Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Hinata stopped two elders from using Caged Bird, executed them, and began freeing the Branch Family while the Hyuga shinobi welcomed their new future. She revealed the Otsutsuki Clan’s renaming as the Hamura Clan and, after Otsutsuki Orihime asked her to consider her, Hinata was left stunned.

• Two elders tried to use Caged Bird to kill Branch Family shinobi, but Hinata blocked the technique and ordered their execution.
• Hinata restored an old man’s strength, removed his Caged Bird mark, and let him die after he saw his forehead free of the seal.
• Politician and Namikaze Minato discussed Zenith Civilization’s plans for peaceful confederation and competition with Konoha.
• Hinata removed Caged Bird marks from 150 Hyuga shinobi and revealed that the twelve Otsutsuki shinobi were part of a clan descended from Otsutsuki Hamura.
• Hinata officially renamed the Otsutsuki Clan the Hamura Clan and explained that the Hyuga, Hamura, and Kaguya clans had joined Zenith Civilization’s alliance.
• Otsutsuki Orihime whispered to Hinata that she had learned two girls could have children and asked Hinata to consider her.

Kurama Yun brought her niece, Kurama Yakumo, to Aburame Tetsumaru for treatment after taking over the Kurama Clan. Tetsumaru discovered Yakumo could be cured, but she would have to join the Zenith Civilization, and he explained that her early-awakened Kekkei Genkai and years of unsuitable training had left her severely weakened.

• Hinata ordered the Hyuga Clan to develop long-range attacks and agreed to let qualified members learn the Hamura Clan's Puppet Technique.
• Kurama Yun peacefully displaced the Kurama Clan's old head and took Yakumo to Aburame Tetsumaru for an urgent examination.
• While waiting, Aburame Tetsumaru noticed an unfamiliar, dim Soul Orb linked to Eighth Master and wondered whether it belonged to a Kage-level figure from another Timeline.
• Aburame Tetsumaru examined Yakumo and told Kurama Yun that she could be cured, but only after Yakumo joined the Zenith Civilization.
• Aburame Tetsumaru diagnosed Yakumo's illness as Kekkei Genkai disease worsened by unsuitable training and said her frail body could no longer tolerate ordinary nutritional treatment.

Kurama Yakumo joined Zenith Civilization to receive treatment and training, while Aburame Tetsumaru investigated the soul linked to Eighth Master. Eighth Master identified the soul as his former student Yoshiro, prompting the two to consider developing a technique to summon souls from other Timelines.

• Kurama Yakumo agreed to join Zenith Civilization in exchange for treatment, education, and guidance, and Aburame Tetsumaru took her to the Land of Wind.
• Aburame Tetsumaru told Eighth Master that a Kage-level soul was connected to him, and Eighth Master suspected it belonged to Yoshiro.
• Eighth Master recounted how the Land of Fire industrialized, defeated Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, and used Individual Adjustment Technology to help Yoshiro rise from Jonin to Kage level.
• Eighth Master revealed that Yoshiro died fighting Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and that Impure World Reincarnation failed to find his soul.
• Eighth Master concluded that Yoshiro's soul might be the sphere following him through the Sea of Souls, and he and Aburame Tetsumaru resolved to pursue a new Soul Summoning Technique.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s experiments showed that sending Advents’ souls across Timelines without their bodies was impractical, so he focused on studying Yoshiro’s soul and developed a compatible body for Heroic Spirit Summoning. The summoning succeeded, bringing Yoshiro from another Timeline into Zenith Civilization, where he awoke and recognized Eighth Master.

• Aburame Tetsumaru and the Advents tested sending souls across Timelines, but found that souls needed complex bodies or vast insect swarms to retain their ability to think and return.
• Aburame Tetsumaru mapped Yoshiro’s soul information and created a compatible strip of flesh for Heroic Spirit Summoning.
• Eighth Master brought the flesh to the Geosynchronous Orbit Space Station while Aburame Tetsumaru observed Yoshiro’s soul in the Sea of Souls.
• Yoshiro’s Soul Light Orb erupted with light, revealing giant orbs and many clustered souls in the Abyss, which Aburame Tetsumaru identified as Otsutsuki Hagoromo, Otsutsuki Hamura, and their accumulated souls.
• The summoning succeeded, and Yoshiro emerged from the Life Support Pod in the Advent Ritual hall, mistaking space for the Pure Land.
• Eighth Master told Yoshiro that he was in space, and Yoshiro realized he had been resurrected.

