Chapter Summaries

After witnessing Katsuyu’s planet-wide power, Treasure Tree warned the other Ancient Trees that Zenith Civilization could soon dominate the universe and demanded they treat Katsuyu and her civilization with respect. Katsuyu contacted Aburame Tetsumaru about Treasure Tree’s request to meet, then revealed her advancement and new abilities, leaving him stunned.

• Treasure Tree and the other Ancient Trees recognized that Katsuyu’s Stellar-class power threatened their independence and agreed they had to research electromagnetic fields to protect the Tree Shepherd Civilization.
• Treasure Tree recounted how he had survived the brutal Otsutsuki Civilization and ordered the Ancient Trees to change their attitude toward Zenith Civilization and Katsuyu.
• Treasure Tree gave Katsuyu clothes for her human form, then asked her to arrange a meeting with Cocoon Forger.
• Katsuyu relayed Treasure Tree’s respectful request to Aburame Tetsumaru, who agreed to meet and asked how her appearance had changed.
• Katsuyu explained that she had fused four powers, completed her electromagnetic field, gained a human body and a three-hundred-meter slug form, and could control matter and energy across a planet.
• Aburame Tetsumaru summoned Grand Yang Fish, Dragon Heart, Alchemy, Ash Bone, and Paratrooper after hearing about Katsuyu’s advancement.

Aburame Tetsumaru agreed to clarify Zenith Civilization’s relationship with the Tree Herders, while Star Sea Hall finished analyzing Katsuyu’s body. Its findings revealed that an electromagnetic force field could provide powerful protection and solve acceleration-related strain, setting the stage for a new era of defense.

• Hyuga Hinata and the other Advents marveled at Katsuyu’s enormous human form, while Uchiha Sanae lamented her own height.
• The chapter explained how Advents used intelligent life matter to expand their mental capacity, and how body size affected the safety of digestion.
• Aburame Tetsumaru agreed to travel to the Tree Herder Galaxy and establish a clear position between the civilizations, delighting Katsuyu.
• Grand Yang Fish told Aburame Tetsumaru that Star Sea Hall had completed its analysis of Katsuyu’s body and confirmed that an electromagnetic force field could be built.
• Grand Yang Fish said the field could protect ships and other military units from attacks and acceleration forces, and predicted that shields would surpass weapons.

Grand Yang Fish proposed using a dedicated biological computer to control the electromagnetic force field and explained that Katsuyu’s matter superposition placed most of her matter within three-dimensional space. The Zenith Civilization prioritized research into the phenomenon, appointed Uchiha Sanae to assist, and handed the electromagnetic force field project to Dragon Heart for construction.

• Aburame Tetsumaru asked how the civilization could counter weapons capable of breaking the electromagnetic force field, and Grand Yang Fish said such an enemy would be technologically too advanced to fight.
• Aburame Tetsumaru proposed a separate control center, and Grand Yang Fish suggested building a biological computer based on data from Katsuyu’s force field.
• Grand Yang Fish revealed that most of Katsuyu’s superposed matter remained in three-dimensional space, prompting Advents to consider its potential applications and volunteer for research.
• Grand Yang Fish formed a matter superposition research team and invited Uchiha Sanae to join because her eyes could see Fourth-Dimensional space.
• Aburame Tetsumaru placed matter superposition research first in the priority sequence, while Dragon Heart took over the electromagnetic force field project and began preparing to build the first warship.

Aburame Tetsumaru discussed equipping Otsutsuki Kaguya’s Ten-Tails with an Electromagnetic Field System, and Kaguya eagerly agreed to proceed once Grand Yang Fish finished the blueprints. Meanwhile, the year-long encirclement battle at Konoha ended with the Salvation Society’s industrially backed forces overwhelming the coalition, though the account leaves the war’s final outcome unresolved.

• Aburame Tetsumaru returned to Kunlun Mountain and found Otsutsuki Kaguya tending to her Ten-Tails.
• Aburame Tetsumaru described the Electromagnetic Field System’s possible abilities, and Otsutsuki Kaguya agreed to have it built for the Ten-Tails after Grand Yang Fish completed the blueprints.
• The Ten-Tails sensed that Kaguya planned to use it for the experiment, trembled in fear, and was absorbed back into her body.
• After more than three million civilians evacuated Konoha, Namikaze Naruto kept his promise not to attack the village and fought the encircled Land of Fire forces for a year.
• The Salvation Society deployed soldiers with thousands of Giant Insects apiece and used its resources to break the morale of the nineteen-nation coalition over eight months.
• More than two hundred Salvation Society soldiers died during the fighting, while the Konoha encirclement battle concluded with the coalition’s forces exhausted and its troops suffering severe losses.

