Chapter Summaries

Lord Tama’s offering of Saint Mari’s ashes passed through a corrupt church before reaching the Son of God, who reflected on the church’s decay and the Storm Lord’s failing faith. Meanwhile, Aburame Tetsumaru explained that his Insect Swarm had encountered gods based on a neutron star, and proposed attacking them through the New World.

• Lord Tama celebrated his new title, then delivered Saint Mari’s ashes to the High Priest, who concealed most of them and arranged an ornate golden grail.
• The Son of God received the ashes and recalled how corruption had resisted his purges, while the Storm Lord’s destructive faith and desertification weakened the church.
• The Storm Lord concluded that war might restore faith, as a greater conflict against the gods began to take shape.
• Aburame Tetsumaru told Otsutsuki Kaguya that the Sky God had discovered Number Three Tetsumaru’s satellite insects and fought the swarm from the God Star.
• Aburame Tetsumaru explained that the God Star was a neutron star with a white dwarf exterior, making direct attacks and Virtual Black Holes too dangerous to use.
• Aburame Tetsumaru proposed attacking the gods through the New World, forcing them into dormancy before finding a way to land on the neutron star.

Aburame Tetsumaru explained his plan to use the gods’ faith as a route to God Star, while Otsutsuki Kaguya feared for his safety. He reassured her that the gods’ world-ending attacks depended on a predictable asteroid cycle, leaving them to face each other with the next disaster still decades away.

• Otsutsuki Kaguya offered to help eliminate the gods’ believers, but Aburame Tetsumaru explained that the New World had hundreds of millions of faithful people.
• Aburame Tetsumaru revealed that he planned to use the faith channel to reach God Star, and Otsutsuki Kaguya tearfully warned him that entering the spirit world could kill him.
• After Aburame Tetsumaru explained how his thought cores, Avatars, and other anchors could help pull him back, Otsutsuki Kaguya remained worried, so he promised to weaken the gods before making his attempt.
• Aburame Tetsumaru explained that past world-ending disasters had been caused by asteroids guided from a recurring cluster, not by the gods’ direct power.
• Aburame Tetsumaru said the next asteroid crossing was still more than twenty years away, and Otsutsuki Kaguya teased him for having checked that it was safe before acting.

Aburame Tetsumaru fought the Gods through two Abyss Suppression Wars while the New World's armies and institutions changed under pressure. After deciding to end the struggle, he put Number Four in charge of a Serf rebellion in the strategically vital Red River Valley and prepared to face the Lords' armies directly.

• Aburame Tetsumaru used cheap, concealed Spy Satellite Insects to wage attrition against the Gods while the Insect Swarm defeated the first allied army and the better-organized second army.
• Adventurer squads harassed the Insect Swarm, while Dragon Knights attacked its bases until massive Alien Dragons curbed their raids.
• The Gods, nobles, and churches reorganized while preparing a third allied army, but Aburame Tetsumaru decided to stop playing with them.
• Number Three Tetsumaru promised Number Four logistical supplies, and Number Four launched a Serf rebellion in Red River Valley.
• When the Serf leaders urged him to retreat into the mountains, Aburame Tetsumaru declared that he would stand at the front of the coming battle.

Aburame Tetsumaru organized the serfs of Red River Valley into an uprising, captured all fourteen lordly territories, and struggled to build a government with the Awakened. When the new government distributed food as wages, the serfs began to trust that their lives could change.

• Aburame Tetsumaru spread new ideas among the serfs, and some became Awakened and resolved to overthrow the nobles by force.
• After the lords and their elite forces left for the Third Abyss Campaign, Aburame Tetsumaru and the Awakened captured all fourteen territories in one night.
• Aburame Tetsumaru used Shadow Clones to organize the new government, army, food distribution, and work despite the Awakened's lack of experience.
• The new government paid serfs with food, and they ate their fill and worked without resisting its orders.

Aburame Tetsumaru organized the new regime in Red River Valley, completing spring planting, building a Red Army, and preparing the Serfs to defend themselves against the Lords. As the Lords prepared to return, their mage concluded that Aburame Tetsumaru had used a large quantity of Explosive Element to collapse the roads.

