Chapter Summaries

The Tenshukaku spread rumors blaming the Land of Fire Daimyo for the Joint Mission’s deaths, provoking him to mobilize a massive force against it. The Daimyo declared the Tenshukaku would be arrested, while Konoha stayed neutral and the Tenshukaku fortified its territory.

• Yakushi Nonō returned from the Land of Tea to help spread rumors accusing the Daimyo of ordering assassinations, while the Tenshukaku gathered its forces.
• The Land of Fire Daimyo learned that nearly every envoy had died and discovered that rumors blamed him for the killings and other deaths.
• The enraged Daimyo activated his prepared plan, assembling more than two thousand ninja and tens of thousands of Ashigaru and samurai, and ordered the Tenshukaku’s arrest.
• The Daimyo kept Konoha out of the conflict, and Konoha declared neutrality while considering its own interests.
• The Tenshukaku built fortresses and defensive lines around a large area of the Land of Fire.

Tang Ping completed the implantation of Extraordinary Organs in Uchiha Mei, using a costly evolution process to help her body merge with a pair of Demon Horns. Mei awoke feeling better than ever as Tenshukaku continued to prepare for the Daimyo’s approaching coalition.

• Konoha chose to stay neutral, hoping to profit whichever side lost the coming conflict.
• Tang Ping dismissed the coalition as a slow, vulnerable force because it planned to march ordinary troops alongside its ninja.
• Tang Ping brought Uchiha Mei to Tenshukaku’s hidden laboratory and asked Hinata Cang Yue to guard outside.
• Tang Ping implanted a pair of red Demon Horns in Uchiha Mei and used large quantities of Nutrient Solution to complete her evolution.
• Uchiha Mei awoke with pale pink eyes and told Tang Ping she felt better than ever.

Uchiha Mei tested the Demon Horns Extraordinary Organ Tang Ping had created for her, discovering that it greatly enhanced her Fire and Lightning Release and let her cast techniques without hand seals. She prepared to activate its strongest state, while Tang Ping considered making “Lightning Fire Queen” her public title.

• Uchiha Mei used the Tailed Beast Child Technique to retract her Demon Horns and tested her control after receiving the Extraordinary Organ.
• Tang Ping invited Uchiha Mei to test the organ, and she agreed before trading teasing remarks with Hinata Cang Yue.
• Tang Ping led Uchiha Mei and Hinata Cang Yue through a hidden laboratory exit to a secluded coastal Training Ground.
• Uchiha Mei activated the Demon Horns and cast Lightning Release and Fire Release techniques without hand seals, using greatly increased Chakra.
• Tang Ping thought of publicizing the title “Lightning Fire Queen” for Uchiha Mei through her performance against the Daimyo Allied Forces.
• Uchiha Mei focused her mind and began activating the Demon Horns’ strongest state.

Uchiha Mei tested the Demonification state Tang Ping had developed for her and accepted the task of leading the next battle. Tang Ping dismissed the allied forces as divided and unreliable, leaving Mei to prove herself and the Tenshukaku.

• Uchiha Mei entered Demonification, gaining enhanced abilities and red-and-blue Chakra wings that let her fly.
• Uchiha Mei tested her lightning techniques and speed, then left the state when she depleted its stored Natural Energy.
• Tang Ping asked whether Mei was satisfied with the Demon Horns, and she said she was confident she could face the Three Sannin.
• Tang Ping handed Mei the next battle, explaining that the allied ninja force lacked unity and included Kakuzu and Sasori.
• Uchiha Mei confidently accepted the task and set out to prove herself and the Tenshukaku.

Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue joined the Land of Fire Daimyo’s Allied Forces under the Shell Organization’s identity, keeping watch for threats while the army prepared to march on Tenshukaku. As commander Chiki Maru arrived with strange armored figures, Tang Ping sensed they were not ordinary people and turned to Hinata Cang Yue for answers.

• Tang Ping complained that the Allied Forces’ slow preparations had stalled Tenshukaku’s development and disrupted trade.
• Tang Ping revealed that he and Hinata Cang Yue had infiltrated the Allied Forces as members of the Shell Organization, hired to watch for unexpected dangers.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue noted that many factions had been trying to uncover the Shell Organization’s secrets, but its reputation discouraged anyone from confronting it.
• The Allied Forces assembled at the Training Ground while commander Chiki Maru arrived late to address them.
• Tang Ping noticed that the armored figures accompanying Chiki Maru had lifeless gazes and asked Hinata Cang Yue to examine them.

