Chapter Summaries

After mastering Ryūchi Cave’s Sage Mode, Kabuto learned that the White Snake Sage wanted him to use Impure World Reincarnation to destroy Mount Myōboku and Shikkotsu Forest. Black Zetsu appeared and proposed an alliance, while the White Snake Sage recognized his scheme to resurrect Uchiha Madara.

• Kabuto mastered Ryūchi Cave’s Sage Mode, transforming into a pale, snake-tailed form and gaining much greater strength.
• The White Snake Sage told Kabuto that her prophecy showed him mastering Impure World Reincarnation and using it to wage war against the shinobi world.
• The White Snake Sage asked Kabuto to destroy Mount Myōboku and Shikkotsu Forest, but Kabuto doubted he could overcome their Sage Mode users.
• Black Zetsu emerged from the ground and asked the White Snake Sage and Kabuto to work with him.
• The White Snake Sage recognized Black Zetsu as the one who had been plotting to resurrect Uchiha Madara.

Black Zetsu tried to recruit Yakushi Kabuto by promising that he could resurrect the person Kabuto wanted through Uchiha Madara and the Rinnegan. Kabuto was tempted by the possibility of bringing Yakushi Nonō back and asked what he had to do.

• Black Zetsu invited Yakushi Kabuto to cooperate with him and Uchiha Madara rather than with the Akatsuki Organization.
• Black Zetsu explained that Rinne Rebirth could resurrect the dead, prompting Kabuto to think of Yakushi Nonō.
• Kabuto questioned the cost of Rinne Rebirth, and Black Zetsu admitted that its user would have to sacrifice himself.
• Black Zetsu revealed that the Akatsuki Organization's leader possessed Madara's Rinnegan and proposed having him resurrect Madara, who could then resurrect the person Kabuto wanted.
• Kabuto was tempted by the offer and asked Black Zetsu what he needed to do.

Black Zetsu persuaded Yakushi Kabuto to help resurrect Uchiha Madara, while Hyuga Neji learned that the Caged Bird seal protected the Hyuga Clan from threats beyond the Shinobi World. The chapter ended with Neji stunned by the revelation as the three new Hyuga Main Family Elders plotted to break into Konoha Prison.

• Black Zetsu convinced Yakushi Kabuto to cooperate in bringing Uchiha Madara's soul back from the Pure Land.
• Hyuga Tsukasa and two other new Main Family Elders decided to break into Konoha Prison and rescue the imprisoned elders before Uchiha Chisen noticed them.
• Hyuga Neji told Hyuga Hiashi that Uchiha Chisen had returned and said the three new Main Family Elders were going to die.
• Hyuga Hiashi offered to remove Neji's Caged Bird Seal, but Neji refused, saying the clan should bear it equally.
• Hyuga Hiashi revealed that the Caged Bird also guarded the Byakugan against people beyond the Shinobi World, leaving Neji shaken.

Hyuga Hiashi told Hyuga Neji that the Hyuga Clan descended from the Ōtsutsuki on the moon and explained the Caged Bird Seal, the Byakugan’s potential evolution, and the moon branch’s failed attempt to create the Tenseigan. Neji learned that Hinata might awaken the Tenseigan and that the moon branch could still threaten the Hyuga Clan.

• Hyuga Hiashi revealed that the Hyuga Clan came from the moon and that its distant Ōtsutsuki relatives had visited Hinata when she was three.
• Hyuga Hiashi explained that the Caged Bird Seal had been created to protect the Hyuga Clan from a moon-branch massacre.
• Hyuga Hiashi told Hyuga Neji that Hinata’s exceptionally pure Byakugan might evolve into the Tenseigan, which could rival the Sage of Six Paths’ power.
• Hyuga Hiashi explained that the moon branch had tried to create the Tenseigan by combining thousands of Byakugan but had failed.
• Hyuga Neji realized that removing the Caged Bird Seal could leave the Hyuga Clan vulnerable to another attack from the moon.

