Chapter Summaries

Aburame Tetsumaru sent a Shadow Clone to confront the Erduo People, a refugee fleet fleeing the Otsutsuki Clan, while preparing the Mother Hive for war. The Clone’s attack exposed the Erduo leadership’s fear of the Otsutsuki, and the chapter ended with him calling them defeated dogs driven from their homes.

• Aburame Tetsumaru learned that the Erduo People were refugees whose worlds had been conquered by beings they called the Otsutsuki Demons, and he continued building the Mother Hive while preparing for conflict.
• The Archbishop and General Erduo decided to invade a nearby inhabited world for resources and morale, planning to leave within three years before their pursuers caught them.
• Six days later, Aburame Tetsumaru’s Shadow Clone entered the Erduo satellite and attacked the Archbishop’s court with Fire Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame.
• The Shadow Clone defeated four mech guards and demanded to know why the Erduo People were approaching his territory and what their relationship was to the Otsutsuki Clan.
• The Erduo leaders panicked when the Shadow Clone conjured images of Otsutsuki Kaguya-hime and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, and he called them defeated dogs driven out by the Otsutsuki Clan.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s Shadow Clone confirmed that Erduo’s leaders had no intention of negotiating, while Spore infiltration left the civilization doomed. As the group prepared for war, the Otsutsuki Grand Elder embraced his clan’s responsibility to defend the Shinobi World from the Extraterrestrial Otsutsuki Clan.

• The Erduo Archbishop ordered the Shadow Clone killed, and the Clone scattered powder before fighting through the mecha and mechanical Spiders until gunfire destroyed it.
• The Archbishop ordered Soldiers to find the Clone’s body and declared that Erduo would attack the natives, unaware that Spores had begun appearing on the dead Soldiers.
• Aburame Tetsumaru reported the failed negotiations to the Snail Phone group, and the group agreed that Erduo’s arrogance and incompetence made war inevitable.
• Aburame Tetsumaru warned the group that a greater threat had driven Erduo from its home, and the Otsutsuki Grand Elder resolved to stop the Extraterrestrial Otsutsuki Clan from occupying the Shinobi World.
• The Otsutsuki Grand Elder accepted responsibility for his clan’s past mistakes and pledged to defend the Shinobi World, while Aburame Tetsumaru planned to adapt the Advent Ritual for other races.

The Erduo scout fleet discovered the Star Ring Aburame Tetsumaru had built around Purple Thunder Star, prompting General Erduo to send most of his combat fleets to destroy the apparent threat. As the Erduo fleets departed, Aburame Tetsumaru’s Insect Swarms gathered for the coming battle.

• The Fifth Planet Explorer discovered that six Erduo scout ships had passed close by undetected, then proposed staying behind to build a Mother Hive and warn the others.
• Aburame Tetsumaru began constructing a disguised Insect Star Ring around Purple Thunder Star and adjusted patrol routes to draw the Erduo scouts toward it.
• The six Erduo scout ships found the Star Ring and charged through the Insect Swarm; after one damaged ship persisted toward the decoy, an Avatar destroyed it with Thunder Giant Insects.
• Aburame Tetsumaru observed the Erduo Fleet lose mass as its combat ships accelerated away, while tens of millions of Insects assembled with a mobile Mother Hive and eight Bio-Warships.
• General Erduo judged the Star Ring a possible threat to the Flagship Satellite and ordered seventy percent of the fleet to mobilize in fifteen formations.
• General Erduo departed with the final fleet, reflecting on how his ancestors had once commanded more than a million warships as a single force.

After repeated Erduo fleet attacks forced the Insect Swarm to retreat, Dice and the Aburame Tetsumarus used the Archimedes Cannon to devastate the enemy fleet. The Erduo forces restored command and fought back as the Insect Swarm finally reached firing range, beginning a full interstellar battle.

• The Avatars discovered that captured Erduo Scout Ships carried identical groups of clone-like crew, while Explorer reported fifteen incoming fleets with highly varied warship designs.
• General Erduo used long-range laser attacks and repeated retreats to keep the Insect Swarm at a distance, and the third expulsion battle ended with over a million insect casualties.
• Dice launched the Archimedes Cannon, accelerating an asteroid to 2,500 kilometers per second and sending it into the Erduo fleet.
• Aburame Tetsumaru's Avatar fired Plasma Lightning Orbs from the asteroid, destroying 200 ships and damaging hundreds more as the Erduo fleet fell into chaos.
• The Insect Swarm closed in while a massive warship and eight smaller ships attacked; General Erduo regained unified command, and both sides began exchanging fire at close range.

