Chapter Summaries

Ming Jing rose into the sky and questioned why he still pursued the Strongest Illusionist mission, while Naruto and Sasuke fought Madara below. Naruto and Sasuke continued battling Madara in their enhanced forms as Ming Jing prepared to test his resolve.

• Madara tried to pursue Ming Jing, but Naruto intercepted him and fought alongside Sasuke.
• Ming Jing floated seventy kilometers into the sky, reviewed the life he had built, and questioned what he was still striving for.
• Sakura carried Kakashi onto the Divine Tree and watched Naruto and Sasuke battle Madara.
• Naruto used clones and Kurama Mode to strike Madara, while Sasuke attacked with Susanoo.
• Madara activated Perfect Susanoo and exchanged powerful blows with Naruto and Sasuke.
• Naruto recovered after Madara’s sweeping strike, and Sasuke asked whether he could keep fighting.

While Ming Jing sat in the sky and his chakra barrier weakened, his mind wandered through romantic memories in the Blue Star World. Below, Naruto and Sasuke continued fighting Madara and held on in the hope that Ming Jing would finish his work.

• Ming Jing imagined walking through the Blue Star World with Hinata, Yuexi, Konan, and Mei Terumi, sharing food, buying Konan an orchid-carved comb, and drinking with Mei Terumi.
• Ming Jing's chakra barrier continued melting as he remained motionless seven thousand meters in the air.
• Madara knocked Kurama into an island and defeated Sasuke in their clash, but Naruto caught Sasuke as he rose from the water.
• Naruto looked to the unchanged Divine Tree and said he still hoped Ming Jing was not finished, then rejected Sasuke's suggestion that they surrender.

Naruto and Sasuke joined forces to hold Madara back while Ming Jing remained lost in a wedding-planning vision. The chapter ended with Naruto unleashing the last of his power against Madara, who was trapped in Sasuke’s Chibaku Tensei.

• Sasuke covered Kurama with Susanoo, and he and Naruto fled Madara’s Karmic Hand of the Five Colored Clouds by diving into the sea.
• Madara saw Ming Jing high above and began flying toward him while Ming Jing imagined planning weddings with Hinata, Yuexi, Konan, and Mei Terumi.
• Sasuke fired a Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi Arrow at Madara, and Naruto followed with successive Sage Art Rasengan attacks that drove Madara down from the sky.
• Sasuke used Chibaku Tensei to trap Madara among rocks as Naruto split into nine and hurled Tailed Beast-powered Rasenshuriken at him with his remaining strength.

Naruto and Sasuke appeared to defeat Madara, but he survived after being pulled into another world by Kaguya Otsutsuki. Kaguya revealed that she had saved Madara so they could join forces against Akira Kurama, whose unknown power threatened both their plans and her existence.

• Naruto destroyed Madara's Chibaku Tensei with nine Rasenshuriken, and Sasuke caught him as he fell from the sky.
• Sakura treated Naruto and Sasuke while Kakashi praised their growth, but Madara reappeared unharmed through a rift in the sky.
• Madara recalled that Kaguya Otsutsuki had pulled him into a silent world just before Naruto's attack could destroy him.
• Kaguya identified herself as Hagoromo's mother and said she had saved Madara to deal with Akira Kurama.
• Kaguya told Madara that Akira's unknown power could threaten her existence and disrupt Madara's plan, including the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Madara agreed to Kaguya’s proposal in exchange for the ability to travel between worlds, then returned to the battlefield and attacked Ming Jing. Their fight began just as Ming Jing’s wedding dream was interrupted, while Madara wondered what power Ming Jing was still concealing.

• Madara agreed to Kaguya’s proposal after she said she could let him come and go from the world at will.
• Kaguya opened a rift and sent Madara back to the battlefield, where he faced Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, and another figure.
• Madara sent his Shadow Split Clone after Naruto and Sasuke, then flew toward Ming Jing as he sensed something happening to him.
• At the wedding venue, Ming Jing saw the frozen scene crack apart and dodged Madara’s laser attack.
• Madara and Ming Jing exchanged attacks, and Ming Jing’s apparent body turned into pear blossoms before he kicked Susanoo back.
• Madara wondered whether Ming Jing was holding back power to guard against the Sage of Six Paths or Kaguya Otsutsuki.

Madara returned to the battlefield after Kaguya Otsutsuki lent him her ability to sense Chakra, allowing him to detect Ming Jing’s attacks. He trapped Ming Jing in a lightning cage and prepared to seal his twenty-four meridians with Truth-Seeking Orb spears.

