Chapter Summaries

As Zenith Civilization withdrew its supplies and authority from the Shinobi World, rival groups consolidated power while the Advents tried to suppress the growing disorder. After months of uneasy calm, a gas explosion in East Sea Port City on March 6 triggered the long-feared riots.

• Zenith Civilization announced that it would end its supply of biological fertilizer, heavy machinery, and large Insect Swarms over four years, prompting the United Government, the Salvation Society, workers, and other factions to prepare for its withdrawal.
• In the Land of Hot Water, Politician, Weary Bird, and Butler captured a cult attempting to abduct people, and Weary Bird ordered the captured cultists executed to deter further unrest.
• Zenith Civilization ended its control of the Shinobi World at the start of the new year, but the lingering fear of the executions kept ambitious groups from acting for two months.
• On March 6, a gas explosion in East Sea Port City was mistaken for the first strike, and rioters armed with weapons and Explosive Tags launched the Shinobi World's great riot.

Riots and infrastructure failures shattered the United Government, returning the Shinobi World to fragmented rule. Meanwhile, a near-miss Gamma Ray Burst prompted Zenith Civilization to plan an emergency defense system, and its recorded light revealed a battle between the Otsutsuki Clan and an unknown Insect Swarm civilization.

• Nara Shikaku discovered that the United Government's supposed nine-battalion mobile force consisted of only Aburame Torune's 335 Jonin, then ordered Torune to withdraw as eleven cities revolted.
• Riots and disasters rapidly dismantled the United Government, which retreated to the Capital of Fire, Konoha, and nearby territory before the Shinobi World broke into independent regimes.
• Floods and storms devastated regions after Zenith Civilization's infrastructure failed, while the Salvation Society's territory and sealed Rōran remained stable.
• A nearby Gamma Ray Burst narrowly missed the Shinobi World, and Aburame Tetsumaru ordered Eighth Master to lead construction of an emergency defense system for the Shinobi World and nearby celestial bodies.
• The Advent reconstructed the Gamma Ray Burst's recorded data and observed the Otsutsuki Clan's Ten-Tails being pursued by unknown warships and a silicon-shelled Insect Swarm.
• The Advent concluded that the Insect Swarm civilization had triggered the Dyson Sphere's star to erupt, crippling the structure and enabling its counterattack against the Otsutsuki Clan.

Zenith Civilization used Dice’s luck to infer that the Otsutsuki Clan and the unknown Insect Swarm civilization had reconciled, leaving Aburame Tetsumaru to prepare for a possible joint attack. Eukaryotic Civilization escaped its sealed star region after a devastating war, while the Otsutsuki God planned to exploit the Shinobi World’s life-ascension method and treated the Otsutsuki Clan as expendable.

• Aburame Tetsumaru asked Dice to guess the war’s outcome, and Dice rolled eleven, which meant the Otsutsuki Clan and the Insect Swarm civilization had made peace.
• Dice broke his leg in an extraordinarily unlikely accident, confirming to the Advent that his guess had probably been correct and leaving Aburame Tetsumaru worried about morale and war preparations.
• Eukaryotic Civilization transferred its fourth Dyson Sphere through a spacetime gate and escaped the cosmic prison after losing two Dyson Spheres and a third of its population.
• Otsutsuki Senzō, Otsutsuki Ankō, Otsutsuki Shinten, and Otsutsuki Roku discussed the shortage of God Trees as the Otsutsuki Clan struggled to equip its revived members.
• The Otsutsuki God, speaking through Otsutsuki Shibai, resolved to attack the civilization that had caused Kaguya’s rebellion, seeking its life-ascension method and resources while treating the Otsutsuki Clan as consumable tools.

Eukaryotic Civilization used relentless stellar bombardments to destroy the Otsutsuki Clan’s captured Dyson Sphere and trap the Otsutsuki in a population-attrition battle at the Spacetime Corridor. As the Otsutsuki began deploying their planetary weapons, Eukaryotic Civilization’s combatants prepared to launch an assault.

