Chapter Summaries

Akatsuki gathered in the Hidden Rain Village to discuss its future, and Deva Path Pain revealed that Uchiha Liuyun stood between the organization and its plan to conquer the Shinobi World. The members debated how to fight him, with Uchiha Itachi admitting that Liuyun’s eyes were more powerful than his own.

• Deva Path Pain explained that Akatsuki planned to use the Nine Great Tailed Beasts to create an ultimate weapon and conquer the Five Great Nations.
• Deva Path Pain identified Uchiha Liuyun, who controlled five Tailed Beasts, as the obstacle Akatsuki needed to overcome.
• Deidara eagerly declared that he wanted to test his art against Liuyun, while Sasori of the Red Sand and Kakuzu mocked his confidence.
• Uchiha Itachi warned that Liuyun’s eyes could make him a deadly genjutsu opponent and said they were more powerful than his own.
• Uchiha Itachi’s recollection of Shisui’s disappearance from the Hidden Sound Village deepened his fear of Liuyun’s strength.

Deva Path Pain rallied Akatsuki to unite against Uchiha Liuyun and ordered its newer members to capture the Seven-Tails. The members concealed conflicting loyalties and goals as they prepared for the mission.

• Deva Path Pain argued that Uchiha Liuyun could be defeated, but Kakuzu and Sasori undermined the others’ confidence by recalling Liuyun’s victory over Hanzō.
• Kisame privately weighed his loyalty to Akatsuki against his favorable feelings toward Liuyun, while Kakuzu backed down after Pain threatened him.
• Pain declared that Akatsuki had to defeat Liuyun and assigned Kisame, Itachi, Hidan, and Deidara to capture the Seven-Tails from Hidden Waterfall Village.
• Akatsuki members considered their separate aims: Obito pursued the Ten-Tails and Infinite Tsukuyomi, Konan and Kisame wished to avoid war with Liuyun, and Itachi planned to report Akatsuki’s ambitions to Konoha.

After Akatsuki captured the Seven-Tails and challenged Hidden Sound Village to a decisive battle, Liuyun headed to Sunset Valley to face them alone while Orochimaru led the troops toward Hidden Rain Village. The chapter ended with Liuyun agreeing to let Orochimaru accompany him as a Shadow Clone to witness the battle.

• Guy returned to Konoha alone after Sasuke chose to stay in Hidden Sound Village and train with Nanao's family.
• An Anbu captain reported that Akatsuki had captured the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki and killed Hidden Waterfall Village's leader, and Liuyun said he was ready to face Akatsuki alone.
• Ten days later, Orochimaru received Akatsuki's challenge to fight at Sunset Valley and forwarded it to Hidden Sound Village.
• Liuyun arrived at the Land of Rain battlefield, rejected Orochimaru's plan to send troops with him, and ordered Orochimaru to attack Hidden Rain Village instead.
• Orochimaru asked to send a Shadow Clone with Liuyun to witness the battle, and Liuyun agreed.

Akatsuki assembled its forces to confront Uchiha Liuyun at Sunset Valley, where his overwhelming presence unsettled the gathered members. The chapter ended as Liuyun stood before them, with most of Akatsuki unable to meet his gaze.

• Black Zetsu suggested capturing Liuyun's wife and daughter, but Deva Path Pain rejected the plan, and Obito said it was unlikely to work.
• Nagato led Akatsuki and three thousand Rain Ninja out of Hidden Rain Village to fight Liuyun and Hidden Sound Village.
• At Sunset Valley, Orochimaru stopped at a distance while Liuyun approached Akatsuki alone.
• Uchiha Itachi warned the Akatsuki members not to look into Liuyun's eyes when they entered the range of his Sharingan.
• Kakuzu recalled Liuyun's order to fight openly, and most Akatsuki members lowered their eyes as Liuyun arrived before them.

Uchiha Liuyun confronted Akatsuki in Sunset Valley and proposed a wager that would decide their future. Akatsuki’s members joined the bet, and Liuyun raised the stakes by agreeing to submit if he lost.

• Masked Obito appeared beside Orochimaru, confirmed he would not interfere, and left to watch the battle.
• Uchiha Itachi demanded to know what Liuyun had done to Shisui Uchiha, but Liuyun ignored him; Deva Path Pain stopped Itachi from attacking.
• Liuyun challenged Konan over recovering Deva Path Pain’s body, and Konan apologized for concealing the truth while reaffirming that she would fight for her friend.
• Liuyun proposed that the battle decide their fates, offering Akatsuki five Tailed Beasts if he lost and demanding Akatsuki’s submission, its Tailed Beasts, and the Land of Rain if Pain lost.
• Deva Path Pain demanded that Liuyun also submit if Akatsuki won, and Kakuzu, Sasori of the Red Sand, Hidan, Konan, Kisame Hoshigaki, Obito, and Black Zetsu joined the wager.
• Liuyun agreed that he would submit to Akatsuki if defeated, while Uchiha Itachi remained ignored and grew angry.

