Chapter Summaries

Hatake Sakumo killed Baki and prepared to help stop Gaara’s One-Tail transformation, while battles broke out across Konoha. Habara attacked Pain’s paths, destroying several and confronting Nagato with his knowledge of the Rinnegan’s abilities.

• Hatake Sakumo defeated Baki in seconds, then killed him and turned his attention to the transforming Gaara.
• Senju Nawaki offered to seal the One-Tail, but Hatake Sakumo and Nawaki recognized that they first had to defeat it; Jiraiya fought Rasa and revealed that Hatake Sakumo was battling Gaara.
• Kakashi and Might Guy confronted Hiruko and Shennong, Hizashi Hyuga faced Sasori, and Shisui found Uchiha Itachi and Kisame.
• Habara entered Sage Mode and destroyed the Naraka Path and Animal Path before cutting down the Asura Path and Human Path.
• Nagato realized Habara knew the Paths’ abilities, and Habara declared that he could see both Pain and Nagato hiding in the forest.

Jiraiya, Might Guy, Kakashi, and Hatake Sakumo fought the attackers and contained Rasa, Shennong, Hiruko, and One-Tail. Habara defeated Nagato’s Deva Path Pain and rushed toward the Training Ground as Konoha began its counterattack.

• Jiraiya used Sage Mode and a Great Ball Rasengan to strike Rasa, while Might Guy overwhelmed Shennong and Kakashi scattered Hiruko’s unfinished Storm Demon Dragon, allowing Hiruko to escape.
• Hatake Sakumo confronted One-Tail, fought across its body, and reached Gaara as the beast raged.
• Habara taunted Nagato, defeated the other Six Paths bodies, and fought Deva Path Pain with his sword until he destroyed it.
• Habara sensed One-Tail’s chakra weakening and heard Konoha’s Leaf Ninjas begin their counterattack.
• Habara left a Shadow Clone behind, flew toward the Training Ground, and prepared to end the battle.

Shisui fought Uchiha Itachi while Konoha's shinobi counterattacked Sunagakure's invasion, and the arriving Uchiha Fugaku forced Itachi to reconsider his position. Habara confronted Uchiha Madara, whose resurrected body wielded immense power, and their battle escalated as both summoned Susanoo.

• Shisui fought Uchiha Itachi, who used Yin-Yang Release, while Shisui activated his Mangekyo and struck with Susanoo.
• Sasori battled the resurrected Hizashi Hyuga and considered capturing him to learn the Resurrection Technique, but Black Zetsu urged Sasori to leave Konoha and promised information about the technique.
• Konoha's shinobi and the Military Police Force launched a coordinated counterattack that routed the Sand Ninja, while Deidara flew away to attack Sunagakure.
• Orochimaru summoned Uchiha Madara with Impure World Reincarnation, and Madara revealed that he knew the Rinnegan was the Sharingan's endpoint before Habara arrived.
• Uchiha Madara attacked Habara with Wood Release, but Habara burned through his Wood Dragon with Sage Art; Madara then used Advent of a World of Flowering Trees to counter Habara's flames.
• Habara and Uchiha Madara formed Susanoo as their battle intensified, and another chakra-clad figure appeared within the flames.

Uchiha Itachi unleashed his limited Yin-Yang Release against Shisui, Uchiha Fugaku, and Kisame before Black Zetsu helped him escape. Meanwhile, Habara fought Uchiha Madara at the Valley of the End and challenged his beliefs about the Stone Tablet and the Sage of Six Paths, leaving Madara demanding an explanation.

• Kisame revealed that he had chosen his own path, while Shisui and Uchiha Fugaku prepared to attack Uchiha Itachi.
• Uchiha Itachi used Yin-Yang Release: Great Fire Annihilation to overwhelm their attacks, then Black Zetsu appeared and agreed to take him away.
• Black Zetsu told Uchiha Itachi that Habara was fighting the real Uchiha Madara.
• Habara and Uchiha Madara clashed in the Forest of Death, then moved their battle to the Valley of the End as Konoha’s forces dealt with Sunagakure’s retreat and casualties.
• Habara pressed Uchiha Madara about the Stone Tablet, the Sage of Six Paths’ sons, and whether the Sage was truly dead.

