Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

The last thing Karin saw before she fell into a coma was fragments of bandages falling from the dissipating shadows of the white night.

The strips of cloth, stained with gold and red, sprouted thorns with spider lily flowers the moment they touched the Bagua diagram, and each flower contained a sealed scroll the size of a fingernail.

As the last soul merged into the volcanic rock wall, the sealing scroll suspended in the air suddenly burst into flames.

Where the ashes fell, the village names that had been erased bloomed into blood-red spider lilies on the scorched earth.

Kakashi's Mangekyou Sharingan trembled slightly as he saw that each flower core contained a cluster of chakra in the shape of an infant—just like the eerie light he had glimpsed near the memorial tablet on a rainy night twenty years ago.

The crimson Bagua array on Naruto's Nine-Tails cloak suddenly trembled in resonance, and Karin in his arms unconsciously curled up, the white hair at the ends of her hair being re-stained by some kind of dark red pattern.

Kankuro, far away in the ruins of Sunagakure, suddenly discovered that the sealing talisman at the core of his puppet had begun to rotate in reverse, and from a scroll box that should have been forever silent, came the sound of fingernails scratching the inner wall.

Chapter 499 Offering the Finale

Volcanic ash obscured half the sky, and crimson spider lilies spread wildly along the scorched earth.

The Bagua diagram on Naruto's Nine-Tails cloak emitted a piercing sound, and the dark red patterns seeping from Karin's hair were climbing up his chakra cloak.

"This girl is absorbing my chakra!" Naruto was about to let go when thousands of blood-red chains shot out from the flower bushes.

The chains pierced through the phosphorus and instantly became translucent, with the other end disappearing into the lingering shadow of the white night.

Karin suddenly opened her eyes, her swirling pupils burning with intertwined gold and red flames: So that's how it is... She trembled as she raised her right arm, the flame patterns transforming the light at the end of the chain into chakra. The medicine her father left behind wasn't a cure for bloodline diseases at all, but a curse that turned the Uzumaki clan into soul-summoning candles!

The afterimage of the white night suddenly solidified, and the white hair moved without wind.

When he tore off the bandage on his neck, revealing the Yin-Yang seal that was exactly the same as the one on Karin's arm, the magma in the entire crater began to flow backward: Twenty years ago, when your father stitched up my fatal wound, he planted a resonance technique in your blood.

Every time you use medical ninjutsu to heal me, you are recharging this backlash formation.

The living altar is finally complete! Ban's phantom emerged from the magma vortex, and the Rinnegan reflected the two bodies bound by chains.

A torrent of golden and dark red chakra formed a hurricane between them, instantly turning the nearest Iwagakure ninja into a bloody mist.

Naruto unleashed a claw formed from the Nine-Tails' chakra: Break it! The moment the orange light struck the chains, crimson runes suddenly surged back with the chakra.

A plume of blue smoke rose from his left arm, and swirling patterns resembling those of sangrin appeared beneath his charred skin.

Don't touch those chains! Kakashi's Lightning Blade severed three chakra chains that were attacking Kankuro. These were products of Yin-Yang Release cultivated from the First Hokage's cells. Anyone who touched them would be forcibly marked with a resonance imprint... His Sharingan suddenly contracted violently—the scattered chain fragments were growing tiny Lycoris radiata buds on the surface of the Sand Village puppet.

Kankuro knelt on one knee in the ruins of Sunagakure, the sealing talisman on the chest of the puppet crow completely reversed.

As he hooked the out-of-control puppet box with chakra threads, a hoarse roar suddenly came from inside the box: Mother... Mother's flesh and blood are the most delicious... This voice was clearly that of his younger brother who died in a sandstorm ten years ago.

Karin, in the center of the battlefield, suddenly let out a shrill scream.

Her clothes on her back were burned away, revealing a sealing array covering her entire spine—each array eye was inlaid with a blood-red scroll the size of a fingernail.

When the white-night phantom raised its hand and pressed it against her crown, the scrolls began to disintegrate one by one.

So I was the final sacrifice. Karin coughed up sparkling blood, and her medical badge suddenly emitted an emerald glow.

When she caught a glimpse of the old scar on Bai Ye's neck, revealed by the shattering of the seal, her pupils suddenly trembled violently—the stitching technique used on that scar was the Yae-gaki Needle Technique, a secret technique passed down by the Uzumaki clan.

