Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

When Minato sealed me away back then, he deliberately left a backdoor.

Suddenly, a series of exclamations came from outside the window.

When everyone rushed to the terrace, they saw countless stardust gathering into a giant Sharingan that stretched across the night sky within the bronze snow curtain that enveloped Konoha.

Nine tomoe slowly rotated deep within those pupils, each tomoe reflecting a tailed beast altar that was collapsing.

Just as his eyelids were about to close, Sasuke's Rinnegan caught sight of the deepest part of his pupils—Ebizo's face, covered in runes, was grinning at them.

Sasuke's Rinnegan glowed with a dark purple light, and the six tomoe swirled rapidly in his pupils.

He stared at the giant Sharingan gradually fading into the night sky, bronze snowflakes landing on the Susanoo armor on his shoulder with a soft, corroding sound. The shadows were mimicking chakra pathways. He suddenly reached out and caught a falling stardust, the fragmented light revealing the unique joint structure of the Sunagakure puppets.

Naruto's Sage Mode markings on his palm suddenly heated up, and the Nine-Tails' chakra transformed into golden chains that wrapped around the wind chimes under the eaves.

Chapter 437 Ebizo's Space-Time Ninjutsu

On the surface of the clanging bronze bell, the same inscriptions as those on the Starfall Altar appeared. Something was wrong! Onoki's Dust Release crystal suddenly exploded into a prism array, refracting the moonlight into seven rainbow bridges.

As the rainbow light swept across the stone tablet at the village entrance, the Third Tsuchikage's pupils suddenly contracted—dark purple viscous liquid seeped from the granite surface, slowly piecing together the pattern of the Cloud Village's Lightning Release armor.

Granny Chiyo's puppet strings suddenly pierced the ground, the chakra threads woven by her ten fingers forming a spiderweb on the bluestone pavement. This was not a physical entity. She manipulated her puppet dog to tear at the shadow at the end of the rainbow light, but the shadow pierced by the sharp teeth reformed like ink. Her puppetry could sense... a resonance from some kind of sealing technique that transcended time and space.

A piercing scream tore through the night sky.

When everyone instantly arrived at the training ground in the west of the village, they saw three genin slumped over by the frozen pond.

The starry sky reflected on the water is eerily missing Orion; instead, it features Ebizo's profile, composed of bronze snowflakes.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly trembled and pointed northeast, the coded text remaining on the blade and the ice surface of the pond simultaneously glowing with bloody light.

Kurama said these shadows were fragments of the Gate of the Underworld. Naruto's Tailed Beast Cloak erupted with blazing golden flames, and as his nine chakra tails swept across the ice, Ebizo's reflection suddenly shattered into countless talismans.

The tadpole-shaped black runes flowed with chakra, eventually outlining a miniature version of the Gedo Mazo beneath everyone's feet.

The Raikage's Lightning Release armor shattered the electric net, and fragments of the Breast Protection Mirror suddenly floated up and formed a six-pointed star array.

Upon seeing this, Onoki immediately formed an Earth Release hand seal, and the Dust Release crystal projected the array diagram thirty meters into the air—each point of the six-pointed star corresponded to the location of a Tailed Beast altar, and the rotating center was the phantom of the Konoha Memorial Monument.

When the First Hokage sealed the Gedo Mazo, he used the Yin-Yang Release: Split Technique. Suddenly, Granny Chiyo snapped three puppet strings, her bleeding fingertips drawing the Sand Village mark at the center of the array. If I remember correctly, the split sealing pillars should...

Her words were interrupted by a sudden chakra hurricane.

Sasuke's Susanoo spread its wings wide, and purple arrows pierced through the array projection in the night sky.

The moment the arrow touched the center of the six-pointed star, the phantom of the memorial tablet suddenly twisted into a vortex, and the inscription resonated with the sealing array on Naruto's right hand. The shockwave that erupted evaporated all the bronze snow within a radius of a hundred meters.

The sealing pillars are moving! Naruto suddenly knelt down, and the tailed beast chakra burned a charred star pattern on the ground. Kurama sensed that seven streams of chakra were reorganizing at the border of the Land of Lightning, two of which carried the fluctuations of the Sand Village Puppet Technique.

Onoki's Dust Release Prism suddenly refracted a panoramic view of Iwagakure, and everyone was shocked to discover that the giant rock sculpture at the village entrance was oozing bronze liquid.

The Third Tsuchikage's white eyebrows trembled violently: Thirty years ago, when Yomi was sealed, each of the five Kage kept a sealing stone of the corresponding attribute.

