Chapter Summaries

Konoha endured a devastating assault by Iwa Ninja and Hanzō’s Hidden Rain forces while the Mutation Factor spread through the Land of Earth. After Ōnoki recalled Kitsuchi’s army to defend their homeland, Shimura Danzō celebrated Konoha’s survival and began preparing the village for the coming apocalypse.

• Obito Uchiha saved Rin Nohara from a collapsing building but was buried beneath the rubble, while Kakashi fled with Rin and Tekka Uchiha.
• Black Zetsu, White Zetsu, and Aoki Senju discussed how Danzo’s plan would cause mass deaths and decided they needed the Tailed Beasts to revive Kaguya and create more White Zetsu.
• Shimura Danzō ordered Konoha’s forces to retreat toward the Senju Clan Forbidden Ground as the Mutation Factor spread through the Land of Earth.
• Ōnoki ordered Kitsuchi to withdraw Iwagakure’s forces and return home to contain the Mutation Factor, prompting Konoha’s enemies to retreat.
• Shimura Danzō claimed victory, ordered Konoha’s walls rebuilt to prepare for Mutated Monsters, and planned for the village to survive the apocalypse.

Jueming returned to find Konoha devastated by Danzō’s use of the Mutation Factor and learned that Tsunade had been detained as Sunagakure’s hostage. He resolved to rescue her despite the risks and sought Utatane Koharu’s help.

• Jueming realized that Danzō had unleashed Mutated Monsters, while Minato Namikaze returned to Konoha with the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki and Jiraiya, Kushina, and Jueming hurried back.
• Jiraiya learned that Danzō had used the Mutation Factor and accepted his promotion of Jueming to Special Jonin.
• The Great Elder told Jueming and Jiraiya that Tsunade had been detained in Sunagakure, while Jiraiya chose to help rebuild Konoha instead of rescuing her.
• Jueming told Momoka Senju he would rescue Tsunade, arguing that he could not save the Senju Clan if he abandoned one of its own.
• Jueming confronted Utatane Koharu outside the Hokage’s office and asked her to help rescue Tsunade.

Utatane Koharu took Senju Jueming toward Sunagakure, intending to kill him, while they encountered Aberrations and discussed Danzo’s poisoning of the world. In Sunagakure, Pakura told the imprisoned Tsunade that Konoha had caused the apocalypse, leaving Tsunade stunned and Pakura doubtful that she had known.

• Utatane Koharu agreed to escort Senju Jueming to Sunagakure and secretly planned to kill him once they left the village.
• Danzo learned that Utatane Koharu had departed and considered Tsunade’s usefulness and the possibility of turning Senju Jueming into a Mutation Weapon.
• Senju Jueming spoke with Kakashi and Rin Nohara at the village gate, vowed to avenge Obito, and continued his journey with Utatane Koharu.
• Senju Jueming and Utatane Koharu encountered Aberrations on the road, while Jueming explained that Danzo had prepared to poison the world and Konoha had secured its food supply.
• Pakura told the imprisoned Tsunade that Konoha had caused the apocalypse, and Tsunade reacted with disbelief.

Jueming and Utatane Koharu reached Sunagakure as Mutation Factors began contaminating the environment, while the village and Konoha moved to protect their people. The chapter left humanity facing a spreading ecological catastrophe, with Konoha preparing to become a refuge.

• Jueming saw that Aberrations had spread across the Land of Fire and traveled with Utatane Koharu toward Sunagakure.
• Jueming's Mutation Level began rising near Sunagakure, and he realized Mutation Factors had started contaminating the environment.
• Jueming and Utatane Koharu approached Sunagakure, where the exposed Sand Ninja guards began collapsing from the pollution.
• Rasa ordered Sunagakure evacuated into underground shelters after his people recognized the environmental deterioration predicted by Chiyo.
• Danzo's research team developed a modified Sensory Barrier and Orochimaru's Talisman Vaccine so Konoha's residents could resist Mutation Factors.

Jueming rescued Tsunade from Sunagakure and flew her back to Konoha as contamination spread across the world. After their return, Utatane Koharu was identified as immune to the changing environment, while Konoha’s rebuilding brought resentment toward the Senju Clan.

• Jueming disguised himself to incapacitate Pakura, freed Tsunade, and explained that the outside environment had been contaminated.
• Jueming used Earth Release to shield Tsunade, then flew with her on the Leaf Blade Sword as they escaped Sunagakure.
• Ōnoki sealed Iwagakure inside a stone cavern, Kirigakure’s ninjas sheltered underground, and A prepared Kumogakure to take refuge in mountain caves.
• Jueming, Tsunade, and Utatane Koharu returned to Konoha two days later, where Danzo’s team began studying Koharu’s resistance to the contamination.
• As Konoha rebuilt, blame and resentment for the Mutation increasingly fell on the Senju Clan.

