Chapter Summaries

Madara Uchiha's reappearance shook the Allied Forces, while Sasuke and Kakashi continued fighting Obito. With Mizuki Ember facing Madara, Nagato, and the Ten-Tails, Orochimaru proposed using the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to summon Hashirama Senju, leaving Tsunade to confront the idea of her grandfather's soul being used in battle.

• The Konoha ninjas recognized the armored man as Madara Uchiha and began questioning Obito's identity, weakening the Allied Forces' morale.
• Sasuke grew enraged at Obito, attacked him with Susanoo, and ignored Kakashi's warning while Obito taunted him.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya worried that Mizuki Ember could not defeat Nagato, the Ten-Tails, and Madara Uchiha, but Orochimaru said they could not safely join that battle.
• Orochimaru proposed using the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to summon Hashirama Senju as a rival for Madara Uchiha.
• Tsunade objected that reanimating her grandfather would desecrate the dead, and Orochimaru urged her to consider the Ninja World's survival.

Jiraiya and Tsunade agreed to let Orochimaru use the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to bring Hashirama Senju back to help the Allied Forces. Orochimaru summoned Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, who awakened and confronted him before Tsunade explained the situation.

• Jiraiya set aside his objections and offered to take responsibility for using the forbidden jutsu, prompting Tsunade to agree that all three would apologize together afterward.
• Orochimaru asked for two living sacrifices, and Jiraiya quickly captured two White Zetsu for him.
• Orochimaru performed the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu and summoned Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju.
• Orochimaru released the brothers’ restrictions and awakened them; Tobirama Senju angrily threatened him for abusing the technique.
• Tsunade stepped between Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru, explained that Orochimaru was not their enemy, and greeted her grandfather.

Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru explained the Ninja World's crisis to the reanimated Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, who agreed to fight. After hearing about Mizuki Ember, Tobirama worried about his intentions toward Konoha, while Hashirama set out to support him on the central battlefield.

• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru told Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju about the war, the Ten-Tails, Nagato, and Madara Uchiha's return.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju agreed to join the battle, and Orochimaru quietly lowered the hand he had prepared to use to control them.
• Tsunade described Mizuki Ember's reputation, prompting Tobirama Senju to worry about the powerful Fifth Mizukage's attitude toward Konoha.
• Hashirama Senju dismissed Tobirama's concern and agreed to help Mizuki Ember, while Tobirama joined Tsunade and the others to reduce the Allied Forces' losses.
• Tobirama Senju warned Hashirama Senju not to show Madara Uchiha mercy again.

Soji watched Madara Uchiha and Nagato size each other up while both considered how to deal with the other. Hashirama Senju arrived, and Madara finally recognized Soji as Mizuki Ember, revealing how thoroughly he had overlooked him.

• Hashirama Senju ignored Tobirama Senju's warning about his feelings for Madara Uchiha and rushed toward the central battlefield.
• Nagato questioned Madara Uchiha about the masked man who had used his name, and Madara called him a former agent while concealing his plans to control Nagato and regain his Rinnegan.
• Nagato grew suspicious of Madara Uchiha, and he, Madara, and Soji remained in a tense stalemate.
• Hashirama Senju's chakra appeared, exciting Madara Uchiha and making Nagato realize that the battle had grown beyond his control.
• Soji identified Hashirama Senju as Orochimaru's likely summon, prompting Madara Uchiha to notice him and recognize him as Mizuki Ember.

Madara revived and recognized Soji’s alter ego, Mizuki Ember, whom he blamed for humiliating him in their previous battle. Hashirama arrived to face Madara, but Madara told him to wait while he settled his grudge with Mizuki Ember first.

• Madara recalled using Izanagi to survive his battle with Soji and swore to defeat Mizuki Ember if he was still alive when Madara returned.
• Soji greeted Madara while hiding his alarm, and Madara eagerly challenged him to settle their old grudge.
• Nagato questioned how Madara and Mizuki Ember knew each other and privately decided he would deal with Madara after the other threats were gone.
• Hashirama arrived, and he and Madara called each other’s names as Soji and Nagato stood aside.
• Madara interrupted Hashirama and told him to get in line while he fought Mizuki Ember first.

Soji, disguised as Mizuki Ember, accepted Madara Uchiha’s challenge while Hashirama Senju faced Nagato and the Ten-Tails. Soji and Madara began an evenly matched taijutsu battle that left the surrounding area caught in a sandstorm.

