Chapter Summaries

Itachi struggled to distinguish reality from an illusion while Ōnoki spiraled into theories that ancient clans had scripted the Shinobi World's history. Ōnoki rallied himself to defy fate and challenged Naruto over whether he intended to rule a devastated world.

• Itachi questioned whether his clansmen and Fugaku were truly dead as he watched a broadcast of Uchiha with Three Tomoe Sharingan.
• Ōnoki speculated that the Senju, Uchiha, Uzumaki, Hyuga, and Kaguya had concealed their strength and manipulated the Shinobi World's history.
• Ōnoki noticed Neji's altered appearance and wondered whether he possessed Kaguya blood and the Shikotsumyaku Kekkei Genkai.
• Ōnoki resolved to risk everything against the supposed destiny controlled by the ancient clans.
• Ōnoki asked Naruto whether he planned to rule a Shinobi World reduced to ruins, scorched earth, and billions of dead and wounded.

Naruto challenged the Four Kage’s claim that their ninja would obey orders to slaughter indiscriminately, arguing that he wanted to improve the world without forcibly unifying it. He then demanded that Raikage A move aside so he could deliver judgment on Killer B, warning that he would kill both of them if necessary.

• Naruto questioned Ōnoki’s belief that the Four Kage could command ninja to seek revenge, and Ōnoki struggled to defend his claim.
• Yagura Karatachi accused Konohagakure of driving the villages to desperation, but Naruto rejected treating any village or nation as a single-minded whole.
• Naruto said he wanted to force the world to improve, explaining that he lacked enough trustworthy administrators to govern it and welcomed people who defected from the villages.
• Naruto told the Kage that the people of the Land of Wind would choose progress over obstruction, and Rasa reacted furiously while looking at Gaara.
• Naruto told Raikage A to step aside before Killer B’s final judgment and warned that he would kill both Raikage A and Killer B if Raikage A intervened.

Naruto declared Three Chapters of Law and sentenced Killer B to death for murdering innocents, while granting the Eight-Tails the freedom to choose its future. As Naruto’s promise of a reckoning resonated with the hopes of past generations and Daren Yi’s benevolent intent, Killer B accepted the meaning of his death and lamented that he might have become a rapper in another life.

• Naruto pushed aside the grieving Raikage, freed Killer B from the sealing restriction on his speech, and asked him to admit his crime.
• Killer B admitted guilt and asked Naruto to release the Eight-Tails, which Naruto agreed to let choose its own future.
• Naruto told Killer B he represented the old shinobi world and announced laws against harming innocents, promising a future reckoning for every crime.
• Naruto’s oath resonated with Daren Yi’s benevolent intent and the hopes of generations of living beings, purifying that intent into a transcendent light.
• Killer B understood the meaning of his death, accepted it with joy, and said he might have pursued rap instead of becoming a shinobi.

Naruto executed Killer B during the public reckoning, while the Eight-Tails and the audience watched in fear. Daren Yi discussed Konohagakure’s hidden vices with Izumi Uchiha and admitted he would likely protect Uncle Imagawa if asked, leaving the judgment to Naruto.

• Naruto beheaded Killer B before the gathered crowd and the live broadcast audience.
• Konohagakure and Kumogakure sealing ninjas released the Eight-Tails Gyuki, which remained still as it sensed the many dangerous shinobi around it.
• Daren Yi told Izumi Uchiha that Konohagakure’s wealth and Hiruzen Sarutobi’s influence had helped dark businesses flourish in the village.
• Izumi asked whether Daren Yi would help Uncle Imagawa when he was investigated, and Daren admitted he would bend the law to show him leniency.
• Daren Yi said he left matters like this to Naruto and was satisfied with the results.

Daren Yi hid from Uncle Imagawa while planning to reward those who had helped him, then watched the Chunin Exam resume with Neji Hyuga matched against Kazunari Fukatsu. The chapter ended as Kazunari prepared to face the stronger Neji, grateful for his rare chance to stand before the world.

