Starting with rogue ninjas, building the insect kingdom.

Chapter 296 The First Cycle

Intense pain spread through his heart and finally reached his eyes.

As the blood flowed out, causing his three-tomoe jade to begin spinning, he raised his head, his eyes bleeding, his hatred undiminished. In the end, he still turned his hand towards the bones and corpses.

"Eye Technique: Izunami!"

An advanced version of Izanami, the strongest illusion that can fool the world. It costs one eye to forcibly reverse the spacetime of a region and deceive the world.

Although it is essentially an illusion, it has taken on a touch of time and space, and its specific function is to revive others.

Under the influence of the pupil technique, the timeline of the three skeletons visibly reversed, and they quickly grew bones and flesh.

But this is not the real world, but a spacetime turbulence, where all techniques that can trigger spacetime will be amplified infinitely.

The events that had just occurred began to rewind infinitely. At that moment, everyone felt as if the rewind button had been pressed, and the recording was rewinding like a disc.

Just as Minato Namikaze leaped from the whirlpool into the desert, a giant centipede puppet blocked his way.

"Who exactly are you?" Minato Namikaze dodged the attack, but felt a sense of déjà vu, as if he had experienced something similar before.

An Lujun's puppet body stood atop the centipede's head, looking down at the Fourth Hokage: "My name is An Lujun, and I am a puppeteer. Fourth Hokage, don't hinder my rise to power."

Without a word, Minato Namikaze lunged forward, pressing his kunai against his opponent's neck.

When the same thing happened a second time, An Lujun's body instantly degenerated into a puppet-like form.

"What a nuisance! I never expected to run into the Fourth Hokage so soon after I traveled back in time!"

"From another dimension?" Minato Namikaze frowned. "You don't necessarily want to rule the ninja world, do you?"

An Lujun sneered, "No, no, no, I transmigrated here only to pledge allegiance to Lord Insect Demon and become one of his Four Heavenly Kings. If you know what's good for you, get out of the way!"

After saying that, his arm launched several shells.

Minato Namikaze used the Flying Thunder God Technique to dodge, but was still injured by the aftershocks of the explosion.

"Did you cause the dragon vein to become restless?"

Seeing that the other party was injured, An Lujun said smugly, "Of course not, it's someone from your Konoha..."

But before he could finish speaking, two figures appeared at the edge of the battlefield.

Uchiha Shou grabbed the young man and ran quickly towards the Dragon Vein Palace: "Hurry, before they finish fighting."

"Why the rush?" the young man asked, puzzled.

After all, they had always tried to avoid meeting people they knew in the past, as it could potentially cause considerable trouble in the future.

He was just surprised that the usually composed Uchi Mote had acted so out of character, which puzzled him greatly.

"There's no time to explain." Uchiha Momoko continued walking. "We have to be faster than Namikaze Minato and get back before the seal is complete."

The young man wanted to ask more questions, but Uchiha Mori interrupted him: "This cannot be explained by common sense. Just believe me."

The two sped towards the underground palace, but how could the two fighting here let them pass?

"Wait! You're Konoha ninjas from the future?" Minato Namikaze noticed the two figures that had suddenly appeared and immediately shouted at them, "Let's join forces and take him down!"

For some reason, he had this guess as soon as he saw the two of them appear, and he felt that if he asked them, they would definitely accept it.

As expected, the two, who were preparing to leave the battlefield, stopped in their tracks.

Because of their intervention just now, Minato Namikaze was injured, not his fake body, but his real body.

Because no one helped him last time, he was prepared to use his severed finger clone, but this time he sensed someone was there, and he seemed unwilling to expose that ugliness.

Uchiha Mamoru finally turned around, even though he knew that Namikaze Minato had a great chance of winning. He was afraid that if the time dragged on, Aburame Shisei would arrive and take his life again.

"You guys are back so quickly?"

An Lujun's expression changed, because the time difference between their entry into the space-time tunnel was less than a few seconds.

Unexpectedly, the other party was rushing back through the passage. Judging from their panicked state, could it be that Lord Insect Demon has discovered their plot and is pursuing them?

An Lujun's mind raced with endless speculation, but he didn't know that in the time turbulence, there was no concept of time. Even if someone entered a time turbulence a few seconds earlier or later, the time difference could be several seconds or even several days.

But then he became excited again: "To be able to fight against three Konoha masters at the same time is truly an honor for me, Anlu-kun!"

"Stop fighting," Uchiha Mamoru said, frowning. "We have different goals. It's your business who you want to go back to and pledge allegiance to; we just want to return to the future."

"And what about him?" Anroku asked, pointing to Minato Namikaze.

Minato Namikaze gripped his kunai tightly: "I will not allow anyone to use the Dragon Vein to disrupt spacetime."

He turned to look at the two ninjas from the future, especially the Uchiha, and suddenly felt something.

"You'll help me, won't you?"

After a brief standoff, Anlu-kun made the first move. The centipede puppet's massive body swept across, and Uchiha Shou pulled the young man aside to dodge, while Namikaze Minato vanished using Flying Thunder God Technique.

"Since we're going to fight anyway, let's all come at once!" An Lujun laughed wildly.

Seeing that reasoning with him was ineffective and not wanting to delay any longer, Uchiha Mori decided to end the battle quickly.

The three joined forces to attack, with Minato Namikaze holding them off from the front, Uchiha Momoko attacking from the flanks, and the young man providing long-range support.

However, the centipede puppet was enormous and had a wide attack range, so the three of them couldn't get close to it for a while.

Anlu-kun manipulated the puppet strings, and the centipede's legs transformed into sharp blades that shot out continuously. Minato Namikaze narrowly dodged them several times, but ended up with several more wounds on his body.

It is well known that all puppets are poisonous. This time, Minato Namikaze was poisoned in his own body. Although it was only the kind of neurotoxin that could temporarily paralyze him for a second or two, it was still enough to be fatal.

An Lujun seized the opportunity and a smile appeared on his face.

"Puppet Ninja Technique: Burial of a Thousand Blades!"

Dozens of puppet strings extended from the ground, and the centipede's legs transformed into sharp blades that converged towards the center.

"Now!" Minato Namikaze shouted suddenly as the blade drew near.

Uchiha Mamoru understood and launched a specially made long-handled kunai, which landed at the intersection of the puppet strings. Anroku-kun's expression changed, but Namikaze Minato had already used Flying Thunder God Technique to appear behind him.

Goodbye, future Four Heavenly Kings!

The Rasengan was pressed down on his head, blood splattered everywhere, and Anroku-kun's headless corpse fell to the ground.

Minato Namikaze landed, panting heavily: "Let's go, to the underground palace to seal the dragon vein."

He didn't say much, but the look in his eyes as he looked at Uchiha Mamoru had changed, especially since the Flying Thunder God Kunai he had just used was exactly the same as his own.

Uchiha Mori touched his nose, looked back, and said nothing more.