Chapter Summaries

A found that Akatsuki had taken Turtle Island and led the Allied Forces toward their new command post at the Land of Lightning’s border. Meanwhile, Blazing Sun Country continued evacuating millions of refugees ahead of the White Zetsu Army as the enemy advanced through several small countries.

• A ordered the Allied Forces to search for Turtle Island, but the scouts returned without finding it, and he blamed Akatsuki for its disappearance and Killer B’s injuries.
• A restrained himself from immediately attacking Akatsuki, then led his troops toward the Land of Lightning and Land of Moon border, where the Allied Forces were establishing their command post.
• The chapter described Yamanaka Ino’s place in the Konoha Faction at Tenshukaku and the tension between her and Hinata’s circle.
• The White Zetsu Army slaughtered civilians as it advanced through the Land of Iron, Rice Field Country, and Land of Hot Water, while the Allied Forces used civilians as bait for attacks.
• Blazing Sun Country’s Priestesses guided refugees to airships and Ground Effect Vehicles, relocating millions each day with support from its extensive administrative network.

Blazing Sun Country’s mass absorption of refugees reversed the population balance with the Allied Forces and pushed their countries toward economic collapse and revolt. With the White Zetsu Army and the Allied Forces both in his sights, Tang Ping prepared Blazing Sun Country to join the final decisive war.

• Blazing Sun Country took in fifty million refugees in roughly two months, despite more than a million dying during the migration.
• The population under Blazing Sun Country’s rule grew to nearly one billion, while the Allied Forces’ population fell below five hundred million as refugees and wealth flowed away.
• The Allied Forces’ currencies depreciated, and their nobles and Daimyos tried to stop refugees from fleeing, sparking clashes and early revolts.
• The Ninja Allied Forces refused the nobles’ pleas for help, prioritizing their war against Akatsuki.
• Pakura and Terumi Mei led an operation that destroyed ten thousand White Zetsu, which ended up in Blazing Sun Country’s hands.
• Tang Ping ordered Blazing Sun Country to gather its forces for the final war, intending to claim both the White Zetsu and the Allied Forces.

Tang Ping gathered Blazing Sun Country’s commanders for a departure ceremony before the decisive war against Akatsuki and the Allied Forces, determined to defeat the Otsutsuki Clan in one strike. The chapter ended as he stepped onto the platform to give his pre-battle rally.

• Blazing Sun Country assembled more than four hundred jonin and other command personnel for the departure ceremony.
• Tang Ping considered the Sage of Six Paths a possible threat and decided to commit all his strength to the coming battle.
• Tsunade and former Konoha ninja embraced the Blazing Sun Will and hoped to bring Konoha under Blazing Sun Country’s rule.
• Tang Ping entered the conference hall with Uchiha Mei, Hinata Cang Yue, and his core members as the gathered commanders watched eagerly.
• Tang Ping stepped onto the platform and began his pre-battle rally.

Tang Ping launched Blazing Sun Country’s massive campaign to end the war and challenge the forces controlling the Shinobi World. The army and its elite advance force headed for the Land of Lightning, where the seven Ground Effect Vehicles arrived first.

• Tang Ping rallied the assembled jonin with a speech and ordered them to move out.
• Blazing Sun Country prepared a force of more than one hundred thousand personnel, including twenty thousand shinobi, the Flying Corps, supply fleets, and Kirov Airships.
• Tang Ping boarded the Blazing Sun with more than half of the core leadership and set out for the Land of Lightning.
• Seven Ground Effect Vehicles carrying elite shinobi from clans including the Uchiha, Hyuga, and Hōzuki traveled ahead to establish a foothold.
• The seven Ground Effect Vehicles reached the Land of Lightning.

Blazing Sun Country landed its forces on the southern coast of the Land of Lightning and established a forward base, while Tang Ping prepared defenses against the Infinite Tsukuyomi and other threats. The Allied Forces noticed the buildup, and Ōnoki challenged A’s push to target Blazing Sun Country instead of Akatsuki.

• Uchiha and Hyuga Scout Squads cleared sentries and watchers along the southern coast to secure a landing zone.
• Seven Ground Effect Vehicles landed and traveled to a valley base in the border buffer zone between the Land of Moon and the Land of Lightning.
• Tang Ping completed preparations for a barrier against the Infinite Tsukuyomi and readied himself to face the Six Paths.
• Fifty Kirov Airships escorted more than a hundred transport airships to the base, assembling Blazing Sun Country’s combat forces.
• The Allied Forces detected activity near their command center, and A demanded action against Blazing Sun Country.
• Ōnoki told A that the Allied Forces’ main target was Akatsuki, not Blazing Sun Country.