Yakushi Nonō rescued a silver-haired child from the outside and adopted him as Kabuto Yakushi. Years later, Jueming and his friends prepared for the Jonin examination, which might decide the Senju Clan’s fate, while Jueming reflected on Tekka Uchiha’s stalled growth and an upcoming marriage that could upset him.

• A silver-haired child escaped from underground, collapsed after seeing the night sky, and was found by Yakushi Nonō’s team.
• Yakushi Nonō brought the child to Konoha, learned he had lost his memories and suffered eyesight damage, and named him Kabuto Yakushi.
• Kakashi Hatake and Tekka Uchiha brought Jueming the approved applications for their upcoming Jonin examination.
• Jueming thought that Shimura Danzō’s adopted son, Yamato, might be a formidable trump card in the examination.
• Jueming teased Tekka Uchiha about his stalled Sharingan and his feelings for Tsume Inuzuka, then noted that Tsume appeared to be marrying someone else.

Jueming reassured Momoka Senju that he was ready for the Jonin Selection and considered revealing his Grass Release Bloodline Limit to revive the Senju Clan’s hope. Meanwhile, Yahiko joined forces with Orochimaru against the Kurama puppet monsters and prepared to travel to Konoha after defeating another attacker.

• Jueming told Momoka Senju he had mastered her B-Rank Ninjutsu and was confident about the Jonin Selection, while she planned to teach him the Senju Clan’s forbidden techniques if he became a Jonin.
• Jueming offered to use his Grass Release Bloodline Limit during the selection, and Momoka Senju told him to be careful.
• Yahiko woke from a nightmare about the Mutations that had devastated the Ninja World, and he vowed to kill Shimura Danzō and restore hope to humanity.
• Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan had killed Hanzō and made Amegakure their base, while Yahiko and Orochimaru formed an alliance against Shimura Danzō’s destruction.
• Yahiko and Orochimaru prepared to travel to Konoha, but Yahiko first confronted the Kurama puppet monsters attacking Amegakure.
• Yahiko destroyed the remaining fox puppet, which claimed Kurama could not be killed, and Orochimaru noted that the monsters’ advanced puppet technology made the world increasingly complicated.

Obito Uchiha returned to Konoha and secretly followed Rin Nohara to Jueming’s underground training room. He watched Jueming put Rin through a brutal combat drill, leaving Obito stunned by what he saw.

• Obito Uchiha emerged in the Senju compound and headed into Konoha, expecting Senju Jueming to be shocked by his return.
• Rin Nohara visited Jueming to study and told him she had applied for the Jonin examination.
• Jueming led Rin into an underground training area and began a real combat drill to improve her fighting ability.
• Rin attacked with the Four Legs Technique and Mystical Palm Technique, but Jueming knocked her back with Super Push Hand.
• Obito used the Mayfly Technique to follow Rin underground and watched as Jueming urged her to imitate a dog and bark during the drill.

Obito Uchiha awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan after seeing how different Rin Nohara and Kakashi were from the people he remembered, while Black Zetsu watched and hoped to steer him back to Madara. At a meeting in Konoha, Danzo and the elders suspected Senju Jueming had mutated and prepared for the coming Jonin Selection.

• Obito Uchiha saw Rin Nohara using the Four Legs Technique and fled in anguish, convinced she and Kakashi were no longer the people he knew.
• Obito Uchiha awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Black Zetsu watched from the shadows while expecting him to return to Madara Uchiha.
• Senju Jueming gained the Grass Release—Grass—Toxin ability from the system and continued training for the Jonin Selection.
• Danzo told the Hokage Building meeting that Orochimaru might be involved with Akatsuki and proposed using the Jonin Selection to assert Konoha's leadership.
• Danzo argued that Senju Jueming's strange behavior and abilities showed he had mutated, and Utatane Koharu agreed.

Shisui Uchiha revealed to Fugaku Uchiha that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan years earlier, and Fugaku revealed that he possessed one too. They agreed to keep their eyes secret until the Jonin Selection, where Shisui would show his true strength.