Hyuga Hiashi removed Neji’s Caged Bird seal and entrusted him with protecting Hinata, the Hyuga Clan, and the Shinobi World from the Ōtsutsuki on the moon. When Hyuga Tsukasa raided Konoha Prison, Hiashi and the Main Family Elders killed him, then prepared to sacrifice themselves to help Hinata awaken the Tenseigan.

• Neji struggled with the Hyuga Clan’s dilemma and accepted Hiashi’s charge to protect Hinata after Hiashi removed his Caged Bird seal.
• Neji decided that his justice meant protecting Hinata, the Hyuga Clan, Konoha, and the Shinobi World.
• Hyuga Tsukasa led his followers in a raid on Konoha Prison, but Hiashi and several Main Family Elders attacked and killed him.
• Hiashi gouged out his Byakugan and revealed that he and the Elders intended to sacrifice the Hyuga Clan to help Hinata awaken the Tenseigan.
• A Main Family Elder asked whether they should kill Utatane Koharu and the other prisoners.

Hyuga Hiashi and the Main Family Elders began their plan to destroy the Hyuga Clan’s Branch Family and complete the clan’s Tenseigan. After killing Utatane Koharu and launching their attack, Hiashi turned his attention toward the Hyuga Shrine.

• Hyuga Hiashi ordered the Main Family Elders to kill Utatane Koharu and destroy her brain, and they killed her.
• Hiashi warned the Elders not to target students still attending the Ninja Academy, then led them toward the Hyuga Ancestral Home.
• Anbu and the Konoha Military Police Force found Utatane Koharu dead, Hyuga Hiashi’s group missing, and a Main Family member dead with his eyes gouged out.
• The Anbu squad captain ordered reports sent to the Third Hokage and Uchiha Chisen, while the Konoha Military Police Force began mobilizing.
• Hiashi and the Elders used the Caged Bird marks to disable Branch Family members, removed the marks, and harvested their Byakugan.
• Hiashi looked toward the Hyuga Shrine as he anticipated completing the clan’s Tenseigan.

Hyuga Hiashi and the Main Family Elders entered the Hyuga Clan’s hidden shrine to feed their unfinished Tenseigan with Byakugan, hoping to complete it before they had to sacrifice their own eyes. As the Tenseigan neared transformation, the elders began offering their eyes, but it still had not fully awakened.

• Hyuga Hiashi and the Main Family Elders gathered the Byakugan of executed elders and entered the secret space beneath the Ancestral Shrine.
• Hyuga Hiashi explained that the clan had spent centuries feeding the enormous Tenseigan with the eyes of its dead, gradually deepening its color.
• Hyuga Hiashi offered the collected Byakugan to the Tenseigan, which devoured them and grew darker, but remained short of transformation.
• The Main Family Elders rejected the suggestion to bring Neji and prepared to sacrifice their own eyes instead.
• The oldest Main Family Elder gouged out his eyes and offered them to the Tenseigan, followed by four more elders, while the eye still had not fully transformed.

Hyuga Hiashi sacrificed his Byakugan to complete the Giant Tenseigan, whose sapphire light spread across Konoha and revealed the birth of a power feared to surpass the Rinnegan. As Neji and Konoha’s leaders rushed toward the old Hyuga estate, someone on the moon also sensed the Tenseigan’s awakening.

• After the Main Family Elders’ eyes proved insufficient, Hyuga Hiashi gave up his own Byakugan, completing the Giant Tenseigan’s transformation.
• The Tenseigan’s blue light spread from the old Hyuga estate across Konoha and seemed to flicker across the moon.
• Neji sensed danger and hurried to the old estate after telling Hinata to look after Hanabi.
• The Nine-Tails, Sasuke, Jiraiya, and the Toad Sages reacted to the light, with Fukasaku and Shima recognizing the birth of the Sage of Six Paths’ younger brother’s eyes.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Tsunade, and Uchiha Chisen headed toward the old Hyuga estate, while Chisen feared the Tenseigan’s power could destroy the Shinobi World.
• The Tenseigan’s birth stirred someone on the moon.

