Chapter Summaries

Yuu used his ultimate Observation Haki and swordsmanship to counter Uchiha Madara’s Perfect Susanoo with a single strike. As the dust cleared, Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju stared in disbelief at the battlefield.

• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju worried that Yuu could not survive the Perfect Susanoo’s attack, but Minato Namikaze and the others trusted him.
• Yuu read Uchiha Madara’s breathing and unleashed One-Sword Style—Heart Slash with his small knife.
• Yuu’s strike sent violent currents and sword pressure tearing through the earth, mountains, and sky, forcing the distant onlookers to brace themselves.
• Uchiha Madara roared in disbelief as the turbulence subsided, and Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju gaped at what they saw.

Yuu stopped Uchiha Madara’s full-force Perfect Susanoo strike with a tiny knife, leaving the gathered Kage and their allies stunned. As they struggled to understand the gap between them and Yuu, the First Raikage began to tremble and the Second Raikage stood frozen.

• Yuu held back the Perfect Susanoo’s crossed chakra swords with his tiny knife.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju stared in disbelief at the strength Yuu displayed.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi struggled to accept that Yuu had stopped Uchiha Madara’s attack so easily.
• Yugao attributed Yuu’s advantage to his superior swordsmanship and mastery of the Creation Path.
• Hozuki Suigetsu questioned whether the Third Raikage had truly fought Yuu until the end, and the Third Raikage recalled their battles with uncertainty.
• The First Raikage trembled while the Second Raikage stood frozen, unable to comprehend what he had witnessed.

Saiki Yuu overwhelmed Uchiha Madara by blocking his Perfect Susanoo’s swords and shattering them, while Obito and Black Zetsu watched from hiding. Madara responded with a furious roar and began forming hand seals for another attack.

• Obito watched Yuu block Madara’s full-force strike and despaired, while Black Zetsu urged him to gain Six Paths-level power.
• Yuu explained that his swordsmanship let him read Madara’s crude attacks and that his Armament Haki could make any blade indestructible.
• Yuu thrust his small knife forward and shattered the Perfect Susanoo’s two chakra longswords.
• Yuu taunted Madara, drank wine, and challenged him to keep fighting.
• Madara roared at Yuu and rapidly formed hand seals.

Uchiha Madara released the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu contract during his battle with Saiki Yuu, leaving Kabuto Yakushi terrified that the revived shinobi would turn on him. Uchiha Obito and Black Zetsu appeared beside Kabuto, and Obito told him that arrangements had already been made.

• Uchiha Madara used the Impure World Reincarnation—Release technique, breaking free of Kabuto Yakushi’s control as Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju watched.
• Kabuto Yakushi realized the contract had been released and feared that Uchiha Madara, Hashirama Senju, and Tobirama Senju might kill him.
• Kabuto recalled how his ambitions had grown after reviving powerful shinobi, but Saiki Yuu’s strength and Madara’s escape shattered his hopes.
• Uchiha Obito and Black Zetsu emerged from distorted space, and Kabuto asked what he should do about Madara’s escape.
• Uchiha Obito assured Kabuto Yakushi that he had already made arrangements for him.

Uchiha Obito killed Kabuto Yakushi and used the Rinnegan to summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, while Kabuto’s death caused the Impure World Reincarnation to be released across the battlefield. Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju broke free of the jutsu, and Hozuki Gengetsu disappeared after speaking with Mei Terumi.

• Uchiha Obito stabbed Kabuto Yakushi, whose Hashirama cells failed to heal him, and Kabuto died realizing he had been used as a pawn.
• Uchiha Obito put on a new spiral mask, revealed the Rinnegan, and summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Black Zetsu anticipated the Ten-Tails’ revival and Mother’s return as Uchiha Obito reveled in his new power.
• After Kabuto Yakushi died, pillars of white light appeared across the battlefield, and Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju released themselves from the Impure World Reincarnation.
• Hozuki Gengetsu spoke with Mei Terumi, then vanished into the earth, while the Second Tsuchikage told Ōnoki to handle the rest.