During the year-long siege of Konoha, Namikaze Naruto and the Salvation Society devastated the Allied Forces of the Nations and annihilated a poorly organized Land of Grass army in a lightning-fast raid. The chapter ended by revealing that Zenith Civilization had quietly aided the Salvation Society after recognizing its alignment with their ideals.

• Namikaze Naruto hunted down high-ranking enemy ninja on the battlefield, while the Allied Forces of the Nations suffered huge losses and hundreds of thousands of missing soldiers.
• The Land of Grass sent sixty thousand poorly trained soldiers into the Land of Fire, where they became a bandit army and devastated civilians.
• Namikaze Naruto led six hundred elite soldiers, more than three thousand giant insects, and Second Pillar into a rapid assault on the Land of Grass army.
• Second Pillar used Susanoo to help the assault force travel over a thousand kilometers, and the Salvation Society destroyed the enemy army in a battle lasting sixteen minutes without suffering losses.
• The nations abandoned plans to form large armies after the defeat, while the chapter described Darui's advanced abilities and the strength built on Zenith Civilization's knowledge.
• Zenith Civilization's Advent had secretly favored the Salvation Society, helping Second Pillar escape Uchiha Itachi's supervision and supporting the Society's insect-control technology.

Darui recognized that the Land of Lightning could not defeat the Salvation Society and decided to surrender rather than fight a losing war. He still resented that the industrial battlefield had left no room to demonstrate his strength.

• Darui told his subordinates that the nations had lost because their leaders pursued personal gain and undermined their own foundations.
• Darui explained that no nation would have attacked the Salvation Society while it was weak because the costs would fall on one country while the benefits went to all.
• Darui declared that he intended to surrender because the Land of Lightning had no chance of winning.
• The remaining Land of Lightning officials considered reporting Darui to the Salvation Society so they could earn merit and preserve some of their wealth.
• Darui resolved to claim the merit for his capture himself by surrendering, but regretted that modern weapons had kept him from showing his battlefield prowess.

Darui surrendered the Land of Lightning and demanded a public duel with Namikaze Naruto, but the fight was postponed while they worked to stabilize the country. By the following spring, the Shinobi World had largely recovered and Weary Bird asked whether lasting peace had finally come.

• Darui met Namikaze Naruto and demanded a duel to prove his strength after agreeing to end the war; Naruto accepted and arranged for Second Pillar to fight Darui first.
• Darui and Second Pillar exchanged brief blows, then stopped when Naruto released a threatening aura; Darui promised to maintain stability in the Land of Lightning.
• After Naruto and Second Pillar left, Darui killed the twelve officials who had plotted against him and set out to deliver new orders himself.
• Naruto, Second Pillar, and Darui spent months reorganizing the Land of Lightning, restoring infrastructure, and addressing famine, while their planned duel remained forgotten.
• By the following spring, the Shinobi World had recovered and the unified government's efforts to establish social order were progressing smoothly.
• Weary Bird asked whether the Shinobi World would have lasting peace, and Aburame Tetsumaru confidently answered yes.

The chapter recounts how newly formed nations restored order across the Shinobi World, while the Land of Water remained trapped in horrifying atrocities. After relocating its surviving population, Zenith Civilization destroyed the Land of Water, and the Salvation Society concluded the continental war by putting the nations’ corrupt leaders on trial.

• The Shinobi World’s population began growing again as new nations rebuilt order, but the Land of Water continued collapsing into extreme violence and cruelty.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and the Advents agreed to destroy the Land of Water, evacuate everyone who retained their humanity to Purple Thunder Star, and eliminate the remaining evil spirits.
• Butler used Air Vibration and controlled gravity to crush the Land of Water’s islands, then shattered the seabed and left a vast volcanic crater.
• The Salvation Society took control of the continent and judged the leaders of the former nations for their actions, sentencing nearly all of them to death within two months.
• The trials concluded the war and cleared away the old privileged classes, leaving the Shinobi World ready to move forward.

Butler and the Advent silently transformed the Land of Water into a mineral-rich continent and altered the Land of Lightning’s climate. When Namikaze Naruto and Second Pillar investigated reports of the change, Darui challenged them to a duel, and their fight left the city’s mobile unit unable to intervene.

