Chapter Summaries

The research director discovered that the Parasitic Insect was usually not fatal unless treatment provoked it, and he rallied Iwagakure’s staff to stop aggressive treatment and seek a safer approach. After Insect Princess tested him with severe pain, he survived and declared that he had won, leaving the staff hopeful that they could save the village.

• The research director struggled with guilt over the deaths and considered abandoning his shinobi life, but his wife encouraged him to return and act according to his convictions.
• He gathered the village’s medical staff and researchers, announced that they would stop treatment, and explained that the parasite was unlikely to kill hosts unless provoked.
• The medical director realized that her treatment had killed her younger brother and broke down, while the research director urged everyone to continue working toward a safe treatment plan.
• Insect Princess inflicted agonizing symptoms on the research director during the meeting, but he insisted that the parasite was acting normally and called on the staff not to give up.
• The research director regained consciousness and told Insect Princess that he had won; she agreed, and the medical staff rushed to help him while celebrating their hope of survival.

Nami took Mito on a village inspection and used the approaching Sky Ninja attack as an excuse to clear Konoha for redevelopment. As the Sky Ninja destroyed the Hokage Building, Nami’s forces prepared to strike their base, and Mito welcomed the start of a new era.

• Nami and Mito discussed plans to rebuild Konoha, expand public services, and make Chakra the basis of a future symbiotic society.
• Nami identified the approaching attackers as Sky Ninja and ordered Konoha’s forces to shelter and stand by, while the Aburame clan moved toward the River Country.
• The Sky Ninja formed up and fired powerful Lightning Release attacks that destroyed the Hokage Building.
• Mito watched the old building fall and accepted that a new era had begun.
• The Aburame clan and accompanying combat ninjas raced through the forest toward the Sky Ninja’s territory.

Mimi used the Sky Ninja’s attack to help Konoha prepare for a wider war, then unleashed a vast Sage Art to grow a living structure through the ruined village. The chapter ended as the Tunneling Insect continued transforming the burning wreckage into a garden-like platform.

• The Sky Ninja bombed Konoha’s empty streets and buildings, then withdrew without landing, allowing the hidden Konoha ninjas to emerge and salvage the ruins.
• Mimi told Mito that Konoha would rebuild while she planned to target the Land of Fire and later turn her forces toward Hidden Cloud and Kirigakure.
• Mimi asked Mito whether she liked gardens, then performed Insect Secret Technique: Sage Art: Small Garden.
• Mimi’s immense Chakra swept through Konoha, stirring the Nine-Tails and reaching the ninjas and villagers in their shelters.
• A Tunneling Insect burst from deep underground, raising winding columns that formed a platform and staircases as rooftops began to take shape amid the flames.

Mimi used her tunneling insects to extinguish Konoha’s fire and build a vast living infrastructure, then transformed them into a flowering giant tree that amazed Mito. She explained that villagers, including the Uzumaki clan, would have to pay for their houses, though Chakra could serve as payment.

• Mimi’s tunneling insects pumped and purified river water, spraying it over Konoha’s fire until the flames went out.
• Mimi described her plan for a Little Garden and Insect Nest Society, linking people, plants, and fungi in a symbiotic network.
• Mimi’s insects rose above Konoha and transformed into a giant tree with branches, leaves, and colorful flowers.
• Mito delighted in the flowers and hugged Mimi, who explained that the blossoms could bloom for a week under normal conditions and could glow at night.
• Mimi told Mito that the houses had bare walls and that residents, including the Uzumaki clan, would have to buy them rather than receive them for free.
• Mimi revealed that villagers could pay for their houses with Chakra.

Coral faced Sand Hidden Village’s invasion of Demon Country and rejected the general’s plea to flee to Konoha, choosing to protect her people by surrendering. She blamed the Tokoyo Goddess for provoking the attack and ordered the soldiers to lay down their arms.

• Mimi left with several hundred ninjas to begin a campaign against gangs and other criminal forces in the Land of Fire.
• Sand Hidden Village invaded Demon Country to seize a stable base and control the Priestess, Coral.
• A loyal general urged Coral to escape to Konoha and seek help against Sand Hidden Village.
• Coral recalled seeing the Tokoyo Insect, whom she worshiped and blamed for Sand Hidden Village’s attack.
• Coral refused to abandon her people and ordered the soldiers to lay down their arms to prevent more bloodshed.

