Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Yu discovered that Hao’s encounter with Uchiha Madara had revealed future intelligence and likely caused a new parallel spacetime to split. After explaining the danger and cost of time travel, Uchiha Yu left Hao to recover before attempting another journey.

• Gamamaru foresaw Mount Myoboku’s destruction and told Sage Fukasaku that they had to ally with Ryūchi Cave against Uchiha Yu.
• Hao returned from the past after Uchiha Madara subdued him with his Mangekyō Sharingan and extracted information about Uchiha Yu.
• Uchiha Yu concluded that Madara’s discovery of natural energy and Uchiha Yu’s power could change Madara’s fate and split history into a new parallel spacetime.
• Uchiha Yu told Hao that his activated time seal had protected him but left him unable to travel again until his body recovered.
• Uchiha Yu urged Hao to grow stronger before trying to recover the three missing Ice Style techniques, and Hao realized how fortunate he had been to return safely.

Uchiha Yu chose Senju Tobirama for the third time-travel experiment, but warned him that traveling a thousand years into the past would destroy him. After explaining that Nawaki’s soul was fading and that two methods of true resurrection existed, Yu made a deal with Tobirama to reveal them in exchange for intelligence from a time point he would choose.

• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo discussed whether repeated mishaps during time travel pointed to a force resisting changes to history, and Yu chose a nonliving traveler for the third trip.
• Uchiha Yu’s Violet Mansion absorbed the Hall of Heroes, giving the heroic spirits a vast world where Senju Hashirama created a small city with Wood Style.
• Senju Tobirama agreed to time travel, but Uchiha Yu warned that a thousand-year journey would make him perish, so Tobirama abandoned the plan.
• Uchiha Yu explained that Nawaki was not a heroic spirit and that his weak, immature soul would eventually fade unless he was truly resurrected.
• After learning that two methods of true resurrection existed, Senju Tobirama agreed to gather intelligence in exchange for the information and asked Yu to tell Mito Uzumaki if he did not return.
• Uchiha Yu chose Konoha Year 63 as Senju Tobirama’s destination.

Uchiha Yu sent Senju Tobirama to gather intelligence in another Ninja World’s established past, warning him about the coming war and equipping him with purified chakra pearls. After Tobirama’s journey created a new parallel space-time, Yu severed its causal connection to himself with a sword light forged from the power of time.

• Uchiha Yu explained the rules of time travel to Senju Tobirama and warned him about the Fourth Great Ninja War, Kaguya Otsutsuki, and the Sage of Six Paths.
• Uchiha Yu gave Senju Tobirama chakra pearls purified of Kaguya Otsutsuki’s control and promised to help resurrect Nawaki in exchange for Tobirama’s intelligence gathering.
• Senju Tobirama traveled through the World Gate, and Uchiha Yu closed it; a delayed disturbance later revealed that Tobirama had created a new parallel space-time.
• Uchiha Yu summoned Miwa Masayo, and they teased each other over her wager and her habit of eating too many Dried Small Fish.
• Uchiha Yu detected a causal thread linking him to the Sage of Six Paths in Tobirama’s parallel space-time and severed it with a blade of temporal power.

Uchiha Yu severed the dangerous parallel-world causal thread and returned to his ordinary life while Orochimaru’s reforms transformed Konoha and the Land of Fire. Other nations followed Konoha’s example, but Ōnoki’s failed reforms split the Land of Earth and ignited a brutal civil war, which Nagato and Konan chose not to intervene in.

• Uchiha Yu feared that the Sage of Six Paths might exploit their causal connection to enter parallel worlds, then confirmed that severing the thread had prevented the danger.
• Uchiha Yu continued cultivating passively while Orochimaru purged the Land of Fire’s nobles, expanded Konoha’s departments, and funded infrastructure projects that strengthened the economy.
• The Raikage, Genji, and Sunagakure’s leaders followed Konoha’s model and took political and financial power from the nobles, while Ōnoki’s reforms met fierce resistance.
• Ōnoki massacred dissenting Iwagakure ninja, prompting many to leave and establish rival villages; after Ōnoki resigned, failed reunification talks led to civil war in the Land of Earth.
• Nagato and Konan reviewed reports of the Land of Earth’s violence and decided Akatsuki would not intervene, trusting their planned ultimate weapon to bring peace later.

