Chapter Summaries

Dice gathered Advents for a rapid campaign to destroy Sunagakure, while Konoha's leaders assessed Aburame Tetsumaru's expansion and realized he had likely already begun attacking the Land of Wind. The chapter ended with Namikaze Minato demanding that Konoha secure a share of the spoils.

• Aburame Tetsumaru authorized Dice to use twenty percent of the Shinobi World's strength and the Orbital Weapon system, while Dice requested eight Advents and the Core Bearers from the last war.
• Dice recruited Torch Dragon, Politician, and Butler to join the campaign against Sunagakure.
• Namikaze Minato convened a Konoha meeting, where Nara Shikaku explained Aburame Tetsumaru's success at directly administering the Land of Tea and the Land of Water.
• Shikaku warned that Aburame Tetsumaru's assurances about avoiding war concealed a likely use of force against Sunagakure.
• Minato concluded that Konoha could not allow a war in the Land of Wind to proceed without claiming benefits for itself.

Namikaze Minato discovered that Aburame Tetsumaru’s giant insects had built vast underground tunnels beneath the Land of Wind, making Sunagakure vulnerable to attack, and Konoha’s leaders began preparing to align with Tetsumaru. Inoichi’s survey then revealed insect passages and explosives beneath Konoha, leaving Minato facing a new threat inside the village.

• Nara Shikaku told Namikaze Minato that Sunagakure could fall so quickly that no war would break out, and Minato went to the Land of Wind to investigate.
• Minato found enormous tunnels beneath a desert oasis, filled with giant insects and a Thunder Beast, and realized Aburame Tetsumaru was preparing to attack Sunagakure.
• Minato returned to Konoha and ordered Yamanaka Inoichi to inspect the village underground; Shikaku concluded Sunagakure’s defeat was inevitable and advised Konoha to stand with Tetsumaru.
• Tetsumaru learned that Dice planned to attack Sunagakure at dawn the day after tomorrow, then took Hyuga Hinata and Namikaze Naruto to Barbecue Q.
• Inoichi reported that Konoha had many small insect passages and sealed one-use tunnels, as well as Explosive Tags buried throughout the village and connected by detonation lines.

Yamanaka Inoichi uncovered and helped dismantle 140,000 unstable Explosive Tags buried beneath Konoha, prompting Minato to order annual underground inspections. Minato agreed to support Aburame Tetsumaru’s future operation, while Tetsumaru told Hinata that the Zenith Civilization was halting its conquests but continuing stellar exploration; that night, its insect swarms began an assault across the Land of Wind.

• Yamanaka Inoichi reported finding 140,000 Explosive Tags beneath Konoha, along with a corroded controller at Hokage Rock, and said his team had cut the detonation wires.
• Namikaze Minato ordered the Explosive Tags disposed of, directed the Hyuga Clan to inspect Konoha underground every year, and set a fifty-meter limit for further surveying.
• Namikaze Minato collected his sleeping son Naruto from Aburame Tetsumaru and agreed to assist Tetsumaru’s operation in the Land of Wind, though Tetsumaru said Konoha’s support would arrive too late.
• Aburame Tetsumaru explained to Hyuga Hinata that the Zenith Civilization was stopping its conquest because of the threat from the wider galaxy, but her Tenseigan warship and stellar exploration would continue.
• Hinata accidentally unleashed the Tenseigan’s Repulsive Force, then challenged Tetsumaru to test her abilities; he promised to take her to Purple Thunder Star.
• The Zenith Civilization concealed a city in the clouds above the Land of Wind and sent Insect Swarms to attack its stationed ninja, capturing many for forced labor.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s Insect Swarm seized the desert oases and encircled Sunagakure before the village realized it was isolated. As Sunagakure prepared to fight, the Swarm’s new Alien Dragons attacked from the sky, inflicting heavy casualties but remaining airborne.

• Aburame Tetsumaru’s Insect Swarm captured more than seventy percent of the Land of Wind’s oases and surrounded Sunagakure overnight.
• A wounded Sunagakure Anbu ninja reached the village at noon and warned the Fourth Kazekage that Konoha’s Giant Insect Force had encircled them.
• The Fourth Kazekage ordered Sunagakure’s ninjas to mobilize, and its leaders gathered their forces as the Swarm emerged in ranks outside the village.
• Dice told the Core Bearers that they could exploit Sunagakure’s weakness, while Ash Bone announced that the new insects had arrived.
• Alien Dragons descended from the clouds and attacked Sunagakure with corrosive crystal volleys, killing and wounding hundreds of ninjas.
• The Fourth Kazekage recognized that the Alien Dragons relied on more than their wings to fly, and Sunagakure’s ninjas drove them higher with powerful Wind Release techniques.

