The Land of Grass.

Originally, it was a small country sandwiched between the two great powers of fire and earth, until it was later annexed by the land country during the Fourth Shinobi War.

However, the village of Kusanobi, which belongs to the country of grass, has been preserved.

The reason lies in the famous "Ghost Lantern City".

Ghost Lantern City is actually a prison, located on a small island surrounded by the sea near the village of Kusanobi, and is named after the fact that the island is overgrown with ghost lantern fruits.

The special thing about this prison is that it was established by the Grass Ninja Village on behalf of the major powers to hold serious ninjas.

So, what is it that makes Ghost Lantern City able to gain the trust of the major ninja villages, so as to accept felons from the entire ninja world?

In addition to the special terrain, the more important reason is that the person in charge here has mastered a sealing technique called "Fire Escape Heavenly Prison".

This technique can break the chains that bind Chakra into the prisoner's body, making it impossible for him to condense Chakra and perform any ninjutsu, becoming indistinguishable from ordinary people.

Whenever a prisoner tried to escape, the sealing technique inside him would turn into a chain of flame and burn him alive.

Even if someone manages to escape from prison, without the help of Chakra, the possibility of crossing the sea surrounded by high winds and waves and sharks is infinitely close to zero.

Thus.

Since the establishment of the Ghost Lantern City Prison, it has been well received by the major ninja villages, and they have thrown their own headache felons to the Ghost Lantern City, and they have been locked up for decades.

For the prisoners, it is a hell from which there is no return.

So far, there is only one prisoner who has been able to escape from Ghost Lantern City, and that is Kakuto, the elite of Takishinobi Village who once assassinated the original Hokage.

However, after learning about this, Taki Shinobi Village didn't have time to give a bad review to the Ghost Lantern City Prison, and its high-level officials were served by the horns.

Since then, Ghost Lantern City has strengthened its guards, and until now, there has been no second prison escape.

In short, take in the most vicious criminals in the entire ninja world, lock up all this garbage, so that they can never see the light of day again and run out to harm the ninja world.

This is the meaning of the existence of the Ghost Lantern City Prison.

Therefore, despite the destruction of the country of grass, the group of grass ninjas has survived and continues to be stationed in Ghost Lantern City, managing prisoners for the major ninja villages.

Late at night.

Da-da-da-da.

Crisp footsteps sounded in the corridors of the cell area, and two guards came to a cell.

"Prisoner Mi Naruko, the lord of the castle wants to see you."

One of the guards said with a blank face, taking the key and opening the door to the cell. Another guard struck the pillar of the cell with a stick in his hand, urging the prisoner to come out quickly.

“… Yes, sir. ”

As a timid voice sounded, a girl in a brown prison uniform with blond hair tied into a double ponytail walked out of the cell barefoot and trembling.

Click.

She was shackled and escorted by guards through the cell to the Lord's office in the heart of Ghost Lamp.

The city lord is not in the office.

The two guards looked at each other, and one of them walked up to the bookshelf, found the third blue-covered book from the left, and broke it out.

In Minaruko's surprised gaze.

Thundered.

With the sound of the mechanism activating, the bookshelves slowly parted to both sides, and a secret door appeared.

It was pitch black behind the secret door, and a staircase extended down into the unknown depths, as if it was the end of the abyss, and there was a cold and dark aura.

"It turned out to be hidden here, no wonder I couldn't find it."

Seeing this scene, Minaruko's eyes flashed and she muttered.

"What are you muttering, let's go!"

One of the guards nudged Minako with a fierce expression.

"People know, don't be so fierce." Mei Naruko looks aggrieved, it's all this time, and she's still in the mood to be cute.

Fool, you don't know it's dying until you die.

The two guards looked at each other, both sneered, and then escorted Minako down the pitch-black steps.

About ten minutes passed.

At the end of the stairs, a door appeared, and the light coming from inside was faintly visible, and some kind of whispering was visible.

Crunch.

As the guard pushed the door open, Minaruko's eyes froze and she saw a strange sight.

In front of her was an old operating room, with a bloodstained operating table in the middle, flanked by various instruments and medicine jars.

The most striking thing is that on the wall of the operating room, a huge human face is carved, and it is impossible to distinguish whether it is a man or a woman, but its expression looks very sad.

At this time, a group of ninjas wearing black cloaks and cow and horse masks were standing in a row, chanting words to the faces of the people on the wall, as if performing some kind of pious prayer ritual.

