Chapter Summaries

Tang Ping prepared a heavily guarded operating hall in the Land of Demons and began fusing Shisui's Mangekyo with Uchiha Mei's eyes to create an Eternal Mangekyo. The transplant succeeded, but Mei had to defeat Shisui's lingering consciousness to fully control the fused eyes.

• Tang Ping and his allies arrived in the Land of Demons using relay jump points, while the Priestesses performed rituals to distract anyone monitoring them.
• Tang Ping fortified the main hall against attacks, prophecy, divination, and spatial abilities before beginning the operation.
• Tang Ping removed Uchiha Mei's Mangekyo and fused it with Shisui's pair using prepared reagents and large quantities of Nutrient Solution.
• Tang Ping transplanted Mei's fused eyes back into her sockets, and she entered a mental space where she witnessed Shisui's memories.
• Uchiha Mei challenged Shisui's lingering consciousness, beginning a clash to decide who would control the Eternal Mangekyo.

Uchiha Mei completed the transformation into the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan after defeating Shisui’s lingering consciousness, while Tang Ping monitored the dangerous procedure in the Land of Demons. Her new power could restore its eye power by refining Chakra, and Tang Ping turned his attention to preparing for the Fourth Ninja World War.

• Miroku led a ritual with thousands of Priestesses to spread Spiritual Power around the Land of Demons, while she cautioned Shion to stay focused.
• Tang Ping monitored Uchiha Mei’s Mangekyo fusion, supporting her with Nutrient Solution, Warp Potion, and barriers.
• Inside her consciousness space, Uchiha Mei defeated Shisui’s soul; he admitted his mistake and asked her to spare Itachi, but she refused.
• Uchiha Mei absorbed Shisui’s soul and completed her transformation into the Eternal Mangekyo, causing the Sage of Six Paths to sense a disturbance.
• Uchiha Mei described her greatly increased abilities and confirmed she could replenish eye power by refining Chakra, and Tang Ping began preparing for the Fourth Ninja World War.

Tang Ping left Konoha with the final group of relocated people after confirming that Konoha would oppose Tenshukaku in the coming war. He returned to Tenshukaku, whose prosperity and defenses—including more than a thousand Radiance Towers—showed how prepared it was for conflict.

• Tenshukaku completed the relocation of more than nineteen thousand people from Konoha and used Uchiha genjutsu and Yakushi Nonō’s counterintelligence department to screen for spies.
• Tang Ping learned that Jiraiya had persuaded Ryūchi Cave to join the war, and he changed his plans to feign weakness and draw it into the conflict.
• Tang Ping boarded an airship with the final group of relocated people and left Konoha, expecting their next meeting to be as enemies.
• The airship crossed Tenshukaku’s territory, where Radiance Towers provided illumination, guided roads, and protected the skies with lasers.
• Tang Ping surveyed Tenshukaku’s prosperous, well-supplied lands and returned to his stronghold.

Tang Ping returned to Tenshukaku and briefed its leaders as the Fourth Ninja World War entered its all-out stage and their city faced a coalition of enemies. He rejected a proposal to attack Konoha and ordered Tenshukaku to feign defeat to lure hidden forces into the conflict.

• Tang Ping arrived at Tenshukaku, where its senior leaders gathered to welcome him.
• Tang Ping met with Tenshukaku's leadership, including Terumi Mei and Pakura, who revealed their identities to the core group.
• Tang Ping announced that the war had escalated and Tenshukaku was besieged by allied forces seeking to contain its growing power.
• Uchiha Mei proposed launching a surprise attack on Konoha, but Tang Ping forbade attacking it before he gave the order.
• Tang Ping ordered Tenshukaku to retreat in defeat so it could draw out the Mount Myōboku toads and Ryūchi Cave forces before springing its trap.

Tang Ping prepared Kirigakure and Sunagakure to seize the Land of Water and Land of Wind, then privately summoned Hinata to discuss another matter. The chapter ended just as he began to explain why he had called her in.

• Tang Ping asked Terumi Mei about Kirigakure's preparations, and she said the village was ready to take control of the Land of Water.
• Tang Ping told Terumi Mei to act when the enemy declared war and instructed Pakura to prepare Sunagakure to seize the Land of Wind.
• Tang Ping ordered Pakura to remove Akatsuki from the Land of Wind and said she could request airships for the campaign.
• Tang Ping planned to use Mou Ryō's Terracotta Army and improved seeds to build canals and transform the Land of Wind.
• After the meeting, Tang Ping took Hinata to a small sitting room, asked about her clan's settlement, and promised the Hyuga Clan equal treatment and access to resources through Contribution Points.
• Tang Ping told Hinata that he had summoned her to discuss something beyond her clansmen, but had not yet revealed what it was.

