Chapter Summaries

After asking Lin Ke and Number One Hashirama about their hopes for the future, the Sage of Six Paths heard their different visions of peace. Lin Ke left the mental space, and the Sage decided to watch over him.

• The Sage of Six Paths reflected on his sacrifice for Ninshu and his disappointment that it had become a tool for endless conflict.
• Number One Hashirama said he had no concrete plans but hoped people could one day live peacefully without threatening one another.
• Lin Ke said he wanted to grow stronger, live with his friends, and explore other worlds.
• Lin Ke argued that perfect understanding and lasting peace might be impossible, but people could still try to understand and improve the lives around them.
• The Sage of Six Paths accepted Lin Ke's answer and watched him disappear from the mental space, resolving to watch over him.

After a devastating explosion disrupted the Chunin Exams, Lin Ke managed Konoha’s emergency response and worried about the political fallout and the coming fight against Ōtsutsuki Kaguya. By the next day, Sasori had defected to Konoha and joined Orochimaru and Senju Tobirama’s research.

• Lin Ke stayed in the Hokage Office to handle the crisis after Number One Hashirama’s blast reshaped the coastline, while Konoha evacuated visiting dignitaries and prepared for possible conflict.
• Lin Ke considered gathering allies for a Five Kage Summit and planned to summon Uchiha Obito to assess Kamui’s usefulness against Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.
• An Anbu told Lin Ke that Sasori of the Red Sands had arrived, and Lin Ke ordered that he be admitted.
• The next day, Lin Ke saw the Fourth Kazekage, Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari off as they departed for the Land of Wind, with the Fourth Kazekage agreeing to meet him in the Land of Iron in a week.
• Lin Ke learned that Sasori had defected, revealed secret dealings between Sunagakure and Iwagakure, and offered to cooperate on Five Elements Sealing experiments with Orochimaru and Senju Tobirama.

Senju Tobirama revived Uchiha Obito to recruit him against Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, but concluded that Obito had not truly abandoned his old plans. After Obito was released, Tobirama explained why Lin Ke’s attempts to mutate familiar ninjutsu had failed.

• Senju Tobirama and Lin Ke used a White Zetsu to perform Impure World Reincarnation on Uchiha Obito.
• Uchiha Obito agreed to help fight the world-destroying threat, while Senju Tobirama determined that he still had not let go of his old ambitions.
• Senju Tobirama told Number One Hashirama that Obito would only be given a chance to atone and that Madara could not be allowed to leave again; Number One Hashirama left in silence.
• Senju Tobirama asked Lin Ke about his failed techniques and explained that Lin Ke’s subconscious judged whether he was learning unfamiliar ninjutsu or taking a shortcut.
• Lin Ke realized that believing he was learning a new technique was the key to making his ninjutsu mutations work.

Lin Ke investigated signs that Iwagakure was working with Kusagakure and sent Utakata and Karin to find out what was happening. He then asked Sasuke from the Main World to use Genjutsu to test whether his ninjutsu could mutate under its influence, and Sasuke put him under an illusion.

• Lin Ke worried that his subconscious might affect the mutation of ninjutsu he learned, then fell asleep after reflecting on his powers and ambitions.
• Lin Ke reviewed intelligence reports and noticed Kusagakure ninja repeatedly crossing the border, suggesting Kusagakure might be cooperating with Iwagakure.
• Lin Ke ordered Utakata to take Karin to Kusagakure and investigate, and Utakata left after agreeing to report regularly.
• Lin Ke considered the lasting effects of the recent explosion and rain before continuing his Hokage work.
• At the Seventh Training Ground, Lin Ke asked Sasuke from the Main World to use Genjutsu while he simulated learning ninjutsu, and Sasuke placed him under the Sharingan illusion.

Lin Ke’s attempt to use Genjutsu to help control his power failed, but Sasuke explained that Lin Ke’s spiritual power and the Web around him made him effectively immune to Genjutsu. Sasuke said the team would travel to World Number Three the next day to subjugate Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, leaving Lin Ke worried but hopeful that the mission would go smoothly.

• Lin Ke woke in a false training-ground illusion, tried to cast the Flying Thunder God Technique, and discovered Sasuke’s Genjutsu experiment had failed.
• Lin Ke treated Sasuke’s bleeding eyes with the Delicate Illness Extraction Technique and an Extreme Soldier Pill—Modified, Final Version.
• Sasuke explained that Lin Ke’s spiritual power and the Web linked to him made Genjutsu unable to control him, even for End Sasuke.
• Lin Ke accepted that the Uchiha would become his strength and realized he had grown powerful enough that only Senju Hashirama could handle him.
• Sasuke told Lin Ke they would go to World Number Three the next day to subjugate Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, with Senju Tobirama and Hashirama joining them.
• Sasuke said Natural Energy experiments had succeeded and Hashirama had gained the Yin-Yang Power needed to seal Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, and Lin Ke hoped the mission would go smoothly.

