Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

Those patterns... Naruto swung his chakra claws and shattered the attacking wooden tentacles. The splashed juice condensed into amber-like crystals the moment it touched the runes, just like the sealing technique that the Six Paths Elder taught me! He threw out three kunai imbued with Sage Chakra and nailed them into the crystal wall. The shockwave from the explosion just happened to sweep away the pervasive steam.

Onoki's Dust Release beam precisely sliced ​​through the entire crystal wall, revealing the complete array of runes to everyone.

The Third Tsuchikage's gray eyebrows suddenly furrowed into a knot: This is the lost Eight Directions Sealing Formation of the Uzumaki clan, but the array eye in the third quadrant has been modified into a reverse Yin-Yang pattern!

As Chiyo controlled the puppet bird to swoop down, its wings brushed against the edge of the runes, and the ten chakra threads suddenly wove uncontrollably into a mandala pattern.

Sasuke's Rinnegan detected an unusual chakra turbulence in the rune array. The lightning bolts drawn by the Kusanagi sword traveled along the grooves of the runes, forming a brief closed loop in the northwest direction.

Raikage, activate the seventh rune with Lightning Release! Naruto's main body suddenly leaped to the center of the array, and his nine chakra tails simultaneously pierced the cracks in the ground.

The Fourth Raikage roared and slammed his fist, imbued with lightning, into the designated spot. The leaping arcs of electricity instantly illuminated the entire array along the rune patterns.

The suspended crystalline dust formed a three-dimensional array in the bright light, with three nodes completely overlapping the location of the core of the guard that everyone had previously destroyed.

Outside the temporary barrier formed by the gold dust, the giant wooden hand suddenly stopped half an inch above Luo Sha's head.

The information scroll left behind by Ebizo slid out from Chiyo's sleeve, and ancient characters similar to the sealing array appeared on the automatically unfolding scroll. So that's how it is... Onoki's Dust Release barrier suddenly contracted into a drill shape. These runes have a double-layered nested structure; what we've activated so far is only the surface disguise array!

Sasuke's Amaterasu Black Flame flowed upstream along the array, and viscous dark matter seeped out from the scorched gaps.

Suddenly, one of Naruto's shadow clones formed a special hand seal called Zi-Wu-Shen, and six stone inscriptions immediately rose in the center of the array.

When the Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release chakra was injected into the third stone tablet, the entire crystallized ground suddenly began to ripple like liquid.

Beware of energy backlash! Just as Chiyo's Chikamatsu Ten Puppet Masters formed a defensive formation, the nearest puppet, Tsuru, was suddenly torn to pieces by black vines that stretched out from the ground.

Within the phantom projected by the rune array, a blurry outline gradually solidified in a way that defied the laws of physics—first, scale-covered claws appeared, then a waist armor wrapped in chains, and finally a helmet with six spiraling horns.

The Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release collided with the shockwave from the appearance of the black shadow, and the resulting energy turbulence sent everyone flying to different locations.

As Naruto flipped through the air, he glimpsed that what flowed through the gaps in the black shadow's armor was not chakra, but some kind of dark red nebula substance that was constantly collapsing and reforming.

Sasuke's Susanoo ribs barely blocked the sweeping shockwave, and his Rinnegan reflected the seven tomoe floating behind the black shadow—their arrangement was completely opposite to the Sage of Six Paths' creation myth.

As the shadowy figure raised its left arm, which was covered by a mechanical structure, the suspended crystalline dust suddenly froze in mid-air.

Chiyo's attempt to retract the chakra threads solidified into icicles three inches from the puppet, while Onoki's Dust Release beam froze at the edge of the barrier as if it had been paused.

Naruto felt that the flow of Nine-Tails chakra had become abnormally viscous, as if the flow of time in the entire space had been distorted by some kind of force.

The pupils beneath the black mask suddenly glowed crimson, and the lightning blade unleashed by the Fourth Raikage began to disintegrate frame by frame at a distance of one foot from its target.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly felt a burning pain, and he saw countless translucent threads spreading from the shadowy figure's feet throughout the entire space.

As Naruto's Tailed Beast Ball dissipated due to chakra imbalance, the shadowy figure's right fingertip was already pressed against Rasa's Magnet Release: Gold Sand Shield—

The crystallized dome refracted thousands of elongated afterimages, and the metal finger wrapped in data light tapped the shield's surface lightly, causing the supposedly absolute defense sand gold barrier to shatter like a mirror struck by a heavy hammer.

