Chapter Summaries

Madara Uchiha attacked Sunagakure with Tengai Shinsei, but Sasori used Sage Art: Sand Kingdom to stop his meteors and drove him to retreat. After learning that Uchiha Jin had developed a Sage of Six Paths realm, Madara resolved to advance his inner cultivation and challenge him.

• Madara Uchiha summoned a massive meteor over Sunagakure as a greeting gift and a display of his strength.
• Sasori used Sage Art: Sand Kingdom to hold up Madara Uchiha’s meteors, then blew away the dust after they shattered the construct.
• Sasori discovered that Madara Uchiha had left Sunagakure and concluded that the ninja world was growing more dangerous.
• Madara Uchiha returned to Mountain Graveyard and learned from the White Zetsu that Uchiha Jin had developed the Sage of Six Paths realm.
• Madara Uchiha decided to focus on advancing his inner cultivation, watch Uchiha Jin, and later bring him Konoha’s Nine-Tails to test his strength.

Minato Namikaze struggled with the Hokage’s workload until Kushina joined him, and the two later shared a relaxed sukiyaki dinner with Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha’s family. The chapter left Itachi determined to protect Naruto and Sasuke from Uchiha Jin, even if he had to sacrifice himself.

• Kushina brought Minato Namikaze a stack of documents and helped him work while urging him to pursue the Six Paths level so he could face Uchiha Jin.
• After working until nightfall, Kushina and Minato Namikaze went to Fugaku Uchiha’s home to collect Naruto and share Mikoto’s sukiyaki.
• Fugaku and Mikoto welcomed Minato Namikaze and Kushina, and the families gathered for dinner while Naruto and Sasuke played together.
• Uchiha Itachi took Naruto and Sasuke back to the bedroom and silently vowed to protect them from Uchiha Jin, even at the cost of his life.
• Fugaku’s family discussed how Minato Namikaze had accepted the Uchiha Clan and restored its equal standing in Konoha.

Minato Namikaze weighed the daimyo’s orders to attack Uchiha Jin’s Land of Rain and told Uchiha Fugaku to monitor it, while Kushina sorted the ninjutsu scrolls at home. Madara Uchiha appeared before Kushina, and their fight began when she attacked him with golden chains.

• Minato Namikaze considered the daimyo’s repeated orders to invade the Land of Rain and recognized that attacking Uchiha Jin would be disastrous.
• Uchiha Fugaku gave Minato Namikaze a roster of spies in training, and Minato ordered him to monitor the Land of Rain.
• Kushina returned home to sort the village’s old ninjutsu scrolls and make room for the techniques Uchiha Jin had left behind.
• Madara Uchiha appeared in the darkness and questioned when the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki had been replaced.
• Kushina sensed Madara Uchiha and sent golden chains at him, but he summoned a half-body skeleton that cut through them with blue Light Blades.

Kushina and Minato Namikaze fought Madara Uchiha with powerful Sage Arts, but Kushina’s exhausting barrier faded before Madara could strike her. A furious figure appeared in front of Kushina and knocked Madara’s Dharma Body away.

• Kushina shattered Madara Uchiha’s Susanoo and Wood Golem, then launched him beyond Konoha with her Chain Dharma Body.
• Minato Namikaze sent Fugaku Uchiha to organize Konoha’s evacuation and joined Kushina in pursuing Madara.
• Kushina trapped Madara’s attacks with her Death Sealing Barrier as Minato attacked with Space-Time techniques, but Madara used Limbo to ambush him.
• Kushina and Minato caught Madara’s invisible shadow clone and destroyed it with a Rasenshuriken, while Madara trapped Minato’s Divine Dharma Body inside a Chibaku Tensei sphere.
• Kushina’s barrier faded, leaving her unable to defend herself as Madara charged, but an unknown figure intervened and sent Madara’s Dharma Body flying.

Tsunade drove Madara away with a powerful compressed Dharma Body technique, then explained her research into the next stage of the Dharma Body realm to Minato. At the hospital, Minato and Kushina met the resurrected Nawaki, but Tsunade refused Minato’s request to bring back others, explaining the limits of resurrection.

• Tsunade stopped Minato from interfering and struck Madara’s Susanoo with successive punches, shattering it and sending him flying.
• Tsunade admitted she could not stop Madara from leaving and told Minato she had come to seek research materials on the Six Paths realm.
• Tsunade explained that she had developed a compact Dharma Body with the same size as her own body, concentrating its power into smaller attacks.
• Minato carried Kushina to the hospital, where he and Kushina encountered Nawaki, whom Tsunade had resurrected.
• Minato asked whether Tsunade could resurrect others, but she refused and explained that resurrection was difficult for anyone dead more than seven days.

