Recaps

Hinata investigated the special Puppet Corpses and discovered that the black sphere beneath Longevity Village was a god corrupted into an Evil God by Weird Power. She realized it was growing stronger and prepared to see whether she could destroy it.

• Hinata told Tsunade that the special Puppet Corpses were under research, while Tsunade declined to observe the tentacled monster and assured Sakura that mastering Monster Strength punches would help her face the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Hinata visited the underground laboratory, where researchers were studying the special Puppet Corpses and one tentacle from the monster she had captured.
• Hinata traveled to Longevity Village and found a black sphere floating above an altar in a cave.
• Hinata deduced that the sphere was a god born from the villagers’ faith, corrupted by Weird Power into an Evil God that had also controlled and corrupted the villagers.
• Hinata saw the Evil God absorbing Weird Power and growing stronger, and decided she had to try to kill it.

Hyuga Hinata attacked the Evil God's true body with lightning, discovering that powerful strikes drained its energy even though it showed no visible damage. She split the Evil God in two with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, but it survived and rejoined itself.

• Hyuga Hinata struck the Evil God's true body with repeated lightning bolts, and it began absorbing Weird Power faster.
• Hinata unleashed a massive pillar of lightning that reduced the Evil God's energy by at least twenty percent.
• The Evil God formed a stone giant around itself, which repeatedly reassembled after Hinata cut it apart.
• Hinata used the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to slice through the stone giant and split the Evil God's true body in two.
• The Evil God's two halves touched and restored its original form, revealing that it had survived the attack.

Hinata discovered that the evil god had marked Naruto and the others so he could observe them, and she decided to stop him before he killed them. She injured him with Truth-Seeking Orbs, weakening him, though he remained powerful.

• Hinata recalled that physical attacks could not easily kill demons and saw that the evil god had weakened slightly after being cut in half.
• The evil god took on Hinata's appearance, and Hinata realized he had a soul that her Truth-Seeking Orbs could attack.
• Hinata pierced the evil god with Truth-Seeking Orb spears, causing him intense pain as he tried to imitate her attacks.
• The evil god returned to his spherical form and expelled the spears, but Hinata saw that his aura had become extremely weak.

Hinata unleashed a devastating lightning attack on the evil god after sensing an imminent threat to her life. Far beyond the Shinobi World, a colossal planet-devouring beast set course for the planet, while powerful figures sensed Hinata’s attack but could not see its source.

• Hinata considered erasing the evil god’s soul while preserving his valuable corpse, but a sudden premonition warned her that her life was in danger.
• A colossal beast emerged from a dead star it had recently devoured and headed toward the Shinobi World, drawn by the planet’s immense vitality.
• Hinata unleashed her strongest lightning attack, turning everything within three kilometers into Lightning Purgatory and causing destruction and injuries far beyond the area.
• The Sage of Six Paths sensed Hinata’s power but could not see her location, and he worried as the Shinobi World grew increasingly chaotic.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Jiraiya, and other beings capable of sensing Nature Energy felt the lightning’s danger, while Naruto and Sasuke recognized that it had appeared near Longevity Village.

Sasuke and Naruto rushed to the Hokage Building after seeing Lightning Purgatory, but found Hinata unharmed. Hinata had killed the Evil God and sealed his true body, then considered how to handle its Weird Power as she sensed a distant crisis approaching from the stars.

• Sasuke saw Lightning Purgatory descend near Longevity Village and ran out of the Uchiha Clan Grounds.
• Sasuke and Naruto feared Hinata was fighting the black sphere and hurried to the Hokage Building, where they found her with Jiraiya and confirmed she was unharmed.
• After Naruto and Sasuke left, Hinata sensed a dangerous presence approaching from the stars and estimated it would reach the Shinobi World decades later.
• Hinata revealed the Evil God's sealed true body and explained that she had used the Void Sword God at full power to erase his soul and defeat him.
• Hinata considered making an Evil God Clone or fusing with Weird Power, but kept those plans in reserve because the power could erode her.

Hinata experimented with energy taken from the Evil God's body, seeking to create transformed beings who retained their sense of self. Meanwhile, a Kekkei Genkai user who robbed a Kirigakure vault hid underground as the village searched for the thief, and the alarm had just sounded when he took the scrolls.