• Uncle Imagawa searched the stands for Daren Yi, who pretended to be invisible and told Izumi he would let the older man face prison if he could not ask for help directly.
• Daren Yi described plans to give the souls of his acquaintances prosperous lives in the Illusion World after death, and suggested that he and Izumi travel to the Land of Rain after filming their drama.
• The Chunin Exam resumed after the Five Kage stands were cleaned, Gyuki departed under Uchiha Anbu protection, and the organizers skipped the planned performance segment.
• The first match was announced as Neji Hyuga versus Amegakure Genin Kazunari Fukatsu, whom spectators expected Neji to defeat easily.
• Neji was surprised that Kazunari was twenty-one, while Kazunari explained his age and said he treasured the chance to fight a renowned genius on the world stage.

Neji faced Kazunari Fukatsu in the arena, where his overwhelming presence left his opponent unable to move. Rather than attack, Neji demonstrated a Gentle Fist-derived body-tempering art, and Kazunari began following his movements.

• Kakashi started the match and worried that Neji's transformed presence made him dangerous to referee.
• Kakashi told the broadcast audience that Neji's changed appearance came from the Byakugan developing further.
• Ōnoki suggested Neji's white hair resembled changes associated with the Kaguya Clan, unsettling the other Kage and making Yagura question his clan's fate.
• Neji saw Kazunari trembling and unable to move, then acknowledged him as a reminder of ordinary people with limits they could not overcome.
• After Daren Yi encouraged him from the audience, Neji smiled and began demonstrating a sequence of slow, simple movements.
• Kazunari unconsciously copied Neji's movements as the body-tempering art warmed his body and guided force through his muscles, organs, breathing, and meridians.

Neji demonstrated and explained the one hundred and eight movements of the Foundational Body-Tempering Chapter, revealing levels of force that built on the Hyuga Clan’s Gentle Fist. Hiashi realized the method could transform the clan’s combat strength and eagerly imagined its future.

• Neji demonstrated the Foundational Body-Tempering Chapter and described its Clear Force, Hidden Force, and Transformative Force realms.
• Neji explained that the method had been developed from his research in the Illusion World with Daren Yi’s help, and that Lord God had named and defined its realms.
• Hiashi was shocked that ordinary people could cultivate a simplified form of Gentle Fist and recognized the method’s connection to the Hyuga Clan’s secret technique, Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven.
• Hiashi concluded that Hyuga clansmen who mastered Transformative Force could greatly improve their Gentle Fist and combat ability, potentially reaching Jonin or Elite Jonin level.
• Hiashi imagined the Hyuga Clan becoming powerful enough to challenge a village and wondered what further realms might follow Transformative Force.

Neji demonstrated Gentle Fist: Transformative Force and announced that anyone could cultivate it, founding the Sacred Gate to help ordinary people break through their limits. After defeating Kazunari Fukatsu, he challenged Raikage A to join, and the chapter ended as Neji invited the other Kage and Jonin to fight him together.

• Neji taught the one hundred and eight movements, declared that persistent cultivation could let ordinary people refine Chakra, and announced the Sacred Gate’s rules and recruitment conditions.
• Spectators scrambled to record and share Neji’s demonstration while the Four Kage worried about the upheaval the secret art could cause.
• Neji used Transformative Force to blow Kazunari Fukatsu off the arena platform, winning the match and advancing to the next round.
• Neji invited Raikage A to join the Sacred Gate and offered a contract: A would join if he lost, while Kumogakure could deal with Neji if Neji lost.
• Raikage A accepted the challenge, and Shikaku Nara drafted a contract that A and Neji signed.
• Neji revealed his overwhelming Chakra and invited the other Kage and Jonin to join forces with A against him under the same terms.

Naruto denied that Konohagakure planned to kill the Raikage, while Neji challenged A with a living-seeming Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm. A counterattacked with a devastating hand blade, and Konohagakure’s barrier stopped it from reaching the spectators.

