Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

It's now!

The Sage Chakra contained within the Rasenshuriken suddenly became tinged with the purple aura of Susanoo. The two forces did not explode upon collision; instead, they twisted into a spiral-shaped pillar of light like intertwined vines.

Chapter 447 Chakra Depletion

The vertical pupil on Ebizo's chest had just split open its second eyelid when it was pierced through the space between his eyebrows by this stream of light that combined the power of Yin and Yang.

Blood tears flowed from all the Sharingan eyes on the clay doll at the same time. As the half-human, half-puppet body flew backward, layers peeled off, revealing the hexagonal crystal embedded in its chest cavity.

That's... the core of the dragon vein! Granny Chiyo's burning chakra threads suddenly straightened.

She recognized the crystal that had been secretly sealed in the Loulan underground palace by the Sand Village twenty years ago. At this moment, the surface of the crystal was flowing with the same spacetime turbulence as it had back then.

The old woman's fingers flew as she manipulated the puppet remains to form a sealing array, but she coughed violently midway through the hand seals, and the blood seeping from between her fingers was mixed with tiny pieces of puppet gears.

The Fourth Raikage's hand, covered in lightning-style armor, had already caught the falling crystal. His bronze muscles suddenly tensed: This thing was absorbing lightning-style chakra! Before the bulging veins on his neck had even subsided, he saw the phantoms of nine tailed beasts emerge from inside the crystal.

As soon as the Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release barrier enveloped the crystal, the entire battlefield suddenly fell into an eerie silence.

Onoki's pupils suddenly contracted—the remnants of the stone tablets burned by Amaterasu's fire were seeping into the ground, outlining the complete Tenseigan pattern under the moonlight.

He recalled the Yomotsu Hirasaka altar he had seen in the Land of Demons thirty years ago, where the talismans drawn with the blood of priestesses were exactly the same as the blood-red fluorescence wandering among the sand at this moment.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly stung. He saw the priestess's soul that clung to Naruto's tailed beast cloak turning into golden dust, being drawn by some force towards the crystal.

Nine-Tailed Lion issued a warning growl in the mental space, but the boy's right hand, covered with beast claws, was already pressed against the surface of the crystal.

The Yang energy from the Sage of Six Paths surged spontaneously, but when it touched the inner seal of the crystal, it heard a lament that did not belong to this era.

"Let go!" Granny Chiyo suddenly threw out the last three chakra threads to wrap around Naruto's wrist, but those threads were cut off midway by an invisible ripple in spacetime.

The old woman stumbled into the pile of puppet remains, and her wrinkled eyes caught a glimpse of a bronze key engraved with the vortex clan emblem peeking out from under Ebizo's tattered clothes.

The Raikage's roar and the Tsuchikage's Dust Release arrived simultaneously, but the dark golden liquid gushing from inside the crystal had already soaked over the back of Naruto's hand.

Sasuke's Indra's Arrow pierced the upper edge of the crystal at the last moment, and the Yin-Yang Release power carried by the arrow tip tore a gap in the spacetime vortex that was about to take shape.

As the shattered crystals scattered like stardust, everyone saw the bronze compass suspended in the air—it was now reflecting the complete blood-red full moon.

Wait... Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly saw a vision of the future ten seconds in advance.

He grabbed Naruto by the back of his collar and retreated rapidly. Suddenly, seven tentacles with six black bars carved on them emerged from where he had been standing.

The eye-like organs that split open at the tips of those tentacles were greedily absorbing the remaining tailed beast chakra on the battlefield.

Onoki's Dust Release barrier finally completed its encirclement, but at the moment the seal was completed, a crisp sound of crystal shattering was heard.

Old Earth Shadow's bloodshot eyes saw inside the barrier, where the crystal powder that should have been broken down into atoms was being re-aggregated into an eyeball-shaped chakra cluster under the influence of some force.

He suddenly felt the phantom pain in the back of his neck that he had felt twenty years ago when Madara Uchiha grabbed him.

When the tomoe on Naruto's Tailed Beast Cloak began to rotate in reverse, Sasuke discovered that in his Rinnegan vision, all the chakra flows were pointing to a coordinate located deep underground.

Nine-Lama suddenly stood up in the spiritual space: Kid, the energy of the earth's veins is flowing backward!

Granny Chiyo's blood-stained fingers finally completed the last sealing technique, and the chakra threads that had absorbed her life force suddenly straightened into harp strings.

As the clear, resounding tremor echoed across the battlefield, the scattered puppet fragments simultaneously lit up with the Shukaku seal pattern, temporarily suppressing the restless Tenseigan pattern.

However, the old woman's gray hair was becoming transparent at a visible speed—a sign that her chakra was completely depleted.

Thunder-torture level Chiyomai!

