Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

The jade pendant in Naruto's palm turned icy cold, and Kurama issued a warning growl in the space of consciousness—a reverse pentagram array covering the entire battlefield appeared beneath their feet at some unknown time, with each point of the star embedded with a chakra crystal engraved with the Daimyo's handprint.

Double images began to appear in the space, with the phantom images of Sunagakure's buildings from thirty years ago overlapping with the shattered battlefield of the present.

Within the distorted spacetime rift, a figure draped in the robes of a Sand Village elder slowly straightened his hunched back.

With each strike of his snake-headed staff on the ground, the inverted pentagram array shrank by one circle, and the ninjas at the edge of the battlefield were arranged in a sacrificial posture like puppets.

As the last piece of chakra crystal sank into the ground, the remains of Ebizo's clone suddenly coalesced into a blood-red mirror.

What was reflected in the mirror was not a battlefield, but a giant Reincarnation Eye floating in the void—the surface of the eyeball was covered with the same dragon vein patterns as the jade pendant, and five phantom images of daimyo pierced by chains could be vaguely seen deep in the pupil.

The Raikage's Lightning Release chakra suddenly surged uncontrollably toward the mirror, and Onoki's Dust Release sphere of light mysteriously stopped three inches away from the mirror.

Naruto sensed that the Nine-Tails' chakra was being drawn by some kind of force, and the seal on the jade pendant began to rotate counterclockwise.

Sasuke's Susanoo suddenly trembled violently, and the pattern of the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan was distorted into the clan emblem of the Sand Village puppeteers under the reflection of the mirror.

The blood-red mirror suddenly burst forth with blinding light, causing the flow of chakra in everyone present to momentarily halt.

As the light faded, the iron sand in the center of the battlefield somehow formed three lines of bloody characters:

The Sand Altar is now complete.

All five shadows were sacrifices.

[The Gates of the Underworld Open]

The Nine-Tails roared deafeningly in the space of consciousness, and Naruto saw his reflection in the blood-red words suddenly grow a third hand.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly cracked, and the Sharingan reflected in the sword turned into the grayish-white color characteristic of a puppeteer.

Onoki's Dust Release crystals suddenly all turned around, aiming straight for the Raikage's back.

The moment the blood-red mirror shattered completely, the entire ley lines of the ninja world simultaneously let out a mournful cry.

Chapter 430 Don't let the earth's vein emotions interfere!

The blood-red characters formed from iron sand gleamed eerily under the blazing sun, and the hairs on the back of Naruto's neck suddenly stood on end.

The Nine-Tails' chakra surged wildly through his meridians, and a third demon fox claw was uncontrollably emerging from his right shoulder, leaving charred claw marks on the sand.

Beware of chakra flow! Onoki's warning was torn apart by the sound of gold dust colliding.

A barrage of golden spikes, accompanied by a bloody storm, rained down, and Sasuke's Susanoo frame, barely extended, emitted a cracking sound as if porcelain were shattering.

His right eye's Eternal Kaleidoscope spun uncontrollably, and the Sand Village Puppet Master's crest reflected in his pupil perfectly overlapped with the pattern remaining on the blood-red mirror.

The sight of the hunched figure slowly emerging from the sand and mist caused Chiyo's pupils to shrink sharply.

Ebizo's face, resembling withered tree bark, was covered in black curse marks, and the chakra threads wrapped around his ten fingers were actually formed from impure earth from the earth's veins. His sister's puppetry was still so clumsy. His hoarse laughter caused the iron sand to tremble, and the Magnet Release sand left behind by the Third Kazekage gathered into a vortex beneath his feet.

Lightning Slaughter Thousand Generations Dance! The Raikage's lightning armor swelled, but his path was blocked by Onoki's Dust Release crystal the instant he charged forward.

Old Tu Ying's forehead was covered in cold sweat, and the veins on his right palm, which was suspended in the air, bulged: Didn't you notice?

"Our chakra circuits have all been corrupted by the earth's veins!" Before he finished speaking, Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly flew out of his hand, and grayish-white mist seeped out from the cracks in the sword, which actually condensed into the chakra threads of a puppeteer in mid-air.

Naruto, in his Nine-Tails form, slammed his claws into the incoming sand-gold spear, and the jade pendant around his neck suddenly emitted a blue light.

