Chapter Summaries

Bai Cangshu learned that Hiranaka Minoru had escaped Konoha with a mysterious golden-eyed power, while Obito tried to recruit him to the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Bai Cangshu rejected both Obito’s offer and Heaven’s Will’s plans, declaring that the fear of death was the only way to make everyone understand one another.

• Ran speculated that Pain would condemn the world before destroying the royal capital of the Land of Fire, while Bai Cangshu ate Tailed Beast meat and gained a temporary energy buff.
• Hiranaka Hana asked Bai Cangshu about her missing husband, and he asked whether she would still love him if he became a monster; she affirmed that she would.
• Bai Cangshu questioned Shimura Danzō, who revealed that Hiranaka Minoru had escaped Konoha’s prison three days earlier with golden eyes, likely aided by Heaven’s Will.
• Uchiha Obito appeared and warned Bai Cangshu that Heaven’s Will would deceive him, then offered him the Sharingan, Mangekyō Sharingan, and Rinnegan in exchange for supporting the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Bai Cangshu dismissed both the Erdtree Era and Infinite Tsukuyomi as troublesome and said that only the fear of death could make everyone understand one another.

Bai Cangshu let Uchiha Obito retreat and had Orochimaru use Impure World Reincarnation to summon Uchiha Madara into his body. In Bai Cangshu’s Consciousness Space, Madara faced the yin spirits, Satoru Gojo, and the Death God as Bai Cangshu challenged him to seize control of the body.

• Bai Cangshu’s air-cannon punch missed Uchiha Obito, who withdrew after deciding he needed to reclaim Kakashi’s eye before confronting him again.
• Ran found Uchiha Madara’s corpse, and Orochimaru confirmed that it held enough flesh for Impure World Reincarnation.
• Bai Cangshu asked Orochimaru to put Uchiha Madara’s soul into his body, and Orochimaru performed the technique.
• Uchiha Madara’s soul entered Bai Cangshu and appeared in his Consciousness Space, where Bai Cangshu’s Yin Spirit Possession trait began accommodating him.
• Madara repelled the first assault by the yin spirits, saw Satoru Gojo and the Death God, and questioned whether Impure World Reincarnation had failed.
• Bai Cangshu told Madara to defeat the others if he wanted the body, then withdrew from the Throne of the Heart as the Yellow Springs churned.

Bai Cangshu assimilated Uchiha Madara and continued toward the Land of Lightning, while Heaven's Will advanced her Golden Order plans and Konoha struggled against invading forces. Under the full moon, Bai Cangshu unleashed the Silver Wolf Under the Moon's power and destroyed the Land of Lightning's royal capital, killing its Daimyo.

• Bai Cangshu learned that assimilating Uchiha Madara had altered the world, then ordered the group to race toward the Land of Lightning.
• Heaven's Will told Hiranaka Minoru to seek the person destined to help him and sent him toward the Land of Lightning while she nurtured the Erdtree with Tailed Beast flesh.
• Uchiha Shisui protected Konoha from the Fourth Raikage and Third Tsuchikage, and Uchiha Fugaku showed him a Golden Rune as a possible path to victory.
• Bai Cangshu's Silver Wolf Under the Moon trait activated beneath the full moon, multiplying his power as he prepared to attack the royal capital.
• Bai Cangshu hurled a crushed stone into the royal capital, destroying the Daimyo's palace and killing the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning.

Bai Cangshu used his newly enhanced physical strength and Satsui no Hado to devastate the Land of Lightning’s capital and kill its daimyo. As Orochimaru and Uchiha Itachi faced a Kumogakure counterattack, Bai Cangshu demanded that the people of the Land of Lightning submit or die.

• Bai Cangshu killed hundreds of people by hurling compressed sand and dirt at the Daimyo's Estate, and his Satsui no Hado grew stronger.
• Bai Cangshu told Orochimaru and Uchiha Itachi that absolute strength could create absolute power as they followed him toward the capital.
• Bai Cangshu fired a compressed Satsui no Hado Punch at the ninja defending the capital, overwhelming their Sixteen-Pillar Binding Technique and causing a massive explosion.
• Kumogakure ninja attacked Orochimaru, Uchiha Itachi, and Bai Cangshu; Itachi killed one attacker, while Bai Cangshu crushed Odula with his bare hands.
• Orochimaru survived his apparent death by transforming into a snake and killed another ninja, while Bai Cangshu ordered the people of the Land of Lightning to submit or die.