• Ōnoki asked Naruto whether Konohagakure intended to kill the Raikage and the Jinchuriki, and Naruto said Neji only wanted the Raikage to join the independent Sacred Gate.
• Karatachi Yagura considered sending someone to join the Sacred Gate for intelligence, while Neji saw that none of the Kage would accept his invitation.
• A ordered Samui and the other Kumogakure Jonin not to interfere, then faced Neji and called him a monster.
• Neji questioned the world’s order and struck at A with an Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm that adjusted to A’s movements.
• A activated Lightning Release Chakra Mode and unleashed a hand blade that sent a compressed-air slash toward the stands.
• Four Konohagakure Anbu Jonin raised the Four Violet Flames Array, blocking the slash and frightening the spectators.

Neji defeated Raikage A with a single Gentle Fist strike, then offered to teach him the Ascension Life Burn Gentle Fist Style. He announced that the Hyuga Clan planned to establish Sect Mode alongside Ninja Village Mode and invite members to cultivate the Sacred Gate’s supreme technique.

• Raikage A’s supersonic hand blade missed Neji and split the arena, but Neji’s Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm crushed A and sealed his Chakra points.
• Neji calmly declared that A had lost, while A struggled unsuccessfully to rise.
• A recalled the Ascension Life Burn Gentle Fist Style and asked if someone outside the Hyuga Clan could learn it.
• Neji offered to teach A and explained that mastering the Light-Dark Transformation Triple Force and Dan Force was required first.
• Neji told the Kage and Jonin that the Hyuga Clan intended to establish Sect Mode alongside Ninja Village Mode and that joining the Sacred Gate would not affect their village status.

Daren Yi sensed a desperate believer and showed Izumi Uchiha the abused Karin Uzumaki in Kusagakure. Karin’s prayers drew his attention, and his vast illusion continued to make the village’s shinobi mistake their own injuries for healing.

• Izumi Uchiha teased Daren Yi for inspiring Neji’s outrageous claims, and Daren Yi accepted that he was partly to blame.
• Daren Yi heard a believer chanting his sacred name and used their connected Mind Worlds to show Izumi Uchiha what was happening in the Land of Grass.
• Seven-year-old Karin Uzumaki prayed in fear while three Kusagakure shinobi treated her as a medical blood pack.
• Karin had prepared a decoy bed with poisoned liquid, which the first shinobi drank while believing he was biting her arm and healing his injury.
• The second shinobi bit the empty decoy and imagined his injury had healed, while Karin watched from the corner.
• Daren Yi’s illusion distorted Kusagakure’s perceptions, making its shinobi overlook their real injuries and forget anything that contradicted their false beliefs.

Karin used her newfound ability to make Kusagakure ninjas see her as air, causing them to believe they had been healed while her poisoned bites killed them. The chapter explains how Kusagakure exploited Karin and her mother, and leaves Karin hiding in terror as she continues killing the ninjas who come to her.

• The third Kusagakure ninja bit Karin's shoulder pouch, while the first ninja died unaware that his body was failing.
• The remaining ninjas argued with the unseen Karin and their dead companions until the third ninja also collapsed and died.
• Karin's mother had been exploited as a human medical blood pack until her life force ran out, leaving Karin to face the same fate.
• Kusagakure ninjas mocked Shamate, and Daren Yi marked them for punishment while Karin remembered their contempt.
• After Karin began praying in despair, others started seeing her as air and believing her bites had healed them.
• Karin watched wounded ninjas leave untreated or return to battle, and she continued hiding as her ability led them to their deaths.

Karin grew accustomed to her strange protection in Kusagakure, stole supplies, and watched Neji’s secret technique lesson while considering revenge for her mother. Daren Yi appeared in her mind and challenged her belief that only Kusagakure ninja were responsible for her mother’s death, leaving Karin to consider what she would do if ordinary people begged to drain her life force.

