Chapter Summaries

Obito agreed to become a Divine Tree Person to gain the Ten-Tails’ power and oppose Madara, Kaedeji, and Jigen. Black Zetsu and Tobi began incubating him inside the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, a process expected to take several years.

• Black Zetsu explained that a Divine Tree Person could merge with the Ten-Tails’ power while retaining their consciousness, and Obito agreed to undergo the transformation.
• Black Zetsu told Obito that Tobi and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path were the key to creating a Divine Tree Person.
• Obito used Kamui to transport himself, Black Zetsu, and Tobi to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path in the Land of Rain.
• Tobi wrapped around Obito, and Black Zetsu activated the statue’s incubation function to merge them into it.
• Black Zetsu said the process would take several years and expected Obito’s eyes to evolve into the Rinnegan when it was complete.

The Uchiha Clan basked in the prestige of Madara’s Rinnegan while Fugaku and Shisui discussed Obito and keeping Itachi safe. As Kaedeji, Madara, and Nagato considered the hidden enemy’s plans, Mount Myōboku came under attack, and Jiraiya faced the invaders with Orochimaru present.

• Fugaku rebuked Inaho for suggesting that the Uchiha Clan welcome Madara and Nagato back, then learned Inaho had lost an eye to an unknown attacker.
• Shisui met with Fugaku, who asked him to watch over Itachi while the village still had no news of Obito.
• Madara, Nagato, and Kaedeji discussed the Otsutsuki threat and their next moves as Shikaku reported that Obito’s whereabouts and Tobi’s allegiance remained unknown.
• Morino Ibiki told the meeting that Mount Myōboku had been attacked, and Nagato prepared to return there.
• Orochimaru told Jiraiya that he had come only to witness Mount Myōboku, while Jiraiya faced the attack and the toads suffered heavy casualties.

Jigen invaded Mount Myōboku, killed the Great Toad Sage, and tried to recruit Jiraiya while overwhelming the toads, Minato, and Jiraiya. When Nagato and Kaedeji arrived, the battle was over, and Kaedeji planned to take control of the toads who could produce Sage Chakra.

• Jigen devastated Mount Myōboku as Minato, the Toad Sages, and the toads struggled to slow him down.
• Orochimaru told Jiraiya that Jigen had come to capture him, while Jiraiya rejected Orochimaru’s criticism and joined the fight.
• Jigen reached the Great Toad Sage, learned that the planet faced a grim future, and killed him before removing his body and the surrounding ground.
• Jigen offered Jiraiya a place in Kara, but Jiraiya refused, and Jigen fought him and the others.
• Nagato arrived to find Mount Myōboku covered in smoke and corpses, and Kaedeji said he would take over the place and control its Sage Chakra-producing toads.

Kaedeji, Madara, and Nagato arrived at Mount Myōboku after Jigen devastated it and abducted Jiraiya, then Jigen escaped while Nagato confronted Orochimaru. Kaedeji decided to accelerate his own plans and create the second moon.

• Kaedeji surveyed Mount Myōboku's ruins and revived dead toads as spies while Nagato grew furious over the destruction and feared for Jiraiya.
• Jigen crushed the sacred land with Daikokuten cubes, and Madara stopped Nagato from rushing toward the Great Toad Sage's location.
• Kaedeji confronted Jigen and found him holding an unconscious Jiraiya; the two exchanged accusations and discussed their broken partnership before Jigen escaped through a portal.
• Nagato found Sage Fukasaku dead and attacked Orochimaru, who had been hiding among the cubes and was left behind by Jigen.
• Kaedeji ignored Nagato and Orochimaru's fight and declared that he would create the second moon.

Kaedeji watched Nagato defeat Orochimaru at Mount Myōboku, then announced that he would begin an operation to increase his power over the next several years. As Kaedeji departed, Nagato and Madara discussed their own plans, while someone in the Land of Rice Fields prepared to attack the Ten-Tails.

• Kaedeji and Madara discussed Kaedeji’s plan to expand his jutsu’s range and his need for another pair of Rinnegan.
• Orochimaru trapped Nagato inside the Four Black Snake Formation, but Nagato protected himself with the Uchiha Flame Formation and destroyed the barrier with a powerful Shinra Tensei.
• Nagato returned believing he had killed Orochimaru, but Kaedeji warned that Orochimaru had prepared a way to revive.
• Kaedeji enslaved the surviving toads at Mount Myōboku, said he would spend several years improving his power, and left using his Space-Time Dōjutsu.
• Madara offered to teach Nagato Limbo: Border Jail, and Nagato proposed capturing tailed beasts to strengthen the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• In the Land of Rice Fields, someone prepared to risk everything to attack the Ten-Tails.

