Chapter Summaries

Raikage Ai charged to rescue Killer B, but Obito stopped him with a genjutsu while Black Zetsu prepared to make Obito the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki. The chapter left Uchiha Madara’s revival unresolved as the Ninja Allied Forces advanced.

• Raikage Ai saw the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path dragging Killer B toward its mouth and rushed to save him.
• Rasa confronted Jiraiya about Konoha’s role in the war, but they agreed to focus on stopping the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Obito questioned Black Zetsu about Uchiha Asuka’s motives, and Black Zetsu told him to absorb the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails.
• Obito intercepted Raikage Ai and trapped him in the Demonic Illusion Shackling Stake Technique.
• Black Zetsu suggested making Obito the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki before giving him the other Rinnegan eye.

Hashirama Senju confronted Uchiha Madara over the truth behind their battle at the Valley of the End, then resolved to stop Madara’s Infinite Tsukuyomi plan. Their fight began as Hashirama unleashed Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence.

• Hashirama Senju hesitated to fight Uchiha Madara, and Senju Tobirama explained that Hashirama believed Madara had wanted his power rather than Konoha’s destruction.
• Hashirama Senju asked Uchiha Madara whether he had used the Nine-Tails attack to lure him into a fight and take his power.
• Uchiha Madara attacked Hashirama Senju with Susanoo and said he would have pursued Infinite Tsukuyomi regardless of how their earlier battle ended.
• Hashirama Senju rose from the rubble, rejected the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and argued that hardship had shaped their lives and shared dream.
• Hashirama Senju brought his palms together and used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to transform the battlefield into a vast forest.

Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara resumed their battle, with Hashirama recognizing that Impure World Reincarnation limited Madara’s Rinnegan powers. Their enormous constructs clashed as the assembled ninjas watched in awe.

• Hashirama Senju bound Susanoo with Wood Release, but Madara broke free and charged at him.
• Hashirama judged that he had a sixty percent chance of defeating Madara because Impure World Reincarnation restricted the Rinnegan’s power.
• Madara blew away Hashirama’s poisonous pollen with Susanoo’s wings and questioned how much strength Hashirama was hiding.
• Madara attacked with Great Fire Annihilation, and Hashirama summoned a Wood Human that smashed the fireball apart.
• Susanoo descended on the Wood Human, and the watching ninjas fell silent at the clash between the two giants.

Hashirama and Madara continued their battle while Obito absorbed the Eight-Tails and prepared to seal the Nine-Tails. The clash left Obito convinced that Hashirama and Madara’s strength approached that of the Six Paths Sage.

• Hashirama trapped Madara’s Susanoo with wooden hands, but Madara broke free and declared that their battle could shatter the Land of Lightning.
• Tobirama warned Hashirama that Obito had finished absorbing the Eight-Tails, and Hashirama turned his attention toward the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Obito announced that only the Nine-Tails remained, while Kakashi charged the statue and was knocked away by its swinging leg.
• Obito dismissed Kakashi and told Spiral Zetsu to prepare for the Nine-Tails’ sealing, prompting Spiral Zetsu to lament its sacrifice for the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan.
• Madara and Hashirama exchanged powerful attacks, and Obito realized he could not defeat either of them.

Obito planned to absorb the Ten-Tails and use overwhelming power to carry out the Infinite Tsukuyomi, while the Allied Forces continued attacking the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Black Zetsu fed Spiral Zetsu to the statue, and Spiral Zetsu silently warned Uchiha Madara that his will was not truly his own.

• Obito considered how to complete the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan and watched the Allied Forces attack the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Obito ordered Spiral Zetsu to let the statue absorb the Nine-Tails' Chakra, but Spiral Zetsu instead cheered for Uchiha Madara.
• Black Zetsu kicked Spiral Zetsu toward the statue, whose chains bound it and dragged it toward its mouth.
• Spiral Zetsu recalled its fascination with the urge to defecate and its time with Madara, who promised to revive it.
• Spiral Zetsu mouthed a warning to Madara that his will was not actually his own.

The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path absorbed Spiral Zetsu and began transforming as Kakashi confronted Uchiha Obito over Rin's death and the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan. Obito rejected the idea of simply reviving Rin, and the statue emerged as the Ten-Tails.

• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path absorbed Spiral Zetsu, broke its chains, and writhed as its power rose.
• Kakashi approached Uchiha Obito, recognized him, and asked why he had not returned to Konoha.
• Obito blamed Kakashi for watching Rin die and doing nothing, while Kakashi admitted he had failed to protect her.
• Guy urged Kakashi to focus on stopping Obito, and Yuhi Kurenai argued that Impure World Reincarnation could revive Rin.
• Obito said he wanted a world with Rin in it rather than simply reviving her, then sent chakra into the statue as it transformed into the Ten-Tails.

The Ten-Tails appeared and charged toward the Ninja Allied Forces, prompting Hashirama Senju to leave his fight with Uchiha Madara and confront it. Madara let him go, but Spiral Zetsu’s final words made him suspect that his own will might belong to someone else.

• Senju Tobirama counted the Ten-Tails’ tails and noticed its eye developing tomoe as he assessed Madara’s strength against Hashirama’s.
• The Ten-Tails charged toward the Ninja Allied Forces, and Hashirama Senju paused his battle with Uchiha Madara to stop it.
• Madara dismissed a White Zetsu body’s concern and said Hashirama could only restrain the Ten-Tails before Madara defeated him.
• The White Zetsu body left to find Black Zetsu, while Madara recalled Spiral Zetsu mouthing, “My will is not my will,” before the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path swallowed it.
• Madara wondered whose will he had been following as he watched Senju Tobirama warily.

Asuka and Indra discovered that the stone tablet Uchiha Madara trusted had been altered to attribute the Infinite Tsukuyomi and a path to peace to the Six Paths Sage. Indra resolved to expose the deception and clear his father’s name.

• Uchiha Madara reflected on Spiral Zetsu’s words, then reaffirmed his belief that the tablet’s teachings and Infinite Tsukuyomi could bring peace.
• Asuka told Indra that Madara’s tablet described combining Senju and Uchiha powers and using the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Indra said the tablet he remembered his father leaving contained none of those teachings and that he had discarded it after his father’s death.
• Indra explained that his conflict with Asura and their father stemmed from their failure to find a way to bring peace to the Ninja World.
• Indra sensed Madara’s Chakra resembled his own and concluded that someone was using his father’s name to promote false teachings, so he vowed to clear his father’s name.

Indra temporarily took over Uchiha Asuka’s body and told Uchiha Madara about the Six Paths Sage’s stone tablet and the truth behind awakening the Rinnegan. He left Madara questioning the Uchiha tablet’s origins and considering Indra’s account of his father and Asura.

• Indra revealed himself to Uchiha Madara through Uchiha Asuka and said he had temporarily helped Asuka awaken the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Indra explained that his chakra had persisted after death and attached itself to descendants, while Madara searched his own body for it.
• Indra said the Six Paths Sage had given him a stone tablet, but he had thrown it into the sea, and he did not know whether it was the same tablet kept beneath the Uchiha Shrine.
• Indra described the discarded tablet as a warning against blindly pursuing power and relying on individual strength, then told Madara that both he and Asura had known how to awaken the Rinnegan.
• Indra said the Six Paths Sage had sought to protect the Ninja World and that he would never harm Asura or pass down a method requiring Asura’s suffering for power.

As the Ten-Tails appeared and the moon turned red, Uchiha Madara explained to Uchiha Asuka and Indra how his reflections on the shinobi world led him to question the Infinite Tsukuyomi. He left them considering whether the Six Paths Sage had truly intended the Uchiha to find and use the plan.

• Senju Tobirama watched Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Asuka from a distance, then noticed the Ten-Tails and the crimson moon.
• Senju Tobirama realized Uchiha Madara seemed stronger than Hashirama and wondered whether the Akatsuki leader’s claimed revival ability could matter.
• Uchiha Madara recounted how his reflections led him to build a village with Hashirama, leave Konoha, and question whether villages had ended war.
• Uchiha Madara told Uchiha Asuka and Indra that he had found the Infinite Tsukuyomi on the stone tablet but considered it too extreme and riddled with flaws.
• Uchiha Madara argued that the Six Paths Sage’s peaceful ideals conflicted with leaving the Infinite Tsukuyomi tablet to the Uchiha, whose powerful Sharingan could belong to a cold-hearted person who had lost everything.

Asuka and Indra learned that Uchiha Madara had long doubted the stone tablet and had pursued the Rinnegan more than Infinite Tsukuyomi at first. Madara explained how the wars he witnessed convinced him that lasting peace was impossible without the illusionary world, and he remained convinced that the plan itself was right.

