Chapter Summaries

Katsuo set a one-year deadline for young clan children to sense Natural Energy, while two years later Tenmei Uchiha and Uzumaki Chōsei arrived at the Ninja Academy with their mothers. The brothers recognized Naruto as the boy they blamed for bullying Tenmei and planned to fight him at school.

• Katsuo told Uchiha Osamu to teach the ten four- and five-year-old children to calm their minds, giving them a year to sense Natural Energy before they turned to the ninja path.
• Two years later, Hiruzen Sarutobi presided over a busy Ninja Academy enrollment, where Uzumaki Keiga brought six-year-old Naruto.
• Uzumaki Keiga greeted Kushina, Mikoto, and Konan, who had brought their three-year-old sons Tenmei Uchiha and Uzumaki Chōsei to school early.
• Tenmei and Chōsei refused to greet Naruto as a brother and whispered that they would beat him up once school began.
• Tenmei urged Chōsei to face any upperclassmen without help, claiming their father had always won fights against groups at school.

Tenmei Uchiha and Uzumaki Chōsei started a fight with Naruto at the Ninja Academy, and Katsuo and Minato watched through the Water Curtain. Minato went to find out what had caused the fight as the teacher broke the boys apart.

• Mikoto recognized Michiko at the Ninja Academy, but Michiko nodded and walked past her.
• Konan sent Tenmei and Chōsei to their first class, while Katsuo and Yao Yao watched the brothers through the Water Curtain.
• After class, Tenmei and Chōsei attacked Naruto, who fought back with help from Shikamaru and Choji.
• Chōsei broke free from Choji and grabbed Naruto while Tenmei punched him, until their teacher rushed in and separated the boys.
• Minato visited Katsuo, agreed the brothers had started the fight, and went to the Academy to ask what had happened.

Minato investigated the fight between Naruto and the younger brothers Tenmei and Chōsei, uncovering an old misunderstanding and punishing Naruto for refusing to apologize. Later, Chōsei and Tenmei got into trouble with Ino Yamanaka after insulting a girl's forehead.

• Minato arrived at the academy and questioned Naruto, Tenmei, and Chōsei about their fight.
• Chōsei explained that the brothers had attacked Naruto because of a past misunderstanding, and Minato told Naruto to apologize to Tenmei.
• Naruto refused to apologize, so Tenmei left angrily while Chōsei pleaded with Minato not to tell his mother.
• Minato beat Naruto for insulting his younger brothers, and Uzumaki Keiga beat him again after they returned home.
• Chōsei and Tenmei mocked a girl's broad forehead, so Ino Yamanaka knocked them on the head and introduced herself.

At school, Tenmei and Chōsei clashed with Sasuke over whether the Uchiha of the New Clan Grounds were traitors, exposing the sharp divide between the two groups. As Kumo and his allies prepared to beat Sasuke, Tenmei stopped them and said he would handle Sasuke himself.

• Chōsei and Tenmei tried to beat up Ino after she called Chōsei fat, but Sasuke stepped in and stopped them.
• Tenmei and Sasuke argued over whether the New Clan Grounds were traitors or the Old Clan Grounds had abandoned their clan.
• Kumo Uchiha arrived with a group of students, bowed to Tenmei and Chōsei, and confronted Sasuke for insulting the New Clan Grounds.
• Kumo called on Takeshi and Hitoshi from the Old Clan Grounds, and they denied that the New Clan Grounds were traitors while rebuking Sasuke.
• Kumo prepared to attack Sasuke, but Tenmei stopped him and declared that he would personally teach Sasuke a lesson.

Katsuo disciplined Tenmei and Uzumaki Chōsei after their trouble at school and pushed them to take cultivation seriously. Tenmei and Chōsei agreed to train, while Yao Yao also asked to become a Sage like her father.

• Kumo Uchiha dismissed the crowd after Tenmei and Uzumaki Chōsei confronted Sasuke, and the brothers decided to let Sasuke go for the time being.
• Katsuo ordered the clan guards not to help the two Young Family Heads with trouble at school, hoping they would not grow into bullies.
• Katsuo caught Tenmei and Chōsei trying to flee, punished Chōsei with a vine switch, and told the brothers to stop fighting Brother Naruto because they could not beat him.
• Katsuo said Naruto would keep getting stronger while the brothers refused to learn his cultivation arts, prompting Tenmei to promise he would train and defeat Naruto fairly.
• Chōsei agreed to cultivate after Katsuo promised he could eat as much as he wanted once he lost weight, and Yao Yao asked to learn cultivation and become a Sage.

