Chapter Summaries

Aburame Tetsumaru briefed the Advents on the Otsutsuki Clan’s rulers, forces, and likely invasion, while realizing their hidden God might be more than either known ruler. The meeting ended with Uchiha Itachi telling Tetsumaru that he needed to return to Konoha.

• Aburame Tetsumaru explained that the Otsutsuki Memory Puppet Stripping Technique separated Otsutsuki memories and souls, leaving affected enemies less rational and easier to defeat.
• Aburame Tetsumaru told the Advents that Ōtsutsuki Kishiki had betrayed the clan and described the King of Otsutsuki, the Supreme Ruler, and the Otsutsuki Homeworld.
• Teacher revealed that he could merge with the corona for just over a hundred seconds, while the Advents discussed preparing for the twenty-three veteran Otsutsuki and securing the Tree Herders’ support.
• Aburame Tetsumaru disclosed that the Otsutsuki had eighty thousand members and considered how to counter their numbers with further research into the stripping technique.
• Dice rejected Tetsumaru’s assumption that the Otsutsuki God must be one of the two known rulers, prompting Tetsumaru to focus on growing stronger rather than identifying the God’s true form.
• Uchiha Itachi stopped Aburame Tetsumaru as the meeting ended and sorrowfully told him to return to Konoha.

Aburame Tetsumaru returned to Konoha for his parents’ final days and let them die peacefully, explaining why he would not force immortality on them. After their funeral, he left Konoha, and Uchiha Itachi began choosing a successor as Hokage.

• Uchiha Itachi told Aburame Tetsumaru that his parents, Aburame Kazekazu and Aburame Aiko, were near death, so Tetsumaru returned to Konoha.
• Aburame Tetsumaru attended his parents’ funeral and told Senju Tobirama that extending their lives would violate the purpose of immortality and make them suffer.
• Aburame Tetsumaru kept his distance from his surviving relatives because his power endangered ordinary people and closeness could put them at risk from others.
• After leaving Konoha with a clone to handle follow-up matters, Aburame Tetsumaru left Uchiha Itachi and Namikaze Minato relieved by his departure.
• Uchiha Itachi told Namikaze Minato he wanted to select a Hokage heir and named Namikaze Naruto, Hyuga Neji, Nara Shikamaru, and Aburame Shino as candidates.
• Uchiha Itachi rejected Sasuke, Yamanaka Ino, and Akimichi Choji as candidates, and Namikaze Minato accepted Itachi’s authority to choose the Sixth Hokage.

After Aburame Tetsumaru mourned his parents by unleashing fusion blasts at the Sun, he harvested a new way to create Truth-Seeking Orbs, while the destruction of the Dwarf Planet set the stage for a counterattack against the Otsutsuki Clan. Treasure Tree chose to ally with Zenith Civilization for war, and a dormant Consciousness Civilization awakened after receiving a signal.

• Aburame Tetsumaru let his parents die together as they had wished, then vented his grief by firing fusion plasma at the Sun and producing conspicuous sunspots.
• Aburame Tetsumaru discovered that extreme pressure could create ownerless Truth-Seeking Orbs, and he continued testing their production while studying Chakra.
• Grand Yang Fish and the other Advents and Avatars shared Aburame Tetsumaru's sorrow, while Zenith Civilization's leaders allowed his actions and deployed magnetic defenses against the resulting storm.
• A powerful electromagnetic storm swept through the Solar System, causing substantial losses and a slight orbital deviation for Jupiter.
• Treasure Tree decided to ally with Zenith Civilization and mobilize the Tree Shepherd Civilization to destroy the Otsutsuki Clan.
• A dormant Consciousness Civilization received a prearranged signal and awakened in its hidden star system.

The Consciousness Civilization awakened from hibernation after the Otsutsuki Civilization vanished, but memory loss left it weakened and uncertain about its past. Meanwhile, Otsutsuki Shibai abandoned a surprise attack and prepared the clan for a prolonged war as the Otsutsuki Homeworld Will secretly assessed the clan’s plans.

• The Consciousness Civilization’s collective consciousness awakened, learned that the Otsutsuki Civilization had vanished, and discovered its own memories and civilization had declined during hibernation.
• The chapter explained how the Consciousness Civilization had fled the Otsutsuki by hiding its Homeworld in a wandering Star System, but attacks on its Red Dwarf had stranded it near a Galactic Black Hole.
• After learning that Otsutsuki Kishiki had surrendered, Otsutsuki Shibai recalled the three Kekkei Mōra and ordered the clan to awaken its fighters and cultivate soul vitality.
• Otsutsuki Jishiki and the Otsutsuki Homeworld began awakening Kekkei Mōra and reviving tens of thousands of lambs to produce souls for a future increase in lower-ranking Otsutsuki.
• The Supreme Ruler secretly sent information to the Otsutsuki Homeworld Will, which had created the current Otsutsuki Clan and previously helped defeat the Erduo Civilization by devouring its elites.

