Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

Sasuke pressed his right hand against his bleeding right eye, while the girl lay face up on the broken stone slab, her own kunai stuck in her chest.

Why are you stopping me from delivering the final blow? Sasuke's Kusanagi sword is pointed at the girl's throat.

Moonlight shone on her bare abdomen, and the dark runes were slowly seeping into the star-shaped birthmark.

Naruto suddenly reached out and grasped the sword blade: She had just used the Blood Array to change the trajectory of Amaterasu.

The girl let out a laugh that sounded like sandpaper scraping, and slowly raised her blood-stained right hand.

Under Sasuke's Sharingan gaze, a bone dagger engraved with the Flying Thunder God Technique suddenly slipped from between her fingers, its tip only three centimeters away from Naruto's Adam's apple.

Because of you... the pattern of the Konoha headband appeared on her sunken collarbone... she was originally a sacrifice.

What are the mission details for Chapter 370?

The bloodstains on the snow were congealing into dark red ice crystals.

Naruto's knuckles turned white as he gripped the Kusanagi sword, and his Adam's apple and the tip of the bone dagger trembled simultaneously.

He could smell a pungent, snake-skin-like odor on the blade, a smell that reminded him of the glass jars containing corpses in Orochimaru's base.

The runes on the girl's exposed abdomen had seeped into her skin, and tiny granulation tissue protruded from the surface of the star-shaped birthmark.

A sacrifice? Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan was still bleeding, the blood staining half his face gleaming purple in the moonlight.

The Lightning Release seal he formed with his left hand flickered on and off. It seems that the rogue ninjas of Konoha are now into playing tricks.

The sound of air being cut whistled past Naruto's ears as three shuriken embedded themselves in the stone slab beside the girl's head.

Amidst the flying debris, Naruto suddenly noticed that the arrangement of those Anbu runes was 70% similar to the Reaper Death Seal array left by the Fourth Hokage on the scroll.

Wait! The moment Naruto released the Kusanagi sword, the Nine-Tails' chakra automatically enveloped his palm.

A golden-orange light illuminated the girl's sunken eye sockets, where a bluish-gray substance was wriggling behind her iris. She might be under some kind of spell.

Kai groaned as he propped himself up, the shoulders of his green bodysuit already soaked in blood, turning them black: "My sixth sense tells me... cough cough... this lady's chakra flow is problematic..." He tried to form the hand seals for medical ninjutsu, but his trembling fingers just wouldn't close.

The girl suddenly convulsed violently, and dense incantations appeared on the surface of the bone dagger.

Naruto's neck was scorched, and the protective layer formed by the Nine-Tails' chakra began to melt away.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly changed direction, and lightning crackled along the blade as it pierced the girl's chakra point on her right shoulder.

Dang clang——

The bandaged wooden staff struck the sword precisely, sparks exploding before everyone's eyes.

As Naruto retreated, the wind he created lifted the snow, revealing a blue stone slab engraved with runes underneath.

These runes mirrored the pattern on the girl's abdomen and were now absorbing the chakra left over from the battlefield.

Would you gentlemen please hear a word from this old man?

Wooden clogs with bronze bells shattered the ice crystals, and a hunchbacked old man emerged from the mist.

His gray hair was braided into countless thin braids, each with a small ceramic pot the size of a fingernail tied to its end.

Naruto noticed the missing little finger on the old man's right hand; the cut surface was as smooth as jade that had been sliced ​​flat by a sharp blade.

Sasuke lowered the tip of his sword slightly by three inches: "So you're the one who controls the puppets?"

"I am but a gravedigger." The village chief tapped the ground lightly with his wooden staff, and the runes beneath the snow suddenly glowed with a ghostly blue light.

Kai's penetrating wound stopped bleeding and scabbed over at a visible speed, while the granulation tissue on the girl's abdomen sizzled as if being roasted.

Naruto helped the staggering Guy up and noticed a pattern resembling the Sharingan's tomoe (comma-shaped markings) reflected in the old man's left pupil, but these tomoe were composed of constantly flowing sand grains. "Do you know how to leave?"

Originally, it required the sacrifice of three chakra vessels of different attributes. The village chief bent down to pick up the bone dagger dropped by the girl. The blade reflected the black curse mark deep in his wrinkles. But since you were able to destroy the crystallized puppet... perhaps we can try a different method.

Sasuke's Lightning Release chakra suddenly surged: Explain yourself!

