Chapter Summaries

Shisui and Itachi agreed on a plan to calm the Uchiha Clan and expose whoever was spreading rumors, while Fugaku remained wary and privately considered the clan’s power. As public anger grew, the Uchiha began investigating the rumor campaign, and the Third Hokage publicly defended both Naruto and the Uchiha to prevent the crisis from escalating.

• Shisui told Itachi that Yei had advised the Uchiha to find the source of the rumors, and Itachi cautioned him to present the proposal without provoking the radicals.
• At the clan meeting, Shisui proposed investigating the rumor campaign, radicals called for action against the village leadership, and Fugaku chose Shisui’s plan while assigning him to carry it out.
• Fugaku privately considered whether a missing Uchiha had controlled the Nine-Tails and reflected that the clan possessed three pairs of Mangekyo.
• As rumors intensified and villagers blamed Naruto and the Uchiha, Shisui led the clan in publicly claiming that an outside party was framing them and began an investigation without informing the Third Hokage.
• The Third Hokage announced that Naruto was Minato Namikaze’s son and a hero, defended the Uchiha as a respected clan, and promised that the village would investigate.

The Uchiha confronted Danzo’s Root over a suspicious house while the Third Hokage tried to contain the dispute. The house exploded, exposing Yei’s plan to reveal Danzo’s human experiments and leaving Danzo facing a crisis.

• Danzo learned that the Uchiha were approaching his laboratory and rushed to the scene to prevent them from finding evidence.
• Inaho and the Uchiha confronted Root, and Inaho revealed that Yosuke had slipped into the house they had been tracking.
• The Third Hokage and Danzo arrived as Fugaku demanded that Root let the Uchiha search the house, but Danzo refused and stalled.
• Fugaku prepared to force entry, but explosions destroyed the house and sent everyone scrambling for cover.
• Yei revealed that he and Shisui had orchestrated the confrontation, enabled Yosuke’s entry, and removed Root’s belongings while gathering evidence of Danzo’s experiments.

The Third Hokage, Fugaku, and their shinobi entered Danzo’s underground laboratory after an explosion and uncovered evidence of secret experiments. Yei revealed that the two test subjects, “A” and “B,” were still there, leaving Danzo exposed and convinced someone had deliberately set him up.

• Danzo ordered Root shinobi into the burning building while the Third Hokage and Fugaku followed them through an underground passage.
• Yosuke Uchiha fought Root members in the laboratory, and the Anbu subdued them after the Third Hokage ordered them to stop.
• Danzo claimed the facility was for developing ninjutsu and secret techniques, while Fugaku challenged his explanation and the Third Hokage ordered a search.
• Yei told the Third Hokage that he had found two unconscious boys in a room and led him to them.
• Danzo recognized the boys as test subjects “A” and “B,” realized they had not been evacuated, and suspected someone had deliberately targeted him.

Yei exposed Danzo’s secret experiments with Sharingan transplants and First Hokage Cells, prompting the Third Hokage and the Uchiha to confront him. Danzo escaped after trapping them in the laboratory and detonating its Exploding Tags, then signaled Root and defected from Konoha.

• Yei revealed that test subject B had a transplanted Sharingan, and Fugaku and the Third Hokage accused Danzo of experimenting on the Uchiha Clan.
• The Third Hokage realized Danzo and Orochimaru had secretly pursued First Hokage Cells experiments, while Danzo defended the sacrifices and ordered Root to attack.
• Danzo restrained everyone with the Karma Restraint Seal and tried to escape with test subjects A and B, but Shisui’s Susanoo blocked the passage and buried several Root ninja.
• The Third Hokage and Shisui protected the group from Danzo’s Exploding Tags, and they survived the blast beneath the rubble.
• Danzo escaped through another passage, fired a signal flare to summon Root, and left Konoha as a defector, vowing to take revenge on Hiruzen.

After Danzo defected, the Third Hokage confronted the village’s secret experiments and the elder advisors surrendered their authority. Yei continued researching the First Hokage Cells, advised Shisui and Itachi, and received intelligence pointing to Ryūchi Cave near the border of the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth.

• Tsunade confronted the Third Hokage about the secret First Hokage Cell research, and he explained that Orochimaru and Danzo had proposed it before he ordered the deadly experiments stopped.
• The Third Hokage rejected Mitokado Homura’s call to continue the research, and Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura gave up their decision-making authority and forces.
• Yei experimented with Byakugan and First Hokage Cell embryos, found that the latter grew uncontrollably by consuming Chakra, and decided to seek Orochimaru’s research records at Ryūchi Cave.
• Yei met Shisui and Itachi, advised them to restrain Uchiha radicals and find the clan member who controlled the Nine-Tails, and urged them to improve the clan’s standing gradually.
• Mui sent Yei intelligence locating Ryūchi Cave in Stone Country, near the border of the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth.