The Insect Swarm retreated after the Erduo fleet’s Giant Mechas turned the battle around, though the Erduo suffered heavy losses. Aburame Tetsumaru’s side prepared to stall for two months, while Erduo’s leaders placed their forces under General Erduo and ordered the rapid conquest and extermination of the enemy.

• The Erduo fleet deployed Giant Mechas that cleared the Octopus Insects and killed Scorpions, allowing General Erduo to restore an effective firepower network.
• Dice ordered the Insect Swarm to retreat, and the battle ended after the Erduo fleet suffered extensive damage and losses.
• Aburame Tetsumaru’s group renamed the kilometer-tall Planetary Defense Insect the Tower Insect and planned to disguise a fake Star Ring’s test firing to buy two months.
• At the postwar conference, General Erduo argued that the Insect Swarm was a serious enemy, and the Archbishop agreed to unite the clergy, nobles, and Knights under his command.
• The Archbishop ordered General Erduo to occupy the Third Planet and Second Planet, exterminate the barbarians, and finish within one year.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s spores spread through the Erduo fleet, infecting clones and warships and unexpectedly forming a Flying Thunder God link, while an Erduo raid force attacked the Star Ring above Purple Thunder Star. The Star Ring was destroyed, and the chapter ended with both sides celebrating the same wreckage as the battle continued.

• Aburame Tetsumaru’s spores developed into dangerous functional strains, including Zombie Spores, and spread from the Flagship Satellite through Erduo clones, warships, and transport vessels.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and the six Advents confirmed the spores could transmit information across tens of millions of kilometers and that a Flying Thunder God Guidance Formation had formed, prompting them to plan to cremate enemies and prioritize a strike from “Radiance of the Sun.”
• Aburame Tetsumaru escaped his falling work pod and watched an Erduo Transforming Mecha destroy Star Ring defenses before pursuing it through the clouds.
• General Erduo’s fifty-five Transforming Mecha squads attacked the Star Ring and destroyed it, including its real energy systems and fake super cannon.
• Dice directed the Insect Swarm to encircle Purple Thunder Star as the Erduo commander ordered the raiders to withdraw, and both sides cheered as the Star Ring fell into the cloud sea.

Aburame Tetsumaru and the Insect Swarm destroyed the Star Ring and drove off the Erduo Ark flagship, but the flagship’s powerful, ancient defensive system left them wary. After discovering the system was a scarce archaeological relic, Tetsumaru salvaged its wreckage while the Erduo fleet regrouped and pressed toward Purple Thunder Star.

• Aburame Tetsumaru used fourteen Kikaichū to kill an Erduo fighter pilot, but the fighter retreated autonomously toward its warship.
• The Insect Swarm calculated where three fighters’ retreat paths converged and fired Plasma Lightning Orbs, revealing the Ark flagship behind a massive electromagnetic shield.
• The Ark captain abandoned the Protective Firmament and accelerated away, leaving some fighters behind as the Insect Swarm pursued them and ended the battle.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and the Advents learned that the Ark’s shield was a limited-use antique that provided powerful defense and stealth, then Tetsumaru returned to salvage its fragments.
• The Erduo fleet regrouped and advanced toward Purple Thunder Star, while Dice used deceptive insect swarms and asteroid assaults to disrupt the fleet.

The Erduo fleet struggled against insects that regenerated from corpses, while Aburame Tetsumaru learned that the decisive battle between Konoha and Iwagakure had begun and arranged surveillance of Obito. The sides prepared for their next moves as the Erduo Archbishop noticed widespread illness among his people but postponed an investigation until after the battle.

• The Erduo fleet discovered that insect larvae rapidly developed from corpses, and revived insects infiltrated the Flagship Satellite, killing thousands and halting production before the defenders burned the insects to ash.
• Aburame Tetsumaru received news of Kakashi’s promotion and the decisive Konoha-Iwagakure battle, then arranged for an Avatar deployed to the Land of Grass to oversee tracking Obito.
• Dice proposed raiding the Erduo Supply Fleet, but the Tactical Group scheduled the attack for thirty-one hours later and prioritized ensuring the Radiance of the Sun would work.
• Fifth Planet Explorer requested genetic data for Giant Insects and Scorpions, and Aburame Tetsumaru agreed to deliver it.
• The Erduo Archbishop noticed age spots and recognized that many people around him were ill, but decided to wait until after the battle to investigate.