• Aburame Tetsumaru reviewed the spring planting with the Awakened and assigned them to build houses while he focused on recruiting soldiers.
• Aburame Tetsumaru recruited eight thousand Serfs, armed them with bolt-action rifles, and began training them as the Red Army.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and Eighth Master trained the Red Army, which drilled before the Lords' Castles and frightened the region's overseers, clergy, and guards.
• The Red Army's patrols helped the new regime enforce its orders as the Lords outside the valley received fewer reliable reports from spies.
• A mage in a blue pointed hat told fourteen Lords that Explosive Element, rather than Aburame Tetsumaru's personal power, had collapsed the roads.

The Lords' army entered Red River Valley while its Mages secretly suspected that Aburame Tetsumaru might be connected to the Abyss and planned to flee when battle began. The two armies faced each other, and the Lords' professional soldiers grew hesitant before the disciplined Red Army.

• The three leading Lords dismissed the threat of Explosive Element, suspected an Abyssal infiltration, and agreed to kill all commoners to prevent evidence of contamination.
• Soyas showed the Mages the fine white residue from an explosion, and they concluded that Aburame Tetsumaru was a powerful unknown mage whose army might be tied to the Abyss.
• Soyas persuaded the Mages to follow the Lords into Red River Valley and wait for a chance to escape once the armies became locked in battle.
• The Lords' army cleared obstacles along the road and emerged into the valley, where it faced Aburame Tetsumaru and his silent, orderly force of 6,111 Red Army soldiers.
• The Red Army soldiers steadied themselves by watching Aburame Tetsumaru, while the Lords' professional soldiers hesitated at the prospect of dying to commoners without honor or reward.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s Red Army used rifles to rout the Lords’ coalition in the Red River Valley, then withdrew when Dragon Knights arrived. The Serfs rallied to the Red Army as a larger counterattack loomed, and its numbers surged to forty thousand.

• Aburame Tetsumaru ordered the Red Army to fire on the advancing Lords’ army, killing thousands and breaking its morale.
• The Red Army pursued the routed soldiers for twenty hours until Dragon Knights arrived, forcing Aburame Tetsumaru to retreat.
• Soyas’s Mages were caught in the rout, and only three of them escaped alive.
• A Prince began planning a counterattack with the gods’ blessing, while Aburame Tetsumaru prepared to expand the army and develop agriculture.
• Red Army soldiers told the Serfs about their victory and warned that the Lords would return, prompting the Serfs to rally to them.
• The Red Army grew from eight thousand to forty thousand soldiers in a few days.

Aburame Tetsumaru examined the Dragonfly Angel, a new tailed beast-type insect unit that could challenge the Gods’ Angels and give Red River Valley room to develop. He also armed and trained the Red Army with rockets, machine guns, and cannons, leaving its soldiers better equipped but still facing demanding training.

• Ash Bone and Dragon Heart introduced the Dragonfly Angel, which could use Tailed Beast Bombs and form a giant Chakra combat body, though its power and endurance had limits.
• Grand Yang Fish and Ash Bone debated replacing the Thunder Beast’s role with new tailed beast-inspired units, as Tetsumaru considered how the Dragonfly Angel could help Number Four Tetsumaru resist the Gods without exposing Number Three Tetsumaru’s plans.
• Aburame Tetsumaru gave Red Army veterans Portable Rocket Launchers and proved their power by having them blast through thick steel targets, after which the soldiers insisted on carrying both rockets and rifles.
• Tetsumaru selected fewer than two hundred elite soldiers from eight thousand to operate Short-barreled Cannons and Heavy Machine Guns, and their firepower impressed the new crews.
• The Red Army soldiers endured exhausting weapons training and lessons in writing, sustained by regular meals and meat that reminded them how much worse hunger had been.

Aburame Tetsumaru organized the Red Army to dig irrigation canals while preparing for a vastly larger enemy force, and considered attacking first. Meanwhile, Mage Soyas delivered captured weapons to the Mages Association, whose leaders discovered that producing rifles and ammunition at scale was prohibitively difficult.