Masked Obito appeared as Akatsuki prepared to confront Uchiha Liuyun, who revealed that he had killed Uchiha Shisui and provoked Uchiha Itachi. Akatsuki launched a coordinated barrage of attacks, but Liuyun evaded or countered them and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reappear beside his displaced sword.

• Masked Obito emerged from a spatial vortex and sat nearby as Liuyun dismissed his threats.
• Liuyun told Uchiha Itachi that Shisui had died after using Mangekyō techniques against him, then mocked Itachi for murdering his family.
• Itachi attacked Liuyun with Amaterasu, but Liuyun’s Chakra protection kept the black flames from harming him.
• Pain, Konan, Deidara, Kisame Hoshigaki, Kakuzu, and Sasori of the Red Sand attacked Liuyun with coordinated techniques, which he blocked, escaped, or countered.
• Pain pulled Liuyun into the air while Hidan swung his scythe, but Liuyun used the Ama-no-Murakumo to stop the strike.
• As Pain, Itachi, and Konan launched a pincer attack, Liuyun vanished with the Flying Thunder God Technique and reappeared beside the Ama-no-Murakumo.

Liuyun fought Akatsuki with his speed and Flying Thunder God Technique, breaking their encirclement and striking several members at once. As the battle continued, Itachi rescued Deva Path Pain from Liuyun’s Susanoo, and Deva Path used Shinra Tensei against him.

• Orochimaru watched as Liuyun evaded Akatsuki’s coordinated assault and threw the Ama-no-Murakumo at Preta Path Pain, forcing Deva Path Pain to pull him away with Almighty Pull.
• Liuyun escaped the encirclement and used White Rage Technique to blind and deafen Akatsuki before sending specially made kunai flying toward them.
• Akatsuki’s members defended themselves, but four kunai landed near Kisame Hoshigaki and three of the Pains after Deva Path Pain’s Shinra Tensei scattered them.
• Liuyun used Flying Thunder God: Consecutive Slashes to wound Kisame and cut Preta Path Pain and Naraka Path Pain in half, while Deva Path Pain blocked the strike and was slashed across the shoulder.
• Liuyun used Susanoo to fend off attacks from Asura Path Pain and Human Path Pain, but Itachi knocked aside Susanoo’s skeletal claw with a giant shuriken.
• Deva Path Pain used Shinra Tensei against Liuyun after its five-second cooldown ended.

Liuyun fought the Akatsuki in Sunset Valley, injuring Deidara and battling seven opponents at once. After Liuyun knocked Hidan away, Hidan found his blood and began a Jashin curse ritual against him.

• Liuyun escaped Deva Path Pain’s close-range attack with the Flying Thunder God Technique, but Deidara’s buried Clay Bombs injured his feet.
• Liuyun summoned a lightning dragon that Deva Path Pain redirected Deidara away from, leaving Deidara battered when he hit the ground.
• The Akatsuki attacked Liuyun together, but he held off seven fighters and turned their assault against them.
• Liuyun punched Hidan through the abdomen and blasted him into a boulder, leaving him badly wounded.
• Hidan found Liuyun’s blood in an explosion crater and began a sacrificial curse ritual, hoping to kill him and offer him to Jashin.

Liuyun disabled Hidan and fought Deva Path Pain, but Nagato entered the battle and blasted him across Sunset Valley with an enhanced Shinra Tensei. Liuyun survived and summoned four enormous beasts, declaring the second round had begun.

• Liuyun used the Flying Thunder God Mark to reach Hidan, immobilized him with Sealing Formulas, and tore off his head after Hidan swallowed his blood.
• Liuyun used Hidan's headless body as a projectile against Deva Path Pain, then met Pain's attacks with his Susanoo Skeleton.
• Nagato appeared on the battlefield and used an enhanced Shinra Tensei to shatter Liuyun's Susanoo and blast him tens of thousands of meters away.
• Nagato and the Akatsuki members saw Liuyun rise from beneath the rubble, injured but still able to fight.
• Liuyun summoned four enormous beasts at Sunset Valley and announced that the second round had begun.

Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and four Tailed Beasts to face Liuyun, but Liuyun armored the Two-Tails with Susanoo and turned the battle in his favor. The chapter ended as his Ama-no-Murakumo slash overpowered Nagato’s Void Dog Cannons and threatened the Akatsuki members.

• Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which released Shukaku, Six-Tails, Seven-Tails, and Eight-Tails.
• Nagato assigned Akatsuki members to the Tailed Beasts, withdrew two Pain bodies to conserve his strength, and sent the injured Kisame Hoshigaki away from the fight.
• Liuyun covered the Two-Tails in Susanoo armor, transforming it into the battlefield’s most powerful beast.
• Nagato ordered the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the four Tailed Beasts to attack while Liuyun’s other three beasts charged Tailed Beast Balls.
• Nagato’s side fired five Void Dog Cannons, but Liuyun’s Ama-no-Murakumo slash overpowered them and sent a deadly threat toward the Akatsuki members.

Liuyun and Akatsuki clashed in a chaotic battle, with his Susanoo-enhanced Two-Tails and other controlled Tailed Beasts overwhelming their opponents. Akatsuki struggled to counter his attacks, while Orochimaru wondered whether Nagato still had another Rinnegan ability to reveal.

• Nagato used Shinra Tensei to break apart Liuyun’s sword energy, then Akatsuki defended against three Tailed Beast Balls with a combination of techniques.
• Deidara’s C3 bomb misfired after Liuyun struck it with lightning, and Konan’s explosive paper was burned away by Liuyun’s Sage Art: Heavenly Fire.
• Liuyun’s controlled Tailed Beasts attacked the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, Eight-Tails, Six-Tails, and One-Tail, starting a chaotic melee.
• Nagato struggled to evade Liuyun’s Ama-no-Murakumo, while Obito Uchiha grew afraid and Orochimaru speculated that Nagato might have another Rinnegan power.

Liuyun used Myōjin Gates to suppress the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the Akatsuki’s Tailed Beasts, then turned them against the Akatsuki members. After their defenses failed to stop the beasts’ attacks, Nagato launched Planetary Devastation, leaving the battlefield shaking beneath a vast gravitational sphere.

• Uchiha Itachi struck the Two-Tails with Amaterasu while Nagato used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to restrain it.
• Liuyun summoned Myōjin Gates that pinned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the Akatsuki’s Tailed Beasts to the ground, disrupting Nagato’s control.
• Liuyun freed the Two-Tails from the Amaterasu flames and sent the Tailed Beasts to attack the Akatsuki members.
• Kakuzu and Sasori of the Red Sand urged Nagato to surrender, but Nagato ordered them to withstand the Tailed Beasts’ attack while he handled the beasts.
• The Akatsuki members raised Wood, iron sand, earth, and Susanoo defenses, but the Tailed Beasts’ Void Dog Cannons blasted through them.
• Nagato and Deva Path Pain used Planetary Devastation to send a black gravitational sphere high into the sky, triggering violent tremors.

Nagato and Deva Path Pain trapped Liuyun and the four Tailed Beasts inside a vast Planetary Devastation, leaving the Akatsuki believing they had won. Liuyun broke free with the complete-body Susanoo and emerged from the sphere, poised to turn the battle against the Akatsuki.

• Nagato and Deva Path Pain launched a joint Planetary Devastation while the Akatsuki helped intercept the four Tailed Beast Balls.
• Liuyun shattered the rocks trapping him, but Nagato and Deva Path Pain overwhelmed him and the four Tailed Beasts with more boulders until they were sealed inside the enormous sphere.
• Konan stopped Nagato from enlarging the sphere further, and Nagato declared the battle over as the exhausted Deva Path Pain collapsed.
• The Four-Tails spread magma inside the sphere while the Five-Tails broke through its rocky shell, creating a gap.
• Liuyun's complete-body Susanoo emerged from Planetary Devastation and split the battlefield with a massive sword slash, flooding the area and terrifying the Akatsuki.

Nagato’s Planetary Devastation failed to stop Liuyun’s Complete Body Susanoo, and several Akatsuki members accepted defeat and joined Liuyun. Itachi refused to surrender and summoned his own Susanoo, leaving the two giants poised to clash while Obito planned to exploit Liuyun’s exhaustion.

• Nagato made the falling Planetary Devastation crash down, but Liuyun’s Complete Body Susanoo escaped with its wings and landed before the Akatsuki members.
• Kakuzu, Sasori, Obito, and Kisame accepted defeat and went to stand behind Liuyun.
• Konan urged Nagato and Itachi to join the Hidden Sound Village, but Itachi firmly refused.
• Liuyun raised the Complete Body Susanoo’s Ama-no-Murakumo, and Itachi appeared in a Mature Body Susanoo wielding the Yata Mirror and Totsuka Blade.
• Obito decided not to save Itachi and planned to defeat Liuyun after his chakra was depleted.

Liuyun’s Ama-no-Murakumo overwhelmed Uchiha Itachi’s Susanoo and shattered the Yata Mirror, killing Itachi. Its Sword Qi continued into the Hidden Rain Village forces at Sunset Valley, leaving Nagato furious over the deaths of his followers.