• Hashirama Senju recognized Mizuki Ember and agreed to face Nagato and the Ten-Tails after Madara Uchiha chose Soji as his opponent.
• Soji warned Hashirama Senju about Nagato and the Ten-Tails, and Hashirama expressed interest in sparring with Mizuki Ember later.
• Hashirama Senju moved to confront Nagato and the Ten-Tails, while Soji and Madara Uchiha prepared to fight.
• Soji and Madara Uchiha charged at each other and traded matching punches and kicks.
• Their intense taijutsu exchange raised a sandstorm, which their next clash tore apart.

Soji and Madara Uchiha resumed their battle, each concealing some of his strength as they tested one another. After Madara Uchiha declared that Mizuki Ember was merely a mortal in an era without him, Soji used Ice Surface Shift to land a sudden uppercut and send him flying.

• Madara Uchiha praised his clash with Soji but regretted that his Reanimation Body had no flesh or blood, and the two charged at each other again.
• Soji and Madara Uchiha collided Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation with Ice Release: Ice Breath, causing a massive explosion that drew the attention of nearby fighters.
• Madara Uchiha became angry when he thought Soji was holding back, but Soji pointed out that Madara was concealing his own power too.
• Madara Uchiha challenged Soji to fight without restraint and declared that Mizuki Ember was merely a mortal born in an era without him.
• Soji used Ice Surface Shift to appear beneath Madara Uchiha and uppercut him, sending him flying.

Soji and Madara Uchiha escalated their fight with competing Ice Release and Wood Release, while Madara used Hashirama Senju's cells to create a vast forest. Nagato then copied Madara's Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence against Hashirama Senju, who blamed Tobirama Senju for spreading his cells.

• Soji landed an uppercut on Madara Uchiha, who admitted he had been careless and explained that he had mistaken Soji's improved Ice Surface Shift for its former, more predictable version.
• Madara Uchiha and Soji resumed their fight with Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence and Ice Release: Ice Age, creating opposing forests and seas of ice.
• Madara Uchiha used Wood Release to keep Soji from turning the battlefield into an icy terrain that favored his movement technique.
• Hashirama Senju sensed his cells in Madara Uchiha and worried that Madara had mastered Wood Release while Hashirama fought the Ten-Tails.
• Nagato used the same Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence against Hashirama Senju, who retreated and blamed Tobirama Senju for researching and spreading his cells.

Hashirama Senju countered Nagato and the Ten-Tails with Flower Tree World Descent, then entered Sage Mode when the technique proved ineffective against the Ten-Tails. As his battle with Nagato continued, Madara Uchiha escalated his fight with Soji by sending twenty-five Wood Clones piloting massive Susanoo “Gundams.”

• Hashirama Senju realized that the spread of Wood Release came from research into his cells by Tobirama Senju, Danzo, Orochimaru, Madara Uchiha, and Soji.
• Hashirama Senju used Flower Tree World Descent to overwhelm Nagato’s sea of trees, but the Ten-Tails crushed the trees and resisted their effects.
• Hashirama Senju entered Sage Mode and began fighting Nagato and the Ten-Tails at full power, though they retained the advantage.
• Madara Uchiha created twenty-five Wood Clones and sent them into Soji’s icy territory.
• Madara Uchiha’s Wood Clones each activated a fourth-stage Susanoo, forming towering “Gundams” over a hundred meters tall.

Madara Uchiha summoned twenty-five Wood Clones with fourth-stage Susanoo, terrifying the Allied Forces and shocking the Uchiha. Soji remained calm and destroyed all twenty-five Susanoo in one strike, leaving Madara facing his counterattack.

• Madara Uchiha had twenty-five Wood Clones activate fourth-stage Susanoo, alarming the Allied Forces and impressing the Uchiha watching the battle.
• Uchiha Homura encouraged Fugaku Uchiha to focus on the Allied Forces’ fight, and Fugaku resolved to hand the Clan Head position to Itachi after the war.
• Itachi asked Shisui about the masked man’s identity, but Shisui admitted he had believed the man was Madara Uchiha and had investigated only his objectives.
• Obito realized Madara Uchiha had concealed the ability of Wood Clones to use Susanoo and resolved to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki to take revenge.
• Sasuke recognized the gap between his Susanoo mastery and Madara Uchiha’s, while Soji calmly challenged Madara’s clones.
• Soji used Dance of the Emerging Ferns to pierce all twenty-five fourth-stage Susanoo in a single strike.

Soji used Dance of the Emerging Ferns to destroy Madara Uchiha’s twenty-five Stage Four Susanoo in one attack, shocking the battlefield and making Madara recognize him as an equal. Madara then summoned his Complete Body Susanoo and prepared to face Soji at full strength.