The Priestess tried to protect the Demon Country from the Sand Hidden Village, but Chiyo forced her into accepting cooperation and left Miroku under the general’s protection. On the Grass Country battlefield, Chiri trapped the Explosion Corps in a genjutsu barrier while the Third Hokage faced Ōnoki alone.

• The Priestess sent Miroku to Konoha with the general’s son and remained behind to face the Sand Hidden Village.
• Chiyo demanded cooperation, and the Priestess warned that Mōryō would destroy the Sand Hidden Village before tacitly accepting her confinement.
• The Third Hokage and Chiri discussed how to separate Ōnoki from the Explosion Corps as their battle continued.
• The Third Hokage raised the Four Red Yang Formation around Ōnoki, while the Explosion Corps fled through its shrinking opening.
• Chiri activated a genjutsu barrier that trapped the Explosion Corps and began killing its members with her lightning sword.
• The Third Hokage challenged Ōnoki to fight to the death inside the barrier.

Chiri slaughtered the Hidden Rock Village Explosion Corps with her Azure Lightning sword, then watched the survivors regroup into a large formation. She unleashed Azure Lightning Rose at the clustered enemies, and the sword vanished into space as the attack began.

• Chiri used Azure Lightning Flash to ambush and kill the Explosion Corps ninjas, burning many of them to ash.
• The surviving ninjas formed tight groups and prepared to attack Chiri together when she appeared.
• Chiri assessed their formation and considered how her Flying Thunder God web let her move through the illusion space.
• Chiri raised her sword and released Uchiha Style Kenjutsu: Azure Lightning Rose toward the largest formation.
• Chiri called it the moment of withering as space split apart and her swinging sword vanished into it.

Chiri used her parallel techniques and Flying Thunder God to slaughter the Explosion Corps, then hunted the survivors as they scattered through the sky. The remaining Hidden Rock ninjas fled and launched small explosive birds, but Chiri trapped one in her web of Yin Release threads and appeared to kill him.

• Chiri used Time of Withering to unleash a wide-area spatial slash that killed the gathered Explosion Corps ninjas in an instant.
• The surviving Hidden Rock squad leaders ordered their forces to scatter, keep moving, and hold out until the Earth Shadow Lord decided the battle.
• The Explosion Corps ninjas launched swarms of small clay birds at Chiri while evading her attacks in the air.
• Chiri predicted one ninja's flight path, teleported to her mark, and struck him with a Reverse Kesagatame slash.
• Chiri watched the trapped ninja fall as a burning fireball while Yin Release threads spread through the sky around her.

The Third Hokage fought Ōnoki inside the shrinking Barrier, using an exceptionally controlled Fire Release to force him out of the air. Both survived the exchange and prepared to continue their battle on the ground.

• Ōnoki watched the Uchiha woman slaughter his subordinates while he confronted the Third Hokage.
• The Third Hokage sent three highly controlled fire dragons after Ōnoki, who countered with Dust Release.
• The Third Hokage bent the flames around Ōnoki’s defenses, forcing him to use a Dust Release Barrier around himself.
• The Fire Release and Dust Release consumed each other, and the Third Hokage stopped with his mouth blistered while Ōnoki reappeared unharmed.
• Ōnoki descended to the ground and shed his Rock Armor, and the Third Hokage accepted his challenge to continue fighting there.

Konoha’s retreat through the burning Mountain Area turned into a desperate battle against the Rock Ninja’s Explosion Corps and overwhelming forces. Fugaku experienced the brutality of war firsthand and charged back into the fighting after a Rock Ninja wounded him.

• Konoha squads retreated under attacks from clay birds and stone barrages while the Rock Ninja pursued them through the forest.
• A Konoha fighter attacked an Explosion Corps member on a clay bird, but a clay decoy replaced the enemy; a person and dog then struck back with Whirlwind Drills.
• Rock Ninja bombs devastated the forest as Mimi watched the forces clash with combined earth techniques and charge into close combat.
• Fugaku froze at the battlefield until his captain slapped him and ordered him to fight, so he joined his clansmen in the melee.
• Fugaku fought through the crowd, killed an opponent without knowing who he was, and was stabbed in the chest by an Uncle.
• Fugaku pulled the blade from his chest, used Body Flicker toward a Rock Ninja giant, and an especially shrill scream rang across the battlefield.

