Recaps

Team Kakashi defeated Kakuzu, but Deidara, Sasori, and Shisui arrived and plunged the survivors into another battle. Naruto entered Sage Mode and suspected Shisui was secretly working against the Akatsuki, while Shisui kept fighting to protect his cover.

• Chiyo discovered that Hidan’s ritual reflected injuries, controlled his blood with the Ketsuryūgan, and trapped him in a blood sphere with Ringo Ameyuri and Zabuza.
• Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto helped Kakashi draw Kakuzu’s clones together, allowing Kakashi to use Kamui Slash before Naruto destroyed Kakuzu’s last heart with a Rasengan.
• Deidara and Sasori arrived at Takigakure, and Shisui and Kisame joined them as the Akatsuki confronted the exhausted Konoha and Kirigakure groups.
• Kisame drew the Kirigakure Anbu away while Shisui, Sasori, and Deidara fought Team Kakashi, and Sasuke used Lightning Release to counter Deidara’s Explosive Clay.
• Orochimaru arrived and fought Sasori with Guren and Ohm, who faced Sasori’s Centipede Demon puppet while Naruto battled Shisui.
• After exhausting Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, Naruto used Shadow Clones to gather Natural Energy and entered Sage Mode to fight Shisui.
• Naruto struck Shisui’s Susanoo with Sage Art: Rasengan, then noticed Shisui had softened a potentially fatal blow and suspected he was an undercover agent.
• Naruto promised to keep his suspicion secret, but Shisui blocked him from leaving to help Sasuke and continued fighting to preserve his cover.

Sasuke and Naruto survived the battle at Takigakure, where Deidara’s attack awakened Sasuke’s Mangekyō Sharingan and Naruto revealed his Sage Art: Nebula Chains. After Shinnō took Fū and Orochimaru bargained to claim her, Team Kakashi returned to Konoha, where Soji extracted Naruto’s Chakra and challenged Sasuke to a wager.

• Sasuke survived Deidara’s explosions by summoning Manda, but after Deidara trapped him with C4 Garuda, Naruto carried him to safety and Sasuke awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Naruto unleashed Sage Art: Nebula Chains, swallowing Deidara’s microscopic bombs and the surrounding destruction before they could harm anyone.
• Shinnō defeated Takigakure’s defenders, captured Fū, and took her to Angkor Fortress to create the Zero-Tails Void.
• Chiyo’s Blood Shadow drove the Akatsuki and Orochimaru’s fighters from Takigakure, while Kakuzu escaped with Hidan and the Hero Water.
• Orochimaru traded Shinnō protection from the Akatsuki for Fū and took her away to study her, while Shinnō kept Angkor Fortress and the Zero-Tails Void.
• Team Kakashi returned to Konoha and reported the mission, then Soji extracted part of Asura’s Chakra from Naruto and sealed Naruto’s Yang Release Chakra.
• Soji ambushed Sasuke after another loss to Naruto, provoked his Mangekyō Sharingan, and offered a wager that would cost Sasuke twenty percent of his Chakra if he lost.

Soji defeated Sasuke and gathered all seven chakra attributes, then left Konoha to answer the crisis in the Land of Demons. He helped Shion confront Mōryō, which killed Yomi and reunited with its body, leaving Soji facing the revived demon as Shion gathered her power.

• Soji fought Sasuke inside the Reincarnation Mirror space, overcame his new Amaterasu’s Wellspring and Susanoo, and extracted twenty percent of Indra’s Chakra.
• Soji absorbed and balanced all seven Chakra natures with the Basho Fan and Tenseigan, though he had not reached the Six Paths level.
• After Sasuke’s family ended its investigation, Soji trained his Chakra attributes while the Third Hokage prepared for Minato’s return and Akatsuki advanced its Jinchuriki capture plans.
• When Yomi’s forces threatened the Land of Demons, Soji traveled there as Mizuki Ember and destroyed much of Mōryō’s phantom army with a meteor.
• Shion asked Soji to seal Mōryō inside her so she could try to devour it, and Soji agreed in exchange for a prophecy about his future.
• Soji and Shion followed Mōryō and Yomi to the Volcano Shrine, where Soji fought Yomi after refusing to call the earlier attack on Kazahana Koyuki even.
• Mōryō took control of Yomi, but Soji turned its tentacles against him, and Mōryō then killed Yomi and emerged as a soul.
• Soji let Mōryō break through the altar’s seal and reclaim its body, while Shion gathered her power and Soji evaded the demon’s attacks amid the erupting volcano.

Soji revived Muku and Rin, arranged for Orochimaru to protect Rin, and broke through to the Six Paths level despite Shion’s prophecy that a Black Hole would swallow him. His body was carried into space-time turbulence while a Karma-bearing avatar remained behind, and he encountered an unknown presence as he searched for a way onward.

• Soji sealed Mōryō inside Shion after Miroku’s lingering will awakened Shion’s full Miko power, then froze the erupting volcano and returned with her to the Land of Demons.
• Shion prophesied that a Black Hole would swallow Soji above a green iceberg, and Soji left for Konoha after promising her he would stay safe.
• The Akatsuki Organization captured Yugito and defeated Killer B, while Gaara escaped Sasori and Deidara and the Akatsuki began planning attacks on the remaining Jinchuriki.
• Soji revived Muku and Rin Nohara, learned that Rin had watched Obito after her death, and took her to Orochimaru to keep her identity hidden and arrange her protection.
• Soji learned Living Corpse Reincarnation from Orochimaru and prepared to attempt his breakthrough on the isolated island where the Gelel Ore Vein was sealed.
• Soji fused the seven types of elemental Chakra and absorbed the Gelel Ore Vein, reaching the Six Paths level as the Space-Time Teleportation Black Hole swallowed him.
• Soji sent part of his soul into Mizuki Ember and planted the Starry Sky Otsutsuki Clan’s Karma there, while his main body drifted through space-time with the Hoshigakure meteorite.
• Soji avoided opening a passage through the turbulence, enclosed himself in a Truth-Seeking Orb, and approached a streak of white light before sensing an unknown gaze watching him.