Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

The living sacrifice requires a causal chain that transcends life and death. The first phantom's fingertip lightly touched the void, and the ground of the entire battlefield suddenly became transparent.

Hundreds of meters below the magma layer, a colossal array constructed of bones and chakra metal is awakening.

Although Kakashi's Sharingan had gone blind, he could still perceive the structure of those runes through chakra—this was clearly the ultimate technique that wove the entire ninja continent's ley lines into a sealing array.

Karin's roar suddenly turned into a chant in some ancient language, and the chains on her chest began to grow wood-like patterns in reverse.

Gaara's black sand suddenly surged out of control towards the altar. When the iron sand touched the wooden chains, everyone present heard the sound of wind chimes that often rang out in the secret altar of Sunagakure—that was the unique chakra vibration frequency that Granny Chiyo used when she controlled human puppets with puppet strings.

Father... Karin's pupils suddenly dilated into vortexes as she saw her blood splattered on the altar reassembling into some kind of cuneiform script.

The moment these words resonated with the inscription behind the White Night, the temperature in the entire space suddenly plummeted to freezing.

The scattered spirits suddenly turned in Naruto's direction, and the vortex clan emblems on their surfaces began to absorb the leaking Nine-Tails chakra.

Kakashi's right hand suddenly and uncontrollably formed the starting stance for Wood Release: Advent of the World of Trees. He was shocked to discover that his chakra circuits were being forcibly corrected by the array deep within the earth's veins.

At the edge of the battlefield, the withered petals of the blood-red lotus on Naruto's arm suddenly floated up, each petal reflecting a phantom bound by chains deep within the Nine-Tails' chakra—a figure with fox ears that was now giving a strange smile in the direction of the First Hokage's phantom.

As the crimson runes spread to Xianglin's throat, Baiye's tattered bone wings suddenly disintegrated.

Before falling into the lava, the fragments transformed into countless letters. Kakashi caught a glimpse of the signature at the end of one of the letters—it was clearly the code name of an ANBU member who should have died in the Battle of Kannabi Bridge twenty years ago.

Farewell, Observer. Bai Ye's last face shattered into specks of light in Xiang Lin's pupils, and his lingering whispers caused the entire battlefield's ley lines to tremble with a mournful cry.

The laughter of the first phantom suddenly became extremely shrill, and those sound waves, like the cries of an infant, stirred up ripples containing sealing power on the surface of the magma.

Naruto suddenly staggered and knelt on one knee, the Nine-Tails' cloak on his back fluttering without wind.

As the first rays of dawn pierced through the volcanic ash clouds, everyone was startled to realize that the souls floating in the air had somehow transformed into sealing vessels carrying the First Hokage's chakra—and the direction they were gazing at was the crimson pillar of light slowly rising at the border of the five great nations.

Chapter 503 The Prologue to Princess Kaguya's Resurrection

Suddenly, millions of golden rays exploded on the battlefield where magma surged.

Naruto plunged his five fingers deep into his chest to seal the seal, and the Nine-Tails' chakra, carrying blood-red runes, surged against the core of the contract.

As the chains around Karin's neck crumbled inch by inch, she saw that the chakra burning in the boy's pupils was hotter than lava.

When the Wood Release test subjects were slaughtered, it was the First Hokage who inscribed the Nine-Tails' chakra into my spine. Byakuya's lingering phantom flickered in the golden light, and his broken bone wing fragments suddenly swirled back towards Madara's phantom, but no one noticed that the mark had been transferred to the body of the newborn Uzumaki orphan sixteen years ago.

The roots of the Ōnoki tree made a screeching sound as they rubbed against the lava.

Behind the old man, a phantom image of the First Hokage's scroll appeared, and a dark red sealing array spread along his cracked skin: The duty of the Third Tsuchikage is to end the sins of the old era here! He suddenly tore off the badge at his waist, revealing flame patterns underneath that were exactly the same as those on Karin's neck—the mark of the blood oath forged between the Senju and Uzumaki clans during the Warring States period.

Naruto groaned as he slammed one knee into the lava.

The golden chains wrapped in the Nine-Tails' cloak were multiplying wildly from his spine, with the First Hokage's Wood Release runes appearing on each lock.

The moment the chains ensnared the phantom, the earth's veins on the entire battlefield emitted a cracking sound like shattering glass. The floating souls suddenly changed direction, surging towards Naruto with energy carried by blood-red pillars of light.

So that's how it is... Byakuya's last voice mingled with the screams of the dead. His shattered face pieced together again into a human expression amidst the turbulent chakra flow. What the First Hokage truly wanted to seal was the wedge that would allow Kaguya to revive. He suddenly reached out and placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder, and the dead souls that were about to pierce the boy's heart suddenly solidified into crystal-like chakra blocks.

