Chapter Summaries

Second Pillar and Shikamaru Nara used vehicle cards to plan ways to transform the world, and Konoha launched its first train to carry grain across the ninja world. After a cabinet meeting addressed Konoha’s expanding projects and political maneuvering, Tobi privately told Second Pillar that the One-Tail had been reborn.

• Second Pillar showed Shikamaru Nara cards depicting modern vehicles, and Shikamaru argued that engineering machines could give civilians power like ninjutsu before calling the cards an entire civilization.
• Nine months later, Kankuro’s railway carried its first train from Tanzaku Town toward Wind Country, with Chiriku and monks powering its locomotive through a Chakra furnace.
• Second Pillar’s plan left the daimyo seats vacant through a series of deaths and kept the Land of Fire and Wind Country daimyo families under his control; Kisame Hoshigaki carried out assassinations for Konoha Anbu.
• At a cabinet meeting, Second Pillar pressed for investment from the Exchange Office and faster oil research, while Neji Hyuga reported progress training ninja in Sage Clan Talent and Deceitful Monkey Kitsu shared news of an earthquake at Ryūchi Cave possibly linked to Orochimaru.
• After the meeting, Second Pillar chose to speak with Naruto before meeting Tobi, who then privately reported that the One-Tail had been reborn.

Obito challenged Second Pillar to prove his commitment to the Eye of the Moon Plan by joining the operation to capture the One-Tail in the Land of Frost. After taking Naruto’s advice about his feelings for Hinata and traveling to the mission site with Temari and Team Ten, Second Pillar reported finding something interesting in the plains.

• Obito confronted Second Pillar over his focus on trains and economic development, then demanded that Konoha take part in capturing the One-Tail.
• Second Pillar drove Naruto around Konoha in an awkward prototype car and discussed Naruto’s feelings for Hinata and his concern about Sakura.
• Second Pillar left Naruto to pay for their ramen and drove back to the Hokage Building.
• Second Pillar, Temari, Shikamaru, Ino, and Choji assembled in the Land of Frost to capture the One-Tail.
• Second Pillar returned from scouting and told the group he had found something interesting.

Second Pillar planned to capture the One-Tail Shukaku and weaken Kumogakure, while Yugito Nii’s team attacked the beast in the Land of Frost. After the team restrained and struck Shukaku, a mysterious man appeared on its head and greeted it.

• Omoi worried that Kumogakure’s attempt to capture Shukaku could provoke war, but Yugito Nii ordered the team to focus on its mission.
• Second Pillar told his allies to eliminate Kumogakure’s team and explained that taking Shukaku would weaken the village and reduce its willingness to fight.
• Shukaku erupted from underground and attacked Yugito Nii, who evaded its air cannons with Matatabi’s help.
• Yugito Nii, Darui, Omoi, and Karui combined their abilities to restrain Shukaku and strike it with Cat Fireball.
• A mysterious beautiful man appeared atop Shukaku and greeted the beast, startling Omoi and Yugito Nii.

Second Pillar captured Yugito Nii and subdued Shukaku while the Cloud Hidden Village squad suffered heavy losses. As he prepared to finish the mission, an Azure Dragon emerged beneath Shukaku and seized it.

• Second Pillar used the Sharingan to control Shukaku and direct it against the Cloud Hidden Village ninjas.
• Yugito Nii transformed into the Two Tails and fired a Tailed Beast Ball, striking Shukaku and breaking its hold on the squad.
• Darui attacked Second Pillar with black lightning, but Shukaku blocked the attack and Second Pillar killed Darui with the Kusanagi Sword.
• Second Pillar trapped Yugito Nii in a genjutsu and subdued Matatabi, while Karui and Omoi fled in separate directions.
• An Azure Dragon burst from beneath the plain and lunged to seize Shukaku.

Second Pillar confronted Jirobo and Tayuya at Ryūchi Cave, where they offered Shukaku and proposed that Orochimaru reopen secret communications with him. After they departed, Second Pillar found the wounded Choji beside Karui’s body and took him to seek treatment.

