Chapter Summaries

Konoha quietly brought the Five Great Shinobi Villages under its control while Aozora studied Kumogakure’s space-time ninjutsu. The Six Paths Sage visited Aozora and began discussing Black Zetsu with him.

• Mei Terumī surrendered Kirigakure, while Rasa sent Gaara to Konoha and offered Sunagakure’s submission.
• Konoha ninja copied Kumogakure’s secret scrolls as Aozora studied the Heavenly Transfer Technique to improve his space-time ninjutsu.
• Aozora sensed a fluctuation in his Chakra and discovered that the Six Paths Sage could enter his Chakra gathering place.
• The Six Paths Sage praised Aozora’s Sage Jutsu and explained that his own technique relied on controlling Nature Energy.
• Aozora told the Six Paths Sage that he pursued strength without harming others for personal gain, and the Six Paths Sage agreed to discuss Black Zetsu.

Aozora and the Six Paths Sage tried to find Black Zetsu, but discovered the Sage’s Chakra-sensing ability could not locate him because his Chakra came from outside the Sage’s network. Before returning to the Pure Land, Aozora told the Sage about the powerful attacker who had targeted Naruto, revealing signs that pointed to Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.

• The Six Paths Sage showed Aozora that Naka Shrine’s Stone Tablet had been altered and suspected Black Zetsu had manipulated Indra’s reincarnations and the Shinobi World’s conflicts.
• The Six Paths Sage used his ability to search the Shinobi World for Black Zetsu’s Chakra, but found no exact match.
• Aozora explained that Black Zetsu’s Chakra came from Kaguya Otsutsuki and that ordinary barriers could not hold him, so the Six Paths Sage asked Aozora to keep searching and taught him how to contact him.
• As the Six Paths Sage prepared to return to the Pure Land, Aozora described the powerful shinobi who had attacked Konoha and tried to capture Naruto.
• Aozora told the Six Paths Sage that the attacker had Rinnegan-like Dōjutsu Power, Space-Time Ninjutsu, a horn, and strange black markings.

Aozora warned the Six Paths Sage about Jigen and learned the truth about Naruto and Sasuke’s inherited Chakra. After studying Kumogakure’s Heavenly Transfer Technique, Aozora developed a new Teleportation Technique and returned to Konoha with Kumogakure’s space-time stone.

• Aozora told the Six Paths Sage about Jigen, and the Sage suspected Jigen might belong to the Clan Members feared by his mother.
• The Six Paths Sage explained that Naruto and Sasuke carried the Chakra of Asura and Indra, then decided to help them awaken their potential.
• Aozora used Shadow Clones to study Kumogakure’s Heavenly Transfer Technique and traced its reduced Chakra cost to a strange space-time stone.
• Aozora improved the technique using Flying Thunder God Marks, named it the Teleportation Technique, and created hidden and visible teleportation arrays in Kumogakure.
• Aozora contacted Fugaku, informed Shikaku and Inabi of his departure, and returned to Konoha with the strange stone.

Aozora brought a spacetime-energy stone to Konoha and explained his newly developed long-range Teleportation Technique to Fugaku and Kyūdai. As they discussed the dangers of teleportation, Fugaku asked Aozora how Konoha should govern the Five Great Nations after their sudden unification, and Aozora proposed transferring most rival villages’ elites and leaders to Konoha.

• Aozora carried the strange stone to the Hokage Building, where Fugaku examined its energy and Aozora explained that it combined Nature Energy with spacetime energy.
• Aozora described the Teleportation Technique, warning that its dangerous passage could injure anyone without a sufficiently strong body and that using Susanoo might cause it to misfire.
• Fugaku told Aozora that the other villages had suspended missions, the nobles were growing anxious, and the new order risked becoming unstable.
• Aozora said Konoha should transfer most of the other villages’ upper ranks and elites to Konoha so they could not obstruct its policies.
• Fugaku and Kyūdai agreed that the Teleportation Technique would let Konoha reinforce the other villages without leaving its strongest shinobi stationed there.

Aozora proposed reforming the other shinobi villages by shifting their focus toward production work while keeping combat training under Konoha’s control. He outlined a tiered Ninja Academy system designed to train fewer, stronger combat ninja and bind the other villages more closely to Konoha.