The Fourth Raikage's roar still reverberated in his throat as the distorted silhouette of the black figure transformed into a dark torrent that pierced the heavens and the earth.

Chapter 458 Dark Torrent

Cracks in the crystallized dome spread rapidly amidst the deafening roar of the shattered gold dust barrier. Arcs of electricity crackled from the Fourth Raikage's bronze arm muscles, but were instantly pulverized into sparks by an invisible force upon contact with the dark torrent formed from the shadows. This wasn't chakra! The lightning he unleashed as he retreated carved scorched furrows into the ground, and three severed chakra threads were wrapped around his right shoulder—Chiyo's puppet salamander had been reduced to a carpet of ice crystals.

Onoki hovered atop a ten-foot-high rock cone, the Dust Release barrier shrinking into a blazing white sphere in his palm.

As the shadowy figure, carrying streams of data, pierced through the lightning cage created by the Raikage, the old Tsuchikage suddenly flipped his wrist, and the barrier originally used to seal off the enemy suddenly enveloped his own people.

The moment the dark torrent crashed into the light barrier of the dust escape, the entire battlefield's ley lines emitted a mournful, metallic wail.

Magnet Release... Rasa knelt on one knee in the ruins of the gold dust, coughing up blood. His prized gold dust was crystallizing at an eerie speed, and the surface of the crystals, which refracted seven-colored light, was covered with patterns resembling sealing incantations.

The puppet fragment closest to him suddenly floated and reassembled. Chiyo's ten fingers flew, pulling at the ice-like chakra threads. Three hundred and sixty poisoned senbon needles burst from the crystallized ground, but all froze into ice sculptures before touching the outline of the black shadow.

Kurama! The boiling golden chakra around Naruto suddenly collapsed inward, and the tomoe patterns of the Six Paths Sage Technique appeared under his eyelids.

The Nine-Tails' sneer echoed in his consciousness: "Be careful, that thing is rewriting natural energy." The chakra dissipated from the Tailed Beast Ball did not dissipate; instead, it was woven into a three-dimensional sealing array by the transparent threads spreading beneath the shadow's feet. Sasuke's Rinnegan was burned by these threads entwined with data streams.

When the shadowy figure reappeared, the crystal dust on its mechanical left arm had reformed into an octagonal prism.

Onoki's Dust Release: Lightning Sphere, Raikage's Lightning Strike: ...

Suddenly, the Iwa ninja on the edge of the battlefield screamed – the refracted Dust Release beam vaporized the stone peak three kilometers away into magma.

Switching positions! Blood suddenly seeped from Sasuke's Rinnegan. In the instant Amenotejikara was activated, he and Naruto switched positions out of thin air.

The Rasengan, imbued with Sage Chakra, did not attack directly, but instead slammed heavily into the earth's vein nodes.

The Nine-Tails' chakra surged backward along the transparent threads, and the data streams suddenly formed a brief energy vortex at the chest of the shadowy figure.

It's now!

Naruto gave Sasuke the long-unheard thumbs-up gesture, and the Six Paths Yang Power and the Rinnegan Yin Power collided in mid-air, the resulting chaotic energy temporarily blocking the data flow of the transparent threads.

The shadowy figure's movements finally faltered for 0.3 seconds, allowing Onoki's rock clone to seize the opportunity and unleash Earth Release: Steel Release Technique, causing a 20-meter-tall granite colossus to burst forth from the crystallized earth.

Lightning Release: Thousand Generations Dance! The Fourth Raikage was enveloped in an unprecedented deep purple lightning armor. This technique, which pushed the Lightning Release Chakra Mode to its limit, originally required three days and three nights to charge up, but was completed instantly in the chaotic energy field.

As his elbow strike and the giant rock's fist struck the shadowy figure simultaneously, Chiyo finally seized the opportunity to activate the puppet talisman she had planted earlier—three hundred crystallized puppet fragments suddenly exploded, creating a chakra vacuum that drew the air pressure in the center of the battlefield into a vortex.

A cold laugh, like an electronic synthesized voice, suddenly came from the center of the dust explosion.

