Chapter Summaries

Sarutobi Hiruzen gathered Konoha’s ninja around the Uchiha Compound as Shimura Danzō tried to frame the Uchiha for rebellion. Uchiha Sanae exposed Root’s brainwashed members before gouging out Danzō’s right eye and severing his right hand.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Konoha’s ninja to assemble at the Uchiha Compound and planned to pin the crisis on Shimura Danzō.
• Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Shiho faced Danzō’s Root and Anbu forces while Uchiha Sanae waited for the Hokage and witnesses to arrive.
• Senju Hashirama persuaded Senju Tobirama not to interfere, leaving the Uchiha to decide Konoha’s fate.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen arrived with thousands of Konoha ninja, and Danzō accused the Uchiha of killing Root members and plotting to defect.
• Uchiha Sanae knocked the masks off Root members, exposing their vacant, mechanical faces, and Chunin Naoki recognized one of them as Masato.
• Uchiha Sanae stopped Danzō and Yamanaka Fū with Susanoo, then gouged out Danzō’s right eye and severed his right hand.

Uchiha Sanae used her time-accelerating seal to disarm Shimura Danzō and defeat Uchiha Itachi after he attacked her with Amaterasu. She exposed Itachi’s plan to massacre the clan and revealed that Root had killed another Uchiha Sanae, leaving the gathered leaders horrified.

• Uchiha Sanae used her accelerated speed to take Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan and Hashirama Cells arm from Shimura Danzō.
• Uchiha Itachi found the Uchiha gathered at Naka Shrine, discovered Uchiha Izumi had organized their retreat, and abandoned his attempt to kill the clan for the moment.
• Uchiha Itachi attacked Sanae with Amaterasu, but her skeletal Susanoo blocked the flames and struck him unconscious with all his limbs broken.
• Sanae ordered the Uchiha to bring Itachi back, then challenged him over his betrayal and his claim that killing the clan would protect Konoha and its reputation.
• Sanae showed a test tube labeled with her name and explained that Root had hunted and killed her fourteen-year-old self, chilling the assembled leaders.

Uchiha Sanae exposed Shimura Danzō’s stolen Sharingan and forbidden Hashirama-cell arm, but Sarutobi Hiruzen tried to avoid revealing his punishment. Sanae summoned Senju Tobirama and Senju Hashirama, and Tobirama condemned Danzō for his crimes and executed him.

• Uchiha Sanae revealed Uchiha Shisui’s Mangekyō Sharingan and exposed the Sharingan-filled Hashirama-cell arm hidden beneath Shimura Danzō’s bandages.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered the Anbu to arrest Shimura Danzō, while Uchiha Sanae challenged him to state Danzō’s punishment publicly.
• Uchiha Sanae summoned Senju Tobirama and Senju Hashirama before the stunned Konoha Ninja.
• Senju Tobirama questioned Shimura Danzō about his crimes, ordered him to kneel, and sentenced him to immediate death.
• Shimura Danzō protested that he had acted for Konoha, and Senju Tobirama beheaded him.

After Senju Tobirama executed Shimura Danzō and forced Sarutobi Hiruzen and his advisors to step down, the returning Hokage helped Namikaze Minato drive Uchiha Obito from Konoha. The chapter ended with Minato confronting Hiruzen over the money, home, and inheritance meant for Naruto.

• Uchiha Sanae defended Senju Tobirama's execution of Shimura Danzō, and Senju Hashirama admitted she was right about the danger to Konoha.
• Senju Tobirama ordered Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu to retire and sent Anbu to bring Tsunade back.
• Uchiha Obito attacked the Uchiha Compound, but Namikaze Minato and Senju Tobirama cornered him with their Flying Thunder God techniques.
• Senju Tobirama used Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags against Obito, who escaped Konoha with help from Black Zetsu and White Zetsu.
• Namikaze Minato revealed himself to Konoha's ninja and confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen about Naruto's neglected living conditions and the family assets that had disappeared.

