Chapter Summaries

Miwa Masayo completed her breakthrough, gaining a halo, a demon core, and the ability to influence nature, while Uchiha Yu awakened the Rinnegan and reforged his Golden Core. The chapter left Uchiha Yu wondering what would happen if the Sage of Six Paths were trapped inside his greatly strengthened Golden Core Simulated Realm.

• Miwa Masayo awakened with a halo behind her head, and Uchiha Yu explained that he believed it was a halo of merit.
• Miwa Masayo noticed Uchiha Yu's Rinnegan, then apologized for losing control during her breakthrough; Uchiha Yu explained that his leaking natural energy had triggered it.
• Miwa Masayo revealed that her pearl had solidified, and she used it to make sand fly and a stump sprout and bloom without using chakra.
• Uchiha Yu concluded that Miwa Masayo's pearl was a demon core and her new power was demon power; she practiced controlling it until dizziness forced her to rest.
• Uchiha Yu unfolded his Golden Core Simulated Realm, which endured for seventeen minutes before collapsing and injuring him; he recovered within two breaths.
• Uchiha Yu realized the stronger realm could trap powerful enemies and wondered what would happen if the Sage of Six Paths entered it.

Momochi Zabuza’s dreams brought a fourteen-year-old version of himself from another spacetime into his body, where he learned about Haku and resolved to fulfill his older self’s goals. After adapting to his new body, he activated a mission system and studied its tasks, puzzled that defeating two Konoha genin promised better rewards than defeating Hatake Kakashi.

• Momochi Zabuza repeatedly dreamed of another version of the Ninja World and woke with the revelation that Uchiha Madara had controlled Karatachi Yagura with genjutsu.
• The fourteen-year-old Zabuza from another spacetime took over the twenty-six-year-old Zabuza’s body and discovered that its strongest obsession was caring for Haku.
• Zabuza struggled with the emotions he inherited for Haku, then trained to adapt to his older body and improve his ninjutsu and swordsmanship.
• Zabuza planned to return to Kirigakure, kill Karatachi Yagura, and fulfill his former self’s wish after reaching Kage-level.
• Zabuza’s system activated and assigned missions involving Hatake Kakashi, Uzumaki Naruto, Sasuke Uchiha, and Karatachi Yagura.
• Zabuza examined the system’s rewards and wondered why defeating the two Konoha genin offered greater rewards than defeating Hatake Kakashi.

Momochi Zabuza weighed the risks of his system missions, recovered, and recruited Haku to help him defeat Hatake Kakashi and the two Konoha genin. As the bridge in the Land of Waves was completed, Gato arrived with armed thugs and exploited the end of the protection mission to claim the bridge as payment for Tazuna’s debts, leaving the Konoha ninja unable to intervene under their rules.

• The [System] identified Uzumaki Naruto as the Nine-Tails jinchuriki and vessel of Asura, and Sasuke Uchiha as the Uchiha clan’s sole survivor and vessel of Indra, warning Zabuza of possible retaliation if he defeated them.
• Momochi Zabuza considered the rewards and dangers of his missions, then decided he would complete them and leave the consequences to this world’s residents.
• After two weeks of recovery and training, Zabuza told Haku he intended to defeat Hatake Kakashi and the Konoha genin; Haku agreed to fight alongside him.
• Tazuna and the workers completed the bridge, but Gato appeared with more than a hundred armed thugs as the Konoha team’s mission ended.
• Gato claimed the bridge as repayment for Tazuna’s debts, and Kakashi and the genin realized that their rules prevented them from attacking him while he taunted the people of the Land of Waves and threatened them with his ronin.

Momochi Zabuza massacred Gato and his ronin, then fought Hatake Kakashi while Haku trapped Team 7 in an ice-mirror formation. The genin fought back, and Haku’s Rain Needles shifted the ongoing battle to Zabuza’s advantage as both jonin prepared their next techniques.

• Momochi Zabuza seized Gato, killed more than a hundred ronin with Water Style: Water Bullet Barrage, and then split Gato in two with the Kubikiribōchō.
• Momochi Zabuza challenged Hatake Kakashi while Haku ambushed Team 7 with ice senbon and trapped Sasuke Uchiha in an ice-mirror cage.
• Momochi Zabuza and Hatake Kakashi clashed; Zabuza used the Half-Body Reversing Slash, breaking the Kubikiribōchō and cutting Kakashi’s cheek as they fought to a draw.
• Haku restrained Sakura Haruno and Uzumaki Naruto and trapped Sasuke Uchiha, but Sasuke attacked with Fire Style while Naruto unleashed Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu.
• Haku used Water Style: Rain Needles across the battlefield, disrupting the fights and giving Momochi Zabuza an advantage over Hatake Kakashi.
• Momochi Zabuza and Hatake Kakashi began forming the same lengthy sequence of hand seals as their battle escalated.