Hyuga Hiashi emerged with a Giant Tenseigan created from the Hyuga Clan, destroying the Hyuga Old Residence with its power. Uchiha Chisen accused Hiashi of sacrificing the clan, and Hiashi challenged Chisen’s claims of justice.

• Otsutsuki Toneri saw a sapphire-blue Tenseigan manifest in the Shinobi World and worried about the Hyuga Clan and Hinata.
• The Giant Tenseigan floated behind Hyuga Hiashi, surrounded him with a pale blue Chakra Cloak, and let him unleash a silver hurricane that demolished the Hyuga Old Residence.
• Anbu and Uchiha clansmen discovered the bleeding Hyuga survivors and the Tenseigan, while Sarutobi Hiruzen and Tsunade arrived to assess its power.
• Jiraiya and Sage Fukasaku confirmed the eye was the Tenseigan, and Hyuga Hiashi walked out with the Main Family Elders.
• Uchiha Chisen accused Hyuga Hiashi of being guilty, suspecting he had sacrificed the Hyuga Clan to create the Tenseigan.
• Hyuga Hiashi mocked Chisen’s idea of justice and accused him of pursuing personal benefits under its banner.

Uchiha Chisen confronted Hyuga Hiashi over the Tenseigan and agreed to fight him at the Valley of the End. Their battle began with Chisen unleashing a sudden Lava Release attack, while Sarutobi Hiruzen realized Chisen’s power had continued to grow.

• Hyuga Hiashi accused Uchiha Chisen of strengthening the Uchiha Clan’s influence and revealed his confidence in the Tenseigan.
• Uchiha Chisen accused Hyuga Hiashi of sacrificing Hyuga clansmen to obtain the Tenseigan and challenged him to fight.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen urged them to move the battle to the Valley of the End to protect Konoha.
• Uchiha Chisen and Hyuga Hiashi led the Hyuga Main Family to the Valley of the End, with Sarutobi Hiruzen, Tsunade, and Jiraiya following.
• Uchiha Chisen opened the battle by erupting magma beneath the Valley of the End, and Sarutobi Hiruzen marveled at how freely Chisen wielded Lava Release.

Uchiha Chisen overwhelmed Hyuga Hiashi with a magma field and living Lava Giants, but Hiashi unleashed a Tenseigan-enhanced Rotation that transformed him into a massive spinning sphere. The chapter ended as the hurricane from Hiashi's attack battered the distant onlookers.

• Uchiha Chisen flooded the Valley of the End with magma and raised dozens of Lava Giants to attack Hyuga Hiashi.
• Hyuga Hiashi evaded the Lava Giants by climbing higher, while they merged into a much larger lava beast above the Magma Pool.
• Hyuga Hiashi failed to damage Uchiha Chisen through his Susanoo with Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Hyuga Hiashi used Tenseigan power to amplify Rotation, forming a huge spinning sphere of blue light that unleashed powerful winds.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and the others struggled to stay on their feet as Hiashi's hurricane swept across the battlefield.

Hyuga Hiashi used the Tenseigan to turn the Hyuga Clan’s Rotation into a devastating sphere that shattered Uchiha Chisen’s Susanoo and began disintegrating his Wood Human. Chisen’s defenses failed to stop it, while the witnesses were left questioning the mysterious powers he displayed.

• Hyuga Hiashi coated his Rotation with Tenseigan chakra and drove the blue sphere toward Uchiha Chisen, destroying the lava behemoth’s palm on contact.
• Uchiha Chisen formed a towering Susanoo, and Tsunade, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Sage Shima, and Sage Fukasaku reacted to its size and unusual purple tinge.
• Sage Shima and Sage Fukasaku suspected that Uchiha Chisen’s Susanoo was abnormal, while Jiraiya pressed them to explain their cryptic remarks.
• Uchiha Chisen’s Susanoo cracked as it grappled with the Rotation, and Hyuga Hiashi claimed the Tenseigan surpassed the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Hyuga Hiashi intensified the Rotation until it shattered Susanoo’s palms, then Uchiha Chisen summoned a Wood Human to shield himself.
• The deep-blue Rotation began disintegrating the Wood Human, prompting Sarutobi Hiruzen to compare its power to Dust Release and Jiraiya to question why Uchiha Chisen had Wood Style.