• Karin secretly wandered Kusagakure, stealing phones, computers, poisons, and weapons while people overlooked her and her actions.
• Karin recorded Neji’s lesson on the Threefold Strength of Light and Dark and hoped the technique would help her resist the Kusagakure ninja.
• Daren Yi spoke to Karin and offered her the role of the Sacred Gate’s Holy Maiden; Karin thanked him as the god who had protected her.
• Daren Yi asked why Karin planned to poison the Kusagakure ninja, and she said she wanted to avenge her mother, whom they had bitten to death.
• Daren Yi suggested poisoning Kusagakure’s water and argued that ordinary people might also have forced Karin’s mother to give up her life force; he asked what Karin would do if they begged her to save their loved ones.

Daren Yi appointed Karin the Sacred Gate’s Holy Maiden, and she began taking revenge on Kusagakure by repeatedly stabbing a surviving ninja. Meanwhile, Shikamaru defeated a Sunagakure contestant and challenged a Sunagakure Jonin on Lord Hokage’s orders.

• Daren Yi named Karin the Sacred Gate’s Holy Maiden and told her that her damaged foundation could shape her future cultivation.
• Karin stabbed a Kusagakure ninja repeatedly until he died, then refused Daren Yi’s offer to leave Kusagakure because she still wanted revenge.
• Daren Yi and Izumi Uchiha discussed sending Hinata or Tsunade to train Karin, with Daren Yi noting Karin’s Uzumaki heritage and future ties to Konohagakure.
• Neji finished promoting the Holy Gate’s recruitment to the Ninja World and left the arena.
• Shikamaru used the Shadow Imitation Technique to make his Sunagakure opponent walk out of the arena, then challenged a Sunagakure Jonin on Lord Hokage’s orders.

Shikamaru taunted Sunagakure into accepting his challenge, then entered Sage Mode and defeated Jonin Hirayama Shin with a single technique. He left Hirayama Shin immobilized and assured him that the shadow tentacles had avoided his vital points.

• Temari and Sunagakure's Jonin grew furious as Shikamaru insulted their strength and declared that winning against them would be easy.
• Rasa and Baki chose Hirayama Shin to face Shikamaru, avoiding the risk of sending Baki into the fight.
• Hirayama Shin taunted Shikamaru for being arrogant, and Shikamaru replied that he would challenge the Kazekage if he were not an ordinary Nara.
• Shikamaru entered Sage Mode while Hirayama Shin was distracted, then used Seven Sins Sage Art: Yin Release: Sloth's Shadow Tentacles to pierce him across the arena.
• Hirayama Shin accused Shikamaru of a sneak attack, but Shikamaru explained that he had already immobilized him with the Shadow Imitation Technique and had avoided his vital points.

The Konoha 11 continued their overwhelming tournament victories, with Hinata defeating an Iwagakure Jonin using Gentle Fist and apologizing to him. The matches continued with a spectacular Sage Mode Fire Release display as Daren Yi and Izumi Uchiha discussed Fire Style as entertainment.

• The Konoha Genin continued defeating opponents from across the villages, leaving the audience stunned by their strength.
• Hinata struck an Iwagakure Jonin with Gentle Fist, severely damaging his chakra pathways and leaving him unable to move.
• Hinata gently apologized, but the defeated Jonin interpreted her words as an insult and coughed up blood in anger.
• Kakashi ordered the Jonin removed, and Konoha ninja cleared the blood, repaired the arena, and carried him away for treatment.
• A blazing Sage Mode Fire Release filled much of the arena, earning loud applause from the audience.
• Daren Yi and Izumi Uchiha praised Fire Style's spectacle and discussed how Uchiha used it for entertainment.

Daren Yi proposed a spectacular Uchiha New Year's Eve display, while Sakura's match ended with her opponent badly burned but alive. Ino then began her match against a weak Kusagakure Jonin by unleashing a powerful mind-disrupting technique.

