Chapter Summaries

Hanma found the Six-Tails’ remote mountain prison and killed the Kirigakure ninja guarding it. After inspecting the primitive sealing barrier, he transformed and struck its focal point, leaving the seal’s fate unresolved.

• Hanma used Orochimaru’s intelligence to locate the Six-Tails’ mountain prison at the border of Kirigakure.
• Kirigakure ninja attacked Hanma, but he killed Jinin Akebino and two Hozuki Clan Jonin before wiping out the remaining guards.
• Hanma cleared the fog and examined the sealing talismans and iron gate that contained the Six-Tails.
• Hanma transformed into a towering, winged form and punched the focal point of the sealing formation.

Hanma broke the seal on the Six-Tails’ mountain prison and proposed taking the slug-like beast to meet Sage Katsuyu, but the Six-Tails attacked and collapsed the mountain in an attempt to escape. Hanma survived, and the Six-Tails began forming its largest Tailed Beast Bomb to fight for its freedom.

• Hanma shattered the sealing array and found the Six-Tails deep inside the mountain.
• Hanma offered to take the Six-Tails somewhere interesting, while imagining introducing it to Sage Katsuyu.
• The Six-Tails rejected Hanma’s offer and flooded the valley with corrosive liquid, bringing the mountain down around them.
• The Six-Tails emerged from the rubble believing Hanma had been crushed, but Hanma survived and asked whether it knew the slug from Shikkotsu Forest.
• The Six-Tails fled from Hanma and began creating a massive Tailed Beast Bomb as its last chance to escape.

Hanma defeated the Six-Tails by forcing its incomplete Tailed Beast Bomb to explode in its mouth, then absorbed most of its Chakra until it shrank to a tiny form. He learned that the Six-Tails was named Saiken and left it alive after it begged him to stop.

• Hanma punched the Six-Tails' incomplete Tailed Beast Bomb into its mouth and squeezed its jaws shut, causing it to explode inside its body.
• Hanma used his ocular power to immobilize the Six-Tails and spread black, lava-like energy through its wound, absorbing its Chakra.
• The Six-Tails feared Hanma would erase it completely as its body rapidly shrank.
• Hanma lifted the palm-sized Six-Tails and asked for its name, threatening to absorb its remaining Chakra when it pretended to be unconscious.
• The Six-Tails revealed that its name was Saiken, and Hanma greeted it politely.

Hanma learned more about the Tailed Beasts and brought the weakened Saiken to Shikkotsu Forest, where Sage Katsuyu welcomed them. He left Saiken with Katsuyu and set off to pursue his urgent search for Jashin in the Land of Hot Water.

• Hanma questioned Saiken about Tailed Beast growth, Nature Energy, and Kurama’s unusual power, then learned the names of all Nine Tailed Beasts.
• Hanma reasoned that the Tailed Beasts were unequally divided fragments of the Ten-Tails and considered absorbing Kurama to gain access to Nature Energy.
• Hanma worried that absorbing Tailed Beast Chakra would make his body too powerful and intensify Kaguya’s will within him, so he planned to use Jashin to improve Unified Origin.
• Hanma took Saiken to Shikkotsu Forest with Tsunade’s Summoning Scroll and introduced the Six-Tails to Sage Katsuyu.
• Sage Katsuyu welcomed Saiken, and Hanma left them together before heading to the Land of Hot Water to search for Jashin.

Hanma searched the Land of Hot Water for members of the Jashin Cult and found Feimei, a white-haired cultist who appeared to be Hidan’s relative. Feimei invited Hanma to learn about the cult and its promise of immortality, and he agreed to hear more.

• Hanma reflected on the Land of Hot Water’s history and its decision to abandon military power, then waited at a takoyaki shop while searching for Jashin Cult members.
• Feimei entered the shop with her father, complaining that the cult could not find anyone strong enough to survive its ritual and that they might miss their chance to contact Lord Jashin.
• Hanma noticed Feimei’s Jashin necklace and scythe, which resembled Hidan’s, and wondered if she was Hidan’s mother.
• Feimei confronted Hanma for staring, then lost interest in arguing and approached him after noticing his sturdy physique.
• Feimei invited Hanma to learn about her cult and its promise of immortality, and Hanma accepted the offer.

Feimei lured Hanma to the Jashin Cult’s pyramid, where the priest and hundreds of followers prepared a blood ritual to test him. Hanma agreed to cooperate while remaining confident in his defenses, and the chapter ended as the cultists completed their ritual circle and prayed to Jashin.