Tsunade explained that an unknown force had prevented her from resurrecting Dan Katō, while Minato Namikaze asked her to stay and help Konoha. In the Land of Rain, Jin prepared for war after learning the four daimyo planned to attack, and Sakumo Hatake was summoned to a meeting.

• Tsunade told Minato Namikaze that she had resurrected her younger brother but could not pull Dan Katō's soul from the Pure Land, and she agreed to stay in Konoha for a while.
• Jin watched Madara Uchiha flee through the 3D Imaging Technique and wondered what he would do next.
• Jin saw that the four daimyo had mobilized their forces to attack the Land of Rain and ordered the Legion Commanders gathered to prepare for war.
• Kakashi kicked Sakumo Hatake into a pond after Sakumo complained about the lack of female soldiers in his legion.
• Two figures summoned Sakumo Hatake to a meeting with the daimyo, and he warned Kakashi that war would tear everything apart.

Jin gathered the commanders to discuss expanding the Land of Rain and assigned them missions to eliminate the noble class led by the daimyō in several nations. The commanders prepared to act, while Jin claimed he liked wars that made people progress.

• Jin asked Nagato about reaching the Third Layer, and Nagato said the Rinnegan kept him from accumulating enough Chakra.
• Jin suggested sealing a tailed beast inside Nagato to help him advance, and Nagato accepted the possibility.
• Jin announced plans to build new cities and expand beyond the Land of Rain, arguing that other people also needed happiness.
• Jin assigned Hanzō to the Land of Earth, Kakuzu to the Land of Lightning, Orochimaru to Sunagakure, and Sakumo Hatake to the Land of Fire.
• Jin said they would first eliminate the noble class led by the daimyō, then declared that he liked wars that made people progress.

Hanzō led the Rain Army into the Land of Earth, defeating its peasant army and launching an assault on the capital. As Hanzō fought Ōnoki, his forces killed nobles throughout the city, and Huashi confronted Han, the Five-Tails Jinchūriki.

• A Land of Earth general marched twenty thousand peasant soldiers toward the Land of Rain, where Hanzō and the Rain Army prepared to attack them.
• Kuma unleashed a rainstorm and led the Rain Army in slaughtering the Land of Earth soldiers, killing their general and routing the survivors.
• Hanzō led his forces to the capital and confronted Ōnoki, who had disguised himself as the Land of Earth daimyo; the two began fighting.
• Rakuten and Huashi attacked the capital's nobles, while Han arrived and engaged Huashi.
• Huashi used Bewildering Flower to control Han's five senses after Han began a partial tailed beast transformation.

Huashi captured Han’s Five-Tails, while Rakuten discovered the Land of Earth’s daimyo hiding in an underground passage. The chapter ended as Rakuten’s flames erupted into the passage and confronted the daimyo’s escort.

• Huashi used Flower Realm to trap Kokuō and put Han to sleep, capturing the Five-Tails.
• Ōnoki and Hanzō continued fighting while Rakuten searched for the hidden daimyo.
• Rakuten used Fire Eye to locate the daimyo beneath the city and unleashed Great Fire Prison into the passage.
• Rakuten rose from the blaze before the daimyo and his guards, saying he had found them.

Rakuten, Kuma, and Huashi completed their missions as the Rain forces began withdrawing, while Hanzō fought Ōnoki above the city. Ōnoki realized the Rain forces had withdrawn because they had cleared away obstacles for a new era, but he rejected their actions and continued fighting.

• Rakuten burned the Land of Earth Daimyo, his samurai guards, and the attendants with his flaming cloth strips.
• Kuma received the signal that the mission was complete and ordered the Rain Ninja to withdraw from the ruined city.
• Huashi received the same signal as the Five-Tails reverted to Han, then vanished, leaving Han wary and confused.
• Hanzō learned the mission was complete and began covering the Rain Army's withdrawal while fighting Ōnoki.
• Ōnoki destroyed Hanzō's purple avatar with Particle Style, but Hanzō reappeared and flooded the city with poison.
• Hanzō told Ōnoki that a new era was coming and that the Rain forces had cleared away obstacles, and Ōnoki rejected him as their battle continued.

