Chapter Summaries

The Land of Sky launched a massive aerial assault on Orochimaru’s forces, but Hanma recognized the attackers and relaxed after realizing they were not Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. As Orochimaru and Minato prepared a plan to infiltrate the fortress, Hanma flew toward it on Black Wings; the rest of the passage was an author’s note about taking a day off and future story plans.

• A fortress and hundreds of flying units from the Land of Sky approached the air-raid shelter and attacked Orochimaru’s forces.
• Orochimaru ordered the organization’s ninjas to assemble, and Hanma recognized the attackers as the Land of Sky rather than Kara.
• Hanma considered the Sky Ninja’s technology and imagined using their Flying Ninja Tools for the Uchiha clan.
• Guren brought roughly two or three thousand ninjas to the assembly, while Orochimaru warned Hanma about the fortress’s powerful cannon.
• Orochimaru explained a plan to use Minato’s Flying Thunder God Technique to infiltrate the fortress, but Minato pointed out a simpler approach as Hanma flew toward it on Black Wings.

Hanma endured the Sky Ninja’s bombardment without injury, then unleashed Domain Expansion: Gluttonous Hell and overwhelmed their forces. The chapter ended with the domain consuming the Sky Ninja and shocking everyone watching, including Orochimaru, Minato, Kushina, and Nawaki.

• Orochimaru recognized Hanma’s Gluttonous Form as evidence of a path beyond human limits and became eager to study his cells.
• Kirigakure’s rogue shinobi transferred their hopes and flattery to Hanma after witnessing his power, while Nawaki reflected on their loyalty to strength.
• The Sky Ninja surrounded Hanma with firearms and cluster bombs, but he remained unharmed and praised their weapons and tactics.
• Hanma warned the Sky Ninja to show him more or face his attack, then activated Domain Expansion: Gluttonous Hell.
• Hanma’s domain drained and consumed the Sky Ninja with blood mist and black smoke, leaving everyone present horrified.

Hanma wiped out the Sky Ninja with Predator Domain and Gluttonous Feast of Paradise, leaving the battlefield and nearby Kirigakure ninja shaken. After Minato, Orochimaru, and Kushina discussed their next steps, Hanma gathered Chakra and aimed a Special Beam Cannon at the Floating Fortress.

• Hanma's Scarlet Black Dragons consumed the Sky Ninja inside his domain, leaving only ash-black, lifeless patches on the ground.
• The Kirigakure ninja argued over whether Hanma's power was Fuinjutsu or Genjutsu, while Kushina and Minato tried to understand what they had witnessed.
• Minato reflected on his own limits and considered studying the Kirigakure bloodline-limit ninja to advance his Chakra research.
• Orochimaru drew Minato aside to talk, and Kushina joined them to offer her help.
• Hanma absorbed the remaining Chakra, gathered a dazzling sphere of energy, and shouted "Special Beam Cannon!!" toward the Floating Fortress.

Hanma battled the Sky Ninja’s Floating Fortress, captured its crew, and drained the Chakra powering its self-destruct mechanism. The fortress lost power and began plunging toward the ground, leaving Hanma to try to keep it from crashing.

• Hanma fired a Special Beam Cannon at the Floating Fortress, whose cannon returned fire with a blast nearly as powerful as a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Hanma dodged the fortress’s cannons, machine guns, and rockets while pursuing it, then boarded and subdued the Sky Ninja inside.
• A masked Sky Ninja sacrificed himself with an Explosive Bomb, triggering the fortress’s self-destruct sequence.
• Hanma found the green stone pillar powering the fortress and absorbed most of its Chakra, stopping the dangerous reaction.
• The powerless Floating Fortress began falling, and Hanma prepared to use his strength to keep it from crashing.

As the Floating Fortress fell, Orochimaru and the others tried to cushion its landing, but Hanma caught it and lowered it safely to the ground. The stunned survivors were left staring at Hanma and Manda.

