Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

The blood that Onoki spat out condensed into sand in mid-air. The old man pressed his chest and knelt down: Byakuya replaced the pendulum of the sand clock with himself... Among his withered wood-style tree roots, Sasuke saw that the fragment of Byakuya's left sleeve, which should have been burned by Amaterasu, was now absorbing the Nine-Tails chakra overflowing from Naruto's wound and re-weaving itself.

The sealed room suddenly trembled violently, and the suspended bronze key cracked open.

Sasuke saw the shattered phantom of Byakuya in the blood-stained mirror image of the girl's pupil technique—the sand-gold chain protruding from the person's left chest was connecting with the sealing pattern of Naruto's heart, while Naruto's right arm, which the Raikage was trying to protect with Lightning Release, already had sand iron crystals piercing through the epidermis and growing under the skin.

As the first drop of golden blood fell from Onoki's mouth, Sasuke's Sharingan suddenly detected a rift in spacetime distortion.

Where the frozen ice crystals of the girl intertwined with the exploding lightning of the Thunder Shadow, he saw clearly the endpoint of all the sand patterns converging—deep within the crack of the White Night's neck seal, a crescent-shaped gap was swallowing the surrounding light.

Chapter 412 The Backlash of Magnet Release

As the crack in the bronze key emitted a piercing screech, the gap in the moon at the back of White Night's neck suddenly widened.

The entire secret chamber was like a piece of origami being gripped by an invisible hand. The iron spikes protruding from the spacetime rift were only half an inch away from Sasuke's brow, but were forcibly pulled back to the center of the vortex by the sudden reversal of chakra.

How does the backlash from Magnet Release feel? Byakuya's white robe is turning into sand, and the blood droplets that seep out are condensing into dark gold dust in mid-air.

He gripped the sand-iron chain piercing his chest with his left hand and yanked it hard. The seal pattern that was supposed to connect to Naruto's heart instead flowed back along the chain to Ebizo's puppet strings. The 360 ​​seals that Rasa planted on my spine before his death could not be covered by mere puppetry techniques.

Ebizo's withered, tree-like face emerged from the rock wall, and the bronze pendulum of the clock in his hand suddenly spun faster.

Nagato's body, which was suspended in the air, suddenly exploded, and dozens of puppet arrows wrapped with explosive tags shot out from the wounds—the tips of each arrows showed the patterns of Nagato's Rinnegan.

You are the best vessel... Just as the arrows were about to touch Byakuya's brow, Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly noticed something unusual: the Rinnegan patterns on the surface of all the arrows were rotating clockwise, except for the pupil of the third arrow, which was rotating counterclockwise.

A smile curved Bai Ye's blood-stained lips.

His right arm, wrapped in Raikage's Lightning Release armor, slammed into the ground, while his left hand tossed the unconscious Naruto toward Sasuke.

Amidst the purplish-black flames generated by the collision of the Nine-Tails' chakra and the iron sand, Sasuke's Kusanagi sword was suddenly drawn by some force to pierce the third arrow—the moment the sword touched it, the explosive tag that should have exploded turned into liquid gold dust, enveloping the white night as it crashed into the core of the sand clock.

Magnet Release: Sand Rain! Onoki roared and pounded the ground.

The wood-based barrier that originally covered the secret room suddenly crystallized, freezing the scattered bronze fragments in mid-air.

Sasuke saw an incredible sight in the reflection of the fragments: three bronze keys emerged from Byakuya's body, and the chakra hurricane they created was melting the puppet core inside the Sand Bell into quicksand.

Ebizo let out a howl like an owl, and the sand patterns he was manipulating suddenly withdrew from Nagato's body.

But before those patterns could return to their original form, they were shredded by the sand gold chains that surged from Bai Ye's chest.

The sealing technique that appeared on the surface of the chains was none other than Magnet Release: Flowing Sand Coffin, a technique created by the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa.

Why do you think I killed the Daimyo of the Land of Fire? Byakuya's sand-transformed right arm suddenly pierced through Ebizo's chest, his fingertips clutching the final core fragment of the Sand Bell. When the tailed beast chakra of the five great nations resonates through the Sand Bell, the sand patterns you hid within the puppet's core can...

His words were interrupted by the gushing iron sand.

The entire secret chamber began to plummet vertically, and Sasuke, carrying Naruto, crashed through three layers of rock walls before barely managing to regain his balance.