Eighth Master helped Yoshiro adjust to life as an Advent in Zenith Civilization, while Konoha strengthened its alliance and the Northern Alliance grew alarmed at the Southern Alliance’s influence. The Northern Alliance erected a Bamboo Curtain to isolate itself, but Zenith Civilization’s underground networks and satellite communications made the barrier ineffective.

• Eighth Master explained Yoshiro’s new life as an Advent and brought him to meet Aburame Tetsumaru.
• Konoha purged most opposition to Namikaze Minato’s alliance policy, and the Tsuchikage and Raikage worried about the Southern Alliance’s growing influence around Kirigakure.
• Ōnoki and A agreed to plan an attack on the Land of Rain after learning that Hanzo was receiving extensive support.
• The Northern Alliance announced a Bamboo Curtain and built a fortified barrier to block traffic and communication with the south.
• Politician assured Minato that Zenith Civilization’s satellites, underground tunnels, and insect-based communications could bypass the barrier.

Black Zetsu accelerated his plans to revive Uchiha Madara as Zenith Civilization tracked his preparations, while Aburame Tetsumaru arranged support for Nagato after learning that Ōnoki and the Raikage had entered the Land of Rain. Black Zetsu and Obito then prepared to use the approaching attack on Amegakure to gain Nagato’s trust.

• Black Zetsu decided to use Impure World Reincarnation to revive Uchiha Madara soon and gathered reanimated fighters for a future war.
• Aburame Tetsumaru learned that Ōnoki and the Raikage had brought four Jinchuriki and around sixty Jonin into the Land of Rain, believing they meant to attack Hanzo.
• Tetsumaru ordered the Station Master to warn Nagato, provide intelligence support, and send Politician, White Fang, and Orochihime to observe or assist.
• Ōnoki and the Raikage rested with their forces in a concealed valley after traveling through the Land of Rain.
• Black Zetsu secretly observed the allied forces, then met Obito and said they should inform Nagato.

Black Zetsu and Uchiha Obito reached Amegakure, where Obito secretly planned to manipulate Nagato while Nagato and Zenith Civilization anticipated his arrival. Nagato accepted the danger of keeping his Rinnegan and received a life-saving insect; he and Obito then began a false confrontation, while the Station Master and Konan watched.

• Black Zetsu told Uchiha Obito to negotiate with Nagato in Madara's name, then secretly watched as Obito reaffirmed his plan to use Infinite Tsukuyomi for a life with Rin.
• The Station Master warned Nagato that the Tsuchikage and Raikage were attacking Amegakure and that Black Zetsu and Obito might target his Rinnegan; Nagato chose to keep the eyes and accept the risk.
• The Station Master gave Nagato a Substitute Death Bug sealed in a Life Crystal, explaining that it could revive him after nine minutes if his life force was drained.
• The Station Master confirmed Obito's Kamui spatial fluctuations near Amegakure and left Nagato to meet him without Zenith Civilization's forces present.
• Obito appeared before Nagato, who summoned the Six Paths of Pain and attacked; Obito used Kamui to let the bullets pass through him, and both men privately congratulated themselves on their acting.
• Obito claimed to be Uchiha Madara and threatened Amegakure's people, while Nagato ordered his subordinates to stay out; the Station Master and Konan watched the exchange, and Konan cried as she saw Nagato's renewed happiness.

Nagato ambushed the Iwagakure and Kumogakure forces gathered in a valley, demonstrating the Rinnegan’s power while arguing with Uchiha Obito about keeping the Land of Rain out of a wider war. He prepared to fight the two Kage without killing them, hoping to preserve the balance between the northern and southern alliances.

• Nagato arrived above the valley and killed a Kumogakure Jonin who tried to circle behind him.
• Nagato unleashed Shinra Tensei, sweeping through the valley and scattering the assembled ninja, including Raikage A.
• Konan joined Nagato as he watched the sunset, and they discussed seeing the world once peace came.
• Nagato rejected Uchiha Obito’s plan to collect the four Tailed Beasts, explaining that the Land of Rain would be crushed if it provoked the Great Ninja Villages.
• Nagato ordered his team to break the enemy formations but avoid attacking Raikage A and Tsuchikage Ōnoki, assigning Konan to restrain Ōnoki while he faced A.
• Nagato landed before the gathered forces, charged his Chakra, and began another Shinra Tensei.

