Chapter Summaries

Genryūsai and the First Generation Gotei 13 drove Yhwach from Seireitei to the Soul King Palace, where Araki revealed that he had hidden the first-generation captains for a thousand years to bait him. Chōjirō Sasakibe and Aizen struck Yhwach with a carefully staged ambush, and the battle spread across both fronts as Unohana faced Askin while Yachiru and Undying Flower went after Pernida and Gerard.

• Genryūsai led the First Generation Gotei 13 into battle, and the captains overwhelmed Yhwach with their Bankai while Unohana and Saito Furofushi wounded him.
• Yhwach unleashed the God’s Great Holy Bow, but Genryūsai cut through its arrows and carried him through the Transcendent Gate to the Soul King Palace.
• Araki admitted that he had kept the First Generation Gotei 13 hidden in the Soul King Palace for a thousand years to frustrate Yhwach, then revealed that Chōjirō Sasakibe was still alive.
• Aizen disguised himself as Sasakibe to draw Yhwach’s attention, allowing the real Sasakibe to stab him with Sayafushi before Genryūsai attacked.
• Unohana fought Askin alone, used Minazuki’s Sea of Blood to overwhelm his poisonous domain, and repeatedly stabbed him as her will persisted through her connection to Araki.
• Yachiru and Undying Flower confronted Pernida and Gerard, intending to devour the Soul King’s left arm and heart as part of their final evolution.

Mayuri used Araki's blood to defeat Pernida, but Yachiru took the Soul King's left hand and Undying Flower claimed Gerard's heart. As the captains moved on to the remaining Schutzstaffel, Lille Barro defeated the Twelve Divine Generals before Roka revealed her Final Getsuga Tensho and struck him.

• Kaname Tosen trapped Pernida in his Bankai, but Pernida destroyed the domain; Mayuri then injected Araki's blood into him, causing Araki's Quincy power to overcome Yhwach's.
• Yachiru absorbed Pernida into her left hand and left to recover the Soul King's heart, while Kyoraku assigned the captains to fight the remaining Schutzstaffel.
• Kenpachi Zaraki unleashed Bankai and repeatedly struck Gerard, but Gerard revived until Yachiru used Pernida's power to turn him into the Soul King's heart, which Undying Flower absorbed.
• The Twelve Divine Generals combined their abilities to blast Lille Barro into a golden sphere, but he revived in his Vollständig and destroyed them and Desert One.
• Lille Barro joined Gremmy's fight against Roka and pierced her Negacion, but Roka entered her Hogyoku form, transformed with her copied Zangetsu blades, and attacked him with the Final Getsuga Tensho, Mugetsu.

Roka Paramia’s Mugetsu seemed to destroy Lille Barro, but Lille transformed into a giant bird and attacked the Soul Reapers until Ise Nanao reflected his strike with the Eight Mirrors Sword. After Uryu Ishida and Haschwalth revealed their opposition to Yhwach, Genryūsai released a powerful Bankai and began driving Yhwach back with divine power.

• Lille Barro revived after Roka Paramia’s Mugetsu and transformed into a giant bird, while Kyoraku Shunsui’s sister-in-law revealed the truth about the Ise Family’s Eight Mirrors Sword to Ise Nanao.
• Ise Nanao accepted the Eight Mirrors Sword, joined Shunsui, Ukitake, Yoruichi, and Tsunayashiro Tokinada in confronting Lille, and reflected his God’s Trumpet attack back at him.
• Lille Barro broke apart into golden light and bird-shaped monsters, and Division 0 arrived as the original Gotei 13 hunted the creatures throughout the Seireitei.
• Uryu Ishida reversed Askin Nakk Le Vaar’s resistance to Unohana Retsu’s attacks, allowing Unohana to kill him, while Yhwach used Auswählen to reclaim Quincy power.
• Uryu Ishida and Haschwalth openly rejected Yhwach, with Haschwalth revealing his promise to kill him, and Yhwach prepared to fight Araki and Genryūsai.
• Genryūsai released Zanka no Tachi: Flames of the Ten Directions, manifested Soul King-like divine power, and struck Yhwach with its eastern and western Flame Gods.