Zenith Civilization launched a devastating assault on Sunagakure, breaking the village’s defenses and throwing its people into chaos. The Fourth Kazekage abandoned Gaara to escape but was killed by Ash Bone, while Butler kept Shukaku under control by beating him.

• Dice ordered a general assault, and more than two thousand four hundred Thunder Giant Insects guided Plasma Lightning Orbs into Sunagakure, destroying its defenses and melting its main gate.
• A gigantic Flying Fortress appeared above Sunagakure and bombarded the village, leaving its ninja and villagers in panic.
• The Fourth Kazekage threw Gaara at Butler, awakening One-Tail Shukaku, then fled north with Temari and Kankuro.
• Ash Bone intercepted the Fourth Kazekage, defeated him with Ash Bristle Hedgehog Needle, and killed him with his ash-producing trait.
• Butler repeatedly struck Shukaku, dispersing his Chakra until the aggrieved tailed beast was left unable to escape or resist.

Ash Bone and the Butler forced Shukaku back into Gaara, while the Flying Fortress began demolishing Sunagakure. As Chiyo and Ebizo stayed among their ruined village, Chiyo attacked Hatake Sakumo with a deadly trap, but he survived and rose from beneath the ground.

• Ash Bone and the Butler beat Shukaku until it realized they intended to return it to Gaara, and it retreated deep into his seal.
• The Butler and Ash Bone rescued Gaara and two other children, then returned to the Flying Fortress with the Black Tea Kettle.
• The Flying Fortress bombarded Sunagakure, destroying the Kazekage Building and many others as Chiyo and Ebizo chose to remain in their village.
• Chiyo and Ebizo mourned the destruction of the Puppet Workshop Building while the Station Master ordered the bombardment to continue and Uchiha Sanae left to capture Pakura.
• Chiyo recognized Hatake Sakumo and summoned her puppets to attack him, but his Bone Clone endured her sealing technique and a puppet packed with Explosive Tags.
• The explosion badly injured Chiyo and Ebizo, but Hatake Sakumo rose from beneath the ground, leaving Chiyo staring at him in rage.

Hatake Sakumo killed Chiyo after surviving her human-puppet transformation and final explosion. As the Zenith Civilization’s assault overwhelmed Sunagakure, Uchiha Sanae defeated Pakura with Nuclear Release and Genjutsu while Torch Dragon captured Maki, leaving Pakura trapped and Sunagakure’s fall imminent.

• Hatake Sakumo killed Ebizo and Chiyo, then burned their remains after Chiyo detonated five thousand Explosive Tags in a failed attempt to kill him.
• Pakura led Maki and Sunagakure ninja west through the Insect Swarm, but Uchiha Sanae intercepted them with Nuclear Release.
• Pakura refused Sanae’s demand to surrender and attacked her, but Sanae’s Susanoo and Genjutsu overcame Pakura’s Scorch Release.
• Torch Dragon captured Maki while Sanae kept Pakura trapped in a Genjutsu, and Torch Dragon explained why Pakura’s abilities were poorly suited to fighting their forces.

Torch Dragon and Uchiha Sanae captured Pakura, and Dice decided to spare her and send her to Orochimaru’s laboratory. As Orochimaru prepared to improve Impure World Reincarnation, she learned about Aburame Tetsumaru’s life-extending metamorphosis and saw a way to pursue her dream of mastering every ninjutsu.

• Torch Dragon told Uchiha Sanae that Orochimaru cared only about immortality, and Sanae eagerly fantasized about Orochimaru’s female body.
• After Sanae repeatedly trapped Pakura in Genjutsu, Dice chose to spare her, and Politician transported her to Orochimaru at the Spherical Sea laboratory.
• Orochimaru said she was nearly finished optimizing Impure World Reincarnation and discussed the Clone Bodies needed to revive the previous Hokage.
• Politician explained that Uchiha Madara’s soul would be released so he could serve as an enemy who united the Shinobi World against a common threat.
• Orochimaru learned that Aburame Tetsumaru’s metamorphosis could extend his lifespan to between eight hundred and four thousand years, and she eagerly imagined having enough time to learn every ninjutsu.

