Chapter Summaries

Uzumaki Mito captured the Nine-Tails with Adamantine Sealing Chains and dragged it back to Konoha, while Uchiha Madara went to Kumogakure to demand a sacred artifact of the Sage of Six Paths. The chapter ended with Madara summoning a massive Susanoo at Kumogakure’s gates to demonstrate his power.

• Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama took turns fighting the Nine-Tails, but neither could capture it within thirty seconds.
• Uzumaki Mito bound the Nine-Tails with Adamantine Sealing Chains, shrank it, and tugged on its ear while considering turning it into a plush toy.
• Eighth Master used the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique to make the Nine-Tails float, and Uzumaki Mito dragged it back to Konoha.
• Kirigakure, Kumogakure, and Iwagakure reacted angrily to Konoha capturing all the Tailed Beasts, while Uchiha Izuna continued reviewing cases at Konoha’s courthouse.
• The First Raikage refused to hand over Kumogakure’s sacred artifact and gathered Jonin to confront Uchiha Madara.
• Uchiha Madara summoned a massive blue Susanoo at Kumogakure’s gates and challenged its shinobi to witness the power of Uchiha.

After Kumogakure’s defeat by Uchiha Madara, the other villages feared Konoha and halted their provocations, while Iwagakure planned to investigate Kumogakure’s hidden Sage of Six Paths artifacts. In Konoha, Eighth Master persuaded the leaders that the Tailed Beasts should be sealed inside Jinchuriki, and Uzumaki Mito agreed to prepare the technique and select candidates.

• The Tsuchikage abandoned plans to attack Kumogakure without Konoha’s approval and ordered spies to investigate its two Sage of Six Paths artifacts.
• Eighth Master explained that Uchiha Madara’s attack had created deterrence, and Senju Hashirama accepted that it had brought temporary peace.
• Uzumaki Mito warned that the containers holding the eight Tailed Beasts were cracking and said a Jinchuriki seal could last for decades.
• Eighth Master argued that Konoha could end discrimination against Jinchuriki and give them honor, persuading Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara to support the plan.
• Uzumaki Mito agreed to prepare the Sealing Technique and select candidates, leaving the rest of the plan to Eighth Master.

Uzumaki Mito completed the Jinchuriki sealing, and Eighth Master proposed presenting Jinchuriki as heroes while establishing them as a council to review the Hokage’s decisions. Konoha’s propaganda changed public attitudes at home, while other villages feared Konoha’s new strength and sent envoys to congratulate it; Konoha then focused on domestic construction as the peace held uneasily.

• Uzumaki Mito announced she had completed the Jinchuriki sealing, and Eighth Master proposed a story portraying Jinchuriki as self-sacrificing heroes who helped restore the Tailed Beasts.
• Eighth Master proposed that the eight Jinchuriki form a council to review the Hokage’s completed orders, record their findings, and advise the Hokage without vetoing decisions.
• Uzumaki Mito and seven other Jinchuriki appeared together, and Konoha’s propaganda made Jinchuriki heroic figures despite the deaths of eleven ninjas during the sealing process.
• The other ninja villages feared Konoha’s new Kage-level fighters, and the Second Raikage, Tsuchikage, Kazekage, and Mizukage sent envoys to congratulate the Hokage.
• Konoha accepted the envoys’ congratulations and concentrated on building roads, bridges, villages, and towns across the Land of Fire while peace endured under its power.

Eighth Master used knowledge extracted from Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s Kama to plan for Zenith Civilization and drafted rules for Konoha’s new Sealing Department. In Ryūchi Cave, Orochimaru tasted food rich in Natural Energy and wondered whether Living Corpse Reincarnation had weakened him.

• Eighth Master told Uchiha Madara that peaceful ninja villages would eventually face civil war or foreign aggression, giving Konoha a reason to unify the Shinobi World.
• Eighth Master examined Isshiki’s Kama, recorded information about six drained planets, and found instructions for operating God Trees.
• Eighth Master drafted regulations for recruiting talent and establishing Konoha’s Sealing Department, with Uzumaki Mito offering the Uzumaki Clan’s inherited Sealing Technique in exchange.
• At Ryūchi Cave, Aburame Tetsumaru and the others prepared Natural Energy-rich grilled snake meat, drawing Hyuga Hinata, Orochimaru, and Tagitsuhime to the feast.
• Orochimaru ate the food and felt his body grow lighter, then asked Aburame Tetsumaru whether Living Corpse Reincarnation had been the wrong path.