The Raikage and Killer B launched a Double Lariat against Nagato, but Nagato absorbed Killer B’s Chakra and left him helpless. The Raikage broke free and used Four-Finger Nukite to force Nagato to release his brother.

• The Raikage shielded the Kumogakure ninja from the shockwave while Ōnoki’s earth defenses failed, forcing the Tsuchikage to order a retreat.
• Konan distracted the Iwagakure ninja as Kakuzu attacked them with a sonic screech and wrist blades, and Konan finished the survivors with Explosive Tags.
• Ōnoki and Rōshi faced six enemies while Han was captured and the Eight-Tails endured attacks from Nagato’s forces.
• A and Killer B struck Nagato with their Double Lariat, but Nagato absorbed Killer B’s Chakra and began draining the Eight-Tails’ Chakra as well.
• The Raikage escaped Nagato’s absorption and drove him back with Four-Finger Nukite, freeing Killer B.

Nagato and the Six Paths of Pain defeated the Raikage and Tsuchikage’s forces, killing Yugito and capturing the Two-Tails and Five-Tails. The surviving Kage recognized Amegakure’s threat and began considering an alliance to destroy it.

• The Raikage rescued Killer B, who explained that Gyuki had escaped extraction by sacrificing a tentacle, while Yugito had died after Nagato removed the Two-Tails.
• The Six Paths of Pain and Sasori and Hiruko overwhelmed Kumogakure’s forces, while Ōnoki and Iwagakure’s Jinchuriki arrived and fought the Six Paths.
• Nagato suppressed the Raikage and Killer B, while Han was captured and the Preta Path extracted the Five-Tails from him.
• Nagato stopped fighting and confronted the Raikage and Ōnoki, who deduced that Hanzo was dead and that Nagato led Amegakure.
• Nagato sealed the Two-Tails and Five-Tails, prompting the Kage to fear Amegakure’s power and plan to rally allies against it.

Nagato defeated the joint Iwagakure and Kumogakure force, extracted its Tailed Beasts, and returned to Amegakure while the Shinobi World braced for war. As Zenith Civilization watched the crisis unfold, Aburame Tetsumaru dismissed it as trivial and hinted at a major project.

• Nagato unleashed Super Shinra Tensei, devastating the valley and blasting the Raikage, Tsuchikage, Rōshi, and Killer B away before reuniting with Konan and Kakuzu.
• Sasori reported that Hiruko had gone berserk and died during the pursuit, then asked Kakuzu for powerful corpses to use in his puppets.
• Uchiha Obito and Black Zetsu decided to revive Uchiha Madara as an Impure World Reincarnation Body and target Aburame Tetsumaru.
• News spread that Nagato had defeated the joint forces, killed two Jinchuriki, and taken their Tailed Beasts, prompting Konoha and other villages to mobilize.
• Weary Bird contacted Aburame Tetsumaru about the turmoil, and Tetsumaru said his work with Grand Yang Fish, Alchemy, and Dragon Heart was a major undertaking.

Weary Bird and Politician traveled to the Dyson Ring to find out what Aburame Tetsumaru was doing, after Warhammer corrected their arrogance about the Shinobi World. At the Solar Lens, Grand Yang Fish explained that researchers had confirmed Chakra was a massless particle and were exploring how to use it to encode loyalty into the Insect Swarm’s genes.

• Weary Bird asked Politician to use the Flying Thunder God Technique to take him to the Dyson Ring, and they were startled by the sight of the Insect Swarm surrounding the Shinobi World from space.
• Weary Bird and Politician dismissed the Shinobi World’s conflicts as insignificant until Warhammer struck them and brought them back to their senses.
• Weary Bird and Politician noticed that Warhammer’s intense radiation had disappeared and speculated that his Nuclear Release research had advanced beyond fusion.
• Politician took Weary Bird to the Central Factory, where they found Aburame Tetsumaru, Grand Yang Fish, Dragon Heart, Alchemy, and other researchers working at the Solar Lens.
• Grand Yang Fish explained that the researchers had confirmed Chakra was a massless particle and were investigating how to encode control logic into genes using individual Chakra Particles.
• Weary Bird and Politician learned that the research aimed to make the Insect Swarm’s loyalty to Civilization unshakable and reduce the danger of genetic mutations.

