Chapter Summaries

After learning Sarah Kerrigan had strengthened the crystal with her Psi, Aburame Tetsumaru and the other Advents recognized the risks and possibilities of reaching the StarCraft universe. Tetsumaru proposed a two-century plan for Zenith Civilization, while Grand Yang Fish took charge of studying the crystal.

• Sarah infused the crystal with Void Psi to help protect it, and Yuanxing returned to his ship to finish recording his experience.
• Butler and Grand Yang Fish confirmed that Yuanxing's black box had been found but all its data was damaged, while Aburame Tetsumaru identified Sarah as the Queen of Blades, Sarah Louise Kerrigan.
• Aburame Tetsumaru urged the group to defeat the Otsutsuki first, then outlined a two-century plan to eliminate their threat, expand Zenith Civilization, and eventually explore beyond the Shinobi World Universe.
• The Advents and Avatars supported the plan, and Grand Yang Fish took responsibility for the crystal and its research.
• After the meeting, Advents and Avatars visited Grand Yang Fish to examine the crystal's Psi energy, then left without helping him study it.

The Zenith Civilization gained sixteen Dominators to manage its vast Insect Swarms while Aburame Tetsumaru spent his free time with Otsutsuki Kaguya. As Otsutsuki forces converged on the Shinobi World, Tetsumaru sensed their approach and prepared for their arrival.

• Sixteen Core Bearers removed their Chips and became Dominators, taking over the Shinobi World's Insect Swarms and freeing several Advents for other work.
• Aburame Tetsumaru teased Otsutsuki Kaguya by insisting they keep playing games, while Zetsu Kuro fled the room in frustration.
• Otsutsuki Momoshiki carried the exhausted Otsutsuki Kinshiki toward a nearby living star system to gather strength and build an army before attacking their assigned enemy.
• The Otsutsuki God and countless other Otsutsuki streamed toward the Shinobi World, creating gravitational chaos as they traveled faster than the signals their arrival produced.
• Aburame Tetsumaru sensed pressure building in the Space Interlayer, told Otsutsuki Kaguya that enemies were approaching, and said the Zenith Civilization had time to prepare.

Torch Dragon detected an enemy from twenty years in the future and left to confront it, while the Otsutsuki arrived with a vast puppet army and began rebuilding its forces. The Zenith Civilization’s insects and orbital weapons engaged the army, but its puppets adapted and revealed attacks that could defeat the insects’ revival system.

• Torch Dragon failed to pinpoint the time traveler’s arrival, said goodbye to Sara, and departed for battle using a temporal body.
• A puppet army of more than two hundred Giant Puppets and tens of thousands of smaller puppets destroyed patrolling Insect Swarms and advanced to an island.
• The Otsutsuki used its Chakra to transform marble into new puppets and granite into spheres that repaired the Giant Puppets and strengthened a protective light curtain.
• Politician tracked the army and ordered saturation strikes, while Butler, Station Master, and Eighth Master joined the response and sent combat insects into the bombardment zone.
• The insects discovered the light curtain protecting the island and transmitted its location, prompting the orbital forces to intensify their attacks.
• The puppets switched to pure white beams that killed insects and Spores while turning their bodies into poisonous, unusable pulp.

The Zenith Civilization attacked the Otsutsuki’s puppet army with nuclear weapons and then sent powerful Taihang Mountain Zerg through Eighth Master’s portals to exploit the ensuing chaos. The Otsutsuki’s control over his enlarged forces faltered, but he unleashed a Chakra shockwave and charged Politician’s Susanoo.

• Eighth Master identified the Otsutsuki as a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki but said he could hold him off until Aburame Tetsumaru arrived.
• Warhammer detonated thirty linked nuclear weapons against the island, but the Otsutsuki’s light screen shielded his puppets and the explosion left him with more forces.
• Eighth Master opened portals and sent Taihang Mountain Jump Bugs and Hydralisks onto the island, where they overwhelmed the puppets in close combat.
• Politician used Susanoo to break through a Giant granite puppet, creating an opening for the Insect Swarm to advance.
• The Zerg destroyed more than thirty developing stone eggs, causing the Otsutsuki to lose control of his expanded puppet army.
• The Otsutsuki released a red Chakra shockwave that knocked down many puppets and bugs, then charged Politician’s Susanoo.

Aburame Tetsumaru arrived at the battle, rescued Politician, and directed the fight against the Otsutsuki and his Giant Puppets. He recruited Hyuga Hinata to capture the puppets, then revealed that the apparent punishment for her recklessness had been staged—though his contribution points were really deducted.

