Chapter Summaries

Wu Chen killed the Preta Path after Nick Fury shared information about the Six Paths of Pain and rallied the survivors. In Morocco, Tony Stark received Fury’s urgent summons and left his honeymoon with Pepper Potts to return.

• Nick Fury told the survivors what he knew about the Paths of Pain and encouraged Wu Chen to keep fighting.
• Wu Chen tricked the Preta Path into focusing on his Rasengan, then grabbed its arm and cut off its head with the Famous Blade · Siming.
• Tony Stark got out of an F1 race car to answer Nick Fury’s call, and Fury told him his home was gone and ordered him to return.
• Tony apologized to Pepper Potts for leaving their trip, and she accepted before he took her to his private plane.

Wu Chen planned to give the survivors hope and raise Nagato Uzumaki's Six Paths of Pain role-playing progress by staging a battle that imitated Naruto's fight against Pain. After defeating three Paths, he faced the three remaining Pains in Sage Mode.

• Wu Chen planned to defeat the Six Paths of Pain while making the fight advance his role-playing progress.
• After defeating the Preta Path, Wu Chen dispelled his Shadow Clone and entered Sage Mode.
• Wu Chen formed a Sage Art: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken and hurled it at the Human Path.
• The Rasenshuriken engulfed and destroyed the Human Path and Asura Path, while the Deva Path escaped with the Animal and Naraka Paths.
• Wu Chen told the three remaining Pains that they were the second and third, and Nick Fury and the survivors cheered.

Wu Chen confronted Deva Path Pain over the massacre, but Pain claimed that Wu Chen’s death would bring peace. After Pain repelled Wu Chen’s Rasenshuriken, he used an attraction technique to pull Wu Chen toward him.

• Deva Path Pain told Wu Chen that he had killed millions to make the world feel pain, while Wu Chen condemned him for it.
• Deva Path Pain spoke of the cycle of vengeance and demanded that Wu Chen surrender and die for the sake of peace.
• Wu Chen hurled a Sage Art: Wind Release: Rasenshuriken at Deva Path Pain as Nick Fury, Tobirama Senju, and the survivors watched hopefully.
• Deva Path Pain used Shinra Tensei to erase the Rasenshuriken and end Wu Chen’s Sage Mode.
• Tobirama Senju reasoned that Deva Path Pain controlled repulsive force and wondered whether he could also use attraction.
• Deva Path Pain used Banshō Ten'in to pull Wu Chen toward him.

Wu Chen survived Deva Path Pain's black rods, healed, and awakened the ultimate form of Nine-Tails Chakra Mode. He overwhelmed Deva Path Pain, who responded by using Chibaku Tensei.

• Deva Path Pain slammed Wu Chen down and impaled him with three black rods, leaving Wu Chen badly wounded.
• Wu Chen's golden Chakra hand knocked Deva Path Pain away and pulled out the rods, then Wu Chen drank a potion and healed.
• Wu Chen entered advanced Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and formed a gigantic golden Nine-Tailed Demon Fox avatar.
• Wu Chen attacked Deva Path Pain repeatedly, overcoming Shinra Tensei and forcing him to retreat.
• Deva Path Pain pressed his palms together and used Chibaku Tensei.

Deva Path Pain trapped Wu Chen’s Nine-Tails inside a massive sphere of earth and stone, leaving Nick Fury fearing Wu Chen would suffocate or be captured. Tony arrived in the devastated New York, and Nick Fury begged him to help Wu Chen; Tony told Pepper Potts not to come to the city.

• Deva Path Pain launched a sphere of condensed gravity into the sky, pulling up earth and stone around Wu Chen’s Nine-Tails.
• A huge rock struck the Nine-Tails and knocked it back, completing the sphere and trapping Wu Chen inside.
• Nick Fury and Tobirama Senju watched in shock as the cheering stopped and Nick feared Wu Chen would suffocate.
• Tony arrived in red-and-gold armor, and Nick Fury told him New York had been destroyed and begged him to help Wu Chen kill the Six Paths of Pain.
• Pepper Potts spoke to Tony through his faceplate, and he told her to stop and stay away from New York.