The Fourth Raikage, his figure transformed into lightning, tore through space, his hand blade wreathed in black lightning strikes towards the suspended compass.

The attack hit the core precisely, yet it emitted a teeth-grinding tremor amidst the metallic clang.

When the Raikage was thrown backward by the recoil, everyone saw the Six Paths Immortal Talisman appearing on the compass surface, which was now resonating with the Yang energy within Naruto's body.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly trembled uncontrollably. He looked in the direction the sword tip was pointing and saw that the Sand Village ghosts at the edge of the battlefield were kneeling in a certain direction.

Where those translucent figures bowed their heads, the crimson moonlight was condensing into some kind of claw-shaped totem.

The warning from Kurama and fragments of Indra's memories flooded his mind simultaneously, instantly making him understand Ebizo's true purpose—

This madman isn't trying to resurrect demons; he's using the chakra of the entire ninja world.

Before Sasuke could warn him, the vertical pupil at the center of the compass suddenly opened its third eyelid.

An aura even more ancient than that of the Tailed Beasts materialized into a tangible shockwave, shattering all the sand and gravel within a hundred miles into dust.

The Truth-Seeking Ball barrier that Naruto had erected was cracked by the impact. The moment he turned to look at Sasuke, the two of them simultaneously sensed a tremor coming from the depths of the earth's veins.

As the last fragment of the puppet was absorbed into the Tenseigan pattern, Granny Chiyo used her last bit of chakra to crush the puppet core in her heart.

The old ninja who had once sealed Shukaku revealed a relieved smile. The moment his body turned into sand, all the sealing talismans on the battlefield simultaneously lit up with a blue light.

However, the compass, which should have been suppressed, emitted a joyful hum at this moment, as if it had been waiting for this pure chakra sacrifice.

The crimson moonlight suddenly became viscous like blood, and the suspended compass began to rotate counterclockwise.

The crystal powder that was broken down by Dust Release is now condensing in the moonlight into an outline that resembles a Gedo Mazo.

The magatama on Naruto's Tailed Beast Cloak flew uncontrollably toward the compass, while Sasuke's Rinnegan vision had already seen nine pillars of chakra rising from the depths of the earth's veins.

The Fourth Raikage's roar and the Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release erupted simultaneously, but the moment their attacks touched the compass, a gigantic Tenseigan covering a hundred miles suddenly appeared on the ground of the entire battlefield.

The moment the Blood Moon and the pupils of the Reincarnation Eye on Earth locked eyes, a roar originating from the beginning of creation resounded through the heavens.

Chapter 448 The Art of Descending from the Sky

Within the dark red halo of the blood moon, the suspended compass emitted a clicking sound similar to the friction of bones.

The eight tomoe on Naruto's Tailed Beast Cloak trembled simultaneously, and Kurama growled in his consciousness: "This thing is draining my Yin-attribute chakra!"

The direction of chakra flow changed. Sasuke's Rinnegan rippled with purple light, and the six-tomoe pattern spun rapidly.

The moment his left hand touched the hilt of the Kusanagi sword, dozens of abysses suddenly split open in the sand beneath his feet, and a gale carrying the smell of sulfur blew off the Third Tsuchikage's hat.

The Fourth Raikage, his entire body enveloped in Lightning Release chakra, was about to leap when Onoki pressed down on his shoulder. Wait! The short Tsuchikage conjured a semi-transparent cubic barrier in his palm; look at the arrangement of those pillars of light—

Nine dark red beams of light pierced through the clouds, perfectly aligning with the nine tomoe of the Tenseigan pattern.

Ebizo slumped in a pile of crystal shards, black curse marks on his skin visible beneath his robes torn by wind blades. His bloodied fingertips gently tapped on the puppet fragments: The secret that Sunagakure had guarded for a thousand years... was finally about to bloom.

Sage Art: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken! The chakra ball that Naruto had gathered in his palm suddenly disintegrated into specks of light. He staggered and knelt on one knee, watching golden chakra seep from his trembling fingertips. Kurama, this is…

"You brat, your Yang Release is being forcibly harmonized. The Nine-Tails' chakra cloak flickers, and its nine tails sweep uncontrollably toward the compass in the void. This thing is constructing some kind of ritualistic field for yin-yang balance!"

Sasuke's Susanoo skeleton had barely appeared when it shattered into purple light spots. Suddenly, the Rinnegan detected the remaining sealing runes where Granny Chiyo had vanished. Naruto! He swung his Kusanagi sword, pinning the Raikage who was about to fall into the crevice; the blue runes were flowing in reverse!

The Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release barrier suddenly trembled violently, and the old man's wrinkled eyes twitched: "Everyone, look at the earth veins!" He formed earth release hand seals, and the rock layers within a ten-mile radius instantly became transparent—countless dark golden chakra veins were converging towards the center of the Tenseigan, with black shadows resembling the Gedo Mazo moving within them.

