Chapter Summaries

Kaedeji learned that the Four-Tails was nearing revival and used Tsukuyomi to show Obito how he obtained the Dojutsu, then traded for Madara’s research on Tsukuyomi and Infinite Tsukuyomi. With the research in hand, Kaedeji planned to develop Limited Tsukuyomi and test his larger scheme on the Four-Tails.

• Kaedeji praised Yakushi Nonō’s intelligence work and ordered Shikaku to transfer her back to Konoha to run the orphanage.
• Kaedeji revealed to Shikaku that the new adviser was Uchiha Madara, while Obito objected to his identity being exposed.
• Kaedeji trapped Obito in Tsukuyomi and showed him scenes of the Box of Paradise gathering negative spiritual energy in the Land of Grass.
• Obito asked to use the Box of Paradise to awaken Mangekyō Sharingan, but Kaedeji refused and warned him he might be overwhelmed by its power.
• Obito shared research on ordinary Tsukuyomi with Kaedeji in exchange for information about the Box of Paradise, while withholding his most important Infinite Tsukuyomi intelligence.
• Kaedeji concluded that he could develop Limited Tsukuyomi and decided to test his plans on the soon-to-revive Four-Tails.

Yakushi Nonō was exposed while spying on Iwagakure, but White Zetsu and Kaedeji rescued her. Kaedeji revived Rōshi and pulled the Four-Tails back into his body, then trapped them in a new Tsukuyomi world, alarming the Sage of Six Paths and Hamura.

• Kitsuchi and Iwagakure’s ninjas cornered Yakushi Nonō, who used the Dead Soul Technique to escape before White Zetsu restored her chakra and guided her toward Kaedeji.
• Kaedeji met Nonō, told her to retire from spying, and summoned Rōshi’s corpse to test a revival technique.
• Ōnoki found the tiny, reborn Four-Tails, but it vanished and reappeared inside the revived Rōshi after Kaedeji infused Rōshi with its chakra.
• Kaedeji immobilized Rōshi and cast Tsukuyomi on him and the Four-Tails, creating a new genjutsu world for his experiment.
• The Sage of Six Paths and Hamura sensed the new world changing the ninja world’s fate, and Hamura proposed investigating Yahiko’s Otsutsuki power before confronting Kaedeji.

Kaedeji tested his Genjutsu on Rōshi and the Four-Tails while Ōnoki confronted him over Iwagakure’s tailed beast. After Kaedeji killed Kitsuchi with a reflected Dust Release attack and offered to revive him, Ōnoki refused and declared the Land of Earth would enter the Third Great Ninja War.

• Kaedeji watched Rōshi and the Four-Tails struggle inside his Genjutsu while he studied how the world worked.
• Ōnoki confronted Kaedeji and demanded that he return Rōshi and the Four-Tails, but Kaedeji declared the Third Great Ninja War had begun.
• Ōnoki and Kitsuchi restrained Kaedeji and Rōshi with Earth Release, then Ōnoki fired Dust Release at them.
• Kaedeji reflected Ōnoki’s Dust Release with the Uchiha Gunbai, killing Kitsuchi, and explained that he had used the attack to test the fan.
• Kaedeji offered to revive Kitsuchi if Ōnoki begged, but Ōnoki refused and launched a larger Dust Release attack.
• Ōnoki returned to the Iwa ninja without Kitsuchi and ordered them to prepare for the Third Great Ninja War.

Kaedeji used Iwagakure’s mobilization and Kitsuchi’s death to launch the Third Great Ninja War early, then prepared Konoha to profit from the conflict. He assigned Orochimaru to the western front while announcing that he would personally attack Kumogakure in the east to obtain True Waterfall.

• Kaedeji returned to Konoha with Rōshi and the Four-Tails, gave Madara’s gunbai to Obito, and explained that he planned to use the Four-Tails’ Chakra for a new jutsu.
• Kaedeji mobilized Konoha and the Land of Fire by promising military merits, resurrection, life extension, and access to strategic supplies and ninjutsu.
• Rasa and Pakura decided that Sunagakure would secretly target Takigakure and try to seize the Seven-Tails, while Rasa agreed to tell Konoha about their plan.
• Kaedeji ordered Sunagakure to send four thousand troops against the southern border of the Land of Earth, and Konoha’s leaders accepted the plan despite its risks.
• Kaedeji appointed Orochimaru to command the western front and declared that he would lead the eastern front against Kumogakure to obtain True Waterfall.

