Chapter Summaries

Mu Yu withstood Might Guy’s Seventh Gate attack without a scratch, leaving Konoha’s forces convinced that only Guy’s final technique might stop him. As Guy prepared to use the Eight Inner Gates Formation, Mu Yu summoned Kanemoto and introduced himself as a swordsman, ready to face him.

• Might Guy used the Seventh Gate’s Daytime Tiger after Shikaku Nara briefly restrained Mu Yu with the Shadow Imitation Technique.
• Mu Yu released an overwhelming aura that left Shikaku, Inoichi Yamanaka, and the other Konoha ninjas unable to think for an instant.
• Daytime Tiger devastated the battlefield, but Mu Yu emerged without even a disheveled outfit, shocking Guy and the Konoha forces.
• Shikaku realized Guy intended to use the Eight Inner Gates Formation, despite its certain cost to Guy’s life.
• Mu Yu summoned Kanemoto, introduced himself as Mu Yu the swordsman, and invited Guy to teach him.

Might Guy opened the Eighth Gate and fought Mu Yu, but Mu Yu split Guy’s devastating attacks with his sword and revealed overwhelming power. The battle continued with Guy attacking at extreme speed, while Mu Yu’s latest ability left the Konoha ninja wondering whether he was human.

• Might Guy opened the Gate of Death, knowing it would cost him his life, while Rock Lee, Tenten, and Neji Hyuga watched in grief.
• Might Guy struck Mu Yu with [Evening Elephant], but Mu Yu’s sword technique, “Cutting Down,” split the attack apart.
• Might Guy moved at extreme speed through a cloud of smoke and kicked Mu Yu from behind with [One Kick].
• Mu Yu summoned the phantom image of God City Aincrad and slashed the shockwave from Guy’s kick back at him.
• Mu Yu’s sword aura split a dark cloud and carved a vast chasm into the landscape, leaving the watching Konoha ninja and Might Guy stunned by his power.

Mu Yu fought Might Guy as Guy unleashed Night Guy, then used a Senzu Bean to revive him after surviving the attack uninjured. Mu Yu revealed he had not come to attack Konoha but only wanted a calm talk, leaving Konoha’s ninja relieved yet shaken by the battle’s cost.

• Might Guy gathered his remaining strength and attacked Mu Yu with Night Guy, devastating the surrounding battlefield.
• Mu Yu emerged from the clash without visible injuries, while Might Guy collapsed near death and Konoha’s ninja lost their will to fight.
• Mu Yu fed Might Guy a Senzu Bean using gravity, and Guy recovered consciousness despite having opened the Gate of Death.
• Might Guy asked who Mu Yu was, and Mu Yu introduced himself as a swordsman and Tree Planter.
• Shikaku Nara realized Mu Yu had never intended to attack Konoha, and Mu Yu confirmed he had only wanted a calm talk.

Mu Yu entered Konoha after demonstrating overwhelming strength and winning the ninjas’ respect, then asked to trade a Senzu Bean for Chakra cultivation methods. The great clans eagerly offered techniques and scrolls, leaving Mu Yu poised to gain access to Konoha’s knowledge while Shikaku Nara worried about the village’s unstable leadership.

• Might Guy and Rock Lee reunited tearfully, while Konoha’s ninjas relaxed after Mu Yu showed no resentment over their earlier attack.
• Shikaku Nara explained Pain’s invasion and Konoha’s recent losses as the group escorted Mu Yu through the village’s reconstruction.
• The heads of Konoha’s major clans welcomed Mu Yu and competed to invite him to their homes, while Shikaku Nara feared internal turmoil with Tsunade unconscious and Danzō away.
• Mu Yu asked Shikaku Nara to exchange a Senzu Bean for a Chakra cultivation method, surprising the clan heads with how little he demanded.
• The clan heads offered secret Chakra techniques and ninjutsu scrolls, and Mu Yu’s exchange with Konoha ended on friendly terms.

Mu Yu stayed at a Hyuga villa and used Konoha’s Chakra extraction method, quickly developing Chakra to the peak of the Kage level. His cultivation astonished Hyuga Hiashi, Neji, and Hinata, while Konoha’s clan leaders concealed the truth about his abilities and analyzed the Senzu Beans he had traded.

• Mu Yu moved into a Hyuga Clan villa and began studying Chakra while Konoha’s clan leaders concealed the details of his forest battle from outsiders and most of their own members.
• The major clan heads gave Mu Yu Chakra extraction methods and ninjutsu scrolls in exchange for Senzu Beans, hoping to win his favor and ensure their clans learned his methods first.
• Mu Yu cultivated Chakra for half a day, strengthening the connection between his body and spirit and reaching the peak of the Kage level.
• Hyuga Hiashi sensed Mu Yu’s pure, fresh-feeling Chakra leaking from the villa and was shocked that Mu Yu had reached such a level on his first attempt.
• Neji Hyuga and Hinata Hyuga sensed Mu Yu’s Chakra as well, while Hinata wondered what might happen if Naruto Uzumaki met him.

