Recaps

Issui fought Obito at the Five Kage meeting and revealed Obito’s plan to use the Infinite Tsukuyomi to impose peace. After Obito declared war and vanished, Issui exposed White Zetsu spies, and the Kage resumed planning the Allied Shinobi Forces.

• Issui struck Obito with the Flames of Amaterasu, but Obito used Izanagi to undo his injuries at the cost of a Sharingan.
• Issui explained Izanagi, and Obito acknowledged Issui’s power before revealing his plan to gather the Tailed Beasts and cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Gaara and Issui rejected Obito’s vision of peace, and Obito declared war before escaping through Kamui.
• Ōnoki urged the Five Kage to unite against Obito, and Issui used Lightning Release: Needle Technique Hell to uncover White Zetsu spies beneath the conference room.
• The Raikage and Ōnoki agreed that the villages should submit their strategies so they could plan the Allied Shinobi Forces’ troop deployment.

Issui returned to Konoha, explained Obito's history, and rallied the village for the coming Fourth Shinobi World War. Meanwhile, Obito took charge of the Akatsuki remnants and revealed himself to Deidara as Madara Uchiha.

• Issui told Hashirama and Tobirama that the masked man was Obito Uchiha and recounted how Obito joined Madara's Eye of the Moon Plan after Rin's death.
• Hashirama, Tobirama, and Issui discussed the Uchiha's suffering and agreed that true peace required changing the shinobi world's roots of hatred.
• Issui announced to Konoha's shinobi that war with the Akatsuki was imminent and ordered them to prepare to leave for Kumogakure in five days.
• Deidara learned that Nagato had died and that Konan had left the Akatsuki, leaving Obito, Kisame, Black and White Zetsu, and Deidara in its ranks.
• Obito welcomed Deidara to the new base and revealed that his real name was Madara Uchiha.

Obito recruited Deidara for the coming Fourth Shinobi World War and recovered Nagato’s Rinnegan, while Issui discovered the eyes were stolen and met with the newly awakened Tsunade. Tsunade agreed to resume command of Konoha and began preparing its shinobi for war.

• Deidara accepted Obito’s offer to use the war as a stage for his explosive art after learning Obito claimed to be Madara.
• Black and White Zetsu told Obito they had recovered Nagato’s Rinnegan from a room at the Hyuga Clan’s place and warned him that Kabuto was approaching.
• Issui discovered the Rinnegan he had left on the table were missing and suspected Madara had stolen them.
• An Anbu informed Issui that Tsunade had awakened, and Issui left Hinata’s lunch to meet her at the Hokage building.
• Tsunade and the advisers praised Issui’s leadership, then Tsunade agreed to take charge of Konoha again.
• Tsunade ordered Shizune to bring the shinobi files so they could select combat personnel and assign teams.

Issui advised Tsunade on organizing Konoha’s forces for the war, while Obito accepted Kabuto as an ally after Kabuto demonstrated his Impure World Reincarnation summons. The alliance agreed that Kabuto would receive Sasuke after the battle, and Kabuto prepared to confront Issui.

• Issui proposed divisions for reconnaissance, logistics and medical support, intelligence, sensing, combat, surprise attacks, and the daimyo’s protection, and Tsunade praised his plan.
• Obito met Kabuto at the Graveyard of Mountains and demanded that he prove his strength before joining the fight against the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Kabuto summoned the reincarnated Kakuzu, Hidan, Sasori, and Itachi, then revealed another powerful summon that persuaded Obito to accept him as an ally.
• Kabuto asked Obito to hand over Sasuke after the battle, and Obito agreed.
• Kabuto warned Obito that Issui Kanna was a major threat, and Obito urged Kabuto to use his trump card against Issui.

Issui and Tsunade organized Konoha’s forces and supplies for the coming war, then led the troops toward the Land of Lightning to join the Allied Shinobi Forces. Issui brought powerful allies with him, while Naruto went ahead to train with Killer B, and the chapter left the war about to begin.