The phantom of the swastika expanded into a colossal figure that blotted out the sky, and magma condensed into a giant meteorite in his palm: Let the resentment of these eighty-one exterminated villages be the final melody for the arrival of Infinite Tsukuyomi!

As the meteorite fell, Karin suddenly noticed that the emerald green color from her medical badge was seeping into her fingertips.

Among the fragments of consciousness of the dead that should have been devoured, a memory from a rainy night suddenly emerged—a man wearing a mask with flame patterns was stabbing a syringe into the back of the neck of an infant in swaddling clothes.

Chapter 500 Revenge of the Village That Wiped Out the Clan

Karin's fingertips froze the instant they touched the medical badge.

Emerald light pierced through the writhing curse marks beneath her skin, and the fragments of the devoured souls suddenly projected countless overlapping reflections onto her retina—in each reflection was a man wearing a flame-patterned mask, plunging a syringe into the back of a different infant's neck.

You already knew the cost of the contract.

The medical badge suddenly burst forth with a blinding green light, and in the instant Karin's wrist flipped, the emerald-colored crystal pierced Byakuya's chest like a poisoned kunai.

Bai Ye's not yet fully materialized body suddenly emitted wisps of green smoke, and the chains wrapped around his limbs emitted a sharp metallic twisting sound.

Why...? Tiny fragments of soul floated in the blood and foam that Karin coughed up, each fragment emitting a mournful wail.

She suddenly recognized the woman pierced by chains in one of the fragments—it was clearly the mother who had sewed her headband when she was a child.

Suddenly, Bai Ye's tattered phantom reached out and pulled her into his arms. The curse marks on their chests formed a complete tai chi pattern the moment they touched.

Amidst the roar of the magma flowing backward, the exposed sutures on his neck began to crumble piece by piece: because your medical chakra contains the Uzumaki clan chief's last shred of conscience, the only key that can stop the First Hokage's plan to sacrifice the world.

The twenty-seven stone tablets scattered around the altar suddenly floated into the air.

As soon as Chiyo's black sand puppet touched one of the pieces, countless tiny handprints of infants suddenly appeared on the surface of the sand iron.

Before Ebizo's sealed scroll was fully unfurled, the talismans written in cinnabar suddenly flowed backward into viscous blood.

stop!

This is revenge for the village that wiped out its clan! Chiyo roared as she plunged a kunai into her heart, the gushing blood staining the core scroll of the puppet technique.

The ghost of a young girl emerging from the black sand suddenly let out a shriek, and the ghosts of those who died in the Third Shinobi World War began to devour the chakra of the living.

When Kakashi's Lightning Blade severed the seventh chain, he suddenly noticed an anomaly in the movement of the sand and gravel on the ground.

Using the Sharingan's dynamic vision, he caught a detail—the severed chain fragments were forming tiny tree-like patterns on the surface of the Sand Village puppet, clearly a characteristic of the First Hokage's Wood Release cells.

So that's how it is... He took a half step back to avoid the splashing lava, and as he formed hand seals, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the Lycoris radiata buds growing on Naruto's arm.

Those foreign objects that should have been repelled by the Nine-Tails' chakra now exhibited the exact same energy fluctuations as Karin's spine sealing array.

Suddenly, the Yin-Yang Tai Chi formation in the center of the battlefield burst forth with dazzling light.

The phantom of the First Hokage twisted violently in the intense light, with golden flames and black chains binding his body, which was split in two.

The features of Madara Uchiha gradually appeared on the left half of his face, while the cursed seal patterns from Orochimaru's Impure World Reincarnation appeared on the right half.

You have activated the final form of Yin and Yang Twins! The two halves of the phantom spoke at the same time, their voices echoing twice in the gap between reality and the underworld.

Burning ninja headbands fall continuously from the golden flames, while a blood-stained map of eighty-one exterminated villages hangs from the black chains. The time has come to reconstruct the laws of the ninja world with the will of the living!

Karin suddenly let out a heart-wrenching scream.

The sealing array on her back began to rotate in reverse, and each collapsing blood-red scroll released the devoured souls of the dead.

Byakuya's hand, which was pressing down on her skull, suddenly became ethereal, and the chakra that should have been sacrificed flowed back into Karin's body along the chains connecting the two of them.

Kakashi's Sharingan suddenly detected an unusual energy flow.

In his vision, the entire battlefield was suddenly shrouded in countless transparent, tree-like veins—the nodes of these veins corresponded precisely to the eighty-one sealing array eyes on Xianglin's back that were collapsing.

