Recaps

At the Five Kage Summit, Chen argued that a hidden group of Rogue Ninja had systematically taken seven Tailed Beasts and might be manipulating events across the villages. The Kage recognized the threat but assumed the group intended to destroy the Five Great Nations.

• Chen suggested that the Third Kazekage had been turned into a puppet by Sasori, and Rasa confirmed the Third Kazekage’s fate and Sasori’s theft of the One-Tails Sealing Scroll.
• Chen argued that techniques such as Human Puppet arts and Genjutsu could control people, so the Mizukage attacks did not prove the Mizukage acted freely.
• Chen connected the attacks on Konoha, Hidden Sand Village, Hidden Mist Village, and Hidden Stone Village, noting that Rogue Ninja had taken every Tailed Beast except the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails.
• Ōnoki confirmed that Juzo Biwa and Uchiha Fugaku had attacked Hidden Stone Village and taken the Four-Tails and Five-Tails.
• Hozuki Chijin prompted Chen to explain the group’s goal, while Rasa and the Fourth Raikage concluded that it planned to destroy the Five Great Nations.

Chen identified the Akatsuki Organization as the force gathering Tailed Beasts and faced accusations that Konoha was secretly supporting it. He rejected the charge by citing Konoha’s past victories and his own encounters with the Tailed Beasts, leaving the other Kage chilled by his defense of Konoha’s power.

• Chen told the Kage that Fugaku had joined the Akatsuki Organization, which included powerful Rogue Ninja and was gathering Tailed Beasts.
• Chen confirmed that the Akatsuki leader was Jiraiya’s disciple, prompting the Fourth Raikage to question Konoha’s ties to the organization.
• Rasa defended Chen, while Ōnoki called for an explanation and the Fourth Raikage accused Konoha of colluding with Akatsuki.
• Chen angrily condemned the Fourth Raikage’s suspicion and listed his own past captures and releases of several Tailed Beasts.
• Chen declared that Konoha had defeated the Five Great Nations in the Third Great Ninja War and had no need to gather Tailed Beasts through Akatsuki.

Chen warned the Five Kage that Akatsuki could rival a shinobi village and proposed an Allied Shinobi Force, but the Fourth Raikage rejected the plan. The Six Paths of Pain then attacked the summit, leaving the assembled leaders face-to-face with Akatsuki.

• Chen told the Five Kage that Akatsuki's powerful Rogue Ninja posed a threat capable of rivaling a shinobi village.
• Chen proposed forming an Allied Shinobi Force to fight Akatsuki, but the Fourth Raikage refused and said each village should act on its own.
• Chen mocked the Fourth Raikage for underestimating Akatsuki and warned that its main fighters had arrived.
• Chen moved beside Minato and Nawaki as an explosion destroyed the meeting hall's ceiling.
• Yahiko and seven others landed at the summit, and Yahiko announced that the Six Paths of Pain had arrived.

Chen sat out the confrontation as Nagato’s Six Paths of Pain attacked the Fourth Raikage at the Five Kage Summit. The Raikage fought through Pain’s abilities, but after ten minutes he was battered while the Six Paths remained unharmed.

• Chen refused to intervene and told Minato and the others to watch as Akatsuki Organization fought the Kage.
• The Fourth Raikage charged the Six Paths of Pain, while Hiruko and Fugaku moved to engage Rasa and Hozuki Chijin.
• The Fifth Mizukage, Ōnoki, and Rasa recognized the Rinnegan, identified several Paths as corpses, and realized Sasori had modified them.
• The Deva Path repelled the Fourth Raikage’s attack with Shinra Tensei, and Hanzō of the Animal Path summoned a Salamander and a rhinoceros against him.
• Roshi of the Asura Path fired a barrage of weapons at the Fourth Raikage, whose Lightning Release Armor cracked after ten minutes as the Six Paths remained uninjured.

The Fourth Raikage fought Nagato’s Six Paths of Pain while Ōnoki joined the battle and targeted the Deva Path. The chapter ended with A and Ōnoki pressuring the Deva Path, whose repulsive technique appeared to have a recovery interval.

• The Six Paths of Pain battered the Fourth Raikage with Roshi’s Lava Release-enhanced missiles and Shinra Tensei, but A’s Lightning Release Armor held.
• Ōnoki attacked the Deva Path with Dust Release, but Yugito absorbed the technique with the Rinnegan’s power.
• Ōnoki used Earth Style to expose the Deva Path and formed rock monsters to attack him.
• The Deva Path used Shinra Tensei to repel the attack, and A’s lightning spear narrowly missed him.
• Ōnoki warned A to keep attacking, and A repeatedly hurled lightning spears as his Lightning Release Armor dimmed.

