Chapter Summaries

Senya and Qianyue traveled through the void and encountered the decaying World Tree, where Senya connected with a new shoot and received its memories of the Shinobi World. They entered the Warring States Period, and Senya set out to find an unnamed Uchiha girl whose Mangekyō ability he hoped to investigate.

• Sarah watched the Dragon Vein’s pillar of light fade after Senya and the others had departed, as the Third Shinobi World War began.
• Senya and Qianyue crossed the void and saw that the World Tree was decaying, while a new shoot seemed connected to Senya.
• Senya resonated with the World Tree and received memories of the Shinobi World’s history up to the Warring States Period.
• Senya and Qianyue arrived in a forest, and Senya located a village to the east using the Dragon Vein’s Chakra.
• Senya headed toward the village to find an unnamed Uchiha girl whose Mangekyō might copy other Mangekyō abilities.

Senya reached the Uchiha Clan’s compound and sought a quiet way inside. After knocking out two gate guards, he impersonated Uchiha Naiwu and had a Shadow Clone take the boys away under Genjutsu.

• Senya learned that the village he had visited belonged to the Uchiha Clan and set out south toward the clan compound.
• Senya approached the large Uchiha compound, where Uchiha Inoichi and Uchiha Naiwu were on gate duty.
• Senya knocked both boys unconscious, interrogated Inoichi with Genjutsu, and learned about their backgrounds and the clan’s secret weapon.
• Senya created two Shadow Clones, transformed himself into Naiwu, and took over the gate post with one clone.
• Senya’s other Shadow Clone took Inoichi and Naiwu to a nearby grain-producing village and used Genjutsu to make them believe they had been sent to reinforce its defenses.

Senya investigated the powerful Uchiha clan during its Warring States-era peak, then returned home disguised as Inoichi alongside his Shadow Clone posing as Naiwu. After hearing Genzo vow to destroy the Senju and avenge the Uchiha dead, Senya resolved to end the cycle of conflict himself.

• Senya sensed nearly five thousand Uchiha shinobi and at least three Mangekyō Sharingan wielders within the clan compound.
• Senya and the Shadow Clone disguised as Naiwu returned home when their guard shift ended.
• Naiwu playfully bothered Genzo in the kitchen, while Inoichi scolded him for neglecting his manners and his duties.
• Genzo urged Inoichi and Naiwu to grow strong, then declared that the Uchiha would destroy the Senju in five or six years and avenge their dead.
• Senya felt Genzo's hatred and resolved to oppose anyone who stood in his way.

Senya’s Shadow Clone attended to Naiwu’s secret role in Madara’s scheme while Senya’s original body went with Inoichi and Genzo to the Clan Meeting. Madara revealed that he planned to overthrow Uchiha Zhihao that night and take his Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Genzo brought Inoichi and Naiwu to inspect their training, pleased by Inoichi’s Two-Tomoe Sharingan but worried that Naiwu had not awakened his.
• Senya knew Naiwu had secretly awakened a Two-Tomoe Sharingan and joined the Great Elder’s faction, believing Genzo had caused his family’s deaths.
• Genzo invited Inoichi to the Clan Meeting and left with Senya’s original body, while the Shadow Clone disguised as Naiwu entered the secret chamber beneath Naka Shrine.
• Madara reviewed the month’s intelligence and told Naiwu that his allies were ready to overthrow the clan head that night.
• Madara planned to seize Uchiha Zhihao’s Mangekyō Sharingan, awaken the Eternal Mangekyo, and claim the clan head’s position.

Senya learned that Black Zetsu had engineered an attack on the Uchiha Clan to weaken them, and he joined the ensuing battle while concealing his strength. Madara realized he had been manipulated and faced Senju Monen as the clans’ leaders began fighting.

• Senya received his Shadow Clone’s memories and recognized that the supposed Uchiha ancestor was likely Black Zetsu manipulating Madara.
• During the Clan Meeting, an injured Uchiha reported that the Senju, Sarutobi, and Ino-Shika-Cho clans had launched an attack.
• Uchiha Zhihao ordered Chiri to bring the Nameless Girl to the battlefield and led the Uchiha into combat.
• Madara realized Black Zetsu had deceived him and resolved to keep his role in the plot secret while fighting the attackers.
• Senya followed the Uchiha forces into battle and hid his strength as Uchiha Zhihao and Senju Yama clashed, and Madara confronted Senju Monen.