Pakura and Terumi Mei argued against A and Jiraiya’s plan to target the Blazing Sun Country before Akatsuki, while the Allied Army reported a White Zetsu assault on its defenses. Tang Ping watched the battle and suspected the White Zetsu were being wasted for a reason he could not yet identify.

• Pakura and Terumi Mei urged the Five Kage to cooperate with the Blazing Sun Army, while A and Jiraiya favored eliminating it first and Ōnoki remained neutral.
• A Yamanaka Clan ninja reported that the White Zetsu Army had gathered and attacked the Allied Army’s first defensive line.
• Tang Ping went to observe the battlefield, where the Allied Army used its fortifications and concentrated firepower against the White Zetsu.
• Tang Ping saw thousands of White Zetsu corpses and sensed that their costly assault was abnormal.

Obito and Kabuto revealed their plan to use the Impure World Reincarnation technique, summoning an army of powerful shinobi to attack the Allied Forces. Kabuto sent the Reanimation Bodies into battle while keeping Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha in reserve.

• Obito ordered Yakushi Kabuto to begin the Impure World Reincarnation as Akatsuki watched from a cliff.
• Kabuto opened dozens of coffins, revealing powerful figures including Hiruzen Sarutobi, Danzo, the Mizukage, and the Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• Danzo demanded that Kabuto release him, but Kabuto refused and stopped Danzo and Hiruzen from talking.
• Kabuto used the improved technique to control the Reanimation Bodies, whose minds remained conscious despite their bodies obeying his commands.
• Kabuto kept Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha sealed in two unopened coffins because he could not yet control them alongside the others.
• Kabuto sent the Reanimation Bodies charging toward the Allied Forces' bastion.

The Allied Forces confronted the White Zetsu Army and stronger Reanimation Bodies across the battlefield, while Kakashi and Juan led efforts against the immortal enemies. The battle escalated into dispersed ground combat and aerial clashes, with the Allied Forces deploying their Flying Corps to seize air superiority.

• Kakashi led a Sealing Team toward White Fang, whom he chose as his opponent.
• Juan departed with sealing scrolls to command the Allied Forces' Sealing Corps and support the fighters against Reanimation Bodies.
• The Reanimation Bodies charged into separate areas, and the Allied Forces sent teams from the fortress to intercept them across the battlefield.
• The Allied Forces used airships to drop Black Oil and raise a wall of flame, forcing the White Zetsu Army to scatter.
• The Allied Forces deployed the Flying Corps to challenge the White Zetsu in the air as the battle entered full-scale confrontation.
• Kakashi intercepted White Fang.

Kakashi defeated and sealed Hatake Sakumo after their battle, while White met with the Second, Third, and Fourth Mizukage as explosions from Hozuki Gengetsu threatened the Allied Forces. White’s mission brought the Kirigakure squad face-to-face with the three Mizukage.

• Kakashi fought Hatake Sakumo, using his father’s announced tactics to gain the advantage and apologizing for having misunderstood him.
• Kakashi struck Hatake Sakumo with Hatake Swordsmanship: Lightning Flash, and the Cloud Ninja Sealing Team sealed his damaged Reanimation Body in a Cloud Jar.
• Hozuki Gengetsu repeatedly unleashed Water Release: Vapor Explosion, creating massive blasts and reforming after each one.
• White sent away a Kirigakure Anbu who confirmed no one else was nearby, then approached the Second, Third, and Fourth Mizukage with Hozuki Mangetsu and Rin Kin Yuli.

Tang Ping arranged for Reanimation experts from Kirigakure and Sunagakure to assassinate nobles and Daimyo, while the Allied Forces endured a costly first day of fighting against Akatsuki. At the rear command post, the Raikage demanded a way to end the threat from Akatsuki or Blazing Sun Country, and Pakura hinted that she had a solution for the Reanimation experts.

• White secretly told the three Mizukage about Kirigakure’s transformation, and Karatachi Yagura agreed to help Blazing Sun Country by targeting nobles and Daimyo.
• White planned for Pakura and Terumi Mei to temporarily free Kabuto’s Reanimation Bodies from his control so experts from Kirigakure and Sunagakure could carry out their missions.
• White and Sunagakure’s experts displayed their strength to the Allied Forces, while Kabuto kept most Reanimation Bodies from being sealed or destroyed.
• After a day of battle, the Allied Forces had lost fewer than three thousand fighters, while more than ten thousand White Zetsu had been killed.
• At the rear command post, A argued that the Allied Forces could not keep suffering losses while Blazing Sun Country remained a threat.
• Pakura said the Reanimation experts were responsible for much of the Allied Forces’ losses, and A, Ōnoki, and Jiraiya asked whether she had a way to deal with them.

Shikamaru led an Allied Forces envoy toward the Blazing Sun Army to learn its intentions and seek the person responsible for his father's supposed assassination. The mission reached the army's patrol line, where Hinata Hyuga confronted the group.