Tang Ping performed a successful bloodline transplant on Hinata, then was waylaid by Nohara Rin and met the group who had come to visit Hinata. He left them to feast together while Hinata recovered at the hospital.

• Hinata agreed to Tang Ping's experiment because she wanted greater power, and he took her to the hospital for a bloodline transplant.
• Hinata's surgery succeeded, and Tang Ping considered obtaining Hiruko's Chimera Technique to improve his future experiments.
• Nohara Rin confronted Tang Ping outside the operating room and made him sign several agreements before he escaped the hospital.
• Tang Ping met Yuhi Kurenai, Anko, Guren, Hyuga Neji, Hanabi, Tenten, and Aburame Shino, who had come to visit Hinata.
• Tang Ping told the group Hinata needed to rest, then invited them to a feast; Hanabi stayed at the hospital while the others went with him.

Tang Ping recruited Yuhi Kurenai and a team of young shinobi to retrieve valuable technologies from the Land of Snow. The team set off, and less than two days later, news shocked the Shinobi World.

• Tang Ping checked on the shinobi he had recruited and offered them missions in the Land of Water, promising Tenten a reward that would help develop her talent.
• Anko left Tang Ping and Yuhi Kurenai alone, and Tang Ping invited Kurenai to see a movie starring Kazahana Koyuki.
• After the movie, Tang Ping assigned Kurenai a mission to retrieve the Land of Snow’s heater and Chakra Armor, offering ten million ryo and five million Contribution Points.
• Kurenai accepted the mission and immediately went to approach Kazahana Koyuki, leaving Tang Ping frustrated.
• The next day, Kurenai departed with Anko, Guren, Shino, Neji, Tenten, and Hinata; less than two days later, shocking news spread across the Shinobi World.

Several nations and their ninja villages declared war on Tenshukaku and launched a massive invasion backed by airships and ground forces. As allied flying troops approached for a planned attack with Black Oil and Exploding Tags, Tang Ping used secret intelligence to prepare for the raid.

• The Land of Earth, Land of Lightning, Land of Fire, and numerous other nations declared war on Tenshukaku, bringing their ninja villages and military forces into the conflict.
• Merchants abandoned Tenshukaku, while its ninja and other forces rallied to defend it, and Tang Ping remained calm about the merchants’ retreat.
• The allied army advanced along three routes under Iwagakure, Cloud Ninja, and Konoha leadership, supported by flying troops and large numbers of samurai and Ashigaru.
• Tang Ping learned through an insider that allied flying troops planned to raid Tenshukaku with Black Oil and Exploding Tags to destroy its facilities and territory.
• Tenshukaku refused to seek peace and declared that it would purify the Shinobi World; after the allied flying troops arrived that night, Tang Ping’s forces prepared to limit the damage.

The Allied Army launched a night air raid from Izumo City, burning the Tenshukaku’s outer farmland and damaging its food reserves. At the Central Route command center, Jiraiya praised Nara Shikaku’s plan and prepared to lead the next attack against Tang Ping and the Tenshukaku.

• Nara Shikaku organized Flying Corps crews at Izumo City’s Sky Towers and ordered them to load black oil onto their gliders.
• A Konoha Wind Release jonin led the gliders and airships south into Tenshukaku territory.
• The Allied Army dropped flaming black oil across orchards, rice fields, pastures, and warehouses, setting the outer regions ablaze.
• News of the raid reached the Central Route command center, where Jiraiya praised Shikaku’s plan.
• Jiraiya declared that he would take the next turn and seek revenge for the toads killed at Mount Myōboku.

Uchiha Mei organized the Tenshukaku’s defense while preparing to act on plans to conquer the Land of Water and the Land of Wind. In New Mist Village, Terumi Mei mobilized the Kirigakure ninja to seize the Land of Water, as Sunagakure began a similar operation.

• Uchiha Mei ordered the Flying Corps to take turns fighting and assigned allies to restrain the enemy’s Kage-level experts while the Tenshukaku held its defensive position.
• Uchiha Mei reviewed reports from the Land of Water and the Land of Wind, which were now the Tenshukaku’s priorities for conquest.
• New Mist Village prepared to take the Land of Water, backed by a million residents and thousands of devoted Kirigakure ninja.
• Terumi Mei declared that the Land of Water would be purified, and the assembled Kirigakure ninja answered with a unified rallying cry.
• Sunagakure began mobilizing to take the Land of Wind while the Shinobi World remained focused on the Tenshukaku.

Terumi Mei led Kirigakure’s campaign to purge the Land of Water’s corrupt nobles and officials, then entered the palace to confront the Daimyo. Zabuza killed the Daimyo, and Terumi Mei pressured his ministers to help Kirigakure take control of the country.