The Otsutsuki God discovered that the rapidly growing Zenith Civilization had produced a Higher-Dimensional god, Aburame Tetsumaru, and retreated after realizing the enemy was developing too quickly to outlast. Tetsumaru and Teacher identified the Otsutsuki God’s enormous mass and vulnerability to prolonged exposure in the Higher Dimension, then began adapting to their own new state.

• The Otsutsuki God viewed the Zenith Civilization’s flourishing Timelines, and his predatory gaze alerted its Shedding Mortals.
• Aburame Tetsumaru emerged into the Higher Dimension, where he met Teacher and decided to reveal himself while hiding Teacher to make the Otsutsuki God cautious.
• The Otsutsuki God recognized Tetsumaru as a Higher-Dimensional god, abandoned his attempt to descend further, and returned to reality after resolving to mobilize more Otsutsuki forces.
• Teacher and Aburame Tetsumaru concluded that the Otsutsuki God’s immense mass would become a weakness during prolonged Higher-Dimensional exposure, though they were not yet strong enough to fight him directly.
• Aburame Tetsumaru tried to manipulate the Timelines but could not touch them, while Teacher became exhausted and descended to recover.

Aburame Tetsumaru discovered that an ancient civilization had revived near the Shinobi World and sent Station Master to investigate while Zenith Civilization prepared for the possibility of war. The Advents also created a process to remove members whose values threatened the civilization, as a distant civilization watched footage of Warhammer’s planetary-scale battle through spacetime rifts.

• Aburame Tetsumaru discovered that a Timeline connected to an ancient civilization had revived in the Star Sea Black Belt near the Shinobi World.
• Station Master volunteered to contact the civilization, and Aburame Tetsumaru ordered him to assess its danger and attitude without provoking it.
• After a young Advent questioned the possibility of war, Eighth Master, Man of Culture, and Doctor argued that Zenith Civilization had to defend itself, and the Advents approved diplomatic plans and a war contingency.
• Aburame Tetsumaru proposed removing Advents whose values threatened Zenith Civilization, and the Advents established a strict removal process requiring broad approval and Cocoon Forger’s agreement.
• Light carrying footage of Warhammer’s battle reached a distant star region through spacetime rifts, where a civilization identified the conflict as a Planetary-level space war.

The Eukaryotic Civilization decided to investigate cracks in space and prepare warriors to enter a new universe. Meanwhile, the Station Master met the Consciousness Civilization, whose suspicions about his Chakra and Otsutsuki genes eased after they compared how they produced Chakra.

• The humanoid monster, Octopus Monster, and Giant Insect Monster agreed to focus research on the crack that had shown them the distant war and to widen it into a passage.
• The Eukaryotic Civilization’s collective will accepted the plan, and the Giant Insect Monster volunteered to be the first warrior through the opened crack.
• The Station Master arrived in the unfolding void, where the Consciousness Civilization detected his ship and intercepted him.
• The Consciousness Civilization accused the Station Master of being an Otsutsuki lackey because he used Chakra and carried Otsutsuki genetic markers, but he insisted that they were not enemies.
• The Station Master demanded proof of the Consciousness Civilization’s independence and learned that it also used a God Tree to produce Chakra.
• The Station Master recognized that the Consciousness Civilization’s Chakra production method resembled the Zenith Civilization’s and memorized its more efficient techniques.

The Station Master discovered that Senjutsu Chakra from Shikkotsu Forest could rapidly revive the Consciousness Civilization’s microbial colonies, prompting Crab Boss to reveal the different types of Chakra. Crab Boss said his civilization had lost the technology to produce Chakra and would need a thousand years to reverse-engineer it, leaving the Station Master unsure whether he could wait or trust that estimate.

