Chapter Summaries

Rimuru left the Land of Wind after defeating Konoha’s forces and led Kirigakure’s army into the Land of Lightning, swiftly capturing its southeastern region and Kumogakure. Two days later, the furious Raikage confronted Rimuru and demanded to know what he wanted.

• Granny Chiyo and the Kazekage ordered the Sand Shinobi to extinguish the fires and help Konoha’s wounded, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo withdrew with their surviving forces.
• Rimuru traveled through the Shadow Realm to the Far Eastern sea, where the Third Mizukage had gathered nearly nine thousand Kirigakure ninjas.
• Rimuru enhanced the army, froze the sea, and led his troops into the Land of Lightning, taking towns and villages as they advanced.
• The Raikage learned that Kirigakure had declared war and occupied the southeastern Land of Lightning, then hurried back toward Kumogakure.
• Rimuru’s force captured Kumogakure and took control of the village while the Raikage was away.
• Two days later, the Raikage shattered Rimuru’s icy barrier and confronted him, demanding to know what he wanted.

Rimuru held Kumogakure hostage with an enormous meteor while demanding answers about his disciple’s death, and the Third Raikage offered to let his mind be investigated to prove his village’s innocence. The Third Mizukage told Rimuru that his strength let him protect both his companions and his village, unlike Kage forced to choose.

• Rimuru revealed that he had trapped thousands of Kumogakure civilians and ninja in the region and that his forces had intercepted the Raikage’s hidden Anbu squad.
• The Third Raikage charged Rimuru, but Rimuru caught his lightning-wreathed fist and blasted him into a mountain with a Magic Cannon.
• Rimuru used Chibaku Tensei to form a meteor over Kumogakure and threatened to destroy the village, then an entire great nation, unless the killer of Ito Rei was found.
• The Third Raikage asked whether Rimuru had determined if Kumogakure or the Earth Shinobi Village was responsible, and Rimuru admitted he had no proof but demanded Kumogakure prove its innocence.
• The Third Raikage offered to let Rimuru’s ninja investigate his mind, despite protests from his assistant, Bee, and Blue B.
• Rimuru wondered whether he deserved to be called a Kage, and the Third Mizukage reassured him that he had the strength to protect both his companions and his village.

Rimuru demanded that the Third Raikage surrender either the Daimyo or a Tailed Beast, but when the Raikage offered the Two-Tails, Rimuru ordered Kumogakure destroyed. The Raikage attacked in fury as the fighting began, while Rimuru's allies moved to seize the Eight-Tails and protect Kirigakure's ninja.

• Rimuru offered to end the confrontation if the Raikage handed over the Daimyo or a Tailed Beast, and the Raikage chose to give him the Two-Tails.
• Rimuru ordered the attack, and his meteor flattened Kumogakure and buried its buildings beneath the shattered mountains.
• The enraged Third Raikage charged Rimuru with Hell Stab: Four Finger Spear Hand, but Rimuru survived, threw him down, and declared that he wanted both the Tailed Beast and the Daimyo dead.
• Ye Xiaoqian sought the Eight-Tails while Bee and Blue B joined the battle, and Yuki Onna redirected her toward Blue B.
• Yuki Onna engaged Bee as Snow Woman gave Kirigakure's ninja Frost Armor and sent them to fight.

Rimuru subdued the Eight-Tails and held the Raikage at bay while the Third Mizukage urged him to stop attacking. Rimuru explained that he had spared Kumogakure’s civilians and destroyed the village to keep it out of the coming war, then recalled his vow to gain the strength to do as he pleased.

• A Cloud Ninja squad withdrew after witnessing Rimuru’s power, while one member decided to pursue his own dream of leading a harem team.
• Zhang Yutong detected that seven Cloud Ninja had left, and Rimuru’s group discussed locating the remaining enemy teams.
• Rimuru used Wood Release to bind the Raikage, then used his Sharingan genjutsu to subdue Blue B and the Eight-Tails before storing the beast.
• The Third Mizukage reflected on Rimuru’s nature and asked him to spare the remaining enemies once his goal was achieved.
• Rimuru told the Third Mizukage that he had spared all civilians and destroyed Kumogakure to prevent it from joining the coming war against them.
• Rimuru reminded the Third Mizukage that he had once said he wanted enough strength to do whatever he pleased.