After the Kage departed, Uchiha Madara began his second battle against Saiki Yuu and unleashed Wood Style to transform the battlefield into a vast forest. The chapter left Hashirama Senju and the others shocked as Madara’s fight with Yuu resumed.

• Ōnoki received his teacher’s final words and was left in charge of the Cloud Village.
• The Third Kazekage laughed at the Fourth Raikage A, then vanished in a pillar of white light.
• Hashirama Senju sensed that Uchiha Madara remained the real danger, and Madara challenged Yuu to a second round.
• Madara reflected on Yuu’s extraordinary talent and the harsh battles that had shaped his own strength.
• Madara formed seals and used Wood Style - Forest Creation, covering the battlefield with towering trees.
• Tsunade recognized the technique as the Wood Style Kekkei Genkai unique to her great-grandfather, Hashirama Senju.

Uchiha Madara combined Wood Release with his Rinnegan and challenged Yuu, who mocked Madara’s power and revealed Shusui’s Bankai. Enraged, Madara unleashed Flower Tree World Descent, filling the battlefield with poisonous pollen aimed at Yuu.

• Hashirama Senju explained that Uchiha Madara had awakened the Rinnegan by combining the Uchiha’s Yin power with the Senju’s Yang power.
• Madara declared his power to be the truth of the world and prepared to crush Saiki Yuu.
• Yuu crushed the small knife that had pierced Madara’s Perfect Susanoo, revealing that it was no special weapon.
• Yuu unsheathed Shusui and called out “Bankai,” challenging Madara to explain what the world was.
• Madara angrily used Six Paths—Flower Tree World Descent, and poisonous pollen swept toward Yuu.

Uchiha Obito trapped Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and the others inside a barrier, preventing them from reaching Yuu, while the battlefield around Yuu was devastated by his sword intent. Uchiha Madara then created multiple wood clones, preparing to continue the fight.

• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju prepared to support Yuu, but Uchiha Obito appeared and raised an Uchiha Flame Formation barrier around them.
• Tobirama Senju, Hashirama Senju, and Tsunade recognized Uchiha Obito's Rinnegan and confronted him about his identity.
• Rin Saiki angrily ordered Uchiha Obito to move, and he said he was a man who had lost his heart.
• Yuu's sword intent swept away the pollen and destroyed trees and warriors across the central battlefield, drawing Uchiha Madara's attention.
• Uchiha Madara used the Multiple Wood Clone Technique to create dozens of clones.

Uchiha Madara summoned more than a dozen Susanoo-clad Wood Clones to overwhelm Yuu, but Yuu challenged Madara’s idea of the “Power of All Creation” and began demonstrating his own power. The chapter ended as Yuu unleashed a world-twisting sword intent through Shusui, now a Supreme Grade Sword, and entered Sage Wood enhancement.

• Uchiha Madara used Wood Clones and Susanoo together to surround his Perfect Susanoo with more than a dozen giant Susanoo.
• Uchiha Madara explained that he had abandoned his chakra greatsword after realizing Saiki Yuu’s swordsmanship had exploited its weaknesses.
• Yuu told Uchiha Madara that he did not know what had happened to Nagato, and Madara suspected Nagato had died at Yuu’s hands.
• Yuu released a powerful sword intent that made the entire Wood Release forest seem to twist, alarming Uchiha Madara.
• Yuu coated Shusui in extreme-grade Armament Haki, revealed it had reached Supreme Grade Sword status, and activated Sage Wood enhancement.

Saiki Yuu revealed the Power of All Creation and merged it with other energies through Shusui, creating a vast Yin-Yang Bagua Diagram that Uchiha Madara recognized with shock. Madara attacked with a Wood Release dragon and dozens of Susanoo as Yuu declared that Yin and Yang were the world itself.

