Chapter Summaries

Katsuo struggled against Kōshiki Otsutsuki after losing the advantage of his spatial technique, but trapped himself in a Nine-Colored Truth-Seeking Orb and opened the Gate of Death. He emerged vastly stronger after tearing off Kōshiki’s lower leg, leaving the battle at its most dangerous point.

• Kōshiki Otsutsuki overwhelmed Katsuo in close combat and shattered Katsuo’s three spatial vortexes, causing severe backlash.
• Katsuo transformed his Susanoo skeleton into a Nine-Colored Truth-Seeking Orb and enclosed himself inside it.
• Kōshiki Otsutsuki punched and drove the orb into a star, crushing it and pinning Katsuo beneath his foot.
• Katsuo seized Kōshiki Otsutsuki’s ankle and tore off the lower half of his leg before the orb contracted into Katsuo’s body.
• Katsuo emerged in a blood-red form after opening the Gate of Death, and Kōshiki Otsutsuki felt an overwhelming threat.

Katsuo used the Eight Gates to battle Kōshiki Otsutsuki, destroying his body and attacking his soul, but a strange vine seized Kōshiki's head before Katsuo could finish him. As the Gate of Death's backlash left Katsuo collapsing, he escaped into the Kamui Dimension, leaving Kōshiki's fate uncertain.

• Katsuo's Sage Blood boiled as he charged Kōshiki Otsutsuki and shattered his divine bone shield with one blow.
• Kōshiki Otsutsuki unleashed Hundred-Style Godly Void Strike, and Katsuo answered with Phoenix Flight of the Nine Heavens, sending Kōshiki flying light-years away as space collapsed around them.
• Kōshiki Otsutsuki uttered strange syllables, causing the Primordial God Tree on the Ancestral Star to freeze, and Katsuo caught up with him.
• Katsuo struck Kōshiki Otsutsuki's abdomen, reducing his body to blood mist, then used God-Killing to destroy the Nine Tomoe Rinne Sharingan at his brow.
• A strange vine wrapped around Kōshiki Otsutsuki's head before Katsuo could destroy it, while the Gate of Death's backlash caused Katsuo's body and Third Eye to collapse.
• Katsuo gathered his remaining chakra and entered the Kamui Dimension to escape.

Katsuo recovered from the backlash of the Eight Gates in the Kamui Dimension and told Uchiha Madara that he had defeated Kōshiki Otsutsuki, who was likely to die from his injuries. After recovering, Katsuo sent a Wood Release Clone to the One Piece World to reassure Kaguya while he went to see his wives and children in the Ninja World.

• Uchiha Madara used the Ten-Tails' Chakra to keep Katsuo alive and help him recover enough to move.
• Katsuo used the Mitotic Regeneration Technique, ran out of Chakra, and told Madara that he had won and that Kōshiki Otsutsuki would probably die.
• Katsuo used the Divine Mitotic Regeneration Technique to restore his body, accepting the loss of lifespan as the cost of counteracting the Eight Gates' backlash.
• Katsuo and Madara discussed their next steps, and Madara said he would return to the Ninja World first.
• Katsuo hesitated between the Ninja World and the One Piece World, then sent a Wood Release Clone to Kaguya while he went to visit his family in the Ninja World.

Katsuo returned to Konoha and reunited affectionately with Konan and Kushina, restoring Kushina’s figure with his power. While sensing the village, he spotted his daughter sitting with a Uchiha man he believed had tricked her, and grew furious.

• Uchiha Madara left Katsuo’s villa through a window to avoid the women in the courtyard.
• Konan sensed Katsuo’s return, embraced and kissed him, then reunited with him in private.
• Katsuo and Konan joined Kushina in the courtyard, where Kushina recognized him using their secret code and kissed him.
• Kushina asked Katsuo to help her lose weight, and he removed the excess fat from her body with golden light.
• Katsuo sensed Mikoto reviewing clan accounts and then saw his daughter sitting closely with a male Uchiha, whom he suspected of having bad intentions.

Sasuke Uchiha accepted Yao’s invitation to visit her home, where he encountered Katsuo, the man he believed had killed his father. Yao joyfully reunited with her father while Sasuke suppressed his hatred and remained silent.

• Sasuke gave Yao camellias and seeds, and she invited him to her home for barbecue.
• Yao took Sasuke by the hand and brought him home with Wangcai.
• Katsuo visited his mother, Uchiha Rei, and comforted her after returning safely.
• Yao saw Katsuo, burst into tears, and embraced him as he lifted her into his arms.
• Sasuke recognized Katsuo as the man he blamed for his father’s death but restrained himself from acting.