Aburame Tetsumaru explained how Orochimaru’s Living Corpse Reincarnation damaged his body and soul, while Hyuga Hinata underwent a dramatic genetic transformation during the feast. After learning about the Akatsuki and the group’s plans, Orochimaru agreed to join Zenith Civilization, then learned that its members had originated as parts of Aburame Tetsumaru.

• Aburame Tetsumaru told Orochimaru that his use of the Yamata no Orochi had enabled body possession but left his reincarnated bodies irreparably damaged and his soul steadily weakening.
• Politician sent a drowsy Uchiha Itachi back to Konoha, and Grand Yang Fish injected Hyuga Hinata with genetic medicine that triggered a sweeping transformation as she continued eating.
• Orochimaru recognized the extraordinary results of Aburame Tetsumaru’s self-improvement and learned that Nagato led the Akatsuki while Pain was a puppet using projections of Nagato’s Rinnegan.
• Grand Yang Fish invited Orochimaru to join Zenith Civilization, and Orochimaru accepted after hearing that the group also sought Guren’s Crystal Release.
• Grand Yang Fish revealed that he and the others had once been parts of Aburame Tetsumaru who gained independent consciousness, leaving Orochimaru dumbfounded.

Orochimaru joined Zenith Civilization and witnessed Hinata awaken Shikotsumyaku, growing Bone Feather wings and small horns behind her ears. After the Butler defeated the Snake Sages, Tetsumaru negotiated a meat-trading partnership with the White Snake Sage and clarified that Manda had not eaten people outside wartime battles.

• Orochimaru accepted Tetsumaru’s offer to join Zenith Civilization, planning to learn its secrets before deciding what to do next.
• Hinata awakened Shikotsumyaku, formed Bone Feather wings, and discovered she could not permanently retract the small horns behind her ears.
• Orochimaru watched Hinata’s physical Kekkei Genkai fusion and learned that Hiruko’s four fused Kekkei Genkai had badly damaged his body and threatened his lifespan.
• After the Snake Sages stole grilled meat, Tetsumaru and Politician provoked a fight in which the Butler badly wounded the three Sages.
• The White Snake Sage agreed to trade hunted snakes for grilled meat, and negotiations settled on a seventy-thirty split.
• Tetsumaru asked whether Manda had eaten people, and Orochimaru said Manda had eaten people only in wartime battles, not in ordinary times.

Aburame Tetsumaru secured an alliance with Ryūchi Cave and contained its ability to communicate or travel beyond its borders. After Hyuga Hinata awakened her Tenseigan and suffered from its energy demands, Tetsumaru used the Giant Tenseigan to replenish her, leaving her stronger and inviting her to see the clan treasure.

• Aburame Tetsumaru formed a trade alliance with Ryūchi Cave, and the great snakes fought over the shared meat.
• Aburame Tetsumaru explained to Orochimaru that trading with Ryūchi Cave was more useful than taking it over, while Zenith Civilization sealed the cave’s routes and communications.
• Hyuga Hinata awakened her Tenseigan, and Aburame Tetsumaru took her to the Spherical Sea’s Kekkei Genkai Modulation Chamber to stabilize her.
• Hyuga Hinata woke feeling weak because her Tenseigan needed more Chakra, and Aburame Tetsumaru decided to use the Giant Tenseigan to replenish it.
• The Giant Tenseigan infused Hyuga Hinata with ocular power, restoring her strength and prompting Aburame Tetsumaru to open its gate for her.

Hyuga Hinata mastered the Giant Tenseigan and learned that the Otsutsuki Clan would begin integrating into Zenith Civilization, while Aburame Tetsumaru planned for her to reform the Hyuga Clan. After Hinata heard whispers at home, Tetsumaru and the Butler searched beneath the estate and discovered another, smaller Giant Tenseigan sealed in a hidden chamber.

• Hyuga Hinata synchronized with the Giant Tenseigan, made it acknowledge her as its master, and left the warehouse with it following her.
• Dragon Heart and Aburame Tetsumaru discussed Hinata’s future power, while Tetsumaru warned her to keep her Tenseigan hidden and limit the strain on her young body.
• At the Otsutsuki Castle, Hinata’s Tenseigan shocked the Otsutsuki, who accepted a Zenith Civilization school and began conceding to its influence.
• Hinata told Aburame Tetsumaru she had heard friendly whispers at the Hyuga estate, and he decided to investigate the possibility of another Giant Tenseigan.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and the Butler searched the estate’s secret chambers and found a small, listless Giant Tenseigan hidden beneath archaic sealing techniques.

