Chapter Summaries

Jiraiya and Tsunade received intelligence about Yuu’s actions in Sunagakure. The chapter ended with them learning that Yuu had entered the village alone.

• Minato headed toward Sunagakure while Shikaku Nara led the Ino-Shika-Cho team back to the Konoha camp.
• Minato used intelligence delivered by the Toad to return to the Konoha front line camp ahead of the others.
• Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Kakashi awaited the latest report and discussed Yuu’s successful attacks on Sunagakure’s supply routes.
• Jiraiya opened the scroll and froze in shock at its contents.
• Jiraiya told Tsunade and Kakashi that Yuu had charged into Sunagakure alone.

Yuu rampaged through Sunagakure, destroying the Kazekage's Building and cutting down its defenders. Tsunade headed back to the battlefield to pressure Sunagakure and help Yuu survive, while Sunagakure lay in ruins.

• Jiraiya told Tsunade and Kakashi that Yuu had destroyed the Kazekage's Building and was still slaughtering people in Sunagakure.
• Tsunade threatened Jiraiya if Yuu did not return alive, then left to rejoin the battlefield and put pressure on Sunagakure's front lines.
• Tsunade looked toward Sunagakure's front lines and vowed that Yuu had to come back alive.
• Yuu's blackish-purple blade slashes ravaged Sunagakure, reducing the Kazekage's Building and everything within several kilometers to ruins.

Yuu continued fighting nearly four thousand Sunagakure shinobi for a day and a night, slaughtering defenders and devastating the village. The Sand Anbu Captain realized Yuu’s slashes had grown even stronger as the siege continued.

• Yuu’s relentless attacks killed more than twenty jonin, dozens of Anbu, and countless chunin and genin.
• The Sand Anbu Captain watched Sunagakure’s defenders fail to stop Yuu and feared the village would be destroyed.
• Yuu roared that he would cut down every Sunagakure shinobi and unleashed three purple-black slashes.
• The Sand Anbu Captain dodged the slashes and saw that they were larger and more powerful than before.

As Yuu continued growing stronger while fighting, the Sand Anbu Captain resolved to stop his rampage with a powerful Wind Release technique. The chapter ended as the hurricane he summoned roared toward Yuu.

• The Sand Anbu Vice-Captain trembled as he watched Yuu grow stronger through the prolonged battle.
• The Sand Anbu Captain told his vice-captain to assist him with a chakra-consuming attack.
• The vice-captain poured chakra into the injured captain as he formed a series of hand seals.
• The captain unleashed Wind Release: Tornado Strangulation, sending a massive hurricane toward Yuu.

The Sand Anbu Captain unleashed an S-rank Wind Release hurricane, restoring the sand shinobi’s hope that he could defeat Yuu. Yuu dismissed the attack and coated his arm in full-power Armament Haki as the hurricane approached.

• The Sand Anbu Captain sent a terrifying hurricane of extreme winds toward Yuu.
• The sand shinobi recognized the technique as an S-rank Wind Release and believed it would kill Yuu.
• Yuu sensed the shinobi’s renewed hope and decided to crush it without letting his performance falter.
• Yuu covered his right arm in concentrated purple-black Armament Haki and began coating it.

Yuu charged straight toward the Sand Anbu Captain’s hurricane, relying on his fully unleashed Armament Haki and Black Blade Shusui. He reached the hurricane’s edge as the Sand Anbu Captain remained convinced its extreme winds would kill him.

• Yuu enveloped Black Blade Shusui in Armament Haki, bringing both sword and Haki to full power.
• Yuu charged directly at the approaching hurricane, drawing laughter from the Anbu Vice-Captain and delight from the Sand Anbu Captain.
• Yuu used Armament Haki to shred the hurricane’s force pulling him toward its center.
• The Sand Anbu Captain reassured himself that the hurricane’s extreme winds would still tear Yuu apart.
• Yuu closed his eyes as he faced the hurricane at close range.

Yuu reached the pinnacle of hearing all things breathe while drunk and cut the Sand Anbu Captain’s ultimate Wind Release technique in two. He then charged toward the exhausted captain as the Sunagakure shinobi panicked.