• Asuka and Indra realized Uchiha Madara was intelligent enough to notice flaws in the stone tablet and had not simply believed its plan.
• Uchiha Madara explained that he first sought to awaken the Rinnegan and had once wanted to destroy Konoha to oppose the shinobi village system.
• Uchiha Madara recounted how Hashirama’s killing intent at the Valley of the End changed his resolve, and how he later obtained Hashirama’s flesh.
• Uchiha Madara described witnessing the First Shinobi World War and concluded that the village system had expanded war and exposed children to violence.
• Uchiha Madara said he had used Tsukuyomi to give dying people peaceful illusions and insisted that Infinite Tsukuyomi could end war and sacrifice.

Uchiha Madara acknowledged that the stone tablet and its Infinite Tsukuyomi plan might be part of a conspiracy, but chose to wait and see how the plan ended. As the Ten-Tails prepared to fire at the Ninja Allied Forces, Hashirama Senju and Senju Tobirama faced it.

• Uchiha Madara told Uchiha Asuka that the tablet's instructions had proved true, but he suspected its author was not the Six Paths Sage and might have deceived him.
• Uchiha Madara said he would let events unfold rather than fight Uchiha Obito for control of the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• The Ten-Tails roared and began gathering an enormous Tailed Beast Bomb aimed at the Ninja Allied Forces.
• The ninjas lost hope as they saw the attack and prepared for death.
• Hashirama Senju and Senju Tobirama stood before the Allied Forces, and Senju Tobirama warned that he could not match the Ten-Tails.

Black Zetsu explained to Uchiha Obito how Uchiha Asuka and the mysterious second One-Tail had diverted Uchiha Madara from his original plans. It revealed that Madara stopped the Nine-Tails because he had grown attached to Konoha’s children, and that this change led Black Zetsu to choose Obito instead.

• Obito questioned why Madara had allowed the Senju Brothers to confront him, while Black Zetsu worried that Asuka had disrupted its plans.
• Black Zetsu told Obito that Madara had become interested in Asuka after learning he urged his Clan Head to get divorced, and that Madara later visited Konoha to investigate the second One-Tail.
• Black Zetsu revealed that the tanuki-like Tea Kettle was the One-Tail, sealed inside a Sunagakure tool, and that Madara found it had no effect on the Infinite Tsukuyomi Plan.
• Black Zetsu explained that Madara stopped the Nine-Tails when it attacked the Uchiha Clan Grounds after seeing a child ask whether the manga portraying Izuna as a hero was real.
• Black Zetsu said Madara’s attachment to the clan’s children made him change, so it abandoned him as its primary candidate and chose Obito.

Black Zetsu and Obito discussed whether Madara might abandon the Infinite Tsukuyomi plan, while the Senju brothers confronted the Ten-Tails. Hashirama and Tobirama immobilized the beast and severed Obito’s connection to it, leaving Hashirama to apologize to the allied ninjas.

• Black Zetsu warned Obito that Madara might change his mind about the Infinite Tsukuyomi, but Obito remained confident in his own plan.
• Tobirama told Hashirama that the Uchiha intended to kill the entire Ninja World, while Hashirama insisted that some Uchiha could still be guided.
• Hashirama used Sage Art: Divine Gate to pin down the Ten-Tails and stop its charge.
• Tobirama appeared beside Obito and cut the tube connecting him to the Ten-Tails.
• Hashirama used Sealing Head to pin the Ten-Tails’ head to the ground and apologized to the ninjas of every village.

Hashirama Senju apologized for failing to prevent the Fourth Shinobi World War and admitted that he could not end it alone. He asked the gathered shinobi to stand with him, and their renewed resolve met the Ten-Tails’ approaching clones.

• Hashirama apologized for failing to pursue his suspicions about Uchiha Madara and offered to accept punishment after the war.
• Hashirama admitted that he was mortal and depended on Tobirama, the Nara Clan, the Hyuga Clan, and other allies.
• Hashirama asked the shinobi to support him in ending the Fourth Shinobi World War.
• Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, Tsunade, and other shinobi answered Hashirama’s plea with admiration and a united roar.
• The Ten-Tails split into countless clones and sent them toward the Ninja Allied Forces as Raikage Ai chose to stand behind Hashirama.

Uchiha Madara sent Uchiha Asuka to threaten Obito into absorbing the Ten-Tails, planning to regain control of it through hidden safeguards. Asuka headed toward the battle, where Might Guy was fighting Ten-Tails Clones.