Minato Namikaze exposed the Third Hokage’s mistreatment of Naruto, while the Hokages confronted Konoha’s leadership and decided Uchiha Itachi’s punishment. The chapter ended with Minato entrusting Naruto to Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto.

• Uchiha Sanae amplified Minato Namikaze’s voice as he confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen over Naruto, leaving the Third Hokage unable to defend himself.
• Senju Tobirama weighed how to punish Uchiha Itachi and, with Sanae’s suggestion, ordered his hands severed, house arrest in the Uchiha Clan, and his Mangekyō Sharingan transferred to Sasuke if he awakened his own by age eighteen.
• Senju Tobirama began organizing Konoha’s intelligence and purging Root’s remaining forces.
• Minato Namikaze asked Uchiha Fugaku to bring Mikoto because he wanted to entrust Naruto to them.
• Uchiha Fugaku understood Minato’s request, accepted it with shame and gratitude, and ran to find Mikoto.

Tsunade returned to Konoha and was maneuvered into accepting the title of Fifth Hokage. Meanwhile, Uchiha Sanae recruited Orochimaru to transplant Uchiha Shisui’s eye into her forehead in exchange for the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.

• Namikaze Minato decided that Uchiha Mikoto should raise Naruto, who would keep the name Uzumaki Naruto.
• Tsunade returned to Konoha, reunited with Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama, and was crowned Fifth Hokage before she could fully understand what was happening.
• Uchiha Sanae met Orochimaru in her underground laboratory and offered him the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu as payment for his help.
• Orochimaru attacked Sanae with an immature cursed seal, but she immobilized him with the Sharingan: Golden Binding Technique.
• Sanae asked Orochimaru to transplant Uchiha Shisui’s eye into her forehead as a genuine vertical eye, and Orochimaru accepted in exchange for the jutsu and an explanation of her power.

Uchiha Sanae completed her transformation into one with her counterpart, becoming the fourth Advent in her civilization to follow the path of Shedding Mortality. Orochimaru learned that countless worlds existed and began Sanae’s surgery, eager for the promised reward.

• Orochimaru prepared the operating room and examined Uchiha Sanae, while Sanae offered him Shisui’s Sharingan and discussed the possibility of his return to Konoha.
• Sanae drained the ocular power from the other Sanae’s Two-Tomoe Sharingan, which crumbled to ash as her body and soul underwent a profound transformation.
• Torch Dragon told Aburame Tetsumaru and the other Advents that Sanae’s transformation appeared to have stabilized the connection between Timelines, but Tetsumaru declined to send another jumper without consent.
• Orochimaru sensed Sanae’s new aura and heard her explain that she had unified with her counterpart and become the fourth Advent to step onto the path of Shedding Mortality.
• Sanae agreed to proceed with surgery, and Orochimaru began administering anesthesia after she told him she trusted him not to act against his own desires.

Uchiha Sanae recovered from surgery to awaken her third eye while Tsunade prepared to govern Konoha after the reincarnated Hokage gradually departed. The Fourth and Second Hokage left, ending the brief era of Konoha being ruled by the dead.

• Uchiha Sanae found that her untrained third eye had disrupted her vision, and Orochimaru confirmed her surgery had succeeded while she chose to adapt to the eye rather than seal it.
• Reports of Konoha's upheaval reached the other villages, while Senju Tobirama warned Tsunade to prepare for Hiruzen's return to influence and began teaching her how to govern.
• Namikaze Minato asked Tsunade to protect Uzumaki Naruto and warned her that Orochimaru and Uchiha Sanae were in the village.
• Senju Tobirama reorganized Konoha's departments and transferred power into Tsunade's hands as he and the other Hokage prepared to leave.
• Namikaze Minato used his final day to spend time with Naruto, then departed; Senju Tobirama left three days later, ending Konoha's rule by the dead.

Senju Hashirama devastated Kumogakure after the Fourth Raikage challenged him, reviving the other villages’ fear of Konoha and prompting them to seek the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu. Meanwhile, Uchiha Sanae discussed the technique and her new Curvature Vision with Orochimaru, who learned that she had used White Zetsu as sacrifices.