Rimuru accepted the Third Mizukage’s request to spare the Raikage and Kumogakure’s surviving shinobi, but declared that he would follow his own path as a Demon Lord from the Void. After departing for the Earth Shinobi Village, he left the Raikage vowing revenge and began wishing he had a more impressive way to travel with his army.

• The Third Mizukage warned Rimuru that his desire to act freely required him to uphold his own principles and not descend into madness.
• Rimuru spared the Raikage and the remaining Kumogakure shinobi because the Third Mizukage asked him, while insisting that he still did not care about their fate.
• Rimuru declared that he would shape the world to his will, and his companions recognized that he had chosen a path of his own.
• Yutong sent reconnaissance drones to locate the fallen and surviving Kirigakure shinobi, while Rimuru waited for his forces to regroup and withdraw.
• Rimuru told the Raikage he was heading to the Earth Shinobi Village, and the Raikage reluctantly moved aside as the army passed.
• The Raikage ordered contact with Konoha's Naruto and Sunagakure's Kazekage, while Rimuru complained to Zhang Yutong and Ye Xiaoqian that he lacked a stylish way to travel.

Rimuru used Zhang Yutong’s hacking abilities to investigate the battlefield in the Land of Frost where Ito Rei died. He began rewinding a reconstructed version of the scene, leaving Zhang Yutong strained as the group watched for clues.

• Rimuru added finding a mount to his plans and learned that the group would reach the Land of Frost by the following evening.
• Rimuru took control of the Land of Frost’s Daimyo Estate and led his group to the abandoned battlefield south of the country.
• Great Sage explained that Zhang Yutong’s information-reading and intrusion abilities could help uncover traces at the site, so Rimuru connected to her and took control of her permissions.
• Rimuru used Zhang Yutong’s abilities to turn the surrounding area into an information space, where Great Sage identified an Earth Release technique among the battlefield traces.
• Rimuru reconstructed the battlefield inside a domain and began rewinding the scene at dozens of times its normal speed, while Zhang Yutong struggled with the strain.

Rimuru watched Yutong restore the events leading to Ito Rei’s death and learned that the Tsuchikage’s forces had killed his senior sister after she resisted capture. He chose to retaliate against the Land of Earth, and his group reached its border while Rimuru reconsidered how useful the Tailed Beasts would be to his growing power.

• Rimuru and Yutong rewound the scene to reveal Ito Rei wounded among the bodies of an Iwagakure squad, then watched the Tsuchikage and his Anbu capture and kill her.
• Rimuru explained that Ito Rei had been an orphan from Iwagakure who considered herself from Kirigakure, while Yutong and Ye Xiaoqian suggested she had resisted to protect intelligence and pledged to support Rimuru.
• Rimuru ordered Kihara Tsumiki to prepare a war against the Land of Earth, authorizing iron-blooded measures, while the group decided to handle Iwagakure themselves and let panic spread before attacking.
• Rimuru’s group collected the Seven Tails while traveling through the Land of Waterfall, bringing his tally to five Tailed Beasts and leaving only the One-Tail and Nine Tails unaccounted for.
• Rimuru concluded that absorbing more Tailed Beasts would offer diminishing returns and planned to devour Kaguya instead; he and his companions reached the border of the Land of Earth after half a day of travel.

Rimuru entered the Land of Earth and used the Underground Exchange to arrange attacks on Iwagakure’s outposts, while a chance encounter with starving refugees led him to reconsider how food could shape the war. He left a little refugee girl with a gift from the Land of Water and declared that the Land of Earth would soon cease to exist.

• The Tsuchikage learned of the threat posed by Rimuru and prepared Iwagakure to defend itself with patrols and ambushes.
• Rimuru and Ye Xiaoqian’s group entered an Underground Exchange, where Rimuru paid its operators to locate and clear Iwagakure’s ninja outposts.
• Rimuru explained that he had killed a relief squad after its members surrounded him, then gave food to a hungry war orphan and watched her share it with other refugees.
• Rimuru recognized the girl’s resemblance to his late senior sister and said children could be influenced in ways adults could not.
• Rimuru told the girl the food was a gift from the Land of Water, erased the Land of Earth’s emblem, and declared that the Land of Earth would soon be no more.

Rimuru’s forces isolated Iwagakure and spread rumors while Ye Xiaoqian hunted its ninja and confronted the Tsuchikage. Rimuru planned to force the Tsuchikage to submit, then ruin his reputation and make him suffer for the death of his senior sister.

