Chapter Summaries

Tobirama Senju concluded that unifying the ninja world under Kagami Uchiha was the best way to prevent future wars, despite his hatred of Kagami. The battle continued outside Kagami’s barrier as strange black threads shifted above four tomoe in his mental space.

• Tobirama Senju analyzed Nagato’s Six Paths and told Hiruzen Sarutobi to target the Hell Path while he attacked Deva Path Pain.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi hesitated to attack Yahiko, but Tobirama Senju argued that the enemy’s hatred and the failures of the current system demanded a lasting solution.
• Tobirama Senju revealed his plan to unify the ninja world under Kagami Uchiha, then eliminate every powerful figure outside the Land of Fire.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi accepted that Tobirama Senju was choosing what he considered the lesser of two evils.
• Kagami Uchiha remained unmoved by the battle, while black threads in his mental space writhed beneath four tomoe.

Nagato and Konan turned the battle against Tobirama Senju by using the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags Technique, and Nagato revealed powerful Wood Release while protecting Konan. Jiraiya and Tobirama wondered whether Nagato was descended from Hashirama Senju, while Hashirama himself began to suspect a family connection.

• Konan approached Tobirama Senju and used the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags Technique, prompting Tobirama to flee with Flying Thunder God.
• Nagato arrived beside Konan, removed the smoking Exploding Tag, and shielded them both with wooden stakes as the explosions erupted.
• Orochimaru rushed toward Nagato, but Nagato revealed Wood Release and struck him with a full-power Shinra Tensei.
• Tobirama found Hiruzen Sarutobi, Kinkaku, and Ginkaku bound by Nagato's Wood Dragon, and realized Nagato's Wood Release resembled Hashirama Senju's.
• Jiraiya asked whether Nagato was the First Hokage's descendant, while Nagato rejected Tobirama's attempt to question his parentage.
• Outside the barrier, Hashirama wondered whether Tsunade had another younger brother besides Nawaki.

Kagami Uchiha made the second round of the exam more dangerous by unleashing Mahoraga in the Death Forest and offering a reward for defeating it. He told Hashirama Senju that Madara planned to use a world-spanning genjutsu, then declared that he would focus on surpassing himself as Hashirama grew eager to fight him.

• Hashirama Senju declined Kagami Uchiha’s offer to go after Nagato, and Kagami said he had chosen a separate location for the second round.
• Kagami summoned Mahoraga into the Death Forest and announced that contestants had to flee toward the center or try to kill it for an extra reward.
• Kakuzu asked whether the prize money would double, and Kagami offered him five billion if he killed Mahoraga.
• Hashirama Senju recalled sparing Kakuzu when he had tried to assassinate him, then asked Kagami what Madara intended to do.
• Kagami told Hashirama that Madara wanted to cast a genjutsu across the shinobi world and said he would rely on his own strength rather than follow a presumed future.
• Hashirama Senju said he wanted to fight Kagami, and Kagami told him to wait until he could play a role in Kagami’s future struggle to transcend the world.

Hiruzen Sarutobi escaped Nagato by using the Spirit Transformation Technique and said farewell to his former comrades, acknowledging his past mistakes. His spirit then appeared before Hatake Sakumo’s group and finally encountered Revolver and the children in the forest.

• Tobirama Senju tried to negotiate with Nagato by warning him that Mahoraga could overwhelm everyone, but Nagato refused to release the captives.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi used the Spirit Transformation Technique to evade Nagato and leave the battlefield, explaining that he wanted to rest and had no lingering attachments.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Tobirama Senju, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya farewell, and Tobirama Senju said Hiruzen had no regrets left.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi appeared before Hatake Sakumo’s group, admitted his mistakes, and urged Sakumo not to become like him or Danzo.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi said goodbye to Asuma and the others, then continued flying through the forest toward Revolver and the children.
• Revolver stopped in fright when Hiruzen Sarutobi’s spirit appeared before him and the five children, and Hiruzen introduced himself and told them not to be afraid.