In a daze, he saw the sealing array drawn in blood by the mysterious girl before she disappeared, and that smile strangely overlapped with the twisted curse mark on Ebizo's face at this moment. Multiple Shadow Clone Technique! Hundreds of blond boys formed hand seals at the same time, but they all froze the moment they summoned the Wind Release: Rasenshuriken—grayish-white chakra threads emerged from each clone.

"Don't let the earth's emotions interfere!" Chiyo's shout jolted everyone awake.

Her fingers danced like butterflies, and the remains of the Chikamatsu Ten Puppet Masters suddenly burst forth from the sand. The newly attached chakra threads at the puppet's joints glowed with a deep blue light. "Use my Yang Release chakra to cover the Impure World!" The white-haired old woman bit her finger and drew a seal on the puppet's forehead. The Third Kazekage's puppet suddenly opened a Magnet Release barrier, freezing half of the sand-gold spears in mid-air.

Ebizo sneered, and his rotten robe suddenly billowed like a sail.

The chakra threads of the Impure World Reincarnation pierced through the earth's veins and shot straight into the sky, causing waves of sand to surge across the entire battlefield.

Naruto realized with a start that the Nine-Tails' chakra was being drawn by some ancient will, and the third fox claw that sprouted from his right shoulder uncontrollably reached for Sasuke. "Sever it!" he roared, channeling his Wind Release chakra into his kunai. Sasuke's Purple Lightning Chidori, however, veered off course the moment it struck—their chakra threads had somehow become entangled in gold dust.

What a nostalgic bond. Ebizo rose into the air, stepping on gold dust, and behind him, the reanimated chakra condensed into a giant phantom of Shukaku.

Chiyo's Magnet Release barrier suddenly shattered, and the Third Kazekage's puppet's head was pierced by gold dust, its eye sockets overflowing with magnetic sand mixed with black blood. "Sister, have you forgotten?" His withered fingers lightly tapped the ocarina at his waist, the forbidden technique we completed together sixty years ago.

As the mournful sound of the flute pierced through the clouds, the entire desert suddenly fell into a deathly silence.

Sasuke's Sharingan detected the dark purple energy surging deep within the earth's veins; it was clearly the chakra of the evil god sealed away when the mysterious girl burned her life force.

Onoki's Dust Release crystals suddenly shattered, and the old Tsuchikage vomited blood in the backlash: he was using the chakra of the Five Kage to redraw Yomotsu Hirasaka!

The Raikage's Lightning Release armor hummed under the strain. He endured the excruciating pain of his meridians tearing as he threw a powerful punch, but the moment he touched Ebizo's clothes, his wrist was entangled by gold dust.

The impure chakra seeped into his body along with the lightning release, instantly covering his bronze skin with black runes. Watch out for his puppet threads! Chiyo flung out her poisoned senbon needles to sever the gold dust on the Raikage's arm, but she herself was pierced in the left shoulder by a sand iron scorpion tail that suddenly emerged from the ground.

Suddenly, the Nine-Tails inside Naruto let out a painful roar. He saw the fragments of the blood-red mirror reassembling high in the sky, each fragment reflecting the image of the five Kage having their hearts pierced by the gold dust.

The seal on the jade pendant began to rotate clockwise, and the clan emblem that the mysterious girl had pressed against his palm before her death suddenly became hot. Sasuke! His Nine-Tails-transformed claws suddenly reversed direction and pierced his own abdomen, burning away my chakra threads with Amaterasu!

The moment the purplish-black flames rose, Ebizo's sinister smile suddenly froze.

The burned-out Edo Tensei chakra threads twisted into eerie runes in the air, causing a brief stagnation in the flow of the Five Kage's chakra towards the blood-red mirror.

Sasuke's Susanoo bow and arrows materialized in the moment, but the Amaterasu fire dancing at the tips of the arrows reflected a scene that chilled everyone to the bone—

Chapter 431 The Gates of the Underworld About to Open

The blood-red mirror, which was halfway through its reconstruction high in the sky, suddenly reflected a panoramic view of Sunagakure, with kunai bearing the clan crest of puppeteers stuck on the roof of each building.

Ebizo's decaying hands were forming the final seal of some ancient ritual, and a resonance, more terrifying than the cry of Shukaku, echoed from the depths of the desert.

