Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Mei fought off Konoha’s ambush after Jiraiya and the others trapped her in a Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique. She unleashed a complete Susanoo, broke the seal, and stood ready to face them.

• Uchiha Mei used Ama-no-Iwato to plunge the area into darkness and attacked Jiraiya, who dodged her strikes by anticipating her movements.
• Jiraiya and Nara Shikaku revealed that they had lured Uchiha Mei into a prepared Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique, which began closing in around her.
• Uchiha Mei summoned Susanoo and advanced it to its third stage, slowing the sealing formation as Tsunade and Asuma attacked.
• Jiraiya ordered the others to keep attacking while he continued gathering Natural Energy to enter Sage Mode.
• Uchiha Mei transformed Susanoo into its fourth stage, a towering complete purple giant, and burst apart the sealing formation.

Uchiha Mei unleashed her fourth-stage Susanoo against the Allied Army, overwhelming its defenses but failing to catch the evasive Kage-level fighters. The Allied Army retreated in a rout, while Jiraiya resolved to destroy Tenshukaku before Uchiha Tang Ping recovered.

• Uchiha Mei summoned her purple Susanoo, shocking the Allied Army and further crushing its already fragile morale.
• Uchiha Mei attacked with Susanoo, but Tsunade's punch barely moved it, and its flaming sword melted Asuma's Triple Rashomon.
• Uchiha Mei's lightning sword forced Jiraiya to abandon gathering Natural Energy and evade before he could enter Sage Mode.
• Jiraiya and the other Kage-level fighters focused on delaying Uchiha Mei, while she conserved her strength and kept Susanoo active.
• After less than two hours, the Allied Army retreated in a rout, and Uchiha Mei dismissed Susanoo without pursuing them.
• Jiraiya ordered a retreat and resolved to wipe out Tenshukaku before Uchiha Tang Ping recovered.

After the Allied Forces’ costly assault failed, Jiraiya and the leaders debated how to overcome Tenshukaku while facing severe casualties and a collapsing supply effort. Kirigakure offered to blockade Tenshukaku’s sea route in exchange for recognition of its rule over the Land of Water, and Jiraiya prepared to seek further reinforcements.

• Chiki Maru urged the Allied Forces to intensify their offensive, but Nara Shikaku opposed more frontal assaults after nearly two thousand ninja casualties in one day.
• The leaders acknowledged that supply losses and hiring fees made a prolonged war unsustainable, while no one dared challenge the nobles and bureaucrats responsible for the losses.
• Jiraiya proposed seeking reinforcements, and Chiki Maru revealed that Kirigakure would blockade Tenshukaku by sea if the nations accepted its control of the Land of Water.
• The Allied Forces agreed to continue attacks at a measured pace before another all-out assault, while Jiraiya set out to persuade another powerful ally to join the war.

Jiraiya negotiated Ryūchi Cave’s entry into the Fire Extinguishing Plan by offering it Hot Spring Valley, and Tagorihime announced that its army would arrive in three days. Jiraiya then gathered Konoha’s commanders to plan a decisive assault on the Tenshukaku.

• Jiraiya urged Tagorihime to bring Ryūchi Cave into the war and offered it the Tenshukaku’s sacred land, Hot Spring Valley.
• Tagorihime communicated with the White Snake Sage, then announced that Ryūchi Cave’s army and the Three God Princesses would join the battle in three days.
• Jiraiya returned to camp and summoned Asuma Sarutobi, Kakashi, Nara Shikaku, Guy, Yamato, and other Konoha subordinates, while leaving Tsunade out.
• Jiraiya told the commanders to use Ryūchi Cave’s arrival to crush the Tenshukaku, and Nara Shikaku proposed using the snakes for a concealed underground surprise attack.
• Kakashi remained silent as the others discussed the plan, with a faint flicker in his eyes.

Uchiha Mei received intelligence that Ryūchi Cave had taken Tenshukaku’s bait, and Tang Ping ordered the next stage of the plan while Kirigakure joined the war against Tenshukaku. Tang Ping then went to Amegakure with Hinata Cang Yue to witness Hiruko perform a surgery that could transfer another person’s Kekkei Genkai.

• Chao Yue delivered an urgent secret report to Uchiha Mei, who realized that Ryūchi Cave had taken the bait.
• Yakushi Nonō reported the intelligence to Tang Ping, and he issued orders to close the net around Ryūchi Cave.
• Kirigakure, led by Fifth Mizukage Terumi Mei, blockaded Tenshukaku’s coastline and declared it would not coexist with Tenshukaku.
• Tang Ping arrived at Amegakure with Hinata Cang Yue to watch Hiruko perform his Kekkei Genkai-seizing surgery.

Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue entered Amegakure with Konan to watch a major operation attended by Akatsuki members and their associates. Tang Ping spotted Danzo and was stunned by another unexpected figure whose identity the chapter did not reveal.

• Amegakure’s population and prosperity had grown through the Black Market, which also funded orphanages across the Rain Country.
• Tang Ping and Hinata Cang Yue entered Amegakure as Akatsuki outer members and followed Konan’s Paper Crane through the drainage pipes.
• Konan led them to an underground operation watched by Pain, Orochimaru, Sasuke, Kabuto, and many other Akatsuki members.
• Tang Ping saw Uchiha Itachi and watched Sasuke stare at his older brother.
• Tang Ping recognized Danzo among the attendees and was shocked by another person whose identity was left unrevealed.

Tang Ping watched Hiruko attempt to fuse four Kekkei Genkai while Otsutsuki Toneri appeared among the Akatsuki, apparently seeking revenge. Hiruko survived the painful procedure, and several Akatsuki members began eyeing his new power.

• Tang Ping recognized Otsutsuki Toneri and warned Hinata Cang Yue that Toneri might sense the Tenseigan.
• Konan warned Orochimaru to stop staring at Toneri, while the Akatsuki watched Hiruko's experiment.
• Hiruko used his Chimera Technique to absorb four Kekkei Genkai, and Tang Ping assessed how the technique worked.
• Hiruko's body split and healed as the four Kekkei Genkai clashed inside him, but he endured the agony and the fusion succeeded.
• Several Akatsuki members began plotting to take advantage of Hiruko's new power, while Nagato and Konan let them act as they pleased.

Hiruko demonstrated his newly acquired Kekkei Genkai by fighting Orochimaru in Akatsuki's underground chamber. After Hiruko showed off several abilities and knocked Orochimaru around, someone called a halt to the battle.

• Hiruko celebrated his successful Chimera Technique, and Pain invited Akatsuki members to test his strength.
• Orochimaru stepped forward to fight Hiruko, angering Hidan and Deidara until Konan and Pain stopped them from interfering.
• Hiruko used Storm Release to pierce Orochimaru, who survived by turning into mud and reappearing behind him.
• Hiruko activated Steel Release to stop Orochimaru's bite, then used Swift Release to kick him into a wall.
• Hiruko continued attacking while Orochimaru gathered information about his Kekkei Genkai, until someone called the fight to a halt.

Hiruko’s attack on Pain ended in a one-sided defeat, but Otsutsuki Toneri then challenged Pain over his father’s death. At Konan’s urging, Pain left the underground base to move the coming fight away from Amegakure.

• Pain tried to stop Hiruko and Orochimaru’s fight, but Hiruko unleashed his Storm Release Secret: Storm Demon Dragon against him.
• Pain emerged unharmed from Hiruko’s attack, pulled him close with Banshō Ten'in, and stabbed him with a Black Rod when his Puppet Curse failed.
• Pain returned to the viewing platform, and Otsutsuki Toneri challenged him, revealing his intent to avenge his father.
• Tang Ping warned Konan that a battle between Pain and Toneri could destroy Amegakure, so Konan led Pain away through a metal pipe and the others followed.

Tang Ping explained that Otsutsuki Toneri could draw power from the Giant Tenseigan on the moon, then watched as Toneri confronted Pain in a distant valley. The battle between the Rinnegan and the Giant Tenseigan began, while Tang Ping planned to claim Toneri and the moon's power.

• Tang Ping told Hinata Cang Yue that Toneri's strength came from borrowing the Giant Tenseigan's power, and revealed he wanted Toneri's body and the moon's eye.
• Tang Ping, Hinata Cang Yue, and Konan led the group to a remote valley where Pain and other Akatsuki members awaited Toneri.
• Pain used Banshō Ten'in against Toneri, but moonlight from the Giant Tenseigan let Toneri resist the pull.
• Toneri identified himself as Otsutsuki Toneri, and Tang Ping hinted to Konan that the Otsutsuki treated the Shinobi World as their toy.
• Pain declared that Toneri would feel pain, and Toneri vowed that Akatsuki would pay as their battle began.

Pain and Otsutsuki Toneri clashed with matching Shinra Tensei techniques, while Tang Ping and Konan weighed the risks of revealing the Six Paths of Pain. As Toneri prepared to attack Akatsuki, Nagato deployed all six Paths, and Tang Ping worried that the battle’s intelligence would reach the allied forces before the decisive fight at Tenshukaku.