It wasn't until the ceremony was over that the guard cautiously spoke:

"Lord of the city, the person you want has been brought."

"Huh?"

A middle-aged man with long black hair and a grim face turned around, and his knife-sharp gaze fell on Minaruko.

He is the city lord of this Ghost Lamp City Prison - Wu Wei.

He is also the leader of the current grass ninja village.

As for the black-robed people wearing masks around him, they were all high-level people in Grass Ninja Village without exception.

"So, let's get started."

Wu Wei retracted his gaze and said lightly, and a group of black-robed people immediately walked towards Mei Naruko and surrounded her.

"What are you going to do?"

Minaruko looked terrified, and under the gaze of everyone, she was pressed to the operating table by two guards and cuffed her wrists and ankles.

"Noise."

Wuwei frowned, took a needle from the guard's hand, found Mi Naruko's vein, and injected the medicine inside into her body.

Minaruko is no longer noisy because she is paralyzed all over her body, including her tongue.

Call~

Wuwei took a deep breath, looked down at Mi Naruko on the operating table, and said to the latter with burning eyes:

"You are the most astonishing chakra of the prisoners, and the best sacrifice we have been waiting for for years. Hopefully this time, don't let us down again. ”

When Mi Naruko heard this, her eyes widened, and her face was frightened and desperate.

And Wu Wei and other grass ninja high-level people laughed strangely, all of them were full of enthusiasm and excitement.

After laughing.

"Drink!"

Wuwei screamed, quickly sealed, and smashed his chakra into the giant human face on the wall.

The next second.

The human face slowly opened its big mouth, and a hurricane-like suction suddenly poured out, acting on Minako.

"Woo ......"

Minako let out a muffled scream in her throat, and Chakra leaked out of her abdomen frantically, forming a stream of purple energy that flew towards the big mouth of the human face.

In the process.

The human face that devoured Minako Chakra and emitted a dazzling light, as if it was really about to come back to life.

That's when it happened.

"Save me, stop watching the show!"

Mi Naruko, who was on the operating table, suddenly shouted into the darkness.

Well?

Wuwei frowned, stared at Mi Naruko, and interrogated, "Who did you let save you?" ”

As soon as the words fell.

Shout!

A ninja knife wrapped in blue electricity flew from outside the door, severing the flow of purple energy between Minako and the giant face on the spot, forcing the sacrifice ritual to be suspended.

"Who?!"

In an instant, a group of high-level grass ninjas, including Wu Wei, showed their weapons and looked at the door of the operating room.

"Who would have thought that the real purpose of the Grass Ninja Village's construction of the prison in Ghost Lantern City was to use the prisoners as batteries and use their chakras to open the box of bliss in ancient times."

"I heard that the city lord here even sacrificed his own son in order to open that box, and compared to him, my hateful father looks like a good person."

Two voices, one male and one female, sounded one after another.

Under the suspicious gaze of Wuwei and others, Sasuke and Marissa walked into the operating room.

Didn't wait for them to react.

"Damn, next time I have such a mission, I will definitely not pretend to be a prisoner, I will be too guilty."

Mei Naruko on the operating table complained, and as soon as the words fell, a huge chakra suddenly erupted in her body, shaking Wu Wei and the others back on the spot.

Click.

Easily freeing herself from the shackles of her wrists and ankles, Minako jumped off the operating table and returned to Sasuke and Marisa, and then changed her body with a "bang".

From a down-and-out beautiful girl, she has become a yellow-haired and blue-eyed boy - Naruto Uzumaki.

"Hehe, who told you to guess that you lost."

The corners of Sasuke's mouth curled up and he gloated.

"Brother Naruto......"

Marisa stared at Naruto and said with a serious face, "To be honest, when you became Mei Naruko, you were pretty good-looking, so why don't you change back." ”

“……”

Naruto's face twitched, and his face was black.

"Are you ......?"

A senior ninja pointed at the three of them, his voice trembled, and he said tremblingly, "Konoha's ...... New three ninjas? ”

When Sasuke heard this, as soon as he stretched out his hand, the Tiancong Cloud Sword inserted in the wall suddenly swished and flew back into his hand.

"Why do you have to call it Shinsanshinobi?"

He sighed and turned his head to look at the two companions, "We're much more powerful than the three shinobi back then, right?" ”

"Of course."

Marissa raised her fist and looked at the grass ninja crowd, eager to try.

Then.