• Daren Yi suggested that the Uchiha Clan activate Susanoo atop Hokage Rock for a New Year's Eve display, with Naruto, Hashirama, and Tobirama potentially joining in.
• After Sakura's Fire Release flames faded, the medical ninjas found the Kirigakure Jonin alive, and Aoki Kazuo described his condition as “medium-well.”
• Kakashi cautioned Sakura about conserving Chakra, but she mocked his past stamina and his dog-head Earth Style Walls.
• Kakashi claimed he now had more Chakra than he could use, and Sakura suggested he might cover an entire wall with dog-head reliefs.
• Ino Yamanaka began fighting a Kusagakure Jonin with her Sage Art: Seven Emotions and Six Desires: Mind and Body Disorder Technique.
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Ino, Shino, and the other Konoha 11 overwhelmed their opponents, prompting the spectators to debate their relative strength and label Kiba the weakest. Kiba took offense but calmed down after Hinata praised him, then vowed to restore his reputation by challenging a Kage in the next round.

• Ino used Mental Shock to defeat a Kusagakure Jonin, while Sakura argued with her and Kakashi mocked Sakura as “Medium-Well.”
• Shino defeated his opponent with a swarm of powerful Kikaichū, leading spectators to speculate that he was among the strongest of the Konoha 11.
• Choji, Rock Lee, Tenten, and Kiba each defeated their opponents with overwhelming displays of power, and the audience called Kiba the weakest.
• Choji and Shikamaru restrained an enraged Kiba as he tried to confront the spectators who had insulted him.
• Hinata sincerely told Kiba that he was much stronger than she was, and Kiba stopped struggling before declaring that he would challenge a Kage and win back his reputation.

Suigetsu’s taunting led Ōnoki to withdraw Iwagakure from the Joint Chunin Exam, prompting the other villages to leave and forcing the event to end early. Afterward, Shikaku reported that foreign shinobi were gathering around Neji’s Sacred Gate, whose headquarters had been established on Hyuga land outside Konoha.

• Gaara again declared that he would take on the Kazekage, while Shikamaru and Kabuto remarked that many competitors, including Deidara and Suigetsu, had yet to fight.
• When Sasuke was matched against Iwagakure Genin Tetsuo Inoue, Suigetsu loudly asked whether Sasuke could defeat Ōnoki in one move.
• Sasuke bet that Suigetsu would have to give up swords if Sasuke succeeded, and Suigetsu refused the wager.
• Suigetsu’s remark about having no confidence in Ōnoki angered the Tsuchikage, who stormed out with Iwagakure’s Jonin.
• Iwagakure’s withdrawal prompted the other major villages to leave, bringing the Joint Chunin Exam to an abrupt end.
• Shikaku told Naruto that the exam had produced a financial surplus and that Raikage A and other foreign shinobi were visiting Neji’s Sacred Gate, whose headquarters site was a Hyuga estate outside Konoha.

Naruto gave Shikaku a reform plan to expand access to ninja education and reshape public attitudes through entertainment, arguing that stronger, better-educated people could help the Shinobi World survive a future catastrophe. He left Shikaku baffled while confidently preparing a surprise for Daren Yi.

• Naruto handed Shikaku a proposal covering school education, cultural reform, and oversight, and asked him to adapt it to the Shinobi World's conditions.
• Shikaku reviewed Naruto's plan to expand ninja academies and let ordinary schools recommend students based on their cultivation and talent, but warned that spreading power so widely could cause unrest.
• Naruto accepted the risks and explained that raising the population's strength could preserve more people and civilization if the Otsutsuki Clan brought a world-ending disaster.
• Shikaku questioned Naruto's plan to support dramas, films, and novels, including 'Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms,' as tools for reshaping public beliefs.
• Naruto insisted Daren Yi's entertainment projects had a hidden purpose and touched the manuscripts he had prepared, confident they would surprise Daren Yi.