• Senju Hashirama trapped three thousand Kumogakure ninja in a vast Wood Release forest, and only a little over four hundred survived before Hashirama disappeared.
• The Fourth Raikage and the other Kage concluded that their villages needed the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to oppose Konoha’s revived Hokage.
• Orochimaru studied Uchiha Sanae’s modified Impure World Reincarnation notes and marveled at their improvements to summoning and controlling souls.
• Uchiha Sanae explained that her transplanted eye had given her Curvature Vision, which could detect spatial distortions and reveal hidden White Zetsu.
• Orochimaru asked what sacrifices Sanae had used, and she told him they were White Zetsu captured in Konoha.

Uchiha Sanae explained Zenith Civilization’s origins and the dangers of the Shinobi World to Orochimaru, then revealed that Living Corpse Reincarnation had damaged his bond between soul and body. After learning that the flaw caused his dependence on Sharingan Genjutsu and would eventually destroy his body, Orochimaru asked how he could join Zenith Civilization.

• Orochimaru opened the laboratory vault with Uchiha Sanae and eagerly took a White Zetsu to study.
• Orochimaru spent five days researching White Zetsu, then agreed to consider helping Sanae in exchange for the promised reward.
• Uchiha Sanae recounted how Aburame Tetsumaru built Zenith Civilization and warned Orochimaru about powerful hidden threats in the Shinobi World.
• Uchiha Sanae explained that Zenith Civilization’s Advent Ritual addressed the soul-and-body separation caused by Living Corpse Reincarnation.
• Uchiha Sanae told Orochimaru that his soul had absorbed Sharingan Genjutsu for spiritual nourishment and that his body might fail after about three years.
• Orochimaru asked Uchiha Sanae how he could join Zenith Civilization.

Orochimaru joined Zenith Civilization after Uchiha Sanae explained the risks and possibilities of All-Self Unification, then accepted a newcomer package and his duties. The chapter left Sanae beginning to recount the Shinobi World's plot, which differed greatly from Zenith Civilization's history.

• Orochimaru agreed to join Zenith Civilization after learning that All-Self Unification would establish a primary and secondary relationship rather than consume him, though the loser would lose the chance to advance.
• Orochimaru asked about the support and responsibilities accompanying membership, and Uchiha Sanae described the knowledge, resources, and base access she could provide.
• Uchiha Sanae transferred control of the underground base to Orochimaru, who was impressed by its advanced construction and systems.
• Uchiha Sanae explained Orochimaru's three duties: receive future members, pursue research, and monitor changes in the world.
• Orochimaru asked Sanae about the world's plot, and she began telling him the Shinobi World's history from the war a thousand years earlier.

Orochimaru joined Zenith Civilization after learning the Shinobi World's future, while a colossal monster discovered the civilization and sent creatures toward it. Aburame Tetsumaru briefly ascended into a unified state, absorbed information from the monster, and recognized the coming threat as the source of the Otsutsuki Clan.

• Orochimaru listened to Uchiha Sanae's account of the future, agreed to judge the Shinobi World's progress himself, and joined Zenith Civilization.
• The monster discovered the timeline-spanning civilization, ordered horned creatures across the universe to converge on the Shinobi World, and began its long journey there.
• Aburame Tetsumaru sensed the monster's gaze, unified his divided thoughts into Superego, and briefly saw and absorbed information from it.
• Aburame Tetsumaru used the information to identify spatial folding and atomic editing technologies, then realized the monster was the source of the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Aburame Tetsumaru recognized that the Otsutsuki might arrive as vanguards before the monster, but focused on the prospect of devouring it.

Aburame Tetsumaru organized Civilization to unify the Shinobi World in response to a powerful new threat, while Zenith Civilization successfully tested a soul jump between timelines. Orochihime reached Orochimaru’s timeline and confronted him, ending the chapter after she won their mental clash.