Yei learned a rumored route to Ryūchi Cave from Mui and visited Reina and Karin in Kusagakure. He revealed his Adamantine Sealing Chains, received Reina’s Uzumaki techniques, and left her with assurances that she and Karin could live safely and freely.

• Yei traveled to Mui’s office in the Grass Country and learned that Stone Country merchants had shared a ritual for finding Ryūchi Cave.
• Yei asked Mui to keep searching for the Sage Body clan and checked on Reina and Karin, whose lives had improved under Mui’s protection.
• Yei visited Reina and revealed Adamantine Sealing Chains, leading her to recognize him as an Uzumaki clansman.
• Reina gave Yei the techniques for Adamantine Sealing Chains and Mind’s Eye of the Kagura, which she had learned from her parents.
• Yei promised Reina and Karin safety and freedom, then left with a strand of Reina’s hair while Reina wondered whether she could trust his assurances.

Yei discovered that Mind's Eye of the Kagura combined with Observation Haki and the Byakugan gave him exceptionally detailed perception, then left to search for Ryūchi Cave. At the Five Kage Summit, the leaders discussed Akatsuki's threat but failed to agree on a joint attack, leaving the danger unresolved.

• Yei found that he could not learn Adamantine Sealing Chains, but he successfully activated Mind's Eye of the Kagura and combined it with Observation Haki and the Byakugan to enhance his perception.
• Yei opened a black rift and traveled from the Grass Country toward the Stone Country to search for Ryūchi Cave.
• Jiraiya attended the Five Kage Summit in Minato Namikaze's place and declined to reveal that the Fourth Hokage was injured and unconscious.
• The Third Tsuchikage and Fourth Kazekage proposed that the Five Great Ninja Villages unite to attack Akatsuki in the Rain Country, while the Fourth Kazekage described their defeat by Pain and Akatsuki's strength.
• Jiraiya told the Kage that an Akatsuki invader possessed the Reincarnation Eye, but the Fourth Raikage and Fourth Mizukage withheld their support for the proposed assault.
• The Five Kage Summit ended without agreement, though the Kage recognized that Akatsuki threatened every village with a tailed beast.

Yei traveled through the barren Land of Stone and found a clan living near Ryūchi Cave, whose Natural Energy had altered their bodies. He entered the cave seeking the White Snake Sage, subdued Garaga, and faced the Three Great Elders, who demanded he undergo their trials.

• Yei reached the Land of Stone and speculated that the Otsutsuki Clan’s God Trees had drained the planet’s Natural Energy, leaving much of it uninhabitable.
• Yei found a village sheltered in the mountains and learned from its chief that the clan lived near Ryūchi Cave and guarded an entrance used by those seeking its trials.
• Yei entered Ryūchi Cave, where Tagorihime, Ichikishimahime, and Tagitsuhime watched him from the mist.
• Garaga attacked Yei, but Yei bound and subdued the giant snake with golden chains, then learned how to reach the White Snake Sage.
• Yei reached the palace gates and confronted the Three Great Elders, who insisted that he pass their trials before meeting the White Snake Sage.

Yei intimidated Ryūchi Cave’s elders with Five Dragon Destruction and won their approval to meet the White Snake Sage. After discussing the strange Chakra from Wu and the Box of Paradise, he followed her to a platform for sensing Natural Energy, where she warned that failure to control it could turn him into a snake.

• Yei confronted the three snake elders, then summoned five enormous lightning dragons that frightened them into declaring he had passed the trial.
• Giant snakes gathered at the disturbance, and Manda recognized Yei’s Chakra from the monster he had seen in a battle involving Orochimaru.
• Yei dismissed the lightning dragons and asked the elders to take him to the White Snake Sage, who received him in her temple.
• Yei told the White Snake Sage that his Chakra came from Wu and the Box of Paradise, and she said she knew the box was the Sage of Six Paths’ handiwork.
• The White Snake Sage agreed to help Yei learn senjutsu and led him to a special clay platform, warning that uncontrolled Natural Energy could transform him into a snake.

Yei mastered Ryūchi Cave’s Sage Techniques after several days of experimentation, then asked White Snake Sage to let him sign a summoning contract. After Yei signed as “Nameless,” powerful snakes across Ryūchi Cave sensed the summons, including the Three Great Snake Elder Beauties, Manda, and Garaga.

• Yei’s first attempt to balance Natural Energy with his own Chakra failed, and snake-like scales began appearing before he used the Hollow Mask’s Chakra to expel the excess energy.
• Yei spent several days practicing with Chakra drawn from the Hollow Mask until he entered Sage Mode without major bodily changes, apart from scales at the corner of his left eye.
• White Snake Sage sensed Yei’s success and wondered about his unusual aura, but Yei thanked it and asked to sign a contract with Ryūchi Cave.
• White Snake Sage gave Yei the contract scroll, and Yei signed it as “Nameless” before summoning the snakes.
• The Three Great Snake Elder Beauties, Manda, and Garaga sensed Yei’s summons and reacted with interest or anger.

