Chapter Summaries

Ingetsu returned to the Capital Fortress after defeating Urashiki, then explained the invasion and his time-travel plans to the gathered shinobi. As he prepared to deal with Urashiki, he exposed and captured Treasure Tool Plow, leaving both of them in his custody.

• Tsunade ordered everyone to retreat from the wounded birdman, and Urashiki revealed himself as an Otsutsuki before Ingetsu returned with Kaguya.
• Ingetsu explained that Urashiki's invasion had caused no lasting losses and said he would travel back to eliminate him once Dragon Vein Space-Time's cooldown ended.
• Ingetsu told Tamao, Izumi, and Nanfeng that they had survived because Tamao had been confined to a psychiatric hospital in the past timeline.
• Toneri volunteered to monitor past and future timelines from Dragon Vein Space, and Ingetsu agreed to send him there.
• Urashiki claimed he had planted Karma on someone, but Ingetsu dismissed the lie and vowed to eliminate any remaining Otsutsuki vessels.
• Ingetsu pulled Treasure Tool Plow out of the void after it tried to escape through time, and Urashiki resigned himself to defeat.

Ingetsu absorbed the Treasure Tool Plow’s source energy, strengthening his space-time power and transforming the Void Dragon within him. He then used Time Turn to accelerate the Ten-Tails’ digestion of Urashiki Otsutsuki’s source energy, and the Ten-Tails expelled a purified lump of it.

• Tamao mistook the Treasure Tool Plow for a turtle and suggested making soup from it, but Ingetsu absorbed the tool into his alternate dimension.
• Ingetsu sent Urashiki into the Ten-Tails’ maw, where the beast devoured him.
• Ingetsu dismantled the Treasure Tool Plow, absorbed its blue source energy, and watched its remaining consciousness disappear into the Void Dragon within him.
• The Void Dragon absorbed the new energy and transformed into a Space-Time Dragon, but Ingetsu forced it back into the Dragon Abyss.
• Ingetsu cast Time Turn on the Ten-Tails to speed up its digestion of Urashiki Otsutsuki’s source energy.
• The Ten-Tails spat out a lump of source energy after rapidly digesting its remaining impurities.

Ingetsu refined and absorbed Ōtsutsuki Urashiki's Source Energy, gaining a new transformation and Urashiki's abilities before returning to the Main Fortress. He left Toneri to monitor the Ninja World's past in Dragon Vein Space-Time, then prepared to spend time with his loved ones before another dangerous journey through time and space.

• Ingetsu refined the Ten-Tails' body, absorbed Urashiki's Source Energy, and gained a new pair of golden Rinnegan along with Urashiki's memories and energy tools.
• Ingetsu returned to the Main Fortress and told the others he planned to travel through space-time to eliminate Urashiki and other hidden dangers.
• Ingetsu brought Toneri to Dragon Vein Space-Time and gave him authority to monitor the Ninja World's past for changes to history.
• Toneri began observing the period when Kaguya descended upon the Ninja World and the past thirty years, while Ingetsu returned to the Main Fortress.
• Mikoto encouraged Ingetsu to spend time with his other loved ones before departing, and he agreed.
• The Konoha 12 gathered at a dessert shop, discussed the interruption to their consciousness, and wondered how Naruto and Sasuke were doing.

After the timeline crisis ended, Ingetsu visited Naruto and Sasuke in the Pure Land and brought them back, while discussing the Otsutsuki threat with the Sage of Six Paths. The Sage gave Ingetsu an ancient contract scroll and ended by asking him to hear a plea on behalf of Mount Myoboku's toads.

• Shikamaru urged the young prodigies to train hard, and they began planning their training.
• Ingetsu and Kaguya arrived at the Snow Country hospital, and Kaguya took Sakura with her.
• Ingetsu explained to Kakashi and Kazahana Koyuki that an Otsutsuki had altered the past, then entered the Pure Land to retrieve Naruto and Sasuke.
• Naruto and Sasuke reunited with Ingetsu, and the Sage of Six Paths confirmed the crisis had ended while warning that future dangers remained.
• The Sage of Six Paths gave Ingetsu an ancient scroll describing a contract with the Death God, then asked him to plead on behalf of the toads of Mount Myoboku.

After the Sage of Six Paths disappeared, Ingetsu brought Naruto and Sasuke back from the Pure Land, where they reunited with Sakura and Kakashi. He later followed the Death God Scroll’s coordinates into the Pure Land and uncovered the Death God beneath a transparent layer of ice-like material.

