Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yu defeated Otsutsuki Hamura by exploiting his Shikotsumyaku, then tried to seal Hamura’s soul, but the Sage of Six Paths intervened and trapped Yu in a spatial distortion. With escape impossible, Yu decided to summon his Heavenly Emperor persona to face Hagoromo.

• Uchiha Yu used a Flying Thunder God mark to appear behind Otsutsuki Hamura and sent Yang Release chakra into him, causing his Shikotsumyaku to rampage.
• Uchiha Yu explained how the chakra had overwhelmed Hamura’s bloodline and petrified him with a natural-energy blade.
• Uchiha Yu sealed Hamura’s soul inside the stone statue, but Otsutsuki Hagoromo appeared and restored Hamura’s soul.
• Otsutsuki Hagoromo trapped Uchiha Yu in a spatial distortion when Yu tried to flee.
• Uchiha Yu concluded that his Heavenly Emperor persona was the only one powerful enough to confront the Sage of Six Paths.

Uchiha Yu summoned the Divine Court Heavenly Emperor to confront the Sage of Six Paths after his attacks failed and his escape options proved too dangerous. The Heavenly Emperor’s arrival forced the Otsutsuki brothers to retreat, and Hagoromo resolved to drive the god back and capture Yu to uncover the secrets behind his power.

• Uchiha Yu’s natural-energy fists failed to hit Otsutsuki Hagoromo, who used space power to evade them and urged Yu to surrender.
• Yu rejected Izanagi and abandoning his body as escape plans, then used himself as a vessel to summon the Divine Court Heavenly Emperor.
• The Heavenly Emperor entered the Ninja World and unleashed the Golden Core Void Realm, making Hagoromo flee with Hamura until the expanding light faded.
• Yu’s consciousness sank beneath the Heavenly Emperor’s distorted personality, and the god fixed His detached gaze on the Otsutsuki brothers.
• Hagoromo identified Yu as a favored believer supported by the god and decided to drive the Heavenly Emperor away and capture Yu for his secrets.

The Heavenly Emperor and Zhurong fought Otsutsuki Hagoromo and Otsutsuki Hamura over Uchiha Yu, but neither side could secure a decisive victory. The Otsutsuki brothers began retreating to the Pure Land, while Zhurong launched a flaming chariot at Hagoromo as he descended.

• Otsutsuki Hagoromo challenged the Heavenly Emperor over Uchiha Yu and attacked him with a beam formed from Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• The Heavenly Emperor countered with layered ice mirrors and summoned a Three-Legged Golden Crow, whose flames blasted the Otsutsuki brothers but failed to break their Truth-Seeking Orb defense.
• Otsutsuki Hagoromo discovered Zhurong hiding in the flames, and Zhurong joined the Heavenly Emperor against the brothers.
• The Otsutsuki brothers chose to withdraw, and the Heavenly Emperor agreed to let them leave because neither side could determine a victor.
• Otsutsuki Hamura entered the Pure Land while Hagoromo shielded his retreat, and Zhurong and the Heavenly Emperor revealed their names to him.
• As Hagoromo began descending into the Pure Land, Zhurong sent a flaming war chariot hurtling toward the boundary.

Uchiha Yu defeated the Sage of Six Paths with the Heavenly Emperor’s Violet Firmament Divine Thunder, then returned to his human self by petting Miwa Masayo’s cat form. He told her how close he had come to losing his emotions and left the chapter safely back home with her.

• The Heavenly Emperor condensed divine power into Violet Firmament Divine Thunder, struck the barrier, and made the Sage of Six Paths vanish from the Ninja World.
• The Heavenly Emperor declared himself the Thunder God, then dissipated into Uchiha Yu alongside Zhurong and the Four-Headed Flood Dragon.
• Uchiha Yu told Uchiha Shigenobu and Namikaze Minato that he and Might Duy had defeated the Fifth Mizukage, prompting the commanders to return to battle.
• Uchiha Yu healed Might Duy’s wounds and old injuries, then brought him back to the Konoha camp, where he fell into a deep coma.
• Uchiha Yu returned home and recovered from the Heavenly Emperor’s influence by holding and petting Miwa Masayo’s Tabby Cat form.
• Uchiha Yu told Miwa Masayo that he had defeated Otsutsuki Hamura, faced Otsutsuki Hagoromo, and nearly lost his human emotions.