• Pain and Otsutsuki Toneri unleashed opposing Shinra Tensei techniques that devastated the valley, shocking the watching Akatsuki members.
• Itachi and Kisame decided to send word of the two fighters’ immense power, while Konan questioned why Toneri could use Shinra Tensei.
• Tang Ping warned Konan that Pain alone could not defeat Toneri, and she considered deploying the Six Paths to protect the Rain Country.
• Pain and Toneri fought at close range; Toneri’s growing combat experience let him push Pain back and declare that he would destroy Akatsuki.
• Five more Rinnegan-wielding bodies appeared beside Pain, revealing the Six Paths of Pain, and Tang Ping resolved to keep the news from leaking before the Tenshukaku battle.
• The Deva Path proclaimed that the others should feel, understand, and accept pain, and the remaining Paths moved.

Nagato and Otsutsuki Toneri unleashed their full strength in a devastating battle, while Toneri activated the Giant Tenseigan’s Chakra Mode. Tang Ping led his companions away from the danger, and Sasuke restrained his hatred toward Danzo as the conflict continued.

• Nagato used the Animal Path’s Summoning Beasts as cannon fodder while fighting at full strength, supported by Life Potions supplied by Konan.
• Otsutsuki Toneri drew on the Giant Tenseigan, entered Tenseigan Chakra Mode, and surrounded himself with nine Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Hinata Cang Yue identified Toneri’s externally powered form as having an exploitable weakness, while Tang Ping watched Zetsu react in alarm to the Giant Tenseigan and its abilities.
• Tang Ping warned Hinata Cang Yue and Konan to retreat, and Orochimaru led Sasuke and Kabuto after them.
• Sasuke glared at Danzo but held back, having learned from My Struggle that Danzo was a central culprit behind the Uchiha clan’s downfall.
• Otsutsuki Toneri formed a streak of golden radiance in his hand as the group withdrew.

Otsutsuki Toneri and Deva Path Pain unleashed their ultimate techniques, devastating the valley and leaving both fighters near their limits. As Toneri tried to escape on a puppet bird, Konan attacked it with explosive paper tags.

• Deva Path Pain used Super Almighty Push as Otsutsuki Toneri unleashed Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, and their attacks collided.
• Hinata Cang Yue shielded Konan and the others from the aftershock with a spinning chakra defense, while Orochimaru summoned Triple Rashomon.
• The blast reduced the valley to a vast crater split by a long fissure, leaving Deva Path Pain severely damaged and Otsutsuki Toneri mentally exhausted.
• Otsutsuki Toneri declared that Akatsuki would not be so lucky next time and leaped toward a giant puppet bird to escape.
• Konan attacked the puppet bird with paper and explosive tags, engulfing it in explosions.

Otsutsuki Toneri escaped, and Akatsuki gathered as Danzo sought to prove his value and Tang Ping arranged a mission to Kusagakure. The mission paired Danzo with Hiruko, while Itachi and Kisame were assigned to watch them, setting the stage for a tense journey.

• Otsutsuki Toneri vanished after leaping onto the giant puppet bird, and the Akatsuki members arrived as the Hell Path restored the four Pains.
• Pain told Danzo that he had to prove his value to join Akatsuki, while Konan privately remembered Danzo’s role in Akatsuki’s past suffering.
• Tang Ping prompted Konan to send Danzo to retrieve Kusagakure’s Box of Paradise, and she assigned Hiruko to accompany him with Itachi and Kisame monitoring them.
• Danzo accepted the mission and secretly coveted Hiruko’s Chimera Technique, hoping it could grant him multiple Kekkei Genkai and help him become Hokage.
• Orochimaru left with Sasuke and Kabuto, while Deidara, Sasori, Hidan, and Kakuzu each reacted to the mission in their own way.

Tang Ping prepared for the decisive battle while pursuing a plan to divide the Shinobi World and contain its forces in a Cold War. The next day, Jiraiya led a vast Allied Forces army against Tenshukaku, and the chapter ended as a newly emerged ninja force was about to appear.

• Tang Ping used the Clear Sky Tower to convene a meeting and reflected on his plan to split the Shinobi World after the decisive battle.
• The Allied Forces assembled a huge army on the Central Route, including thousands of ninja, numerous airships, and a Flying Corps.
• Jiraiya led Konoha’s elite fighters into battle, while Asuma Sarutobi brought the three thousand Sarutobi Army and commanded them himself.
• Konoha deployed more than eight thousand ninja, and the Central Route Allied Forces grew to an unprecedented strength before a newly emerged ninja force appeared.