• Uchiha Itachi enlarged his Susanoo at the cost of severe damage to his eyes and raised the Yata Mirror against Liuyun’s descending Ama-no-Murakumo.
• Liuyun’s Sword Qi gradually pierced the Yata Mirror while Itachi poured his ocular power and Chakra into its defense.
• Liuyun broke the Yata Mirror and split Itachi’s Susanoo and body apart with Ama-no-Murakumo.
• The sword’s lingering Sword Qi carved through the Hidden Rain Village forces near Sunset Valley, killing several hundred ninjas.
• Nagato sensed the deaths of his followers and grew enraged.

Liuyun confronted Masked Obito while the Akatsuki watched, and quickly turned their expected space-time battle into a shocking ambush. He sealed Obito’s Mangekyō Sharingan and tore out his right eye, leaving Obito screaming and retreating.

• Nagato and Itachi hoped Masked Obito would defeat Liuyun, while Deidara led the Akatsuki into the sky to watch.
• Liuyun threw a special kunai at Obito and teleported directly in front of him as it passed through his head.
• Obito let Liuyun reach for his eye, expecting his fingers to pass through so he could counterattack.
• Sealing formulas emerged from Obito’s eye sockets and sealed both Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Liuyun used Dragon Claw Hand to tear out Obito’s right eye, and Obito screamed and retreated.

Liuyun took Obito Uchiha's remaining Sharingan before Black Zetsu rescued him, then confronted Uchiha Itachi. Itachi asked whether his younger brother had gone to Liuyun's place.

• Konan and Nagato realized the masked man was Obito Uchiha, not Madara Uchiha, while Deidara questioned how they had been fooled.
• Liuyun explained that Mangekyo Sharingan could awaken in eyes that did not belong to their holder, then attacked Obito before his sealing formula broke.
• Uchiha Itachi struck Liuyun with Amaterasu and Black Zetsu bound him with Wood Style, but Liuyun shattered both attacks and removed Obito's remaining eye.
• Black Zetsu grabbed the blinded Obito and escaped underground, while Liuyun stored the extracted eye in a bottle.
• Liuyun asked why Uchiha Itachi had not fled, and Itachi wondered whether his younger brother had gone to Liuyun's place.

Uchiha Itachi confronted Liuyun over taking in Sasuke, then chose to kill himself rather than let his hatred endanger his family. After Liuyun claimed victory over Akatsuki, he ordered Nagato to surrender the Land of Rain within ten days and began taking the tailed beasts and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Itachi asked Liuyun why he had taken Sasuke in, and Liuyun dismissed the idea that he wanted Sasuke’s Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Itachi realized Liuyun had accepted Sasuke because of his mother and knelt, asking to take his own life to end the hatred.
• Liuyun summoned the Ama-no-Murakumo, and Itachi used it to stab himself after asking Liuyun not to drive Sasuke away.
• Liuyun sealed Itachi’s corpse into a storage scroll and asked Nagato to acknowledge his victory.
• Nagato conceded, and Liuyun demanded the Land of Rain’s surrender and Nagato’s presence in the Hidden Sound Village within ten days.
• Liuyun declared that he would take the tailed beasts and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as the wager’s stakes.

After defeating Nagato, Liuyun arranged for the Hidden Rain Village to surrender and dealt with the surviving Akatsuki members. He extracted chakra from several Tailed Beasts and prepared to alter the Nine-Tails Seal using the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Liuyun told Orochimaru that Nagato would arrange the Hidden Rain Village’s surrender, and Orochimaru relayed the news to his main body.
• Liuyun ordered Kakuzu and Deidara to recover Hidan, then warned Hidan against using his blood on him again and had Kakuzu reattach Hidan’s head.
• Liuyun told the others to guard him and used chakra chains and Samehada to extract chakra from the One-Tails, Six-Tails, Seven-Tails, and Eight-Tails.
• After filling the Nine-Tails Seal with chakra, Liuyun gave Samehada to Kisame and focused on the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Liuyun sat down to modify his Nine-Tails Seal into a Ten-Tails seal.

Liuyun told Sasuke that Uchiha Itachi was dead, prompting Sasuke to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan and accuse his uncle of killing him. After Liuyun frightened Sasuke into fleeing, he explained to Kushina and Nanao that Itachi had died after their battle and that his own will would not change.

• Liuyun told Sasuke that Uchiha Itachi had died and had left an apology for Sasuke and his mother.
• Sasuke's grief over Itachi's death awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, and he suspected Liuyun had killed his brother.
• When Sasuke demanded the truth, Liuyun unleashed his killing intent and declared that those who resisted him would perish.
• Sasuke fled the Yamikage Estate, and Liuyun let him go without pursuit.
• Liuyun reunited with Nanao and Kushina, then told them Itachi had committed suicide after fighting him and that he had informed Sasuke.