• Hinata extracted energy from the Evil God's body and found it could turn mice into Puppet Corpses, though some mice exploded when she used too much.
• Hinata decided that the energy needed to be altered if she wanted transformed creatures to remain alive and retain their identities.
• The Land of Water's daimyo trained people who had awakened Kekkei Genkai, while Kirigakure struggled with its limited supply of ninjutsu and secret techniques.
• Mei Terumi discovered that a thief had taken every scroll from a Kirigakure treasure vault and mocked the village with the words “So poor.”
• Kirigakure went into lockdown, while the thief hid about a hundred meters underground using his burrowing Kekkei Genkai.
• The thief recalled taking all the scrolls from a lightly guarded vault, but the alarm sounded as soon as he touched them.

Ichiro stole scrolls from Kirigakure, copied their contents, and brought them to the underground complex beneath the capital of the Land of Water. The leader praised him and promised to recommend him for a reward from the Daimyo.

• Ichiro stole several scrolls from Kirigakure and hid underground until the powerful Chakra nearby disappeared.
• Ichiro escaped Kirigakure, copied the scrolls’ contents in a cave, and burned the originals.
• Three Kirigakure ninja found the ashes but could not track Ichiro or determine why he had taken the scrolls.
• Ichiro traveled underground to the capital of the Land of Water and met Shinji in the secret complex he had helped build.
• Ichiro gave the copied scrolls to the leader, who praised him and left to deliver them to the Daimyo.

Hinata used Chakra to modify diluted Evil God's Power and developed a black reagent, then tested it on white mice. The mice died and vanished without a trace, leaving her afraid that all her experimental results were useless.

• Hinata discovered that Chakra could transform diluted Evil God's Power, but her experiments and frequent time rewinds consumed more Chakra than she had available.
• Hinata decided to pursue the other half of the Nine-Tails sealed by the Third Hokage rather than capture more tailed beasts, though she first needed to study the Reaper Death Seal.
• Hinata injected a restless white mouse with the black reagent, and it convulsed, died, and gradually vanished along with its spiritual body.
• Hinata injected a second mouse and repeatedly rewound time, but the mouse still died, making her fear that her reagents had all failed.

Hinata tested the Mutation Potion on animals, discovered that ordinary creatures could not withstand its Chakra, and strengthened a wolf, an eagle, and a snake until they survived the mutation. The three beasts gained shadow abilities and could hide inside Hinata’s shadow.

• After repeated test animals died, Hinata concluded that the potion’s high Chakra content overwhelmed their physiques.
• Hinata caught a wolf, an eagle, and a snake, enhanced their physiques with three generations of potions, and taught them to refine Chakra.
• After half a month, Hinata injected the three beasts with Mutation Potion, and all three survived and mutated.
• The beasts turned black and learned to shrink into shadows that could hide inside Hinata’s shadow.
• Hinata’s experiments revealed that the three beasts could manipulate shadows and attack with shadow spikes.

Hinata suspected the Sage of Six Paths had been collecting powerful souls through centuries of war, then tested her three mutated creatures and learned that a laboratory had extracted diluted Evil God's Power from Puppet Corpses. She returned home after hearing that Neji’s eyes had evolved.

• Hinata reasoned that the Sage of Six Paths might be harvesting the souls of strong shinobi to prepare for enemies from the stars.
• Hinata tested her three mutated creatures in the Land of Wind and found that they ranked among the Shinobi World's strongest before they hid in her shadow.
• Researchers showed Hinata diluted Evil God's Power extracted from Puppet Corpses, and the creatures in her shadow craved it as food.
• Hinata returned to the Hyuga clan after learning that Neji's eyes had evolved following his training outside the village.

Hinata discovered that Neji’s newly evolved Jōgan could see and control space, then the Hyuga Clan announced his eye’s name. Inspired by Hinata’s ability to control lightning, Sasuke began developing a weather-dependent ninjutsu and waited for rain so he could test it.

