Chapter Summaries

Shisui fought Yosuke Uchiha, who was disguised as Madara Uchiha, in a clash between their Perfect Susanoo while Itachi sought Yei's help. Yei arrived at the devastated battlefield and recognized Yosuke's Chakra signature and the three Mangekyo abilities giving him the advantage over Shisui.

• Yosuke Uchiha and Shisui each unleashed a Perfect Susanoo and clashed, devastating the area around Nanga Shrine.
• Hiruko spotted the Susanoo battle and rushed toward the fight to capture Shisui.
• Itachi searched for Yei, then sent his ninja crow to guide Yei from the Death Forest laboratory to him.
• Yei arrived beside Itachi, heard that Shisui was fighting someone using space-time ninjutsu, and went to investigate.
• Yei reached the battlefield and identified the opponent as Yosuke Uchiha disguised with Obito's Chakra signature, wielding three Mangekyo abilities as he suppressed Shisui.

Yei intervened when Yosuke Uchiha nearly defeated Shisui, healed him, and exposed Yosuke’s identity while waiting for Shisui to regain enough ocular power to use Kotoamatsukami. When Yosuke attacked, Yei unleashed his Railgun and shattered the complete-body Susanoo.

• Yosuke Uchiha overwhelmed Shisui’s Susanoo and moved to capture him, but Yei struck Yosuke’s Susanoo with Lightning Howl Cannon.
• Yei healed Shisui with Rejuvenating Touch, and Shisui began gathering ocular power so he could use Kotoamatsukami.
• Yei inferred that Akatsuki could take others’ Kekkei Genkai and sensed Hiruko approaching, while Yosuke admitted he had come to capture Shisui.
• Yei identified the masked opponent as Yosuke Uchiha, and Yosuke removed his mask to confirm it.
• Yosuke drove his Susanoo toward Yei and Shisui, but Yei fired Railgun and tore through the towering Susanoo.

Yei defeated Yosuke Uchiha after shattering his Perfect Susanoo, then revealed enough of his abilities for Yosuke to suspect that Yei and Whirlpool Nameless were the same person. Yei left Yosuke alive because he still had a use for him.

• Yosuke Uchiha's Perfect Susanoo shattered under Yei's attack, and the backlash and fall left him injured.
• Yosuke Uchiha questioned Yei's identity, while Yei explained that Yosuke's power did not make him the strongest Uchiha.
• Yosuke Uchiha guessed that Yei was stalling, but Yei replenished his Chakra by entering Sage Mode.
• Yei used Flash Step, lightning attacks, and space-time ninjutsu to overwhelm Yosuke Uchiha, then sealed his Chakra points with the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms.
• Yei spared the severely injured Yosuke Uchiha, who concluded that Yei and Whirlpool Nameless were the same person.

Yei captured Yosuke Uchiha and Hiruko, then had Shisui use Kotoamatsukami to make Yosuke believe his Akatsuki membership was a secret mission and obey Yei. The chapter ended with Shisui exhausted and Yosuke prepared to remain inside the Akatsuki as Yei's spy.

• Yosuke Uchiha deduced that Yei was the Whirlpool Nameless, and Yei sealed his Chakra points.
• Yei caught Hiruko as he fled, then bound both men and altered some of their memories.
• Shisui told Yei that he had enough ocular power to use Kotoamatsukami once, and Yei chose Yosuke as the target.
• Yei explained that Yosuke should remain in the Akatsuki as a spy rather than return to Konoha, and Shisui agreed to follow his orders.
• Shisui used Kotoamatsukami to make Yosuke believe that joining the Akatsuki was a secret mission and that he must obey Yei.
• Shisui deactivated his Mangekyo Sharingan and collapsed to one knee, breathing heavily.

Yei arranged Shisui’s account of the battle to conceal Kotoamatsukami and explain his newfound strength, while Shisui disclosed a fabricated ocular technique to reassure Konoha’s leaders. In the Death Forest, Yei questioned Yosuke Uchiha about the Akatsuki and learned that Black Zetsu had manipulated him after his defection.

