Konoha: Superman template, the spoiled brat becomes strong.

His gaze swept across the array patterns on the four walls of the altar, and suddenly his pupils contracted slightly—the eye positions of those yin-yang fish were clearly engraved with the bloodline limit marks he had seen in the ruins of Amegakure, as well as the star trail patterns of the Thunderstorm Altar in Kumogakure.

The so-called endgame was nothing more than forging the most secret techniques of various countries into a cage.

Are you looking for clues to resonate with someone? The Messenger's voice was laced with amusement. "Don't rush, the game has only just begun."

Before the words were finished, the crystal suddenly burst out with a blinding light.

When Byakuya opened his eyes again, the surroundings were filled with countless phantoms—Momochi Zabuza, wearing a demon mask, held a guillotine, Sasori's puppet fingers oozed deadly poison, and even the Jonin of Iwagakure whom he had buried with his own hands was now holding a kunai, his eyes gleaming with the gray-white color unique to dead things.

These are the real pawns. The voice of the messenger of destiny echoes among the phantoms. You think you've defeated the enemy?

No, you are just repeating the failures of past ninjas.

They stood here, holding weapons just like you, only to be crushed by their own beliefs.

A phantom kunai flew past White Night's ear.

He drew his short sword from his waist with a backhand motion, and lightning patterns instantly lit up with bluish-purple arcs of electricity.

This was something Raizo left behind with his life, and now it was resonating with the chakra dormant within him.

Bone wings unfolded from his back, and fine lightning crackled along the black bone blades—an ability he had awakened after fusing with the Eight-Tails' chakra.

Thunder Resonance - Open.

Bai Ye let out a low shout.

Raizo's short sword and bone wings trembled simultaneously, and two streams of lightning-attribute chakra intertwined to form a net around his body.

Just as the phantom lunged at him, the lightning net suddenly contracted, like countless fine needles piercing his chest.

The phantom's body instantly collapsed into specks of light, but the next second, another phantom emerged from the shadows of the altar.

"It's no use." The messenger's voice carried a hint of laughter. "These phantoms are the manifestations of the obsessions of challengers throughout the ages. The more you kill, the stronger they become."

Cold sweat beaded on Bai Ye's forehead.

He could feel that with each illusion he defeated, a portion of his chakra was drained away.

The attack methods of those phantoms were exactly the same as those in my memory. Even Zabuza's Water Release and Sasori's Hundred Puppet Manipulation carried the same oppressive feeling as the real bodies.

When the third Red Sand Sasori puppet pierced his left shoulder, he finally saw the true nature of these phantoms—they were not copies of the enemy, but rather a manifestation of his own inner fears.

"I see." Bai Ye suddenly smiled.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, twirled the lightning-patterned dagger in his palm, and said, "You think you can trap me with my fear?"

But you forgot... what I fear has never been death.

The bone wings suddenly expanded to their limit, and the lightning on the black bone blades blazed brightly.

This time, he did not attack first, but instead spread the resonance of thunder throughout the entire altar.

The approaching phantoms suddenly froze—Sasori's puppet joints made a screeching sound, Zabuza's water jutsu froze into ice in mid-air, and even the kunai of the Iwagakure Jonin fell to the ground.

Lightning chakra can disrupt the stability of the spiritual body. Bai Ye gasped for breath, the lightning on his bone wings crackling due to chakra overload. "You've collected so many techniques, yet you've forgotten the most basic principles of ninjutsu."

The phantoms began to dissipate in swathes.

The face of the Destiny Messenger twisted within the crystal: Interesting, your bone wings can actually mimic the sealing technique of the first generation.

No wonder you've become my biggest variable.

Before the words were finished, the altar floor suddenly cracked open.

Countless black chains shot out from the cracks in the ground, each chain engraved with incantations that Bai Ye had never seen before.

Chains wrapped around his ankles and wrists, even penetrating the gaps in his bone wings. Chakra flowed wildly through the chains, as if being devoured by some greedy monster.

This is... Yin-Yang Absorption Seal? Bai Ye gritted his teeth.

He could feel his life force draining away along with his chakra, and his vision began to blur.

But when his gaze swept over the bulge in his chest—where Raizo's short sword and headband fragments were located, along with the medicine pouch left behind by the medical ninja who had died saving him earlier—something scalding hot suddenly exploded in his chest.

Cut it off!

The bone wings vibrated violently, and the lightning on the black bone blade materialized.

Chapter 555 I Will Keep Going

The chains emitted a burnt smell the moment they touched the lightning. Taking advantage of this, Bai Ye broke free of his restraints and thrust his lightning-patterned dagger into the nearest chain.

