Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

The phantom behind him began to materialize—the left half of his body was covered by Bai Ye's signature dark-colored array patterns, while the right half was covered by the Six Paths Seeking the Dao Jade Armor.

The price of choice is the backlash of causality... Ebizo's exclamation came from the Sunagakure observation tower a hundred miles away.

Black liquid mixed with tailed beast chakra gushed from the suddenly opened eye sockets of the five daimyo corpses.

As Naruto's trembling fingertips touched Sasuke's Rinnegan, the moment their chakra resonated, the screams from the night of the Nine-Tails twelve years ago echoed from the bottom of the sealing array.

When the last grain of gold completely merged into the ventricle, the entire desert suddenly fell into absolute silence.

The phantom behind Naruto opened its twelve Sharingan eyes, each pupil reflecting a different time and space of Konoha Village.

His tattered orange coat was covered by the white robe of the night, but the golden flames burning at the corner of the robe outlined the family crest of the Sage of Six Paths.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly floated to the surface on its own, and the sealing characters from the Kaguya Otsutsuki era appeared on the blade.

The Sand Village girl used her last bit of chakra to crush her own heart, and the gushing blood mist condensed into a vortex clan emblem in the air.

The six phantom images began to collapse into black holes, while deep within Naruto's crystalline chest—

The yin-yang symbol in the sealing array suddenly stopped rotating, and black and white light seeped out from the cracks, as if some existence beyond time and space was peering into this world through Naruto's body.

Chapter 419 In the Name of the Whirlpool

The alarm barrier of the Sand Village Observation Tower completely collapsed during the thirty-seventh tremor.

Sasuke's Rinnegan detected the change in the phantom behind Naruto; those Sharingan eyes reflecting different times and spaces were gradually being stained with the dark patterns of Byakuya.

The lightning chakra in his palm suddenly flowed backward, and the stinging sensation reminded him of the torrential rain at the Valley of the End twelve years ago.

Kurama's chakra is flowing in reverse! Naruto roared and fell to his knees, thick black and white liquid seeping from the cracks in the yin-yang seal array on his chest.

His left hand, which was attempting to form a hand seal, suddenly froze. The gold dust seeping from between his fingers was actually a token of the alliance given to him by the Raikage during the Five Kage Summit.

The mysterious girl's clan crest suddenly spread from her collarbone to behind her ear. She tore off the puppet strings binding her neck, and those threads, soaked in the Sand Release's secret medicine, ignited with ghostly blue flames when they touched Naruto's back. The Uzumaki clan's sealing technique requires a living sacrifice! She bit her tongue, spitting out a mist of blood, and the magnetic sand suspended in her blood resonated with Sasuke's Kusanagi sword.

The laughter of the six phantom figures suddenly materialized into tangible pressure, and the twelve stone statues of Shukaku surrounding the observation tower simultaneously cracked.

Sasuke's Susanoo skeleton was not yet fully formed when sand patterns wrapped around his ribs. He was shocked to realize that these patterns were exactly the same as the forbidden techniques recorded on the back of the Uchiha stone tablet.

Kaguya Otsutsuki's Karma! As the crack on Naruto's chest spread to his collarbone, Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly detected the Karma seal hidden within the sand patterns.

He thrust the Thousand Bird Spear into his left shoulder with his other hand, using the pain to awaken the rejection response of Indra's chakra.

The mysterious girl suddenly tore off the bandage on her right arm, revealing skin covered with swirling scars.

She pressed the still-bleeding wound against the Yin Seal on Naruto's forehead, and the modified meridians that originally belonged to the Sand Village puppet troops suddenly merged with the Nine-Tails' chakra. The remnants of the Tailed Beast sealed by her father with Magnet Release... The blood beads she coughed up condensed into miniature Shukaku shapes in mid-air.

The sealed scroll at the bottom of the observation tower suddenly burst into flames, and the firelight illuminated the portraits of past dynasties on the wall covered with gold dust.

When the pupils of the portrait of the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, glowed with an eerie red light, Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly activated the Uchiha-style slashing technique on its own.

Memory... Sand Clock... Amidst Naruto's broken murmurs, the black and white liquid that had seeped into the ground suddenly condensed into twelve semi-transparent coffins.

Sasuke's Rinnegan trembled violently as he saw that each coffin contained a different version of himself from different periods—one of which was wearing a magatama earring symbolizing the Sage of Six Paths.