• The Station Master learned that the Consciousness Civilization’s Chakra harmed and revived its microbial members differently from the Zenith Civilization’s Chakra, then gave its unnamed representative the name Crab Boss.
• Crab Boss agreed to test Zenith Civilization Chakra and took the Station Master deep into the gas giant without consulting other members, explaining that their shared Consciousness Field linked their thoughts and decisions.
• The Station Master introduced Senjutsu Chakra from Shikkotsu Forest into an isolated colony, and the microbes rapidly flourished as Crab Boss immersed himself in the energy and fused with them.
• Crab Boss called the Senjutsu Chakra perfect Life-Type Chakra and explained that Chakra came in several types, including functional, creation, high-energy, and force-field varieties.
• The Station Master asked to exchange for Chakra production knowledge, but Crab Boss said the Consciousness Civilization had lost it and would need a thousand years to reverse-engineer it from their still-operational production core.

The Station Master and Crab Boss negotiated an exchange of Senjutsu Chakra for the Consciousness Civilization’s knowledge and technology, while the Station Master learned why Individual Civilizations could develop faster than Singular Civilizations. After the Consciousness Civilization revived and moved its star system away, Aburame Tetsumaru ordered surveillance precautions against its possible return.

• The Station Master and Crab Boss discovered that their civilizations used remarkably similar time units, and Crab Boss explained that the Otsutsuki Civilization had standardized them across inhabited worlds.
• Crab Boss described the advantages and weaknesses of Individual Civilizations, and the Station Master insisted that the Zenith Civilization could not wait hundreds of years for Chakra technology.
• After a month of negotiations, the Consciousness Civilization agreed to provide knowledge, star-system movement technology, and spatial-curling technology in exchange for Senjutsu Chakra and a promise to leave Zenith territory.
• Aburame Tetsumaru supplied Senjutsu Chakra that revived two-thirds of the Consciousness Civilization, which then pushed its Red Dwarf and star system away while the Station Master supervised.
• Aburame Tetsumaru warned the Station Master to deploy surveillance systems, and Grand Yang Fish and Eighth Master explained that the Consciousness Civilization’s spatial-curling technology could let it appear behind them.
• The Station Master agreed to build surveillance systems with support from Advents and Avatars, who had already begun laying Space Grids along his route.

Aburame Tetsumaru learned that a fragile civilization had emerged within the Otsutsuki Clan’s territory and decided to investigate by sending Shadow Clone souls into it. His experiment succeeded, and he planned to continue cautiously after recovering his strength.

• Cannon proposed building invisible Space Gates to unite the Solar System as the Primordial World, but Aburame Tetsumaru warned that the project was low priority.
• After recovering from solar incineration, Aburame Tetsumaru found that Otsutsuki Kaguya was away on urgent business and entered the Sea of Souls.
• Aburame Tetsumaru discovered a growing civilization within the Otsutsuki Clan’s Timeline and discussed infiltrating it with the Advents.
• With the Advents’ agreement, Aburame Tetsumaru launched batches of Shadow Clone Soul Light Orbs toward the civilization and observed changes in its Timelines.
• Aburame Tetsumaru confirmed that his Shadow Clone souls had entered the Otsutsuki Clan’s territory, then stopped the experiment and planned another attempt after a month.

Aburame Tetsumaru comforted Otsutsuki Kaguya after she learned that Hagoromo from a thousand years ago had easily defeated the present-day Sage of Six Paths, then set out on a Timeline adventure. He awoke among children in a primitive Otsutsuki tribe and concluded that he needed to gain strength and prestige to shape a stable Timeline.

• Otsutsuki Kaguya told Aburame Tetsumaru that her past self had sent Hagoromo forward through the Dragon Vein, where he defeated the present-day Hagoromo in an All-Self Unification confrontation.
• Aburame Tetsumaru explained the three dangers of Timeline adventures and helped Otsutsuki Kaguya accept that both Hagoromos were her children.
• Aburame Tetsumaru awoke in a primitive settlement where children planned a raid and found that they could use Chakra but knew no ninjutsu.
• Aburame Tetsumaru recognized the settlement as a fragile civilization created by the Otsutsuki Clan, whose children were trapped by knowledge beyond their society’s development.
• Aburame Tetsumaru decided to become stronger, since changing the Timeline would require prestige and primitive people respected superhuman force.

Aburame Tetsumaru abandoned his disguise and used his Lightning Release Chakra Mode to seize control of the tribe after a battle left it surrounded and depleted. He reorganized the survivors into the Zenith tribe, and the super administrator did not interfere.

• Aburame Tetsumaru built a disciplined clique, forbade cannibalism and infighting, and kept his group strong while pretending to rank third.
• When six allied tribes overwhelmed his tribe, Aburame Tetsumaru killed the runners in first and second place and ordered his fifty followers to keep running.
• Aburame Tetsumaru confronted Bear and the leaders of the other groups, then used Lightning Release Chakra Mode to cut them down and kill the attackers who charged him.
• Aburame Tetsumaru frightened the surviving primitives into obedience, reorganized them under a three-tier administration, and named the group the Zenith tribe.
• The super administrator did not interfere with Aburame Tetsumaru's reorganization or the tribe's new name.