• Yuu heard the sound of breathing and unleashed One-Sword Style—Heart Slash, cleaving the hurricane apart.
• The system announced that Yuu had reached the pinnacle of 'The Sound of All Things Breathing' while drunk and gained 500 Swordsmanship Comprehension.
• The Sand Anbu Captain, the Anbu Vice-Captain, and the sand shinobi stared in disbelief at Yuu’s slash.
• Yuu shot toward the Sand Anbu Captain, who had exhausted his chakra and shouted for his allies to stop Yuu.

Yuu continued fighting Sunagakure’s forces, killing the shinobi who tried to stop him. The remaining defenders were left terrified as he cut down the Anbu Vice-Captain.

• Four Sunagakure jonin charged Yuu with Wind Blades to protect the Sand Anbu Captain.
• Yuu killed three of the jonin with Armament Haki, frightening the two survivors.
• The Anbu Vice-Captain charged Yuu in a frenzy with a Wind Blade.
• Yuu used Armament—Draw Sword to strike the Anbu Vice-Captain, whose body was covered by a fatal blade mark.

Yuu continued his slaughter of Sunagakure’s forces, killing the Sand Anbu Vice-Captain and cornering the Captain. As Yuu prepared to finish the Captain, Elder Chiyo arrived and launched a puppet attack.

• Yuu killed the Sand Anbu Vice-Captain, earning 100 Armament Haki.
• The Sand shinobi were horrified as they counted their heavy losses, including nearly thirty jonin and more than half of the Anbu.
• Yuu approached the panicked Sand Anbu Captain and decided he had killed enough ordinary shinobi to return to Konoha.
• As Yuu moved to kill the Captain, Elder Chiyo arrived and used Three Treasures Absorption Collapse.

Yuu destroyed the three puppets' tornado with a single slash as Chiyo arrived in Sunagakure and saw the devastation he had caused. Chiyo decided to kill Yuu while she still had the chance.

• Yuu used Shusui and Armament Haki to cut apart the tornado created by the three puppets.
• Chiyo arrived to find Sunagakure's central district in ruins and the Sand Anbu reduced by more than half.
• The Sand Anbu Captain welcomed Chiyo, and she acknowledged his efforts without blaming him for the defeat.
• Chiyo saw how young Yuu was and judged him a threat who had to be killed.
• Yuu insulted Chiyo for ruining his plans.

Yuu demanded that Chiyo certify his claim that he had defeated Sunagakure's Anbu Captain, then suggested killing the Kazekage would be easier. Chiyo lost her temper and summoned her Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu to fight him.

• Yuu complained that Chiyo had interrupted his performance and demanded that she let him kill Sunagakure's Anbu Captain.
• Yuu asked Chiyo to certify the Anbu Captain's identity and suggested taking the Kazekage's head instead.
• Chiyo summoned the Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu after Yuu continued insulting her and Sunagakure.
• Yuu offered to spare Chiyo if she wrote the certificate, let him kill the Anbu Captain, and provided him with a room of liquor.
• Chiyo erupted in anger and attacked Yuu.

Yuu fought Chiyo and her Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu, whose coordinated attacks began to entangle and control him. As the battle continued, Yuu grew increasingly irritated by the puppets’ speed and teamwork.

• Chiyo furiously sent the Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu lunging at Yuu.
• Yuu cut Chiyo’s poisoned concealed weapons in half with his blade.
• Chiyo recognized that Yuu’s swordsmanship could destroy the puppets’ crucial components and tried to keep him from striking them.
• Chiyo coordinated the ten puppets’ varied attacks to entangle and control Yuu.
• Yuu slashed at the puppets but grew increasingly irritated as they moved too quickly and restrained him.

Yuu’s Armament Haki rendered Chiyo’s poison and puppets ineffective, and his sword strike devastated the sand shinobi behind her. The chapter ended with Chiyo facing Yuu as he stood blankly after his attack.

• Chiyo’s Ten Puppets of Chikamatsu harassed Yuu, but their poisoned weapons could not harm him.
• Yuu lost patience and swung Shusui at Chiyo, unleashing a massive purple-black slash.
• Chiyo dodged the attack, but the slash killed numerous sand shinobi behind her.
• Chiyo turned back and saw that Yuu had gone blank, and she hesitated to move against him.

After receiving a new Ultimate Technique Level sword technique for killing over a thousand sand shinobi, Yuu prepared to unleash it on Sunagakure’s assembled forces. Chiyo sensed the danger and ordered the troops to stop him.