• Aburame Tetsumaru assigned forces to occupy the Land of Earth, Land of Lightning, Kirigakure, and Land of Iron, while Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Itachi agreed to keep Konoha from interfering.
• Torch Dragon, Uzumaki, and Jupiter successfully sent Jupiter across timelines, and Jupiter returned with news that Uchiha Sanae had begun transforming and brought Orochimaru into Civilization.
• Orochihime prepared to travel to the other timeline, while Orochimaru returned to his laboratory too late to meet Jupiter before he left.
• Orochihime intercepted Orochimaru as he tried to flee, marked him with a Perfected Cursed Seal, and challenged him to a confrontation.
• Orochihime and Orochimaru pressed their foreheads together and fought mentally, and Orochihime emerged victorious.

After Orochihime defeated Orochimaru, she made him a hopeful foundation for her advancement and helped Uchiha Sanae understand the path of All-Self Unification. The three formed the Zenith Civilization’s leadership group on the Grade A Number One Timeline and planned to build their branch’s strength while hiding Orochimaru from the Akatsuki.

• Orochihime explained that allowing Orochimaru to hope for a comeback would make him a growing foundation, and she encouraged Sanae to find and support other versions of herself.
• Orochimaru and Orochihime agreed to keep striving against each other, even promising to help revive one another if either became a foundation.
• Orochihime named herself recorder of the three-person leadership group and designated the Timeline the Zenith Civilization’s Grade A Number One Timeline.
• Orochihime, Sanae, and Orochimaru set priorities to build Mother Hives and Satellite Insects, take control of Rōran, and conceal Orochimaru and his Akatsuki ring from Nagato and Black Zetsu.
• The three chose the Land of Rivers as the Mother Hive’s starting point, assigned Orochihime and Orochimaru to build it, and sent Sanae to erase their traces in Konoha.

Aburame Tetsumaru and the other Senjutsu practitioners discussed the rapidly changing Timelines and prepared Dice to travel with Ultimate Producers. Meanwhile, Cannon launched a devastating bombardment of Kirigakure, leaving the village’s survivors trapped underground as ten enormous Meteors approached.

• Aburame Tetsumaru, Torch Dragon, and Dice observed the Timelines synchronizing and worried that Eighth Master’s rapid expansion signaled danger.
• Aburame Tetsumaru offered Dice Ultimate Producers for his scouting trip, and Dice agreed to leave the next day.
• Cannon used Rocket Insects to attack Kirigakure’s scattered shinobi, and forty-nine survivors carried news of the strike back to the village.
• Hozuki Mangetsu declared Kirigakure faced its final battle as Cannon unleashed rockets, Explosive Locusts, and laser strikes that killed shinobi caught outside shelters.
• Hozuki Mangetsu ordered his surviving shinobi to retreat after the attack, while the bombardment shook and cracked their underground fortifications.
• Cannon continued the assault without sending troops into battle, and ten three-hundred-meter Meteors descended toward Kirigakure.

Cannon’s orbital strikes and engineered earthquake erased Kirigakure, while the Zenith Civilization’s insect forces completed their encirclement of Kumogakure and began a massive assault. As Mutalisks raced ahead to destroy Kumogakure’s defenses, Weary Bird worried that the attack still lacked enough firepower, and Warhammer seemed ready to intervene.

• Cannon’s iron meteorite triggered an earthquake and volcanic eruption that destroyed Kirigakure and killed nearly everyone inside it.
• Seven Kirigakure survivors, including two Jinchuriki and five Yuki Clan shinobi, were captured by the Insect Swarm; Hozuki Mangetsu’s fate remained unknown.
• The Zenith Civilization’s forces encircled Kumogakure from land, sea, and underground before its shinobi realized they were under attack.
• Weary Bird ordered a full assault, sending hundreds of millions of insects toward Kumogakure and Mutalisks ahead to eliminate its anti-air defenses.
• Weary Bird worried that the assault lacked sufficient firepower because Kumogakure’s stable geology prevented a great-earthquake attack, while Warhammer watched him.

