Chapter Summaries

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.

Issui’s soul-attacking ice needles weakened Madara, but Madara survived and the two continued their battle with clones and counterattacks. The chapter ended as Issui’s black-and-gold flames began devouring Madara’s fire spear.

• Madara used Shinra Tensei against Issui’s ice needles, then reflected most of them with the Uchiha Fire Fan while deliberately allowing some to strike him.
• The ice needles pierced Madara’s soul, weakening him until he fell into the frost, and Issui explained the damage he had suffered.
• Madara appeared above Issui and bound him with wood, but Issui vanished as a clone and attacked from underground.
• Madara pulled Issui from the ground, seized his neck, and destroyed another Shadow Clone before predicting Issui’s next move and launching Majestic Demolisher Flame.
• Issui countered with the black-and-gold Amaterasu God-Devouring Great Fireball Technique, whose flames began consuming Madara’s fire spear.

Issui used his Ice Release to destroy Madara’s apparent body, but Madara emerged unharmed and revealed that he had survived. The two renewed their resolve to fight over the Shinobi World’s future and summoned their powerful avatars as their decisive battle began.

• Madara dodged Issui’s black-gold flames and summoned his Susanoo to face Issui’s Ice Release techniques.
• Issui’s beams pierced Madara’s Susanoo and body, freezing the battlefield and tearing apart the figure caught within them.
• Issui recognized that the Madara he had defeated was a Wood Release Clone, and Madara emerged from the ground to praise Issui’s strength.
• Madara declared that his Hashirama cells and awakened Rinnegan made him nearly invincible, while Issui vowed to protect and reform the Shinobi World.
• Madara and Issui each summoned their immense battle forms, Susanoo and the Flame Demon God, and prepared to fight.

Issui battled Madara with his Flame Demon God, resisting Madara’s Wood Release and nearly sealing him before Madara recovered and struck back. The chapter ended with Madara’s full-strength Susanoo slash smashing Issui into the ground and leaving him motionless.

• Issui revealed the Flame Demon God’s immense power and faced Madara’s Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, which failed to suppress him.
• Madara used Wood Release: Flower Deep Forest Emergence, and its pollen weakened Issui and destabilized the Flame Demon God.
• Issui summoned Magma Hell, destroying Madara’s flowering forest and badly damaging Madara’s body and Susanoo.
• Issui used Eye of Heaven: Ice, Dragon-Tiger-Snake-Dog, Ice Soul Seal to try to mark Madara’s soul, but the snowflakes passed through it.
• Madara recovered, summoned Susanoo, and slashed Issui; Issui blocked with the Flame Demon God’s blades, but the blow drove him into the ground and left him motionless.

Issui and Madara traded powerful attacks, with Issui repeatedly gaining the upper hand but failing to seal Madara's soul. Madara trapped Issui with Chibaku Tensei, but Issui escaped into his Sumeru Space and returned, declaring that his Eye of Heaven made him nearly indestructible.

• Issui struck Madara with Flame Demon Purgatory Slash, damaging Madara and reducing his Susanoo to a skeleton.
• Issui used Blaze Release-Flame of Judgment to pierce Madara, then tried to bind his soul with Ice Soul Seal, but the seal failed.
• Madara recovered and used Chibaku Tensei to pin Issui against a growing sphere, then offered to spare him if he joined the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Issui transported himself and Chibaku Tensei into Sumeru Space, freed himself from the sphere, and returned to the battlefield.
• Madara recognized Issui's technique as Space-Time Ninjutsu, and Issui claimed his Eye of Heaven was nearly perfect and made him almost indestructible.

Issui defeated Madara with the Eye of Heaven and sealed his soul, ending the Fourth Shinobi World War before collapsing from exhaustion. As the Kage and the resurrected Hokage gathered around him, the Shinobi World began to tremble and a huge fireball hurtled toward the planet.

• Issui used Wind Sanctuary and Wind Severing to weaken and shatter Madara’s Impure World Reincarnation body, then Imprisonment stopped it from healing.
• Issui used Ice Soul Seal to pull Madara’s soul from his body and seal it, then collapsed after exhausting his Chakra and mental strength.
• Tsunade confirmed Issui was only exhausted, while the Five Kage welcomed Orochimaru, Sasuke, Hiruzen Sarutobi and Minato Namikaze after learning they had come to help fight the Akatsuki.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces declared the Fourth Shinobi World War over and returned to camp, where Hiruzen, Minato, Orochimaru and Sasuke reflected on Issui’s achievement.
• As Tsunade urged everyone to let Issui rest, the planet began shaking, disasters struck across the Shinobi World, and a huge fireball appeared to be heading toward it.

The shinobi world merged with another world, bringing its humans, elves, dwarfs, dragons, magical beasts, and Abyssal Demons into the land. Issui revealed his connection to the other world, destroyed the nearby demons, and urged the Allied Shinobi Forces to unite in the Land of Fire to protect their people.

• Tsunade and the Allied Shinobi Forces witnessed catastrophic earthquakes as the two worlds merged and unfamiliar beings appeared across the land.
• Issui awoke with his Eye of Heaven fully evolved, recognized the merged worlds, and was hailed as a god by the other world's humans, elves, and dwarfs.
• Issui explained the worlds' origins and merger, then used Eye of Heaven-lightning-Thunderstorm to destroy the nearby magical beasts and Abyssal Demons.
• Issui proposed temporarily uniting the five great nations and shinobi villages in the Land of Fire, and ordered the shinobi to return home to rescue their families and villages.

Issui united the ninja world and the righteous forces from the other world against the Demon Clan, then reshaped the conquered lands into a new order. The chapter ended with the founding of the Temple and its institutions, as the new world began to develop under Issui’s rule.

• Issui urged the leaders to unite, and Gaara, Ōnoki, A Yotsuki, Tsunade, and Mei Terumi agreed that he should lead the ninja world against the Demon Clan.
• Issui ordered the remaining forces to gather in the Land of Fire, and the ninjas set out to recover their villages.
• By Konoha Year 66, Issui’s forces had reclaimed most territory, confined the Demon Clan to four regions, and begun a new calendar called the Peace Era.
• Issui established the Temple and divided the lands into affiliated domains ruled by Celia Fiore, Naruto Uzumaki, Flavi, and Yagansi, while setting cultivation stages and appointing the Temple Enforcement Squad.
• Issui founded the Valley of Legendary, the Comprehensive Professionals’ Association, Radiance Academy, and Peace Bank, and introduced a new monetary system.
• The new world developed under Issui’s rule as the chapter ended.