Grand Yang Fish and his team developed a way to engrave the Absolute Loyalty Seal into insect genes, and Aburame Tetsumaru completed the first gene after exhausting work. After successful testing on Origin Island, Aburame Tetsumaru began replacing the Insect Swarm across the Shinobi World, giving Zenith Civilization’s members direct command over its insects.

• Grand Yang Fish, Alchemy, Dragon Heart, and Aburame Tetsumaru developed a Spirit Micro-Manipulation Instrument to write loyalty logic into genetic base pairs.
• Aburame Tetsumaru completed and checked fifty thousand base pairs, and Grand Yang Fish used them to create the first Loyalty Cell.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and Ash Bone cultivated the cell into a Brain Bug, which grew into a Mother Hive on the Land of Tea.
• Aburame Tetsumaru confined the new insects to Origin Island for six months of testing, and the insects passed survival and loyalty trials across multiple generations.
• Aburame Tetsumaru began replacing Mother Hives throughout the Shinobi World, and Zenith Civilization’s Advents gathered to witness the rollout.
• The new system allowed Advents, eligible official members, and contracted ordinary ninja to command insects without the former body-engraved runes.

After the Land of Rain crisis ended without war, the alliances assessed their growing military rivalry while the Raikage resolved to develop Kumogakure’s Chakra Cannon. In an underground cavern, Black Zetsu successfully revived Uchiha Madara through Impure World Reincarnation.

• Aburame Tetsumaru assigned Avatars to create cute, humanlike Summoning Insects, and they proposed disguising them as pandas.
• Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Konoha ended their nine-day standoff after Konoha and Zenith Civilization’s forces helped deter the Northern Alliance; the villages signed a peace agreement and withdrew.
• Hatake Kakashi inherited the title of Konoha’s White Fang, while Uchiha Itachi gained renown for defeating opponents with his Sharingan genjutsu.
• The Raikage learned from Ōnoki about Zenith Civilization’s Mahākāla Insects and decided to resume development of Kumogakure’s Chakra Cannon.
• Black Zetsu completed the Impure World Reincarnation ritual, and Uchiha Madara emerged in red armor.

Uchiha Madara was resurrected with the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu and learned that Zenith Civilization had disrupted his plans and that Nagato had recovered and grown stronger. In Iwagakure, Deidara remained determined to defeat Uchiha Itachi, whom he regarded as an overwhelming threat.

• Black Zetsu resurrected Uchiha Madara and explained that Aburame Tetsumaru’s Zenith Civilization had transformed the Shinobi World and forced Black Zetsu and Uchiha Obito into hiding.
• Uchiha Madara learned that Nagato had recovered, strengthened his control over the Rinnegan, and become too cautious for Black Zetsu and Uchiha Obito to approach.
• Uchiha Madara realized that he had little time to stop the Shinobi World from uniting and obstructing his Infinite Tsukuyomi Plan.
• The Tsuchikage discussed Iwagakure’s military threats as Deidara insisted that Uchiha Itachi was too dangerous to ignore.
• The chapter recounted how Uchiha Itachi trapped Deidara in Genjutsu, made him nearly kill himself with his own Explosive Clay, and left him with a lasting obsession with defeating Itachi.
• Ōnoki assigned Deidara responsibility for facing Uchiha Itachi, and Deidara vowed to win their next encounter.

Deidara and Ōnoki pushed Iwagakure to expand its weapons, forces, and defenses in preparation for a decisive struggle with the Southern Alliance and Kumogakure. As Iwagakure’s spending fueled brutal taxation across the Land of Earth, destitute families began leaving for the south, and Kichijiro set out with his family under a guide’s protection.

• Deidara proposed mass-producing Explosive Clay weapons, and Iwagakure’s Jonin approved developing them alongside other weapons, including Explosive Clay Cannons.
• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure to recruit more ninja, expand its Ninja Academy, and seek additional funding from the Daimyo as the village prepared for future war.
• Iwagakure rapidly expanded its military and research facilities, while repeated funding requests prompted nobles and tax collectors to extract wealth from the Land of Earth’s commoners.
• As debt, hunger, and ruin spread, rumors of aid and settlement opportunities in the south persuaded impoverished residents to flee their homes.
• Kichijiro prepared his wife and sons for the journey, then followed a man in black who was gathering families to guide south.