Amidst the swirling sand and dust, Byakuya's completely sand-transformed body was dissipating, with only half a blood-stained sleeve drifting towards Naruto's palm.

Tell Rasa... the sand condensed into a blurry human figure, the lingering voice of Byakuya mixed with the sound of sand and iron grinding, the sealing array he carved on my spine was never meant to control the Nine-Tails...

Amidst the deafening roar of the collapsing sand bell, Sasuke's Sharingan suddenly stung—a falling fragment of his sleeve resonated with the sealing patterns on the boy's arm the moment it touched Naruto's skin.

Those sealing techniques that originally belonged to the Fourth Hokage were now emitting a dark golden light.

The exclamations of the five shadows came from all directions.

Sasuke looked up and saw the fallen bodies of the daimyo of various countries turning into sand, but in their empty eye sockets, the six phantoms reflected by the blood moon were slowly raising their hands to form hand seals.

An ancient chakra, transcending time and space, is awakening, and the golden light on Naruto's arm suddenly dims for a moment, as if it has been bitten by something invisible.

Amidst the ruins where ice crystals and lightning intertwined, only that fragment of sand-patterned metal felt slightly warm in Naruto's palm, like an egg about to hatch.

Chapter 413 Sand Pattern Devours the Heart

Sasuke's Sharingan spun wildly in the sand and mist.

Naruto convulsed in the pile of rubble. The blood-stained sand fragment had completely merged with the sealing formula, and dark golden light was climbing up the boy's bulging veins to his neck.

"Kurama!" Naruto suddenly roared, pounding the ground as the tailed beast's chakra, mixed with sand, shot into the sky.

Sasuke took a half step back, his three tomoe locking onto the faint afterimage of the white night within the fragments amidst the bloodshot veins—it was clearly the lost puppet reincarnation technique of Sunagakure.

The four rock walls exploded with a deafening roar.

The Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release barrier had just contained the rampaging Nine-Tails' chakra when the crimson beast claws, covered in sand, tore open the semi-transparent cube.

Onoki groaned and leaned back, the blood flowing from his forehead freezing into ice crystals in the sand.

"Don't use chakra to make contact!" The Raikage's roar, mixed with thunder, echoed as his Lightning Release armor exploded in the sandstorm, creating bursts of sparks. These sand grains would devour and multiply his chakra!

Naruto's screams suddenly became distorted.

His right eye pupil split open with spiderweb-like sand patterns, and his left hand uncontrollably formed the hand seals of Sunagakure.

When Sasuke's Chidori pierced through the sand, fine sand could be clearly seen seeping out of Naruto's ear canal.

Uchiha brat! Granny Chiyo's puppet strings have wrapped around Sasuke's wrist; those are Byakuya's last remaining parasitic sands. Cutting them will...

The blue lightning cleaved through the iron sand without hesitation.

Sasuke's kunai pierced through layers of sand, exploding into a spray of blood on Naruto's back, while the Chidori spear precisely pierced the sealing array eye between the boy's shoulder blades.

Two intertwined chakras exploded, melting the sand within a ten-meter radius into glass.

"You son of a bitch..." Naruto coughed up blood mixed with golden dust, and the Nine-Tails' chakra condensed into claws at the wound, grabbing at Sasuke.

A sudden, sharp pain shot through Sasuke's Sharingan. As he rolled, he saw his own reflection—his blood-red eyes now tinged with a dark gold hue reminiscent of sand grains.

At this moment, the scroll of Ebizo, the advisor of Sunagakure, is unfurled.

Just as the talisman chains bound the rampaging Nine-Tailed Fox, the mysterious girl leaped into the battlefield, riding the sand waves.

The crescent moon emblem around her neck glowed hot in the surging chakra. As she raised her hand to form a hand seal, Sasuke noticed that two knuckles were missing from her fingers.

The one who bears the mark of Sand Rain? The Raikage's lightning blade cleaved through the sand spears aimed at the girl. Didn't your Tsukimi clan... twenty years ago...?

The girl's clan emblem suddenly burst forth with a bright light.

She tore open her clothes and pressed the glowing mark against Naruto's chest, causing the sand-patterned fragments to emit a sharp shriek.

Sasuke's Sharingan finally saw the truth—those flowing golden patterns were not chakra at all, but countless miniature sealing runes reassembling.