• Issui and Tsunade assigned Konoha’s ninja to reconnaissance, medical, intelligence, combat, special attack, and guard units, while leaving the sensory captain position vacant.
• Issui and Tsunade planned to procure war supplies and arranged for Naruto to train with Killer B in controlling the Nine-Tails’ power.
• Five days later, Issui and Tsunade led Konoha’s troops from the village toward the Land of Lightning, while Naruto had already gone ahead.
• Issui brought Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, Rin Nohara, Guren, Haku, and Deidara to the battlefield, along with other powerful allies and summoned beasts.
• Issui considered Haku’s enhanced Ice Release abilities and resolved not to let her use the life-consuming Ice and Snow Goddess technique while he was alive.

The Five Great Shinobi Villages and the Land of Iron formed the Allied Shinobi Forces and declared the Fourth Shinobi World War begun. Obito Uchiha and Kabuto prepared their opposing forces, including nearly a hundred thousand White Zetsu, as the war began.

• The Kage of the Five Great Shinobi Villages reviewed their forces and debated how to assign them under unified command.
• The Fourth Raikage A Yotsuki announced the Allied Shinobi Forces' leadership and unit commanders, with Issui Kanna as supreme deputy commander and Tsunade Senju as chief of the general staff.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces formally declared the Fourth Shinobi World War begun and planned to locate the enemy before fighting in earnest.
• At the Graveyard of Mountains, White Zetsu reported that the allied forces numbered about eighty thousand experienced ninja.
• Obito Uchiha revealed that he had created nearly a hundred thousand White Zetsu using the Chakra of seven Tailed Beasts and the First's cells.
• Kabuto arrived and suggested celebrating their victory, while privately considering the battle a chance to use everyone as his pieces.

Obito warned Kabuto that Issui was the uncertain threat to their plans, and Kabuto read a scroll revealing secrets about the Eye of Heaven. Meanwhile, Issui reflected on his past and his growing unease before sharing an intimate moment with Hinata; the chapter ended as the scroll described the Eye of Heaven’s stages and deadly weaknesses.

• Obito told Kabuto that Issui had to be eliminated because his power could change the war, and Kabuto admitted he was wary of facing him.
• Obito gave Kabuto a scroll, and Kabuto discovered that it recorded the origins and weaknesses of the Eye of Heaven.
• Issui stood alone near the Allied Shinobi Forces’ main camp and reflected on his past life, his arrival in the Hokage World, and his happiness with Hinata.
• Hinata found Issui, comforted him about his unease, and embraced and kissed him.
• Kabuto read that the Eye of Heaven came from the God of Corruption and that using its stages under certain weather conditions triggered deadly punishments; the scroll’s explanation reached the Wind Stage.

Kabuto and Obito planned to capture a powerful Heaven Clan member using preserved frost, while Obito secretly hoped their target and Kabuto would weaken each other. After Kabuto left to prepare, Sasuke confronted Obito, who revealed more about the Eye of Heaven and explained how the Sharingan could evolve into the Rinnegan.

• Kabuto read the scroll about the Eye of Heaven’s punishments, and Obito judged its first six accounts reliable but doubted the final one attributed to the Sage of Six Paths.
• Obito gave Kabuto preserved frost to exploit their target’s Heaven Eye of Frost, and Kabuto agreed to capture the man in exchange for access to his Kekkei Genkai.
• Obito said White Zetsu would lure the target to Kabuto’s chosen battlefield, where Kabuto would tire and subdue him before bringing him to Obito for soul extraction.
• After Kabuto left, Sasuke emerged and accused Obito of misleading him and hoping the target and Kabuto would badly wound each other.
• Obito revealed that the Eye of Heaven’s Punishment was also called the Eye of the Heavenly God and claimed its trials could make its user stronger.
• Obito explained the Sage of Six Paths’ sons and said the Sharingan evolved through the Mangekyō and Eternal Mangekyō stages into the Rinnegan; he then predicted Kabuto would kill their target before the great war.

Sasuke left Obito to return to Konoha and kill Danzo, while Issui was lured from camp by a White Zetsu impersonator. Issui found four reanimated Kage waiting in a valley and prepared to fight the Second Mizukage.

