Recaps

During the Chunin Exam preliminaries, Allen criticized Konoha and the ninja villages before Orochimaru arranged for him to fight Sasuke. Allen overwhelmed Sasuke with his physical strength, leaving Sasuke badly hurt and shaken.

• The last teams reached the tower, and the Third Hokage addressed the candidates as Konoha emerged as the biggest winner of the second stage.
• Allen told Karin that ninja villages served the interests of daimyo and nobles, while Kabuto slipped him a note urging him to continue to the third stage.
• Gekko Hayate paired Allen, under his false identity, against Sasuke, and Allen realized Orochimaru wanted him to crush Sasuke's confidence.
• Allen struck Sasuke once and sent him crashing into a wall, then explained that he had used only a punch.
• Sasuke charged again with his Sharingan and Lightning Release-enhanced speed, but Allen's faster punch sent him flying and left him sprawled on the ground.

Allen stopped Sasuke Uchiha’s Chidori attack and knocked him unconscious after his Curse Mark of Heaven transformed. Kakashi carried Sasuke away, while Neji Hyuga recognized Allen and sensed an approaching upheaval.

• Kakashi and Might Guy watched Sasuke battle Allen, while Shikamaru, Ino, and Choji recalled how the Sound Ninja had captured them and served them breakfast.
• Ino told Asuma about Allen’s belief that ninja should spread love and justice and that chakra was meant to help people understand one another.
• Sasuke used Chidori and the Curse Mark of Heaven to attack Allen, but Allen caught his wrist and provoked him.
• Sasuke’s curse mark spread across his body, and Kakashi rushed into the arena as Allen struck Sasuke in the abdomen, sending him into a wall and knocking him out.
• Kakashi checked Sasuke, then carried him away, while Neji recognized Allen from his precise chakra control and quietly waited for his match.

Allen coordinated the Sound and Sand Ninjas’ preparations for the Konoha Collapse Plan and agreed to kill Danzō before the Chunin Exam finals. He planned to lure Danzō out with Impure World Reincarnation, while explaining to Orochimaru why he believed sharing knowledge made people stronger.

• Allen watched Karin advance and Haku forfeit, then spent more than two months coordinating Sound and Sand Ninja positions around Konoha.
• Allen and Orochimaru saw Jiraiya arrive at Konoha and get beaten by women at a bathhouse.
• Orochimaru warned Allen that Danzō would act during the invasion and advised him to strike on the night before the finals.
• Allen decided to lure Danzō out by offering to present Impure World Reincarnation, which Danzō had long coveted.
• Allen told Orochimaru that people mattered more than knowledge and that strong people welcomed challengers.

Allen infiltrated Root, used a mind-control cap to steal Danzō’s implanted First Hokage cells and Shisui’s Mangekyo Sharingan, then killed him and concealed his death. After returning home, Allen absorbed the stolen genes and Sharingan, advancing his own eyes and greatly increasing his Chakra.

• Allen entered Root’s heavily guarded underground base and offered Danzō information about Impure World Reincarnation.
• Allen controlled Danzō with the Gnomish Mind Control Cap, removed his right arm and Shisui’s Mangekyo Sharingan, then killed him before he could use the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique.
• Allen cleaned and sealed Danzō’s corpse for Orochimaru, then left a Shadow Clone disguised as Danzō to hide the death.
• Allen returned to his residence and absorbed the First Hokage’s Cells and Three Tomoe Sharingan, evolving his eyes and multiplying his Chakra.

Allen investigated why his new Wood Release and Sharingan had not awakened the Rinnegan, then activated Yin Release to evolve his Three Tomoe Sharingan into the Mangekyo. The chapter ended with Vilnalasath awakening her own Mangekyo ability to grant life and alter living beings.

• Vilnalasath explained that she had analyzed and integrated Hashirama Senju's genes into Allen, granting him Wood Release and the Sharingan.
• Allen reasoned that awakening the Mangekyo required intense subjective desire combined with Yin Release, and ordered Vilnalasath to activate the Yin Release hidden in his bloodline.
• Vilnalasath activated Yin Release near Allen's brain and optic nerves, causing him to relive painful memories before his Sharingan evolved into the Mangekyo.
• Allen asked about the Mangekyo's limitations, and Vilnalasath said his genes could regenerate depleted Yin Release Chakra but she did not know why a brother's eyes granted the Eternal Mangekyo.
• Vilnalasath awakened her own Mangekyo and discovered that she could grant life to inanimate objects and alter living beings' forms, bloodlines, and genes.