• Hinata returned home and watched Neji spar with Hizashi, then asked Neji to reveal his evolved eyes.
• Neji showed his pale blue eyes with black sclerae, and Hinata learned that he could see her concealed Space Rift.
• Hinata guided Neji as he successfully created and controlled a Space Rift, revealing that his eyes could manipulate space.
• The Hyuga Clan announced that Neji had awakened the Jōgan, while other Hidden Leaf clans worried about the Hyuga and Uchiha Clans’ strength.
• Sasuke decided to wait before challenging Neji and began developing a ninjutsu that would let him control lightning during rainy weather.

The Sage of Six Paths hesitated to repair the weakening barrier around the Shinobi World, while Hinata prepared to create a Mutation Potion by gathering the tailed beasts. Hinata also summoned the Shinigami to retrieve souls sealed by the Reaper Death Seal, leaving him connected to a soulless puppet and under her scrutiny.

• The Sage of Six Paths saw that the barrier around the Shinobi World was weakening and considered using its disappearance to test Hyuga Hinata.
• Hinata focused on creating a Mutation Potion and decided she needed the Ten-Tails' enormous supply of Chakra.
• Hinata contacted Nagato, who agreed to help capture the tailed beasts, and he and Konan set out to capture the Six-Tails in the Land of Water.
• Hinata traveled to a Land of Whirlpools ruin in Konoha, found the mask that summoned the Shinigami, and used a puppet and a Chakra Gem to call him.
• The Shinigami treated Hinata's puppet as a sacrifice, and Hinata suspected he was watching her while considering studying his abilities.

Hinata used the Reaper Death Seal to recover the Third Hokage's soul and the Yin half of the Nine-Tails, then fed that half to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. As Nagato rapidly delivered more Tailed Beasts, the statue reached six and a half open eyes, while Hinata planned how to gather enough chakra to revive the Ten-Tails.

• Hinata controlled a puppet to release the Reaper Death Seal, sealed the Third Hokage's soul in a Chakra Gem, and stored the Yin half of the Nine-Tails.
• Hinata brought the Yin Nine-Tails to the underground chamber and used puppets to make the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path absorb it.
• After the statue absorbed the Nine-Tails' chakra, Hinata planned to find the Gold and Silver Brothers' relics and increase her extraction of Nine-Tails chakra for future Ten-Tails revival.
• Jiraiya overheard villagers discussing the higher cost of Chakra Gems and mistakenly suspected Hinata was using them to recover from an injury.
• Nagato captured the Six-Tails and another Tailed Beast and delivered them to the statue, which opened six and a half eyes.

Nagato brought the last tailed beasts to Hinata, who prepared to revive the Ten-Tails while the villages braced for an attack on Hidden Leaf. After feeding it the Gold and Silver Brothers’ Chakra and a mountain of Chakra Gems, Hinata awakened the Ten-Tails, which immediately struck at her.

• Mei Terumi found Bubble, the Six-Tails Jinchuriki, dead, and the villages realized someone was collecting tailed beasts.
• Nagato brought the remaining two tailed beasts to Hinata, leaving only Hidden Leaf Village’s Nine-Tails uncollected.
• Sasuke volunteered to guard Naruto, while Neji watched Hidden Leaf Village from Hokage Rock and Hinata let them remain vigilant.
• Hinata moved the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path into a stable Alternate Dimension, where it absorbed the Eight-Tails’ Chakra.
• Hinata revived the Gold and Silver Brothers and fed their Chakra and a mountain of Chakra Gems to the statue, fully awakening the Ten-Tails.
• The Ten-Tails transformed and attacked Hinata, shaking the Alternate Dimension with its strike.

Hinata subdued the Ten-Tails and considered using it with the Evil God's Power to study human mutation, choosing Uchiha Shisui and two Anbu as subjects. Meanwhile, Kirigakure faced a sudden funding crisis that Mei Terumi feared could reignite unrest in the village.

• Hinata subdued the Ten-Tails with her Rinnegan, repaired the Alternate Dimension, and left the beast there because she had no suitable vessel for it.
• Hinata considered fusing the Ten-Tails with the Evil God but decided to observe the effects of mutation further before taking that risk.
• Hinata chose Uchiha Shisui and two Anbu members as human mutation subjects and began preparing a more refined Mutation Potion using Ten-Tails Chakra.
• The Land of Water's daimyo cut Kirigakure's funding in half, leaving Mei Terumi worried about the village's recovery and unity.

