Chapter Summaries

Soji reached the underground temple hidden in the Hyuga Clan’s ancient territory, hoping to awaken the Tenseigan and uncover the Caged Bird Curse Mark’s secret. After discovering that brute force could not open the temple’s stone door, he used the flawless Byakugan power associated with the Main House to unlock it and reveal the bright temple within.

• Soji crossed the dangerous primeval forest, fending off attacking beasts with Ice Spikes.
• Soji found the ruins of Asuka Residence and used his Byakugan to locate and uncover the underground passage.
• Soji descended the dusty spiral staircase and found a massive stone door that absorbed his Vacuum Palm and Six Styles of Void Strike.
• Soji placed his palms in the door’s grooves, but its purple light stopped before connecting because another condition was missing.
• Soji realized the door required the flawless Byakugan of a Hyuga Clan Main House member and poured his Byakugan Dojutsu Power into it.
• The stone door opened from the center, revealing a bright, ancient temple.

Soji entered the temple and discovered that the Reincarnation Mirror had turned eight Hyuga ancestors into emotionless fighters. After destroying some of them, he learned they could regenerate and faced all eight at once as they attacked.

• Soji entered the temple, where the Reincarnation Mirror sent purple light into eight skeletons and restored them as Hyuga ancestors with Byakugan.
• One ancestor attacked Soji, who threw him aside and struck him with Gentle Fist techniques, but the man got back up unharmed.
• Soji concluded the ancestors were puppets and fought them, discovering that destroying their heads stopped them only temporarily.
• The four headless ancestors regenerated their heads, and the remaining four joined the fight, leaving Soji facing eight Elite Jonin-strength opponents who could revive endlessly.

Soji fought eight Hyuga Clan puppet ancestors whose Reincarnation Mirror-powered revivals evolved their Byakugan and made them far stronger. As the enhanced puppets attacked, Soji prepared to use Ice Release to freeze and seal them off from the mirror.

• Soji trapped the eight Elite Jonin-level puppets in a Wind Release Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven and tore them apart.
• The Reincarnation Mirror revived the puppets, healed their bodies, and caused their Byakugan to glow.
• The revived puppets used Byakugan pressure, but Soji activated his third-stage Byakugan and overwhelmed them with his own pressure.
• Soji realized the mirror had evolved the puppets' Byakugan and raised their strength to Kage-level, then reasoned that Sealing Technique could cut their connection to the mirror.
• The puppets launched a faster simultaneous attack, and Soji began gathering Ice Release to freeze and seal them.

Soji used Ice Release and combat tactics to freeze all eight enhanced puppet ancestors in Hamura's shrine. The Reincarnation Mirror revived them again, leaving Soji facing the restored puppets.

• Soji froze the first two puppets, then trapped a third beneath the ice as the others tried to avoid the frozen floor.
• The remaining puppets broke through the ice and gathered on a patch of marble, where Soji used an Ice Spear to knock one away and freeze another.
• Soji created an Ice Clone and used Water Release Gentle Fist to restrain two puppets before freezing them with Ice Release attacks.
• Soji's Ice Clone destroyed itself to freeze the final two puppets, leaving all eight trapped as ice sculptures.
• The Reincarnation Mirror sent purple light into the frozen puppets, melting their ice and restoring all eight to normal.

Soji discovered that an unseen helper, not the Reincarnation Mirror itself, had been undoing his seals on the eight puppets, so he entered the mirror’s inner space to reach its source. There he found himself on the Moon Ancient Battlefield, where the dead Otsutsuki Main Family’s hatred began overwhelming him.

• Soji realized that someone outside the seals was reviving the puppets, though he mistakenly thought the Reincarnation Mirror was responsible.
• Soji trapped the eight puppets behind an Ice Crystal Barrier and entered the Reincarnation Mirror after discovering it was a doorway.
• After Soji vanished, the puppets returned to their pillars, and a hidden watcher revealed his plan to take revenge on the Branch House.
• Soji crossed the mirror’s inner space and emerged on the Moon Ancient Battlefield he had seen before.
• The battlefield’s bloodshed and the resentful souls of his ancestors stirred violent malice in Soji and threatened to transform him.

Soji dispelled a bloodline-based genjutsu in the Reincarnation Mirror’s reflection of the Moon Ancient Battlefield, then fought a Blood Dragon whose blood mist triggered the same kind of illusion. He discovered that the dragon weakened each time it regenerated and destroyed it, leaving the battlefield clear but the Mirror’s secrets still undiscovered.