Hiruzen Sarutobi used his remaining spirit to pass tailored ninjutsu knowledge to Karin, Naruto, and Sasuke before disappearing. As the group fled Mahoraga, Sasori, Kakuzu, and the Kirigakure shinobi attacked the monster with a Dragon Vein Cannon and prepared to test it further.

• Neji recognized Hiruzen Sarutobi as Konoha's former Third Hokage, and Hiruzen spoke with Sasuke about his name and Kagami.
• Hiruzen entered Karin, Naruto, and Sasuke's mental worlds and passed each of them ninjutsu knowledge suited to their abilities.
• Hiruzen's spirit vanished after telling the three to grow up and live well, leaving Naruto overcome with grief.
• Karin sensed Mahoraga approaching and urged Revolver to run as the monster rampaged through the forest.
• Sasori fired a Dragon Vein Cannon from a giant puppet, but Mahoraga blocked it and recovered quickly.
• Karatachi Yagura prepared to test Mahoraga from long range, while Sasori and Kakuzu agreed to continue the fight for the monster's corpse and prize money.

Karatachi Yagura and Kirigakure’s shinobi joined forces with Kakuzu to battle Mahoraga, while Ōnoki and A considered intervening. Uchiha Shisui challenged Ōnoki to a one-on-one fight, and Chiyo confronted Hatake Sakumo elsewhere in the Death Forest.

• Mahoraga split Karatachi Yagura’s Tailed Beast Ball and charged the Kirigakure group.
• Kisame Hoshigaki flooded the area with water, and Karatachi Yagura transformed into the Three Tails to fight Mahoraga.
• Mahoraga pinned down the Three Tails, prompting Karatachi Yagura to call for everyone to attack; Hozuki Mangetsu and Kisame Hoshigaki joined the battle.
• Kakuzu prepared to use his abilities while Mei Terumi watched, and Ōnoki and A considered attacking the exhausted fighters for an extra reward.
• Uchiha Shisui appeared before Ōnoki and challenged him to a one-on-one fight, which Ōnoki accepted.
• Chiyo emerged with a group of people and confronted Hatake Sakumo after he and his companions defeated bounty hunters.

After Tobirama left, Nagato and Jiraiya discussed countering Flying Thunder God and chose to keep Kinkaku and Ginkaku restrained for conversion into Pain. Elsewhere, fighters retreated from Mahoraga while Kakuzu planned a compound attack, and Kagami’s guards revealed their mission was to keep Moryo alive, ending with Genko threatening Hyuga Hiashi.

• Tobirama gave Kinkaku and Ginkaku to Nagato, then left with Orochimaru after Nagato refused to remove his Flying Thunder God marks.
• Nagato asked Jiraiya about Flying Thunder God, then decided to turn Kinkaku and Ginkaku into Six Paths of Pain and wait for advancement.
• A group of powerful fighters realized Mahoraga was adapting to their attacks, and Kakuzu proposed using Sasori’s puppet to coordinate a compound ninjutsu.
• Sasori summoned the Third Kazekage Human Puppet, and the group fought while retreating as Mahoraga continued attacking hidden ninjas.
• Shinkwa and Genko revealed that Kagami’s orders were to ensure Moryo was not destroyed, and Genko threatened Hyuga Hiashi when he objected.

Revolver’s group debated withdrawing from the tournament before encountering Konan and Jiraiya near Nagato’s sensing range. Jiraiya urged the children to leave as the countdown entered its final three hours.

• Neji suggested withdrawing, but Naruto wanted to continue to the second match, and Sasuke warned that approaching Nagato was too dangerous.
• Revolver recognized Konan as she descended, and she reassured the group that she would not threaten Kagami through his disciples.
• Sasuke and Naruto objected to Konan’s disrespectful reference to Kagami, and Revolver explained that Konan and Nagato were Jiraiya’s disciples and Kagami’s seniors.
• Jiraiya appeared and told the children to leave the competition, while Naruto recognized him as the Pervy Sage.
• The tournament countdown reached its final three hours.

