Chapter Summaries

After awakening the Rinnegan, Gengetsu discussed eye evolution with Tsunade and advised Uchiha Shinsui about his own progress. He then explained to Ao Cang the difference between Yin-Yang Release and the techniques based on it.

• Gengetsu told Uchiha Shinsui that completing Sage Transformation and becoming a Sage could improve his chances of evolving his Rinnegan, while Shinsui said his Heavenly Eye had not awakened.
• Tsunade proposed that Heavenly Eye awakening depended on more than the pineal gland, prompting her and Gengetsu to study its Chakra flow, blood flow, organs, and brain coordination.
• After two days, Gengetsu sent Uchiha Shinsui back to Konoha and stayed with Tsunade in Shikkotsu Forest, planning to deal with Black Zetsu before traveling again.
• Gengetsu visited Ao Cang and revealed that his Rinnegan's unique eye technique was space-time traversal, which he believed had been influenced by Ao Cang and Dragon Vein Sage Chakra.
• Gengetsu explained that awakening the Rinnegan did not guarantee mastery of Yin-Yang Release Technique, distinguishing Yin-Yang Release itself from techniques that used its power.

Gengetsu explained his Yin-Yang Creation Art and revealed that his Mangekyō could trap Ao Cang in a chain of realistic illusion spaces. He then used Heavenly Firmament Dominion to reverse time, where they saw Gengetsu grievously injured in Shikkotsu Forest thousands of years earlier.

• Gengetsu clarified that the Life Creation Art was included within Yin-Yang Release, then demonstrated that his eyes could switch between the Rinnegan and Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Ao Cang analyzed Gengetsu's Mangekyō abilities, and Gengetsu used his left eye to draw Ao Cang into the realistic illusion space called Amaterasu Nest.
• Gengetsu explained that he had mastered the Yin-Yang Creation Art but needed a few more years before he could turn Ao Cang into a Divine Dragon, and Ao Cang agreed to wait.
• Gengetsu activated Heavenly Firmament Dominion to replay the past, showing Ao Cang their earlier battle and the moment they first traveled through time and space.
• The replay stopped at Shikkotsu Forest thousands of years earlier, where Gengetsu saw a grievously injured version of himself and realized they were observing the past without entering it.

Gengetsu prepared for a journey through time by rebuilding his Divine Dragon Dharma Aspect and cultivating a Demon Aspect, then traveled with Tsunade, Tobirama Senju, and Shisui Uchiha into an earlier era. They fought twelve Octopus Demons and three Garuda Celestial Demon King clones, but the clones escaped in opposite directions.

• Gengetsu observed his past self in the Shinobi World and saw Little Katsuyu absorb his blood and Natural Energy before his vision ended.
• Gengetsu and Tsunade reconstructed his Divine Dragon Dharma Aspect into a humanoid form, and he created a Split Body clone and a Shadow Clone as safeguards.
• Gengetsu cultivated a Demon Aspect, then left Shikkotsu Forest with Tobirama Senju and Shisui Uchiha; Tsunade secretly joined them by disguising herself as Tobirama Senju's Thunder God Sword.
• Ao Cang brought the group through a space-time passage, where they fought twelve Octopus Demons before emerging in the past.
• Gengetsu sealed the Octopus Demons with Planetary Devastation, then destroyed or crippled several when three Garuda Celestial Demon King clones broke free.
• The Garuda Celestial Demon King clones shed their Octopus Demon skins and escaped in opposite directions.

Gengetsu pursued Garuda’s two clones, protecting human settlements while trying to prevent the Celestial Demon King from taking control of his era’s demons. After Bai Qianqiu appeared and destroyed one clone, Garuda summoned its main body, and Gengetsu attacked it through a shattered space-time passage, suffering a severe Demonic Thought assault as the battle continued.

• Gengetsu chased Garuda’s stronger clone, stopped it from devouring a human tribe, and fought it as it gathered vital blood from wild beasts.
• After eight days, Gengetsu used Amaterasu Nest, Adamantine Soul Chains, and a powerful lightning strike to damage Garuda, but the Celestial Demon King escaped.
• Garuda took control of Yamata no Orochi, while Gengetsu controlled the nine-tailed demon fox and drove Garuda away after dismembering the serpent.
• Bai Qianqiu seized and destroyed Garuda’s other clone near a city, then gave Gengetsu’s Wood Clone a jade talisman and asked him to delay the remaining threat.
• Garuda began a blood sacrifice on a vast grassland and summoned its main body; Gengetsu attacked with his Divine Dragon Dharma Aspect and Susanoo, but Garuda’s Demonic Thought assault overwhelmed his defenses as their clash continued.

