Chapter Summaries

Asuma revealed how the White Zetsu Army had gathered death aura to power Kazuma’s forbidden technique, Earth Release Creation - Dead Soil Technique, and volunteered to destroy it by dealing with the dead souls. The Allied Forces cleared a path and charged to protect him, where Asuma unveiled his six Rinnegan-controlled bodies as the Sarutobi Six Paths.

• Asuma explained that Earth Release Creation - Dead Soil Technique used death aura and souls, and Mabui connected its power to the White Zetsu Army’s slaughter.
• A, Jiraiya, and Pakura rejected exhausting the technique by sacrificing lives, and Shikamaru asked Asuma if he had another solution.
• Asuma said he could use the Rinnegan to deal with the souls, but needed the Allied Forces to protect him from Akatsuki and the Reanimation Bodies.
• The Allied Forces used artillery and ninjutsu to clear the Dead Clay Figures, then charged across the open ground to draw enemy attacks away from Asuma.
• Asuma’s six cloaked Rinnegan bodies revealed themselves as the Sarutobi Six Paths.

Asuma used the Six Paths to absorb the souls sustaining the Earth Release: Dead Soil Technique, while Obito and Kabuto prepared Akatsuki’s forces for battle. Kabuto summoned Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju through Impure World Reincarnation, then Obito sent the Akatsuki members to the battlefield.

• Asuma’s Human Path drew the souls from the mud dolls, and Hell King Yama swallowed them, undermining the forbidden technique.
• Obito celebrated the Rinnegan’s appearance, then demanded that Kabuto prevent any further accidents.
• Kabuto summoned reanimated powerhouses and used Sage Mode to strengthen his control over them.
• Kabuto released Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju from two coffins, and the old rivals recognized each other.
• Obito ordered the Akatsuki members into battle, and Sasuke mocked him before Obito departed with Zetsu.

Ōnoki fought his reanimated teacher Mu and defeated him with Dust Release, allowing a Sealing Team to bind him. As Ōnoki protected the team from Deidara’s bombing attack, Akatsuki launched its full-scale assault.

• Kabuto kept Madara beside him for protection, while Madara learned about the Blazing Sun Country from Black Zetsu and condemned Obito’s failures.
• Ōnoki ordered the Iwagakure shinobi to spread out before engaging his former teacher, Mu, in a Dust Release battle.
• Ōnoki used Earth Release to expose Mu’s hiding place, then disintegrated him with Detachment of the Primitive World Technique.
• A Sealing Team sealed Mu, who told Ōnoki that he had surpassed him.
• Ōnoki raised an Earth Flow Wall to shield the Sealing Team from Deidara’s exploding Clay Doves as Akatsuki began its full-scale assault.

Tang Ping watched the Akatsuki’s full-force assault from the hidden overlap between Paradise and the Shinobi World, waiting for the Ten-Tails to appear before intervening. On the battlefield, Hashirama’s Sage-enhanced Wood Release confronted the transformed Naruto and Killer B as Ōnoki joined the giant-scale fight.

• Tang Ping and the Blazing Sun Country’s high-ranking fighters observed the battle from Paradise, concealed from those in the Shinobi World.
• Tang Ping told Sho they would make their move after the Ten-Tails appeared, while he waited for Kaguya’s eventual arrival.
• Hashirama Senju brought out a Sage-enhanced Wood Human and Wood Dragon to fight Naruto and Killer B in their Tailed Beast forms.
• Ōnoki joined the giant-scale battle with his improved Stone Giant, while Hashirama directed the Wood Human against the Nine-Tails.

Hashirama Senju fought Naruto’s Nine-Tails and the Allied Shinobi Forces, while the Five Kage joined forces to confront him. After Naruto left to fight the White Zetsu Army, Hashirama faced the Five Kage alone.

• Hashirama caught Naruto’s Tailed Beast Ball with the Wood Human and slammed it into the Nine-Tails, creating a massive crater.
• Hashirama tried to capture Naruto with the Hotei Technique, but Naruto dodged the wooden hands in his Nine-Tails form.
• Ōnoki used Dust Release to sever Hashirama’s wooden hands and deeply wound the Wood Human, while Killer B and Kumogakure fighters battled the Wood Dragon.
• Jiraiya, A, Pakura, Terumi Mei, and Ōnoki assembled to face Hashirama as the Five Kage.
• Ōnoki sent Naruto to fight the White Zetsu Army, and the Five Kage began their battle against Hashirama.

Madara refused to help Kabuto until the Allied Forces attacked, then showed his overwhelming combat skill against their assault unit. After returning to Kabuto, he began using Susanoo and prepared a forbidden technique against the surrounding shinobi.