• Butler guided magma and, with help from Advent, shaped the Land of Water into a continent while creating currents that warmed the eastern coast of the Land of Lightning.
• A reconnaissance Jonin reported to Namikaze Naruto and Second Pillar that the Land of Water had become a barren, steaming landmass, so they set out to investigate.
• Darui confronted Namikaze Naruto over their promised duel, and Naruto escaped with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Darui pursued Second Pillar, and the two fought through the city toward the harbor while holding back their attacks.
• The city’s mobile unit arrived but discovered Darui and Second Pillar were fighting high in the air, beyond the range of its weapons.
• Captain Nara searched for a way to respond without disturbing Namikaze Naruto and Second Pillar or causing more destruction.

Nara's mobile unit nearly attacked Darui and Sasuke during their airborne fight, but Nara recognized them and stopped the attack before Naruto ended the brawl. Darui then learned why Naruto had secretly spared him: his survival was a political necessity to reassure the Shinobi World's industrial workers, and the chapter ended with Sasuke laughing at the thought of Darui wearing gold dentures.

• Nara realized Darui and Sasuke were descending and positioned the mobile unit to attack, but he recognized them and ordered everyone to disengage.
• Namikaze Naruto arrived, stopped Darui and Sasuke's fight, and told Darui about the transformed Land of Water; Darui asked to see it.
• Darui wondered whether the Zenith Civilization had caused the transformation, while Naruto considered why the civilization had spared little attention for Darui despite his importance to the Shinobi World.
• Namikaze Naruto explained to Second Pillar that he had secretly pardoned Darui to reassure industrial technical workers and preserve the Salvation Society's credibility.
• Second Pillar argued that Naruto's decision violated justice and the law, while Naruto said justice and law served social progress and the ruling class.
• Darui teased Second Pillar about his immaturity, and Second Pillar imagined Darui with gold dentures and laughed.

Namikaze Naruto and his group reached the transformed Land of Water, where Butler prepared to explain how Zenith Civilization was rebuilding the continent. Meanwhile, Aburame Tetsumaru opened a wormhole to send Cannon Zenith Civilization’s electromagnetic field technology, beginning an effort to develop Terran shields and learn from the Interstellar Universe.

• Namikaze Naruto, Darui, and Second Pillar discovered that the Land of Water had become a vast, volcanic black continent, and Darui trembled as memories of Zenith Civilization’s control overwhelmed him.
• Namikaze Naruto issued the sailors a three-month gag order before landing with Darui, Second Pillar, and more than a dozen Jonin.
• Butler detected the arriving ship and recognized Namikaze Naruto and Second Pillar, then decided to meet them and explain the continent’s volcanic cooling and restoration process.
• Aburame Tetsumaru opened a wormhole and sent Cannon Zenith Civilization’s electromagnetic field data for warships, planets, the Ten-Tails, and the God Tree.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and the other leaders viewed the Interstellar Universe’s complete technological systems as a path for Zenith Civilization to advance beyond its current technological limits.

Cannon established himself as a talented, research-obsessed scientist in the Interstellar Universe, where political rivalry and Zerg infestations made scientific talent a valuable but dangerous asset. The chapter also described Cannon’s combat ranking and Aburame Tetsumaru’s rogue psionic consciousness, whose discoveries helped Uchiha Itachi become a celebrated Ghost.

• Cannon spent three years building a reputation as a diligent scientist and became head of an independent laboratory under a warlord.
• Cannon’s electromagnetic shield research risked attracting assassins from academic clans and recruitment efforts from rival warlords and financial clans.
• The chapter explained how scattered Zerg infestations weakened aristocratic clans and left them vulnerable to attacks from their rivals.
• Cannon retained formidable individual combat ability despite losing Chakra, ranking third among Terrans behind Uchiha Itachi and the missing Jim Raynor.
• Aburame Tetsumaru’s separated thought core became an independent psionic monster and relayed psionic knowledge and a natural feel for psionic energy.
• Uchiha Itachi mastered psionic training early, became a full-fledged Ghost at fourteen, and earned respect through his strength and combat experience.

Cannon studied damaged data on inter-universe technology and learned how far Zenith Civilization lagged behind the Terran, Zerg, and Protoss, while Alchemy’s successful Stellar Shock Bomb test showed that the universes shared similar physical rules. Aburame Tetsumaru then abandoned his plan to rise through the Zerg hierarchy and decided to kill a Dominator and take control himself.

