Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

Forty-three minutes remained. The girl suddenly tore open the fabric of her left shoulder, revealing a gear-shaped curse mark below her collarbone. When the moon moved to the top of the puppet tower, the spirit orb would complete the memory extraction. She nailed three kunai into the ground, and the moment the triangular barrier rose, Sasuke saw the pile of puppet remains outside the barrier suddenly twitch and stand up.

Sasuke's Susanoo skeleton reappeared, its purple chakra flickering in the night.

As he shielded Naruto in the center of the skeleton, he suddenly noticed the girl untying her headband.

The moonlight illuminated the dense array of sealing symbols on the back of her neck, the dark red runes slowly wriggling like centipedes.

You want to use a summoning jutsu? Sasuke's chakra blade cleaved the oncoming puppet, and flying gears grazed his ear. Using a summoning jutsu at this moment would be suicide!

It was a contract older than summoning. The girl wrapped the hairband around Naruto's wrist, and the silver bell hanging from the end of the thread suddenly rang without wind.

When she bit her fingertip and drew blood patterns on her forehead, Sasuke saw those blood droplets floating upwards against gravity. Sunagakure called them Mind Transfer Puppets, but our clansmen called them the Bridge of Souls.

When the first drop of blood touched Naruto's forehead guard, the crimson pillar of light enveloping them suddenly emitted a crisp sound like shattering glass.

Sasuke's Susanoo trembled violently. He knelt on one knee to maintain the hand seals, watching as the girl's pupils gradually turned an eerie azure blue.

The puppet horde outside the barrier suddenly turned eastward in unison, as if they were being suppressed and prostrate on the ground by some higher-level being.

Guard the puppet tower in the southeast corner. The girl's voice began to emphasize, as if two people were speaking simultaneously, and when my eyes turned amber...

The second half of the sentence was scattered by the night wind among the gravel.

As Sasuke's Kusanagi sword slashed down the seventh attacking puppet, he suddenly noticed his shadow twisting on the ground into the shape of a fox tail.

He looked up abruptly and saw that the girl's fingertips had touched Naruto's brow, and that her exposed puppet joints were now covered with swirling golden patterns.

The moment the moonlight shifted, the girl's action of closing her eyes was like pressing a switch.

The moment a blue light emanated from her body, the puppet remains in the entire ruins trembled in unison, and the sealing scroll floating in the air suddenly unfurled three inches, revealing half of an unfamiliar talisman covered in blood.

The cold light of the Kusanagi sword left a half-shadowy trail within the barrier, and Sasuke's breathing suddenly stopped.

Naruto's drooping fingers suddenly twitched and gripped the ground, the sand embedded in his fingernails falling out with a rustling sound.

The crystal sand floating in the crimson pillar of light began to rotate counterclockwise, forming a small vortex three inches away from Naruto's brow.

Cough...cough cough! Naruto suddenly arched his back and coughed up dark red blood clots, staining the Konoha symbol on his headband red.

Sasuke's Sharingan instantly transformed into three tomoe. He saw the Nine-Tails' chakra veins reconnecting like the roots of an old tree, but the surface of those golden chakra lines was covered with strange bluish-gray patterns.

Sparks suddenly flew from the mysterious girl's puppet fingers. She staggered and crashed into the broken wall, black oil seeping from the gear-shaped curse mark on her left shoulder: "Don't touch him!" she shouted sharply, stopping Sasuke's outstretched hand. The Soul Bridge wasn't completely severed yet!

Naruto's eyelids trembled violently, and a golden glint, like the tip of a needle, leaked from his eyelids.

When he suddenly opened his eyes, Sasuke saw dense sealing runes floating on his friend's iris, and those dark red runes were dissolving into the depths of his pupils at a visible speed.

"You're the worst!!" Sasuke grabbed Naruto by the collar and dragged him away from the still-trembling crimson pillar of light. "Do you know how close your chakra circuits almost..."

Chapter 384 But this time it's different!

The spirit pearl contains his father's chakra! Naruto suddenly grabbed Sasuke's wrist with such force that the bones cracked.

The whisker pattern on his right cheek was twitching abnormally. I saw the Fourth Hokage's Flying Thunder God Seal, right below the seventeenth seal!