Haku’s Ice Style trapped Team 7 and its Shadow Clones while Sasuke’s attempt to kill him failed, leaving Kakashi injured and Zabuza in control of their battle. The chapter ended with Team 7 in danger, sealed inside an ice dome as Kakashi fought with one arm disabled.

• Kakashi lost focus over the danger to Naruto and Sasuke, allowing Zabuza to kick him and gain the advantage.
• Naruto’s Shadow Clones and Sasuke’s Fire Style pressured Haku, but Haku used the Prism Maze to disorient Team 7 and disable Sasuke.
• Naruto’s clones overwhelmed the maze, while Sasuke studied Haku’s movements and apparently sliced him apart with wire and kunai.
• Kakashi warned that Sasuke had destroyed an Ice Clone, and Haku struck Sasuke with senbon before Naruto’s clones carried him away.
• Haku trapped Team 7 and most of Naruto’s Shadow Clones inside an enormous ice dome, then told Zabuza that the genin were contained.
• Zabuza wounded Kakashi’s left arm with a kunai and renewed his attack while the trapped clones failed to break through the ice.

Kakashi fought Zabuza at full intensity but was defeated, while Zabuza received a new Water Dragon Bullet technique from the system. After Haku freed the genin from the ice dome, Naruto’s enormous horde of Shadow Clones charged Zabuza, who prepared a powerful Water Style attack.

• Kakashi’s battle with Zabuza escalated, and Kakashi used Lightning Cutter to pierce Zabuza’s Water Style shield, but Zabuza broke Kakashi’s wrist and struck his abdomen.
• Zabuza completed his mission and received the system reward: a three-hand-seal technique for Water Style: Water Dragon Bullet.
• Haku froze Kakashi in place and treated Zabuza’s wound, while Zabuza noticed Naruto’s Shadow Clones were straining the ice dome.
• Naruto’s Shadow Clones burst through the dome and rushed toward Zabuza, shouting that they would rescue Kakashi.
• Zabuza told Haku to use brute-force jutsu against the clones and unleashed Water Style: Great Exploding Water Colliding Waves.

Momochi Zabuza overwhelmed Uzumaki Naruto’s Shadow Clones and seriously injured Sasuke Uchiha, then discovered that the Nine-Tails’ chakra protected Naruto from his sword. He launched a Water Dragon Bullet Technique at Naruto, leaving Hatake Kakashi alarmed and wondering whether Naruto’s jinchūriki secret had been exposed.

• Momochi Zabuza used Great Exploding Water Colliding Waves to sweep away Naruto’s Shadow Clones and explained Naruto’s weak combat fundamentals to Haku.
• Zabuza struck Naruto, Sasuke, and the remaining clones with Kubikiribōchō, fracturing Sasuke’s arm, leg, and ribs.
• Naruto rushed to Sasuke, but Zabuza’s follow-up sword strikes failed to draw blood because the Nine-Tails’ chakra briefly shielded him.
• Zabuza inferred that the Nine-Tails could only protect Naruto in short bursts and attacked him with Water Dragon Bullet Technique.
• Hatake Kakashi recognized Zabuza’s three-hand-seal Water Dragon Bullet Technique and worried that Naruto’s identity as the Nine-Tails’ jinchūriki had been revealed.

Zabuza completed his missions by severely injuring Naruto and Sasuke, then revealed doubts about the Uchiha massacre that made Sasuke question Konoha and Itachi. After leaving Team 7 alive, Zabuza and Haku looted Gato’s company and planned to train before returning to Kirigakure to overthrow the Fourth Mizukage.

• Kakashi feared Zabuza had learned Naruto’s jinchūriki secret and prepared to sacrifice himself, but Zabuza repeatedly struck Naruto with Water Dragon Bullets until the mission reward appeared.
• Zabuza and Haku checked Team 7’s injuries, and Zabuza told Sasuke and Kakashi that Naruto was the Nine-Tails’ jinchūriki and Sasuke was Itachi’s younger brother.
• Zabuza argued that Itachi could not have massacred the entire Uchiha Clan alone, leading Kakashi to suspect Konoha’s leadership had played a role and Sasuke to doubt the official story.
• Haku freed Kakashi, and Zabuza announced they would take Gato’s money, train on a hidden island, and later return to Kirigakure to overthrow the Fourth Mizukage.
• Zabuza and Haku disappeared from the Land of Waves with Gato’s wealth, and the villagers found the company’s dead enforcers and burned its building.