Habara and Uchiha Madara clashed with their Susanoo at the Valley of the End, then discussed the Sage of Six Paths and the origins of the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Habara proposed that the Sage might still be alive and that the stone tablet had been altered to manipulate Madara, leaving him to consider a possible conspiracy involving the moon and a sealed enemy.

• Uchiha Madara and Habara unleashed their full Susanoo and exchanged blows, causing an explosion that destroyed the Valley of the End and shook Konoha.
• Jiraiya ordered Konoha’s shinobi to reinforce the barriers and protect residents, while Tsunade, Senju Nawaki, Ōnoki, and Killer B reacted to the devastation.
• Habara and Uchiha Madara resumed their fight, and Madara acknowledged Habara’s strength before asking what he had meant to say.
• Habara asked whether Madara had sensed another presence within his consciousness and chakra, and Madara admitted that the presence had felt like himself.
• Habara argued that the Sage of Six Paths might still be alive and questioned why he would leave a plan for the Infinite Tsukuyomi if he could create peace himself.
• Habara suggested that the stone tablet had been altered and that the Sage had sealed a true Chakra Progenitor on the moon, possibly allowing generations of shinobi to grow strong enough to defend the world.

Habara persuaded Uchiha Madara to investigate the moon and the Sage of Six Paths’ plans, then returned to Konoha as the village prepared to retaliate against Sunagakure. Madara decided to examine the Hyuga records, while Sunagakure learned its invasion had failed and Konoha had declared war.

• Habara argued that the Sage of Six Paths may have allowed a thousand years of conflict to prepare the Shinobi World for the Ōtsutsuki, and urged Uchiha Madara to investigate the moon with him.
• The battle’s shockwaves exhausted Konoha’s defenders, and Jiraiya declared that Konoha would answer Sunagakure’s invasion with force.
• At a Konoha meeting, Jiraiya and the village leaders began planning their response to Sunagakure and the wider consequences of war.
• Uchiha Madara told Orochimaru and Black Zetsu that Habara’s strength made further fighting pointless, then resolved to inspect the Uchiha records about the Hyuga Clan.
• Sunagakure received word that its operation had failed, its Kazekage and other forces had been killed, and Konoha had declared war.

As Konoha prepared for war against Sunagakure, Chiyo ordered her forces to abandon the Land of Rivers, while Ōnoki confronted Habara about Konoha’s growing power and ambitions. Habara described his attempt to bring peace through integrating nations, and Uchiha Madara returned to the Uchiha ancestral cemetery, deciding to investigate Habara’s plans.

• Chiyo learned Iwagakure and Kumogakure would not aid Sunagakure and ordered its troops to withdraw from the Land of Rivers.
• Konoha finalized compensation for its casualties and assembled eight thousand shinobi for the war against Sunagakure.
• Habara reassured Yoshino that she did not need to change, then left to meet Ōnoki, who had been following him.
• Habara told Ōnoki that he sought peace by integrating nations, and Ōnoki realized Konoha’s expansion was part of that effort.
• Uchiha Madara visited Uchiha Izuna’s grave and decided to examine Habara’s plans for himself.

Nagato learned that Konoha could resurrect the dead, while Konoha’s army marched against Sunagakure and Hatake Sakumo’s return revealed the village’s frightening strength to Ōnoki. Elsewhere, Uchiha Madara uncovered records suggesting the Hyuga Clan had appeared in the Land of Fire from nowhere and set out to investigate Swallow Return Valley, as Habara watched the campaign unfold.

• Konan told Nagato that Kisame had defected to Konoha and that Sasori had seen the resurrected Hizashi Hyuga fight, prompting Nagato to consider Konoha’s power over life and death.
• Konoha’s army departed to fight Sunagakure, while Ōnoki watched and considered resisting Konoha’s plans to unite the Shinobi World.
• Hatake Sakumo revealed to Ōnoki that Habara had resurrected him, showing Ōnoki what Konoha’s hidden foundation could be.
• Uchiha Madara read clan records about the Hyuga Clan’s mysterious arrival in the Land of Fire and left to investigate Swallow Return Valley.
• Habara learned that Sunagakure had withdrawn from the Land of Rivers and gathered its forces at the Land of Wind’s border, while Jiraiya led Konoha’s campaign and Shisui joined the front lines.