Katsuo reunited with his family, welcomed his sons’ girlfriends at a dinner, and learned that Uchiha Feng had died years earlier. That night, Yao was turned away by her mothers when she tried to find someone to sleep beside, while Katsuo stayed with Mikoto.

• Katsuo let Sasuke leave with Yao and told Kushina and Konan he would not oppose their daughter’s feelings, though he privately considered using Kotoamatsukami to make Sasuke devoted to her.
• Katsuo reunited with Uchiha Mikoto, then welcomed his two sons and the rest of the family home for a reunion dinner.
• Tenmei Uchiha brought Ino Yamanaka, while Uzumaki Chōsei brought Hinata Hyuga and a girl from their clan, and Katsuo approved of all three girlfriends.
• Katsuo asked about Uchiha Feng and learned from Mikoto that he had died peacefully several years earlier, then said he would dig him up in a few days.
• Konan, Kushina, and Mikoto each refused Yao’s requests to sleep with them, and Katsuo opened a soundproof barrier after Mikoto reminded him it was time for bed.

After returning home, Katsuo let his exhausted wives sleep and took Yao to lunch with her grandmother. Meanwhile, Kōshiki Otsutsuki recovered from his injuries and ordered the clan to prepare a mass sacrifice to the Primordial God Tree, including Kūshiki Otsutsuki, to create enough power to defeat their enemies.

• Katsuo stopped Yao from waking her mothers, then left with her to have lunch with her grandmother.
• Kūshiki Otsutsuki waited outside Kōshiki Otsutsuki’s cabin amid the ruins of the clan lands, uncertain of his father’s condition and his own succession.
• Half a month later, Kōshiki Otsutsuki emerged from the cabin, still weakened by Katsuo’s mental attack.
• Kōshiki Otsutsuki ordered the clan to produce Chakra Fruit and prepare for a sacrifice to the Primordial God Tree in three months.
• Kōshiki Otsutsuki told Kūshiki Otsutsuki that he would be sacrificed too, and Kūshiki agreed after realizing he could not defy his father.

Tsunade asked Katsuo to father a child with her so the Senju Clan would have another descendant, and he initially refused. After seeing her heartbreak, Katsuo returned and took her with him into his Kamui space.

• Katsuo and Tsunade discussed Nawaki’s family, and Katsuo agreed to give him several years of leave and let Minato replace him as Hokage.
• Tsunade asked Katsuo to help preserve the Senju Clan by fathering a child with her, explaining that she wanted children of her own.
• Katsuo refused and left the tavern, then sensed Tsunade crying alone in the private room.
• Katsuo returned, agreed to spend the night with Tsunade, and used Kamui to take her into his private space.

Tsunade secured Katsuo’s promise to keep helping her after their encounter, then Katsuo visited Sasuke’s home and confronted him about learning Sage Mode from Yao despite the feud between their families. The chapter ended with Sasuke denying that he had approached Yao to use her.

• Katsuo brought Tsunade back to the Senju Clan residence, where she threatened to expose their relationship unless he kept coming when she called.
• Tsunade laughed triumphantly after Katsuo left, convinced that her gamble had secured her wealth, power, and longevity.
• Katsuo appeared at Sasuke’s home in the Uchiha branch family grounds, startling Michiko and prompting Sasuke to confront him.
• Katsuo asked Sasuke where he had learned Sage Mode, and Sasuke admitted that Yao had taught him.
• Katsuo accused Sasuke of approaching his daughter despite knowing about their families’ grudge, and Sasuke insisted that he had never intended to use her.

Katsuo confronted Michiko and Sasuke about their family’s past, then arranged for Shisui to influence Sasuke’s subconscious. At Orochimaru’s laboratory, Katsuo discussed Momoshiki’s captivity, plans to strengthen Sasuke, and offered Orochimaru a visit to another planet.

• Michiko admitted that Fugaku had spread rumors against Katsuo and accepted that her family had caused its own troubles.
• Katsuo summoned Shisui, whose Kotoamatsukami began influencing Sasuke, then left the Uchiha home.
• Katsuo visited Orochimaru’s laboratory and saw Momoshiki restrained and being studied.
• Katsuo told Orochimaru to contact Sasuke about receiving Itachi’s Mangekyō Sharingan and Hashirama Cells to pursue the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and Rinnegan.
• Katsuo offered to take Orochimaru to a planet with advanced cultivation and technology, and Orochimaru reacted with excitement.

