Chapter Summaries

Hui forced Kumogakure to admit fault and accept an additional year of reparations after retaliating for its actions against Konoha. After preparations continued without further incident, Minato Namikaze officially became the Fourth Hokage.

• Hui confronted the Fourth Raikage and invoked Kumogakure’s violation of the defeated side’s agreement, leading the Raikage to accept one extra year of reparations.
• Hui left Kumogakure after securing the concession, and Konoha’s higher-ups approved his actions before turning their attention to Minato Namikaze’s succession ceremony.
• Tsunade warned Konoha’s leaders to strengthen security and acknowledged that they had no way to identify who had leaked her whereabouts to Kumogakure.
• Hui spent the next half month ripening medicinal herbs while Uchiha Kiyoshi’s Shadow Clones guided Rin and Hyuga Ten in classifying Sealing Jutsu.
• After a quiet period of preparation, Minato Namikaze wore the Fourth Hokage’s robe and officially took office at the succession ceremony.

Uchiha Kiyoshi focused on cultivating in the Pure Land while powerful souls kept the Sage of Six Paths under watch. On the New Continent, Ancestor declared war on the Three Great Tribes, challenged a heavenly tribulation, and drew the attention of Wu in the Pure Land.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi sensed more than a dozen Divine Level beings confronting the Sage of Six Paths and used the heightened Rule fluctuations to cultivate in the Pure Land.
• After ninety days of growth and recruitment, the Martial Dao Sacred Land had four Priest Level combatants, thirty top-tier fighters, and nearly a hundred first-rate fighters.
• Ancestor persuaded the Sacred Land's experts to support war against the Three Great Tribes and publicly declared the campaign across the continent.
• Ancestor named himself Martial Ancestor, provoking the heavens to form a terrifying bolt of Thunder.
• Ancestor shattered the Thunder with his Ancestor Fist, combining True Qi, the Eight Gates, the Five Shikigami, and Five Elements blood and qi.
• In the Pure Land, Wu sensed that someone had provoked his Bloodline Path Rule, but the Shinigami urged him and the others to keep watch over the Sage of Six Paths.

Ancestor studied the Thunder Tribulation and concluded it was a trial shaped by Rules left by earlier cultivators. On Kiyoshi Island, Uchiha Kiyoshi decided Hyuga Ten was ready to advance his Byakugan, setting him on a path toward Kage Level strength and the eventual removal of the Caged Bird.

• Ancestor withstood the Thunder Tribulation and sensed that Rule Power gave it strength and targeted his blood and vitality.
• Ancestor inferred that the Thunder Tribulation tested cultivators against Rules imprinted by predecessors and considered investigating the southwest sea region as a possible Tribulation Transcendence Place.
• After nearly three years of study under Uchiha Kiyoshi's guidance, Hyuga Ten had mastered Sealing Jutsu enough to begin body tempering and had reached Elite Jonin strength.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi reasoned that Hyuga Ten's Byakugan could gain the missing attributes from Hyuga Hikari's eyes and eventually meet the conditions for awakening the Tenseigan.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi decided Hyuga Ten was ready to fuse with Hyuga Hikari's eyes, grow strong enough to leave Kiyoshi Island, and eventually resolve the Caged Bird.

Uchiha Kiyoshi helped Hyuga Ten absorb the remaining power in Hyuga Hikari’s Byakugan, then traveled to the moon to investigate the Tenseigan and collect its power for Ten’s future awakening. After using Hyuga Ten’s and Hizashi Hyuga’s Chakra to bypass the giant Tenseigan’s rejection, Kiyoshi began extracting its core power and then turned to the chaotic power around its outer layer.

• Hyuga Ten absorbed the Dojutsu Power from Hyuga Hikari’s Byakugan, and five days later he reported that his observation range and distance had greatly increased.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi left Kiyoshi Island for the moon, where he sensed Otsutsuki Toneri, another living Ōtsutsuki, and the giant Tenseigan in the Divine Hall.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi used Hyuga Ten’s Chakra to overcome the giant Tenseigan’s rejection and discovered that its outer power gradually transformed into pure Dojutsu Power at its core.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi extracted more than forty strands of the Tenseigan’s core power using Hyuga Ten’s and Hizashi Hyuga’s Chakra before the eye resisted further attempts.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi reached into the Tenseigan again and began drawing out its chaotic outer Dojutsu Power.