• Feimei praised Hanma’s physique and secretly imagined bearing a child who would become the cult’s holy son.
• Feimei led Hanma and his companions through a corpse-strewn forest to the Jashin Cult’s pyramid and revealed her cruel intentions.
• The priest emerged with hundreds of cultists, praised Feimei for finding Hanma, and surrounded him while explaining the ritual’s promise of immortality.
• Hanma considered the cult’s unusual techniques and agreed to cooperate, curious whether its ritual could affect his body.
• The priest, Feimei, her father, and the other cultists cut their arms, used their blood to form a giant symbol, and prayed for Jashin’s favor.

Hanma disrupted the Jashin Cult’s ritual, forced its blood and spiritual power into the priest, and watched him emerge as Jashin’s empowered spokesperson. Hanma then tested the priest’s immortality and curse, leaving him transformed and ready to report Hanma to Jashin.

• The Jashin Cult’s ritual gathered blood and a filthy spiritual force around Hanma, but he dodged the attack and shoved the old priest into the ritual instead.
• Hanma fed the blood sphere pieces of the cultists, and their faces fought within the mass until the priest devoured Feimei and became its final survivor.
• The priest emerged with a powerful reconstructed body, claimed Jashin had chosen him as its spokesperson, and attacked Hanma with his Bloody Triple-Bladed Scythe.
• Hanma caught the scythe, overwhelmed the priest, and destroyed his limbs before drawing blood and placing it on the priest’s face.
• The priest entered the black-and-white state of Jashin’s Curse: Blood Possession while Hanma drew the cult’s symbol in the blood.

Hanma investigated the Jashin priest’s Blood Possession curse by enduring its reflected injuries and using his Sharingan to find the link between them. After identifying the spiritual threads connecting them, he crushed the priest’s heart.

• The priest bit off his tongue, causing Hanma to suffer the same pain despite his defenses.
• Hanma tested the curse by repeatedly piercing the priest and endured the reflected wounds while studying them with his Sharingan.
• Hanma detected grayish-white spiritual threads linking him and the priest through the ritual array.
• Hanma plunged his hand into the priest’s chest and crushed his heart.

After killing the priest and destroying the ritual array, Hanma evolved “Unified Origin” by absorbing Jashin’s power, gaining the ability to nourish his soul with the essence of defeated enemies. As Hanma began considering the Shinobi World’s Shinigami, the priest’s ruined body revived and a being claiming to be Jashin appeared.

• Hanma killed the priest, destroyed his body, and erased the ritual array, trapping Jashin’s gray-white threads inside himself.
• Hanma forced “Unified Origin” to absorb the resisting power of Jashin, transforming it into the new Entry “Soul Devouring Rakshasa.”
• Hanma learned that the Entry let him absorb the souls of defeated enemies to strengthen his own soul, though its power might attract unknown forces and affect the arrival of “Twilight of Thought.”
• Hanma used “Soul Devouring Rakshasa” to consume the priest’s soul and resolved to grow strong enough to challenge the Shinobi World’s Shinigami.
• The priest’s body gathered itself into humanoid form, and its voice claimed that the being behind it was Jashin.

Hanma learned that Jashin’s “immortal body” was a soul-binding illusion and rejected his offer, then pretended to be Ōtsutsuki Isshiki to probe Jashin’s history. Jashin recognized the name and vanished, while his descents stirred powerful beings across the Shinobi World and beyond.

• Hanma realized Jashin’s power kept a shattered body’s soul conscious rather than granting true immortality.
• Jashin offered Hanma power and eternal life in exchange for killing and sharing souls, but Hanma declined and asked about the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Hanma posed as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and asked Jashin for help recovering his strength in return for a Chakra Fruit.
• Jashin revealed that Isshiki had destroyed his homeworld and cursed the Ōtsutsuki before sensing four figures and disappearing.
• Hanma concluded the Ōtsutsuki had made many enemies, while Jashin’s descents awakened the Sage of Six Paths, alarmed a monk, and sparked a dispute above the moon.

On the moon, Ōtsutsuki Suteren plotted to overthrow the Main Branch and use Toneri to destroy the Shinobi World, while Clan Head Shinichi concealed a dangerous secret beneath the moon. In the Pure Land, the Sage of Six Paths sensed unusual activity but fell asleep again, unaware that a major war was being prepared.

• Ōtsutsuki Shinichi struck Ōtsutsuki Suteren and ordered the Main Branch and Branch Family to resume their duties, while hiding his knowledge of a secret beneath the moon.
• Ōtsutsuki Suteren told a Branch Family clansman that Toneri's eyeless condition marked him as chosen and plotted to kill the Main Branch to awaken Toneri's power.
• Ōtsutsuki Suteren revealed his plan to use Toneri and stolen Byakugan to create a Giant Tenseigan and destroy the Shinobi World.
• The Sage of Six Paths awoke to investigate an evil aura, saw that Tsunade had cleansed the Box of Paradise, and reflected on his estrangement from Indra.
• The Sage of Six Paths returned to sleep, unaware that the hidden villages were preparing a devastating war.