Allen used the Chunin Exam final-round match against Neji to test Neji's progress while waiting for the Konoha Collapse Plan to begin. Neji combined the Gentle Fist with Fire Release, and Allen answered with a burst of overwhelming Chakra as their fight escalated.

• Allen spoke cryptically to Shikamaru about the lively crowd and powerful ninjutsu before heading into the arena.
• Allen and Neji agreed to use their match to test Neji's progress before they left the village.
• Neji attacked with the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, but Allen avoided every strike and punched him in the abdomen.
• Neji said the Gentle Fist suited him and used Fire Release to create flaming hands that strengthened his attacks.
• Allen unleashed powerful Chakra, shattered the ground beneath him, and vanished as a deafening explosion sounded.

Allen and Neji revealed their plans to leave Konoha during the Chunin Exam, and Kabuto launched the Konoha Collapse Plan. The arena fell into chaos as Sand and Sound Ninja attacked Konoha.

• Kakashi recognized that Allen's taijutsu resembled the technique used by the red-haired ninja who had attacked him in the Land of Waves, while Hiashi watched Neji's skill with regret.
• The Third Hokage and Orochimaru discussed Neji's strength and Allen's chakra-control technique as Kabuto appeared behind the stands.
• After Neji exhausted himself, Allen asked whether he was ready, and Neji slashed his forehead protector before revealing that the Caged Bird curse mark was gone.
• Allen revealed his true appearance, melted a Konoha forehead protector, and announced that a war was about to begin.
• Kabuto cast Nirvana Sacred Hall Technique, putting spectators to sleep as the Sand and Sound Ninja launched their assault on Konoha.

During the invasion of Konoha, Allen revealed that he had helped orchestrate the attack and intended to empower commoners with Nen and ninjutsu to overthrow the existing order. After he exposed the truth behind the Uchiha Clan Downfall, Sasuke turned on the Third Hokage, but Kakashi intercepted him.

• Gaara rampaged at the Chunin Exam venue while Maki's forces fought Konoha's jonin, and the Third Hokage confronted Allen about the invasion.
• Allen explained his plan to spread Nen and copied ninjutsu among commoners, and said he had copied Konoha's Scroll of Seals.
• Allen blamed the Third Hokage and Danzō for the Uchiha Clan Downfall and revealed that Shisui Uchiha could have prevented the crisis.
• Sasuke questioned Allen, who showed his Mangekyo Sharingan and urged Sasuke to leave Konoha after learning the truth.
• Sasuke's Sharingan evolved to Three Tomoe as his Curse Mark of Heaven formed wings, and he attacked the Third Hokage with Chidori.
• Kakashi stopped Sasuke, and he and his former student clashed.

Orochimaru revealed that he had impersonated the Fourth Kazekage and joined Allen in opposing the old order, then battled the Third Hokage as the Sound Four sealed them away. Allen urged Neji to reconsider the Hyuga Main Family and unveiled his Wood Release, declaring that the Five Great Nations’ era was over.

• The Third Hokage prepared to fight Allen, but Allen said his opponent was not him.
• Orochimaru revealed his disguise as the Fourth Kazekage and agreed with Allen that the ninja world needed change.
• The Third Hokage summoned Enma, while Orochimaru attacked him and the Sound Four formed a barrier around them.
• Allen asked Neji whether he still hated the Hyuga Main Family, and Neji reflected on Konoha’s hidden darkness.
• Allen used Wood Release to create a giant tree, then explained that the power depended on bloodline rather than effort.

Neji learned more about the Hyuga Clan’s forced submission to Konoha and grew more determined to leave, while Sasuke rejected Kakashi’s plea and renounced the village. Allen stopped Kakashi with his Mangekyo Sharingan’s Certain Hit ability and explained why he had joined the Konoha Collapse Plan.

• Neji asked Hiashi Hyuga why his father had killed himself, and the two sparred while Hiashi recounted the Cloud Ninja’s actions and pressure from Konoha’s leaders.
• Sasuke defeated Kakashi’s attempts to stop him, slashed his forehead protector, and declared that he would rather die than remain in Konoha.
• Naruto and the other young genin watched Sasuke leave, shaken by the truth about Konoha and the Uchiha Clan Downfall.
• Allen shot Kakashi in the shoulder with an arrow that prevented him from using the Substitution Technique or removing it, then revealed his Mangekyo Sharingan ability, Certain Hit.
• Allen told Kakashi that he had joined the Konoha Collapse Plan because the Third Hokage tried to force him into becoming a ninja and he refused to let Konoha restrict his freedom.

Jiraiya arrived to stop Allen, who said he intended to leave Konoha after killing the Third Hokage and revealed that Danzō was already dead. Jiraiya summoned Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima and entered Sage Mode to fight Allen, ending the chapter as the three prepared a combined Sage Art.