Senju Monen and Madara fought with giant constructs while Senju Yama and Uchiha Zhihao battled to protect their clans. After both clan heads died in a clash of Amaterasu, the Uzumaki sealed Uchiha’s weapon girl, and Senya prepared to intervene.

• Senju Monen summoned a Wood Dragon as Madara tried to awaken the fourth stage of Susanoo, and the two clashed.
• Senya sensed a powerful weapon girl approaching while Uchiha Chiri joined Uchiha Zhihao, who sent her to fight elsewhere.
• Uchiha Zhihao struck Senju Yama with Amaterasu, and Yama charged him while burning to shield his clansmen.
• Zhihao and Yama collided in their giant forms, and Amaterasu consumed them both as Chiri watched her father die.
• Uzumaki Suiren’s group sealed the weapon girl, and Suiren identified himself as the Uzumaki Clan head and ally of the Senju.
• Senya decided to act while the surviving fighters were weakened and the weapon girl remained sealed.

Senya used a vast Fire Release technique to kill the charging enemy ninjas, then revealed a gigantic Susanoo when the Sarutobi tried to surround him. After destroying the Sarutobi force, he headed for the Uzumaki sealing squad, while Uchiha Chiri rallied the Uchiha to support him.

• Senya unleashed Great Fire Destruction, killing the Akimichi and Sarutobi ninjas at the front while the Nara pulled their comrades out of range.
• Nara Shikano fired a yellow signal flare, ordering the Ino-Shika-Cho clans to withdraw from the battle.
• Sarutobi Sakon sent more than a hundred Sarutobi ninjas to surround Senya, hoping to seize his powerful Fire Release techniques.
• Senya manifested a towering fourth-stage Susanoo with only his three-tomoe Sharingan active and cut down the Sarutobi force.
• Senya charged toward the Uzumaki Clan's sealing squad, and Uchiha Chiri ordered the Uchiha to support the black giant and rescue the girl.

Senya unleashed Susanoo's Complete Body and overwhelmed the battlefield, prompting the Uzumaki Clan to trap him with the Four Red Yang Formation while Uzumaki Suiren escaped with the sealed girl. Qianyue devoured the Uzumaki sealing chains, disrupting the formation and opening a gap around Senya's Susanoo.

• The Ino-Shika-Cho clans retreated, while Sarutobi Sakon and Uchiha Chiri urged the Sarutobi and Senju ninjas to stop Senya from reaching the sealed girl.
• Senya revealed his azure Mangekyo and summoned Susanoo's Complete Body, whose wings crushed and scattered nearby ninjas.
• Uchiha Madara marveled at Senya's black Complete Body Susanoo, while Black Zetsu fled and Uzumaki Suiren carried the sealed girl away.
• Dozens of Uzumaki ninjas used the Life-Burning Technique to empower four comrades, who trapped Senya inside the Four Red Yang Formation.
• The four Uzumaki casters sent Adamantine Sealing Chains after Susanoo's wings, but Senya empowered Qianyue to transform into Chains of Order and devour them.
• The devoured chains disrupted the four Uzumaki ninjas' Chakra and left a gap in the Four Red Yang Formation.

Senya rescued the sealed Uchiha girl from Uzumaki Suiren after learning about her past as the Uchiha Clan’s exploited weapon. He brought her to a secluded place and had Qianyue remove her seals, leaving her fate unresolved.

• The sealed girl remembered how the Uchiha Clan imprisoned and experimented on her, then used her Yachihoko dojutsu and copied Mangekyo techniques to make her a weapon.
• Senya shattered the Four Red Yang Formation, defeated the Uzumaki Clan ninjas, and confronted Uzumaki Suiren as he retreated with the girl.
• Senya recognized Suiren’s threatened technique as the Reaper Death Seal, startling Suiren and frightening the Six-Tails, Saiken.
• Senya told Suiren he had no interest in the battle or the Uchiha Clan, then took the sealed girl away.
• Senya asked Qianyue to undo the seals on the girl, and Qianyue devoured the sealing formulas before teasing him about compensation.

Senya released Nameless Girl from her seal and followed her to the battlefield, where she drained the enemy forces’ Chakra and helped the Uchiha force the Senju Alliance to retreat. After the costly battle, Nameless Girl returned to Senya and asked for her next task.