• Fugaku worried that copying Konoha’s reforms would let the other shinobi villages grow powerful enough to threaten Konoha.
• Aozora rejected disbanding the villages and proposed letting them continue operating with their current ninja and low- and mid-level missions.
• Aozora suggested redirecting training toward Production Ninja, and explained how ninja could support farming, mining, construction, medicine, and other industries.
• Fugaku agreed that Production Ninja had value but said combat ninja still had to be trained, and Aozora agreed that strength remained essential.
• Aozora proposed junior Ninja Academies focused on knowledge, Chakra refinement, and moral education, while reserving senior academies and destructive ninjutsu training for Konoha at first.
• Aozora said the strongest graduates could study in Konoha and then return to their villages, strengthening ties and keeping those villages within Konoha’s influence.

Aozora and Fugaku planned reforms for the Five Great Shinobi Villages, while Aozora strengthened his allies and Fugaku began arranging a shinobi exchange among the villages. The chapter ended with Jigen demanding results from Amado, whose experiment appeared close to failure.

• Fugaku approved Aozora’s reform proposal for consideration and asked Kyūdai to record it, while Aozora assured him the other Daimyo were under control.
• Aozora set up teleportation arrays in Kirigakure, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure, then recommended cultivation abilities to Nagato at a Heavenly Court meeting.
• Aozora trained and refined White Zetsu's Essence Blood as Fugaku prepared to transfer elites from the other villages into Konoha.
• Fugaku consulted Konoha’s clan heads about expanding into the other villages, and Hiashi chose Hyuga elites to develop in Kumogakure.
• Fugaku launched the shinobi exchange operation after the clans chose whether to send members or remain in Konoha.
• Jigen asked Amado about his experiment, and Amado admitted it might fail before Jigen warned him he had little time.

Amado urged Jigen to obtain Kekkei Genkai ninja as test subjects for finding a suitable vessel, and Jigen agreed while warning him not to fail again. Meanwhile, Aozora awakened the Six Tomoe Rinnegan and Six Paths abilities, crossed into the Six Paths level, and refined the energy that threatened to awaken his Ōtsutsuki bloodline.

• Amado told Jigen that Kekkei Genkai ninja would make better vessel test subjects than ordinary people, and Jigen agreed to find them while warning Amado against further excuses.
• Jigen left through a Space Vortex, and Amado departed the underground palace after considering what had happened.
• Aozora absorbed the remaining Dōjutsu Power within Uchiha and evolved his eyes into Six Tomoe Rinnegan, fully awakening his Six Paths abilities and Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Aozora crossed into the Six Paths level, then used Nine Breaths Qi Assimilation to refine the energy that was driving his body toward awakening the Ōtsutsuki bloodline.
• Aozora's appearance remained unchanged as his vitality strengthened and his Chakra rapidly increased.

Jigen ambushed Hyuga Homura’s Konoha force and incapacitated the entire unit before Uchiha Aozora and Uzumaki Nagato arrived. Aozora and Nagato attacked together, blasting Jigen away as Aozora pursued Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s soul to prevent his escape.

• Jigen appeared before Hyuga Homura, Neji, and the Konoha force as they crossed the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Hot Water.
• Hyuga Homura attacked Jigen with Eight Trigrams: Air Palm and ordered a distress signal, but Jigen broke through the attack and struck down the Konoha ninja with black rods.
• Jigen prepared to take the captured ninja, but Uchiha Aozora and Uzumaki Nagato emerged from a Space Gate.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki empowered Jigen, who activated the second state of Karma after recognizing Aozora’s strength and Six Tomoe Rinnegan.
• Aozora and Nagato attacked Jigen with their swords and Shinra Tensei; Jigen shrank to evade the blades but was blasted away by the repulsive force.
• Aozora used Tōyū to pursue Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s soul body, with Nagato following close behind.

Aozora fought Jigen, first trading devastating close-range blows and then gaining the upper hand after transforming into Three Heads Six Arms. Jigen was left struggling against Aozora’s coordinated weapon attacks.

• Aozora attacked Jigen with Immortal Flame Dragon, forcing Jigen to abandon his invisible form and flee the forest.
• Aozora and Jigen fought hand-to-hand, and Jigen’s greater technique and experience gave him the advantage.
• After both were blasted away, Aozora told Nagato to remain in a supporting role and insisted he could continue fighting Jigen.
• Aozora transformed into Three Heads Six Arms and created a blade, a spear, and a sword with Yin-Yang Release.
• Jigen blocked Aozora’s initial weapon assault with a black staff, but Aozora’s improved coordination pushed Jigen into a disadvantage.

