Chapter Summaries

Tang Ping joined Jiraiya’s battle against the AB Combination and used his powerful Fire Release to injure Gyuki and prevent it from firing a Tailed Beast Ball. The Eight-Tails began a major attack, forcing Jiraiya and Tang Ping to retreat, while its outcome remained unresolved.

• Tang Ping arrived at the battlefield and found Jiraiya struggling against A while Killer B fought in Eight-Tails form.
• Tang Ping attacked Gyuki with Fire Dragon Flame Bullet, burning through the Tailed Beast’s defenses.
• Tang Ping dodged Gyuki’s tentacle and interrupted its attempt to form a Tailed Beast Ball with Flame Finger.
• Killer B announced a move from inside Gyuki as the Eight-Tails wrapped its tentacles around itself.
• Jiraiya ordered everyone to retreat, and Tang Ping took flight to escape as the Eight-Tails began its next attack.

Tang Ping and the Konoha reinforcements faced the AB Combination after Killer B’s Tailed Beast Eight Juan devastated the battlefield. Tang Ping entered Sage Mode to confront A, who attacked him as the chapter ended.

• Killer B unleashed Tailed Beast Eight Juan, flattening the surrounding terrain and killing hundreds of Konoha reinforcements.
• Jiraiya asked Tang Ping to buy him time, but Tang Ping told him to send the other ninja to help Minato resist the Cloud Ninja Army and the newly arrived Two-Tails.
• Tang Ping crushed a bottle of Hot Spring and absorbed Natural Energy, prompting the AB Combination to attack.
• Jiraiya used Toad Mouth Bind Technique to shield Tang Ping while he entered Sage Mode, then released the summoning once Tang Ping was ready.
• A rushed Tang Ping from behind with Lightning Release Hot Knife, but Tang Ping sensed the attack and dodged.

Tang Ping and Jiraiya fought A and Killer B, using traps and coordinated techniques to separate the brothers. Tang Ping unleashed his Zhurong True Body and aimed its massive Ama-no-Murakumo Sword at the Eight-Tails trapped in Jiraiya’s swamp.

• Tang Ping used his Flame Garment and Sage Art: Ama-no-Murakumo Sword to break Killer B’s blades, but A and Killer B countered with Double Lariat.
• Tang Ping’s Fire Pillar Formation blasted A and Killer B into the air, and Jiraiya trapped the Eight-Tails with Earth Release: Yomi Swamp.
• Killer B used a tentacle to fling A to safety, while Jiraiya restrained the Eight-Tails with Lion’s Mane Technique and summoned Gamabunta to hold it back.
• Tang Ping pursued A, but his Flame Garment and sword failed to overcome A’s speed and Lightning Release Armor.
• Tang Ping summoned his Zhurong True Body, formed a massive Ama-no-Murakumo Sword, and aimed it at the trapped Eight-Tails.

Tang Ping used the Zhurong True Body and its enormous Ama-no-Murakumo Sword to badly injure Killer B and A before they escaped. He feigned exhaustion afterward to hide his strength, and the Cloud Ninja Army’s attack was repelled.

• Tang Ping extended the Ama-no-Murakumo Sword and split Killer B’s Eight-Tails transformation in two.
• A struck the Zhurong True Body, but Tang Ping trapped him in the Fire Pillar Formation and knocked him unconscious.
• Jiraiya attacked Killer B with Gamabunta’s Toad Oil Flame Bullet, but Killer B used the Octopus Leg Clone Technique to rescue A and flee.
• Tang Ping pretended to be badly injured in front of Jiraiya and White Zetsu, then headed toward the main battlefield with Hinata Cang Yue.
• The Cloud Ninja Army retreated after the Third Raikage rescued the Two-Tails Jinchuriki and covered his forces’ withdrawal.

After completing their mission against the Cloud Ninja Army, Tang Ping and Squad 404 traveled to Kusagakure to look for an Uzumaki clansman. In a village of extreme poverty, Tang Ping heard that a medical ninja had arrived and followed the lead to a guarded wooden house, where he spotted something that sharpened his gaze.

• Tang Ping and Squad 404 left the front lines after meeting Yamaa Koji, while Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki prepared to withdraw Konoha’s defensive line.
• Tang Ping led Hinata Cang Yue and Yamaa Koji through several small countries toward the Grass Country and Rain Country, witnessing the hardship of their civilians.
• The trio entered Kusagakure, where Tang Ping observed the villagers’ poverty and the contempt shown toward them by Kusagakure shinobi.
• At an Izakaya, Tang Ping overheard Kusagakure shinobi discussing a medical ninja who treated people for contribution points.
• Tang Ping followed the shinobi to a guarded wooden house and saw something inside that made his gaze turn sharp.