Uchiha Kiyoshi extracted Dojutsu Power from the Divine Hall Tenseigan, then confronted Otsutsuki Yukito on the moon. Their battle escalated into a clash of Tenseigan abilities and powerful attacks, leaving Hyuga Ten and Rin worried about Kiyoshi’s safety.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi drew a large amount of Dojutsu Power from the Tenseigan, then Otsutsuki Yukito sensed the disturbance and went to investigate.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi used Added-Weight Rock Technique to bring Otsutsuki Yukito and his puppet down, then repelled the puppet assault.
• Otsutsuki Yukito activated his Purple Tenseigan and fought Uchiha Kiyoshi in Tenseigan Chakra Mode, but Kiyoshi countered his Truth-Seeking Orbs with one of his own.
• Otsutsuki Yukito unleashed Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, and Uchiha Kiyoshi endured the storm before kicking him away and firing a powerful beam.
• The beam shook the moon and appeared as a brief second sun to people in the Ninja World, while Hyuga Ten and Rin watched from Kiyoshi Island and worried about Uchiha Kiyoshi.

Uchiha Kiyoshi defeated Otsutsuki Yukito, claimed the Purple Tenseigan, and investigated Otsutsuki Toneri’s unusual bloodline before leaving the moon. He left Toneri in the care of household puppets and sealed the Divine Hall’s Giant Yellow Tenseigan.

• Otsutsuki Yukito used the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, but Uchiha Kiyoshi dodged and killed him with Air Circular Slash.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi examined the Purple Tenseigan and decided it could help his disciple Hyuga Ten, while leaving the Giant Yellow Tenseigan intact.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi found the young, eyeless Otsutsuki Toneri and tested his cells, discovering semi-fused Five Elements attributes and a strong rejection of Yin Release.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi collected samples from Toneri, replenished his strength with Natural Energy, and left him with the household puppets and a spatial coordinate.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi returned to the Divine Hall and sealed the Giant Yellow Tenseigan so no one else could drain it.

Uchiha Kiyoshi returned from the moon with the materials and knowledge needed to help Hyuga Ten awaken the Tenseigan, then began researching the Rinnegan. On the New Continent, the Martial Dao Sacred Land fought the Three Great Tribes, with Ancestor's overwhelming strength turning the tide and inspiring Shin to develop his own fighting style.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi returned to Kiyoshi Island, reassured Rin and Hyuga Ten, and explained that the moon's Otsutsuki survivors had been reduced to a dying elder and a three-year-old child.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi told Hyuga Ten to train until he reached peak Kage Level before attempting to awaken the Tenseigan, and encouraged Rin to keep working toward Foundation Establishment.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi returned to his training grounds and began researching the conditions for awakening the Rinnegan.
• The Martial Dao Sacred Land and the Three Great Tribes assembled their armies and began fighting on the New Continent's Pilgrimage Road.
• Ancestor suppressed multiple priest-level opponents while the High Priest and the others fought the remaining experts, bolstering the Martial Dao army's morale.
• Shin imitated one of Ancestor's punches, found his own conviction and technique in the fight, and grew stronger as he battled.

Shin and the Martial Dao Sacred Land turned the battle against the Three Great Tribes into a victory, allowing Ancestor to unify the continent and establish the Warrior Kingdom. The gods investigated the sudden loss of faith, and Shinigami descended through the Onmyoji before Ancestor struck him down.