• Jirobo, riding an Azure Dragon in Sage Mode, challenged Second Pillar and declared that Otogakure would take Shukaku.
• Second Pillar blocked Jirobo’s Earth Dragon Bullet and overpowered him, but Tayuya arrived on a Red Dragon and stopped the fight with her flute.
• Tayuya apologized, explained that Orochimaru had sent them for Shukaku, and offered it to Konoha while proposing secret talks between Orochimaru and Second Pillar.
• Second Pillar declined an alliance but agreed that a secret channel could remain open after Tayuya mentioned Sai and Orochimaru’s past correspondence methods.
• Second Pillar found Choji wounded beside the dead Karui; Choji questioned whether their actions had prevented a greater war, and Second Pillar helped him up to take him to Ino.

Shikamaru admitted that he had deliberately let Omoi escape to provoke a war against Kumogakure for revenge, but Sasuke gave him the chance to kill Omoi and reconsider his course. Back in the Land of Fire, the Leaf Ninja extracted the Two Tails’ chakra while Sasuke ordered Obito to investigate Ryūchi Cave, and Kakashi began to suspect Tobi’s identity.

• Omoi fled toward the Land of Lightning but was captured again and brought before Shikamaru and Sasuke in the Land of Frost.
• Shikamaru confessed that he had let Omoi go because he wanted Kumogakure to burn in war for killing his father, Shikaku.
• Sasuke handed Shikamaru a sword and told him to kill Omoi before they discussed the matter again, reminding him that Shikaku had tried to delay war.
• Obito learned that Sasuke had captured the Two Tails Jinchuriki, bringing four Tailed Beasts under his control, and received orders to investigate Ryūchi Cave.
• At the Demonic Statue beneath Kikyo Mountain, Sasuke and the Leaf Ninja extracted Yugito Nii’s chakra while Kakuzu, Neji, Jiraiya, and Tobi assisted.
• After Tobi accidentally referred to Pain as his boss, Kakashi quietly asked him whether he really did not know Obito Uchiha.

Sasuke inspected the newly formed Byakugan Corps and named it the Leaf’s Eye before receiving a Refinement technique from the system. When he tried to refine Black Zetsu, a hostile force attacked his mind, and a crash from his bedroom drew Naruto to the door.

• Tobi complained to Kakashi that he was being harassed, while Kakashi pressed him about Obito; Sasuke left them with Kakuzu.
• Sasuke and Uchiha Wind inspected the Byakugan Corps as its young members demonstrated their skills, and Sasuke named them the Leaf’s Eye.
• Sasuke opened a Rank A scroll and gained the Refinement technique, which permanently increased his physical attributes when he refined a High-Quality Soldier Pill.
• Sasuke considered using Refinement on Black Zetsu and began refining the black slime sealed in a bottle.
• Black Zetsu’s power assaulted Sasuke’s mind with a black tide and painful memories, and a crash from Sasuke’s room prompted Naruto to approach and knock on the door.

Sasuke fell unconscious while refining Black Zetsu, then woke after three days and received a powerful new inheritance. As he recovered in the hospital, the system rewarded him with an Otsutsuki physique and an S-Rank scroll that awakened the Rinnegan.

• Naruto broke down Sasuke’s locked bedroom door and found him unconscious beside an empty glass tube.
• Tsunade diagnosed Sasuke with a soul attack, while Konoha suspected the visiting Cloud Hidden Village delegation but found no clear evidence against them.
• After three days, Sasuke woke in the hospital, where Tsunade ordered him to rest and avoid training or battle.
• The system announced that Sasuke had refined Black Zetsu and gained a physique that could perfectly accommodate every Kekkei Genkai.
• Sasuke opened the completed S-Rank scroll and awakened the Rinnegan.

Second Pillar recovered, began refining Nagato’s Rinnegan, and received Obito’s report that Orochimaru had taken control of Ryūchi Cave. He then summoned Shikamaru and ordered him to bring Nara clan members, including his mother, to a meeting with the Cloud Hidden Village delegation, leaving Shikamaru fearing his family was being targeted.