Genryūsai sacrificed himself to destroy Yhwach’s body, but Yhwach revived with The Almighty and learned Araki’s claim that he was destined to become the next Soul King. Yhwach began fighting Kurosaki Ichigo and his allies, and the chapter ended as Yachiru Araki and Undying Flower released their seals and prepared to reveal their Bankai.

• Genryūsai became the Ten-Direction Flame Gods and destroyed Yhwach’s body with Sunfall, but Yhwach revived as a pair of eyes and then restored himself.
• Araki led Yhwach to the empty Soul King’s Great Inner Palace and told him that he was meant to replace the weakening Soul King; Yhwach rejected the idea and vowed to create a new world.
• Kurosaki Ichigo and his allies arrived, and Yhwach tried to persuade Ichigo to join him before Ichigo attacked.
• Yhwach broke Ichigo’s Zanpakuto across its futures, but Shukuro Tsukishima altered its past and Orihime Inoue restored it; Haschwalth then took on the group’s misfortune so Ichigo could strike Yhwach.
• Uryu Ishida reflected Haschwalth’s injuries onto Yhwach, but Yhwach changed the future and revived, leaving Ichigo’s group facing his Almighty.
• Kenpachi Zaraki and Kuruyashiki brought Yachiru Araki and Undying Flower into the palace; the sisters removed the seals on their Zanpakuto, Araki regained power as Nikko Bosatsu and Gakko Bosatsu joined him, and Yachiru and Undying Flower began their Bankai.

Yachiru and Undying Flower helped Araki confront Yhwach, whose stolen powers and newly awakened Almighty still failed against the three Buddhas’ combined attack. Araki explained his plan for the Three Worlds, while Yhwach realized that his place belonged to a future that would never arrive.

• Yachiru used her Bankai to wound Yhwach, whose inability to see her future prevented him from using The Almighty against her.
• Yhwach overwhelmed the others, stole their powers, and used their Zanpakuto abilities until Undying Flower’s Bankai saved them and brought them to safety.
• Yachiru and Undying Flower fought Yhwach together, but he stole Ichigo’s Zangetsu, unleashed Mugetsu, and struck down what appeared to be the sisters before Araki and Aizen revealed the deception.
• Araki and his daughters joined their Bankai as the Horizontal Three Worlds Buddhas, then suppressed Yhwach and pinned him to a cross with Longinus.
• Araki told Yhwach that he sought a gradual path toward immortality rather than forcing the Three Worlds into chaos, and Yhwach recognized that his future would never come because Araki and the Soul King represented the present and past.

After Araki defeated Yhwach, the Quincy disbanded and the Three Worlds began a new era under Araki’s influence. The chapter ends with Araki revealing that he had promised Yhwach rule over the Three Worlds if he cleared Hell, while quietly considering what to do with Uryu Ishida.

• Yhwach shut himself away in the Wandenreich, returned the power he had taken from his subordinates, and sent their souls into the cycle of reincarnation.
• Haschwalth told the surviving Quincy that Yhwach had sealed the shadow domain and disbanded the Wandenreich, and Uryu Ishida led them toward the Human World.
• Kurosaki Ichigo and his friends joked about their future plans before returning to the Human World, while Aizen Sōsuke accepted the resignations of several Gotei 13 captains and watched a new generation take their places.
• Araki’s allies returned to Hueco Mundo, where Barragan and Arturo fought over Las Noches, Roka Paramia formed the Female Menos Association, and Grimmjow and Nnoitra advanced to Vasto Lorde-class.
• Araki settled in the Human World with Unohana Retsu and Saito Furofushi, then gathered with Ichigo, Uryu, and their friends for hot pot and singing.
• Uryu realized Araki had turned former enemies into subordinates, and Araki told him that Yhwach was trying to clear Hell in exchange for a promised future role ruling the Three Worlds.

Araki sent Yhwach through a gate to invade another world and gather Reishi to replace what the Three Worlds would lose by removing Hell. Yhwach arrived in the Jujutsu Kaisen world, killed Gojo Satoru, absorbed the world’s cursed energy, and returned to find Araki had used the Wandenreich palace for his own plans with Unohana Retsu and Saito Furofushi.