Ōnoki discovered that the daimyo and nobles of the Land of Earth had been killed, leaving the country on the brink of chaos. In the Land of Lightning, Raikage A sought to expand Kumogakure’s power through national reforms, but the daimyo brushed him off.

• After Hanzō withdrew, Ōnoki asked Han about the daimyo and learned that the daimyo had likely died in the underground passage.
• Ōnoki recognized that the deaths of the Land of Earth’s daimyo and nobles would plunge the country into chaos and said Iwagakure needed a new path.
• Kakuzu led Gato, Vander, and the Money Army past an army marching toward the Land of Rain, but refused to attack because it offered no money or merit.
• The dark-skinned leader urged the gathered troops to destroy the Land of Rain, believing the daimyo’s authority should not be surrendered to ninja.
• Raikage A proposed using the Land of Lightning’s resources to strengthen Kumogakure, but the daimyo dismissed him and went to take a nap.

Kakuzu and the Money Army attacked the capital of the Land of Lightning, while Raikage A and Killer B fought to protect it. Kakuzu destroyed the city’s safe house, killing the Daimyo, and Killer B turned toward the Daimyo’s Estate as the battle continued.

• Kakuzu’s Chakra Cannon struck near the Daimyo’s Estate, and Raikage A intercepted it before confronting him.
• The Money Army fought the Cloud Ninja, while Killer B and Vander exchanged sword attacks and powerful techniques.
• Raikage A battled Kakuzu’s Earth Grudge Fear Dharma Body and tried to keep its attacks from reaching the city.
• Kakuzu declared that the Land of Rain had come to destroy the Land of Lightning’s nobles and daimyo, then fired at the capital.
• Raikage A blocked Kakuzu’s attack with Heaven’s Wrath, but Kakuzu fired again and a Zanjutsu strike destroyed the safe house, killing the Daimyo.
• Killer B landed on the ruins and looked toward the Daimyo’s Estate, recognizing that the daimyo had to be moved.

Gato ordered the Money Army to retreat from the Land of Lightning’s capital as Vander disengaged from Killer B. Kakuzu’s final attack destroyed the capital after Raikage A failed to block it, and A was left to question whether the Land of Rain intended to start a war.

• Gato used the Money Army to kill the cloud ninja who attacked him, then signaled a full retreat from the city.
• Vander stopped chasing Killer B and withdrew, while Killer B wondered where the daimyo had gone.
• Kakuzu continued attacking Raikage A, whose Thunder God Dharma Body was badly damaged and nearing its limit.
• Kakuzu’s white laser pierced A’s defense and engulfed the Land of Lightning’s capital in an explosion.
• Raikage A accused the Land of Rain of provoking war, and Kakuzu told him to ask Uchiha Jin before leaving.

Orochimaru confronted Sasori in the Land of Wind and discovered that Sasori had turned the daimyo into a conscious puppet. Sasori fled when Orochimaru’s Research and Development Army arrived, while Sakumo Hatake led a group through the Land of Fire’s capital.

• Orochimaru met Sasori in the Land of Wind’s Daimyo's Estate tea room and learned that the daimyo was a human puppet controlled by Sasori.
• Orochimaru examined the puppet and heard the daimyo quietly beg to be killed.
• Orochimaru told Sasori to leave and revealed that his Research and Development Army had come to eliminate all nobles.
• Sasori tore apart the tea room with his wings and flew away rather than fight Orochimaru’s forces.
• Sakumo Hatake walked through the Land of Fire’s capital with a woman who stopped to eat snacks, and he lamented that Kakashi had broken his ancestral sword.

Sakumo Hatake and Chako arrived at the Capital of Fire as the Land of Rain moved against the daimyo system, while Minato Namikaze rushed to protect the Land of Fire. Sakumo finally chose to act and destroyed the Daimyo's Estate, where ten figures immediately confronted him.

• Chako asked Sakumo Hatake when they would move against the Land of Fire, and Sakumo acknowledged that the daimyo's defenses were outdated.
• Minato Namikaze learned that the Land of Rain had eliminated the daimyos and nobles of the Lands of Wind, Earth, and Lightning, then left for the Capital of Fire.
• Kushina stayed behind in Konoha and took Minato Namikaze's seat in the Hokage's office.
• Chako led Sakumo Hatake to the Daimyo's Estate, where he realized his Combat Corps had gathered and was waiting for his decision.
• Sakumo Hatake formed a blade of white light and slashed the Daimyo's Estate, collapsing the building as ten figures confronted him.