The Land of Earth's civil war overwhelmed the Land of Rain, exposing Nagato's inability to stop the chaos and prompting Konoha, under Orochimaru, to prepare to annex both the Land of Earth and the Land of Rain. Uchiha Yu agreed to confront Nagato, planned to spare him and recruit him, and entered the Land of Rain openly, drawing Nagato's attention with his immense power.

• Refugees and rogue ninjas from the Land of Earth spread disorder through the Land of Rain, and Nagato's forces lost a ten-day defense before retreating to strongholds.
• Orochimaru asked Uchiha Yu to support Konoha's plan to annex the Land of Earth, and Yu assured him that Konoha's military and administrative strength could govern it.
• Orochimaru asked Yu to deal with Nagato because the Land of Rain was essential to controlling the newly annexed Land of Earth, and Yu insisted they consult Jiraiya before acting.
• Orochimaru later told Yu that Tsunade had settled Jiraiya's concerns, with the condition that Nagato not be killed.
• Yu told Miwa Masayo that he wanted to recruit Nagato, chose remote battlefields to protect Amegakure, and traveled with her to the Land of Rain.
• Yu released his power as he entered the Land of Rain, piercing its rain clouds and alerting Nagato to his arrival.

Uchiha Yu confronted Nagato over Konoha’s demand for a passage through the Land of Rain, then transported them to an isolated desert in the Land of Wind so they could fight without endangering civilians. Nagato attacked with the Rinnegan’s Shinra Tensei and began gathering power for Planetary Devastation after Yu effortlessly countered him.

• Uchiha Yu approached Amegakure, where Nagato gathered Konan, Sasori of the Red Sands, and Kakuzu to meet him.
• Nagato’s chakra disrupted Sasori’s control of Hiruko, forcing him to reveal his human puppet body, and Nagato stopped Sasori and Kakuzu from fighting.
• Uchiha Yu told Nagato that Konoha needed the Land of Rain to open a passage into the Land of Earth, but Nagato refused.
• Uchiha Yu transported Nagato, Konan, Sasori, Kakuzu, and Black Zetsu to an uninhabited desert in the northwest of the Land of Wind.
• Nagato attacked Uchiha Yu with Shinra Tensei, but Yu’s Sage Art: Five-Colored Halo opened a path through the repulsive force.
• Nagato pushed the other Akatsuki members away and began gathering chakra and ocular force for Planetary Devastation.

Uchiha Yu resisted Nagato’s Planetary Devastation and stopped his enormous meteor with a Sage Art, leaving Nagato unable to accept that he had been outmatched. Enraged by Uchiha Yu’s mockery, Nagato prepared to use the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Nagato unleashed Planetary Devastation, but Uchiha Yu used his mastery of time to withstand its gravity while the desert was torn apart.
• Nagato amplified the gravity, and Uchiha Yu used a Time-Displacement Barrier that weakened but did not fully block the pull.
• Nagato fused the captured rocks into a giant meteor and hurled it at Uchiha Yu, who pierced it with a Rock Pillar and melted it into a mountain.
• Nagato hesitated to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path because doing so would strain his body and delay its recovery.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo mocked Nagato for not recognizing that he was weaker, and Nagato grew furious and resolved to defend his strength with the Demonic Statue.

Nagato’s shattered confidence drove him to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, escalating his battle with Uchiha Yu into a confrontation between colossal powers. Uchiha Yu’s Wood Clone revealed its true form and began forming a giant Erlang Shen Wood Human to fight the statue.

• Nagato rejected Uchiha Yu’s claim of superiority, unleashed his chakra, and summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Miwa Masayo’s hair clone vanished in spatial-temporal chaos, and she rejoined Uchiha Yu in the Barrier Lake secret realm.
• Uchiha Yu identified the source of the magnitude-eight earthquake as the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path striking the ground.
• The statue attacked Uchiha Yu, but he evaded its blows and failed to damage its shell while Nagato mocked him.
• Uchiha Yu revealed his Wood Clone’s true form, grew a forest with Wood Style, and shaped the trees into a colossal Erlang Shen Wood Human.

Uchiha Yu’s Wood Style giant struggled against Nagato’s Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, while the watching Akatsuki members realized they could not join the battle. As Nagato’s chakra dwindled, reinforcements strengthened Erlang Shen with a golden Armored Susanoo, and the chapter ended with Erlang Shen striking again.