Explorer’s Insect Swarm annihilated the Erduo Supply Fleet by ambushing its retreating ships, while the Erduo forces launched a massive counterattack against the insects emerging from Purple Thunder Star. The battle escalated as the Flagship Satellite’s main cannon and thousands of warships opened fire.

• Explorer’s insects infiltrated the Erduo Supply Fleet, captured most of its ships, and drove the survivors into six isolated formations.
• The surviving supply ships retreated toward a rallying point, where Explorer’s ambush trapped them in a corrosive Spore field and blinded their communications with Mushroom Bombs.
• Explorer’s forces destroyed the supply ships with Plasma Lightning Orbs, leaving none of the more than twenty-six thousand ships able to escape.
• The Mushroom Bomb flashes alerted Aburame Tetsumaru and General Erduo, prompting the Octopuses to surge into space and the Erduo fleet to attack.
• The Flagship Satellite’s Wrath of the Sun and more than six thousand warships struck the Insect Swarm, while Erduo warships launched over twenty thousand Proton Torpedoes.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s forces endured Erduo proton bombs and prepared Radiance of the Sun while the Erduo Fleet advanced into Purple Thunder Star’s atmosphere. Man of Culture’s calibrated weapon then struck the fleet, causing widespread destruction and leaving only a few dozen warships intact.

• Aburame Tetsumaru halted the first Insect Swarm wave and gave Station Master intelligence extracted from captured Erduo corpses.
• Erduo proton bombs killed millions of insects and destroyed the Spores, prompting Dragon Heart to warn everyone to shield themselves from the proton stream.
• Aburame Tetsumaru ordered radio silence until Radiance of the Sun fired, while Otsutsuki Great Elder urged his clan to remain close to his forces.
• The Archbishop and General Erduo planned to seize the orbit of Third Planet, eliminate the insects, and then conquer Second Planet.
• General Erduo sent the fleet into Purple Thunder Star’s Gravity Circle and ordered a coordinated attack through the cloud layer.
• Man of Culture activated Radiance of the Sun, whose refracted sunlight overheated the Erduo Fleet and triggered explosions, collisions, and the loss of power across most of its warships.

After learning that Erduo's civilization had collapsed under a rigid class system, Aburame Tetsumaru approved Politician's plan to exile the Erduo People and give them a chance to rebuild. As the Radiance of the Sun faded, the Insect Swarm and Purple Guard II attacked the crippled Erduo Fleet and began overwhelming its scattered defenses.

• The Station Master shared a history of Erduo's rise, decline, and defeat by the Otsutsuki Clan, and Aburame Tetsumaru abandoned his plan to absorb the Erduo People.
• Aburame Tetsumaru proposed exterminating the Erduo People, but Politician persuaded the group to exile them on a moon and monitor whether they could rebuild their civilization.
• The participants unanimously approved Politician's plan and chose an atmosphere-bearing moon near the Fifth Planet as Erduo's place of exile.
• Thirty-four minutes after the attack began, the Man of Culture switched off the lamps, and the Radiance of the Sun faded.
• The Insect Swarm and Purple Guard II advanced on the Erduo Fleet as its surviving warships fired disorganized counterattacks.
• Dice sent Thunder Giant Insects forward to draw enemy fire, and the Insect Swarm used the opening to overwhelm the Erduo forces.

After the Erduo People surrendered, Aburame Tetsumaru left the space battlefield to monitor Uchiha Obito and warned Orochimaru about a dangerous person targeting him. He copied Orochimaru’s movement technique and began adapting it into an Insect Path technique while continuing surveillance.

• The Erduo People surrendered after the Otsutsuki Clan’s attack terrified them, and the remaining warships were destroyed or surrendered.
• Aburame Tetsumaru left the battlefield cleanup to his Avatars and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the Land of Grass.
• Aburame Tetsumaru met Orochimaru, sensed that his will had been damaged, and warned him to stay away from Obito because a powerful person was targeting him.
• Aburame Tetsumaru secretly watched Orochimaru use the Snake Style Body Flicker Technique and studied its Chakra Runes.
• Aburame Tetsumaru adapted the technique into a proposed Chakra-based Insect Path and sent the modification plan to his Avatar for testing.
• Aburame Tetsumaru stayed near Hatake Squad and continued reading surveillance records about Obito.