• Pakura identified Yakushi Kabuto as the user of Impure World Reincarnation and proposed that Sunagakure and Kirigakure target him during the next battle.
• Terumi Mei proposed sending an envoy to the Blazing Sun Army, and Jiraiya accepted the task for Konoha.
• Jiraiya sent Shikamaru south with Choji, Rock Lee, and shinobi from other villages; Shikamaru refused to be replaced and hoped to find Hinata Cang Yue.
• Shikamaru's group entered the Death Zone openly under the Allied Forces banner and slowed their advance as they expected to be noticed.
• Hinata Hyuga and a Blazing Sun Army squad intercepted the envoys, and Hinata greeted Shikamaru's group calmly.

Shikamaru met with Tang Ping aboard the Blazing Sun to learn why Blazing Sun Country had entered the Land of Lightning. Tang Ping promised his forces would remain allies until the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki appeared, but said he did not believe the Allied Forces could stop Akatsuki’s plan.

• Hinata Hyuga led Shikamaru, Rock Lee, and Choji through a fortified valley to the Blazing Sun.
• Shikamaru and his companions boarded the Blazing Sun, where Tang Ping and other Blazing Sun leaders awaited them.
• Shikamaru asked why Blazing Sun Country had invaded the Land of Lightning, and Tang Ping jokingly claimed he had come to see the scenery.
• Tang Ping told Shikamaru to inform the Five Kage that Blazing Sun Country would remain allied with them until the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki appeared.
• When Shikamaru asked whether Tang Ping doubted the Allied Forces could win, Tang Ping said they could not stop Akatsuki’s plan.

Shikamaru realized Hinata Cang Yue was the Shell Organization powerhouse, and Tang Ping openly confirmed her identity while threatening the Nara Clan over its past opposition. He let the envoy leave to report the revelation and his warning to the Allied Army, while Izumi resolved to target the Nara Clan too.

• Shikamaru noticed Hinata Cang Yue's concealed presence, and Tang Ping realized his Shell Organization alias had been exposed.
• Tang Ping confirmed Hinata Cang Yue had killed Shikaku and invited Shikamaru to seek revenge, prompting the envoy group to prepare for a fight.
• Shikamaru stopped his companions from attacking, and Tang Ping warned that the Nara Clan would pay for opposing him.
• Shikamaru insisted the Nara Clan would survive, and Tang Ping let the envoy depart so the Allied Army could hear his warning.
• Hinata Cang Yue offered to kill the envoys, but Tang Ping refused, while Izumi decided to take revenge on the Nara Clan for him.

Shikamaru feared that Tang Ping would destroy the Nara Clan, but Jiraiya promised to protect them. The Allied Forces then began a secret operation to defeat Yakushi Kabuto and stop Impure World Reincarnation.

• Shikamaru worried that Tang Ping’s threat against the Nara Clan stemmed from Nara Shikaku’s past actions against Blazing Sun Country.
• Jiraiya learned from Rock Lee that Hinata Cang Yue was the Shell Organization’s powerful expert and understood why Shikamaru was troubled.
• Jiraiya decided Konoha had to protect the Nara Clan, and Shikamaru felt reassured by his guarantee.
• The Five Kage secretly prepared a decapitation operation targeting Yakushi Kabuto to end Impure World Reincarnation.
• A—the Fourth Raikage ordered the operation to begin, and Allied Forces airships bombarded the resting White Zetsu Army.

The Allied Forces launched a mass airship bombing against the White Zetsu, but flying White Zetsu, Deidara, and Konan counterattacked. Konan’s explosive Paper Cranes devastated the fleet, leaving the air battle in Akatsuki’s favor.

• The Allied Forces sent nearly a thousand requisitioned airships to carpet-bomb the White Zetsu Army with Black Oil.
• Flying White Zetsu emerged from the ground and attacked the fleet, so A ordered the Flying Corps to intercept them.
• Wind Release ninja battled the winged White Zetsu in the sky as Deidara arrived on a Clay Giant Bird and attacked with explosive Clay Doves.
• Konan created an army of explosive Paper Cranes and sent them against the Allied Forces’ airships.
• Konan’s Paper Cranes destroyed nearly half the airship fleet in a single wave.

Konan destroyed the Allied Shinobi Forces’ civilian airships, then fought Ōnoki to a stalemate in the sky. On the ground, A led the Allied forces into battle while the Three Great Ninja Villages prepared to draw the White Zetsu Army’s attention for Kirigakure and Sunagakure’s decapitation strike.