The Land of Water Feudal Lord began cutting Kirigakure’s funding, while the Land of Fire Feudal Lord considered following suit as Konoha grew stronger. In Konoha, Sasuke brought Naruto home, where his family’s unusual attention to their guest left Sasuke feeling jealous.

• The Land of Water Feudal Lord decided to weaken Kirigakure by reducing its funding after the Tailed Beasts were captured.
• The Land of Fire Feudal Lord considered reducing Konoha’s funding but worried that Konoha might rebel.
• Itachi sparred with Shisui and noticed that Shisui’s strength and demeanor had changed.
• Sasuke brought Naruto to the Uchiha clan compound and introduced him to Itachi, Uchiha Fugaku, and Uchiha Mikoto.
• Uchiha Mikoto, Uchiha Fugaku, and Itachi treated Naruto with unusual warmth at dinner, making Sasuke feel like the least important member of his family.

Naruto learned that Sasuke’s family had been close to his late mother, while Hinata considered signs that the Shinobi World was nearing a major upheaval. In the Land of Fire, Keita Otake defended his village from bandits and set out to eliminate the rest of their gang.

• Mikoto told Sasuke that she and Naruto’s mother had been good friends and that the boys could have become brothers.
• Hinata read a report that the Land of Water’s daimyo had forcefully cut Kirigakure’s funding and discussed shinobi with Mami Mizuta on their way home.
• Bandits raided Keita Otake’s village, but Keita killed them before they could harm the villagers.
• Keita buried the bandits’ corpses, reflected on his teacher’s warning that conflict was unavoidable, and went to find the bandits’ hideout.

As snow fell in Hidden Leaf Village, the Shinobi World was shaken when the Feudal Lord of the Land of Water attacked Kirigakure, prompting the village to prepare for a wider conflict. Hidden Leaf Village’s leaders judged that they could crush their own feudal lord if he acted against them, but they could not strike first without appearing to rebel.

• Hinata watched the snowfall as Might Guy and Lee trained outside, while Naruto shared ramen with Shisui and asked whether war might reach Hidden Leaf Village.
• The Feudal Lord of the Land of Water sent attackers to steal Demon Weapons and research materials from Kirigakure, and Mei Terumi learned he was behind the raid.
• Mei Terumi sent Kirigakure elites to kill the feudal lord, but they disappeared, and rogue ninjas hired by him attacked Kirigakure in broad daylight.
• The other great nations’ feudal lords watched the conflict, while Hidden Leaf Village urgently called a meeting about the danger.
• Hidden Leaf Village’s clan heads agreed they would destroy the Feudal Lord of the Land of Fire if he moved against them, though they hesitated to attack first and were eager for the chance to fight.

As Kirigakure struggled with dwindling supplies and the daimyo prepared a final assault, Kusaka Naoto secretly broke into the underground vault to reclaim his Demon Weapon. He took the blackening blade, whose growing power he hoped to use for his own ambitions.

• Kirigakure repelled the rebel ninjas’ first attack, but Mei Terumi remained unable to locate the stolen Demon Weapons or the missing scouts.
• Kirigakure’s supplies dwindled as the daimyo’s control of trade and the rebel encirclement made buying provisions increasingly difficult.
• The daimyo prepared a final assault, concerned that the unstable Demon Weapons were nearing collapse.
• Kusaka Naoto, who had gained power through a strange mark and joined the leader’s organization, grew ambitious after wielding a Demon Weapon.
• Kusaka Naoto slipped into the sealed vault, used his water-like ability to break the seal, and took his nearly black blade.

Kusaka Naoto destroyed the other Demon Weapons and left the underground base, unaware that black liquid and spreading cold were emerging from them. In the capital, he attacked the Castle Tower, killed its guards and soldiers, and prepared to face the ninjas who appeared on a rooftop.

