Chapter Summaries

Madara confronted Hashirama after being resurrected, freed himself from Impure World Reincarnation, and attacked the Kage. Hashirama explained that a powerful organization had conquered the Five Great Nations, leaving Madara stunned to learn that no one had died even though villages had been destroyed.

• Madara demanded to know why Hashirama possessed his Rinnegan and accused him of disrupting the Shinobi World.
• Madara released himself from Impure World Reincarnation and mocked the restricted Kage.
• Madara’s chakra shock wave overwhelmed the Kage until Hashirama blocked it with Wood Release.
• Hashirama told Madara that an evil organization had conquered the Five Great Nations in less than a month.
• Madara asked how many people had died, and the Raikage said no one had died, though their village had been razed and he and his brother had been crippled.

Madara learned that the Uchiha Clan had vanished after the Nine-Tails' Attack, which he realized he had indirectly caused. He left the gathered fighters to pursue his own goal while Hashirama led them toward the Hidden Mist Village to rescue the abducted children.

• Madara erupted in anger upon learning that Hashirama had received the Ten-Tails and Rinnegan, and demanded to know what had happened to the Uchiha Clan.
• Itachi told Madara that the Uchiha Clan had disappeared, and the Third Hokage explained that the village had suspected them after the Nine-Tails' Attack.
• Madara realized the clan had taken the blame for an attack he had orchestrated, then vanished to pursue his own business.
• Hashirama let Madara go and ordered the fighters to head for the Hidden Mist Village to rescue the children of the Land of Water.
• Madara met Black Zetsu outside the Rain Village and set out to reclaim the other eye that belonged to him.

Madara met with Black Zetsu, learned what had happened, and wrestled with doubts about the stone tablet and the Empire before recommitting to creating peace himself. Meanwhile, Nagato sensed Madara’s thousand-man army entering the Rain Village and prepared to destroy it with Konan’s explosive-tag formation.

• Madara contacted Black Zetsu, who told him that Obito had died and Nagato had made Hashirama the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Madara instructed Black Zetsu to carry out a mission and asked what he thought of the Empire.
• Black Zetsu warned Madara that the Empire might intend to exploit or consume the Shinobi World and urged him to trust the Uchiha stone tablet’s promise of peace.
• Madara questioned whether the tablet’s teachings could be trusted, thought of Izuna and his father, then resolved to create peace himself rather than trust others.
• Nagato sensed a thousand-man army entering the Rain Village and told Konan to lure them into the formation of sixty trillion Exploding Tags.

Madara confronted Nagato and forced him to use the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to revive him. Madara regained his living body and tested its healing power, while the foreign invasion remained the threat ahead.

• Madara revealed himself to Nagato as the leader of the Eye of the Moon Plan and demanded the return of his Rinnegan.
• Nagato resisted Madara, but Black Zetsu merged with him and Madara forced him to form the seals for the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique.
• Nagato reflected on his past and struggled with whether Madara's revival might help the Shinobi World resist the invasion.
• The Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique transferred Nagato's vitality to Madara and restored Madara's body.
• Madara bit his arm, watched the wound heal, and nodded at Black Zetsu.

Madara and Obito prepared to deploy the White Zetsu army after Obito warned him about a powerful world beyond the Eye of the Moon Plan. In Rain Village, Nagato tried to draw the enemy away from Konan, while Konan confronted her counterpart from another world and declared her intent to kill her.

• Madara restored his vision with Nagato's eye, then left with Obito and ordered him to bring out the eighty thousand White Zetsu beneath the God Tree.
• Obito asked whether a better world than the Eye of the Moon Plan existed and described what he had encountered; Madara rejected relying on Hashirama and insisted he would create his own world.
• Nagato feared Konan had failed to stop the invaders, so he unleashed a display of chakra to draw the enemy toward him, bleeding from his eyes as he did so.
• Hashirama and the others arrived outside Hidden Mist Village, and Hashirama suspected that something had happened to Nagato.
• Konan, standing before Yahiko in her paper-angel form, met the Konan from another world and told her, "I came to... kill you!"