• Cannon pieced together the damaged storage-device data, memorized it, and destroyed the devices to keep Shinobi World information from spreading.
• Cannon reviewed the Stellar Shock Bomb’s capabilities and found that Zenith Civilization’s oversized imitation was impractical and could not defend against a real attack.
• Alchemy explained how spatial tremors from the weapon could extinguish ordinary stars or trigger catastrophic reactions in massive stars.
• After photos of the prototype reached Cannon, Aburame Tetsumaru and his allies resolved to accelerate Cannon’s progress using electromagnetic force field technology.
• Aburame Tetsumaru sent insect eggs and nutrients to four infiltration sites near Zerg Dominators after learning that the Dominators would not promote new ones until they advanced themselves.
• Aburame Tetsumaru decided to kill a Dominator and inherit its swarm, exploiting the fact that a Dominator’s death would fragment its Insect Swarm.

After Eighth Master talked Aburame Tetsumaru out of risking his irreplaceable main body to attack a Zerg Dominator, Tetsumaru sought another way to claim the potential rewards. He realized Uchiha Itachi could exploit a weakness in Terran decision-making to steer a conference toward declaring a war of extermination against the Zerg.

• Aburame Tetsumaru considered ambushing a Dominator by blocking its psionic signals, but admitted he could not reliably breach its defenses or escape if the attack failed.
• Eighth Master persuaded Aburame Tetsumaru to abandon the assault, stressing that his main body was irreplaceable to Zenith Civilization and could not be risked.
• Aburame Tetsumaru turned to borrowing the Terrans' strength, recognizing that their rulers were harder to replace than the Dominator but had vulnerable mental defenses.
• Uchiha Itachi explained that he could subtly influence Terran leaders' emotions during military conferences, though prolonged contact and lasting control were impossible.
• Aburame Tetsumaru realized he could use Uchiha Itachi's brief influence to sway a conference's decision and make the Terrans launch a war of extermination against the Zerg.

Aburame Tetsumaru and Uchiha Itachi engineered a Terran campaign against the insect plagues, which prompted the Zerg Dominator to unleash most of its swarm on human territory. The first Zerg forces were nearing Terran systems, and the war Tetsumaru had set in motion was already slipping beyond his control.

• Frequent insect plagues disrupted interstellar shipping, prompting sixty-three clans to mobilize a sweeping operation across four hundred star systems.
• Uchiha Itachi subtly guided the clans’ leaders into treating the insect threat as a danger their instincts had warned them about.
• The Zerg Dominator detected the Terran mobilization, abandoned most of its swarm, and sent the insects to invade human star systems while it prepared to recover its strength.
• Four Aburame Tetsumaru incarnations infiltrated the swarm and secretly relayed precise intelligence about the Dominator to Ghost Uchiha Itachi.
• In a temporary chat room, Cannon reported his research progress, and he agreed to give Itachi time to inspect the security arrangements before its completion.
• Uchiha Itachi confirmed that the Terran clearing operation had begun, while the Zerg incarnations estimated the first swarm forces would reach Terran systems in seven to nine days.

Aburame Tetsumaru was conscripted into the war he had helped ignite and sent with a Marine force to reclaim Planet APX-79a_02 without orbital bombardment. He fortified three mountaintops and organized the Marines’ fire to withstand the growing Zerg assault, leaving the position holding with few casualties after a Hydralisk attack.

• Aburame Tetsumaru learned that the Zerg war would draw in nearby Dominators, then endured a long-distance jump with Marines in a transport bay without individual life-support systems.
• Aburame Tetsumaru received orders to clear Planet APX-79a_02, where the Insect Swarm had defeated the defenders and scattered across the planet, despite the fleet having no time to bombard it.
• Aburame Tetsumaru ignored the planetwide-clearance order and established a defensive position on three adjacent mountaintops, where siege cannons and machine-gun bunkers repelled the first disorganized Zerg attacks.
• After a chemical signal summoned bugs from across the planet, Aburame Tetsumaru recognized the swarm’s attacks lacked coordination and directed Marine fire against approaching Hydralisks.
• Aburame Tetsumaru coordinated precise interdiction fire that killed the Hydralisks before they could inflict heavy losses, then ordered Third Company to replace Second Company on the firing line.

