Chapter Summaries

Tang Ping continued maneuvering the battle to make Kaguya descend and draw the Sage of Six Paths out, while Hinata Cang Yue and Uchiha Mei’s forces moved against Madara. Kabuto arrived beside Madara with Hashirama Senju, then a small snake sprang from his sleeve and bit Madara’s shoulder.

• Madara casually fought the Allied Forces as the Blazing Sun Army surrounded and overwhelmed their remaining troops.
• Tang Ping ordered Hinata Cang Yue into battle to conceal his plan to bring about Kaguya’s descent and lure the Sage of Six Paths into appearing.
• Hinata Cang Yue leaped toward Madara, while Uchiha Mei led Blazing Sun powerhouses to attack him and assigned others to keep clearing the Allied Forces.
• Kabuto arrived with Hashirama Senju, claiming he would help Madara, but a small white snake shot from his sleeve and bit Madara’s shoulder.

Yakushi Kabuto poisoned Madara and revealed that he had always been an infiltrator for the Blazing Sun Country. Uchiha Mei and Hinata Cang Yue joined Hashirama Senju to fight Six Paths Madara, while the Blazing Sun Country’s forces moved to confront the Allied Forces; the chapter ended with Hinata Cang Yue striking Madara’s shoulder with Dong Dong Wave.

• Yakushi Kabuto poisoned Madara, and Hinata Cang Yue and Uchiha Mei revealed that Kabuto had been raised by Yakushi Nonō and had always served the Blazing Sun Country.
• Uchiha Mei told A that the Blazing Sun Country needed no allies, then ordered her forces to handle the Allied Forces’ experts while she and Hinata Cang Yue fought Madara.
• Yamaa Koji, Izumi, Sho, Shizuka, Pakura, Terumi Mei, and the other experts drew the Allied Forces away from Madara’s battlefield.
• Uchiha Mei tested Madara’s Truth-Seeking Orb defense with Lightning Release: Chidori Sharp Spear, but his black barrier blocked it.
• Hashirama Senju charged Madara in close combat while Hinata Cang Yue launched Dong Dong Wave and struck his shoulder.

Hinata Cang Yue wounded Madara with her newly upgraded Demon Piercing Light Killing Cannon, earning his recognition as a worthy opponent. Tang Ping sent her and Uchiha Mei to kill Jiraiya while Yamaa Koji moved to challenge Madara, leaving the chapter with Hinata Cang Yue and Uchiha Mei launching their attack on Jiraiya.

• Hinata Cang Yue pierced Madara's shoulder with the Demon Piercing Light Killing Cannon, a technique powerful enough to reach the Six Paths Level.
• Madara asked Hinata Cang Yue for the technique's name, then acknowledged her as a formidable opponent.
• Yamaa Koji asked Tang Ping for permission to fight Madara, and Tang Ping sent Hinata Cang Yue and Uchiha Mei to deal with Jiraiya first.
• Hashirama Senju blocked Madara while Yamaa Koji left Guren and Uchiha Shizuka to approach him.
• Hinata Cang Yue admitted to Sage Shima that she had killed the children's father, and she and Uchiha Mei attacked Jiraiya.

Hinata Cang Yue and Uchiha Mei fought Jiraiya with devastating close-range teamwork, while Guren and Uchiha Shizuka watched from the sidelines. Hinata survived Jiraiya’s Sage Art: Great Ball Rasengan nearly unharmed, and the battle continued as Mei charged while Jiraiya tried to locate the hidden Hinata.

• Hinata Cang Yue used her nine tails to sweep Jiraiya away, letting Uchiha Mei attack him in midair with her lightning-infused blade.
• Sage Shima countered Mei with Frog Kumite, but Mei blocked the strike with Susanoo as Jiraiya protected himself with Needle Jizo and suffered a chest wound.
• Jiraiya used Sage Shima’s genjutsu to hold Hinata Cang Yue in place, then struck her with a Great Ball Rasengan that left her in a deep crater.
• Hinata Cang Yue emerged almost uninjured after shielding herself with her tails, Feather Garment, and Shikotsumyaku, shocking Jiraiya, Guren, and Uchiha Shizuka.
• Hinata Cang Yue concealed her presence and moved to attack, while Jiraiya activated Heavenly Cover Formation and Uchiha Mei charged at him.

Uchiha Mei and Hinata Cang Yue ambushed Jiraiya and Sage Shima, using Ama-no-Iwato to trap them in darkness. Shima died in the fight, and Mei urged Hinata Cang Yue to move on while Jiraiya remained alive.