Aburame Tetsumaru watched Uchiha Obito’s team enter the Land of Grass, uncovering that Rin’s capture was a staged trap arranged by Uchiha Madara. Obito awakened his Sharingan and fought to protect his teammates, but a collapsing cave left him mortally wounded as Namikaze Minato and the others found no way to save him.

• Namikaze Minato left the Hatake squad at the border to draw the Iwa Ninja away from the mission to destroy Kannabi Bridge.
• After Huo Guang and Taiseki captured Rin, Uchiha Obito abandoned Kakashi’s mission orders to rescue her, while Aburame Tetsumaru followed the Iwa Ninja and discovered White Zetsu had prepared a trap for Obito.
• Obito and Kakashi fought together to rescue Rin, and Obito awakened his Two-Tomoe Sharingan after Kakashi lost his right eye.
• Obito battled the Iwa Ninja Demolition Corps until Namikaze Minato arrived and defeated the attackers, then carried Kakashi and Rin toward the cave exit.
• A surviving Iwa Ninja Jonin triggered Explosion Release: Collapsing Mountain, and falling rocks pinned Obito’s lower body and tore open his abdomen as Minato tried to carry him out.
• Rin and the arriving Aburame Shibi, Inuzuka Gaku, and Akimichi Dōtō could not save Obito, leaving Namikaze Minato and Kakashi devastated.

Aburame Tetsumaru secretly altered Obito’s eye and tracked the White Zetsu who carried him away. After mapping their hidden base in the Land of Waterfalls, Tetsumaru found the emaciated Uchiha Madara.

• Obito died beneath the rockslide after refusing to let Kakashi take his eye, and the Konoha ninja left without finding his body.
• Tetsumaru dug up Obito, replaced his left eye with a damaged decoy, and killed four Root ninja who arrived to retrieve the Uchiha’s eyes.
• Black Zetsu and the White Zetsu recovered Obito, fused one White Zetsu into him, and carried him toward the Land of Waterfalls.
• Tetsumaru’s spores infected the White Zetsu, allowing him to follow them through a circuitous route to their hidden base.
• Tetsumaru spent ten days surveying the area and finally spotted the emaciated Uchiha Madara underground.

Aburame Tetsumaru attacked Uchiha Madara with a nuclear blast and an orbital laser, then confronted him in close combat. After Madara’s sword broke against Tetsumaru’s armored disguise, Madara began forming hand seals to use Fire Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame.

• Aburame Tetsumaru prepared a large insect network and brought an Erduo People's Aerospace Fighter Transforming Mecha to the Shinobi World, while failing to track Black Zetsu or find Uchiha Obito.
• Aburame Tetsumaru detonated a Second-Generation Mushroom Bomb underground near Uchiha Madara, but Madara survived and confronted him.
• Aburame Tetsumaru fired an orbital laser at Madara, who evaded it and challenged Tetsumaru to fight without relying on external weapons.
• Uchiha Madara rushed Tetsumaru with a Kunai, then switched to Uchiha Swordsmanship and overwhelmed him with a Ninja Blade.
• Uchiha Madara’s blade broke against Tetsumaru’s revealed 3.3-meter armored body, and Tetsumaru mocked him as he drew his Wrist Blades.
• Uchiha Madara formed hand seals and prepared to unleash Fire Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame.

Aburame Tetsumaru wore down Uchiha Madara with insects and laser artillery before revealing a transforming mecha to fight Madara’s Susanoo. As the mecha and Susanoo clashed, Tetsumaru prepared to intervene when the Erduo pilot began losing.

• Aburame Tetsumaru used rock walls, burrowing Worms, and Thunder Giant Insects to attack Uchiha Madara, whose Fire Release burned through the insects.
• Tetsumaru’s laser cannons forced Madara to dodge repeatedly until their energy ran out, leaving the exhausted old man on a scorched battlefield.
• Tetsumaru taunted Madara and claimed he sought immortality and the Rabbit Goddess, then revealed he knew about Susanoo and summoned a transforming mecha.
• Tetsumaru convinced the Erduo pilot to fight Madara by promising the Erduo People a settlement world and warning that Madara was an Otsutsuki descendant.
• Madara’s Susanoo cut the mecha’s laser rifle and disabled several joints, then leaped to strike its neck as Tetsumaru raised his hand to intervene.

