flaw was precisely detected by the Sharingan, and the shuriken Sasuke threw drew a zigzag line in the air that defied the laws of physics.

As the sound of metal clashing rang out simultaneously from three directions, Naruto had already poured the Nine-Tails' chakra into the entire withered branch and hurled it with all his might toward the trembling node of the silver chain.

The moment the withered branch pierced the silver chain, the vines within a ten-meter radius simultaneously emitted a piercing scream.

Taking advantage of the situation, Naruto bit his finger, and the giant shuriken summoned by his summoning jutsu blocked the girl's retreating path.

Sasuke's Lightning Release: Chidori Sharp Spear followed closely, pinning the silver chain to the moss-covered rock wall.

"Can we talk properly now?" Naruto gasped for breath, pressing his bleeding arm.

The vine-like patterns were throbbing restlessly beneath his skin, engaging in a strange tug-of-war with the crimson patterns formed by the Nine-Tails' chakra.

The girl's mask shattered completely, revealing a fresh burn below her left eye.

Her lips moved, uttering intermittent syllables, but the tone seemed to be distorted into an inhuman frequency by some force.

Sasuke's expression suddenly changed drastically, and his Sharingan began to spin wildly: She was using the Anbu's code... no, it was the Anbu's code played backwards!

The ground began to tremble without warning.

A distant rumble, like a mountain collapsing, echoed, and swarms of fluorescent ferns collectively turned southeast in response to the sound waves.

The girl suddenly broke free of the silver chain, and her fingertips, burned by lightning, drew blood-red runes in the air—an emergency signal used by the Konoha Sealing Team to warn of danger.

Quick...escape... Her broken vocal cords finally managed to squeeze out human language, and her bloodshot pupils reflected a dark shadow that blotted out the sky and the moon.

As Naruto turned his head, he saw a thirty-meter-high fern forest collapsing in large swaths, and a tremor carrying a foul wind was surging from the depths of the earth.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly emitted a high-frequency vibration, and the jade pendant at the end of the hilt shattered on its own.

Both of them simultaneously sensed an abnormal flow of chakra—not from wild beasts, but from some entity frantically draining the chakra of the entire region.

The girl staggered back to the edge of the rock wall, her blood-stained fingers drawing a crooked arrow on the ground, pointing to the boulder with vine patterns carved on it that they had come from.

As Naruto grabbed Sasuke by the collar and retreated, he caught a glimpse of the seal tattoo on the girl's neck bleeding.

The incantations that should have belonged to the Hidden Leaf Village's Dark Guard were now perfectly aligned with the sacrificial patterns on the murals in the Sunagakure ruins.

Suddenly, the Nine-Tails' chakra roared a warning from the depths of his consciousness, and a pressure even more ancient than that of the tailed beasts was tearing through the night.

When the first roar of the beast shook the snow off the treetops, the rock wall behind the three of them crumbled in response.

The girl's bloodstained fingertips still hung in mid-air, while hundreds of eerie green pupils that lit up from the depths of darkness had already turned the entire valley into an emerald cage.

Chapter 368 This move is still immature

Sasuke's Sharingan glowed crimson in the darkness, its three tomoe spinning wildly.

He could clearly see the saliva between the fangs of each beast; the bluish saliva dripping onto the snow immediately emitted white smoke—these creatures actually possessed corrosive chakra.

The girl suddenly spoke, her voice like sandpaper rubbing against rock.

She dug her right fingernails deep into the wound on her left arm, drawing a triangle on the ground with her fresh blood.

Naruto noticed that the symbols resonated with the rock wall totems, and five stone pillars broke through the ground to form a temporary barrier.

Amidst the deafening roar of the beasts crashing against the stone pillars, Sasuke's Kusanagi sword had already drawn seven arcs of electricity.

He deliberately avoided the dangerous area marked by the girl, and lightning precisely severed the spine of the three-headed wolf-like beast.

But these slain creatures suddenly swelled into purple chakra clusters, becoming stepping stones for subsequent hordes of beasts.

"Don't use elemental ninjutsu!" the girl coughed up blood as she warned, her left hand quickly forming a reversed hand seal.