Mu Yu studied how Chakra could lead to greater power and planted a Chakra Divine Tree in God City. Its growth connected his other World Trees, expanded his authority, and revealed that the Naruto World’s Divine Tree could accelerate its growth.

• Mu Yu considered pursuing Chakra’s Nature Transformations, Six Paths powers, and Truth-Seeking Orbs, and speculated that he might possess every Chakra attribute.
• Mu Yu planted a Chakra Divine Tree in God City after becoming familiar with his newly refined Chakra.
• The Chakra Divine Tree connected with the Physique Tree, Soul Tree, Divine Tree 'Hidden World', and Haki Tree, causing them to glow and undergo a transformation.
• The system told Mu Yu that he could let authorized virtual bodies leave God City for three days, with a thirty-day cooldown.
• The system detected a Divine Tree in the Naruto World that shared the Chakra Divine Tree’s origin and recommended that Mu Yu seize and fuse it.

Mu Yu experimented with Chakra and ninjutsu using the materials Konoha and the Hyuga Clan had provided. When he accidentally unleashed massive Wood Release, Konoha's ninja began speculating about his origins, and news spread through the village's leadership.

• Mu Yu practiced the Clone and Transformation Techniques, then tested the basic ninjutsu in Konoha's materials.
• Mu Yu successfully used Water Style, Earth Style, and Fire Style, then confirmed he possessed all five Chakra natures.
• Mu Yu combined Water Style and Earth Style, causing trees to grow wildly and devastate the Hyuga Clan's courtyard.
• Hyuga Hiashi and the ninja who arrived were stunned by Mu Yu's Wood Release and wondered whether he was connected to the Senju Clan.
• Konoha's upper ranks learned about Mu Yu and his Wood Release, shaking the village.

After Mu Yu’s Wood Release stunned Konoha, its senior officials gave Tsunade a Senzu Bean to restore her health and draw her closer to him. Tsunade recovered and became interested in the mysterious man said to have inherited her grandfather’s Wood Release, while Danzo remained away at the Five Kage Summit.

• Mu Yu’s powerful Wood Release transformed the Hyuga estate into a forest and shocked Konoha’s residents and senior officials.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura proposed giving Tsunade a Senzu Bean and using her to build ties with Mu Yu.
• Shizune fed the Senzu Bean to Tsunade, who regained her health in less than half a minute.
• Tsunade learned that Mu Yu possessed her grandfather’s Wood Release and became interested in him.
• Konoha’s officials celebrated Tsunade’s recovery while Danzo attended the Five Kage Summit as Hokage.

Tsunade studied Mu Yu’s extraordinary record and accepted that Konoha needed her help recruiting him, while Mu Yu taught the Hyuga Clan Water Breathing and transformed Neji’s training. The chapter ended with Hyuga Hiashi asking Mu Yu to take Hanabi as his disciple.

• Tsunade learned that Danzo had claimed the Hokage title while she was comatose, then reviewed Mu Yu’s astonishing feats and agreed she had to try to recruit him for Konoha.
• Mu Yu offered the Hyuga Clan Water Breathing in return for their hospitality, and Neji quickly grasped its basics.
• The Hyuga Clan witnessed Neji achieve Full Concentration Breathing and deal four times his usual damage with the Eight Trigrams Palms.
• Hyuga Hiashi brought Hanabi to Mu Yu and asked him to accept her as his disciple, leaving Mu Yu stunned.

Hyuga Hiashi arranged for Hanabi to become Mu Yu’s disciple, prompting Tsunade to seek an alliance with the powerful visitor. Tsunade traded access to Konoha’s Scroll of Seals and family research for Mu Yu’s promise to act on Konoha’s behalf once.

• Hyuga Hiashi offered Hanabi as Mu Yu’s disciple, and the Hyuga Clan announced an apprenticeship banquet that stirred Konoha’s clans.
• Tsunade reflected on Konoha’s dependence on Mu Yu and Naruto’s growing strength, then decided to approach Mu Yu with valuable techniques and research.
• Tsunade sent Mu Yu a meeting request, and Mu Yu accepted while secretly monitoring Konoha’s leadership through Observation Haki.
• At their meeting above Hokage Rock, Tsunade offered research and legacies from Hashirama, Tobirama, and Mito in exchange for a favor.
• Mu Yu demanded access to Konoha’s Scroll of Seals and promised to act for Konoha once; Tsunade accepted the deal.