• Saiki Yuu manifested the Power of All Creation, leaving Uchiha Madara horrified because it was the power that had awakened Madara's Rinnegan.
• Saiki Yuu merged Armament Haki, natural energy, chakra, and the Power of All Creation into Shusui.
• Saiki Yuu unleashed sword intent that formed a giant Yin-Yang Bagua Diagram above the battlefield, shocking Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju.
• Uchiha Madara recognized the diagram as the world itself and roared that Saiki Yuu's feat was impossible.
• Uchiha Madara sent a giant Wood Release dragon and dozens of Susanoo toward Saiki Yuu.
• Saiki Yuu faced the incoming attack and declared that Yin and Yang were the world itself.

Saiki Yuu unleashed a sword slash that distorted space and time like an independent world, stunning the onlookers. Uchiha Madara faced the attack with a barrage of techniques, while Uchiha Obito raged at the gap between his power and Yuu’s.

• Saiki Yuu unleashed One-Sword Style—Great Thousand Worlds, creating a gigantic slash that twisted the battlefield’s space and time.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju watched in horror as Yuu’s swordsmanship seemed to create an independent world.
• Yugao, Hinata, and Ino admired the slash, and Hinata remembered that Yuu had developed the style to teach her.
• Uchiha Obito saw the distant slash distort his barrier and clenched his fists in anger at how far the sky remained from his reach.
• Uchiha Madara went mad as he faced the slash, unleashing more than a dozen Susanoo through his Wood Clone and using the Wood Dragon Technique.

Saiki Yuu overwhelmed Uchiha Madara with a sword slash empowered by the Power of All Creation, leaving Madara stunned by Yuu’s superior control of that power. As his defenses crumbled, Madara forced himself to counter with the Six Paths—Great Dragon Technique.

• Uchiha Madara realized that Saiki Yuu’s slash wielded the Power of All Creation more directly and powerfully than his own Rinnegan-based abilities.
• Saiki Yuu told Madara to be buried beneath his blade and pressed the world-spanning Great Thousand Worlds slash down on him.
• Yuu’s slash shattered the wood clones’ Susanoo and destroyed the surrounding trees and giant flowers, while Madara’s Perfect Susanoo and Wood Dragon Technique held on.
• Uchiha Madara rejected Yuu’s claim to have shown him a world and completed a hand seal despite the pressure of the descending slash.
• Uchiha Madara shouted, “Six Paths—Great Dragon Technique!”

Uchiha Madara covered his Wood Dragon with Perfect Susanoo armor and challenged Saiki Yuu to a final clash. Yuu’s Great Thousand Worlds: Slash collided with the armored dragon, unleashing destruction that erased the battlefield.

• Uchiha Madara formed Armored Susanoo around his Wood Dragon and carved out a pocket of space amid Yuu’s descending slash.
• Saiki Yuu accepted Madara’s challenge and charged into the slash with Shusui.
• Madara sent the armored Wood Dragon crashing toward Yuu as Yuu unleashed Great Thousand Worlds: Slash.
• The slash and dragon collided, shattering the ground and breaking the crimson barrier.
• Hashirama Senju and the Senju clan members fled as shockwaves vaporized the battlefield and collapsed space-time.

After a devastating attack warped the battlefield and space-time, Tobirama Senju and the others regrouped outside the destruction. Hashirama Senju could not sense what had happened to Yuu, and Naruto prepared to rush into the dangerous area as someone volunteered to search for him.

• Tobirama Senju and Minato Namikaze escaped the shockwave with the Flying Thunder God Technique, which nearly collapsed as space-time distorted.
• Tobirama Senju praised Minato Namikaze's mastery of the technique, and Minato credited Yuu's guidance and the Power of All Creation.
• Tobirama Senju realized the extent of Saiki Yuu's abilities and reflected that even his own talents seemed inferior.
• Hashirama Senju used Sage Art: Sensory Perception but could not detect anything in the distorted battlefield, worrying Tsunade and the others.
• Naruto tried to charge into the gray mist, but someone stopped him and offered to go find Yuu.

