Chapter Summaries

Liuyun returned to Hidden Sound Village, where Kushina became pregnant and he devoted himself to caring for her. When Kakuzu reported that Akatsuki had recruited him, Liuyun ordered him to bring Hidan to the village and gave him two powerful ninjutsu scrolls before sending him back.

• Liuyun returned to Hidden Sound Village and spent his days with Kushina, studying the Flying Thunder God Technique and traveling with her.
• Kushina became pregnant, and Liuyun stayed home to care for her; two months later, he sensed that their child was likely a girl.
• Kakuzu secretly visited Liuyun and reported that Akatsuki had approached him and that its leader was Pain, with Konan and Zetsu among its core members.
• Liuyun told Kakuzu to bring Hidan to Hidden Sound Village if he found him.
• Liuyun gave Kakuzu the scrolls for Fire Release: Dragon Flame Song and Lightning Release: Lightning Leopard, then sent him back to Akatsuki.

Liuyun created a powerful seal inside the Nine-Tails to keep it under control during Kushina’s delivery. Half a month later, Kushina gave birth to a daughter, and Liuyun began treating her after the birth.

• Sasori of the Red Sand reported to Liuyun, who rewarded him with two kinds of deadly Ryūchi Cave snake venom.
• Liuyun used Dragon Vein Spirit Liquid and his powers to inscribe the Nine Brahma Dragon God Seal inside the Nine-Tails.
• Liuyun emerged from Kushina’s seal while she slept, covered her with a blanket, and fell asleep beside her.
• Half a month later, Kushina went into labor at Hidden Sound Village Hospital, and Liuyun anxiously stayed by her side.
• Kushina gave birth to a girl, and Liuyun treated Kushina while the Medical Ninja washed the baby.

Liuyun and Kushina welcomed a daughter whose body already contained mysterious Sage Power, and they named her Uchiha Nanao after a disagreement over Kushina’s choice of Tamamo. Liuyun brought Kushina and the baby home, where he devoted himself to caring for them.

• Liuyun explained that some of the Dragon Ball’s Sage Power had entered the baby, giving her an exceptionally rare cultivation physique, and Kushina agreed it was a blessing.
• Liuyun held the newborn protectively before handing her to Kushina, and Orochimaru came in to check that mother and daughter were safe.
• Orochimaru sensed mysterious pale golden energy in the baby’s dantian, while Liuyun and Kushina guarded her from his fascinated stare.
• Liuyun rejected Kushina’s proposed name Tamamo and, under her ultimatum, suggested Uchiha Nanao; Kushina and Orochimaru accepted it.
• After the baby began crying to be fed, Liuyun left the hospital with Kushina and Nanao using the Flying Thunder God Technique and became a full-time stay-at-home father.

Three years later, as the Third Shinobi World War dragged on, Liuyun rejected Kushina’s concerns and declared that wiping out the Five Great Nations’ ninja would bring peace. After Wind Country intercepted supplies bound for Rōran, Liuyun prepared to threaten the Sand Village and learned that Kisame Hoshigaki and Yakushi Kabuto had arrived in the Hidden Sound Village.

• Kushina told Liuyun that Asuna had described Konoha’s desperate wartime situation, but Liuyun said ninja were the source of turmoil and proposed eliminating those of the Five Great Nations.
• Orochimaru reported that Wind Country had intercepted food supplies headed to the Ancient City of Rōran and warned that Konoha might be trying to provoke the Hidden Sound Village.
• Liuyun ordered Orochimaru to demand ten times the stolen supplies from the Sand Village or threaten to take the One-Tail Shukaku from the Fourth Kazekage.
• Orochimaru told Liuyun that Kisame Hoshigaki had come to pledge allegiance, and Liuyun ordered Yakushi Kabuto to bring him in.
• Liuyun called Kabuto a double agent and warned Orochimaru that he might betray him, but Orochimaru trusted that Kabuto would not turn against him while he lived.

Kisame Hoshigaki tried to join the Hidden Sound Village, but Liuyun exposed him as an Akatsuki spy sent to gather intelligence. Liuyun ordered Orochimaru to monitor Kisame while he prepared to deal with infiltrating White Zetsu.

• Kisame Hoshigaki asked to join the Hidden Sound Village, claiming he wanted the sword Samehada.
• Liuyun questioned Kisame and used his Sharingan to reveal that Kisame had come for Samehada, though Kisame resisted the genjutsu and broke free.
• Liuyun accepted Kisame into the village and sent Yakushi Kabuto to take him away.
• Liuyun told Orochimaru that Kisame was an Akatsuki spy protected by another pair of Mangekyo Sharingan, and said Obito Uchiha had sent him.
• Liuyun ordered Orochimaru to secretly monitor Kisame, keep him away from sensitive areas, and assign him work.
• Liuyun sensed White Zetsu infiltrating the Hidden Sound Village and decided to eliminate them himself.

