Chapter Summaries

After five hundred years of studying the God Realm and strengthening his Ten-Tails, Liuyun was summoned by Susanoo-no-Mikoto in Izumo Country. He met the god in his palace and learned that Susanoo had known of his presence for centuries, while their tense conversation remained unresolved.

• Over five hundred years, Liuyun explored the God Realm and the Number One Ten-Tails consumed the Mother Tree, growing close to the Creation God Tree's power.
• A minor god delivered Susanoo-no-Mikoto's summons to Liuyun, who sent Kushina into Kamui before following the messenger.
• At Susanoo-no-Mikoto's palace, Liuyun refused to kneel, and Susanoo stopped his guard from attacking him.
• Susanoo's wife, Kushinada-hime, and their daughter entered the hall, and the daughter admired Liuyun's appearance before Kushinada-hime took her away.
• Susanoo-no-Mikoto confronted Liuyun for living in Izumo Country for five hundred years without visiting, and Liuyun answered deferentially to ease his hostility.

Liuyun’s unleashed killing intent provoked a confrontation among the Gods, and Izanagi severely injured Susanoo before the dispute ended. After Susanoo recovered, Liuyun pledged himself to him, hoping to follow him into Takamanohara when he wages war again.

• The Gods blamed Susanoo for the killing intent at Izumo Country’s imperial palace, and Izanagi appeared to end the argument.
• Izanagi struck Susanoo into the earth, then ordered the Gods to stop fighting; guards carried Susanoo away while Liuyun was taken to the divine prison.
• After Susanoo recovered, he summoned Liuyun, who apologized and said he had waited in Izumo Country for a chance to pledge allegiance.
• Susanoo accepted Liuyun’s offer but told him to await a test of his worth, then asked for his name.
• Liuyun gave his name as Uchiha Liuyun, and Susanoo praised his courage and refused to have him monitored.

After gathering his Nascent Soul Dharma Bodies, Liuyun reached the peak of the True God Realm but failed to break through to the Great God Realm. He then traveled to Root Country to find a place to use the God Tree, reaching a sealed mountain near the Yellow Springs Realm.

• Liuyun summoned his scattered Nascent Soul Dharma Bodies and recovered eighty thousand, many of which had reached God Realm strength after centuries of cultivation.
• Liuyun merged all eighty thousand Dharma Bodies into himself, but even their combined power only brought him to the peak of the True God Realm.
• Kushina comforted Liuyun after his failed breakthrough, while Liuyun decided he would eventually make use of the God Tree.
• Liuyun chose the Godforsaken Land in Root Country as a place to plant the God Tree beyond the notice of Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi.
• Liuyun left a clone in Izumo Country and entered Root Country, destroying demons and evil creatures as he crossed the black land.
• Liuyun reached a black mountain sealed by a Great God-level barrier and recognized it as the likely entrance to the Yellow Springs Realm.

Liuyun went to Yomotsu Hirasaka to plant the Ten-Tails, but a voice from the sealed entrance to Yomi tried to lure him with the voices of his family. After the God Tree's roots reached the planet's core and began absorbing its energy, Liuyun wondered whether Yomi's death aura was related to the Ten-Tails' toxic power.

• At the entrance to Yomi, Liuyun heard a voice imitating Kushina and hurried into Kamui's Pocket Dimension to confirm she was safe.
• Liuyun returned to Yomotsu Hirasaka and ignored further calls imitating Asuka and Nanao.
• Liuyun buried the humanoid Ten-Tails beneath a small hill and sent its roots toward the planet's core.
• The God Tree's roots reached the core and began rapidly absorbing the God Realm's energy.
• Liuyun noticed that Yomi's death aura resembled the lethal black substance in Ten-Tails Power, then dismissed the idea that the Creation God Tree came from Yomi.

Liuyun accepted Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s test to kill the God guarding the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi in Ashihara Country and steal the divine artifact. He used his long-infiltrated Six Paths Puppets to prepare an operation that would create enough chaos to let him strike without alerting Ninigi-no-Mikoto.