Nan and the Rain Village ninjas captured Konan and extracted her memories, revealing the grim fate of her world. As Konan recovered, a terrifying surge of Chakra erupted from the building where Nagato was.

• Konan attacked Nan’s group with Paper Release, but Yahiko stopped her paper needles with Water Release infused with special Chakra.
• Nan bound Konan with Paper Release and handed her to a Rain Village ninja who used a technique to extract her memories onto paper.
• Yahiko and Nan learned that Yahiko’s variant had died and Nagato lived beneath the Ten-Tails’ body.
• Nan sent Chakra into the severely injured Konan, who realized the group had seen her memories.
• A terrifying Chakra surged from the central building where Nagato was.

Yahiko persuaded Konan to bring Rain Village into the Empire by promising to save Nagato, who had been left near death. Konan accepted and began learning about the Empire, while Yahiko returned to prepare for their wedding.

• Konan learned Nagato was in danger, and Yahiko released her after explaining that he had not sent anyone to ambush him.
• Konan and Yahiko found Nagato near death, and Konan begged Yahiko to save him in exchange for Rain Village joining the Empire.
• Yahiko agreed to save Nagato if Konan helped bring Rain Village into the Empire, then returned to the Empire and left Konan in command.
• Konan promised to help the Empire take control of Rain Village, which would become Rain Province, and asked Konan to tell her about the Empire.
• Yahiko and Konan planned to return home and get married after the situation was settled.

Konan struggled to process the suggestion that she could marry Yahiko and return to a happier past. In the Hidden Mist, Hashirama's group investigated children taken by the Empire and discovered their lessons had been implanted through Genjutsu, while Tobirama found a cave containing Genjutsu remnants and books before an unknown figure appeared.

• Konan reeled at the thought of marrying Yahiko and returning, while another Konan reflected that they might not have arrived too late.
• Kakashi reported that the Empire had roughly two hundred thousand Jonin-level soldiers, four Six Paths-level individuals, and a Cross-Dimensional Channel somewhere in their world; Hashirama decided to clear the enemies from the Land of Water.
• Chōjūrō brought Hashirama and the others to Nannan's family, where Minato examined Nannan and learned she had attended an Empire school that taught her new ideas.
• Hashirama's group investigated the village and learned that many children had returned from similar lessons; Tobirama concluded that Genjutsu had implanted the knowledge in their memories.
• The group found the school deserted, and Tobirama followed traces to a hidden cave, where he found Genjutsu formations and books before an eerie-eyed figure entered.

Nagato defeated Tobirama with Almighty Pull and a Black Receiver, then faced Hashirama while summoning his full array of beasts and machines. Minato rescued Tobirama, and Hashirama shattered the Black Receivers as the battle escalated.

• Nagato used Almighty Pull to seize Tobirama, sealed his Chakra with a Black Receiver, and knocked him down.
• Hashirama attacked Nagato, while Minato rescued Tobirama and carried him away from the battlefield.
• Nagato recognized that he needed to stall for Teacher Jiraiya and challenged Hashirama to test the strongest fighters in their world.
• Nagato summoned six contracted beasts, two mechanical puppets, and the King of Hell.
• Hashirama broke the Black Receivers that had restrained Minato and prepared to fight Nagato.

Nagato overwhelmed Minato, Itachi, and the assembled Kage-level fighters while the others struggled against his summoned creatures. As Ōnoki flew to destroy the Giant Bird, Nagato sensed Naruto approaching and told him to wait so he could first fight Hashirama.

• Minato attacked Nagato with Flying Thunder God and a Rasengan, but Nagato absorbed the attack with the Preta Path and hurled him away.
• Nagato effortlessly repelled the Kage-level fighters’ ninjutsu while two Asura Path Gundams kept Itachi occupied and escaped the Sword of Totsuka after the Hell King restored one of them.
• The summoned beasts fought Minato, Tobirama, the Hokage, and the other shinobi; Minato realized the creatures shared the Giant Bird’s field of vision.
• Ōnoki flew toward the Giant Bird and used Dust Release, astonishing himself with the strength of his power.
• Nagato sensed Naruto approaching and told him to wait while he exchanged blows with Hashirama.

