Chapter Summaries

Orochimaru took Chiyo and Ebizo ahead of the Sunagakure migration force to the Land of Rivers after learning the White Zetsu threat had ended. He confronted the Land of Rivers’ Daimyo and demanded his death and the surrender of the country’s treasury.

• Orochimaru told Chiyo and Ebizo that Ingetsu had returned from the sky and that White Zetsu would no longer attack humans.
• Orochimaru explained that Ingetsu had not migrated the great countries merely to defeat the White Zetsu, while Chiyo and Ebizo accepted that Sunagakure would settle in the Land of Fire.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Rivers panicked over his failed attempt to seize Land of Fire territory and decided to send an envoy to seek peace from Konoha.
• Orochimaru, Chiyo, and Ebizo arrived at the Daimyo’s palace, where Orochimaru demanded that the Daimyo kill himself and surrender the treasury.
• Orochimaru asked the trembling Daimyo whether he would comply or be sent to the afterlife.

Orochimaru, Chiyo, and Ebizo defeated the Land of Rivers daimyo’s guards, while Ingetsu ended the White Zetsu threat and informed Darui and Raikage A. As the Land of Lightning’s migration crossed the Land of the Moon, Raikage A ordered the unfinished Chakra Cannon assembled and aimed at the Moon Capital for a test shot.

• The Land of Rivers daimyo ordered his hidden ninjas to kill Orochimaru, but Chiyo and Ebizo joined Orochimaru and helped crush the guards with puppets and sand.
• Darui found no White Zetsu near the northern defensive fortress and learned from Ingetsu that the army had disappeared, so he ordered his team to join Raikage A and Killer B.
• Raikage A and the Cloud Ninja pulled the Chakra Cannon with the migrating people of the Land of Lightning, and Killer B explained that they still feared Ingetsu.
• Raikage A told the Cloud Ninja that Ingetsu had ended the White Zetsu threat, but urged them to continue migrating in case other dangers appeared.
• After the migration entered the Land of the Moon, Raikage A asked an engineer whether the unfinished Chakra Cannon could fire and ordered a test shot aimed at the Moon Capital.

The Lightning Shadow assembled and fired the Chakra Cannon, destroying the Moon Capital in retaliation for the Land of the Moon’s attack on the Land of Fire. Ingetsu woke in the Land of Waves and met with Shikaku, Inoichi, and Chōza, who reported a massive fleet in the eastern sea.

• The Lightning Shadow ordered the civilians evacuated from the Moon Capital while the Cloud Ninja assembled the Chakra Cannon.
• Killer B led the civilians out of the capital, then positioned Cloud Ninja along the roads in case the Land of the Moon’s leader tried to escape.
• The Lightning Shadow fired the Chakra Cannon and obliterated the Moon Capital, killing the Moon Country Daimyo and destroying the city.
• Ingetsu woke beside Tsunade and Kaguya, then went to the rooftop and sensed something beyond the eastern sea.
• Shikaku, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Chōza met Ingetsu on the rooftop and told him that a massive, organized fleet had appeared in the eastern sea.

Ingetsu arranged for the Land of Waves’ Konoha remnants and Mei Terumi’s Kirigakure migration force to coordinate their move, confirming that the remnants’ children were safe in the Capital Fortress. The story then shifted to Isshiki and Amado, who hurried their artificial human experiments as they awaited an imminent arrival.

• Shikaku realized Ingetsu was working to unite the shinobi villages against threats such as the White Zetsu, and explained his reasoning to Inoichi and Chōza through a mental bridge.
• Ingetsu overheard their private exchange, then brought Shikaku and Mei Terumi into a shared spiritual world and told them to coordinate the Kirigakure fleet’s arrival and the two groups’ migration.
• Ingetsu confirmed that the Konoha remnants could return to Konoha and that their children were alive in the Capital Fortress, prompting Shikaku, Inoichi, and Chōza to bow in relief.
• In the Land of Tea, Isshiki asked Amado about the imminent arrival of his true body and ordered him to accelerate the artificial human experiments before they relocated again.