So that's how it is. Onoki's Dust Release cube suddenly disintegrated into countless particles of light, and Chiyo's sealing technique was rewritten into a reverse summoning array. Those crystal powders... He suddenly turned to Ebizo, "You Sunagakure dare to use the Star Ninja's Heavenly Descent Technique!"

The Raikage unleashed even more intense lightning, his right arm muscles bulging as he slashed at the compass: Enough talk, just destroy this damn thing... The moment his lightning plow blade touched the compass's surface, he froze in mid-air as if he had crashed into viscous amber, and root-like chakra patterns appeared on his skin.

"Lord Raikage!" Just as Naruto's Nine-Tails Mode claws touched the Raikage's cloak, Sasuke's Chidori Stream struck his wrist.

The moment the purple lightning exploded, the two simultaneously saw the phantom of the golem appear behind the Raikage—its ten fingers were wrapped around the Raikage's chakra meridians.

It was chakra assimilation. Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly bled; he covered his left eye and took a half-step back. This space was turning the attacker into a sacrifice...

Ebizo's hoarse laughter mingled with the gale: Have you all heard of the reversal of dragon veins?

When the moonlight boils the blood of the earth, even the seal of the Sage of Six Paths will... His voice stopped abruptly as the Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release beam grazed past his ear, shattering the condensed golem's hand behind him.

Don't listen to his nonsense. Onoki floated in the air, maintaining the barrier, his eyes beneath his white eyebrows gleaming. "Uzumaki brat, unleash your Tailed Beast Ball on the pillar of light in the southeast!"

Uchiha brat, use Amaterasu to burn the runes in the northwest Qian position!

Naruto's Tailed Beast Cloak instantly expanded into its complete form, but the Tailed Beast Ball that was gathering in his mouth suddenly turned towards him: "Tsuchikage, are you sure it's...?"

Trust him! Sasuke's Susanoo bow was fully drawn, and the arrow, wreathed in Amaterasu black flames, suddenly split into eight lines of fire the moment it pierced the air. This was the Yin-Yang Release formation diagram from the time of Kaguya Otsutsuki, pointing to the heart of the golem at the nine o'clock position!

When the Tailed Beast Ball and Amaterasu Arrow simultaneously struck the point where the beams of light intersected, the entire space suddenly fell into an eerie silence.

Spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the surface of the suspended compass, and Ebizo suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood. The cursed seals on his skin writhed as if alive: Impossible... This is clearly an Otsutsuki...

Now! Onoki's Dust Release barrier suddenly shrank to the size of a pinhead. Raikage, use your Lightning Release level to cleave the crack!

The Fourth Raikage roared as he broke free from the chakra restraints, his lightning blade, imbued with the shattering light of Dust Release, slashing at the spatial rift.

Like the crisp sound of shattering glass, a huge spirit array suddenly appeared beneath everyone's feet—but it was not a summoning array, but rather layers upon layers of sealing techniques.

So it was Granny Chiyo's chakra... Naruto looked at the Truth-Seeking Balls that were re-forming in his palm and suddenly realized that the blue runes were rewriting the structure of the array.

The moment his Sage Chakra was injected into the center of the array, Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly saw nine dark figures moving deep within the earth's veins.

The sound of the compass shattering and Ebizo's scream rang out at the same time, but the moonlight, thick as blood, became even more intense.

The Third Tsuchikage suddenly groaned and fell, dark red threads somehow mixed into his Dust Release beam.

It's not over yet. Sasuke's Kusanagi sword suddenly pointed at the dissipating phantom of the golem. In the Rinnegan's vision, the shattered crystal dust was reforming in the moonlight. Naruto, the ley line node in the southwest!

When the Nine-Tails' chakra clashed with Amaterasu's fire once again, the sand at the edge of the battlefield suddenly moved without wind.

An ancient will, even more ancient than the Tailed Beasts, stirred deep within the earth's ley lines. Its scattered fragments of dreams transformed into whispers beneath the crimson moonlight, quietly binding the chakra pathways of every ninja...

Chapter 449 The Devil Descends

The crimson moonlight suddenly solidified, and countless dark red crystals burst open in the void.

The Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, pressed his hands to the ground, his long, gray eyebrows moving even without wind: Earth Release: Ten Thousand Mile Earth Flow Wall! Twelve walls of rock, engraved with sealing runes, rose from the ground, intercepting all the scattered crystal fragments.

The fragments transformed into humanoid shadows the instant they touched the rock wall, their claws, carrying the scent of sulfur, piercing through the barrier.

Lightning Release: Lightning Prison! Thousands of lightning snakes exploded around the Fourth Raikage, leaping bolts of electricity precisely striking the foreheads of each shadowy figure.