But now... he suddenly pointed to the array diagram in the air that was gradually dissipating. The Raikage's breastplate, the Kazekage's puppet strings, and the Tailed Beast Chakra of the Hokage's successor—the secret treasure we carried was reconstructing the sealing coordinates!

A piercing alarm suddenly blared throughout Konoha.

The crystal ball projection in the perception class showed that chakra turbulence appeared simultaneously at the twelve leyline nodes.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly detected a familiar aura. He turned around and drove the Kusanagi sword into the ground. In the reflection of the starry sky on the sword, a figure wrapped in bandages was stabbing a kunai into the Lightning Release altar of Kumogakure.

It was Ebizo's space-time ninjutsu. Suddenly, seven of Chiyo's puppet strings snapped. She staggered and grabbed a lamppost for support. These shadows... were the materialized scouts of the Underworld Inscription...

Naruto suddenly channeled Sage Mode chakra into the star map beneath his feet, and golden light flowed along the earth's vein patterns toward the Hokage Rock.

As the Nine-Tails' roar shook the entire archives, a crack suddenly appeared on the forehead of the First Hokage statue, and half of a stone pillar covered with runes slowly rose up.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly contracted—the inscription on the surface of the stone pillar was the same black inscription they had seen at the Starfall Altar.

"Four Red Yang Formation!" Onoki suddenly shouted, and the Dust Release crystals, the Raikage's electric net, and Chiyo's puppet strings formed a four-way barrier.

Taking advantage of the moment, Naruto injected the Tailed Beast Ball chakra into the stone pillar. In the dazzling golden light, countless bronze snowflakes suddenly gathered into the phantom of Ebizo.

The phantom gave everyone a strange smile, its finger precisely pointing to the coordinates of a canyon on the map of the Land of Lightning.

As the first rays of dawn pierced the clouds, the Konoha Barrier Team had already set up eight sealing arrays along the village boundary.

Sasuke stood atop the watchtower, the world in his Rinnegan cut into hundreds of chakra flow paths.

He saw Naruto's shadow clones forming defensive hand seals under the guidance of the training grounds, saw Onoki's Dust Release Prism hovering above the Hokage Rock, and saw the dark matter lurking deep in the shadows of the trees quietly changing shape as the earth trembled.

Downstream of the Namka River, unnoticed by anyone, on the back of a maple leaf glistening with dew, bronze-colored stardust is reconstructing a three-tomoe pattern along the veins.

As the patrolling ninja passed by, the leaf suddenly burst into flames and turned to ash. What emerged from the ashes was the reflection of the Kazekage Building of Sunagakure—on the flag fluttering on the roof, a blood-red Rinnegan mark had appeared at some point.

Chapter 438 Ambush

Sasuke's fingertips traced the mottled wood grain of the watchtower, and the chakra flow captured by his Rinnegan wove into a fine net on his retina.

The ashes of maple leaves in the lower reaches of the Namga River reflected an eerie halo deep within his pupils, and the dark matter lurking at the edge of the barrier suddenly receded like a tide—something even more dangerous was brewing deep within the earth's veins.

Northeast corner! Naruto's roar, imbued with the Nine-Tails' chakra, shook the snow off the eaves. As his orange afterimage swept across the training ground, the genin practicing defensive hand seals were thrown to the ground by the gust of wind.

The Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, turned his Dust Release Prism in response, and the morning light reflected off the mirror illuminated the pine forest outside the village in every detail—the shadows that should have been projected onto the tree trunks now seemed to detach from their bodies like ink and slowly wriggle.

The Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release armor exploded with blue arcs of electricity, and his steel headband crackled as he sped along.

As he charged toward the edge of the barrier with the force of thunder, three dark figures emerged from the fissures in the earth's veins.

The silhouettes of these shadow ninjas gleamed with a cold, bronze light, and the chakra condensed at the tips of their kunai was exactly the same as the inscription on the Starfall Altar.

Rasengan!

Naruto's clone rushed into the enemy ranks before the Raikage could react. The moment the azure ball of light shattered the Shadow Ninja's breastplate, the broken metal pieces suddenly transformed into countless bronze butterflies.

Sasuke's Amaterasu Black Flame sealed the breach in time, but mysteriously went out when it touched the butterfly's wings.

Granny Chiyo's puppet strings finally arrived late, and the chakra threads controlled by her ten fingers precisely pierced the compound eyes of the seven butterflies.

These are not physical entities! The Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release barrier suddenly contracted, and the crystallized air froze the three Kage in mid-air.

The Raikage's calloused fist pierced through one of the bodies, but the flying bronze fragments reformed into the pattern of the Sand Village headband under the moonlight.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly buzzed, and the chakra trails appearing in his Rinnegan sent a chill down his spine.