Ōnoki tried to capture the Ten-Tails to give Iwagakure a chance to survive, while Deidara hoped to become its jinchūriki. After the Ten-Tails shrugged off their attacks, Ōnoki launched another Dust Release technique as it raised a finger toward him.

• Ōnoki watched the Ten-Tails devastate the Land of Rice Fields and wondered why it was eating ninjas.
• Deidara arrived and declared that he wanted to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, while Ōnoki insisted on capturing the beast himself.
• The Ten-Tails spotted them, and Ōnoki's Atomic Dismantling Jutsu failed to cause meaningful damage.
• Ōnoki destroyed the Ten-Tails Bomb aimed at Deidara, but the Ten-Tails survived the close-range explosion unharmed.
• Ōnoki dodged the Ten-Tails' tail attack, then used Earth Release techniques to restrain it and fired Limit Dismantling Jutsu.
• The Ten-Tails held back one stone hemisphere and raised a finger toward Ōnoki's incoming attack.

The Fourth Raikage and Ōnoki witnessed the Ten-Tails unleash a catastrophic surge of power after Ōnoki injured it, and realized neither of them could defeat it. As the Ten-Tails prepared to attack them, a man emerged from a portal carrying the half-dead Jiraiya and declared that he had come to recover it.

• The Fourth Raikage refused to summon Killer B, fearing the Ten-Tails would devour the Eight-Tails, and ordered Mabui and the others to withdraw.
• Ōnoki's Limit Dismantling Jutsu destroyed one of the Ten-Tails' fingers, provoking it to erupt with Chakra and unleash a devastating natural disaster.
• The Fourth Raikage rescued Mabui and joined Ōnoki, and the two Kage acknowledged that the Ten-Tails was beyond their ability to handle.
• The Fourth Raikage and Ōnoki argued about the Sage of Six Paths and the Ten-Tails as the beast prepared to charge them.
• A man in ancient monk's robes appeared through a portal carrying the half-dead Jiraiya and announced that he had come to recover the Ten-Tails.

Jigen subdued the Ten-Tails and tried to recruit the Kage and Jiraiya into Kara. After Ōnoki resisted him, Jigen captured him alongside Jiraiya to make them into Divine Tree Persons.

• Jigen transformed and used a black cube and chains to force the Ten-Tails into another Space-Time.
• Jigen invited the Fourth Raikage, Ōnoki, and Jiraiya to join Kara, but the Fourth Raikage and Ōnoki fled.
• Jigen pursued Ōnoki and absorbed his Dust Release after Jiraiya warned that only senjutsu could harm him.
• Jigen revealed his name as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and defeated Ōnoki with a Taijutsu strike.
• Jigen captured Ōnoki and declared that he would use him and Jiraiya to create two Divine Tree Persons.

The Fourth Raikage reported that Jigen had captured Ōnoki and taken the Ten-Tails, leaving the villages desperate and Konoha wary of the new threat. Kaedeji planned to pursue the Ten-Tails and obtain the Rinnegan, while Jigen brought Jiraiya and Ōnoki to Kara and began offering Tenzō a divine technique.

• The Fourth Raikage escaped Jigen and the Ten-Tails, then told Kumogakure that Ōnoki had been captured and the enemy was far stronger than him.
• Mabui urged the Fourth Raikage to inform the other villages, and he decided Kumogakure needed to find hope rather than cooperate with Jigen.
• Kaedeji dismissed Kumogakure's diplomatic letter and discussed Jigen, the Ten-Tails, and his plans to obtain two pairs of Rinnegan with Nagato and Madara.
• Kaedeji told Shikaku to publicize the Land of Rice Fields disaster and information about the Ten-Tails so the world would recognize the Otsutsuki threat.
• Jigen returned to Kara with Jiraiya and Ōnoki, told Tenzō that Orochimaru had been killed but would return, and offered to teach him the divine technique Claw Mark.
• Jigen explained that Claw Mark came from Ōtsutsuki Shibai, whose remains Orochimaru had been researching.

Orochimaru resurrected with Mizuki’s help, recruited him into Kara, and brought him before Jigen, where he planned to turn Jiraiya and Ōnoki into Divine Tree People. Meanwhile, the Fourth Raikage looked to the moon as a possible source of outside help.

• Orochimaru rewarded Mizuki with a Rashomon summoning contract, but Iruka discovered them and confronted the pair.
• Orochimaru used the Reverse Summoning Technique to take Mizuki to Kara, where Jigen allowed him to join as an Outer.
• Orochimaru reunited with the battered Jiraiya and Ōnoki, dismissed Jiraiya’s warning, and said he would make them Divine Tree People.
• The Fourth Raikage stood above Kumogakure, looked at the moon, and considered using something there as an external force.

The Fourth Raikage sent himself to the moon using the Heavenly Transfer Technique, hoping to find power or refuge for Kumogakure against Konoha and the Otsutsuki. He met Otsutsuki Toneri, who revealed that he had preserved a trace of the Giant Tenseigan’s power and might help him act in the ninja world.