• Orochimaru ordered Nawaki, Minato, and the Kirigakure ninja to make a pit and swamp beneath the falling fortress.
• Nawaki split the earth, and the Kirigakure ninja filled the pit with water while Kushina and Minato worried the fortress would still be damaged.
• Orochimaru summoned Manda to serve as a cushion, leaving the giant serpent trapped in the swamp beneath the fortress.
• Hanma transformed into his Gluttonous Form, lifted the fortress overhead, and used it for pressing exercises.
• Hanma set the fortress down smoothly, then noticed Manda and the others staring at him.

Hanma and Orochimaru explored a damaged Sky Ninja fortress and discovered Gelel Stones that stored Chakra and reacted faintly to Nature Energy, prompting Hanma to speculate about the Shinobi World's ancient history and the Otsutsuki Clan. Orochimaru agreed to repair the fortress and asked Hanma to negotiate with the Kaguya Clan of the Land of Water.

• Manda cowered before Hanma, offered to serve him, and promised to carry his message to the White Snake Sage at Ryūchi Cave.
• Hanma defended Orochimaru and told Manda to treat its summoner properly, while Orochimaru gave Hanma Ryūchi Cave's Summoning Scroll.
• Hanma and Orochimaru entered the fortress, where Hanma revealed blue-violet stones that stored Chakra and identified them as Gelel Stones.
• Orochimaru found that the Gelel Stones reacted faintly to Nature Energy, and Hanma speculated that they were connected to the world's ancient cultivation system and the God Tree's purpose.
• Hanma asked Orochimaru to restore the fortress for use as Konoha's Military Police Force headquarters, and Orochimaru promised to repair it within three days.
• Orochimaru asked Hanma to negotiate with the Kaguya Clan, which had been targeting them in the Land of Water.

Hanma and Minato arrived at the Kaguya Clan settlement to challenge its combatants. Minato defeated the first clansman they encountered and demanded that the clan send out its strongest fighters.

• Hanma warned Minato not to underestimate the Kaguya Clan, whose members could awaken hidden bloodline power in battle.
• Hanma and Minato reached the bone-walled Kaguya village, where Hanma left the encounter to his disciple.
• A burly Kaguya clansman demanded money from Hanma and Minato and ordered them to leave.
• Minato used Flying Thunder God to strike the clansman with a Big Ball Rasengan, then severed his central nervous system with wind blades.
• Minato called the fallen clansman weak and asked the Kaguya Clan to send its strongest members.

Hanma and Minato confronted the Kaguya Clan and challenged them to join their organization, with Minato fighting Kaguya Shan to prove their strength. Minato defeated Shan with a Wind Release: Rasengan, leaving the clan facing Hanma’s demand.

• A Kaguya clansman threatened Minato after Minato had shattered his spine, and Hanma examined one of the man’s bones.
• Nearly a thousand Kaguya clansmen gathered, and Hanma told their clan head, Kaguya Mugetsu, that they must join his organization if they lost the contest.
• Kaguya Mugetsu accepted the challenge, and Kaguya Shan attacked Minato with Shikotsumyaku: Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets.
• Minato let the finger bones pass through his Water Transformation body, then used Flying Thunder God to evade Shan’s bone blades.
• Minato struck Shan twice with Wind Release: Rasengan, and Shan collapsed as his Shikotsumyaku-enhanced bones lost their luster.

Minato challenged Kaguya Mugetsu to test himself against a powerful opponent, but Mugetsu’s Shikotsumyaku made him difficult to defeat. Minato withdrew from the fight and left the confrontation to Hanma, who prepared to show Mugetsu what a true taijutsu shinobi could do.