Black Zetsu learned that the Tenseigan had appeared in the Shinobi World and considered how its power might help him free his mother. At the Valley of the End, Uchiha Chisen combined his Susanoo with a Giant Wood Human to challenge Hyuga Hiashi’s devastating Tenseigan Rotation, while Hiashi struggled with the strain it placed on his body.

• Black Zetsu reacted with alarm to the Tenseigan’s appearance and wondered whether its wielder could help him rescue his mother.
• Uchiha Chisen’s Wood Dragons, Wood Humans, and magma-coated Susanoo failed to break through Hyuga Hiashi’s Tenseigan Rotation.
• Uchiha Chisen fused the Giant Wood Human with Susanoo armor and a Wood Dragon, creating Majestic Attire: Wood Human.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen watched the fusion and recalled the battle between Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara at the Valley of the End.
• Hyuga Hiashi realized that prolonged use of the Tenseigan Rotation had made him dizzy, but he could not stop fighting.

Hyuga Hiashi tried to defeat Uchiha Chisen with Tenseigan Rotation, but Chisen battered through its defenses with his Susanoo-armored Wood Human. As Rotation shattered and Chisen's Vajra struck Hiashi, Black Zetsu focused on taking the exposed Giant Tenseigan.

• Hyuga Hiashi used Rotation and Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm against Uchiha Chisen, but the attacks could not penetrate the Susanoo-armored Wood Human's defenses.
• Uchiha Chisen repeatedly struck the same point on Hiashi's Tenseigan Rotation with the Wood Human's Vajra, forcing Hiashi to spend his chakra to maintain it.
• White Zetsu and Black Zetsu watched the battle, and Black Zetsu recognized that Rotation was failing and the Giant Tenseigan was becoming exposed.
• Black Zetsu decided he wanted to seize the Giant Tenseigan, regardless of whether Hyuga Hiashi survived.
• Tenseigan Rotation shattered, and the Vajra struck Hyuga Hiashi again.

After defeating Hyuga Hiashi, Uchiha Chisen gained Tenseigan eye power and absorbed power from the Great Tenseigan. Sarutobi Hiruzen, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and the others approached him as Black Zetsu and White Zetsu withdrew.

• Hyuga Hiashi, mortally wounded, asked Uchiha Chisen to give the Tenseigan to Neji, but Chisen let magma engulf him.
• The Hyuga Main Family Elders sensed Hiashi's death and struck their own pressure points, killing themselves.
• Uchiha Chisen's Byakugan gained incomplete Tenseigan eye power, and the Great Tenseigan transmitted more power to him as his eye powers began to merge.
• Black Zetsu wanted to take the Great Tenseigan, but White Zetsu urged him to leave, and they withdrew.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Sage Fukasaku approached Uchiha Chisen and examined the Great Tenseigan.

Uchiha Chisen gave Hyuga Neji the Great Tenseigan and the Hyuga Clan’s eyes after the clan’s destruction, leaving Neji to grapple with Hyuga Hiashi’s fate and what to tell Hinata. Back home, Chisen’s Tenseigan and Rinnegan powers combined to awaken a trace of the power of all creation, letting him briefly enter Six Paths Mode and manifest Dust Release.

• Uchiha Chisen handed Hyuga Neji the Great Tenseigan and told him the Hyuga Clan’s eyes, including Hyuga Hiashi’s, were there.
• Hyuga Neji accepted the Tenseigan, suspected Hyuga Hiashi had died in a battle with Chisen, and wondered whether to tell Hinata why her father had acted as he did.
• Tsunade worried that Neji might misuse the Tenseigan, while Mitaraishi Anko argued that he would be fine if he held to justice.
• Uchiha Chisen returned home and felt his Tenseigan and Rinnegan eye powers intertwine, producing a trace of the power of all creation.
• Uchiha Chisen briefly entered Six Paths Mode, created a Truth-Seeking Orb, and sensed his body and Lava Release growing stronger.
• Uchiha Chisen produced a white glimmer of Dust Release that annihilated part of his home’s wall.