Beneath the shattered mask of the shadowy figure, crimson light condensed into a bizarre nine-tomoe pattern, and the transparent threads that had been scattered by the crowd began to absorb the ninjutsu energy dissipating from the surroundings.

Just as Sasuke was about to remind him, he saw Naruto leap to the highest point of the battlefield on a Flying Thunder God kunai, and Six Paths Sage Chakra condensed into a rotating black and white sphere in his palm.

It's not over yet! The young Hokage's roar shattered the crystal clusters within a hundred meters radius, and the nine chakra tails that appeared behind him suddenly broke off, turning into nine golden rays that disappeared into the earth's veins.

The earth's energy surged across the entire battlefield, and the data threads that were about to be reassembled froze in mid-air as if a pause button had been pressed—this was Naruto Uzumaki's unique combat wisdom; he had temporarily disrupted the energy frequency of the shadowy figure by using the chakra characteristics of the nine tailed beasts.

When the Raikage's Lightning Release: Heavy Punch tore through the shadowy figure's defenses for the third time, everyone saw that fleeting opening: in the center of the energy vortex on the shadowy figure's chest, a black cube the size of a fingernail was operating at overload.

Chiyo's puppet remains suddenly exploded into poisonous mist, while Onoki's Dust Release barrier finally compressed into a pinhead-sized white light.

Strange patterns appeared on Naruto's Sage Mask, and he could sense that Sasuke's Rinnegan was simultaneously analyzing the energy structure of the shadow.

Chapter 459 Keep up the good work!

The Yin-Yang Orb, formed from the Nine-Tails' chakra and the power of the Rinnegan, floated between the two, and the natural energy on the battlefield began to form a visible vortex.

The Fourth Raikage's lightning armor began to peel away due to energy overload, yet he maintained his charging posture, using gold dust, dust release, and poison mist as cover to pave the final path for the two young men to attack.

The moment the black and white energy spheres touched the cube on the shadowy figure's chest, the entire crystallized battlefield fell into absolute silence.

Sasuke's Rinnegan saw countless data streams escaping from the cube, forming an outline similar to the Gedo Mazo in the void.

Suddenly, the Nine-Tails inside Naruto let out a low, warning growl, as the scattered transparent threads quietly gathered at everyone's feet, condensing into a new sealing formation... The intense light emitted by the black and white energy spheres engulfed the crystallized landscape within a ten-mile radius, and the collapse point formed by the Nine-Tails' chakra and the power of the Rinnegan tore a spiderweb-like crack in the cube on the black figure's chest.

Naruto pressed the Rasengan against his knuckles, which were turning white. He could clearly sense the Sage Chakra eroding backward along the transparent threads—these data streams, which should have absorbed the ninjutsu, were now having their energy wavelengths disrupted by the mixed frequencies of the nine tailed beasts.

Give it your all! Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly reflected the internal structure of the cube, with six floating tomoe-shaped cores rotating in reverse in a way that defied the laws of physics.

He placed his left hand on the Rinne Magatama on the hilt of the Kusanagi sword, and the Yin energy from the Sage of Six Paths flowed into Naruto's Yang energy along the chakra lines.

Within the chaotic vortex formed by Yin-Yang Release, the mechanical wails of the black shadow were mixed with roars similar to those of tailed beasts.

The Fourth Raikage's exploding lightning armor fragments transformed into shooting stars amidst the intense light, as the leader of Kumogakure bravely withstood the energy turbulence and shattered the ground.

When his Lightning Release hand slash struck the same crack in the cube for the third time, dark purple blood suddenly burst forth from the depths of the crack—this discovery caused Onoki's pupils to shrink sharply, and the old earth-shadow's body, which was suspended in the air, suddenly plummeted, and the Dust Release barrier desperately compressed into a white line as thin as a toothpick.

Sand Rain! The ice crystal puppet that Chiyo was pulling with her ten fingers suddenly exploded, and the splashed venom corroded a brief gap in the data stream.

Sasuke captured this moment precisely. The spatial ripples caused by the activation of Amenotejikara caused Naruto's Rasengan to advance half a foot out of thin air, and the sphere carrying natural energy finally completely disappeared into the core of the cube.

A sickening metallic tearing sound rang out on the battlefield, and the shadowy figure, made of crystalline dust, suddenly stiffened.