• Yei treated Shisui, told him what to report, and left with Yosuke Uchiha and Hiruko for the Death Forest.
• Shisui told Jiraiya, the Third Hokage, and Fugaku Uchiha that Madara Uchiha and Hiruko had targeted his Mangekyo Sharingan and that Madara had taken Yosuke’s eyes.
• Shisui claimed his newly awakened ocular technique was called Susanoo God, persuading the Third Hokage that he had not hidden his abilities.
• Fugaku scolded Shisui for revealing his technique and warned him to put the Uchiha Clan before Konoha, while Shisui remained determined to reconcile them.
• Yei questioned the awakened Yosuke about his defection and the Akatsuki, and Yosuke recounted how Black Zetsu had influenced him.

Yei obtained Hiruko’s Kiryūga Technique scroll and learned that Hiruko planned another Bloodline Fusion Ritual in ten days. Yosuke Uchiha took Hiruko back into the Akatsuki and redirected his search toward a Red Eye bloodline clan in the Land of Rivers, while Yei studied the scrolls and prepared to learn the Transcription Seal.

• Yei had Shisui use genjutsu to control Hiruko, who handed over the Kiryūga Technique scroll and revealed his next ritual would take place in ten days.
• Yei ordered Yosuke Uchiha to remain undercover in the Akatsuki and gave him a summoning scroll to report any developments.
• Yei obtained Shisui’s Transcription Seal scroll and gave Shisui a way to contact him if anything unusual happened in the Uchiha Clan.
• Outside Konoha, Yosuke Uchiha released Hiruko from Shisui’s genjutsu and altered Hiruko’s memories of their capture attempt.
• Hiruko chose a Red Eye bloodline target in the Land of Rivers, and Yosuke Uchiha accompanied him there.

Yei studied Transcription Seal and Kishō Tenshō, experimented with a Seed Embryo, and learned that Hiruko planned another fusion ritual during the coming aurora. As preparations for a joint campaign against Akatsuki loomed, Kakashi showed Yei his increasingly powerful Sharingan and asked for help contacting Shisui.

• Yei experimented with Kishō Tenshō, observed that the Seed Embryo enabled forced fusion while the test subject suffered severe bodily and spiritual damage, and received Yosuke Uchiha's report that Hiruko would perform another ritual the next day.
• Yei encouraged Hyuga Yue as she trained in the Summoning Technique and worked toward mastering the Medical Ninjutsu needed for the Yin Seal.
• Asuma warned Yei, Kakashi, and Gai that they might be sent to the front lines in the Five Great Ninja Villages' operation against Akatsuki, and the group gathered for a meal.
• Kakashi asked Yei to help him contact Shisui because his Sharingan had grown stronger as he tried to develop it toward the Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Yei examined Kakashi's Three-Tomoe Sharingan with his Byakugan and sensed that its ocular power had nearly reached Mangekyo level.

Yei used the Black Coffin to push Kakashi’s Sharingan into awakening the Mangekyo, revealing its Kamui ability and leaving Kakashi wondering how powerful Yei had become. The next day, Yei went to investigate Hiruko’s upcoming Bloodline Fusion Ritual and learned that a mysterious Evil God Sect follower had joined the Akatsuki.

• Yei trapped Kakashi in the Black Coffin and intensified the pressure to stimulate his Sharingan.
• Kakashi awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan and used Kamui to destroy a blade Yei sent toward him.
• Kakashi asked how strong Yei was, and Yei claimed that ten Kakashis would still not be his match.
• Yei wondered how Kakashi would react to his Mangekyo pattern resembling Madara Uchiha’s, then left him to seek answers himself.
• The next day, Yei met Yosuke Uchiha near the Land of Rain and learned that Hiruko’s ritual would take place on the border between the Land of Earth and the Land of Wind.
• Yosuke told Yei that Hishou, a seemingly unkillable follower of the Evil God Sect, had joined the Akatsuki, prompting Yei to suspect a connection to Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.

Yei and Yosuke Uchiha attended Hiruko’s Bloodline Fusion Ritual, where Hiruko used the aurora and three sacrifices to activate Kishō Tenshō. The ritual began transforming Hiruko as he tried to fuse Shikotsumyaku, leaving Yei watching to see whether Hiruko could withstand the process and absorb more Kekkei Genkai.