Tang Ping rescued a pregnant Uzumaki woman from Kusagakure, where ninja had been using her as a source of healing blood, and sent her to the Tenshu Pavilion. He and Hinata Cang Yue then entered the Rain Country to meet their next target and encountered that target soon after arriving.

• Tang Ping found several Kusagakure ninja feeding on a pregnant woman and recognized her as an Uzumaki clanswoman.
• Tang Ping told the woman he was a Konoha ninja, learned of her hatred for Konoha, and persuaded her to leave Kusagakure for the Tenshu Pavilion.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue got the woman out of Kusagakure, and Tang Ping instructed Yamaa Koji to take her to the Tenshu Pavilion and keep her hair disguised.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue entered the Rain Country disguised as refugees to meet their target, whom they encountered soon after arriving.

Tang Ping watched Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan while looking for a chance to approach them without White Zetsu’s surveillance. When Nagato left with White Zetsu, Tang Ping met Konan at a grave and gave her a sealed box containing a prophecy meant to reach her in a future moment of despair.

• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue observed Akatsuki as its members guided refugees to shelter, work, and food.
• Tang Ping spotted White Zetsu following Nagato and waited for a chance to approach Konan alone.
• Tang Ping used the alias Oda Nobunaga and found Konan visiting the grave of her dog, Little One.
• Konan told Tang Ping about Little One, then attacked him with a paper Shuriken when he proposed making an agreement.
• Tang Ping gave Konan a sealed iron box and told her to open it if she ever fell into despair.

Tang Ping warned Konan to keep a sealed iron box and hinted that it could change her fate, then returned to Konoha with Hinata Cang Yue under White Zetsu surveillance. In Konoha, he saw signs that the village was nearing exhaustion from the war and learned that the Sarutobi Clan secretly had over a thousand troops.

• Tang Ping warned Konan not to tell Yahiko or Nagato about their meeting and urged her to keep the iron box, then left after she asked how to contact him.
• Hinata Cang Yue asked Tang Ping why he had observed Akatsuki, and he said the organization might one day revolutionize the ninja world.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue returned to the Land of Fire in their true appearances and realized White Zetsu was monitoring them.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue entered Konoha and saw that the war had depleted the village’s caravans, manpower, and farmland.
• Hinata Cang Yue revealed that the Sarutobi Clan had a little over one thousand Sarutobi Army troops, surprising Tang Ping as they arrived at the Hokage Office.

Tang Ping confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi over Root’s attack on the Mei Clan migration convoy, while Danzo broke with the Hokage and prepared to aid Hanzo against Akatsuki. Back at the Uchiha grounds, Tang Ping encountered Kakashi, Obito, and Nohara Rin before entering a clan in mourning and heading to the Clan Head Residence.

• Tang Ping criticized Hiruzen Sarutobi for the attack on the Mei Clan convoy, but Hiruzen blamed the wartime banditry and avoided addressing Root.
• Danzo argued with Hiruzen, then decided to use Root against Tang Ping and personally lead troops to help his ally Hanzo confront Akatsuki.
• Tang Ping met Nohara Rin, Kakashi, and Obito near the Uchiha Clan Grounds, gave Kakashi a scroll containing the Shadow Mirror Body Transfer Technique, and watched the three depart.
• Tang Ping entered the Uchiha grounds, saw the clan mourning its losses, and headed for the Clan Head Residence.

Tang Ping negotiated with Uchiha Fugaku over the Main Branch Lineage's properties and secured a copy of the Uchiha's knowledge and ninjutsu in exchange for Healing Potion technology. Months after returning to Tenshukaku, an event with the potential to affect the shinobi world began in Rain Country.

• Tang Ping visited Uchiha Fugaku and bluntly told him he was unfit to lead the Uchiha Clan.
• Tang Ping offered to give the clan most of the Main Branch Lineage's properties if it shared its knowledge, formulas, cultivation methods, and ninjutsu with Mei.
• After Uchiha Fugaku refused, Tang Ping offered Healing Potion technology in exchange and gave him until the next day to decide.
• The Uchiha Clan held an all-night meeting at Naka Shrine, then agreed to the transaction before Tang Ping left Konoha.
• Tang Ping took away copies of the Uchiha's knowledge and ninjutsu, leaving the Tenshukaku Main Branch Lineage with a foundation comparable to the Konoha Uchiha.
• Several months later, an event with far-reaching consequences began in Rain Country.

