Chapter Summaries

Minato impressed Uzumaki Mito with his power and offered to join the Uzumaki Clan, leading her to bring him home as a potential fiancé. At the clan’s territory, Minato announced his marriage proposal to Uzumaki Ashina while gathering a devastating attack.

• Uzumaki Mito accepted Minato’s glowing rose and listened as he explained his Kekkei Tōta techniques, Light Release and Dust Release.
• Minato demonstrated the destructive power of his techniques and asked Mito to choose between him and the Senju Clan’s eldest son.
• Minato offered to join the Uzumaki Clan so Mito would not have to marry into the Senju Clan, and Mito agreed to take him to her father.
• Mito told Minato her name, and the two introduced themselves as they headed to the Uzumaki Clan’s territory holding hands.
• Minato gathered overwhelming Chakra and called out to Uzumaki Ashina, saying he had come to propose marriage and threatening to fire if no one welcomed him.

Minato won the Uzumaki Clan’s approval to marry Uzumaki Mito by revealing his overwhelming abilities, and Uzumaki Ashina canceled her engagement to Hashirama Senju. The Senju Clan planned to exploit the brewing conflict between the Uzumaki and Uchiha Clans, while Uchiha Madara erupted in anger over the Uzumaki Clan’s rejection.

• Minato entered the Uzumaki Territory with Uzumaki Mito after displaying a terrifying attack, and Uzumaki Ashina invited him inside to discuss the marriage.
• Minato revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and multiple Kekkei Genkai and Kekkei Tōta, persuading Uzumaki Ashina to approve the marriage and offer him authority within the clan.
• Minato and Uzumaki Ashina agreed to cancel Mito’s engagement to Hashirama Senju and arrange the wedding quickly.
• Tobirama Senju told Hashirama that the Uzumaki Clan had canceled the engagement and married Mito to a powerful wanderer, while the Uchiha Clan’s marriage offer had also been rejected.
• Tobirama proposed that the Senju Clan use the conflict between the Uzumaki and Uchiha Clans to attack both and seize Uzumaki territory.
• Uchiha Madara split a table and roared that the Uzumaki Clan had insulted the Uchiha.

Uchiha Madara and Izuna Uchiha joined Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju in planning a joint campaign against the Uzumaki Clan, while Minato taught the Uzumaki clansmen powerful techniques. The Senju and Uchiha armies arrived to attack, and Minato prepared to face them.

• Izuna Uchiha persuaded Uchiha Madara to seek cooperation with the Senju Clan and use the broken engagement as justification for attacking the Uzumaki Clan.
• Tobirama Senju and Izuna Uchiha agreed that the Senju and Uchiha would divide the spoils and prisoners equally, while Hashirama Senju reluctantly accepted their plan.
• Minato sat beside Mito at the Uzumaki clan grounds and shared a textbook of techniques, then taught the clansmen the Flying Thunder God Technique, Rasengan, and other ninjutsu.
• Minato helped a red-haired boy form a Big Ball Rasengan and explained how the technique could strengthen the Uzumaki Clan's offense.
• A clansman announced that the Senju and Uchiha were attacking, and Minato stopped Uzumaki Ashina from rising and said he would handle the invaders.

Minato defended the Uzumaki Clan from a joint Uchiha and Senju assault, wiping out their elite forces and killing Madara, Izuna, and Tobirama. He ended the battle by returning to the Uzumaki territory, where he accepted tea from Uzumaki Ashina.

• Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara led their clans toward the Uzumaki territory, where Madara’s attacks failed against the clan’s strange barriers.
• Hashirama Senju sensed powerful Senjutsu Chakra within the Uzumaki Clan, but Minato struck first and pierced Uchiha Madara’s eye with a beam of light.
• Minato unleashed a barrage of Sage Art: Dual Kekkei Tōta, killing nearly all the Senju and Uchiha forces as Hashirama and Madara protected themselves with a giant Buddha and Susanoo.
• Izuna Uchiha gave Madara his eye, but Minato used Michikaeshi and space-time movement to kill Madara, Izuna, and Tobirama.
• Hashirama Senju struck Minato, but Minato transformed into unstable light and detonated a massive explosion that made Hashirama’s Chakra disappear.
• Minato returned to the Uzumaki territory and picked up the tea Uzumaki Ashina had brewed for him.