• Sasuke told Obito he planned to eliminate Danzo and left, after Obito warned him to watch out for Kabuto and transplant Itachi's eyes.
• A disguised White Zetsu posing as a Konoha ninja tried to lure Issui away from camp by reporting an enemy nearby.
• Issui recognized the deception but continued to the valley, summoning Leins the Blazing Liger to wait outside and rescue him if needed.
• Issui identified the four Kage gathered against him as the Fourth Kazekage, Third Raikage, Second Tsuchikage Mu, and Second Mizukage.
• The Second Mizukage became enraged when Issui called him a sleazy little mustache and challenged him to fight.
• Issui accepted the Second Mizukage's challenge and threw a Shuriken to the ground as the battle began.

Issui fought the Second Mizukage, overwhelming him at first until the Mizukage summoned the Giant Clam and concealed himself with its Hiding Technique. As the Mizukage’s supercharged water bubbles broke through Issui’s defenses and battered his Triple Rashomon, Issui continued searching for the genjutsu’s weakness.

• The Second Mizukage attacked Issui with water bubbles, but Issui evaded him with a log substitution and countered with earth techniques that forced the Mizukage onto the defensive.
• The Second Tsuchikage, Fourth Kazekage, and Third Raikage discussed Issui’s skill and the shifting morale of the battle.
• The Second Mizukage escaped Issui’s swamp, then summoned the Giant Clam and used its Hiding Technique to make his position and attacks difficult to discern.
• Issui tested the Mizukage’s apparent invulnerability with Stone Coffin, but the Second Mizukage emerged unharmed and launched a supercharged water-bubble attack.
• Issui raised an Earth Shore Return barrier, then summoned Triple Rashomon, but the bubbles smashed through the first gate and badly cracked the second.

Issui combined Water, Fire, and Lightning Release to create a battlefield-wide storm of lightning and defeat the Second Mizukage. The Second Mizukage unleashed his Steaming Danger Tyranny in a final attempt to take Issui down, but the attack failed and he was reduced to ash.

• Issui used a Great Waterfall Technique followed by Great Dragon Fire to fill the sky with water vapor.
• Issui channeled chakra into the vapor clouds and summoned lightning dragons and snakes that covered the battlefield.
• The Second Tsuchikage, Fourth Kazekage, and Third Raikage withdrew from the storm’s range.
• The lightning destroyed the Giant Clam, exposed the Second Mizukage, and struck him as he activated Steaming Danger Tyranny.
• The Second Mizukage’s exploding clone failed to reach Issui, and the lightning storm continued until the Second Mizukage was reduced to ash.

Issui defeated the Second Mizukage and explained the Allied Shinobi Forces and Akatsuki’s threat to the three remaining Kage. Kabuto forced the Kage to attack together, and the chapter ended as the Third Raikage charged Issui with Lariat.

• Issui defeated the Second Mizukage, leaving the Second Tsuchikage, Third Raikage, and Fourth Kazekage shaken by his strength.
• The Fourth Kazekage asked Issui about the Shinobi World, and Issui explained that Gaara had become Kazekage and that Akatsuki had captured most of the Tailed Beasts.
• Issui told the Kage that the Five Great Nations had formed the Allied Shinobi Forces, with A Yotsuki as supreme commander and Issui as supreme deputy commander.
• Kabuto watched Issui and planned to make the three remaining Kage force him to reveal his Kekkei Genkai so Kabuto could take it for himself.
• Kabuto took control of the Kage, and the Third Raikage launched the battle by charging Issui with Lariat.

Issui fought the Third Raikage, Second Tsuchikage, and Fourth Kazekage, using Hyuga techniques and Tai Chi-derived moves before activating Flame Body to exploit his brief immunity to physical attacks. He burned the Fourth Kazekage away and sent the Second Tsuchikage flying, while the Third Raikage remained in the fight and Issui’s five-minute transformation continued.

