Above the horizon, the Golden List.
A golden pupil suddenly opened, radiating dazzling golden light. Pressure that overshadowed heaven and earth spread throughout the Three Worlds.
At this moment, all living beings in the Three Worlds felt it; everyone's faces changed drastically, and they simultaneously looked up at the sky.
Sacred Ruins Trial Tower.
Kaiser stood at the tower's peak while holding Blacky. The corner of his lips curved in a smile: "Finally you couldn't hold back either..."
The Golden List spread widely, its surface radiating very beautiful light and sparkling with dense light points. These light points jumped like tadpoles, then transformed into streams of light that poured down toward the Three Worlds below.
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Naruto World, Konoha Village.
Hashirama and Tobirama jumped onto the roof of a wooden house. They looked up at the seven-colored streams of light falling from the sky with gazes full of doubt; they didn't know what was actually happening.
"Those falling stars are heading here!" Tobirama stared at the stars' trajectories and realized that some of them were heading toward Konoha. His face instantly changed.
Without hesitation, Hashirama activated the ninja technique: Mokuton: Jukai Kotan (Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees)!
Giant wooden roots crept out from underground, coiling around each other and soaring high into the sky forming a giant tree network, as if a giant wooden palm trying to support the sky to block those falling stars.
Hashirama's action didn't stop there. He knew well this was the Golden List's business; he didn't feel that just with Jukai Kotan he could stop those falling stars.
"Mokuton: Mokuryu no Jutsu (Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique)!"
A very large wooden dragon emerged from the ground, formed from the interweaving of countless trees. Its size was extraordinarily large, opening its mouth wide trying to bite the falling stars in the sky.
However, that ninja technique that looked very powerful absolutely couldn't stop the stars' fall.
Those stars seemed to be just shadows; they penetrated the wooden dragon and giant palm just like that. Two of them directly plunged into Hashirama and Tobirama's bodies.
"Trouble!" Hashirama and Tobirama's faces changed simultaneously. However, the next second, their expressions froze.
At that moment, they felt extraordinary unmatched power flowing into their bodies, as if they were reborn. The power that had already reached its limit and couldn't develop further, instantly broke through the barrier gate. If previously their chakra was just a small lake, now it felt like a boundless ocean.
"This... what's actually happening?!"
Both looked at each other, seeing the same shock in each other's eyes.
They even had the illusion that their current selves were capable of fighting against Saitama or that crazy woman Otsutsuki Kaguya. Even that baldy Saitama or Kaguya might no longer be their match.
"Brother, the falling stars that plunged into Konoha seem not just the two of us!" Tobirama said after awakening from his shock.
Hashirama nodded slightly, his eyes gleaming with spirit: "Although I don't know what this Golden List's plan is, for Konoha, this is a very good thing. Our village's strength has become very powerful. Earlier I managed to count, there are at least a dozen stars that fell into Konoha. That means, our village will soon have a dozen people at Saitama's level!"
Saitama's strength was something they had witnessed themselves, especially Tobirama who experienced it directly. The power of the Third Place on the Golden List need not be doubted, and now they had reached that level.
How could they not be excited?
"They are those young people!" Hashirama and Tobirama stared toward where the other stars fell with full contemplation.
If they weren't mistaken, the targets of these falling stars were people who had entered the ranking lists, whether the Strongest List or the Hidden Expert List.
At the same time within Konoha, exactly as they suspected, many people received the "baptism" of those falling stars and underwent drastic transformation simultaneously.
Inside a house, Naruto who was meditating suddenly opened his eyes. He spread his hands, feeling unprecedented tremendous power. His expression slowly turned enthusiastic.
"What kind of power is this? What's actually happening? Where does this power come from?"
The transformation didn't only happen to Naruto. Kurama hiding inside Naruto's body also experienced the same thing. Their combined power wasn't merely 1+1=2; they complemented each other.
Added with the special technique given by the First Place on the Golden List previously, their current power level had even surpassed Hashirama and Tobirama.
"Kurama, do you feel it? You also seem to have become stronger!" Naruto asked softly.
A yellow light flash appeared, and a small nine-tailed fox figure formed entirely from chakra suddenly appeared beside Naruto. It tilted its head and said flatly: "Of course I feel it. This power isn't just you who got it, I did too. Your potential is truly extraordinary to be continuously chosen by the Golden List. Truly makes one jealous!"
Naruto grinned: "How about that? I told you, right, it wasn't wrong following me? I'll bring you the good life!"
"Just praised a little and your head's already swollen. You'd better quickly calm down and adapt to this power. Getting power this great suddenly isn't necessarily a good thing!" Kurama reminded.
Although Naruto felt slightly indifferent, because now Kurama was his companion, he listened to those words. He closed his eyes again and sat cross-legged, sensing the flow of this suddenly arriving power.
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In a valley not far from Konoha Village.
Several streams of light fell plunging into several figures in that valley. Those figures that had been still like stone statues trembled, then simultaneously opened their eyes.
"Golden List...!" Orochimaru's snake-like pupils stared at the Golden List that stretched covering the sky. He murmured: "What exactly do you want to do?"
Itachi's expression looked serious. He seemingly didn't feel happy despite obtaining great power; on the contrary, there was deep worry on his face: "I feel the situation is becoming increasingly severe, has reached a level we can't control. This Golden List seems to be planning something extraordinary, and we're entangled in it without being able to choose."
"Gagagaga! You two worry too much. Getting power this great but instead brooding, truly boring!" Kisame instead laughed widely. He stood while moving his arms, his expression full of joy: "Now I feel truly capable of physically competing with that baldy!"