Kōshiki Otsutsuki used the Celestial Star Chart and his Jōgan to locate Katsuo and Uchiha Madara, then ordered the Otsutsuki Clan to begin a sacrifice that would awaken the Primordial God Tree. After the clansmen and Kūshiki Otsutsuki were devoured, the awakened tree unleashed demonic energy and began absorbing the star’s power and Natural Energy.

• Kōshiki Otsutsuki located a Ten-Tails and detected faint Blood Karma on the planet where Katsuo and Uchiha Madara were hiding.
• Kōshiki Otsutsuki ordered the divine sacrifice to begin, and the High Priestess performed a blood-soaked ritual at the Primordial God Tree before dying.
• The Primordial God Tree swallowed the High Priestess and opened a massive mouth, prompting Kōshiki Otsutsuki to declare that the clansmen must offer themselves.
• Shinbu Otsutsuki and eight Six Paths Level experts swore loyalty and entered the tree’s maw as sacrifices.
• Kūshiki Otsutsuki offered ten Chakra Fruits, swore loyalty to the clan and his father, and sacrificed himself to the tree.
• Kōshiki Otsutsuki connected with the Primordial God Tree as it awakened, covered the Homeworld in demonic darkness, and began drawing in the nearby star’s power and Natural Energy.

Kōshiki Otsutsuki fired a devastating black beam toward the Ninja World, and Katsuo and Uchiha Madara tried to shield Katsuo and Yao as it arrived. The attack shattered the planet and left their fate unknown.

• Kōshiki Otsutsuki used the Primordial God Tree to fire a black beam toward the Ninja World.
• Katsuo sensed an approaching crisis, but he and Uchiha Madara could not identify or escape it as space became distorted.
• Katsuo enclosed himself and Yao in a Nine-Colored Truth-Seeking Orb and told Uchiha Madara to protect him.
• Uchiha Madara layered Truth-Seeking Orbs and Susanoo defenses around Katsuo's sphere.
• The black streak struck the Ninja World, shattered the planet, and knocked Katsuo and Yao unconscious.

Kaguya Otsutsuki discovered signs that Katsuo was in danger and traveled to the Ninja World, only to find it missing. After searching in despair, she sensed the Nine-Colored Ring react and began using Sage Mode to investigate whether Katsuo was alive.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki watched Katsuo's Wood Release Clone shatter and saw his Life Card turn to ash.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki found that the Space Altar could not transport her to Katsuo's Kamui Dimension, so she set out for the Ninja World and left Chopper behind with a Pure Gold Ring.
• Three years later, Kaguya Otsutsuki reached the Ninja World's coordinates and discovered that both the Ninja World and its moon had vanished.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki searched the surrounding starfield for months but could not find Katsuo or the Ninja World.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki sensed the Nine-Colored Ring tremble and began absorbing Natural Energy to enter Sage Mode.

Kaguya Otsutsuki found Katsuo’s Nine-Colored Truth-Seeking Orb in the void and discovered it contained the Power of Creation, while clues suggested the Ninja World had been destroyed. After failing to find Katsuo’s Kāma substitute body in the One Piece World, she suspected the secrets behind his disappearance lay underground and decided to investigate.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki retrieved the Nine-Colored Truth-Seeking Orb from a rift and sensed the Power of Creation inside it.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki recalled that Katsuo had prepared a Kāma substitute body in the One Piece World and set out to find it.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki deduced from a Star Core fragment and its Divine Tree Chakra that the Ninja World had been forcibly destroyed.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki returned to the One Piece World three years later but found no trace of Katsuo, despite his Kāma being expected to revive him.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki suspected that Katsuo’s use of the Power of Creation was connected to secrets underground and decided to venture below the surface.

Kaguya Otsutsuki sought the One Piece World Star Spirit to learn whether Katsuo was inside the Nine-Colored Truth-Seeking Orb and how to revive him. The Star Spirit revealed that Kaguya had to nurture a new body for him in her womb, leaving her to face the choice of proceeding before her fetus was born.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki met the Pirate Star Spirit and asked about the Power of Creation and the Nine-Colored Truth-Seeking Orb.
• The Pirate Star Spirit examined the Dao Ball and confirmed that Katsuo was inside it, but had no physical body.
• The Star Spirit warned Kaguya that breaking the Dao Ball would destroy Katsuo’s chance of returning.
• Kaguya pleaded for a way to revive Katsuo, and the Star Spirit told her to help him grow a physical body within her womb.
• Kaguya asked whether she could wait until after her fetus was born, but the Star Spirit said she could not delay or deliver the fetus early without losing the chance to revive Katsuo.
• Kaguya accepted that she had to follow the Star Spirit’s instructions.