Tang Ping observed the Fire Country allied army’s corruption, infighting, and disastrous march as it headed toward Tenshukaku. After more than half a month and over a billion ryo in expenses, the army encountered an unexpected development.

• Hinata Cang Yue spotted Masked Samurai with corpse-like appearances and jonin-level Chakra, putting the ninja army on alert.
• Chiki Maru praised the Daimyo before ordering the ninja army to advance while protecting ordinary troops and supplies, angering the ninjas.
• Tang Ping saw the army’s factions and noted that Akatsuki’s Kakuzu and Sasori planned to investigate the Shell Organization.
• The allied army advanced only thirty kilometers on its first day as Tang Ping recognized how poorly organized and corrupt it was.
• After more than half a month, the army covered nearly half the distance and spent over a billion ryo before encountering an unexpected development.

Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue discovered that Uchiha Mei had used Exploding Tag traps to disrupt the allied ninja army, while Mei planned a surprise attack with help from a mole. Meanwhile, Tang Ping realized that Akatsuki members were secretly watching him, and the Tenshukaku launched its attack as the allied forces reached a wooded area.

• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue heard Exploding Tag traps detonating and saw that they targeted the allied ninja army while leaving ordinary troops unharmed.
• Chiki Maru ordered the allied forces to take the main road rather than clear the traps in the forest.
• Uchiha Mei gathered Tenshukaku leaders around a sand table and revealed her plan to ambush the allied forces in a small wooded area with help from a mole.
• Tang Ping learned that Byakugan Wolf, Zetsu, Konan, and Nagato were secretly observing the Shell Organization.
• The allied forces reached a stretch of flat woodland after several days, and the Tenshukaku began its attack.

Tenshukaku ambushed the ninja troops marching along the road, but Kakuzu spotted the attack and warned them. The battle left the troops in chaos as Kakuzu charged toward the forest and unleashed a powerful firestorm against the attackers.

• Tenshukaku’s Uchiha silently incapacitated the ninja guards while its forces closed in around the marching troops.
• Kakuzu noticed the ambush and warned the hired ninjas, exposing Tenshukaku’s position before the attack began.
• Tenshukaku’s forces rained kunai and Exploding Tags onto the troops, killing and injuring many of the front ranks.
• Chiki Maru ordered a counterattack and demanded that the hired ninjas fulfill their duties, while Kakuzu threatened him over the payment and advanced.
• Kakuzu stopped at the forest’s edge and combined Fire Release: Head Hunter with Wind Release: Pressure Damage, engulfing the trees in a fast-moving firestorm.

Uchiha Mei led Tenshukaku’s forces into battle, while Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue drew the enemy’s unforeseen threats away. Mei faced Kakuzu and Sasori as her allies arrived to support her.

• Uchiha Mei countered Kakuzu’s firestorm with Great Fire Annihilation and ordered Uchiha Inaho to launch signal flares.
• The signal prompted hired ninja and infiltrators inside the allied army to attack their comrades, throwing the force into chaos.
• Tang Ping led Hinata Cang Yue toward the Six Paths of Pain and Konan to draw Byakugan Wolf and Zetsu away from the battlefield.
• Uchiha Mei launched Tenshukaku’s charge, while Uchiha Shizuka and Uchiha Sho led troops against the disordered army.
• Uchiha Mei fought Kakuzu with Chidori and her blade, but Sasori joined the battle and forced her into a two-on-one fight.
• Uchiha Mei declared that she had allies, and they appeared as the chapter ended.

Uchiha Mei and Yamaa Koji gained the upper hand against Kakuzu and Sasori, while the Xuanyuan Crowd decided to attack Mei with Exploding Insects. The chapter ended as Mei sensed something was wrong.

• Yamaa Koji arrived in Power Armor and confronted Sasori, whose poison and puppet techniques were poorly suited to fighting him on the battlefield.
• Uchiha Mei activated her Lightning Cloak and used its speed, reactions, and defense to drive Kakuzu back.
• The Xuanyuan Crowd's boss decided to target Uchiha Mei for her bounty, and the group began approaching the fight stealthily.
• The young member in green released Exploding Insects to attack Mei, who suddenly sensed that something was wrong.