After Yahiko’s death, Konan read Tang Ping’s letter promising a way to revive him and secretly became Tang Ping’s spy inside Akatsuki. Later, Tang Ping showed Tenshukaku’s people its thriving rice harvest before leading them to see something else.

• Konan opened the iron box, read Tang Ping’s letter, and hid Yahiko’s body so it could potentially be revived.
• Konan decided to trust Tang Ping and became his spy within Akatsuki, while Nagato awoke and declared that he would become the god of a new world.
• Tang Ping inspected Tenshukaku’s abundant rice harvest as refugees and residents gathered grain using Wooden Oxen and harvesting rollers.
• Tang Ping led the group to another area to show them something good.

Tang Ping showed the harvest from Tenshukaku’s newly reclaimed fields, where Tenshukaku Number One rice yielded far more than ordinary crops and made the territory self-sufficient in grain. After the group returned to the expanded city, Uzumaki Kasumi approached Tang Ping with a child and an unusual delivery.

• Wooden Oxen harvested the rice, and a priestess reported an average yield of around 200 kilograms per mu from the first-year fields.
• Tang Ping explained the roles of compost, irrigation canals, and Hot Spring’s rapidly cultivated seeds, then said only fifty thousand mu had been planted with Tenshukaku Number One.
• Hinata Cang Yue, Uchiha Mei, Yamaa Koji, Honda Katsu, and the others reacted with disbelief as Tang Ping noted that Tenshukaku would produce enough grain to feed over a hundred thousand people.
• Tang Ping invited the group to the Harvest Festival, while Honda Katsu considered how the United Fruit Trading Company could use Tenshukaku’s grain to dominate food markets.
• The group returned to the expanded Tenshukaku, where Uzumaki Kasumi approached Tang Ping carrying a child and said something had been delivered for him.

Tang Ping received Yahiko’s corpse and planned to study a secret method of resurrection while preserving Yahiko’s role in the future Six Paths of Pain. After a tense Harvest Festival where Uchiha Mei and Hinata Cang Yue competed over him, he left to inspect the Land of Rivers; half a year later, startling news from Akatsuki sent him and Hinata Cang Yue hurrying north.

• Tang Ping received Yahiko’s corpse and planned to clone a replacement body while seeking a way to resurrect him with Life Reincarnation.
• Tang Ping attended the Harvest Festival, where Uchiha Mei and Hinata Cang Yue argued over their relationship with him and the other attendees watched eagerly.
• Tang Ping left to inspect the Land of Rivers after the festival and its dangerous romantic rivalry.
• In April of Konoha’s forty-seventh year, Tang Ping received astonishing news through Akatsuki’s channels, ended his teaching duties at Starting Point Orphanage, and summoned Hinata Cang Yue to travel north with him.

Tang Ping met Konan as Kara, delivered a Yahiko clone, and learned how Nagato had changed Akatsuki. After leaving Konan with the clone, he hurried to the Land of Hot Water to witness the Third Raikage's battle.

• Tang Ping explained that he planned to meet Konan and collect the Third Raikage's corpse, while agreeing to Uchiha Sho's request for Ascension Ladder surgery under Tenshukaku's Contribution Points system.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue entered the Grass Country in Kara uniforms and met Konan, who recognized the organization.
• Tang Ping gave Konan a clone of Yahiko and said he had figured out how to revive him.
• Konan reported that Nagato had moved Akatsuki into the shadows, turned it into a mercenary organization, and begun collecting corpses.
• Tang Ping left Konan and rushed to the Land of Hot Water to watch the famous battle involving the Third Raikage.

Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue watched Ōnoki’s Iwagakure army trap the Third Raikage after the Cloud Ninja retreated. The Third Raikage fought alone for three days and three nights, but Iwagakure’s endless attacks finally wore him down.

• Ōnoki used ambushes to delay the Cloud Ninja Army as Iwagakure advanced to cut off its retreat.
• The Third Raikage ordered Dodai to bring the Cloud Ninja home and told A and Bee not to come to his aid.
• A obeyed the order and led the Cloud Ninja Army in retreat despite his anger.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue watched the Third Raikage withstand Iwagakure’s attacks and smash through their Myriad Earth Flow Walls.
• Ōnoki had Iwagakure’s troops rotate shifts and keep the Third Raikage fighting until three days and three nights had passed.