Aozora and Nagato confronted the resurrected Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, who offered Aozora a place in the Otsutsuki clan before threatening to destroy the Shinobi World. Isshiki escaped under cover of poison mist, but Aozora remained confident he could catch him.

• Aozora knocked Jigen down with a sword-and-spear attack, and Nagato warned that terrifying Chakra was emerging from the smoke.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki fully resurrected and urged Aozora to surrender the nine tailed beasts and join the Otsutsuki clan; Aozora refused.
• Isshiki attacked Nagato with Black Rods, but Nagato switched places with his Limbo Clone and blocked them.
• Isshiki unleashed flames and poisonous acid mist, then used the confusion to escape while Nagato and Aozora were briefly blinded.
• Nagato realized Isshiki had fled, but Aozora said he could not escape.

Aozora and Nagato pursued Ōtsutsuki Isshiki into his alternate dimension and joined forces against him. Aozora’s True Fire of Samadhi melted Isshiki’s Truth-Seeking Orb, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Aozora and Nagato emerged in Isshiki’s alternate dimension after Aozora had marked him during their earlier close combat.
• Nagato attacked Isshiki with Banshō Ten'in, but Isshiki dodged and kicked Nagato into a mountainside.
• Aozora and Nagato unleashed opposing Shinra Tensei attacks, forcing Isshiki to shield himself inside a Truth-Seeking Orb.
• Aozora summoned the True Fire of Samadhi and sent it toward Isshiki’s black sphere.
• The True Fire of Samadhi ignited and melted Isshiki’s Truth-Seeking Orb.

Aozora overwhelmed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki with his True Fire of Samadhi, took both of his eyes, and brought him to the captive Ten-Tails. The chapter ended with Aozora throwing Isshiki into the Ten-Tails' open maw.

• Aozora burned through Isshiki's Truth-Seeking Orb and destroyed the objects he summoned with Mahakala as the Six Paths Sage and Nagato watched.
• Aozora explained that his flames were the True Fire of Samadhi and said Isshiki was weaker than he had expected.
• Aozora bound Isshiki with black chains and removed his right eye, then dug out his left eye as well.
• Aozora carried Isshiki to the cage holding the Ten-Tails, which Nagato and the Six Paths Sage recognized.
• Aozora explained that the creature was the Ten-Tails before its evolution into the Divine Tree, then threw Isshiki into its open mouth.

Aozora absorbed the Ten-Tails after it devoured Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, becoming its Jinchūriki and gaining new Otsutsuki-like traits. He returned to Konoha, dealt with Amado, and entered seclusion to digest the Divine Tree and regain control of its power.

• Aozora fed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki to the Ten-Tails, which evolved into a Divine Tree and broke free of its prison.
• Aozora absorbed the Ten-Tails, emerging from a Chakra cocoon with horns, nine black Tomoe behind him, and an Eight-Tomoe Rinnegan on his forehead.
• Aozora returned with Nagato to the site of the Hyuga Clan attack, told the Konoha Ninja that the enemy was dead, and sent them onward to Kumogakure.
• Aozora told Amado that Jigen would never return and spared Amado's life on the condition that he atone by doing research that benefited people.
• Aozora spoke with Fugaku and entered seclusion to digest the Divine Tree because he disliked the horns and could not control the energy inside him.

Three months after absorbing the Divine Tree, Aozora awakened Thirty-Three Heavens and used it to create an immortal realm for powerful ninja. He drew Kage-level fighters into the new realm, leaving Fugaku to unify the Shinobi World, where ninja eventually gave way to cultivators.

• Aozora returned to human form after absorbing the Divine Tree and awakened the Thirty-Three Heavens space-time technique.
• Aozora unsealed and absorbed the Dragon Vein at the Ruins of Loulan, then freed the Reaper Death Seal’s souls and kept Namikaze Minato’s soul behind.
• Aozora separated the Yin Nine-Tails from Namikaze Minato, absorbed it into the Thirty-Three Heavens, and sent Minato to reunite with Naruto.
• Aozora absorbed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the other Tailed Beasts, using their Chakra and the Dragon Vein’s energy to create the First Heaven.
• Aozora altered the Shinobi World’s laws so Kage-level fighters would enter the heavenly realm, drawing most powerful ninja into the Thirty-Three Heavens.
• With the powerful forces gone, Fugaku unified the Shinobi World, and many years later cultivators replaced ninja.