A parasite inside a Hidden Rock Village ninja erupted into a battlefield-wide infestation, spreading larvae and panic among both Rock and Konoha forces. The outbreak continued as infected fighters vomited worms and the Konoha ninjas recoiled in horror.

• A Hidden Rock Village ninja began vomiting larvae, and his companions discovered worms moving beneath his skin.
• A Rock Ninja fed the fallen man pills, triggering more larvae to erupt; another ninja became infested while trying to clear them from his mouth and lost a hand when a companion cut it off.
• An Emergency Medical Ninja opened the patient’s abdomen and tried to remove the parasites, but the mother parasite changed its egg-laying strategy and prepared a final burst.
• The patient suddenly broke free, coughed up blood and larvae, and a large worm emerged from his mouth before dissolving; the horrified witnesses began screaming.
• The infestation spread across the battlefield as Rock Ninjas vomited worms onto Konoha fighters, who retched and backed away in fear.

A mass outbreak of Parasitic Insects crippled the Hidden Rock Village army, turning the battlefield into a panicked rout while Konoha's forces watched in fear. The Konoha ninjas hesitated to attack, and even Shi Hei was afraid of the insects.

• Nearly a third of the Hidden Rock Village army fell ill, vomiting larvae as Medical Ninjas struggled to treat them.
• A Rock Ninja begged his comrade for help, while the comrade panicked and beat him away.
• A father watched helplessly as his son weakened from the Parasitic Insects and feared he was dying.
• Rock Ninjas fled the battlefield, their defensive line collapsed, and uncontrolled clay birds crashed or escaped into the sky.
• Konoha ninjas watched the disaster without attacking and nervously checked anyone who vomited for bugs.
• An Aburame Ninja stayed silent, and even Shi Hei was afraid of the Little Cuties.

Mimi explained that parasites had already infected Konoha’s people and unborn children, while the Hidden Rock Village’s retreat left its infected ninjas and the Third Earth Shadow behind. As Konoha’s shaken survivors recovered from the battle, Mimi traveled by sedan chair with frightened Fire Temple monks toward her next destination.

• Mimi explained that pheromones kept parasites in Konoha’s people dormant and that larvae infected fetuses, while she considered the population’s usefulness for future space travel.
• The Rock Ninja retreated with their infected comrades as Chiri’s black sphere trapped Daichi, leaving the Third Earth Shadow’s battle with the Third Hokage unresolved.
• Konoha’s ninja recoiled from the retreating Rock Ninja’s sickness, and Fugaku vomited in terror after being splattered by one of them.
• Mimi decided not to tell the villagers about the insects in their stomachs and continued traveling through the forest in a human-powered sedan chair.
• The Fire Temple monks carried Mimi toward their destination, fearing that the Sixth Heaven Demon King’s arrival spelled disaster for the Land of Fire.

Mimi considered what kind of social system could bring lasting peace and prosperity to the Shinobi World, concluding that her homeland’s contract-based society could not simply be transplanted there. She decided Tsunade could become a powerful, accountable goddess at the center of a new order, while Mimi remained a self-described farmer and breeder of bugs.

• Mimi rejected imposing a foreign social model on the Shinobi World, reasoning that its people lacked the understanding and education to make such changes work.
• Mimi concluded that peace alone would not satisfy people, while oppression and trying to meet every desire would eventually provoke resistance.
• Mimi compared Kaguya’s oppressive rule with her homeland’s system of fair contracts, where rulers and gods were expected to keep their promises.
• Mimi decided that Tsunade could become the next Kaguya Ji and serve as the powerful, capable center of society.
• Mimi declared that she was only a farmer and bug breeder, and that she would defend her garden if the Sage of Six Paths challenged her.

Tsunade led Konoha’s outnumbered defenders to meet Kirigakure’s massive sea assault, using slug-transmitted healing and countless Shadow Clones to bolster their ranks. She and her forces charged toward the waves, while Orochimaru was thrown into battle after them.

• Orochimaru urged Tsunade to retreat inland, but Tsunade insisted on defending the coastline and ordered everyone to prepare for battle.
• Tsunade summoned a Slug Sage clone that split into small slugs, giving each Ninja a means to receive her healing Chakra.
• Tsunade created countless Shadow Clones, whose shouted battle cry embarrassed her as they charged toward Kirigakure’s towering waves.
• A Tsunade figure hauled Orochimaru from the sea and threw him toward the enemy alongside the charging clones.