Lin Ke questioned Senju Tobirama about the dangerous campaign against Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and learned the team planned to use a Natural Energy-filled Cursed Seal against her. Senju Tobirama prepared to lead the attack while Lin Ke stayed behind to manage the village and promised to act if the campaign failed.

• Lin Ke asked Senju Tobirama why he was joining the campaign against Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, and Tobirama explained that his Flying Thunder God technique would support the attack.
• Senju Tobirama showed Lin Ke a Cursed Seal designed to store Natural Energy and release it into Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, explaining that the plan could suppress or harm her.
• Lin Ke worried that the seal might explode or fail and objected to Tobirama, Sasuke, and the two Minatos risking their lives.
• Senju Tobirama said the group had to seize the initiative rather than wait for Ōtsutsuki Kaguya to attack, and he declined Lin Ke's offer to join them.
• Senju Tobirama praised Lin Ke's work managing the village, and Lin Ke said he would handle things if the campaign failed.

Lin Ke asked End Naruto to cooperate in summoning Uchiha Obito, whose help could improve their chances against Ōtsutsuki Kaguya. With End Naruto supplying chakra, Lin Ke cast his technique into the Pure Land, gathered many notable dead, and found Obito.

• Lin Ke apologized to End Naruto and proposed working together rather than following Senju Tobirama's plan to attack Ōtsutsuki Kaguya directly.
• Lin Ke explained that his technique could summon the dead without living sacrifices and said he wanted to try finding Uchiha Obito.
• End Sasuke revealed that Lin Ke had never existed in his world, while End Naruto agreed to return with Lin Ke and provide help.
• In the Final Chapter World, End Naruto supplied chakra as Lin Ke called into the Pure Land and cast ropes to catch the dead.
• Lin Ke drew many notable figures into the Web, including Nohara Rin and Senju Hashirama, then found Uchiha Obito.

Lin Ke sent a fifteen-person team through the Boat Crossing Technique to confront Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, while he stayed behind with Utakata. After returning to the Main World, he resumed Hokage duties and learned that the Land of Fire Daimyo wanted to meet about the Five Kage Summit and recent events.

• Hashirama and Tobirama noticed that Lin Ke had arrived with End Naruto, End Hashirama, End Tobirama, End Obito, and others, and Tobirama confronted Lin Ke for bringing additional versions of their allies.
• Lin Ke asked the team to defeat Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, and End Naruto assured him they would win.
• Tobirama sent the fifteen-person team through the Boat Crossing Technique, while Utakata returned after investigating the situation in Kusagakure.
• Lin Ke explained that End Naruto had used Rashomon to bring many dead ninjas back to the Final Chapter World, where they had caused chaos before the Five Kage restored order.
• Lin Ke returned to the Main World, worked through official documents at the Hokage Office, and received word that the Land of Fire Daimyo wanted to meet him.

The extermination squad failed to seal Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, who escaped to an unknown world using Lin Ke’s chakra and the Boat Crossing Technique. After the squad returned to Konoha, they prepared to pursue her, and Lin Ke considered joining them.

• End Naruto, End Obito, and Number One Hashirama helped seal Ōtsutsuki Kaguya with Six Paths Planetary Devastation, but she used Lin Ke’s chakra to escape and Black Zetsu was pulled into Kamui.
• Number One Hashirama gathered the scattered extermination squad and confirmed to Main World Tobirama that Kaguya had fled to another world.
• Lin Ke returned to the Hokage Building after leaving a meeting with the Land of Fire Daimyo, and Mitokado Homura arranged for Shikaku to handle future meetings.
• Number One Hashirama told Lin Ke that Kaguya had escaped to an unknown world and still had two portions of his chakra that she could use to ambush them.
• End Obito proposed that he, End Naruto, Sasuke, and Number One Hashirama pursue Kaguya, while Lin Ke asked whether he should join them because his Five Elements Sealing might kill her.

After the group drove Ōtsutsuki Kaguya away, End Obito and End Sasuke moved to eliminate the two Madaras, especially Number Two Madara, for his past crimes. As the others pursued them, Lin Ke lost track of both Madaras when their Web accounts suddenly vanished.