• After waiting for the God Tree to bear fruit, Liuyun received Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s mission to kill a mid-stage True God in Ashihara Country and reclaim the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi.
• Susanoo-no-Mikoto explained that the sword had once been his, and Liuyun agreed to retrieve it despite the risk of provoking Ashihara Country and Takamanohara.
• Liuyun contacted his Six Paths Puppets, which had infiltrated Ashihara Country over several centuries, and had the Animal Path summon his main body there.
• Liuyun confirmed the sword’s guardian and the artifact’s location, then planned to kill the God during the ritual and steal the sword.
• Liuyun decided he might have to sacrifice the Kagutsuchi puppet to plunge Ashihara Country into chaos.

Liuyun infiltrated the Ashihara Country imperial palace to seize the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, using a coordinated attack by his puppets to reach the shrine. After Susanoo’s aura let him draw the divine sword, Liuyun left Ninigi-no-Mikoto’s divine hand split and bleeding.

• Liuyun entered the palace disguised as one of Ninigi-no-Mikoto’s granddaughters, while Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi waited elsewhere with the puppets.
• Otsutsuki Kagutsuchi set the palace ablaze, and four puppets trapped the shrine guards in a barrier before Liuyun killed the sword guardian priest.
• Otsutsuki Shenxu cast the guards into the Shenxu Illusion Realm as Liuyun opened the sword case and confronted the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi’s rejection of his unfamiliar bloodline.
• Liuyun wrapped the sword hilt in Susanoo’s aura-bearing white cloth and drew the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, calming the divine artifact.
• Ninigi-no-Mikoto reached toward the shrine, but Liuyun struck his divine hand with Sky-Climbing Cloud Slash and drew Divine Blood.

Liuyun used Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi to wound Ninigi-no-Mikoto and drove him to take refuge behind the Yata no Kagami before escaping to Izumo Shrine. Susanoo denied stealing the heirloom artifact, struck Ninigi-no-Mikoto away, and provoked Amaterasu Omikami to intervene.

• Liuyun beheaded the sword-bearing priest as he escaped the Shenxu Illusion Realm, then slashed at the approaching Ninigi-no-Mikoto and the palace behind him.
• Ninigi-no-Mikoto used the Yata no Kagami to deflect Liuyun's sword aura into the universe, while Liuyun spatially leapt to Izumo Shrine with the priest's head and four puppets.
• Susanoo ordered his guards to let Liuyun into the shrine, despite realizing that Liuyun's public arrival implicated him in the theft of divine artifacts.
• Ninigi-no-Mikoto demanded that Susanoo return Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi and Liuyun, but Susanoo denied the accusation and struck him with a divine palm.
• Ninigi-no-Mikoto blocked Susanoo's palm with the Yata no Kagami but was sent flying, prompting Amaterasu Omikami to erupt in anger from Takamanohara.

Amaterasu Omikami and Susanoo escalated their dispute over Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi into a confrontation that devastated cities and threatened the God Realm. Ninigi-no-Mikoto declared war, and Amaterasu Omikami pledged Takamanohara’s support as Susanoo prepared to fight.

• Amaterasu Omikami scorched Izumo Country with the sun, and Susanoo answered by covering it with storm clouds before striking Ashihara Country with lightning.
• Amaterasu Omikami accused Susanoo of seizing Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, and Susanoo said he was reclaiming the sword after she passed it to Erigi-no-Mikoto.
• Ninigi-no-Mikoto challenged Susanoo over the burned imperial palace and the death of Takamanohara’s sword-bearing official, and Susanoo insulted him.
• Liuyun dismissed the guard’s warning about renewed war, saying the Divine Venerable’s side was ready for it.
• Ninigi-no-Mikoto declared war, Amaterasu Omikami committed Takamanohara to the fight, and Susanoo welcomed the conflict while thinking of sending Gods to Yomi for Izanami.

After helping Susanoo recover the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, Liuyun received a residence and wartime orders but declined the offered concubines. Meanwhile, Ninigi-no-Mikoto ordered punishment and a search for the thieves, still unaware that Liuyun was the supposedly dead man who had attacked him.