• Xiaoyu told the Land of Fire team that rumors about Iwagakure’s failures were spreading, and the captain discussed calling a Three Kage Summit.
• Ye Xiaoqian killed the six Anbu squads the Tsuchikage sent through secret passages and trapped him near Iwagakure.
• Ye Xiaoqian used her shadow abilities and long-range rifle to kill the Tsuchikage’s Anbu and terrify him, while warning that Rimuru had forbidden her from killing him.
• Rimuru explained that he had cut off Iwagakure’s routes and supplies to pressure the Tsuchikage into admitting guilt and bowing to him.
• Rimuru vowed to make the Tsuchikage hated by the people he had saved and to ensure he died in misery.

Ōnoki kept Iwagakure’s forces inside the village rather than risk confronting Rimuru’s forces, while Rimuru prepared to provoke the village further by making its Tailed Beasts go berserk. At the Daimyo Estate, the Fire Country’s agents realized Rimuru had likely seized control of the Tsuchikage’s and Earth daimyo’s communications, leaving the next stage of his plan underway.

• Kitsuchi brought Ōnoki intelligence that the Earth daimyo’s estate had gone silent and that Mist infiltrators might be inside Iwagakure, but Ōnoki refused to send troops and ordered the Anbu not to attack the infiltrators.
• Ōnoki explained to Kitsuchi that Iwagakure could not defeat the Water Country’s forces and needed to stay in the village while other Kage and daimyo considered their response.
• Rimuru and his companions noticed that Iwagakure’s watchers had withdrawn, so Rimuru proposed making the Tailed Beasts go berserk to further damage Ōnoki’s standing with the villagers.
• Rimuru used his Sharingan to locate Roshi and Han as they trained inside Iwagakure.
• Xiaoyu told the captain that the Earth daimyo and Ōnoki had not replied to their messages, while the Wind and Lightning daimyo had received assurances from the Earth daimyo that he needed no aid.
• The captain concluded that Rimuru had manipulated the communications to make Ōnoki wait for expected support rather than break out, intending to destroy the village’s resolve.

Rimuru captured Roshi and used him to trigger a devastating Tailed Beast rampage in Iwagakure, making Ōnoki confront the destruction and the village’s treatment of its Jinchuriki. As Rimuru and his companions watched the village burn, Ye Xiaoqian revealed she knew about a drink Brent had bought her.

• Rimuru entered Roshi’s home and offered him a place serving Kirigakure, but Roshi attacked with Lava Release and Rimuru trapped him in a genjutsu.
• Ōnoki learned that Roshi was heading toward the village center, rushed to confront Rimuru, and destroyed Rimuru’s Water Clone with Dust Release.
• Rimuru’s plan unleashed Roshi and Sun Wukong, whose volcanic attack devastated much of Iwagakure as Ōnoki tried to save villagers and suppress the magma.
• Rimuru, Ye Xiaoqian, and Yuki Onna watched the destruction and discussed revenge while the yokai spread fear and despair.
• Ye Xiaoqian asked Rimuru for alcohol and mentioned the Rainbow Delight from their first meeting, leaving Rimuru startled because Brent had bought it for her.

Rimuru toasted with his companions before returning to Iwagakure, where he demanded that Ōnoki surrender Ito Rei’s body in exchange for mercy. He threatened to kill one person every minute until dawn if Ōnoki refused.

• Rimuru, Ye Xiaoqian, Zhang Yutong, Yuki Onna, Snow Woman, and Kihara Tsumiki toasted to themselves and their future team, Sprout.
• Kihara Tsumiki told Rimuru that Iwagakure’s suppression of Sun Wukong was going smoothly and that negotiations with the Land of Earth would be announced the next day.
• Rimuru ordered Kihara Tsumiki to kill the daimyo and planned to use Kyōka Suigetsu to make the Daimyo Estate believe he was still alive.
• Rimuru and his companions went to the ruined Iwagakure and met Ōnoki, who had suppressed Sun Wukong.
• Rimuru demanded that Ōnoki hand over Ito Rei’s body, presenting an envoy authorization scroll as proof that she had been a legitimate Kirigakure envoy.
• Rimuru had Ye Xiaoqian kill an Anbu and threatened to kill one person per minute until dawn unless Ōnoki surrendered Ito Rei’s body.