Nagato revealed to Obito Uchiha that Uchiha Liuyun had defeated the great nations more than ten years earlier, explaining their fear of him. Nagato proposed persuading Liuyun to join Akatsuki, and Obito agreed to let him try while secretly planning to make himself the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki.

• Obito Uchiha told Yahiko Pain and Konan that Kisame had infiltrated Hidden Sound Village but would likely be unable to send useful information for a while.
• Konan wondered why Liuyun had revealed his location, and Obito said the nations feared him too much to attack Hidden Sound Village.
• Yahiko Pain recounted top-secret records of a battle in Rain Country where Liuyun had devastated the area and killed the Third Mizukage, forcing the nations to accept a ten-year peace.
• Obito Uchiha realized Liuyun had defeated the great nations and understood why they feared him.
• Nagato again proposed persuading Liuyun to support Akatsuki's plan for peace, and Obito agreed to let him try.
• Obito Uchiha secretly resolved to seize the initiative and become the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki if Liuyun joined Akatsuki.

With Orochimaru away in Loulan, Liuyun reluctantly took over Hidden Sound Village’s duties and reviewed its wartime work and the major battlefields. He learned that Konoha was struggling on most fronts but had the advantage against the Land of Lightning thanks to Minato Namikaze.

• Orochimaru left for Loulan after assigning Liuyun to handle Hidden Sound Village in his absence.
• Liuyun sent Kisame Hoshigaki on an S-rank mission to escort supplies safely to Konoha’s forces on the Fire-Earth Battlefield.
• Liuyun summoned the Anbu captain, who reported the commanders and balance of power across the major battlefields.
• The Anbu captain reported that the Land of Wind, Earth, and Water held advantages over Konoha, while Minato Namikaze was driving Konoha’s advance against the Land of Lightning.

Liuyun asked the Anbu captain about Konoha and the Uchiha Clan, then was interrupted when Nanao sneaked into Shadow Tower to find him. After helping her flee Kushina’s anger, Liuyun discovered Nanao had secretly saved a coin to buy him snacks, and she asked him for an allowance.

• Liuyun asked the Anbu captain whether the Uchiha Clan showed signs of rebelling, and the captain said Konoha’s informants had found no such signs.
• Nanao sneaked into Shadow Tower and clung to Liuyun, explaining that she had disobeyed Kushina to find him.
• Kushina arrived furious and demanded that Liuyun hand Nanao over, so Liuyun jumped out a window with his daughter to escape her.
• As Liuyun and Nanao walked home, Nanao revealed that she had kept the change from a shopping errand to save money for his snacks.
• Liuyun praised Nanao for her thoughtfulness, and she asked him to give her an allowance from then on.

Six Paths Pain came to Hidden Sound Village to recruit Liuyun into a plan to use the tailed beasts and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to force peace on the Shinobi World. Liuyun rejected the offer to hand over his tailed beasts, leaving Nagato’s proposal at an impasse.

• Liuyun secured his home and the tailed beast cages before teleporting to meet the six visitors at Hidden Sound Village’s gates.
• Deva Path Pain greeted Liuyun and said they had come to discuss peace, but Liuyun dismissed their old ideals as empty talk.
• Liuyun led the six to a distant mountaintop, where Deva Path Pain proposed joining forces to impose peace through strength.
• Female Path summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and Deva Path Pain explained how it could become an ultimate weapon by combining the tailed beasts.
• Deva Path Pain admitted that his plan required the tailed beasts Liuyun possessed, and Liuyun challenged him for expecting to obtain them for nothing.

Liuyun rejected Nagato’s offer to cooperate, ridiculed his assumptions about their equality, and challenged the Six Paths Pain to prove their strength. Nagato attacked, but Liuyun outmaneuvered the Paths and launched a sword strike at Preta Path and Naraka Path.

• Liuyun said Nagato lacked the tailed beasts and strength to qualify as his partner, and told him he would consider cooperation if Nagato gathered the remaining four tailed beasts.
• Liuyun reminded Nagato that his own power had brought ten years of peace, provoking Nagato into asking what qualified Liuyun to look down on him.
• Liuyun mocked Nagato as a brat and invited him to attack, so Deva Path Pain used Shinra Tensei to blast away much of the mountaintop.
• Liuyun evaded Asura Path’s rockets and used Chidori Sharp Spear to cut down the giant-beaked bird carrying the Six Paths Pain.
• Deva Path Pain repelled Liuyun’s lightning attacks while Asura Path stabilized the falling Paths, but Liuyun extended Ama-no-Murakumo toward Preta Path and Naraka Path during Deva Path’s cooldown.