• Eukaryotic Civilization devastated the Otsutsuki’s captured Dyson Sphere with a fourteen-month barrage, forcing the Otsutsuki Clan out of the sealed region and into the Spacetime Corridor.
• Eukaryotic Civilization blocked the corridor with its star and used automated fleets and saturated fire to inflict heavy losses on the Otsutsuki, whose numbers fell to seventeen thousand.
• Otsutsuki Shinten urged a retreat, but Otsutsuki Shibai revealed that the Otsutsuki Homeworld held weapons that could change the war.
• The six Kekkei Mōra agreed to use their captured Dyson Sphere ecosystem and Otsutsuki Planets to defeat Eukaryotic Civilization, and they considered expanding the Clan and possibly accepting Otsutsuki Kaguya back.
• The Otsutsuki moved their six planets and rock-puppet planets toward the corridor exit, aiming their planetary weapons at Eukaryotic Civilization.
• Eukaryotic Civilization’s centipede-shaped combatant leader ordered an assault and volunteered to command the first warship, while the chief researcher and manufacturer leader prepared to support the attack.

The Eukaryotic Civilization launched a final campaign to destroy the Dyson Sphere occupied by the Otsutsuki Clan, granting its warriors authority to ignite the star. The nineteenth warrior leader triggered a supernova that shattered the occupied sphere and devastated the Otsutsuki forces, driving them to retreat as the third Dyson Sphere emerged from the passage.

• The Eukaryotic Civilization sent its warriors and fleet through the narrow passage to assault the occupied Dyson Sphere, accepting heavy losses.
• The nineteenth warrior leader broke through the Otsutsuki defenses, reached the Dyson Sphere's main control center, and ordered six million energy-storage devices into the star.
• The energy-storage devices detonated in the star's Convection Zone, setting off a chain reaction and a massive stellar eruption.
• The eruption shattered the occupied Dyson Sphere, devastated the six Otsutsuki Planets, and killed four thousand Otsutsuki who had not escaped to the Otsutsuki Homeworld.
• The Otsutsuki Clan retreated when the third giant Dyson Sphere emerged from the passage, ending the campaign.

The Advent debated why the Eukaryotic Civilization and the Otsutsuki Clan would ally, then focused on the Zenith Civilization’s defenses and the Primordial World project. Torch Dragon reported that the project’s temporal-spatial displacement was safe for humans, but Alchemy’s first giant Portal failed its initial transmission.

• Politician and the other Advent struggled to explain Dice’s prediction that the Eukaryotic Civilization and the Otsutsuki Clan would join forces, until Orochihime suggested an Otsutsuki leader might act against the clan’s interests.
• Aburame Tetsumaru dismissed further speculation, while Paratrooper and Grand Yang Fish reassured the Advent that the Zenith Civilization could defend itself and prepare for either the Otsutsuki Clan’s rapid arrival or a slower joint advance.
• Aburame Tetsumaru asked Torch Dragon whether the temporal-spatial misalignment in the Primordial World link had been resolved, and Torch Dragon confirmed the remaining displacement was safe for humans.
• The Advent reviewed how Alchemy’s Primordial World plan would link life-bearing planets through stable Portals, using space worms and the Space Grid to track changing celestial positions.
• Alchemy built the first Portal between the Shinobi World and Purple Thunder Star, but its first transmission failed.

Alchemy and Torch Dragon redesigned the failed Portal into transport force fields, and Aburame Tetsumaru raised the Primordial Plan to top priority, envisioning a Thirty-Three Heavens system linking worlds. As the Advents discussed the Shinobi World’s collapse into war, they learned that Kakashi was fighting near Konoha and that the conflict had become deadly even for powerful ninjas.

• Alchemy discovered that time differences caused persistent Portals to tear matter apart, so Torch Dragon helped replace the design with pillar-style spatial force fields.
• Aburame Tetsumaru approved construction of transport force fields linking the Shinobi World and Purple Thunder Star and elevated the Primordial Plan’s priority.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and Torch Dragon likened the planned network of connected worlds to the Thirty-Three Heavens and discussed its role in unifying and advancing Zenith Civilization.
• Weary Bird explained that the Land of Water had descended into chaos after former serfs and educated managers recreated the abuses of the old ruling classes.
• Senju Hashirama and Hatake Sakumo worried about casualties as the Advents learned that Kakashi was fighting near Konoha amid widespread heavy weapons and lethal battlefield fire.

Senju Hashirama learned that the battle in the Land of Fire could decide the war, while Aburame Tetsumaru urged him not to interfere. On the battlefield, Namikaze Naruto scouted the encirclement of Konoha and upheld his promise not to attack within ten kilometers of the city, even as the Allied Forces exploited that restriction.