• The Fourth Raikage rejected Mabui’s objections and ordered her to prepare the Heavenly Transfer Technique, believing Kumogakure would be Konoha’s next target.
• Killer B recognized that the Fourth Raikage hoped the moon could become an escape route for Kumogakure, and Mabui agreed to begin preparations.
• Mabui organized the expedition, while Killer B and Yugito Nii supplied Chakra to support the Fourth Raikage’s journey.
• The Fourth Raikage reached the moon and nearly crashed, but a white-haired youth stopped his fall with a repulsive force.
• The youth introduced himself as Otsutsuki Toneri and told the Fourth Raikage that Otsutsuki Hamura was his ancestor and had been killed by Kaedeji.
• Toneri invited the Fourth Raikage to talk and revealed that he had preserved a trace of the Giant Tenseigan’s power.

Toneri persuaded the Fourth Raikage to help him obtain Hyuga Hinata's pure Byakugan so he could awaken the Tenseigan and rebuild the Giant Tenseigan. After the Fourth Raikage returned to Kumogakure and led a delegation to Konoha, he kidnapped Hinata, leaving Kaedeji to suspect the Byakugan was their target.

• Toneri told the Fourth Raikage that Hinata's pure Byakugan could awaken his Tenseigan, while the Hyūga Clan's eyes could help rebuild the Giant Tenseigan.
• The Fourth Raikage agreed to cooperate with Toneri and arranged to return to the ninja world, where Kumogakure used the Amber Purifying Pot and Eight-Tails Chakra to bring them back.
• Toneri fitted the Fourth Raikage with a puppet arm, and the Fourth Raikage announced that Kumogakure would take new action.
• The Fourth Raikage led a delegation to Konoha, then seized Hinata from the Hyūga compound and fled at high speed.
• Kaedeji learned that Hinata had been kidnapped and suspected the Fourth Raikage wanted her Byakugan.

The Fourth Raikage abducted Hinata and delivered her to Otsutsuki Toneri, who transplanted her Byakugan and awakened the Tenseigan. Kaedeji arrived before Might Duy could fight Toneri, then took him to Kumogakure to battle with his Rinnegan.

• The Fourth Raikage seized Hinata in Konoha and escaped at high speed, leaving the Hyuga Clan and Shikaku shocked and furious.
• The Fourth Raikage explained that he had targeted Hinata for her pure Main Family bloodline, then delivered her to Toneri in Konoha Forest.
• Toneri knocked Hinata unconscious, implanted her Byakugan, and awakened the Tenseigan, revealing its immense power to the Fourth Raikage.
• Might Duy arrived with seven gates opened and prepared to confront Toneri, but Kaedeji stopped him and sent him back with Hinata.
• Kaedeji and Toneri transported themselves to Kumogakure, where Kaedeji revealed his Rinnegan and prepared to fight Toneri's Tenseigan.

Kaedeji revealed his Rinnegan and fought Toneri above Kumogakure, using Planetary Devastation to tear apart the village and drag its inhabitants into the sky. As Killer B and Yugito Nii struggled to protect survivors, the growing stone sphere swallowed the light and left Kumogakure beneath a vast, dark shadow.

• Might Duy opened the Gate of Death and fought the Fourth Raikage while carrying Hinata, declaring that Kaedeji could revive him afterward.
• Toneri and Kaedeji arrived above Kumogakure, where the village’s leaders recognized them and realized the battle had come to their home.
• Kaedeji and Toneri clashed with their Rinnegan and Tenseigan powers, and Kaedeji began Planetary Devastation over Kumogakure.
• Mabui urged the Cloud Ninja to take cover as the technique tore up the earth, buildings, and villagers and pulled them toward its black core.
• Killer B and Yugito Nii transformed and fired Tailed Beast Bombs at the sphere, but Kaedeji sent the bombs into another dimension with Kamui.
• The expanding stone sphere blotted out the sky as Kumogakure was devastated and Mabui feared the village was finished.

Kaedeji fought Otsutsuki Toneri after destroying Kumogakure, testing their new dojutsu against each other. Toneri unleashed the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, but Kaedeji appeared unharmed elsewhere after using Limbo: Border Jail.

• Kaedeji left Killer B and Yugito Nii alive and faced Toneri after extracting Kumogakure into a rocky sphere.
• Toneri summoned the Hamura Stone Statue, and he and Kaedeji fought through their giant constructs as observers including Jigen, Orochimaru, Madara, and Nagato sensed the battle.
• Kaedeji cut into the Hamura Stone Statue and attacked Toneri directly, but Toneri transformed into green flames and narrowly missed him with a Chakra Bead.
• Toneri used Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, apparently engulfing Kaedeji, but then saw him unharmed nearby as Limbo: Border Jail took effect.