Marine Aburame Tetsumaru realized the Zerg on APX-79a_02 were acting on instinct, and his relief spread through his shared consciousness, easing the strain on his other selves. Otsutsuki Kaguya then accessed classified Otsutsuki records confirming that Aburame Tetsumaru was following a dangerous but proper path of life ascension, while revealing three theoretical paths.

• Marine Aburame Tetsumaru concluded that the Zerg were uncommanded and would not attack beyond their sensing range, leaving him and his Marines safe from advanced bugs for now.
• Aburame Tetsumaru reflected on the risks to his external selves and his uncertain, relentless path toward further life ascension.
• Marine Aburame Tetsumaru's relief swept through Aburame Tetsumaru's other thought cores, leaving them unusually calm and clear-minded.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya noticed Aburame Tetsumaru's dramatic change in mood, and he explained his condition to her.
• The unsealed Kama transmitted classified information to Otsutsuki Kaguya, who told Aburame Tetsumaru that his path was the Otsutsuki's proper path of ascension.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya found records of three theoretical paths: the Omnipotent One, the Omniscient One, and the Fearless One, and recognized that Aburame Tetsumaru's path combined all three.

Aburame Tetsumaru studied the Otsutsuki Civilization’s records of life-ascension paths and concluded that his own path could lead to success, so he chose to continue it. Otsutsuki Kaguya then asked for his help with an electromagnetic force field that threatened to cut off her own path.

• Otsutsuki Kaguya directed Aburame Tetsumaru to the Star Sea Hall, where he downloaded records detailing thousands of practiced life-ascension paths.
• Aburame Tetsumaru connected the Otsutsuki Civilization’s ascension requirements to the Zenith Civilization’s Advent Ritual and reflected on the risks of their rapid technological development.
• Aburame Tetsumaru considered his psionic contamination, its seals, and the evidence of Sarah Kerrigan’s power before discussing how black holes exceeded his understanding of cosmic physics.
• Aburame Tetsumaru decided to continue his current path after the Otsutsuki records convinced him it was not a dead end.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya asked Aburame Tetsumaru to help her solve problems with the Ten-Tails’ electromagnetic force field, which she could neither withdraw nor extend onto her body.

Zenith Civilization expanded electromagnetic field technology, while Aburame Tetsumaru investigated why Otsutsuki Kaguya could not absorb her Ten-Tails. With Katsuyu and the Nine-Tails assembled for comparison, he prepared to use Insight to study the connection between electromagnetic fields, Chakra, and material superposition.

• Zenith Civilization installed electromagnetic fields on ships, structures, and giant creatures, giving them temporary durability that could challenge the Zerg of a Level Four civilization.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya confided her failure to use the Ten-Tails' electromagnetic field, and Aburame Tetsumaru took her to inspect the Ten-Tails at Kunlun Mountain.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and Otsutsuki Kaguya found Katsuyu had overfilled the ecological bay, and Katsuyu reported that the Ten-Tails' electromagnetic field showed no obvious problem.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya brought out Yang Kurama, and she and Aburame Tetsumaru sealed the Nine-Tails into her before releasing it for comparison.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and Otsutsuki Kaguya observed the Nine-Tails' unusual spirituality and prepared to compare Tailed Beast sealing with Katsuyu's material superposition using Insight.

Aburame Tetsumaru and Ōtsutsuki Kaguya discovered that the Nine-Tails’ Chakra contained Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo’s imprint, revealing that Hagoromo had secretly altered Kaguya’s Chakra and may have planned to control her. Kaguya decided to find Hagoromo and punish him with bamboo shoot stir-fried pork.

• Ōtsutsuki Kaguya absorbed the Nine-Tails’ Chakra while Aburame Tetsumaru observed its structure and found traces resembling a Truth-Seeking Orb.
• Ōtsutsuki Kaguya tested the Nine-Tails’ Chakra, sealed its soul, and saw the detached Chakra form a humanoid figure bearing Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo’s aura.
• Aburame Tetsumaru deduced that Hagoromo had used the Tailed Beasts to replace Kaguya’s imprint in Chakra with his own and conceal the alteration.
• Aburame Tetsumaru and Ōtsutsuki Kaguya realized that Hagoromo might have intended to fill Kaguya with his Chakra and eventually control her.
• Ōtsutsuki Kaguya vowed to find Hagoromo and feed him bamboo shoot stir-fried pork, while Aburame Tetsumaru approved her plan.