Chiyo's blood-stained fingers suddenly twitched uncontrollably. She realized with a start that the Yin Release chakra she had sealed in the puppet twenty years ago was now flowing continuously toward the soon-to-be-completed Gate of the Underworld... Sasuke's Amaterasu arrow suddenly twisted into a spiral shape the moment it touched the blood-red mirror, and the reflection of the entire Sunagakure village began to writhe strangely in the flames.

Chiyo's body, pinned in mid-air by the iron sand scorpion's tail, suddenly convulsed. The Yin Release chakra that had been sealed within the Chikamatsu Ten Ninjas twenty years ago transformed into a blue stream of light, flowing along the iron sand veins into the Gate of the Underworld beneath Ebizo's feet.

So you had already inscribed the puppet technique into the earth's veins! Onoki coughed up blood and floated into the air, his hands clasped together in a dust-release barrier that barely covered everyone.

Old Earth Shadow's chakra condensed into rhomboid crystals on the surface of the barrier, each facet reflecting the puppeteer's clan emblem on the ocarina at Ebizo's waist—a pattern that was exactly the same as the sealing array drawn by the mysterious girl who burned her life force.

Ebizo's withered fingers suddenly plunged into his own chest, but instead of pulling out his heart, he pulled out a clump of earth-bound waste soil entwined with gold dust. Sunagakure's puppets never needed living people to control them. His hoarse laughter shook the surface of the barrier, and the remains of the Third Kazekage's puppet suddenly erupted, the Magnet Release gold dust transforming into thousands of poisonous needles that pierced through the Dust Release barrier.

The Raikage's Lightning Release armor burst forth with blinding white light amidst the rain of poisonous needles, and his bronze-colored body forcefully slammed through the torrent of gold dust that was rushing towards Naruto.

The black talisman remaining on his right arm suddenly spread to his neck, and the crackling sound of lightning chakra burning through his meridians filled the air. "Brawl!" he roared at Sasuke, blood crackling with lightning streaming down his face, which was slashed by the gold dust. "Burn that door with your black flames!"

Naruto's third claw, now in Nine-Tails form, suddenly swelled, and the chakra threads burned by Amaterasu sizzled within his flesh.

The seal on the jade pendant around his neck had swirled into a cyan vortex, and the Yang Release chakra that the mysterious girl had injected before disappearing had formed scale-like patterns on the Tailed Beast Cloak. Multiple Shadow Clone Technique: Planetary Rasengan! Hundreds of blond-haired boys leaped up simultaneously, each clone's Rasengan wrapped in a mixture of blue and red chakra.

Ebizo's decaying robe suddenly burst open, revealing his right arm covered in puppet seams.

He lightly plucked the ocarina with his fingertips, and a rumbling sound, as if the earth's veins were cracking, echoed from the depths of the desert.

Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly contracted—the kunai engraved with the clan crest were absorbing the life force of the entire Sunagakure village, and dark purple chakra pillars rose from every rooftop.

Don't let the five Kage's chakra converge! Chiyo suddenly bit off the tip of her tongue, and the blood mist she spat out condensed into a sealing talisman in the air.

The remains of the Chikamatsu Ten Puppet Masters suddenly exploded, and the azure Yang Release chakra transformed into chains that bound Ebizo's legs.

The old woman's shoulder, pierced by the iron scorpion's tail, began to turn to sand, but she revealed a relieved, bitter smile: "Brother, you have finally become the very puppet you despise most."

Onoki's Dust Release barrier shattered with a roar, and the old Tsuchikage took the opportunity to inject his last bit of chakra into the rock platform beneath his feet.

A giant stone palm suddenly rose from the ground, hurling the Raikage and Naruto high into the air simultaneously. "Use Lightning Release to accelerate!" he roared, forming Earth Release hand seals, his ninja headband melting into molten iron in the torrent of chakra.

The moment Naruto flipped in the air, the Nine-Tails' chakra and the blue light of the jade pendant completely merged.

The tailed beast's cloak suddenly turned bluish-white, and the third demon fox's claw transformed into the phantom of a mysterious girl.

Sasuke's Susanoo arrows were released simultaneously, and the Amaterasu Arrow, wrapped with Naruto's newly generated chakra, tore a spiderweb-like crack in the blood-red mirror.

Ebizo's decaying face suddenly peeled away, revealing the true form of the puppet beneath, pieced together from gold dust and filthy soil.