• Kabuto asked Madara who would win against the Five Kage, and Madara insisted Hashirama would not lose.
• The Allied Forces assault unit, led by Kitsuchi and Darui, charged at Kabuto, but Madara initially refused to intervene.
• Kitsuchi recognized Madara, and Naruto arrived with Shadow Clones and attacked him.
• Madara tore through Naruto's clones and the Allied Forces with taijutsu and a Great Fire Annihilation, despite Kitsuchi and Darui joining the fight.
• Madara returned to Kabuto atop a stone pillar, activated Susanoo's second stage, and began forming seals for a city-destroying forbidden technique.

Madara unleashed Tengai Shinsei against the Allied Shinobi forces, but Kitsuchi and Darui shattered the first meteor. Naruto then used Sage Art: Rasenshuriken to meet Madara’s much larger second meteor in midair, leaving their techniques locked in a clash.

• Madara summoned a meteor over a hundred meters wide toward the Allied Shinobi forces.
• Kitsuchi slowed the meteor with Earth Release: Super Light-Weight Rock Technique, and Darui shattered it with Storm Release: Laser Circus.
• Madara summoned a second, several-hundred-meter meteor, sending the shinobi into despair.
• Naruto entered Nine Tails Chakra Mode and Sage Mode, formed a Sage Art: Rasenshuriken, and shielded the gathered shinobi with his Tailed Beast Cloak.
• Naruto hurled the Rasenshuriken at the second meteor, and the two techniques clashed in midair.

Madara watched Naruto while the Allied Shinobi Forces battled Akatsuki, and Hashirama Senju resisted the control talisman until it forced him to unleash True Several Thousand Hands. The colossal wooden statue stunned both armies and moved toward the Human Path, setting the stage for a decisive clash.

• Madara recognized Naruto as a potential obstacle, learned he was the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, and abandoned the idea of capturing him because the Rinnegan was unavailable.
• Tang Ping kept his larger plan secret while growing impatient as Akatsuki's increasingly fierce attacks pushed the Allied Shinobi Forces' defensive line toward collapse.
• Hashirama Senju continued resisting the control talisman as he fought the five Kage, but eventually clapped his hands and activated Sage Art. True Several Thousand Hands.
• A thousand-meter wooden statue rose beneath the Wood Human, leaving shinobi from both sides and Tang Ping's observers stunned by its scale.
• True Several Thousand Hands advanced toward the Human Path, preparing to decide the battle.

Obito took advantage of the battle to pursue the Rinnegan, while the Allied Forces’ internal allies sacrificed Deidara and the Five Kage tried to stop Hashirama’s enormous Wooden Statue. Their attacks failed to seriously damage it, and Ōnoki’s Dust Release entered a stalemate with Hashirama’s regeneration.

• Obito left the battlefield with Zetsu to find Asuma’s main body and seize the Rinnegan while the Allied Forces were distracted.
• Kurotsuchi, Kakashi, White, Gaara, Pakura, and Terumi Mei defeated Deidara, whom the allied villages used as a sacrificial target.
• The Five Kage attacked Hashirama’s enormous Wooden Statue, but A’s strike and the other attacks barely damaged it.
• Ōnoki took a Secret Pill, restored his prime physique, and struck the statue’s right leg with his strongest Dust Release technique.
• Hashirama’s Wood Release rapidly regenerated the damage, leaving Ōnoki’s attack and the statue’s recovery locked in a stalemate.

Hashirama Senju’s Top Transformed Buddha clashed with the Six Paths’ Super Almighty Push while Sasuke’s Amaterasu forced Ōnoki to use Dust Release on himself to escape the flames. The shockwaves subsided, leaving the battlefield to await the outcome.

• The remaining four Kage charged up the Senju wooden statue, but Hashirama Senju’s Wood Clones delayed them.
• Sasuke struck Ōnoki with Amaterasu from a distance, then fled from Kurotsuchi and the Kage Guard as his left eye ached.
• Ōnoki used Dust Release to remove the Amaterasu along with a layer of his skin, then fell from the sky and was caught by Kurotsuchi and the Kage Guard.
• With Dust Release no longer restraining it, the Senju wooden statue reached Sarutobi Six Paths, and Hashirama Senju unleashed Top Transformed Buddha.
• The Deva Path countered with Super Almighty Push using Chakra from the other five Paths, and the two techniques collided as the shinobi fled or took cover.
• The resulting shockwaves swept across the battlefield before fading, and everyone looked toward the center to see who had prevailed.