• Yei learned from Yosuke Uchiha that Pain might be stronger than before, then traveled with him to Hiruko’s ritual site.
• Yei observed Akatsuki members, including Scorpion, Kakuzu, Kisame, and Deva Path Pain, gather to witness the ritual while Black Zetsu watched from the shadows.
• As the aurora appeared, Hiruko activated the platform’s inscriptions and concentrated the celestial light on himself, greatly increasing his Chakra.
• Hiruko used Kishō Tenshō to transform into a monstrous mass of tentacles and devoured the three unconscious sacrifices, whose bodies and souls melted into him.
• Hiruko began contracting the transformed mass and drew the Shikotsumyaku portion into his body, unleashing even more violent Chakra fluctuations.

Hiruko completed his Bloodline Fusion Ritual, gaining five Kekkei Genkai and an immense amount of Chakra, though the Seed Sprout remained a dangerous side effect. He challenged the Deva Path to test his new strength, and their battle began with a clash of weapons.

• Hiruko's body was torn apart by the Seed Sprout's backlash, but black tentacles restored his flesh and he awoke with a powerful Chakra surge.
• Yei deduced how Hiruko had used Dark Release, the Red Eye, Shikotsumyaku, and Swift Release to survive the ritual, while noting that the Seed Sprout remained implanted in him.
• Hiruko declared himself the most perfect ninja, put on a new Akatsuki cloak, and thanked the Deva Path for supporting his ritual.
• Hiruko asked to test his strength against Akatsuki members, but the Deva Path offered to test him personally, partly to gauge Nagato's own power.
• Hiruko lunged at the Deva Path with a bone blade, and the Deva Path met his attack with Black Rods.

Hiruko tested the power he gained from the Bloodline Fusion Ritual by challenging the Deva Path, and briefly tore through Shinra Tensei before unveiling his strongest combination attack. The Deva Path revealed his power had grown enough to shorten Shinra Tensei’s interval, then overwhelmed Hiruko and devastated the battlefield with a single strike.

• Hiruko used the Red Eye, Swift Release, and Shikotsumyaku to fight the Deva Path while Akatsuki members watched.
• Hiruko announced he would use his full strength, then endured Shinra Tensei and cut through its repulsive force before the Deva Path stopped him with Almighty Attraction.
• Kakuzu, Scorpion, Kisame, Black Zetsu, Yei, and Yosuke Uchiha recognized how much Hiruko’s strength had increased.
• Hiruko unleashed Storm Release: Storm Demon Dragon and Dance of the Clematis, combining a lightning dragon with a bone-spike assault against the Deva Path.
• The Deva Path shortened Shinra Tensei’s interval from five seconds to two and released a massive repulsive force that destroyed Hiruko’s attack and blasted him away.

Yei prepared to join Konoha’s operation against Akatsuki while Orochimaru and Danzo advanced separate plans involving experimental bodies. The Five Great Ninja Villages’ representatives agreed on how to coordinate their coming surprise attack.

• Yei learned Konoha had selected him for the operation and set out with Kakashi, Gai, and Shisui toward the allied forces’ rendezvous point.
• Orochimaru successfully cloned a body with Wood Release and began using Living Corpse Reincarnation to transfer himself into it.
• Danzo transferred his soul into an experimental body bearing Senju and Uchiha traits, then considered seeking Orochimaru and observing the war.
• Jiraiya left the rendezvous point to investigate the Rain Country, leaving Shikaku Nara to represent Konoha in negotiations.
• Shikaku and the other village representatives agreed to fight separately, assist one another if needed, and launch a surprise attack once their forces arrived.

Kakashi's team infiltrated Hidden Rain Village to find and support Jiraiya as Akatsuki prepared to attack the Five Great Ninja Villages ahead of schedule. Jiraiya reached Akatsuki's tower and came face to face with Deva Path Pain and Konan, his former students.