The shadow ninjas, who should have been trapped by the Dust Release technique, actually reformed inside the barrier, and the poisoned kunai were only three inches away from Naruto's back.

The black-haired youth tore through the air as he teleported, leaving scorched marks on the snow. He grabbed Naruto's headband with his left hand and flung him backward, but his right arm was slashed open with a deep, bone-revealing gash.

"You idiot Sasuke!" A golden hand formed from the Nine-Tails' chakra supported the two of them, and the blue light of Naruto's medical ninjutsu shining from his fingertips was several times more dazzling than usual.

Sasuke could clearly sense the trembling mixed in the other's chakra. This overly vivid emotion made his throat tighten—like the Rasengan that pierced his chest in the torrential rain of the Valley of the End, carrying a temperature that made him tremble.

Onoki's Dust Release Prism suddenly emitted a blinding light, splitting into a twelve-sided barrier that shattered the entire battlefield into fragments.

The Raikage activated his Lightning Release Chakra Mode to its fullest extent, and bursts of electric arcs traced the outline of the Land of Lightning's map on the snow.

Granny Chiyo's puppet strings seized the opportunity to entangle the two shadow ninjas, and the sealing formula flowing on the chakra threads resonated with the coordinates left by Ebizo's phantom.

Thirty degrees southwest! Sasuke's bleeding right arm suddenly pointed to a certain place outside the barrier, and a bronze-colored light band moving deep in the earth's veins was reflected in his Rinnegan.

Naruto instantly understood, and the nine clones simultaneously threw Rasenshuriken that intertwined in the air to form a chakra net, forcing the Shadow Ninja who was trying to escape into the earth's ley lines out of the ground.

The Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release crystallization completed its encirclement at that moment, and the Raikage, accompanied by the roar of the Thunder Beast, pierced through the core.

As bronze fragments fell like a shower of stars, people discovered that each fragment was engraved with miniature meteorite inscriptions.

Chapter 439 The Sealing Technique That Should Have Been Lost

Granny Chiyo was about to examine the fragments closely with the puppet strings when the characters suddenly twisted into the pattern of the Kazekage's hat from Sunagakure.

"Retreat formation!" The Shadow Ninja leader suddenly let out a roar like the grinding of sand, and the remaining subordinates simultaneously crushed the bronze talismans in their arms.

Sasuke's Rinnegan captured the moment the spatial rift opened, but even faster than his Amaterasu was Naruto's sudden surge of Nine-Tails chakra—screams echoed from the closing spatial rift as the golden-orange fox tail swept across it.

As the last fragment of bronze seeped into the earth's veins, the maple trees at the edge of the training ground suddenly began to move without any wind.

On the back of a leaf covered in ice crystals, a three-comma pattern slowly rotates amidst the crimson hue.

All of this was quietly recorded by the fleeting abnormal fluctuations in Sasuke's Rinnegan.

Bronze fragments reflected an eerie, cold light on the snow, while the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, dug his ten fingers deep into the frozen earth.

The rumbling of rocks being squeezed came from deep within the earth's veins. The rock strata within a radius of a hundred miles churned like a giant beast awakening, and eighteen granite barriers broke through the snow, forcing all the Shadow Ninjas who were trying to escape into the earth's veins back to the surface.

Lightning Release: Lightning Crusade Level! The Fourth Raikage's fist was wrapped in thunderbolts, and the exploding arcs of electricity scorched black thundercloud patterns on the rock wall.

Those bronze-colored figures twisted and deformed in the lightning, their metallic skin peeling off and reforming continuously, until Naruto's shadow clones simultaneously threw Rasengan from eight directions.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly contracted, and the gravitational field of Chibaku Tensei shifted by fifteen degrees at the last moment.

The flying bronze fragments were precisely absorbed onto the top of the rock wall, piecing together a fragmented meteorite totem.

Granny Chiyo seized the opportunity to entangle the three mutilated bodies with her puppet strings, while the sealing technique flowing on the chakra threads firmly pinned the bronze matter to its physical state.

Thirty-seven degrees southwest! Onoki's Dust Release Prism suddenly split into sixty-four facets, and the crystallized air formed multiple refractions.

As the seventh ninja's kunai pierced the phantom, the Raikage's elbow strike, clad in lightning armor, dented the ninja's breastplate.

Amidst the cracking sound of metal, dark red liquid seeped out, and the body finally ceased to reassemble.