• Senya freed Nameless Girl, who insisted on completing Chiri’s mission before following his orders.
• Nameless Girl rushed to the battlefield, where Chiri and the Uchiha renewed their attack after seeing her arrive.
• Nameless Girl marked every enemy with Yachihoko and absorbed their Chakra, weakening the Senju and giving Uchiha Madara the advantage over Senju Monen.
• Monen ordered the Senju Alliance to retreat, and Madara ended the fighting and ordered the Uchiha to recover their fallen clansmen.
• After the Uchiha suffered more than half their fighting force in casualties, Nameless Girl finished her mission and asked Senya for another task.

Senya restored the Nameless Girl’s memories and gave her the name Uchiha Hikari, then claimed her as his own. He used his overwhelming Mangekyō power to override Madara and Chiri’s orders and left with Hikari, while Madara threatened him on behalf of the Uchiha clan.

• Senya helped the Nameless Girl remember her parents’ chosen name, Uchiha Hikari, and told her to live for him.
• Senya revealed his identity as Uchiha Senya, while Madara and Chiri activated their Mangekyō Sharingan and ordered Hikari back to the clan dungeon.
• Madara invoked the Uchiha’s rule that the majority’s order prevailed, and Hikari began to obey despite her fear.
• Senya asked Hikari to recall the final rule: the person with greater ocular power or strength had the highest priority.
• Senya unleashed his blue Mangekyō power, and Hikari judged it greater than Madara and Chiri’s combined before choosing to follow him.
• Senya took Hikari away and challenged Madara and Chiri to object, while Madara threatened him and demanded Hikari and his blue Mangekyō Sharingan.

Senya defeated Zebra with a Genjutsu while Hikari avenged her past torments, then spared the Uchiha clan and left Chiri a scroll. Chiri discovered powerful ninjutsu and secret information about the Sharingan, Susanoo, and Rinnegan, giving her clan a path to grow stronger.

• Senya trapped Zebra in a Genjutsu, and Hikari repeatedly tortured him in revenge for what he had done to her.
• Chiri begged Senya to spare the Uchiha, and Senya left her a scroll before carrying Hikari away.
• Chiri returned home, honored her father Uchiha Zhihao, and opened Senya's scrolls to find more than a dozen A-rank ninjutsu, including Kirin.
• Chiri used her Mangekyō to decipher a hidden message explaining how to obtain the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, retain Susanoo after losing the Mangekyō, and awaken the Rinnegan.

Senya and Hikari reached the oasis settlement of Rōran, where Senya sensed the Dragon Vein's Chakra. They met Taile, a boy who could manipulate iron sand and wanted to learn to become a ninja, and his older sister Xifeng.

• Senya and Hikari crossed the desert for a week before reaching a large oasis and sensing the Dragon Vein's Chakra.
• Taile challenged the travelers, then invited Senya and Hikari to his home after Senya gave him two kunai.
• Senya revealed that he knew Taile wanted to learn Chakra refinement and become a ninja.
• Taile explained that he could manipulate iron sand and hoped becoming a ninja would help him leave Rōran and find someone.
• Xifeng returned from hunting, and Taile gave her the kunai while asking Senya to keep quiet about his ambitions.

Xifeng warned Senya and Hikari about Rōran’s dangerous Dragon Vein Chakra and urged them to leave, while Senya worked out why chakra users there went mad. Taile served them chicken soup, but Hikari mistook the spoon for food and tried to bite it.

• Xifeng scolded Taile for bringing Senya and Hikari to the cabin, and he admitted he had done it for their kunai.
• Xifeng warned Senya and Hikari that Rōran ninjas often went mad and disappeared, and Senya agreed to leave the next day.
• Xifeng revealed that her and Taile’s father had gone mad and vanished after refining Chakra, while Senya suspected the Dragon Vein’s Chakra damaged the brain.
• Senya sensed that the Dragon Vein’s Chakra was still fragmented and unusually violent, and reasoned that refining it could drive people insane.
• Taile served chicken soup to Senya and Hikari, but Hikari tried to chew the spoon until Senya stopped her.

Senya and Hikari discovered a lake of condensed Dragon Vein Chakra and absorbed it with Qianyue. Hikari fainted afterward, while Senya began copying her Yachihoko technique and resolved to take her with him.

• Senya put Xifeng and Taile to sleep, left Taile a scroll about Chakra extraction, and went searching for Dragon Vein Chakra with Hikari.
• Hikari’s body formed a Dragon Vein Chakra cloak, and she used Yachihoko to transmit the Chakra to Senya.
• Senya and Hikari found a lake of liquid Dragon Vein Chakra, where Hikari’s body rapidly recovered and Qianyue joined them.
• Hikari attacked Qianyue with a Susanoo arm, but Senya stopped her and explained that Qianyue was his weapon and one of them.
• Senya, Hikari, and Qianyue absorbed the lake’s Dragon Vein Chakra until it was depleted, and Hikari fainted from the influx.
• With Qianyue’s help, Senya began copying Hikari’s Yachihoko technique.