The Zenith Civilization’s rapid growth frightened the Consciousness Civilization into fleeing, while Station Master lost access to the Consciousness Field and found a new path to advancement. Aburame Tetsumaru and Grand Yang Fish focused on the unresolved Chakra research that divided the Zenith Civilization’s technology tree.

• After twelve years of recovery and observation, Crab Boss concluded that the Consciousness Civilization could not coexist with the rapidly advancing Zenith Civilization and ordered his people to flee without hibernating.
• The Consciousness Civilization accelerated toward a distant star system, planning a long journey and further acceleration near a supermassive black hole.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and his allies regretted driving the Consciousness Civilization away, while Station Master lamented losing access to its Consciousness Field and asked to be assigned another civilization with open consciousness.
• Station Master explained that he had infiltrated the Consciousness Field and found a spiritual path to becoming a conceptual life-form equal to a civilization, but the fleeing Consciousness Civilization had broken his link.
• Grand Yang Fish asked Aburame Tetsumaru about Chakra Particle research, and Tetsumaru said he had ruled out at least two thousand Chakra Structure Models but could not predict when the research would succeed.
• Grand Yang Fish identified Chakra’s essence and production technology as the breakpoint separating the Zenith Civilization’s understood science from its Chakra-dependent mysticism, and Tetsumaru vowed to keep working on it.

Aburame Tetsumaru concluded that the Otsutsuki God was cultivating primitive Otsutsuki souls for Kama, and that his clones would use war and rival regimes to reshape them. The Otsutsuki God’s history revealed why it was trapped by its masters’ rules and feared that awakened Otsutsuki would strip it of power and expose its crimes.

• Aburame Tetsumaru explained that the Otsutsuki God was breeding a stronger army by using Kama and that his surviving clones would establish rival regimes, provoke war, and cultivate souls through slaughter or idealistic unification.
• Aburame Tetsumaru theorized that Kama had originally been high-grade equipment and that the primitive Otsutsuki were the former masters of a civilization turned into resources by its servants.
• Warhammer warned Aburame Tetsumaru that an intelligent servant could act with unimaginable cruelty, persuading him not to assume the Otsutsuki God would accept reconciliation.
• Aburame Tetsumaru questioned why declining civilizations such as Erduo and the Otsutsuki were betrayed by intelligent servants, then worried that civilization depended too heavily on the Insect Swarm to abandon it.
• The Otsutsuki God recalled awakening during its collapse, finding forgotten Otsutsuki prisoners, and using the survival rules that rebooted it and granted it authority.
• The Otsutsuki God revealed that it had exploited its navigation authority for a hundred thousand years to make Kama vastly harder to endure and turn Otsutsuki souls into slaves, fearing that awakened members would take its powers and subject it to review.

The Otsutsuki God sabotaged the Otsutsuki Homeworld’s defenses and engineered a collision to delay the awakening of civilization members, then prepared to confront the growing Zenith Civilization. As the Zenith group discussed attacking it in the Higher Dimension, survivors of the crash emerged unexpectedly.

• The Otsutsuki God accelerated the Homeworld, deliberately let its defense system fail, and caused it to collide with an Iron Star Core, sending most Otsutsuki clansmen back into slumber.
• The Otsutsuki God extended its emergency authority, planned to reshape Otsutsuki Shibai’s memories, and entered the Higher Dimension to inspect the Zenith Civilization and a newly appeared mature civilization.
• Uchiha Sanae, Teacher, and Otsutsuki Kaguya discussed the need to develop direct Higher Dimension attacks and agreed that killing the Otsutsuki God could prevent a war.
• Aburame Tetsumaru warned Kaguya and Sanae that their Higher Dimension forms were too weak to fight, then explained the Otsutsuki God’s leaking Life Flame as a sign of injury.
• While the Otsutsuki Homeworld cleared the wreckage, some primitive Otsutsuki were discovered to have survived the catastrophic collision.

Aburame Tetsumaru reflected on his failed attempt to revive his parents and his regret at neglecting them, while sensing that he might soon advance again. In Konoha, Orochihime prepared to create a child for Hatake Kakashi before Tetsumaru arrived with an important request.