• Jiraiya attacked Allen with a Rasengan, but Allen trapped and blasted him with Frost Trap and an arrow.
• Kakashi warned Jiraiya that Allen's Mangekyo Sharingan ability guaranteed hits, and Jiraiya explained he had survived by summoning the Great Toad's stomach.
• Allen said he planned to leave Konoha after killing the Third Hokage and revealed that Danzō was dead, displaying Shisui's Mangekyo Sharingan as evidence of Danzō's crimes.
• Jiraiya summoned Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima, declared he would protect Konoha, and entered Sage Mode.
• Jiraiya used Sage Art—Needle Jizo against Allen, whose protective aura stopped the barrage.
• Jiraiya and the two Toad Sages prepared a combined attack using Wind Release, Fire Release, and oil.

Allen warned Jiraiya that further attacks would bring Konoha to ruin, rejected Sasuke’s demand to join his team, and witnessed Orochimaru kill the Third Hokage. As the Konoha Collapse Plan neared its end, Allen unleashed a vast lava attack across the evacuated arena and surrounding area.

• Allen blocked Jiraiya’s Sage Art and warned that he would retaliate if Jiraiya attacked again, prompting Jiraiya to order Kakashi to take Naruto away.
• Allen told Sasuke he had no obligation to help him and rejected his request to join the team, while Karin struck Sasuke for insulting Allen.
• Orochimaru emerged from the barrier carrying the Third Hokage’s corpse, and Jiraiya charged him in a furious battle.
• Neji returned to Allen’s side after resolving his conflict with the main family.
• Allen used Four-Tails Chakra to unleash Lava Release—Flower Fruit Mountain, engulfing the arena and nearby area in lava.

Allen and Orochimaru forced Konoha to let them leave after Allen threatened to destroy the village with the Four-Tails' Lava Release. As other ninja villages began conspiring against Allen, he prepared to attack Iwagakure and kill Onoki for his Dust Release.

• Allen revealed the Four-Tails' Lava Release and warned Konoha's ninja that further resistance would spread lava throughout the village.
• Jiraiya ordered the gathered ninja to clear a path, and Allen and Orochimaru left Konoha; Might Guy warned Allen that they would be enemies next time.
• Konoha captured Gaara and other Sand and Sound Ninja, while Grandma Chiyo and her Brother took control of the Sand village and surrendered.
• Onoki learned that Roshi and the Four-Tails had been taken and ordered envoys to seek alliances against Allen and Orochimaru.
• Allen prepared to destroy Iwagakure, kill Onoki, and claim Dust Release.

Allen’s scrolls spread Nen, forbidden ninjutsu, and weapons-making knowledge across the world, fueling attacks on ninja and ruling elites. The Akatsuki accepted a mission to investigate and capture or recruit Allen, while Obito set out to uncover his identity and possible connection to Orochimaru.

• Orochimaru and Kabuto discussed how Allen’s public release of powerful knowledge was stirring a popular revolution and could eventually end the ninja system.
• Pain told the Akatsuki members that Onoki had offered five hundred million ryo to kill Allen, who possessed Wood Release, the Mangekyo Sharingan, and the Four-Tails.
• Pain sent Deidara and Sasori to test Allen, ordering them to capture him if he was weak or invite him to join the Akatsuki if he was strong.
• After the meeting, Obito warned Pain that Allen’s abilities might be connected to Orochimaru and left to investigate Allen’s identity himself.

Allen and his companions crossed the Land of Earth, where he warned Onoki that he would destroy Iwagakure in three days. After the village prepared its defenses, Allen arrived at its gates and took flight, while Onoki pursued him to stop his attack.

• Karin and Sasuke argued as Neji watched for threats during the group's journey through the Land of Earth.
• Allen ordered Neji and Karin to capture four Stone Ninja scouts, then sent their leader back with a warning that Iwagakure had three days to evacuate civilians before he destroyed the village.
• Onoki received Allen's message and ordered Iwagakure to mobilize its forces, shelter noncombatants, and activate its barriers.
• Three days later, Allen's group reached Iwagakure, where tens of thousands of Stone Ninja stood ready to defend the village.
• Allen transformed Red Dragon into armor, spread his wings, and flew into the sky; Onoki used Earth Release—Super Weighted Rock Technique to pursue him.

Allen destroyed Iwagakure with a nuclear warhead after Onoki refused to accept his warning, then killed Onoki and acquired Dust Release. He captured Han, the Five-Tails Jinchuriki, and left with him to pursue his plans for the Tailed Beasts.