• Erlang Shen and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path fought among the forest, while Konan, Kakuzu, Sasori of the Red Sands, and Black Zetsu watched the colossal battle.
• Kakuzu and Sasori of the Red Sands traded threats as Konan reflected that Akatsuki’s current members had little purpose or organization.
• Nagato’s statue damaged Erlang Shen, whose Wood Clone Technique weakened as its senjutsu chakra ran low and Uchiha Yu’s control deteriorated.
• Three Uchiha Yu Wood Clones arrived and merged with Erlang Shen, discussing how they could outlast Nagato even if they could not break the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Nagato recognized that the statue’s damaged body wasted most of his chakra and decided he needed to end the battle quickly.
• Uchiha Yu’s reinforcements unleashed senjutsu chakra, repaired Erlang Shen, and fused golden Susanoo armor into his body, forming a third eye before Erlang Shen leaped at the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path with his saber.

Uchiha Yu used Thunder Spirit Immortal Art to overwhelm Nagato and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, hoping to exhaust Nagato and force him to accept terms. Nagato countered with Super Shinra Tensei, clearing the lightning storm and leaving the battle unresolved.

• Uchiha Yu pinned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path down and damaged it, but the statue regenerated and corroded his Three-Pointed Double-Edged Saber.
• Nagato reconnected himself to the statue with black tubes and resumed fighting as the Akatsuki members withdrew to safety.
• Uchiha Yu used the forest to forge a new Three-Pointed Double-Edged Saber and summoned a vast thunderstorm over the desert.
• Uchiha Yu unleashed lightning dragons that broke through the statue's chakra dragons and engulfed Nagato and the statue.
• Nagato unleashed Outer Path: Super Shinra Tensei, blasting away the lightning and thunderclouds across a ten-kilometer radius.

Uchiha Yu overwhelmed Nagato in a destructive battle, then used Wood Clones and layered genjutsu to exploit Nagato’s exhaustion and prepare to persuade him to surrender. Nagato survived the Rinnegan and Demonic Statue of the Outer Path draining his chakra, but found himself surrounded by seven indistinguishable Uchiha Yus as Yu’s plan reached its decisive stage.

• Nagato’s Super Shinra Tensei hurled Erlang Shen into the desert and shattered the giant Wood Human, while Sasori, Kakuzu, and Konan struggled to survive the battle’s shockwaves.
• Wood Clones discussed the damaged Wood Human, their plans concerning Nagato, and their decision not to disrupt Uchiha Yu’s current mission.
• Nagato’s chakra collapsed after he released the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and the Rinnegan and statue drained him until he forced his cells to recover enough chakra to survive.
• Seven Wood Clones appeared before Nagato, whose Rinnegan could not distinguish them from one another or identify the original Uchiha Yu.
• Uchiha Yu revealed that his Wood Clones had gradually built a genjutsu barrier and planted suggestions in Nagato’s mind while he was weakened.
• Uchiha Yu prepared to persuade Nagato to surrender, relying on the genjutsu, Konan’s support, and Sasori of the Red Sands and Kakuzu’s agreement.

Uchiha Yu manipulated Nagato into agreeing to let Konoha pass through the Land of Rain for eight months, then offered him pills for his injuries. After Senju Tobirama returned from the future, Uchiha Yu discovered that the Sage of Six Paths had secretly attached a powerful thread of causality to him through Tobirama.

• Uchiha Yu used a Suggestion Seed and his vast genjutsu barrier to steer Nagato's thoughts and make him wary of fighting.
• Konan, Kakuzu, and Sasori arrived, and Nagato agreed to allow Konoha shinobi passage through the Land of Rain for eight months under agreed restrictions.
• Uchiha Yu offered Nagato pills to treat his condition, then left with his Wood Clones after Nagato hesitated to accept them.
• Uchiha Yu sent a Shadow Clone to inform the Fourth Hokage and waited in the Country of Roran for Senju Tobirama to return from the future.
• Senju Tobirama revealed that the Sage of Six Paths had caught him, and Uchiha Yu discovered a sealing technique and a thread of causality linking Tobirama to himself.

Uchiha Yu learned that the Sage of Six Paths had tied Senju Tobirama to a future parallel spacetime, then brought Tobirama to the Rōran Secret Realm to question him about Konoha's sixty-fourth year. Their discussion exposed how Hiruzen Sarutobi's long rule and control over Hokage succession weakened Konoha, and Tobirama finally admitted that the Third Hokage was at fault.

