Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

Through the crystal barrier, everyone could see that Ebizo's figure was gradually becoming blurred in the flames, while the corpses of the priestesses seemed to melt and seep into the ground.

However, before they could catch their breath, Granny Chiyo suddenly exclaimed in surprise—all the chakra threads in her hand were pointing to a collapsing spatial node.

That old bastard isn't dead at all! The Raikage's roar caused cracks to appear in the barrier.

In the center of the altar, where the smoke and dust have dissipated, the remaining fragments of amber are forming new spatial runes.

Ebizo's final, cold laugh echoed among the ruins, like some kind of curse from the underworld.

Naruto suddenly pressed down on his right arm, which was convulsing violently.

Black curse marks appeared on the skin beneath the tailed beast cloak, and the resentment of the priestesses that should have been purified was now seeping into his meridians through the resonance of the dragon veins.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly caught a detail—at the core of the spatial runes, the Sage of Six Paths' staff mark was glowing with an ominous crimson hue.

Beware of the ley lines! Onoki's warning came a beat too late.

The entire battlefield suddenly fell into an eerie silence, and the shattered limbs of the evil ninja began to spontaneously coalesce into chunks of flesh.

Before anyone could react, the magic circle where Ebizo had disappeared suddenly burst forth with a radiance surpassing that of the sun.

Chapter 444 Blood Pact

The crystalline boundary emitted a crisp sound like shattering glass in the bright light.

Naruto was forced to kneel on one knee by the sudden gravity, and the black curse mark under the Tailed Beast Cloak moved across his skin as if it were alive.

He looked up abruptly and discovered that the entire altar ruins had been cut into honeycomb-shaped cages by thirty-six blood-red beams of light, with crimson runes resembling ribs floating on the surface of each beam.

Lightning Strike, Thousand-Year Dance! The Fourth Raikage's roar was accompanied by an explosion of lightning.

The leader of the Hidden Cloud Village, his body wreathed in purplish-blue electric arcs, transformed into a humanoid lightning bolt and crashed into the pillar of light in the southeast corner.

The lightning chakra, powerful enough to split mountains, tore spiderweb-like cracks in the barrier's surface, but the flowing runes immediately clung to it like leeches, instantly repairing the damage.

Sasuke's Rinnegan glowed with a purple light.

The instant the Raikage launched his attack, he clearly saw the crimson runes transform into an outline resembling the Gedo Mazo as they absorbed the lightning energy. It wasn't a matter of chakra attribute. He pressed down on Naruto's trembling shoulders; these barriers were devouring the attack's energy.

The Chikamatsu Ten Puppet Masters, manipulated by Granny Chiyo, suddenly froze.

The old woman's wrinkled fingers trembled violently on the chakra lines: the flow of the earth's veins had changed! Dark green liquid was seeping from the rock beneath her feet, and the joints of the ten puppets were being corroded and hissing in the blink of an eye.

The Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, immediately formed hand seals, instantly crystallizing the ground within a five-meter radius into a mirror-like surface, temporarily blocking the erosion of the strange liquid.

Naruto endured the burning pain in his right arm as the Nine-Tails' chakra condensed into a golden blade at his fingertips.

He carved a wedge-shaped symbol on the cracked crystal wall: I've seen these runes in the ancient scrolls of Mount Myōboku—the legendary Blood and Bone Pact used to seal evil gods! The Tailed Beast Cloak suddenly expanded uncontrollably, and black and red chakra mist seeped out from where the cursed seal spread.

Similar things were indeed recorded in the Sand Village's forbidden technique library. Chiyo manipulated the puppet to guide the corrosive liquid to the edge of the barrier. When the turbid liquid came into contact with the pillar of light, it emitted a shrill scream like a baby crying, but a living sacrifice was required... Her words stopped abruptly, and the pieces of flesh of the evil ninjas that had been blasted apart by the Raikage suddenly began to multiply wildly, forming countless writhing fleshy protrusions on the inner wall of the barrier.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly contracted.

He saw that each fleshy protrusion had half a crimson rune embedded in its core, and the symbols Naruto had carved on the crystal wall were resonating with one of the protrusions. Don't move! He swung his Kusanagi sword, pinning Naruto's wrist as he was about to touch the runes. These sealing techniques were being reversed—every symbol you're drawing now is powering the barrier!

As if to confirm this statement, the entire cage suddenly shrank inward by half a meter.