Jiraiya approved Hatake Sakumo’s plan to encircle Sunagakure, and Konoha launched a three-pronged attack. Sakumo led the eastern force into the Land of Wind, where he met Chiyo and fought through her puppets as Konoha’s main force advanced.

• Jiraiya agreed to Hatake Sakumo’s plan, appointing Sakumo and Shisui to lead separate flanking forces while he led the frontal attack.
• Jiraiya’s frontal assault struck Sunagakure’s defenses, and Chiyo deduced that Konoha had sent troops to encircle her forces.
• Chiyo left Ebizo in command of the front and led troops to intercept Konoha’s raiding force.
• Hatake Sakumo led his force into the Land of Wind, spotted Sunagakure’s troops, and charged ahead after telling Kakashi he would not leave him again.
• Chiyo recognized Hatake Sakumo and attacked him with her Ten Puppets, but he evaded her strikes and destroyed one puppet.
• Hatake Sakumo challenged Chiyo as Konoha’s main force charged toward Sunagakure’s troops.

Shisui led Konoha’s flank force against Sunagakure, surviving a massive ninjutsu barrage with Susanoo and forcing the defenders to choose between surrender and resistance. Elsewhere, Habara pressed Orochimaru to free Namikaze Minato’s soul and restore the damaged land, while Uchiha Madara searched Swallow Return Valley and found a place that blocked his perception.

• Shisui scouted ahead of his force and charged toward Sunagakure’s prepared defenses alone.
• Sunagakure’s shinobi detonated buried Explosive Tags and launched a combined ninjutsu attack, but Shisui survived inside Susanoo and countered with Great Fire Annihilation.
• Shisui demanded the defenders surrender, but their Captain refused to abandon Sunagakure and chose to resist.
• Habara met Orochimaru, confirmed that the Akatsuki leader’s Rinnegan belonged to Uchiha Madara, and asked Orochimaru to restore the surrounding land with Senju Hashirama.
• Habara told Orochimaru to release Namikaze Minato’s soul before changing bodies and advised him to use White Zetsu bodies.
• Uchiha Madara sent Wood Clones to search Swallow Return Valley and discovered a place that blocked his perception.

Uchiha Madara found a mysterious cave containing dense Yin Release and spatial chakra, then brought Habara to investigate what he believed was the Teleportation Channel. Meanwhile, Ōnoki considered Iwagakure’s future as Konoha’s forces reached the One-Line Sky Fortress, where Jiraiya prepared for the decisive battle.

• Uchiha Madara explored the cave, sensed its sealing barrier, Yin Release, and spatial chakra, and vowed to take revenge if Habara’s warnings proved true.
• Ōnoki listened as a young Iwa-nin described Konoha’s prosperity and decided to prepare a way forward for Iwagakure and its children.
• Jiraiya questioned Shisui about supplies and learned that Hatake Sakumo had captured Chiyo as Konoha’s forces advanced toward the One-Line Sky Fortress.
• Jiraiya gathered his commanders to plan an assault on the fortress, while Habara and Tsunade reviewed the battlefield reports in the Hokage's Office.
• Uchiha Madara’s chakra blanketed Konoha, and Habara went to meet him before Madara grabbed him and hurried off to investigate the river-like Teleportation Channel.

Habara and Uchiha Madara activated a hidden passage and traveled from the Shinobi World to the moon, where they encountered a puppet force controlled by the weakened Ōtsutsuki survivors. As Madara destroyed the puppets, the moon elders prepared to use the Tenseigan against the intruders.

• Habara infused the strange lake with Space Power, activating a passage to the moon, and he and Uchiha Madara entered it.
• Habara and Uchiha Madara emerged inside the moon, sensed a powerful threat on a Floating Island, and spotted an approaching force of puppets.
• The moon's Byakugan elders learned of the intruders and decided to use the Tenseigan if the puppets could not stop them, while protecting Toneri.
• Uchiha Madara attacked the puppets with Fire Release and then shattered them in close combat as Habara watched.
• Habara observed that the puppet controllers lacked combat experience, while Uchiha Madara cleared out the puppet force.