• Araki told Yhwach he could stop Hell from expanding by casting it into another world and stealing replacement Reishi, then assigned Yhwach to lead the invasions.
• Yhwach entered the Jujutsu Kaisen world through Araki’s Transcendent Gate and drew the attention of people and reporters by flying above a city.
• Gojo Satoru confronted Yhwach, but Yhwach stole his cursed techniques and energy before killing him with a single sword stroke.
• Yhwach absorbed the cursed energy of the entire world, including that of the jujutsu sorcerers, cursed spirits, and Ryomen Sukuna, then announced his power and departed.
• Araki brought Unohana Retsu and Saito Furofushi to the Wandenreich and said he wanted more children; days later, Yhwach returned to find his palace in disarray.
• Araki created a private world within the Human World and continued spending time there with Retsu and Furofushi as the Araki family prepared to grow.

Yhwach arrived in a medieval fantasy world and discovered that it contained powerful dead souls and a tree capable of connecting worlds. He resurrected legendary dragons and groups of former players and ordered them to conquer the world before the tree connected to another realm.

• Yhwach surveyed the world, learned about its races and magic, and told Araki he planned to claim the world-connecting tree; Araki cut off their conversation.
• Yhwach gathered the world's Reishi and resurrected powerful dead beings, including dragons and former players, but they initially lacked their memories.
• Yhwach restored their memories, and the humans identified themselves as the Six Great Gods, the Eight Greed Kings, and the Thirteen Heroes, whose leader was Rick.
• Yhwach ordered the resurrected beings to conquer the world within nine days and then help him attack the other world when the tree connected them.
• The dragons and former players knelt and accepted Yhwach as their master.

The Six Great Gods and Eight Greed Kings began their renewed conquest of the world, while Yhwach’s revived dragons brought the Rainbow Dragon Lord to heel. As another wave of players approached, the dragons prepared to meet the invaders on the ninth day.

• The Six Great Gods and Eight Greed Kings agreed to conquer the world from different regions, while Rick set out to find his former companions and Yhwach’s dragons flew off to pursue their own conquest.
• The Black Scripture discovered the Six Great Gods had returned to the Slane Theocracy, and one of them summoned angels with Super-Tier Magic to demonstrate their power.
• The Eight Greed Kings reclaimed Sky City, where their NPC guardians slaughtered the nobles of three nearby small nations and displayed their heads on the walls.
• Cure Elim and Catastrophe confronted the Rainbow Dragon Lord, who surrendered after Cure Elim threatened him with Soulbreaker Breath.
• Cure Elim ordered the Rainbow Dragon Lord to help make Heavenly, Deep Darkness, and Platinum submit to Yhwach, then told him to prepare for the invaders arriving on the ninth day.

Nine True Dragon Lords joined Yhwach and began conquering the world, while the Six Great Gods and Eight Greed Kings helped destroy nations across the continent. After Yhwach resurrected the fallen heroes, the Great Tomb of Nazarick appeared, leaving Momonga unaware of the forces waiting outside.

• The True Dragon Lords decided to serve Yhwach, forced Draudillon Oriculus to surrender the Dragon Kingdom, and Merciful Mother annihilated a nearby beastman nation with Ultimate Explosion.
• The Dragon Lords and Slane Theocracy conquered the neighboring nations; Gazef Stronoff, Brain Unglaus, and Lakyus Alvein Dale Aindra led a failed force against the Six Great Gods, with only Evileye escaping.
• The Eight Greed Kings joined the Six Great Gods, and the allied forces conquered the continent as Tsaindorcus Vaision submitted to Yhwach.
• Yhwach resurrected the fallen hero-class figures and ordered them to await the newcomers in a valley.
• The Great Tomb of Nazarick appeared at midnight, and Momonga wondered what had happened while unaware of the forces gathered outside.

Momonga realized that he and Nazarick had crossed into the New World just as dragons and powerful players invaded the tomb. Yhwach’s forces overwhelmed Nazarick’s defenders and pushed deeper underground, leaving Bone King terrified and longing to return home.

• The Eight Greed Kings and Six Great Gods discussed Nazarick’s strength and hesitated over who should lead the attack.
• Momonga confirmed his crossing, learned that Sebas Tian had been killed and Nazarick invaded, then ordered the Floor Guardians to defend the tomb and went to retrieve the World Items.
• The dragons wiped out the undead on the first three floors, and Yhwach’s forces killed Shalltear before resurrecting her as their servant.
• The invaders enthralled Gargantua, defeated Cocytus and conquered the sixth and seventh floors.
• Yhwach erased Victim on the eighth floor, allowing the invasion to continue while Bone King panicked and wished to go home.