• End Obito brought Black Zetsu out of the Kamui Dimension, and Orochimaru offered to interrogate him for information.
• End Obito and End Sasuke confronted the two Madaras, intending to deal with them before they could grow stronger.
• Number One Hashirama and End Naruto intervened when the Madaras resisted, and the fight broke through the laboratory ceiling.
• End Obito, End Sasuke, and Number One Hashirama pursued the Madaras while End Naruto stayed behind to guard the laboratory.
• Lin Ke sent the Madaras’ locations to their pursuers through Web markers, but then discovered both Madaras’ Web accounts had disappeared.

Hashirama captured both Madaras after the battle, and Lin Ke arranged for them to be reincarnated in other worlds instead of being killed. With Ōtsutsuki Kaguya driven off, Lin Ke and the others turned to the work of repairing the damage and preparing for the next threats.

• Number One Hashirama bound both Madaras with Wood Release, and Tobirama urged him to kill them before they could pursue Lin Ke.
• Lin Ke proposed reincarnating the Madaras into other worlds, and everyone accepted the exile.
• The reincarnation technique sent Number One Madara to Yorknew City in Hunter × Hunter and Number Two Madara to the Land of Asura in Fist of the North Star.
• Tobirama collected the Rinnegan and Madara’s corpses, then assigned Koharu and Homura to help with the aftermath of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya’s attack.
• Lin Ke told Sasuke to watch Uchiha Izuna and returned to work, planning to bring the Main World into the Ninja Alliance and investigate other Naruto worlds.

Ōtsutsuki Kaguya fled into a world before chakra existed and spared a young girl she encountered. In the Main World, Lin Ke continued traveling while Orochimaru's team found a way to use fragments of Black Zetsu's memories to pursue Kaguya.

• Ōtsutsuki Kaguya recovered from her defeat, realized the world's chakra fruit had not ripened, and decided to hide from the visitors from the Different World.
• After fleeing for a day and night, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya encountered a young girl near a primitive village and chose to stroke her head instead of killing her.
• Lin Ke's party was ambushed by remnants of the Hannya Group, whom Lin Ke defeated and spared before continuing his journey.
• Lin Ke considered how difficult it would be to find Ōtsutsuki Kaguya using only a photograph of her in the ancient world.
• Orochimaru and his collaborators extracted fragments of Black Zetsu's memories, giving Lin Ke's side a potential lead on Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.

With Ōtsutsuki Kaguya difficult to locate, Lin Ke and the others focused on the growing political and relief problems across the connected worlds. Lin Ke remained burdened with Hokage duties and decided to settle conflicts among the other ninja villages before traveling to the world of Shippuden: Asuma's Death.

• The group shelved efforts to track Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and decided someone would check her world periodically.
• The Ninja Alliance faced tensions among its members, attacks from smaller nations, relief work in World Number Three, and negotiations with the Final Chapter World.
• Tobirama of the Main World assigned Lin Ke responsibility for resolving Ōtsutsuki Kaguya crises and compiling parallel-world histories while the Alliance handled affairs in the three connected worlds.
• Lin Ke asked Yamato and Shizune to become Hokage, but Yamato planned to join the Ninja Alliance and Shizune declined.
• Lin Ke decided to settle the other four ninja villages and then deal with the world of Shippuden: Asuma's Death before it reached the Fourth Shinobi World War.

At the Five Kage Summit, Lin Ke faced accusations that Konoha had captured the Jinchuriki and tailed beasts, then restrained the attendees with shadows and admitted Konoha held the tailed beasts. The Fourth Raikage was enraged by the revelation, and the summit was left on the verge of escalating.

• Mifune welcomed Lin Ke to the Five Kage Summit and led him into the meeting room.
• The Fourth Raikage accused Konoha of taking his younger brother and other Jinchuriki, citing a culprit who used a Sharingan.
• Lin Ke traded hostile remarks with the Fourth Raikage and dismissed the accusations, prompting the Raikage to rise.
• Lin Ke's shadows restrained the Kage and guards, and he said Konoha had killed the person who sought to gather the tailed beasts.
• Lin Ke admitted that the tailed beasts were in Konoha, and the Fourth Raikage reacted furiously.

Lin Ke intimidated the assembled Kage into ending the summit without a war, then left with Shizune and Yamato for Konoha. The other villages withdrew, while the Fourth Raikage departed without agreeing to peace.

• Lin Ke overwhelmed the Fourth Raikage with his shadows and warned him that he did not want to kill him.
• Lin Ke told the Kage to stop causing trouble and said Konoha would release the tailed beasts after a while.
• The Fifth Mizukage and the Fourth Kazekage withdrew, and Ōnoki left after weighing the costs of losing a Jinchuriki.
• Lin Ke demanded that the Fourth Raikage choose war or peace, and the Raikage smashed through a wall and left with Darui and Shi.
• Lin Ke gathered Shizune and Yamato, recalled his shadows, and set off for Konoha.