Bai Cangshu forced the Land of Lightning’s survivors to submit, while Nagato and Konan confronted the Land of Fire’s nobles after Konoha’s destruction. The chapter left Nagato willing to test whether Mercenary Tao’s proposed empire could end the cycle of war.

• Bai Cangshu arrived in the Land of Lightning’s capital and ordered Horikawa Takuya to gather the survivors and submit, promising to make him daimyo if he obeyed.
• A woman approached Bai Cangshu offering to explain the city, and Uchiha Itachi shot down several ninja who ambushed him while allowing one attacker to reach him.
• The attacker’s kunai broke against Bai Cangshu’s neck, and Bai Cangshu challenged a second ninja preparing to use lightning.
• Deva Path Pain and Konan faced the Land of Fire’s nobles and samurai, who dropped their weapons and tried to surrender after the Daimyo’s Estate was destroyed.
• Nagato stopped Konan from attacking the kneeling nobles and chose to see whether Mercenary Tao’s proposed empire could end the thousand-year war.

Ōnoki and Konoha learned that the Raikage and Tsuchikage had withdrawn, ending the assault on Konoha, while Bai Cangshu discovered that Hiranaka Minoru had become the bearer of the Golden Order. The chapter ended with Minoru encountering the Fourth Raikage and the Sage of Six Paths at the Land of Fire’s border.

• Kitsuchi reported that the Land of Fire’s daimyo had been killed, and Ōnoki realized that the group attacking Konoha was hunting the nations’ leaders.
• Heaven’s Will declared Konoha’s defensive victory as Jiraiya received confirmation that the Raikage, Tsuchikage, and their forces were retreating.
• The Space gave Bai Cangshu a new trial objective: find Hiranaka Minoru within three days and keep him from being killed.
• Bai Cangshu realized Heaven’s Will had made Hiranaka Minoru the bearer of the Golden Order and questioned Hiranaka Hana about her husband.
• Hiranaka Minoru encountered the Fourth Raikage and saw the Sage of Six Paths floating behind the group.

Hiranaka Minoru fled the Fourth Raikage while using the Erdtree’s prayers to ward off attacks, believing his survival was necessary for the Erdtree Era. Bai Cangshu arrived as his supposed protector, but instead grabbed him and asked him to take his own life.

• The Fourth Raikage attacked Hiranaka Minoru, who escaped the strike with Hound's Pace and ran toward the Land of Lightning.
• Hiranaka Minoru invoked the Erdtree’s prayers to withstand Lightning Release attacks, then struck at the pursuing ninjas with a golden sword aura before fleeing.
• The Fourth Raikage sent his companions to reinforce the royal capital and pursued Hiranaka Minoru, while Uchiha Obito followed in hopes of capturing him.
• Uchiha Obito attempted to draw Hiranaka Minoru into the Kamui Dimension, but Bai Cangshu struck him with a black pebble.
• Bai Cangshu landed near Hiranaka Minoru, seized him by the throat, and asked him to take his own life.

Bai Cangshu was forced to keep Hiranaka Minoru alive, but he nearly killed him while weighing the risks of the Erdtree mission. After the Fourth Raikage attacked and Bai Cangshu overwhelmed him, Hiranaka Minoru healed Bai Cangshu and asked for his help fighting the Sage.

• Bai Cangshu choked Hiranaka Minoru and considered abandoning the Special Trial, while Uchiha Obito asked to take Minoru and the Fourth Raikage confronted him.
• The Fourth Raikage struck Bai Cangshu with Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop, but Bai Cangshu survived and trapped the Raikage's hand blade in his muscles.
• The Fourth Raikage attacked again with Heavy Lightning, but Bai Cangshu caught his elbow and repeatedly smashed him into the ground.
• Hiranaka Minoru cast Erdtree Heal on Bai Cangshu, restoring him and interrupting his assault on the Fourth Raikage.
• Hiranaka Minoru asked Bai Cangshu to help him reach Utmost Benevolence and Goodness and fight the Sage.