• Shikaku sent Kakashi, Shisui, Gai, and Yei into Hidden Rain Village to locate Jiraiya and investigate Akatsuki's defenses.
• Yei detected White Zetsu near the rendezvous point and guided Kakashi's team toward a different entrance into the village.
• Black Zetsu told Deva Path Pain that Akatsuki had lost its surveillance and learned the Five Great Ninja Villages were preparing to attack, so Pain ordered Akatsuki to strike first.
• Yosuke Uchiha accepted Black Zetsu's report, declared himself the real Madara Uchiha, and left to join the battle while Tobi reported that only a few hundred White Zetsu had been made.
• Jiraiya infiltrated the evacuated village and entered Akatsuki's tower to learn whether its leader was Nagato or someone who had taken Nagato's Rinnegan.
• Deva Path Pain and Konan confronted Jiraiya and recognized their former teacher.

Jiraiya discovered that his former disciples Yahiko and Konan led the Akatsuki and fought Deva Path, who wielded Nagato’s Reincarnation Eyes and sought to impose peace through overwhelming power. As Jiraiya summoned the Mount Myōboku sages to gather sage Chakra, Yei prepared the area and Akatsuki members converged on the battle.

• Jiraiya confronted Deva Path and Konan, learned that Yahiko led the Akatsuki, and was struck by Deva Path’s Shinra Tensei.
• Deva Path explained his plan to force the Five Great Ninja Villages into submission, while Jiraiya argued that peace could not be established through fear.
• Jiraiya evaded another Shinra Tensei as Kakashi, Gai, and Shisui heard the fighting; Yei sent the three toward Jiraiya and met with Yosuke Uchiha.
• Yosuke told Yei that Pain planned to move the battlefield outside the village, and Yei placed experimental ninjutsu scrolls around the area before heading to the fight.
• Hiruko, Kakuzu, Sasori, Kisame, and Black Zetsu noticed the disturbance and moved toward it, while Hishou stayed behind to communicate with a presence at an altar.
• Jiraiya summoned Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima to gather sage Chakra, but Deva Path attacked again and used Heavenly Attraction of All Things against him.

Jiraiya was badly wounded by Deva Path, but Kakashi, Gai, and Shisui arrived with reinforcements as Akatsuki surrounded them. Yei healed Jiraiya and led the group to an explosive trap, leaving the pursuers engulfed in a barrage while the battle’s outcome remained unknown.

• Deva Path overwhelmed Jiraiya with Heavenly Attraction of All Things and Shinra Tensei, leaving him gravely injured.
• Kakashi, Gai, and Shisui joined Jiraiya, while Kakuzu, Hiruko, Scorpion, and Kisame arrived and surrounded the Konoha shinobi.
• Deva Path and Konan left to confront the other forces from the Five Great Ninja Villages, while the remaining Akatsuki members attacked the Konoha group.
• Shisui used his green-flamed Susanoo to block the Akatsuki members’ combined attacks and force them back.
• Yei healed Jiraiya with Rejuvenating Touch, and Jiraiya ordered the group to retreat rather than fight.
• Yei lured the pursuing Akatsuki members into buried ninjutsu scrolls and activated them, engulfing the area in explosions.

The Five Great Ninja Villages assembled to assault the Akatsuki, but the Six Paths of Pain appeared before they could advance. After the Raikage and Killer Bee attacked, the Deva Path countered and unleashed Super Almighty Push against the allied forces, leaving the battlefield devastated.

• The Five Great Ninja Villages learned that Jiraiya had likely been discovered and agreed to attack Hidden Rain Village from multiple directions.
• The Third Hokage arrived with Konoha reinforcements and took command of Konoha’s assault squad.
• The Six Paths of Pain emerged from the forest, and the Deva Path revealed that Pain was the shared title of all six.
• The Raikage and Killer Bee charged the Deva Path with Lariat, but Shinra Tensei repelled them and sent several others flying.
• The Asura Path fired rockets at the allied forces while the Deva Path rose into the air and unleashed Super Almighty Push, flattening the battlefield.

Orochimaru, Danzo, and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki moved toward the Hidden Rain Village battlefield as the Six Paths of Pain devastated the allied forces of the Five Great Ninja Villages. Yei chose to wait rather than intervene, while Yosuke Uchiha struggled with his failed mission and went to investigate other hidden Chakra signatures.