• Weary Bird told Senju Hashirama that a Salvation Society victory in the Land of Fire would give its industrialization faction a decisive advantage, and Aburame Tetsumaru warned Hashirama to wait without interfering.
• Namikaze Naruto used Wind Eye to scout a devastated battlefield, evaded an incoming bombardment with Shadow Leap, and observed Konoha from the air.
• Naruto returned toward his command headquarters after confirming that the Salvation Society's encirclement of Konoha remained stable.
• Naruto maintained the siege rather than attacking Konoha, seeking to draw out enemy reinforcements while sparing the city and protecting the Salvation Society's credibility.
• Naruto convinced Salvation Society troops to honor the ten-kilometer boundary around Konoha, arguing that breaking the promise would let their enemies destroy the city and blame them.
• After confirming the Salvation Society would not cross the boundary, the Allied Forces—including troops from the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning—exploited the restriction to win several major victories.

The Salvation Society encircled Konoha, deterred the nations with its Wood Release forces, and later survived as a besieged remnant by rebuilding in the Land of Tea. As war and corruption drove millions of workers and their families to seek refuge there, Namikaze Naruto expanded and transformed the Society to unite the sixteen million people in the Land of Tea.

• The Salvation Society encircled Konoha after more than two months of fighting, then intercepted reinforcements instead of attacking the village.
• The Salvation Society bred a large force of Wood Dragons and Wood Golems, and Namikaze Naruto announced that it would retaliate against every nation if any side used Wood Release Insects.
• After the nations turned against the Salvation Society and its membership fell to barely over a hundred, Namikaze Naruto established a foothold in the abandoned Land of Tea.
• The nations' leaders and managers exploited workers, driving refugees toward the Land of Tea as industrial systems collapsed and millions died or were displaced.
• The Salvation Society took in more than three million workers and their families, expanding from fewer than two hundred members to twenty thousand in eighteen days.
• Namikaze Naruto transformed the expanded Society's members and united the sixteen million people in the Land of Tea.

As the Salvation Society gained an overwhelming advantage in the war, Darui and the allied nations struggled to accept Namikaze Naruto’s success, while Aburame Tetsumaru insisted the Shinobi World must choose its own future. Meanwhile, construction began on the first Primordial Plan sky-supporting pillar in the Country of Roran, and Torch Dragon challenged Aburame Tetsumaru to master chakra-particle technology before dreaming of black-hole connections.

• The Salvation Society’s swarms, strong logistics, and careful rear-area security gave it a decisive military edge, while shortages drove allied soldiers to loot civilians.
• Darui read Namikaze Naruto’s openly shared campaign plans and angrily wondered why his own people could not achieve the same results.
• Tenten completed the first Alien Dragon at the Mother Hive, and Aburame Tetsumaru declared the war’s outcome decided but rejected ending it before the Shinobi World completed its transformation.
• Aburame Tetsumaru ordered the Advents to observe without interfering as their extended tentacles withdrew from the Battle of Konoha.
• Construction began on a one-kilometer-wide sky-supporting pillar in the Country of Roran, the first under the Primordial Plan.
• Torch Dragon mocked Aburame Tetsumaru’s ambitions for connecting black holes and demanded that he first explain gluon editing in Chakra Particles.

Zenith Civilization advanced its Chakra research and deployed Stellar Cannon arrays while Uchiha Itachi established Genjutsu as his chosen path and traveled to meet the Tree Herder Ancient Tree. Itachi reached Tree Herder Third Planet, where Katsuyu discussed her newly acquired magic with Treasure Tree.

• Zenith Civilization confirmed Aburame Tetsumaru’s model of Chakra Particles and began replacing old-version Chakra with imprinted Chakra.
• Zenith Civilization sent Stellar-level combatants, including White Fang, to eight stars to build Stellar Cannon arrays, while Uchiha Sanae and Torch Dragon remained only partial Stellar-level fighters.
• Uchiha Itachi overcame his doubts about the Sharingan, awakened the Rinnegan, then sealed his eyes again and committed himself to Genjutsu, which let him deceive the sun briefly.
• Uchiha Itachi traveled to Tree Herder Third Planet to meet Treasure Tree and learn about the Tree Herders’ power system.
• Katsuyu told Treasure Tree that she could use magic by instinct but could not explain its nature.

Uchiha Itachi arrived on the Tree Herder Planet seeking to learn about Source Energy, but Treasure Tree was unavailable while analyzing magic power. After discovering he could see and sense Source Energy himself, Itachi decided to begin researching it and later seek the Tree Herders’ consent for formal collaboration.