• Soji escaped the genjutsu and concluded that the Reincarnation Mirror’s space was a reflection of the Moon Ancient Battlefield created by a Hyuga ancestor.
• After finding no ancestors or clues to controlling the Mirror, Soji watched blood mist gather from the battlefield’s blood-soaked soil and form a Blood Dragon.
• Soji dodged the dragon’s charge, shattered its claw with Void Strike, and escaped the blood mist after it triggered another bloodline-based genjutsu.
• Soji’s Ice Tomb failed to freeze the dragon, but his Ice Breath froze its crimson breath and showed that the creature could be challenged.
• Soji used Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm to destroy the dragon’s limbs and body, avoiding the blood mist as the dragon grew weaker with each regeneration.
• After an hour of repeated attacks, Soji delivered a final Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm and dispersed the Blood Dragon completely.

Soji cleared the blood-aura attack in the reflected Moon Ancient Battlefield and learned from the Hyuga ancestors’ souls how the Reincarnation Mirror was made and what it had done to them. After their souls helped advance his Byakugan, he vowed to free them and entered the second layer of space to confront the mirror’s core and the hidden mastermind.

• Soji used Eight Trigrams Palm: Air Quake to destroy the blood aura filling the Moon Ancient Battlefield, revealing a doorway in the bone-filled pit.
• The pale-blue souls of the dead bowed to Soji, entered his mind, and shared memories identifying them as Hyuga Clan ancestors who had died repaying the Reincarnation Mirror’s power.
• Soji learned that the mirror had been forged from Hyuga Byakugan, flesh, and blood, and that its power worked like a loan that could enslave those unable to repay twice what they took.
• Soji suspected a Hyuga ancestor had used the dead clan members’ remains to create the bloodline genjutsu and torment their souls.
• The ancestors’ souls strengthened Soji’s Byakugan and asked him to free them; he promised to take control of the Reincarnation Mirror.
• Soji stepped through the doorway into the second layer of space to seek the Reincarnation Mirror’s core and the mastermind.

Soji climbed to the true Reincarnation Mirror and confronted the figure behind the trials, learning that he was Otsutsuki Genji, the last Clan Head of the Moon Otsutsuki Main Family. After Genji admitted that he had founded the Hyuga Clan only to use its descendants for revenge, Soji resolved to kill him.

• Soji climbed the altar, where his Byakugan’s power surged close to its final evolution into the Tenseigan.
• Soji confronted the motionless figure behind the Reincarnation Mirror and learned that he had arranged the trials to weaken him for a plan.
• The figure revealed that he was a surviving member of the Moon Otsutsuki Main Family, and Soji recognized him as Otsutsuki Genji, its last Clan Head.
• Otsutsuki Genji explained that he and eight other survivors had founded the Hyuga Clan after fleeing the moon.
• Otsutsuki Genji admitted that he regarded the Hyuga Clan as a pawn for revenge against the Moon Otsutsuki Branch House, and Soji declared that he would kill him.

Otsutsuki Genji used the Reincarnation Mirror to separate Soji’s soul from his body and revealed his plan to take it over. Soji secretly mastered his soul power while they talked, leaving both men ready for a clash of souls.

• Otsutsuki Genji activated the Reincarnation Mirror, which separated Soji’s and Genji’s souls from their bodies.
• Otsutsuki Genji explained that the mirror had trapped him, and he needed Soji’s body to escape and pursue revenge.
• Otsutsuki Genji admitted that he had lured Hyuga Clan ancestors to the mirror and absorbed their power, raising his Byakugan to match Soji’s evolved eye.
• Soji promised the ancestors he would avenge them and realized Otsutsuki Genji had delayed taking over his body so it could adapt to the loss of its soul.
• Soji used their conversation to master his soul power, and he told Otsutsuki Genji he was ready to fight.

Soji defeated Otsutsuki Genji in a battle of souls, but Genji used the Reincarnation Mirror to summon eight ancestral puppets. The Hyuga ancestors’ remnant souls weakened Genji’s control over the mirror, and the puppets awakened, leaving Soji uncertain whether they would help him.

• Soji and Otsutsuki Genji fought in soul form, and Soji gradually gained the advantage as Genji’s soul weakened.
• Both men returned to their bodies, exhausted, and Genji seized the Reincarnation Mirror to summon eight puppets from Hamura Shrine.
• A blue remnant soul rushed into the Reincarnation Mirror, where the Hyuga ancestors worked together to break Genji’s control.
• The eight puppets regained consciousness and smiled at Soji, who realized they were the Hyuga Clan’s first-generation ancestors but did not know their intentions.

Soji faced Otsutsuki Genji after the awakened ancestors opposed Genji and entered the Reincarnation Mirror, where Genji fused with it. The ancestors revealed how Soji could take control, and Soji outmaneuvered the mirror’s attacks to reach it.