Yei summoned Ryūchi Cave’s giant snakes to locate Orochimaru, but learned Orochimaru’s contract had weakened because he was likely in a false-death state. In a western desert, Yei tested chanting Kidō with Sage Chakra, while an unknown figure in an underground tank awoke after sensing his attack.

• Yei summoned Ryūchi Cave’s powerful snakes, who failed to sense him until the White Snake Sage pointed him out and ordered them to answer his summons.
• Yei asked Manda to locate Orochimaru, and the White Snake Sage found Orochimaru’s name blurred on the contract scroll, suggesting he was in a false-death state.
• Yei thanked the White Snake Sage, left Ryūchi Cave, and went to a western desert to test Sage Mode and chanting his Kidō.
• Yei chanted Hadō #63: Lightning Howl Cannon, greatly increased its power, and blasted a massive crater into the desert.
• An unknown figure in a pale green underground tank sensed Yei’s attack, opened his eyes, and wondered what had happened.

Yei tested his Sage Mode and unleashed Five Dragon Destruction, drawing the attention of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, who had been hiding inside Jigen. After the two attacks collided, Isshiki emerged before Yei and demanded to know whether he had disturbed his slumber.

• Yei re-entered Sage Mode and tested Locking Binding Chains and Severing Void.
• Yei used Five Dragon Destruction, summoning five enormous lightning dragons that swept across the desert.
• The White Snake Sage sensed Yei’s power, while Ōtsutsuki Isshiki awakened and realized his hiding place might have been exposed.
• Isshiki drew Chakra from the Ten Tails and launched a massive Chakra sphere to collide with Yei’s lightning dragons.
• After the clash devastated the surrounding land, Yei sensed a powerful presence and saw Isshiki emerge from a spatial vortex.
• Isshiki stared down Yei and asked if he had disturbed his slumber.

Yei encountered Ōtsutsuki Isshiki decades earlier than expected and fought him in the western wasteland. The chapter ended as Isshiki finished adapting to his long slumber and powered up for their next clash.

• Yei recognized the stranger as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, while Isshiki mistook Yei for a pawn sent to test him.
• Isshiki attacked with invisible black rods, but Yei sensed and evaded them before countering with lightning and taijutsu.
• Yei used Mouth Rend Three Flash to briefly restrain Isshiki and landed a punch, then continued exchanging blows as Isshiki's strength grew.
• Yei blocked Isshiki's black cube and resisted his attacks, but concluded that Sage Mode mainly strengthened his ninjutsu and that Isshiki's taijutsu remained formidable.
• Isshiki declared that his body had nearly adapted, then released more Chakra as his markings changed and a long horn grew from his head.

Yei fought Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, using Sage Mode and Flash Cry to match him and wound him despite Isshiki’s strange abilities. Isshiki withdrew through a spatial vortex, but Yei struck him with a Railgun as he turned away, causing Isshiki and the vortex to vanish.

• Yei activated Flash Cry in Sage Mode and clashed with Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, matching his speed and strength.
• Yei identified Isshiki’s shrinking and storage ability, evaded his attacks, and struck back with lightning techniques.
• Yei and Isshiki traded a fierce series of Taijutsu blows, and Yei injured Isshiki while suffering wounds that quickly healed.
• Isshiki realized his vessel was failing and opened a spatial vortex to leave, threatening to kill Yei and his family later.
• Yei fired a Railgun at Isshiki as he turned toward the vortex, and Isshiki and the vortex disappeared in the resulting blast.

Yei failed to kill Ōtsutsuki Isshiki but wounded him and returned to Grass Country, where he considered the changing Shinobi World and investigated Reina’s cells and the Box of Paradise. After recovering, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki examined the Evil God Sect’s failed attempt to create a vessel, revealing another of his long-running experiments.

• Yei returned to Grass Country after Ōtsutsuki Isshiki escaped, then speculated about his arrival, the Sage of Six Paths, and Hamura Ōtsutsuki.
• Yei cultivated cells taken from Reina and found that the Box of Paradise’s seal had weakened, possibly because it no longer received Satori’s Chakra.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki arrived in an underground palace with a severe shoulder wound and entered a cultivation tank to recover.
• After several days, Ōtsutsuki Isshiki recovered and went to investigate the Shinobi World and the time that had passed during his slumber.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki observed the Evil God Sect sacrifice a child in a failed ritual and identified the sect as one of his attempts to cultivate a perfect vessel.