• Treasure Tree entered a deep calculation state to analyze the pure magic power Katsuyu had produced, while Orcs built a palace around his motionless oak body.
• Uchiha Itachi arrived and learned from Katsuyu that Treasure Tree could not communicate and that the other Ancient Trees were hostile or unhelpful.
• Itachi observed Source Energy circulating through the forest, the Orcs, and Treasure Tree, then realized he could see its flow.
• Itachi reached toward a tree and began sensing the life-filled energy within it.
• Itachi decided to collect only enough Source Energy for preliminary research, then have Aburame Tetsumaru approach the Tree Herders about an open, mutually beneficial study.

Katsuyu absorbed mana seeds and spent years digesting them, while Aburame Tetsumaru suspended his stalled Chakra research and prepared to enter another universe alone to grow stronger and gather intelligence. He opened a wormhole to the interstellar universe and sent insect eggs through as the two universes’ energies began to clash.

• Katsuyu swallowed mana seeds brought by Aburame Tetsumaru, then slept until the sixth year while her powers fused and learned to replicate mana.
• Aburame Tetsumaru admitted that his research into Chakra particles had stalled because Insight could not yet observe gluons, and he proposed entering another universe alone to train.
• Aburame Tetsumaru used a Psionic Crystal to sense a resonance from another universe and drew Sealing Techniques to force open a wormhole.
• As Chakra and an unfamiliar power pushed against each other inside the wormhole, Aburame Tetsumaru sent insect eggs through it.

Aburame Tetsumaru sent supplies through a wormhole and grew a new body in another universe, only to awaken near a battle between humanity and a planetary Zerg. After humanity won at terrible cost, he realized the battlefield might offer him an opportunity.

• Aburame Tetsumaru sent thousands of test tubes through the wormhole before spatial disturbances caused it to collapse, and he learned that the new Avatar might have emerged amid a fierce battle.
• Aburame Tetsumaru's new body developed from the sixteen insect eggs, and he awoke near a Behemoth-class battlecruiser firing on a Zerg planet.
• Aburame Tetsumaru discovered that Chakra was inactive in the new universe and hid his test tubes as the battlecruiser fleet and Zerg forces clashed.
• Human forces breached the planetary shield, landed troops, and used nuclear strikes and antimatter bombs against the giant insect while the Zerg fought back.
• Humanity defeated the planetary Zerg, but the surviving mechanized infantry soon died, and Aburame Tetsumaru realized the aftermath presented an opportunity.

Aburame Tetsumaru infiltrated both the Zerg and Terran forces, learning from Zerg biology and impersonating a dead bioengineered infantry captain. After reuniting with Otsutsuki Kaguya, he planned to use the two infiltrations to exchange intelligence and rise within both factions, while preparing additional clones as backups.

• Aburame Tetsumaru evolved one half of his body into a Hydralisk and studied its efficient anatomy and bone-spike weaponry as it followed the departing Zerg planetary leviathan.
• Aburame Tetsumaru transformed into a dead infantry captain, absorbed his memories, and learned why bioengineered soldiers fought to earn citizenship and how the wider war continued across the frontier.
• Aburame Tetsumaru activated the captain's life support and distress beacon, erased evidence of the impersonation, and watched the planetary leviathan escape before passing out.
• Aburame Tetsumaru told Otsutsuki Kaguya that the Zerg hierarchy made intelligence difficult to obtain, so he would lie low and seek opportunities during major battles.
• Aburame Tetsumaru proposed that his Terran and Zerg selves stage fake battles and exchange intelligence, then agreed with Otsutsuki Kaguya to create more clones and seek a Ghost on the Terran side.

Aburame Tetsumaru’s expanding network of external-body avatars left him dangerously drowsy, so he decided to reduce the Interstellar Universe cognitive cores and send Uchiha Itachi there after he recovered. Itachi eagerly accepted the dangerous assignment, and Cannon also chose to travel there, while Itachi departed reassured that Otsutsuki Hagoromo would protect Sasuke.