Kaedeji prepared Konoha for war, launching offensives against Kumogakure and Iwagakure while the Rain Country remained untouched. As the Third Raikage readied himself to confront Kaedeji, Kumogakure learned that Turtle Island had been attacked and Kaedeji was suspected of leading the assault.

• Kaedeji appointed Orochimaru to lead the campaign against Iwagakure and ordered a separate strike on Kumogakure, assigning Hatake Sakumo to watch Kirigakure.
• Kaedeji mobilized Konoha’s forces and led the Uchiha, Hyūga, and Senju clans into the Land of Lightning, while Orochimaru failed to question the disappearing Obito.
• Jiraiya agreed to visit Nagato in the Land of Rain after the toads asked him to bring Nagato to Mount Myōboku, and Minato agreed to study senjutsu.
• Nagato and Yahiko prepared to defend the Land of Rain, but the great nations’ forces bypassed it as Kaedeji’s simultaneous offensives reshaped the war.
• The Third Raikage prepared to face Kaedeji with Killer B, the Eight-Tails, and the Amber Purifying Pot, then received word that Turtle Island had been attacked and Kaedeji was suspected.

Kaedeji found Turtle Island, began turning its giant turtle into a zombie, and sought to use True Waterfall to separate his Dark Persona and make one of them the GM of the Tsukuyomi World. The Third Raikage arrived to stop him and killed Hizashi, while Kaedeji emerged to face him.

• Yotsuki A and Dodai warned the Third Raikage that Kaedeji had found Turtle Island, so the Third Raikage ordered the Heavenly Transfer Technique and prepared to confront him.
• Kaedeji praised Hizashi Hyuga for locating Turtle Island, then began infecting the giant turtle with the virus to transform it into a zombie.
• Kaedeji went alone to True Waterfall and met his Dark Persona, and they agreed to settle which of them would become the Tsukuyomi World's GM through Tsukuyomi.
• The Third Raikage arrived on Turtle Island and ignored the Hyūga Ninja's attacks as he searched for Kaedeji.
• The Third Raikage killed Hizashi with a punch through his chest, then spotted Kaedeji approaching.

Kaedeji resurrected Hizashi Hyuga, freeing him from the Caged Bird Seal, then fought the Third Raikage on Turtle Island while testing a new way to wield the Reaper through Susanoo. The chapter left the Third Raikage’s decisive strike redirected into Sarutobi Hiruzen’s zombie body, as Kaedeji prepared to send the Raikage somewhere.

• Kaedeji used One's Own Life Reincarnation to resurrect Hizashi Hyuga and remove his Caged Bird Seal.
• The Third Raikage attacked Kaedeji, who used Susanoo to block and counter him as Hizashi and the Hyuga clan watched.
• Kaedeji formed hand seals through Susanoo and successfully summoned the Reaper, testing it as a weapon against the Raikage.
• The Third Raikage bypassed Susanoo with One-Finger Nukite, but Kaedeji vanished and left Sarutobi Hiruzen's zombie in his place.
• Kaedeji thanked the Third Raikage for helping him test his technique, then removed his shirt and said he would send him somewhere.

Kaedeji trapped the Third Raikage in the Four Red Yang Formation, then drew his consciousness into the Tsukuyomi World, where Rōshi and the Four-Tails were already imprisoned. He planned to turn the world into a system for harvesting chakra from ninjas and began considering how to combine Tsukuyomi with Yachihoko.

• Kaedeji summoned Sarutobi Hiruzen, Sandstorm Araki, Rōshi, and Bunpuku to attack the Third Raikage, but his Lightning Release Armor endured their combined assaults.
• Kaedeji’s allies formed the Four Red Yang Formation and trapped the Third Raikage, who could neither break through the barrier nor escape over its towering walls.
• Kaedeji used his Mangekyō Sharingan to pull the Third Raikage’s consciousness into the Tsukuyomi World, where Rōshi explained that their senses and abilities worked within the genjutsu.
• The Four-Tails revealed that Kaedeji intended to use captured Tailed Beasts as chakra sources to maintain the world, while the Third Raikage fought Rōshi and searched for a way out.
• Kaedeji discussed using the Tsukuyomi World to harvest chakra from ninjas and considered combining Tsukuyomi with Yachihoko, but had not yet found a way to brand everyone who entered.