Using blood as a guide, and the moon as a witness! The girl's right arm instantly turned to sand and became transparent, yet it still pressed firmly against the ever-growing sand patterns on Naruto's chest. "Lord Byakuya, the Lunar Eclipse Seal you carved in the clan's territory back then..."

Naruto suddenly let out a whisper of Byakuya.

Blood tears flowed from his sand-covered right eye, and the nine chakra tails coalesced into some ancient hand seal amidst the sandstorm.

Just as Sasuke's Susanoo skeleton was taking shape, he saw the sand-covered corpses of various daimyo reassemble into the Six Paths phantom under the blood moon.

So that's how it is. Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan bled as it was eroded by the sand. He finally understood the chakra memories left by Byakuya—the sealing arrays engraved on his spine were not meant to bind the Nine-Tails, but rather to transform himself into a vessel to bear the power of the Six Paths.

Suddenly, the mysterious girl's entire right shoulder turned into quicksand.

She bit her tongue and spat blood onto the clan emblem, forcibly compressing the rampaging sand patterns within Naruto's body into crystals the size of walnuts.

Amidst the roar of the Nine-Tails' chakra, Sasuke's Kusanagi sword pierced the crystal core, and as lightning flowed into the sword, it exploded into a shower of stardust.

For now... things are stable. The girl collapsed onto the glassy sand, her transparent right hand barely managing to form a sealing mudra.

She gazed at the fading sand patterns on Naruto's neck, her mangled fingers gently brushing away the bloodstains at the corner of the boy's eye: Before the next lunar eclipse, we must find Lord Byakuya's true...

The aftershocks of the explosion ripped up the earth's crust at that moment.

Sasuke dragged the unconscious Naruto onto the ruins, his Sharingan reflecting the six phantoms rising on the horizon—sand giants formed from the corpses of daimyo from various countries, slowly forming the seal of world destruction under the blood moon.

The mysterious girl picked up a blood-stained fragment of sand, and moonlight pierced through her transparent arm, casting a distorted projection of her clan emblem on the ground.

As the Fourth Kazekage's gold-plated obelisk emerged from the ground, she took one last look at the crescent moon mark shimmering on Naruto's hand, then turned into dust and disappeared into the depths of the ruins.

Chapter 414 Puppet Maze

The vitrified sand is cracking at a visible rate.

Sasuke carried the unconscious Naruto with one hand and retreated behind the broken wall. Suddenly, his Sharingan caught sight of chakra threads floating in the dust—those puppet threads that should have been severed were now flashing with a scarlet light, piercing deep into the earth's crust like blood vessels.

Chidori flow!

As the dazzling lightning cleaved through the thick fog, Sasuke's pupils suddenly contracted.

The puppet remains that should have been scattered everywhere were actually being reassembled. Thousands of puppets were linked together with broken joints to form a blood-red city wall, and standing on the puppet throne was the leader of the Water Country's dark forces who should have died at the Five Kage Summit.

An hourglass-shaped pendant hangs from Nagato's long, gray hair, with twelve magatama rotating counter-clockwise along the edge of the pendant.

The advisor of Sunagakure is nothing but a puppet. Nagato raised his hand and tore off the puppet strings wrapped around his neck. The crimson threads instantly condensed into the shape of the Six Paths Scepter. Do you see the reflection in this hourglass?

Your esteemed Granny Chiyo is currently offering chakra to Lord Sage Rokudo at the altar in the Hidden Mist Village's underground palace.

Suddenly, a gap appeared in the blood-red city wall, and Ebizo's afterimage emerged from the hourglass.

The Sand Village advisor, known for his wisdom, had his eyes sewn shut, yet a strange smile played on his lips: "When you think the puppeteer is controlling the puppets, have you ever considered the other end of the puppet strings... cough cough!" The afterimage suddenly twisted into a vortex, and the Third Kazekage's iron sand pierced his throat from the void.

Insolence! Luo Sha's remnant soul, carrying gold dust, soared into the sky, its translucent body constantly switching between physical and spiritual forms under the moonlight.

The former Kazekage was now like a trapped beast. The moment the sand-gold spear pierced Nagato's left shoulder, his own spiritual right arm also turned into quicksand and dissipated: You think the blessings of the Six Paths are salvation?

Look at the sand-like patterns moving on your chest!

Naruto suddenly convulsed violently on Sasuke's shoulder.

The sand fragments that were originally sealed in the crystal broke free of their restraints and pieced together in his palm to form a complete six-seal diagram.