Konoha tightened its siege of Sunagakure and prepared an aerial bombardment before launching an assault, while Habara and Uchiha Madara confronted a powerful Ōtsutsuki on the moon. The Ōtsutsuki recognized their Susanoo as the World Destruction Technique as Uchiha Madara attacked.

• Jiraiya chose to besiege Sunagakure, cut off its supplies, and target its returning reinforcements while Konoha gathered more shinobi.
• Hatake Sakumo reported that Konoha had 23,000 shinobi in the Land of Wind, and Shisui proposed using Deidara's flight and explosives to weaken Sunagakure's fortress.
• Ebizo learned Sunagakure's morale was collapsing and that Iwagakure and Kumogakure had not responded, then heard that Konoha had begun attacking.
• Habara and Uchiha Madara flew toward the Floating Island, dodged its devastating yellow beams, and encountered an old Ōtsutsuki wielding Tenseigan Chakra.
• Uchiha Madara and Habara attacked the old Ōtsutsuki, who recognized their Susanoo as the World Destruction Technique as Madara swung his blade.

Deidara’s bombardment broke Sunagakure’s One-Line Sky Fortress, allowing Konoha’s forces to invade while Ebizo ordered civilians evacuated and chose to resist. On the moon, Habara and Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo clashed with an Ōtsutsuki elder wielding the Tenseigan; the battle devastated the lunar interior, and the weakened elder drew on more chakra to launch another attack.

• Deidara led Clay Bird attacks on the One-Line Sky Fortress, then used his new Explosion Release technique, Garuda, to blast a huge opening in its defenses.
• Kakuzu caught Deidara as he fell, while Shisui and Hatake Sakumo ordered Konoha’s forces to advance through the breach.
• Shisui and Konoha’s main force overwhelmed the fortress, and Ebizo ordered his subordinates to protect civilians and avoid unnecessary clashes before choosing to fight on.
• On the moon, an Ōtsutsuki elder blocked attacks from Habara and Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo with the Tenseigan’s power, while Otsutsuki Toneri learned that invaders had entered the moon.
• Habara and Uchiha Madara struck the elder’s barrier, and the ensuing blast destroyed nearly all the Floating Islands and left the lunar interior in ruins.
• The wounded elder drew more chakra through his scepter and pointed it at Habara and Uchiha Madara as he launched another attack.

Habara and Uchiha Madara fought the dying Ōtsutsuki elder, who wielded the Tenseigan’s power and summoned a massive stone statue. When the elder unleashed the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, Uchiha Madara moved to hold him back and send Habara away, but Habara turned toward the Floating Island.

• The elder’s Tenseigan Chakra mode overwhelmed Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo, while Habara and Madara counterattacked with Yin-Yang Release, Sage Art, and Wood Release.
• The elder summoned a chakra-linked stone statue and attacked Madara with Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion before Madara struck back with a powerful Susanoo slash.
• The elder used Truth-Seeking Orbs to meet their attacks, triggering an enormous blast that destroyed the statue and left Habara and Madara badly injured.
• Habara and Madara recovered and launched a combined attack, but the elder unleashed the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and bound them with its force.
• Uchiha Madara shielded Habara and told him to escape, but Habara turned to look at the Floating Island.

Konoha’s forces finished devastating Sunagakure to avoid costly street fighting, while Jiraiya prepared to govern the occupied Land of Wind. On the moon, Habara survived the Tenseigan’s catastrophic clash by reversing time, then stood with Uchiha Madara before the unstable eye and a vast library of answers.

• Hatake Sakumo and Shisui ordered Konoha’s forces to evacuate Sunagakure’s civilians, then use large-scale attacks to destroy the village and avoid greater losses.
• Konoha released and aided Sunagakure’s noncombatants, treated captured shinobi, and began preparing to rebuild as Jiraiya arranged troop rotations and Tsunade’s arrival.
• Kakashi, Hatake Sakumo, Jiraiya, Nara Shikaku, and people across the Shinobi World sensed a strange, powerful chakra spreading from Hamura Shrine on the moon.
• The Tenseigan’s power went out of control during the clash of Habara’s black blade and the old man’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, destroying the lunar interior and dissipating Uchiha Madara and Habara.
• Habara used Time Reversal to return from death, then found that Uchiha Madara had survived with Izanagi and that the moon remained intact.
• Habara concluded that surviving lunar Ōtsutsuki had interfered with the Tenseigan’s transfer, and he and Uchiha Madara considered the unstable eye and the shrine’s library.