• Aburame Tetsumaru and Otsutsuki Kaguya used a Portal to reach the battlefield, where Tetsumaru shoved the red Otsutsuki away from Susanoo and warned the Advents to be wary of spatial abilities.
• Aburame Tetsumaru assessed the Otsutsuki's Giant Puppets and ordered Eighth Master to suppress the enemy while he took control of the puppets.
• Aburame Tetsumaru scolded Hyuga Hinata for sneaking into the battle, then assigned her to use the Reincarnation and her Tenseigan to capture the stone puppets.
• The Advents and Avatars reprimanded Aburame Tetsumaru for bringing Hinata, imposed real penalties on him, and caused Hinata to focus on preparing the Reincarnation.
• Aburame Tetsumaru told Dice, Alchemy, Teacher, and Grand Yang Fish that the reprimand had been a coordinated act to educate Hinata, but Grand Yang Fish insisted that Tetsumaru's contribution points be deducted for real.

Eighth Master and the Hero Jump Bugs battled Ōtsutsuki Kishiki while the Advents of Zenith Civilization looted his Giant Puppets. Aburame Tetsumaru and his allies joined the fight, and Tetsumaru launched a massive psychokinetic spear at Kishiki, leaving its impact unresolved.

• Eighth Master and six Hero Jump Bugs nearly killed Kishiki with a combined assault, but Kishiki recovered after using an Elixir from Ōtsutsuki Urashiki.
• Kishiki resumed fighting and killed several Hero Jump Bugs as Eighth Master struggled to hold him back.
• After Eighth Master rebuked the arguing Advents, Tetsumaru restrained the Giant Puppets with psychokinetic hands while Hinata used the Giant Tenseigan to store them in Reincarnation's warehouse.
• Kishiki froze the airborne puppets with Awa Maru no Mikoto, but Tetsumaru used overwhelming force to break the technique, destroying many puppets in the process.
• Angry over the damaged spoils, Tetsumaru formed a giant psychokinetic spear and hurled it at Kishiki.

Aburame Tetsumaru and Otsutsuki Kaguya faced Otsutsuki Urashiki, who explained how he could counter Kaguya’s Kekkei Mōra abilities. After Urashiki threatened to kill Tetsumaru and the others, Tetsumaru discovered he could retain his memories through Urashiki’s time reversals and learned to use the technique himself.

• Aburame Tetsumaru redirected his psychokinetic spear through Otsutsuki Urashiki’s Yomotsu Hirasaka portal, and Urashiki emerged having survived by turning back time.
• Otsutsuki Urashiki confronted Otsutsuki Kaguya, identified ways to counter her Kekkei Mōra techniques, and offered to spare her if she revealed her secrets.
• Aburame Tetsumaru ordered the other Advents to withdraw while Otsutsuki Kaguya acknowledged that Urashiki’s knowledge gave him an advantage in combat.
• Otsutsuki Urashiki threatened to kill Aburame Tetsumaru and the others, so Tetsumaru attacked him and noticed that time had reversed before the blow landed.
• Aburame Tetsumaru repeatedly attacked Urashiki across successive reversals, retaining his memories and confirming that Urashiki’s body also returned to an uninjured state.
• Otsutsuki Urashiki realized Tetsumaru could retain experience through time reversals, and Tetsumaru told him he had learned to use the ability by watching him.

Aburame Tetsumaru and Ōtsutsuki Urashiki fought through thousands of time rewinds before continuing their battle across the Shinobi World. Urashiki transformed into a birdlike form after Tetsumaru pushed him to his limit.

• Aburame Tetsumaru and Ōtsutsuki Urashiki exhausted themselves in repeated time-rewind exchanges, and Urashiki broke free by accepting controlled injuries.
• Aburame Tetsumaru stabilized his disrupted Chakra circulation while Ōtsutsuki Urashiki recovered with an Elixir, and the two resumed their fight after exchanging threats.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and Ōtsutsuki Urashiki vanished into a battle spanning the Shinobi World while Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and Eighth Master pinned Ōtsutsuki Kishiki and the Advents captured puppets.
• Torch Dragon watched footage of the time-rewind battle, eager to learn the ability that Aburame Tetsumaru had picked up during combat.
• Aburame Tetsumaru gained the advantage as Urashiki’s attacks became uncontrolled, and Urashiki transformed into a new birdlike form.