Kaedeji defeated the Third Raikage, claimed his body, and headed to the front lines to test his Formless Tsukuyomi. As Obito revealed his Wood Release while protecting himself from Yotsuki A, Kaedeji arrived on the battlefield and told Yotsuki A that the Third Raikage was probably dead.

• Kaedeji and his Dark Persona agreed to develop the Formless Tsukuyomi, with Kaedeji controlling reality and his other self controlling illusion.
• Kaedeji sealed the defeated Third Raikage in a coffin, and Hizashi and the others discussed the dangers of resurrection for the Hyūga Clan.
• Dodai sent Killer B and Yotsuki A to lead over a hundred Kumogakure ninja empowered with Eight-Tails Chakra against Konoha's forces.
• Yotsuki A attacked Obito, but Obito blocked him with a signless Wood Release technique and claimed Kaedeji had granted him the Kekkei Genkai.
• Kaedeji appeared on the battlefield and told Yotsuki A that the Third Raikage was probably dead and that he could send the others to meet him.

Kaedeji turned the battle against Kumogakure by commanding undead forces and controlling the Third Raikage, while Yotsuki A and Killer B failed to rescue him. Dodai ordered a retreat, but Kaedeji moved to stop the leaders from escaping as the Third Raikage encountered Kumogakure ninjas inside the Tsukuyomi world.

• Killer B spread the Eight-Tails’ chakra among Kumogakure’s troops as Kaedeji summoned a vast army of undead, including former Kumogakure ninjas.
• Kaedeji sent the controlled Third Raikage into battle, where Yotsuki A and Killer B tried and failed to free him from Genjutsu; the Third Raikage wounded Killer B and overwhelmed Yotsuki A.
• Kaedeji ordered Konoha’s forces to attack, and the undead and Konoha troops steadily widened their advantage as fallen fighters were raised or converted into undead.
• Dodai judged the battle lost, ordered Kumogakure to retreat, and named Yotsuki A the Fourth Raikage before leading the rearguard.
• Kaedeji used Space-Time Ninjutsu to confront Yotsuki A and Killer B and ordered his forces to capture surviving Kumogakure ninjas alive.
• Inside the Tsukuyomi world, the Third Raikage endured repeated fights with Rōshi until Kumogakure ninjas appeared before him.

The Third Raikage and other captured Cloud ninja learned that Kaedeji planned to use them as living batteries and residents of his Genjutsu world. Alarmed by Kaedeji’s growing control, Hamura decided to stop him and merged with the Giant Tenseigan to launch an attack.

• The Third Raikage learned that Kumogakure had lost the battle and discovered that he and the other Cloud ninja were trapped in Kaedeji’s Genjutsu world.
• The Dark Persona controlling Rōshi explained that the captives’ bodies would sustain the world while their minds served as opponents and sources of knowledge for its players.
• The Four-Tails revealed that it had become the Genjutsu world’s foundation and was constantly drained of Chakra.
• In reality, Kaedeji turned fleeing Cloud ninja into zombies and planned to use them as batteries after reviving them.
• Hamura decided Kaedeji threatened the ninja world’s freedom and told the Sage of Six Paths that he would sacrifice himself to kill him.
• Hamura traveled to the moon and merged with the Giant Tenseigan.

Otsutsuki Hamura used the Giant Tenseigan to possess the revived Hyūga Tenin and set out to kill Kaedeji and erase his influence. After Hamura attacked Kaedeji, Kaedeji summoned Duy as his trump card and sent him to fight.

• Young Toneri sensed Hamura entering the Giant Tenseigan, and Hamura used its power to reincarnate into the ninja world.
• Hamura possessed Hyūga Tenin in the Hyūga Clan compound, told Hiashi he intended to destroy everything Kaedeji had left behind, and vanished through space-time.
• Hamura attacked Hidan on the southeastern front, but Hidan switched places with a zombie before the golden radiance could erase him.
• Kaedeji confronted Hamura, who blasted a hole through his Susanoo with a Vacuum Palm and escaped into a space-time tunnel.
• Kaedeji summoned Duy and ordered him to fight Hamura, promising to raise Duy's son even if Duy died.

