Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

Illusory fragments flashed in the torrent of chakra: young Byakuya knelt in the Kazekage's office, the Fourth Kazekage Rasa's Magnet Release: Gold Sand slowly piercing his spine; Granny Chiyo injected some kind of luminous substance into the boy's nape; Ebizo stood in the shadows, holding a ceramic jar engraved with the words "Dragon Vein".

Sasuke's Sharingan suddenly bled: These memories have been altered!

The sealing style behind Byakuya's neck... is completely opposite to Naruto's current hourglass structure!

Suddenly, the sound of metal and stone shattering came from inside the tree cocoon.

The mechanical compound eye left by Black Falcon had somehow become embedded in the tree trunk. The sandstorm, accompanied by the roar of the rogue Iwagakure ninja, tore apart the seal: Onoki, do you think you can stop Sunagakure by severing the dragon vein passage? Ebizo's distorted face emerged from the swirling yellow sand, and the blood of the five daimyo was seeping into the ground along the altar's patterns.

Onoki coughed up blood mixed with sand, the light of his Dust Release flickering: So the missing Explosion Release unit from Iwagakure... you turned them all into sand puppets! Behind the old man, the phantoms of four bloodline ninjas appeared, their bodies gradually turning into sand, their eye sockets pulsating with the same mechanical red light as Black Falcon.

Watch out! Just as the mysterious girl's chakra chains wrapped around Sasuke, the tree cocoon exploded into pieces in the sandstorm.

Naruto's falling figure was entangled in crimson and sand-gold chakra, and the moon-white runes unique to Byakuya appeared beneath the Nine-Tails' cloak.

What's most alarming is his right hand—his skin is completely crystallized, and prism spikes identical to those on White Night's weapon grow from his knuckles.

"I will...kill them all..." Naruto's roar echoed across the desert, causing the sand dunes to boil as if in liquid.

Wherever the nine chakra tails swept, grains of sand automatically condensed into crystalline spears, raining down on Onoki who was still forming hand seals.

"Don't use Lightning Release!" The mysterious girl suddenly lunged at Sasuke, tearing several rips in the Uzumaki clan's robe with her sand spear.

Her blood-stained hand pressed down on the boy's Sharingan, the superposition of the two chakra attributes would accelerate the reversal of the sand clock! As if to confirm her words, the hourglass on Naruto's chest suddenly made the sound of gears meshing, and the blood-red moonlight cast a huge key shadow at his feet.

Sasuke swung out kunai wrapped with explosive tags, his Sharingan locking onto the center of the sandstorm: "Then let's wake him up with the most primitive method!" The kunai suddenly turned as they approached Naruto, embedding themselves in the sand to form the Uchiha clan crest.

The mysterious girl seized the opportunity to bite her tongue and smear her blood on the vortex clan scroll: Sealing Technique Absorption Seal!

The two chakras collided in the sky above the sand sea, creating a dazzling array of light.

The Nine-Tails' chakra, which should have been absorbed, suddenly split into countless sand snakes, one of which coiled around the girl's ankle like lightning.

At the critical moment, Onoki pressed his cracked hand on her shoulder: Look closely, what's in the Sand Snake's eyes!

Under the perspective of Dust Escape, each grain of sand's core was enveloped by a nanoscale puppet insect.

The mysterious girl's pupils contracted sharply: This is... the lost technique of the Uzumaki clan, the Sealing of Corpses?

To be precise, it's an improved version. Onoki's Dust Release barrier erected the final barrier around the three of them. Ebizo turned Byakuya into a living sealing vessel. Now Naruto is reenacting what happened twenty years ago... The old man suddenly coughed violently, and the grains of sand leaking from between his fingers formed the shape of miniature Rasa. Back then, the Rasa that pierced Byakuya's spine was not gold dust, but a dragon vein wedge brought back from the moon.

Suddenly, all the mechanical compound eyes outside the sandstorm turned eastward.

Five crimson beams of light converged in the direction of Sunagakure, forming a key shape, while a loud clanging sound of bronze chains rattling echoed from the clouds.