Mercenary Tao confronted Hiranaka Minoru and Uchiha Obito as the Erdtree grew outside Konoha and spread the Golden Order’s influence. Heaven’s Will revealed that she had trapped Uzumaki Naruto and Second Pillar inside the tree, while facing a future in which Mercenary Tao threatened her plans.

• Mercenary Tao crippled the Fourth Raikage and confronted Hiranaka Minoru, rejecting his belief in the Erdtree Era.
• Uchiha Obito appeared with the Fourth Raikage, but a powerful presence inside him immobilized him and formed a Truth-Seeking Orb.
• Mercenary Tao recognized the presence as the Sage of Six Paths.
• The Erdtree neared a thousand meters tall, and its golden radiance made Konoha’s people and Uchiha Clan members begin to waver toward the Golden Order.
• Jiraiya saw the Erdtree’s influence spreading and went to search for Heaven’s Will after learning Uzumaki Naruto and Second Pillar had disappeared.
• Heaven’s Will told Leren to run and revealed she had trapped Uzumaki Naruto and Second Pillar inside the Erdtree, while foreseeing Mercenary Tao tearing her apart.

Heaven's Will fought Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama while Leren escaped, then challenged the Sage of Six Paths to a wager about what his sons would choose between two futures. After Heaven's Will's clone collapsed, Phase Two of the Golden Tree's Advent began, and Otsutsuki Hagoromo offered Bai Cangshu another choice.

• Heaven's Will warned Jiraiya not to attack as Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama appeared through Impure World Reincarnation and wounded Leren.
• Senju Hashirama unleashed Wood Release, and Leren fled on a summoned giant eagle while Heaven's Will stayed to fight the Hokages.
• Heaven's Will evaded the Hokages' attacks and challenged Otsutsuki Hagoromo to wager on whether either of his reincarnated sons would choose the Golden Order's future.
• Heaven's Will told Bai Cangshu that the World Will's hatred would target her for seven to fourteen days, then her flower-grown body shattered.
• The Space announced Phase Two of the Golden Tree's Advent, ordering Erdtree-aligned Reincarnators and Plot Characters to resist attacks from the World Will until the Greater Will descended.
• Otsutsuki Hagoromo spoke to Bai Cangshu after Heaven's Will disappeared, and Bai Cangshu triggered the hidden event The Unseen Golden Age.

Bai Cangshu challenged Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo and learned that the Sage could not freely use his full power, while Heaven's Will advanced the Erdtree's growth. After Orochimaru, Uchiha Itachi, and Hiranaka Hana arrived, Bai Cangshu realized the Planet's Will represented a third faction aligned with the world's native inhabitants against the Otsutsuki Clan.

• Bai Cangshu rejected Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's appeal, released Hiranaka Minoru, and challenged the Sage's strength.
• Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo raised the Sword of Nunoboko, but Bai Cangshu seized it with his indestructible King's Left Arm and tried to break it.
• Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo withdrew, admitting through his actions that he could only intervene with restrictions, and warned Bai Cangshu that his time was running out.
• Bai Cangshu saw the Erdtree's golden glow and suspected Heaven's Will had attacked Uzumaki Naruto and Second Pillar to accelerate its growth.
• Orochimaru and Uchiha Itachi arrived with Hiranaka Hana, who reunited with Hiranaka Minoru.
• Bai Cangshu concluded that the Planet's Will differed from the World Will and that the world's native inhabitants formed a third faction opposed to the Otsutsuki Clan.

Bai Cangshu exploited the destruction of the Land of Lightning’s capital to install Horikawa Takuya as Daimyo and provoke the citizens into a violent frenzy. His actions completed the Sin of Tyranny synchronization and unlocked the hidden Scarlet Skull ascension route.