Kaedeji used Limbo: Border Jail and a vast horde of zombies to battle Toneri, then unleashed a massive Sage Art explosion. He turned to Killer B and Yugito Nii to demand their Tailed Beasts’ chakra, aiming to craft Truth-Seeking Orbs before Toneri could recover.

• Kaedeji revealed Limbo: Border Jail, creating three shadows that could share his abilities and switch places with him.
• Toneri bombarded two shadows with Chakra Beads, but Kaedeji used the Void Realm Technique to swap them with zombies and free the third shadow.
• Kaedeji summoned a huge horde of zombies and gathered Sage Chakra while Toneri blasted through the horde.
• Kaedeji used Sage Art: Corpse Release: Myriad Explosive Coffin Burial inside six red barriers, then appeared outside the blast unharmed.
• Kaedeji confronted Killer B and Yugito Nii, asking the Eight-Tails and Two-Tails to hand over their Chakra Seeds in exchange for a future chance to surpass the Ten-Tails.

Kaedeji gathered chakra from all nine tailed beasts and created a Truth-Seeking Orb to fight Otsutsuki Toneri. He used a rising artificial moon as a relay to cast Formless Tsukuyomi across the Land of Lightning, leaving Toneri to unleash his Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

• Kaedeji obtained chakra seeds from the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails, then formed an unstable Truth-Seeking Orb from the tailed beasts’ chakra and the seven chakra natures.
• Kaedeji shielded himself from Toneri’s attacks with the orb, while Killer B and Yugito Nii fled to search for the Fourth Raikage.
• Kaedeji raised the giant rock sphere created from Kumogakure with Planetary Devastation, revealing that he had been preparing it for another purpose.
• Kaedeji replaced his eyes with Indra’s Eyes and used the small moon to amplify Formless Tsukuyomi across the Land of Lightning, capturing survivors’ spirits and chakra.
• Toneri realized Kaedeji had deceived him and attacked with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

Toneri unleashed the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion against Kaedeji, who countered with an empowered Amenonuhoko and weakened the attack enough to survive. After Toneri’s ultimate technique failed to defeat him, Kaedeji declared that he would capture Toneri to use as a tool for nurturing his virus.

• Might Duy fought the Fourth Raikage while protecting Hinata, and the battered Raikage fled when Duy prepared for their final clash.
• Toneri used the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to split the Land of Lightning and strike at Kaedeji.
• Kaedeji infused a Truth-Seeking Orb with Chakra gathered from many people and shaped it into an empowered Amenonuhoko.
• Amenonuhoko broke apart while erasing most of Toneri’s attack, leaving the weakened Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion unable to kill Kaedeji.
• Kaedeji dismissed his damaged Truth-Seeking Orb and told Toneri that he planned to capture him and use him to nurture his virus.

Kaedeji defeated Toneri by sealing him in the Limited Tsukuyomi and infecting him with a virus, while the battle left the Land of Lightning devastated. As the injured Fourth Raikage tried to flee toward his village, Senju Naruto and two companions confronted him near the Land of Fire’s border.

• Tobi, Black Zetsu, and White Zetsu discussed the danger posed by Kaedeji’s battle and worked to protect the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Kaedeji stopped Toneri from launching another attack and used the Dragon Vein to transport him into the Limited Tsukuyomi world.
• Kaedeji sealed Toneri with the Dragon Vein and Formless Tsukuyomi, then implanted a virus in his body.
• People across the ninja world wondered who had won as they feared the destruction of more countries.
• The injured Fourth Raikage fled toward the Land of Fire, hoping Toneri had defeated Kaedeji and worrying about Kumogakure.
• Senju Naruto and two companions stopped the Fourth Raikage, and Naruto announced that he would capture him as a gift for his return to Konoha.

Tsunade and Dan Katō returned to Konoha with Naruto and killed the wounded Fourth Raikage, but Kaedeji seized the Raikage’s soul for Formless Tsukuyomi. The family reached Konoha with Hinata and Might Duy, while news spread that the Land of Lightning had been devastated.

• Tsunade and Dan Katō confronted the Fourth Raikage, who tried to stall for time while recovering from his injuries.
• The Fourth Raikage lunged for Naruto, but Tsunade stopped him as Dan Katō entered his body and delivered a fatal blow.
• Kaedeji pulled the Fourth Raikage’s consciousness into Formless Tsukuyomi, then welcomed Dan Katō and his family back to Konoha.
• Tsunade examined the unconscious Hinata, while Naruto learned that her Byakugan had been taken; the group also found Might Duy’s corpse.
• Tsunade and Dan Katō brought the Fourth Raikage’s body to Konoha, where villagers discussed the destruction of the Land of Lightning and Naruto received an invitation from the Hyūga Clan.