Chapter Summaries

Hanzo led Amegakure's Jonin in an attack on Akatsuki, while Yun fought to protect the group from poison and assault. A second Kage Level opponent arrived and pursued Yun away from the battlefield, leaving Akatsuki to fight in his wake.

• Hanzo summoned Ibuse and flooded Akatsuki's headquarters with poison as Amegakure's Jonin unleashed a Great Waterfall Technique.
• Heishui urged Yun to confront the attackers instead of treating the poisoned members, and Yun held off nearly ten Jonin with Fire and Wind Release techniques.
• Nagato and Konan faced Ibuse while Yahiko fought Hanzo, who held the three at a disadvantage.
• A powerful fireball struck at Yun, who identified its attacker as Madara and countered with combined Water Release techniques.
• Yun drew the new Kage Level opponent away from Akatsuki, and the remaining members attacked the enemy in fury.

Yun lured Uchiha Madara away from the Akatsuki battle and fought him with his strongest Fire Release techniques, while Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato battled Hanzo. Madara acknowledged Yun's mastery of Fire Release and revealed his identity, leaving their duel ongoing.

• Yun found a secluded battlefield and attacked Madara with Explosion Mode, sending him sliding across the ground.
• Madara activated his Sharingan and countered Yun's blazing Fire Phoenix Technique with Great Fire Annihilation.
• At Akatsuki headquarters, Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato coordinated their attacks, and Yahiko struck Hanzo with a Water Dragon Tornado.
• Yun used a Water Formation Wall and the Transformation Technique to approach unseen, then injured Madara with Dragon Fist.
• Yun activated Battle Armor Mode 3.0, and Madara praised his Fire Release before revealing that he was Uchiha Madara.

Yun fought Madara in close combat, then hid and prepared a misleading escape trail. At Akatsuki’s headquarters, Zetsu helped Hanzo kill Yahiko, driving Konan and Nagato into a furious counterattack.

• Yun and Madara exchanged blows while concealing their full abilities, and Madara recognized the strength of Yun’s Double Pupil.
• Yun and Madara ended their fight without exposing their secrets, and Yun staged his escape before hiding in a mountain cave.
• Zetsu attacked Yahiko with spores and Wood Release, leaving him vulnerable to Hanzo’s strike and killing him.
• Konan transformed into paper and attacked Ibuse as Nagato’s Rinnegan awakened in rage.
• Nagato summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, sacrificing his life force as it slaughtered Amegakure’s ninja.

Konan and Nagato reached the peak of their power after discovering that Konoha-linked Wood Release had been used to sabotage Yahiko, and Nagato left with Yahiko’s body resolved to change their approach. Uchiha Kiyoshi revived Yahiko and persuaded him that peace required overthrowing the existing order, leaving Yahiko determined to lead a bloody revolution.

• Konan and Nagato slaughtered their enemies, while Yun realized Konan’s Paper Release transformation came from merging her body with her ability.
• Nagato found Wood Release and a Konoha chakra signature in Yahiko’s corpse, blamed Konoha, and vowed to continue Yahiko’s dream by changing their methods.
• Konan ordered the scene concealed and sent Heishui to find Yun, while Yun preserved a piece of Yahiko’s body for Uchiha Kiyoshi.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi used White Zetsu bodies and reincarnation techniques to revive Yahiko.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi argued that peace required destroying the old order, and Yahiko embraced the idea of a bloody revolution.

Uchiha Kiyoshi tested Yahiko's strength and overwhelmed him with several powerful techniques, convincing Yahiko that the Immortal Organization could pursue peace in the Ninja World. Yahiko accepted his place in the organization as its first new member.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi told Yahiko that he needed greater strength and better teachings before he could achieve his lofty goals.
• Yahiko challenged Uchiha Kiyoshi to demonstrate his strength, and Kiyoshi countered his Water Release with Lava Release and Ice Release.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi used Air Circular Slash, a fifty-meter Blue Giant, and Space-Time Ninjutsu to defeat Yahiko and leave him stunned by the gap between them.
• Yahiko realized that Uchiha Kiyoshi was powerful enough to pursue peace and suspected that he led the Immortal Organization.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi revealed that the Immortal Organization aimed to bring peace to the Ninja World and declared Yahiko its first new member, which Yahiko accepted.