Momonga surrendered Nazarick to Yhwach, who killed and resurrected its defenders, usurped their World Items, and opened a passage to YGGDRASIL. Yhwach killed the Dragon Emperor Nidhogg, seized the power of the World Tree and its two hundred World Items, and prepared to move on to another world.

• Albedo confronted the resurrected Floor Guardians, who said they wanted Momonga to surrender because Yhwach was a god beyond their power to fight.
• Momonga asked whether surrender would spare Nazarick, and Yhwach agreed to accept his loyalty.
• Yhwach killed and resurrected Momonga and the others, planted hidden backdoors in them, and usurped their World Items.
• Yhwach opened a passage to YGGDRASIL and showed the players and dragons the Dragon Emperor Nidhogg gnawing at the World Tree's roots.
• Yhwach killed Nidhogg with a World Item-powered spear he named Gungnir, then usurped the World Tree and gained the power of two hundred World Items.
• Yhwach declared the world's task complete and turned toward the next world.

In the war-torn world of No Game No Life Zero, Yhwach rescued Ivan from a Demon Race and revealed that he was human. After learning how weak humanity was, Yhwach rewrote the world's magic, leaving the other races' powers disrupted and Dragonia trapped in the present.

• Rick, Ivan, and another human copied a map from abandoned Ex-Machina equipment when a Demon Race approached, and Ivan went out to draw it away.
• Yhwach appeared before the Demon Race, destroyed it with an azure arrow, and told Ivan that he was human.
• Yhwach swept the ash and gloom from the sky with a Heilig Pfeil and gave Ivan his name.
• Rick approached Yhwach and explained nothing before Yhwach recognized humanity's suffering and promised to bring the races toward peace.
• Yhwach used the World Item power Five Elements Mutual Restraint to spread tier magic, abolish native spells, and cut away Dragonia's future aspects.

Yhwach revealed that the Star Grail was the Almighty and empowered Rick and the humans with his blood, turning them into Sternritter to hunt the Old Deus. As the humans began wiping out other races, a Flügel girl confronted Yhwach and realized she could not defeat him, though she still wanted to try.

• Yhwach explained that the Star Grail was the true Almighty and that the Old Deus were its self-aware fragments, then gave Rick and the other humans his blood and the power to challenge the gods.
• Yhwach launched his Godfall Plan, seized the Divine Essences of Death, Pestilence, and Famine, and used Halo of the Benevolent God to erase the Demon Race and its Demon Lords.
• Rick led the newly empowered Sternritter in a raid that destroyed the Werebeast settlement, then set their sights on the Seiren Race.
• A Flügel girl broke into Yhwach’s palace, and Yhwach opened his Almighty eyes, leaving her convinced that he was far beyond her strength even as she wanted to fight him.

Yhwach killed and revived Jibril, granted her the Schrift All Counter, and sent her to destroy the races waging war. After Jibril turned against the Flügel and Artosh intervened, Yhwach and the God of War clashed, leaving the solar system tilting out of the Milky Way.

• Yhwach recognized Jibril, killed her with a guaranteed strike, revived her, and granted her the Schrift All Counter.
• Jibril pledged loyalty to Yhwach and flew off to destroy the races he considered threats to peace.
• Jibril devastated the Elves’ capital with repeated Heaven’s Strikes, then flew to Avant Heim to recruit the Flügel by force.
• Azriel confronted Jibril, who explained that Artosh had created the Flügel to give him a worthy opponent capable of preventing his Godfall.
• The Flügel unleashed Heaven’s Strike against Jibril, but her All Counter returned the attack until Artosh arrived and canceled it.
• Artosh flew to Yhwach’s palace to challenge him, and their powers collided with enough force to tilt the solar system out of the Milky Way.

Yhwach seized the Star Grail and reshaped the world of Disboard, but Araki and the Soul King took most of its power, prompting Yhwach to refuse their next mission. Araki entered the world of Re:Zero, sent Natsuki Subaru back home, and captured Satella, who became his attendant.