• Madara struck Ming Jing with Susanoo and followed with Majestic Destroyer Flame, but Ming Jing’s Wind Release Technique cut through the fire dragons.
• Ming Jing’s attack forced Madara out of the battlefield space, and Madara realized Kaguya Otsutsuki had intervened to save him.
• Madara asked Kaguya Otsutsuki to lend him her Chakra-sensing ability, and she agreed, letting him detect abnormalities in Chakra flow.
• Madara returned and dodged Ming Jing’s wind threads, then attacked with Sage Art: Electric Fang and trapped him in a lightning cage.
• Madara transformed his Truth-Seeking Orbs into twenty-four black spears and prepared to seal Ming Jing’s meridians.

Ming Jing fought Madara after revealing that the moon had disappeared and using his new power to block Madara’s techniques. Their battle ended with Madara breaking Ming Jing’s Azure Luan Blade and declaring him an outstanding person.

• Ming Jing told Madara that the moon was gone, preventing the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and used his new power to shatter Madara’s attacks and sever his access to the Pocket Dimension.
• Madara compressed Susanoo into armor, then struck Ming Jing with a physical-force Wind Blade that wounded him before Ming Jing healed.
• Madara and Ming Jing fought in the air with swords as Kakashi, Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke watched from below.
• Ming Jing realized Madara’s Sharingan insight remained usable, while Madara inferred that the moon still existed and that defeating Akira Kurama would be necessary.
• Madara’s Dragonlight Katana broke Ming Jing’s Azure Luan Blade with a dragon’s roar, and Madara praised Ming Jing as an outstanding person.

Ming Jing defeated Madara with a sword woven from blood-red threads, then waited as the nine Tailed Beasts emerged from Madara and formed into Kaguya Otsutsuki. The chapter ended with Ming Jing facing the legendary progenitor of Chakra.

• Madara explained how he had uncovered the limits of Ming Jing's new power, and Ming Jing confirmed it was related to Genjutsu.
• Ming Jing declared that his next sword carried his faith, while Madara gathered his powers into a strike with Dragonlight Katana.
• Ming Jing used "Proud China!" to send blood-red threads through Madara's Truth-Seeking Orb shield and Susanoo, fatally wounding him.
• Madara praised Ming Jing's swordsmanship as he fell, but his body stopped in midair and transformed as the nine Tailed Beasts emerged.
• Ming Jing watched the Tailed Beast sphere contract into Kaguya Otsutsuki and greeted her.

Black Zetsu explained his connection to Kaguya Otsutsuki and revealed that the Infinite Tsukuyomi had been altered to gather Chakra and transform its victims into White Zetsu. As Kaguya absorbed the trapped shinobi’s Chakra, Ming Jing allowed her to continue, believing she had not yet reached a true breakthrough.

• Black Zetsu told Obito that he was the younger brother of the Sage of Six Paths and defended his loyalty to their mother, Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura watched Kaguya absorb the Chakra of those trapped by the Infinite Tsukuyomi, while Ming Jing told Team 7 not to interfere.
• Black Zetsu revealed that the Infinite Tsukuyomi victims would be transformed into White Zetsu and explained that he had altered Hagoromo’s stone tablet.
• Black Zetsu admitted that Madara and Obito had both been his pawns, while Ming Jing watched Kaguya absorb the vast Chakra without attacking.

Kaguya Otsutsuki transported Ming Jing, Naruto, Sasuke, Kakashi, Sakura, and Obito into her Lava Realm and fought Ming Jing. After they clashed, she shifted everyone to a frozen realm, where Ming Jing wondered whether Kaguya was affected by its conditions too.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki emerged and transported everyone into the Lava Realm, while Ming Jing kept the group aloft and claimed the fight as his own.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki pinned Ming Jing with her Byakugan and struck him into the lava, but he emerged unharmed and destroyed Naruto's shadow clones with her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.
• Ming Jing attacked with Dust Release: World Splitter and Boil Release, but Kaguya Otsutsuki escaped through a Space Gate, bound him with her hair, and tried to extract his Chakra.
• Ming Jing used Elemental Transformation to escape Kaguya Otsutsuki's hair, and she shifted everyone from the Lava Realm to the Frozen Snowfield Realm.
• Ming Jing explained that Kaguya Otsutsuki could move everyone between Heavenly Domains, and Kakashi asked whether she was affected by the frozen realm as they were.