• Second Pillar left Konoha Hospital, retrieved Pain’s Rinnegan, and began refining it, learning the process would take 1,200 hours.
• Obito complained about his work in Konoha, then reported that Orochimaru had invaded Ryūchi Cave and claimed its inheritance.
• Second Pillar ordered Obito to focus White Zetsu’s intelligence gathering on Orochimaru and monitor his movements.
• Second Pillar asked Shikamaru to attend a meeting with the Cloud Hidden Village delegation and bring several Nara clan elites, including Aunt Yoshino.
• Shikamaru feared Second Pillar meant to frame or punish his family, but Second Pillar told him it was only a meeting.

During a live-broadcast negotiation, Second Pillar and the Nara clan confronted Dodai’s Kumogakure delegation over the missing Two Tails Jinchuriki, the One-Tail, and the death of Shikaku. The talks escalated into violence, and Shikamaru attacked as the chapter ended.

• Shikamaru Nara announced that the negotiations would be broadcast live as Dodai accused Konoha of involvement in the deaths of Darui’s squad and the disappearance of Yugito.
• Dodai argued that the squad’s mission to capture One-Tail Shukaku and the evidence from the Land of Frost pointed to the holder of the One-Tail as the culprit, while Second Pillar condemned Kumogakure’s actions.
• Dodai offered to stop pursuing the other deaths if Konoha returned the Two Tails Jinchuriki, but Shikamaru denied that Konoha had ever seen the squad or Yugito and refused to disclose state secrets or Second Pillar’s itinerary.
• After Dodai protested Nara Enshui’s insult, Second Pillar slapped him and threatened to kill the Kumogakure delegation; a Cloud ninja’s attempt to leave was stopped.
• Yoshino Nara entered and recalled Shikaku’s death in Kumogakure, prompting Shikamaru to accuse the village of torturing his father to death and attack with Shadow Sewing Technique: Black Spider Lily.

Sasuke and Shikamaru’s group killed Atsui and the other Kumogakure mission members, with Yoshino personally avenging Shikaku by killing Atsui. Sasuke then directed Shikamaru to shape the footage into propaganda and prepare for a wider war, leaving Shikamaru questioning whether Sasuke followed the kingly way, tyranny, or deception.

• Shikamaru bound the Kumogakure ninja while Dodai shielded himself and several companions with a rubber sphere, and Atsui threatened Konoha with invasion and plunder.
• Sasuke broke through Dodai’s defense, restrained Atsui, and allowed Yoshino to take the kunai and kill him in the name of Shikaku’s family.
• Sasuke defeated Dodai and ordered the remaining captives killed, marking the start of renewed warfare between Konoha and Cloud Hidden Village.
• Sasuke questioned cameraman Kitano Takeshi and recruited him to edit the footage into propaganda, assigning Shikamaru to oversee the work.
• Sasuke told Shikamaru to control the war’s public narrative, prepare for a fight to the death, and find reasons beyond revenge to unite support against Cloud Hidden Village.
• Shikamaru contrasted Sasuke’s restraint and ambitions with his deceptive methods, then asked whether Sasuke stood by the kingly way, tyranny, or deception.

Second Pillar used a carefully edited television broadcast to portray Konoha as peaceful and Kumogakure as the aggressor, leaving Raikae humiliated and unsure how to respond. After Orochimaru offered to mediate, Raikae rejected peace talks and vowed that Kumogakure would not bargain away its ninja’s lives.

• Second Pillar explained to Shikamaru Nara that his goal was lasting peace and equality, and told him to complete his assigned task while he handled what came next.
• Shikamaru Nara’s missed check-in and a television broadcast alerted Raikae to Kumogakure’s failed mission and showed edited footage that blamed the Cloud Hidden Village Mission for the violence.
• The broadcast presented Second Pillar as a principled defender of peace, declared the mission annihilated, and demanded a public apology from Kumogakure.
• Raikae watched the broadcast in furious humiliation, then dismissed his people and sat alone after Konoha’s portrayal of events left him unsure how to respond.
• Mabui delivered Orochimaru’s offer to mediate between Kumogakure and Konoha, but Raikae dismissed Orochimaru as unreliable.
• Raikae declared that Kumogakure could not negotiate peace because it would not use the lives of its ninja as bargaining chips.