• Liuyun handed Susanoo the sword-bearing priest's head and the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, then sent the head into Corpse-Hiding Lake using Kamui's Pocket Dimension.
• Susanoo erased the Sun God's mark from the Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi and suggested Liuyun might earn the divine sword, but Liuyun said he would not accept it without merit.
• Susanoo granted Liuyun a General's Mansion, servants, and guards, and Liuyun declined the concubines because he already had a wife.
• Liuyun answered Susanoo's teasing about fearing his wife and impressed him with his reply about women and drawing a sword.
• Ninigi-no-Mikoto learned that the arsonist's corpse had been stolen, punished a subordinate, and ordered the Sword Temple guards executed and the fugitives identified.
• Ninigi-no-Mikoto failed to recognize Liuyun as the man who had attacked him, since he believed that man had died six hundred years earlier.

While the war between Izumo Country and Ashihara Country began, Liuyun stayed home to await the God Tree’s fruit and survived an assassination ordered by Ninigi-no-Mikoto. Susanoo used the attack’s forbidden True Sun Fire to denounce Amaterasu Omikami and force Ashihara Country to surrender the surviving assassin’s corpse.

• Wood Country evacuated its citizens over twenty years, with most resettling in Ashihara Country, before the two great powers began tentative attacks.
• Liuyun observed that the God Tree had drawn energy for twenty years without changing the environment or being discovered, and he stayed out of the war.
• Ninigi-no-Mikoto sent two peak True God Realm assassins armed with divine artifacts to kill Liuyun, but Liuyun killed one and drove the other to flee after surviving the Sun Talisman’s True Sun Fire.
• Susanoo cursed Amaterasu Omikami for violating the gods’ ban on Great God-level power, and the gods prevented her from fighting him or retreating into the Cave of Heaven.
• Ninigi-no-Mikoto handed Susanoo the surviving assassin’s corpse, ending Susanoo’s public denunciations.

Liuyun collected corpses to nourish the Ten-Tails as the war between Ashihara Country and Izumo Country intensified, then deployed an Impure World Reincarnation army to support Izumo Country. While investigating souls for the jutsu, he discovered that Izumo’s mass-produced katanas prevented their victims from reaching the Pure Land, and he concealed his suspicions from Susanoo.

• Liuyun secretly collected battlefield corpses and even raided powerful gods’ tombs, using puppets called the “Disease-Prevention God” and the “Ethical Corpse-Stitching God” to gather bodies openly.
• After two hundred years of war and mounting casualties, Susanoo told Liuyun that Takamanohara was sending heavenly soldiers and generals to aid Ashihara Country.
• Liuyun offered Susanoo a divine technique that could revive fallen warriors, then rebuilt the Reanimated Army and sent it to fight the Gods of Takamanohara.
• Liuyun discovered that Izumo Country’s mass-produced katanas bore runes that prevented slain enemies’ souls from being summoned by Impure World Reincarnation.
• Liuyun hid his discovery and told Susanoo that the jutsu could summon only Izumo’s own dead, with the consent of their heroic spirits.

Liuyun trained Izumo Country’s warriors in ninja techniques as the war against Ashihara Country intensified and Takamanohara sent more deities to support the enemy. Susanoo gave Liuyun an ancient divine artifact and charged him with killing the invading deities for Izumo Country.

• Ninigi-no-Mikoto learned that an undead army had been formed from the souls of Izumo Country’s dead warriors and ordered the priests to expose the alleged desecration.
• Liuyun taught Izumo Country’s warriors ninja techniques and warfare, helping them strike Ashihara Country’s forces while the Black Dragon joined the battles.
• Takamanohara sent more deities into the war, shifting the advantage toward Ashihara Country despite Liuyun’s interventions.
• Susanoo summoned Liuyun and told him to fight the invading deities because Susanoo could not enter the battle himself.
• Susanoo gave Liuyun an ancient divine artifact engraved with the Yellow Springs Mark and asked him to fight for Izumo Country.