Uchiha Chisen discovered that experimenting with the power of all creation let him develop Dust Release and might allow him to create other kekkei tōta. Sarutobi Hiruzen considered stepping down as Hokage, while Jiraiya began doubting Mount Myōboku’s motives for seeking the Tenseigan.

• Uchiha Chisen created Dust Release by fusing three chakra natures and realized the power of all creation could help him develop other kekkei tōta.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen reflected on the deaths of his former comrades, admitted he could no longer challenge Uchiha Chisen, and considered handing the Hokage position to Tsunade.
• Sage Fukasaku asked Jiraiya to persuade Hyuga Neji to entrust the Tenseigan to Mount Myōboku for safekeeping.
• Jiraiya refused to ask for the Tenseigan and questioned whether Mount Myōboku’s search for the Child of Prophecy truly served peace.

Hyuga Neji struggled with the Great Tenseigan, the Hyuga Clan's future, and how to tell Hinata and Hanabi about the clan's destruction. Meanwhile, Black Zetsu persuaded Uchiha Obito to steal the Tenseigan, and Uchiha Chisen developed the new Shine Release Kekkei Tōta.

• Hyuga Neji worried that the Ōtsutsuki Clan on the moon had a Tenseigan of its own and considered whether destroying them could free the Hyuga Clan from the Caged Bird seal.
• Hyuga Neji wrestled with the prospect of Hinata awakening a Tenseigan and bearing the burden of the clan's destruction.
• Black Zetsu told Uchiha Obito about the Great Tenseigan and urged him to steal it from Konoha.
• Uchiha Obito agreed to go to Konoha, believing the Tenseigan could make him stronger than Nagato and give him a chance against Uchiha Chisen.
• Uchiha Chisen created Shine Release, a Kekkei Tōta formed by combining Lava Release and Explosion Release, and produced a tiny, intensely hot sphere.

Sarutobi Hiruzen told Tsunade to take over as Hokage and offered to advise her. Meanwhile, Neji prepared to tell Hinata what had happened to the Hyuga Clan, leaving her fearing that her father would not return home.

• Uchiha Chisen noticed that his Water Contract had become more efficient after he developed Shine Release.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Tsunade to become Hokage, and she accepted his offer to serve as her advisor.
• Tsunade agreed that Hiruzen could handle the village’s routine work, while Shizune looked on in confusion.
• Hinata asked Neji if they could return to the Hyuga Old Residence and pleaded for her father to come home too.
• Neji decided to tell Hinata what had happened to the Hyuga Clan, and Hinata agreed to speak with him outside.

After Hyuga Hiashi's death, Neji gave Hinata control of the Tenseigan, which awakened a powerful response in her. As Konoha noticed the chakra and the Tenseigan's implications, a second apparent sun appeared over the Uchiha compound.

• Hinata reeled when Neji told her that Hiashi was dead and the adult Hyuga Clan members had been killed, while Neji withheld the reasons behind Hiashi's actions.
• Neji placed the Tenseigan before Hinata, told her to guard it, and urged her to let its chakra benefit her.
• Hinata touched the Tenseigan, gained a dark-blue chakra cloak, and sensed the chakra of her father, the Main Family Elders, and Hizashi.
• Jiraiya and Sage Fukasaku sensed Hinata's unusually pure Tenseigan chakra and considered how the eye could awaken a Hyuga's Byakugan.
• Jiraiya wondered whether Hinata or Hanabi had been Hiashi's intended successor, then saw a sunlike phenomenon over Uchiha Chisen's home.
• Naruto and people across Konoha looked toward the Uchiha compound in shock at what appeared to be a second sun.