• Allen activated a nuclear warhead above Iwagakure, escaped Onoki's Dust Release, and teleported Onoki away before the weapon detonated.
• The blast devastated Iwagakure, killed most of the Stone Ninja, and left Onoki grieving the destruction of his village.
• Allen killed Onoki, and Vilnalasath devoured him so Allen could obtain Dust Release.
• Han charged at Allen, but Allen used the Mangekyo Sharingan to control the Five-Tails and knocked Han unconscious.
• Allen carried Han away, intending for Orochimaru to extract the Five-Tails so it could be sealed inside Allen.

Deidara and Sasori witnessed the nuclear blast that destroyed Iwagakure, while Obito and Black Zetsu discussed using the catastrophe to manipulate the other nations. Allen rejoined his team and told Sasuke the explosion came from technology, then encouraged him to train under Orochimaru to gain the power to face Itachi.

• Deidara and Sasori flew over Iwagakure, recognized the devastation as the work of Allen’s weapon, and decided to report it to their leader.
• Black Zetsu explained the blast to Obito and proposed exploiting the other nations’ fear to turn them against one another and advance the Moon Eye Plan.
• Obito agreed with Black Zetsu’s plan and vanished from the ruined Iwagakure.
• Sasuke asked Allen to teach him the technique behind the explosion, and Allen explained that it was technology rather than ninjutsu.
• Allen advised Sasuke to study science for decades if he wanted to build such a weapon, but Sasuke rejected the idea.
• Allen told Sasuke that Orochimaru could help him gain the power to defeat Itachi in two or three years, provided he avoided becoming Orochimaru’s reincarnation vessel.

After Iwagakure’s destruction and the spread of Nen among civilians, Tsunade and Jiraiya faced growing losses and economic hardship for the ninja villages and planned to seek cooperation against the Nen users. Meanwhile, Allen sealed the Five-Tails and said he would not interfere when the great nations tried to suppress the civilian resistance he had helped awaken.

• Tsunade revoked Allen, Sasuke, and Neji’s rogue-ninja status and ordered an investigation into Allen’s history.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya discussed the rising casualties and shrinking income caused by civilians using Nen, and Jiraiya left to negotiate cooperation with the other villages.
• Allen successfully sealed the Five-Tails into his body and welcomed its Boiling Release power.
• Orochimaru warned Allen that the great nations planned to purge civilians who used Nen.
• Allen told Orochimaru that he would not protect the civilians, believing their struggle would force the old ruling order to make concessions or collapse.

With the great nations deterred by Allen’s nuclear power, the Sound Ninja Village became a refuge and training ground for rebels, while Orochimaru conducted experiments on willing volunteers. Allen told Neji that the real enemy was the force behind the Akatsuki’s chain of manipulation: the mother of the Sage of Six Paths and the source of all Chakra.

• The great nations hunted radical Nen users but avoided Allen, and the Sound Ninja Village drew rebels seeking to join its ranks.
• Neji questioned Allen about Orochimaru’s human experiments, and Allen explained that the subjects volunteered for the power and accepted the risks.
• Allen said the great nations were not the primary enemy and that he would not take over the world because building a new political order was too difficult.
• Allen revealed that the Akatsuki was a tool in a chain of deception and named the mother of the Sage of Six Paths as the true enemy.
• Allen criticized Nagato, Obito, and Madara as powerful, selfish men who tried to force the world into their own preferred shape.

Allen told Neji and Karin the hidden history of Kaguya, the Sage of Six Paths, and Chakra, then declared his intention to slay gods and end the shinobi era. After revealing that he came from another world, he prepared to take Neji and Karin out to test their abilities.

• Allen explained Kaguya's arrival, the origins of Chakra and the Tailed Beasts, the Akatsuki's history, and the Hyuga Clan's connection to Hamura.
• Allen declared that Kaguya had to be slain so humanity could move beyond shinobi and Chakra, and Neji questioned what Allen would do if he became a god.
• Neji deduced that Allen was an outsider, and Allen admitted he had come from another world and brought Nen abilities with him.
• Karin said she had mastered Sealing Jutsu, while Neji revealed that he had developed a new Nen ability after Orochimaru modified his body.
• Allen suggested they go out to stretch and asked about their training, and Neji eagerly asked who their target would be.

Tsunade sent Kakashi and Might Guy to investigate Allen’s plans as he entered the Land of the Falls with Sasuke and Karin to find the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki. Obito confronted Allen about collecting Tailed Beasts, and Allen aimed an arrow at him as Obito prepared to use Kamui and manipulate him.