Ōtsutsuki Bushiki arrived in the Solar System and found Hanma training inside the Sun, then attacked him and learned of his extraordinary potential. Bushiki trapped Hanma in his Divine Art, the Space-Time House, and declared that he had seen Hanma’s death.

• Ōtsutsuki Bushiki traveled to the Shinobi World and searched Earth for the being who had defeated Urashiki and the others.
• Ōtsutsuki Bushiki sensed Hanma near the Sun’s core and attacked him, but Hanma emerged unharmed.
• Hanma introduced himself as uchiha ryousuke, and Ōtsutsuki Bushiki identified himself and explained Twilight of Thought.
• Hanma told Ōtsutsuki Bushiki that he was nearly fifty years old, intensifying Bushiki’s desire to take his body.
• Ōtsutsuki Bushiki activated the Space-Time House around them and claimed his Divine Art had already shown him Hanma’s death.

Ōtsutsuki Bushiki explained his rule-based divine arts and used them to reverse Hanma’s injuries and tilt fortune against him. Hanma endured the attack and, suspecting the God of Otsutsuki was the Soul King, taunted Bushiki into striking his chest.

• Hanma coaxed Ōtsutsuki Bushiki into explaining divine arts, which Bushiki said emerged after consuming Chakra Fruits and could manipulate rules through space-time energy.
• Ōtsutsuki Bushiki transformed and attacked Hanma, but Hanma matched his strength and landed a devastating knee strike that punched through Bushiki’s chest.
• Ōtsutsuki Bushiki used Complete Reversal to transfer his injuries to Hanma and restore himself, then summoned a silver scale to use World Harmony to redistribute luck and misfortune.
• Ōtsutsuki Bushiki explained that his Space-Time House combined Complete Opposition, which reflected damage, and World Harmony, which weakened Hanma while empowering Bushiki.
• Hanma asked whether Lord Shibai followed the path of the soul, and Bushiki said Shibai had transcended everything and chosen the path of creation.
• Hanma laughed, called the God of Otsutsuki the Soul King, and challenged Bushiki to strike him in the chest as hard as he could.

Hanma used his fight with Ōtsutsuki Bushiki to study rule-based abilities and found ways to evade and challenge them. He then compressed his body and the space-time around it to imitate a dying star’s collapse into a Black Hole, leaving Ōtsutsuki Bushiki watching in alarm.

• Ōtsutsuki Bushiki battered Hanma with World Harmony and used Complete Opposition to transfer Hanma’s injury back onto him.
• Hanma realized Ōtsutsuki Bushiki could not keep up with his speed or endure the sun, and said he would test a way to defeat him before considering escape.
• Hanma dodged Ōtsutsuki Bushiki’s attacks and taunted him, then entered Heavenly Demon Form: Full Release to overwhelm him with superior physical attributes.
• Hanma gathered blood-red steam within Ōtsutsuki Bushiki’s rule-bound domain and explained that he needed to break through his current level.
• Hanma compressed his body and the space-time occupied by his skin, attempting to imitate a dying star’s collapse into a Black Hole.

Hanma used Ōtsutsuki Bushiki’s weakened spacetime to simulate a stellar collapse, creating a limited Black Hole-like domain. He used it to evade and consume Bushiki’s misfortune, then killed him and rested inside the sun.

• Hanma realized Ōtsutsuki Bushiki’s misfortune had weakened the spacetime around him, giving him a chance to simulate stellar collapse.
• Hanma endured the blood mist and compressed time, space, and misfortune into his body, nearly dying but gaining a Black Hole-like state.
• Ōtsutsuki Bushiki tried to inflict misfortune on Hanma again, but it vanished near him, and Bushiki could no longer sense or target him.
• Hanma explained that he had created a limited chaotic domain and absorbed Bushiki’s misfortune element.
• Hanma approached the weakened Ōtsutsuki Bushiki, pierced his chest, and absorbed him after Complete Opposition failed.
• Hanma, injured by the strain of the collapse, sat cross-legged inside the sun to recover.