The mysterious girl wiped the engine oil spilling from the corner of her mouth, her steel knuckles gleaming coldly in the moonlight: Now you believe it?

A space-time technique from Konoha had infiltrated the Sand Village's human sacrifice sealing array. She kicked away the half-puppet arm at her feet, and centipedes bearing runes suddenly emerged from the broken bronze joints. Someone had been setting this up for thirty years.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly appeared between the two, its blade only half an inch from Naruto's throat: "You said you saw the Fourth Hokage's chakra? His three-tomoe Sharingan slowly rotated; that sealing array contained at least twenty different types of Yin Release chakra. How can you be so sure...?"

Because Kurama is trembling! Naruto suddenly ripped open his orange jacket, revealing the faint outline of a curled-up fox beneath his skin near his chest.

The usually violent tailed beast chakra was now tightly clenched like a frightened animal. Although it was only for a moment, I could indeed sense the resonance of the sage chakra.

The mysterious girl suddenly pressed down on her violently trembling puppet arm, and blue-purple sparks of electricity burst from the gaps in the steel joints.

She stared at the gradually calming chakra fluctuations in Naruto's chest, then suddenly shoved three kunai marked with the Sand Village symbol into the ground: Twenty-eight minutes left.

Naruto wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and was about to rush towards the afterimage of the pillar of light when Sasuke's Susanoo bone claws firmly pressed down on his left shoulder.

The oppressive force field formed by the purple chakra caused the ground to crack with spiderweb-like patterns: Are you crazy?

The backlash from the seal just now almost severed your chakra link with Kurama!

But this time was different! A pale golden chakra cloak suddenly appeared on Naruto's body, and nine illusory tails appeared and disappeared behind him.

Sasuke was startled to realize that the bone claws that were suppressing him were being slowly pushed away by some kind of warm energy. I could feel the spirit orb calling upon the sage chakra within me.

Suddenly, the mysterious girl slapped a metal device on the back of Naruto's neck, and the sound of precise gears meshing instantly suppressed the agitation of the tailed beast's chakra.

She turned the regulating valve on the puppet's finger, and Naruto's golden coat shrank back into his body like the receding tide: Twenty years ago, someone in the Land of Rain also heard the call of a meteorite, and later his chakra meridians exploded into seventeen pieces.

Sasuke's pupils contracted slightly.

He noticed that when the girl said this, large burn scars suddenly appeared on the bionic skin of her right arm, but those scars disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The night wind swept through the barrier, carrying sand and gravel, and the moon atop the puppet tower in the distance was already stained with blood-red edges.

Naruto suddenly grabbed the girl's puppet wrist, his azure eyes shining brightly: "You just said the Soul Bridge isn't completely severed yet, right?" He pointed to the slightly warm metal device on the back of his neck, "How about using this as a medium to amplify my chakra resonance three times?"

You'll be turned into an idiot by the backlash. The girl shook off his hand, her steel knuckles leaving three bloody scratches on Naruto's forearm.

But when she saw the Rasengan condensing in Naruto's palm mixed with bluish-gray chakra, her Puppet Eyes suddenly flashed a stream of data. Wait... this is... a mixture of Sage Chakra and Yin Seal?

Sasuke's Susanoo suddenly released its suppression.

He stared at the constantly changing Rasengan in Naruto's palm, then suddenly plunged the Kusanagi sword into the ground: "You loser, if your pupils start to dilate in three minutes, I'll knock you out myself."

Under the crimson moonlight, the Rasengan in Naruto's palm suddenly stabilized into a sphere with black tomoe.

As he pressed the chakra ball against the gradually dimming pillar of spiritual light, Sasuke's Sharingan clearly saw ripples appear on the seventeen layers of seals simultaneously.

The mysterious girl's puppet arm suddenly unfolded into a fan-shaped barrier, and thirty-six chakra wires pierced into various acupoints on Naruto's back.

Suddenly, a dazzling golden-red light burst forth from the cracks on the surface of the spirit pearl.

Naruto felt as if molten lava had been stuffed into his chest, yet his limbs and bones were surging with a clear, spring-like vitality.

As he instinctively reached out to grab the core of the ball of light, the spirit pearl seemed to melt and seep into his palm, forming flowing amber patterns under his skin.