Liuyun fought the Six Paths of Pain, using his speed, sealing techniques, and Flying Thunder God Technique to destroy several Paths and evade their attacks. He ended the chapter by escaping the chameleon's tongue with Chidori Current and targeting the Animal Path Pain riding it.

• The Human Path sacrificed himself to protect the Preta and Naraka Paths, but Liuyun cut him down before evading Asura Path's missiles.
• Liuyun repelled the summoned rhinoceros and hellhound, sealing the hellhound and escaping Deva Path's Universal Pull with space-time ninjutsu.
• After announcing that his warm-up was over, Liuyun used kunai to force Deva Path to expend Shinra Tensei, then teleported to Naraka Path and beheaded him.
• Liuyun killed the Human Path with Ama-no-Murakumo as Nagato realized the blade could cut through the Black Receivers.
• Liuyun evaded Asura Path's rockets and laser cannon by teleporting to a marked kunai, but the Animal Path's invisible chameleon caught him with its tongue.
• Liuyun released Chidori Current to make the chameleon let go, then prepared to attack the Animal Path Pain riding it.

Liuyun killed the Animal Path, Female Path, Preta Path, and Asura Path while using his Sage Chakra to withstand Deva Path Pain’s Shinra Tensei. Deva Path returned from the mountain and revealed a seal on his abdomen, then challenged Liuyun as the last remaining Pain.

• Liuyun used Chidori Current and the Body Flicker Technique to kill Female Path Pain, and the Animal Path’s death caused the summoned beasts to vanish.
• Asura Path attacked with laser arrows, but Liuyun’s Susanoo protected him before Deva Path pulled him close with Almighty Pull.
• Liuyun’s Susanoo bone fist shattered against Shinra Tensei, but he endured the repulsive force with a burst of Sage Chakra and struck Deva Path into a mountain.
• Liuyun destroyed Preta Path’s head with a punch and pierced Asura Path’s heart with Chidori Sharp Spear.
• Deva Path walked out of the mountain, revealed a seal on his abdomen, and declared that Heaven would reap Liuyun.

Liuyun defeated Deva Path Pain in a battle that devastated the surrounding area, surviving Almighty Push and striking down Pain with a fatal blow. Nagato and Konan watched from a hidden tree hollow as Nagato acknowledged that all Six Paths had been defeated and wondered whether Planetary Devastation could stop Liuyun.

• Liuyun challenged Deva Path Pain and used Lightning Release: Dragon Arrival before teleporting to attack him with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Pain used Shinra Tensei, then concealed himself with rain and mist and countered Liuyun's water attack with a Wind Release barrier.
• Pain struck Liuyun with Almighty Push, leveling the surrounding land, and believed the attack had killed him.
• Liuyun survived the blast, pierced Pain's heart, and healed his injuries with Sage Chakra.
• Nagato told Konan from their hidden tree hollow that all Six Paths had been defeated and feared Liuyun's strength.

Nagato and Konan discussed their defeat by Uchiha Liuyun, and Nagato resolved to accelerate the tailed-beast hunt. Konan went to recover Pain’s bodies, where Liuyun let her take them and she mistakenly concluded that Nagato had caused the fight by offending him.

• Nagato admitted that Liuyun knew the Six Paths’ abilities and had defeated Pain without using his full strength, then decided to speed up the tailed-beast hunt.
• Konan offered to retrieve Pain’s bodies, and Nagato warned her that Liuyun might still be nearby, but she went anyway.
• Liuyun sealed away the twelve eyes from the Six Paths’ corpses as Hidden Rain Jonin arrived at the battlefield.
• Konan landed before Liuyun, greeted him, and asked permission to take the bodies back to Akatsuki.
• Liuyun agreed to let Konan take the bodies and said Pain’s group had insulted him first, leading Konan to assume Nagato had provoked the fight.

After defeating Pain’s Six Paths, Liuyun let Konan leave with their bodies and discussed cooperation in the name of peace. Back at home, he began testing whether the eyes he had taken could awaken his dormant left eye into a Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Konan saw that Liuyun had defeated the Six Paths of Pain, and he blamed Orochimaru for taking their eyes for research.
• Konan apologized for the Akatsuki’s visit and asked whether they could cooperate with Liuyun for peace; he agreed, and she departed with the six bodies.
• Liuyun returned to the Yamikage Estate with his Anbu, ordered them to keep the encounter quiet, and anticipated that Nagato would move faster to capture four tailed beasts.
• Liuyun reassured Kushina and her daughter, then entered a training room with the recovered eyes to test whether their Rinnegan Pupil Power could evolve his left eye.

Liuyun failed to awaken his left eye by absorbing Rinnegan Pupil Power, then returned to Kushina and burned the evidence before she noticed. Two months later, Konan arrived in Konoha on behalf of the Hidden Rain Village, offering elite ninja to help Konoha fight its enemies as the Akatsuki pursued the tailed beasts.