• The Sage of Six Paths gave Ingetsu the Death God Scroll, asked him to care for his mother, and disappeared.
• Naruto told Ingetsu he had mastered Sage Mode and the Sage’s Yang Release power, while Sasuke said his Sharingan’s Eye Power was near its limit.
• Ingetsu returned Naruto and Sasuke to their bodies in the hospital, where Sakura embraced Sasuke and Kakashi agreed to look after them.
• Ingetsu traveled with Kaguya and Kazahana Koyuki to the Snow Country palace, then used the Death God Scroll to locate a hidden structure in the Pure Land.
• Ingetsu dispersed the gray mist above the inverted tower, struck its transparent covering, and drew out a huge ghostly figure that revealed itself as the Death God.

Ingetsu subdued the mad Death God and cut off its access to the Pure Land’s corrupted soul energy, restoring its sanity. He found a strange flame-wreathed energy sphere disrupting the Death God’s mind and identified it as the source of the pollution, but its origin remained unknown.

• Ingetsu recognized that the Death God had gone mad and that the souls attached to it were supplying it with corrupted energy.
• Ingetsu summoned ten Complete Body Susanoo, which beat the Death God down and sealed it off from the Pure Land’s energy.
• The Death God regained its composure but could not remember what had happened or what terrible event had caused its madness.
• Ingetsu discovered that the Death God’s memories had been forcibly erased and found a flame-wreathed energy sphere disrupting its Spiritual World.
• Ingetsu told the Death God that he had found the source of its pollution.

Ingetsu discovered that the Death God had been polluted and offered to help it in exchange for shared control of the Pure Land. After gaining control of the Pure Land Source, he brought the Death God into the real world and then placed it in his Prison Space, where Minato, Hashirama, Tobirama, and Black Zetsu recognized it.

• The Death God confirmed that a pollution source in its mental sea had driven it mad and agreed to stay with Ingetsu while they investigated.
• Ingetsu demanded a contract sharing the right to use the Pure Land, and the Death God agreed, handing him the Pure Land Source.
• Ingetsu transformed the source’s energy with his mental power, gaining control over most of it and the ability to keep the Death God conscious near him.
• Ingetsu and the Death God left the Pure Land through a Space Gate, and Ingetsu sent the Death God into his Prison Space.
• Minato and Tobirama identified the newcomer as the true Death God, while Black Zetsu hid behind them.

Ingetsu traveled back to the time of Urashiki’s first arrival and entered the Pure Land to investigate the Death God’s madness. The Sage of Six Paths witnessed the Death God devour spirits and attack the barrier, while Ingetsu stayed hidden nearby.

• In Cage Space, Minato tried to speak with the Death God but was told to begone, and Tobirama reflected on how thoroughly Ingetsu had won him over.
• In the Snow Country palace, Ingetsu left the sleeping Kaguya and Kazahana Koyuki, then told Toneri to watch the Pure Land through the Dragon Vein Space-Time.
• Ingetsu traveled to the past, concealed himself near Konoha, and went to the Pure Land instead of intervening in Urashiki’s arrival.
• Ingetsu told the Sage of Six Paths that the Death God had gone mad, and the Sage agreed to help investigate while Naruto and Sasuke trained.
• The Sage of Six Paths sent Contact Toad to reach the Death God, but a wave of death rotted the toad into a skeleton.
• The Death God devoured the spirits beneath the inverted tower and charged into the ice barrier after noticing the Sage of Six Paths.

Ingetsu entered the Death God's Abode and confronted the Otsutsuki who had corrupted the Death God. After fighting him inside the Death God's spiritual world, Ingetsu forced him out of the Death God's body, where the Otsutsuki was stunned to see a second Death God appear.

• The Sage of Six Paths fled from the mad Death God while Ingetsu slipped into the giant tower in the Pure Land.
• Ingetsu found the Death God's sealed eye, kicked open the Rashomon-like gate, and knocked the mad Death God into the tower wall.
• Ingetsu entered the Death God's body with his Black Blade and found an Otsutsuki altering the Death God's memories and spreading contamination.
• The Otsutsuki escaped the Death God's body, but Ingetsu pursued him and stood on the Death God's back.
• The Otsutsuki commanded the mad Death God to attack Ingetsu, and another Death God appeared to tear apart its bone chains.

Ingetsu defeated an Otsutsuki, helped the Death God recover from contamination, and repaired the altered timeline. After the Ten-Tails refined the Otsutsuki’s source, Ingetsu absorbed it and learned the Otsutsuki’s name: Ling.