Three days after the Five Kage Summit, Lin Ke dealt with growing intelligence work in Konoha while planning a team to address Asuma’s death in the Shippuden world. He relied on Nara Shikamaru to process reports and became determined to train him as a future Hokage.

• Lin Ke reviewed reports of increased probing by Kumogakure and Iwagakure, noting that shadows had helped Konoha avoid casualties.
• Lin Ke asked Nara Shikamaru whether he wanted to become Hokage, and Shikamaru suggested Naruto instead while handling the intelligence reports.
• Lin Ke considered Naruto’s strength and administrative shortcomings as he planned a Different World squad to deal with Asuma’s death.
• Lin Ke selected Utakata, Sasuke, Naruto, Karin, and Sakura as potential squad members alongside himself.
• Nara Shikamaru finished assessments and recommendations for the reports in half an hour, and Lin Ke praised him and resolved to train him as Hokage.

Lin Ke went to World Number Two after Senju Tobirama summoned him to help treat two critically injured Jiraiya. He found both men near death in the hospital and began examining one of them.

• Lin Ke invited Main World Sakura to join a six-person outing at the Seventh Training Ground the following evening, and she agreed.
• Main World Sakura told Lin Ke that Senju Tobirama needed him in World Number Two, so Lin Ke traveled through the Boat Crossing Technique landing point.
• Lin Ke learned that the tailed beasts had been hired to open Web passages and that the Boat Crossing Technique scroll had been destroyed.
• Lin Ke found Senju Tobirama and the others at the Ninja Alliance Hospital, where they had brought two badly injured Jiraiya after catching Black Zetsu.
• Main World Tsunade yielded her place, and Lin Ke examined one Jiraiya, finding his body and chakra pathways severely damaged.

Lin Ke and Tobirama of the Main World decided how to deal with the two recovered Jiraiyas after their actions triggered a crisis. Jiraiya of the Main World was sent to work for Lin Ke, while Konoha Village Number Two would handle Clone Jiraiya Number Two.

• Lin Ke told the gathered relatives that both Jiraiyas were stable, then discussed their punishment privately with Tobirama of the Main World.
• Lin Ke proposed sending Jiraiya of the Main World to help with government affairs and leaving Clone Jiraiya Number Two's fate to Konoha Village Number Two.
• Tobirama of the Main World agreed that Jiraiya should work for Lin Ke, while the relatives accepted the proposed punishment.
• Lin Ke healed Jiraiya of the Main World enough to get out of bed and ordered him to come along.
• Jiraiya of the Main World started to ask how long his punishment would last, but Tobirama's glare silenced him, and he accepted the consequence.

Lin Ke divided the squad's first deployment to World Number Four among three teams, assigning them to contact Konoha, disrupt Impure World Reincarnation, and confront Nagato's group. After crossing worlds, the squad arrived near an abandoned Money Exchange and found that Konoha had left crows watching the area.

• Lin Ke paired himself with Utakata, sent Sakura and Karin to seek Tsunade's help, and assigned Sasuke and Naruto to find Orochimaru or Kabuto.
• Lin Ke ordered the teams to reunite at Kannabi Bridge before dawn, then used the Boat Crossing Technique to bring the six shinobi to World Number Four.
• Karin and Naruto covered their noses after the squad arrived beside a public restroom, while crows took flight from a nearby utility pole.
• Sakura identified the crows as summons belonging to Yamashiro Aoba, and Lin Ke sent shadows to investigate the empty area around the former Money Exchange.
• Lin Ke checked the time, summoned a camera, and prepared to show World Number Four's shinobi an old relic.

The Main World Sasuke and Naruto confronted World Number Four Sasuke and his team, while Sakura and Karin infiltrated Konoha and Pain’s village faced a dragon-shaped intruder. The chapter left the fights and the intruders’ identities unresolved.

• World Number Four Karin sensed two powerful pursuers, and Sasuke prepared Suigetsu and Jugo for battle.
• The Main World Sasuke and Naruto met World Number Four Sasuke’s group and urged him to return, but Sasuke cast a Genjutsu and the Main World Sasuke answered with Chidori.
• The Main World Sakura and Karin entered Konoha and headed toward the Hokage Building, where Kakashi recognized them and gave chase after Sakura’s Genjutsu failed to stop him for long.
• A dragon-shaped monster appeared over Amegakure, and Pain sent Konan to draw out the intruder.
• Konan saw a strange boy and the Six Tails Jinchuriki in the sky and wondered how the Jinchuriki had returned after being captured and having his Tailed Beast extracted.