Uchiha Yu explained his encounter with the Sage of Six Paths to Miwa Masayo, then remembered that Momochi Zabuza was in danger as Konoha encircled Kirigakure’s army. He warned Zabuza to flee, and Zabuza escaped with two subordinates while the battle’s encirclement continued.

• Uchiha Yu told Miwa Masayo how he had outmaneuvered the Sage of Six Paths and discussed the threat of future tests and infiltrations.
• Uchiha Yu reassured Miwa Masayo that their youth was both a weakness and an advantage, while she complained that he kept facing danger without her.
• Uchiha Yu realized Momochi Zabuza could die in Konoha’s encirclement and summoned him through the Heavenly Emperor’s disguise.
• Uchiha Yu told Zabuza that he had killed the Fifth Mizukage and six of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, then warned him to escape without revealing his source.
• Zabuza ordered his three subordinates to retreat; when one resisted, Zabuza killed him and continued with the other two.
• The Tiger Unit spotted Zabuza and his two companions fleeing but held its position to keep the larger Kirigakure force inside the encirclement.

The Tiger Unit and Snake Unit defeated Kirigakure’s forces, and Orochimaru ordered them to advance on Kirigakure. At the battlefield, he recognized traces of Uchiha Yu’s encounter with the Sage of Six Paths, then tested his Eight Branches Technique and transformed the ruined ground into fertile soil.

• The Tiger Unit and Snake Unit killed around 3,000 Kirigakure ninja, captured 1,000, and let more than 1,000 escape.
• Namikaze Minato told the commanders that Kirigakure had been weakened enough for Konoha to attack, and Orochimaru ordered the units to transfer their prisoners and advance.
• Orochimaru left Nara Shikaku to handle the battlefield cleanup and examined the traces left by the battles, identifying signs of Uchiha Yu’s fight with Kaguya Hamura and the Sage of Six Paths.
• Orochimaru summoned his Eight Branches Technique and used Yamata no Orochi: Withering and Flourishing Turbulent Flow to weather the battlefield and turn it into fertile black soil.

Orochimaru accepted Kirigakure’s surrender, and the war ended after the Hozuki Clan also laid down its weapons. Uchiha Yu then confronted Kumogakure at Wind-Stealing Pass and surrounded Iwagakure with Susanoo, leaving both villages facing his attack.

• Orochimaru watched the forest regrow after his battle with Uchiha Yu, then left to end the war with Kirigakure.
• Genji persuaded the defeated Kirigakure villagers and ninja to surrender, and Orochimaru accepted their surrender before the Hozuki Clan also laid down its weapons.
• Ōnoki concluded that Iwagakure could only wait, while the Fourth Raikage gathered more than 13,000 Kumogakure ninja and resolved to fight Konoha.
• Uchiha Yu blocked Wind-Stealing Pass, knocked Killer B aside, and used a giant Susanoo to scatter the Kumogakure army with Majestic Destroyer Flame.
• Uchiha Yu manifested five Susanoo around Iwagakure and declared that he would defeat the village and usher in a new era.

Uchiha Yu’s Wood Clones forced Kumogakure and Iwagakure to accept harsh surrender terms, while Yu wondered why the Sage of Six Paths had not intervened. In the Pure Land, Hagoromo and Hamura recovered from a clash with the Divine Court’s Heavenly Emperor and planned to find and destroy its foundation of faith in the Ninja World.

• Uchiha Yu’s Wood Clones defeated Kumogakure’s army, and Orochimaru secured the Fourth Raikage’s agreement to a punishing peace treaty.
• Uchiha Yu’s Wood Clones destroyed Iwagakure after Ōnoki and his forces fought them, then used a vast army of tree people to suppress the survivors.
• Orochimaru presented Ōnoki with the same harsh terms, and Uchiha Yu’s Wood Clone used Mangekyō Sharingan to make him surrender his child and accept the conditions.
• On the way back to Konoha, Uchiha Yu wondered why the Sage of Six Paths had not interfered with his upheaval of the Ninja World.
• Otsutsuki Hagoromo told Otsutsuki Hamura that the Heavenly Emperor’s purple lightning had nearly destroyed his soul, and they resolved to locate and cleanse the god’s foundation of faith in the Ninja World.