Tony attacked Deva Path Pain’s massive stone sphere to free Wu Chen, but Pain overwhelmed him and shattered his armor. Wu Chen broke out, knocked Pain away, and rescued Tony with shared Nine-Tails Chakra.

• Tony flew into battle and fired at the stone sphere trapping Wu Chen.
• Deva Path Pain pulled Tony toward him and repelled him, shattering the Iron Man Armor and knocking Tony unconscious.
• Tony’s attacks weakened the stone sphere, and Wu Chen broke through it in Advanced Form of Nine-Tails Chakra Mode.
• Wu Chen kicked Deva Path Pain away, then used a Three-Pronged Kunai to reach Tony as he fell.
• Wu Chen shared Nine-Tails Chakra with Tony, healing him and enveloping him in a Tailed Beast Cloak.

Tony regained consciousness, and he and Wu Chen prepared to fight Deva Path Pain before Tobi and Deidara arrived with Shukaku. Just as the Akatsuki’s growing numbers appeared to leave Wu Chen and Tony outmatched, Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki joined them.

• Tony woke under the protection of Nine-Tails Chakra and asked Wu Chen about it.
• Wu Chen agreed to team up with Tony against Deva Path Pain and entered Nine-Tails Chakra Mode again.
• Tobi and Deidara arrived on a white bird with the weakened Shukaku, while Kingpin approached the Akatsuki and offered five hundred million in sponsorship.
• Minato Namikaze appeared in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode with Kushina Uzumaki, apologized to Wu Chen for arriving late, and asked where they were.

Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki joined Wu Chen and the survivors in New York, where the Akatsuki tried to make them surrender one of their allies. Just as both sides prepared to fight, Thor arrived and greeted Minato.

• Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki appeared beside Wu Chen in the devastated New York, and Wu Chen explained what the Six Paths of Pain had done.
• Kushina wanted to attack the Akatsuki, while Minato urged caution and Tony resolved to develop a stronger Iron Man Armor after recognizing his limits.
• Deva Path Pain offered to leave if the others handed over either Wu Chen or Minato, but Tony and Nick Fury refused.
• The Akatsuki and Wu Chen's group prepared to fight before a swirling cloud opened in the sky and a pillar of multicolored light struck the ground.
• Thor arrived holding his hammer, greeted Minato as a fellow warrior, and gave the survivors hope as Deva Path watched him closely.

After Thor drove the Akatsuki away, Wu Chen explained the destruction of New York and Thor recognized the Six Paths of Pain as extraordinarily powerful. Minato Namikaze suggested that Konoha might have a way to restore what had been lost.

• Deva Path Pain dropped the stone sphere, and the Akatsuki escaped in the dust.
• Thor explained that he had come to help Minato Namikaze after Heimdall warned him about the crisis in New York.
• Thor asked why New York was empty, and Wu Chen told him the city had been devastated and more than eight million people were gone.
• Thor compared the Six Paths of Pain's power to that of his father, All-Father Odin.
• Minato Namikaze said that Konoha might have a way to make things right.

Nick Fury learned that Konoha could restore the people killed in New York, and Minato Namikaze negotiated payment for the means to do so. Nick Fury arranged to pay in gold, leaving Minato ready to obtain the Dragon Balls.

• Nick Fury asked Minato Namikaze whether Konoha could undo the destruction, and Tobirama Senju confirmed that Minato could decide whether to use Konoha's precious resource.
• Minato Namikaze told Nick Fury that Konoha needed money to provide the means of saving everyone.
• Nick Fury offered one billion dollars, prompting Minato to plan to obtain the seven Dragon Balls, which could grant three wishes once a year.
• Nick Fury said there was not enough cash and offered gold of equivalent value, and Minato agreed after consulting the system.

Minato Namikaze and Wu Chen took the billion dollars’ worth of gold and themselves, Tobirama Senju, and Kushina Uzumaki back to Konoha using the Flying Thunder God Technique. Nick Fury and the others stayed behind, waiting for them to return.