Second Pillar rejected Orochimaru’s offer to destroy the Land of Lightning and instead summoned its Daimyo to pressure him into joining the alliance. After broadcasting the Daimyo’s torture as propaganda, Second Pillar and Obito waited in Cloud Gorge for the Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, who finally arrived together.

• Second Pillar burned Orochimaru’s invitation to invade the Land of Lightning and reflected on the prosperity created by the Wind Fire Alliance and Orochimaru’s radical rule in Huize.
• Second Pillar transported the Land of Lightning Daimyo, Lei Men Zhengze, to the Land of Frost and urged him to accept the changing order, but Lei Men refused.
• Second Pillar ordered Kisame Hoshigaki to sever Lei Men’s fingers while Kitano Takeshi and Shikamaru Nara filmed the scene for a broadcast challenging Raikage Ay to meet them in Cloud Gorge.
• Second Pillar and Obito waited in Cloud Gorge and discussed whether Raikage Ay might abandon the Daimyo or negotiate with Konoha.
• Second Pillar sensed the arrivals, and two powerful figures carrying a massive orange bottle entered the gorge.

Sasuke sent Obito Uchiha to confront the Raikae brothers and their Amber Purifying Pot while he watched from the mountain. Obito revealed his intangibility and fought the brothers, who used a feigned injury to lure him on as the chapter ended with Obito beginning to explain their goal.

• Sasuke remembered online warnings about the Amber Purifying Pot and pushed Obito off the mountain to investigate it.
• Obito reached for the pot, but the Raikae brothers' attacks passed through him, and he introduced himself as Madara Uchiha.
• Obito tried to use Kamui on Killer B, but Fourth Raikae's lightning-fast attack forced him to turn intangible; Obito then kicked the pot away without breaking it.
• Fourth Raikae and Killer B deduced that Obito became intangible to avoid attacks and tangible when striking, then fought him together.
• Obito tricked Fourth Raikae into hitting Killer B, who landed beside the pot and knocked open its lid; the brothers feigned distress as Fourth Raikae demanded to know Obito's goal.
• Obito began to answer, while Fourth Raikae secretly waited for the trap to take effect.

Second Pillar defeated the Fourth Raikae and Killer B in Cloud Gorge, revealing a pair of Rinnegan and trapping them with Planetary Devastation. As he and Obito prepared to leave, the stone spheres holding the brothers burst apart, and the Eight-Tails roared free.

• Obito Uchiha attacked the Raikae Brothers with Fire Style, but Killer B and the Fourth Raikae survived the assault.
• Second Pillar ordered Obito to stop playing around, and Obito took the Amber Purifying Pot before vanishing with it.
• Second Pillar admitted killing Omoi and Karui, then restrained Killer B with Dodai's Lava Release: Rubber Ball.
• The Fourth Raikae and Killer B charged Second Pillar with Double Lariat, but he revealed his Rinnegan and captured them both with Planetary Devastation.
• Second Pillar told Obito to retrieve the Eight-Tails, then urged him to reconsider his conflict with Kakashi.
• The stone spheres holding the Fourth Raikae and Killer B exploded, and the Eight-Tails roared from within Cloud Gorge.

Second Pillar defeated the Fourth Raikage and withstood the Eight-Tails’ attacks, revealing his Rinnegan’s ability to absorb ninjutsu and summoning an armored Susanoo. As his fight with Killer B and Gyuki continued, Shikamaru learned that Sunagakure had suffered an unspecified crisis.

• The Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails combined their strength to launch a powerful attack at Obito Uchiha.
• Kisame Hoshigaki and Shikamaru Nara’s group killed the Land of Lightning’s daimyo and defeated the Cloud Hidden Village ninja, including Samui and Shi.
• Ino Yamanaka arrived and told Shikamaru Nara that something had happened to Sunagakure.
• Second Pillar killed the Fourth Raikage, then broke free of Gyuki’s tentacles and survived its spinning attack.
• Killer B and Gyuki fired a Tailed Beast Ball, but Second Pillar absorbed it with his Rinnegan and formed an armored Susanoo.
• Second Pillar’s Susanoo struck Gyuki with Yasaka Magatama and drew the Lightning Fire Halberd.