Zabuza and Haku prepared to return to Kirigakure after learning that Konoha was distracted by Uchiha Itachi’s attack and Sasuke’s disappearance. After visiting the abandoned site of Haku’s childhood home, they continued toward their mission to kill Karatachi Yagura and restore Kirigakure.

• Kakuzu searched the Land of Waves and nearby islands for Zabuza but failed to track him across the sea, then pursued another bounty instead.
• Konoha’s leaders decided to summon Jiraiya to teach Naruto and eventually replace the aging Hiruzen Sarutobi, while Sasuke quietly disappeared after the Third Hokage’s death.
• Zabuza and Haku hunted an enormous octopus, roasted its tailed-beast-chakra-infused meat, and learned that Uchiha Itachi had attacked Konoha amid Sasuke’s disappearance.
• Zabuza concluded that Konoha and the other great villages would be too distracted to threaten Kirigakure, so he decided to begin his operation against Karatachi Yagura early.
• Zabuza and Haku reached the Land of Water and visited the overgrown site of Haku’s childhood home, where Haku decided never to return.
• Zabuza told Haku that he had no home, but Kirigakure might become one after he killed Karatachi Yagura.

Zabuza and Haku attacked Karatachi Yagura, who was being controlled by Uchiha Obito, while Kirigakure’s Anbu tried to stop them. After Zabuza severed Yagura’s arm and the storm cleared, Genji ordered Terumi Mei to act and deal with the Fourth Mizukage.

• Zabuza and Haku infiltrated Kirigakure and killed six Anbu guards in the Mizukage’s office.
• Karatachi Yagura blasted Zabuza and Haku outside, where Zabuza recognized that the Fourth Mizukage was under genjutsu control.
• Zabuza fought Yagura with Water Style while Haku used Ice Style to hold back Kirigakure’s Anbu.
• Terumi Mei and Genji arrived with Kirigakure ninjas and discussed their plan to overthrow Yagura.
• Zabuza cut off Yagura’s left arm, unleashing a burst of chakra that cleared the storm and revealed Zabuza to the gathered ninjas.
• Genji recognized Zabuza and told Terumi Mei to act, declaring that Karatachi Yagura would be dealt with that day.

Terumi Mei launched a coup against Karatachi Yagura, and Zabuza revealed that the Fourth Mizukage was controlled by genjutsu. Uchiha Obito appeared as “Uchiha Madara” to confront the rebels, while Zabuza received a quest to defeat him and learned about Kamui.

• Genji ordered Terumi Mei to begin the coup, and Kirigakure ninja rallied against Karatachi Yagura and his supporters.
• Zabuza told the gathered ninja that Karatachi Yagura was a genjutsu-controlled puppet, convincing them that the Fourth Mizukage had been manipulated.
• Uchiha Obito decided to end his control over Kirigakure and emerged beside Karatachi Yagura, claiming to be Uchiha Madara.
• The Kirigakure ninja reacted with fear and doubt, but Genji’s account of Uchiha Madara’s strength led them to accept Obito’s claim.
• Zabuza received a quest to defeat Obito, remove his mask, and expose his identity, but he gave up after learning about Kamui’s abilities.

Uchiha Yu manipulated Zabuza into attacking Uchiha Obito, while Haku and the Kirigakure ninja joined the battle against Obito and Karatachi Yagura. As Yagura's control began to weaken, Uchiha Yu and the Sage of Six Paths fought in the sky, each trying to kill the other to escape their entangled state.

• Uchiha Yu used the Mind Network to discover Zabuza's resentment toward the Uchiha and stoked his jealousy, prompting Zabuza to attack Obito and expose his identity.
• Obito wounded Zabuza with Majestic Destroyer Flame, but Zabuza answered with Great Exploding Water Colliding Waves, filling the battlefield with dense steam.
• Haku and Zabuza used ice needles and Hidden Mist to track Obito and prepare to exploit the limits of Kamui's intangibility.
• Karatachi Yagura partially transformed and began forming a Tailed Beast Ball, but Terumi Mei's Boil Release disrupted it and the ensuing explosion cleared the fog while injuring the Kirigakure ninja.
• The Tailed Beast Ball's chakra damaged the genjutsu controlling Karatachi Yagura, and his soul began struggling to regain control of his body.
• Uchiha Yu and the Sage of Six Paths, spatially overlapped above Kirigakure, began fighting to kill each other and escape their entangled condition.