This is... Sasuke looked at the diamond-shaped mark that appeared on Naruto's forearm, and the pattern was seven parts similar to the gear-shaped curse mark on the girl's shoulder.

The mountain of puppet remains outside the barrier suddenly turned towards Naruto, with hundreds of joints simultaneously emitting a worship-like knocking sound.

The mysterious girl suddenly severed all the chakra wires, and the data stream flashed wildly in the puppet's eyes: Impossible... The Spirit Orb's recognition program clearly requires... Ah! The warning abruptly stopped, and she stared blankly at the Flying Thunder God Technique seal that appeared on Naruto's forehead, the golden rune resonating with the floating sealing scroll.

Naruto suddenly threw a punch into the void, and the force of the punch tore open a spiderweb-like spatial rift.

As he attempted to gather chakra, the pebbles at his feet defied gravity and floated up, forming a slowly rotating ring around him.

The ground! Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly plunged into the violently trembling ground.

Countless cracks radiated outwards from Naruto's center, and the roar of falling rocks echoed from the distant cliffs.

The mysterious girl lunged at the still-glowing sealed scroll. The moment her steel fingers touched the edge of the scroll, the entire ruins suddenly tilted southeast like a seesaw.

Chapter 385 Error in Owner Recognition Procedure

The earth cracked open like a spiderweb amidst a roar, and Sasuke's Kusanagi sword streaked across the rubble, sending sparks flying.

Naruto staggered back half a step, amber patterns spreading from the back of his hand to his neck. The floating pebbles at his feet suddenly accelerated their rotation, drawing whistling trails around the three of them.

Crouch down!

Sasuke's roar was swallowed up by the deafening roar of the collapsing mountain.

Naruto instinctively spread his arms, and the golden light bursting from his palms instantly condensed into a semi-transparent barrier.

The twenty-meter-high rock wall above them shattered into pieces, and truck-sized rocks crashed into the barrier and blasted into dust.

The mysterious girl's puppet arm suddenly sprang out eight kunai, pinning down the rain of pebbles that came from the side.

The recognition process failed... The girl stared at the cursed seal that appeared on the back of Naruto's neck and muttered to herself. Suddenly, her steel fingers pierced through her left shoulder.

Dark purple chakra seeped from the clanging gears, winding along the puppet strings to Naruto's wrist. Don't move if you don't want to be torn apart by the collapsing force field!

Naruto felt a scalding torrent churning in his stomach as the power of the Spirit Orb devoured his chakra pathways.

The sky outside the barrier began to distort, and the distant cliffs deformed like clay being kneaded by an invisible giant hand.

Sasuke's Sharingan detected a spatial vortex forming 300 meters away, and his shuriken was imbued with lightning when it left his hand.

Forty-five degrees southeast! The kunai and shuriken collided in mid-air, and the resulting lightning briefly illuminated the center of the vortex—where cuneiform script identical to that of the sealing scroll floated.

Suddenly, the mysterious girl grabbed Naruto by the collar and shoved him into his arms, the metal pieces scattered in her hair automatically arranging themselves into an array.

Naruto smelled the scent of engine oil mixed with honeysuckle, and the girl's cool forehead pressed against his bulging neck veins, the two forces creating a violent tremor in his chest.

Breathing rhythm synchronized! The girl's chakra wire pierced Naruto's ribs, the excruciating pain nearly causing him to kneel down.

The patterns on the spirit pearl suddenly changed from amber to incandescent white, and the suspended shards of stone froze in the air before forming a constantly changing three-dimensional array of runes.

Sasuke's sword flashed blue flames at the edge of the rune array, suddenly severing a puppet arm that was lunging toward the girl's back.

When the twelve spatial rifts tore open outside the barrier, Naruto finally saw the true nature of those runes—each twisted character was a replica of the sealing technique he had seen in his childhood.

The girl's gear-shaped curse seal began to rotate in reverse, directing the rampaging power within him towards the collapsing ley line nodes.

So that's how it is... Naruto's hand, covered in stone dust, suddenly pressed down on the girl's back, actively channeling the power of the Spirit Orb into the core mechanism on her shoulder.

The suspended array of shattered stones suddenly expanded, enveloping the entire ruins under a pale golden dome.