• Utatane Koharu explained that the powers of Mutation Weapons were as inexplicable as the Uchiha Clan's Mangekyō Sharingan and said she would keep undermining Senju Jueming.
• Itachi Uchiha returned from the Ninja Academy, greeted Mikoto Uchiha, and went to practice shuriken while Fugaku Uchiha met with clan members.
• Fugaku Uchiha and Yashiro Uchiha encouraged a subdued Tekka Uchiha about the Jonin Selection, while Tekka kept his newly awakened Three-Tomoe Sharingan secret.
• After the others left, Shisui Uchiha told Fugaku that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan when his close friend died and had concealed it for years.
• Fugaku Uchiha revealed his own Mangekyō Sharingan, and he and Shisui agreed to keep their abilities secret until the Jonin Selection.

Jueming encountered the heartbroken Tekka Uchiha and learned that Tsume Inuzuka was marrying someone else after becoming pregnant, which had caused Tekka's Sharingan to evolve to Three Tomoe. He sparred with Kakashi, identified the limits of Kakashi's Chidori and vision, and promised to find a solution.

• Jueming found Tekka Uchiha and Kakashi eating ramen, and Kakashi explained that Tsume Inuzuka had become engaged to another man because she was pregnant.
• Tekka Uchiha denied being upset, but his distress caused his Sharingan to evolve from Two Tomoe to Three Tomoe, and he left to train.
• Kakashi demonstrated his Chidori to Jueming, who praised its power but advised Kakashi to rely on his family's swordsmanship because his dynamic vision could not keep up with the technique.
• Jueming asked Mito Uzumaki how Kakashi could improve his dynamic vision, and she suggested transplanting an Uchiha Sharingan.
• Jueming promised Kakashi he would find a way to help him.

Shimura Danzō prepared Yamato to prove his Wood Release at an international Jonin Selection and arranged to seal the Seven-Tails inside him to increase his Chakra. Minato and Kushina assisted as Danzō began the sealing, leaving Yamato poised to become a formidable contender.

• Shimura Danzō visited Yamato in Root’s underground base and told him to win the Jonin Selection, which he planned to open to ninja from the other four villages.
• Danzō told Yamato that his Wood Release could help restore the Senju Clan, Konoha, and humanity, and said Sayuri would assist him.
• Minato and Kushina arrived at Root’s base, where Danzō explained the Eight Trigrams Seal and ordered them to help seal the Seven-Tails inside Yamato.
• Danzō led Minato, Kushina, and Yamato to the deepest underground level, where the Seven-Tails was chained.
• Danzō began sealing the Seven-Tails into Yamato while Minato and Kushina assisted.

Kurama attacked Konoha City, but the monsters fled as soon as Jueming arrived, leaving Hiruzen to notice both his own aging and Jueming’s unexplained effect on them. Jueming then considered how to grow stronger and went to the orphanage, where Kabuto showed Yakushi Nonō his notebook.

• Kurama attacked Konoha City, and Hiruzen Sarutobi noticed its puppets had become sturdier as he fought them.
• Jueming flew into battle with the Leaf Blade Sword, causing the Kurama to flee before he could gain experience from them.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi reflected on his age and wondered whether Jueming was the only conscious Aberration.
• Jueming reviewed his progress and decided to seek new Grass Weapons to raise the system’s evaluation of him to Jonin.
• At the orphanage, Kabuto Yakushi timidly showed Yakushi Nonō his neatly written notebook.

Jueming pressured Yakushi Nonō to meet him and gather information about Shimura Danzō, while Mito Uzumaki warned him against becoming like Danzō. The chapter left Jueming frustrated by Mito’s affection for him.

• Jueming visited Yakushi Nonō at the orphanage and warned that Shimura Danzō could use the children to control her.
• Jueming told Yakushi Nonō to come to his house at nine-thirty that night, and she accepted the invitation after he left.
• Mito Uzumaki appeared to Jueming and said she disliked how he was pursuing power at the expense of his principles.
• Mito Uzumaki cautioned Jueming that he might become worse than Shimura Danzō and reminded him of what he had told Kakashi Hatake.
• Mito Uzumaki confessed that she had come to regard Jueming as she did Nawaki, leaving Jueming inwardly furious.

Jueming resolved that neither Mito Uzumaki nor Teacher Momoka would escape him, while Shisui Uchiha and Yahiko each approached others about the coming Jonin Selection and the struggle to change the world. Yahiko offered to strengthen Kakashi and recruit him into Akatsuki, leaving Kakashi weighing whether to join.