Gengetsu prepared a brutal practical lesson for Konoha’s newest Genin, telling them to attack him as though he were an enemy threatening the village. The chapter ended as Neji, Lee, and Tenten began their coordinated assault, with Neji revealing his skill at controlling six puppets.

• Gengetsu used the Heavenly Standing Eye to analyze how his Storm Release clone fused its Chakra Nature Transformations, then planned to develop Storm Release himself.
• Gengetsu proposed that Minato create an advanced class to train Kage-level shinobi and prepare them for senjutsu.
• At the graduates’ ceremony, Gengetsu told the rookies to attack him with the resolve to kill, warning them that they could be injured or die.
• Neji stepped forward first, and Lee and Tenten joined him after Guy encouraged Lee to overcome his fear.
• Neji summoned six puppets and controlled them with Chakra threads, while Lee and Tenten followed behind to exploit an opening.

Gengetsu put Konoha’s newly graduated shinobi through brutal combat training, then recovered in Shikkotsu Forest after being stranded in the Shinobi World’s past. He tracked down Garuda and badly wounded him, but Garuda escaped and Gengetsu collapsed from Demonic Thought.

• Gengetsu defeated Little Lee, Neji, and Tenten after they displayed their abilities, then challenged the rest of the forty-eight rookies, none of whom backed down.
• Gengetsu realized he had crossed from a parallel world’s past into the Shinobi World’s past and worried he had lost contact with Tsunade and the others.
• After recovering for two months, Gengetsu found Garuda, who had devoured a human tribe, and attacked him.
• Gengetsu severed one of Garuda’s wings and wounded his abdomen with Yuan Magnetic Lightning Blades, but Garuda’s Demonic Thought interrupted the pursuit.
• Garuda broke free of Gengetsu’s genjutsu and sealing attempt and fled, leaving Gengetsu to fall unconscious from his injuries.

Gengetsu fought Garuda, weakened him, and trapped him inside a barrier while seeking a way to kill or seal him. Back at the Laboratory Base, Kabuto discovered that Octopus Demon cells could reproduce the demon’s identical consciousness, possibly explaining its ability to resurrect from a single cell.

• Gengetsu used the Demon Aspect and Rinnegan genjutsu to render Garuda intangible, then trapped him in a Four Symbols Great Conversion Array before settling down to cultivate.
• Gengetsu visited Kakashi and Rin, invited Kakashi to help research space-time Ninja Arts, and showed him paired Flying Thunder God Kunai that enabled point-to-point teleportation.
• Kabuto told Gengetsu that Octopus Demon cells devoured First Hokage and his own cells while growing and dividing, and that the resulting demons shared the same consciousness.
• Gengetsu confirmed that the three cultivated Octopus Demons had identical, fused consciousnesses, and Kabuto proposed that this explained their ability to resurrect from a single cell.

Gengetsu explained to Kabuto how the body and soul were connected, warning him against dangerous shortcuts like transplanting Octopus Demon cells or using the Living Corpse Reincarnation Technique. After directing Kabuto to study the Spirit Transformation Technique and use clones for experiments, Gengetsu decided to take him to Ryūchi Cave the next day.

• Gengetsu stopped Kabuto from proposing human experiments with Octopus Demon cells and explained the risks of becoming an Octopus Demon or weakening his resistance to genjutsu.
• Gengetsu questioned Kabuto about mental power and the body, leading Kabuto to connect the Spirit Transformation Technique and Spirit Restriction Seal to the portions of consciousness that could leave the body.
• Gengetsu explained that the soul contained subjective consciousness and subconsciousness, and that the Living Corpse Reincarnation Technique could leave the user's soul impure.
• Gengetsu urged Kabuto to pursue a path he could cultivate himself, master the Spirit Transformation Technique, and use clones for experiments instead of his own body.
• Gengetsu decided to take Kabuto to Ryūchi Cave the next day.