Aburame Tetsumaru battled Otsutsuki Urashiki across the Shinobi World, using psychokinesis, spatial gateways, and control of the ocean to wear him down. After deploying the Sun Prism, Tetsumaru repeatedly struck Urashiki as he fled, leaving Urashiki wounded and vowing revenge.

• Otsutsuki Urashiki transformed and attacked Aburame Tetsumaru, who repelled him with psychokinesis and Bio-Armor.
• Urashiki and Tetsumaru opened spatial gateways across Forest Country, causing their powers to disrupt space and devastate the forest before Urashiki was spotted in the Land of Earth.
• Tetsumaru pursued Urashiki to the ocean, trapped him in seawater, and severed his leg when Urashiki escaped through a collapsing Portal.
• After Urashiki attacked with his fishing rod, Tetsumaru used the Sun Prism to concentrate sunlight and sever Urashiki's right arm.
• Urashiki fled through Portals toward the night zone, but Tetsumaru struck him with refracted sunlight each time he emerged.
• Urashiki transformed again, admitted defeat, and vowed to drain Tetsumaru's Chakra and refine him into an Elixir.

Aburame Tetsumaru defeated and sealed Otsutsuki Urashiki, though Urashiki revealed that time-based clones and the hidden tool Karasuki might let him revive in another timeline. The chapter then followed Zenith Civilization’s cleanup and relief efforts after Urashiki’s attacks devastated the Shinobi World, leaving hundreds of thousands dead.

• Aburame Tetsumaru and the Insect Swarm overwhelmed Urashiki, who tried to catch Tetsumaru with his fishing rod before Tetsumaru used their connection to tear off Urashiki’s arms and lower body and seal him.
• Torch Dragon explained that Urashiki had used temporal clones as a gamble, while Urashiki claimed he could revive with help from Karasuki, which he had hidden.
• Torch Dragon told Urashiki that Guishi was dead and that Warhammer held his Kama, then dismissed Urashiki’s claim that Warhammer had died fighting Otsutsuki Kishiki.
• The Advent cleared damaged battlefields and addressed environmental hazards, including a spreading desert in Forest Country and collapsed mountains in the Land of Earth.
• Urashiki’s attacks had devastated cities and caused at least three hundred thousand casualties, while Tetsumaru had refused to divert from the fight to protect individual cities in order to avoid giving Urashiki leverage.
• Zenith Civilization organized disaster relief and restoration, while insects captured looters and troublemakers for trial and execution.

Aburame Tetsumaru had four Otsutsuki Urashiki Time Clones studied and tested, then tried to contain their Kama after they reached the ends of their lifespans. The Kama escaped through the Mother Hive and broadcast Urashiki’s information, while four more Kama waves appeared across the Shinobi World.

• Aburame Tetsumaru punished sanctimonious critics by binding them with Physical Shackles that made their own moral standards cause them pain.
• Aburame Tetsumaru gathered the Advents to study Otsutsuki Urashiki, confirmed he was a decaying Time Clone, and ordered the group to extract as much information as possible.
• Torch Dragon and Uchiha Itachi used Genjutsu to freeze the final second of four Urashiki Time Clones, allowing the Advents to experiment on them.
• Aburame Tetsumaru brought the four bodies to a radiation-proof room in the Land of Tea, where the clones died and their Kama emerged and conflicted.
• The surviving Kama dodged Aburame Tetsumaru’s Psychokinetic Hand, penetrated the Mother Hive, and broadcast information as four more Kama waves appeared across the Shinobi World.

Aburame Tetsumaru prioritized a Customs System to protect the Shinobi World from future Otsutsuki incursions, while Otsutsuki Urashiki secretly implanted his Kama in Sarutobi Kazuma. Elsewhere, Katsuyu and the oldest Tree Herder Treasure Tree reflected on how their relationship began in battle.

• The four Kamas fled into the most populated regions of the Shinobi World, and Dice failed to find the real one after months of searching.
• Aburame Tetsumaru made the Customs System Zenith Civilization’s top priority to block infiltration and limit damage from future attacks.
• Otsutsuki Urashiki possessed Sarutobi Kazuma, disguised himself as a god, and promised to grant the boy power to avenge his grandfather, Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Sarutobi Kazuma accepted Urashiki’s teachings, while Urashiki planned to spend ten years learning the secrets of Aburame Tetsumaru and Zenith Civilization.
• Great Sage Katsuyu ate trees on the sixth planet of the Tree Herder Galaxy as the oldest Treasure Tree praised the forest’s renewed growth.
• The Treasure Tree recalled attacking the slugs when he first found them devouring trees, and the Tree Herders and slugs began communicating through battle.