Susanoo gave Liuyun Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, then warned him that Ninigi-no-Mikoto’s lineage made killing him a potentially fatal mistake. He revealed that the sword carried the Yellow Springs Mark, which he had obtained from his mother Izanami to send more deities to accompany her.

• Susanoo gave Liuyun Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi, and Liuyun vowed to use it to kill Ninigi-no-Mikoto.
• Susanoo explained that Ninigi-no-Mikoto was both Amaterasu Omikami’s grandson and Takamimusubi-no-Kami’s maternal grandson, and warned Liuyun not to kill him.
• Liuyun told Susanoo that Ninigi-no-Mikoto had destroyed his home and that he had sworn to kill him.
• Susanoo told Liuyun to leave the mark on Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi untouched until after the battle.
• Liuyun recognized that the mark prevented the dead from returning to the Pure Land, and Susanoo revealed that Izanami had created it and that he had obtained it to send deities to accompany her.

Izanami discovered that the God Tree’s roots had pierced into the Yellow Springs Realm and were drawing power from both realms. As Liuyun prepared to hide and protect the tree, Izanami sensed him and recognized an aura connected to Izanagi and Heaven’s Mandate.

• A Yellow Springs Death Warrior reported that mysterious roots near the God Realm’s entrance were absorbing the Yellow Springs Realm’s power, and Izanami went to investigate.
• Izanami recognized the roots as belonging to the Chaos God Seed that had become the Chakra God Tree and recalled its history and connection to Ninigi-no-Mikoto.
• Izanami grasped a God Tree root and discovered that it was drawing energy from the God Realm’s land and nearing the point of flowering and bearing fruit.
• Liuyun sensed that someone might be spying on the God Tree and decided to add anti-detection formulas, a stealth barrier, and a protective clone.
• Izanami sensed Liuyun through the God Tree and realized that his aura resembled Izanagi’s and appeared connected to Heaven’s Mandate.

Susanoo forced Ashihara Country to accept one-on-one True God Realm deathmatches by warning that a broader battle could destroy the God Realm. Izumo Country lost the first duel, but Liuyun revived the fallen puppet, and he prepared to strengthen another puppet for the next fight.

• Susanoo used pressure from the God Realm's inhabitants to make Amaterasu Omikami and Ninigi-no-Mikoto agree to one-on-one True God Realm battles.
• Liuyun's Hungry Ghost Path puppet fought Ashihara Country's early-stage True God Realm deity, lost narrowly, and was killed in the arena.
• Susanoo demanded another match, but Amaterasu Omikami and Ninigi-no-Mikoto invoked the rule of one battle per month, and Susanoo left the battlefield.
• Susanoo visited Liuyun at the Kamui General's Mansion, where Liuyun revived the Hungry Ghost Path puppet using the Hell Path's ability.
• Liuyun prepared to strengthen the Animal Path puppet, Otsutsuki Shenxu, who also possessed the Nine Tomoe Rinnegan.

Liuyun used the Animal Path Puppet Otsutsuki Shenxu to win the second and third True God Realm duels for Izumo Country. After the second victory restored morale, Shenxu defeated another Ashihara Country god despite the opponent trying to avoid his illusion by keeping his eyes closed.

• Otsutsuki Shenxu used Eternal Day to stun the second duel’s Ashihara Country opponent, dragged him into the Shenxu Illusion Realm, and killed him.
• Susanoo mocked Ninigi-no-Mikoto over Ashihara Country’s defeat, then visited Liuyun to celebrate Shenxu’s victory.
• Izumo Country’s generals congratulated Liuyun after learning Otsutsuki Shenxu served as his personal guard, while Shenxu remained out of sight.
• A month later, Otsutsuki Shenxu entered the third duel again, and Ashihara Country’s gods chose to fight with their eyes closed.
• Otsutsuki Shenxu caught the third opponent through another sense, dragged him into the Shenxu Illusion Realm, and killed him.