Kaguya Otsutsuki separated Ming Jing from Naruto and Sasuke, then restrained the two and began draining their Chakra with Black Zetsu’s help. Ming Jing adapted to the Gravity World while Kaguya and Black Zetsu began explaining their version of ninja history to Naruto and Sasuke.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki and Black Zetsu discussed Akira Kurama’s unfamiliar power and planned to separate their opponents.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki redirected Ming Jing’s attacks through Space Gates and transferred him to the Gravity World.
• Sasuke realized Kaguya Otsutsuki was trying to split them up, but she appeared behind him and Naruto and immobilized them with Byakugan: Pressure.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki embraced Naruto and Sasuke, while Black Zetsu attached himself to them and began draining their Chakra.
• Black Zetsu told Naruto and Sasuke that he was Kaguya’s child and had shaped ninja history to bring about her resurrection.
• Ming Jing adapted to the Gravity World’s extreme gravity and began looking for a way out.

Naruto and Sasuke fought Kaguya Otsutsuki, with Naruto’s Sexy Jutsu briefly creating an opening before she trapped them in ice and escaped their sealing attempt. Meanwhile, Ming Jing failed to break through the space barrier but found a possible way back to Kaguya.

• Black Zetsu claimed that Kaguya Otsutsuki’s return would restore everything to its origin, while Naruto broke free and insisted ninja history was more than her story.
• Sasuke used Amaterasu as a distraction, and Naruto struck Kaguya Otsutsuki with his Sexy Jutsu: Reverse Harem Technique.
• Naruto and Sasuke tried to seal Kaguya Otsutsuki with their Yin and Yang powers, but she froze them and escaped through a Space Gate.
• Sasuke shattered the ice with Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi, freeing Naruto as Kaguya Otsutsuki retreated into the air.
• Ming Jing failed to break the barrier with a powerful punch, briefly cracked it with the Tremor-Tremor Fruit, and then remembered someone who might help him reach Kaguya.

Kaguya Otsutsuki separated Naruto and Sasuke, trapping Naruto in a glacier dimension while Sasuke was sent to a desert world. In the Main World, Hagoromo appeared before the four Hokage and explained Kaguya’s connection to Madara, Zetsu, and the reincarnations of Asura and Indra.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki grabbed Sasuke through a Space Gate and hurled him into a desert world, then vanished into another dimension as Naruto failed to follow.
• Naruto dodged Kaguya’s attacks in the glacier dimension until ice spears and closing mountain ranges trapped him.
• Minato rejoined Hashirama, Hiden, and Hiruzen, and the four discussed Madara’s remains and the people ensnared by the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Hagoromo emerged before the Hokage, identified himself as the Sage of Six Paths, and told them Naruto and Sasuke were fighting his mother, Kaguya.
• Hagoromo explained that Asura and Indra had reincarnated as Hashirama and Madara, and that Zetsu was the consciousness of Kaguya’s Third Son.

Naruto battled Kaguya in the Frozen Snowfield while trying to follow her through a Space Gate and find Sasuke. Ming Jing returned, learned the situation, and confronted Kaguya about the Otsutsuki Clan, leaving her to respond to his deductions about the Divine Tree and White Zetsu army.

• Naruto broke free of the ice, struck Kaguya with Peerless Strength, and used shadow clones to overwhelm her.
• Kaguya opened a Space Gate to escape Naruto's attacks, but Ming Jing arrived through a portal of his own.
• Naruto dismissed his clones and explained to Ming Jing that Sasuke had been sent to another world and that they needed to follow Kaguya to find him.
• Ming Jing waited with Naruto for Kaguya to emerge, then asked her to talk about herself and the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Ming Jing told Kaguya that the Otsutsuki Clan came from another planet and suggested that she had created the White Zetsu army to fight its other members.

Ming Jing persuaded Kaguya to explain her past and the threat posed by the Otsutsuki Clan, then proposed that they join forces against them. Kaguya agreed to consider an alliance but insisted on testing Ming Jing first.

• Ming Jing urged Kaguya to discuss her sons and the reason they had sealed her away, and she began recounting her past.
• Kaguya explained that she ate the Divine Tree's fruit to save herself and her unborn children from armed humans, then described how the Otsutsuki Clan sent members to cultivate Chakra Fruits for the main house.
• Kaguya revealed that stronger Otsutsuki might arrive soon, and Ming Jing proposed that they unite to fight them.
• Kaguya asked whether Ming Jing could defeat one Otsutsuki while she handled another, and Black Zetsu named the few humans he considered strong enough to fight.
• Kaguya told Ming Jing she would test his strength before agreeing to their plan.