After three days of fighting, the Third Raikage used his One-Finger Nukite to charge Ōnoki, but his exhausted body finally gave out. Just as Iwagakure prepared to recover his corpse, it disappeared from the battlefield.

• The Third Raikage drove through Iwagakure's defenses with his One-Finger Nukite as Ōnoki used the Super Added-Weight Rock Technique to slow him.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue summoned Chubingmaru and moved closer to the battlefield.
• Ōnoki attacked the charging Third Raikage with Dust Release, but the Raikage evaded it and reached Ōnoki.
• The Third Raikage stopped before striking Ōnoki and died after exhausting his Chakra and stamina.
• Ōnoki ordered his shinobi to collect the body, but the Third Raikage's corpse vanished before they could reach it.

Hinata Cang Yue launched a surprise attack on the Iwagakure forces to help Tang Ping escape, overwhelming Ōnoki with her Tenseigan and newly mastered Tail Hezi. She captured and drained Ōnoki before using Super Almighty Push to scatter the remaining ninja, leaving the battlefield in ruins.

• Tang Ping abandoned his original escape plan and sent Hinata Cang Yue to create chaos among the alerted Iwagakure ninja.
• Hinata Cang Yue blasted Ōnoki away with Godly Vacuum Attack and repelled the Iwagakure ninja with Shinra Tensei.
• Hinata Cang Yue saw through Ōnoki's Earth Clone and pursued the disguised Tsuchikage as he tried to escape into the air.
• Hinata Cang Yue pierced Ōnoki's legs with her Tailed Wings Technique, drained his Chakra with a Chakra Light Orb, and captured him.
• Hinata Cang Yue unleashed Super Almighty Push, flattening the surroundings and leaving the Iwagakure ninja stunned.

Kitsuchi agreed to trade Iwagakure’s Earth Release techniques for the captured Ōnoki, while Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue brought the unconscious Tsuchikage to the exchange site. The two sides met in Kusagakure, where Tang Ping demanded the goods.

• Kitsuchi ordered Iwagakure’s forces to retreat, then agreed with the village elders to exchange Earth Release knowledge and ninjutsu for Ōnoki.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue rested in Grass Country while Ōnoki remained sealed and unconscious.
• Hinata Cang Yue said the Tenseigan only partly weakened her Caged Bird seal, and Tang Ping said they would seek a way to awaken it fully.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue took Ōnoki to Kusagakure for the trade, while Hinata Cang Yue detected Iwagakure’s hidden Demolition Squad.
• Tang Ping presented Ōnoki and asked Kitsuchi and Han where the goods were.

Tang Ping completed an exchange with Iwagakure, trading Ōnoki for Earth Release knowledge before turning his attention to the Battle of Kannabi Bridge. He and Hinata Cang Yue found Obito beneath the rubble as he gave Kakashi his Sharingan, putting them in position to seek Madara Uchiha’s lair.

• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue exchanged Ōnoki for Iwagakure’s Earth Release techniques and knowledge, and Han rejected Kitsuchi’s suggestion to attack them.
• Han and Kitsuchi returned with Ōnoki, while Iwagakure used his appearance on the front lines to dispel rumors of his capture.
• Minato Namikaze took command of the Northwest Front, and the Battle of Kannabi Bridge began after Jiraiya stepped down.
• Tang Ping set out with Hinata Cang Yue and a clone, intending to save Rin and use her to control Obito.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue found Obito beneath the rubble as he gave Kakashi his Sharingan.

Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue tracked Obito to Mountain Graveyard and waited outside while the war shifted around them. When Obito rushed to the coast after hearing Rin and Kakashi were in danger, he arrived just in time to see Kakashi pierce Rin’s heart.

• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue followed White Zetsu and Obito to Mountain Graveyard, but Tang Ping chose to watch from outside and wait for Madara’s death before claiming its treasures.
• Iwagakure withdrew after Minato Namikaze destroyed Kannabi Bridge, leaving Sunagakure as Konoha’s remaining wartime enemy while Kirigakure remained consumed by unrest.
• Tang Ping ignored orders to reinforce Kikyo Mountain, claiming illness as half the Southwest Shinobi Army went in his place.
• After watching Mountain Graveyard for over half a month, Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue followed Obito as he headed toward the coast to save Rin and Kakashi.
• Obito reached the coastal battlefield and saw Kakashi pierce Rin’s heart.