Uchiha Kiyoshi named himself the Dao Ancestor of the Immortal Organization, provoking a lightning strike that he repelled and leading him to reconsider the dangers of cultivation. Yahiko stayed on Kiyoshi Island to train, while Akatsuki concealed his revival and Amegakure’s destruction as its surviving members regrouped.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi called himself the Dao Ancestor, and a lightning strike descended before he countered it with Five Elements Burst.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi suspected the lightning was a tribulation tied to the Ninja World’s Rules and resolved to study the Sacred Lands’ histories.
• Yahiko stayed on Kiyoshi Island to cultivate, while Uchiha Madara, Yun, and Konan concealed his revival and Akatsuki’s transformation.
• Heishui found Yun, who claimed his Double Pupil had awakened during battle and helped him escape pursuit.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi planned to weaken Konoha and protect the Uchiha Clan, hoping they could eventually serve as Enforcers in a new Order.
• Nagato collapsed after carrying Yahiko’s body into Amegakure, and Konan ordered Akatsuki’s Jonin to secure the Demonic Statue and take control of the village.

While Doseki studied how Natural Energy could reveal a way to unite essence, qi, and spirit, he discovered Iwagakure’s army preparing to attack the Land of Fire and warned Hui’s clones. Konoha suffered a devastating surprise attack, and Tsunade redeployed Minato and Hui while recognizing that Hui’s background would prevent him from rising further in the village.

• Doseki found that complete Natural Energy produced stronger Ninjutsu and considered using its fusion as a model for uniting the soul and body through Chakra.
• Doseki spotted Rock Shinobi advancing toward the Land of Fire and sent his insight and a warning to the original body and the clones.
• Iwagakure launched a surprise attack that caught Konoha’s forces unprepared and wiped them out.
• Tsunade ordered Minato to lead reinforcements from the River Country and sent Hui to take over Minato Namikaze’s position.
• Tsunade privately concluded that Minato was being groomed to become the Fourth Hokage and that Hui’s background would limit his rank in Konoha.

Hui replenished Team 7’s Life Force and left Minato to train Obito’s willpower before joining the Iwagakure front. As Kirigakure formally entered the war and Konoha faced three fronts with dwindling troops, Hui wondered how Tsunade would keep the village from being overwhelmed.

• Hui accompanied Minato to the camp, where he learned Rin, Obito, and Kakashi had recovered enough to train.
• Hui replenished Team 7’s Life Force, then told Minato that Obito might have awakened his Sharingan if he had endured longer during their last crisis.
• Hui urged Minato to train Obito’s willpower and gave Rin a notebook on Medical Ninjutsu before learning about the camp’s situation.
• The next day, Minato departed with Team 7 and other ninja to support another battlefield, while Hui remained to oversee the Iwagakure front.
• Sunagakure agreed to begin peace negotiations, and Hui learned that Kirigakure had formally declared war on Konoha.
• Hui assessed Konoha’s shortage of troops across three fronts and worried that the village could be defeated if its forces were worn down.

Hui forced Rasa, Chiyo, and Ebizo to accept Konoha’s defeat agreement by attacking them before negotiations and threatening to send the weakened One-Tail Jinchuriki into Sand Village. Rasa signed the agreement, which required Sand Village to declare war on Iwagakure, before his negotiation team arrived.

• Hui decided Konoha needed to intensify the war and planned to head to the Kirigakure battlefield after negotiating with Sand Village.
• When Rasa, Chiyo, and Ebizo approached Konoha’s position, Hui attacked them with prepared Water Release techniques and injured all three.
• Hui presented the defeat agreement and said Sand Village must declare war on Iwagakure and tie down its army of ten thousand ninja.
• Hui threatened to throw the weakened One-Tail Jinchuriki into Sand Village if Rasa did not sign, then suggested adding financial reparations.
• Rasa signed both copies of the agreement, and Sand Village’s negotiation team arrived to find the deal already completed.

Hui secured Sunagakure’s surrender agreement and traveled to the Konoha front against Kirigakure, where he took up the nominal role of Commander-in-Chief. As he considered Shin’s plan and the village’s future leadership, he left Orochimaru’s ambitions uncertain.

• Hui finalized the surrender agreement with Rasa, making Sunagakure Konoha’s ally and tasking it with drawing away Iwagakure’s forces.
• Hui left Aburame Shinichi in charge of safely relocating the remaining Konoha shinobi and ordered him to alert Minato Namikaze if they faced a major attack.
• Shin considered the losses among Kirigakure’s non-clan shinobi, the village’s treatment of its ninja clans, and his plan involving the Byakugan and Yun’s Double Pupil.
• Two days later, Hui arrived at the Konoha front, where Uchiha Fugaku and the Hyuga Clan Head welcomed him and Sarutobi Yu regarded him with hostility.
• Hui accepted the nominal Commander-in-Chief position while leaving routine matters to others, and he wondered whether Orochimaru wanted to become Hokage.