Rimuru forced Ōnoki to return Ito Rei’s preserved head, then left Iwagakure after warning him and hinting at his plans for the tailed beasts. In the aftermath, rumors tied Ōnoki to Ito Rei’s death and the stalled peace talks, leaving him isolated and afraid of Rimuru’s influence.

• Rimuru threatened Iwagakure and used an invisible force to kill Anbu who knew the truth, until Ōnoki ordered Kari to retrieve Ito Rei’s remains.
• Kari returned with Ito Rei’s preserved head in a glass container, and Rimuru took it despite its decay, saying he would find a way to revive her.
• Rimuru warned Ōnoki about the tailed beasts and departed with Ye Xiaoqian and the others.
• Rumors spread through Iwagakure that Ōnoki had defied the daimyo, opposed handing over the tailed beasts, and murdered Ito Rei, while peace talks with the Land of Water stalled.
• Kari told Ōnoki that Kirigakure had not blocked the route to the Daimyo Estate and that the elders had secretly contacted the daimyo; Ōnoki realized the rumors were turning the village against him.

Rimuru manipulated Kari into preparing to assassinate the Daimyo, then traveled with his companions to Konoha while the Three Kage Summit proceeded. They entered the prosperous village under genjutsu and prepared to explore, with Rimuru warning them that powerful shinobi remained there.

• Kihara Tsumiki warned Rimuru that the Mist forces were advancing and the Tsuchikage might exploit the coming Allied Shinobi Forces to escape, so Rimuru decided to force a decision among the people of the Land of Earth.
• Rimuru used his Sharingan genjutsu to control Kari and instructed him to assassinate the Daimyo; Kihara Tsumiki gave Rimuru a device to alter Kari’s memories.
• Rimuru and Ye Xiaoqian discussed abilities from the Naruto World as the group crossed into the Land of Fire, while the Three Kage Summit drew attention and the other teams became wary.
• Rimuru and his companions reached Konoha, evaded its guards with genjutsu, and debated whether to seek Ichiraku Ramen, barbecue, or the Scroll of Sealing.
• Rimuru warned Ye Xiaoqian that the Three Sannin and Uzumaki Mito were still in Konoha as the group entered the bustling village.

Rimuru’s arrival in Konoha triggered an emergency gathering, and Tsunade attacked him over the deaths of Dan and Senju Nawaki. After Uzumaki Mito intervened, Rimuru explained his convictions and revealed that he had come for Konoha’s Scroll of Sealing.

• Ino-Shika-Cho recognized Rimuru at a barbecue restaurant, prompting Konoha’s elders to summon clan leaders and prepare for his arrival.
• Orochimaru warned that Tsunade might already know Rimuru was in Konoha, and the Nara Clan head sent someone to alert Koharu.
• Tsunade stormed into the restaurant and attacked Rimuru, collapsing the building as Jiraiya arrived.
• Uzumaki Mito stopped Tsunade and confronted Rimuru, who admitted killing Dan and Senju Nawaki and said their deaths had been a consequence of war.
• Rimuru defended his path in a conversation with Uzumaki Mito and stated that he had come to obtain Konoha’s Scroll of Sealing.

Rimuru demanded the Scroll of Sealing from Konoha, insisting he needed the Flying Thunder God Technique and Impure World Reincarnation to try to revive Ito Rei. When Konoha refused and prepared to fight, Uzumaki Mito trapped Rimuru with her Yin Seal, but he escaped the chakra disruption by switching to magic power.

• Uzumaki Mito refused Rimuru's demand for the Scroll of Sealing, but offered to hear his real terms to protect Konoha and its people.
• Rimuru revealed that he had killed Madara Uchiha and demanded the Flying Thunder God Technique and Impure World Reincarnation; he said he wanted the latter to revive Ito Rei.
• Orochimaru identified Impure World Reincarnation, prompting Uzumaki Mito to order Konoha to prepare for battle and evacuate the villagers.
• Rimuru's allies prepared to fight while Ye Xiaoqian infiltrated the Hokage Building and Root headquarters to search for the Scroll of Sealing.
• Tsunade charged at Rimuru, and Uzumaki Mito unleashed her accumulated chakra to bind him with the Yin Seal and disrupt chakra across the battlefield.
• Rimuru's water clone was destroyed, but he reformed and switched from chakra to magic power to overcome Uzumaki Mito's sealing technique.