• Uchiha Mei activated Ama-no-Iwato, trapping Jiraiya and Sage Shima in a sealed world of darkness as she attacked Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya used his body as bait, and Hinata Cang Yue pierced him with a Shadow Clone, drawing Sage Shima into using her sound genjutsu and Sage Art: Wind Release: Sand Dust.
• Hinata Cang Yue's real body pierced Sage Shima with a bone lance, killing her before retreating from Jiraiya's counterattack.
• Uchiha Mei dispelled Ama-no-Iwato, and Jiraiya discovered Sage Shima's corpse.
• Uchiha Mei urged Hinata Cang Yue to move on quickly, leaving Jiraiya alive amid his grief.

Tang Ping watched Jiraiya die and considered how his death would help him take over Konoha after the war. Meanwhile, Yamaa Koji challenged Ten-Tails Jinchuriki Madara and blasted him back with the Seventh Gate’s Daytime Tiger.

• Tang Ping reflected that Jiraiya’s death cleared the way for his plans to make Konoha surrender or destroy it.
• Yamaa Koji prepared to prove his taijutsu strength, relying on his Power Armor to match his Strong Kage-level skill with the Eight Gates.
• Yamaa Koji opened the Seventh Gate and used Daytime Tiger against Madara, while Kabuto moved Hashirama aside.
• Madara defended himself with Truth-Seeking Orbs, but Yamaa Koji’s taijutsu attack bypassed their ninjutsu defenses and blasted him away.

Yamaa Koji fought Madara with the Seventh Gate and used Storm Fist to break his Truth-Seeking Orb, earning Madara’s acknowledgment. He then opened the Gate of Death, unleashing a vast, blood-red Chakra as his final battle began.

• Yamaa Koji used the Seventh Gate to circle Madara and struck him repeatedly with Storm Fist.
• Yamaa Koji’s strongest blow, Storm Fist: Wind Rending the Sky, shattered Madara’s Truth-Seeking Orb and blasted him into a crater.
• Tang Ping praised Yamaa Koji through the Command Network, recognizing his long effort to prove himself.
• Madara emerged from the crater, praised Yamaa Koji’s taijutsu, and asked his name.
• Yamaa Koji identified himself as Yamaa Koji of Blazing Sun Country, opened his Power Armor over his heart, and activated the Gate of Death.
• Yamaa Koji’s immense Chakra erupted and turned red as his blood began to evaporate.

Yamaa Koji opened the Gate of Death and attacked Six Paths Madara with his upgraded Heavenly Sky Fist, forcing Madara to defend against a threat that could kill him. The battle continued as Yamaa Koji’s second punch targeted one of Madara’s Limbo shadows.

• Yamaa Koji activated the Gate of Death and charged at Madara with power comparable to the Six Paths.
• Madara attacked with Yin Release Lightning Dispatch and Wood Release: Tree World Advent, but Yamaa Koji’s speed and strength overcame both techniques.
• Madara considered stalling until the Gate of Death ended, but chose to confront Yamaa Koji head-on.
• Yamaa Koji struck Madara’s Truth-Seeking Orb with the first punch of his nine-stage Heavenly Sky Fist, forcing Madara to brace behind Limbo shadows.
• Yamaa Koji deliberately aimed his second punch at one of Madara’s Limbo shadows to test its durability.

Yamaa Koji used the Heavenly Sky Fist to overwhelm Six Paths Madara with a series of devastating strikes, breaking through Madara’s defenses and badly injuring him. Madara recovered and declared Yamaa Koji’s taijutsu the strongest he had ever seen as Yamaa Koji prepared to attack again.

• Yamaa Koji’s second through sixth punches shattered Madara’s Limbo shadows and Truth-Seeking Orbs, while the strain cracked his Power Armor.
• Yamaa Koji struck Madara with his seventh punch, launching him into the sky, then hit him again and sent him crashing into the ground.
• The watching shinobi saw Yamaa Koji’s taijutsu overpower Madara and recognized the scale of his achievement.
• Madara regenerated after Yamaa Koji’s strike nearly punched through his chest, using recondensed Truth-Seeking Orbs to survive.
• Madara praised Yamaa Koji as the strongest taijutsu fighter he had ever seen and sensed that Yamaa Koji’s next attack could kill him.

Yamaa Koji unleashed his final Heavenly Sky Fist strike against Madara, while the Blazing Sun Country continued overwhelming the Allied Forces elsewhere. The chapter ended as Madara prepared to withstand the incoming blow behind layers of Truth-Seeking Orb shields.

• Yamaa Koji praised the Blazing Sun Country and announced that his next strike would decide the battle, while Ōnoki and A remained besieged by its forces.
• Izumi and Naruko killed Mifune and captured Kurotsuchi as they carried out their assigned assassinations of Allied Forces leaders and powerhouses.
• Yamaa Koji completed Heavenly Sky Fist: Sunset, with his Power Armor shattering after it helped him bear the strain of the attack.
• Madara found himself unable to move or use space-time ninjutsu as Yamaa Koji's fist approached.
• Madara summoned nine Truth-Seeking Orbs and layered them into shields to face Yamaa Koji's final strike.

