Chapter Summaries

Hozuki Mangetsu crossed a devastated battlefield as the Six-Tails Ox-Whale slaughtered Mist shinobi and the three factions struggled to retreat. He took command near the beast and sent his special clone forward as another Tailed Beast Ball formed.

• Hozuki Mangetsu saw the Six-Tails Ox-Whale melt fleeing Mist shinobi with Corrosive Saliva while others risked their lives to cover the retreat.
• Hozuki Mangetsu met wounded Hozuki shinobi, learned that many comrades remained stranded, and sheltered with them from a Tailed Beast Ball explosion.
• Hozuki Mangetsu recalled Qi Shuang's warning that the war had to stop but remained hesitant about taking power from his father.
• Hozuki Mangetsu reached the beast and ordered the jōnin to lure it toward an area with fewer people while the others evacuated the wounded.
• Hozuki Mangetsu ordered everyone to fall back when the Six-Tails Ox-Whale began forming another Tailed Beast Ball, then sent his special clone charging forward.

Hozuki Mangetsu and the Mist shinobi fought the Six-Tails, using exploding Steam Clones and countermeasures to disrupt its attacks. Meanwhile, Qi Shuang completed Ice Dragon Sage Mode, leaving Obito and Kakuzu unable to gauge his strength.

• Hozuki Mangetsu detonated a giant Steam Clone against the Six-Tails, interrupting its Tailed Beast Ball and scorching it.
• The Six-Tails attacked with Acidic Bubble, but a Mist shinobi neutralized the bubbles with Water Release: Cutting Rain.
• The Six-Tails sprayed Corrosive Saliva, killing several shinobi, then struck Mangetsu's second Steam Clone and was burned by its explosion.
• The Six-Tails charged Mangetsu and the Mist shinobi as they continued to draw it away from others.
• Qi Shuang balanced Natural Energy with his life force and Spiritual Power, awakening Ice Dragon Sage Mode.
• White Zetsu marveled at Qi Shuang's aura, while Obito and Kakuzu asked what he had sensed.

Qi Shuang entered Sage Transformation and launched himself toward the rampaging Six-Tails, while Obito and Black Zetsu judged the danger and planned to withdraw with the Three-Tails. Kirigakure’s fighters continued to suffer heavy losses as Hozuki Mangetsu neared his limit.

• Black Zetsu warned Obito and Kakuzu that Qi Shuang’s sage aura made him a serious threat and advised abandoning the attempt to capture the Six-Tails.
• Obito ordered Kakuzu to leave with the Three-Tails while he stayed in Kirigakure to look for another chance to capture the Six-Tails.
• Qi Shuang sensed Obito and the others but prioritized suppressing the Six-Tails, then rushed down from the sky in Sage Transformation.
• Hozuki Mangetsu and the Kirigakure jonin struggled to lure and restrain the Six-Tails as its attacks killed or injured many ninja.
• Hozuki Mangetsu detonated another clone and retreated, exhausted and close to the limits of his damaged body.

Hozuki Mangetsu and the Mist ninja struggled to hold back the Six-Tails as Mangetsu ran out of chakra. Just as the beast aimed a Tailed Beast Ball at him, a mysterious white streak struck it and caused its own attack to blast it into the sky.

• Hozuki Mangetsu used his Water-Oil Clone to interrupt the Six-Tails’ Tailed Beast Ball, then revealed that he had enough chakra for only one more explosion.
• The Six-Tails realized Mangetsu was exhausted and began gathering another Tailed Beast Ball while targeting him.
• Mangetsu warned the Mist ninja to flee as the Six-Tails completed its attack and aimed at him.
• A white streak of light struck the Six-Tails on the head before it could fire.
• The impact drove the Six-Tails into the ground, where its Tailed Beast Ball exploded and blasted it skyward.

Qi Shuang arrived in Sage Transformation and stopped the Six-Tails from firing a Tailed Beast Ball, then challenged it to submit. After it attacked, he used Sage Art: Ice Release: Eight Gates of Divine Sealing to bind the beast and force it flat against the ground.

• Qi Shuang struck the Six-Tails from above, stopping its Tailed Beast Ball and knocking it to the ground.
• Hozuki Mangetsu recognized Qi Shuang and realized he had been holding back his strength.
• Qi Shuang offered the Six-Tails a choice between waiting for further arrangements and being knocked down first.
• The Six-Tails refused and swept its six tails at Qi Shuang, who easily evaded the attack.
• Qi Shuang drew on underground water veins to create eight ice chains, which bound the Six-Tails and pulled it flat against the ground.

Qi Shuang used his Eight Gates of Divine Sealing technique to bind the Six-Tails, terrifying the Mist shinobi and prompting Kakuzu to flee. As Qi Shuang approached the exhausted beast, it suddenly attacked him with Corrosive Saliva, and he responded with Ice Sealing Technique.