Konoha completed its plan to relocate the citizens and shinobi of the Five Great Shinobi Countries, welcoming former Kumogakure and Iwagakure forces into districts within the ruined village. As the Sand relocation group arrived under Orochimaru, the former villages' people began settling into their new homes.

• Konoha's Reanimated Uchiha scouts found that their surveillance target had left a cottage near a Kara stronghold.
• Kirigakure's warships arrived at the Land of Waves, and shinobi ordered local fishermen ashore for relocation, assuring them that no war was beginning.
• Tsunade prepared to leave the Land of Waves for Konoha, and Ingetsu and Kaguya departed using Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• A and Bee and Darui led the final relocation group from the Land of Lightning into the Land of Fire, while the remaining Kumogakure shinobi settled in Konoha's new Cloud Ninja District.
• Kitsuchi led the Stone Shinobi to their new Stone Ninja District, where he reunited with Kurotsuchi as Deidara watched another village shinobi arrive.
• Orochimaru led the Hidden Sand relocation group through Konoha's ruined gate, where Ebizo and Chiyo saw their new home and learned that the Cloud and Stone forces had already arrived.

Orochimaru welcomed the displaced Sand Ninja to Konoha, where Gaara reunited with Chiyo and Ebizo and learned they would settle in a new Sand Ninja District. Two days later, the returning Konoha Ninja and Kirigakure entered the ruined village, where the original Konoha forces began their return home.

• Orochimaru left the Sand Ninja in the care of the Uchiha Great Elder and reunited with Anko, who gave him red bean soup.
• Anko led Gaara to Chiyo and Ebizo, and he reassured them that he was safe, warm, and well cared for in Konoha.
• The Uchiha Great Elder showed Chiyo and Ebizo their settlement in western Konoha and explained that tents and building materials were ready for the Sand Ninja.
• Two days later, Yamanaka Inoichi led the original Konoha Ninja and the Mist Ninja to Konoha's ruined gate, where the returning Konoha Ninja celebrated their homecoming.
• Mei Terumi and Genji entered Konoha with the Mist Ninja, while Tsunade rallied the returning Konoha Ninja and led them into the village.

Tsunade and Mei Terumi returned to a ruined Konoha and learned how the Ten-Tails had destroyed it, while the returning shinobi reunited with their families. The Uchiha Great Elder arranged districts for the returning clans and Mist Ninja, and Ingetsu watched as the Five Great Shinobi Villages settled into Konoha as one.

• Tsunade learned from Ingetsu that the Ten-Tails had destroyed Konoha, while the returning Konoha and Mist Ninja troops entered the village.
• The Konoha 12 reunited with their families, and Shikamaru discussed Ingetsu’s plans with Shikaku.
• Tsunade and Mei Terumi met the Uchiha Great Elder, who assigned the returning Konoha clans the central district and the Mist Ninja an eastern district.
• Tsunade and Mei Terumi headed to the Capital Fortress to meet Ingetsu, while the Uchiha Great Elder directed them below the fortress for guidance.
• Ingetsu watched as Mist, Stone, Sand, and Cloud shinobi built homes across Konoha, completing the union of the Five Great Shinobi Villages.

As Konoha was rebuilt with the conquered villages and their people gathered under Ingetsu, he summoned the leaders to a new Five Kage Summit. He revealed the Ninja World’s history of Kaguya, the White Zetsu, and the Sage of Six Paths, leaving the assembled leaders aware of the origins of the danger they faced.