Second Pillar defeated the Eight-Tails and reflected on his plan to unify the Shinobi World as he returned to the Land of Frost. After learning of a growing threat to Sunagakure, he arrived at the Daimyo's Residence, where Ino Yamanaka joined him in the bath and kissed him.

• Second Pillar struck down the Eight-Tails, and Obito Uchiha went to check on the unconscious Killer B.
• Second Pillar considered his strategy for conquering the Land of Lightning and creating stability through unification.
• Ino Yamanaka told Shikamaru Nara that Kakashi had sent Leaf Ninja to the Wind Country border in response to the Land of Earth's military buildup.
• Shikamaru Nara deduced that the Fourth Raikage was dead and asked his comrades to let Second Pillar rest before informing Lord Hokage about Sunagakure.
• Ino Yamanaka visited Second Pillar in the bathhouse, attended to him, and kissed him.

Sasuke and Ino grew closer after she confessed that she wanted him to be happier, while the Wind Restoration brought Konoha to the brink of war with the Land of Earth. Sasuke proposed yielding the Land of Lightning to Orochimaru and ordered Neji and Kimimaro recalled for a risky mission to test Orochimaru’s strength; later, he returned home to Ino.

• Ino refused to leave Sasuke alone in the cold bath, confessed her love and concern for him, and spent the night with him.
• Ōnoki instigated the Wind Restoration, installed the Wind Country’s daimyo in West County, and sent Rock Hidden Village forces into the country as Konoha warned against the move.
• At a cabinet meeting, Deceitful Monkey Kitsu urged an alliance with Orochimaru, while Shikamaru Nara warned that it would undermine Konoha’s support.
• Sasuke argued that Orochimaru wanted the Land of Lightning and proposed giving it up to avoid a two-front war, while using the handover to assess Orochimaru’s combat strength.
• Sasuke ordered Neji and Kimimaro recalled so he could discuss the dangerous mission with them personally.
• Sasuke returned to his apartment, where Ino greeted him and he hinted that he was hungry for more than dinner.

Sasuke and Ino’s relationship became public before war erupted, as Iwagakure invaded Sunagakure and clashed with Konoha’s forces. While Granny Chiyo hid beside the river with the Small Wood Amulet, it began glowing dark red, suggesting it was awakening.

• Sasuke carried Ino to the bedroom, and later Ino said she should move back because her waist hurt; Sasuke apologized.
• Sasuke openly shared photographs of himself and Ino, and their relationship drew widespread attention and public support.
• On June 21, Sasuke sent Naruto to Sunagakure and assigned Kakashi to accompany him as Iwagakure launched a two-pronged attack.
• Iwagakure devastated Sunagakure, while Naruto and Kakashi defeated and captured Rōshi and Han.
• Kurotsuchi and Kitsuchi’s forces nearly wiped out Konoha’s troops in a battle that left Asuma maimed and Guy exhausted.
• Granny Chiyo refused to flee with Ebizo, hid beside the river with the Small Wood Amulet, and watched it begin to glow dark red as the invasion reached the area.

Granny Chiyo became a Human Puppet after the pendant absorbed the deaths of thousands, creating a multitude of red-haired puppets instead of reviving Sasori of the Red Sands. As the world’s conflicts escalated, Second Pillar dispatched Neji and Kimimaro toward the eastern front, then learned Sunagakure was under attack by Iwagakure.

• Granny Chiyo recalled how blood had once made the wooden pendant glow and watched it absorb energy from the battlefield’s dead.
• The pendant revealed the secrets of Human Puppets, and Granny Chiyo transformed into one as Sasori of the Red Sands failed to revive; countless red-haired Human Puppets rose from the corpses.
• Ōnoki ordered a full-scale assault on Wind Country, Orochimaru sent spies into the Land of Lightning, and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path opened its fifth eye after the Eight-Tails was sealed.
• Second Pillar assigned Neji and Kimimaro to the eastern front, instructed them to prioritize intelligence and flee if Orochimaru appeared, and told them not to win against an invading enemy force.
• Namiashi Raidō delivered reports that Iwagakure troops had crossed into Wind Country and that Sunagakure was under attack by a raiding force suspected of including a Jinchuriki.