The Sand Village girl suddenly slashed her palm with a kunai, smearing her blood, infused with Magnet Release chakra, onto Sasuke's Rinnegan. She used an Uchiha eye technique to read fragments of Rasa-sama's memories! Her voice suddenly mixed with Granny Chiyo's, the Sand Curse Seal left by Byakuya years ago.

Sand grains simultaneously overflowed from the twelve Sharingan eyes of the six phantoms, and puppet limbs mixed with Shukaku chakra surged out from the Kamui spatial rifts that should have belonged to Uchiha Obito.

Just as the White Night Array on Naruto's back was about to cover the last Sharingan, the mysterious girl suddenly bit her lip and kissed the sealing array on his chest.

In the name of the vortex! Her hair moved without wind, and the puppet strings wrapped around the two of them suddenly revealed runes of the Sand Concealment Technique.

Sasuke's Susanoo finally broke free of its restraints, but the Yin-Yang Release power gathered at the tip of the bow and arrow could not lock onto its target for a long time—in Naruto's crystallized right eye, the figure of Kakashi as a child was clearly reflected.

The sundial at the top of the observation tower suddenly rotated in reverse, and the black and white liquid that had seeped into the ground condensed into a huge spacetime vortex.

Just as the six phantom hands were about to touch Naruto's nape, the Sand Village girl suddenly tore open her collar, revealing a diamond-shaped cursed seal on her chest, from which emanated the same bloody scent as that of the Nine-Tails Night twelve years ago.

Chapter 420 Don't believe her bonds!

The purple bones of Susanoo cracked and shattered within the spacetime vortex.

Sasuke's Rinnegan trembled violently, and the puppet limbs that pierced through Susanoo's palm were oozing the unique Magnet Release chakra of Sunagakure, resonating with the Shukaku sands falling from the Kamui dimension rift.

Don't let the fragments of memory consume you! The Sand Village girl's blood-stained fingertips dug deeply into the White Night Array on Naruto's back.

The diamond-shaped curse mark on her chest was peeling away, revealing a pattern of gold dust beneath her skin that was identical to that of the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa.

When the blood-stained clan emblem touched the sealing array on Naruto's chest, the scarlet cloak formed by the Nine-Tails' chakra suddenly condensed into crystals.

Sasuke's arrow tip suddenly turned towards the sundial behind the Six Paths Phantom.

The moment the light arrow condensed from Yin-Yang Release pierced the spacetime vortex, he saw in Naruto's crystallized right eye—the image of twelve-year-old Kakashi holding "Icha Icha Paradise" suddenly distorted into a scene of Byakuya standing on the walls of the Land of Fire.

Heart rate synchronization rate 97.6%! Blood suddenly seeped from Sasuke's Sharingan.

The puppet strings wrapped around Naruto's limbs were forcibly reconnecting the two's chakra pathways, and the sand gold fragrance in the mysterious girl's hair mixed with the Nine-Tails' chakra to form an eerie pale purple smoke.

The girl from Sunagakure suddenly bit the tip of her tongue.

Blood mixed with Magnet Release chakra flowed down their collarbones and into the center of the sealing array: the Sand Curse Seal left by Granny Chiyo using Reincarnation of the Living Dead should now be returned to its rightful owner! The clan crest on her chest suddenly emitted the light patterns of the Sand Village headband, and the Shukaku chakra that had seeped into Naruto's body was rewriting the direction of the Byakuya array pattern.

"Don't believe her bonds!" Ebizo's voice came from the pile of puppet remains.

Suddenly, the eyeball of a puppet imbued with chakra exploded, and the splattered venom solidified into the phantom of the Sage of Six Paths the moment it touched the spacetime vortex.

Suddenly, sand hands covered with sealing runes emerged from the Kamui rifts that should have belonged to Obito Uchiha.

Naruto suddenly let out a beast-like roar.

His left eye's nine-tailed vertical pupil was devouring Kakashi's reflection in his right eye, and countless sharp spikes made of condensed gold dust protruded from beneath the skin covered by the White Night Array.

Sasuke's Susanoo finally broke free from the Magnet Release restraints, and the Yin-Yang Release condensed at the tip of the bow suddenly split into twelve light arrows—which corresponded exactly to the twelve Sharingan eyes of the Six Paths phantom.

Now! Suddenly, gold dust seeped from the sealing array on Naruto's forehead from the remnant soul of Rasa.

The Magnet Release chakra that should have belonged to the Fourth Kazekage was rewriting the sand patterns on Naruto's arm into Shukaku's sealing talisman.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly revealed a forgotten detail—twelve years ago, on the night of the Nine-Tails, a member of the Sand Village's Anbu had drawn the same talisman next to the Fourth Hokage's body.