Twenty miles to the southwest, there was a valley shrouded in thunderclouds. As the village chief spoke, a dark green liquid began to seep from the earthenware jar tied to his braid.

The liquids drew distorted patterns on the snow, perfectly complementing the sealing array beneath their feet. Once the Thunder Beast's horn, enshrined in the valley, is retrieved, the barrier will open.

Naruto suddenly felt a burning sensation on the back of his neck.

Kurama issued a low growl of warning in his consciousness space, as he could sense a wave similar to that of a tailed beast within the old man's body.

The girl then let out a painful groan as the leaf pattern on her collarbone was peeling off, revealing an old burn scar with the character "祭" (sacrifice) carved underneath.

"Don't believe it..." The girl's bloodied fingertips dug into the cracks in the stone slab. "That thing will eat you..." Ah! Her unfinished words turned into a scream, and the bronze bell at the top of the village chief's wooden staff rang out with a piercing sound.

Sasuke's Sharingan suddenly detected something unusual—there was no shadow at the old man's feet.

This discovery sent a chill down his spine, and his Lightning Release chakra unconsciously formed a defensive electric grid.

At that moment, Naruto took a half step forward, and the outline of fox ears formed by the Nine-Tails' chakra appeared faintly on the top of his head.

What are the task details?

As expected of the Fourth Hokage's son. A golden glint flashed in the village chief's cloudy right eye, and half an inch of white bone suddenly grew from the severed end of his missing little finger. He would return to the village shrine with the Thunder Beast's horn during the lunar eclipse the following night. As he turned, the wind he created lifted the hem of his cloak, and Naruto saw a centipede-shaped sealing talisman protruding from under the skin of the old man's neck.

Chapter 371 Bringing Back the Spirit Pearl

Suddenly, the girl broke free from some invisible restraint and grabbed Naruto's headband with her last bit of strength: "Don't go in..." The bluish-gray substance in her pupils exploded into a bloody mist, and her whole body went limp as if it had been emptied out.

Sasuke held his Kusanagi sword to the village chief's throat: Explain clearly.

You have two choices. The village chief seemed oblivious to the blade pressed against his throat, his withered finger pointing at the dissipating sealing array. Stay and become a new sacrifice, or... his broken little finger suddenly extended, leaving a small bloodstain on Sasuke's face... risk your life to touch the true taboo.

The thick fog had somehow returned to the battlefield. Kai moved his healed right shoulder and found that the flow of chakra had become unusually sluggish.

Naruto bent down to examine the unconscious girl. The star-shaped birthmark on her abdomen had turned charred black, with the edges showing tree-like patterns as if struck by lightning.

When the first rays of dawn pierced through the mist, only a circle of seven ancient bronze lamps remained on the snow.

Within the green flame of the burning wick, the silhouette of some horned beast could be vaguely seen roaring silently.

The circle formed by the ancient bronze lamps slowly sank into the snow, the green flames distorting and twisting the shadows of the group.

As Naruto crouched down, the Nine-Tails' chakra condensed into a fine needle at his fingertips, gently prying open the fragments of the headband that had peeled off the girl's collarbone.

The edges of the burned character "祭" (sacrifice) were tinged with a dark purple, like the remnants of some kind of ancient curse.

The traces of a reversed sealing technique. Sasuke's Sharingan shrank to the three-tomoe state, and sparks flew from his fingertips as lightning struck the surface of the characters, indicating that it had been subjected to at least three different types of restrictions.

Kai flexed his newly developed right shoulder muscles, pink scars peeking out from the tear in his dark green bodysuit: the passion of youth told him that this mission required a more detailed battle plan! He tried to strike his signature thumbs-up pose, but his left little finger suddenly twitched unnaturally.

The earthenware jar at the end of the village chief's braid made a soft clinking sound, and the dark green liquid traced a winding path on the snow: a decision must be made before dawn. Suddenly, the white bone of his missing right little finger extended half a foot, its tip pointing to the southwest horizon where thunderclouds surged. The spirit pearl was embedded in the center of the thunder beast's skull, absorbing the power of falling lightning for thousands of years.

Naruto suddenly pressed his throbbing temple.

Kurama let out a low growl in his consciousness space. He could clearly sense the chakra dormant within the old man's body—it was definitely not the kind of fluctuation that a human should have, but rather more like a fragment of some kind of sealed tailed beast.

The sensation of the girl grabbing his headband before she lost consciousness still lingered on his skin, and the damp chill crept up his spine to the back of his neck.