Hashirama Senju defeated Asuma Sarutobi’s Sarutobi Six Paths, leaving Asuma weakened. Obito and Black Zetsu then overpowered Asuma in his hidden cave and took the Rinnegan, leaving him helpless as they departed.

• Hashirama Senju destroyed Sarutobi Six Paths and bound Sarutobi Six Paths with Wood Dragons while siphoning its Chakra.
• Asuma Sarutobi cut off his Chakra supply and waited in a hidden cave, believing his defeat could still earn him prestige.
• Obito approached Asuma, but Asuma revealed a trap designed to seal space and capture him.
• Obito used Izanagi to escape the trap, while Black Zetsu immobilized Asuma with his shadow.
• Obito gouged out Asuma’s Rinnegan, transplanted one into his left eye, and left Asuma for Chakra extraction.

As the Allied Forces believed they had driven Akatsuki to defeat, Obito summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and transformed it into the rapidly growing God Tree, revealing that Akatsuki’s plan was still underway. Tang Ping watched from hiding and prepared to use the hidden measures he had planted in several Tailed Beasts.

• Hashirama Senju crushed the Sarutobi Six Paths, while the Allied Forces’ remaining enemies and losses appeared manageable.
• Obito arrived with Madara Uchiha and the surviving Akatsuki members, then told them the plan was proceeding smoothly.
• Obito summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path with the Rinnegan, and Konan, Sasuke, Kakuzu, Kisame, and Kabuto moved away from it.
• The Demonic Statue transformed into a sapling and began growing into the God Tree, which Hashirama Senju recognized as extraordinary.
• A led the five Kage and the Allied Forces’ powerhouses in a charge to stop the God Tree from finishing its growth.
• Tang Ping told Hinata Cang Yue that the God Tree was also the Ten-Tails and sensed the hidden measures he had planted in the One-Tail, Three-Tails, and Six Tails.

Tang Ping ordered the Blazing Sun Army to enter the battle, aiming to destroy the Allied Forces and Akatsuki while forcing the Sage of Six Paths to reveal his trump cards. As the army advanced toward the battlefield, Obito unleashed the God Tree’s Wood Beasts against the Allied Forces.

• Tang Ping explained that he wanted Madara to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki instead of Obito and planned to eliminate most of the Allied Forces and Akatsuki.
• Tang Ping told Uchiha Mei to send the attack signal, and Shion relayed the order through the Priestesses’ Spiritual Power network.
• The Blazing Sun Army weighed anchor and advanced, with Kirov Airships leading and ground forces following in Ground Effect Vehicles.
• Naruto tried to persuade Sasuke to help the Allied Forces, while Ōnoki returned to battle after recovering with medical treatment and Healing Potions.
• Obito sent massive Wood Beasts pouring from the God Tree, and the Allied Forces began fighting them as the Blazing Sun Army approached.

The Allied Forces fought through the God Tree’s Wood Beasts while Naruto shared Kurama’s chakra with the army and confronted Sasuke. The Sage of Six Paths covertly influenced Sasuke into abandoning Akatsuki, drawing Tang Ping’s contempt.

• Sage Shima told Jiraiya that the God Tree was absorbing the Shinobi World’s Natural Energy, but the Allied Forces struggled to reach it through the Wood Beasts.
• Ōnoki used Dust Release to cut a gap through the Wood Beasts, and the four Kage led the Allied Forces through it.
• Naruto distributed Kurama’s chakra among tens of thousands of shinobi, then confronted Sasuke in Sage Fox Mode and urged him to return to Konoha.
• Sasuke declared that he would cleanse the Shinobi World, but the Sage of Six Paths used Indra’s chakra to influence his mind, causing him to remove his Akatsuki robe and side with Naruto.
• Tang Ping mocked the Sage of Six Paths for forcibly influencing Sasuke and condemned the methods by which he had become the victor.

Madara and Obito tried to protect the growing God Tree while Madara attacked Killer B to feed it, prompting the five Kage to confront him. Pakura fought Madara with powerful Scorch Release, but his fourth-stage Susanoo overwhelmed the battlefield and left the Kage intimidated.

• Obito stood between Naruto, Sasuke, and the Allied Forces while Madara charged toward Killer B to provide the God Tree with the Eight-Tails.
• A, Jiraiya, Pakura, Terumi Mei, and Ōnoki joined forces to stop Madara, while Pakura fought without revealing her Heavenly Cursed Seal or Extraordinary Organs.
• Pakura struck Madara with white-and-crimson Scorch Release flames, and Madara praised her Fire Release as the strongest he had seen.
• Sage Shima attacked Madara through the flames as Jiraiya, Terumi Mei, A, and Ōnoki surrounded him.
• Madara revealed his Susanoo and advanced it to its armored fourth stage, leaving the five Kage intimidated.