• Issui repelled the Third Raikage with Rotation, then pierced him with Air Palm, but the immortal Raikage began to recover.
• The Second Tsuchikage disintegrated Issui with Dust Release, but Issui reappeared and struck him with One Hundred Twenty-Eight Palms.
• Issui caught and returned the Fourth Kazekage’s gold dust sword with Cloud-Swallowing Hands and Spear of the Abyss, while the recovered Third Raikage wounded Issui’s shoulder with Hell Stab.
• Issui activated Flame Body and used clones and Body Flicker to evade the Raikage’s attacks and burn the Fourth Kazekage to ash with black flames.
• Issui dodged the Second Tsuchikage’s Dust Release and kicked him away with Konoha Whirlwind while Flame Body still had two minutes remaining.

Issui defeated the Fourth Kazekage, then faced the Third Raikage and Second Tsuchikage working together. He summoned the Black Gold Demon God and used its spinning blades to destroy the Second Tsuchikage, while the Third Raikage resisted with his lightning-clad defense.

• Issui used Shadow Clones and the Escape Technique to outmaneuver the Raikage and Tsuchikage, then struck the Fourth Kazekage with Amaterasu Fire Style and eliminated him.
• The Third Raikage attacked Issui with Hell Stab, and Issui used Rashomon to block the strike and evade the lightning spears.
• The Second Tsuchikage raised an earth barrier to shield the Raikage from Issui's Amaterasu Phoenix Flower Jutsu, while the Raikage launched a stronger Hell Stab through Issui's three Rashomon gates.
• Issui summoned the Black Gold Demon God and used Blazing Flame Whirlwind Slash to slice apart the mountains raised by the Second Tsuchikage.
• The Second Tsuchikage split and turned one half invisible as the Third Raikage activated Lightning Release Body Protection, but the demon god's spinning black threads cut the Second Tsuchikage apart.
• Issui drove the Black Gold Demon God toward the two Kage, and the Second Tsuchikage vanished while the Third Raikage continued to withstand the attack.

Issui defeated the Third Raikage and sealed the Second Tsuchikage's soul, but Kabuto used Sage Art: White Rage Technique to immobilize him and applied frost that stopped his heart. Kabuto revealed he had engineered the Second Tsuchikage's return to make Issui use his sealing ability, and claimed Issui's body and soul as research materials.

• Issui destroyed the Third Raikage with the Black Gold Demon God, then restrained the Second Tsuchikage and sealed his soul into his soul space.
• Kabuto appeared and praised Issui before entering Sage Mode and attacking him with Sage Art: White Rage Technique.
• While Issui was blinded, weakened, and unable to move, Kabuto threw frost from a silver box onto his forehead, causing a beam of light to strike his vertical eye.
• The frost transformed Issui's soul and stopped all signs of life in his body.
• Kabuto revealed that he had arranged for the Second Tsuchikage to reappear so Issui would seal him, then declared that Issui's body and soul belonged to him.

Leins rescued Issui from Kabuto’s Heaven’s Punishment and learned that a woman’s tears could save him, then carried him to the Allied Shinobi Forces camp. Hinata’s tears began sinking into Issui’s forehead as he struggled through a snowy inner world to hold on to life.

• Leins confronted Kabuto, learned that frost from the Eye of Heaven’s third stage would freeze Issui’s soul, and forced Kabuto to reveal that a woman’s tears could save him.
• Leins branded Kabuto with the Blazing Liger Seal and carried Issui toward the Allied Shinobi Forces camp.
• Issui wandered through a freezing snow-covered world, nearly gave up, then remembered Hinata, Haku, and the people he cared about and chose to keep going.
• Leins brought Issui into the tent and told Hinata that he had died.
• Hinata broke down beside Issui, and her tears fell onto his forehead and disappeared into it.

Hinata learned that Issui was alive but unconscious, while Yi Shui met the original Issui Kanna in the soul world. Issui chose to merge his remaining soul power with Yi Shui, leaving Yi Shui to carry on the Kanna name and strengthen the Heaven Clan.