The Sage of Six Paths and Otsutsuki Hamura arranged for Indra, Asura, and Hamura to return to the Ninja World and planned a counterattack for years later. After Konoha celebrated the end of the war, Orochimaru asked Jiraiya to negotiate peace with Nagato and invite him to a new military leaders’ conference.

• The Sage of Six Paths chose the former Uchiha clan head’s household for Indra and Kushina Uzumaki as Asura’s mother, while Otsutsuki Hamura planned to descend into the Otsutsuki Clan.
• The brothers agreed to exchange intelligence in twelve years and launch their counteroffensive four or five years after that, once their powers had matured.
• Konoha celebrated its victory on November 11th of Konoha Year 45, and Indra and Asura were reincarnated into new lives.
• Tsunade struck Orochimaru during the celebration, and he later told Jiraiya that Nagato’s Rinnegan made Amegakure the last potential source of war.
• Orochimaru asked Jiraiya to go to Amegakure, negotiate peace with Nagato, and invite him to the Military Forces Leaders' Joint Conference; Jiraiya agreed to leave the next day.

Jiraiya persuaded Nagato to accept a peace pact, and Konan convinced him to attend the Military Leaders Joint Conference in the Land of Fire. The conference united the Ninja World’s major military powers, while Orochimaru used its authority and Konoha’s investigations to purge the Land of Fire’s nobles and confiscate their estates.

• Jiraiya admitted Konoha’s responsibility for Yahiko’s death, and Nagato accepted the peace pact but refused to attend the conference.
• Konan urged Nagato to consider Yahiko’s dream and join the conference; after Akatsuki’s members weighed in, Nagato agreed to go with her.
• Uchiha Yu revealed that he had arranged for Konan to persuade Nagato, believing the conference could restrain violence and help secure peace.
• Nagato and Konan met Jiraiya at Amegakure’s gates and agreed to visit the Land of Fire to assess Orochimaru’s peace plan.
• The Military Leaders Joint Conference established shared authority among the major shinobi villages and select observers, including special veto power for Nagato.
• After the conference brought widespread peace, Orochimaru exposed the nobles’ tax embezzlement, and Konoha shinobi purged them and confiscated their estates.

Konoha’s new tax-and-mission system fueled a prosperous era, while Uchiha Yu approved Namikaze Minato’s mission to the Country of Rōran and expected to obtain the Dragon Vein. In Snow Village, Ai and Pakura uncovered a connection between rogue puppets and Rōran, then set out to investigate as Jing noticed Ai’s feelings for Pakura.

• Uchiha Yu urged Orochimaru to spend Konoha’s tax surplus on roads, and the resulting prosperity drew missions and ninja from other villages.
• Uchiha Shigenobu asked Uchiha Yu to approve transferring a lucrative Rōran mission to Namikaze Minato, and Uchiha Yu agreed.
• Namikaze Minato left Konoha with Hatake Kakashi, Rin, and Might Guy, while Uchiha Yu watched and anticipated reinforcements in Rōran.
• Pakura and Ai destroyed hundreds of puppets in Snow Village, and Pakura deduced that a rogue Sunagakure puppeteer had used extraordinary power to animate them.
• Ai prayed to the Southern Fire Spirit God, received a divine reward, and invited Pakura to join his mission to scout Rōran; she accepted and traveled with Ai and Jing.
• Jing noticed Ai’s gentle looks toward Pakura and realized that Ai had developed feelings for her.

Uzumaki Naruto arrived in the past through the Dragon Vein and joined Namikaze Minato’s mission to stop Anrokuzan in Roran. Minato and his team set out to disable the Dragon Vein while Kakashi, Might Guy, and Naruto pursued Anrokuzan, and the chapter ended as Minato fought endlessly regenerating clay puppets on the way to the royal court.

• Uchiha Yu watched Naruto arrive in Roran, drove off the Shinigami, captured several gods, and left a Wood Clone behind.
• Naruto rushed into the royal palace, where he met the Queen of Roran and Sara; Minato arrived and explained that he had come to eliminate Anrokuzan.
• Minato realized Naruto might be his future son, learned that Anrokuzan had imprisoned the queen and poisoned her, and had Rin cure her with an antidote.
• The Queen of Roran explained that Anrokuzan had used the Dragon Vein to build puppets and was secretly creating a military force; Minato sent Kakashi and Might Guy after him and planned to take the queen to the royal court.
• Naruto mistakenly called Minato the Fourth Hokage, prompting the group to realize that he came from a very different future; Kakashi, Guy, and Naruto left to pursue Anrokuzan.
• Minato escorted the queen, Sara, and Rin toward the royal court, where he fought clay puppets that continually repaired themselves.