• Ingetsu surveyed the rebuilding village and ordered the Uchiha Second Elder to have Kitsuchi and Chiyo add trees and greenery to the Sand and Stone districts.
• Hanzo, Kisame, and Zabuza admired Ingetsu’s unification of the Five Great Shinobi Villages and discussed how Madara would have reacted.
• Ingetsu welcomed Tsunade and Mei Terumi to the Fortress and summoned the Lightning Shadow, Chiyo, Ebizo, and Kitsuchi for a Five Kage Summit.
• Tsunade asked why Ingetsu had brought the villages together, but he said it was too soon to discuss his deeper aims and directed them to focus on what they could do now.
• Ingetsu explained how Kaguya descended on the Ninja World, created the White Zetsu, and was sealed by her sons, then recounted the Sage of Six Paths’ legacy and the Ninja World Wars.

Ingetsu revealed Kaguya Otsutsuki’s identity and briefed the village leaders on the Otsutsuki threat, then organized the Ninja World’s preparations for war. After the meeting, Mikoto arrived to show Tsunade and Mei Terumi their prepared room.

• The Lightning Shadow asked how Ingetsu knew the Ninja World’s secrets, and Ebizo helped him realize Kaguya Otsutsuki was the source of Ingetsu’s knowledge.
• Ingetsu confirmed that Kaguya was the ancestor of the Ninja World and explained that she had created the White Zetsu Army to fight the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Kaguya bought daily necessities from a shopkeeper, refused to accept them as a gift, and used Yomotsu Hirasaka to disappear.
• Ingetsu explained the Otsutsuki Clan’s strength and abilities, and the village leaders agreed to prepare for the coming war.
• Ingetsu ordered the villages to train shinobi and produce food, then ended the meeting as the leaders pledged their support.
• Tsunade and Mei Terumi stayed behind, and Ingetsu called Mikoto, who offered to show them a room she had prepared.

Ingetsu and Kaguya rescued Obito from the frozen dimension and revived him by merging his surviving heart with a White Zetsu. Obito returned with a new body but no memories or consciousness, and Ingetsu decided to keep him nearby and have Nonō train him.

• Kaguya joined Ingetsu in the meeting room and agreed that they would deal with Isshiki, but first they needed to retrieve Obito.
• Ingetsu and Kaguya found Obito frozen on the dead planet where Kaguya had once planted a God Tree, and Ingetsu sensed that his heart was still beating inside White Zetsu Cells.
• Ingetsu broke Obito out of the ice, and Kaguya opened a Space Gate so they could carry him back to the Main Fortress.
• Ingetsu injected mental power into Obito and merged a White Zetsu with his body, allowing Obito to grow a new body around his surviving heart.
• Obito revived with a blank mind and crawled toward Ingetsu, who decided to keep him and contacted Nonō to train him.

Ingetsu arranged for Nonō and Kabuto to care for Obito, then invited Kabuto to assist Orochimaru. Over lunch, Orochimaru described his experiments with Uchiha Shin and joined Ingetsu and Kaguya on a planned mission to confront Isshiki, with the Otsutsuki descendant also set to accompany them.

• Ingetsu explained that Obito would recover his memories when a seal-like trigger activated, and Nonō and Kabuto took him to the orphanage for care and training.
• Ingetsu assigned Kabuto to become Orochimaru’s personal assistant once Orochimaru had time to take him on.
• Ingetsu invited Orochimaru to join him and Kaguya on a trip to cause trouble for Isshiki, after they finished lunch.
• Orochimaru told Ingetsu he was studying Uchiha Shin’s ability to accept transplanted organs and was researching cloning Uchiha shinobi with Sharingan.
• Ingetsu offered Orochimaru access to White Zetsu if needed and said he would bring the Otsutsuki descendant along to help deal with the Otsutsuki from outside.

Ingetsu prepared to travel with Kaguya, Orochimaru, and Toneri, promising Orochimaru access to research on the Tenseigan. In Iron Country, Mifune worried that Ingetsu’s expanding rule would threaten the nation’s neutrality, while secretly reporting to Isshiki that preparations were proceeding as planned.