Katsuo's family punished his sons for bullying Ino Yamanaka, who accepted their apologies. At a meeting in the Old Uchiha Clan Grounds, the elders argued that the clan should seek reconciliation with the New Clan Grounds, while Uchiha Itachi resisted until Shisui confronted him over the clan's shared losses and hatred.

• Katsuo, Kushina, and Mikoto helped punish Katsuo's sons for bullying Ino, and Konan eventually stopped Kushina from continuing the beating.
• Katsuo's sons apologized to Ino, and Kushina told her to seek help if they bullied her again.
• At a high-level meeting, the Uchiha elders argued that the Old Clan Grounds should seek the Demon God's acceptance and acknowledged that the former Patriarch Fugaku had wronged him.
• Uchiha Itachi angrily defended Fugaku and stormed toward the exit, but the Great Elder stopped him by mentioning that the meeting also concerned Sasuke.
• Shisui slapped Itachi and reminded him that the Great Elder had also lost a son, urging Itachi to stop calling the New Clan Grounds traitors and to consider the clan's future.

Uchiha Itachi clashed with the elders over their plan to appease the Demon God and win his acceptance for the Uchiha Clan. The elders urged him to put aside revenge and focus on the clan’s future, while Itachi remained defiant but was shaken by the revelation that the Demon God had secretly aided them.

• The Great Elder warned Uchiha Itachi that Sasuke might react recklessly if he learned the truth about his classmate and urged Itachi to address the matter with him.
• The Second Elder gave Uchiha Itachi a report describing the New Clan Grounds’ wealth, power, and immortal cultivation program, and argued that the Uchiha Clan needed the Demon God’s acceptance.
• Uchiha Itachi challenged the elders for expecting the clan to submit and pointed out that their previous apology had been rejected.
• The Second Elder revealed that Elder Feng had provided the Old Clan Grounds with financial aid with the Demon God’s tacit approval, leaving Uchiha Itachi astonished.
• The Second Elder urged the clan to unite, win the favor of the two Young Family Heads, and prepare for an era of immortal cultivation led by the Demon God.

Uchiha Itachi struggled with the clan’s decision until Shisui revealed a secret and urged him to remain patient. Three months later, Katsuo noticed Shisui behaving suspiciously as he approached Tenmei and his brother after school.

• Shisui told Itachi that the clan still had hope and shared a secret about the Child of the Demon God, asking him to keep it hidden.
• Itachi accepted Shisui’s advice and promised to stay composed.
• Katsuo began training his sons in meditation so they could sense Natural Energy.
• After three months of school and roaming around Konoha, Tenmei and his brother waited for Ino before going to play.
• Katsuo sensed a suspicious Uchiha watching the children, appeared above Konoha, and fixed his gaze on Shisui as Shisui approached them.

Shisui Uchiha tried to use Kotoamatsukami to make Tenmei accept the Uchiha Clan Grounds, but Katsuo caught him before he could act. Katsuo trapped Shisui in a powerful genjutsu and demanded the truth about his intentions.

• Shisui followed Tenmei, Chōsei, and Ino, preparing to use Kotoamatsukami on Tenmei.
• Katsuo appeared behind Shisui and transported him to the Uchiha Clan Grounds before he could activate his technique.
• Katsuo questioned Shisui about approaching Tenmei, and Shisui claimed it had been a chance encounter.
• Katsuo challenged Shisui’s excuse by pointing out that he had recognized Tenmei and activated his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Katsuo made Shisui look at his Six Tomoe Rinnegan and trapped him in a genjutsu.
• Katsuo asked the vacant-eyed Shisui to reveal his true purpose for approaching Tenmei.

Katsuo discovered that Shisui intended to use Kotoamatsukami to make Tenmei protect Konoha and accept the Uchiha Clan Grounds, then killed Shisui when he refused to spare him. Itachi attacked Katsuo, but Katsuo absorbed his techniques and turned Tsukuyomi against him, leaving Itachi badly injured and in Katsuo’s power.

• Katsuo forced Shisui to reveal that the Great Elder and Itachi knew about the Kotoamatsukami plan, then crushed Shisui’s neck despite Itachi’s plea to stop.
• Katsuo absorbed Shisui’s corpse into his Kamui Dimension, and Itachi attacked him with Amaterasu and a Kunai.
• Katsuo absorbed Amaterasu, seized Itachi, and was drawn into Itachi’s Tsukuyomi space.
• Katsuo resisted Itachi’s attacks, reversed control of the Tsukuyomi, and stabbed Itachi repeatedly within the genjutsu.
• Katsuo collapsed the Tsukuyomi space, leaving Itachi kneeling and bleeding, and declared that he should never have spared him before.