After years of duels, Liuyun’s rotating puppets had secretly worn down Takamanohara’s True Gods, while Ashihara Country grew suspicious of Izumo Country’s unfamiliar fighters. When Susanoo tried to stop the Gods from examining a fallen puppet’s corpse, Amaterasu Omikami confronted him and the dispute threatened to become a war.

• Ashihara Country accused Izumo Country of hiding fighters inside Otsutsuki Shenxu’s Pocket Dimension, but Otsutsuki Shenxu offered to let them search a defeated opponent’s memories, and Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto supported continuing the duels.
• Otsutsuki Shenxu won another battle before Ashihara Country used a divine artifact to counter his illusions and kill him, claiming its second victory.
• Over three years, Liuyun continued sending puppets into battle, and the Gods began to suspect that Izumo Country had an endless supply of early-stage True Gods.
• Amaterasu Omikami monitored Izumo Country, while the Gods tried to uncover the secret by seizing defeated fighters’ corpses; Liuyun’s seals erased his puppets’ memories and residual power.
• When the Gods seized a Hungry Ghost Path corpse, Susanoo demanded its return and threatened Ashihara Country, prompting Amaterasu Omikami to appear and declare that Takamanohara would not fear war.

Susanoo withdrew after declaring that Izumo Country would stop returning its fallen warriors’ corpses, while Ninigi-no-Mikoto failed to learn anything from a self-destructing corpse. As Izanami secretly poured her power into the God Tree, it rapidly mutated, leaving Liuyun shocked by the monstrous changes.

• Tendo Puppet Garuda urged Susanoo to stop returning Ashihara Country’s corpses, and Susanoo agreed before leaving.
• Ninigi-no-Mikoto inspected the corpse, but divine flames destroyed its face and its memories and power had already vanished.
• Ninigi-no-Mikoto ordered stronger True Gods to fight next month after Ashihara Country lost most of its early-stage True Gods.
• Izanami moved her Skull Throne beneath the God Tree and secretly fed it her power from the Yellow Springs Realm.
• Liuyun noticed the God Tree growing faster, then fed it the corpses he had stored in Kamui’s Pocket Dimension.
• The God Tree developed grotesque human faces, blood-seeping leaves, and white bones as Liuyun watched it mutate in alarm.

Liuyun continued cultivating the mutated God Tree, which absorbed energy from both the God Realm and Yomi and produced a strange black-and-white eyeball fruit. He left the fruit attached to the tree for now, withdrew the God Tree into his body, and heard Izanami promise to await him in Yomi.

• Liuyun discovered that the God Tree's roots had reached the Yellow Springs Realm and chose to let them keep drawing power from Yomi.
• Liuyun sent word to Susanoo that he would temporarily leave the fighting, then sacrificed sealed evil gods and great demons to feed the God Tree.
• The God Tree's crimson fruit darkened and transformed into a giant black-and-white eyeball, which Liuyun suspected could help him reach the Great God Realm.
• Liuyun decided not to pluck the ripe fruit yet because advancing might interfere with his plans for the war.
• Liuyun withdrew the God Tree into his body as Izanami released its roots and told him she would await him in Yomi.
• The God Tree transformed into the Ten-Tails, now bearing bone spines and two differently colored eyeballs on its chest and back.

After Izumo Country lost its first True God in the Divine War, Liuyun offered to fight for revenge, but Take-Mikazuchi-no-Mikoto claimed the next battle. The God of Lightning challenged Takamanohara, whose victory hopes rested on defeating him.

• Liuyun kept a hidden refuge in Yomotsu Hirasaka and learned that Susanoo had delivered him the corpse from Izumo Country’s previous victory.
• Takamanohara sent a late-stage True God to target Izumo Country’s sole late-stage fighter, and Ashihara Country won the battle, killing Susanoo’s right-hand man.
• Liuyun offered to avenge the fallen deity, but he deferred when Take-Mikazuchi-no-Mikoto requested the next fight first.
• Susanoo mourned his fallen ally while other Izumo Country deities pledged to avenge him.
• Take-Mikazuchi-no-Mikoto challenged the Gods, and Takamanohara viewed defeating the nearly Great God-level fighter as crucial to winning the Divine War.