What if he fails? Sasuke plunges his Kusanagi sword into the snow, and lightning chakra flows down the blade and into the ground.

The sealing array beneath the snow suddenly glowed blue, reacting violently with the dark green patterns drawn by the old man.

The hunchbacked village chief let out a laugh that sounded like sandpaper scraping, and his braid, tied to a pottery jar, moved without wind: "The barrier opens once every twelve years, and tonight at midnight is the deadline." Suddenly, his withered fingers plunged into his left eye, gouging out the tomoe-shaped pupil made of quicksand. If he couldn't bring back the Spirit Pearl, the entire space would collapse into a chakra black hole.

The blood-stained magatama was thrown into the air, and the sand grains reassembled into a horrifying scene in the air—countless ninjas were compressed into two-dimensional silhouettes, screaming silently in the distorted spatial rifts.

Kai's pupils contracted sharply. He recognized the silhouette of a ninja tool bag—it belonged to a comrade who had sacrificed his life at Kannabi Bridge twenty years ago.

Naruto suddenly grabbed the floating sand illusion, and the Nine-Tails' chakra shattered the image into dust: Don't try to scare people with this kind of genjutsu! Sparks flew from his golden-orange chakra cloak, and the snow under his feet instantly vaporized into a ring of white mist, revealing all the information about the forbidden area!

The Thunder Beast's fangs could tear apart the Tailed Beast's cloak. Black curse marks surged from the village chief's empty left eye socket, like countless centipedes crawling under his skin. Magnetized chakra surrounded the Spirit Orb, turning all metal ninja tools into suicide weapons. His missing right little finger suddenly pierced his throat, tearing out a pulsating bolt of lightning from his vocal cords—a keepsake.

Sasuke's Sharingan accurately detected the anomaly—the instant the lightning left his body, the centipede-shaped sealing talisman on the back of the old man's neck lost three joints.

Kai suddenly pressed his twitching little finger, cold sweat trickling down his forehead protector and into his eyes.

I caught it! Naruto grabbed the lightning before Sasuke could, the burning pain shooting from his palm straight to his heart.

The Nine-Tails' chakra automatically enveloped his trembling right hand, forming a crimson beast claw shape, but you must heal her wounds first. He pointed to the unconscious girl, whose charred birthmark on her abdomen was oozing bluish-purple pus.

Suddenly, two of the earthenware jars at the end of the village chief's braid exploded, and yellow-green powder formed a hemostatic array on the snow.

When Naruto carried the girl to the center of the formation, he discovered that Konoha's ANBU encrypted runes appeared on her back—clearly a unique encrypted format created by Kakashi-sensei.

Sasuke's Lightning Release chakra suddenly formed an electric net beneath his feet: "You've been lying from the very beginning." He pointed his sword at the old man's empty left eye socket, the sand-like illusions mixed with the Cloud Village's lightning release runes. "Who exactly are you?"

The sound of wind breaking suddenly rang out as Guy's bandages wrapped around Sasuke's wrist: "Young man, now is not the time to hesitate!" His usually passionate voice trembled unusually, and his dark green bodysuit was soaked with cold sweat. "My Eight Gates... Chakra flow is in an abnormal cycle."

Naruto looked down at the lightning token pulsating in his palm and suddenly discovered that half of the Konoha headband was sealed inside.

When he infused the Nine-Tails' chakra, the Fourth Hokage's mark appeared on the headband fragment—it was clearly a part of the Flying Thunder God kunai left by his father.

A thunderous roar, as if rocks were crumbling, echoed through the thick fog, and thunderclouds from the southwest began to spread toward the village.

The village chief struck the ancient bronze lamps with his wooden staff, and all seven lamps simultaneously spewed forth pillars of green fire: "At the third quarter of the hour of Yin (3:45 AM), life or death is decided." His figure twisted into an inhuman shape in the firelight, and the pottery jars on his braid shattered one after another, with poisonous fumes of various colors corroding the snow into honeycomb-like holes.

Sasuke suddenly plunged the Kusanagi sword into his left shoulder, forcefully channeling his Lightning Release chakra through his blocked meridians: "Stay close to me, you loser." His bleeding Sharingan reflected the eerie light spots in the thunderclouds, the points of impact of the lightning forming the Uchiha clan crest.

After Kai's attempt to open the gate failed, he silently disassembled the nunchucks into four short sticks.