• Soji’s ice-blue bone forest destroyed Madara Uchiha’s twenty-five Stage Four Susanoo and the Wood Clones inside them in a single blow.
• Madara Uchiha reassessed Soji’s strength and speculated that Mizuki Ember was descended from the Yuki Clan and Kaguya Clan.
• The Yuki Clan, Kaguya Clan, and Kirigakure shinobi took pride in Soji’s display, while Kaguya Sora and Kaguya Mei privately noted that Mizuki Ember actually came from Konoha’s Hyuga Clan.
• Soji told Madara Uchiha that he had underestimated him, while privately recognizing that the attack had consumed roughly twenty percent of his Chakra.
• Madara Uchiha admitted his mistake, unleashed his Dojutsu Power, and summoned his Complete Body Susanoo, which stood over two hundred and forty meters tall.

Madara Uchiha summoned his Complete Body Susanoo and cleaved through Soji’s ice-and-bone forest, then challenged Soji to stop holding back. Soji entered Sage Mode and unleashed a wide-area ice technique, leaving Madara confident he would crush Soji’s next move.

• Madara Uchiha summoned his Complete Body Susanoo and cut through Soji’s ice-blue bone forest with a single sword strike.
• Shinobi watching the battle recognized Mizuki Ember, Hashirama Senju, and Madara Uchiha as legends, Nagato as closest to legend, and Obito as a formidable unknown.
• Madara Uchiha urged Mizuki Ember to reveal his full strength, and Soji entered Sage Mode.
• Hashirama Senju sensed Soji’s Sage Mode while continuing to fight Nagato and the Ten-Tails.
• Soji used Sage Art: Ice Release—Ice Snow Great World across a range of roughly eight kilometers, and Madara Uchiha prepared to counter his next move.

Soji completed Sage Art: Ice Release—Snow Country Manifestation, revealing an armored Frost Warrior that made Madara Uchiha regret underestimating him. Their colossal constructs began fighting, and Madara launched a powerful Fire Release attack at Soji.

• Soji created the Ice Snow Palace and summoned a Frost Warrior far stronger and more lifelike than the one Madara Uchiha remembered.
• Madara Uchiha admitted that he regretted letting Soji complete the technique, then said he would reserve a place for Soji in Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Soji rejected Madara Uchiha’s plan, and the Frost Warrior and Complete Body Susanoo clashed with their weapons.
• Soji and Madara Uchiha joined the battle directly as their constructs fought, and Madara attacked Soji with Fire Release—Dragon Flame Song Technique.

Soji fought Madara Uchiha while their colossal constructs battled in the Land of Wind, using Ice Release to withstand Madara’s attacks and displaying his ability to elementalize his body. The clash left the Frost Warrior split in two and Madara’s Complete Body Susanoo missing an arm.

• Soji blocked Madara Uchiha’s four Dragon Flame Song fire dragons with an Ice Release curtain, then crushed the weakened last dragon with an elementalized hand.
• Soji and Madara Uchiha continued fighting as the Frost Warrior and Complete Body Susanoo devastated the surrounding forest and desert.
• Hashirama Senju attacked Nagato and the Ten-Tails, using his strength to make the thousand-meter beast stagger while Nagato relied on it to defend himself.
• Madara Uchiha’s Complete Body Susanoo slashed the Frost Warrior in half as Soji dispersed into snow and reappeared atop the Susanoo’s head.
• The Frost Warrior severed the Susanoo’s left arm before its two halves crashed to the ground, and the damaged Susanoo vanished.

Soji shattered Madara Uchiha’s Complete Body Susanoo with Sage Art—Nine Forms of Void Strike, but the Reanimation Body quickly recovered. Madara then revealed his Rinnegan, leaving Soji to face a newly empowered opponent.

• Soji struck the Complete Body Susanoo with Sage Art—Nine Forms of Void Strike and shattered it with one punch.
• Madara Uchiha’s Reanimation Body recovered after the attack peeled away some of its Netherworld matter.
• A new Frost Warrior emerged from the Snow Country Palace’s tornado, while Madara declined to summon his Complete Body Susanoo again.
• Madara Uchiha told Soji that he had not yet revealed his full strength and began unleashing more Dojutsu Power.
• Madara’s Mangekyō Sharingan transformed into a pair of Rinnegan.

Madara Uchiha revealed that he possessed the Rinnegan, unsettling Nagato and Hashirama Senju and raising their suspicions about his past. While both prepared to defeat their opponents before intervening in the other battle, Madara challenged Soji, who remained unfazed as Madara began his attack.