• Bai Cangshu concluded that the Otsutsuki Clan would not receive the World Will’s protection, then declared plans to force the great nobles into submission through terror.
• Bai Cangshu and his allies defeated Kumogakure attackers in the royal capital, and he named Horikawa Takuya the new Daimyo of the Land of Lightning.
• Bai Cangshu killed resisting samurai and offered the Daimyo’s wealth to the public, prompting people to rush for riches and demand freedom and revenge.
• Bai Cangshu granted the crowd’s demands with further killings, turning their fear into a frenzy while Hiranaka Minoru sensed life energy draining into the Erdtree.
• Bai Cangshu reached 100% synchronization in the Sin of Tyranny and unlocked the hidden Special Ascension Route: Scarlet Skull.

Bai Cangshu activated Ororchi Yashiro atop a storm-wracked cliff in the Land of Lightning while Hiranaka Minoru embraced the Golden Order’s vision of ending death. Hiranaka Hana rejected her husband’s growing devotion and looked toward the tyrant on the mountaintop, wondering if he could change her fate.

• Bai Cangshu crushed the lightning-flickering magatama and summoned immense storm clouds over the gorge.
• Hiranaka Minoru told Hiranaka Hana he wanted to create a world where no one died, and she slapped him and begged him to stay out of danger.
• Hiranaka Minoru’s Golden Order magic circle appeared as he resolved to change the sorrowful world.
• Hiranaka Hana let go of her husband and looked toward the cloud-covered mountaintop, where Mercenary Tao stood.

Bai Cangshu began the Ororchi Yashiro inheritance trial in his Consciousness Space and faced the Hakkesshu spirit’s devastating lightning attacks. After surviving the Thunder Arrow of Destiny, he emerged from the white mist laughing and declared that destiny was in his hands.

• Bai Cangshu’s physical endurance qualified him for the Ororchi Yashiro inheritance, and the special trial began inside his Consciousness Space.
• Satoru Gojo and Uchiha Madara watched as Ororchi Yashiro attacked Bai Cangshu with lightning, while the Death God and yin spirits gathered nearby.
• Bai Cangshu stopped evading Ororchi Yashiro’s attacks and opened himself to the spirit’s lightning to understand its power.
• Ororchi Yashiro summoned the Thunder Arrow of Destiny, which destroyed the Yin Spirit Tower and swept through the Consciousness Space.
• Bai Cangshu emerged from the mist laughing and declared, “Destiny is in my hands.”

Bai Cangshu defeated Ororchi Yashiro, gained his inherited title, and challenged Satoru Gojo and Uchiha Madara to gamble on destiny. In the mortal world, Uchiha Shisui uncovered the Erdtree’s influence before Bai Cangshu appeared and dismissed his vision of a future without death.

• Bai Cangshu defeated Ororchi Yashiro, earned the Inherited Title: Ororchi Yashiro, and cast the Hakkesshu into the Yellow Springs.
• Bai Cangshu challenged Satoru Gojo and Uchiha Madara to gamble on destiny, but Satoru Gojo declined and Uchiha Madara was left irritated when Bai Cangshu vanished.
• Uchiha Shisui arrived at the Land of Lightning’s ruined Daimyo’s Estate and found Uchiha Itachi slaughtering samurai who had plotted to restore order after Mercenary Tao’s departure.
• Uchiha Itachi led Uchiha Shisui to Hiranaka Minoru and Hiranaka Hana, where Shisui used his Sharingan on Minoru and glimpsed the Erdtree Era and a future where no one died.
• Bai Cangshu fell from the cliff, and Hiranaka Minoru shielded Hiranaka Hana from the flying stone fragments.
• Bai Cangshu rejected Uchiha Shisui’s hoped-for future and declared that neither this world nor the Otsutsuki could contain the Greater Will.

Bai Cangshu let Uchiha Shisui cast Kotoamatsukami on him, but he had planned to use the technique to guide his own response. He left with Shisui and the Hiranakas to advance the Erdtree Era by targeting Tailed Beasts and sages.

• Bai Cangshu told Hiranaka Minoru that his duty was only to keep him alive, not to help with his ambitions.
• Uchiha Shisui used Kotoamatsukami on Bai Cangshu, suffering intense mental backlash as he cast the Genjutsu.
• Bai Cangshu recognized that Kotoamatsukami had affected him, yet acted as though its influence aligned with his plans.
• Bai Cangshu led the group away, saying the Erdtree must be protected and that the Golden Order needed life force to expand its influence.
• Bai Cangshu proposed capturing Tailed Beasts and bringing down sages, leaving Uchiha Shisui uneasy about whether the Erdtree Era required their deaths.

