Chapter 310: Chapter 310: Gate of View, Open!

Chapter 310: Gate of View, Open!

Looking at the Iwa Ninja below, who were united in purpose, a smirk curled on Naruto’s lips.

The Will of Stone, is it?

Hidden Leaf Village has its Will of Fire as well.

Where the leaves dance, the fire shall burn unceasingly.

The light of the fire will forever illuminate the Village and allow new sprouts to bud.

This is a will that carries the warmth of life and the weight of Legacy.

It does not originate from some indestructible rock, but flows within the bonds between people.

In Hidden Leaf Village, this will is passed on in another form: "Burning."

When a Ninja dies, his kin, Disciples, and friends—those who were warmed by the fire of his life—will silently pick up his unfinished ideals and convictions, carefully guarding those embers and rekindling them in their own way.

These small sparks may be weak, but they constantly accumulate, interweave, and grow stronger as they are passed down.

Eventually, the persistence and sacrifice of countless people, the burning and passing of countless lives, merge into the "Will of Fire" that illuminates Hidden Leaf Village’s night sky and dispels the long winter.

It is about the tenderness of Legacy, and the resolution of sacrifice.

Just as when autumn arrives, the old leaves will willingly turn yellow and fall, decomposing themselves into nutrients and silently seeping into the earth, all so that in the following spring, new branches and leaves can grow even more robustly.

In the original story...

Perhaps it wasn’t until the final moment of his life that Hiruzen Sarutobi truly touched the most bitter and profound core of the Will of Fire.

During his long years of governance, the great tree of Hidden Leaf Village had been quietly gnawed away due to his excessive tolerance and compromise regarding past "bonds."

The conspiracies breeding in the shadows, the pointless internal friction and sacrifice, were like silent pest infestations that caused Hidden Leaf Village’s strength to drain away for a time, its foliage no longer as lush and vigorous as it was during the time of the First Hokage.

The old leaves were constantly drawing nutrients on the tree, while the new leaves fell and became the nutrients to nourish them.

The Third’s "Fire" was once blazing because of his sincerity toward the Village, but it also became hesitant and soft because of his feelings for old friends, and even grew dim at certain moments.

Until the very end, when he used his own life as fuel, burning before the invaders, he interpreted in the most direct way what it meant to "illuminate the Village" and "let new leaves sprout."

Was that mending the fold after the sheep were lost, or something else?

In the current timeline, none of these things had happened, so Naruto found it hard to judge.

"It really... makes one’s blood boil!"

A voice filled with obvious admiration and excitement came from atop the head of the Eight-Armed Ashura.

Naruto had walked to the very edge of the Eight-Armed Ashura’s head without anyone noticing.

He looked down at the Hidden Stone Village Ninjas whose fighting spirit had been rekindled from despair and whose eyes had become as firm as rock, and at Onoki in the air, whose tear tracks were not yet dry but whose Aura was as grand as a rainbow. In his golden eyes, an unprecedented, pure, and blazing Battle Intent ignited!

It was a kind of appreciation for "will" itself, a resonance with "indomitability," and the excitement of meeting a worthy opponent!

"It seems... looking down with the posture of a ’god’ is a profanation of this ’Will of Stone.’" Naruto whispered to himself, a wild and unrestrained smile curling at the corners of his mouth.

In the next moment, he made a move that left everyone dumbfounded.

He suddenly leaped from the top of the Eight-Armed Ashura’s head!

Without using any Ninjutsu to cushion himself, he fell straight toward the ground like a meteorite!

In the howling wind of his rapid descent, his voice rang out clearly:

"Eight Gates, open!"

"Gate of Rest, open!"

"Gate of Life, open!"

...

Every low shout was accompanied by a more violent eruption of Chakra within his body.

"Gate of View, open!"

A violent steam of interwoven green and gold rose around his body!

During the fall, he quickly tore off his shirt, revealing a lean and powerful upper body, and then skillfully tied the two sleeves around his waist, turning the garment into a simple "battle skirt."

Boom!

A loud explosion rang out, and dust soared into the sky.

Naruto’s feet landed firmly on the ground. At the point of impact, the rocky ground cracked in a radial pattern, forming a crater over ten meters in diameter.

He stood with his lean upper body bare, his muscle lines bulging and rippling under the steam and the glow of Chakra, with that makeshift "battle skirt" tied around his waist.

The violent Chakra Aura of interwoven gold and green burned around him like physical flames, scorching the surrounding air until it distorted.

He slowly raised his head, a wild and pure smile on his face. His gaze was like the sharpest blade as it swept across all the regrouped Hidden Stone Village Ninjas with their determined eyes, finally fixing on Onoki in the air.

Then, he extended a hand and beckoned with his fingers toward those in front of him, toward all his Hidden Stone Village enemies.

His voice wasn’t loud, but it carried an unquestionable, almost arrogant confidence and challenge:

"You all..."

"Come at me together!"

In the sky, Uchiha Hikari was controlling her Susanoo, preparing to coordinate with Naruto’s Eight-Armed Ashura for the next wave of attacks, only to see Naruto’s sudden "self-demotion" as he jumped down, opened the Eight Gates, and issued a challenge.

A wave of speechlessness welled up in her heart.

She controlled her Susanoo to slowly descend into Hidden Stone Village, deactivated the energy-consuming Complete Body form, and reverted to the appearance of a young girl wearing a white cloak.

She looked at the guy not far away, wrapped in gold and green steam and "provoking" the entire Hidden Stone Village, and couldn’t help but raise a hand to her forehead. Her cool voice carried a rare hint of sarcasm:

"Is this guy... getting carried away?"

Setting aside the perfectly fine, crushing advantage of the Eight-Armed Ashura, he just had to jump down and use Taijutsu for a head-on clash?

What kind of strange combat aesthetic was this?

Opposite him, Onoki, who had just regained his fighting spirit and was surging with momentum, was momentarily stunned to see Naruto give up his advantage—an arrogant move equivalent to tying his own hands and feet—before laughing out of pure rage!

"Humph! To actually take the initiative to abandon the advantage of that giant god and choose a ground-based melee?"

Onoki’s voice carried the anger of being slighted, but also a hint of the solemnity of meeting a worthy rival.

"You... are truly arrogant beyond measure!"

But immediately following that, a blazing battle spirit also ignited in his eyes! Since the opponent dared to be so "overconfident," then Hidden Stone Village would respond to this "arrogance" with the most direct and intense collision, proving that the "Will of Stone" was by no means empty talk!

"Iwa Ninja!"

Onoki’s right hand, which was holding high a stone, swung forward abruptly!

"Follow me!"

The people of Hidden Stone Village charged toward Naruto.

Countless attacks came flooding in from all directions.

"Earth Transformation."

Naruto stomped his foot, and stone walls erupted, blocking the oncoming attacks. Even the ground around Naruto sank, cutting off the momentum of the Iwa Ninja.

"Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique!"

A single Kunai was thrown out. As Naruto formed hand seals, that one Kunai turned into a volley of ten thousand arrows.

While the Iwa Ninja were resisting frantically, Naruto suddenly burst forth, using the Flying Thunder God Technique to take down over a dozen people in an instant.

"It’s the Flying Thunder God!"

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