• The Land of Water Daimyo learned that Kirigakure had purged another noble territory and demanded that his ministers find a solution.
• The ministers proposed asking other major nations to send support forces after the Daimyo warned that they too would face punishment.
• Terumi Mei entered the palace with Kirigakure ninja and declared that she wished to borrow something from the Daimyo.
• Zabuza beheaded the Daimyo before he could respond to Terumi Mei’s threat.
• Terumi Mei offered the ministers their lives if they surrendered their property and helped Kirigakure take over the Land of Water.

A month after the Tenshukaku took the Land of Water, its population and resources had surged, while the campaign in the Land of Wind remained slow and Sunagakure pleaded for help. The other great nations ignored the appeal, and Tang Ping discussed their decision with the reanimated Tobirama Senju in the Tenshukaku laboratory.

• The Tenshukaku brought the Land of Water’s towns and cities under priestess management, raising its controlled population to around two hundred million.
• The campaign in the Land of Wind lagged behind, and Sunagakure sent messengers asking the Three Great Nations for aid.
• The Daimyos secretly agreed to pretend they had never received the appeal so they could keep attacking the Tenshukaku.
• Tang Ping and Pakura were relieved that the allied forces did not change their target to rescue the Land of Wind.
• Tang Ping showed Tobirama Senju intelligence about the Daimyos’ decision and said their rule made it impossible to build Konoha or conquer the Shinobi World properly.

Tang Ping pressured Tobirama Senju into cooperating by offering to revive Nawaki and rebuild the Senju Clan, while keeping Nawaki from becoming a shinobi. Tobirama agreed not to attack Konoha shinobi and began working on Tang Ping’s projects, with Nawaki’s revival planned for the next day.

• Tang Ping confronted Tobirama Senju about studying his seals and intelligence on Tenshukaku, then used the Senju Clan’s fate to pressure him.
• Tang Ping suggested Nawaki’s death may have been arranged by Konoha’s higher-ups and offered to reanimate Hiruzen Sarutobi for answers, but Tobirama refused to disturb the dead.
• Tang Ping offered to revive Nawaki as an ordinary person and rebuild the Senju Clan, while arguing that Tenshukaku could pursue Tobirama’s ambition of conquering the Shinobi World.
• Tobirama Senju agreed to cooperate on the condition that he would not have to attack Konoha shinobi and that Tang Ping would honor his promises.
• Tang Ping gave Tobirama a scroll of research projects and promised to revive Nawaki the next day and arrange five wives for him, after which Tobirama began working.

Tang Ping reviewed Tobirama Senju’s vastly improved Black Rod and saw how it could upgrade Tenshukaku’s industry. As the allied forces approached, Orochimaru arrived with Sasuke, Kabuto, and Jūgo to ask Tang Ping for three rare resources, leaving Tang Ping wary of how much Orochimaru knew about the Tenshukaku.

• Tobirama Senju refined the Black Rod, raising its purity to ninety-nine percent and greatly improving its capacity and efficiency.
• Tobirama Senju sent Nawaki away with ten girls and promised to leave him alone once he had fathered thirty children.
• Tang Ping emerged from his secret underground laboratory and saw that the allied forces had advanced to within a hundred kilometers of the Tenshukaku.
• Orochimaru arrived at the Blazing Sun Building with Sasuke, Kabuto, and Jūgo and asked Tang Ping for the Ascension Ladder, Natural Force, and Radiance Potion.
• Tang Ping released a controlled wave of killing intent after realizing Orochimaru knew about resources reserved for Tenshukaku’s core members and promising recruits.

Tang Ping traded Natural Force, Radiance Potions, and an Ascension Ladder procedure to Orochimaru for the Sea Country experimental base, the Kusanagi Sword, and intelligence. He took Orochimaru and Jūgo to the hospital to perform the procedure, and Orochimaru agreed to help draw Hiruko into Akatsuki.

• Tang Ping demanded the Sea Country experimental base and materials, the Kusanagi Sword, and intelligence in exchange for three portions of Natural Force, five bottles of Radiance Potion, and an Ascension Ladder procedure.
• Orochimaru agreed to the trade and handed Tang Ping the Kusanagi Sword, while Tang Ping provided the potions and Natural Force.
• Jūgo presented the heart prepared for his Ascension Ladder procedure, and Tang Ping realized the procedure was intended for him rather than Sasuke.
• Tang Ping took Orochimaru and Jūgo to the hospital and examined the Kusanagi Sword, which he had acquired for Izumi.
• Orochimaru asked what intelligence Tang Ping wanted, and Tang Ping requested information on Hiruko and asked Orochimaru to have Akatsuki invite him to join.

Tang Ping trained Nohara Rin and Uzumaki Kasumi in the Ascension Ladder surgery while overseeing operations for Jūgo and eight jōnin. After leaving the hospital, he assessed the war situation and learned the Toad Clan had entered the battlefield.