Tsunade and the Konoha forces attacked Kirigakure’s iceberg fortress, and Tsunade unveiled a gigantic Sage Art that left Terumi Homura and the defenders stunned. The chapter ended with Tsunade towering over the sea and approaching the fortress.

• Tsunade’s multiple real bodies endured Kirigakure’s water needles before their combined strikes blasted the sea and hurled the Kirigakure ninja into the water.
• Tsunade and the Slug Sage judged that attacking the iceberg directly would be difficult and decided to force the defenders out onto the sea.
• Orochimaru joined Tsunade, and she used Sage Art: Slug Fusion: Ultra-Limit Gigantification.
• Terumi Homura and the Kirigakure defenders watched in shock as Tsunade grew nearly as large as a mountain and walked toward the iceberg fortress.

Tsunade advanced toward the Kirigakure forces in her mountain-sized Great Slug Tsunade Sage Mode, while the Konoha Ninja climbed aboard her. The Kirigakure prepared to fight, but Tsunade’s enormous crimson club struck toward the iceberg, sending a devastating shock wave through their ranks.

• Tsunade used the Slug Sage’s power and a distributed nervous system to become a mountain-sized fighter with no single vulnerable core.
• The Kirigakure ninjas organized a defense and planned to break through Tsunade’s body to attack an imagined core.
• Tsunade invited the Konoha Ninja onto her back and opened passages in her skin so some could enter her body; Orochimaru climbed onto her head and stopped when her golden hair watched him.
• The Konoha Ninja followed Tsunade as she approached the iceberg, while the Kirigakure forces braced for her attack.
• Tsunade swung a colossal crimson club toward the iceberg, and the resulting wind and shock wave threw groups of Kirigakure ninjas into the air.

Tsunade battered Kirigakure’s iceberg stronghold with her club while shrugging off the Ninjas’ attacks with her hardened, mucus-coated body. Snow Princess left the stronghold to confront her, but the chapter ended before their fight began.

• Snow Princess estimated that Tsunade’s blows would collapse the iceberg within ten minutes, then asked Terumi Homura for permission to fight.
• Terumi Homura allowed Snow Princess to leave the stronghold and engage Tsunade.
• Tsunade repeatedly smashed the iceberg with Thunderclap Eight Trigrams while Orochimaru watched from nearby.
• Kirigakure Ninjas attacked Tsunade with Kunai and Water Release techniques, but her body repelled their attacks.
• Kirigakure Ninjas used Fire Release, but the flames went out against Tsunade’s body, whose protective mucus Mimi likened to Armament Haki.

Tsunade endured the Yuki Clan’s underwater ice attack while Orochimaru prepared to act, and the Kirigakure Ninja believed she was weakening. The battle shifted onto the open ice sheet as the Yuki Clan emerged from the iceberg.

• The Yuki Clan’s Ice Needles spread underwater and froze Kirigakure Ninja who failed to escape.
• The Yuki Clan used Ice Release techniques to surround Tsunade’s submerged lower body with spreading ice sheets.
• Tsunade’s body resisted the cold by raising its temperature and secreting antifreeze, while she continued to appear weakened.
• Orochimaru jumped onto the ice, and other Ninja landed behind Tsunade as the Kirigakure Ninja emerged from the iceberg.

Hitomi wiped out nearly the entire Explosion Corps, while the Third Hokage fought Ōnoki inside the Four Red Yang Formation. The Third Hokage and Enma countered Ōnoki’s attacks, but the chapter ended as Ōnoki unleashed Dust Release across the Third Hokage’s Shadow Clones.

• Hitomi intercepted the Rock Ninja’s attempts to escape underground, and the Explosion Corps resorted to self-detonation as most of its members fell.
• Three Hidden Rock Ninja survived underground while Hitomi finished the battle and walked away.
• Ōnoki taunted the Third Hokage about Hitomi’s power, then attacked him with Dust Release.
• The Third Hokage used Earth Release, Stone Clones, and his sense of smell to locate Ōnoki’s real body and press the attack.
• Enma struck Ōnoki and disrupted his Dust Release before the Third Hokage pursued him with wind and earth techniques.
• Ōnoki unleashed Dust Release in every direction as the Third Hokage’s Shadow Clones rushed toward him.