Minato and the others faced the deadly distortion at the center of the battlefield, and Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju went to rescue Yuu. Uchiha Obito summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to attack the weakened group while the two Hokage struggled toward the battlefield’s center.

• Minato vowed to rescue Yuu, but Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju insisted on going in their place and vanished using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Uchiha Obito reappeared and summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as the group watched in alarm.
• Uchiha Obito, badly injured and nearly blinded, saw that the Tailed Beasts were weakened and Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju were gone, so he ordered the statue to attack.
• After repeatedly shattering and reassembling their bodies, Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju reached the battlefield’s center and called for Yuu.

Yuu sat safely in the warped void, drinking rare wine while Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju watched in disbelief. Their shock was interrupted by an angry, familiar voice calling out to Hashirama.

• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju found Yuu unharmed in the distorted space, protected by mysterious energy.
• They watched Yuu drink bottle after bottle of precious Nectar and were appalled by the waste.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju realized the wine’s abundance reflected how prosperous Konoha had become.
• A familiar voice angrily shouted at Hashirama Senju to stop, leaving him astonished and Tobirama Senju amused.
• Tobirama Senju asked the newcomer whether they remembered what he had just explained.

Saiki Yuu overwhelmed the Impure World Reincarnation Uchiha Madara, whose immortal body repeatedly reassembled but suffered unbearable pain from Yuu’s attacks. Yuu learned that defeating Madara summoned by the jutsu earned no reward and left him venting his frustration by smashing Madara apart again.

• Saiki Yuu’s spatial distortion destroyed Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo and Wood Dragon, but Yuu survived by rapidly drinking and boosting his power.
• Uchiha Madara repeatedly regenerated from Yuu’s blows and felt agony he could not explain, becoming terrified of Yuu’s power.
• Saiki Yuu learned from the system that killing someone summoned through Impure World Reincarnation gave him no reward.
• Saiki Yuu cursed Uchiha Madara and kept smashing him apart as Madara reassembled without being able to fight back.

Yuu repeatedly cut Uchiha Madara apart with Shusui, whose strikes made the pain sharper each time despite Madara’s Impure World Reincarnation body reforming. The chapter left Madara begging Yuu to stop while Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju watched in disbelief.

• Yuu beat Uchiha Madara while Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju watched.
• Yuu slashed Madara with Shusui, tearing apart his body and causing him unbearable pain.
• Madara repeatedly reformed through Impure World Reincarnation, only to be cut apart again without becoming numb to the pain.
• Madara regained human form and begged Yuu to stop cutting him.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju stared in shock as Madara pleaded for mercy.

Yuu stopped tormenting Uchiha Madara after making him beg for mercy, then ordered him to act without explaining why. Madara remained helpless and furious, while Tobirama Senju watched in disbelief.

• Tobirama Senju realized that Yuu's blade had inflicted unbearable pain on Uchiha Madara despite his immortal Reanimation body.
• Yuu stopped slashing Madara, who lay on the ground recovering and wondered what kind of monster Saiki Yuu was.
• Madara questioned why Yuu had not sealed him, since he had no chance of fighting back against Yuu, Hashirama, and Tobirama Senju.
• Yuu struck Madara on the forehead with the Black Blade and impatiently told him to do as he was told.
• Madara flushed with fury after being hit on the head.

Saiki Yuu drunkenly insisted he was sober and beat Uchiha Madara while Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju watched in horror. The chapter ended with Tobirama Senju asking Yuu to stop.

• Tobirama Senju realized they should seal Uchiha Madara while he was weakened, but Yuu said he had a plan.
• Yuu denied being drunk and swung his blade beside Uchiha Madara's head to prove it.
• Yuu stomped on Uchiha Madara's head and repeatedly smashed him into the ground.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju watched the beating and felt pity for Uchiha Madara.
• Tobirama Senju told Yuu to stop hitting Uchiha Madara.