• Aburame Tetsumaru forced the Serfs to cover their wheat seeds, raising the germination rate to sixty-five percent, then organized them into digging irrigation canals.
• Aburame Tetsumaru reassured the Red Army that their unity and new Rocket launchers and Heavy Machine Guns could overcome the enemy's Dragon Knights and larger numbers.
• Aburame Tetsumaru considered taking the initiative against the approaching enemy as the Soldiers returned to digging.
• Mage Soyas emerged from a month of interrogation and brought captured rifles and bullets to Archmage Nagrand and the Mages Association.
• Ent and the Mages reverse-engineered the bullets' materials and production method, identifying cellulose trinitrate as a key ingredient.
• Archmage Nagrand told Soyas that the Mages could produce weapons only in small numbers, with mithril needed for essential components, making the captured rifles far too expensive to equip large armies.

The noble coalition marched toward Red River Valley amid supply failures, disease, and disorder, while its leaders hoped to plunder the territory. Aburame Tetsumaru prepared to exploit the army’s disorganization and forced its scattered forces to assemble before he attacked.

• The Mages concluded that the weapons used by the Red River Valley rebels came from a civilization that relied on no magic power, and they discussed how they might evade future demands to manufacture weapons.
• The noble coalition grew to 190,000 men, while disease and food shortages weakened its troops and disorderly Soldiers devastated the Lords’ territories.
• The nobles began their advance in four routes, with the Lords of Red River Valley forced to serve as guides at the front.
• Aburame Tetsumaru assessed that the noble army could be defeated by striking its vanguard, but his officers lacked confidence to command separate forces of 20,000 men.
• Aburame Tetsumaru used flooded pits and artificial swamps at the road exits to slow the enemy and give its scattered troops time to assemble before his planned attack.

Aburame Tetsumaru faced the Furan Kingdom’s elite army and recognized that its king intended to annex the Red River Valley. As the Red Army began encircling the enemy, Aburame Tetsumaru summoned a meteor and ordered his artillery to destroy the kingdom’s Magic Conductors, leaving the battle’s opening exchange decisively in the cannons’ favor.

• Aburame Tetsumaru identified the Furan Kingdom’s six Magic Conductors and realized its king planned to seize the Red River Valley and expand his power.
• Aburame Tetsumaru ordered the Red Army’s center to advance slowly while its wings raced forward to encircle the Noble Army.
• The King of the Furan Kingdom ordered his heavy knights to advance and his Mages to fire the Magic Conductors at the Red Army’s flag.
• Aburame Tetsumaru used Outer Path: Tengai Shinsei to summon a meteor, then told his artillerymen to target the Magic Conductors.
• The Red Army’s airburst shells killed hundreds, damaged the Magic Conductors, and caused their lightning and frost attacks to fail amid further explosions.

After Tengai Shinsei killed the King of the Furan Kingdom, the Red Army repelled the Centaur charge and prepared for the arriving Dragons. The Dragons attacked, but Rocket fire struck down most of them, leaving the battle unresolved as twenty-five fell from the sky.

• Tengai Shinsei crushed the King of the Furan Kingdom and his royal guard, sending the Noble Army into chaos.
• The Centaur Chieftain led a charge at the Red Army, whose machine guns and rifles cut down the attacking Centaurs.
• Aburame Tetsumaru killed the stunned Centaur Chieftain with a Rocket Launcher as the Dragon Knights arrived.
• Forty Dragons formed up to sweep the Red Army with Dragon Breath, but Aburame Tetsumaru heard their plan and the soldiers readied their Rocket Launchers.
• The Dragons began their dive, and the Red Army fired Rockets that pierced their armor and brought twenty-five of them crashing to the ground.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s Red Army defeated the Noble Army in the Second Red River Valley Counter-Encirclement Campaign, killing dragons and capturing or routing the enemy. After deciding to expand the war across the continent, Aburame Tetsumaru turned to the early summer wheat harvest.