Uchiha Mei used her Mangekyo ability, Ama-no-Tokotachi, to erase the Exploding Insects from her body and restore herself, then drew on stored chakra to counterattack the Xuanyuan Crowd. She entered her full-power Demonification state and killed one of its members, leaving the fight underway.

• The Xuanyuan Crowd and Kakuzu surrounded Uchiha Mei after Exploding Insects began draining her chakra and swelling her body.
• Uchiha Mei activated Ama-no-Tokotachi, returning her body to its state from five minutes earlier and removing the insects.
• Uchiha Mei formed the Tailed Beast Child Technique and replenished her chakra from the Demon Horns.
• Uchiha Mei struck at the fifth member of the Xuanyuan Crowd, but discovered his body was made of insects.
• Uchiha Mei entered her full-power Demonification state and decapitated one member of the Xuanyuan Crowd.

Uchiha Mei overwhelmed the Xuanyuan Crowd in her Demonification state and summoned Taiyi to burn the battlefield, forcing the hidden insect user to reveal himself. She killed the insect user and left only the group’s leader alive, while the battle elsewhere remained uncertain.

• The leader of the Xuanyuan Crowd attacked Uchiha Mei with Fire Release: Beast Flame Dance, but she evaded him and killed several Elite Jonin with her speed and lightning attacks.
• Uchiha Mei summoned Taiyi, whose enormous size and flames spread panic across the battlefield and drove Kakuzu, Sasori, Yamaa Koji, and other fighters away.
• Uchiha Mei waited within Taiyi’s area-wide fire attack for the hidden insect user, having reversed the effects of his earlier attack on herself with Ama-no-Tokotachi.
• The leader charged Uchiha Mei to give the fifth brother time to escape, but she recognized the fleeing figure as an insect clone and killed the real insect user when he emerged.
• Uchiha Mei was left facing only the leader of the Xuanyuan Crowd, while the battle on the other side remained delicate.

Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue drew Pain and Konan away from the battlefield, while Cang Yue fought Deva Path Pain using the same repulsive technique. Pain realized her Tenseigan shared the Rinnegan’s ability, and Nagato prepared to attack her with his original body.

• Tang Ping lured Pain into the forest and mocked his claim to godhood while Hinata Cang Yue stood ready beside him.
• Cang Yue and Deva Path Pain unleashed Shinra Tensei against each other, tearing up the surrounding ground.
• Konan arrived and attacked Tang Ping with paper shuriken, then fought him while they moved the battle away from the main battlefield.
• Cang Yue used Fox Tail and close combat to withstand Pain’s Shinra Tensei and pressure him without wasting too much Chakra.
• Pain questioned how Cang Yue knew Shinra Tensei, and she replied that her Tenseigan had revealed the ability’s name to her too.
• Nagato sensed a threat in Cang Yue’s eyes and prepared to bring his original body into the fight.

Hinata Cang Yue fought all Six Paths of Pain while concealing how much she already knew about their abilities. The battle left Nagato still probing her, while Tang Ping learned from Konan that the Shell Organization’s appearance had drawn Akatsuki out of its plan to grow in secret.

• Nagato summoned the Animal Path to join Deva Path Pain on the battlefield.
• The Animal Path summoned the remaining Pains, bringing all Six Paths together to attack Hinata Cang Yue.
• Hinata Cang Yue killed the Asura Path with Godly Vacuum Attack and tried to pull the Animal Path close with Banshō Ten'in, but Deva Path Pain countered her.
• Hinata Cang Yue held off the Six Paths with her taijutsu and Fox Tails as Obito watched and Zetsu noted that Nagato had not yet gone all out.
• Tang Ping exchanged information with Konan and learned that Akatsuki had abandoned its secret-growth strategy after the Shell Organization appeared.

Hinata Cang Yue was sealed inside a massive stone sphere by Planetary Devastation, and Tang Ping entered Sage Mode and used Lava Release to prepare to break her out. As the Six Paths of Pain probed his strength, Tang Ping began forming seals for a powerful Sage Art.

• The Deva Path used Planetary Devastation to trap Hinata Cang Yue in a floating stone sphere.
• Tang Ping gathered Natural Energy and entered Sage Mode while Konan withdrew on Nagato's orders.
• Tang Ping created a lava battlefield with Sage Art: Lava Release: Molten River.
• Tang Ping struck the sphere with Sage Art: Lava Release: Great Eruption, but only broke off a small section of its surface.
• The Asura Path fired tracking missiles at Tang Ping, and he destroyed them with a wave of lava.
• Tang Ping began forming seals for a new Sage Art as he prepared to break the seal and rescue Hinata Cang Yue.