• The future Death God subdued its crazed past self while Ingetsu pinned an Otsutsuki and hurled him into the Ten-Tails to be refined.
• Ingetsu sealed the contamination in the Death God, allowing it to regain its reason and learn what had happened from its future self.
• Ingetsu returned the Death God to the Pure Land, repaired the timeline, and removed the source of contamination from its Spiritual World for safekeeping.
• The Ten-Tails finished refining the Otsutsuki Source, and Ingetsu absorbed it and learned the Otsutsuki’s name was Ling.

Ingetsu absorbed Urashiki’s remaining Otsutsuki Source Energy while the Ninja World began preparing openly for the Otsutsuki threat. In Amegakure, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura pursued the rogue ninja Fuma Taro, whose organization controlled Hanzo’s former tower.

• Ingetsu learned that Urashiki had planned to seize the Pure Land, judged his abilities limited, and absorbed his remaining Otsutsuki Source Energy.
• Konoha shinobi publicly announced the Otsutsuki invasion and distributed detailed information, while Kakashi recognized Ingetsu’s plan to unite the Ninja World.
• Kakashi sent Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura to handle their mission independently, and the three left to confront Fuma Taro.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura entered Fuma Taro’s territory in Amegakure, where the Fū Organization occupied Hanzo’s former tower.
• A rogue ninja told Fuma Taro that Leaf Village shinobi had entered the village, and Fuma Taro’s expression darkened.

Fuma Taro feared the Otsutsuki and ordered his subordinates to gather intelligence so he could survive their return. Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura captured him, then wiped out Amegakure’s rogue ninja organizations and returned to Kakashi with their prisoners.

• Fuma Taro learned Konoha was distributing information about the Otsutsuki and ordered his agents to gather reports on their possible return.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura ambushed Fuma Taro, incapacitated him, and discovered he had been planning to curry favor with the Otsutsuki.
• Sasuke proposed disguising himself as Fuma Taro to gather Amegakure’s rogue ninja organizations at the tower, and Naruto and Sakura agreed to help.
• The trio gathered the rogue ninjas under the pretense of dividing profits and defeated them all during the night.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura brought the captured Fuma Taro and the other rogue ninjas back to Kakashi, while Amegakure’s residents cheered their return.

Kakashi and his students handed a defeated band of rogue ninjas over to Yamato’s team before continuing their mission, while Ingetsu returned to Konoha after consolidating his power in the Snow Country. At Orochimaru’s laboratory, Ingetsu learned how Seimei’s Resurrection Ninja Tool worked and ordered Kushina summoned to test it on an Impure World Reincarnation body.

• Yamato arrived with a Konoha squad and took custody of the rogue ninjas that Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura had subdued.
• Kakashi told Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura they would take a different route home to eliminate other threats, and the group set out on its next mission.
• Ingetsu returned to the Snow Country palace, where Kaguya and Kazahana Koyuki welcomed him, and he spent the following month consolidating his breakthrough.
• Ingetsu went to Orochimaru’s expanded laboratory, where Orochimaru explained that Seimei’s Resurrection Ninja Tool could reconstruct a dead person’s body if supplied with energy.
• Ingetsu asked whether the tool could be used on an Impure World Reincarnation body, then ordered Orochimaru and Amado to summon Kushina.

Ingetsu reviewed Orochimaru’s newly researched resurrection tools and asked him to summon Kushina and Rin. The two arrived at the research base with Naruto, where Naruto reunited with Ingetsu.

• Orochimaru told Ingetsu that the resurrection tools could be mass-produced, and Ingetsu approved testing them against the Rinnegan’s resurrection method.
• Orochimaru summoned Kushina from the Main Fortress and Rin from Konoha Hospital to the research base.
• Rin ended her lesson at the hospital and went to the research base, while Hanzo sent Kisame to watch over her afterward.
• Kushina left the Main Fortress with Naruto and followed Rin to the research base.
• Orochimaru welcomed Kushina and Rin, who recognized Ingetsu behind the glass wall, and Naruto excitedly called him Father.

Ingetsu used Orochimaru's Resurrection Ninja Tool to bring Kushina back to life, while Naruto, Rin, and Orochimaru waited outside the laboratory. Kushina regained her living body and began adjusting to her new life with Ingetsu, who promised to replenish the energy keeping her alive.

• Ingetsu explained that the Resurrection Ninja Tool could revive the dead, and Kushina and Rin each tried to give the other the chance to use it.
• Kushina chose to wear the tool, and Orochimaru modified it so it could fuse with her body; the others left Ingetsu alone with her to supply its energy.
• Kushina asked whether Minato could be resurrected, and Ingetsu confirmed that he could not bring him back.
• Ingetsu filled the tool with energy, restoring Kushina's body and returning her to life.
• Kushina thanked Ingetsu and learned that he would need to replenish her energy regularly; outside, Naruto wondered why they had not yet emerged, and Orochimaru reassured him.