When a branch of the vein extended to the flower bud on Naruto's arm, he suddenly realized that these tree-like patterns were strikingly similar to the Sage of Six Paths' chakra network.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto's shout suddenly changed tone.

The Bagua diagram on his nine-tailed cloak began to absorb the scattered chain fragments around him, and the spider lily bud on his left arm bloomed into a blood-red lotus flower at a speed visible to the naked eye.

When the patterns of the Rinnegan appeared on the lotus heart, countless wooden vines suddenly sprouted from the ground of the entire battlefield.

Chiyo's last puppet exploded in the black sand.

The scattered iron sand fragments formed a brief array in the air, which happened to coincide with a node in the tree-like network in Kakashi's field of vision.

In that instant, he seemed to see a white-haired figure forming a familiar hand seal deep within the shadows of the trees—it was clearly the starting stance of a forbidden technique that Obito had failed to complete twenty years ago.

As the last stone tablet merged into the crimson array, Kakashi suddenly noticed that his shadow, reflected in the lava, appeared in multiple overlapping states.

His Sharingan automatically adjusted its focus to a specific wavelength, and he was surprised to discover that the seemingly chaotic tree shadows actually contained energy circuits that perfectly matched the patterns on the Six Paths Staff.

This discovery made him instinctively begin to form hand seals in reverse, the chakra gathering at his fingertips unconsciously mimicking an ancient, shimmering mark in the shadows of the trees.

Chapter 501 A Bond That Transcends Life and Death

The sweltering heat from the magma distorted Kakashi's vision. His right hand remained in a reverse hand seal position, while his left hand pressed firmly against his right eye.

The tree shadow veins remaining on Naruto's retina are resonating with the Nine-Tails' chakra, and those energy circuits interwoven with dark red and golden light are multiplying wildly along the blood-red lotus on Naruto's arm.

The Eight Trigrams Seal is rewriting chakra attributes! Naruto suddenly knelt on one knee, and the array on the Nine-Tails' outer garment began to rotate in reverse.

At the center of the blood lotus blooming on his left arm, six magatama-shaped patterns were dyeing the wooden vines a dark purple.

Lightning suddenly burst from Kakashi's fingertips.

The moment Chidori Stream wrapped around the crimson lotus, he saw the scene from twenty years ago when Obito fell off the cliff—the boy's shattered goggles were now perfectly superimposed on the iron sand flying in the air.

The array formed by those suspended metal fragments was clearly the core of the Yin-Yang Twin Technique recorded in the First Hokage's notes.

So that's how it is! Kakashi's kunai suddenly cut his palm, and as the blood dripped down, it condensed in mid-air into a Wood Release crystal unique to the First Hokage.

He abruptly ripped off his headband, and the pupils of his Sharingan, burned by the Lightning Blade, began to contract irregularly: Naruto, wrap my meridians with Nine-Tails chakra!

The first true sealing technique required a living medium to carry it...

Before he finished speaking, the earth's veins suddenly bulged up across the entire battlefield.

In the torrent of black sand manipulated by Gaara, Ebizo's withered body is strangely expanding under the iron sand.

From the tear in the old man's shirt, a dense list of villages destroyed was seeping with dark green chakra, and the Konoha headband mark below each village name was oozing blood.

When you used the puppet strings of the Sand Village Intelligence Department to manipulate the Five Great Nations, did you ever think that Granny Chiyo had already seen through this scheme? Gaara's sand gourd suddenly exploded, and a three-edged thorn formed from black sand pierced through Ebizo's spine.

As the iron sand fragments peeled off the corpse's chest, a yellowed photograph floated out—in the picture, beside Chiyo holding an infant in swaddling clothes, the First Hokage's sealing runes were imprinted in the dark patterns of the baby's swaddling clothes.

Kakashi's pupils suddenly contracted.

The hand seal formed by his left hand suddenly twisted into the Wood Release's unique "All Things Under Heaven" hand gesture, and the blood and tears flowing from his right eye traced the tomoe patterns of the Sage of Six Paths on his cheek: the vessel of Yin and Yang was not a Jinchūriki, but...

Rather, it transcends the bond between life and death! Suddenly, Ban's phantom split off from the blood-red lotus, and twelve afterimages simultaneously formed the hand seals for the Samsara Heavenly Technique.