The girl from Sunagakure suddenly snapped the puppet strings around her neck.

Strands of hair stained with the blood of the clan crest pierced the vortex of time and space, connecting the twelve Sharingan eyes of the six phantoms into the pattern of the Sand Village headband: In the name of the Uzumaki descendant! Her lips, carrying the unique chakra fluctuations of sealing techniques, touched Naruto's lips, and the crystallizing Nine-Tails' outer garment suddenly revealed the Uzumaki clan crest.

Ebizo's maniacal laughter suddenly turned into a muffled groan.

One of the six phantoms that tried to approach was suddenly pierced by the gold dust, and dark red blood seeped from the pile of puppet limbs—it was the Sand Village's special poison that had been stained with the blood of the Fourth Hokage on the night of the Nine-Tails twelve years ago.

Just as Sasuke's light arrow was about to strike the core of the sundial, the sealing array on Naruto's chest suddenly emitted a crisp sound like shattering glass.

Beneath the skin that was originally covered by the White Night Array, five different types of chakra were rearranging themselves along the patterns of the Sand Village girl's clan emblem.

Amidst the roar of the Nine-Tails, an hourglass bearing the inscription "First Kazekage" suddenly emerged from the spacetime vortex.

The girl from Sunagakure froze in mid-air with her blood-stained fingertips.

The clan crest power she injected into Naruto was being rewritten by some ancient sealing technique, and five faint streaks of light appeared where their skin touched.

As the twelve Sharingan eyes of the six phantoms simultaneously turned toward the sundial, a gurgling sound, like a glass vessel being filled with liquid, suddenly came from the depths of the sealing array on Naruto's chest—a premonition that five distinct chakra natures were merging into a strange resonance.

Chapter 421 The Six Paths True Key

Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan trembled violently amidst the blood and tears.

The moment Ebizo's puppet threads pierced through the six phantoms, the Sand Village poison, hidden for twelve years, flowed back into the caster's body along the puppet threads—this should have been the moment of certain death, but strange six-tomoe patterns appeared at the corners of the old man's wrinkled eyes.

"Kurama!" Naruto roared, pressing his hand to his chest as a torrent of five-colored chakra broke through the shackles of the White Night Array.

The Sand Village girl was thrown to the ground by the shockwave. The puppet scroll that slipped from her sleeve suddenly burst into flames, revealing half of an hourglass totem engraved with the image of the First Kazekage.

Rasa's remnant soul cried out in the vortex of time and space: he had turned himself into a living puppet! The Fourth Kazekage's sand-gold armor peeled away piece by piece, revealing the puppet gears in his chest cavity that were exactly the same as Ebizo's.

This discovery caused Sasuke's beam of light to suddenly shift three inches, creating dazzling sparks on the surface of the sundial.

The five phantom keys solidified around Naruto, four of which were engraved with ancient runes representing wind, fire, earth, and water.

When the fifth key burst from Naruto's palm, the remnant soul of the Fourth Raikage suddenly transformed into lightning that pierced through the heavens and earth.

The Cloud Village leader, known for his volatile temper, was now precisely channeling his Lightning Release chakra into the key slot.

"Sever karma with my Lightning Release!" The Raikage's chakra armor began to vaporize, but his remaining left hand pressed firmly against Naruto's shoulder. "Back when the Sand Village used puppetry to steal the First Hokage's cells, I should have..."

Suddenly, Ebizo's withered finger pierced his left eye.

The turbid eyeball swelled into a blood-red sand clock under the pull of the puppet threads, and the pendulum was actually the severed claw of the Nine-Tails, which had been secretly kept by Sunagakure twelve years ago. The folly of the Five Kage will ultimately lead to the cycle of six paths! Behind the old man, the phantom images of the five Daimyo appeared, each with a specially made chakra conduit wrapped around their neck.

Naruto's white robe fluttered without wind, and the nine fox tail phantoms tore at each other with the golden magatama patterns of the Sage of Six Paths.

The Sand Village girl suddenly cried out in pain—the crest on her arm was being pulled into a yin-yang symbol by two forces, with twelve hourglass totems spinning wildly at the edge of the symbol.

The real key... Before the remnant soul of the Raikage completely dissipated, it struck Naruto's heart with a final bolt of lightning, which was shared by Kurama and the Jinchuriki... His last words were corroded into intermittent static by the Sand Village's poisonous mist.

Sasuke's Susanoo arrows suddenly changed direction.