Ingetsu revived Rin with the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique and brought her to the Main Fortress, where she asked to see Obito. He took her to the Konoha Orphanage, where Obito lived peacefully with no memories of his former life, and Nonō told him to call Ingetsu Father.

• Ingetsu returned with the revived Kushina, then used the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to restore Rin to life.
• Ingetsu brought Kushina and Rin to the Main Fortress, where Mikoto agreed to care for them, and he advised Naruto and Sasuke on developing their powers gradually.
• Mikoto told Ingetsu that Rin wanted to see Obito, and Ingetsu agreed to take her.
• Ingetsu and Rin arrived at the Konoha Orphanage, where Obito worked as a cheerful caretaker for the children and had lost his former memories.
• Nonō brought Obito outside and told him to call Ingetsu Father.

Ingetsu visited Nonō’s orphanage, where Obito accepted him as his father and welcomed Rin as another mother. After taking the women to a hot spring, Ingetsu sensed the Evil God’s followers preparing cursed recruits to kill people, and a Space Gate opened before their statue as the chapter ended.

• Nonō introduced Ingetsu as Obito’s father and Rin as his other mother, and Obito eagerly promised to help care for the orphanage.
• Ingetsu spent dinner answering the children’s questions while Nonō and Rin discussed their feelings and the orphanage’s future.
• Ingetsu took Nonō and Rin through a Space Gate to a hot spring, where Rin said she hoped to move beyond the past and study Medical Ninjutsu.
• Ingetsu brought the women to Yugakure, where the Evil God’s followers transformed a group of recruits and sent them on a mission to kill everyone in their assigned areas.
• A Space Gate appeared before the followers’ statue, and their shaman declared that the god was about to deliver an oracle.

Ingetsu confronted a cult worshiping the Evil God and destroyed its cursed followers before questioning the being behind their religion. The Evil God revealed its origins and history, then recognized the Treasure Tool Plow as belonging to the one who had hunted it.

• Ingetsu, Rin, and Nonō emerged from a Space Gate into a cave where cultists were preparing a ritual, and Ingetsu identified them as a group planning to eradicate nearby life.
• Ingetsu shattered the stone statue, prompting the shaman to order the cursed cultists to attack, and Ingetsu slowed time and reduced them to dust.
• The black liquid formed a face and told Ingetsu that it belonged to the Evil God Clan, which came from the Outer Universe and had evolved beyond flesh.
• The Evil God said its people had ostracized and wounded it, forcing it to scatter into countless versions across the universe while fleeing its pursuers.
• Ingetsu showed the Evil God the Treasure Tool Plow, and the Evil God recognized its owner as the one who had hunted it long ago.

Ingetsu learned the Evil God's history, the origins of the Jashin Cult, and what powers were needed to reach the edge of the universe before sealing the weakened god inside his Prison Space. He then left Rin and Nonō to fight a crowd of Evil God Cultists while he entered the Spiritual World.

• The Evil God revealed that it had killed the Otsutsuki who pursued it and explained that reaching the universe's edge required immense speed and mastery of space and time.
• The Evil God described how its power had mutated its followers and caused the Jashin Cult to grow, then shared its clan's doctrine that rules were constructed from energy.
• Ingetsu ordered the weakened Evil God to obey him, and it entered his body before he sealed it in the Prison Space.
• The Evil God recognized Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, Namikaze Minato, and Black Zetsu inside the Prison Space, while Tobirama mocked Black Zetsu.
• Ingetsu found a large group of Evil God Cultists approaching the cave and left Rin and Nonō to handle them while he entered the Spiritual World.
• Nonō gave Rin a kunai, and the two women prepared to face the charging cultists at the altar.

Nonō and Rin fought through the Evil God Cultists in their cavern, disrupting a ritual that gathered the Evil God’s Power and defeating its transformed senior cultist. After the cavern fell silent, Rin assumed Nonō belonged to the Hyuga Clan, but Nonō denied it, leaving Rin puzzled about her Byakugan.

• Nonō used her Byakugan and Gentle Fist to defeat the first wave of cultists and destroy blood-mist chains aimed at Rin.
• Nonō warned Rin of an incoming curse beam, and the two dodged it before Nonō killed more attackers with poisoned senbon.
• Rin killed two cultists who tried to attack Nonō from behind while Nonō disrupted the ritual with Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.
• A curse-transformed senior cultist charged Nonō, but she repelled him with Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven and immobilized him after discovering he survived a damaged heart.
• Rin thanked Nonō and asked whether she was from the Hyuga Clan, but Nonō shook her head.