The Gates of the Underworld had taken shape, and the densely packed Puppet Master clan crests on the gates began to rotate clockwise. Do you know why the Sand Village massacred the Puppet Master clan sixty years ago? His voice suddenly changed to a mixed male and female tone, and the ocarina at his waist automatically played a requiem melody.

Chiyosa's body, which had reached her waist, suddenly stiffened. Her cloudy pupils reflected the scene deep within the doorway—the chakra of the evil god, sealed away sixty years ago, was now devouring the chakra imprints of the Five Kage.

The old woman suddenly used her last bit of strength to sever the chakra thread in her heart, which was clearly made of the same material as the threads that Ebizo used to control his puppets.

Quickly...sever the earth's ley line resonance...her warning was swallowed by the sandstorm, and the entire desert suddenly seemed to hang upside down.

Naruto was shocked to realize that his shadow clones were turning into sand, with the phantom of puppet gears appearing inside each clone.

Sasuke's Susanoo suddenly turned around uncontrollably, its bow and arrow pointing directly at the falling Onoki.

The crimson mirror in the sky has been reconstructed, and the phantom of Shukaku behind Ebikō suddenly materializes.

But at the end of this one-tailed Shukaku's tail, there was a bronze chain connecting it to the Gate of the Underworld.

Dark purple patterns began to appear on the desert's ley lines; the pattern was the puppeteer's clan emblem magnified hundreds of times.

The game is over. Ebizo gently waved his hand, and the gravity of the entire battlefield suddenly reversed.

The Raikage's Lightning Release armor shattered in mid-air, Onoki's Dust Release crystals pierced through his own body in reverse, and Naruto's Nine-Tails chakra began to flow in reverse.

Only Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly bled. He saw all the chakra threads converging towards a terrifying endpoint—deep within the gates of the underworld about to open, something was echoing the sealing energy on Naruto's jade pendant...

Chapter 432 Unleashing New Power

Iron sand formed countless upside-down black spikes in the gravity-defying world, and the blood droplets sprayed by Onoki condensed into dark red amber in the air.

The fragments of the Raikage's Lightning Release armor were like falling stars, each reflecting the uncontrollable bow and arrow drawn by Sasuke's Susanoo—the chakra arrow aimed at the Tsuchikage even had the same puppet gear pattern as the Sand Shadow Clone floating on its surface.

It turned out those gears were resonance anchors... Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly throbbed with pain, and as blood slid down his cheekbone, he saw clearly that the dark purple puppeteer's crest in the desert ley lines was devouring everyone's chakra.

Within the crimson-gold vortex formed by the reverse flow of Nine-Tails chakra, Naruto saw that the arrangement of the sealing runes on the jade pendant was exactly the same as the bronze chains of the Gate of the Underworld.

Ebizo stood atop Shukaku's head, smiling, when suddenly the chains connecting the tailed beasts to the Gates of the Underworld emitted a resounding chime.

Just as Naruto was about to form hand seals, he discovered that his fingers were turning into sand, with tiny puppet joints sprouting from each joint. "Don't recklessly use your chakra," Onoki warned, coughing up blood. His left arm, crystallized from Dust Release, was being eroded backwards along the meridians; the earth's resonance had already turned us into living puppets...

The broken clan crest pattern that the girl had on her deathbed suddenly reappeared on Naruto's retina.

Just as Sasuke's Susanoo Arrow was about to be released, the white sand seeping from Naruto's jade pendant suddenly enveloped his right eye, and the tomoe of the Rinne Sharingan began to rotate in reverse as the sand patterns swirled around it.

Nine-Tails was shocked to discover in the spiritual space that the railings of the sealed water prison were turning into sand: Kid, this is Byakuya's bloodline limit!

Spacetime breaks down during a certain heartbeat interval.

When Naruto teleported behind Ebizo, accompanied by a sandstorm, Shukaku's three tails were still swinging in the same trajectory as a second ago.

His fist, wreathed in platinum and gold chakra, pierced through the triple puppet barrier. Ebizo barely managed to turn his head to dodge, but the puppet prosthetic on his left shoulder turned to dust the moment it came into contact with the fist's force—the dust suddenly condensed in mid-air into the phantom of a mysterious girl, forming a hand seal towards the Gate of the Underworld.