Mu Yu completed his deal with Tsunade, giving Konoha one chance to call on him in exchange for Wood Release notes and the Scroll of Seals. He planned to leave after staying in Konoha a few more days, and Tsunade defended the agreement when Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu challenged her.

• Mu Yu gave Tsunade a Hell Butterfly as the means to contact him when Konoha used its one chance to request his help.
• Tsunade accepted that Mu Yu would leave Konoha, but he promised to stay for a few more days and said he would later visit with his wife.
• Tsunade returned to the Hokage's office, where Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu confronted her about trading Wood Release secrets and the Scroll of Seals for Mu Yu's help once.
• Tsunade told the two elders that she was the Hokage and ordered them to stop telling her how to do her job.

Mu Yu devoted himself to studying Wood Release and the Scroll of Seals while rumors of his battle with Might Guy spread through the ninja world. At the Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron, Black Zetsu’s report about Mu Yu unsettled Obito and Sasuke, and Obito ordered him to keep monitoring the newcomer.

• Mu Yu focused on researching Wood Release and the ninjutsu in the Scroll of Seals.
• News of Mu Yu’s battle with Might Guy leaked from Konoha despite the village’s efforts to suppress it.
• Obito Uchiha and Sasuke Uchiha arrived in the Land of Iron, where Obito planned to declare war on the Five Great Nations and Sasuke sought revenge on Shimura Danzō.
• Black Zetsu told Obito and Sasuke that Mu Yu had fought Might Guy, who opened the Eight Inner Gates, and that Mu Yu had apparently saved Guy afterward.
• Sasuke rejected the report as impossible, while Obito considered the threat and ordered Black Zetsu to keep monitoring Mu Yu.

At the Five Kage Summit, the leaders debated Akatsuki’s influence and the threat of Madara Uchiha while Shimura Danzō secretly tried to secure command of a Shinobi Allied Force. White Zetsu exposed Danzō’s scheme and revealed that Tsunade had awakened and Mu Yu had forced Konoha to make peace, leaving Konoha’s weakened standing exposed to the other villages.

• Ay accused Ōnoki of hiring Akatsuki, and Mei Terumī revealed that Akatsuki may have controlled Kirigakure’s Fourth Mizukage.
• Shimura Danzō identified Madara Uchiha as a possible Akatsuki leader, and Mifune proposed forming a Shinobi Allied Force under the Hokage’s command.
• Ao exposed Danzō’s use of Shisui Uchiha’s Sharingan to influence Mifune, turning the other Kage against Danzō.
• White Zetsu announced that Sasuke Uchiha had invaded, and Ay left with Kumogakure’s shinobi to track him down.
• A second White Zetsu revealed that Tsunade had awakened and that Mu Yu had beaten Konoha into making peace.
• Danzō killed White Zetsu, while the other villages viewed Konoha as weakened and began to regard Mu Yu as a major force.

Mu Yu studied the First Hokage’s Wood Release notes and practiced until he could create vast numbers of Wood Clones and perform techniques without hand signs. As he refined Wood Release, he sensed changes in his body that might let him pass the Kekkei Genkai to descendants, and resolved to strengthen it further.

• Mu Yu used Tobirama Senju’s annotations to understand the First Hokage’s Wood Release techniques and successfully created a Wood Style Clone.
• Mu Yu used Multiple Wood Clone Jutsu to fill the forest with clones, shocking Konoha’s ninja, Tsunade, and his disciple Hanabi Hyuga.
• Mu Yu practiced Wood Release techniques, including Wood Style: Wood Spiked Wall, Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence, and Wood Style: Wood Dragon Jutsu, until he no longer needed complicated hand signs.
• Mu Yu sensed that his stored energy and genes had changed through Wood Release and wondered whether his descendants could inherit the Kekkei Genkai.
• Mu Yu decided to further develop Wood Release by improving his Sage Art and Yang Release.

After Mu Yu restored the forest near Konoha, Black Zetsu feared his power and planned to use Obito to test him. Mu Yu taught Hanabi Haki and, inspired by her, gained a new understanding of the Will of Fire that stirred the Song of Destiny within him.

• Mu Yu's restored forest convinced Konoha's spies that he was a powerful ally who must not be provoked, while Tsunade captured many of them.
• Black Zetsu narrowly avoided revealing himself to Mu Yu, then decided to persuade Obito to test him and undermine his reputation.
• Mu Yu formally taught Hanabi Haki by implanting a Haki Seed, allowing her to gain an initial grasp of it without using Chakra.
• Hanabi's purity led Mu Yu to reconsider the Will of Fire and respect those who practiced it through good deeds and sacrifice.
• The Song of Destiny showed Mu Yu the Singer God Clan's history, and Hanabi later noticed that his Chakra felt warmer than before.