Senya helped Hikari through the effects of replicating Yachihoko, then brought her to the World Tree and said they would heal it. With his Mangekyo unavailable while his soul recovered, Senya traveled with Hikari to the war-torn Land of Rain to begin a plan against Obito and the Akatsuki Organization.

• Hikari cooperated as Senya replicated Yachihoko, but the Dragon Vein's effects caused her body to react painfully.
• Senya decided to help Hikari endure her condition despite Qianyue warning that using the unfinished Yachihoko imprint could shatter his soul.
• A day later, Senya brought Hikari and Qianyue to the World Tree, where Hikari sensed that it was listless despite its joy.
• Senya took Hikari to his original timeline and chose a point in the Land of Rain while he recovered from his soul damage.
• Senya and Hikari arrived in a village where shinobi stole food from vendors as war and danger filled the streets.

Senya and Hikari traveled through a war-stricken village in the Land of Rain, where Senya sensed the malice and goodwill of its people. They found the starving Konan outside the village, and Senya revealed that finding her had been the purpose of their trip.

• Senya sensed the conflicting malice and goodwill of the villagers as he and Hikari visited the market.
• Senya bought rice balls, apples, and stripetail fish from a vendor who honestly described his goods, while the woman next door had disguised thornfish as boneless blackfish.
• After leaving the village, Senya noticed a barefoot girl following them and recognized her as Konan.
• Konan begged Senya for food, gave her name, and collapsed from hunger.
• Senya caught Konan, treated her with Chakra, and told Hikari that finding Konan had been the purpose of their trip.

Senya and Guang rescued the badly weakened Konan, cared for her in a cave, and answered her questions with Senya’s increasingly nonsensical stories. After Konan took his tales seriously, Senya put her into a Sharingan genjutsu and sealed the cave with a barrier, leaving Guang flustered beside him.

• Senya carried Konan into a cave, where Guang helped him prepare fish and porridge while Konan recovered on bedding.
• Konan woke, thanked Senya and Guang for saving her, and began eating the porridge they had made for her.
• Konan asked about their masks, names, origins, and mission, and Senya answered with a string of bewildering claims while Guang gave up trying to follow along.
• Senya sensed that Guang was not listening and that Konan was imagining his stories literally, so he used his three-tomoe Sharingan to put Konan into a deep sleep filled with those images.
• Senya ensured Konan would sleep until dawn and used a barrier technique to enclose the cave while Guang tried to stay quiet.

Senya and Hikari cared for Konan in their cave while Hikari sent Shadow Clones to protect the surrounding area. On the eighth morning, Senya’s clones cleared the clouds above the cave, and Konan saw the rain stop for the first time in her life.

• Hikari ordered four Shadow Clones to eliminate nearby enemy ninja and use Genjutsu to drive away anyone who knew Senya, then created another clone to guard the area.
• Hikari returned to the cave, where she, Senya, and Konan shared fish porridge; Senya and Hikari removed only the lower halves of their masks.
• Senya, Hikari, and Konan spent nearly a week living together without visitors, and Senya noticed that Konan was growing bored.
• Konan woke on the eighth day to find the rain had stopped and ran outside to make sure it was real.
• Five kilometers away, Senya’s Shadow Clones used Dragon Vein Chakra and Natural Chakra to disperse the clouds, though Senya’s shattered soul limited how long they could keep the sky clear.
• Senya and Hikari took Konan’s hands and walked with her beneath the clear sky as she cried with happiness.

Senya promised Konan that he and Hikari would return after leaving to handle their unfinished missions, then spent the next two and a half months training her. By the time he was ready to leave, Senya’s soul had healed to its peak and grown even stronger than before.

• Senya assured Konan that he and Hikari would return for her, and they made a promise to meet again.
• Senya began an intense training regimen for Konan, building her physical strength and teaching her to extract and use Chakra.
• Senya discovered that Konan had Water and Earth attributes as well as talent for Yin Release Chakra, which he believed contributed to Paper Release.
• Senya supplemented Konan’s training with medicine and taught her Shinobi World history and Chakra knowledge at bedtime.
• Two and a half months later, Senya had recovered to his peak state and was stronger than before.