• Qi Shuang restrained the Six-Tails with eight Ice Prisons formed from underground waterways, leaving the Mist shinobi and Hozuki Mangetsu stunned.
• Obito asked Kakuzu whether he could escape the Ice Prisons, and Kakuzu admitted he could not and left with a White Zetsu Clone to find the Three-Tails.
• Obito decided to keep trying to capture the Six-Tails despite Black Zetsu's doubts.
• Qi Shuang explained how the Ice Prisons drew on the underground waterways and told the Six-Tails it would remain in the Mist Village.
• The exhausted Six-Tails waited until Qi Shuang came close, then sprayed Corrosive Saliva at him, and Qi Shuang used Ice Sealing Technique.

Qi Shuang subdued the Six-Tails with his Ice Seal Technique, shifting the balance of the war and leaving the Hozuki Clan searching for leverage. Hozuki Masamune decided to use their prisoners and sought out Obito Uchiha.

• Qi Shuang froze the Six-Tails’ acidic bubbles and kept it trapped in the eight Ice Prisons as the Mist shinobi cheered its subjugation.
• Hozuki Mangetsu withdrew with his shinobi, explaining that they could not risk fighting over the Six-Tails while it might break free.
• The Terumi Clan learned Qi Shuang was on their side, while the Hozuki Clan worried that his power made victory unlikely.
• Hozuki Mangetsu told Hozuki Masamune that he had less than a ten percent chance of beating Qi Shuang, prompting the Hozuki leaders to consider ending the war.
• Hozuki Masamune reminded his leaders that they still had powerful outsiders and prisoners to use, then found Obito Uchiha through the clan’s intelligence network.

Obito Uchiha agreed to help Hozuki Masamune keep Qi Shuang occupied in exchange for the Six-Tails, while Kisame Hoshigaki persuaded Kaki Keiichi to prepare a surprise attack against the Hozuki and Terumi Clans. Qi Shuang continued guarding the restrained Six-Tails, but its Tailed Beast Ball attacks remained dangerous.

• Hozuki Masamune asked Obito Uchiha to occupy Qi Shuang so the Hozuki Clan could launch a surprise attack, and offered him the Six-Tails as a reward.
• Obito Uchiha agreed to help Hozuki Masamune, intending to make Kirigakure's civil war more chaotic.
• Kisame Hoshigaki convinced Kaki Keiichi that Qi Shuang could not freeze all of Kirigakure, and Kaki Keiichi ordered preparations for an attack on the Hozuki and Terumi Clans.
• Kisame Hoshigaki left the command room carrying the bandage-wrapped Greatsword: Samehada.
• Qi Shuang stayed beside the restrained Six-Tails and froze its attacks, but treated its Tailed Beast Ball as a serious threat.

Qi Shuang kept the Six-Tails pinned down until Mei Terumi arrived with a small sealing team. As the team began to take positions around the beast, an unseen hand reached toward Qi Shuang’s head.

• Qi Shuang repeatedly stopped the Six-Tails from charging a Tailed Beast Ball while the three forces rescued their wounded.
• Mei Terumi arrived with eleven shinobi, explaining that many of Kirigakure’s sealing specialists had been killed or injured.
• Qi Shuang worried that the small team could not seal the Six-Tails, but Mei Terumi explained that its immobility would make the work safer.
• Qi Shuang used an Ice Prison to silence the Six-Tails and explained that the prisons were anchored to underground water veins.
• Mei Terumi ordered her team to surround the Six-Tails and begin the sealing, while a fair hand reached toward Qi Shuang’s head.

Qi Shuang explained that his blue Dragon Horns appeared during Sage Transformation while Mei Terumi insisted on touching them. After teasing and playfully retaliating against each other, Mei began preparing to seal the Six-Tails in a meteoric-iron cauldron.

• Mei Terumi tried to touch Qi Shuang’s horns, and he explained that they were Dragon Horns that grew during Sage Transformation.
• Qi Shuang urged Mei to seal the Six-Tails quickly because his chakra was depleted and trouble from the Hozuki side remained possible.
• Mei insisted on touching the horns, and Qi Shuang reluctantly let her while warning the onlookers to look away.
• Mei called the horns unimpressive, and Qi Shuang joked about touching her feet, prompting her to stomp on his toes.
• Mei sent Qi Shuang aside, released a bronze cauldron from a Sealing Scroll, and prepared it to contain the Six-Tails’ seal.

Mei Terumi and the Sealing Ninjas worked to seal the Six-Tails in the Iron Meteorite Bronze Cauldron while Qi Shuang guarded the site and warned of a Hozuki Clan attack. As the seal neared completion, a shark-faced man carrying Samehada began a Water Release technique near the battlefield.