• Shin and other Martial Artists broke through during the battle, while Ancestor also advanced and shattered the Three Great Tribes’ Shikigami.
• The Three Great Tribes surrendered after Ancestor killed three Priest Level experts and crippled two, ending the hour-long war in the Martial Dao Sacred Land’s victory.
• Ancestor declared the continent unified as the Warrior Kingdom, and tribes across the continent joined it within three days.
• The gods in the Pure Land noticed that much of their faith had disappeared, so Shinigami chose to investigate Heritage Continent by descending through the Onmyoji.
• Shinigami appeared before Ancestor and demanded that the Onmyoji’s status remain unchanged, but Ancestor attacked and dispersed his avatar with one punch.

Uchiha Kiyoshi learned that the Shinigami had been killed by the Martial Ancestor after descending into the living world, and decided to focus on building the Warrior Kingdom and training his companions. He accepted Uzumaki Ryo as his disciple, while the Shinigami's anger over the Martial Ancestor's interference remained unresolved.

• The Shinigami roared about the Martial Ancestor in the Pure Land, and the gods learned that he had been killed after interfering in the living world.
• The Sage of Six Paths suspected that the white-robed figure on the island was the Martial Ancestor but could not investigate further.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi learned what had happened, judged that the Shinigami posed no immediate threat, and planned to cut off the Pure Land gods' faith once he learned how.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi reviewed Hyuga Ten and Rin's training and considered teaching Hyuga Ten the Martial Dao after he could cultivate without bodily assistance.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi accepted Uzumaki Ryo as his disciple, and Doseki began guiding him at the Immortal Dao Sacred Land.

After nine months of reforms to the Warrior Kingdom, Rin and Hyuga Ten left Kiyoshi Island with Uchiha Kiyoshi’s permission and set out toward Konoha. Uchiha Kiyoshi sent them off to follow their own paths and returned to cultivating his Great Golden Core.

• Ancestor established a Federal System for the Warrior Kingdom, dividing it into nine regions governed by the Sacred Land and setting up roads, academies, and oversight.
• Rin completed her Ice Release transformation, reached Kage Level, and improved her Substitution Body Flicker Technique enough to leave Kiyoshi Island.
• Hyuga Ten’s Byakugan grew purer and began fusing the Five Elements, while Uchiha Kiyoshi covered him with Sealing Formulas and a powerful Isolation Barrier to contain the Caged Bird.
• Rin and Hyuga Ten disguised themselves, left Kiyoshi Island, and decided to visit Konoha, where Rin hoped to see Minato-sensei, Kakashi, and Obito.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi considered his disciples’ tutelage complete and returned to the cultivation room to refine the Great Golden Core in his Sea of Consciousness.

Uchiha Kiyoshi studied Rules in the Pure Land while the gods plotted against the Martial Ancestor and Hui rejected Minato Namikaze’s request to become a ninja instructor. Hui reflected on how the altered fate of the Ninja World had affected Naruto and Sasuke, then went out to enjoy Konoha’s more pleasant side.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi used his Eternal Mangekyo and Rule Power to observe and meditate on Rules inside his Isolation Barrier.
• The Shinigami reassured the other gods that they needed to wait for an opportunity to defeat the Martial Ancestor, and vowed to make him pay for his punch.
• Minato Namikaze tried to persuade Hui to become an instructor, but Hui refused and teased him about Jiraiya’s secret mission outside the bathhouse.
• Kushina arrived while Minato Namikaze was explaining himself, and Hui considered how the changed fate of the Ninja World might have delayed Naruto’s and Sasuke’s births.
• Hui left the Hokage’s office, told Minato Namikaze to stop assigning him work, and went to enjoy food in Konoha.

Uchiha Kiyoshi decided to replace Chakra with refined Natural Energy as Qi for his Core Formation path and focused on researching its Yin-Yang fusion. After Sasuke’s birth, Hui confirmed the baby was Indra’s reincarnation, while the Third and Danzo prepared a plot targeting Minato and sought the location where the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki would give birth.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi concluded that Chakra could not properly bridge Essence and Spirit, and chose refined Natural Energy as Qi instead.
• Uchiha Kiyoshi put aside his study of Rules to concentrate on researching how to fuse the Yin and Yang portions of Natural Energy.
• Mikoto gave birth, and Hui visited the Uchiha Clan to confirm that newborn Sasuke was Indra’s reincarnation.
• The Third and Danzo discussed their plan to kill Minato Namikaze, with the Third struggling over the decision.
• Danzo told the Third to discover where the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki would give birth, regardless of the cost.