Naruto, who was locked in a stalemate with the Nine-Tails' chakra, suddenly stopped. His sand-crystal-like right hand pointed strangely at the center of the pillar of light, and his hoarse voice, mixed with the accents of Byakuya and Rasa, said: "Father... is this the salvation you chose?"

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly hummed, and his Sharingan caught a fleeting chakra fluctuation at the edge of the sandstorm—a figure wearing a Kirigakure headband was forming hand seals on the back of the dune, and the reflection in the pool of water beneath his feet was clearly the Akatsuki's distinctive black robe with red clouds.

Chapter 409 Undercurrents

The sandstorm, carrying the nanobots, crashed into the dust escape barrier, exploding into fine purple arcs of electricity.

Just as the mysterious girl formed a sealing spell with her fingertips, twelve kunai suddenly pierced through the sand curtain and embedded themselves in the quicksand beneath her feet.

The assassins, wearing the Mist Concealment headband, materialized from the distorted air, their right eye reflecting the crimson of the Nine-Tails' chakra.

The sealing technique of the Uzumaki orphan? Nagato's palm mirror technique reflected the clan emblem faintly visible beneath the girl's clothes. A clan that should have been exterminated twenty years ago, saving the Akatsuki a lot of trouble.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly turned, and lightning sliced ​​through the substitute wood of the three Hidden Mist assassins.

The swirling tomoe in his Sharingan suddenly froze—Naruto's sand-crystal-like right arm was uncontrollably forming the starting stance for the Corpse Sealing Technique, and his nine chakra tails stirred up a tornado-like vortex in the sandstorm.

The fox cubs of Konoha are about to become Jinchuriki bombs. Suddenly, Ebizo's hoarse laughter came from the communication tube hanging on Nagato's waist. The Third Kazekage's Magnet Release Kekkei, combined with the Uzumaki clan's Sealing Furnace, this is true art!

The mysterious girl suddenly cried out in pain.

The black curse mark that appeared on her neck resonated with the sand pattern on Naruto's waist, and fine stardust flowed from the protruding blood vessels under her skin.

The grains of sand coughed up by Onoki formed the profile of the Fourth Kazekage in the air, and the old man's cracked hand slammed into the ground: Dust Release: Particle Style!

The moment the pure white beam of light tore through the sand curtain, Sasuke's Chidori and Naruto's Tailed Beast Ball were unleashed simultaneously.

The moment the lightning pierced the orange-red chakra, the scene of the boys' childhood battle at the Valley of the End suddenly flashed back in the sand.

Sasuke's pupils contracted sharply—what gushed from Naruto's shoulder wound was not blood, but pale golden chakra mixed with sand grains.

Father... Rasa's gold dust? Sasuke's Kusanagi sword was suddenly pulled off course by three inches by Magnet Release.

The voice of Ebizo, carried with a metallic scraping sound, came through the microphone: "Back then, when Rasa split open Byakuya's spine, he was crying as he drove the dragon vein wedge in."

Now the key needs a hybrid of vortex and gold dust to activate, isn't that ironic?

Suddenly, all nine chakra tails turned eastward.

Under the projection of the key formed by the convergence of crimson pillars of light, five burning altars rose in the direction of Sunagakure.

Naruto's crystallized skin began to peel away, revealing a pale body covered with sealing runes underneath. The patterns of those runes perfectly matched the curse mark on the mysterious girl's neck.

So you were the final piece of the living key. Nagato's Water Mirror Technique suddenly shone on the girl, freezing her in the floating hourglass phantom.

Just as Sasuke's Susanoo skeleton was taking shape, twelve Hidden Mist puppets suddenly emerged from the sand and bound his limbs with chakra threads.

Amidst the rumbling of the hourglass turning, Naruto suddenly grabbed the Chidori that had pierced his shoulder.

The Nine-Tails' chakra flowed backward along the lightning into Sasuke's meridians, and the shared memories of the boys flowed wildly in the sand—the cold river water of the Land of Waves, Pain's overlapping handprints during the battle, and the bronze chains now wrapped around the key's projection.