• Mei Terumi and eleven others used a sealing formula to compress the Six-Tails for containment in the Iron Meteorite Bronze Cauldron.
• Qi Shuang stopped the approaching Terumi Clan ninjas and ordered them to guard from ten meters away, especially against the Hozuki Clan.
• Qi Shuang sensed Mist Ninja forces moving near the Hozuki Compound and warned Mei Terumi of a possible surprise attack.
• Mei Terumi sent Takizawa to raise the compound's alert level and strengthen Kaki's defenses.
• As the Six-Tails shrank to the size of a calf, a shark-faced man carrying Samehada completed the hand seals for Water Release: Great Dam Construction.

Shark Face unleashed a colossal flood that devastated the battlefield and submerged the Mist clans’ compounds while Qi Shuang raised an ice barrier to protect Mei Terumi and the others as they sealed the Six-Tails. The wave threw Kaki Keiichi’s plans into disarray, and he blamed Kisame Hoshigaki for endangering the Hoshigaki Clan’s people.

• Shark Face’s torrent flooded the battlefield, and Qi Shuang recognized a massive wave approaching from the west.
• Qi Shuang cast Sage Art: Ice Release: Wall of Sighs around himself, Mei Terumi, the Sealing Ninjas, and the Six-Tails.
• The wave crushed the Mist Ninjas’ defenses, struck Qi Shuang’s ice wall, and submerged the injured and the Terumi and Hozuki compounds.
• Hozuki Masamune suspended the ambush to rescue his people, while Kaki Keiichi watched the flood overwhelm the Hoshigaki compound.
• Kaki Keiichi recalled Kisame Hoshigaki’s plan to use the Fourth and the Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave, then cursed Kisame for disrupting the clan’s plans and endangering its people.

Qi Shuang realized Kisame Hoshigaki had used the chakra of the Fourth and the Three-Tails to flood nearly all of Kirigakure with Water Release. Obito Uchiha appeared to claim responsibility, but Qi Shuang destroyed a bone from the remains Obito wanted and left him screaming.

• A vast Water Release flooded almost all of Kirigakure, leaving survivors to search for one another and escape the water.
• Qi Shuang sensed the technique's ten-kilometer radius and identified Kisame Hoshigaki as its caster, while Mei Terumi questioned how he had enough chakra.
• Qi Shuang deduced that Kisame had absorbed the Fourth's and the Three-Tails' chakra through Samehada.
• Obito Uchiha appeared above the Ice Wall and called the flood his final gift, Water Prison Fog.
• Qi Shuang released a scroll containing a gray-white skeleton, warned Obito not to interfere, and crushed a rib into powder despite Obito's attempt to shift blame.

Qi Shuang confronted Obito over the disaster in Kirigakure while the Hoshigaki Clan used the flood to attack the Terumi and Hozuki Clans. As the survivors were trapped underwater and Mei Terumi sought help, Qi Shuang explained that he lacked the chakra to freeze the vast body of water and had to remain wary of Obito.

• Qi Shuang broke pieces of Rin's bones to warn Obito, who insisted that he had not forgotten his vow and denied carrying out Water Prison Fog himself.
• Obito claimed the Hoshigaki Clan's leaders had approved the attack, while Hoshigaki Ninjas slaughtered the Terumi and Hozuki Clans' survivors in the water.
• The Hoshigaki Clan used its ability to breathe underwater to drag escaping opponents beneath the surface and exhaust them, while their allies killed anyone who resurfaced.
• Mei Terumi realized the Hoshigaki Clan's ambush had put her clan at risk of defeat and asked Qi Shuang to freeze the water.
• Qi Shuang said the water was too vast and deep for him to freeze with his available chakra, especially while Obito remained a threat.

Qi Shuang drove Obito away from the Six-Tails sealing site, then sealed the Ice Wall against attacks by the Hoshigaki Clan. As the sealing continued, Hozuki Mangetsu’s forces were ambushed, and he was left alone after the other Hozuki Clan members were eliminated.

• Qi Shuang threatened Obito with Impure World Reincarnation, and Obito withdrew from the Ice Wall before hiding five hundred meters to the east with Zetsu.
• Qi Shuang told Mei Terumi that Obito would likely wait until the Six-Tails was sealed before trying to seize it, and promised to guard the site.
• Hoshigaki Ninjas planted Explosive Tags on the Ice Wall, but the blasts left it undamaged.
• Qi Shuang used Ice Release: Ice Sealing Technique to close the Ice Wall’s entrance and connect it to the frozen ground, thwarting attacks from above and below.
• Hoshigaki forces attacked Hozuki Mangetsu’s group above and below the water, using Lightning Release to suppress Water Transformation Jutsu and eliminate the Hozuki Clan members, leaving Mangetsu alone.

Hozuki Mangetsu fought to protect his Mist shinobi as Kaki Ninja attacked from above and below. He killed several opponents, including a Lightning Release ninja, and revealed that the Hozuki Clan had used oil to overcome Lightning Release’s counter to their Water Transformation Jutsu.