Rimuru resisted Tsunade and Konoha’s forces while Ye Xiaoqian infiltrated Root and stole its hidden scrolls. Uzumaki Mito sent Tsunade to bring Kushina, revealing that she planned to risk her life to stop Rimuru.

• Yuki Onna used Hyakki Yagyō to hold back Konoha’s ninja while Rimuru’s Water Transformation let him withstand Tsunade’s attacks and Uzumaki Mito’s chakra restriction.
• Ye Xiaoqian infiltrated Root, killed the guards at Danzo’s hidden archive, and stole scrolls and shelves of secret techniques before fighting the Anbu who surrounded her.
• Tsunade repeatedly smashed Rimuru apart until she was exhausted, while Uzumaki Mito watched and considered how sealing techniques might counter his Water Transformation.
• Uzumaki Mito ordered Tsunade to bring Kushina, warning that the Nine Tails could emerge or fall into Rimuru’s hands.
• Tsunade left to fetch Kushina, and Rimuru told Yutong he had no intention of making the Nine Tails go berserk.
• Uzumaki Mito said Rimuru’s Water Transformation reminded her of immortal Netherlings and Sprites and concluded that she might be Konoha’s only chance to deal with him.

Rimuru survived Uzumaki Mito’s sacrifice and protected his companions from her final sealing technique, but Mito died and the Nine Tails was released. He used Madara Uchiha’s Sharingan to subdue the beast and announced that he would take it with him.

• Uzumaki Mito trapped Rimuru and his companions, then summoned the death god with the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, but she could not pull Rimuru’s powerful soul away.
• Uzumaki Mito revealed that she had also prepared the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique and died activating it to seal everything within the area.
• Rimuru protected Ye Xiaoqian and the others inside Avalon, while the sealing technique erased the surrounding area but failed to reach them.
• The Nine Tails burst free from Mito’s corpse, but Rimuru used Madara Uchiha’s Sharingan to place it under control.
• Rimuru told Fugaku Uchiha that the eyes were Madara Uchiha’s Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, then departed on the subdued Nine Tails, saying he would take it with him.

After Uzumaki Mito died defending Konoha and Rimuru took the Nine Tails, the Kage agreed to form an allied army and support Iwagakure amid growing political turmoil. Meanwhile, Rimuru and Yutong found the surveillance team at the Land of Fire Daimyo Estate, and Yutong recognized Xiaoyu as an old acquaintance and former would-be disciple.

• A Konoha ninja reported that Rimuru had invaded Konoha, Uzumaki Mito had fallen in battle, and the Nine Tails had been taken, prompting Hiruzen to commit Konoha to the Ninja Allied Army.
• The ninja revealed that Rimuru had sought a forbidden technique to revive Madara Uchiha and Ito Rei, while Danzo learned that Root had been destroyed.
• Mifune reported that the Land of Earth Daimyo had been assassinated by Kari and replaced by his eldest son, who called on the Land of Water to attack Iwagakure.
• Hiruzen urged the other countries to support Iwagakure and protect Shukaku as Rimuru's group continued deeper into the Land of Fire Daimyo Estate.
• Yutong detected the estate's surveillance network and identified its hacker, Xiaoyu, as a girl she and Ye Xiaoqian had once bullied and who had asked Yutong to take her as a disciple.

Rimuru’s team stormed the Daimyo Estate, recovered its traps, and unearthed the enemy squad’s secret bunker, forcing both teams into a confrontation. After the opposing captain assigned matchups, Rimuru proposed a peace treaty, but the discussion turned to Yutong’s supposed former disciple, Xiaoyu, who demanded a fight.

• Ye Xiaoqian stopped Rimuru from opening a mined door and, with Yutong’s help, recovered the landmines and other equipment.
• The opposing squad watched Ye Xiaoqian loot the estate and discussed how to counter Rimuru’s team.
• Rimuru used his control of the earth to lift the hidden underground room out of the ground, exposing the enemy squad.
• The opposing captain assigned each squad member an opponent and planned to fight Rimuru head-on.
• Rimuru offered a peace treaty, prompting Xiaoyu to ask whether Yutong had once accepted her as a disciple.
• Yutong denied accepting Xiaoyu, who angrily demanded that Rimuru beat Yutong and force her to withdraw.