The lightning patterns on the dagger clashed violently with the incantations on the chain, and amidst the flying sparks, he heard the messenger of destiny exclaim: Impossible!

Does that sword contain... Raizo's will?

No. Bai Ye wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, the Thunder Resonance circulating within him to its limit—the will of a living person.

He spread his bone wings and soared into the sky, his lightning-patterned short sword enveloped in lightning and transformed into a giant blade.

The messenger of destiny within the crystal suddenly revealed a terrified expression: Stop!

You have no idea what this power will bring—

The moment the giant blade fell, the crystal shattered into countless fragments.

But the expected victory did not come; instead, an overwhelming backlash exploded from his chest.

Bai Ye was struck as if by a heavy hammer, crashing onto the edge of the altar, the blood beads he coughed up gleaming eerily purple in the moonlight.

You think these can defeat me?

The voices of the messengers of destiny surged from all directions.

Bai Ye looked up and saw that the crystal fragments had reformed into a huge rune array, which was slowly pressing down on his heart.

At the center of the array, countless familiar faces were circulating—Raizo's smile before he disappeared, the medicine bottle handed to him by the medical ninja at the end, and even the warmth of the old ninja who saved him when he was a child, falling into his palm before his death.

Consciousness was suddenly pulled into a dark space.

There is no up, down, left, or right here, only countless points of light floating around, each point of light representing a face he had seen before.

Their mouths were moving, but no sound came out; they could only express something with their eyes.

This is a test of the will of the living. The phantom of the First Raikage emerges from the darkness, his armor still stained with the blood of the battlefield. Only by confronting one's own heart can one find the true answer.

Before he could finish speaking, a dazzling light suddenly burst forth from Bai Ye's chest.

It was a map of the ninja world made of chakra, with the outlines of the Land of Fire, the Land of Wind, and the Land of Lightning clearly visible.

But all the marked arrows eventually point to the depths of Konoha Village—the forbidden area that was forever sealed off by the Third Hokage using the Fire Sealing Technique.

It seems you have found the final answer. The voice of the messenger of destiny echoed in the darkness, this time with a hint of relief, but remember, the price of your choices is always borne by yourself.

The dark space began to collapse.

Bai Ye suddenly opened his eyes and found himself lying face down on the altar, his palms digging deeply into the stone surface. Blood seeping from between his fingers dripped onto the Yin-Yang array, turning the black and white patterns into an eerie purple.

His chest ached as if it were being burned by fire, as if something was breaking through the soil from the depths of his heart.

The night wind blew back into the altar, bringing with it the barking of dogs from the distant village.

Bai Ye trembled as he touched his chest, where something seemed to be wriggling beneath his skin—like the outline of a map, gently rising and falling with his heartbeat.

Konoha...forbidden ground. He murmured softly, the hilt of his lightning-patterned short sword burning hot in his arms. Raizo, you said you wanted me to find the answer.

Now... I think I've found the door.

The yin-yang array on the four walls of the altar suddenly lit up.

Bai Ye looked up at the crack above his head. Moonlight shone through the crack onto his face, illuminating the determination in his eyes.

Unseen by him, a shard of crystal floated in the shadows of the altar.

Within the fragments, the face of the Messenger of Destiny reformed, a faint smile playing on his lips: The will of a living being, huh... Interesting.

The burning pain in my chest suddenly intensified.

Bai Ye clutched his heart, and beads of blood seeping from between his fingers fell onto the stone surface, outlining a new symbol on the Yin-Yang array diagram—a mark that sealed a forbidden secret within the forbidden area of ​​Konoha Village.

He stood up, and his bone wings slowly folded behind him.

The lightning-patterned dagger was put back into his pocket, along with the headband fragment, and placed against his heart.

"No matter the cost," he whispered to the moonlight, his voice filled with a resolute determination, "I will go on."

Outside the altar, the sound of crows flapping their wings could be heard.

Chapter 556 Swimsuit Chiyo!

Moonlight cast dappled shadows on the walls of Konoha Village, while White Night's bone wings folded behind him into fine scales, like a black feather soaked in the night.

He landed on the cherry blossom tree behind the training ground. The moment his fingertips touched his chest, a burning sensation spread across his skin—the veins of the ninja world map were traveling along his veins, casting a pale blue light on his retina. Even Raizo's dying words became clear in his memory: Go to the forbidden area of ​​Konoha. The answer is in your heart.

young people.

A hoarse voice swept in from behind, carried by the wind.

Byakuya lightly touched the branches with his toes and spun around. Driven by instinct, his bone wings spread out half an inch, but he stopped when he saw who it was—Grandma Chiyo from Sunagakure was standing under the tree, her withered hand leaning on a snake-shaped cane. Moonlight flowed through the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, like a blade that had been tempered for a thousand years.