Ming Jing fought Kaguya to prove he could stand against the Otsutsuki Clan, countering her attacks and striking her with the God-Beating Whip. The battle escalated when Kaguya used her All-Killing Ash Bones, and Ming Jing prepared a Serious Punch as the confrontation reached its climax.

• Ming Jing asked Naruto to step aside and told Kaguya he was ready to face her full strength.
• Kaguya attacked with shifting ice mountains, lava, and ice spikes, but Ming Jing redirected or transformed each assault.
• Ming Jing created twelve main bodies and trapped Kaguya in the Ten Visits to the Vermilion Gate Array, then struck her through her defenses with the God-Beating Whip.
• Kaguya unleashed All-Killing Ash Bones and opened twenty-five spaces, while Ming Jing sealed twenty-four of her Space Gates with crystal walls.
• Ming Jing clenched his fist and announced that he would end the fight with a Serious Punch.

Ming Jing stopped his punch before it hit Kaguya, and they made peace to face the Otsutsuki Clan together. After Kaguya freed the group from her Heavenly Domain, she and the Sage of Six Paths reconciled, while he explained that Ming Jing was an anomaly in their world.

• Ming Jing halted his punch at Kaguya’s nose, and Kaguya agreed that his strength could defeat the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Kaguya and Ming Jing shook hands, and Naruto celebrated their alliance against their common enemy.
• Kaguya opened a Space Gate for Sasuke, who returned to Naruto but remained wary of her claims about the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Kaguya dispelled the Heavenly Domain, returning Ming Jing and the others to the main world, where Minato Namikaze and the Hokages sensed their arrival.
• Kaguya met the Sage of Six Paths, and they apologized to each other and acknowledged their past mistakes.
• The Sage of Six Paths told Kaguya that Ming Jing was an anomaly who was not entirely compatible with their world.

Ming Jing released fluorescent lights that weakened the Infinite Tsukuyomi and freed the people bound by the Divine Tree. The Hokage and the others found the victims alive but unconscious, and the crisis appeared to be over.

• Ming Jing scattered fluorescent lights across the world, and Naruto and Sasuke noticed that Chakra had become more active.
• The Hokage discussed Ming Jing’s method and watched as the lights reached the Divine Tree; the Sage of Six Paths and Kaguya also observed the change.
• The Divine Tree loosened its roots and branches, releasing the ninjas it had bound.
• Sakura examined the rescued people and found them alive, though drained of Chakra and temporarily unconscious.
• Hashirama agreed that Ming Jing had acted well, Tobirama conceded that Hashirama was right, and Hiruzen told Kakashi and the others that the future depended on them.

Yuexi, Yakumo, and Hinata awakened from a Genjutsu, but Kaguya Otsutsuki confronted them while Hinata sensed her immense Chakra. Kaguya revealed she had allied with Akira Kurama and vanished into Amenominaka, leaving Yuexi and Neji to explain her departure to the arriving Kage.

• Yuexi woke from the Infinite Tsukuyomi illusion and found Yakumo and Hinata nearby.
• Yakumo recognized that she had been trapped in a Genjutsu, and Yuexi explained the situation to Hinata when she awoke.
• Hinata sensed Kaguya Otsutsuki and the Sage of Six Paths, and Kaguya emerged from a Space Gate and seized Yuexi.
• Neji attacked Kaguya, but she broke his Palm Rotation and used her Byakugan to restrain him while Yakumo escaped with Hinata.
• Yuexi restrained Kaguya with Goddess of Dawn's Forgiveness until Kaguya said she was allied with Akira Kurama and gave her name.
• Kaguya entered Amenominaka and told them to have Akira find her, then the Third Tsuchikage and Fourth Raikage arrived and asked where she had gone.

Ming Jing announced that the Five Great Nations and Five Great Ninja Villages would become history, arguing that competition for resources and power kept causing wars and suffering. The assembled Kage and shinobi reacted with shock as he began making his case for reform.

• Ming Jing told the previous Hokage that he planned a reform, and Hiruzen warned him to consider the burden while the others accepted his decision.
• Ming Jing asked Ino to summon the Five Kage to the Sage of Six Paths, and Naruto and his companions followed him.
• Mei Terumi, Gaara, Tsunade, the Fourth Raikage, Ōnoki, and shinobi from several villages gathered around the Sage of Six Paths.
• Ming Jing announced that the Five Great Nations and Five Great Ninja Villages would become history, shocking the Kage, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, and the gathered shinobi.
• Ming Jing explained that nations fought over resources, land, and status, leaving smaller countries devastated and creating conditions for groups like Akatsuki to rise again.