• A asked Ōnoki to confront Konan, and Ōnoki flew into the sky using the Super-Light-Weight Rock Technique.
• Konan destroyed the remaining airships with Sage Art Transformation Paper Cranes, igniting their Black Oil cargo as it fell.
• Ōnoki attacked Deidara with Dust Release, but shifted his focus to Konan when she began making more Exploding Tag Paper Cranes.
• Deidara escaped Ōnoki and joined the fight against the flying White Zetsu, while Konan and Ōnoki fought to a stalemate.
• A led the Allied Shinobi Forces in a charge against the White Zetsu Army, and Jiraiya followed with his team.
• The Iwagakure, Cloud Ninja, and Konoha forces moved to draw the enemy’s attention so Kirigakure and Sunagakure could attempt a decapitation strike.

Jiraiya faced his former teacher Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo while the Allied Shinobi Forces fought the Reanimation Bodies and White Zetsu Army. After Jiraiya began beating the pair without sealing them, Pakura and Terumi Mei led Sunagakure and Kirigakure's forces into battle.

• Jiraiya ordered Kakashi to lead the team while he confronted Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo.
• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and struck at Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo, scattering them with powerful attacks.
• Jiraiya used Frog Kumite to send Danzo flying, then battered Hiruzen Sarutobi with Sage Art: Lion's Mane Technique.
• A and the other fighters engaged the Third Raikage, the Gold and Silver Brothers, and other Reanimation Bodies while the Allied Shinobi Forces held back the White Zetsu Army.
• Pakura and Terumi Mei led Gaara, Zi Luo, Temari, White, Hozuki Mangetsu, Zabuza, and other village elites into battle.

After Kabuto’s staged defeat forced Obito to retreat, the Allied Army pursued the hidden White Zetsu while reports arrived that Reanimation Bodies had killed the Daimyo and nobles in Kyoto. A and Jiraiya feigned outrage as they considered the political freedom their villages had gained, while Ōnoki waited anxiously for news from Iwagakure and Kurotsuchi accidentally injured his neck.

• Kabuto told Obito that backlash from controlling Hashirama Senju had left him unable to control the Reanimation Bodies for several days, and Obito withdrew to deal with the Allied Army’s counterattack.
• The Allied Army struggled to find the disguised White Zetsu after the Reanimation Bodies went berserk and Obito’s forces retreated.
• An Anbu reported that Mizukage Reanimation Bodies had killed the Land of Lightning Daimyo and nobles in Kyoto, and A declared himself Akatsuki’s irreconcilable enemy while privately welcoming their deaths.
• A Konoha Anbu reported that the Third Kazekage and Fourth Kazekage Reanimation Bodies had killed the Land of Fire Daimyo and nobles, and Jiraiya likewise feigned grief while celebrating Konoha’s new freedom.
• Pakura and Terumi Mei doubted that the villages could take over the nobles’ roles or that Blazing Sun Country would permit it, while Ōnoki anxiously awaited news from Iwagakure.
• Kurotsuchi straightened Ōnoki’s neck, causing it to crack and leaving him in pain.

Ōnoki blamed Akatsuki for the assassinations of the daimyo and nobles, while the Allied Forces chose to focus on pursuing Akatsuki. Tang Ping praised Hinata Cang Yue for carrying out the Land of Earth attack and returned to waiting for Akatsuki’s next move.

• Ōnoki learned that the Land of Earth daimyo and nobles had been assassinated and publicly accused Akatsuki, though he suspected Hinata Cang Yue was responsible.
• A and Jiraiya comforted Ōnoki but privately suspected he had ordered the killings.
• A decided the Allied Forces would pursue Akatsuki while holding their position, despite their limited progress and the reanimated fighters leaving the battlefield.
• Tang Ping laughed at the Allied Forces’ cautious decision and praised Hinata Cang Yue after she returned from the Land of Earth by fighter jet.
• Tang Ping expected Akatsuki to bring about the Ten-Tails and Infinite Tsukuyomi, then witnessed the Sage of Six Paths’ hidden move.

A mysterious army of regenerating mud dolls attacked the Allied Forces bastion, and the Five Kage discovered which techniques could stop them. Asuma Sarutobi arrived with the Rinnegan and identified the attack as the Earth Release Creation: Dead Soil Technique.

• A scout alerted the Five Kage, who went outside and saw a vast army of mud dolls, including the forms of fallen Allied Forces comrades.
• Jiraiya rejected the idea that the attackers were created by Impure World Reincarnation, while the ground turned to black soil beneath darkened skies.
• A ordered the bastion cannons to fire, but the mud dolls began regenerating; Ōnoki used Dust Release to disintegrate them and found that the attack prevented revival.
• After testing the mud dolls, the Five Kage learned that genjutsu, sealing techniques, and Fire Release worked well, while most other attacks allowed the dolls to regenerate.
• Asuma Sarutobi arrived wearing a white God Cloak, displayed his Rinnegan, and identified the enemy technique as Earth Release Creation: Dead Soil Technique.