The Six Paths of Pain overwhelmed Fourth Raikage A, but Chen intervened before Nagato could extract his soul. White Zetsu then announced that Killer B was approaching the summit.

• Hanzō summoned beasts to shield the Deva Path while the Asura Path and Nagato’s other attacks pressured A and the Kage.
• Yagura used Water Mirror Jutsu to create a copy of A, and the Asura Path’s missiles destroyed A’s Lightning Release Armor.
• A struck Roshi with Lightning Plow Hot Knife, but lava burned his arm and a Black Receiver disrupted his Chakra before Shinra Tensei threw him to the ground.
• The Preta Path drained much of A’s Chakra, and the Human Path prepared to extract his soul as Nawaki and Minato watched.
• Chen used Sage Art: Inorganic Reanimation: Yellow Springs Swamp to swallow A and the Human Path, then White Zetsu announced that Killer B was approaching.

Nagato sent Fugaku after Killer B while he and Hiruko stayed to confront the Five Kage. Chen helped the injured Fourth Raikage recover and sent him with Minato to rescue Killer B, then prepared to face the Six Paths of Pain.

• Nagato ordered Fugaku to capture Killer B and stayed behind with Hiruko to hold off the Five Kage.
• Chen killed the Human Path and used Samehada to heal the unconscious Fourth Raikage, despite Samehada's reluctance.
• Chen told Minato where Killer B was and explained that Fugaku was already flying toward him.
• The Naraka Path revived the shattered Asura Path with the King of Hell.
• The Fourth Raikage recovered enough to travel, and Minato took him to rescue Killer B with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Chen approached the Six Paths of Pain and greeted them as he prepared to fight.

Chen faced Nagato’s remaining Paths of Pain while the other Paths fought Ōnoki and the Fifth Mizukage. After explaining that he knew Yahiko was dead, Chen battled the Paths and destroyed the Preta Path, leaving the fight ongoing.

• Nagato, controlling Yahiko’s corpse, confronted Chen and offered to answer his questions, but Chen joked about the Akatsuki Organization’s nail art.
• Chen addressed the Deva Path as Nagato and explained that Yahiko was dead; Nagato suspected Konoha had helped Hanzō destroy the Akatsuki Organization, and Chen denied it.
• Roshi fired missiles as the Deva Path used Shinra Tensei to send Chen flying, but Chen protected himself with Susanoo and landed on a wall.
• Chen unleashed an Earth Dragon armored around a Wood Dragon, and the Preta Path tried to absorb it but had his hands stripped to bone by its Chakra absorption.
• The Deva Path used Shinra Tensei against the dragon, but the clash shattered the dragon and destroyed the Preta Path.

Chen destroyed the Asura Path Roshi while Nagato lost the rest of the Pain Six Paths and decided to retreat. Nagato unleashed Planetary Devastation over the meeting hall, pulling the fighters and the entire fortress’s inhabitants toward the sky.

• Chen dodged the Asura Path Roshi’s cannon fire, pierced his skull with a Flying Thunder God Kunai, and destroyed his axe with a Natural Energy attack.
• Chen pinned Roshi against a wall, struck him with a Chidori Sharp Spear and Rasengan, then crushed his body with a Great Ball Rasengan so he could not revive.
• Nagato watched Chen’s speed and brutality with alarm as Chen noted that only the Naraka Path Yagura, Animal Path Hanzō, and Deva Path Yahiko remained.
• Chen realized Ōnoki was holding back against Hanzō to observe the fight and let Pain test Chen’s strength.
• Nagato resolved to retreat after Fugaku went to capture the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, then formed a black sphere and unleashed Planetary Devastation.
• The technique shattered the meeting hall’s floor and drew rocks, fighters, and Samurai from across the fortress upward toward the sky.

Chen destroyed Nagato’s Planetary Devastation, while the other Kage fought over Yagura; elsewhere, Fugaku was defeated by Minato, Nawaki, and A, then escaped. Chen left the summit to retrieve something tied to his Rinnegan, and a White Zetsu collected an Eight-Tails tentacle for Fugaku.