• Kaki Ninja attacks from underwater and the surface overwhelmed the Mist shinobi, while Mangetsu refused to abandon his subordinates.
• A Kaki Ninja dragged a Mist shinobi underwater, and surface attackers killed him; Mangetsu retaliated by killing the attacker and three of his companions with Nuibari.
• Kaki Ninja called for a Lightning Release ninja, who attacked Mangetsu with lightning snakes, but Mangetsu’s Liquefaction Body remained intact.
• Mangetsu killed the Lightning Release ninja with Nuibari and explained that oil insulated the Hozuki Clan’s liquefied bodies from lightning.

Hozuki Mangetsu mastered the Second Mizukage’s secret techniques and fought off the Hoshigaki Clan, while Qi Shuang created a floating ice field to protect the Terumi Clan. With the Hozuki Clan suffering heavy losses, Mangetsu hesitated over moving them onto the ice as a familiar voice called out to him.

• Hozuki Mangetsu’s years of training let him master the Second Mizukage’s secret techniques and withstand Lightning Release, frightening the Hoshigaki Clan ninja.
• Hozuki Mangetsu struggled to protect his subordinates while the sealing light screen inside the Ice Wall continued to shrink.
• Mei Terumi urged Qi Shuang to help, and Qi Shuang sent an Ice Release Clone before teleporting to the water’s surface.
• Qi Shuang froze a thousand meters of water into a Floating Ice Domain, accidentally trapping both Hoshigaki and Terumi Clan ninja beneath the ice.
• Qi Shuang called for the Terumi Clan to retreat onto the ice, freeing them from underwater attacks as the Hozuki Clan suffered rising casualties.
• Hozuki Mangetsu hesitated over bringing his people onto the Floating Ice Domain until a familiar voice called out to him.

Hozuki Mangetsu led his surviving troops onto the Floating Ice Domain, where Qi Shuang fought off the Kaki Clan’s assault. As the battle remained in the Kaki Clan’s favor, Obito sent Kisame to restrain Qi Shuang, and Kisame left the fight against the Hozuki Compound.

• Hozuki Mangetsu ordered his troops onto the nearby Floating Ice Domain, and Qi Shuang cleared its eastern area for them to land.
• Qi Shuang froze a group of Kaki Clan ninja with Ice Sealing Technique and used Needle Rain Technique to attack the rest.
• Hozuki Mangetsu’s troops cut through the Kaki Clan formation and reached the eastern ice, but fewer than half of their original five hundred remained.
• Obito told White Zetsu to summon Kisame to help restrain Qi Shuang.
• Kisame agreed to Obito’s order, bid farewell to Kaki Keiichi, and departed on a Water Shark Missile.

As the Hoshigaki Clan overwhelmed the Terumi and Hozuki clans, Qi Shuang guarded the Six-Tails from Obito Uchiha and pressed Hozuki Mangetsu to agree to peace talks. Mangetsu accepted, then charged Kisame Hoshigaki to prove his commitment to ending the war.

• Hoshigaki Keiichi cursed Kisame for abandoning the battle, while the Hoshigaki Clan kept the Terumi and Hozuki clans on the defensive.
• Qi Shuang told Mangetsu he was holding back to guard against Obito Uchiha taking the Six-Tails, and Mangetsu agreed that the Hozuki Clan would pursue peace talks.
• Kisame arrived on the Floating Ice Domain and fended off attacks with Samehada, injuring dozens while demanding that Qi Shuang face him.
• Mangetsu reminded Qi Shuang of his promise to help find Suigetsu after the war, then asked whether it still stood; Qi Shuang confirmed it did.
• Mangetsu drew Exploding Blade Shibuki and charged Kisame, while Qi Shuang warned him to avoid using ninjutsu against Samehada.

Hozuki Mangetsu intercepted Kaki Kisame and used his strength and speed to gain the advantage in their sword fight. As Obito Uchiha shared chakra with Black Zetsu, Mangetsu continued pressing Kisame, who struggled to keep up.

• Kaki Kisame welcomed the chance to challenge Hozuki Mangetsu, but Mangetsu struck him with Mizurappa and sent him flying from the Floating Ice Domain.
• Kaki Kisame used Samehada to absorb chakra and heal his broken ribs and injured organs while the other ninjas shifted their targets.
• Obito Uchiha frowned at Mangetsu and Kisame's duel, then transferred chakra to Black Zetsu as they discussed what to do next.
• Hozuki Mangetsu and Kaki Kisame chose close combat, with Mangetsu relying on swordsmanship and Kisame on Samehada's chakra absorption.
• Mangetsu used his speed and Oily Slide to evade Kisame's attacks and cut him several times with Shibuki, then criticized his swordsmanship.