Tang Ping used uranium taken from Star Hidden Village to create his Sage Art: Star Shattering Spear and detonated it against Pain’s Planetary Devastation sphere. After witnessing the immense blast, he rushed toward the wreckage, worried about Hinata Cang Yue, who was sealed inside.

• Tang Ping formed a magma spear around a uranium pellet and prepared to use his Sage Art against Pain.
• Tang Ping hurled the spear into the giant stone sphere and escaped into the magma as Deva Path Pain cleared the lava with repulsive force.
• The spear detonated inside the sphere, unleashing a massive explosion that Byakugan Wolf and Black Zetsu witnessed from afar.
• Tang Ping worried that the blast might have harmed Hinata Cang Yue, who was sealed inside the sphere, and rushed toward the explosion site.

Tang Ping returned to the crater left by his Star Shattering Spear and found the Six Paths of Pain badly damaged, but Obito ambushed him before he could finish them off. Tang Ping revealed that he had killed Madara and looted his hideout, enraging Obito, while Hinata Cang Yue struck Obito with a surprise attack.

• Tang Ping inspected the enormous crater created by the Star Shattering Spear and found several of the Six Paths of Pain shattered.
• Obito emerged behind Tang Ping and tried to pull him into the Kamui Dimension, but Tang Ping escaped by abandoning his Zhurong Armor.
• Tang Ping pretended not to recognize Obito, then said he had killed Madara Uchiha and emptied Mountain Graveyard.
• Obito flew into a rage and threatened to kill Tang Ping.
• Hinata Cang Yue attacked Obito with Godly Vacuum Attack, tearing away part of his waist.

Hinata Cang Yue and Tang Ping returned after driving Obito’s forces away, only to find the ninja army collapsing before Tenshukaku. Chiki Maru ordered a retreat, leaving the battle’s outcome firmly in Tenshukaku’s favor.

• Hinata Cang Yue survived the Star Shattering Spear’s blast by shielding herself with her fox tails and using a Healing Potion.
• Zetsu gave Obito an excuse to withdraw with several Pains, and Obito threatened the Shell Organization before leaving.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue returned to find Uchiha Mei and Tenshukaku’s fighters routing the ninja army as Kakuzu and Sasori fled.
• Chiki Maru blamed Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue for the defeat, but Tang Ping said they had repelled multiple Kage-level enemies and were out of Chakra.
• Chiki Maru ordered the forces to retreat and protect the army in the rear.

Uchiha Mei led Tenshukaku’s forces against the retreating ninja army, while Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue stayed near Chiki Maru. As Mei closed in on the commander, Chiki Maru unleashed his masked warriors, drawing Tang Ping’s attention.

• After Chiki Maru ordered a retreat, Uchiha Mei rallied Tenshukaku’s ninja and led them in pursuit of him.
• Chiki Maru ordered Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue to fight, but Tang Ping threatened him and made clear they were not his subordinates.
• Uchiha Mei’s forces clashed with the ninja army, and Yamaa Koji, Uchiha Sho, and other powerful fighters overwhelmed its defenders.
• Uchiha Mei advanced toward Chiki Maru as his troops struggled to protect him.
• Chiki Maru ordered a dozen masked warriors to attack, and Tang Ping watched them closely, hoping to learn more about them and possibly obtain their corpses.

Uchiha Mei and Tenshukaku’s forces fought the mysterious samurai and the ninja army, while Tang Ping identified the samurai as short-lived consumables fueled by their life force. The battle turned decisively in Tenshukaku’s favor, and Tang Ping gained new insight into the nobles’ limited trump cards.

• Uchiha Mei used Lightning Release Chakra Mode and Chidori Blade to decapitate a samurai, but its headless corpse pierced her shoulder before she destroyed it with Fire Pillar Formation.
• Tenshukaku’s fighters overwhelmed the ninja army, with Yamaa Koji and Uchiha Sho killing enemies without regard for their own defense.
• Uchiha Mei fought off more than a dozen mysterious samurai, discovered that genjutsu had no effect on them, and used Fire Pillar Formation to hold them back.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue watched from the treetops, and Tang Ping concluded that the Masked Samurai burned through their life force and would die within a month.
• The battle began to die down as Tenshukaku’s forces maintained their overwhelming advantage.