Iwagakure’s reinforcements reshaped the ground and used a weighted Stone Giant to smash a passage through Tenshukaku’s fortress line, allowing the Allied Army to charge. As the defenders prepared to counterattack, Tang Ping sent Hinata Cang Yue to eliminate Nara Shikaku, and Ryūchi Cave finally entered the battle.

• Kitsuchi and nearly two thousand Iwagakure ninja used Earth Release to turn the ground before the fortresses into a slope.
• Kitsuchi enhanced a hundred-meter Stone Giant with Super Added-Weight Rock Technique and sent it rolling through the fortress line, opening a passage to the main fortress.
• Jiraiya ordered the Allied Army and its toads to charge as fighting began in the sky.
• Tang Ping reminded Uchiha Mei that Ryūchi Cave was their main target, while Hinata Cang Yue warned that the enemy had reached the area beneath them.
• Tang Ping sent Hinata Cang Yue to deal with Nara Shikaku as Tenshukaku’s defenses opened fire, and Ryūchi Cave made its move.

Ryūchi Cave broke its agreement by unleashing a tide of snakes beneath the Bastion District, and Tang Ping confronted the Three God Princesses as the Allied Forces attacked the defenses. With Tang Ping and Uchiha Mei tied down by powerful opponents, the Tenshukaku line fell and its defenders began retreating.

• A sudden surge of snakes emerged beneath the bastions, killing hundreds of ninja and over a thousand civilians, and Tang Ping blamed Ryūchi Cave.
• Tang Ping attacked Manda, but the Three God Princesses blocked him and Ichikishimahime struck with a sound-based genjutsu.
• Tang Ping activated his Blazing Sun Wings and fought all three God Princesses, while Tagitsuhime used the White Flash Technique against the battlefield.
• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode with Fukasaku and Shima and fought Uchiha Mei, leaving the Allied Forces free to bring their other powerhouses into battle.
• Kitsuchi and two thousand Iwagakure ninja supported the assault as the Rock Gundam and the tide of snakes broke through the Tenshukaku defenses.
• Tenshukaku ninja ordered a retreat from the Bastion District as the defensive line collapsed.

Tang Ping detonated the Exploding Tags hidden throughout the Bastion District, devastating the Allied Shinobi forces caught inside while his allies kept key opponents occupied. As Nara Shikaku rallied the scattered troops, Tang Ping remained locked in aerial combat with the Three God Princesses to keep them from escaping.

• Asuma deployed a thousand Root Blades alongside the Sarutobi Army and Konoha Ninja Army as the Allied Shinobi entered the Bastion District.
• Tsunade and Asuma recognized the danger and ordered the troops to retreat, but many allied forces could not withdraw in time.
• Tang Ping activated the Exploding Tags planted throughout the Bastion District, engulfing the area and its troops in explosions and flames.
• Jiraiya continued fighting Uchiha Mei as Shima and Fukasaku helped him, while Tang Ping kept the Three God Princesses occupied in the air.
• Nara Shikaku issued orders from an earthen slope, coordinating the Central Route Allied Shinobi as Yamanaka Inoichi, Akimichi Choza, and Anbu squads guarded him.

Hinata Cang Yue infiltrated the Konoha command post disguised as a messenger and assassinated Nara Shikaku. She withdrew as reinforcements arrived and headed to intercept Tsunade, while Nara Shikamaru reached the scene and saw his father dying.

• Hinata Cang Yue disguised herself as a messenger, but Nara Shikaku noticed that her eyes and story did not fit.
• Hinata Cang Yue distracted Nara Shikaku with a Shadow Clone and pierced his heart with a Dong Dong Wave.
• As Kakashi, Guy, Yamato, and the Anbu returned, Hinata Cang Yue retreated and set out to delay Tsunade from reaching Nara Shikaku.
• Nara Shikamaru, Yamanaka Ino, and Akimichi Choji arrived with Asuma's Team 10 and found Nara Shikaku dying in Akimichi Choza's arms.

After Nara Shikaku died, Tsunade yielded command of the Allied Forces to Asuma, who rallied them for a counterattack. The Tenshukaku unleashed its Flying Corps and began carpet bombing, turning the battle into a one-sided aerial slaughter.

• Tsunade arrived too late to save Nara Shikaku and ordered the Allied Forces to withdraw and regroup.
• Asuma objected to retreating and urged the forces to rally for a counterattack, so Tsunade handed command to him.
• Asuma stabilized the Allied Forces and led them into a counterattack against the Tenshukaku.
• The Tenshukaku Flying Corps revealed its strength and overwhelmed the Allied Flying Corps, with Azure Sky Wing leading the assault.
• The Kirov Airships descended and began carpet bombing the Allied Forces with Airburst Bombs and Incendiary Bombs.