After the Six-Tails was stolen and Jinin Akebino and his guards were killed, the Third Mizukage blamed Kirigakure’s failures on its shinobi and prepared to attack the rebelling Kaguya Clan. Genji steered him toward war, and the Third Mizukage vowed to use the Three-Tails’ power against the clan.

• The Third Mizukage learned that the Six-Tails had been stolen, Jinin Akebino and more than ten Jonin had died, and the enemy had left Kabutowari behind.
• Genji assessed the Kaguya Clan’s disciplined forces and argued that the shinobi guarding the Six-Tails could not have defeated the attackers.
• Genji suggested the Kaguya Clan might have learned the Six-Tails’ location through its ties to rogue shinobi and urged the Third Mizukage to focus on defeating the rebellion.
• The Third Mizukage accepted Genji’s proposal but demanded that the village’s clans send their strongest forces.
• The Third Mizukage ordered Genji to prepare a war plan and boasted that his Tailed Beast Bombs would overcome the Kaguya Clan.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki investigated the Jashin Cult ruins and reflected on his long struggle to survive in the Shinobi World. He decided to build an organization, gather intelligence, and watch Hanma, while plotting to escape Fuinjutsu and eventually drain the planet.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki examined the Jashin Cult ruins and sensed that Hanma had recently summoned Jashin there.
• Isshiki recalled surviving Kaguya's ambush by implanting Karma into Jigen, whose body still could not withstand his full power.
• Isshiki remembered that Hanma had destroyed the Sky Ninja Village, ruining his plan to establish a force and investigate Asura and Indra's reincarnations.
• Isshiki sensed that Hanma had eaten a Ten-Tails split body and decided to let him test the powers Kaguya's son still possessed.
• Isshiki resolved to form an organization, gather ninjutsu and intelligence, watch Hanma, and find a way to break Fuinjutsu.

Nawaki developed a powerful new explosive tag using a Gelel Stone, combining Earth and Fire Release to make flames stick to targets and keep burning. Orochimaru recognized its potential for aerial warfare and reported the invention to Hanma, while Tsunade was left wondering what the strange tag was.

• Nawaki completed a new explosive tag that used a Gelel Stone to store chakra and produce persistent, adhesive flames.
• Orochimaru tested the tag on a giant snake and saw it burn until only its skeleton remained.
• Orochimaru realized the tag could devastate battlefield formations when paired with flying ninja tools from the Land of Sky.
• Nawaki named his invention the Senju Explosive Tag, and Orochimaru sent Hanma a report and sample.
• Hanma recognized the weapon as a Chakra Napalm, while Tsunade picked up the tag and asked what it was.

Hanma and Tsunade tested Nawaki’s new Senju Explosive Tag and discovered it released fiercely burning, adhesive gel that could devastate groups of ninja. The chapter ended with Hanma and Tsunade joking about the Senju and Uchiha clans.

• Hanma showed Tsunade Nawaki’s new Senju Explosive Tag, and Tsunade doubted that Nawaki could improve on Tobirama Senju’s work.
• Hanma detonated the tag on himself, demonstrating its intense flames and adhesive burning gel.
• Tsunade recognized that the weapon could be especially dangerous to lower- and mid-level ninja, while Hanma explained how Nawaki used Chakra transformations and the Gelel Stone to make it.
• Tsunade objected to the tag’s name and defended the Senju Clan after Hanma teased her about Tobirama’s grave-digging and sneak attacks.
• Hanma and Tsunade traded jokes about the Senju and Uchiha clans, and Hanma jokingly asked the Sage of Six Paths not to deduct his merit.

Uchiha Madara revived Izuna Uchiha with Impure World Reincarnation after preparing a powerful body for him, and the brothers reunited after nearly fifty years apart. Izuna asked what had happened since his death, and Madara began by revealing that he had secretly helped the Gold and Silver Brothers kill Tobirama Senju.

• Uchiha Madara decided to revive Izuna Uchiha so he could help control Nagato, keep Madara's plans on course, and fight Hanma.
• Uchiha Madara used Impure World Reincarnation to bring Izuna Uchiha back in a body enhanced with powerful abilities and materials.
• Izuna Uchiha recognized Uchiha Madara, and the brothers embraced and told each other they had missed one another.
• Izuna Uchiha noticed Madara's weakened state and strange Sharingan, while Madara said his sacrifices were necessary to save the world.
• Uchiha Madara told Izuna Uchiha that he had killed Tobirama Senju by using Eternal Mangekyō Genjutsu to create an opening for the Gold and Silver Brothers.