• After Minato defeated Kaguya Mountain, Kaguya Mugetsu stepped forward as clan head and challenged him to fight.
• Mugetsu used Shikotsumyaku: Dance of the Willow, and Minato dodged his attacks until Mugetsu broke Minato’s kunai and nearly stabbed him.
• Minato teleported behind Mugetsu and struck him with a Big Ball Rasengan, but Mugetsu’s bone armor regenerated and he countered with bone spikes.
• Hanma explained the Kaguya Clan’s regenerative defenses as Mugetsu unleashed Dance of the Seedling Fern across the battlefield.
• Minato used his airborne Flying Thunder God kunai to attack Mugetsu with a Wind Release: Rasengan, but Mugetsu blocked it and forced him to retreat.
• Minato admitted defeat and wished Mugetsu luck against Hanma, who said Mugetsu was about to face a true taijutsu shinobi.

Kagetsu Mugetsu attacked Hanma, but Hanma crushed his bone weapon and defeated him with one punch. Mugetsu then entered a powerful bone cocoon as his chakra surged, and Hanma recognized a possible intermediate stage between Shikotsumyaku and All-Killing Ash Bones.

• Kagetsu Mugetsu misjudged Hanma as a ninjutsu and genjutsu specialist and charged him with a bone blade.
• Hanma caught the bone blade between two fingers and crushed it, then mocked Mugetsu’s brittle bones.
• Hanma shattered Mugetsu’s bone armor and sent him flying into a deep pit with a single punch.
• Mugetsu rose badly injured, roared with excitement, and enclosed himself in a Bone Cocoon as his chakra grew stronger.
• The Kaguya clansmen formed a protective line before the cocoon, while Hanma identified Mugetsu’s transformation as a possible new intermediate state.

Kaguya Mugetsu emerged from his Bone Cocoon with an evolved, blood-red Shikotsumyaku and challenged Hanma, while Minato reflected on how bloodline shinobi could awaken new power in battle. Hanma dodged Mugetsu’s attacks and demonstrated precise force by snapping his bone blade, leaving Mugetsu stunned as Hanma explained the technique.

• Kaguya Mugetsu emerged from the Bone Cocoon with blood-red armor, greatly increased Chakra, and the newly revived Shikotsumyaku: Blood Bone.
• Minato recalled Hanma’s warning about bloodline shinobi and reflected on the Uchiha’s sudden combat awakenings.
• Hanma considered the Kaguya Clan’s connection to Ōtsutsuki Hamura and wondered what might result from combining their bloodline with the Hyuga Clan’s.
• Kaguya Mugetsu dismissed his clansmen and attacked Hanma with Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets, but Hanma dodged and criticized his taijutsu.
• Kaguya Mugetsu charged with bone spikes covering his body, but Hanma redirected a bone blade and snapped it with a light pinch.
• Kaguya Mugetsu checked for Genjutsu and found none, and Hanma told him that the break came from the application of force.

Hanma overwhelmed Kaguya Mugetsu with superior taijutsu, testing his mastery of force against the Kaguya Clan warrior’s regenerative bones. After revealing his Taotie form and devastating the plain with a single punch, Hanma gave the clan a choice between submission and death.

• Hanma repeatedly shattered Kaguya Mugetsu’s bones with precise strikes, leaving the Kaguya clansmen too intimidated to intervene.
• Kaguya Mugetsu healed his injuries, strengthened his Blood Bone armor, and charged Hanma with a bone spear.
• Hanma caught the spear in his palm and his missed punch tore through Mugetsu’s armor, then explained that the Kaguya Clan’s destructive power was draining Mugetsu’s life.
• Hanma’s palm rapidly healed from the Blood Bone attack, and he demanded that the Kaguya Clan submit or die.
• Hanma entered his Taotie state and struck the earth, splitting the plain with a devastating shockwave.

Hanma crushed the Kaguya Clan’s grounds and forced its survivors to choose between submission and death. Kaguya Mugetsu accepted Uchiha rule, and the Kaguya clansmen treated the offer as recognition of their strength.