Gengetsu awakened as a Sage, gaining control over every cell and a true spirit, then brought Kabuto to Ryūchi Cave to learn Sage Art. They met Tagitsuhime and the White Snake Sage, while Gengetsu remained determined to finish forging his God Tree Dharma Aspect and deal with the Garuda Celestial Demon King.

• Gengetsu realized that awakening the subconscious in every cell could give him the Octopus Demon's regenerative potential and thought of Orochimaru's Cursed Seal.
• Gengetsu successfully became a Sage, awakened his true spirit, and considered forging a God Body and Divine Dragon Spirit Body with his Dharma Aspects.
• Gengetsu replenished his Clones maintaining Garuda's barrier and created several hundred Shadow Clones to help seal the Heavenly Demon.
• Gengetsu brought Kabuto to Ryūchi Cave in the Land of Birds and explained that he wanted Kabuto to learn Sage Art from the White Snake Sage.
• Gengetsu and Kabuto entered Ryūchi Cave, where Gengetsu sensed the Dragon Vein's power and Tagitsuhime welcomed them on the White Snake Sage's behalf.
• Tagitsuhime led Gengetsu and Kabuto to the White Snake Sage, whose enormous form stunned Kabuto.

Gengetsu arranged for Kabuto to learn Ryūchi Cave’s Sage Art, then sealed Orochimaru’s consciousness-bearing Cursed Seal inside Anko. In the past era, Gengetsu chose to cultivate the Divine Dragon Spirit Body, but an outsider arrived and eliminated Garuda’s other clone, leaving Garuda desperate to escape.

• White Snake Sage agreed to let Kabuto attempt Ryūchi Cave’s Sage Art, and Gengetsu left him there before returning to Konoha.
• Gengetsu examined Anko’s Heaven Cursed Seal, discovered that it contained part of Orochimaru’s consciousness, and sealed it with the Evil Sealing Method.
• After struggling to recreate the technique that had sealed the Celestial Demon, Gengetsu decided to cultivate the Divine Dragon Spirit Body.
• Gengetsu and Ao Cang sensed powerful spatial-temporal fluctuations as a passage opened above them.
• Tsunade, Tobirama Senju, Shisui Uchiha, Gengetsu’s clone, and Bai Qianqiu emerged from the passage; Gengetsu learned that Bai Qianqiu had eliminated Garuda’s other clone.
• Garuda realized the newcomer was not from the Illusionary Truth Realm and feared that he would be unable to escape the blockade.

Gengetsu and Bai Qianqiu sealed the Garuda Celestial Demon King by using Dragon Vein Energy to draw on the land’s Earth Power. The seal stabilized after three days, leaving the group to guard it while it accumulated enough power.

• Bai Qianqiu recognized the Dragon Vein’s power within Gengetsu and explained that the Garuda Celestial Demon King’s Demonic Thought could be sealed, though destroying it would be difficult.
• Bai Qianqiu began forming a seal and explained that Gengetsu’s Dragon Vein Energy would guide Earth Power into it, while someone would need to maintain the seal for up to three years.
• Bai Qianqiu’s talisman-like figures burrowed underground, and he told Gengetsu to withdraw the divine ability maintaining the metalized ground.
• The Garuda Celestial Demon King abandoned its physical body and tried to escape underground, but Bai Qianqiu repelled it as an altar rose and drew it into the seal.
• Gengetsu’s Shadow Clones and main body channeled Dragon Vein Energy into the altar while Bai Qianqiu used it to gather Earth Power and suppress the demon.
• After three days of weakening struggles, pleas, and curses from the Garuda Celestial Demon King, the seal finally stabilized.

After Bai Qianqiu left behind a stele of talismans and Sealing Techniques, Gengetsu and the others studied it while remaining in the ancient era. A year later, Tobirama Senju and Shisui Uchiha returned with hundreds of people, and Gengetsu revealed his growing mastery of the Yin-Yang Creation Art by restoring Shisui’s severed arm.