After learning about the fifty years since his death, Izuna Uchiha agreed to help Uchiha Madara gather the Tailed Beasts so Madara could be revived and pursue Infinite Tsukuyomi. Madara instead released Izuna from his Impure World Reincarnation and used Rinne Tensei to restore him to life, dying in the process.

• Uchiha Madara explained the Shinobi World's changes and his plan to gather the Tailed Beasts and use Infinite Tsukuyomi, then told Izuna Uchiha to watch over Nagato.
• Izuna Uchiha reviewed Black Zetsu's intelligence, assessed Madara's allies and potential targets, and proposed gathering the Tailed Beasts without building a large force.
• Uchiha Madara warned Izuna about uchiha ryousuke and described his strength, while Izuna focused on Hanma and Tsunade's relationship before planning to capture Tailed Beasts during the next war.
• Uchiha Madara gave Izuna equipment and instructions for the mission, then released his Impure World Reincarnation and used Gedo: Rinne Tensei no Jutsu to revive him.
• Izuna Uchiha awoke in a living body and found Uchiha Madara dead beside the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

Izuna Uchiha took command of Nagato’s organization, renamed it the Fire Organization, and assigned its members missions to gather Tailed Beasts and support his brother’s plan. The group set out as Kirigakure fought Orochimaru’s forces, where a veteran Uchiha elder had died to a Tailed Beast Bomb.

• Izuna released Jūzō Biwa, Raiga Kurosuki, and Hiruko from his eye technique, then explained that Uchiha Madara had revived him to save the Shinobi World.
• Izuna invited the members to state their goals, gave Hanzo his support, appointed Kakuzu to manage finances, and tasked Hiruko with improving a ninjutsu while supplying him with Sharingan.
• Izuna renamed the Vortex organization the Fire Organization, and Nagato accepted the change despite valuing the old name.
• Izuna assigned Hanzo, Raiga Kurosuki, and Jūzō Biwa to recruit Monk Hōichi, sent Kakuzu and Nagato to retrieve the Seven-Tails from Takigakure, and tasked Kana and Zetsu with searching for Shukaku.
• Izuna vanished, and Hanzo warned Raiga Kurosuki and Jūzō Biwa not to hinder him as the members prepared to depart.
• Kirigakure’s Third Mizukage led a counterattack against Orochimaru’s forces, and a veteran Uchiha elder died beneath a Tailed Beast Bomb.

During Kirigakure’s assault on Orochimaru’s forces, Uchiha Shin sacrificed himself to awaken Fugaku’s Mangekyo Sharingan, while Orochimaru organized a campaign to outmaneuver the Third Mizukage and capture Kirigakure. After learning of Shin’s death, Hanma set out for Kirigakure to avenge him.

• The Third Mizukage launched a full-scale attack on Orochimaru’s position, exposing the Uchiha forces and targeting them as Konoha-backed rebels.
• Uchiha Shin took a Tailed Beast Bomb attack meant for Fugaku, then died after seeing Fugaku’s Mangekyo Sharingan awaken.
• Fugaku gained the Amaterasu and Takemikazuchi techniques and promised to avenge Shin.
• Orochimaru split his forces into mixed squads, ordering Nawaki to harass the Third Mizukage while other teams blocked communications and attacked Kirigakure’s base.
• Hanma read Orochimaru’s intelligence, mourned Shin’s sacrifice, and headed toward Kirigakure to avenge him.

Nawaki’s airborne unit inflicted devastating losses on Kirigakure, but the Third Mizukage ordered the lower-ranking shinobi to retreat and unleashed the Three-Tails’ power. As Nawaki prepared to withdraw, Uchiha Fugaku charged the transformed Mizukage.

• Ao urged the Third Mizukage to retreat and expose Konoha’s role in Kirigakure’s unrest to other villages, and the Third Mizukage ordered the Chunin to withdraw.
• The Third Mizukage taunted the Uchiha, but Nawaki kept his unit focused and ordered them to bombard the retreating Kirigakure shinobi with their remaining Thousand-Hand Explosive Bombs.
• The Third Mizukage used a massive Water Release to extinguish the burning battlefield and cover his forces’ retreat, then transformed into the Three-Tails’ form and sent water spears toward the airborne unit.
• Nawaki blocked the spears with Earth Release and prepared to retreat, but Uchiha Fugaku leaped onto the Three-Tails’ head and attacked.