The Rasengan that Naruto was about to condense was abruptly dispersed into a chaotic flow of chakra, and the recoil caused him to smash through two fir trees as thick as bowls.

Nine-Tailed Fox sneered in his mind: I told you long ago that this move wasn't mature enough.

Sasuke's breathing became heavy, the strain on his Sharingan exceeding expectations.

He glimpsed the seal tattoo on the girl's neck spreading towards her collarbone, the dark runes and sand-hidden seals intertwining into a strange chain pattern.

The ground suddenly trembled violently, and the beast corpses that were initially blocked by the stone pillars merged into a six-meter-tall flesh and blood puppet.

Multiple Shadow Clone Technique! As Naruto flipped and leaped into the air, he unleashed twelve clones, but his main body staggered and crashed into Sasuke's back.

The sealed scroll hidden inside his coat was partially exposed, with the words "Immortal Technique - Modified" crookedly written on it.

The Nine-Tails' chakra suddenly flowed in reverse in his meridians, causing him to kneel on one knee in pain.

The girl suddenly ripped open her blood-stained clothes, and the star-shaped birthmark on her chest emitted a bluish light.

The flesh puppet, which was about to pounce on the enemy, suddenly froze, but only for two seconds before resuming its movements.

This opening allowed Sasuke to grab Naruto by the back of his collar and retreat ten meters, his back slamming into a boulder carved with vine patterns.

Three hundred and forty-seven... and it's still increasing. Sasuke's Sharingan swept over the horde of beasts, his voice unusually tense.

His right hand, which was gripping the sword, cracked and split, but he switched the Kusanagi sword to his left hand and secretly reached for the Uchiha clan crest in his ninja tool pouch.

Naruto noticed his little movement and suddenly grabbed his wrist: Don't use that forbidden technique!

The giant stone totem suddenly emitted a buzzing sound, and the blood spat out by the girl formed a strange array on the snow.

Her blood-stained fingers plunged into her own abdominal wound, tearing out a chakra chain stained with fragments of internal organs: Thirty seconds... Southeast Xun position...

Before the words were even finished, the flesh golem's claws had already torn apart the last three stone pillars.

Naruto suddenly ripped off his headband and used the chakra blade to cut his palm.

Blood mixed with the Nine-Tails' aura dripped onto Sasuke's Kusanagi sword, causing the lightning to surge threefold instantly.

The moment their eyes met, Sasuke's Sharingan suddenly emitted a golden light.

Konoha's powerful whirlwind!

A thunderous roar erupted as a green figure pierced the battlefield with a shrill cry that seemed to tear the air apart.

Kai's bandages traced perfect arcs in the moonlight, and the twelve leading beasts exploded into a bloody mist in mid-air.

The shockwave from his landing overturned the snow within five meters, revealing an ancient stone slab engraved with sealing runes.

"The morning peacock needs three minutes to prepare!" Kai, with his back to the three, gave a thumbs-up, his dark green bodysuit steaming in the moonlight.

The snow at his feet began to melt, and the chakra turbulence generated by the Eight Gates caused a brief disturbance among the nearby wild beasts.

The girl suddenly grabbed Naruto's wrist, her nails digging into his newly scabbed wound: Don't let him open the Sixth Gate!

The flesh puppet suddenly opened seven enormous mouths filled with sharp teeth, and an energy ball similar to a Tailed Beast Ball was condensing.

The chakra flames around Kai suddenly weakened, and he frowned as he looked at his calves—dark red chakra threads had somehow wrapped around them.

Behind the herd of beasts came the deafening crash of trees snapping in pieces, and further on the mountain ridge, countless eerie green pupils were tearing through the night.

The chakra flames emanating from Kai's body flickered, and his right foot dug a half-meter-deep furrow in the snow.

He cleaved the skull of a leopard-like beast with a backhand slash, but his left leg was suddenly entangled by three dark purple tentacles—the chakra meridians split off from the flesh puppet.

Chapter 369 Why did you stop me from delivering the final blow?

The morning peacock needs three minutes to prepare! Kai's breathing became erratic for the first time, and large patches of sweat seeped from the back of his dark green bodysuit.

The energy spheres within the seven enormous mouths of the flesh golem had expanded to the size of a house, and the surrounding snow had evaporated into a ring of mist.