As Naruto's Nine-Tails-transformed claws tore through the last three afterimages, he suddenly felt an unusual sensation at the tips of his claws—the bronze fragments were seeping out a poisonous mist specially made by Sunagakure as they melted and reformed.

Sasuke's Amaterasu Black Flame timely wove a net of fire, and the burning poisonous mist formed an eerie purple aurora above the snow.

As the last piece of bronze material stopped wriggling, a series of cracking sounds suddenly emanated from the maple forest at the edge of the training ground.

The Third Tsuchikage slammed his rock fist heavily into the ground, the shockwave sending all the snow within a ten-foot radius flying.

On the exposed permafrost, seven mutilated bodies gleamed with a cold bronze light.

This wasn't puppetry. Granny Chiyo's puppet strings had branded the corpse's neck with star-shaped marks, the deep purple scars inlaid with gold dust. I'd seen something similar twenty years ago during the Iron Country rebellion.

The Fourth Raikage suddenly crouched down, his fingers, covered in Lightning Release chakra, piercing directly into the corpse's chest cavity.

The lightning patterns on his steel headband suddenly heated up. He tore off a charred, tattered scroll, its meteor script oozing indigo chakra. This sealing technique existed in the Hidden Cloud Village's secret vault. His voice was like muffled thunder rolling over rocks, but it should have been lost during the Third Shinobi World War.

As Naruto approached to observe, the Nine-Tails' chakra unconsciously formed a protective vortex around him.

A grain of gold dust deep within a certain mark suddenly floated up and, under everyone's gaze, formed a miniature model of the Starfall Altar.

Sasuke's Rinnegan trembled violently as he saw half of the Uchiha clan crest flash across the bottom of the model—an ancient pattern clearly dating back to before the time of the Sage of Six Paths.

Watch out! Onoki's Dust Release barrier suddenly expanded, enveloping the entire group of corpses within it.

Almost simultaneously, all the star-shaped marks burst forth with intense light, and the bronze-colored chakra flowed like a swarm of awakened snakes burrowing into the earth's veins.

The Raikage's Lightning Release Armor covered the entire area in a fraction of a second, but the violent arcs of electricity failed to stop these fluid substances in the slightest.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly unsheathed itself, the magatama at the end of the hilt turning blood red.

When he used his Rinnegan to trace the flow of chakra, he glimpsed half a face wearing a meteor mask in a spacetime rift—the outline of the mask was strikingly similar to the portrait of the Sage of Six Paths on the stone tablet in the Valley of the End.

Northeast! Naruto's Nine-Tails senses suddenly stung, but the direction he pointed to was only a spinning maple leaf.

When the leaf fell onto Sasuke's shoulder, the three-tomoe pattern on the back had faded to almost invisible.

At that moment, Granny Chiyo's puppet strings suddenly snapped, and all ten chakra threads simultaneously pointed to star coordinates in different directions.

The Fourth Raikage picked up a piece of bronze that was still hot; the thundercloud pattern unique to the Land of Lightning was slowly moving across the metal surface.

As he infused chakra into the fragments, the patterns suddenly twisted into a map of the mountains of the Land of Hot Springs, with a certain coordinate point flashing with the light of the Shukaku sealing array of Sunagakure.

The cold wind dispersed the lingering chakra waves from the battlefield, and the snow at the edge of the training ground suddenly collapsed into a vortex.

Everyone stared silently at the slowly rotating snow vortex, and from the bottomless darkness, the faint roar of falling stars could be heard.

The Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release Prism suddenly emitted a buzzing sound, and different images of ancient ruins were simultaneously reflected in the sixty-four crystal faces.

Sasuke wiped away the ice crystals from the Kusanagi sword, and nine tomoe suddenly appeared in the Rinnegan reflected in the blade.

When he looked again, he saw only the fresh scratch on Naruto's headband—like a coordinate beyond time and space, quietly lurking within the Flame Crest of Konoha.

Chapter 440 Northern Border of the Land of Soup

Fine arcs of electricity crackled from bronze fragments in the Raikage's palm, while Onoki's suspended Dust Release Prism refracted the light into sixty-four golden lines.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly emitted a dragon's roar, and the trajectory of the sword's blade resonated with the chakra threads drifting in the air. The star coordinates that were being pulled by Granny Chiyo's puppet strings now cast spiderweb-like spots of light on the snow.

“This is no ordinary tracking mark.” The Fourth Raikage crushed the bronze fragments with his knuckles, and the thundercloud pattern reassembled into three intertwined kunai totems in the burst of lightning. “Thirty years ago, the evil priests executed by the Land of Iron would have the same inverted pentagram branded on the foreheads of their sacrifices.”