• Hanma’s strike devastated the Kaguya Clan’s territory, killing many weaker clansmen and leaving the survivors in shock.
• Hanma demanded that the Kaguya Clan submit or die, and Kaguya Mugetsu knelt and surrendered.
• Hanma declared that the Kaguya Clan would become subordinate to the Uchiha Clan, and the survivors agreed.
• Kaguya Mugetsu refused to collect the fallen clansmen’s bodies unless Hanma needed them for experiments.
• Hanma introduced himself as uchiha ryousuke, and the Kaguya clansmen took his personal approach as an honor and recognition of their strength.

Hanma brought the Kaguya Clan to meet Orochimaru, winning their loyalty by promising better conditions and explaining the cause of their Bloodline Disease. At the border of the Land of Hot Water, Orochimaru welcomed Hanma and assessed the growing strength of their alliance.

• Hanma carried over a thousand Kaguya clansmen on his back to avoid drawing attention after the earthquake.
• Hanma told the Kaguya Clan about Uchiha welfare and explained that their Shikotsumyaku problems stemmed from abundant physical energy and insufficient spiritual energy.
• Kaguya Mugetsu welcomed Hanma's insight and grew eager to meet the friend who could help resolve the clan's Bloodline Disease.
• Orochimaru flew the Floating Fortress toward Hanma and reviewed the alliance's growing forces and combat strength.
• Orochimaru considered the Third Mizukage's remaining resources a way to obtain the elite Jonin their forces still lacked.

Hanma brought the Kaguya Clan to the renovated Uchiha Fortress, where Kaguya Mugetsu discovered that former Kirigakure ninja and powerful allies were already working together under Hanma and Orochimaru. Orochimaru and Hanma began discussing the Gelel Mu Jins and the origins of Chakra and Nature Energy, leaving Kaguya Mugetsu bewildered by their theories.

• Hanma arrived at the transformed Uchiha Fortress with the Kaguya Clan, and Kaguya Mugetsu saw its steel construction and the many Kirigakure ninja working inside.
• Kaguya Mugetsu recognized Guren, Yuki Clan and Terumi Clan ninja among Hanma's allies, then watched the Kaguya and Kirigakure ninja put aside their hostility and talk.
• Kushina completed a Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique on Samehada, and Minato handled the subdued sword while explaining its potential as a last-resort weapon.
• Orochimaru reported that Gelel Mu Jins could carry Chakra and Nature Energy, and he and Hanma discussed whether the minerals were artificial or naturally concentrated energy.
• Hanma proposed investigating the relationship between Chakra and Nature Energy through Sage Mode, and Orochimaru welcomed the research idea.
• Kaguya Mugetsu asked Minato whether he understood Hanma and Orochimaru's discussion, and Minato admitted that he did not.

From Uchiha Fortress, Kushina detected a strange, noble Chakra signature in the Land of Water, prompting Hanma to suspect an Otsutsuki presence. The group postponed its plan to assassinate the Third Mizukage and discussed how to exploit the gathering conflict while Konoha prepared for the Nine-Tails handover.

• Kushina used the Mind's Eye of the Kagura to detect fighting among Root, Kirigakure, Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and smaller countries, as well as an unfamiliar Chakra that appeared and disappeared like Minato's Flying Thunder God.
• Orochimaru wanted to capture the mysterious teleporting person as a potential body for his Living Corpse Reincarnation technique, while Hanma warned him about the dangers of the technique.
• Hanma speculated that the strange Chakra belonged to an Otsutsuki, possibly a descendant of Ōtsutsuki Hamura or the wounded Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Orochimaru, Hanma, and Minato agreed to delay assassinating the Third Mizukage because the Land of Water had drawn the Shinobi World's attention, and Hanma proposed using Uchiha with Three Tomoe to provoke Kirigakure into isolation.
• Minato reported that the Third Hokage had imposed martial law and inspected Konoha's barrier, suggesting Uzumaki Mito's lifespan was nearing its end and the Nine-Tails handover was approaching.
• Kushina silently chose her life with Minato and Hanma over speaking up about her bond with Uzumaki Mito, hoping to restore the Uzumaki Clan and build a family.