Don't... lose to... a puppet! Naruto's azure pupils struggled between crimson and clarity as his sand-crystal-like right hand plunged into his own chest.

The detached sand fragments solidified into a solid hourglass in the air, and the stardust that splashed up when it fell to the ground formed a three-dimensional map of the daimyo's palace in the Land of Water.

Nagato's Rinnegan suddenly burst forth with purple light: The third key is in Kirigakure! The instant he transformed into a stream of water and rushed towards the hourglass, his nine chakra tails suddenly whipped up a sandstorm.

A dazzling key totem lit up in Naruto's palm while he was unconscious, and those totems were slowly seeping into his bones.

In the last second before the Dust Release barrier collapsed, the curse mark on the mysterious girl's neck suddenly resonated with the hourglass.

Her blood-stained fingers drew half a sealing spell in the air, and the unique puppet silk luster of Granny Chiyo immediately appeared on the sand.

Sasuke's Sharingan clearly saw that the chakra threads, finer than a hair, were temporarily suppressing the rampaging sand patterns within the meridians of Naruto's right arm, following the rhythm of Naruto's heartbeat.

Chapter 410 The Hourglass Turns Back

Gravel condensed into fine ice crystals at Granny Chiyo's fingertips, and the puppet silk shimmered with a bluish-gray light under the moonlight.

Suddenly, her aged wrist flipped, and three puppets with sealing talismans burst from the ground, pinning them to the sand-patterned meridians that bulged on Naruto's right arm.

A sealing technique imbued with the Nine-Tails' chakra? Byakuya's voice, shrouded in blood mist, seeped from the bottom of the hourglass.

Just as his pale fingertips touched the third bronze key, the remnant soul of the Fourth Kazekage suddenly unleashed a sandstorm—Rasa's translucent body, wrapped in Magnet Release sand, forcefully forced the key out of Byakuya's palm.

Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly bleeds blood tears.

In the reflection of his pupil technique, the curse mark on the mysterious girl's neck resonated with the key totem on Naruto's chest.

The girl suddenly plunged her blood-stained index finger into her left eye: "The blood and bones of our Kaguya clan are sacrifices born to bear the power of the key!"

White Night's black robes fluttered in the sandstorm.

With his left hand, he crushed three Fuma Shuriken, while with his right hand, he plunged the bronze key into Naruto's heart.

The unique puppet sealing technique of Sunagakure was completely reversed the moment the key was inserted, and the chakra lines that were originally suppressing the sand patterns suddenly turned scarlet.

So you were the key in the first place. Nagato's voice came from the direction of the Land of Water, and the Rinnegan on his forehead strangely split into a three-tomoe form in the hourglass projection.

Ebizo's puppet threads are entangled in the gilded beams of the daimyo's palace, and the stardust seeping from the bottom of the hourglass has already submerged the boundary markers on the border of the Land of Lightning.

Naruto felt his chakra collapsing.

The roar of the Nine-Tails and the whispers of the night intertwined in his bones. As the transparency of his right fingertips spread to his forearm, it suddenly touched Sasuke's still warm palm.

Beneath the skin that has not yet been sanded, the Yang Release power left behind by the Sage of Six Paths is struggling to resist the erosion of the key.

"Use my cursed seal as a container layer!" The mysterious girl suddenly ripped off the seal necklace around her neck.

The flying bone spikes formed a new sealing array at her collarbone, forcibly locking the sand patterns that were about to erupt at the deltoid muscle of Naruto's right shoulder.

Granny Chiyo's puppet strings seized the opportunity to entangle Byakuya's fading left foot, while the Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release barrier rose from the ground at that moment.

Suddenly, Amaterasu black flames ignited on the tattered hem of Byakuya's clothes.

Before he completely disappeared, Naruto's blurry vision flashed half a face that looked remarkably similar to the Fourth Kazekage—the last of Rasa's remnant soul's gold dust was seeping into the bottom of the hourglass, altering the coordinates of the Daimyo's palace in the Land of Water into a 3D projection of the Raikage's building in the Hidden Cloud Village.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword was still stuck in the sealing array eye at Naruto's feet, and the Uchiha clan crest suddenly appeared on the hilt, where blood had not yet dried.