• Uchiha Yu realized Otsutsuki Hagoromo had linked himself to Yu through Senju Tobirama and decided he would have to confront the Sage in a future parallel spacetime.
• Uchiha Yu took Senju Tobirama to the Rōran Secret Realm, explained that he could not yet release Tobirama's Impure World Reincarnation, and asked about Konoha's sixty-fourth year.
• Senju Tobirama recounted how he infiltrated Konoha and discovered that Hiruzen Sarutobi had returned as Hokage after Namikaze Minato's death, while Orochimaru defected and the Uchiha clan was massacred.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo argued that Hokage succession should not be restricted to a small circle of disciples, and Senju Tobirama agreed that long tenures allowed power to corrupt leaders.
• Senju Tobirama explained why he had rejected Kagami Uchiha as a Hokage candidate, while Uchiha Yu criticized the lack of checks on Hiruzen Sarutobi's control of succession.
• Senju Tobirama conceded that Hiruzen Sarutobi's greed and misrule had harmed Konoha, and declared that it was all the Third Hokage's fault.

Senju Tobirama apologized to Uchiha Yu for misjudging him and the Uchiha Clan, then explained how he had secretly gathered intelligence in the future. Uchiha Yu realized Tobirama’s actions had exposed him, and Tobirama learned that the Sage of Six Paths had been manipulating events behind Black Zetsu.

• Senju Tobirama admitted that his suppression of the Uchiha Clan and his trust in Hiruzen Sarutobi had contributed to Konoha’s decline, and he apologized to Uchiha Yu.
• Uchiha Yu explained why he would not seek the Fifth Hokage position and said he was preparing Uchiha Shisui to run for Hokage after turning twenty.
• Senju Tobirama revealed that he had forged Hokage orders to issue hundreds of secret missions and had marked fourteen pieces of intelligence as important.
• Uchiha Yu told Senju Tobirama that the overall changes in Konoha’s activities had exposed him to White Zetsu and Black Zetsu.
• Senju Tobirama realized that the Sage of Six Paths had been controlling events from behind Black Zetsu.

Uchiha Yu learned from Senju Tobirama’s memories of the Fourth Shinobi World War and used the information to develop a low-cost soul transmigration technique. After a hundred successful tests, he began considering whom to send through the World Gate as the first official transmigrator.

• Senju Tobirama recounted the Fourth Shinobi World War, describing Madara Uchiha’s overwhelming power and his fear of the Sage of Six Paths.
• Uchiha Yu compared Senju Tobirama’s memories with his own, concluded that the timeline disturbance occurred after the Sage of Six Paths found him, and identified several possible causes.
• Uchiha Yu analyzed Senju Tobirama’s soul and devised a cheaper method of soul transmigration that could send someone’s soul into their counterpart in another spacetime.
• Orochimaru gave Uchiha Yu two hundred captured shinobi for experiments, and Uchiha Yu and Senju Tobirama developed soul-protection seals and the forbidden technique Impure World Reincarnation: Samsara.
• Uchiha Yu and Senju Tobirama completed one hundred consecutive soul transmigrations with a one-hundred-percent success rate by the summer of Konoha Year 48.
• Uchiha Yu began choosing the first official soul transmigrator, deciding that the test subjects were too hostile to be safely granted freedom.

Uchiha Yu prepared to test soul transmigration with willing, battle-hungry ninja and transformed the Rōran Secret Realm into Flower-Fruit Mountain with Senju Hashirama, Senju Tobirama, and Miwa Masayo. He explained that the experiments would hone his time-travel skills and gather intelligence, then revealed his plan to study the Rinnegan and pursue a more complete form of its power, putting him on a collision course with the Sage of Six Paths.

• Senju Tobirama suggested recruiting ninja who voluntarily accepted the risks of soul transmigration, and Uchiha Yu decided to seek out Momochi Zabuza.
• Uchiha Yu summoned Senju Hashirama to help him, Senju Tobirama, and Miwa Masayo remake the Rōran Secret Realm as East Victory Divine Continent, Aolai Kingdom, and Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Senju Hashirama and Miwa Masayo shaped the natural scenery while Uchiha Yu and Senju Tobirama struggled to create anything with a natural appearance; Uchiha Yu then built a kitchen and cultivated fragrant fruit trees.
• Miwa Masayo asked why Uchiha Yu pursued soul transmigration, and he explained that it would sharpen his time-travel precision and provide intelligence about parallel spacetimes and the Sage of Six Paths.
• Uchiha Yu refused to take Nagato's Rinnegan, citing his principles and his need to protect his humanity, and said he would seek Rinnegan from Uchiha Madara or Otsutsuki Hagoromo instead.
• Uchiha Yu argued that the Rinnegan was incomplete and should govern reincarnation and the realms of life and death, then declared that the Sage of Six Paths must die if he blocked Uchiha Yu's path.

