Recaps

Jin led the Land of Rain in overthrowing the noble rulers of the great nations, while Konoha and other shinobi villages moved to seize cities and secure new sources of power. The arc left the world reshaped by the collapse of the old order, with Madara Uchiha allied with Kirigakure and poised to divide the Land of Water.

• Madara Uchiha attacked Sunagakure with meteors before returning to Mountain Graveyard, where he learned that Uchiha Jin had reached the Sage of Six Paths realm.
• Madara Uchiha invaded Konoha for the Nine-Tails, but Kushina and Minato fought him until Tsunade intervened and drove him away.
• Jin ordered Hanzō, Kakuzu, Orochimaru, and Sakumo Hatake to lead campaigns against the great nations, and the Rain forces killed or removed the daimyos and nobles of the Lands of Earth, Lightning, and Wind.
• Sakumo Hatake attacked the Capital of Fire, where Minato fought and defeated him before Jin secretly killed the Land of Fire daimyo in Konoha.
• Jin turned an invading army against its noble commanders, then assigned his forces to expand the Land of Rain and conquer neighboring territories.
• Minato proposed that Konoha seize cities and build its own economy, while Konoha and Iwagakure began occupying territory and other villages sought Rain ninjutsu and ways to increase their forces.
• Madara Uchiha allied with Kirigakure, ordered Genji to divide the Land of Water, and killed its daimyo, prompting Jin and Orochimaru to anticipate further chaos.

Jin’s Land of Rain entered Konoha’s Chunin Exams, where Shisui, Kabuto, and Little Meow advanced through the trials and Shisui faced Itachi. During their battle, Sasori launched an assault on Konoha, and the arc ended with Rasa fighting Kushina and Setsuna revealing his restored youth and Dharma Body.

• Yahiko continued the Akatsuki Army’s advance into Takigakure as Madara tried to reclaim his Rinnegan from Nagato, but Jin defeated Madara and forced him to retreat.
• Nagato erased Takigakure, and Kinoki joined the Land of Rain’s forces as its eighth Legion Commander while Sunagakure’s Rasa challenged Sasori for the Kazekage position.
• Jin arranged for the Land of Rain to join Konoha’s Chunin Exams, while Sasori and the other leaders sent their villages’ teams to compete.
• Jin arrived in Konoha with Shisui, Kabuto, and Little Meow, and Shisui reunited with Itachi, who accused him of betraying the Uchiha Clan.
• Shisui, Kabuto, and Little Meow passed the Forest of Death trial, then Little Meow defeated Mei Terumi and Kabuto defeated Darui in the one-on-one matches.
• Shisui and Itachi fought with their Mangekyō Sharingan and Susanoo until an explosion in Konoha interrupted their match.
• Sasori attacked Konoha and used Sky Pillar Lockdown to disable Minato’s spatial ability, while Rasa confronted Kushina and Setsuna told Tsunade that someone had restored his youth and given him a Dharma Body.

Uchiha Jin resurrected powerful figures from the past, including Hashirama Senju, whose journey to the Land of Rain led to a clash with Jin over peace and the Shinobi World. Jin defeated Hashirama and let Minato Namikaze and Kushina take him away, while Sasori continued his battle with Sakumo Hatake.

• Tsunade defeated Uchiha Setsuna’s allies as Minato Namikaze fought Sasori, and Sasori surrendered his advancement theory before escaping, and Rasa and Pakura freed the captured Sunagakure ninja, and Rasa became Kazekage.
• Jin entered the Pure Land, clashed with the Sage of Six Paths, and returned with a sphere of souls that he and Orochimaru used to resurrect powerful figures, including Izuna Uchiha and Hashirama Senju.
• Hashirama Senju encountered the puppet people of the Land of Wind, defeated Dafa, and fought Rasa, breaking free of his Gold Dust techniques with True Several Thousand Hands.
• Sasori joined Hashirama on his journey to the Land of Rain and trained him in Chakra Inner Cultivation, while Hashirama learned about Nagato Uzumaki’s past and the Land of Rain’s prosperity.
• Hashirama Senju confronted Uchiha Jin over their opposing ideas of peace, and their argument was interrupted by Sasori’s attack on Sakumo Hatake and Kakashi in New City.
• Hashirama Senju attacked Jin with Wood Release and his Thousand-Hand Guanyin Statue, but Jin defeated him, and Minato Namikaze and Kushina intervened and took Hashirama away as Sasori continued fighting Sakumo Hatake.

Jin drew the Shinobi World’s leaders and their strongest fighters into a battle in the Land of Rain, while Minato reached the Six Paths realm and rallied them against him. The fighting left the combatants weakened, Yahiko secretly began taking tailed-beast chakra, and Minato broke free from Jin’s prison.

• Sasori transformed into a colossal war machine and attacked Sakumo Hatake and New City, but Jin defeated him and erased him before his parents.
• Jin ordered Orochimaru to invade the Land of Wind, while Hashirama Senju returned to Konoha and agreed to temporarily serve as Hokage.
• Jin entered the Dragon Vein ruins, where he encountered alternate versions of himself and clashed with Six Paths Jin over their plan to merge their powers.
• Madara Uchiha came to Konoha to test Hashirama, while Minato Namikaze reached the Six Paths realm and received the Sage of Six Paths’ promise of further help.
• Minato assembled leaders and fighters to eliminate Jin, but Jin gathered his ten Legion Commanders and prepared to end the Shinobi World’s warfare.
• Jin drew the enemy forces into battles across New City, where Ōnoki and Han fought Hanzō, Kakuzu battled the Raikage, and other fighters faced Jin’s champions.
• Jin trapped Minato in White Prison and set Hashirama, Madara, and Uchiha Osame against Tobirama, Nagato, and Shisui, while the other battles left many fighters exhausted.
• Yahiko secretly extracted the Five-Tails’ chakra from Han and turned toward Yugito Nii, just as Jin’s prison sphere shattered and Minato appeared before him.