• Chen used mature Susanoo and Yachihoko God to direct thousands of Chakra spears at Planetary Devastation’s core, and the gathered shinobi helped destroy it.
• Nagato and Konan escaped, while Animal Path Hanzō and Hiruko fled; the Kage subdued Yagura and argued over who would take him and access his memories.
• Chen revealed that a Wood Clone remained at the summit while his real body left to retrieve something related to his Rinnegan.
• A attacked Fugaku, who used Earth God to slam him into the ground, but Minato struck Fugaku with a Rasengan and Nawaki’s Samehada tore off his right arm.
• Fugaku escaped after losing his ability to fight, and a pitcher-plant-like growth took a severed Eight-Tails tentacle from the ground.

Chen found the hidden underground tomb where Uchiha Madara’s corpse was preserved and collected Madara’s weapons and clan fan. He reached the cave and saw that its rear wall was covered with the characters “Hashirama.”

• Chen used his special sensory ability to locate Indra’s Chakra and entered the concealed passage beneath the dinosaur skeleton.
• Chen descended into the underground structure, found Fugaku’s smashed boulder, and took Madara’s weapons and the Uchiha Fan.
• Chen replaced the weapons with identical ones from his scroll before continuing deeper into the cave.
• Chen found Madara’s preserved corpse seated before a withered tree that had once cultivated White Zetsu.
• Chen looked at the wall behind Madara’s seat and saw it covered with the characters “Hashirama.”

Chen found Madara’s corpse in the cave and planned to take it to Konoha, while Nagato’s failed operation left the Akatsuki weakened. Black Zetsu realized Madara’s corpse had vanished and concluded someone had stolen it.

• Chen found Black Receivers embedded in Madara’s corpse and decided to take it to Konoha before burying him near Hashirama and Mito.
• Nagato returned to the Hidden Rain Village with Konan, Animal Path Hanzō, and Deva Path Yahiko after escaping Chen’s attack.
• White Zetsu told Nagato that the Konoha team had been defeated, and that Kakuzu had survived and abandoned the Akatsuki.
• Fugaku arrived carrying a severed Eight-Tails tentacle and learned that Hyuga Himeji had awakened the Tenseigan and defeated Sasori, Pakura, and Kakuzu in two moves.
• Black Zetsu decided to resurrect Madara ahead of schedule, then discovered that Madara’s corpse had disappeared.

After Akatsuki attacked the Five Kage Summit, the leaders agreed to form the Allied Shinobi Forces and strike the Land of Rain. They debated where to place the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails jinchuriki, and Chen rejected A's offer to hide Kushina in the Hidden Cloud Village.

• Chen, Minato, Nawaki, and Killer B shared salmon soup while the Kage resumed the summit after Akatsuki's attack.
• Ōnoki proposed forming the Allied Shinobi Forces and attacking the Land of Rain to reclaim the Tailed Beasts, and the other leaders agreed.
• Hozuki Chijin raised the question of whether Killer B and the Nine-Tails jinchuriki should join the war.
• Ōnoki argued that the jinchuriki should be protected, while Rasa favored using all available forces to avoid losing too many shinobi.
• A insisted that Killer B and the Nine-Tails should be hidden in a safe place in the Hidden Cloud Village.
• Chen called A's proposal dishonest, pointed out that the Hidden Cloud Village had once kidnapped Kushina, and said she would remain by his side.

At the Five Kage Summit, Chen secured agreement to form the Allied Shinobi Forces and was chosen as their commander. After returning to Konoha and ordering shinobi home, he went to find Uncle Snake to prepare to awaken the Rinnegan.

• Chen told the Kage that Kushina could remain with him, while Killer B insisted on joining the battlefield and A eventually agreed.
• Rasa, the Fifth Mizukage, Ōnoki, and A supported Chen as commander, and Chen announced the formation of the Allied Shinobi Forces and the start of the Fourth Great Ninja War.
• Mifune declared that the Land of Iron's samurai would join the alliance.
• The Five Kage's declaration accused Hidden Rain Village of attacking the summit, building terrorist groups, and seeking Tailed Beasts, stirring uproar across the Shinobi World.
• Chen returned to Konoha, ordered shinobi outside the village to abandon their missions and come back, then went to find Uncle Snake to prepare to awaken the Rinnegan.

Chen underwent a transplant of Madara's cells to gain Indra's power, bringing him closer to combining it with Asura's power and awakening the Rinnegan. He entered Kagami's Naobi God Genjutsu to experience years passing and accelerate the fusion, but the chapter ended with him unconscious inside it.