• Eight awakened descendants of the Moon Otsutsuki Main Family confronted Otsutsuki Genji and rejected his plan to sacrifice Hyuga Clan descendants.
• Otsutsuki Genji merged his soul with the Reincarnation Mirror, and the eight descendants entered it to help Soji stop him.
• The ancestors told Soji to inject Byakugan Dojutsu Power into the mirror to control it, while Otsutsuki Genji vowed to make Soji his puppet.
• Otsutsuki Genji’s first purple beam missed Soji because the souls inside the mirror interfered with his control.
• Soji created four Shadow Clones and used their flight paths to make Otsutsuki Genji attack the wrong targets.
• The real Soji approached from the front and came within five meters of the Reincarnation Mirror.

Soji seized control of the Reincarnation Mirror, but Otsutsuki Genji tried to destroy it rather than let him have it. With help from the eight trapped descendants of the Moon Otsutsuki Main Family, Soji awakened the Tenseigan and stopped the expanding purple light.

• Soji used Shadow Clones and his real body to outmaneuver Otsutsuki Genji, then injected Byakugan Dojutsu Power into the Reincarnation Mirror.
• Otsutsuki Genji lost control of the mirror and began making it self-destruct, threatening everyone nearby.
• The eight final descendants of the Moon Otsutsuki Main Family offered Soji their Byakugan Dojutsu Power to help him break through.
• Soji absorbed their power as their bodies and Byakugan turned to ash.
• Soji awakened the Tenseigan and held back the Reincarnation Mirror's expanding purple light.

Soji awakened the Tenseigan, stopped the Reincarnation Mirror from destroying itself, and gained full control over it, leaving Otsutsuki Genji powerless. The awakening also restored Soji’s lost memories, revealing that he had been himself since before birth rather than having taken over another person’s body.

• The Giant Tenseigan on the moon blazed brightly, alarming the Ninja World, while Black Zetsu decided to accelerate his plan to revive Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Soji entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode and suppressed the Reincarnation Mirror’s self-destruction, then drew the mirror into his hand.
• Soji took complete control of the Reincarnation Mirror and threatened Otsutsuki Genji, who raged that Soji had ruined his chance to escape and take revenge.
• Soji told Otsutsuki Genji that he had not needed his help to awaken the Tenseigan and credited him only with restoring Soji’s lost memories.
• Soji recovered the memories of his first four years and realized he had transmigrated before birth, never possessed or replaced the original Hyuga Soji, and had always been himself.

After learning that he had always been Hyuga Soji and had lost his memories, Soji resolved to protect the Hyuga Clan and prepared to kill Otsutsuki Genji. Otsutsuki Hamura appeared, identified himself as Soji’s ancestor, and heard Genji’s anguished account of the Main Family’s fate.

• Soji confirmed from the deepest memories in his soul that he was Hyuga Soji, not a transmigrant, and decided the Hyuga Clan was his responsibility.
• Soji restrained himself from using Impure World Reincarnation on his grandfather, then focused his anger on Otsutsuki Genji.
• Otsutsuki Hamura appeared behind Soji, startling him; Soji mistook him for the Sage of Six Paths before Hamura corrected him.
• Soji greeted Otsutsuki Hamura respectfully and asked why he had come from the moon, while hoping to earn his ancestor’s favor.
• Otsutsuki Genji tearfully asked Hamura to uphold justice for the Otsutsuki Main Family, and Hamura admitted he had not known what had happened to his descendants.

Soji refused to forgive Otsutsuki Genji on behalf of the Hyuga Clan, so Otsutsuki Hamura restored the souls of the ancestors and left Genji’s fate to them. Hamura then gave Soji knowledge for advancing his power, leaving him with the goal of reaching Six Paths life-level strength by cultivating Truth-Seeking Orbs.

• Soji rejected Otsutsuki Hamura’s request to forgive Otsutsuki Genji, explaining that Genji had killed Hyuga ancestors and caused the other Otsutsuki Main Family members to fall silent.
• Otsutsuki Hamura released more than a hundred Hyuga ancestors’ souls and the souls of the surviving Otsutsuki Main Family members from the Reincarnation Mirror, then let them decide Genji’s fate.
• Soji thanked Otsutsuki Hamura for restoring the souls and agreed that the ancestors should decide whether to forgive Otsutsuki Genji.
• Otsutsuki Hamura offered Soji either temporary power or knowledge to develop his strength, and Soji chose the knowledge.
• Otsutsuki Hamura sent Soji memories explaining how to cultivate Truth-Seeking Orbs, and Soji learned that he needed to raise his life level to the Six Paths level.