The shockwave generated by the resonance between the Nine-Tails' chakra and the sand pattern sent rubble flying within a ten-meter radius. Sasuke's Eternal Mandala struggled to focus amidst the shockwave—the chakra threads wrapped around Ebizo's puppet strings were actually hanging down from a rift in the void!

The crescent moon mark left by the white night... Sasuke swung his sword and severed the puppet's arm that was attacking him. He caught a glimpse of the mark flashing on the back of Naruto's hand and suddenly realized that, starting from the Land of Waves, the time of each sand pattern rampage was synchronized with the phases of the moon!

As if in response to his words, the sand pattern on Naruto's neck suddenly opened its nine tomoe-shaped pupils.

The raging chakra formed a crimson and gold tailed beast cloak, but at this moment the boy forcibly regained his consciousness: I finally understand... Every time Uncle Byakuya helped me suppress the tailed beast, he was actually rewriting the Six Paths Seal with sand patterns!

The blood-red city walls collapsed with a roar, and the puppet throne beneath Nagato's feet turned into quicksand.

His shirt was torn at the chest, revealing the Sand Eye writhing near his heart: How pathetic, Naruto Uzumaki, do you think you are carrying the mission of saving the world?

However, he was merely a living sacrifice used by the Sage of Six Paths to resurrect himself!

Shut up! Rasa's remnant soul suddenly abandoned its physical form, and its spirit transformed into a sand-gold chain that bound Nagato.

The chakra of the two Kage-level powerhouses collided, forming a spherical barrier that created a crater in the ground within a radius of 100 meters: Quickly, go to the Sand Altar!

The true core of the seal is

The moment the barrier shattered, the tailed beast cloak on Naruto's chest suddenly solidified.

The phantom of the Sage of Six Paths slowly emerged from his heart. The phantom, resembling a white-haired youth, raised his hand and lightly touched the void. Rasa and Nagato, who were fighting to the death, froze at the same time—the sand patterns in their spiritual bodies began to unseal in reverse!

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly emitted a mournful cry.

He looked down and saw the eerie image reflected on the sword: the craters on the surface of the blood moon had somehow formed a complete Rinnegan pattern, and the severed puppet strings were hanging down from the moon's surface, each one connected to a tailed beast that was running rampant somewhere in the ninja world.

Kurama! Naruto suddenly pressed his hand to his violently heaving chest. The bizarre balance formed by the tailed beast chakra and sand patterns caused blood to flow from his seven orifices. If the Six Paths Seal was a trap... then the crescent moon mark that Uncle Byakuya left me...

The sand-like crystals suddenly melted in his palm.

The lingering image of the mysterious girl, who should have vanished completely, reappeared in the moonlight. Her transparent right hand pointed with difficulty to the southeast—the resting place of the Kazekage of Sunagakure throughout history.

As the girl's afterimage completely vanished, all the puppet strings emitted a sharp screech at the same time, as if some being that had been dormant for millennia was awakening.

Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly started bleeding.

On the desert horizon at the edge of his vision, six sand giants, formed from the corpses of daimyo from various countries, suddenly stopped their hand seals. Simultaneously, their foreheads opened with Rinnegan eyes flowing with molten lava, and the outline of towering chains began to emerge in the void behind them…

Chapter 415 Lightning Release: Thunderstorm Prison!

Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly ignited with black flames, and the Amaterasu flames burned towards the Blood Moon along the puppet strings.

A deafening roar, shaking the earth, came from the direction of Sunagakure. The Third Kazekage's puppet horde burst forth from the ground, but as they approached the Sand Giant, they all turned into iron sand and scattered—those Rinnegan with flowing lava were transforming the entire desert into a chakra vortex.

Lightning Release: Thunderstorm Prison!

The Fourth Raikage, his body wreathed in blue lightning, leaped into the sky, his single, bloodshot eye fixed on the illusory white-robed figure behind Naruto, a figure that shifted between reality and illusion.

Twenty-three lightning chains fell from the clouds, half of them piercing through his chest to form a lightning barrier, and the other half wrapping around Naruto's crystallizing right arm.

Listen up, brat! Blood seeped from the Raikage's bulging muscles under the stimulation of Lightning Release. My Lightning Release can temporarily purify the Sand Pattern pollution, but it requires the Kurama within you...

Before he could finish speaking, six illusory figures suddenly broke free from the crescent moon mark on Naruto's chest.