Yamaa Koji used the Gate of Death to shatter Madara’s Truth-Seeking Orb defenses and nearly kill him, but Black Zetsu intervened. Yamaa Koji collapsed after earning the title of Taijutsu Ceiling, while Madara began the move Tang Ping, Black Zetsu, and the Sage of Six Paths had been waiting for.

• Madara praised Yamaa Koji’s taijutsu and relied on nine layers of Truth-Seeking Orbs to defend against his final attack.
• Yamaa Koji’s Heavenly Sky Fist shattered the shields and space around Madara, leaving him severely injured until Black Zetsu absorbed part of the blow.
• Yamaa Koji collapsed after seeing that his strike had nearly killed Madara, and the battlefield’s fighters were stunned by his power.
• The narration explained that Madara had to survive as the vessel for Kaguya’s descent and that Tang Ping intended to eliminate the other figures manipulating the Shinobi World.
• Tang Ping’s preparations kept Yamaa Koji’s soul from entering the Pure Land, while Madara began the move the other chess players had anticipated.

Madara activated God Tree World Advent, while Tang Ping’s forces used a prepared barrier to shield key fighters and attacked the Allied Shinobi Forces. The Blazing Sun Army continued its assault as its members were caught by the God Tree, and Pakura led an attack on A before the genjutsu overwhelmed her group.

• Madara cast God Tree World Advent, causing the God Tree to ensnare shinobi from both armies as the moonlight spread across the battlefield.
• Tang Ping ordered Kirov Airships to form a barrier against the Infinite Tsukuyomi and directed most of his forces to keep fighting before becoming the God Tree’s batteries.
• Chiyo and Sasori unleashed the Aircraft Carrier Storm’s firepower, devastating the already depleted Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Pakura led Gaara, Temari, Zi Luo, and other Blazing Sun fighters in an assault on A, aiming to defeat him and reach the barrier before the genjutsu took hold.

Sunagakure's defectors cornered Fourth Raikage A while Killer B tried to reach him but was restrained. As A was blasted away, Naruko and Izumi arrived with Flying Thunder God to finish the attack.

• Zi Luo used the Seven Heavens Breathing Technique to overwhelm A, while Pakura blasted him with Scorch Release.
• Killer B rushed to aid A, but Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro intercepted him with sand, wind blades, and poisoned puppet wolves.
• Juan bound Killer B with the Cloth Binding Technique when he began drawing on Gyuki's remaining chakra.
• Zi Luo broke through A's defenses, and Pakura blasted him away after his Storm Release protection failed.
• Naruko teleported beside a Flying Thunder God kunai with Izumi, who drew her blade and prepared a Silver Moon strike against A.

Izumi killed A with Moon Shattering, and Kankuro killed the restrained Killer B with Sasori’s poison as the Blazing Sun Army cleared the battlefield. The God Tree reached maturity and held countless captives as batteries, while Tang Ping prepared to cripple Madara and draw out the Sage of Six Paths.

• Izumi used Moon Shattering to cut A into fragments after Zi Luo and Pakura left him unable to move.
• Kankuro pierced the restrained Killer B with Sasori’s poisoned puppet, and Killer B died as the Kumogakure 'AB' Combination fell.
• Pakura led the retreat, while Gaara let roots take Temari and Kankuro and hang them from the God Tree as batteries.
• Naruko and Izumi helped Terumi Mei’s forces attack Ōnoki, then left as the remaining battlefield survivors were killed or caught in the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Tang Ping had his Kage-level experts and aerial forces serve as batteries to provide Chakra for Kaguya’s descent and draw the Sage of Six Paths into the open.
• The God Tree stopped growing at maturity, and Tang Ping planned to cripple Madara so Black Zetsu could speak with him.

Uchiha Mei fought Madara one-on-one while Tang Ping’s forces blocked Naruto and the others from interfering. The chapter left the duel underway, with Mei seeking to wound Madara and create an opening for Black Zetsu.

• Uchiha Mei attacked Madara with a lightning-coated ninja blade, and Madara blocked it with his monk’s staff.
• Uchiha Mei challenged Madara to fulfill her long-held dream, while Tang Ping allowed the duel and arranged for his allies to stop Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi.
• Pakura, Terumi Mei, Guren, and other Blazing Sun Army experts surrounded Naruto’s group and refused to let them reach the God Tree’s victims.
• Tang Ping observed from the battlefield after returning from the Paradise plane, and he kept Hinata Cang Yue out of the fight to preserve her strength for the Sage of Six Paths.
• Madara praised Uchiha Mei as a worthy Uchiha clan head and declared that she would die, but Uchiha Mei struck him before he finished speaking.