Shisui fought the allied shinobi with a new Phantom Flying Thunder God technique while the Kirigakure-Akatsuki forces launched a coordinated attack on Mahoraga. Mahoraga nearly fell to their combined assault, then Tobirama Senju and another fighter finished it, leaving Sasori furious at Tobirama.

• Shisui was injured while escaping the Amber Purifying Pot, then used Phantom Flying Thunder God, Third Style: Chaotic Snow Moon Flowers to overwhelm the battlefield with phantoms that could attack.
• Killer B protected Samui from Shisui and prepared to use Tailed Beast Eight Twists as the fighters planned to saturate the area with attacks.
• Kakuzu coordinated the Kirigakure-Akatsuki forces in a combined strike they called Chakra Shot, which blasted through Mahoraga's chest and nearly killed it.
• Tobirama Senju and another fighter used Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation and Water Release: Hard Vortex Water Blade to finish Mahoraga.
• Sasori recognized Tobirama Senju and shouted his name in grief and fury.

After Tobirama Senju and Orochimaru took the apparent kill on Mahoraga, the fighters discovered there was no corpse, while Nagato moved to capture the Eight-Tails. Shisui regrouped with Ryuzetsu after the tornado destroyed his Flying Thunder God marks, leaving them to face the battlefield together.

• Sasori tried to seize Mahoraga's corpse, but the waterspout subsided and revealed that nothing remained; Orochimaru then attacked Sasori to capture and study him.
• Gyuki unleashed a massive tornado, forcing Orochimaru and the others to defend themselves as Nagato approached the Eight-Tails on a strange bird.
• Kakuzu restrained Sasori and urged him to accept the failed attack, and Sasori praised Kakuzu for enduring the loss of five billion.
• Shisui crawled from the tornado's destruction and learned from Ryuzetsu that all his Flying Thunder God marks except the one on her were gone.
• Shisui stopped Ryuzetsu's treatment, clasped her hand, and told her not to leave his side.

Nagato overwhelmed the allied Cloud and Stone forces and was about to capture the Eight-Tails when Kagami Uchiha ended the first match. Elsewhere, Yakushi Kabuto claimed Gaara as his little brother after Rasa disowned him.

• Might Guy used Daytime Tiger to blast the gigantic Moryo away, and Sakumo thanked him after days of fighting had cost Ebizo his life and Rasa an arm.
• Yakushi Kabuto took Gaara hostage and rejected Rasa's offer to return Shukaku, telling Gaara that his mother had loved and protected him; Gaara agreed to go with him, and Kakashi attacked Rasa.
• Nagato used Wood Release and the Rinnegan to suppress the Eight-Tails, but Ōnoki, A, the Two-Tails, Roshi, and Kitsuchi struck back while Shisui and Ryuzetsu watched from the air.
• Nagato and the Six Paths of Pain slaughtered fighters from Kumogakure and Iwagakure, and Killer B's reckless Tailed Beast Balls killed spectators, including the Xuanyuan Crowd.
• Nagato bound the weakened Eight-Tails and began to seal it, but Kagami Uchiha raised the crimson barrier, announced that the first match was over with eighty-two people remaining, and asked Nagato what else he wanted to do.

After the first martial contest, Kagami Uchiha healed Shisui and immediately announced a second round in which contestants would fight for ten tokens over two days. As the survivors prepared to continue, Shisui intervened to protect Deidara from Kagami, and the chapter ended with Kagami agreeing to spare him.

• Kagami Uchiha, Minato Namikaze, and Hashirama Senju arrived to find the forest ecosystem destroyed, and Kagami watched Shisui with dissatisfaction.
• Kagami healed Shisui and announced that the second round would begin immediately, with ten tokens and a two-day time limit.
• Kagami revealed a Dragon Vein Crystal Fragment as a reward and said one team could end the contest early by collecting all ten tokens.
• Kagami dismissed Shinkwa, Genko, the Hyuga brothers, Tekka, Uchiha Izumi, and the others, then offered contestants the chance to withdraw.
• Ōnoki tried to make Deidara withdraw, but Kagami silenced him with his Sharingan until Shisui pleaded for Deidara, and Kagami let him go.