Onoki's crystal mirror surface emitted a teeth-grinding squeaking sound, and the Raikage's bare arm muscles bulged with worm-like veins.

Suddenly, Granny Chiyo manipulated the puppet to tear open her left sleeve, revealing an arm covered in sealing spells: "I finally understand what Ebizo is trying to do!"

He corrupted the dragon vein with the vengeful spirit of the priestess, intending to turn the entire ninja world into...

The piercing cracking sound drowned out any further words.

The curse mark on Naruto's Tailed Beast Cloak suddenly materialized into black chains, binding him firmly to the crystal wall engraved with runes.

Before Sasuke's Susanoo skeleton had fully unfolded, the proliferating flesh transformed into countless arrows that shot toward Naruto's heart—where half a complete blood-red rune was emerging.

Sage Art: Super Mini Tailed Beast Ball! At the critical moment, Naruto spat out a black energy ball the size of a walnut.

A shockwave containing natural energy exploded within the barrier, creating strange ripples. The crimson runes suddenly began to writhe violently like scalded snakes.

"I see!" Ohno's gray eyebrows shot up suddenly.

The old man clasped his hands together, and a shimmering light of dust release enveloped Naruto. "Kid, channel your Sage Chakra into my Disintegration Barrier!" As the silver-white cube enveloped the boy, the black chains suddenly emitted a hissing sound similar to metal being quenched.

Chapter 445 The Vengeful Spirit of the Dragon Vein

Sasuke's Rinnegan captured a decisive moment—on the back of Naruto's neck, the tomoe mark belonging to the Sage of Six Paths was in some kind of struggle against the blood-red runes.

He suddenly plunged the Kusanagi sword into the rock beneath his feet, and purple flames flowed into the ground along the blade: Thunder Shadow, attack the third pillar of light in the Qian position!

just now!

The lightning around the Fourth Raikage increased by another 30%.

This time, instead of directly striking the barrier with his fist, he compressed his raging lightning chakra into a spiral drill.

The moment the bluish-purple lightning touched the designated spot, Granny Chiyo launched ten chakra threads wrapped with explosive tags, precisely piercing the rune nodes that were disrupted by the fluctuations of Sage Art.

As if thousands of porcelain pieces had shattered at the same time, a palm-sized gap suddenly appeared in a certain area of ​​the blood-red cage.

Although it was fleeting, it was enough for Onoki to compress the Dust Release barrier into the size of a needle tip and pierce through it.

Cold sweat beaded on the old man's forehead as he drew a complex sealing array in the air: this was not a simple barrier, but...

His voice was suddenly swallowed up by a roar coming from underground.

The entire altar ruins began to sink, and the witches' corpses that had seeped into the earth's veins formed a huge, blood-red human shape beneath the rock layers.

The cursed seal on Naruto's body suddenly emitted an eerie red light, and his nine chakra tails lashed out uncontrollably at the collapsing space.

A sharp buzzing sound suddenly rang out from inside the barrier, and Sasuke's Rinnegan rippled with purple light.

In his vision, the energy veins of the crimson runes were reorganizing, and dark purple viscous fluid surged from the area that had been disintegrated by Dust Release. At the three o'clock position, where the six ripples converged! As soon as he finished speaking, the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, had already transformed his Dust Release barrier into a silver cone of light, piercing towards the designated location.

Granny Chiyo's fingers flew, weaving chakra threads into a vast net within the corrosive liquid.

The three puppets she manipulated suddenly disintegrated, and hundreds of poisoned sage sticks rained down, embedding themselves into the writhing inner wall of the barrier. It was the chakra pathways of the Gedo Mazo! The old woman's cloudy eyes suddenly contracted; these runes were mimicking the chakra circulation of the tailed beasts...

Suddenly, the crystal barrier behind Naruto cracked, and the nine chakra tails uncontrollably pierced through the Dust Release barrier.

The sage art patterns around his right eye flickered, and the natural energy gathered at his fingertips tore tiny cracks in the crimson runes. Sage Art: Frog Kumite! The boy suddenly threw a punch, and the transparent fist shadow formed by the air vibration pierced through the barrier, but strangely refracted upon touching an invisible barrier, striking directly at the Fourth Raikage's back.

Lightning Release: Lightning Armor! Thousands of arcs of electricity exploded around the Cloud Village leader, forcefully dispersing the Sage Art's energy.