Uchiha Yu and the Sage of Six Paths fought above Kirigakure, each trying to seal the other as their battle reached a critical turning point. Below them, Karatachi Yagura died with the Three-Tails, leaving Terumi Mei as the Fifth Mizukage and Kirigakure to rebuild.

• Uchiha Yu severed most of the Sage of Six Paths' connections to the Ninja World while secretly preparing a space-time seal, as the Sage of Six Paths prepared Planetary Devastation.
• Uchiha Obito retreated after Karatachi Yagura broke free of the genjutsu, and Yagura recognized Terumi Mei, Zabuza, and Haku before accepting that he would die.
• Karatachi Yagura chose Terumi Mei as the next Mizukage, apologized for his actions, and warned Genji that Kirigakure would need to recover the Three-Tails after its revival.
• Karatachi Yagura died as the Three-Tails vanished into scattered light, and Genji appointed Terumi Mei the Fifth Mizukage.
• Genji pardoned Zabuza, promised him rewards and a new forehead protector, and agreed to restore Haku's Yuki Clan inheritance.
• Uchiha Yu pierced the Sage of Six Paths' forehead and secretly attached his space-time seal, but the Sage's Planetary Devastation began drawing in Yu's vast body and gathered natural energy.

Uchiha Yu learned how Momochi Zabuza completed his missions and confirmed that the future timeline had been sealed, then reconsidered his plans for time travel and spreading the Immortal Path. He resolved to build a broad immortal-cultivation organization that would monopolize research, while Orochimaru’s new federal arrangement in the Land of Earth offered a foundation for that strategy.

• Uchiha Yu examined Momochi Zabuza’s memories, learned that his divine soul avatar had sealed the target timeline, and sent Zabuza back to his body.
• Uchiha Yu abandoned plans to send another soul traveler for at least ten years and discussed using the [System] to help Ninja Cats and other followers enter the Immortal Path.
• Uchiha Yu explained to Miwa Masayo that immortal cultivators faced tribulations from fate and powerful enemies, then identified Zabuza’s [System] as a way to ease entry into cultivation.
• Uchiha Yu lamented missing the chance to turn the Ninja World into a centralized research state and decided instead to build immortal-path organizations that exchanged research through him.
• Orochimaru established Konoha’s superior-subordinate relationship with Iwagakure, rebuilt the village, and helped restore peace and prosperity to the Land of Earth.

As Konoha’s reforms reshaped the Ninja World, Uchiha Yu expanded the Immortal Path faction while Nagato and Konan built the Akatsuki into a powerful organization. Black Zetsu’s urgency pushed Nagato toward a plan to capture the tailed beasts and sacrifice Akatsuki members, prompting Konan to seek Uchiha Yu’s advice through the Divine Court.

• After Konoha withdrew from the Land of Earth, rival claimants to the Tsuchikage title emerged, but Han and Iwagakure’s leaders held the new village together against them.
• Uchiha Yu expanded the [System] to a thousand carefully chosen ninja, including many talented youths, powerful jonin, and future historical figures.
• Nagato and Konan turned Amegakure into the government of the Land of Rain, rebuilt the country’s infrastructure, and used its growing wealth to expand the Akatsuki.
• Black Zetsu urged Nagato to accelerate the Akatsuki’s growth as ninja strength surged, while the Sage of Six Paths secretly magnified Black Zetsu’s anxiety.
• Nagato told Konan that the Akatsuki would capture all nine tailed beasts, create an ultimate weapon, and let its current members die in the ensuing war; Konan suspected someone had influenced his thinking.
• Konan decided to ask Uchiha Yu for advice and went to a secluded corner of Amegakure to pray to the Heavenly Emperor.

Uchiha Yu revived Senju Hashirama and began using the Rinne Rebirth to restore him to life. As Hashirama’s soul neared completion, Uchiha Yu asked Mito Uzumaki to shout a resurrection slogan.

• Konan prayed to the Heavenly Emperor, and Uchiha Yu suggested that someone in the Akatsuki’s intelligence circle had influenced Nagato; Konan identified the likely culprit and left.
• Uchiha Yu prepared to send Senju Hashirama into the past to witness the Valley of the End battle, but first set out to resurrect him.
• Uchiha Yu summoned Senju Hashirama, Senju Tobirama, Mito Uzumaki, Hatake Sakumo, Dan Katō, and Nawaki into Impure World bodies at Flower-Fruit Mountain.
• Senju Hashirama learned that Uchiha Yu had killed Uchiha Madara, then urged Uchiha Yu to revive him so he could see Madara.
• Uchiha Yu revealed his Rinnegan and activated Rinne Rebirth, drawing Senju Hashirama’s spirit body from the world of death to reunite it with his living soul.
• As the resurrection reached its final moment, Uchiha Yu asked Mito Uzumaki to shout, “Come Back to Life! My Beloved!”