• Orochimaru learned about the battle from a white snake and headed toward the battlefield, hoping to see Yei.
• Danzo watched the Deva Path and secretly approached, considering whether he could take the Reincarnation Eye.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki learned that the Akatsuki leader's original body was at the tallest tower, drew more Chakra from the Ten Tails, and prepared to seek a vessel before Jigen's body failed.
• Yei sensed the battle and several hidden Kage-level Chakra signatures, including Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, and decided to wait while Jiraiya led the Konoha group toward the fighting.
• The Deva Path's Shinra Tensei devastated the allied forces, killing or injuring most of their troops, though the Raikage, Killer B, Yugito Nii, the Third Hokage, and other leaders survived.
• Yosuke Uchiha saw the aftermath, realized he could not carry out his mission without exposing himself, and teleported toward unfamiliar hidden Chakra signatures he suspected might belong to Danzo or Orochimaru.

The Five Great Ninja Villages’ survivors and Akatsuki gathered for a decisive battle, while Yei detected another clash involving Orochimaru, Danzo, and Yosuke Uchiha, plus Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s return. The Tsuchikage’s surprise Dust Release attack was absorbed by the Preta Path, and the Deva Path ordered Akatsuki to attack as battle began.

• The Tsuchikage and Raikage rallied the allied survivors, while Killer B, Yugito Nii, Han, and the other fighters prepared to face Pain’s Six Paths and summoned creatures.
• Jiraiya and his group arrived with Hiruko, Kisame, Kakuzu, and Scorpion, and the Third Hokage ordered the allies to prepare for battle.
• Yei sensed Orochimaru and Danzo fighting near Yosuke Uchiha and detected Ōtsutsuki Isshiki in the Hidden Rain Village, but decided to focus on the battle before him.
• The Tsuchikage launched Dust Release at the Deva Path, but the Preta Path absorbed the attack, leaving the allied leaders shocked.
• The Deva Path ordered Hiruko, Kakuzu, Scorpion, and Kisame to attack as the Summoning Animals and two Pain bodies charged forward.

The Allied Forces blocked a repulsive attack, then split into battles against Nagato’s Six Paths of Pain and the Akatsuki fighters. The chapter ended with Hiruko facing Konoha’s experts while the other major clashes continued across the battlefield.

• The Tsuchikage, Kazekage, Raikage, and other shinobi combined their defenses to protect the Allied Forces from the attack.
• Hiruko, Kakuzu, Scorpion, and Kisame chose opponents, while Yugito Nii fought the Animal Path’s Summoning Animals and the Tsuchikage and Han confronted the Asura and Human Paths.
• The Deva Path faced Killer B and Jiraiya, resisted their attacks, and declared that deciding the war’s meaning was up to him.
• Hiruko absorbed and returned the Third Hokage’s Fire Release, then nearly struck him with a bone blade before Shisui blocked the attack with Susanoo.
• Hiruko used Storm Release against Shisui and Dark Release against Kakashi, then fought Kakashi, Gai, Inoichi, Choza, and the Third Hokage’s forces alone.

Yei observed that the Allied Forces were losing ground across several fronts and moved to stabilize the battlefield, targeting the Naraka Path while sending a clone to help Konoha. Shisui unleashed his full Perfect Susanoo against Hiruko, and Yei's clone reached the Third Hokage with information about the Akatsuki's leader.

• The Raikage initially pressured Kakuzu, but the Preta Path joined the battle and reversed the advantage by absorbing the Raikage's Chakra.
• Scorpion fought the Fourth Kazekage and Chiyo with his puppets, while the Naraka Path restored the Asura Path after the Tsuchikage and Han destroyed it.
• Yei killed the Hell Crab Summoning Animal, sent a clone toward Konoha's fight with Hiruko, and headed for the hidden Naraka Path.
• Yei's clone struck Hiruko with Lightning Release and urged Shisui to fight at full strength; Shisui explained that he had held back to avoid harming the others.
• Shisui manifested his towering Perfect Susanoo and battled Hiruko, forcing the nearby Konoha shinobi to retreat from the destructive clash.
• Yei's clone reached the Third Hokage and said he had discovered information about the Akatsuki's leader.