Hashirama unleashed Sage Art: True Several Thousand Hands and overwhelmed Nagato’s summons and mechanized suits with Wood Release. Nagato remained determined and prepared his strongest technique, Six Paths Modified: Planetary Devastation, to seal Hashirama and extract his soul and Chakra.

• Hashirama summoned the towering Thousand-Armed Kannon Wood Buddha, leaving the other Kage terrified by its power.
• Hashirama used Wood Release: Binding to destroy Nagato’s six Summoning Animals and immobilize the two Asura Path mechanized suits.
• Nagato recognized the vast gap between his power and Hashirama’s, but stayed excited and continued the battle.
• Nagato formed hand seals and prepared Six Paths Modified: Planetary Devastation, an enhanced technique designed to seal Hashirama and extract his soul and Chakra.

Hashirama sealed Nagato, but Naruto and Sasuke arrived from another world and freed Nagato with Sasuke's Rinnegan. Minato learned that Naruto had been sent to reunite with his family, though the chapter left his own son's fate unresolved.

• Hashirama used the Wood Buddha's sealing power to defeat Nagato, who admitted defeat.
• Naruto and Sasuke appeared inside Nagato's barrier, and Sasuke's ocular power shattered its ninjutsu and Genjutsu.
• The Third Hokage identified Naruto and Sasuke as variants from another world, prompting Minato to ask where his son was.
• Naruto explained that his variant had been sent to another world to reunite with his family.

Naruto sealed Minato in a Truth-Seeking Orb after Minato accused the Empire of killing his son, Naruto, and refused to believe he was alive. Hashirama intervened and attacked, leaving Naruto and Sasuke preparing to fight him.

• Minato concluded that Naruto was dead and attacked Naruto, believing he had replaced his own son.
• Naruto insisted that his Naruto was alive and offered to take Minato to the Empire to see for himself.
• Naruto trapped Minato inside an Eight Trigrams Truth-Seeking Orb and absorbed it into his body.
• Hashirama appeared as a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki with a Rinnegan and demanded Naruto release Minato.
• Hashirama attacked Naruto, who dodged, activated Sage Mode, and called to Sasuke to prepare for battle.

Naruto and Sasuke fought Hashirama with their Six Paths powers while Hashirama held back some strength in case Nagato attacked. Unable to help his brother, Tobirama came up with a technique and began to use it.

• Sasuke activated Six Paths Mode, awakened the Rinnegan, and joined Naruto to challenge Hashirama.
• Naruto and Sasuke combined their speed, space-shifting, and Genjutsu to counter Hashirama’s powerful attacks.
• Hashirama seized an opening and launched a massive ninjutsu, but Naruto raised a Truth-Seeking Orb barrier while Sasuke neutralized the assault.
• Hashirama remained wary of Nagato, who watched from hiding without joining the fight.
• Tobirama searched for a way to help Hashirama, then announced, “Steel ox... Devouring twist!”

Tobirama devised a dangerous technique to transfer chakra to Hashirama, helping him overpower Naruto and Sasuke. Just as Hashirama prepared to finish the fight, Jiraiya appeared and erased his Wood Release techniques.

• Tobirama tested a Taotie-inspired technique with Shadow Clones and used it to send chakra from himself and the others to Hashirama, severely damaging his own body.
• Hashirama absorbed the chakra and pressed his attack, while Naruto distracted him and struck him with a Great Sun Rasengan that broke through his Wood Release defenses.
• Hashirama recovered the Thousand-Armed Buddha's arm and shield, then unleashed an overwhelming wave of Wood Release techniques against Naruto and Sasuke.
• Jiraiya appeared in the sky, and his white hair absorbed chakra as his presence caused Hashirama's Wood Release techniques to turn to dust.
• The gathered fighters were stunned and frightened by Jiraiya's immense aura, and they wondered who he was.

Jiraiya offered the defeated shinobi submission to the Empire, then demonstrated his Singularity Rasengan and announced a new order ruled by the people. After Hashirama and the other resisters were killed, Madara despaired at the Empire’s overwhelming power but felt some anticipation about its promise to protect their world.