Mito Uzumaki’s plea helped Uchiha Yu resurrect Senju Hashirama, who learned that Yu could revive one person every two months and set off to confront Uchiha Madara. When Hashirama admitted he had skipped Yu’s political analysis, Yu implanted a [System] to provide the information and help him persuade Madara.

• Mito Uzumaki shouted for Hashirama to return, and Uchiha Yu used the Rinnegan to resurrect him in an Impure World body that became living flesh and blood.
• Uchiha Yu explained that Rinne Rebirth consumed his life force and lifespan at a ten-to-one ratio, while Flower-Fruit Mountain endured the backlash; Senju Tobirama agreed to study Hashirama’s transformed body with him.
• The group chose Nawaki to be resurrected next, followed by Senju Tobirama, Dan Katō, Hatake Sakumo, and Mito Uzumaki, with one resurrection planned every two months.
• Uchiha Yu aligned the World Gate with the past, and Hashirama chose to travel directly to the Valley of the End to persuade Madara to abandon the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan.
• Hashirama revealed he had not read Yu’s explanation of the Ninja World’s reforms, so Yu implanted a [System] that supplied the material and analytical support Hashirama needed.
• Confident that the [System] would help him, Hashirama passed through the World Gate to meet Madara.

Madara Uchiha returned to attack Konoha with the Nine-Tails, and Senju Hashirama led him away to fight while forbidding the village’s ninja from following. Senju Tobirama eventually led a jonin force toward the battle, where the clash forced them to retreat, as a transmigrated Senju Hashirama hurried toward the battlefield after losing two days searching for the Valley of the End.

• Senju Hashirama ordered Konoha’s ninja to stay in the village and left with Madara Uchiha and the Nine-Tails to fight far away.
• Senju Tobirama recognized Madara Uchiha’s Susanoo and used the battle’s appearance as an excuse to lead the jonin toward the northwest.
• Senju Hashirama and Madara Uchiha argued over Konoha before Senju Hashirama entered Sage Mode and summoned True Several Thousand Hands to face the Armored Nine-Tails.
• Senju Tobirama led the Konoha ninja in retreat as the battle’s storms and explosions threatened them from afar.
• A transmigrated Senju Hashirama, who had spent two days searching for the nonexistent Valley of the End, headed toward the battle and resolved to prevent the two fighters from killing each other.

A time-traveling Senju Hashirama arrived at the Valley of the End, stopped the weakened Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara from fighting, and defeated Madara’s Susanoo. He accidentally revealed that Madara would be killed by a descendant and Hashirama would die of illness, but Uchiha Yu told him the disclosures had created an opportunity to persuade Madara.

• After the Nine-Tails was sealed and both fighters were weakened, the time-traveling Senju Hashirama used Deep Forest Emergence to separate Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara.
• The time traveler revealed that he was a revived Hashirama from forty years in the future, but Madara grew angry and reformed Susanoo with his Mangekyō power.
• The time traveler stopped the younger Hashirama from exhausting himself, then used a Wood Human and a resonant hammering technique to shatter Madara’s Susanoo.
• Madara challenged the Hashiramas, and the time traveler explained that Madara needed their flesh and blood before he could defeat them, then accidentally revealed that Madara would be killed by a descendant and Hashirama would die after an illness.
• The time traveler apologized to Uchiha Yu, who said the revelations had created the best opportunity to persuade Madara and sent him more information.

Uchiha Yu trapped the Sage of Six Paths in the Ninja World and fought him in an enormous battle of attrition while two Hashiramas beat Uchiha Madara and prepared to persuade him. The Konoha reinforcements sensed the godlike clash ahead and stopped, while Uchiha Yu declared that he would win again.

• Uchiha Yu sent traveler Hashirama intelligence about Black Zetsu, the Rinnegan, and Kaguya Otsutsuki, and the two Hashiramas agreed to beat Uchiha Madara before persuading him.
• The two Hashiramas pinned Uchiha Madara down and pummeled him as the battle at the Valley of the End quieted.
• Senju Tobirama led Konoha ninja toward the battlefield, but they sensed a terrifying presence and halted roughly ten kilometers away.
• Uchiha Yu ambushed the Sage of Six Paths, severed his descent channel, and destroyed the core of his descent body.
• Uchiha Yu and the Sage of Six Paths fought in gigantic forms above the valley as Uchiha Yu eroded his opponent and replenished his strength.
• Uchiha Yu told the Sage of Six Paths that he would win again, and the Sage asked who he was.