The transparent threads floating in the air retracted frantically, but were swallowed up by the chaotic vortex formed by Yin-Yang Escape the instant they touched the core.

Naruto's azure pupils reflected the scene inside the cube—the six tomoe cores were devouring each other, and some kind of chakra similar to the Ten-Tails was trying to reassemble itself.

"Retreat!" Onoki's fierce shout was accompanied by a surge of white light from Dust Release, and the old ninja's wrinkled face turned deathly pale in the intense light.

As the group retreated, hundreds of data stream tentacles suddenly emerged from the black figure's chest, each tentacle tipped with a phantom image of the Outer Path Demon Statue.

However, before these terrifying creations could fully manifest, they were blasted into fragments by the 360 ​​detonating spell arrays that Chiyo had planted in advance.

Sasuke's Susanoo skeleton protected Naruto at the last moment, and the barrier drawn by the Six Paths Staff directed the energy shockwaves into the sky.

When the smoke and dust cleared, only a crystallized crater with a diameter of 100 meters remained in the center of the battlefield. The crystal surfaces that refracted the seven colors of light still had relief marks resembling the outlines of black shadows.

This... should be over, right? Naruto knelt on the ground, panting heavily, most of the Nine-Tails' chakra cloak already gone.

His right arm was covered with fine blood droplets—the backlash from forcibly fusing the chakra of the nine tailed beasts was slowly healing under the restoration of his Sage Body.

Sasuke's Rinnegan remained fixed on the bottom of the crystal pit, and the tip of his Kusanagi sword picked up a wisp of data that had not yet dissipated: the structure of this thing... Purple chakra suddenly burst from the sword, and the wisp of data actually condensed into a black cube fragment under the effect of Yin-Yang Release.

The nine-tomoe pattern floating on the surface of the fragment reminded both of the ancient scrolls from the Kaguya era.

The Fourth Raikage ripped off the charred armor from his shoulder, revealing his bronze chest still crackling with lingering lightning: this technique was not recorded in the ninjutsu archives of the Five Great Nations. He kicked the crystalline puppet remains at his feet; the Magnet Release sand that should have belonged to Sunagakure was now emitting a strange chakra that did not belong to any element.

Onoki landed at the edge of the crystal pit, the white light of Dust Release flickering in his palm: "Twenty years ago, when I was dealing with the meteorite incident in Hoshigakure..." The old Tsuchikage suddenly stopped speaking, his age-spotted fingers brushing across the crystal surface, and the material that should have been hard rippled like liquid.

A certain energy fluctuation, transcending bloodline elimination, is surging along the earth's veins into the depths of the sealed land.

Chiyo suddenly coughed violently; the ice crystal golem she was controlling was vaporizing at a visible rate. "Beware of the ley lines!" The old woman's warning arrived simultaneously with the tremor, and the entire crystallized battlefield suddenly surged like ocean waves.

The colorful crystals beneath everyone's feet peeled away layer by layer, revealing an ancient altar covered with sealing runes.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly stung, and he saw countless streams of data seeping out from the cracks in the altar, weaving together in the air to form a huge cube outline.

The Nine-Tails within Naruto let out a low growl, and through the Jinchuriki's eyes, the Beast Eyes saw a mass of chakra, even larger than the Ten-Tails, awakening ten thousand meters underground.

As the first ray of azure light pierced the altar, the Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release armor uncontrollably burst into sparks.

Onoki's Dust Release barrier suddenly twisted into a strange prism shape, while the puppet parts that slipped from Chiyo's sleeve spontaneously assembled into an unprecedented alien structure in the light.

The outline emerging from the light was not yet fully clear, but a kind of pressure that surpassed that of the tailed beasts had already caused the natural energy within a hundred miles to go berserk.

Naruto struggled to maintain Sage Mode. He could feel the Yang energy within him resonating with some ancient being—a resonance that was neither hostile nor benevolent, but rather a detached tremor as a high being looked down upon an ant.

Chapter 460 Rashomon

The colorful crystal fragments evaporated into mist in the azure light, and the Dust Release Prism of the Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, suddenly refracted countless distorted rays of light.

Naruto's Sage Mode face flashed in the bright light, and the Yang Release mark on the back of his hand resonated strangely with the data stream seeping from the crack in the altar.