• Leins reassured Hinata that Issui was still alive after her tears thawed his frozen soul, and Hinata went to fetch water for him.
• Yi Shui crossed a snowy landscape and reached a forest, where he encountered a boy who looked exactly like him.
• Issui Kanna revealed that Yi Shui had entered his body and that they were meeting in the soul world.
• Issui told Yi Shui he had watched the Heaven Clan prosper through his actions and had decided to pass on his remaining soul power.
• Yi Shui promised to make the Heaven Clan flourish and honor the Kanna name as Issui prepared to merge their souls.

After Issui Kanna sacrificed his soul to restore Yi Shui, Yi Shui inherited his body and gained the Wind Heaven Eye. He recovered, explained that an enemy had used Impure World Reincarnation to attack him, and prepared the Allied Shinobi Forces for a decisive battle.

• Issui used the Soul Dissipation Technique to merge his soul with Yi Shui, then faded away and entrusted him with the Heaven Clan’s future.
• Yi Shui regained control of Issui Kanna’s body and advanced to the Wind Heaven Eye, gaining powerful wind abilities.
• Hinata cared for Issui as he recovered, and he promised to stay in bed and rest.
• The Five Kage visited Issui, who explained that an unknown enemy had revived four former Kage with Impure World Reincarnation and attacked him.
• Issui and the Five Kage agreed to attack the enemy the next day, with Issui planning to confront their leader.
• The Raikage declared war, and Issui addressed the Allied Shinobi Forces, pledging to lead them to victory through unity.

Issui rallied the Allied Shinobi Forces and attacked the White Zetsu army with overwhelming wind and earth techniques, while Obito prepared to confront him. The chapter left Obito heading to the battlefield with six Rinnegan- and Sharingan-bearing fighters as Issui launched another attack.

• Issui called on the shinobi villages to unite and protect the peace of the Shinobi World, winning support from many gathered shinobi.
• Kabuto told Obito that Issui had survived their last encounter thanks to a powerful summoned beast, and Obito ordered Kabuto to prepare for the coming battle.
• Issui located the White Zetsu army underground, raised the earth around it, and used Wind Sanctuary and Great Breakthrough to destroy many of its soldiers.
• The allied leaders watched Issui's attack and discussed how his power had shifted the war in their favor, while Obito learned that the White Zetsu army had lost nearly a fifth of its numbers.
• Obito ordered White Zetsu to have Kabuto summon a powerful ally, then set out for the battlefield with six fighters bearing Rinnegan and Sharingan.
• Issui, dissatisfied that much of the White Zetsu army remained, began casting Wind Release-Pressure Damage.

Issui annihilated the White Zetsu army and confronted Obito, rejecting his plan to create an illusory world. After absorbing and reflecting Obito’s six Tailed Beast Bombs, Issui transformed into a powerful storm form as the battle continued.

• Issui used Wind Release-Pressure Damage to destroy the White Zetsu army, earning the Allied Shinobi Forces’ admiration.
• Obito Uchiha arrived and tried to persuade Issui to join the Akatsuki, but Issui refused and challenged him.
• Obito revealed his identity and sent six Jinchūriki to fire Tailed Beast Bombs at Issui.
• Issui absorbed all six Tailed Beast Bombs and reflected them at Obito and the Six Paths, injuring Obito and exhausting the Tailed Beasts.
• Issui activated Eye of Heaven-Wind: Wrath of the Storm and transformed, spreading his overwhelming presence across the sky.

Issui defeated Obito with the Wind God-Slaying Arrow, then revealed that Rin was alive and reunited her with Obito and Kakashi. With the Five Kage and the ninja army gathered against Madara, Obito joined his former teammates in preparing to fight, while Madara urged him to return to their plan.

• Issui's Wind God-Slaying Arrow pierced Obito despite Shinra Tensei and Kamui, and Issui explained that it could pierce space to strike its marked target.
• Issui revealed that Rin was alive and summoned her from Sumeru World; Rin healed Obito, and Issui explained that he had restored her with a recreated living body.
• Obito thanked Issui and acknowledged the wrongs he had committed, while Kakashi and Rin reunited with him and confronted their old guilt.
• When Madara's chakra approached, Obito asked Kakashi to fight beside him, and the Five Kage and the ninja army arrived to face Madara.
• Madara found himself facing the assembled Shinobi World and urged Obito to join him in destroying and remaking it.