Naruto suddenly grabbed Sasuke's wristband and used it to propel himself into the air, the Nine-Tails' chakra forming an unstable orange-red claw on his right arm.

The girl flung out a blood-stained chakra chain that wrapped around his ankle: the energy resonance would trigger a second wave of beast transformation! The penetrating wound in her abdomen was festering at a visible rate, and the dark runes were moving under her skin like living things.

Sasuke's Sharingan suddenly caught the direction of the crack in the stone slab, and the three tomoe formed a six-pointed star pattern in his pupil.

He threw out three kunai with explosive tags attached, and lightning chakra precisely traced the faded seal mark on the stone slab: the bottom of the class!

In the instant the blast wave swept away the snow, Naruto understood the look in Sasuke's eyes.

He let the girl's chains fling him toward the center of the stone slab, his right hand, enveloped in Nine-Tails chakra, slamming heavily onto the point where the sealing runes converged.

The ancient stone slab emitted a cracking sound similar to dislocating bones, and thirteen golden beams of light shot into the sky.

The energy sphere of the flesh puppet suddenly twisted and collapsed, and its seven giant mouths simultaneously emitted a hissing sound like the crying of an infant.

Taking advantage of the moment, the girl placed her blood-stained left hand on Sasuke's shoulder, and the ANBU runes crawled up his neck along his skin: Lightning Release Charge!

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword emitted a high-frequency vibration, and the same sealing runes as the stone slab appeared on the blade.

The moment he leaped into the air, Kai suddenly deactivated the Eight Gates, and his entire body crashed into the horde of beasts like a kite with a broken string.

Naruto's shadow clone managed to catch Gai's falling body, but the recoil forced Gai to kneel on one knee in the frozen ground.

Chidori flow!

Lightning carrying the power of sealing pierced the core of the energy sphere, and the screams of the flesh puppet suddenly turned into the sound of shattering glass.

Blood lines burst at the corner of Sasuke's Sharingan eye, and the dark runes that had crawled onto his skin suddenly began to flow in reverse.

The girl coughed up blood and formed the Seal of the Snake, and the pillars of light on the stone slab intertwined to form a cage-like barrier.

The beasts turned into black smoke within the golden cage, and the remains of the flesh and blood puppets were solidifying into an amethyst-like solid.

Guy propped himself up on Naruto's shoulders, the wounds on his calves corroded by the tentacles glowing with an ominous blue light: This is the cooperation of youth!

Sasuke suddenly used the tip of his sword to lift the girl's chin, golden light still lingering in his Sharingan: "You just planted a cursed seal inside me."

Twelve seconds. Ignoring the blade at her neck, the girl pointed her bloodied fingers at the crystallizing remains of the puppet; the sealing array required a living sacrifice to maintain its power. A crack appeared in the star-shaped birthmark on her collarbone, revealing the writhing chakra veins within.

Just as Naruto was about to speak, a bone spike suddenly shot out from the crystallized remains.

With his last bit of strength, Guy pushed Naruto away, but his right shoulder was pierced and pinned to the stone slab.

Blood flowed along the sealing runes, and the golden barrier began to flicker.

The art of multiple shadow clones!

Hundreds of Narutos rushed toward the gap in the barrier at the same time, and the light membrane formed by the Nine-Tails' chakra temporarily slowed the spread of crystallization.

Sasuke's sword drew a line of blood on the girl's neck: How to remove the blood.

My heart is the core of the formation. The girl suddenly grabbed the sword blade and pressed it against her chest; dark red blood flowed along the runes on the sword. Or perhaps she would use the Uchiha's Fire Release combined with the Uzumaki clan's...

The explosion of the shattering barrier drowned out the rest of the sentence.

Countless transparent tentacles extended from the crystallized remains, with the two closest ones only half an inch away from Naruto's temples.

Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly activated on its own, and Amaterasu's black flames and the blood mist spewed out by the girl simultaneously enveloped the battlefield.

When the last wisp of black flame died down, only the grayish-white remains of the crystallized golem remained on the snow.

Kai's breathing was weak but steady as Naruto bandaged the large, penetrating wound on his shoulder.