Katsuo crushed Uchiha Itachi’s attacks and watched as the Uchiha clansmen tried to capture him, then revealed a colossal Susanoo of his own. The chapter ended with Katsuo’s towering armored Susanoo rising above the Uchiha Clan Grounds.

• Katsuo kicked Uchiha Itachi’s Susanoo skeleton apart and sent him crashing through buildings in the Uchiha Clan Grounds.
• The Uchiha Second Elder ordered the clansmen to seize Itachi, but Itachi fought them and wounded several with his Mature Susanoo.
• Katsuo reflected on Itachi’s limited Susanoo weapons and the Uchiha’s mistaken belief that Mangekyō Sharingan users could rival him.
• Itachi struck Katsuo with the Totsuka-no-Tsurugi, but Katsuo summoned a black-flamed Susanoo that grew into a fifteen-hundred-meter armored giant.

Katsuo crushed Uchiha Itachi’s Susanoo and killed him, then exposed an Uchiha elder’s plot to use puppet genjutsu on Tenmei. As Katsuo waited for Itachi to revive through Izanagi, Itachi reappeared blinded in one eye.

• Katsuo formed a colossal Susanoo and crushed Itachi’s Mature Susanoo, killing him despite the Yata Mirror.
• Minato arrived, and Katsuo ordered him to recall the Uchiha Security Force while the New Clan Grounds’ forces sealed off the compound.
• Katsuo revealed that men from the Old Clan Grounds had plotted to use puppet genjutsu on Tenmei and identified the Great Elder as one of them.
• Mikoto killed the Great Elder, and Katsuo sent her and Konan home.
• Itachi reappeared after using Izanagi, having lost sight in his left eye.

Katsuo spared Uchiha Itachi at Mikoto’s request and offered the Old Clan Grounds’ Uchiha a chance to join the New Clan Grounds. The chapter ended with clansmen reconsidering after Katsuo required them to accept branch-family status and its limits.

• Mikoto pleaded with Katsuo to spare Uchiha Itachi, and Katsuo agreed before she took Itachi away with Konan.
• Katsuo told Uchiha Second Elder to gather the clan and separate those who wanted to join the New Clan Grounds from those who did not.
• More than eighty percent of the Old Clan Grounds’ Uchiha initially chose to join, but Katsuo required them to accept branch-family status, half the main family’s treatment, and unconditional obedience.
• Uchiha Second Elder asked whether branch-family children could become main-family members, and Katsuo said they needed exceptional aptitude or proven loyalty.
• Nearly twenty clansmen left the joining camp after hearing Katsuo’s conditions.

Katsuo forced the Uchiha branch family members to join the New Clan Grounds and killed everyone who refused, then unified the clan under new leadership. After stabilizing the clan, he traveled to Flame Mountain to complete his Fire Truth-Seeking Orb and went to the Land of Iron to search for the final clue needed to complete his Gold Truth-Seeking Orb.

• Katsuo told the Uchiha branch family members that joining the main family was unlikely, and most still chose to join the New Clan Grounds.
• After the willing members left, Katsuo killed the roughly one hundred who had refused and fed their corpses to the Ten-Tails.
• Katsuo spared Uchiha Itachi's family for the time being and ordered someone to watch them closely.
• The New Clan Grounds took over the Uchiha Compound, Uchiha Osamu became clan patriarch, and Uchiha Sheng became deputy patriarch.
• Katsuo traveled to Flame Mountain and absorbed its natural true fire for seven days, completing his seventh Dao Ball.
• Katsuo used the Flying Thunder God Technique to reach the Land of Iron and searched underground mineral veins for gold.

Katsuo reached the earth’s core and drew on its liquid metal to advance his power, beginning a secluded transformation beyond the peak of the Six Paths. There, a formless Dao Shadow appeared and asked him to help tear away the Demon Tree’s roots.

• Katsuo followed the iron vein through the mantle, found the Divine Tree’s roots near the core, and drew one into Number Ten within his body.
• Katsuo entered Ten-Tails Jinchuriki Mode, broke through the earth’s restraints, and reached the core, where the Gold Truth-Seeking Orb began absorbing liquid metal.
• Katsuo wrapped himself in a chaos-energy cocoon and entered enlightenment to complete his transformation and seek a realm beyond the Six Paths’ peak.
• A formless Dao Shadow spoke to Katsuo, explaining that Natural Energy let them communicate and asking him to tear away the Demon Tree’s roots.
• Katsuo asked whether the Dao Shadow feared he would absorb it, and it answered that it trusted him as a child of nature.