Lightning-like patterns appeared on his bronze skin, and the muscles in his right arm suddenly swelled to three times their normal size: Kid, watch closely—Lightning Crusade Level 100! His fist, wrapped in cyan lightning, slammed into the same spot repeatedly within 0.3 seconds, and finally a hole the size of a bowl appeared on the surface of the barrier.

Onoki seized the opportunity to pierce the hole with his Dust Release: Light Cone, and the crystalline cube rapidly expanded inside the barrier.

Blood seeped from the diamond-shaped mark on the old woman's forehead: Now! Granny Chiyo suddenly unleashed chakra threads wrapped with sealing talismans, precisely ensnaring the energy core within the Dust Release barrier.

The moment the talisman burned, everyone heard a cracking sound similar to a spine breaking.

The blood-red cage suddenly convulsed violently, and the thirty-six beams of light twisted into a pretzel shape at the same time.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly detected the surging undercurrents deep within the earth's veins: Something's not right!

This is... Before he could finish speaking, the ground of the entire altar ruins collapsed with a deafening roar.

Ebizo's hunched figure appeared a hundred meters in the air, the bronze compass in his hand oozing a dark green liquid.

As expected, you all have not disappointed this old man. A sinister smile appeared on the Sand Village advisor's age-spotted face, and the twenty-eight constellations on the compass surface suddenly rotated in reverse.

The rune fragments that had been broken down by Dust Escape suddenly came to life, condensing into a huge blood-red moon above everyone's heads.

The tomoe mark on the back of Naruto's neck suddenly became hot, and the Nine-Tails' chakra flowed back into the core of the barrier along the cursed seal chains.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly let out a mournful cry, and the purple flames uncontrollably burned a six-pointed star pattern on the ground.

He saw deep beneath the collapsed earth, where the enormous humanoid figure pieced together from the corpses of the witches was slowly rising in the blood-red moonlight.

When the first ray of red light shone on the Raikage, his lightning armor, which was as tough as steel, began to melt like wax.

The vengeful spirit of the dragon vein... Ebizo pressed the compass into his chest, and suddenly dozens of cracks appeared in his aged body, from which dark green light gushed out.

The pieces of flesh and blood that were floating in the air suddenly coalesced into nine giant pythons, each with fox eyes similar to Naruto's.

The Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release barrier made a sound like porcelain shattering, and two streaks of blood seeped from Onoki's nostrils.

Granny Chiyo's puppet strings snapped, and the old woman staggered to her knees, watching her wrinkled hands gradually turn transparent: this was the backlash of a space-time ninjutsu...

Naruto's nine tails suddenly plunged into the ground, and Sage Chakra clashed violently with the crimson moonlight.

Deep within his rampaging consciousness, the Sage of Six Paths' voice echoed, sometimes near, sometimes far: "It must be cut off..." The boy's bloodshot eyes were fixed on the compass on Ebizo's chest. Suddenly, all the cursed chains on the Tailed Beast Cloak taut, pulling out countless spatial rifts in the void.

Sasuke's Rinnegan saw the truth at this moment—what appeared at the center of the blood-red moon was the Yomotsu Hirasaka Mark recorded in the ancient texts of Mount Myōboku.

The Kusanagi sword in his hand suddenly burst into black flames, but was frozen in mid-air by some force the instant it slashed toward the spatial rift.

The game has only just begun. Ebizo's voice came simultaneously from nine directions.

The moment the crimson moon was fully formed, the entire barrier space began to collapse inward, and the ground beneath everyone's feet suddenly transformed into a vortex of light that devoured everything.

Chapter 446 The Gift of Huangquanjin

The moment the crimson vortex swallowed the light, the cursed seal chains on Naruto's Tailed Beast Cloak suddenly trembled like a dragon's roar.

Nine chakra tails, like the roots of an ancient tree, firmly entangled the dissipating fragments of the barrier in the void.

Blood and tears streamed down the boy's face, which was covered in animal markings, but a voice as clear as a spring reached his ears: "Let's sever the causal ties with our bond."

That was the spirit of the witch I saved three years ago at the Loulan ruins.

The Nine-Tails' chakra, carrying golden particles of light, erupted with a roar, and a semi-transparent phantom of a priestess appeared behind Naruto.

The suspended, fleshy serpent screamed amidst the holy light, and the compass on Ebizo's chest suddenly rotated three notches counterclockwise—the originally collapsing spacetime vortex was forcibly frozen into a glass-like crystal.

Dust Release: Limit Detachment Technique! Onoki's hands, covered in blood scabs, completed the final hand seal.