• Jiraiya asked Hashirama and the assembled shinobi to submit to the Empire, but Hashirama refused and Jiraiya prepared his Singularity Rasengan.
• Kakashi surrendered first, while the Raikage and Ōnoki refused; Jiraiya sent a signal that activated Imperial drones and projections across the Shinobi World.
• Jiraiya declared the end of the shinobi village system and the beginning of rule by the people, then killed everyone except Kakashi and gave Sasuke a strand of his white hair.
• Madara learned that Hashirama and the Ten-Tails had been absorbed into Jiraiya’s hair and considered abandoning the fight with Obito.
• Jiraiya promised that the Empire would protect the Shinobi World from threats beyond the universe, and a strand of his white hair shot into the sky.

Jiraiya used Sage Jutsu to travel to the moon, where he confronted Otsutsuki Toneri and accused his people of plotting to destroy the Shinobi World. Their fight began with Jiraiya overpowering Toneri, who prepared to use another technique.

• Jiraiya crossed the distance from the Shinobi World to the moon with Sage Art: Hair's-Breadth—Moon Realm Traversal.
• Jiraiya examined the lunar buildings before Otsutsuki Toneri appeared and demanded to know who he was.
• Jiraiya identified himself as the Empire's First Sage and accused Toneri's people of guarding evil entities and planning to destroy the Shinobi World.
• Toneri denied the accusations and attacked Jiraiya with Chakra arms.
• Jiraiya dodged Toneri's attack and struck him hard enough to make him cough blood.
• Toneri said he lacked the power to perform one technique and decided to use another.

Jiraiya survived Otsutsuki Toneri’s attack, resealed Kaguya, and defeated Toneri while the Shinobi World and Empire reacted to the battle. In the Empire, Yahiko brought the dying Nagato to Tsunade, who revealed a new technique that might save him.

• Otsutsuki Toneri’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion struck a Jiraiya substitute, while Jiraiya resealed Kaguya inside the moon’s core.
• Madara Uchiha questioned whether shinobi alone could bring peace, and he said he wanted to visit the Empire.
• Jiraiya bound and crushed Otsutsuki Toneri after Toneri exhausted his Chakra.
• Orochimaru considered joining the Empire so he could study powerful beings and pursue immortality.
• Yahiko brought Nagato to Tsunade for treatment, and Tsunade introduced her new Self-Life Revival Ninjutsu.

Uchiha Senju reflected on the Empire’s victory, then traveled to Ninja World 64 as the God Tree opened a passage between worlds and amplified his power. There, he and his allies confronted Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, who had transformed from a monk, while Naruto and Sasuke prepared to fight him.

• Uchiha Senju watched news of the Empire’s victory and resolved to protect the peace he had helped secure.
• The God Tree awakened after the Ten-Tails shell was extracted and opened a passage between the two worlds, greatly increasing the power flowing into Uchiha Senju.
• Uchiha Senju chose to grow stronger cautiously, while Kakashi restrained Guy and took responsibility for explaining it to his variant.
• Imperial forces searched the Land of Fire for anomalies as Uchiha Senju, Jiraiya, Nagato, Naruto, and Sasuke arrived at a temple where a monk transformed into Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Jiraiya told Naruto and Sasuke to take the lead against Isshiki, who awakened, assessed the assembled opponents, and suspected Naruto and Sasuke were descendants of Kaguya.

Naruto and Sasuke defeated Ōtsutsuki Isshiki with a series of combined attacks, destroying his Karma and body. Uchiha Senju then discussed Kaguya’s fate with Jiraiya and proposed sending her to the Empire’s fusion experiments.

• Naruto and Sasuke fought Isshiki, broke through his Karma space-time prison, and temporarily knocked him down.
• Isshiki revived his power with black markings, but Naruto and Sasuke combined their strength and destroyed his Karma.
• Naruto’s Sage Art: Rasengan ground Isshiki to pieces, and he vanished as Uchiha Senju applauded.
• Uchiha Senju inspected the world with Jiraiya and asked whether Kaguya was still on the moon.
• Uchiha Senju proposed that Kaguya try the Empire’s fusion experiments because she and another variant both carried Ōtsutsuki Bloodline.