Chapter Summaries

Sasuke rejected Orochimaru’s peace offer with humiliating demands, prompting Orochimaru to prepare for a final confrontation. After completing the refinement of Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan and gaining Amaterasu, Sasuke faced Obito, who returned still committed to the Eye of the Moon Plan.

• Sasuke considered proposals to cooperate with Orochimaru or eliminate him, then decided the alliance should refuse reconciliation and demand his submission.
• Jirobo read Konoha’s reply, which demanded the Three-Tails, made Viper Marsh a subordinate state, and required Orochimaru to treat Sasuke as his adoptive father.
• Orochimaru erupted in anger at the demands and declared that he and Sasuke would settle everything once and for all.
• Sasuke and Ino joked about his humiliating reply to Orochimaru, and Ino asked whether he wanted a child of his own.
• Sasuke completed refining Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan, gained Amaterasu, and met Obito, who returned to discuss the coming battle while remaining committed to the Eye of the Moon Plan.

Second Pillar infiltrated Orochimaru’s stronghold in Huize Country, where he fought through Orochimaru’s escape methods and destroyed a hidden laboratory. Orochimaru revealed that he had more bases and called in his allies as the confrontation escalated.

• Second Pillar used the Sharingan to put Tayuya to sleep, then ordered her troops to disable the port’s barriers and jamming equipment and open the port.
• Second Pillar confronted Orochimaru at the palace and attacked him with Fleeting Splendor, but Orochimaru escaped by shedding his body into white snakes and emerging anew from an underground chamber.
• Second Pillar followed Orochimaru into the laboratory, memorized the Cursed Seal runes on a display, and escaped its self-destruct blast with Susanoo.
• Orochimaru taunted Second Pillar by revealing that he had more hidden bases, and Second Pillar declared that Huize Country could no longer have a peaceful outcome.
• Kidomaru and Jugo joined Orochimaru, and Jirobo transformed into a massive Azure Dragon and attacked Second Pillar’s Susanoo.

Sasuke overwhelmed Jirobo, Jugo, and Kidomaru, but their Sage Arts and the Three-Tails Isobu forced him to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. As Orochimaru transformed and attacked the statue, Sasuke began capturing Isobu while the allied forces located Sora, the false Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Jirobo used Sage Art Earth Release Hall of Nothingness to weaken Sasuke's Susanoo, while Jugo and Kidomaru joined the attack.
• Kakashi Hatake and Might Guy cleared Huize Country's military harbor, while Shikamaru Nara's team located Sora and Obito Uchiha teleported him away.
• Sasuke destroyed his Susanoo to withstand the trio's combined assault, leaving Jirobo injured and revealing Jugo as Isobu.
• Sasuke summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which stopped Isobu and began binding it with iron chains.
• Orochimaru transformed into a silver dragon and used Sage Art White Passion Technique to overwhelm Sasuke, who countered with Secret Technique Sun Eclipse and Wind Style: Vacuum Great Sphere.
• As the statue dragged Isobu into the air, Orochimaru struck it with Senjutsu: Ten Thousand Snakes Reincarnation.

Second Pillar and Naruto led a devastating assault that killed Orochimaru and his forces, but the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path returned with its eighth eye open and Obito Uchiha fed the dying Sora into its mouth. Second Pillar ordered the shinobi to gather on the battleship deck to watch the moon, leaving Naruto and the others facing a new, unexplained event.

• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path absorbed Isobu as Orochimaru awakened Cursed Seal powers in Jirobo, Kidomaru, and hundreds of thousands of Huize Country ninjas.
• Second Pillar ordered the battleship forces into action, and hundreds of fighter jets swept across Huize Country, slaughtering the advancing shinobi.
• Naruto attacked Orochimaru with Sage Art: Super Big Ball Spiraling Multi-Rounds, and Orochimaru, Jirobo, and the others died in the blast.
• After Naruto asked to go home, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path reappeared with its eighth eye open, carrying Obito Uchiha and the unconscious gray-haired youth Sora.
• Obito Uchiha threw the dying Sora into the statue's mouth, and Second Pillar ordered Shikamaru Nara to have all shinobi gather on the deck to admire the moon.

After the Shinobi World was unified, Shikamaru lived in a peaceful dream where his family and friends were happy, until Shikaku revealed it was an illusion. Sasuke’s Infinite Tsukuyomi had trapped the world, but he told Obito that the dream would last less than two weeks before the God Tree drained its victims.

• Shikamaru celebrated the victory with the shinobi and returned home to find his father resurrected and his family reunited.
• Shikamaru enjoyed a prosperous life with his loved ones, but he noticed that the world seemed to grant his wishes and that nobody aged or died.
• Shikaku told Shikamaru that everything before him was an illusion, and the dream shattered, leaving Shikamaru, Temari, and Yoshino amid Konoha’s ruins.
• Sasuke froze time and revealed that he had cast Infinite Tsukuyomi after absorbing the God Tree and awakening the Rinne Sharingan.
• Sasuke left Obito unsealed so they could speak, then explained that the dream would end in less than two weeks as the God Tree drained its victims.
• Obito accepted that the dream was temporary and said he wanted only Rin.

Sasuke killed Obito, ended Infinite Tsukuyomi, and established a unified world with a system of Heaven and Purgatory. As the System prepared to shut down, it offered him the chance to abandon his present life and return to the Chunin Exams, leaving Sasuke facing a countdown and a momentous choice.

• Sasuke killed Obito after rejecting his pleas, then created a Red Ogre-filled Purgatory at Yanyu Pass and announced that people could earn a return to an ideal Heaven after death.
• Sasuke lifted Infinite Tsukuyomi, and the world awoke; Yoshino asked Shikamaru whether she could return to the dream world, and he nodded.
• Sasuke governed the unified Shinobi World, arranging for selected people to enter Heaven and convicted criminals to be sent to Purgatory.
• The System announced its permanent shutdown, and Sasuke posted a farewell message that drew replies from the netizens.
• The System listed Sasuke’s achievements and gave him an S-Rank Scroll containing the power to return to the past, offering to take him back to the day he first met Ino during the Chunin Exams.
• Sasuke sat up beside Ino as a thirty-second countdown began, forcing him to choose whether to leave his present life behind.

Snowy Night Adds Light reflected on completing his first novel, discussed his choices and challenges in writing Naruto fanfiction centered on Sasuke, and thanked readers for their support. He planned to travel and hoped to begin a new book after the New Year.

• Snowy Night Adds Light celebrated finishing his first full-length novel and thanked the readers who had supported it.
• Snowy Night Adds Light described how Mystical Realm Walker, Raising Humanity, and Naruto influenced his writing, especially Naruto’s emotional pacing and fight design.
• Snowy Night Adds Light explained why he chose Naruto fanfiction and why Sasuke was difficult to write as a protagonist, with Uchiha Itachi looming over Sasuke’s motivations.
• Snowy Night Adds Light compared writing web novels to competing in sports, assessed his rookie-year progress, and thanked readers for buying the book.
• Snowy Night Adds Light said he needed to travel to collect money and estimated that his next book might appear after the New Year.