• Aburame Tetsumaru ordered the Red Army to finish off twenty-five grounded dragons, while fifteen escaped and seven Dragon Knights were captured.
• The Noble Army in the other two directions panicked and collapsed; Red Army soldiers herded the fleeing troops into a deadly crush that lasted until dawn.
• The two Grand Dukes leading the fourth route retreated after learning the other forces had been annihilated, escaping before the Red Army could intercept them.
• Aburame Tetsumaru decided to launch offensives in all four directions after spending two days clearing the battlefields.
• The Red Army and Serfs harvested wheat that had ripened two and a half months ahead of schedule.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s harvest and reforms convinced Red River Valley’s people that they were free, undermining the Agriculture God until he fell into slumber. Tetsumaru then declared war on the nobles and led the Red Army’s continent-wide expansion, but assassins killed over a hundred officers and slowed its advance.

• Red Army soldiers mocked Noble Army prisoners as the nobles labored, while Aburame Tetsumaru let determined prisoners kill themselves and failed to sell the survivors back to their families.
• After a bumper wheat harvest overwhelmed the warehouses, Aburame Tetsumaru ordered temporary granaries built and told the soldiers that their homes and grain belonged to them, leading them to accept that they were free.
• Red River Valley’s harvest and summer bean planting disproved the Agriculture God’s doctrines, and the resulting heretical thought weakened him until the Earth Mother Goddess put him to sleep.
• Aburame Tetsumaru declared that humanity had to win happiness by its own efforts and urged the Red Army to use its weapons against the nobles, then launched offensives across the continent.
• The Red Army’s Steam Boiler Steel Chariots overwhelmed the lords’ forces, while several gods aided the nobles but refrained from sending Angels to intervene directly.
• The God of Assassination sent assassins who killed more than a hundred Red Army officers, slowing the army’s advance.

Aburame Tetsumaru crushed the underworld’s networks, broke the God of Assassination’s influence, and rejected efforts to make him a king. He named the new regime the Red Dynasty, which began building its own industrial system before he unleashed capital to drive its development.

• Aburame Tetsumaru ordered a sweeping crackdown on businesses and transport routes, exposing and destroying the underworld’s hidden operations and slave-trading strongholds.
• Aburame Tetsumaru barred Red Army intelligence agencies from conducting assassinations and promoted the idea that assassination had no future; after its demigod favored one died, the God of Assassination fell asleep under the War Pantheon’s protection.
• Aburame Tetsumaru rejected the generals’ proposal to name him king, ordered the arrest of those who had encouraged it, and established the Red Dynasty with a central court above nineteen provinces.
• The Red Dynasty began developing independent industry, infrastructure, education, and open-pit mining across its vast territory.
• Aburame Tetsumaru oversaw the growth of factories and industrial cities, then released capital to propel the Red Dynasty’s development.

Aburame Tetsumaru continued building the New World's industrial and capitalist system while the Red Army fought the Dragons in the Shinobi World and captured one alive. After the Otsutsuki Clan revealed three enormous planets and Zenith Civilization tested the power of its four Stellar-class beings, the chapter left Zenith confident that it could destroy any enemy that came within range.

• Aburame Tetsumaru established the Red Dynasty's centralized government and advanced industrialization, letting the New World enter an economic boom.
• The Red Army defeated the Noble Army and fought the Dragons, eventually capturing a Dragon for Aburame Tetsumaru's research.
• Aburame Tetsumaru received a Level Three Alert and learned that three massive planets had appeared beside the Otsutsuki Clan's planet, while six more planetary embryos were being assembled.
• The Station Master and other Advents discussed how the Otsutsuki Clan's concealed spatial abilities suggested it was wary of Zenith Civilization.
• Aburame Tetsumaru, Teacher, Warhammer, and Eighth Master tested their Stellar-class powers, and Warhammer triggered a Gamma Ray Burst that devastated a planet.
• Zenith Civilization concluded that its Stellar-class beings could destroy the Otsutsuki Clan if it approached, and Aburame Tetsumaru returned his attention to developing the New World.

Politician warned Aburame Tetsumaru that Zenith Civilization was fracturing because the Shinobi World had become dependent and disconnected, leaving Tetsumaru to take responsibility for addressing the problem. Meanwhile, the Eukaryotic Civilization arrived through a Portal and encountered the Otsutsuki Clan, whose leaders planned to contact and potentially recruit them against Zenith Civilization; the Otsutsuki God had already replaced Otsutsuki Shibai.