When the Nine-Tails' chakra broke through the sand seal for the 17th time, everyone heard a cracking sound, similar to the joints of a puppet breaking, coming from Byakuya's body.

The gold sand seeping from the bottom of the hourglass refracted strange patterns under the moonlight, and the sealing array on Naruto's right deltoid muscle suddenly contracted to the size of a pinhead.

As the black flames of Amaterasu burned along Granny Chiyo's puppet strings to the seventh finger joint, Byakuya's ethereal left foot solidified again in the flames.

The balance point of Yin-Yang Release is at the Sanjiao acupoint! The Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release armor grazed past Sasuke's ear, and his right hand, crackling with electricity, pierced directly into the sealing pattern on Naruto's chest.

Crimson chakra flowed upwards along the scales on the Raikage's arm, and the tomoe patterns of the Sage of Six Paths emerged from the veins that should have been turned to sand.

Byakuya's left hand, holding the Sand Burial Ninjutsu, suddenly changed direction, and the three-edged spike formed from iron sand precisely pierced Naruto's right arm, where the ulnar nerve plexus was most severely transparent.

Amidst the shockwave from the collision of the Nine-Tails' chakra and the Sand Seal, Sasuke's left hand, which was not yet completely transformed into sand, suddenly grabbed the Raikage's wristband: there was Rasa's Magnet Release crystal near his heart!

The crimson light emanating from the Land of Water suddenly intensified, and as Nagato's puppet clock spun counterclockwise for the third time, the pendulum suddenly displayed the family crests of the five daimyo.

A diamond-shaped curse mark identical to Rasa appeared on the back of Byakuya's neck, and seventy-two poisoned senbon needles suddenly shot out from the hem of his tattered robes—three of which were embedded in the old scar on Raikage's left shoulder, severing the sand veins that were eroding Naruto's internal organs.

Back when Rasa used Magnet Release: Gold Dust to fake a border conflict in the Land of Water, Byakuya's blood-stained right hand suddenly pressed against the core of the Raikage's Lightning Release armor. Did you really think that the batch of Hidden Mist documents you intercepted in the Cloud Thunder Gorge recorded the truth? The gold dust seeping from his fingertips suddenly formed a miniature hourglass, reflecting the scene of the Minister of Finance and Ebi's secret meeting at the border of the Land of Wind.

The Six Paths Seal on Naruto's chest suddenly expanded into a Yin-Yang fish pattern with a diameter of two meters, and the nine chakra tails pierced the Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release barrier uncontrollably.

When the fourth tail swept past Granny Chiyo's puppet's central core, everyone could clearly see that the key fragments embedded in the puppet's joints were resonating with the sealing array on Naruto's right shoulder.

The container is about to collapse! Ebizo's voice, accompanied by a sandstorm, swept in from the northwest, and the hands of the giant puppet clock suddenly accelerated and spun counterclockwise.

The Sand Burial Ninjutsu that Bai Ye had been gathering in his left hand suddenly turned towards his chest, and the flying gold dust pieced together a complete Eye of the Moon totem under the moonlight: You thought you could hide it by altering the hourglass coordinates... cough

The Raikage's Lightning Release chakra suddenly formed a ring-shaped electric field, forcibly separating Naruto from Byakuya.

In the brief moment when their chakra was disconnected, Sasuke's right eye, which was not yet completely turned into sand, suddenly reflected the area around Naruto's heart—the core of the Six Paths Seal, where the sand pattern was flowing, the same as the cursed seal on Byakuya's neck.

Take this to the Earth Grudge Altar in the Land of Earth! Byakuya tore off his left sleeve, which was burning with Amaterasu black flames, and threw it to the Raikage. The sealing array drawn in blood on the inside of the cloth was flashing in sync with the six marks on Naruto's chest.

As the crimson light of the Land of Water engulfed the moon, Rasa's unique magnetic release fluctuations emanated from his shattered chakra afterimages. The gold dust that should have belonged to the Fourth Kazekage was eroding Ebizo's puppet core along the sand clock pattern.

