Recaps

Katsuo secured the Star Spirit’s Power of Creation, strengthened his allies, and prepared to face the Otsutsuki Clan. As the clan detected the Blood Karma Light and dispatched Shinso and Yuchen, Katsuo and Madara waited for their arrival while Hinata spotted the light above Konoha.

• Katsuo compelled Vegapunk to obey him, ordered research into intact Devil Fruit power extraction, and freed the Straw Hat Crew after Chopper agreed to stay with him.
• Katsuo negotiated with the Star Spirit for its Power of Creation, ate Urouge’s Causality Devil Fruit, and received a deep-blue orb in exchange for accepting karmic debt.
• Katsuo linked the One Piece and Naruto worlds with spatial altars, then gave Kaguya some Power of Creation, which strengthened her and their embryo.
• Katsuo defeated Madara in a Haki battle, helped him become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, and watched him enter God State.
• Katsuo killed Blackbeard, copied his Devil Fruit powers, and captured Yamato after she entered Pangea Castle, then created a powerful Kaguya clone from her body.
• Katsuo left the One Piece World with Madara and traveled to a desolate star to await the Blood Karma Light’s eruption, while Kaguya mourned his departure.
• Yangshiki ordered Shinso to investigate the Blood Karma Light and assigned Yuchen to accompany him as the clan’s chart located Katsuo near its territory.
• Hinata saw the red light over Konoha while Chōsei took her to the night market, and Hiashi sensed Chōsei’s Sage Power and recalled Katsuo’s Cursed Seal.

Katsuo defeated Shinso and Yuchen, then joined Madara and Kaguya in fighting the Spirit-Devouring Demon Bug infestation. Three years later, Chōsei defeated Momoshiki’s invasion of Konoha as Katsuo’s group reached the Otsutsuki Homeworld and launched planets toward the clan lands.

• Katsuo and Madara fought Shinso and Yuchen, with Katsuo eventually sealing Shinso and taking Yuchen captive before escaping the chaotic void.
• Katsuo removed Yuchen’s eyes, gave Madara the Golden Rinnegan, and evolved his own eyes into the Nine Tomoe Rinnegan.
• Katsuo, Madara, and Kaguya discovered Spirit-Devouring Demon Bugs across more than a thousand planets and used Divine Trees and Infinite Tsukuyomi to control the infestation.
• Three years later, Momoshiki and Kinshiki invaded Konoha, where Chōsei fought them inside the Four Red Yang Formation.
• Momoshiki turned Kinshiki into a Chakra Fruit, but Chōsei continued fighting until Konoha’s taijutsu experts joined him and the Hokage captured Momoshiki for research.
• Katsuo, Madara, and Kaguya reached the Otsutsuki Homeworld, sensed the Primordial God Tree draining Natural Energy, and sent several planets crashing toward the clan lands.

Katsuo and Uchiha Madara fought Kōshiki Otsutsuki, but after Katsuo’s victory the Otsutsuki used the Primordial God Tree to destroy the Ninja World. Kaguya searched for Katsuo and learned that he survived within the Nine-Colored Truth-Seeking Orb, though reviving him required her to help him grow a body within her womb.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki trapped Kūshiki Otsutsuki, Shinbu Otsutsuki, and ten Six Paths experts in her supergravity dimension while Katsuo and Uchiha Madara attacked the Otsutsuki forces.
• Katsuo and Uchiha Madara defeated Yangshiki Otsutsuki and Shingen Otsutsuki, then faced Kōshiki Otsutsuki, who used his Jōgan to weaken Madara and sever both men with Tear the Heavens.
• Katsuo drew Sage Chakra from across the Shinobi World, killed Yangshiki, and battled Kōshiki and the Primordial God Tree’s beasts before opening the Gate of Death and destroying Kōshiki’s Nine Tomoe Rinne Sharingan.
• Katsuo escaped into the Kamui Dimension, where Uchiha Madara kept him alive as he recovered, and Katsuo later returned to the Ninja World to reunite with his family.
• Katsuo confronted Sasuke over his relationship with Yao, arranged for Shisui to use Kotoamatsukami on him, and told Orochimaru to offer Sasuke Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan and Hashirama Cells.
• Kōshiki Otsutsuki sacrificed Kūshiki, Shinbu, and other clan members to the Primordial God Tree, then used its power to send a black beam that shattered the Ninja World and left Katsuo and Yao unconscious.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki searched for Katsuo after his Life Card turned to ash, eventually finding the Nine-Colored Truth-Seeking Orb and learning from the Pirate Star Spirit that Katsuo remained inside it without a body.
• The Pirate Star Spirit told Kaguya Otsutsuki that she had to help Katsuo grow a physical body within her womb, and Kaguya accepted that she could not delay.