Under the kaleidoscope's perspective, the puppet gears within Ebizo's body perfectly meshed with the chakra pathways of the Six Paths phantom.

When the twelve Sharingan phantoms simultaneously reflected the core of the sundial, the five keys on Naruto's chest suddenly resonated, drawing the First Kazekage's hourglass, which was floating in the air, towards the sealing array.

Now! Sasuke's arrow tip ignited with Amaterasu fire, but just before it was released, he saw a horrifying sight—Ebizo's flesh and blood were turning into sand, and five cracks, identical to Naruto's sealing array, quietly appeared on the surface of the sand clock that contained the chakra of the five daimyo.

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As the torrent of five-colored chakra engulfed the entire battlefield, no one noticed that Ebizo's sand-transformed right foot had already seeped into the earth's veins.

The hourglass of the First Kazekage, which floats above Naruto's head, is having its timekeeping sands flowing back to the top at an abnormal speed, and spiderweb-like fine cracks are beginning to appear on the surface of the hourglass glass.

A sandstorm, stirred up by a torrent of five-colored chakra, obscured the entire sky.

Naruto was thrown to the ground by the violent energy, and he heard the rapid breathing of the mysterious girl beside him.

He struggled to prop up his arm, which was being eroded by the sand's texture, and discovered that the puppet threads that had been wrapped around his joints were now twitching wildly.

Chapter 422 The Sage of the Six Paths

The puppet strings flowed in reverse! Suddenly, the mysterious girl grabbed him by the back of his collar and rolled him backward. Three poisoned senbon needles grazed Naruto's Adam's apple and embedded themselves in the sand.

The clan crest behind her neck glowed with a ghostly blue light in the sandstorm, resonating with the crack in the key on Naruto's chest.

Sasuke's Susanoo emitted a sharp buzzing sound from a hundred meters away.

The arrow, burning with Amaterasu's fire, pierced through the chaos, but just as it was about to strike Ebizo's brow, it was woven into a net by countless puppet threads.

The surface of those metallic-lustered threads is covered with six dense lines that seem to writhe like living creatures.

"Kurama!" Just as Naruto was about to mobilize the Nine-Tails' chakra, a tearing pain suddenly shot through his heart.

The lightning injected by the remnant soul of Lei Ying exploded in his chest cavity, shaking off all the gold dust attached to the surface of his heart.

Only then did he realize that what was flowing in his veins was no longer fresh blood, but a fluid of chakra mixed with gold dust.

Ebizo's withered fingers suddenly plunged into his right eye, tearing out half of a puppet gear wrapped with fragments of the Sand Village headband: "When the Fourth Hokage buried his heart in my spine, he didn't say it would attract the Sage of Six Paths' attention!" With his hoarse roar, the hourglass floating in the center of the battlefield shattered.

Five golden phantoms clad in the magnificent robes of daimyo rose from the explosion, but turned into a shower of golden sand upon contact with Sasuke's Amaterasu.

Naruto's pupils contracted sharply—among the falling sand, the semi-transparent remnant soul of the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa, emerged!

Are the remnants of the Five Kage sealed within the puppet sand clock? Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly bleeds.

In his vision, the puppet core inside Ebizo's chest cavity was perfectly aligned with the chakra meridians of the Six Paths Phantom, and the golden sand flowing in the hourglass cracks was clearly the ashes of the Kazekage of past generations.

Suddenly, the mysterious girl grabbed Naruto and lunged towards the sand dune on the left.

The silver ornaments in her hair jingled in the gale, and the clan crest suddenly projected a star-map-like chakra pattern: Look at his puppet pattern!

It's not just chakra that's flowing in the opposite direction, but also time!

Naruto then noticed that the six lines on the surface of the puppet threads wrapped around Ebizo's body were fading at a visible rate.

When Sasuke's Chidori, crackling with lightning, pierced the old advisor's chest, what splattered was not blood, but chakra crystals infused with Sand Village runes.

The voice of Rasa's remnant soul suddenly exploded inside Naruto's skull: "The Six Paths used the corpses of Daimyo as sacrifices..."

The phantom of the Fourth Kazekage emerged from the crystalline fragments, half of his face still retaining his cold and stern expression, while the other half had turned into bones: he wanted to reshape the Ten-Tails using the remnants of the Five Kage's souls!

Cut open my heart!

The sand patterns on Naruto's arm suddenly erupted and uncontrollably pierced into Ebizo's chest cavity.

When his fingertips touched the puppet's heart, which was engraved with six runes, the clan emblem chain wrapped around the mysterious girl's wrist suddenly snapped.