At this time, the roots of the Ōnoki tree penetrated the entire lava lake.

The old man, his body now made of wood, was merging with the sealing array. He roared as he pressed his hands into the boiling lava: Four Crimson Sun Array - Modified! A dark red barrier rose from the ground, forcibly keeping the countless dead souls and blood-red pillars of light outside the battlefield.

The moment the barrier closed, black blood suddenly seeped from the Sharingan in the left eye of the Third Tsuchikage—it was actually the Mangekyou Sharingan left behind by Uchiha Kagami.

"Now's the chance!" The phantom of Byakuya suddenly tore off half of his chain and threw it toward the gap in the barrier. "Using my chakra as a medium, I will use the Yin-Yang Release left behind by the First Hokage..." Before he could finish speaking, the rest of his body was suddenly pierced by the Truth-Seeking Ball of the phantom Madara.

However, the chakra that should have dissipated strangely condensed into a golden hourglass, reversing the flow of time on the battlefield by three breaths.

It was those three fatal breaths that gave Naruto a chance to turn the tide.

The chains behind the boy suddenly pierced his heart, and the gushing Nine-Tails chakra was mixed with the First Hokage's Wood Release cells.

The moment the golden light and green glow intertwined, a mournful cry from the depths of the crimson pillar of light came from the ancient being, and the sealing array totem that rose at the border of the five great nations suddenly revealed the magatama pattern of the Sage of Six Paths.

The contract is complete. Byakuya's last whisper dissipated in the chakra storm.

His eyes, which were always filled with gloom, now reflected the moonlight of the Kannabi Bridge twenty years ago—when, as an observer of the Dark Side, he had carried a red-haired baby out of the ruins.

Karin's scream suddenly came from outside the barrier.

The flame patterns on the red-haired girl's neck were fading, but her hand, reaching out to Naruto, froze in mid-air—the core of the contract spinning in the boy's heart suddenly twisted counterclockwise, and those blood-red patterns that should have disappeared were now quietly climbing up Naruto's violently heaving back, following the flow of the Nine-Tails' chakra.

Chapter 504 Reconstruction of the Realm

Ice crystal patterns suddenly appeared on the surface of the lava lake.

Karin's fingertips trembled as she touched the crimson patterns spreading across Naruto's back. Her unique Uzumaki clan perception allowed her to instantly understand the meaning of those runes—each entwined lock was sucking up the Nine-Tails' chakra, while the deeper core of the contract was devouring the host's life force.

do not!

Your Nine-Tails... The chakra scalpel she had just condensed was swept away by the tattered hem of Byakuya's clothes.

The man's remaining silhouette rippled in the golden light, and a similar scene from twenty years ago suddenly resonated in their memories: in the collapsed tunnel of the Kannabi Bridge, Byakuya, who had just become a member of the Dark Division, used his back to shield the falling rocks, while the red-haired baby in his arms clutched the tassel of his headband.

At this moment, the diamond-shaped seal on Bai Ye's neck suddenly cracked, and dark red and gilded blood gushed out to form a barrier.

The chains of contract that were meant to pierce Karin's heart were forcibly diverted by the Wood Release cells surging from his body. The observer's mission is to record history... His shattered vocal cords chuckled softly amidst the chakra vibrations, and a cross-shaped mark, identical to Naruto's, suddenly appeared in his blood-stained left eye. "But twenty years ago, I took a fatal wound for you, now..."

A deafening roar came from the bottom of the lava lake.

The phantom of the First Hokage twisted in agony within the crimson pillar of light, while the phantom of Madara peeled away from his chest, his jet-black hair fading to a silver-gray similar to Byakuya's.

The moment the fusion of the two legendary ninjas split apart, the earth's energy across the entire battlefield suddenly collapsed into a dark red vortex, and countless blood-red runes emerged from the void, each engraved with the headband pattern of a different ninja village.

You have activated the World Reconstruction Formation! Onoki's wooden body has been largely assimilated with the Four Red Yang Formation. The old man's hoarse roar is accompanied by fragments of the First Scroll, a taboo that was erased during the era of the Sage of Six Paths... In exchange for a world without ninjas, millions of lives!

Naruto's Nine-Tails cloak suddenly exploded into a shower of golden feathers.

The sound of chains tightening around bones echoed from the boy's chest cavity. The blood-red patterns that should have devoured his life force were instead being eroded by the wood-element cells in Bai Ye's blood.

When the two streams of chakra completely merged at the core of the contract, a giant bronze tree suddenly rose from the center of the battlefield, reaching straight into the sky—its bark was covered with flame patterns identical to those on Karin's neck.