Kagami Uchiha killed Rasa, accepted Sunagakure’s surrender, and gave Orochimaru the Severance Release cultivation scroll, while denying him the promised prize money. He transported the remaining contestants to Shikkotsu Forest and began the second round.

• Yakushi Kabuto withdrew with Gaara, and Kagami Uchiha killed Rasa after Rasa pleaded to keep his son in Sunagakure; Chiyo said Sunagakure had no objections.
• Might Guy, Asuma, Kurenai, and other badly injured participants withdrew, while Orochimaru asked Kagami for his reward.
• Kagami let Orochimaru take Shisui’s copy of the Severance Release cultivation scroll, making Orochimaru a target of the remaining contestants.
• Kagami denied owing Orochimaru five billion ryo, and Kakuzu confirmed the prize money had been wagered with him instead.
• Kagami summoned Shikkotsu Forest, revealed that the sacred land belonged to him, scattered ten azure crystals, and started the second round.

Uchiha Kagami summoned Shikkotsu Forest to the surface and seized control of the White Snake Sage, then began a martial trial with tokens as the prize. As the competition started, powerful souls from its dead contestants remained imprisoned beneath the forest.

• The Slug Sage announced that contestants had forty-eight hours to hold a token, with no other rules, while its offspring could heal or attack them.
• The White Snake Sage burst from the earth and began absorbing Shikkotsu Forest’s natural energy, but the Slug Sage poisoned her.
• Uchiha Kagami trapped the White Snake Sage with his Sharingan and used Crimson Demon to control her completely.
• Uchiha Kagami told Tagorihime she could take over Ryūchi Cave, then declared that the competition had begun as Orochimaru and others pursued the scattered crystals.
• Nagato found that the dense abnormal energy prevented him from using the Rain Tiger at Will Technique.
• Beneath Shikkotsu Forest, souls of powerful contestants who had died during the trial remained imprisoned, except for Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Kagami Uchiha explained that he was keeping Sukuna as a future challenge and promised to release the Seal for their confrontation soon. Afterward, Minato warned him that Akatsuki appeared to be collecting the Tailed Beasts, but Kagami chose to let them act for now.

• Kagami Uchiha entered the Gate of Sealing and told Sukuna he wanted to preserve him as insurance against stronger opponents.
• Kagami Uchiha declared that he and Sukuna could never reconcile and promised to open the Seal in the next few days for their official meeting.
• Sukuna gave Kagami Uchiha his chosen name, Fallen Heaven, and privately believed that devouring Kagami would make them a perfect god.
• Sukuna accelerated his devouring of Isshiki as the Box of Paradise hummed within the Seal space.
• Minato told Kagami Uchiha that Nagato and Akatsuki were likely gathering the Tailed Beasts, based on information from Gyuki and Kurama.
• Kagami Uchiha said he had refused Nagato's request to talk and told Minato to let Akatsuki be for now, promising to destroy them if they threatened the Land of Fire.

Kagami Uchiha destroyed the White Snake Sage’s soul and absorbed its energy, strengthening himself. He then sent Katsuyu to carry out his instructions and prepare for a new life, while she sensed another Uchiha in Shikkotsu Forest.

• Kagami Uchiha suppressed the White Snake Sage and entered her mental space while Minato watched over the area.
• Kagami Uchiha concluded that souls were a powerful source of energy and recalled discovering Katsuyu’s fatal imbalance between physical and spiritual energy.
• The White Snake Sage pleaded to submit, but Kagami Uchiha said her unpleasant voice was reason enough and used a black-red slash to destroy her and the human souls in her mental space.
• Kagami Uchiha swallowed the deep-blue energy left behind, causing his Mangekyō Sharingan to emerge.
• Kagami Uchiha ordered Katsuyu to carry out his instructions and prepare for new life, and Katsuyu sensed another Uchiha in Shikkotsu Forest.