• Tsunade and Jiraiya learned Allen was heading for the Land of the Falls, and Tsunade decided to use Kakashi and Might Guy to test his attitude and discover his purpose.
• Kakashi’s Team 7 and Might Guy’s Team Three left Konoha for the Land of the Falls while a black-and-white Zetsu watched them.
• Allen entered the Land of the Falls with Sasuke and Karin and used a map from Orochimaru and Kabuto to search for Waterfall Ninja Village.
• Karin said her Kagura Shingan could sense the village’s chakra from up to ten kilometers away.
• Obito appeared before Allen and asked whether he was collecting Tailed Beasts, and Allen confirmed he sought the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki and asked why Obito cared.
• Allen activated his Mangekyo Sharingan and aimed an arrow at Obito, who planned to demonstrate Kamui and try to recruit him.

Allen used his Certain Hit ability to defeat Obito and take his Kamui Mangekyo Sharingan, which Vilnalasath devoured. Allen’s spatial sense strengthened, and Vilnalasath said she could preserve Sharingan abilities even if they evolved into the Rinnegan.

• Allen shot Obito through the shoulder with an arrow, revealing that his Certain Hit ability countered Kamui.
• Obito tried to escape, but Allen pinned him to a tree with a second arrow and warned him that further attempts would be interrupted.
• Allen removed Obito’s Kamui Mangekyo Sharingan and explained to Sasuke that Obito had helped cause the Uchiha Clan Downfall and the Nine-Tails’ Rampage.
• Vilnalasath swallowed Obito’s eye, strengthening Allen’s spatial sense and allowing him to use Flying Thunder God without an electric field.
• Allen asked whether Rinnegan evolution would erase his Sharingan abilities, and Vilnalasath assured him they could preserve them through genetic and energy modification.

Nagato confronted Allen and learned that his Rinnegan had belonged to Madara Uchiha, while Allen revealed his own superior Rinnegan. With Obito exposed and surrounded, Sasuke demanded an explanation from Itachi for the Uchiha Clan’s destruction, and Itachi defended his choice as a way to prevent a wider war.

• Sasuke tried to kill Obito for his role in the Uchiha Clan’s extermination, but Nagato’s Deva Path pulled Obito away.
• Nagato offered Allen the choice of joining Akatsuki or dying, and Allen transformed his Sharingan into Rinnegan while forming Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Allen explained that Nagato’s Rinnegan did not belong to him and pointed to Obito for the truth.
• Obito revealed that the Rinnegan belonged to Madara Uchiha, leaving Nagato shaken and prompting Kakuzu to question how Madara could still be alive.
• Sasuke demanded to know why Itachi had chosen to destroy the Uchiha Clan, and Itachi said he had wanted to prevent a coup from bringing war to the Land of Fire.

Allen confronted the Akatsuki Organization with the truth about the Moon Eye Plan and revealed that Black Zetsu manipulated Obito through Rin’s death. Nagato brought the group to his hideout to hear more, where Allen began explaining Black Zetsu’s true role.

• Allen told Obito that Madara Uchiha and Black Zetsu arranged Rin’s death to make him accept the Moon Eye Plan.
• Allen killed Hidan with a Truth-Seeking Orb and warned the Akatsuki Organization to cooperate or face death and Impure World Reincarnation.
• Nagato agreed to speak with Allen and led the Akatsuki Organization, including Obito, to his cave.
• Nagato revealed that he was the Akatsuki Organization’s second-generation leader, while Itachi weighed whether to remain loyal to Konoha.
• Allen told Nagato that Madara Uchiha had also been manipulated and that Black Zetsu was the sole mastermind.

Allen revealed that Black Zetsu planned to revive Kaguya and drain the world’s life energy, then persuaded the Akatsuki Organization to join his effort to kill her. The alliance formed, and Allen advised Obito to recover Kakashi’s Mangekyo Sharingan to avoid arousing Black Zetsu’s suspicion.

• Allen explained Black Zetsu’s origins and the Moon Eye Plan, including Kaguya’s goal of reclaiming all Chakra and draining the planet.
• Obito, Kakuzu, Deidara, Itachi, and the other Akatsuki members agreed to join Allen, and Nagato joined after weighing the danger.
• Allen clarified that he planned to let the Moon Eye Plan proceed so he could kill Kaguya permanently, and he revealed his stockpile of weapons capable of devastating explosions.
• Nagato welcomed Allen into the Akatsuki Organization, and the two sealed their partnership with a handshake.
• Allen told Obito that Kakashi had awakened a Mangekyo Sharingan with Kamui and advised him to recover that eye; Obito agreed.