Hyuga Hinata discovered the Giant Tenseigan beneath her home, took responsibility for reforming the Hyuga Clan, and helped restore the eye with Gelel Stones. Meanwhile, Shooting Star prepared an Insect Swarm foothold near Six-String Star, where the first arriving supplies destroyed or crippled enemy warships.

• Aburame Tetsumaru showed Hyuga Hinata the Giant Tenseigan beneath her courtyard and urged her to study it for a way to remove the Caged Bird.
• Hyuga Hinata resolved to become Clan Head and reform the Hyuga Clan, then quickly connected with the weakened Giant Tenseigan.
• Aburame Tetsumaru stopped Hyuga Hinata from giving the eye her Chakra and used Gelel Stones to restore it before moving it to an underground laboratory.
• Shooting Star established a hidden Main Base on a Dwarf Planet, built underground seas and Sub-bases, and used Dragon Hearts to address an energy shortage.
• Six-String Star warships went to investigate the incoming supplies, but high-speed metal projectiles destroyed one warship and crippled many others.

Warhammer, Cannon, and Shooting Star prepared the Zenith Civilization for a mass war against Six-String Star, while reconnaissance spores yielded almost no useful intelligence. Six-String Star detected the exposed comet Fake Base within two hours, and the opposing fleets opened the war with a brief, ineffective exchange of fire.

• Six-String Star's fleet destroyed most of the spores released by Warhammer and Cannon, leaving the Zenith Civilization with little information about the planet.
• Cannon expanded the Insect Swarm's industrial capacity, while Warhammer described the coming conflict as a Mass War and the Advents agreed to build up before launching a full assault.
• Shooting Star concealed the Main Base and exposed the comet Fake Base, whose increased radiation prompted Six-String Star to assemble a fleet of thirty thousand warships within two hours.
• Warhammer, Shooting Star, and Cannon decided to fight their way toward Six-String Star rather than continue speculating about its behavior.
• Two days later, Six-String Star's fleet approached the fortified comet, and both sides exchanged a few costly, ineffective attacks before falling silent.

Kakuzu traced rising prices to Zenith Civilization’s preparations for a distant war, while the Land of Wind descended into unrest and Sunagakure’s leaders sought an overseas conquest. The Fourth Kazekage proposed invading the prosperous Land of Tea and turned the clan heads’ ambition into a contest for command.

• Kakuzu found that prices for grain, cloth, metal, and seeds had risen because the Land of Tea and Land of Water had restricted exports to support Zenith Civilization’s war preparations.
• The Land of Wind suffered food shortages, hoarding, and attacks by Sand Bandits, while the Wind Daimyo paid Sunagakure to suppress the unrest.
• The Fourth Kazekage convened Sunagakure’s leaders to discuss war, and Chiyo initially objected because the village lacked money.
• The Fourth Kazekage named the prosperous Land of Tea as the target, and Chiyo agreed that it was worth invading.
• The Fourth Kazekage declined to lead the easy expedition, prompting Sunagakure’s clan heads and veteran Jonin to compete for command.

Sunagakure invaded the Land of Tea but lost its ships to a tsunami and faced a fresh Water Country army at the coast. After losing a duel contest and surrendering, Sunagakure withdrew, while Aburame Tetsumaru turned his attention to the battle that had destroyed Comet Fortress.

• Aburame Tetsumaru left Sunagakure's invasion to Weary Bird, who arranged for Butler to sink their ships and sent eight Avatars to join the Water Country army.
• A tsunami destroyed Sunagakure's ships and supplies, but Fuju ordered his exhausted ninja to cross the strait on foot and continue to the Land of Tea.
• Fuju challenged the Water Country army to ten duels, and Kaguya Tadashi accepted on behalf of the Third Battalion.
• The Water Country youths won six duels and lost four; Mita Hyuga died, and Fuju surrendered before taking his own life.
• The Fourth Kazekage paid Weary Bird and retrieved the three thousand Sunagakure ninja, while Sunagakure's mission work declined and the Fourth Kazekage gained authority.
• Aburame Tetsumaru learned that Comet Fortress had been destroyed after a three-day battle and shifted his attention to the larger conflict.