Katsuo continued his secluded transformation after the Mother of All Things warned that the Demon Tree would devour its master. As he neared a breakthrough, Black Zetsu lured Nagato Uzumaki and Uchiha Madara to Rōran, where Madara and Black Zetsu turned on Nagato and began the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique.

• The Mother of All Things told Katsuo that she had not brought his soul to this world and warned that the Demon Tree inside him would devour its master.
• Katsuo remained in secluded cultivation as his Gold Truth-Seeking Orb grew, while his three wives worried when they could not contact him.
• After a year, Katsuo's nine identical Dao Balls entered his Chaos Qi cocoon, and his power began rising toward a new realm.
• Black Zetsu told Nagato Uzumaki and Uchiha Madara that Earth's power at Rōran could help revive the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• When Nagato called Uchiha Madara a puppet, Black Zetsu pierced Nagato's abdomen and immobilized him, while Madara and Black Zetsu began the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique.

Uchiha Madara revived himself with Nagato’s Rinnegan and used the Dragon Vein’s Chakra to awaken the Ten-Tails. As Katsuo continued his dangerous breakthrough, the Star Spirit agreed to warn his daughter and Konoha, leaving the village to prepare without him.

• Black Zetsu used Nagato Uzumaki’s Rinnegan to revive Uchiha Madara, who then took his own Rinnegan from Nagato and ordered a White Zetsu to keep him alive.
• Uchiha Madara and Black Zetsu traveled to Rōran and fed the Dragon Vein’s Chakra into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• The Ten-Tails revived, and the Star Spirit showed Katsuo the beast standing with Uchiha Madara and Black Zetsu.
• Katsuo asked the Star Spirit to warn Konoha because he needed about ten days to finish his breakthrough and could not safely interrupt it.
• The Star Spirit offered to contact Katsuo’s daughter Yao Yao, and Katsuo told it to explain the danger and urge Konoha to prepare for the enemy.

Yao learned from the Star Spirit that Katsuo had returned and was sealed inside a cocoon while breaking through, with the Ten-Tails revived and Uchiha Madara posing a threat. Minato ordered Konoha to locate Madara and prepare to hold him off until Katsuo emerged in ten days.

• Yao heard the Star Spirit’s message and found Katsuo inside a colorful cocoon in the courtyard.
• Yao told Konan about Katsuo’s seclusion and the Ten-Tails’ revival, prompting Konan to alert Minato.
• Konan sent Tenmei to find the other adults, left Chōsei with Yao, and flew to the Hokage Building.
• Chōsei tested whether Katsuo could respond by shouting at and kicking the cocoon, while Yao tried to stop him.
• Minato and the Third Hokage assessed the danger, and Minato ordered Yamanaka Inoichi’s sensory team to locate Uchiha Madara.

Uchiha Madara prepared to defend the Ten-Tails while he waited for the Divine Tree to awaken, and questioned Edo Tensei Obito about Uchiha Katsuo's power. Obito realized Katsuo had implanted a relative’s eyes in him and had used him to awaken them before reclaiming them.

• Uchiha Madara ordered Black Zetsu to release the White Zetsu and keep the major shinobi villages from disturbing him while he conserved his strength.
• Edo Tensei Obito asked why Madara would not send the Ten-Tails to attack Konoha, and Madara warned him not to underestimate Uchiha Katsuo.
• Uchiha Madara questioned Obito about how Katsuo could use Kamui, and Obito recalled that his Two-Tomoe Sharingan had suddenly become Bloody Three-Tomoe eyes.
• Obito suspected that Uchiha Madara had tampered with his eyes, but Madara denied doing so.
• Obito connected Katsuo’s claim that he had taken something from him with Katsuo’s ability to use Kamui, and concluded that Katsuo had implanted a relative’s eyes in him and later killed him to reclaim them.

Uchiha Madara waited for the Ten-Tails to finish transforming as Minato led Konoha’s elite forces to confront him. Madara dismissed Minato’s first attack and charged the Konoha forces in his complete Susanoo.

• Uchiha Madara suspected that Uchiha Katsuo had manipulated both him and Uchiha Obito, but decided to wait for the Ten-Tails to transform before facing Katsuo.
• Yamanaka Inoichi detected the Ten-Tails’ Chakra, and Minato led Konoha’s elite shinobi west to confront Uchiha Madara.
• Minato entrusted Konoha’s defenses to Hiruzen Sarutobi before leading his team through White Zetsu forces to Madara’s location.
• Uchiha Madara questioned why Uchiha Katsuo was absent, and Minato said Katsuo was home caring for his child.
• Minato attacked with Kunai and the Flying Thunder God Technique, but Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo blocked him and forced him to retreat.
• Uchiha Madara activated his complete Susanoo and charged the Konoha forces.