Kakashi, Guy, and Naruto battled Mukade’s regenerating Dragon Vein puppets until Guy’s Eight Inner Gates and Naruto’s Nine-Tails chakra turned the tide. As Naruto’s chakra spread through Roran, it encountered the Nine-Tails chakra of this world and began affecting both tailed beasts and their jinchuriki.

• Kakashi, Naruto, and Guy struggled to advance through Mukade’s regenerating puppets, and Mukade transformed himself into a powerful centipede-shaped clay puppet to attack them.
• Mukade scattered the team and trapped Kakashi among the puppets, but Guy opened the Eight Inner Gates, rescued Kakashi, and then collapsed unconscious.
• Kakashi pierced Mukade with Chidori, but the puppets kept fighting, so Naruto awakened the Nine-Tails’ chakra and began destroying them.
• Mukade summoned more puppets to overwhelm Naruto, whose chakra clashed with the Dragon Vein’s natural energy and spread into the skies above Roran.
• Naruto’s chakra met and intertwined with the local Nine-Tails chakra, influencing both Nine-Tails and their jinchuriki.

Uzumaki Naruto struggled against Mukade’s puppets while Uchiha Yu watched the Dragon Vein’s temporal fluctuations and sent a divine mission to Hao’s team. Hao, Jing, Pakura, and Ai joined the battle, where they froze and exposed Mukade’s puppet body, but his Dragon Vein power restored his injuries and transformed him further.

• Kushina Uzumaki blamed the Nine-Tails for her unease, bound its mouth, and drained its chakra before returning to sleep.
• Uzumaki Naruto’s body weakened as Mukade’s puppets overwhelmed him, while Uchiha Yu recorded the Dragon Vein’s changing temporal ripples and summoned reinforcements through a divine oracle.
• Hao told Jing and Pakura to support a Konoha ninja in the Country of Roran, and Ai led them toward Mukade’s stronghold.
• Mukade boasted about turning his enemies into human puppets until Hao and Jing froze the puppets and trapped Mukade with Ice Style.
• Pakura attacked Mukade and exposed his wooden core, but he escaped the freezing ice, repaired his injuries with Dragon Vein power, and began transforming his body.

Uchiha Yu observed Naruto’s accidental senjutsu training and used the Dragon Vein’s temporal ripples to begin planning his own journey through time. As Mukade rushed to Rōran’s royal court to stop the queen, Minato moved to confront him while Yu’s clones surrounded the country.

• Pakura withdrew behind the Yuki Clan’s Crystal Ice Mirror after Hao warned that Mukade’s body was growing through natural energy.
• Naruto began absorbing natural energy, and the Nine-Tails lent him chakra as he struggled to synthesize senjutsu chakra.
• Uchiha Yu glimpsed Mount Myoboku through the temporal ripples, decided to spare its toads for now, and began planning time-travel experiments to gain power and claim Rōran and the Dragon Vein.
• Uchiha Yu left Konoha with Miwa Masayo and sent Wood Clones to surround the Country of Rōran and build a barrier.
• Mukade realized Minato had brought the Queen of Roran near the royal court, abandoned the fight, and rushed to stop them.
• Minato evacuated the queen and her companions from Mukade’s path, then marked Rin with the Flying Thunder God Technique and went ahead to confront Mukade.

Namikaze Minato and his allies fought Mukade, whose Dragon Vein-powered body kept recovering, until Uzumaki Naruto appeared and struck him with a Rasengan. Minato learned the jutsu at once and began imagining grander names for it, while Mukade’s defeat remained unresolved.

• Namikaze Minato struggled to damage Mukade as the Dragon Vein rapidly restored the puppet’s layered defenses.
• Mukade threatened Rōran and Konoha, but Pakura, Hao, and Jing joined Minato to attack him and limit his recovery.
• Mukade revealed that he had timed the fight to coincide with a Dragon Vein tide, which strengthened him and overwhelmed the group’s defenses.
• Uzumaki Naruto burst through the puppets and blasted a hole through Mukade with a Wind Style: Rasengan.
• Namikaze Minato learned the Rasengan after watching Naruto use it, then decided he wanted to rename it Spiral Flash Super Roar Zero Style.