• Bai Qianqiu sealed the Garuda Celestial Demon King, left behind a stele of talismans and Sealing Techniques, and departed through a spatial passage.
• Gengetsu and the others built a settlement around the stele and used Clones to study its contents; half a year later, Tobirama Senju and Shisui Uchiha left to travel.
• A year later, Tobirama Senju and Shisui Uchiha returned with about six hundred ancient people, and Shisui revealed that a powerful Lightning Release cow had severed his left arm.
• Gengetsu and the others brought the ancient people to their settlement and built houses for them with Wood Release.
• Gengetsu used the Yin-Yang Creation Art to regenerate Shisui Uchiha’s left arm and said he had not yet reached the point of creating life.

After months of preparing in the ancient era, Gengetsu decided to fuse his Spirit Body with the Divine Dragon Dharma Aspect and arrange for Qingluo to inherit the power needed to guard the Dragon Vein seal. As the fusion began, the immense pressure forced Tsunade to reveal her own Dharma Aspect.

• Gengetsu ended his seclusion, found the growing outpost thriving, and decided to return to Konoha after forming his Spirit Body.
• Gengetsu chose Tsunade's disciple Qingluo as a successor and planned to pass Dragon Vein seal control and some of its Immortal Force to her through a Cursed Seal.
• Gengetsu gathered Tsunade, Tobirama Senju, and Shisui Uchiha to witness and prepare for his Spirit Body fusion.
• Gengetsu manifested his Spirit Body and enormous Divine Dragon Dharma Aspect, then began shrinking the aspect to make it denser.
• As the Divine Dragon Dharma Aspect shrank to eight hundred meters and its pressure intensified, Tsunade summoned her five-thousand-meter Katsuyu Dharma Aspect.

Gengetsu struggled to merge his powerful Dharma Aspect with his True Spirit to create a Spirit Body. After the fusion stalled, he used natural lightning to compress the Dharma Aspect, and the chapter ended with a nine-zhang-tall violet-gold Spirit Body appearing above his physical body.

• Gengetsu expanded his True Spirit with the Law Manifestation of Heaven and Earth, then began merging it with his Dharma Aspect through Yin-Yang energy.
• Tsunade, Tobirama Senju, and Shisui Uchiha observed the fusion as Gengetsu gained new senses and insights into his Heavenly Eye's Intangibility.
• The fusion stalled because Gengetsu's True Spirit could not contain the Dharma Aspect's power, so Tsunade, Tobirama Senju, and Ao Cang urged him to weaken it.
• Gengetsu refused to give up and summoned natural lightning to compress the Dharma Aspect, telling Tsunade, Tobirama Senju, and Shisui Uchiha to retreat.
• Gengetsu endured the lightning as it forced the Dharma Aspect into his True Spirit, and after half an hour a nine-zhang-tall violet-gold Spirit Body appeared above his physical body.

Gengetsu successfully created a Spirit Body and discovered it could draw endless Immortal Force from the natural world, while the Illusionary Truth Realm contained twelve layers of space and was still expanding. He returned the Spirit Body to his physical body, triggering further changes in his dragon-like transformation.

• Tsunade, Tobirama Senju, and Shisui Uchiha watched as Gengetsu’s Spirit Body formed, and Gengetsu realized it connected to the natural world through a seventh chakra-wheel energy field.
• Gengetsu explored the layers of void, injured his hand reaching toward the tenth layer, and sensed that entering the Chaotic Void Sea would be dangerous even in an intangible state.
• Gengetsu explained that the Illusionary Truth Realm had twelve layers of space and was still growing, and he demonstrated that the growing world could become more stable and reduce the destruction caused by ninjutsu.
• Gengetsu demonstrated that his Spirit Body could disperse into energy and re-form at great speed, moving over a short distance as quickly as the Flying Thunder God.
• Gengetsu returned his Spirit Body to his physical body, and vitality surged as his dragon horns grew and purple-gold scales spread across his skin.

As Gengetsu’s body transformed to match his Divine Dragon Spirit Body, his Rinnegan and Tenseigan merged into a Three-Tomoe Rinne Tenseigan. After completing their preparations, Gengetsu and his companions traveled through time toward the present, arriving in the Land of Wind.