Tang Ping watched Madara overwhelm the Five Kage with his Complete Body Susanoo and strike at the Allied Forces beside the God Tree. The God Tree stopped growing and began to contract, while Madara’s next move remained unclear.

• Tang Ping and the Uchiha women discussed the extraordinary strength of Madara’s Susanoo, and Uchiha Mei resolved to fight him before Black Zetsu could act.
• Madara enlarged his Susanoo, shrugged off Ōnoki’s Dust Release, and forced him to dodge a barrage of Yasakani no Magatama.
• Madara flew to the God Tree, landed before the Allied Forces, and drew the Mountain Severing Sword.
• A and Jiraiya tried to stop Madara, but he brought the sword down and split the earth with a massive strike.
• The God Tree stopped growing and rapidly began to contract.

The Ten-Tails was born and charged toward Killer B, while Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke kept Obito occupied. The Allied Forces struggled to stop it, and Kitsuchi’s Earth Release: Mountain Earth Technique finally restrained the beast as Sunagakure and Kirigakure forces pulled back from the front lines.

• The Ten-Tails transformed from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path after replenishing its energy and targeted Naruto and Killer B.
• Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke fought Obito together, preventing him from leaving to assist the Ten-Tails.
• The Ten-Tails charged at Killer B, and Gyuki warned him to flee, but Killer B refused.
• The Allied Forces attacked the Ten-Tails without penetrating its defenses, until Kitsuchi and more than a thousand Iwagakure ninja trapped it between two rising boulders.
• Sunagakure and Kirigakure ninja retreated toward the outer perimeter, while Pakura and Terumi Mei withdrew from the front lines.

The Blazing Sun Army arrived with a vast air and naval force, and the Allied Forces realized it was targeting them as well as Akatsuki. Tang Ping appeared beside Hinata Cang Yue as Sunagakure and the Cloud Ninja blocked the Allied Forces’ retreat, leaving them trapped with no way back.

• Blazing Sun Flags appeared beside the battlefield, startling the Allied Forces, while Ōnoki, Jiraiya, and A recognized the Blazing Sun Army’s arrival.
• Fifty Kirov Airships, more than a hundred transport airships, and ten thousand Flying Corps members approached with enough bombs to devastate the battlefield.
• Seven Ground Effect Vehicles emerged from a blasted mountainside, led by the Blazing Sun, whose decks were packed with armed Blazing Sun ninja.
• A sensed that the Blazing Sun Army was targeting the Allied Forces, and Jiraiya and Ōnoki realized it as Ōnoki ordered the troops to prepare for battle.
• Tang Ping appeared beside Hinata Cang Yue, while Sunagakure and the Cloud Ninja blocked the Allied Forces’ retreat.

The Blazing Sun Army joined the Allied Forces and Akatsuki in a chaotic battle, while Tang Ping waited for the Sage of Six Paths or Black Zetsu to reveal their countermeasures. The Blazing Sun Flying Corps overwhelmed the Allied aerial forces and began devastating the ground troops with airburst and incendiary bombs, until a terrifying chakra fluctuation appeared.

• A led the Allied Forces against the Blazing Sun Army as Uchiha Mei and the Blazing Sun shinobi charged into the battle.
• Tang Ping used the chaotic melee to conceal his objective and draw out the Sage of Six Paths or Black Zetsu.
• The Allied and Blazing Sun Flying Corps clashed, and the Blazing Sun aircraft tore open the Allied aerial defense.
• Kirov Airships dropped Airburst Bombs that shredded exposed Allied troops, then transport airships followed with incendiary bombs that drove survivors from their shelters.
• A terrifying chakra fluctuation suddenly emerged across the battlefield.

The Allied Forces redirected the Ten-Tails’ Tailed Beast Ball into Tang Ping’s airship fleet with Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder, inflicting heavy losses. Uchiha Mei sent Izumi to eliminate the technique’s users as the armies began exchanging attacks.

• Yamashiro Aoba and the Konoha ninjas used Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder to redirect the Ten-Tails’ Tailed Beast Ball toward the airship fleet.
• Tang Ping’s transport airships and Flying Corps were devastated by the explosion, though he judged the losses acceptable because the attack had revealed the enemy’s trump card.
• Uchiha Mei ordered Izumi to kill Yamashiro Aoba and the other Guiding Thunder users, and Izumi sent a shadow clone with the group while her real body infiltrated them.
• The Allied Forces and the Blazing Sun Army began their main battle by unleashing ninjutsu and ninja tools at each other.