Sunagakure was destroyed and the Land of Wind fell under the control of the mysterious Land of Water. Kumogakure mistook the new superpower’s geography for a weakness and prepared to ally with Konoha against it, while Ōnoki worried over Iwagakure’s response.

• Orochimaru delayed meeting Tetsumaru until after his transformation and continued debating which gender to choose for her Advent.
• Zenith Civilization crushed Sunagakure’s resistance, captured its ninja and leaders, and took control of the Land of Wind.
• Iwagakure and Kumogakure sent reconnaissance squads into the Land of Wind, where the squads were nearly annihilated.
• The Fourth Raikage and Dodai concluded that the Land of Water had secretly grown powerful and controlled the Land of Tea, then planned to join Konoha against it.
• Ōnoki ordered Kitsuchi to bring Rōshi and Han back to Iwagakure and fretted that he had no capable adviser for the crisis.

Ōnoki, Rōshi, and Han reconsidered the political situation after Kurotsuchi pointed out that the Land of Water’s conquest of the Land of Wind made little sense unless Konoha had approved it, and they began organizing an alliance against a possible Water-Fire bloc. Meanwhile, Uzumaki Tsumugi told Nagato that Zenith Civilization sought the Land of Rain’s neutrality and proposed a long-term water trade, leaving Nagato willing to cooperate if Zenith helped build secure underground delivery tunnels.

• Ōnoki, Rōshi, and Han concluded that Konoha may have tacitly approved the Land of Water’s attack on the Land of Wind after Kurotsuchi questioned the invasion route.
• Ōnoki sent Han to warn the Raikage and seek an alliance, while Rōshi set out to recruit the smaller countries and Ōnoki prepared to approach the Land of Iron.
• Uzumaki Tsumugi told Nagato, Konan, and Kakuzu that Zenith Civilization had conquered the Land of Wind and wanted the Land of Rain to remain neutral amid rising tensions.
• Uzumaki Tsumugi proposed that the Land of Rain sell water to the Land of Wind through a long-term trade agreement, and Nagato agreed in principle.
• Nagato asked Zenith Civilization to help with the water project, and Uzumaki Tsumugi explained that Aburame Tetsumaru planned to build underground tunnels through the mountains instead of dams.

Namikaze Minato briefed Konoha’s leaders on Zenith Civilization’s destruction of Sunagakure and revealed that Aburame Tetsumaru had founded it. After weighing the danger of opposing Zenith Civilization against the risk of war, Minato secured Konoha’s agreement to ally with it and use force to prevent war.

• Minato convened Konoha’s clans and Jonin to discuss Zenith Civilization’s annexation of the Land of Wind and reported its rapid victories over Sunagakure and other forces.
• Konoha’s Jonin guessed that Orochimaru founded Zenith Civilization, but Minato revealed that Aburame Tetsumaru was its founder.
• Several leaders proposed severing ties with Tetsumaru, while Nara Shikaku warned that Zenith Civilization’s strength exceeded Konoha’s and that breaking with it would likely trigger war.
• Minato explained that Zenith Civilization’s Kage-level figures, including Weary Bird, were independent lives created from pieces of Tetsumaru’s soul.
• Shikaku argued that an alliance would give Konoha the advantage, and Minato declared that the Land of Fire did not need a Daimyo who threatened its interests.
• Minato decided to ally with Zenith Civilization and use force to prevent war, and no one opposed him.

Aburame Tetsumaru arranged for the Daimyo of Fire to be assassinated, expecting the Daimyo’s recruited ninja and the nobles to descend into conflict. After the Daimyo and his son died, the fighting began, and the surviving ninja turned their attention toward the nobles.

• Nara Shikaku learned that Aburame Tetsumaru had told Namikaze Minato not to worry about the Daimyo, while Tetsumaru explained to Hyuga Hinata that he and Minato planned to unify the Shinobi World.
• Five Xuanyuan Clan ninja reported that they had infiltrated the Daimyo’s forces, and Tetsumaru ordered them to kill the Daimyo and then report to Dice in the Land of Wind.
• Tetsumaru told Hinata he wanted the Daimyo’s death to destabilize the Land of Fire and explained why he would not protect the nobles from the resulting violence.
• The Daimyo and his son collapsed and died during a banquet, prompting the nobles and the Daimyo’s recruited ninja to accuse each other of the assassination.
• The Twelve Guardian Ninja and the recruited ninja fought; the Twelve Guardian Ninja were wiped out, nobles died or were injured in the chaos, and the surviving ninja began eyeing the nobles angrily.