• The Ten-Tails paused when it sensed Madara Uchiha's Rinnegan, and Hashirama Senju used the opening to retreat his Wood Human.
• Nagato realized Madara Uchiha could influence the Ten-Tails and reconsidered his belief that he was the Ninja World's chosen one, but he decided not to attack Madara yet.
• Hashirama Senju reasoned that Madara must have awakened the Rinnegan before his death and wondered what schemes he had carried out after faking his death.
• Nagato and Hashirama resolved to defeat their opponents quickly so they could intervene in the other battlefield.
• Madara Uchiha questioned why Soji was not surprised by his Rinnegan, and Soji replied that he would defeat any enemy regardless of their Dojutsu.
• Madara Uchiha raised his hand and shouted, "Tengai Shinsei!"

Soji used the Snow Country Palace’s collapse to swallow Madara Uchiha’s first Tengai Shinsei meteor, then shattered the second with Gentle Fist: Ultimate Secret Technique—Air Quake. As Soji and Madara focused on each other, an unknown third meteor streaked toward the ground.

• The Frost Warrior held back Madara Uchiha’s first meteor until it shattered, and the collapsing Snow Country Palace swallowed the meteor and its impact.
• Madara Uchiha summoned a second, larger meteor and noticed the dangerous chakra gathering on Soji’s fist.
• Soji leaped into the air and used Gentle Fist: Ultimate Secret Technique—Air Quake to pulverize the second meteor.
• An unknown third meteor, sent by someone other than Madara Uchiha, continued falling toward the ground unnoticed.

Toneri grew uneasy as the Fourth Shinobi World War’s powerful fighters threatened his plans, then interfered in Soji’s battle with Madara Uchiha by sending a third meteor toward them. Soji and Madara both recognized that an unknown force had changed the battle, and neither knew who was responsible.

• Toneri watched the war from the moon and decided to kill one of the strongest fighters to reduce the threat to himself.
• As night fell, an unknown presence sealed within the moon stirred, but neither Toneri nor the fighters in the Ninja World noticed it.
• When Madara Uchiha used Tengai Shinsei against Soji, Toneri controlled a meteor from outer space and sent it after the two meteors Madara had summoned.
• Soji shattered Madara’s second meteor, then spotted the unexpected third meteor falling toward him.
• Madara Uchiha and Soji both suspected an unknown force had caused the third meteor, and Madara refrained from attacking while wary of the interference.

Soji used Sage Art: Ice Release—Rotating Ice Lotus to stop Madara Uchiha’s unexpected third meteorite, recalling a similar clash during Konoha’s Nine-Tails Attack. The Third Hokage and the elders recognized Mizuki Ember’s connection to that past battle but agreed not to pursue suspicions while the Allied Forces faced the Fourth Ninja World War; Soji ended the chapter exhausted, with his Chakra supply nearly depleted.

• Soji mobilized Sage Chakra and raised an ice lotus to intercept the third meteorite before it struck the ground.
• The Third Hokage and Mitokado Homura recognized the ice lotus from the secret clash during the Nine-Tails Attack and concluded Mizuki Ember had been involved.
• Utatane Koharu questioned whether Mizuki Ember and Kirigakure had been connected to the Nine-Tails Attack, but the Third Hokage and Mitokado Homura urged her to leave the matter alone during the war.
• Soji’s ice lotus blocked the meteorite, froze it, and dissolved it into ice crystals high in the sky.
• Soji gasped from exhaustion as the Reincarnation Mirror’s Chakra supply struggled to keep up with his consumption.

After exhausting himself blocking a third meteor, Soji faced Madara Uchiha, who was wary of the unknown attacker and reluctant to resume their fight. Soji identified Otsutsuki Toneri on the moon as the culprit and told Madara about the Moon Otsutsuki Clan, leaving Madara alarmed that they could disrupt his plans.

• Soji struggled to recover after teleporting to the battlefield and using a series of powerful techniques against Nagato, the Ten-Tails, and Madara Uchiha.
• Madara approached Soji but held back, wary that the person who had summoned the third meteor might exploit another fight between them.
• Soji called out Madara's caution, and Madara asked who Soji suspected had sent the meteor.
• Soji identified Otsutsuki Toneri on the moon as the culprit and explained the Moon Otsutsuki Clan to Madara.
• Madara grew alarmed that the clan could interfere with Infinite Tsukuyomi, while Soji intended to turn Madara against Toneri.