Orochimaru studied the Shinigami and learned that it shared an advanced power system with Ōtsutsuki Bushiki, which Hanma named Reishi and linked to Rules. Hanma revealed his own counter to Rules, while Orochimaru took the Shinigami fragments for research and Fugaku and Minato admitted what they had done in another spacetime.

• Orochimaru tested the Shinigami with the Naraka Path, and Minato pierced it with Senjutsu Light Release before Fugaku destroyed it with Takemikazuchi Soul Thunder.
• Hanma returned and explained Ōtsutsuki Bushiki’s Rule Abilities, Complete Opposition and World Harmony, warning Fugaku, Minato, and Orochimaru that such powers could overwhelm them.
• Hanma identified the Shinigami’s and Bushiki’s fundamental particles as Reishi, demonstrated his ability to counter Rules, and said the Otsutsuki God might have left fragments of consciousness on their planet.
• Orochimaru took the Shinigami fragments to study, while Hanma praised Fugaku and Minato for reaching the level of Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Fugaku revealed that he had married Mikoto in the other spacetime and made her kin, while Minato admitted that he had found Uzumaki Mito there.

Obito questioned Teuchi about Konoha’s cruel history and concluded that the Shinobi World itself was to blame for its endless suffering. After receiving a mission to capture Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, Obito planned to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and exploit the Sage of Six Paths’ reaction, then began his scheme at Rin Nohara’s grave.

• Obito ate ramen and asked Teuchi why he remained in Konoha despite the approaching war.
• Teuchi recalled the Konoha White Fang incident and described how the shinobi system punished people like Sakumo Hatake while ordinary villagers accepted its violence.
• Obito concluded that the Shinobi World was fundamentally broken and asked Teuchi whether killing its god could improve it.
• Obito received uchiha ryousuke’s order to capture Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and learned that Hanma’s battle with Ōtsutsuki Bushiki had revealed new powers and a key object tied to Isshiki.
• Obito decided to seize the Tailed Beasts and become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki so he could locate Isshiki and provoke the Sage of Six Paths.
• Obito went to Konoha’s cemetery and stood beside Rin Nohara’s excavated grave.

Obito from another time-space revived Rin Nohara as bait, then killed her and captured Obito Uchiha during the Fourth Shinobi World War. After sealing Might Guy and absorbing the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, he prepared to fight Uchiha Madara.

• Obito used a Life Force Talisman to make Edo Tensei Rin Nohara appear alive and controlled her with Genjutsu as bait for Obito Uchiha.
• Naruto and Kakashi broke Obito Uchiha’s mask, revealing his identity and prompting him to accuse Kakashi of letting Rin die.
• Rin appeared on the battlefield, and Obito Uchiha rushed to save her from a collapsing Earth-Style Wall.
• Rin’s Binding Talisman restrained Obito Uchiha, allowing Obito to kill him, destroy Rin, and take his Rinnegan and Kamui.
• Obito absorbed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and sealed Might Guy after he opened the Seventh Gate.
• Uchiha Madara confronted Obito, who dismissed him and prepared to fight.

Obito defeated Uchiha Madara, absorbed the Tailed Beasts’ chakra, and captured Ōtsutsuki Isshiki in an alternate timeline. He warned the Sage of Six Paths and Kaguya Otsutsuki about the Ōtsutsuki Execution Squad, prompting them to flee, then returned to his own timeline with Isshiki.

• Obito mocked Uchiha Madara and used Kamui to tear him apart, seal him, and absorb his soul.
• Obito sealed Naruto, Kakashi, and Might Guy, absorbed the Nine-Tails’ chakra, and captured Ōtsutsuki Isshiki after reaching the Six Paths level.
• Obito learned that the Ōtsutsuki Execution Squad could arrive in roughly two hundred years and sent a warning to the Sage of Six Paths and Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• The Sage of Six Paths revived himself and fled after releasing Kaguya, who also escaped from the Shinobi World.
• Teuchi watched the gods flee and hoped the coming conflict would unite the people of the Shinobi World.
• Obito returned to his own timeline with Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and sent the Ōtsutsuki a false warning to stay away.