Wuwei, who had been silent since just now, finally squinted his eyes and spoke:

"The six Hokage sent you. Hehe, I didn't expect that even the first person in the ninja world, Uchiha Break, coveted the box of bliss, and it seems that he also has a wish to realize it. ”

Sasuke shook his head, a disdainful smile.

Then, he pointed to the faces on the wall and said to Wuwei:

"The human face behind you is actually one side of a box, and there are three other sides of it that are also engraved with human faces, representing the four emotions of human beings: joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

This is the box of bliss in the village of Kusanonobi.

It is said that as long as someone can open the chest, they can ask it to help them fulfill a wish, no matter what that wish may be.

In the era of the Six Dao Immortals, the Grass Ninja Village almost ruled the entire ninja world with the Box of Bliss.

Wuwei City Lord, your family has been a household guard for generations, and in your generation, you finally have the opportunity to open the box of bliss, but unfortunately the final result will probably disappoint you. ”

Hearing Sasuke say so many secrets in one breath, the face of the senior Shinobi changed Qiqi.

"How do you know that?" Wuwei's eyes froze, staring at Sasuke, and his heart could no longer remain calm.

"In this world, no secret can be hidden from the eyes of the six generations of Hokage, and his reincarnation eyes have long seen through everything."

Sasuke said lightly, full of awe and admiration for his uncle from the bottom of his heart.

His voice had just fallen.

"Kill these guys, you can't let them take the Box of Bliss!"

Wuwei shouted loudly and took the lead in attacking Sasuke and the three.

"Do it."

Sasuke also drank coldly, and Naruto and Marissa didn't say a word, and they fought with the grass ninja.

A thrilling battle is staged in this cramped underground operating room.

A few minutes later.

The night sky was starry, and the playground of the Ghost Lantern City Prison was empty, with the occasional mouse squeaking and running across the ground.

Suddenly.

Rumble!

A huge pillar of light rose from the ground, blasting the ground out of a large hole with a diameter of more than ten meters, and a large number of cracks appeared on the ground of the playground and collapsed.

"What's going on?"

This huge movement quickly attracted the prison guards and woke up the sleeping prisoners.

Whoosh.

The three of Sasuke rushed out of the ground one after another, and with them, there was a strange box seven or eight meters high with human faces engraved on all sides, which slammed into the ground with a bang.

Subsequently.

The city lord Wuwei also crawled out of the ground, but at this time, he was covered in blood and scars, as if he was seriously injured.

Except for him, the rest of the grass ninja high-level were killed by Konoha's "New Three Ninjas".

Although I have heard the names of these three imps for a long time, I will only understand what terrible these three monsters are until I personally fight them.

It's a pity that Wuwei understood too late.

"That's ...... Lord of the Castle? ”

"The lord of the city has been attacked, hurry up and kill the invaders!"

The guards shouted and slaughtered Sasuke and the others.

Swish.

Sasuke just glanced back, and a pair of scarlet kaleidoscope writing wheels swept past everyone, and all the guards were suddenly shocked, and fell down like wheat.

"This guy is quite hard."

Marisa frowned when she saw that Wuwei had escaped death, and she clenched her fists and was about to walk over to mend the knife, but was stopped by Naruto:

"Have you forgotten, Marisa, the sixth generation said that he would spare his life. After all, as soon as he dies, the seal on the prisoner here will be automatically lifted, and he will run out for the trouble of the ninja world. ”

Hearing this, Wuwei sat down on the ground and showed a miserable smile:

"Ha, the sixth Hokage is really ...... Be merciful. So, after opening the box of bliss, what wish did he plan to make? ”

After speaking, he looked at the box of bliss on the side, his eyes full of reluctance and unwillingness.

"You still haven't figured out what's going on."

Sasuke walked up to Wuwei, looked at the Ghost Lantern City Lord with pity, and slowly spoke, "Whatever the six generations of Hokage-sama want, they can easily get it, and they don't need to make a wish to a box.

Besides, the so-called box of bliss is just a forbearance made by the six immortals, and now even he himself has been surpassed by the six generations, not to mention that the mere forbearance he made will not be taken into account by the six generations.

Wuwei, keep your eyes open and take a good look at the cruel truth hidden inside the box of bliss. ”

And then.

With a look of horror on his face, Sasuke walked up to the Box of Bliss and placed one of his hands on it.

Then, with a loud dragon groan, the chakra in Sasuke's body poured into the box like a river and a sea.

Buzz!

The Box of Bliss shines.

It's opened.

(End of chapter)