The core of the Earth ley line resonance is the coordinates of the Gate of the Underworld! Sasuke roared and swung the Kusanagi sword, his lightning chakra slicing along the blade into the central node of the Earth ley line emblem.

Taking advantage of the situation, Onoki smashed the Dust Release crystal on his chest with his Rock Fist, and the blood mist mixed with fragments of internal organs drew a Four Symbols Sealing Array in the air.

When the Raikage's Lightning Release armor reformed, it was covered with sandstorm patterns, and the phantom of puppet gears kept exploding along the trajectory of his lightning-like thrust.

Ebizo wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and suddenly, new bronze chains were pulled from the depths of the Gates of the Underworld from the broken puppet strings.

Just as Shukaku's fully materialized claws were about to crush Naruto, the boy's right eye's sand-patterned Rinnegan suddenly reflected the afterimage of Byakuya's memory left in the jade pendant—it was clearly the star map of the underground altar of Sunagakure.

The Nine-Tails' chakra flowed along the star map's trajectory to the soles of his feet, and the earth's veins in the entire desert suddenly emitted a rumbling sound resonating like dragon veins.

The game should indeed end. Naruto shattered the spatial node, unleashing a platinum sandstorm. The nine chakra tails that unfolded behind him were all connected to the chains of the puppeteer's clan emblem. It's just your puppet-manipulation trick that should end! The moment the platinum fist pierced through the phantom of Shukaku, the crisp sound of chains snapping echoed from the depths of the Gates of the Underworld.

Onoki's cracked Earth Release crystal suddenly burst forth with a brownish-gold light, and the blood beads vomited by the old man condensed into twelve rock prisms as they fell. The Sand Village's puppet strings should be weighed with rock weights! The moment he clasped his hands together, the quicksand within a hundred meters suddenly solidified into granite veins, and the puppet fingers that Ebizo was forming hand seals were suddenly covered with petrified patterns.

Lightning Release: Thousand Generations Dance! The Fourth Raikage's lightning chakra, which was wrapped around his body, suddenly mixed with gold dust, and his figure, which leaped into the air, reflected seven lightning clones under the blazing sun.

Granny Chiyo's chakra threads precisely wrapped around the ankles of each clone. As the Raikage's main body swooped down with a sonic boom, ten puppets suddenly emerged from the shadow of Sasuke's Susanoo's arrows and formed a swastika sealing array in the air.

Sasuke's Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan suddenly contracted, and the chakra arrow he fired split into hundreds of purple streams the instant it touched the sealing array.

Chapter 433 Don't Give Him a Chance to Breathe

Granny Chiyo's age-spotted fingers jerked the chakra threads, causing the streams of light to dart around the sealing array like marionettes, weaving a net around Ebizo. The combination of the Uchiha's eye technique and the Sand Village's manipulation was truly nauseating. As Ebizo sneered, three bronze chains suddenly emerged from the Gate of the Underworld behind him, absorbing all the incoming lightning release and eye technique.

Naruto's right eye, the Sand Pattern Rinnegan, suddenly reflected the Nine-Tailed Fox's vertical pupil. He slammed his fist, imbued with platinum chakra, heavily onto the rock: Don't give him a chance to breathe! The shattered rocks turned into a shower of golden sand before they even hit the ground. Onoki coughed up blood and formed the Earth Release: Earth Rising Tunneling hand seals. The boiling gold sand magma instantly engulfed the head of Shukaku, where Ebizo was standing.

However, a crimson mist of blood suddenly erupted from the magma. As Ebizo's shattered puppet body reformed within the mist, each fragment displayed a relief of the Gates of the Underworld. "Now I will show you the true secrets of puppetry." His magma-covered hands formed inverted hand seals, and the granite beneath their feet suddenly seeped forth asphalt-like black water, instantly transforming into an abyss that devoured light.

Sasuke's Susanoo arrow suddenly changed direction uncontrollably, and the burning chakra flames at the tip illuminated Granny Chiyo's instantly pale face—black liquid was seeping from the puppet joint of the old woman's left arm.

Onoki attempted to escape using the Light-Heavy Rock Technique, but discovered that countless black runes were crawling out of the crystallized Dust Release wound.

Even the Raikage's thunderous fist slowed down as if it were stuck in mud the moment it touched the black water.

This is... a projection of Yomotsu Hirasaka? Naruto's right eye's sand pattern suddenly spun violently, and Kurama roared a warning in the mental space.