Uchiha Madara replenished Izuna's Mangekyō Sharingan while Black Zetsu manipulated his grief into considering reviving his brother. Black Zetsu planned to recruit Izuna to help bring about Kaguya's resurrection, as White Zetsu arrived with intelligence about uchiha ryousuke.

• Uchiha Madara used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the Power of All Things to replenish Izuna's transplanted Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Black Zetsu listened as Madara planned to find an Uchiha successor rather than disturb Izuna's rest.
• Black Zetsu appealed to Madara's love for Izuna, reminding him that Izuna died young and left no children.
• Madara imagined how wonderful it would be to have an adorable nephew, and Black Zetsu prepared him to revive Izuna.
• Black Zetsu planned to use Izuna to restrain Nagato and help make Madara a sacrifice for Kaguya's resurrection.
• White Zetsu arrived and told Madara that he had gathered recent intelligence on uchiha ryousuke.

Uchiha Madara strengthened Nagato’s allies and prepared to revive Izuna as he worried that Nagato might not defeat Hanma. Uzumaki Kana survived a dangerous infusion of Hashirama’s power, while Black Zetsu grew frustrated with Madara’s arrogance and recalled his disastrous encounter with Hanma.

• Uchiha Madara decided to help Nagato grow stronger and summon Izuna from the Pure Land, relying on a special Mangekyo prepared to control Nagato if necessary.
• Uchiha Madara subjected Uzumaki Kana to a trial by injecting her with refined Hashirama cells, hoping to eliminate a weakness in Nagato’s group.
• Uzumaki Kana survived the infusion and awakened Adamantine Sealing Chains and Wood Release, showing strong compatibility with Hashirama’s cells.
• Black Zetsu revealed that he had secretly helped Kana’s cellular fusion and considered Madara an arrogant enforcer who should stay out of the plan.
• Black Zetsu recalled how Madara’s opening question to Hanma at Hozuki Castle had ruined his hope that the two Uchiha would join forces.

Uchiha Madara’s group watched White Zetsu’s memories of uchiha ryousuke’s devastating battle and discussed the threat he posed. As Madara sent Tobi to follow Uzumaki Kana, Nagato proposed naming their new organization Vortex.

• White Zetsu described uchiha ryousuke’s transformation and battle, and Uchiha Madara used his Mangekyo to examine the memories directly.
• Uchiha Madara dismissed Nagato’s concerns about ryousuke and asked Uzumaki Kana about her progress with Wood Release and Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Uchiha Madara brought Tobi out of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and assigned it to follow Uzumaki Kana, but Nagato blasted Tobi away when it reached toward her.
• Black Zetsu warned that ryousuke’s allies and influence in the hidden villages threatened their plans, while Uzumaki Kana vowed to punish Kushina.
• Uchiha Madara ordered Nagato and Kana to focus on their training, and Nagato suggested naming their organization Vortex.

Nagato and Black Zetsu planned to build the Vortex Organization by recruiting disaffected ninja, while Black Zetsu worried that Hanma’s defenses around the Uchiha Territory would obstruct its plans. Black Zetsu resolved to gather allies and capture the world’s Chakra so it could free its mother, Princess Kaguya.

• Nagato praised Black Zetsu’s recruitment dossiers and discussed targets including Hiruko, Kakuzu, Hōichi, and Jūzō Biwa.
• Black Zetsu told Nagato that wars and internal conflicts would create opportunities to recruit ninja and establish the Vortex Organization.
• Nagato asked why the list lacked Konoha and Kumogakure defectors, and Black Zetsu argued that both villages would eventually face divisions or war.
• After Nagato left to train, Black Zetsu worried that Hanma’s barrier and guarded entrance around the Uchiha Territory would prevent White Zetsu from gathering intelligence.
• Black Zetsu resolved to recruit capable ninja, defeat Hanma, and collect the Shinobi World’s Chakra to bring Princess Kaguya back.