• Chen lay in Root's deepest laboratory while Orochimaru and Hiruko prepared to transplant Madara's cells into him.
• Chen reasoned that he needed both Indra's and Asura's powers, along with a near-death experience, to hasten their fusion and awaken the Rinnegan.
• Chen chose Kagami's Naobi God Genjutsu to make himself experience the passage of time and used the reclaimed Mangekyo Sharingan for the plan.
• Shin activated Naobi God, and Chen accepted the Genjutsu before losing consciousness.

The Uchiha and Senju clans ended their brutal war by agreeing to jointly establish Konoha Hidden Village. Chen woke inside a Uchiha tent in the Warring States Period and was mistaken for the father of Kagami.

• After Hashirama learned Sage Art and the Uzumaki attacked the Uchiha flank, the Senju forces won at South River and trapped Madara’s forces.
• Hashirama abandoned the final encirclement, freed Uchiha prisoners, and withdrew his forces to pursue peace talks despite Tobirama’s objections.
• Half a month later, Madara agreed to peace talks and signed an agreement with Hashirama to establish Konoha Hidden Village.
• Chen woke in an old-fashioned Uchiha tent, realized something was wrong, and heard a girl call out that Kagami’s father had awakened.

Chen realized Naobi God's Genjutsu had placed him in the past as Kagami's forty-year-old father, and learned from Mei that the Konoha Hidden Village was about to be founded. As the Warring States Period neared its end, the Land of Fire grew more chaotic as clans faced pressure to join the new village or be destroyed.

• Chen recognized the little girl as Mei, his mother in the fabricated world, and learned she had a childhood connection with Kagami.
• Chen learned that Madara led the Uchiha Clan and that the Senju and Uchiha clans were preparing to establish the Konoha Hidden Village.
• Chen discovered that his body had been gravely injured in the clans' final battle and would need a wheelchair for decades, but he expected to receive a village war pension.
• Clans across the Land of Fire grew suspicious of Konoha's formation, while some fled to other countries to preserve their independence.
• The account described how clans that resisted the new order or tried to form rival villages were destined to be wiped out.

Chen experienced Konoha’s first twenty years through a Genjutsu, gradually forgetting his real life as he watched the village’s history unfold. By Konoha Year 20, he had forgotten almost everything and was visited by young Tsunade.

• Chen watched Konoha’s population grow and saw Hiruzen and other children become part of Kagami’s circle.
• Madara lost the First Hokage position, left Konoha, and later fought Hashirama at the Valley of the End, where Madara died and Hashirama was gravely injured.
• Tobirama made Kagami and the others his disciples, while Koharu joined Mei in pushing Chen’s wheelchair.
• Chen’s memories faded as Naobi God’s Genjutsu aged him through Konoha’s history, including Hashirama’s death and the First Great Ninja War.
• In Konoha Year 20, ten-year-old Tsunade startled Chen at the hospital, and he smiled at her.

While trapped in Naobi God's Genjutsu, Chen lived out a long dream as an old man and died after writing a letter to Mikoto. He broke free, awakened the Rinnegan, and returned to consciousness in Root.

• Chen befriended young Tsunade while waiting at Konoha Hospital, and casually demonstrated a grass-blade throwing technique that amazed her.
• Chen began teaching Tsunade Wind Release nature transformation, and she told him she hoped her soon-to-be-born sibling would be a girl.
• After Tsunade mentioned meeting a newborn named Mikoto, Chen wrote her a brief letter, then died in his wheelchair as Tsunade cried beside him.
• Chen emerged from the old man's body and spoke with the Sage of Six Paths, who said Chen had fulfilled the condition for awakening the Rinnegan.
• Chen shattered Naobi God's Genjutsu Space, and Orochimaru and Hiruko watched him awaken with purple Rinnegan bearing six tomoe in each eye.

The Five Great Nations prepared an Allied Shinobi Force to attack the Akatsuki Organization in the Land of Rain, with Chen overseeing the planning. The Kage agreed on the force’s structure and began choosing commanders, while Chen viewed the war as a rehearsal for a future alliance.

• The five villages assembled more than thirty thousand shinobi and samurai in the Land of Fire, confident they could defeat the Akatsuki Organization.
• Chen outlined the Allied Shinobi Force’s units as Rasa and Ōnoki raised concerns about cooperation between villages with old grudges.
• A and Hozuki Chijin pledged that their villages would set aside their differences and focus on the common enemy.
• Chen proposed the force’s unit structure, and the Kage accepted it before reviewing personnel files to select commanders.
• Ōnoki, Rasa, and A agreed that Tsunade should lead the medical unit.
• Chen considered the war a trial run for his future alliance and expected the shinobi listed in the files to become his own after the war.