Hyuga Yei was promoted to Jonin at a village ceremony alongside Shisui and Might Guy, while Hyuga Yue began training to become Tsunade’s medical ninjutsu disciple. After the ceremony, Akatsuki members Kakuzu and Hiruko set out to recruit a Kaguya Clan shinobi so Hiruko could take his Shikotsumyaku for his experiments.

• Hyuga Yue told Yei that Tsunade planned to teach her and Tamako Medical Ninjutsu, and Yei promised he would never leave Yue behind as they resumed training.
• Jiraiya presided over Konoha’s public commendation ceremony, promoting Yei, Shisui, Might Guy, and more than a dozen other shinobi to Jonin.
• Yosuke Uchiha resented Yei and Might Guy’s promotions, while Yei noticed Yosuke’s hostile look and then joined his peers to celebrate.
• Kakuzu and Hiruko traveled to a town in the Land of Bears to recruit a Mist rogue shinobi from the Kaguya Clan who possessed Shikotsumyaku.
• Hiruko planned to take the Kaguya shinobi’s Shikotsumyaku for his Kishō Tenshō experiments, while Kakuzu complained that Nagato had approved funding for them.

Kakuzu challenged Hiruko’s claims about perfecting the Kiryuga Technique, while Nagato and Konan prepared to strengthen the Akatsuki by moving against Mist. Outside Konoha, Obito learned of the village’s recent troubles and chose Yosuke Uchiha as a potential pawn in his plan against the Uchiha Clan.

• Kakuzu recalled Hiruko’s violent Kiryuga Technique side effects and doubted that his experiment could produce a perfect ninja, but Hiruko insisted that fusing five Kekkei Genkai would solve the problem.
• Konan gave Nagato sealed scrolls and a mask she had found in the ruins of Whirlpool Country, and Nagato said he would try to break the seal.
• Nagato told Konan that he planned to attack Mist, whose internal turmoil and Fourth Mizukage made it a useful target for testing the newly completed Paths and pursuing the Three-Tails.
• Black Zetsu reported Konoha’s recent events to Obito, including the Fourth Hokage and his wife being unconscious, the Nine-Tails being split, and Danzo’s defection.
• Obito said he wanted to drive the Uchiha Clan and Konoha further apart, and Black Zetsu named Yosuke Uchiha as a power-hungry candidate for Obito to control.

Yosuke Uchiha considered using the First Hokage Cells to gain power, but Obito appeared and offered to help him surpass Shisui. Obito left Yosuke to decide whether to accept his offer.

• Yosuke Uchiha failed to match Shisui’s skill with thrown weapons and wondered how to awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Yosuke examined First Hokage Cells and research records he had taken from Danzo’s Root base, and considered transplanting the cells.
• Obito and Black Zetsu discovered Yosuke had the cells, and Obito decided to approach him before he could act on his own.
• Obito restrained Yosuke with Wood Release and introduced himself as Madara Uchiha, offering him power.
• Yosuke questioned Obito’s motives but was tempted when Obito promised to help him surpass Shisui and awaken the Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Obito vanished into a spatial vortex, leaving Yosuke to consider his offer.

Yei studied First Hokage Cells and sought Shisui’s help in testing a possible treatment for his failing Mangekyo Sharingan. After collecting a sample, Yei arranged to fight Shisui so he could assess the strength of Shisui’s ocular power, leaving their true abilities about to be tested.

• Yosuke Uchiha blamed his weakness for his humiliation and decided to cooperate with Obito if it would help him gain power.
• Obito and Black Zetsu left for Mist after discussing Nagato’s move and Obito’s confidence that he could control Yosuke Uchiha.
• Yei studied a First Hokage Cell embryo and decided he needed Shisui’s cells to test whether the cells could restore Shisui’s ocular power.
• Yei found Shisui training with Itachi, who learned the Great Fireball Technique after seeing Shisui perform it once.
• Shisui gave Yei a strand of hair for his research, then agreed to fight him so Yei could assess the current strength of his Mangekyo Sharingan.

Yei tested Shisui’s combat ability and Mangekyo Sharingan by sparring with him and examining the limits of his Susanoo. Shisui’s Susanoo reached its fourth stage but not its complete form, leaving Yei to consider what power or conditions might be needed to advance further.

• Itachi watched as Shisui revealed his Phantom Body Flicker Technique and attacked Yei with dozens of phantoms.
• Yei used Flash Cry, outmatched Shisui in speed and senses, and countered his attacks until Shisui could only defend.
• Yei ended the warm-up and asked Shisui to use his Susanoo at full strength so he could test the Mangekyo’s limits.
• Shisui expanded his Susanoo into a towering form with legs, but its power drained him and it did not reach the complete form.
• Yei fought the Susanoo, assessed Shisui’s control and strength, then told him to stop; Shisui dispelled it and collapsed to one knee, exhausted.