• Politician told Aburame Tetsumaru that Zenith Civilization faced growing divisions and that the Shinobi World’s leadership and society had weakened under their rule.
• Aburame Tetsumaru agreed that the Shinobi World’s condition was partly his responsibility, while he and Politician ruled out provoking a war as a solution.
• The Eukaryotic Civilization moved its Dyson Sphere through a Portal and prepared its defenses when four Otsutsuki Planets approached.
• Otsutsuki Shibai proposed contacting the Eukaryotic Civilization and seeking an alliance against Zenith Civilization, while Otsutsuki Tensei questioned his changed behavior.
• The chapter revealed that the Otsutsuki God had killed Otsutsuki Shibai and was now acting in his place.

The Otsutsuki God took control of Otsutsuki Shibai's body as the Otsutsuki Clan approached an unknown insect civilization, while Zenith Civilization debated how to address stagnation and prepare for expansion. Aburame Tetsumaru persuaded Otsutsuki Kaguya to accept a riskier, more demanding future for young people, then began preparing to ask her for help.

• The Otsutsuki Clan's messenger and a warrior from the Eukaryotic Civilization confronted each other after discovering they could not understand one another and that the other side's envoy was an insect.
• On Jupiter, Station Master and Eighth Master proposed sending people across the universe to establish intelligence stations and gather information through the Spirit Sea.
• Aburame Tetsumaru concluded that material abundance and limited opportunities had made Zenith Civilization's people complacent, and he planned to reduce the Shinobi World's benefits while opening Timeline exploration to more people.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya agreed with Tetsumaru that young people should face greater risks, as she held Zetsu Kuro in his cat form.
• Tetsumaru hinted that he needed Kaguya's help, while Kaguya resolved not to let him persuade her into another dangerous assignment.

Aburame Tetsumaru brought Otsutsuki Kaguya into research on cross-world life transmission, making Zenith Civilization eager to avoid war while the Otsutsuki Clan and Eukaryotic Civilization fought over a Dyson Sphere. After the conflict shifted against the Otsutsuki, Otsutsuki Roku and Otsutsuki Shinten proposed ending the war and turning Eukaryotic Civilization against Zenith Civilization.

• Aburame Tetsumaru persuaded Otsutsuki Kaguya to resume research, and her Kama-linked knowledge gave Zenith Civilization hope of developing cross-world life transmission technology.
• Aburame Tetsumaru welcomed news that the Otsutsuki Clan had gone to war with Eukaryotic Civilization, since the conflict would keep them away while Zenith Civilization advanced its research.
• The Otsutsuki Clan attacked Eukaryotic Civilization for its life energy, but Eukaryotic combatants learned from battle and adapted their giant insect forces to fight the Otsutsuki.
• The Otsutsuki occupied Eukaryotic Civilization's Dyson Sphere, but their God Trees began gestating Chakra Fruits, their fighting strength declined, and Eukaryotic Civilization gained ground.
• Otsutsuki Roku and Otsutsuki Shinten reported that Eukaryotic forces blocked further advance beyond the Portal and proposed ending the war and allying with them against Zenith Civilization.

Uchiha Sanae successfully developed Star Road Navigation, allowing travel between star systems in seconds, and the Zenith Civilization began considering how to use it safely. The chapter left the new method poised to transform interstellar travel while the Space Grid remained as a dependable backup.

• Otsutsuki Shibai and the other Otsutsuki leaders agreed to free the Eukaryotic Civilization from its confined space so it would help them destroy the Zenith Civilization, while planning to exploit it afterward.
• Uchiha Sanae used the space and time distortions at the Solar System’s edge to attempt a new interstellar travel method she called Star Road.
• Uchiha Sanae and Grand Yang Fish arrived at the Star Sea Hall after 4.32 seconds, proving that Star Road Navigation worked and prompting the Zenith Civilization to envision rapid interstellar expansion.
• Politician asked Uchiha Sanae about Star Road’s risks, and she warned that travelers needed scouting and protection from obstacles, black holes, and dangerous neutron stars.
• Aburame Tetsumaru concluded that Star Road stations and Space Grids could improve safety and access, and decided to keep the Space Grid Zerg building the network as backup infrastructure.