• Tang Ping guided Nohara Rin through an Ascension Ladder surgery, with Uzumaki Kasumi assisting, and arranged for applicants to come to the hospital.
• Eight eligible jōnin arrived for surgery, while Jūgo remained anesthetized and Tang Ping secretly prolonged the procedures to make them appear more difficult to Orochimaru.
• After a day of surgeries, Uzumaki Kasumi and Nohara Rin had mastered the technique, and Orochimaru left with Jūgo and several others.
• Tang Ping went to the Command Hall and saw that the Allied Army had surrounded the Tenshukaku on all sides except the sea.
• Uchiha Yashiro told Tang Ping that Uchiha Mei had repelled several joint attacks by Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Asuma Sarutobi.
• Tang Ping predicted the Toad Clan would join the fighting, and the chapter confirmed that it had entered the front line.

The Allied Forces advanced on the Tenshukaku’s heavily fortified Central Route, where brutal fighting continued on land and in the air. Uchiha Mei led the Tenshukaku’s elite Uchiha troops to confront the approaching toads as both armies closed in for battle.

• The Allied Forces attacked the Central Route’s reinforced bastions, suffering heavy casualties against the Tenshukaku’s artillery, Kunai Guns, and defenses.
• The Tenshukaku’s aircraft outmatched the Allied Forces’ gliders, but suicide attacks with Exploding Tags kept the air battle contested.
• The Allied Forces sent ordinary people carrying black oil into the fighting to exhaust the Tenshukaku’s weapons, while Tenshukaku civilians volunteered for battlefield duty to earn Contribution Points and land.
• Uchiha Mei spotted enormous toads approaching and ordered her forces to engage and bring the Crow Summoning Flutes.
• Uchiha Mei leaped from the fortress and led Uchiha elites toward the battlefield as Jiraiya, Tsunade, and other Allied Forces leaders advanced with their troops and toads.

Uchiha Mei confronted Jiraiya’s allied forces on the Central Route, where he tried to persuade the Uchiha to return to Konoha. Mei rejected his offer and challenged the nobles’ army to fight.

• Uchiha Mei and the Uchiha elites faced Jiraiya, Tsunade, Nara Shikaku, and Asuma across the battlefield trench.
• Jiraiya offered to restore the Uchiha Clan’s status and take an Uchiha as his disciple if they returned to Konoha.
• Mei accused Jiraiya of responsibility for the Uchiha Clan’s extermination, while Asuma denied Konoha’s involvement and blamed Uchiha Itachi.
• Nara Shikaku renewed the offer, promising the Uchiha could become the shinobi world’s foremost noble clan.
• Mei called the allied shinobi noblemen’s Ninja Dogs and ended the negotiations by challenging them to fight.

Uchiha Mei used the Crow Summoning Flute to summon Hot Spring Valley’s Golden Crows as Konoha’s experts attacked her. The battlefield erupted into a clash between the summoned beasts, and Mei engaged Asuma while Jiraiya prepared Sage Mode.

• Tenshukaku’s forces withdrew behind their bastions while Uchiha Mei stayed behind to face Konoha’s advancing experts.
• Uchiha Mei played the Crow Summoning Flute, dodged attacks from Tsunade, Jiraiya, Nara Shikaku, Inuzuka Hana, Asuma, Yamanaka Inoichi, and Akimichi Choza, then used Ama-no-Iwato to escape onto Gamabunta’s back.
• The flute summoned more than a hundred Golden Crows, including the giant Three-Legged Golden Crows Thousand Colors, Qianyu, and Taiyi, who moved to attack the Toad Clan and the battlefield defenses.
• Qianyu and the other Golden Crows ignited their flames as Uchiha Mei put away the flute and drew her sword against Asuma.
• Asuma accused Tenshukaku of slandering Hiruzen Sarutobi, while Jiraiya stayed behind the fighters and began preparing Sage Mode.

Uchiha Mei used her Demonification and powerful Lightning Release techniques to overwhelm the Konoha team while trying to stop Jiraiya from entering Sage Mode. As she turned back toward Jiraiya, Asuma had lost an arm protecting Nara Shikaku.

• Uchiha Mei taunted Jiraiya over his slow Sage Mode preparation, then activated her Extraordinary Organs and combined Lightning Cloak with Flame Mantle.
• Mei's Chidori Current drove back Tsunade, Asuma, and Akimichi Choza, while her Lightning Bird defeated Inuzuka Hana and her Ninja Dog.
• Mei threw a lightning-empowered sword at Nara Shikaku, but Choza intercepted it and Shikaku's shadow techniques stopped its remaining momentum.
• Mei attacked Shikaku from behind with Chidori Sharp Spear, but Asuma blocked the strike with his Wind Release Punch Blade and lost his left arm.
• Mei left Shikaku and charged toward Jiraiya to interrupt his Sage Mode preparation.