• Ingetsu told Orochimaru to train Kabuto and later send him to Ryūchi Cave, then declined to investigate Mount Myoboku until the Otsutsuki problem was handled.
• Toneri joined Ingetsu, Kaguya, and Orochimaru, and Ingetsu promised Orochimaru that the Hyuga Clan would help him study and clone the Byakugan and develop the Tenseigan.
• Ingetsu, Kaguya, Orochimaru, and Toneri departed through Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Mifune patrolled Iron Country’s city walls with Chsuke and Rikaku as he worried that the country’s neutrality could not survive Ingetsu’s consolidation of the Five Great Nations.
• Mifune went to the basement and told Isshiki that everything was proceeding in an orderly fashion.

Isshiki visited Amado’s laboratory in the Iron Country, where Amado showed him mutated creatures engineered from alien and local biological genes. After one monster killed an armored cleanup squad, Amado asked Isshiki to help contain the rampaging experiment.

• Isshiki controlled Mifune with genjutsu and ordered him to leave the basement.
• Amado told Isshiki that modified White Zetsu Cells resisted control by everyone except Isshiki, then showed him the laboratory’s mutated creatures.
• Amado explained that Isshiki’s collected alien genes had enabled the experiments and that the creatures could delay Ingetsu’s efforts against him.
• Amado used crimson mist to anesthetize a blood-covered bear monster, but the creature soon awakened and killed five members of a six-person cleanup team.
• The monster killed the team captain despite his Scientific Ninja Tools, and Amado asked Isshiki to deal with the rampaging experiment.

Isshiki destroyed two hidden experimental monsters in Amado’s laboratory and left, while Ingetsu continued searching Isshiki’s bases with Kaguya, Orochimaru, and Toneri. Finding clues in an antique suit of armor and a record player, Ingetsu headed for the Iron Country and then the Rice Country to search for Isshiki.

• Isshiki annihilated a camouflaged lizard monster, exited the laboratory, and learned from Amado that the experimental subjects were not yet ready for use.
• In the Land of Tea, Ingetsu’s Reanimated Uchiha spies reported that they had lost track of their target.
• Ingetsu, Kaguya, Orochimaru, and Toneri searched a hidden basement but found no useful information about Isshiki.
• Ingetsu noticed that the basement’s antique armor came from the Iron Country and its record player came from the Rice Country.
• Ingetsu concealed the group’s identities, used Kaguya’s Space-Time Portal to travel to the Iron Country, and planned to search the Rice Country afterward.

Ingetsu and his companions infiltrated the Iron Country capital and discovered that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had taken control of the country. After Toneri found Isshiki’s lair in Mifune’s memories, Ingetsu chose to inspect the site from a distance before deciding how to proceed.

• Ingetsu’s group entered the heavily guarded Iron Country capital by climbing over its western wall.
• The group learned from Mifune’s memories that Isshiki’s forces controlled the country’s twenty thousand samurai and local soldiers.
• Orochimaru poisoned Mifune, then treated him with a serum so Toneri could extract his memories.
• Toneri located Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s lair, and Ingetsu decided the group should survey it from an open vantage point.

Toneri used the Tenseigan to locate Isshiki beneath a mine, where he discovered a laboratory filled with monstrous biological weapons. Ingetsu planned to capture Isshiki while Orochimaru dealt with the laboratory, but Amado triggered the lift and Isshiki headed back toward the mine.

• Toneri scanned the Iron Country with his Tenseigan and found Isshiki beneath the mine among numerous modified creatures.
• Kaguya confirmed Isshiki's location, and Ingetsu arranged for her to redirect Isshiki's spatial jumps while Toneri held him back.
• Ingetsu led Toneri and Orochimaru into the underground laboratory through Yomotsu Hirasaka, leaving Kaguya to watch Isshiki.
• Amado used his Prosthetic Eye to shut off the laboratory lights and make the lift descend while Orochimaru held him.
• Isshiki sensed Amado's Prosthetic Eye transmitting energy and opened a Space Gate back to the mine, while Ingetsu reached for Amado's eye.