Hanma and the others found the God of Otsutsuki’s abandoned shell in Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s Daikokuten space, and Hanma absorbed it despite its resistance. He planned to spend about ten years digesting its power before seeking the God of Otsutsuki, while the others prepared to grow stronger and settle their affairs.

• Hanma explained that Daikokuten possessed a powerful independent flow of time, and Minato considered how it might develop into a domain that could stop time.
• Hanma found the corpse of the God of Otsutsuki, and Kaguya confirmed it matched the figure described in the Otsutsuki Clan’s records.
• The corpse’s bloodline pressure affected the others, but Hanma suppressed it and told them that becoming his purest flesh would free them from it.
• The abandoned shell resisted Hanma’s touch and destabilized Daikokuten, but Hanma used darkness to calm the space and absorb the shell into his body.
• Hanma said he needed about ten years to digest the shell before searching for the God of Otsutsuki, and Kaguya and the others resolved to grow stronger so they could help him.

After decades of peace, Hanma remained in seclusion while his kin enjoyed a lull and waited for him to lead them toward a new realm. Minato and Fugaku reflected on their families and the limits of dimensional energy harvesting, then accepted that their role was to trust Hanma and wait for his orders.

• Minato and Fugaku chatted in the Uchiha Territory while Naruto and Sasuke sparred, and Fugaku joked about the other-dimensional Mikoto he had brought home.
• Minato described how Kushina and Uzumaki Mito had accepted each other but joined forces to tease him about his relationships.
• Naruto and Sasuke fought to a draw, and their fathers praised their progress before the young men went off to eat.
• Minato and Fugaku discussed how energy harvesting from other dimensions was becoming less effective and how the Otsutsuki system had limits.
• Fugaku urged Minato to trust Hanma and stop worrying, and Minato went home cheerfully to face his family.

Hanma evolved into the Final Heavenly Demon by absorbing the sun’s energy and Ōtsutsuki Shibai’s corpse, then left the Shinobi World to seek out Shibai’s true body. In a distant singularity, Shibai, now calling himself Soul King, planned to merge with the newborn world and become its sole will.

• Hanma’s Khorne Daemon Entry fused with his black-hole power and Shibai’s remains, transforming into the Final Heavenly Demon.
• Hanma found the sun too slow to sustain his growth and sensed an aura like Shibai’s true body far away in the universe.
• Hanma bid farewell to his gathered friends and kin, asking them to protect their home, then set out into the stars.
• Soul King reflected on the newborn singularity where he had halted the Hollow’s destruction and planned to absorb the world’s contents.
• Soul King considered creating the world’s rules as its Karma and integrating himself into it as its sole will.

Ōtsutsuki Shibai planned to merge with the newborn Shinigami world as its governing will while the Five Great Noble Clans plotted to force him into becoming its Karma. Their preparations were interrupted when Hanma broke through the world barrier, and he and Ōtsutsuki Shibai recognized each other as formidable opponents.

• Ōtsutsuki Shibai reflected that the newborn Shinigami world could let him absorb its rules and become one with the infant universe.
• Four of the Five Great Noble Clans decided to attack Ōtsutsuki Shibai and use their Sacred Treasures to force him into stabilizing the realms, while the Shiba Clan ancestor opposed them.
• The Shiba Clan ancestor pleaded with Ōtsutsuki Shibai to save the world and offered to become its Karma, but Ōtsutsuki Shibai intended to let the nobles' scheme help him merge with the universe.
• A massive black Uzumaki opened in the chaotic heavens, drawing in the world barrier and terrifying the nobles as Hanma appeared in the sky.
• The Shiba Clan ancestor stood between Hanma and Ōtsutsuki Shibai, but Ōtsutsuki Shibai told him to step aside and recognized his former power in Hanma's aura.
• Hanma said he had come for Ōtsutsuki Shibai's power, and the two realized that neither would easily defeat the other.