You're even more impatient than the intelligence reports suggested. Chiyo's gaze swept over the slightly protruding skin on his chest. Three days ago, the spies at the Wind Country's post station were massacred, and the chakra fragments left at the scene... are from the same lineage as the Bone Release you used at the Fire Country's Daimyo's residence.

Bai Ye's fingers gripped the hilt of the thunder-patterned short sword in his bosom.

He remembered this old woman who always held court behind the curtain in the Sand Village council chamber; twenty years ago, she had used puppetry to annihilate an elite unit of the Iwagakure. "You've been tracking me?"

They were tracking the messenger of destiny. Chiyo's cane tapped softly on the ground. "That guy intercepted my carrier pigeon in the Land of Rain three months ago, with half a crystal tied to its claw." She pulled a rhombus-shaped fragment from her sleeve, which refracted a ghostly blue halo in the moonlight, the same pattern as the one in your altar.

Bai Ye's pupils contracted slightly.

The crystal shards in the shadow of the altar the night before suddenly became clear in my memory—it was not an illusion after all.

He loosened his grip on the hilt, and the bone wings slowly folded: Cooperation?

A wise person only asks about the conditions. Chiyo turned and walked towards the secret passage outside the village, her snake staff tapping out a regular rhythm on the bluestone slabs. "I need to know why he is so fixated on the forbidden area of ​​Konoha. You need to find the answer Raizo gave you."

Take what you need.

The entrance to the secret passage was hidden under an old locust tree behind the Hokage Rock. As soon as the moss-covered door revealed a crack, three waves of chakra surged from the left.

White Night's bone wings suddenly unfurled, and the resulting air blades pinned three poisoned kunai to the wall; Chiyo's fingers rapidly formed hand seals on her cane, and suddenly earth spikes rose from the ground, knocking over the lurking ANBU.

Three-tomoe Sharingan? The ANBU ninja trapped under the earth spikes exclaimed in surprise, but his pupils shrank when he saw Chiyo's face. Lady Chiyo of Sunagakure?

How could you?

Shh. Chiyo bent down, ripped off the other person's headband, and tossed it deep into the secret passage. "Tell your ANBU chief that the moon is very round tonight, perfect for sleeping." She turned to look at Byakuya, approval in her eyes. "Not bad, you know to keep someone alive to extract information."

Bai Ye didn't reply.

He stared at the mottled wall deep in the secret passage, where spiral-shaped forbidden symbols were drawn in cinnabar—seven parts similar to the patterns he had seen in the Yin-Yang array diagram of the altar.

When the First Hokage founded the village, this place was originally a dungeon used to imprison rogue ninja who had brought back the Tailed Beasts. Chiyo's voice suddenly lowered, and she tapped the wall with the tip of her snake staff. Later, Tobirama modified it into a teleportation array using the Flying Thunder God Technique. And then... the First Hokage sealed the forbidden scrolls and everything he brought back from the ruins of the Divine Tree in the deepest level. Her Adam's apple bobbed. This forbidden area, which no Hokage had ever allowed anyone to touch, wasn't because it was dangerous, but because... they were afraid too.

Bai Ye's steps came to a halt.

Suddenly, the memory of Raizo's blood-stained face welled up—the man had gripped his wrist before he breathed his last, his chakra filled with madness: "Don't believe what they say, the will of the living is not a blessing, it's a curse!"

Chapter 557 All Things in the Universe

Arrived.

Chiyo's voice pulled him back to reality.

The two stood before a bronze door, its surface covered with serpentine runes. Chakra fluctuations seeping from the cracks in the door resembled scalding lava, burning their skin.

This is a variant seal of Wood Release: All Things in the Forest. Chiyo pressed her fingertips against the door, chakra seeping in like a thin stream, only to be repelled the moment it touched the core, requiring dual-attribute resonance... Does the map on your chest still hurt?

White Night reached out to touch his heart.

The burning pain there intensified as they approached the bronze door, and the veins beneath their skin became visible in the moonlight, like a map of the ninja world drawn in blood.

He suddenly remembered the symbol outlined by blood beads on the altar—it matched perfectly with the beginning of the incantation on the door.

A short sword with lightning patterns. He drew the short sword half an inch, and the lightning patterns on the hilt suddenly lit up, resonating with the blood patterns on his chest.

Bone wings unfolded behind him, and lightning chakra flowed along the wing bones, drawing the mark of the First Hokage in the air.

The bronze door emitted a muffled thud, the incantation began to rotate in reverse, and a crack was torn open in the black mist seeping from the door's seams.

The first sealing technique required the caster's life force as a catalyst. Chiyo stared at his pale lips. "Who... exactly are you?"