• Chiyo returned with several Elite Jonin and joined a search party, bringing Sunagakure’s gathered forces back to more than four thousand shinobi.
• Chiyo ordered the sand shinobi to attack Yuu in battle formations of two hundred.
• The system rewarded Yuu with an Ultimate Technique Level sword technique after he slaughtered over a thousand sand shinobi while drunk.
• Yuu gripped Shusui and prepared to use the new technique on the troops gathered in Sunagakure’s ruined heart.
• Chiyo felt Yuu’s aura of death and ordered the sand shinobi to stop him.

Yuu revealed a terrifying black Death Qi that spread from fallen Sand shinobi, overwhelming Chiyo with visions and fear. Chiyo tried to break free and warned everyone to wake up, but Yuu’s power left her shaken.

• Yuu unleashed black sword intent that filled Chiyo with visions of her family’s deaths.
• Chiyo stabbed her thigh with a kunai, but the pain did not dispel the black currents rising from the dead Sand shinobi.
• Yuu identified the currents as Death Qi.
• Chiyo suppressed her terror and shouted for everyone to wake up.

Yuu used his Death Qi to trap the Sunagakure shinobi in an illusion, then let Chiyo rally an attack against him. As the sand shinobi unleashed their weapons and techniques, Yuu gathered the Death Qi of the fallen behind him.

• Chiyo's shout freed many weaker sand shinobi from Yuu's illusion, while the battle-hardened experts remained trapped.
• Chiyo realized the illusion affected shinobi who had witnessed more death more deeply and ordered the others to wake them.
• Yuu watched the sand shinobi prepare, confident that their efforts would not stop him.
• Chiyo, enraged by Yuu's apparent contempt, ordered the sand shinobi to attack.
• The sand shinobi bombarded Yuu with shuriken, Explosive Tags, and Wind Release techniques.
• Yuu unleashed his sword intent and gathered Death Qi streaming from the dead sand shinobi.

Yuu summoned a towering phantom of death and prepared to strike the sand shinobi with Shusui. Minato arrived near Sunagakure and hurried toward the village, suspecting that Yuu had the situation under control and the sand shinobi were in danger.

• Yuu summoned a black-robed phantom wielding a massive scythe as Chiyo watched in terror.
• Yuu raised Shusui and gathered his sword intent, causing the phantom to grow hundreds of meters tall.
• Minato saw the phantom from several kilometers outside Sunagakure and suspected Yuu had created it.
• Minato questioned whether his arrival was necessary, then sped toward Sunagakure.

Yuu unleashed a colossal, deathly sword attack after Chiyo rejected his proposal, threatening to destroy Sunagakure. The hundreds-of-meters-long scythe-shaped slash began descending toward the village.

• Chiyo and the sand shinobi froze in terror at the enormous phantom behind Yuu.
• Yuu warned Chiyo that the sand shinobi would suffer heavy losses and dismissed her attempt to evacuate them as too late.
• Yuu raised Shusui and formed a massive black slash that shattered the attacks aimed at him.
• Yuu's slash merged with the phantom's scythe and became a hundreds-of-meters-long blade of darkness.
• Yuu shouted that Sunagakure would be buried and brought Shusui down, sending the scythe-shaped slash toward the village.

A massive black crescent slash struck Sunagakure, splitting the village apart and consuming its inhabitants. The slash continued toward the outskirts, growing stronger as it absorbed black air from those it killed.

• A huge crescent slash crashed down on Sunagakure and tore a deep chasm through the village.
• The slash shredded the sand shinobi in its path, whose bodies turned to ash as black air gathered on the blade.
• A Sunagakure Jonin realized the slash was using its victims as nourishment and broke down in terror.
• The slash reached the Jonin, destroyed him, and absorbed the black air that emerged from his body.

Yuu unleashed a colossal crescent slash that tore through Sunagakure and pierced its One Line Sky barrier. After the attack vanished into the desert, he stood alone amid the silent, devastated village.

• Yuu's black crescent slash ravaged Sunagakure, crushing buildings, terrain, and sand shinobi in its path.
• The slash split the village apart and buried shinobi beneath collapsing rubble.
• Yuu's attack pierced through One Line Sky, leaving a nearly hundred-meter-wide gap in the barrier.
• The crescent slash continued into the desert and eventually vanished beyond the horizon.
• Sandstorms swept through the ruined, silent Sunagakure as Yuu rested Shusui on his shoulder and admired the destruction.