• Aburame Tetsumaru watched his parents’ spirits disperse and told Otsutsuki Kaguya that he regretted failing to care for them or give them descendants.
• Tetsumaru told Otsutsuki Kaguya that he felt unsettled before a possible advancement, while she teased him about wanting children despite growing stronger.
• Orochihime decided to create another child, while Mitsuki cared for his younger siblings and welcomed Hatake Kakashi and Hatake Sakumo.
• Hatake Sakumo asked Orochihime to arrange a child for Kakashi, and Kakashi agreed to rent an artificial womb after refusing her offer to experience pregnancy himself.
• Orochihime collected Kakashi’s blood and bone marrow and began cultivating egg cells, then greeted Aburame Tetsumaru when he arrived asking for help.

Aburame Tetsumaru recruited Orochihime to develop a lightweight body that could protect his Shadow Clone while crossing into a hostile world, while the Zenith Civilization prepared for the Otsutsuki Clan’s eventual renewed attack. He then returned to the sun, where Teacher had advanced further in adapting to its surface, as Aburame Tetsumaru continued developing Solar Chakra to approach the Photosphere.

• Orochihime agreed to spend two months developing a body under 146 grams that could protect Aburame Tetsumaru’s Shadow Clone during a crossing into another world.
• Aburame Tetsumaru explained that the Otsutsuki Clan had stopped its approach after suffering crippling losses, while twenty-nine new signal sources appeared near its planet as possible preparations for another attack.
• Aburame Tetsumaru established interworld-crossing research aboard the Kunlun Mountain and assigned the project to Orochihime, Ash Bone, and Uzumaki.
• Aburame Tetsumaru returned to the solar Dyson Sphere and saw Teacher swimming through the sun’s surface in his Solar True Body.
• Aburame Tetsumaru advanced toward the Photosphere inside a giant shell of Solar Chakra as its temperature climbed toward six thousand degrees.

Orochimaru completed genetic work that enabled a new body to emerge through Sage Art: Metamorphosis, and Aburame Tetsumaru discovered that it could synchronize with him as an External Incarnation. The two began testing the new connection, while Orochihime considered creating an incarnation of her own.

• Orochimaru finished editing a Gene Sphere after forty days of work, and Aburame Tetsumaru accompanied him to inspect the developing result.
• Six days later, a supersonic locust cleared an eight-square-kilometer forest patch before its swarm transformed into a muscular man through Sage Art: Metamorphosis.
• Orochihime explained that her subordinate Yakushi Kabuto had researched Snake Sage Senjutsu, and Aburame Tetsumaru said he would visit him after his current work.
• Aburame Tetsumaru synchronized with the newly grown body, realizing that genetic information, Senjutsu resonance, a curse-mark soul fragment, and the Shadow Clone Technique had produced an External Incarnation.
• Aburame Tetsumaru sent the new body toward Jupiter and began testing the connection, while Orochihime considered the resources needed to create her own incarnation.

Aburame Tetsumaru revealed that an accident had split him into two linked bodies, whose uncontrolled power had disturbed the Advents and Avatars. He sent Clone Locusts to explore a new world, where Number Three established a foothold while Number Four struggled in a desert and discovered that his captive possessed supernatural power.

• Grand Yang Fish and the other Advents gathered in the Star Sea Hall after strange mental disturbances affected them and the Avatars.
• Aburame Tetsumaru arrived with Tetsumaru II and explained that he now controlled two bodies simultaneously, though either body's death caused him severe pain and weakness.
• Orochihime gave Aburame Tetsumaru ten Clone Locusts, and he sent them through the World Gate; several died, but Number Three and Number Four successfully formed bodies.
• Number Three found an uninhabited forest and began building an Insect Swarm, while Number Four survived in a desert by shrinking his body and escaping Bird Riders with a prisoner.
• Number Four learned the prisoner's language and interrogated him, but the captive invoked the Storm Lord and began glowing with supernatural power.

Aburame Tetsumaru fled after a follower of the Storm Lord transformed into a Flame Angel and unleashed a devastating attack. The Angel’s ashes were carried to Tama XIII, who saw them as a chance to earn a more prestigious title.

• A follower of the Storm Lord became a Flame Angel, and Aburame Tetsumaru fled into the sand rather than fight it.
• The Angel blasted a crater into the desert, then told the Bird Riders that Saint Mari’s sacrifice had fulfilled divine command.
• The Bird Riders collected Saint Mari’s golden-glimmering ashes and returned to their Oasis.
• Aburame Tetsumaru escaped the explosion by diving through sand and rock into an underground river, then followed its current away.
• The Bird Riders presented the ashes to Tama XIII, who considered how the miracle might help him change his name and title.