• Liuyun extracted Rinnegan Pupil Power from twelve eyes, but it only strengthened his left eye without restoring his control or evolving it.
• Liuyun burned the eyes, reassured Kushina that he was unharmed, and joined her for a bath.
• Two months later, Konan brought Hatake Sakumo a letter from the Hidden Rain Village offering combat support to Konoha.
• Hatake Sakumo questioned the offer's conditions, and Konan said the Hidden Rain Village sought gains from enemy nations, not the Land of Fire.
• Konan explained that the Akatsuki had agreed to cooperate with Konoha temporarily because they were under pressure to find the tailed beasts quickly.

Akatsuki assigned teams to capture the One-Tail, Six-Tails, and Eight-Tails, while Liuyun welcomed Nagato’s accelerated plan. At Konoha’s command camp, Shisui Uchiha asked to become a rogue ninja so he could use his Mangekyō Sharingan against Liuyun, and his confidence shocked Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo Shimura.

• Deva Path Pain assigned Kakuzu and Sasori of the Red Sand to capture the Six-Tails, sent himself and Konan after the Eight-Tails, and tasked Black Zetsu and Obito Uchiha with the One-Tail.
• Deva Path Pain said Akatsuki would pursue the Seven-Tails after capturing three tailed beasts, then attack Hidden Waterfall Village.
• Liuyun read the report, approved of Nagato speeding up the plan, and grumbled that Orochimaru had not replied to his messages.
• Shisui Uchiha asked Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo Shimura for permission to leave the battlefield and travel to Hidden Sound Village as a rogue ninja.
• Shisui Uchiha said he was confident his Mangekyō Sharingan could suppress Liuyun, leaving Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo Shimura shocked.

Shisui Uchiha decided to infiltrate the Hidden Sound Village and use Kotoamatsukami on Uchiha Liuyun, despite the near-certain danger. After Shisui left, Konoha branded him a deserter, while Kakuzu and Sasori of the Red Sand arrived at the Water-Fire Battlefield to assist Konoha against the Six-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Itachi Uchiha tried to dissuade Shisui Uchiha from using Kotoamatsukami on Uchiha Liuyun, but Shisui insisted that even a one-percent chance of ending the war was worth the risk.
• Shisui Uchiha reassured Itachi Uchiha, then left for the Hidden Sound Village before dawn while Itachi slept.
• Itachi Uchiha watched Shisui's presence fade and wept, fearing they had shared their last meeting.
• Half a day after Shisui Uchiha left the Water-Fire Battlefield, Konoha prepared to brand him a deserter for abandoning his post.
• Kakuzu and Sasori of the Red Sand arrived at Konoha's camp and agreed to fight only the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, so Sarutobi Hiruzen tolerated their arrogance.

Obito and Black Zetsu discussed their plans to capture the Tailed Beasts and their concerns about Uchiha Liuyun, then continued to Konoha’s camp to target Rōsa. At the Hidden Sound Village, Liuyun learned that Shisui Uchiha had arrived and, suspecting Shisui intended to use Kotoamatsukami on him, chose to meet him directly.

• Black Zetsu warned Obito that Nagato and Obito were not ready to control the Ten-Tails and urged caution about Uchiha Liuyun.
• Obito admitted he lacked confidence facing Liuyun and said the Akatsuki needed more members, but dismissed Rōsa as an easy target.
• Obito and Black Zetsu entered Konoha’s camp disguised as Hidden Rain Village ninja and waited for a chance to seize the One-Tail Jinchuriki.
• Liuyun learned that Shisui Uchiha had been branded a Konoha rogue ninja and had come to the Hidden Sound Village seeking an audience.
• Liuyun suspected Shisui planned to use Kotoamatsukami on him, summoned Shisui, and challenged him as he knelt before Liuyun.

Liuyun confronted Shisui Uchiha, who tried to persuade him to save Konoha before launching Kotoamatsukami. Their Mangekyo techniques clashed, and Liuyun pursued and overwhelmed Shisui; the chapter ended as Shisui severed his own arm to escape, but Liuyun’s Body Flicker was faster.

• Liuyun gave Shisui Uchiha three minutes to justify why he should not be killed, and Shisui pleaded to join him and save Konoha.
• Liuyun refused to help Konoha, and Shisui decided to use Kotoamatsukami after realizing he could not persuade him.
• Shisui and Liuyun unleashed Kotoamatsukami and Everlasting Day at the same time, but Liuyun’s technique overwhelmed Shisui and injured his consciousness.
• Liuyun pursued Shisui outside Hidden Sound Village, struck him with Chidori Current, and fought off his Susanoo.
• Shisui severed his own arm and attempted to escape with the Body Flicker Technique, but Liuyun moved even faster.