Comet Fortress fought the Six-String Star Fleet, whose aggressive tactics culminated in a mass collision that destroyed the fortress. Warhammer and the others regrouped at the Main Base, where Shooting Star agreed that the enemy’s cold, utilitarian strategy made the second fortress useless and prepared for the next round.

• Comet Fortress damaged thousands of Six-String Star warships with grapeshot and Mass Projectiles before the enemy fleet’s volleys battered its shield.
• Warhammer recognized that ten thousand small enemy warships were accelerating to ram Comet Fortress and ordered the Avatars to evacuate.
• The Six-String Star warships and wrecks struck Comet Fortress, destroying it in a massive explosion and damaging evacuation pods and hundreds of enemy ships.
• Shooting Star sent Insect Swarms to inspect the battlefield and rescue survivors, while Warhammer led the others to the Main Base.
• Warhammer declared the second fortress useless, and Shooting Star agreed that the enemy’s violent tactics had ended the first engagement and began preparing for the second.

Shooting Star and Warhammer used scattered Insect Swarm attacks to disrupt Six-String Star’s Machine Intelligence and draw its fleet across the system. As reinforcements and bases accumulated, Station Master infiltrated Six-String Star, and the Advents prepared for a decisive battle pending his report on its production system.

• Warhammer proposed that the Insect Swarm attack in multiple waves and from multiple directions, and intelligence confirmed that Six-String Star’s fleet was controlled by pure Machine Intelligence.
• The Insect Swarm launched Gamma Bug raids and harassment attacks, prompting Six-String Star to expand its defenses and build more long-range warships.
• Shooting Star and Warhammer used concentrated forces to destroy small fleets, while Paratrooper established a planetary base and Station Master drifted toward Six-String Star.
• As Six-String Star’s fleet grew, Shooting Star shifted to mobile warfare, and Warhammer’s Mechanical Fortress and decoy ships helped the Insect Swarm escape a dangerous encirclement.
• Dice, Man of Culture, Jupiter, and other reinforcements reached the system, accelerating Insect Swarm production and expansion across its bases.
• Station Master infiltrated Six-String Star inside a dead Gamma Bug, while the Advents watched their forces grow and waited for his report before launching a decisive battle.

Station Master infiltrated the Six-String Star, gathered intelligence about its civilization, and identified the industrial bases beneath its six Sky Ladders as a potential target for a devastating attack. He ordered a million Mineral Insects to search for hidden underground industries while preparing for the retaliation he would need to survive.

• Station Master marked a wooden cargo ship with his Flying Thunder God technique and used it to reach a harbor, where he probed the minds of locals and learned about the Heaven-Piercing Tower and Ascension Road.
• Station Master searched the Pope's mind and learned the locations of God's Forbidden Land and five other divine territories with Heaven-Piercing Towers.
• A mutated locust plague spread worldwide, and Station Master used the chaos to survey the planet's mines and locate smelting plants beneath the six orbital Sky Ladders.
• Station Master concluded that deploying Mushroom Insects at the six bases could cripple the Six-String Star's industry and ordered a million Mineral Insects to search for other underground facilities.
• Station Master planned to attack the Sky Ladder bases on schedule and began seeking a reliable shelter to survive the Six-String Star's retaliation.

The Station Master reported his progress building an undersea fortress on Six-String Star, while the Zenith Civilization prepared its campaign and planned a possible orbital bombardment. Meanwhile, Konoha’s leaders agreed that the time had come to unify the Shinobi World.

• The Station Master established a deep-sea Mother Hive powered by undersea volcanoes and built defenses to prepare for further attacks on Six-String Star.
• The Station Master met the Advents in Star Sea Hall and described his infiltration, his strike plans, and the Undersea Stronghold.
• Shooting Star said the campaign had to begin in forty-six days, while the Station Master agreed to bring Paratrooper from a Sub-base to speed up construction.
• Alchemy announced that orbital changes would allow a narrow-window bombardment of Six-String Star in twenty days, and the group planned to record the attack.
• Over the following decades, Konoha’s growing shinobi forces and Uchiha Madara’s victories reshaped the Shinobi World, while Mu and Hozuki Suigetsu became known for breaking Susanoo.
• Eighth Master proposed unifying the Shinobi World, and Uchiha Madara, Senju Hashirama, Uchiha Izuna, Senju Tobirama, and Uzumaki Mito accepted the coming war.