Shisui chose to pursue Kagami Uchiha’s dream, swallowed the Dragon Vein Crystal, and charged into battle to awaken a new Mangekyo. As fights broke out across the other battlefields, Kagami prepared to help Shisui withstand the crystal’s power while Orochimaru and Tobirama Senju faced Nagato’s group.

• Moryo and Sunagakure shinobi surrounded Shisui, and Kirigakure arrived demanding the crystal as well.
• Ryuzetsu urged Shisui to trust his instincts and choose what he truly wanted, assuring him that Kagami Uchiha would support him either way.
• Shisui resolved to follow his brother’s path, swallowed the crystal, and attacked the crowd, declaring that he would awaken a new Mangekyo.
• Kagami Uchiha told Hashirama Senju to prepare to help Shisui control the senjutsu energy infused in the crystal.
• Nagato demanded Orochimaru hand over Severance Release, but Orochimaru refused as Tobirama Senju summoned three coffins.
• Battles erupted across every battlefield as the final candidates for advancement neared determination.

Kagami Uchiha ended the second match and used Shisui’s willingness to guide him through a transformation, drawing on Moryo, the Priestess, Katsuyu’s body, Hashirama, and Tobirama. As Shisui’s fourth tomoe began to form, the survivors sensed that a new pair of God’s Eyes was being born.

• Kagami Uchiha created a crimson sphere that purified Shikkotsu Forest and summoned the White Snake Sage to absorb its energy.
• Kagami Uchiha offered Tobirama Senju a choice between sacrificing himself for Shisui or joining Shimura Danzō, and Tobirama chose to dismantle his Impure World Reincarnation and go to Shisui.
• Kagami Uchiha told Shisui to surrender control, and Shisui agreed as his eye turned black and crimson.
• Shisui, under Kagami Uchiha’s control, killed Moryo and absorbed its energy as Miroku vanished, ending their symbiotic fate.
• Shisui absorbed natural energy from Katsuyu’s body while Hashirama Senju restrained it, and Tobirama Senju dissolved his spirit to nourish Shisui’s soul.
• The fourth tomoe began to condense in Shisui’s eye sockets as the people in Shikkotsu Forest felt a shared heartbeat.

Kagami Uchiha spoke with the Sage of Six Paths while Shisui’s Mangekyo evolved, learning that the Sage had helped awaken Kagami’s eyes. Kagami then shaped Shisui’s eye techniques, sealed Tobirama Senju’s consciousness inside Shisui’s left eye, and turned to the right eye.

• Kagami Uchiha met the Sage of Six Paths at the boundary between life and death and learned that the Sage had helped his Mangekyo advance.
• Kagami told the Sage that the sealed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki was Kaguya’s superior, then rejected the Sage’s involvement in deciding the Shinobi World’s future.
• Kagami gave Shisui’s left eye Hayami Kohaku Nushi, granting rapid healing and an extended lifespan.
• Kagami gave Shisui’s other left-eye technique, Flying Thunder God Slash: Tobirama, and sealed Tobirama Senju’s consciousness inside the eye to train Shisui.
• Kagami began working on Shisui’s right eye.

Shisui inherited powerful new ocular techniques from Kagami Uchiha and awakened to his strength after Kagami’s consciousness departed. Kagami then transformed the white snake into a dragon, destroyed Shikkotsu Forest, and announced that the final martial exhibition match would take place on the moon.

• Shisui regained control of his body, and his new power severed Hashirama Senju’s arm before he covered his Mangekyo at Tobirama Senju’s warning.
• Tobirama Senju explained that Shisui’s agonizing pain was only an aftereffect of Kagami Uchiha’s advancement, then argued with Shisui and was dragged beneath the water in his consciousness.
• Ryuzetsu and the onlookers saw Shisui recover, while Hashirama Senju called him a younger brother and Shisui rejected the familiarity.
• Kagami Uchiha placed a blue crystal on the white snake’s forehead as the creature shed its scales and transformed into a dragon.
• Kagami Uchiha invited those with Dragon Vein Crystals to the final match on the moon, and the white dragon broke free and flew toward it.