• Aburame Tetsumaru realized his many external-body avatars were draining his mental strength and causing dangerous bouts of drowsiness, so he agreed with Otsutsuki Kaguya to reduce the Interstellar Universe cores from nineteen to six.
• Aburame Tetsumaru decided to send Uchiha Itachi to the Interstellar Universe after he recovered, both to keep him occupied with danger and research and to punish him for secretly studying dangerous energy and destroying a space station.
• Cannon told Aburame Tetsumaru that he understood the risks and still wanted to enter the Interstellar Universe in person.
• Uchiha Itachi eagerly accepted his forced assignment and asked Cocoon Forger to protect Sasuke during the war.
• Aburame Tetsumaru assured Uchiha Itachi that Otsutsuki Hagoromo would watch over Sasuke, and Itachi began planning for his departure.

Aburame Tetsumaru prepared to infiltrate human society by sending Cannon and the de-aged Uchiha Itachi to separate planets with forged identities. After Cannon crossed safely, Tetsumaru began aligning the wormhole for Itachi’s precisely timed arrival on an inhabited world.

• Aburame Tetsumaru briefed Uchiha Itachi on his orphan identity, the need to build a convincing history, and his future ghost-training mission.
• Aburame Tetsumaru used intelligent machinery to stabilize a wormhole large enough to send two humans into the interstellar universe.
• Aburame Tetsumaru planned for Cannon to earn engineer qualifications and work through several separatist factions to access military-industrial technology.
• Aburame Tetsumaru sent Cannon through the wormhole, and Cannon crossed safely with his forged documents.
• Aburame Tetsumaru adjusted the wormhole toward an inhabited planet and waited to time Uchiha Itachi’s arrival at its designated landing point.

Uchiha Itachi crossed into the interstellar universe, survived a dangerous arrival, and began building a hidden life in an agricultural town to prepare for Ghost recruitment. Meanwhile, Katsuyu finished digesting Source Energy and underwent a transformation that let her organize her consciousness and remain awake longer.

• Uchiha Itachi entered the unstable wormhole and arrived hundreds of meters above the ground, breaking both legs when he landed in a swamp.
• Aburame Tetsumaru located Itachi, healed his injuries with special-effect medicine, and warned him to correct his mindset; Itachi reflected on his arrogance and vowed to examine himself three times a day.
• Itachi planned to live in the town for two years and build a credible past before the next Ghost recruitment, then constructed a hidden house in nearby woods.
• After finishing the house and using up his emergency food, Itachi headed into town to look for work he could physically manage.
• Katsuyu completed digesting Source Energy, gained greater control over her many consciousnesses, and condensed into a new form.

Katsuyu began an irreversible ascension by merging her split bodies, triggering a global earthquake, extreme weather, and forest fires that Treasure Tree worked to control. Her evolution developed new energy, circulation, and nervous systems before an electromagnetic force field let her move; she then shrank through a strange matter-superposition phenomenon, but her transformation was not yet complete.

• Katsuyu recalled her split bodies and grew into a gigantic slug whose weight tilted a tectonic plate, causing a global earthquake, storms, temperature extremes, and widespread forest fires.
• Unable to divert her power from the irreversible ascension, Katsuyu focused on completing it, while Treasure Tree stabilized the plate, calmed the storm, and extinguished the fires.
• Katsuyu's evolution shifted her primary energy source to nuclear fission, transformed her hearts into magnetic-field-driven circulatory organs, and built an electromagnetic-wave neural network throughout her body.
• Katsuyu formed an electromagnetic force field that reduced the weight borne by the ground and allowed her to move; Treasure Tree recognized the system and envied her ability to stand.
• Katsuyu's body began shrinking through a phenomenon in which multiple atoms occupied the same coordinates, eventually becoming a 230-meter slug with a density more than 400 times that of steel, while her evolution continued.

Katsuyu discovered she could control nearly all matter and energy on Tree Herder Planet, then used that power to restore the forests destroyed during her evolution. After the forest rapidly regrew, the Ancient Trees were freed from her planetary restraint and wondered what her work had revealed about the Shinobi World.

• Katsuyu transformed into a human form, tested walking and flight, and felt guilty when she saw the forest destroyed by her evolution.
• Katsuyu extended her electromagnetic force field across the planet and began using storms, volcanic ash, and rain to prepare the burned land for regrowth.
• Katsuyu poured Senjutsu Chakra into the soil, causing saplings to grow rapidly and compete fiercely for space, water, and nutrients.
• Treasure Tree and the Ancient Tree of War watched the forest recover in a morning and concluded that genes from the Shinobi World had introduced competition into its ecosystem.
• Katsuyu finished restoring the forest, her restraint over the planet ended, and the Ancient Trees found they could move again.