This structure... Chiyo's wrinkled fingers suddenly froze, and the puppet parts that were assembling on their own in her sleeve emitted a metallic groan.

The joints that should have been peacock feathers now grew sharp edges, transforming into a bronze demon with three heads and six arms under the astonished gazes of the crowd—the Rashomon, the secret puppet technique of Sunagakure that had been lost for three hundred years.

The Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release armor exploded with purple arcs of electricity, and his massive body was forced to kneel on one knee by some invisible force.

The data cube that emerged from the crack in the altar suddenly collapsed into a vortex. At the center of the vortex, the azure chakra condensed into a humanoid outline, and all the sand within a ten-mile radius was suspended into reverse-flowing stars.

"Step back!" Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly contracted, and the six tomoe spun wildly within his purple iris.

He saw that the data streams were not chakra, but some kind of conceptual entity woven from Yin-Yang Release.

The moment the mysterious figure fully appeared, the Nine-Tails chakra cloak on Naruto's abdomen suddenly faded to pale white.

The mysterious figure's step out of the light barrier caused the earth's veins to rumble. Tiny stars floated among his dark silver hair, and liquid light patterns resembling sealing runes flowed on his black robe.

What's most breathtaking is the nine tomoe rotating in his left pupil—it's neither the Rinnegan nor the Tenseigan, but an unknown eye technique that transforms the entire iris into a galactic vortex.

Do you think defeating that good-for-nothing will change anything? The mysterious man's voice sounded like a million people whispering in my ear at the same time.

The Third Tsuchikage's Dust Release barrier suddenly shattered into crystal dust, and Onoki groaned as he flew backward, his back slamming heavily into the Rashomon puppet that was undergoing a transformation.

Sasuke's Kusanagi sword trembled violently in its scabbard, and the veins on his right hand, which was gripping the hilt, bulged.

The Sharingan's dynamic vision clearly detected the particles floating around the mysterious man—each particle containing the Yin-Yang Release power powerful enough to destroy mountains. "Don't act rashly," he hissed to Naruto, who was about to form hand seals. Those particles of light...

Before she could finish speaking, the Rashomon puppet controlled by Chiyo suddenly emitted a screeching sound as if gears were jamming.

The three bronze demon masks simultaneously turned towards the mysterious figure, their mouths spewing highly poisonous phosphorescent flames that transformed into a shower of cherry blossoms the instant they touched the figure's clothing. The Sand Village's mechanical arts were still so clumsy. The mysterious figure caught a petal, and with a light rub of his fingertips, restored it to its original puppet parts—two levels below Sasori's Crimson Secret Technique.

The Fourth Raikage's Lightning Release armor suddenly erupted with unprecedented light, and his lightning spear-like trajectory plowed scorched furrows into the ground.

However, the mysterious man merely turned slightly to the side, his hand, wreathed in black lightning, gently pressing on the Raikage's shoulder armor—the Lightning Release Chakra Mode, hailed as the strongest shield, shattered like thin ice. A's figure, thrown over by the immense force, traced an arc in mid-air, smashing a distant, crystallizing rock peak into dust.

"Lord Raikage!" Just as Naruto's shadow clone was about to rush over, his main body suddenly froze in place.

The Nine-Tails' chakra within him was flowing uncontrollably backward, and a fragment of memory spanning a thousand years suddenly exploded deep within his consciousness—it was a third-party figure erased from history during the battle between the Sage of Six Paths brothers and Kaguya.

The mysterious figure descended slowly on the data-woven steps, each step causing more shimmering cubes to emerge from the cracks in the altar. "Let me see..." His galactic vortex-like left eye swept over the crowd: the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki of Konoha, the last descendant of the Uchiha clan, and... When his gaze landed on Onoki, who was barely managing to stand, he suddenly chuckled: "Little brat of the two scales, how many more times can your waist withstand the backlash of Dust Release?"

Onoki's old face instantly turned red, and the Dust Release cube floating in his palm suddenly twisted and deformed.

The Tsuchikage, who had experienced three Shinobi World Wars, suddenly realized that the accumulated years emanating from the other party were even older than the memories he had inherited from the First Tsuchikage.

Sasuke's Rinnegan suddenly felt a burning pain, and he saw that the space behind the mysterious man was undergoing dimensional folding.