Black Zetsu seized Kushina during Naruto’s birth and used Madara’s Sharingan power to unleash the Nine-Tails on Konoha. As Hui and the village’s strongest fighters confronted the beast, a sudden Wood Release attack targeted Nawaki.

• Minato sensed Black Zetsu attacking Biwako at Kushina’s hidden delivery site, but Black Zetsu abducted Kushina after Minato rescued newborn Naruto.
• Black Zetsu controlled the Nine-Tails with Madara’s Sharingan, and the beast rampaged through Konoha as villagers fled and ninja organized an evacuation.
• Hyuga Ten left Rin to search the Hyuga Clan for records about the Caged Bird while Hui’s clone appeared nearby.
• Hui, the Sannin, and Nawaki rushed to confront the Nine-Tails, and Hui and Nawaki used Great Waterfall techniques to flood the battlefield.
• Hui, Jiraiya, and Tsunade summoned their contracted beasts, while Hui formed a gigantic Water Release construct around himself.
• Wood Release vines burst from beneath Nawaki and tried to bind him.

Nawaki exposed Danzo as an Impure World Reincarnation user with Hashirama Cells, while Hui and the others fought to contain the Nine-Tails. The Third Hokage joined the battle against Hui, revealing Super Kage-level strength and leaving the battlefield divided among three fights.

• Nawaki used Water Release to repel a black-clad ninja, and Tsunade recognized Hashirama Cells in the intruder.
• Hui and Nawaki damaged the intruder and knocked off his mask, revealing Danzo in an Impure World Reincarnation body.
• Minato joined the fight against Danzo, while Hui and the Sannin kept the Nine-Tails from destroying the village.
• The Third Hokage attacked Hui with Five Elements Great Barrage and declared that Hui had to be eliminated.
• Hui recognized that the Third's transplanted Hashirama Cells had restored his body and given him Super Kage-level combat power.
• The battlefield split into the Sannin against the Nine-Tails, Minato against Danzo, and Hui against the Third, who attacked Hui relentlessly.

Hui, Fugaku, and Rin joined forces to defeat the Third Hokage after exposing the weakness of his transplanted Hashirama Cells. With Third dead, Minato seized the chance to injure and seal Danzo, while Fugaku went to assist the others against the Nine-Tails.

• Hui evaded Third's attacks, then used Water Release to injure and throw him aside.
• Hui called Fugaku into the fight, and Fugaku used kunai, Amaterasu, and Genjutsu to attack Third.
• Rin revealed herself in disguise, trapped and injured Third with Ice Release, then severed his Chakra pathways with a Chakra Scalpel.
• Hui and Rin continued attacking until Hui pierced Third's heart, causing the Hashirama Cells to overwhelm him and kill him.
• Fugaku left to support Jiraiya and the others against the Nine-Tails, while Minato exploited Third's death to injure and seal Danzo.

Hui and the others stopped the Nine-Tails rampage, and Minato Namikaze sealed it inside Naruto. Rin replenished Kushina’s Life Force and disappeared, leaving Minato Namikaze unable to recognize his former student.

• Uchiha Fugaku used his Mangekyō Sharingan to contest Black Zetsu’s control of the Nine-Tails while Hui searched for Black Zetsu.
• Hui trapped Black Zetsu with Water Release and severed the part of his body containing the Sharingan, but Black Zetsu escaped underground.
• With Black Zetsu’s control weakened, Uchiha Fugaku subdued the Nine-Tails, and Minato Namikaze brought Naruto to become its Jinchuriki.
• Minato Namikaze sealed the Nine-Tails inside Naruto with the Eight Trigrams Sealing, while Kushina lay near death from the seal’s destruction and backlash.
• Rin used Natural Energy to restore Kushina’s Life Force, then said farewell to Minato Namikaze and vanished.