When he touched the ninja tool pouch at his waist, he discovered that all the metal ninja tools were covered with a layer of bluish-purple rust—clearly a sign of the impending magnetic storm seal, a secret technique of the Land of Lightning.

The mysterious girl suddenly opened her eyes amidst the hemostatic talisman array, her pupils transforming into the vertical pupils of a reptile: "Cannot...enter..." Her torn vocal cords emitted a breathy sound, and her fingers dug bloody trap marks into the snow.

But the sudden burst of intense light from the talisman array swallowed up all traces and pushed her back into a coma.

Naruto pressed the lightning token onto his throbbing headband, and the Nine-Tails' chakra formed a crimson whirlwind around him.

As he turned to face the forbidden area, three intertwined bolts of lightning struck down from the thunderclouds above the distant valley, piecing together a complete Corpse Demon Sealing Array in the air.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly emitted a mournful cry, and fine cracks appeared on its blade.

He threw out five kunai with explosive tags attached, but the moment they flew into the range of the thundercloud, they turned around and shot towards Kai's back.

At the critical moment, Naruto's shadow clone blocked the impact of the explosion with its back.

The interference from the chakra magnetic field was stronger than expected. Kai tore off the weight that had lost its magnetism, and his legs almost gave way from the sudden loss of balance. There was a naturally formed lightning-proof stone forest 300 meters to the southwest.

As the three rushed through the snow toward the entrance to the forbidden area, the bloodstains left by the mysterious girl suddenly burst into flames on the snow.

The ghostly blue flames formed an arrow pointing southeast, deviating forty-five degrees from the direction indicated by the village chief.

Naruto felt a certain resonance from the Nine-Tails' chakra behind his neck, as if countless hands were tearing at his soul.

The towering ancient trees at the entrance to the forbidden area have long since carbonized into twisted black sculptures, their bark covered with fluorescent green lightning patterns.

Sasuke's Sharingan suddenly caught sight of something flashing through the crack in the tree trunk—half of a tattered mask that belonged to Uchiha Shisui.

Kai's bandages suddenly wrapped around the three men's wrists automatically, forming a temporary protective array under the infusion of chakra: a forced breakthrough in sixty seconds! His bulging calves created a ring of air currents as he stepped on the snow. Note the sealing fluctuations on the third bluestone slab beneath his feet!

Naruto compressed the Nine-Tails' chakra into a drill shape and charged towards the valley shrouded in thunderclouds.

As his toes touched the rubble at the edge of the forbidden area, all the metal items in his ninja tool pouches simultaneously floated up, forming a giant shuriken array amidst the lightning.

Sasuke's Susanoo skeleton appeared just in time, and the purple chakra kept the death storm at least five meters away.

Just as they were about to rush into the thunderstorm zone, hundreds of translucent arms suddenly emerged from the ground.

These hands, formed from chakra, pierced through Susanoo's defenses and gripped Naruto's ankles tightly.

The shockwave generated by the collision of the Nine-Tails' chakra and the strange energy shattered the snow within a ten-meter radius into crystalline ice powder.

Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly shed tears of blood as he saw that those arms and wrists were all wearing standard Konoha Anbu armor.

Deep inside, at the base of the thumb of one of the hands, there was a scar clearly visible, bearing the Flying Thunder God Technique mark unique to the Fourth Hokage.

Chapter 372 Exploring the Forbidden Land

The moment the ice crystal powder fell, the orange light membrane formed by the Nine-Tails' chakra suddenly expanded.

Naruto formed the Tiger Hand Seal with one hand, and his dragged right leg suddenly spun in the opposite direction, the chakra drill emitting a piercing buzzing sound. Break! Splattered ice shards cut bloody marks on his cheeks, and the transparent arms sizzled like melting grease under the burning Nine-Tails chakra.

Kai's bandages suddenly taut into twelve steel cables, weaving a chakra filter above everyone's heads.

The third generation's specially designed protective array pattern cast a spiderweb-like blue light on the snow, temporarily blocking the transparent arms that would subsequently emerge.

The mysterious girl's cloak was lifted by a gust of air, revealing three bronze bells engraved with swirling patterns at her waist.

Northwest corner! Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly aimed at the ice wall on the left, where a dissolving chakra afterimage could be seen.

His voice trembled almost imperceptibly—the arm that had just pierced through Susanoo's arm clearly bore the flame pattern of the Uchiha clan crest on its wrist armor.

Naruto wiped away the blood from his nose, and the Nine-Tails' chakra condensed into the prototype of a Rasengan in his palm.