Sakumo Hatake fought Minato Namikaze after helping attack the Daimyo's Estate, while Chako battled the Temple of Fire's abbot amid the chaos in the Capital of Fire. Minato questioned Sakumo about his past fight with Uchiha Jin, and Sakumo fell silent as their battle continued.

• Sakumo Hatake killed ten Daimyo's Estate guards and searched the ruins, but learned the Daimyo had already escaped.
• Minato Namikaze arrived and asked Sakumo Hatake whether he was an enemy, then invited him to return to Konoha; Sakumo refused.
• Sakumo Hatake and Minato Namikaze clashed with their white and golden forms as they debated whether Konoha could change.
• Chako burned through the Temple of Fire abbot's Thousand-Armed Kannon defense and killed him with her Phoenix flames.
• Sakumo Hatake's White War God and Minato Namikaze's golden deity exchanged powerful attacks, and Sakumo explained how he dispersed damage.
• Minato Namikaze asked why Sakumo Hatake had fought Uchiha Jin, and Sakumo fell silent before Minato's deity kicked him away.

Minato Namikaze and Sakumo Hatake fought while discussing why Jin had challenged Minato for the Hokage position. Sakumo revealed his unmatched Iaijutsu and Quick Slash, and their battle remained unresolved as his Frenzied Barrage destroyed only one of Minato’s two Rasenshuriken.

• Sakumo Hatake told Minato Namikaze that he had meant to keep Jin in Konoha, while Jin had opposed Sakumo’s plan to die and bind him to the village.
• Minato Namikaze realized Jin had fought him for the Hokage position because it was the lock White Fang had left behind.
• Sakumo Hatake used Iaijutsu: Quick Slash to sever Minato’s Divine Dharma Body’s arms and slice away part of its head, forcing Minato to retreat.
• Minato Namikaze launched two Space-Time Release: Rasenshuriken at Sakumo Hatake as flames rose in the Capital of Fire.
• Sakumo Hatake answered with Iaijutsu: Quick Slash and Frenzied Barrage, destroying one Rasenshuriken while the other remained.

Sakumo Hatake ended his battle with Minato Namikaze and signaled the Combat Corps to retreat from the Capital of Fire. Minato extinguished the city’s flames, while Konoha’s leaders faced the daimyo’s demand for action against the Land of Rain and a mysterious attack on the daimyo’s guards.

• Minato Namikaze defeated Sakumo Hatake but stopped short of striking him, and Sakumo sent the Combat Corps a retreat signal.
• Chako and the dark-skinned man withdrew with the Combat Corps after they failed to find the Land of Fire’s daimyo.
• Minato Namikaze surveyed the burning, ruined Capital of Fire and extinguished its flames.
• The young daimyo demanded that Konoha respond to the Land of Rain’s rebellion, but Kushina said major decisions had to wait for Minato Namikaze.
• Tsunade urged Kushina to focus on Uchiha Jin’s intentions, while a mysterious voice appeared near the daimyo and darkness swallowed his guards.

Jin secretly returned to Konoha, then flew to the Land of Rain’s border to confront an invading army. He trapped the soldiers with earthen walls and turned them against the nobles, leaving the crowd in revolt.

• Jin erased the Land of Fire daimyo in Konoha without being detected, then returned to the Land of Rain.
• Jin flew above the gathering army and sent its arrows back at the archers, causing deaths among soldiers and bystanders.
• Jin raised enormous earthen walls around the army and announced that the invaders would pay for attacking the Land of Rain.
• Jin offered the commoners a chance to live if they killed the nobles among them, and they turned their weapons on their officers.
• A noble general’s personal guard stabbed him, while Jin laughed at the revolt.

Uchiha Jin freed the commoners trapped in the sealed region and organized the Land of Rain’s preparations for a wider war. Yahiko accepted the invasion of the Land of Grass and the Land of Birds as a sacrifice for lasting peace.

• The commoners killed the noble commanders, and Jin opened an exit and ordered the survivors to leave in an orderly line.
• Jin ordered the guards to send those who wanted to leave the Land of Rain away and issue temporary residence permits to those who stayed.
• Jin assigned Hanzō to wage a war of attrition against the Land of Earth, Kakuzu to handle Konoha, and Orochimaru to face Sunagakure.
• Jin ordered Hinoka to build defensible, relocatable city structures and Shiranoka to register and house people from the front lines.
• Jin ordered Nagato’s Akatsuki Army to conquer the Land of Grass and the Land of Birds, prompting Yahiko to accept the sacrifice as a path to peace.