After the Nine-Tails attack was stopped and Kushina was saved, Minato comforted the survivors and began addressing the damage while questioning the Third Hokage’s betrayal. Hui returned to the Uchiha compound with Fugaku, and the next day Konoha began rebuilding and purging those involved in the Third’s schemes, while Nawaki left to search for Kiyoshi.

• Kushina woke up alive and learned that a member of the Immortal Organization had saved her and that the Third Hokage had masterminded the crisis.
• Minato thanked Fugaku for helping subdue the Nine-Tails, reassured the Uchiha Clan, and spent the night organizing Konoha’s recovery.
• Hui told Fugaku that the Shadow might be their clan’s ancestor and said he wanted the Sharingan the Shadow had used.
• Tsunade tried to stop Nawaki from leaving to find Kiyoshi, but Nawaki slipped away and left her a letter explaining his reasons.
• Konoha began reconstruction and a purge of those implicated in the Third Hokage’s research and plots.

Konoha purged corrupt factions after the war, and Hui expected the Immortal Organization to eventually gain influence over the village through Minato Namikaze. Meanwhile, Nawaki got lost on his way to the organization, while Rin and Hyuga Ten set out after Ten brought back Hyuga records that could help counter the Caged Bird’s control methods.

• Konoha arrested people connected to Danzo and the Third, weakening the Sarutobi Clan while clearing the way for the village’s recovery.
• Hui reflected that the Immortal Organization could eventually take control of Konoha because Minato owed it a favor and the village owed it for intervening during the Nine-Tails Rampage.
• Nawaki wandered through Deadwood Forest, emerged beside an ocean instead of the expected desert, and found the Fire Temple while trying to work out where he was.
• Rin waited five days for Hyuga Ten, who explained that he had copied Hyuga records and inheritance scrolls that could help research a way to overcome the Caged Bird’s control methods.
• Rin and Hyuga Ten began traveling to the Immortal Organization as Hui had instructed.

Uchiha Kiyoshi developed a stable new energy he called Qi and began preparing to study and cultivate it. Elsewhere, Hui investigated the Sharingan’s path to evolution, Nawaki inherited Wood Release and Senjutsu at the Fire Temple, and Rin and Hyuga Ten took up mentoring duties at the Immortal Organization.

• Uchiha Kiyoshi constructed a stable energy from Yin and Yang Natural Energy and Chakra, named it Qi, and planned to convert part of his body’s energy to study its properties.
• Doseki entered seclusion to undergo partial conversion to Qi, while Rin and Hyuga Ten arrived at the Immortal Organization and began mentoring Uzumaki Ryo in the Nourishing Origin Art.
• Hui confirmed that Uchiha Madara’s contingency within the Sharingan had controlled the Nine-Tails, then decided that the eyes needed to connect to a Rule to evolve further.
• Nawaki awakened at the Fire Temple and learned that he had inherited Senjutsu and Wood Release through the temple’s Sage Clan Talent.
• Nawaki left the Fire Temple and continued south toward the Immortal Organization.

Nawaki’s acquisition of the Fire Temple legacy drew the attention of powerful beings in the Pure Land, while Uchiha Kiyoshi developed a method to evolve Three Tomoe Sharingan into Mangekyo by exposing them to Rule Power. The new Mangekyo succeeded, and Kiyoshi began considering how to create and strengthen Sharingan artificially.

• Nawaki inherited the Fire Temple legacy, alerting the Buddhist Path expert and the Sage of Six Paths in the Pure Land.
• Nawaki traveled from Fire Temple but veered south into the Forest of Death.
• Hui used Rule Power and Natural Energy to evolve Three Tomoe Sharingan into Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Hui concluded that comprehending Rules could make Mangekyo evolution easier, while gaining the Rinnegan likely required sacrificing Rules.
• Hui considered using Yin-Yang Release to create artificial Sharingan that could be strengthened to withstand Rule Power.