On Hui's second day at the front, Kirigakure launched a major attack, and Hui set out to find the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist. After learning Guy's squad might encounter them, Hui changed course but was intercepted by the Kaguya Clan Leader and his fighters, and the chapter ended as Hui attacked with an empowered spear.

• Kirigakure launched its largest probing attack, and Uchiha Fugaku gave Hui the latest intelligence as Hui agreed to provide support.
• Hui left the front lines alone to search for Suikazan Fuguki and Samehada, then contacted Shin to coordinate their movements and exchange intelligence.
• Shin told Hui about Hyuga Hikari, and Hui realized Guy's squad might encounter the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and Might Duy might use the Eight Inner Gates.
• Hui changed direction toward the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist but was attacked by Kaguya Clan members using Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets.
• The Kaguya Clan Leader and four fighters confronted Hui, who formed an empowered Long Spear and launched the first attack.

Hui fought the Kaguya Clan’s elite to study the Shikotsumyaku’s rapid healing, discovered that it came from stem-cell control, and then slaughtered the group. He left the battlefield intending to collect their blood and investigate a possible link between the Shikotsumyaku and the All-Killing Ash Bones.

• Hui used his speed and strength to overpower the Kaguya ninjas, then wounded them to observe how their Shikotsumyaku healed.
• Hui sensed newly differentiated tissue cells forming in their wounds and realized their rapid healing came from controlling stem cells.
• Hui used Water Explosion to incapacitate three Kaguya ninjas by making their blood erupt, then killed another with a Genjutsu-assisted kunai strike.
• Hui blinded the Kaguya Clan Leader with the Bringer-of-Darkness Technique and made the blood in his body explode before finishing off the three weakened survivors with Senbon Shower.
• Hui decided to collect the Kaguya ninjas’ blood because he suspected the Shikotsumyaku might be connected to the All-Killing Ash Bones.

Might Duy appeared just as Guy, Shiranui Genma, and Ebisu faced the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, then opened the Eight Inner Gates to protect them. After Guy and the others fled, Duy opened the Gate of Death and unleashed overwhelming power against the swordsmen, leaving them terrified as he continued attacking.

• Guy, Shiranui Genma, and Ebisu encountered the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, and Guy stepped forward to hold them off.
• Might Duy arrived and opened the first five Gates, then used Reverse Lotus to knock Zabuza Momochi down.
• Duy opened the sixth and seventh Gates, used Morning Peacock against Kurosuki Raiga and Zabuza Momochi, and urged Guy to protect what mattered to him.
• Duy opened the Gate of Death, and Shiranui Genma and Ebisu dragged Guy away as Duy charged the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• Duy killed one of the swordsmen with a single punch and continued attacking with uncontrollable force while Suikazan Fuguki warned the others not to face him head-on.

Hui pursued the fleeing Suikazan Fuguki to take Samehada and discovered that the sword absorbed Chakra by interfering with its user’s spiritual connection. He prepared to fight using Natural Energy as he considered how the discovery might relate to the Ōtsutsuki.

• Might Duy burned out after killing four of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, and the remaining three fled in fear.
• Hui followed Suikazan Fuguki while sending his Shadow Clone to investigate the hidden observer who had watched Might Duy.
• Hui intercepted Suikazan Fuguki and attacked him with Water Release, prompting Fuguki to recognize his pursuer.
• Suikazan Fuguki used Samehada to absorb Hui’s Water Severing Wave, and Hui examined how the sword disrupted his control over its Chakra.
• Hui suspected Samehada’s absorption involved spiritual energy and might resemble the Ōtsutsuki’s Chakra-stealing ability.
• Hui formed a Natural Energy spear and coated his body in Natural Energy to fight Suikazan Fuguki without relying on absorbable Chakra.

Hui killed Suikazan Fuguki and prevented Kirigakure from reclaiming Samehada, then continued fighting on the battlefield. Meanwhile, Zetsu headed toward a Hyuga Main House disciple, as Hyuga Ten wrestled with resentment over the Branch House’s oppression.

• Hui overwhelmed Suikazan Fuguki with repeated strikes and killed him after Samehada’s trembling disrupted his defense.
• Hui isolated Samehada from Kirigakure’s summoning, sealed the sword in a scroll, and decided to advance his soul-cultivation research.
• Hui roamed the battlefield, avoiding Jonin while killing groups of Genin and Chunin, as Zetsu left a Shadow Clone behind and went toward the Hyuga Main House disciple.
• Hyuga Hikari rested while five Branch House guards protected him after he defeated three Kirigakure Chunin.
• Hyuga Ten kept watch and resented the Main House’s treatment of the Branch House, though he concealed his anger out of fear of the Caged Bird.