• Gengetsu’s body changed as it absorbed Dragon Vein Immortal Force, and Ao Cang gathered Natural Energy to sustain the transformation.
• Gengetsu’s eyes became a Three-Tomoe Rinne Tenseigan after his Rinnegan and Tenseigan merged through his increased mastery of Yin-Yang Release.
• Gengetsu and his companions returned to the Sealing Ground, where he placed a special Cursed Seal on Qingluo before they departed two days later.
• Gengetsu transformed into a Divine Dragon, carried Tsunade, Tobirama Senju, and Shisui Uchiha, and used Heavenly Firmament Dominion to travel from the past toward the present.
• Gengetsu stopped in the Land of Wind, where Tsunade recognized the surrounding desert.

Gengetsu returned to Konoha and, after training Kugatsu, used the Yin-Yang Creation Art to create a body for Ao Cang. The technique succeeded, but Ao Cang emerged as a tiny Purple Divine Dragon.

• Gengetsu returned to Konoha and learned his clone had completed Storm Release research, while Paper Release remained unfinished.
• At Minato's home, Kugatsu told the family that Naruto and Jiraiya had been caught peeping on people bathing, and Kushina vowed to punish Naruto.
• Gengetsu trained Kugatsu in Ice Release for three days before her leave ended and she departed on another mission.
• Ao Cang recovered enough strength, and Gengetsu gathered Konoha's powerful figures in the Forest of Death to create him a body.
• Gengetsu extracted Ao Cang's consciousness, supplied Dragon Vein Energy, and successfully used the Yin-Yang Creation Art to create a tiny Purple Divine Dragon.

Gengetsu explained Yin-Yang Release to the others while Ao Cang adjusted to his new life and learned he could take human form. Gengetsu then revealed his plan to change the Shinobi World from behind the scenes and investigated how the world’s void had expanded.

• Hashirama Senju grabbed the newly born Ao Cang, who broke his teeth biting Hashirama’s hardened arm, and Tsunade later demanded that Ao Cang make a summoning contract with her child.
• Gengetsu gave Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and the others a lecture on Yin-Yang Release, while Ao Cang signed agreements under Tsunade’s pressure.
• Gengetsu told Ao Cang that his Dragon Vein-based body could transform into human form, and Ao Cang changed shape and discovered that he resembled Gengetsu.
• Ao Cang urged Gengetsu to defeat Black Zetsu and unite the Shinobi World, but Gengetsu said he would work behind the scenes and focus on cultivating and exploring the world.
• Gengetsu reached into the void and found that it now had sixteen layers, four more than before, and wondered whether the world had expanded after they killed the Garuda Celestial Demon King.

Gengetsu entered the Netherworld Pure Land and learned from Hamura Otsutsuki that it had naturally formed as a gathering place for souls and the world’s darkness. As they discussed the Pure Land’s growing threat, a many-headed monster erupted from the ground and began devouring souls.

• Gengetsu sensed the Netherworld Pure Land and sent his Spirit Body into the void while Ao Cang stayed behind to guard his physical body.
• Gengetsu crossed twelve layers of void and found a strange world where souls fought amid malicious intent and negative emotions.
• Hamura Otsutsuki appeared and explained that the Pure Land formed naturally, gathered darkness, and housed souls and powerful Evil Spirits.
• Hamura told Gengetsu that the Pure Land’s dark power was growing faster than it could be transformed and could eventually invade the world of the living.
• A many-headed, centipede-like monster burst from the ground and began slaughtering and devouring souls.

Gengetsu explored the Pure Land with Hamura, where he learned about its Demonic Thoughts and the powerful beings in its deepest layer. After returning, Ao Cang proposed establishing reincarnation, leaving Gengetsu to weigh the dangerous undertaking.

• Gengetsu used his Rinne Tenseigan to seize and destroy a Centipede Evil Spirit, then sealed the Demonic Thoughts it left behind.
• Gengetsu and Hamura traveled through the Pure Land's voids, defeating Evil Spirits and sealing Demonic Thoughts as they went.
• Hamura warned Gengetsu that the fifteenth void held powerful Evil Spirits, including the Shinigami and an Evil God with a Rinnegan stronger than the Sage of Six Paths'.
• Gengetsu returned to his physical body and told Ao Cang what he had learned in the Pure Land.
• Ao Cang proposed establishing a cycle of reincarnation to deepen their understanding and increase their power.
• Gengetsu acknowledged the idea's potential but said he needed to consider its risks carefully.