Mu Yu’s relaxed outing with Hanabi softened Konoha’s fear of him, while Tsunade received news that Danzo had been killed and Madara Uchiha had declared war on the Five Great Nations. At the Akatsuki base, Obito learned that Black Zetsu feared Mu Yu and decided to confront him only after Sasuke awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

• Mu Yu and Hanabi ate ramen at Ichiraku, and their enjoyment helped ease the villagers’ wariness toward Mu Yu.
• Tsunade heard that Sasuke had killed Danzo at the Five Kage Summit and that Madara Uchiha had declared war on the Five Great Nations.
• Tsunade ordered Konoha’s jonin to assemble for a meeting as the village prepared for war.
• Obito returned to the Akatsuki base with Sasuke and persuaded him to undergo a transplant of Itachi’s Sharingan.
• Black Zetsu reported that Mu Yu posed a potentially deadly threat, prompting Obito to plan a test with Sasuke after Sasuke awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.

Sasuke received Itachi’s eyes and awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, then agreed to help Obito investigate Mu Yu, whom Obito suspected was Hashirama Senju. Meanwhile, Kakashi Team returned to Konoha and learned of Mu Yu’s power, while Naruto went to visit him on his own.

• Sasuke regained his sight after the transplant and awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, gaining enough power to use Perfect Susanoo with ease.
• Obito warned Sasuke that Mu Yu could obstruct his revenge and claimed he suspected Mu Yu was Hashirama Senju.
• Sasuke rejected Obito’s attempt to provoke him but agreed to confront the powerful Mu Yu, and he and Obito headed toward Konoha.
• Kakashi Team returned to Konoha, learned that Might Guy had failed to defeat Mu Yu, and reacted with shock.
• Naruto suggested visiting Lord Mu Ye to ask for help bringing Sasuke back, then left using a Shadow Clone while Kakashi was warning him to show respect.

Naruto sought out Mu Yu for advice on bringing Sasuke back, and their first meeting began with Naruto startled by Mu Yu’s overwhelming presence. They ended up trading insults, leaving the watching Konoha ninjas terrified by Naruto’s familiarity with Mu Yu.

• Naruto searched Konoha for Mu Yu while brooding over his failed attempt to bring Sasuke back and Sasuke’s threat to destroy the village.
• Naruto entered Sage Mode and detected Mu Yu’s Chakra, but Mu Yu sensed the tracking and spoke directly into Naruto’s mind.
• Naruto explained that he wanted advice on bringing Sasuke back, and Mu Yu agreed to meet him.
• Mu Yu teleported beside Naruto, startling him into falling over, then laughed at his awkward reaction.
• Naruto scolded Mu Yu for appearing suddenly, and the two traded insults as nearby ninjas watched in alarm.

Mu Yu encouraged Naruto not to give up on bringing Sasuke back, then challenged him to a spar to show that he needed the strength to defeat Sasuke. After Mu Yu overwhelmed him with copied techniques, Naruto vanished, apparently reverse-summoned to Mount Myōboku, leaving Mu Yu curious about the Great Toad Sage’s prophecy.

• Naruto asked Mu Yu how he could bring Sasuke back, and Mu Yu urged him to hold to his resolve and never give up.
• Naruto questioned how Mu Yu knew about his conversation with Itachi, but reaffirmed that he would keep trying to bring Sasuke back.
• Mu Yu told Naruto he needed to be able to defeat Sasuke and challenged him to a spar.
• Mu Yu matched Naruto’s Shadow Clones with Wood Clones, copied his Rasenshuriken and Sage Mode, and left Naruto battered and drained.
• Naruto disappeared in a puff of smoke, and Mu Yu concluded that he had been reverse-summoned to Mount Myōboku.

Naruto visited Mount Myōboku, where the Great Toad Sage gave him the Fourth Hokage’s seal key and warned that his prophecy had changed to show a mysterious tree devouring another tree. While Naruto was away, Sasuke Uchiha and Obito Uchiha infiltrated Konoha and attacked Mu Yu’s residence.

• Naruto greeted the Great Toad Sage, who prophesied that Naruto would encounter an octopus and later fight a boy whose eyes housed power.
• The Great Toad Sage told Toad Guts to enter Naruto’s body and give him the Fourth Hokage’s seal key, which could unlock the Nine-Tails’ power.
• The Great Toad Sage said his dream had changed: instead of an octopus helping Naruto master power, Naruto would encounter a gigantic tree that devoured another great tree.
• The Great Toad Sage warned Naruto that the world’s winds were changing, then fell asleep, and Naruto was reverse-summoned back from Mount Myōboku.
• Sasuke Uchiha and Obito Uchiha infiltrated Konoha in Akatsuki cloaks and launched a surprise attack on Mu Yu’s residence.