Kaedeji used Might Duy’s Eight Gates to hold off Otsutsuki Hamura while repeatedly restoring Duy and turning the battle into a war of attrition. Hamura remained determined to kill Kaedeji, and Black Zetsu realized Hamura’s return threatened Mother’s resurrection.

• Hamura pierced Kaedeji’s Susanoo, but Kaedeji summoned Might Duy and empowered him with vitality.
• Might Duy opened the Gate of Death and battered Hamura with relentless Taijutsu, forcing him to use Black Rods and space-time techniques.
• Might Duy collapsed from his injuries, but Kaedeji revealed he had turned him into a zombie and restored him to fight again.
• Hamura attacked Kaedeji’s Shadow Clone, while Kaedeji moved Duy and prepared to keep wearing Hamura down.
• Hamura repeatedly tried to reach Kaedeji, but Might Duy intercepted him and kept attacking despite his shattered limbs.
• Black Zetsu recognized Hamura and feared that he and Hagoromo could obstruct Mother’s resurrection, leaving him to rely on Kaedeji.

Kaedeji watched Might Duy and Hamura’s battle while Kirigakure’s forces approached, then faced Hamura’s meteorite attack without fleeing. He made Hidan return to use the Void Realm Technique to divert the falling rocks, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Kaedeji joined Black Zetsu and White Zetsu to watch Might Duy fight Hamura, and he explained that Hamura would vanish completely if killed before finishing his resurrection.
• White Zetsu and Black Zetsu reported that Kirigakure’s advance force, including the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, had landed nearby.
• Suikazan Fuguki ordered Kushimaru Kuriarare to scout, and the Kirigakure force panicked when meteorites began falling from the sky.
• Hamura revealed that the meteorite barrage was meant to force Kaedeji to expose himself while using Space-Time Ninjutsu.
• Kaedeji summoned Hidan back and hurled him into the air, where Hidan used the Void Realm Technique to transfer some of the meteorites.

Hamura died after his failed attack on Kaedeji, and the meteorites he unleashed devastated lands across the ninja world. His final consciousness warned the Sage of Six Paths and Toneri about Kaedeji before the Giant Tenseigan disintegrated, leaving Toneri to consider visiting the ninja world.

• Hamura realized Kaedeji had encountered other Otsutsuki before and died as his body disintegrated, stopping the meteorites from falling.
• Kaedeji surveyed the devastation, while meteorite strikes across the ninja world nearly wiped out Kirigakure's advance force and killed Munashi Jinpachi and Jinin Akebino.
• Hamura met the Sage of Six Paths in the Pure Land and learned that Might Duy's soul had not arrived; the Sage explained that he was conserving his power for Indra and Asura.
• Hamura's final consciousness reached the moon, warned Toneri to protect the world and watch for outsiders, then disappeared.
• The Giant Tenseigan collapsed and scattered its Byakugan, and Toneri put two into his empty eye sockets and considered visiting the ninja world to meet Kaedeji.

Kaedeji and Might Duy defeated Hamura after a devastating battle, while Hidan helped protect Konoha’s forces from the falling meteorites. The eastern front turned in Konoha’s favor, and as the other villages reacted to Kaedeji’s power, Nagato considered whether the Rinnegan could summon meteorites too.

• Kaedeji restored Might Duy and explained that Hamura had died for good, while Black Zetsu suspected Kaedeji knew more about ancient history than he should.
• Might Duy woke confused, and Kaedeji named him an Elite Jonin under his sole command; Kaedeji also praised Hidan for diverting meteorites and protecting Inuzuka Tsume and the others.
• Kirigakure’s vanguard was nearly wiped out, Kumogakure retreated, and the eastern front fell quiet as news of the destruction spread across the ninja world.
• Ōnoki learned that Kumogakure and Kirigakure had collapsed and that Sunagakure had invaded the Land of the Waterfall, leaving Iwagakure under growing pressure.
• At Mount Myōboku, Nagato told Jiraiya that he could create a meteorite with the Rinnegan and wondered whether Planetary Devastation was only the beginning of its power.