The frequency of the vibrations coming from underground suddenly changed, like the whimper of a giant beast being choked.

Sasuke's Susanoo skeleton enveloped the three of them at the last moment.

He saw gear-shaped chakra flowing in Naruto's pupils, while the metallic dust rising from the girl's hair was forming a quantum-entangled shimmer with the patterns on the spirit orb.

As the last piece of rock outside the dome shattered into dust, a crisp sound of crystal growth echoed from deep within the earth's veins.

The moment the dust and fog that shrouded the battlefield were pierced by the dawn, Naruto noticed a strange 0.3-second delay in the flow of his chakra—as if a switch within his body had been permanently repositioned.

The girl quickly disassembled the melted puppet arm, revealing faint markings of the Flying Thunder God Technique beneath the mechanical joints.

Chapter 386 Energy Resonance Exceeds the Safety Threshold

As the barrier dissipated, sunlight fell directly on Naruto's sweaty brow bone.

He opened his palm, and the amber-colored lines retreated into the folds of his skin as if they were alive. The chakra remaining in the pile of rubble at his feet was still crackling.

When Sasuke sheathed his sword, he deliberately slammed the scabbard of the Kusanagi against a rock, the metallic clanging sound piercing the eardrums.

Chakra meridian remodeling rate: 89.7%. A mysterious girl's fingertips were wrapped with broken puppet strings; her steel knuckles brushed against Naruto's nape, sending sparks flying. The residual energy would induce bone mutations within three hours, requiring...

Sasuke suddenly stepped between the two, his Sharingan fixed on the glowing gear-shaped curse mark on the girl's collarbone: "Put away your puppet strings." Half a lightning release talisman still clung to the tear in his ninja tool pouch at his back, its charred edges trembling slightly with his breath.

The girl's puppet arm suddenly unleashed three senbon needles, their tips barely touching Sasuke's Adam's apple: "If it weren't for the backlash from severing the earth's ley lines, your Konoha's Nine-Tails vessel would have already..."

Calm down, everyone! Naruto spread his arms to separate the two, and the remaining spiritual pearl patterns on the back of his hand suddenly lit up.

The rubble within a ten-meter radius floated into the air and then crashed down with a clatter as Sasuke snorted coldly.

He then discovered that his chakra could pull on five-ton rocks around him, and the golden light leaking from between his fingers left marks of varying depths on the ground.

A crisp sound of crystals shattering came from deep underground.

Sasuke's pupils suddenly contracted—the collapsed ridge three hundred meters away was automatically repairing itself, the exposed rock layers as if cut by an invisible blade, and piled up again into a smooth, angled shape.

This is a more sophisticated material recombination than earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic or magic).

The collapse force field of the Spirit Orb altered the geological structure. The girl suddenly ripped open the mechanical armor on her left shoulder, revealing a rotating chakra turbine inside. The energy dissipation caused a 12% decrease in spatial stability. It is recommended...

Her words were interrupted by a sudden spatial tremor.

The once clear sky cracked open with spiderweb-like fissures, and the clouds began to swirl like turbulent water.

Naruto felt a burning sensation in his chest, and the spiritual beads uncontrollably climbed up his cheeks, forming a wedge-shaped mark similar to the Flying Thunder God Technique below his right eye.

Southeast! Sasuke's kunai was already embedded in a broken tree fifty meters away.

The once flat ground was now twisted into a vortex, with ancient characters of the same origin as the sealed scroll floating at its center.

The pebbles at the edge of the vortex floated upwards against gravity, shattering into dust three meters above the ground.

Naruto suddenly stepped towards the vortex.

His right ninja boot sank into the suddenly softened ground, blue-white arcs of electricity erupting from the sole where it touched the soil. "Don't go near me!" Sasuke's Lightning Release chakra coiled around his arm, but was repelled the instant it touched Naruto's clothes—the repulsive force created by the Spirit Orb's power made his hand go numb.

The mysterious girl's puppet strings were faster than Sasuke's.

Three steel cables, engraved with sealing runes, wrapped around Naruto's waist, but melted into molten iron the instant they touched the spirit orb's markings. The energy resonance exceeded the safety threshold! She took a half-step back, reassembling her puppet arm; seventeen suppression runes popped out from the steel joints. You will be caught in spatial turbulence...