• Kusaka Naoto cut the other Demon Weapons in half, then left the underground base while black liquid seeped from their wounds and frost spread through the chamber.
• A person in the base sensed the dangerous cold, found a hidden passage, and tried to escape to the surface.
• Kusaka Naoto headed for the Castle Tower, where a samurai confronted him and a hidden attacker tried to ambush him; Kusaka Naoto killed them both.
• Kusaka Naoto killed soldiers who spotted him on the city wall and decided to slaughter his way to the daimyo instead of secretly assassinating him.
• Several ninjas appeared on a rooftop, but Kusaka Naoto saw that they were too frightened to fight him.

Kusaka Naoto’s sword shattered, awakening the demon within and leaving the Castle Tower in danger. As a black cat escaped through a cracked air barrier, the story left its identity and destination unknown.

• Kusaka Naoto’s sword broke apart, and a ninja killed him with a kunai while he knelt over the fragments.
• The daimyo’s guards recognized Kusaka Naoto’s weapon, fled the Castle Tower, and realized the demon inside it might awaken and endanger the city.
• Soldiers washed the blood from the Castle Tower grounds as the temperature dropped and a shadow flashed past them.
• Black Cat raced across the rooftops, struck an invisible barrier, and broke through it after the air rippled and cracked.

A demon escaped the Castle Tower and raced toward Kirigakure, prompting Che Fengzi to follow it after realizing its target might be a rogue ninja. As dawn approached, she continued toward Kirigakure to intervene if the demon’s marked target was outside the village.

• Two Kirigakure ninja watched the demon escape the Castle Tower barrier, sent a warning to Kirigakure, and went into hiding.
• Che Fengzi sensed the demon approaching her island village and set up a barrier to protect its residents.
• The Black Cat raced past the village without attacking and continued toward Kirigakure.
• Che Fengzi suspected the demon might be pursuing one of the rogue ninja near Kirigakure and hurried after it.
• As dawn neared, Che Fengzi moved ahead of the Black Cat to wait near Kirigakure.

The Black Cat entered Kirigakure as Che Fengzi watched from outside, while the destruction of the underground base beneath the capital unleashed Puppet Corpses on the daimyo's people. Che Fengzi later found ruined relics on the deep-sea floor.

• The Black Cat slipped through Kirigakure's barrier and vanished into the village as nearby rogue ninjas considered abandoning their posts.
• Che Fengzi decided to return home, noticed a frightened ninja connected to the daimyo, and left the matter alone.
• Workers clearing the collapsed passage beneath the capital were killed when dozens of Puppet Corpses attacked them.
• A ninja entered the underground base, found the Demon Weapons severed, and was beheaded by a farmer holding a sickle.
• Che Fengzi discovered ruined relics on the ocean floor and wondered what she had found.

Che Fengzi found a strange object in underwater ruins, while Nagato tracked down and sealed several escaped ghosts tied to the Demon Weapons. Kirigakure learned that the remaining weapons might be failing and identified a fast-moving Black Shadow approaching as the two-headed Black Cat.

• Che Fengzi discovered ruins on the seafloor, found a strange object among the rubble, and brought it back to the village.
• Nagato fought the farmer ghost, sealed it, then found and sealed two more ghosts in the underground base.
• Nagato failed to locate the last ghost, sealed the trapped Puppet Corpses, and collapsed the entrances before leaving.
• Two Kirigakure ninja encountered the missing ghost and reported that the Demon Weapons might be reaching the end of their lives.
• Kirigakure received word of a Black Shadow racing toward the island and concluded it was probably the two-headed Black Cat, whose halves had been made into two Demon Weapons.

Two Kirigakure ninja entered the chaotic Castle Tower and pursued the Land of Water daimyo through a secret passage. They killed him with a poisoned kunai, and one of his guards later crawled into the passage to loot the abandoned Castle Tower.

• Two Kirigakure ninja returned to the Castle Tower and found nobles and soldiers fleeing Puppet Corpses as the gates remained blocked.
• The ninja discovered the daimyo had escaped through a secret passage and followed him outside the city.
• They used the Hidden Mist Technique to approach the daimyo and one of them slit his throat with a poisoned kunai.
• The daimyo's guards found him dead and searched for the assassin, who had already escaped.
• A greedy ninja entered the open passage, hoping to return to the Castle Tower and steal valuables.