Uchiha Yu began using soul traversal to gather intelligence and sent Momochi Zabuza to a future time-space, where his journey caused a temporary temporal disturbance. After observing that the disturbance subsided, Uchiha Yu told Miwa Masayo he would shatter and reforge his Golden Core and asked her to protect him.

• Uchiha Yu explained to Miwa Masayo that Otsutsuki Hagoromo's karmic connection across time could help him master time and threaten their world, so he planned to use covert soul traversals to gather intelligence.
• At Flower-Fruit Mountain, Senju Hashirama arranged for Senju Tobirama to revive Mito Uzumaki, Hatake Sakumo, Dan Katō, and Nawaki while Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo prepared for their first soul traversal.
• Momochi Zabuza accepted the Heavenly Emperor's dangerous mission, prayed for guidance, and had his soul seized, sealed, and fitted with a [System] by Uchiha Yu.
• Uchiha Yu sent Momochi Zabuza's soul to Konoha Year 60 in the time-space Senju Tobirama had visited, where the time-space expanded and trembled before the disturbance gradually subsided.
• Uchiha Yu told Miwa Masayo that he would shatter and reforge his Golden Core, and she tearfully promised to protect him while he was weakened.

Uchiha Yu explained why his Golden Core was fatally unstable and began shattering it to rebuild his cultivation path. His Golden Core broke sooner than expected, unleashing a torrent of natural energy that Miwa Masayo struggled to contain from outside the barrier.

• Uchiha Yu told Miwa Masayo that conflicting laws of space and the Five Spirits had made his Golden Core unsalvageable, and he chose to shatter it despite the danger.
• Uchiha Yu and Miwa Masayo built a spherical barrier on Flash Squid Island, where their life auras had merged with the island during earlier lightning tribulations.
• Uchiha Yu entered the Violet Mansion World, exhausted his natural energy and mental strength, then attacked his Golden Core with thousands of Water Style: Hard Vortex Water Blades.
• The Five Spirits laws suddenly collapsed, cracking Uchiha Yu's Golden Core; he controlled the escaping natural energy and formed a barrier within his body.
• Miwa Masayo heard the Golden Core crack and paced anxiously outside the barrier without disturbing Uchiha Yu.
• Uchiha Yu's Golden Core shattered and released a massive torrent of natural energy, so Miwa Masayo poured her own energy into the island barrier to reinforce it.

Miwa Masayo was caught in the shockwave from Uchiha Yu’s shattered core and began a breakthrough while he reforged his golden core inside the barrier. After completing its three layers, Uchiha Yu found Miwa Masayo undergoing a strange transformation on the western shore, with five tails and a glowing pearl.

• Miwa Masayo was overwhelmed by the barrier’s shockwaves, and the natural energy inside her resonated until she transformed and began growing two new tails.
• Uchiha Yu contained the energy released by his shattered golden core and condensed a new core, inscribing the Laws of Karma, Time, Space, Life, Death, and Reincarnation across its three layers.
• As the third layer formed, Uchiha Yu exhausted his natural energy and spiritual energy, cut off his external senses, and completed the core without knowing Miwa Masayo was in danger.
• Uchiha Yu dispelled the barrier and, after noticing Miwa Masayo had not returned, sensed a breakthrough and hurried to the western shore.
• Uchiha Yu found Miwa Masayo with five tails and a glowing white pearl before her; lightning struck the pearl, which survived and grew larger and brighter.

As Miwa Masayo transformed through the power of the white bead, Uchiha Yu unexpectedly awakened the Rinnegan and completed the union of Yin and Yang within himself. The chapter left him wielding Taiji power and a new source of strength born from nothing.

• Uchiha Yu watched Miwa Masayo and the floating bead while his Golden Core and Violet Mansion World unknowingly began to unite through his cultivation.
• Miwa Masayo unleashed a tiger's roar as lightning struck the bead, and the collision awakened Uchiha Yu's Rinnegan.
• The bead transformed Miwa Masayo's powers, and she became a giant tiger while drawing in natural energy.
• Uchiha Yu supplied Miwa Masayo with refined natural energy, helping her transformation finish as silver light spread through her fur.
• Uchiha Yu discovered a third eye forming in his brow and used Taiji power to harmonize his Yin and Yang.
• Uchiha Yu found that the Taiji cycle generated a new power from nothing that belonged solely to him.