Zenith Civilization sent its second Insect Tide against Kumogakure, where tens of thousands of Mutalisks ravaged the village with Spores and toxic Mushrooms. As the Raikage’s forces struggled to fight back, Killer B released Gyuki to strike the diving Mutalisks.

• Weary Bird and Warhammer departed with eighty thousand Thunder Beasts and the rest of the second Insect Tide to deliver Kumogakure’s final blow.
• The Raikage ordered Kumogakure to mobilize as reports from its outlying garrisons stopped, and he discussed choosing a new Two-Tails Jinchuriki and negotiating with Amegakure.
• Tens of thousands of Mutalisks descended on Kumogakure, spreading Spores that killed civilians, corroded buildings, and spawned poisonous Mushrooms.
• Kumogakure’s Lightning Release ninja brought down more than a dozen Mutalisks, but the aerial swarm targeted them and overwhelmed the village’s defenses.
• Killer B released Gyuki, whose eight tentacles smashed the diving Mutalisks into pieces.

Kumogakure repelled the Mutalisks with Gyuki’s protection before the Raikage recognized them as Zenith Civilization’s insects and ordered the Spatial Chakra cannon into action. The cannon wiped out thousands, but overheated after one overcharged shot, and the remaining Mutalisks sacrificed themselves in a dive that destroyed it.

• Gyuki shielded Kumogakure from most Mutalisk attacks, letting the ninja regain confidence and fight back.
• The Raikage identified the Mutalisks as Zenith Civilization’s insects and ordered Dodai to activate the Spatial Chakra cannon.
• Dodai and Darui charged and fired the cannon in spread mode, erasing more than ten thousand Mutalisks and disrupting the rest of the swarm.
• Dodai learned the cannon had overheated and ordered the ninja to withdraw, but hundreds of Mutalisks dove toward them.
• Dodai ordered everyone to retreat, and the diving Mutalisks smashed into the cannon, destroying it.

The Raikage and Kumogakure fought to defend the village from a massive Insect Tide while Weary Bird and Warhammer prioritized capturing the Chakra Cannon and its research. The insects’ ranged Hydralisk attacks broke through the Kumogakure front line, leaving the Raikage exhausted and shinobi suffering casualties.

• Weary Bird and Warhammer used Mutalisks to destroy the first Chakra Cannon and hunt Kumogakure shinobi, while Dodai survived by hiding underground.
• The first wave of two hundred million insects overwhelmed Kumogakure’s outer traps, and the Raikage ordered Killer B to bring Tailed Beast Bombs to the front.
• The Raikage rallied the Kumogakure Shinobi and led a charge that initially pushed back the Jump Bugs.
• Weary Bird and Warhammer redirected their efforts toward the Chakra Cannon and its research, with Warhammer sneaking into the laboratory and Weary Bird observing Dodai’s team.
• After charging through the swarm repeatedly, the Raikage grew exhausted, and Hydralisks reached the front and began inflicting casualties with bone spikes.

The Fourth Raikage fought through the Insect Swarm until Scorpion spores incapacitated him and other Kumogakure shinobi, but a Tailed Beast Bomb helped turn the battle. After taking scarce drugs to overcome his symptoms, the Raikage returned to the front while Killer B and Gyuki struggled to keep supporting six battle lines.

• The Fourth Raikage unleashed his strongest Lightning Release Armor and tore through the Hydralisks, but Scorpions coated him with spores that caused dizziness, weakness, and fever.
• The spore attack weakened Kumogakure's front line until a Tailed Beast Bomb devastated the Insect Swarm and gave the Raikage time to withdraw for treatment.
• Medical shinobi discovered that the spores caused dangerous cycles of fever and chills, while the Raikage demanded medicine to return to battle.
• The Raikage took several drugs and learned their effects would last four hours, while the medical shinobi refused to give the scarce supply to lower-ranked shinobi.
• The Fourth Raikage returned to the front, and Killer B urged Gyuki to fire more Tailed Beast Bombs as Gyuki complained of exhaustion and insisted he was the strongest Tailed Beast.