• Yhwach controlled Artosh with The Compulsory and forced him to pierce the planet, revealing the Star Grail.
• Yhwach absorbed the Star Grail's power, but Araki, his daughters, and the Soul King divided most of it among themselves.
• Yhwach stole the races' Spirit Corridors, changed the world's magic rules, and left Artosh transformed into a Flügel girl.
• Angry over losing most of the Star Grail, Yhwach refused to travel to another world, so Araki opened the Myriad Realms Gate and went alone.
• Araki met Natsuki Subaru, slapped him back to his original world, and removed the Witch's Scent from his soul.
• Satella appeared in pursuit of Natsuki Subaru, but Araki restrained her and made her his attendant.

Araki sought out Felt in the Royal Slums, using overwhelming pressure to restrain Old Man Rom and the girl before revealing that he had come for her. As Reinhard, Emilia, Puck, a mysterious buyer, and an old man gathered, Araki stopped the growing confrontation and said he did not like fighting.

• Araki asked Reinhard for his sword, but Reinhard refused to give it up because he was the Sword Saint.
• Araki broke into Old Man Rom’s home and immobilized him with pressure until Felt appeared and pleaded with Araki to spare him.
• Araki told Felt she belonged to him, while Satella objected to him bullying children.
• A woman carrying curved blades arrived as the buyer for a transaction, and Emilia and Puck came looking for the stolen item.
• Reinhard arrived, followed by an old man who recognized the woman as the Gut Ripper, and the group prepared for a fight.
• Araki unleashed his pressure over everyone and said he had gathered them because it was urgent, but he did not like fighting.

Araki revealed that he planned to bring the world under his world's laws, reclaiming its witches' powers, spirits, and Divine Protections, and demonstrated that spirits could become Zanpakuto. After taking powers and allies from Reinhard, Puck, and others, Araki set out to target the Witch Cult, but Wilhelm killed himself and returned as a young man beside Theresia.

• Araki told Puck and Emilia that he came from another world and intended to reclaim the world's powers, then demonstrated his plan by turning his Zanpakuto into Theresia.
• Wilhelm reunited with Theresia, while Araki explained that the dead would fall under his administration; Wilhelm urged Reinhard to hand over his Dragon Sword.
• Reinhard accepted Araki's terms and gave him his sword and Divine Protections, while Puck agreed to become a Zanpakuto spirit and Araki killed Elsa the Gut Hunter after she refused to join.
• Reinhard discovered that Felt was a descendant of the royal family, confirmed her identity with the Royal Selection Emblem, and pledged to serve her.
• Araki prepared to pursue the Witch Cult and its Archbishops, but Wilhelm suddenly killed himself and reappeared as a young man who embraced Theresia.

Araki and Satella helped Crusch begin her campaign against the White Whale and Witch Cult, with Satella destroying the beast and Araki reclaiming the Witch Factors from two Sin Archbishops. The chapter ended with Satella wiping out Petelgeuse and his followers while Araki headed to join the battle.

• Araki promised to help Crusch gain support in the royal selection, and Crusch agreed to hunt the White Whale and oppose the Divine Dragon’s influence.
• Satella destroyed the White Whale with a single Kido spell, and Araki revived its body as bait before waiting for the other Sin Archbishops.
• Lye Batenkaitos and Regulus Corneas arrived, and Araki reclaimed their Witch Factors before his Spiritual Pressure killed them when they attacked.
• Araki teleported toward the border, where Satella crushed Petelgeuse, his Fingers, and the surrounding Witch Cultists with Invisible Providences.

Araki and Satella eliminated the remaining threats and reclaimed the Witch Factors before Araki gathered Pandora, Hector, Echidna, and the other witches to take them to the Phantom Realm. Back in Soul Society, Unohana Retsu confronted Araki about the women accompanying him, while Kurosaki Ichigo unknowingly drank Echidna’s body-fluid tea.

• Araki found Pandora, nullified her Authority, and took her away; Satella reclaimed the Witch Factors from the remaining Archbishops of Sin.
• Araki defeated Hector and stripped him of his powers, then visited Echidna in the Sanctuary and announced he would take her and the Great Spirits to the Phantom Realm.
• Araki and Satella removed the world’s fantasies and returned through a golden Senkaimon with the witches.
• Unohana Retsu demanded an explanation for the women behind Araki, then drew her Zanpakuto and attacked him as he tried to explain.
• Echidna offered Kurosaki Ichigo tea, then revealed it had been brewed with her body fluids, and Ichigo pretended not to understand.