Recaps

Chen helped Konoha repel Fugaku’s attack, then confronted Danzo over his experiments and use of Kagami’s eyes. Danzo escaped the first clash in Root, but Chen learned that Dong Mo had blocked an exit as Minato listened nearby.

• Chen extracted the Seven-Tails’ Chakra from Yui, then resealed her and arranged for her return to the Forest of Death.
• Fugaku attacked Konoha with White Zetsu, Yagura, and the Three-Tails, but Chen’s barrier diverted the falling boulders and he helped defeat Fugaku and contain Nagato’s assault.
• After the attack, Konoha suspended the Chunin Exams, the Hidden Mist accepted compensation terms, and the Third Hokage rejected Danzo’s proposal to relocate the Uchiha Clan.
• Chen showed Minato and Nawaki the Stone Tablet’s account of Kaguya and explained his plan to use Infinite Tsukuyomi and Kotoamatsukami to promote peace and unification.
• When the Hidden Cloud’s kidnapping attempt led to a ninja’s death near the Hyuga grounds, Danzo’s experiments became the subject of rumors and Chen led others into Root to confront him.
• Chen fought Danzo after learning he had transplanted Sharingan and Wood Release, but Danzo repeatedly survived with Izanagi and escaped deeper into Root.
• Chen broke Root’s barrier and learned from Dong Mo that a barrier had been set up at an exit while Minato heard the report near Konoha’s back mountain.

Chen became the Fourth Hokage, then secretly traveled to the moon with Himeji and fought the surviving Otsutsuki. After defeating Soki, Chen met the Sage of Six Paths, who warned him that Kaguya would threaten humanity and entrusted the future to him.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen spared Danzo but declared him a Rogue Ninja and ordered him to infiltrate Akatsuki, while Orochimaru took charge of Root.
• Chen forced the Fourth Raikage to withdraw by attacking the Hidden Cloud Village, then succeeded the retiring Third Hokage as the Fourth Hokage.
• Chen appointed allies to Konoha’s leadership, continued Root’s research with Orochimaru, and secretly left the village with Himeji to find the moon’s entrance.
• Chen and Himeji crossed the lake’s memory genjutsu, reached the moon, and discovered the ruins of a lunar Otsutsuki civilization devastated by civil war.
• Chen found Otsutsuki Hamura’s shrine and heard Kaguya call for help, then joined Himeji in confronting the lunar Otsutsuki and their puppets.
• Otsutsuki Soki drew on the Giant Tenseigan to battle Chen, who unleashed Perfect Susanoo strengthened by the nine Tailed Beasts and defeated him.
• The Sage of Six Paths appeared to Chen, reunited with the nine Tailed Beasts, and warned that Kaguya intended to reclaim all Chakra and turn humanity into White Zetsu.
• Chen left the Sage’s consciousness space unable to open his eyes, but sensed Kaguya on the moon and Black Zetsu near Indra’s Chakra.

Chen helped Himeji master the Tenseigan as Akatsuki rapidly captured Tailed Beasts and the Five Kage gathered to address the attacks. The summit grew confrontational while Orochimaru revived Danzo in a Root laboratory.

• Chen transferred power from the giant Tenseigan into Himeji, who spent months absorbing it and eventually mastered Tenseigan Chakra Mode.
• Danzo tried to defect from Akatsuki but was ambushed by Hiruko and Fugaku, then used the Reverse Four Symbols Sealing Technique as he died.
• Fugaku recruited Hiruko into Akatsuki, while Chen persuaded Kaguya to teach him techniques and agreed to bring Kawa Aoi to the ninja world.
• Chen returned to Konoha with Himeji and Kawa Aoi, learned that Danzo had died and the Tailed Beasts were disappearing, and prepared for the growing crisis.
• Akatsuki captured several Jinchuriki, while Killer B overcame Dark Killer B, freed the Eight-Tails’ seal, and set out to find A.
• The Fourth Raikage called a Five Kage Summit, and Chen, Minato, and Nawaki traveled to the Land of Iron as Nagato ordered Akatsuki to attack the gathering.
• At the summit, A accused the Hidden Mist of attacking Hidden Cloud, Hozuki Chijin denied the charge, and Ōnoki demanded answers about the Mizukage.
• Chen provoked A and suggested the dead Mizukage had been controlled, then offered to arrange a meeting with A’s father as Orochimaru welcomed the revived Danzo back to Konoha.

Chen exposed Akatsuki’s threat, formed the Allied Shinobi Forces, and awakened the Rinnegan after experiencing Konoha’s history through Genjutsu. As the war began, Black Zetsu took control of Nagato and used him to revive Madara.

• Chen warned the Five Kage that Akatsuki was gathering Tailed Beasts, proposed an alliance, and watched the Six Paths of Pain attack the summit.
• Chen fought the Six Paths, destroyed several of them, and helped the Kage defeat the Deva Path’s Planetary Devastation before Nagato escaped.
• Chen retrieved Madara’s corpse from an underground cave, then returned to the summit as the Kage agreed to form the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Chen was named commander, declared the start of the Fourth Great Ninja War, and returned to Konoha to prepare to awaken the Rinnegan.
• Orochimaru and Hiruko transplanted Madara’s cells into Chen, who used Naobi God Genjutsu to experience Konoha’s history until he died as an old man and awakened the Rinnegan.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces assembled and organized their divisions while Sakumo, Chiyo, Kakashi, and Nawaki prepared for battle.
• Fugaku mobilized nearly sixty thousand White Zetsu, and the Allied Shinobi Forces advanced into the Land of Rain as the war began against Pain and the White Zetsu army.
• Black Zetsu possessed Nagato and forced him to use Rinne Rebirth, reviving Madara in his younger form with both Rinnegan.