Soji weighed two methods of mastering Truth-Seeking Orbs and decided to pursue Tenseigan enlightenment while cultivating Chakra Seeds as a backup. He then asked Otsutsuki Hamura whether Hamura himself possessed the Tenseigan.

• Soji considered absorbing powerful people’s Chakra to cultivate seven Chakra Seeds, but judged that method too slow to prepare him for the Fourth Ninja World War.
• Soji learned that he could study his Tenseigan’s black Chakra beads during three gestation periods and potentially master nine Truth-Seeking Orbs, though using the Tenseigan would extend the process and failed enlightenment could waste years.
• Soji realized he could pursue both methods, using Chakra Seeds as a backup while attempting to master the black Chakra beads.
• Otsutsuki Hamura noticed Soji’s changing expressions, and Soji thanked him for sharing knowledge about Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Soji asked Otsutsuki Hamura whether he also possessed the Tenseigan.

Otsutsuki Hamura explained that Soji’s decision about Genji showed a path beyond Indra and Asura, and entrusted him with power in the hope that he could help bring peace to the Ninja World. Soji accepted the ancestors’ punishment for Genji and promised to take him to the moon to settle the conflict between the Otsutsuki Main Family and Branch House; Hamura and the other souls then departed.

• Otsutsuki Hamura told Soji that he had seen a different possibility in him because Soji had let Genji’s victims decide his fate rather than sparing or executing him.
• Otsutsuki Hamura said he believed Soji could help end the Ninja World’s long conflict, while Soji insisted he only wanted to protect his family and friends.
• Otsutsuki Genji asked to be sealed inside the Reincarnation Mirror and serve the Hyuga Clan as atonement, and Soji agreed to take him to the moon to resolve his obsession.
• Otsutsuki Genji pledged to obey Hyuga Soji, and Otsutsuki Hamura returned him to the Reincarnation Mirror.
• Otsutsuki Hamura and the Hyuga Clan ancestors departed after entrusting the Hyuga Clan’s future to Soji.

Soji learned the Reincarnation Mirror’s abilities and tested the Tenseigan’s attacks, discovering their immense destructive power. He then asked Otsutsuki Genji to project a meteorite into the Mirror’s space, leaving Genji worried that Soji’s experiment could endanger them both.

• Otsutsuki Genji told Soji to treat him as the Reincarnation Mirror’s artifact spirit, and Soji promised to take him to the moon to settle his grievances with the Branch Family.
• Soji reviewed the Reincarnation Mirror’s abilities, including its attacks, storage space, Chakra replenishment, space projection, and power to nourish souls and bodies.
• Soji activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode and tested Chakra Cannon and Chakra Shuriken, destroying the altar before using the Mirror to project a replacement.
• Soji unleashed Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and tore the altar into dust, stunning Otsutsuki Genji with the technique’s power.
• Soji asked Otsutsuki Genji to project the entire moon, then suggested projecting a meteorite instead; Genji reluctantly agreed to try and warned that something could go wrong.

After leaving the Hyuga Clan's settlement, Soji encountered the Weather Merchants and discovered they were exploiting a frail child named Yota for his extraordinary weather-changing ability. Soji offered the clan ten million ryo to take Yota with him, and the group faced the decision of whether to accept.

• Soji sealed the entrance to the Hyuga Clan's settlement and set off for the Land of Snow, intending to take Haku and Kimimaro back to Konoha.
• Soji and Tool Sculpture encountered a strange region where sunshine, rain, snow, and lightning appeared together, and Soji descended to investigate.
• Soji saw Yota collapse and the unusual weather vanish, then secretly followed the Weather Merchants as they discussed exploiting the boy despite his worsening health.
• Soji confronted the Weather Merchants and offered them ten million ryo in exchange for taking Yota with him.

Soji brought Yota to the Land of Snow, where Yota recovered, learned to use Chakra, and became close with Haku and Kimimaro. Soji made the three children his disciples and returned with them to Konoha at the end of his six-month leave.

• Yota's Clan Head accepted Soji's deal and handed Yota over, and Soji took the frail child away from his clan.
• Soji flew with Yota to the Land of Snow, where Yota's weather ability drew Natural Energy into Soji.
• Soji helped Yota recover and trained him alongside Haku and Kimimaro, and the three children became close friends.
• Soji prepared to return to Konoha, revealed his identity to the children, and officially made Haku, Kimimaro, and Yota his disciples.
• Soji traveled with the three children to Konoha, letting them handle encounters with bandits and Rogue Ninjas along the way.
• Soji arrived in Konoha exactly at the end of his six-month leave and told the children they would live at his house.