Obito and Rin urged Madara to abandon the Eye of the Moon Plan, but he insisted that peace required controlling humanity and accepted Issui’s challenge. With the Allied Shinobi Forces backing him, Issui faced Madara in a decisive battle that would shape the future of the Shinobi World.

• Obito rejected the Eye of the Moon Plan and called on Madara to help change the world, while Rin reunited with Obito and Kakashi in their resolve to work for peace.
• Madara dismissed their hopes for peace and explained that he intended to control everyone’s thoughts; Issui stepped forward to fight him.
• Hashirama and Tobirama watched from behind a mountain, where Hashirama trusted the young shinobi to defeat Madara and hoped to reconcile with him afterward.
• Madara attacked the Allied Shinobi Forces with a fire technique, and Issui shielded them with a massive ice wall before asking the Five Kage to let him fight alone.
• The Five Kage, Mifune, and Obito supported Issui’s decision, and the Allied Shinobi Forces cheered as he went to face Madara for their decisive battle.

Issui and Madara discussed their opposing visions of peace before agreeing to a life-or-death battle over their Ninja Ways. Their opening exchange of Fire and Water Release techniques left Issui defending against Madara’s increasingly powerful attacks.

• Madara explained that he planned to control the world through the Eye of the Moon Plan, while Issui argued that darkness did not erase the world’s light.
• Madara agreed that Issui might be able to pull him out of his hatred, and the two formed the Seal of Confrontation to stake their lives on their beliefs.
• Ōnoki and Obito watched as Madara and Issui began their decisive battle.
• Madara’s Great Fire Annihilation Technique overwhelmed Issui’s Water Formation Wall, but Issui extinguished the flames with a Water Formation Pillar.
• Madara launched a faster, stronger Majestic Demolisher Flame, and Mei Terumi observed that Issui’s Water Release could counter Madara’s powerful Fire Style.

Issui used his Ice Release techniques to battle Madara, whose attacks repeatedly tested the ice-crystal cherry tree and its blossoms. The tree grew stronger and its blossoms began breaking down Madara’s two meteors, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Issui countered Madara’s flaming spear with an expanding ice arrow, then grew an ice-crystal cherry tree from the shattered arrow pieces.
• Issui sent the tree’s blossoms against Madara, whose Shinra Tensei pushed them back only for them to charge again.
• Madara’s Great Fire Annihilation was stopped by a wall of blossoms, and his Majestic Demolisher Flame failed to break through the tree’s automatic barrier.
• Madara summoned two meteors with Heavenly Meteor Descent, while Issui powered up the blossoms with Fire Trees and Silver Flowers.
• The tree bloomed again and more than doubled the blossoms, which held back the two meteors and began breaking them apart.

Issui unleashed his ultimate Ice Release technique against Madara, forcing the Allied Shinobi Forces to retreat from its battlefield-wide spiritual pressure and Frost Breath. Madara remained standing after defeating Issui’s Hornless Dragon, while Issui’s final attack began transforming the battlefield into a dangerous field of frost.

• Madara restrained Issui’s Hornless Dragon with Wood Release, but it broke apart, reformed, and breathed Frost Breath at him.
• Madara used a wooden shield and Great Fire Annihilation to weaken the Frost Breath, then dispelled its core with Shinra Tensei and shattered the dragon.
• Issui launched his final technique, filling the sky with ice crystal cherry blossoms and covering the battlefield in darkness.
• Ōnoki and the Fourth Raikage ordered the weaker ninja to retreat as Issui’s attack exerted spiritual pressure across the battlefield.
• Issui merged the ice tree into the ground, spreading frost and soul-freezing Frost Breath across the battlefield, and Tsunade urged the remaining fighters to withdraw.