Before Naruto completely lost consciousness, iron sand crystals suddenly condensed in the remaining transparent area of ​​his right hand.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword, deflected by the Lightning Release armor, traced an eerie arc in the air. The Nine-Tails chakra remaining at the tip of the sword revealed the dark pattern of the Uchiha clan crest under the moonlight—the tiny serrated cracks at the edges of the pattern perfectly matched the wear marks on the cursed seal on Byakuya's neck.

Chapter 411 The Eye of the Moon

The trembling sound of the Kusanagi sword piercing the rock wall still echoed in his ears when Sasuke's burning pain in his right eye suddenly turned into an icy chill.

As the Raikage's electric-filled arms caught his falling body, he saw Naruto's bare chest through his blurred vision—the crimson chakra that should have belonged to the Nine-Tails was now being swirled in a counter-clockwise vortex by silver-white sand patterns.

"This is not a sealing technique!" Sasuke roared, grabbing the edge of the Raikage's armor, as the three tomoe of his Sharingan spun uncontrollably in reverse.

He could clearly see that each sand pattern had a fine branch extending from its end, piercing Naruto’s heart along his ribs. Byakuya was transforming himself into a living altar!

Amidst the lightning erupting from the Lightning Release armor, the corner of the white-clad figure suddenly cut in.

The masked girl's fingertips conjured ice crystals that precisely froze the spreading sand patterns on Naruto's collarbone. Her torn sleeve revealed a dark purple clan crest—a crescent moon emblem identical to the cursed seal on Byakuya's neck, oozing black blood. Descendant of the Uchiha, it's time you saw the true Moon Eye.

Sasuke's pupils suddenly contracted.

The Sharingan floating deep within the girl's eye sockets revealed a pentagram structure. When he attempted to break the ice seal with Chidori Stream, the illusion created by the opponent's eye technique directly flooded his mind: on the burning gold sand altar, Byakuya's shattered body was being pierced through his limbs by six chains, while the half-key floating on his chest perfectly matched the sealing pattern on Naruto's abdomen.

The Earth Shadow's Wood Release barrier can last for another three minutes! The Raikage's roar shook the rocks off the cave ceiling.

As he carried the unconscious Naruto and leaped deeper into the cave, Sasuke noticed that the sand particles clinging to the Lightning Release armor were strangely floating upwards against gravity.

Onoki's Dust Release barrier melted a diamond-shaped channel in the rock wall. When the old man's age-spotted hand pressed against a snake-shaped groove, Sasuke's Sharingan suddenly detected the chakra flowing inside the stone wall—it was a magnetic release fluctuation similar to that around Byakuya.

When the stone gate, engraved with runes, roared open, millennia of accumulated dust fell away, revealing ancient characters of White Night and Luo Sha side by side on the wall.

The bloodline of the first puppeteer of Sunagakure was mixed with the chakra crystals of the Sage of Six Paths' younger brother. Onoki's cane struck the ground heavily, and the bronze key floating in the center of the secret room suddenly resonated with the half-key fragment in Naruto's arms.

Sasuke staggered and grabbed the stone wall for support. His Sharingan clearly saw the chakra threads extending from the broken ends of the two keys, attempting to mend the sand seal that Byakuya had left inside Naruto.

Suddenly, the girl slit her wrist and splashed blood onto the key. The boiling blood droplets condensed in the air into the Uchiha clan crest: the Tsukimi clan, which was wiped out twenty years ago, was the original guardian of the key... Her words were interrupted by Naruto's sudden burst of Tailed Beast Cloak.

Where the nine crimson chakra tails swept, the same hourglass pattern as the one on Byakuya's sleeve suddenly appeared on the surface of the bronze key.

Hahaha, what a perfect synchronization rate! Ebizo's hoarse laughter seeped from the cracks in the rocks as countless puppet strings pierced through Onoki's Wood Release barrier.

As Sasuke swung his Kusanagi sword, severing the three chakra threads that were heading towards Naruto's neck, the blade was suddenly covered in reverse-flowing gold dust—the unique Magnet Release mark of the Fourth Kazekage.