Katsuyu fought the Tree Herders for months, and they discovered that forests she ate could regrow naturally with exceptional vitality. Treasure Tree decided to stop the attacks and offer her a forest to test the miracle again, and Katsuyu rushed out to feast.

• Katsuyu battled Treasure Tree’s forests and Treants, using her slime, acid, and ability to split apart to survive their attacks.
• The war expanded to include the Tree Herders’ other Ancient Trees and forces, while the Mother Hive grew to over two thousand meters tall and produced insects at nearly thirty times its normal rate.
• The Tree Herders discovered that a forest Katsuyu had eaten had regrown with healthy trees that propagated naturally, revealing a possible solution to their civilization’s expansion limits.
• The six Ancient Trees concluded that Katsuyu was different from the insects that had once devastated their forests, and Treasure Tree ordered the Tree Herders to withdraw and give her another forest.
• After the Tree Herders withdrew, Katsuyu waited only half an hour before rushing into the forest and eating a large tree.

Katsuyu and the Tree Herders ended their war after her Chakra caused new saplings to grow from the roots of the trees she ate, and Treasure Tree befriended her to study the effect. By sharing his memories, Treasure Tree revealed how the Ancient Trees had defeated the Otsutsuki Clan by fighting in their true forms as vast, planet-spanning Lava Slimes.

• After saplings sprouted from the eaten trees, Treasure Tree approached the overfed Katsuyu and used a Telepathy Gem while she summoned a translation Bug so they could communicate.
• Treasure Tree told Katsuyu she could eat freely because her Chakra made the trees grow back, and Katsuyu agreed to let him study the process as a friend.
• Katsuyu explained that her Senjutsu Chakra healed plants, and Treasure Tree recognized the Otsutsuki in images she showed him and recounted how his people had fought them.
• Treasure Tree gave Katsuyu a branch containing his memories, and she merged her overwhelmed small clone into her larger body to receive them.
• Katsuyu witnessed Treasure Tree and other Ancient Trees fighting the Otsutsuki as enormous Lava Slimes, hurling mountains and overwhelming the Ten-Tails and its allies.

Katsuyu reunited with Jupiter after sleeping for eighteen months in the Tree Herder Galaxy, where her appetite and growth made her a precious ally to the Tree Herders. She chose to stay and cultivate their Source Energy so she could pursue Shedding Mortal advancement, while Jupiter prepared to travel onward.

• The Tree Herders developed powerful Treant weapons after past wars, and Katsuyu realized she had been fortunate not to fight them.
• After eating and sleeping for over a month, Katsuyu gained 120 tons, sent an alert split body to communicate, and fell asleep beneath the Mother Hive as the Tree Herders guarded her.
• Jupiter arrived to check on Katsuyu, summoned a split body to prove their connection, and learned that she had spent eighteen months away from Star Sea Hall.
• Jupiter and Katsuyu reported her experiences to Aburame Tetsumaru and the other Advents, then Jupiter took over communications with the Tree Herders.
• Katsuyu said she wanted to remain in the Tree Herder Galaxy and explained that balancing Source Energy with Natural Energy and Chakra could enable her Shedding Mortal transformation.
• Jupiter accepted that Katsuyu's advancement could demonstrate that Shedding Mortals were not isolated cases, while he began building a Heavenly Transfer Gate to travel to the next galaxy.

The Zenith Civilization advanced construction of the Planet Fortress, completing its first Yellow Crystal Armor layer and improving production enough to keep the project within its twenty-year plan. Aburame Tetsumaru also ordered a Space Grid network built, leaving the civilization preparing to expand it across the Six-String Star System.

• Alchemy and Six completed the first flawless Yellow Crystal Armor layer after repeated failures with melting, magnetic turbulence, and crystallization.
• Man of Culture, Dragon Heart, Cannon, Paratrooper, Eighth Master, Cosmos Bearer, other Advents, and the Celestials arrived as construction began on the Planet Fortress and the Dyson Ring.
• The workers divided the armor into sections and assembled them in parallel, eventually raising production to fifty to fifty-five layers per day.
• Grand Yang Fish outlined the fortress's Chakra-based weapons, Void Oar propulsion, and Space Grid teleportation system, which could also transport Chakra.
• Aburame Tetsumaru ordered the Space Grid built across the Shinobi World and Dyson Ring, and decided to move Purple Thunder Star's God Tree onto the Dyson Ring to supply Chakra.
• After the Dyson Ring's Space Grid worked, construction began on the connection to the Shinobi World's orbital path, and Eighth Master pushed to expand the network into a star-system defense grid.