As expected... Byakuya's increasingly transparent right hand pressed against the roots of the giant tree. The blood gushing from his neck outlined the Uchiha clan crest on the bark. What the First Hokage truly wanted to seal away was the blood sacrifice ritual Kaguya used to resurrect. Suddenly, his pupils contracted sharply. The vines hanging from the bronze tree crown were entwined with countless sleeping ninja souls, each with a chakra blade used in medical ninjutsu piercing its heart.

Karin suddenly ripped off her hair tie.

In the instant her red hair flew wildly, she plunged the medical ninja badge bearing the Uzumaki clan crest into her heart: with the backlash of the twin contract... the blood the girl vomited congealed into an inverted pentagram on her chest, and the flame patterns on her arm swelled into a golden chain that stretched across the battlefield, so that the ninja world... would forever remember our names!

The sky collapsed at that moment.

Behind the crimson vortex, a vast starry sky was revealed, but those stars all took on the shape of Sharingan tomoe.

The moment Karin's chains pierced the bronze giant tree, all the sleeping souls suddenly opened their Rinnegan, and the chakra blades on their chests all turned around, with the medical talismans on the hilts beginning to flow in reverse.

Onoki's surviving right eye suddenly started bleeding tears.

The old man's body, which had merged with the Four Red Yang Formation, made the sound of trees cracking as he roared and poured his last bit of chakra into the First Scroll: White Night!

The alternative plans you wrote in your observation log back then...

Now! Bai Ye suddenly merged half of his body into the bronze giant tree.

His broken vocal cords rubbed against the tree bark, producing the melody of an ancient ballad, and the vines that entwined the souls of the dead suddenly blossomed into white flowers bearing the emblem of the Thousand Hands Clan.

As the first petal landed on Xianglin's hair, the medical badge on the girl's heart suddenly reflected the starry sky—a phantom of a Vortex woman with a face similar to hers opened her eyes deep in the starry sky.

Naruto's Nine-Tails chakra underwent a qualitative change at this moment.

The golden-red energy, carrying the Wood Release cells, soared into the sky, tearing a pure white crack in the center of the blood-red vortex.

The contract patterns on the boy's back suddenly shifted to the bronze giant tree, and on the six immortal stone tablets that appeared at the tree's roots, a certain erased seal was gradually being completed in Xianglin's blood.

The observation ended. The last sound of the White Night vanished as the bronze tree turned into specks of light.

Countless fragments of memory flashed through those scattered particles of light: the crying of a red-haired baby in the Dark Side base twenty years ago, the secret conversation with Pain on a rainy night ten years ago, the reverse spirit communication array he carved in the secret room of the Daimyo Mansion three days ago... When the last particle of light seeped into Karin's flame patterns, the girl suddenly heard a tremor of bloodline resonance coming from the depths of the starry sky.

The crimson vortex began to rotate in reverse.

The Sharingan formed from those stars closed one after another, replaced by a massive array composed of medical talismans.

Karin staggered and knelt on the remains of the bronze tree. Suddenly, the emblem on her heart revealed a double emblem of the clan, consisting of a vortex and a thousand hands—the most complete form of the blood oath contract from the Warring States period.

The magma at the edge of the battlefield suddenly solidified into crystal.

Onoki's completely petrified body became the base of the sealing array, and the old man's last chakra rewrote the Four Red Yang Array into a defensive barrier surrounding the five great nations.

Meanwhile, the newly formed contract markings on Naruto's back were subtly resonating with the star array, and the outline of the Sage of Six Paths' staff was faintly emerging from the flowing golden chakra.

Chapter 505 The Significance of the Vortex Bloodline

Karin's pupils suddenly contracted amidst the blood mist.

The excruciating pain in his heart caused the Vortex Clan emblem to flash wildly, and the array of healing runes began to devour the caster in reverse.

She staggered and steadied herself against the crystallizing magma pillar, watching as the contract chain piercing her chest gradually became tinged with the Wood Release chakra unique to the First Hokage.

So you had already calculated the frequency of bloodline resonance... She coughed up a blood clot with the Thousand Hands Clan's markings, and the flame patterns on her arm suddenly surged into twelve dark red bands of light. She used my blood pact to complete the sealing of the six stone tablets, all to awaken—

Hush. The phantom of the white night emerged from the intersection of the chains, and from the torn wounds of the bone wings seeped out a pale white chakra identical to that of the First Hokage.

He brushed his fingertips across the yin-yang runes that appeared on Karin's neck, and a scene from the Anbu laboratory twenty years ago suddenly exploded in their minds: a red-haired baby in swaddling clothes was marked with an evil god's curse, and a white-haired youth beside the operating table was injecting some kind of liquid chakra into the baby's spine.

Karin's Sharingan began to spin uncontrollably.

When she saw the white-haired youth's face clearly, her medical chakra suddenly went berserk: How could the First Hokage have participated in human experiments?!