After the southern alliance reshaped the Shinobi World and Aburame Tetsumaru began guiding public opinion toward unification, his transformation finished and gave him immense power and an apparently ageless body. He judged himself only a Half-Immortal for now, since his will and soul still needed further refinement.

• Namikaze Minato and Nara Shikaku took control of the Land of Fire and learned that tax revenue would rise to at least eighty billion ryo.
• Zenith Civilization announced its existence, prompting the northern nations to form an alliance while the southern alliance expanded and the Fourth Mizukage Hozuki Mangetsu was wounded by Warhammer.
• After an eight-month standoff, both alliances demobilized, and Aburame Tetsumaru and the Station Master used trade and information to spread the idea of unification.
• Aburame Tetsumaru completed his transformation, surviving severe memory loss as his cells changed and his body gained extraordinary strength, Chakra control, and resistance to ninjutsu.
• Orochimaru and Sage Katsuyu witnessed the transformed Tetsumaru's terrifying hunger, and he explained that he was a Half-Immortal whose will and soul were not yet perfected.

Aburame Tetsumaru dealt with the dangers of his transformed body while Torch Dragon reported that a split-off Eighth Master was returning. The replica arrived safely, explained how he had split himself to escape a past Timeline, and revealed that decoding Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s Kama had triggered his Otsutsuki Transformation.

• Aburame Tetsumaru showed Katsuyu and Orochimaru how his transformed body devoured Food Insects, while Orochimaru learned his cells were too dangerous to study safely.
• Torch Dragon reported that Eighth Master’s Timeline had split, with one branch vanishing and the other expected to return in three days.
• Torch Dragon opened the Dragon Vein Lab’s sealing formation, and Eighth Master arrived safely before Aburame Tetsumaru took him in again.
• Eighth Master explained that he had split his Avatar after spending years in the past unable to return, and that he had agreed to share the name Eighth Master until the original returned.
• Eighth Master revealed that decoding Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s Kama had contaminated his genetic information and set off an irreversible Otsutsuki Transformation.
• Eighth Master said he had fought and dismantled Isshiki several times, and believed Isshiki had vanished completely.

Eighth Master returned with Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s memories and encrypted Kama data, while Ōnoki prepared Iwagakure and Sunagakure for a battle against Konoha at Mount Akagi. As Konoha’s skirmishers weathered Iwagakure’s Legion Ninjutsu, a barrage of Fire Release attacks arrived from the mountains.

• Eighth Master finished transmitting the Kama’s information and told Aburame Tetsumaru that he had memorized its undecipherable data.
• After four months of training, Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure’s forces to abandon Mount Akagi Fortress to other villages and join Sunagakure for a field battle against Konoha.
• Ōnoki and the Kazekage assessed Konoha’s formations as the armies assembled in the valley below Mount Akagi.
• Iwagakure attacked Konoha’s skirmishers with Rock Hail Bullet and Giant Rock Spear, but the skirmishers evaded or blocked the attacks.
• Ōnoki realized Konoha had prepared its loose formation to counter Legion Ninjutsu, just as Fire Release attacks streamed from the mountains toward the battlefield.

Konoha’s army devastated the Iwagakure and Sunagakure forces with precisely guided, large-scale Legion Ninjutsu, while Ōnoki and the Kazekage planned a retreat that would use the Mount Akagi defenders as cover. As the armies converged near Mount Akagi, the local ninja joined the battle and the battlefield disappeared beneath clouds of dust.

• Uchiha Setsuna ordered calibrated Fireball Jutsu and successive waves of combined Wind, Fire, and Lightning Dragon techniques, inflicting heavy casualties on the Iwagakure and Sunagakure formations.
• Konoha’s front-line ninja sheltered in prepared foxholes while the Iwagakure and Sunagakure forces endured the bombardment and then counterattacked with rock-based Legion Ninjutsu.
• Ōnoki ordered an orderly retreat and planned to use the Mount Akagi defenders as sacrificial cover, while the Kazekage agreed to conceal the withdrawal with a sandstorm.
• Ōnoki and the Kazekage decided to return to Iwagakure, gather everyone, and cross the sea to the Land of Iron.
• Both armies advanced toward Mount Akagi, and the local ninja joined the fighting with Iwagakure-supplied spears bound with Explosive Tags as dust obscured the battlefield.