Otsutsuki Momoshiki learned through Urashiki’s Kama that Kaguya had reached Kekkei Mōra and a human had surpassed the Otsutsuki, but a hidden rule altered his memories and sent him to build an army instead of retreating. Meanwhile, Jupiter continued searching for Katsuyu and waited for a new spaceship while constructing a Heavenly Transfer Gate.

• Otsutsuki Momoshiki learned that Urashiki had died and that Kaguya had become Kekkei Mōra, then panicked at evidence that a human’s power surpassed the Otsutsuki.
• A hidden program cleansed and altered Momoshiki’s emotions and memories, causing him to dismiss the warning and plan to assemble an army before attacking the Shinobi World.
• Momoshiki healed Kinshiki with an Elixir and departed with him to gather an army, while other Otsutsuki received altered intelligence and began approaching the Shinobi World in staggered waves.
• Jupiter discovered that Katsuyu had divided herself into palm-sized Little Katsuyu and that the Mother Hive had starved after gathering resources to sustain its growth.
• Jupiter learned that Katsuyu was reassembling and continued building a Heavenly Transfer Gate while waiting for a faster new spaceship.

Jupiter struggled to find enough asteroid resources to build the Heavenly Transfer Gate, while the Ancient Trees discovered that Katsuyu’s new trees were producing a promising new energy. The discovery gave the Tree Herder Civilization hope for advancement and more members, and War and Treasure Tree resolved to maintain contact with the Zenith Civilization.

• Jupiter struggled to mine scarce resources on asteroids and meteors because the Tree Herders would not allow mining on their planets.
• Treasure Tree explained that the Tree Herders were Source Energy lifeforms and that Ancient Trees emerged from the resonant consciousness of many Tree Herders.
• Treasure Tree and the Ancient Tree of War sensed an Otsutsuki’s death in the direction of Katsuyu and the human, and recognized the signal from the Kama.
• Treasure Tree told War that Katsuyu’s new saplings were producing an unfamiliar power alongside Source Energy, which might suit the Tree Herders.
• Treasure Tree and War considered the discovery a possible answer to the civilization’s stagnation and lack of new members, and War became too excited to speak.

The Tree Herders learned that Katsuyu’s vitality could enable their forests and civilization to expand, but they chose to delay expansion until the Seventh Ancient Tree was born. Treasure Tree confirmed that the Otsutsuki Clan was approaching and expected it to arrive in about twenty years, leaving the Tree Herders to build a relationship with Katsuyu while preparing to assess the threat.

• Treasure Tree and War replanted forgotten tree species to entice Katsuyu, but Orc-selected scents made some trees foul-smelling even though Katsuyu found them delicious.
• Treasure Tree told Katsuyu that the Seventh Ancient Tree was gestating and credited the vitality she brought with helping the Tree Herders’ forests regenerate.
• The Ancient Tree of Wisdom urged the Tree Herders to wait before expanding, and Treasure Tree agreed that they should wait for the Seventh Ancient Tree’s birth.
• Treasure Tree revealed that he had sensed distant malice and later confirmed that it came from the Otsutsuki Clan.
• The Ancient Trees recalled the destructive cost of fighting the Otsutsuki and decided to wait for more information, build a good relationship with Katsuyu, and make no other plans for the next twenty years.

Jupiter discovered that Treasure Tree was concealing the Otsutsuki threat to draw the Zenith Civilization into a joint war, so Aburame Tetsumaru and the Advents agreed to openly negotiate an alliance with the Tree Shepherd Civilization. Tetsumaru prepared to travel with Kaguya and Hinata, leaving Warhammer to guard against Hagoromo, and then took Kaguya to restore the Ten-Tails on an island.

• Jupiter used Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Heart Net to read a fragment of Treasure Tree's thoughts and learned that the Otsutsuki Clan's return had been confirmed.
• Jupiter explained that Treasure Tree hoped to force the Zenith Civilization into fighting alongside the Tree Shepherd Civilization, and he proposed a formal alliance led by the Zenith Civilization.
• The Advents agreed to reveal their strength and negotiate with the Tree Herders, while deciding that Konoha was too divided and weak to serve as an ally.
• Aburame Tetsumaru chose to lead the diplomatic mission with Otsutsuki Kaguya and Hyuga Hinata, and Warhammer agreed to defend against Hagoromo if he appeared.
• After the meeting, Aburame Tetsumaru and Kaguya went to the Land of Tea, where Kaguya released the Ten-Tails and planted it on a southern island to recover.