Eighth Master argued that Senju Hashirama was unsuited to lead the Land of Fire through a war of unification, so the group agreed to replace him with Uchiha Madara and strengthen Hokage term limits. He explained that conquest required winning the people’s loyalty as well as defeating their armies, and Madara ended the chapter asking which country Konoha should target first.

• Eighth Master proposed replacing Senju Hashirama as Hokage to prepare for war and establish term-limit rules, and Hashirama accepted.
• Eighth Master named Uchiha Madara as the next Hokage, with Hashirama overseeing the Defense Department and Senju Tobirama taking charge of the Taxation Division.
• Uzumaki Mito offered to convene the Jonin Council, while Madara favored openly announcing the unification war and Tobirama warned that this could unite Konoha’s enemies and cause unnecessary deaths.
• Eighth Master supported Madara’s approach and explained that unification required crushing opponents at their strongest and winning the population’s genuine submission.
• Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama reflected on the risks of failed unification, and Madara reconsidered his attitude before asking which country should be targeted first.

Eighth Master presented a plan to unify the Shinobi World, and Senju Hashirama handed the Hokage position to Uchiha Madara, who declared war on the other nations. As the nations struggled to form a coalition, Hashirama asked Eighth Master what would come after unification, and he answered, “the stars and the sea.”

• Eighth Master outlined a campaign to conquer the Shinobi World, leaving the Land of Water as a refuge for those who refused to surrender.
• Eighth Master argued that the Land of Water should not be eliminated, and Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara accepted his reasoning.
• Senju Hashirama stepped down as Hokage and appointed Uchiha Madara as his successor, then Uzumaki Mito convened the Jonin Assembly.
• Uchiha Madara announced that the Land of Fire would wage a war of unification, prompting outrage and fear among other nations.
• The other nations recognized the Land of Fire’s preparations but struggled to trust one another enough to form a united army.
• Senju Hashirama realized the Land of Fire had been prepared for war through Eighth Master’s education campaign, and Eighth Master said the future lay among the stars and the sea.

Eighth Master explained the star sea, the origins of chakra, and the Rinnegan to Uchiha Madara and the others, then used the vision of exploring the stars to inspire Konoha’s leaders before his possible return to his original Timeline. Nine days after Uchiha Madara became Hokage, Konoha began its war of unification, and Sunagakure prepared to meet its invading army in a field battle.

• After five days of Hokage duties, Uchiha Madara joined Senju Hashirama, Senju Tobirama, and Eighth Master for drinks, where Eighth Master explained that Otsutsuki Kaguya came from beyond the star sea and that the Sage of Six Paths created the moon with a Sealing Technique.
• Eighth Master described the Sage of Six Paths’ Rinnegan powers, including resurrection, and revealed how the Rinnegan could arise from the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan combined with the power of Yang Release.
• Eighth Master identified Senju Hashirama’s flesh and blood as the power of Yang Release, explained the Senju and Uchiha clans’ shared ancestry, and urged the group to seek chakra’s origins beyond the heavens through their own discoveries.
• Eighth Master returned to his room and found that his right hand had grown more transparent, then resolved to prepare for the coming war while wondering whether he would live to see the Shinobi World unified.
• On the ninth day of Uchiha Madara’s rule, forty thousand Konoha Ninja entered the Land of Wind after the Land of Rivers surrendered and Valley Hidden Village fled.
• Shamon gathered twenty thousand Sunagakure ninja and argued for holding out until allies arrived, but Sunagakure’s disorder and the Pro-War Faction’s demands led him to approve a field battle.

Konoha’s Ninja Army annihilated Sunagakure’s forces with overwhelming long-range combined ninjutsu, leaving the defeated village in panic. As Senju Tobirama advanced toward Sunagakure, Shamon admitted that he too wanted to flee.

• Sunagakure’s ninja mocked Konoha’s formations and advanced, unaware that Konoha’s commanders had prepared a long-range attack.
• Konoha’s skirmish-line ninja guided 108 giant combined ninjutsu attacks onto the Sunagakure army, devastating the battlefield and forcing survivors to flee.
• Uchiha Setsuna and the Konoha troops froze in shock at their victory until Senju Tobirama restored command and ordered the army to march onward.
• Senju Tobirama concluded that Konoha’s legion could defeat far larger forces and followed it toward Sunagakure.
• Defeated ninja and fleeing residents crowded Sunagakure’s gates, while Shamon told Chiyo that he wanted to leave the village too.