• Uchiha Madara watched the Ninja Allied Forces clash with the Ten-Tails Clones while Uchiha Asuka ate beside him.
• Uchiha Asuka questioned why Madara was not helping Obito, and Madara explained that he wanted Obito to feel threatened and become the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki.
• Uchiha Madara revealed that he had planted control methods in Obito, including White Zetsu cells and a measure at his heart, so he could reclaim control of the Ten-Tails.
• Uchiha Asuka asked what would happen if Madara's safeguards failed, and Madara admitted that the Eye of the Moon Plan would have failed and he might have been used by someone else.
• Uchiha Madara sent Uchiha Asuka to help the Ninja Allied Forces, while Might Guy kicked a Ten-Tails Clone into the ground and celebrated his strength.

Asuka rescued Kakashi from a Ten-Tails Clone and told Kakashi and Might Guy that he had come to help the Allied Forces. He then used a genjutsu to force Kakashi to relive the deaths of Rin and Obito, hoping to awaken the power in Kakashi’s Sharingan that could help counter Obito’s intangibility.

• Kakashi lost focus while fighting a Ten-Tails Clone, which struck him through several rock walls.
• Asuka cut down the Clone, carried the unconscious Kakashi to Might Guy, and declared that he was on their side.
• Might Guy and Kakashi questioned Asuka about being branded a rogue shinobi, but Asuka said he had come to help.
• Asuka reminded Kakashi that his Sharingan carried the guilt and memories of Obito and Rin, then placed him under a genjutsu that replayed their deaths.
• Asuka told Guy that Kakashi's eye could access the Kamui Space shared with Obito, though he admitted he had no way to counter Obito's intangibility himself.

Uchiha Madara sent Uchiha Asuka to threaten Obito into absorbing the Ten-Tails, revealing that he had prepared ways to control Obito afterward. Asuka headed for the battlefield while Madara wondered whether someone else had been manipulating him, and Might Guy continued fighting the Ten-Tails Clones.

• Madara reflected on Hashirama's leadership and the Eye of the Moon Plan as the Ninja Allied Forces fought the Ten-Tails Clones.
• Asuka questioned why Madara was not helping Obito, and Madara explained that he wanted the Allied Forces to make Obito feel threatened enough to absorb the Ten-Tails.
• Madara revealed that he had manipulated Obito's perception and placed control measures around his heart, but admitted the plan would fail if those methods did not work.
• Madara suspected that someone else had used him to prepare the Eye of the Moon Plan for their own purposes.
• Might Guy dodged a Ten-Tails Clone and defeated it with the Konoha Great Whirlwind.

Asuka joined the Allied Forces and rescued Kakashi from a Ten-Tails Clone, then used a genjutsu to force Kakashi to confront memories of Obito and Rin. He revealed that Kakashi’s Sharingan could help counter Obito’s intangibility because both eyes could access Kamui Space.

• Kakashi lost focus while fighting a Ten-Tails Clone, which struck him through several rock walls.
• Asuka emerged from the dust after cutting down the clone and handed the unconscious Kakashi to Might Guy, saying he was there to help.
• Might Guy questioned Asuka about supposedly betraying the village, while Asuka dismissed the Allied Forces’ claims as nonsense.
• Kakashi woke and demanded to know how Asuka planned to help the Allied Forces.
• Asuka reminded Kakashi of Rin’s death and Obito’s intentions, then placed Kakashi under a genjutsu that made him relive the events surrounding their deaths.
• Asuka said Obito’s intangibility had no known solution, but Kakashi’s Sharingan could enter Kamui Space with Obito’s.

Kakashi awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and entered Kamui Space to confront Obito, who challenged his resolve to protect the world. Their standoff ended with Obito insisting that the world held no place for Rin.

• Asuka explained that Obito had survived Rin’s death and awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, while Kakashi awakened his own after reliving the trauma.
• Kakashi rushed to stop Obito after Asuka told him their similar abilities made him the only one who could do so.
• Kakashi recognized Kamui and transported himself into Kamui Space, prompting Obito to enter after him.
• Obito reminded Kakashi that the Sharingan had carried his trust, then accused him of failing to protect Rin and others.
• Kakashi defended the world by naming his teacher’s child, Hokage-sama, Guy, and his comrades, but Obito replied that Rin was not in it.