Heaven's Will tried to delay Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama while advancing her plan to seize the Children of the World, but Hashirama's assault destroyed her copied Elden Beast and Mercenary Tao struck her as she unleashed Scarlet Rot. The Scarlet Rot flower bloomed against Hashirama's attempted seal, leaving its destructive power spreading outward.

• Heaven's Will used her true body disguised as a clone to pierce Senju Tobirama with natural energy, then swallowed his damaged body with a Man-eating Flower.
• Senju Hashirama pinned the copied Elden Beast with Gracious Deity Gates and battered it and the Erdtree with True Several Thousand Hands, destroying Heaven's Will's Mirror card.
• The White Snake Sage emerged from underground, passed through the Erdtree's barriers, and reached its crown.
• Heaven's Will released the seal on her chest, unleashing Scarlet Rot and withering the life around her.
• Mercenary Tao appeared and struck Heaven's Will through the chest with a Dodon Ray, while her body dissipated into the wind.
• The Scarlet Rot condensed into a giant flower and bloomed as Senju Hashirama tried to seal it, spreading destruction in every direction.

Heaven's Will used Scarlet Rot to devastate the battlefield and entered the Erdtree to seize Naruto from the Great Toad Sage. She escaped with Naruto as the White Snake Sage fell, and Bai Cangshu pushed its corpse toward the Erdtree roots as a sacrifice to bring the Golden Order into the world.

• Bai Cangshu avoided Heaven's Will's Scarlet Rot while the curse began withering Senju Hashirama and petrifying the White Snake Sage.
• Heaven's Will entered the wounded Erdtree, where the Great Toad Sage tried to awaken Naruto and Sasuke from their Golden Order dream.
• Heaven's Will's spreading blood began to decay the dream, and Sasuke awoke as the Great Toad Sage pulled Naruto toward him.
• Fukasaku and Shima used Demonic Illusion: Toad Confrontation Chant to stop Heaven's Will, but she escaped with Naruto using a straw doll and Slave Shackles.
• Gamarun saw Bai Cangshu holding the fallen White Snake Sage's head and pushing its corpse toward the Erdtree roots as a sacrifice.

Bai Cangshu killed the White Snake Sage, claimed rare rewards, and entered the Erdtree as its power grew. Elsewhere, Uchiha Shisui and his companions witnessed Golden Order followers slaughtering those who had not joined, deepening the conflict between Hiranaka Minoru and Hiranaka Hana.

• Bai Cangshu used the White Snake Sage's remains to nourish the Erdtree and opened a Purple Drop Card, gaining Dimensional Points, a Dragon Transformation Serpent Head, and a Ryūchi Cave Sage Mode training scroll.
• Bai Cangshu entered the Erdtree and saw an ancient toad disappear with a boy in Uchiha Clan clothing whose eyes gleamed gold.
• Ran sensed that the group traveling with Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi was close to breaking apart over the Golden Order.
• Uchiha Shisui stopped the group when they saw Golden Order followers killing people who had not joined them in a riverside town.
• Hiranaka Minoru defended the killings as necessary for a future without death, and Hiranaka Hana slapped him and rejected his claim of a greater good.

Hiranaka Minoru became a God-Human as the Greater Will brought the Elden Beast and the Erdtree Era to the Naruto World. After Hiranaka Hana begged Bai Cangshu to kill Minoru and end the coming tragedy, Bai Cangshu accepted the Merciful Release mission and prepared to act freely.

• Bai Cangshu revealed that the Toad Sage had escaped with Sasuke, prompting Uchiha Itachi and Uchiha Shisui to threaten him with their swords.
• Hiranaka Minoru invoked the Golden Order, transforming into a God-Human as the Elden Beast arrived and the Greater Will intervened.
• Hiranaka Hana begged Bai Cangshu to release Minoru from his transformed state, triggering the Merciful Release mission.
• A Tailed Beast Bomb struck the Elden Beast, and the God-Human Minoru flew into the sky.
• Bai Cangshu accepted the Merciful Release mission and chose to act without restraint.