Sunagakure invaded Takigakure to capture the Seven-Tails and earn revival opportunities, while Obito supervised the assault and Kaedeji arrived to claim the village. Kaedeji revealed that he would turn Takigakure into a base for storing living prisoners as “batteries.”

• Rasa led three thousand Sunagakure ninja into Takigakure, where they slaughtered its defenders and searched for the Seven-Tails.
• Obito arrived with Kakashi, Guy, and Rin, ordered Sunagakure to capture Takigakure prisoners alive, and allowed Rasa to pursue the Seven-Tails.
• Rasa and Baki led Sunagakure forces in attacking the Seven-Tails after they discovered it trying to escape.
• Obito ordered Kakashi, Guy, and Rin to help round up Takigakure's defeated ninja while Sunagakure battled the Seven-Tails.
• Kaedeji arrived, reassured Guy about his father's survival, and declared Takigakure would become a base for storing living prisoners as batteries.
• Kaedeji summoned zombies carrying Cloud Ninja prisoners through the Void Realm Technique and began putting his plan into action.

Kaedeji used his Sharingan and Yachihoko to mark thousands of prisoners and link their consciousnesses to the Formless Tsukuyomi World, where they could be made to produce Chakra. He revealed that he intended to keep the Great Ninja War going until everyone in the ninja world had entered the shared illusion, leaving Obito determined to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan quickly.

• Kaedeji used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and Yachihoko to silence and mark more than two thousand prisoners, then announced that Takigakure would be sealed behind a defensive barrier.
• Kaedeji sent Obito into the Formless Tsukuyomi World, where Obito saw the Third Raikage, Rōshi, and other people gathered in a vast desert.
• Kaedeji explained that his shared illusion could hold the consciousnesses of both the living and the dead, and that he had used Madara's research to create it.
• Kaedeji revealed that the prisoners' bodies and souls would repeatedly rest and produce Chakra for him while the war continued until enough people had entered the illusion.
• Obito watched the Dark Persona fight the Third Raikage and resolved to obtain his Mangekyō Sharingan as soon as possible.

Kaedeji revealed to Obito that his Formless Tsukuyomi could create a customizable virtual world powered by harvested Chakra, while Obito resolved to obtain Mangekyō Sharingan capable of countering him. After Obito left, Rasa captured the Seven-Tails and Kaedeji took one-third of its Chakra, leaving him to pursue the remaining Tailed Beasts.

• Kaedeji showed Obito how his Formless Tsukuyomi could reproduce a world and its inhabitants’ abilities, then described plans to charge users Chakra to enter and interact with it.
• Obito returned to reality, recognized the danger of Kaedeji’s plans, and left with Kakashi and the others after deciding he needed Mangekyō Sharingan to counter Kaedeji.
• Kaedeji reflected that Obito’s Mangekyō ability would likely differ from Kamui because Madara had failed to fully brainwash him in this timeline.
• Rasa returned with the captured Seven-Tails after heavy Sunagakure casualties, and Kaedeji allowed him to take it while claiming one-third of its Chakra.
• Kaedeji used zombies and the Reaper Death Seal Technique to extract the Seven-Tails’ Chakra, then identified the Two-Tails, Three-Tails, and Six-Tails as his remaining targets.

Kaedeji ordered Rasa to invade the Land of Earth for prisoners while Konoha’s war against the other villages dragged on. Obito discovered that Madara’s White Zetsu had impersonated and killed his grandmother, awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, and revealed a space-time ocular technique that drew Kaedeji’s attention.

• Kaedeji sealed the Seven-Tails with a Four Symbols Sealing Technique and ordered Rasa to attack the Land of Earth and capture three hundred prisoners.
• Rasa sent Baki to transport the Seven-Tails to the village and led his remaining troops west.
• Konoha’s forces continued grinding down enemy villages, capturing living ninja and taking corpses as the war spread across the ninja world.
• Obito returned to the clan grounds and learned that the person posing as his grandmother was White Zetsu, who had eaten her body two years earlier.
• Obito awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, manifested Susanoo, and used his left eye to create a black hole that swallowed White Zetsu’s head.
• Kaedeji received a report that Obito’s ocular technique could instantly erase anything it touched and recognized it as Great Sun Spirit.