Namikaze Minato defeated Mukade, but the Dragon Vein’s surge threatened to destroy Roran and the surrounding lands. Uzumaki Naruto helped Minato suppress it long enough for Uchiha Yu to open a World Gate, after which Yu set out to claim Roran and the Dragon Vein.

• Namikaze Minato used a barrage of Rasengan attacks to destroy Mukade’s puppet body and extract his core.
• Queen of Roran severed Mukade’s connection to the Dragon Vein, killing him and silencing the rampaging puppets.
• The Dragon Vein erupted, and Queen of Roran explained that Mukade had damaged its seal and that the surge could destroy the country.
• Namikaze Minato tried to contain the Dragon Vein with the Four Symbols Seal, but its power overwhelmed him.
• Uzumaki Naruto poured senjutsu chakra into Minato’s seal, creating new temporal ripples that let Uchiha Yu grasp the law of temporal conversion and open a World Gate.
• Uchiha Yu told Miwa Masayo that they would go to Roran and take control of the Dragon Vein.

Uchiha Yu helped seal the Dragon Vein and sent Uzumaki Naruto back to his own world with a system meant to survive the return. Afterward, he began adjusting the seal and prepared to help Queen of Roran relocate her people, whose homeland could no longer support them.

• Uchiha Yu warned Miwa Masayo that the Sage of Six Paths might destroy the Ninja World to eliminate a threat, and they agreed to work together to overthrow him.
• Namikaze Minato and the others struggled to drive the Ninja-Loving Sword into a sealing array until Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo weakened the Dragon Vein's force.
• Uchiha Yu explained that Uzumaki Naruto was being recalled to his own world, then installed a system in him before he vanished after sharing a final farewell with Namikaze Minato.
• Namikaze Minato chose not to reveal that he was Naruto's father, suspecting that learning about his parents could hurt him.
• Namikaze Minato and Queen of Roran organized rescue efforts while Uchiha Yu modified the Dragon Vein seal with the queen's cooperation.
• Queen of Roran accepted that Rōran's damaged waterways made mass migration unavoidable and looked to Uchiha Yu for land, supplies, and protection for her people.

After escorting Rōran’s residents to the Land of Fire, Uchiha Yu used the Dragon Vein to create a hidden Rōran Secret Realm and built a World Gate capable of reaching the past. He began testing its dangers and resolved to expand beyond the Ninja World.

• Namikaze Minato and Kakashi’s team escorted Queen of Roran and the hundred thousand residents out of Rōran with help from the Ninja Cats, Diamond Ape Clan, Eagle Clan, and Uchiha ninja.
• Uchiha Yu used the Dragon Vein and a sealing array to create a time-displaced inner world beneath Rōran, then developed it into a secret realm protected by a complex time seal.
• Uchiha Yu demolished the realm’s ruined buildings, cultivated a forest, and built a platform with a World Gate powered by the Dragon Vein.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo tested the World Gate with a giant black-shelled desert scorpion, retrieving it from two hours in the future but finding it badly mutilated after a trip to the past.
• Uchiha Yu recorded the risks and continued experimenting, declaring that he would break free of the Ninja World’s limits.

Tsunade traveled from the future to Konoha Year 32 to save Nawaki, surviving the World Gate’s dangerous passage and finding him just as an Explosive Tag went off. She shielded him from the blast and healed herself, but Orochimaru grew suspicious of her sudden appearance and unfamiliar abilities.

• Uchiha Yu sent Tsunade through World Gate Version 9.0 to Konoha Year 32 after she chose to save Nawaki with her own power.
• Tsunade recovered from the journey, confirmed the date in Tanzaku Town, and hurried toward the place where Nawaki would face disaster.
• Orochimaru patrolled the border with Nawaki and relaxed his guard as his disciple ran ahead through the forest.
• An Explosive Tag detonated, and Tsunade shielded Nawaki with her back before healing her severe wounds with a powerful medical technique.
• Orochimaru questioned why Tsunade had appeared instead of returning to Konoha, then positioned himself to protect Nawaki while doubting her identity.