Uchiha Mei used Sage Mode and her Extraordinary Organs to fight Madara, injuring him with the Ama-no-Murakumo Sword but suffering severe damage herself. Madara ordered Zetsu to give him his left arm, while others prepared to witness Black Zetsu reveal the truth to him.

• Uchiha Mei blasted Madara away with a Sage Art: Lightning Bird and then attacked him with the Sage Art: Ama-no-Murakumo Sword.
• Madara's Rinnegan and Six Paths power let him contend with Mei, but she paralyzed him with Chidori Sharp Spear and pierced his left arm with her sword.
• Limbo: Border Jail kicked Mei away and badly injured her shoulder, leaving her unable to hold her sword.
• Madara pulled the burning blade from his nearly destroyed left arm and ordered Zetsu to give him its left arm.
• Several people prepared to watch Black Zetsu have a heart-to-heart talk with Madara.

Black Zetsu betrayed Madara and revealed that Kaguya Otsutsuki had manipulated him and created the Uchiha Clan’s stone tablet. As the Blazing Sun Country Higher-Ups prepared to leave Kaguya’s confrontation to Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi, Tang Ping’s larger plan remained focused on drawing out the Sage of Six Paths.

• Black Zetsu pierced Madara’s body and seized his heart, revealing that it had never been created by him.
• Black Zetsu explained that Kaguya Otsutsuki was its mother and had guided Madara through the Uchiha Clan’s stone tablet.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi overheard Black Zetsu’s revelations while the Blazing Sun Country Higher-Ups pretended to be shocked.
• Tang Ping ordered the Blazing Sun Country forces to hold back and leave the confrontation with Kaguya to the four from Konoha.
• Tang Ping planned to let Kaguya escape so the Sage of Six Paths would descend, allowing him to target the Sage afterward.

Black Zetsu used Madara as the vessel for Otsutsuki Kaguya’s descent while Blazing Sun Country’s forces deliberately stood aside. Kaguya emerged, and Tang Ping prepared his forces to stage a brief fight before withdrawing.

• Black Zetsu explained that Madara met the conditions needed to serve as a sacrifice for Otsutsuki Kaguya, then used him to gather Chakra from the God Tree.
• Naruto and Sasuke rushed toward Madara, but his hair ensnared them and began absorbing their Chakra while Blazing Sun Country’s forces let them pass.
• Tang Ping recognized that the Sage of Six Paths had secretly granted Naruto and Sasuke Six Paths power, including sun and moon marks and new abilities.
• Madara was swallowed by Black Zetsu and transformed into Otsutsuki Kaguya, while Tang Ping kept Hashirama off the battlefield.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya appeared in her goddess form, and Tang Ping prepared Blazing Sun Country’s forces to perform briefly before withdrawing.

Kaguya attacked the Blazing Sun Country’s leaders, who faked devastating injuries and withdrew while Naruto and Sasuke watched. With Obito dead and Kakashi’s Kamui gone, Tang Ping’s hidden plans and planted pieces left the battle poised to test whether Naruto and Sasuke could seal Kaguya.

• Kaguya emerged, reclaimed Black Zetsu, and flung Naruto and Sasuke away from her.
• Uchiha Mei, Pakura, Terumi Mei, and the Blazing Sun Country leaders confronted Kaguya, who wounded them with Rabbit Hair Needle and then attacked with Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.
• The Blazing Sun leaders pretended to be crippled and withdrew, leaving Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi, and a few others before Kaguya.
• The onlookers were shocked by the apparent defeat of the Blazing Sun powerhouses, while Tang Ping’s narration revealed their injuries and retreat were staged.
• Tang Ping relied on Kakashi as an undercover agent and Sasuke as a planted fuse, expecting Naruto and Sasuke to fail and the Sage of Six Paths to intervene.

Kaguya overwhelmed Naruto and Sasuke, then used Ama-no-Mihashira to transport them and their allies to another dimension. On the cliff, Tang Ping explained her abilities and offered Uchiha Sho a spare Mangekyo, which he refused, leaving the Blazing Sun group worried about how to defeat Kaguya.

• Sasuke charged Kaguya but was struck by her hair and badly injured, so Naruto attacked with Shadow Clones and Rasengan.
• Kaguya used Rabbit Hair Needle to destroy Naruto’s clones, then transported Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, and Sakura to a magma world with Ama-no-Mihashira.
• The Blazing Sun higher-ups treated their injuries on the cliff where Tang Ping stood, while Uchiha Mei asked him to explain the spatial ability.
• Tang Ping offered Uchiha Sho a spare pair of Mangekyo, but Sho refused because he had accepted that he would not awaken his own.
• Tang Ping described Kaguya’s most dangerous abilities, and the group wondered how they could defeat her.