Habara and Uchiha Madara searched Hamura Shrine, where its records confirmed that Madara had been deceived about Infinite Tsukuyomi and its purpose. Madara began suspecting an unseen ally who had manipulated him, while Habara steered him toward the answer without naming it.

• Habara and Uchiha Madara threatened the surviving Ōtsutsuki prisoners with Otsutsuki Toneri's life until the elders agreed to provide information.
• In the Pure Land, Ōtsutsuki Hamura questioned Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo about the moon's crisis and whether he was ready to fight the future invaders.
• Uchiha Madara read Hamura Shrine's records and learned that Infinite Tsukuyomi was meant to turn the Shinobi World into an army, confirming Habara's suspicions.
• Habara found complete Yin-Yang Release manuals and methods for controlling the Giant Tenseigan while Madara questioned who had altered the Stone Tablet.
• Madara suspected Senju Tobirama, but Habara dismissed him and described an inconspicuous, trusted figure who had stayed close to Madara.
• Madara realized whom Habara meant, and Habara urged him to examine everyone without revealing the suspect's identity.

Habara helped Uchiha Madara test whether Black Zetsu had deceived him, and Madara discovered that he could not create a conscious entity as he had believed. As Habara used the Tenseigan to repair the Moon, its chakra flowed into him and triggered a dangerous transformation that Madara recognized as a new stage of power.

• Habara urged Uchiha Madara to create another consciousness entity, and Madara's repeated attempts produced only empty shells of Yin Release Chakra.
• Black Zetsu sensed a strange, powerful chakra in the sky and feared that his plans to revive Kaguya might be in danger.
• Uchiha Madara realized Black Zetsu had deceived him and vowed to kill him, while Habara advised him to conceal his knowledge and seek a chance to strike.
• Habara connected to the Tenseigan with a staff and used its power to begin repairing the hole in the Moon.
• The Tenseigan's chakra flowed into Habara, causing his bloodline to transform and his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to spin as Madara recognized the change.

Habara endured a deathlike transformation and awakened the power to restore life to a barren battlefield, while Hagoromo explained that Habara’s bloodline and fusion of five chakra attributes had enabled his evolution. Hagoromo met Habara in his consciousness space, and Habara demanded to know his true purpose.

• Habara accepted the agony of his transformation and experienced a vision of a battlefield consumed by death, then understood that death was part of a continuing cycle.
• Habara used his chakra to turn the corpse-strewn battlefield into a thriving oasis, completing the hardest stage of his transformation.
• In the Pure Land, Hamura urged Hagoromo to meet Habara, and Hagoromo entered Habara’s consciousness space.
• Habara recognized Hagoromo as the Sage of Six Paths, and Hagoromo explained how Habara’s bloodline enhancement and fusion of five chakra attributes set him apart from Madara.
• Habara asked Hagoromo what his purpose was, and Hagoromo began to answer.

Habara spoke with Hagoromo in the Consciousness Space about peace and the Ōtsutsuki threat, then awakened a distinctive Rinnegan after his stalled transformation resumed. He told Uchiha Madara that the Sage of Six Paths had revealed the Shinobi World's danger and that they would need to work together.

• Habara challenged Hagoromo about peace and guessed that he had allowed his sons to act because he feared the Ōtsutsuki and hoped the Shinobi World could prepare itself.
• Hagoromo confirmed that Kaguya had used the Infinite Tsukuyomi to turn the world into a hidden army against her clansmen, and Habara explained his plan to unify the Shinobi World through a final battle.
• Hagoromo accepted that Habara would continue his plan, helped restart his stalled transformation, and left him to awaken.
• Habara's chakra surged, and he opened eyes that resembled a Rinne Sharingan; he realized his Five-Element Chakra had fused further but his Stairway to Godhood had not reached its Third Stage.
• Habara told Uchiha Madara that he had met the Sage of Six Paths, whose revelations concerned the future of the Shinobi World and required their cooperation.