An Iwagakure ambush captured a black-clad ferryman and the family he had used as bait, while Aburame Tetsumaru and Butler chose not to intervene. Kichijiro’s family reached Zenith Civilization through its underground transport network, where Namikaze Naruto told them they were being taken to the Land of Wind to settle.

• A black-clad ferryman approached a family waiting outside town, but Kitsuchi trapped and captured him, then ordered Iwagakure ninjas to take the family alive for questioning.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and Butler watched the capture from above and decided not to rescue the family or the ferryman.
• The ferryman returned to Kichijiro with nine people, led the group through the mountains, and took them into a concealed tunnel connected to an underground river.
• When a child spotted a Summoning Animal in the river, the ferryman struck several panicked passengers unconscious to keep them from falling overboard.
• At the underground cavern, Himekoji met Namikaze Naruto and learned that six ferrymen had failed to return after Iwagakure ambushed their routes.
• Namikaze Naruto led Kichijiro’s group onward and explained that Zenith Civilization wanted settlers in the Land of Wind, where they could pay taxes and send their children to school.

Kichijiro and the other migrants traveled by train from the Land of Earth to a forested Land of Wind, where they learned that Zenith Civilization had transformed the desert through irrigation and engineered seeds. Aburame Tetsumaru and Weary Bird began further reforms and population transfers, while Zenith's extraction of more than fourteen million people threatened the Land of Earth's stability.

• Namikaze Naruto showed Kichijiro and the migrants the Crystal Palace station, and they panicked aboard the train before getting used to the journey.
• Kichijiro and the other Land of Earth migrants arrived in the Land of Wind and mistook its vast new forest for the Land of Fire.
• The migrants learned that Zenith Civilization had diverted water and used Orochimaru's engineered seeds to turn the desert into a forest, prompting residents and former Sunagakure ninjas to support its protection.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and Weary Bird launched education and agricultural reforms and moved refugees from the Northern Alliance into the Land of Wind.
• Aburame Tetsumaru saw that Butler's operation had moved more than fourteen million people from the Land of Earth, weakening its central farming region while Iwagakure struggled to respond.

Naruto and Hinata discussed finding their own ways to use their abilities and promised to stay together for life. In Iwagakure, Ōnoki ordered a hunt for the Ferrymen, but after two and a half months the ninja still could not locate Zenith Civilization’s underground river network.

• Naruto and Hinata talked about how Aburame Jonin used Telekinesis to protect his Shadow Clones and agreed that each person needed a path suited to them.
• Naruto promised to help Hinata catch up with him, and Hinata agreed that they had made a promise for life.
• Ōnoki learned that Zenith Civilization was paying Ferrymen to take people from the Land of Earth and ordered Iwagakure ninja to capture and execute them.
• Ōnoki directed Kitsuchi and the others to find the underground river network, while Iwagakure ninja captured Ferrymen and gathered intelligence.
• Zenith Civilization abandoned routes known to captured Ferrymen, and Iwagakure’s searches failed for two and a half months because the network lay hundreds of meters underground.

Jiraiya reunited with Nagato and Konan in Amegakure, where Namikaze Minato’s risky visit opened the way for talks between Konoha and Amegakure. Nagato accepted Konoha’s overtures but rejected his former closeness with Jiraiya, and Konan confronted Jiraiya before leaving him behind.

• Nagato and Konan told Jiraiya that Danzo and Hanzo had conspired to kill Yahiko and their Akatsuki companions, leaving Jiraiya shocked and guilty.
• Nagato asked whether Jiraiya had come for himself or Konoha, then lifted Amegakure’s barrier to let Minato decide whether to visit in person.
• Minato arrived using his Flying Thunder God Mark, and Nagato welcomed him as both the Fourth Hokage and his senior brother.
• Nagato and Konan said they no longer resented Konoha but could not restore their former relationship with Jiraiya, then Nagato asked him to leave.
• Konan accused Jiraiya of using fate and the Child of Destiny as excuses to avoid responsibility, told him they should never meet again, and returned to Amegakure.