The Allied Shinobi Forces assembled for the final battle as Sakumo and Chiyo put aside their personal hatred, while Nawaki and Kisame watched tensions among the younger shinobi. Nawaki encouraged Kisame about his future and led him toward the others, declaring that the final battle had begun.

• Sakumo put on the Allied Shinobi Forces headband as captain of the mid-range division, with Dodai beside him.
• Chiyo confronted Sakumo about Sasori, learned that Sasori and Pakura would be returned to Sunagakure after the war, and joined the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Kakashi's group faced off against Hidden Cloud shinobi Darui, Cee, and Samui while Nawaki let them settle their disagreement themselves.
• Nawaki told Kisame that Chen expected him to become an impressive shinobi, but said Kisame would have to defeat him to claim Samehada.
• Nawaki told Kisame not to call him uncle, then walked toward Kakashi's group and declared that this was the final battle.

Fugaku prepared to use his sixty thousand White Zetsu clones to undermine the Allied Shinobi Forces, confident that their infiltration and numbers would secure victory. When White Zetsu found that Kinkaku and Ginkaku possessed Nine-Tails Chakra, Fugaku chose to capture them while Nagato led the army against the alliance.

• Fugaku assessed the Allied Shinobi Forces and relied on his hidden army of nearly sixty thousand White Zetsu clones to overwhelm them.
• Fugaku recognized that White Zetsu’s transformations could fracture the alliance, unaware that Kushina could see through them.
• White Zetsu reported that Kinkaku and Ginkaku had been found and carried Nine-Tails Chakra, though Kushina’s location remained unknown.
• Black Zetsu explained that Kinkaku and Ginkaku had likely been revived through the Second Hokage’s Impure World Reincarnation.
• Fugaku decided to capture Kinkaku and Ginkaku, ordered Nagato to intercept the Allied Shinobi Forces, and left Black Zetsu in Hidden Rain Village.

The Allied Shinobi Forces met Pain’s army of twenty thousand White Zetsu, and Jiraiya confronted Nagato as the war began. Meanwhile, Black Zetsu and White Zetsu set out to abandon Fugaku’s plan and revive Madara by using Nagato.

• The Allied Shinobi Forces advanced toward the Land of Rain, and Yamanaka Inoichi detected twenty thousand enemies led by Pain’s Six Paths.
• Chen ordered the Second Echelon to advance after learning the enemy forces would soon meet the First Echelon.
• Deva Path Yahiko and five other Pain bodies faced the arriving First Division, while Jiraiya confronted Nagato and entered Sage Mode.
• The First Division and White Zetsu army clashed, officially beginning the war.
• Black Zetsu told White Zetsu that Fugaku would not revive Madara, so they would control Nagato and use him to revive Madara.

The Allied Shinobi Forces battled a massive White Zetsu Army as Chen sent the Kage and Killer B to reinforce the front. While Nagato controlled Pain against the Konoha Sannin, Black Zetsu seized his body in a cave.

• The White Zetsu Army's reckless attacks forced the Allied Shinobi Forces to abandon their broad, roaming strategy and commit more troops to the battlefield.
• Chen learned that another twenty thousand White Zetsu were attacking from the flanks, bringing the enemy force to sixty thousand.
• Chen sent Ōnoki, Rasa, A, and Hozuki Chijin, along with Killer B, to reinforce the battlefield while he stayed behind to handle any enemy contingency.
• Nagato continued controlling Pain in its evenly matched battle against Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru.
• Black Zetsu emerged from the ground, immobilized Nagato, and entered his body.

Black Zetsu revealed that Madara had manipulated Nagato’s life and used him as a vessel to revive Madara with the Rinne Rebirth Technique. Nagato died, and Madara returned in his younger body with both Rinnegan intact.

• Black Zetsu told Nagato that the masked man was Fugaku, that Madara had transplanted the Rinnegan into him, and that his parents’ deaths and meeting with Jiraiya had been arranged.
• Nagato resisted Black Zetsu’s control and tried to kill himself, but Madara’s Binding Curse Seal restrained him.
• Black Zetsu used the Outer Path: Rinne Rebirth Technique to summon Madara from Yama.
• Nagato died after Madara entered his body, and Madara was revived in his younger form with two intact Rinnegan.