Kaguya Otsutsuki learned that Katsuo’s plan to gestate himself into a Dao Body would take longer than the thousand-year Causality Contract allowed, so she used her own body to shorten the process and save him. She left the chapter caring for Katsuo and her newborn daughter while seeking more life energy without breaking her promise to avoid sacrificing humans.

• The Star Spirit and Mother Nature explained that Katsuo’s self-gestation would take more than a thousand years, causing the Causality Contract to annihilate him before he could be reborn.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki replanted the Divine Tree, removed her premature daughter from her womb, and placed the Nine-Colored Truth-Seeking Orb inside her body, connecting it to the severed umbilical cord.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki created a Chakra barrier to protect her daughter and drew Tailed Beast Chakra from the Divine Tree to sustain both her children.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki decided the Divine Tree’s offerings must increase tenfold to revive Katsuo faster, but restrained herself from sacrificing people in Mariejois because of her agreement with Katsuo.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki sent a telepathic message to Princess Shirahoshi.

For decades, Kaguya Otsutsuki continued blood sacrifices to sustain the life essence needed for the child in her swollen belly, despite growing opposition from the World Government and the Empress. Kaguya ordered the Empress to bring Zunesha to Mariejois, and after nearly ten years of draining its life force, the giant elephant collapsed at sea.

• The Empress asked Kaguya Otsutsuki when the blood sacrifices would end, but Kaguya said she could not stop and threatened to activate the Infinite Tsukuyomi as opposition grew.
• Kaguya told the Empress to drive Zunesha near Mariejois so its immense life essence could help their father emerge.
• Two months later, the Empress brought Zunesha near Mariejois, and Kaguya transformed the Divine Tree into the Ten-Tails and had it attach itself to the elephant.
• The Empress returned to Mariejois while Kaguya and the Ten-Tails drained Zunesha as it walked through the sea for nearly ten years.
• Zunesha finally collapsed to its knees, too weakened by the Ten-Tails’ prolonged extraction to rise again.

After 120 years inside the Nine-Colored Truth-Seeking Orb, Katsuo was born again and reunited with Kaguya Otsutsuki and his daughter, Yuxi. He learned why his new body differed from his plan and resolved to regain his former strength so he could retrieve everyone from the Pure Land.

• After Zunesha's life force was absorbed, the Nine-Colored Truth-Seeking Orb began to tremble, and Kaguya Otsutsuki removed it from her body.
• The orb shattered, and Katsuo emerged in a small body before asking Kaguya Otsutsuki what had happened after his death.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki told Katsuo about the past hundred-odd years, and he comforted her before asking to see their daughter.
• Katsuo met Yuxi, apologized for her early birth and lost childhood, and promised to make things up to her and Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Several days later, Katsuo questioned the Pirate Star Spirit and learned that he had underestimated how long self-gestation would take.
• Katsuo decided to recover his former realm and eventually bring the dead back from the Pure Land.

Katsuo broke through to become a True Immortal and sent nine incarnations to cultivate across powerful worlds. He also ordered the One Piece World to stop polluting the seas, enforcing the decree by removing or eliminating those who resisted.

• Katsuo continued cultivating with Kaguya Otsutsuki and Yuxi, sharing Natural Energy with them while Yuxi teased him with embarrassing nicknames.
• Thirty years later, Katsuo broke through the Divine Realm and became a True Immortal.
• Katsuo created nine External Incarnations and sent each through a space vortex to a different world to cultivate until reaching the Divine Realm.
• Katsuo traveled to Mariejois and ordered the World Government to halt nuclear energy use and eliminate pollution across every nation.
• After powerful nations resisted the decree, the World Government removed wavering kings, and opposition to Katsuo's orders disappeared.

Katsuo created a cultivation method that lets ordinary people extend their lives while contributing part of their power to him, then expanded his strength through incarnations sent to other worlds. After growing powerful enough, he formed a new planet and prepared to resurrect his family and acquaintances from the Pure Land.

• Katsuo explained to Yuxi that his altered Longevity Sage Arts could be learned by anyone and would let him draw on a portion of their power.
• Katsuo named the realm above the God Realm the Transformation God Realm.
• After one incarnation returned from a sixty-year journey at the God Realm, Katsuo absorbed its memories and cultivation before dispatching nine new incarnations.
• Katsuo expanded his efforts to eighty-one incarnations and many Shadow Clones, rapidly increasing his power.
• Katsuo consulted Mother Nature and used a black star iron to create a new planet, moon, atmosphere, and living landscape.
• Katsuo bathed the new world in Natural Energy rain and announced that he would resurrect everyone from the Pure Land.