Shin secretly approached Hyuga Hikari’s group and discovered that the Byakugan sensed souls, while Hyuga Ten possessed an exceptional Byakugan despite severe damage from the Caged Bird. When Kirigakure ninja threatened the group to seize Hikari’s Byakugan, Hikari’s jealousy of Ten kept him from calling for the hidden protectors, leaving the confrontation poised to erupt.

• Shin used hidden Mental Perception underground to probe the Byakugan’s range and concluded that it detected souls.
• Shin sensed six Hyuga Jonin protecting the group and recognized Hyuga Ten’s exceptional abilities and severe Caged Bird injuries.
• Hyuga Ten warned the others that approaching ninja were coming, while Shin noted that Ten had detected them before the more experienced Hyuga.
• Six Kirigakure ninja, including three Jonin and three Special Jonin, spotted Hyuga Hikari’s Main House status and resolved to take his Byakugan.
• Hyuga Hikari remained silent about the hidden protectors because he resented Hyuga Ten’s superiority, while the Hyuga group faced the Kirigakure threat.

Hyuga Ten was badly injured after Hyuga Hikari left him and the Branch House members to face a Kirigakure attack, and the injustice of the Main House’s treatment awakened his Ninja Way. Watching from underground, Zhen decided to protect and recruit Hyuga Ten into the Immortal Organization and began considering how to counter the Caged Bird seal.

• Hyuga Ten and four Branch House members used Gentle Fist techniques to defend against the Kirigakure squad’s Water Dragon Bullet, while Hyuga Hikari stood aside.
• The attack overwhelmed Hyuga Ten’s Rotation, leaving him badly injured and resentful toward Hyuga Hikari and the Main House.
• Six hidden Hyuga Jonin intervened, attacking the Kirigakure ninja and interrupting their captain’s hand seals.
• Hyuga Ten resolved to survive and fight the Hyuga Clan’s system, and Zhen recognized that he had found his Ninja Way.
• Zhen decided to protect and recruit Hyuga Ten, whose Byakugan might help the Immortal Organization, and considered ways to prevent the Main House from controlling him through the Caged Bird seal.

Hyuga Ten turned against Hyuga Hikari during the battle, but died after striking him and being stabbed by a Kirigakure shinobi. Shin intervened to preserve Ten’s body and soul, took Hyuga Hikari’s eyes, and teleported away as the stunned fighters watched.

• Ao and the other Kirigakure shinobi fought the Hyuga guards, while Hyuga Ten battled a Special Jonin and Shin watched from hiding.
• Hyuga Ten used the Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm to strike Hyuga Hikari, revealing his betrayal of the Main House.
• A Kirigakure shinobi stabbed Hyuga Ten as another attacked Hyuga Hikari, leaving Ten mortally wounded.
• Shin appeared, killed Ten’s opponent, sealed Ten’s soul and body, and took both of Hyuga Hikari’s eyes.
• Shin told the fighters to keep going and teleported away.

Shin brought the dying Hyuga Ten to Kiyoshi Island, where Uchiha Kiyoshi revived him and shielded him from the Caged Bird’s control. After Ten woke, Uchiha Kiyoshi helped him define a Ninja Way of resisting unjust fate, prompting Ten to experience another enlightenment.

• Shin left the battlefield, brought Hyuga Ten to Kiyoshi Island, and asked Uchiha Kiyoshi to revive him.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi used White Zetsu’s Life Force to restore Ten’s body, soul, and Byakugan while shielding him from the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird control.
• Shin departed, and Uchiha Kiyoshi told Yahiko that Doseki had saved Ten.
• Ten woke, learned that he had survived, and affirmed that he did not regret turning against his clan.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi explained that Ten’s Ninja Way could be to fight unjust fate, and Ten grew clearer in his resolve as Yahiko watched in astonishment.

Uchiha Kiyoshi accepted Hyuga Ten as his disciple and offered hope of removing the Main House’s control over the Caged Bird. He planned to train Ten on Kiyoshi Island while investigating how the Byakugan, the soul, and Rule comprehension could lead to greater power.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi told Hyuga Ten that he could remove the Main House’s added control methods from the Caged Bird, though he could not break the seal itself.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi settled Hyuga Ten on Kiyoshi Island, where its Barrier would prevent the Caged Bird from activating, and instructed him to focus on Sealing Jutsu and avoid refining too much Chakra.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi considered how studying Ten’s Byakugan and the Caged Bird could help him understand the soul and develop his Visualization Method.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi decided to delay fusing Hyuga Hikari’s Dojutsu Power into Hyuga Ten so Ten could first cultivate and experience the growth of his Byakugan.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi concluded that Hyuga Ten would need Soul Cultivation and Rule comprehension, which he could develop through strengthening his soul and refining his own path with Nature Transformation.