Ingetsu destroyed Amado’s Prosthetic Eyes, but Isshiki used a hidden key to release the monsters in the laboratory while fighting Toneri and Kaguya. Ingetsu disappeared to deal with the escape, and Isshiki discovered that the passage exit was blocked by an invisible wall.

• The lift platform crashed into the underground pit, and Ingetsu removed and destroyed Amado’s Prosthetic Eyes before they could release an electronic pulse.
• Isshiki appeared through a Space-Time Portal, but Kaguya forced him out, and Toneri attacked him with Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Toneri’s attack split the lift platform, while Ingetsu and Orochimaru reached Amado and learned that the laboratory’s glass walls were opening.
• Isshiki used a spare key from Amado to release the laboratory’s monsters, and Ingetsu vanished to respond as the creatures broke out of their containers.
• Isshiki tried to let the monsters escape and delay Ingetsu, but the first creature struck an invisible wall at the passage exit.

Ingetsu trapped Isshiki and the monsters inside the cave while Kaguya, Toneri, and Orochimaru attacked Isshiki. Amado activated a hidden sealing formation that bound Isshiki, and Ingetsu sent Kaguya and the others away with Amado as the battle continued.

• Ingetsu sealed the cave and its exits with barriers formed from the laws of nature, leaving Isshiki and the monsters unable to escape.
• As the trapped monsters turned on one another, Orochimaru hid Amado, then joined Kaguya and Toneri in attacking Isshiki.
• Amado activated a secret sealing formation through his prosthetic limb, causing runes to drain the monsters' chakra and life force and bind Isshiki.
• Isshiki realized Amado had betrayed him and tried to destroy the activator, but the formation locked onto him and sealed his limbs.
• Ingetsu told Kaguya, Toneri, and Orochimaru to take Amado away, and Kaguya opened Yomotsu Hirasaka to transport them.

Ingetsu watched Amado’s seal destroy Isshiki’s body and grind away his energy form, then waited as the formation weakened and vanished. Afterward, Ingetsu followed a hidden energy body from the cave to the basement where Toneri had previously found Isshiki.

• The activated formation restrained Isshiki and the cave’s monsters while Kaguya, Orochimaru, Toneri, Amado, and the others left, leaving Ingetsu to watch.
• Isshiki questioned Ingetsu about his connection to Amado, and Ingetsu said he did not know him and refused to release him.
• The formation drained the monsters and cut apart Isshiki’s body, then dragged his surviving energy form into its depths as Isshiki cursed Amado.
• Outside the cave, Amado admitted he had long planned to kill Isshiki, and Orochimaru invited him to return to the Leaf Village to help Ingetsu.
• Ingetsu remained merged with the surroundings for more than a month until the seal weakened and vanished, having erased Isshiki without a trace.
• Ingetsu followed an unseen energy body from the cave to the basement where Toneri had previously located Isshiki, and it revealed its true form after checking that it was safe.

Isshiki survived Amado’s sealing array as a deformed energy body, but Ingetsu confronted and subdued him before he could find a Karma vessel. Ingetsu summoned the Ten-Tails to devour Isshiki, leaving the threat temporarily settled.

• Isshiki emerged from the cavern laboratory in a monstrous energy-body form and struggled with mental torment caused by the energies within him.
• Isshiki tried to find a suitable Karma vessel, but Ingetsu confronted him at the basement entrance and caught his attack.
• Ingetsu used an Air Wall and his control over the natural environment to immobilize Isshiki, then opened a connection to the Ten-Tails’ dimension.
• Ingetsu contacted Kaguya, who arrived from the Konoha Royal Capital Fortress and stood with him as Isshiki faced the Ten-Tails.
• The Ten-Tails swallowed Isshiki and returned to its dimension, after which Ingetsu said the matter was temporarily settled.