• The system accepted gold as currency, and a transport helicopter delivered forty thousand gold bars worth one billion dollars.
• Minato Namikaze asked Wu Chen to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to take the gold and their companions to Konoha, then return.
• Nick Fury trusted Minato Namikaze and Wu Chen and told the others to stand back.
• Tony watched closely to study the space-time technique, while Thor searched the ground for a magic circle after they vanished with the gold.
• Nick Fury hoped the group would successfully bring the gold back.

Wu Chen collected the gold Kingpin had paid and exchanged most of it for the Earth Dragon Balls, which he planned to use to revive New York’s dead. After Nagato announced that the deal was finished and everyone ended their role-playing, Wu Chen drank an Anti-Fatigue Potion.

• Nagato told Wu Chen that Kingpin had paid five hundred million worth of gold and that Obito was preparing to teach him S-rank Water Release secret techniques.
• Wu Chen exchanged seven-tenths of the gold for the Seven Dragon Balls and considered their limits compared with the Namek and Super Dragon Balls.
• Nagato told Wu Chen that things with Kingpin were finished, then ended his role-playing and dispelled his Shadow Clone.
• The Akatsuki members who had been with Kingpin also ended their role-playing and dispelled their Shadow Clones.
• Wu Chen hurriedly drank an Anti-Fatigue Potion from the villa’s living room.

Wu Chen recovered from the Pains’ memories, confirmed Kingpin’s loyalty, and spent most of his remaining funds on the seven Tailed Beasts. He and Minato Namikaze then returned to New York, where Nick Fury defended their trustworthiness as they were expected to bring back a billion dollars.

• Wu Chen endured the Pains’ accumulated fatigue and pain, then reviewed the memories showing that Kingpin had pledged himself to the Akatsuki.
• Wu Chen checked his shop balance and redeemed the remaining seven Tailed Beasts, keeping a little over a hundred million dollars in reserve.
• Wu Chen refused Minato Namikaze’s suggestion to check his role-playing progress and left with him using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Nick Fury and others continued rescue operations in the New York Basin while Nick Fury and the man who had brought the money waited for Wu Chen and Minato Namikaze.
• The man worried that Wu Chen and Minato Namikaze could not be trusted with a billion dollars, but Nick Fury insisted they would not let him down.

Wu Chen and Minato Namikaze revealed the Seven Dragon Balls to Nick Fury, Tony, Thor, and a United Nations representative, who doubted their claims. Wu Chen summoned Shenron and wished for everyone good who had been killed by the Six Paths of Pain to be revived, then learned Shenron had granted all three wishes at once.

• Minato Namikaze and Wu Chen arrived with the Dragon Balls as Nick Fury notified Tony and Thor and the United Nations representative followed with a camera.
• Minato Namikaze explained the Dragon Balls, but Tony, Nick Fury, and the representative questioned whether they were real.
• Wu Chen assembled the Dragon Balls and summoned Shenron, convincing the onlookers that their power was genuine.
• Wu Chen wished for all good people killed by the Six Paths of Pain to be revived, and Shenron granted the wish before vanishing and turning the Dragon Balls to stone.
• The revived people cried out among the ruins, and the United Nations representative knelt to apologize to Wu Chen.

After witnessing the resurrection of millions of people, the UN representative begged Wu Chen and Minato Namikaze for forgiveness. When the Dragon Balls scattered after Shenron vanished, Wu Chen, Minato, Tony, and Thor caught six, but one escaped, leaving Minato to pursue it.

• The man who brought the money knelt and begged Wu Chen and Minato Namikaze to forgive him, fearing the consequences of antagonizing them and Konoha.
• Wu Chen and Minato Namikaze used the Flying Thunder God Technique to intercept the Dragon Balls as they scattered, while Tony and Thor caught one each.
• One Dragon Ball evaded everyone and flew away, so Minato gave his two captured Dragon Balls to Wu Chen and set off after it.
• Tony and Thor handed their Dragon Balls to Wu Chen, who stored all six in a wooden box and thanked them for helping.
• Wu Chen offered to treat Thor to a meal and began praising his Krabby Patties before faltering as he remembered the situation.

Wu Chen used hundreds of Wood Clones and Wood Release to rescue everyone trapped in New York’s ruins, exhausting his Chakra in the process. With the survivors safe, the problem of housing millions of people remained.