• Jueming watched Mito Uzumaki vanish and thought that neither she nor Teacher Momoka would get away.
• Shisui Uchiha asked Tekka Uchiha about Jueming’s abilities, and Tekka agreed to share information only if Shisui defeated him.
• Shisui Uchiha beat Tekka Uchiha, leaving Tekka shocked and demanding another match.
• Kakashi Hatake considered gaining power to help change Konoha and eliminate Shimura Danzō.
• Yahiko visited Kakashi in a Shadow Clone, offered to strengthen him, and invited him to join Akatsuki.
• Kakashi called Yahiko Uncle and wondered whether he should join the organization.

Yahiko explained his Light Release Chakra, a power he claimed ordinary people could cultivate through purity of heart, and forced Kakashi to experience the suffering and atrocities he had witnessed. Yahiko’s Shadow Clone left the cultivation method in Kakashi’s mind, leaving him to discover whether he could produce the power.

• Kakashi refused Yahiko’s offer to join the Black Shooting Society, but Yahiko argued that ordinary people needed power and the right to choose.
• Yahiko revealed Light Release Chakra and said anyone with a pure, selfless heart could cultivate it.
• Kakashi doubted he could meet the condition and tried to refuse, but Yahiko held him in place.
• Yahiko used an Illusion Technique to show Kakashi scenes of death, Mutation, destruction, and Shimura Danzō’s Human Experimentation.
• Yahiko’s Shadow Clone dispersed after placing the cultivation method in Kakashi’s mind, leaving him to see if he was suited to Light Release Chakra.

Shisui revealed the Mangekyō Sharingan to Tekka Uchiha and demonstrated its destructive power. Tekka was left considering how the rare eye could be awakened and whether he might discover another method.

• Shisui stopped sparring with Tekka and decided to share the Mangekyō Sharingan’s secret with him.
• Tekka admitted that Senju Jueming’s talent made him fear the Uchiha could never surpass the Senju.
• Shisui showed Tekka his Mangekyō Sharingan and explained that it carried side effects.
• Shisui demonstrated some of the eye’s power, leaving the courtyard ruined, then departed with a Body Flicker Technique.
• Tekka reflected that the death of someone close could awaken the Mangekyō, but wondered whether other methods existed.

Yakushi Nonō left the orphanage intending to assassinate Senju Jueming, but he stopped her attack and incapacitated her with his Toxin skill. He dragged her into his underground room, leaving her fate unclear.

• Yakushi Nonō told Urushi and Kabuto to join the other children for dinner while she prepared to confront Senju Jueming.
• Yakushi Nonō went to Senju Jueming's home, believing the Five Seal Barrier would keep anything that happened inside from reaching the outside.
• Yakushi Nonō followed Senju Jueming toward an underground entrance and attacked him from behind with the Mystical Palm Technique.
• Senju Jueming caught Yakushi Nonō's wrists, struck her abdomen, and used Grass Release: Toxin to incapacitate her.
• Senju Jueming inspected the toxin's effects, then dragged Yakushi Nonō underground.

Jueming prepared to compete in the Jonin Selection, unveiling a rapid-growth technique to Momoka Senju and choosing a more mature form to represent the Senju Clan. At the crowded arena, he reunited with Sayuri and met delegations from the other villages as the selection was about to begin.

• Jueming showed Momoka Senju his new technique, which rapidly increased his body's size and strength, and said he would compete in that form.
• Momoka Senju worried about side effects, then regained hope for the Senju Clan and resolved to protect Jueming as long as she could.
• At the arena, Jueming teased Sayuri, who worried that she could no longer lead the Senju Clan because Yamato had appeared as a rival.
• Mei Terumī and other Hidden Mist ninja greeted Jueming, while representatives from Kumogakure, Iwagakure, and Sunagakure arrived.
• Baki challenged Jueming to face his stronger Ninjutsu, and Kakashi and Tekka Uchiha approached to look toward Danzo's contestants.

As the Jonin Selection began, Senju Jueming used the crowd’s hostility toward the Senju Clan to make a bold show of confidence. He planned to win the audience’s recognition by displaying his Grass Release Bloodline Limit, while Yamato prepared to compete with the Seven-Tails’ power.

• Shimura Danzō and the other leaders arrived to cheers, while Shizune told Kakashi that Rin Nohara had withdrawn from the selection.
• Jueming explained that he intended to restore the Senju Clan’s reputation and reveal his Grass Release after showing off with other Ninjutsu.
• Yamato challenged Jueming with an indifferent attitude, but Jueming boasted that the selection might finally offer him a worthy opponent.
• When spectators blamed the Senju Clan for the apocalypse, Jueming insulted them and left for the contestants’ seats with Kakashi and Tekka Uchiha.
• Tekka hoped another shock might awaken his Mangekyo, while Shisui Uchiha looked forward to the Uchiha displaying their power in the arena.