A semi-transparent cubic barrier enveloped the crystal vortex from bottom to top, and the old earth shadow's eyelids bulged with veins: Raikage kid, now's the time!

The Fourth Raikage's lightning armor exploded with countless arcs of electricity, his bronze body shattering spatial rifts in its path.

As his fist, wreathed in black lightning, slammed into the compass, Ebizo's nine clones simultaneously formed the Impure World Reincarnation hand seals.

Seven puppets bearing the headbands of the Sand Village suddenly emerged from the ground, three of which were the corpses of the Kazekage from previous generations.

Magnetic Escape·Sand Iron Boundary Technique!

The black iron sand spewed from the Third Kazekage puppet transformed into a thorny cage, but was incinerated by purple flames half a second before piercing the Raikage's chest.

Sasuke's Rinnegan reflected the chakra pathways of the puppet's core, and the Amaterasu flames wrapped around the Kusanagi sword precisely severed the Third Kazekage's puppet's chakra threads.

"Grandma!" Naruto suddenly roared in Chiyo's direction.

Nine chakra tails coiled up the puppet fragments that the old man had thrown away, and the puppet fragments engraved with the faces of Sasori's parents suddenly lit up with sealing runes—the very contingency plan left behind by Chiyo when she sealed Shukaku twenty years ago.

Ebizo's main body suddenly let out a muffled groan, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the compass on his chest.

Taking advantage of the situation, Onoki compressed the Dust Release barrier to the size of a needle tip, and the Lightning Release armor, which was wrapped around Raikage, transformed into a dazzling meteor that pierced through time and space.

Just as the beam of light was about to strike the core of the compass, the nine Ebizo clones suddenly merged into a clay doll covered with runes.

The gifts from Yomijin didn't stop there. Black mud oozed from the cracked mouths of the clay dolls, and the remains of the puppets burned by Amaterasu suddenly reformed into a stone tablet engraved with the Six Paths of Immortals.

The crimson moonlight flowed with liquid chakra onto the inscription, and giant Tenseigan patterns began to appear on the ground of the entire battlefield.

Sasuke felt a sudden burning pain in his Rinnegan, and he saw that the chakra of dying tailed beasts was curled up inside each stone tablet.

The Nine-Tails within Naruto roared furiously, and the boy's tailed beast cloak suddenly transformed into the Sage of Six Paths' magatama robe. At this moment, the rampaging chakra became completely under his control.

So this is the real... Naruto's bloodshot eyes suddenly cleared, and as he looked at Sasuke, the two of them simultaneously channeled their chakra into the Sage Art array beneath their feet.

The moment the natural energy merged with the power of the Rinnegan, dark golden liquid suddenly seeped from the crack in the compass on Ebizo's chest.

The clay doll emitted a shriek that sounded inhuman, and the liquid chakra condensed in the air into claw-like tentacles.

The Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release armor emitted a metallic twisting sound as it was wrapped by tentacles, and Onoki's Dust Release barrier began to erode the caster himself.

Granny Chiyo suddenly plunged her ten fingers into her own chest, the chakra threads she pulled out gleaming with the blue light of a martyr: "It's time to repay the thirty years of life you stole, brother." The puppet technique the old woman unleashed, burning her life force, pierced through the barrier of space and time, and the Sand Village souls that should have dissipated into the dragon vein suddenly stretched out arms from the stone tablets.

Ebizo's true form finally appeared directly above the compass, his left half transformed into a mass of flesh covered in Sharingan eyes.

As Naruto's Sage Art Rasenshuriken and Sasuke's Indra's Arrow locked onto each other, the twisted body suddenly revealed a sinister smile: "Did you hear the sound of the Gates of the Underworld opening?"

The crack in the center of the compass suddenly expanded into the shape of a vertical pupil, and a kind of pressure, even more ancient than that of the tailed beasts, seeped out from the crack.

Naruto felt the chakra gathered in his hand uncontrollably surging towards his vertical pupil, while Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly reflected a strange scene where the chakra meridians of the two were resonating... As the tremors of the chakra resonance climbed up the spine to the back of the neck, Naruto saw a flash of understanding on Sasuke's profile illuminated by Amaterasu.

On their simultaneously raised right arms, the tomoe patterns of the Sage of Six Paths resonated with the ripples of the Rinnegan, and even Kurama's roar in the mental space was perfectly timed to coincide with the lightning gaps in Indra's Arrow.