Uchiha Madara used Wood Release to counter the insects and bombardment, forcing the Erduo pilot to retreat before Aburame Tetsumaru unleashed his Senjutsu. The chapter ended with Tetsumaru’s Xeno Cataclysm mutating life across the forest into ravenous, bizarre creatures.

• The Erduo pilot escaped Susanoo’s close-range attack, then fired on Uchiha Madara from the air while Madara struggled to evade and maintain Susanoo.
• Aburame Tetsumaru sent Mantises, cockroaches, and other insects against Susanoo, and the swarm’s weight slowed Madara as Thunder Giant Insects bombarded him.
• Uchiha Madara cast Deep Forest Emergence, raising a vast forest that destroyed the incoming lightning orbs and crushed the insects, forcing him to dismiss Susanoo.
• The Erduo pilot retreated after receiving orders, and Aburame Tetsumaru summoned an Insect Swarm to battle Madara’s forest as both sides adapted to each other.
• Uchiha Madara unleashed Deep Forest Bloom, filling the forest with toxic pollen, while Aburame Tetsumaru resisted it with his Bio-Armor and prepared his Senjutsu.
• Aburame Tetsumaru cast Xeno Cataclysm, mutating the forest’s insects, plants, and microorganisms into bizarre lifeforms that began devouring everything around them.

Aburame Tetsumaru watched Uchiha Madara die, harvested his remains and inheritance, then returned to Konoha’s camp as a decisive battle against Iwagakure approached. He agreed to face one of Ōnoki’s forces and prepared to reveal several insect types in the coming battle.

• Uchiha Madara ordered Black Zetsu to preserve his eye and Hashirama’s flesh for his resurrection plan, then destroyed his remaining eye and died as Wood Release consumed his body.
• Aburame Tetsumaru’s hidden insects escaped with Madara’s bloodline-rich flesh, and Tetsumaru confirmed the battlefield’s strange creatures had all died before ordering the area cleared.
• Tetsumaru gathered Madara’s scrolls, records, money, and Sharingan, then sent the spoils to the Land of Water while returning to Konoha’s camp.
• Tetsumaru learned that Konoha had destroyed Kannabi Bridge and that Ōnoki, Han, and Rōshi had arrived in the Land of Grass for the coming battle.
• Orochimaru asked Tetsumaru to take on one of the enemy’s powerful fighters, and Tetsumaru agreed before preparing five insect types for their formal debut.

Konoha and Iwagakure prepared for a decisive battle on Qiu-no-Hara, with Orochimaru assigning opponents and Ōnoki planning a defensive counterattack. The fighting began the next morning, where Namikaze Minato quickly gained the upper hand against Han.

• Orochimaru ordered a captured Kusagakure ninja returned alive, and Konoha's army established a fortified camp on Qiu-no-Hara.
• Konoha's reconnaissance network thwarted Iwagakure's scouts, while Minato struck down Iwa Ninja who engaged Konoha's forces.
• Orochimaru assigned Minato to fight Han, himself to fight Rōshi, and Aburame Tetsumaru to hold off Ōnoki.
• Ōnoki planned to raise four earthen mountains and use them as defensive positions, while preparing to concede and withdraw from the war if Iwagakure lost.
• Iwagakure began building the earthen mountains the next morning, and Konoha attacked to disrupt the work.
• Minato fought Han on the far-right mountain and outmaneuvered him, though Han's scalding steam made a quick finish difficult.

Aburame Tetsumaru used giant insects and Wind Cannons to keep Ōnoki grounded while Namikaze Minato and Orochimaru fought the Iwa forces. After Minato drove Han back and broke through the left flank, the Iwa formation collapsed and Ōnoki ordered a full retreat.

• Ōnoki attacked Aburame Tetsumaru, who survived Dust Release and summoned giant insects to bombard the Tsuchikage with Wind Cannons.
• Tetsumaru's Wind Cannons forced Ōnoki to retreat behind the central hill's fortifications, while the Iwa Ninja identified him and began attacking his insects.
• Rōshi drove off Orochimaru and burned more than a dozen giant insects with Lava Release, but Tetsumaru left Orochimaru to hold him back.
• Han released his Tailed Beast Chakra, but Namikaze Minato struck him with three Rasengan and forced him to retreat with serious injuries.
• Minato killed the left flank's Jonin, and Konoha troops broke through the Iwa formation, prompting Ōnoki to order a full retreat.