After the trapped ninjas on Mount Akagi were defeated, Uchiha Madara and Eighth Master prepared for the coming war against the Great Ninja Villages. Madara split the mountain to destroy the fortress, and the exhausted Konoha army continued its advance toward Iwagakure.

• The ninjas in Mount Akagi Fortress ran out of weapons, discovered their allies had abandoned them, and were surrounded by Konoha forces.
• Uchiha Madara agreed to let more enemy forces gather, then resolved to crush the trapped defenders and take control of Iwagakure.
• Eighth Master flew after escaping ninjas while Madara summoned Susanoo and attacked Mount Akagi, causing the defenders to flee in panic.
• Madara repeatedly struck the mountain's midsection until it broke apart, while he and Eighth Master shielded Konoha soldiers from falling rocks.
• After several hours of clearing rubble, Eighth Master and Madara rested as the Konoha army continued toward Iwagakure to occupy the Land of Earth.

The Raikage and Mizukage prepared their villages for a decisive battle against Konoha, while the Tsuchikage led Iwagakure Shinobi across the sea and left their families behind. Eighth Master showed Uchiha Madara how Konoha’s insect-based satellite network tracked and listened to the departing forces, leaving Madara confident that Konoha had already secured victory.

• The Raikage ordered every Kumogakure ninja to gather in the Land of Iron and commanded that anyone who refused be executed.
• The Mizukage ordered Kirigakure’s silent majority to kill the dissenters, then rallied the survivors to cross the sea and fight Konoha in the Land of Iron.
• The Tsuchikage led Iwagakure Shinobi onto ships and rafts, leaving their families scattered in the mountains of the occupied Land of Earth.
• The Iwagakure Shinobi erupted in grief and anger, shouting for Konoha’s defeat as their ships sailed away from shore.
• Eighth Master used Konoha’s Spy Satellite to show Uchiha Madara the Tsuchikage’s departure and explained how Aburame Clan insects enabled surveillance and long-distance communication.
• Uchiha Madara praised Konoha’s intelligence network, and Eighth Master said its years of preparation meant its armies would win before the battle began.

Uchiha Madara and Eighth Master tracked the allied shinobi armies gathering for a decisive battle, then discussed how they would govern the Shinobi World after unification. Eighth Master argued that lasting peace required controlling political power and improving each region’s resources, leaving Madara shaken by the harsh leverage that could preserve unity.

• Uchiha Madara repeatedly rushed Eighth Master to track the enemy forces until Eighth Master lost his temper, beat him, drained his Chakra and ocular power, and amplified his pain with a Sealing Technique.
• Eighth Master found Kirigakure’s fleet, and Madara counted fourteen thousand shinobi before the two tallied more than 74,000 enemy troops across the allied forces.
• Eighth Master told Madara that defeating the armies would not end their work, since they would also need to eliminate the Daimyo and nobles, provide necessities, and prevent a new aristocracy from gaining power.
• Eighth Master argued that the new government had to improve barren and difficult regions rather than abandon them, or people would return and recreate nations, villages, and wars.
• Eighth Master explained that infrastructure such as canals could make regions dependent on a unified government, and Madara grew horrified as he considered the danger of losing those supplies.

The allied villages gathered in the Land of Iron to choose a commander and plan their fight against Konoha, unaware that Uchiha Madara and Eighth Master had finished holding back. Eighth Master confirmed that his assault unit was in position, and Konoha prepared to strike before the planned battle.

• Eighth Master explained to Uchiha Madara how bringing water to the Land of Wind would strengthen it and prevent it from seeking independence, then Madara proposed making Eighth Master the next Hokage.
• The Raikage, Mizukage, Tsuchikage, and Kazekage met in the Land of Iron with the leaders of the smaller villages to negotiate command and wartime interests.
• The Tsuchikage reported that Konoha had sealed the ports and beaches and that Senju Hashirama was advancing from the east with fourteen thousand shinobi.
• The Tsuchikage and Kazekage proposed dividing the allied forces to delay Uchiha Madara and attack Hashirama's force, while the Raikage insisted that the four Kage would kill Madara.
• Uchiha Madara, Senju Hashirama, and Eighth Master discussed the meeting over their communicator, and Eighth Master revealed that his assault unit had crossed the sea and taken position.
• Eighth Master declared that Konoha no longer needed to hold back, and Madara urged him to launch the attack and demonstrate the new unit's power.