However, the shattered remains of the demon transformed into liquid chakra, flowing back into his meridians along the trajectory of the lightning release.

Granny Chiyo manipulated the Chikamatsu Ten with her nimble fingers, and the poisoned senbones that were sprayed from the puppet joints suddenly froze in mid-air—each tip of the hidden weapon was covered with writhing curse marks.

Physical attacks will catalyze the proliferation of monsters. Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly oozed purplish-black blood tears. He slashed off his right sleeve, which was corrupted by the cursed seal. Naruto, the ley line node in the southeast is resonating!

Naruto, who was under the Nine-Tails' chakra cloak, suddenly staggered and knelt down, golden light seeping from his trembling palms.

In the space of consciousness, Kurama's sharp fangs bit into the void: "You brat, these phantoms are absorbing our malice!" The tailed beast's crimson pupils reflected the anomaly in the outside world—the remains of the defeated demons were coalescing into nine phantom tails, each phantom ending in a crack in the blood-red compass.

Onoki's Dust Release barrier suddenly twisted and deformed, and the veins on the back of the old man's hand, covered with age spots, bulged: "Uchiha brat, use your eye technique to analyze the flow of the earth's ley lines!" Before he finished speaking, three rock walls collapsed in response, and the claws of the demonic phantom had already touched the Raikage's Lightning Release armor.

Sage Art: Super Tailed Beast Rasenshuriken! The seven-colored ball of light that Naruto had gathered in his palm suddenly split into nine, but was cut in half by Sasuke's Kusanagi sword just as it was about to be thrown.

The sword blade, wreathed in purple lightning, reflected an eerie halo—within each chakra orb lay the embryo of the Gedo Mazo.

These phantoms were mirror projections of chakra. Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly erupted with six ripples, and the attack had to penetrate both Yin and Yang attributes simultaneously... His voice was drowned out by the roars of the demons, and the Third Tsuchikage's hat was torn to shreds by the gale, revealing a sealing talisman that was bleeding from his forehead.

Granny Chiyo suddenly manipulated her puppet to sever her left arm, the gushing blood drawing a reverse summoning circle on the sand: "The sins of Sunagakure will be borne by me..." Her mutilated body was suddenly pierced by Ebizo's puppet strings, his face, covered in curse marks, twisted in the blood-red moonlight: "Sister, what is meant to bloom will eventually bloom!"

As the puppeteer's blood seeped into the array, the earth's veins on the entire battlefield suddenly boiled.

The magatama on Naruto's Tailed Beast Cloak flew uncontrollably toward the crack in the compass, and Kurama let out a painful roar in his consciousness space.

As soon as Sasuke's Susanoo skeleton took shape, it was covered with black patterns. In the Rinnegan's vision, the black shadow wandering deep into the earth's veins had already opened its three blood-red eyes.

Now! Onoki suddenly broke through the Dust Release barrier, his short body transforming into a streak of light as he crashed into the center of the compass—the Raikage!

The Fourth Raikage's entire body erupted with lightning, turning a blinding white, and he unleashed a lightning blade that tore through space, carrying fragments of the Tsuchikage's Dust Release technique.

The moment the two bloodstains collided, the suspended compass shattered, and the scattered crystal fragments coalesced into a human shape in the moonlight—an outline with bat wings on its back and two horns on its forehead. Its fingertips, which were not yet fully solidified, had already touched Naruto's Sage Chakra.

"Kurama!" Naruto roared, channeling the tailed beast's chakra into the earth beneath his feet, golden veins spreading wildly along the fissures in the ground.

Just as he was about to be devoured by the demonic phantom, Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly revealed the sealing patterns from the Sage of Six Paths era—those black shadows wandering in the chakra veins were clearly the original forms of the nine tailed beasts.

The crimson moonlight suddenly became as thick as blood, and wherever the demonic phantom's bat wings swept, even spacetime itself developed subtle cracks.

As Naruto watched his right hand gradually become transparent, the Nine-Tails' chakra resonated in the depths of his consciousness like never before—it wasn't a tremor of fear, but a boiling killing intent that had transcended a thousand years and was now being confronted with a natural enemy.

Chapter 450 Yin-Yang Harmony

The altar, bathed in blood-red moonlight, emitted a cracking sound like bones shattering. Naruto staggered back half a step, his golden cloak of Sage Chakra being eroded by some viscous substance.

He stared at his translucent palm, the roar of the Nine-Tails in his consciousness space making his eardrums ache: This isn't chakra absorption, brat!

That thing is extracting the essence of life!

Kurama, you said that chakra is the manifestation of life energy... Naruto bit his tongue to force himself to stay awake, and flying pebbles grazed his cheek, drawing blood.

Wherever the demonic phantom's bat wings swept, even the rock pillars reinforced by the Third Tsuchikage turned to dust.