His crimson Rinnegan reflected the white snake curse mark spreading across Karin's wrist, and the black runes wrapped around the white night's phantom suddenly materialized into the Uzumaki clan's emblem.

Kakashi's Lightning Blade suddenly changed direction, and the lightning, infused with Wood Release chakra, struck Karin's feet precisely.

The moment the sealing array was detached from her wrist, Bai Ye's phantom suddenly let out an inhuman roar.

Countless souls surged out from the cracks in the earth's veins, but turned into golden specks of light when they touched Naruto's leaking Nine-Tails chakra.

Now! Kakashi suddenly plunged his right hand into his right eye, his bloodied fingertips drawing the forbidden technique array that Obito had failed to complete back then in the void.

The Sharingan that had been removed melted into liquid within the Nine-Tails' chakra, turning into blood ink that filled the gap in the seal left on the stone tablet by the First Hokage.

The ground of the entire battlefield began to collapse, and the white night phantom at the center of the blood-red lotus suddenly trembled violently.

The instant Madara's twelve afterimages were shredded by the Wood Release vines, a familiar human facial feature flashed by in the turbulent energy flow—that fleeting sense of familiarity made Kakashi's breath catch in his throat, as if he were seeing a face that should have been sealed deep in his memory being reconstructed in a chakra storm.

The crimson lotus on Naruto's arm suddenly withered, and countless wooden sealing stakes imbued with the First Hokage's chakra burst forth from the ground.

In the final interplay of light and shadow, the half-profile of the white night phantom's face eerily overlapped with that of the boy she had seen on a snowy night twenty years ago... The moment the blood-red chains pierced through Karin's chest, the flame patterns on her left arm suddenly glowed with an amber light.

Chapter 502 Farewell, Observer

Thousands of souls rose from the cracks in the earth's veins. When those spirits, entwined with the Uzumaki clan crest, touched the chakra overflowing from her wounds, they conjured up the scene of the destruction of Uzumaki Village seventeen years ago.

So you already knew... Karin's pupils trembled violently, reflecting the image of a middle-aged man wearing a medical headband among the dead.

The shattered lens of her father's mirror reflected eerie light spots within the vortex of spirits, and she finally saw that hidden within the flame patterns on her arm was a wedge-shaped mark of a forbidden technique of the Vortex Clan—the very last gift her father had given her with a kunai before his death.

Suddenly, Bai Ye's broken bone wings emitted a crisp sound like metal striking stone, and dense ancient inscriptions appeared on the surface of the chains that pierced Xiang Lin's heart.

Kakashi's pupils suddenly contracted as he recognized the characters—the same sequence of characters that Obito had drawn in his blood on the rocks beneath the collapsed rock strata of Kannabi Bridge twenty years ago when he was on the verge of death.

Chakra flowed in reverse! Gaara's sand gourd suddenly exploded into dust, and the sealing array formed by black sand surged uncontrollably toward the altar.

The fragments of the list of villages destroyed hidden on his neck suddenly oozed a dark green liquid. The venom mixed with the blood of the Sand Village elders was now reacting violently with the amber chakra overflowing from Karin's wound.

The moment Xianglin's medical badge pierced the core of the altar, the magma in the entire crater suddenly solidified into dark purple crystals.

Kakashi's right eye, still bearing the aftershocks of the Lightning Blade, swept across the crystal surface, and he was startled to discover that the refracted reflections showed the scene of the First Hokage and Madara Uchiha's duel at the Valley of the End.

What's even more chilling is that the patterns on the Rinnegan of all the Uchiha Madara figures in the reflections perfectly match the bone wing chains on Byakuya's back.

The contract was established. The face of the white-clad phantom suddenly became clear and vivid; it was a young man with burn scars remaining on his brow bone.

The fragments of his Konoha headband hanging from his right earlobe jingled, and the cold light reflected from the broken metal edges was exactly the same as the Flying Thunder God Kunai of the Fourth Hokage in Kakashi's memory.

Crimson runes spread wildly along Karin's spine, and as her hair began to crystallize, the phantom of the First Hokage suddenly materialized from the cracks in the earth's veins.

This being, which should have been a condensation of chakra, was now emitting a chilling, infantile laugh.

Kakashi's Lightning Blade suddenly went out of control and slashed into the void. He was shocked to realize that his chakra was being rewritten by some ancient being—those sword techniques that should have belonged to the Hatake clan were now mixed with the Senju clan's unique Wood Release hand seals.