Naruto, standing at the edge of the battlefield, suddenly roared.

The Nine-Tails' chakra cloak, imbued with Sage Mode patterns, crashed into the contract chains, only to be instantly devoured into a shower of golden rain upon contact.

The dissipated energy did not disappear; instead, it seeped into the earth's veins along the sealing barrier left by Onoki, and blood-red barriers lit up simultaneously at the borders of the five great nations.

Don't touch those chains! Madara's remnant soul emerged from the blood hole in Karin's chest, and the ripples of his Rinnegan perfectly merged with the Uzumaki clan crest. This was the Chain of Boundaries used by the Sage of Six Paths to seal Kaguya, but... his phantom suddenly solidified by three points, having been modified by a genius into a resurrection vessel.

The bone wings behind Bai Ye shattered with a snap.

The twelve finger bones transformed into talismans and embedded themselves into major acupoints throughout Karin's body, forcibly fixing her into a hand seal posture.

As the last talisman pierced his heart, the ground of the entire battlefield suddenly revealed an array of black rods unique to Amegakure—exactly identical to the device Nagato used to control the Six Paths of Pain.

The true purpose of the reverse summoning array three days ago was not for teleportation. Bai Ye's true form finally emerged from the remains of the bronze tree, with first-generation cells continuously seeping from the cracked seal on his neck. When the blood of the Daming Prefecture soaked through 50,000 explosive tags, it would be enough to awaken his father, who was sleeping deep in the Pure Land.

Amidst Karin's screams, the star array suddenly collapsed into a blood-red vortex.

Under Madara's chakra catalysis, the absorbed first-generation cells condensed into half a pale white skeleton at the center of the vortex.

As the eye sockets of the skeleton lit up with the tomoe unique to the Rinne Sharingan, the contract markings on Naruto's back suddenly went berserk, and the phantom of the Six Paths Scepter uncontrollably pierced towards the core of the barrier.

Kurama! Naruto desperately suppressed the out-of-control Sage Chakra, only to discover that the Tailed Beast's consciousness was shielded by some ancient contract, and these runes were rewriting the chakra attributes...

Ban's laughter shattered all the surrounding crystallized magma.

He manipulated Karin's body toward the skeleton, each step leaving the Senju clan mark on the ground: "Truly a perfect living sacrifice, Hashirama's cells, Uzumaki bloodline, Yin-Yang Release..." The remnant soul suddenly turned to Byakuya, "You deliberately let Orochimaru keep the experimental data from her mother's pregnancy?"

Bai Ye did not answer.

The yin-yang runes on his neck suddenly peeled off, turning into two streams of light that entered Karin's eye sockets.

Chapter 506 Karin's Scream

As the girl's screams reached their peak, Kakashi's figure suddenly appeared on a crystallized stone monument at the edge of the battlefield—the Copy Ninja, who should have been commanding the battle on the border of the Land of Lightning, was now staring at his bleeding Sharingan, as if he had glimpsed a horrifying truth through time and space.

The crimson vortex closed completely at this moment.

The skeleton of the First Hokage emitted a low growl that did not belong to this world, and Madara's remnant soul began its final fusion with Karin's body.

Deep within the earth's ley lines, the chakra of the tailed beasts devoured by the Chains of Boundaries is quietly converging towards the Valley of the End outside Konoha Village, following the Flying Thunder God mark left behind on a snowy night five years ago...

Kakashi's breath caught in the shadow of the crimson vortex.

The three tomoe in the Sharingan spun wildly, cutting the image refracted by the crystallized stone tablet into countless fragments—a swaddled baby swaying in the rainy night twenty years ago, yellowed experimental logs in the laboratory, and the first generation cell patterns revealed under the gradually peeling skin on Byakuya's neck.

He suddenly covered his left eye, which was throbbing with pain, and blood and tears seeped through his fingers into the sealing incantation on the surface of the stone tablet.

So you were the original vessel! Kakashi's Lightning Blade tore through the space-time rift, the blade precisely severing the chakra threads wrapped around Karin's neck.

The moment those threads snapped, twenty puppet remains bearing the emblem of the Vortex Clan burst forth from the depths of the earth, each puppet's chest cavity inlaid with a sealing stone bearing the characters for "Thousand Hands".

Karin's medical chakra transformed into a crimson storm the instant the badge pierced the back of her neck.

The Vortex Clan's Vajra Lock erupted from her spine, twelve crimson chains wrapped with burning blood beads, nailing the merging skeleton and remnant soul firmly to the collapsing star array.

A broken smile tugged at the corner of her bloodied mouth: You saved me from Kusagakure back then... just for this sacrifice?

Bai Ye's true form suddenly trembled violently.