• Wu Chen asked Thor and Tony to help rescue people, and Tony agreed after asking Wu Chen to add two place settings to their later meal.
• Tony challenged Wu Chen to a rescue contest, but Wu Chen created hundreds of Wood Clones and sent them to the rubble.
• Wu Chen’s clones used Wood Release to grow trees whose branches carried trapped people safely down from the ruins.
• Thor praised Wu Chen and agreed to spar and share a meal with him, while Nick Fury’s regard for Wu Chen increased.
• Wu Chen rescued everyone who had been revived, then dismissed his clones and began recovering his depleted Chakra as Tony and Thor continued helping.
• The survivors were safe, but the question of where to house millions of people remained.

Nick Fury struggled to house the millions of people Wu Chen had resurrected, then discovered that almost none of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s agents had returned. When Minato Namikaze came back without the Dragon Ball, he set aside Fury’s questions and prepared to ask Wu Chen something important.

• Rescue teams arrived after the United Nations received a report, but Nick Fury worried there was nowhere to house the more than seven million survivors.
• Nick Fury contacted S.H.I.E.L.D. and heard from only a handful of agents, leading him to suspect that most of the organization had not been resurrected because they were bad people.
• Nick Fury put the mystery aside and assigned the surviving agents, including Maria Hill, to rescue and resettlement work.
• Minato Namikaze returned without catching the fleeing Dragon Ball and told Wu Chen that he knew roughly where the final Dragon Ball was.
• Minato Namikaze solemnly asked Wu Chen to answer an important question honestly.

Minato Namikaze explained that Wood Release was a Senju Kekkei Genkai, and Wu Chen's ability to use it suggested a connection to Hashirama Senju. Minato had secretly kept the last Dragon Ball and planned to use the lie about losing it—and Wu Chen's supposed Senju bloodline—to support Konoha's future actions and give Wu Chen a new backer.

• Minato Namikaze explained to Nick Fury and Wu Chen that Wood Release was a Kekkei Genkai associated with the Senju Clan and Hashirama Senju.
• Minato Namikaze revealed in his thoughts that he had caught the last Dragon Ball and hidden it in his waist pouch.
• Minato Namikaze planned to use the Dragon Ball search as a cover for Konoha's future clashes with the Akatsuki over the Tailed Beasts.
• Minato Namikaze decided that Wu Chen's Wood Release could establish a connection to Hashirama Senju and provide Wu Chen with a suitable backer.

Minato Namikaze explained why Wu Chen's wish used all three of Shenron's wishes and revealed that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. He warned Nick Fury about Hydra's surviving forces, then prompted Wu Chen to give his prepared answer.

• Minato Namikaze explained that Wu Chen's wish required one wish to distinguish good people from bad and two to resurrect millions of people.
• Nick Fury asked whether Shenron's judgment of S.H.I.E.L.D. could be wrong, and Minato Namikaze told him Hydra had infiltrated the organization.
• Minato Namikaze said nearly all the Hydra infiltrators were dead and warned Nick Fury to investigate New Mexico, except for Coulson, and avoid rash action against Hydra's other forces.
• Minato Namikaze asked Wu Chen for his answer, and Wu Chen prepared to tell a story.

Wu Chen used a family photo and a staged explanation about his mother to suggest a connection to Hashirama's clan, while Minato's comments prompted Nick Fury to accept that Hydra had deeply infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. Nick Fury resolved to rebuild the agency with carefully vetted personnel, leaving Wu Chen's potential role as its next director an open possibility.

• Wu Chen told Minato Namikaze that he had learned Wood Release from something his mother left behind.
• Minato asked to see a picture of Wu Chen's mother and suggested aloud that her black hair and black eyes linked her to Hashirama's clan.
• Nick Fury woke and asked whether Wu Chen and Konoha's First Hokage shared a family connection.
• Nick Fury accepted that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., including former director Alexander Pierce, and resolved to vet everyone when rebuilding the agency.
• Wu Chen remained unaware that Nick Fury might eventually offer him the position of S.H.I.E.L.D. director.