At Shin'ō Academy, Minato taught Soul Society history and joked with students about joining his special division. Back at the division’s palace, he and Hanma’s allies discussed their growing power, the Soul King’s threat, and their plan to wait for Hanma before acting, until Obito brought an invitation from Aizen.

• Minato taught his students the origins of the Soul Society and joked that they could join his special division by winning Fugaku’s approval.
• The students praised the special division’s powerful members, including Minato, Fugaku, Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Kaguya.
• Minato told Fugaku that their growing strength suggested Hanma’s cultivation was progressing, and that they should avoid provoking Yamamoto or opening Hell’s gate for now.
• Kaguya and Tsunade warned Fugaku that Hanma and the Soul King were playing a conflict beyond their control, and urged him to gather strength and wait for Hanma’s instructions.
• Obito delivered Aizen’s invitation to Minato, who called Aizen’s approach a sign that the world was about to accelerate.

Aizen revealed his plan to seize the Hōgyoku and challenge the Soul Society, while Minato warned him that the Special Response Squad would not interfere for now. In Hell, Hanma sent the First Gotei 13, now the Twelve Heavenly Demons of Hell, back to the Three Realms as he and the Soul King prepared for their return.

• Aizen asked Minato whether the Special Response Squad shared his contempt for the Soul Society’s ruling class, and Minato warned him about the hidden struggle around the Soul King’s throne.
• Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tōsen joined Aizen, who explained that the Hōgyoku and Kyōka Suigetsu had both failed to affect the Special Response Squad.
• Aizen resolved to obtain the Hōgyoku sealed within Rukia Kuchiki and begin his plan on the day of her execution.
• The First Gotei 13 captains and Kuruyashiki Kenpachi gathered in Hell as Hanma described his conflict with the Soul King and their preparations for a return.
• Hanma opened the Gates of Hell and sent the Twelve Heavenly Demons of Hell back to the Three Realms.

Three Heavenly Demons of Hell entered Soul Society as Hanma and the Soul King prepared their forces for a final battle over the three realms. During Rukia Kuchiki’s execution, Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto sensed the newcomers and ordered the Gotei 13 to assemble at highest readiness.

• Saitō Furofushi, Shihōin Sennichi, and Kuruyashiki Kenpachi emerged from Hell and discussed seizing Reishi and confronting the current Gotei 13.
• Hanma and the Soul King faced one another at the boundary between Hell and the three realms, trading taunts as they prepared their representatives for the coming conflict.
• Central 46’s spokesperson announced Rukia Kuchiki’s execution by Sōkyoku, though Aizen had forged the ruling after killing the real Central 46.
• Ichigo Kurosaki blocked Sōkyoku’s strike against Rukia Kuchiki, and Shunsui Kyōraku and Jushiro Ukitake destroyed the execution device.
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto recognized the spiritual pressures of Sennichi, Saitō, and Kuruyashiki, ordered the Gotei 13 to full readiness, and the three newcomers’ terrifying pressure blanketed Soul Society.

Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto halted the execution conflict and rallied Soul Society’s forces against invaders from Hell, identified as members of the First Gotei 13. Shihōin Sennichi badly wounded Soi Fon and Yoruichi Shihōin before Yamamoto confronted him and used Ryūjin Jakka to shield the others.

• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto ordered Shunsui Kyōraku and Jushiro Ukitake to stop their dispute, pardoned Ichigo Kurosaki, and directed him to join the fight against the invaders.
• Aizen secretly told Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tōsen to abandon their plan and follow the main force as Yamamoto revealed that the attackers were former members of the First Gotei 13 who had emerged from Hell.
• Yoruichi Shihōin defeated Soi Fon in their sparring clash, but Shihōin Sennichi appeared and punched a hole through Soi Fon’s abdomen.
• Shihōin Sennichi transformed and pierced Yoruichi Shihōin before asking her to identify Soul Society’s strongest fighter.
• Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto arrived, released Ryūjin Jakka, and raised a wall of flame to keep Shihōin Sennichi away from the others while Shunsui Kyōraku organized the rescue of the wounded.