Chapter Summaries

Mingren forced Kushina to help Mikoto eat as payment for sparing Naruto during the planned Konoha destruction. Meanwhile, Yugito was arrested in Kumogakure, and Amegakure's leaders prepared their attack while discussing how to keep Might Guy occupied.

• Mingren ordered Kushina to make Mikoto kneel and feed her, reminding Kushina that Naruto would be spared if she obeyed.
• A and Killer B confronted Yugito in Kumogakure, accused her of murdering dignitaries, and had ANBU take her to prison.
• Asuka led Amegakure's regular meeting in Mingren's absence and reviewed preparations for the Konoha revenge plan in half a month.
• Pakura discussed targeting Sunagakure after Konoha, while Ying warned that Might Guy's presence could endanger Amegakure's forces.
• Hizashi Hyuga stressed the Branch Family's stake in the plan, and Jūzō Biwa suggested Neji draw Might Guy away before asking how strong Neji had become.

Neji was freed from the Caged Bird Seal through Dark Medical Ninjutsu, though the procedure destroyed his Byakugan and preserved some of its functions through his Mind's Eye. A broadcast about Yugito's arrest led Hanzo to suspect a conspiracy involving Kusagakure's Box of Ultimate Bliss, and he explained the weapon's disastrous history in the Land of Grass.

• Hizashi Hyuga and Shennong revealed that Neji's Caged Bird Seal had been removed, but his Byakugan had been destroyed.
• Shennong explained that Dark Medical Ninjutsu had preserved some of the Byakugan's functions through Neji's Mind's Eye, which protected him from visual Genjutsu.
• Chuan turned on a news broadcast showing Yugito imprisoned and being prepared for transport to Hozuki Castle in Kusagakure.
• Pakura and Hanzo questioned the accusations against Yugito, and Hanzo suspected that her arrest was part of a conspiracy.
• Hanzo asked the group about the Box of Ultimate Bliss, and Pakura and Ringo Ameyuri described it as a legendary weapon tied to Kusagakure.
• Hanzo explained that the Land of Grass had once nearly unified the Ninja World with the Box, but its failure had left the country gravely weakened.

Hanzo and the others decided to send Neji into Hozuki Castle to investigate Kumogakure’s interest in the Box of Ultimate Bliss. Meanwhile, Mingren began the final stage of interrogating Mikoto, telling her that Sasuke had attacked him and watching her refuse to beg for her son’s life.

• Hanzo suggested that Kumogakure might be seeking the Box of Ultimate Bliss, and Ying insisted that Amegakure secure it first.
• Shennong explained the box’s possible secrets, and the group unanimously approved sending Neji to infiltrate Kusagakure through Hozuki Castle.
• Hizashi and Shennong told Neji to investigate Kumogakure’s intentions before the Konoha Destruction Operation Plan began.
• Mingren told Mikoto that Sasuke had attacked him during the Five Kage Summit, and Mikoto stayed calm rather than plead for her son.
• Kushina silently panicked as Mikoto’s resolve left her fearing that Sasuke might be killed.

Mingren punished Mikoto Uchiha while Kushina watched, then continued beating her as Guren reported on intelligence about Yugito, Neji, and the Volcanic Shapeshifter. Guren left to relay the reports to Asuka and the others.

• Mingren asked Mikoto how he should deal with Sasuke and then restrained her when she tried to flee.
• Kushina watched Mingren strike Mikoto and prepared Water Release Defense Jutsu but did not intervene.
• Guren received reports about Yugito, Neji's mission to Kusagakure, and the Volcanic Shapeshifter's disguise technique.
• Guren entered the Black Prison and reported the intelligence to Mingren while he continued punishing Mikoto.
• Mingren told Guren to relay the information to Asuka and the others.

Mingren explained why Kusagakure had captured Yugito and planned to use her chakra to open the Box of Ultimate Bliss, then ordered Guren to prepare for conquering Kusagakure. Yugito arrived at Hozuki Castle, where Mui began demonstrating the prison’s ruthless control over its inmates.

• Mingren told Guren that Kusagakure had framed Yugito and intended to use her tailed-beast chakra to open the Box of Ultimate Bliss, whose monster Wu could threaten the world.
• Mingren ordered Guren to prepare an emergency plan to conquer Kusagakure, and Guren left to inform Asuka and the others.
• Yugito was carried in a sealed cage into Kusagakure and brought to Hozuki Castle, where she surveyed the prison and noticed a blind young prisoner.
• Mui introduced himself to the prisoners and dismissed a Sunagakure inmate’s pleas to return home and protect his village.
• Mui released the Sunagakure prisoner, then struck him with Fire Style: Heavenly Prison.

Yugito and Neji were imprisoned at Hozuki Castle and branded with Heavenly Prison. Neji used his hidden insight to uncover the prison’s secrets, then attacked prisoners who mocked him in the mess hall.

• Mui branded Yugito and the other prisoners with Heavenly Prison after the technique burned a Sand Village Ninja.
• Yugito recognized Maloi, a fellow ninja from her village, in the cell across from hers.
• Neji used his Ghost Fire Chakra vision to discover that Maloi helped Mui deliver prisoners to the Box of Ultimate Bliss, which absorbed their Chakra and killed them.
• Neji watched Yugito sleep and decided to wait for Mui to make a move against her.
• When prisoners mocked Neji in the mess hall, he stabbed one man’s eye with a fork, threw the eyeball and fork into another prisoner, and struck a third in the heart with Chakra needles.

Neji exposed his strength in Hozuki Castle and debated Ryūzetsu about Kusagakure’s factions and the Box of Ultimate Bliss. Meanwhile, Mui and the Four Guards captured Yugito to drain her Chakra and open the box, leaving her bound and helpless.

• Neji defeated three prisoners in the mess hall, was confined to solitary for three days, and returned to his cell unchallenged.
• Ryūzetsu introduced herself as Grass Flower and questioned Neji about Amegakure’s interest in the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
• Neji argued that both Grass Seed and Grass Flower were wrong and claimed the Land of Grass needed change at its source.
• Dong Gua and the guards took Yugito to the Tenshukaku, where Mui and the Four Guards surrounded her.
• The Four Guards used Binding Jutsu to immobilize Yugito, and Mui ordered her taken away so they could extract her Chakra and open the box.

Mui and the Four Guards began extracting the Dark Chakra from Yugito, unaware that it came from Zero-Tails rather than the Two-Tails. As the extraction weakened Yugito, she regained her movement after the Heavenly Prison was undone and attacked Mui with Fire Rat Jewel.

• Ryūzetsu followed Yugito into the Tenshukaku, and Neji knocked out the guards before rushing inside to rescue her.
• Guren reported Neji's news to Mingren, who finished beating Mikoto and left with Guren while Kushina put Mikoto in a Life Support Pod.
• Kushina, frightened by Mingren's brutality, put on the Chakra Restraint Tool without being told to do so.
• Mui used Grass Shadow Style: Explosive Palm to activate Yugito's Chakra, then began undoing her Heavenly Prison Jutsu with the Four Guards' help.
• Mui and the Four Guards drew Yugito's Dark Chakra toward the Box of Ultimate Bliss, mistaking it for Tailed Beast Chakra.
• Yugito regained her ability to move and attacked Mui with Fire Rat Jewel.

Mui opened the Box of Ultimate Bliss and wished to see his son, Muku, again. Muku emerged, but as Mui ran to embrace him, Mingren interrupted a sudden attack, leaving Muku's intentions exposed.

• Yugito fought the Four Guards as the Box of Ultimate Bliss rose from beneath Hozuki Castle, and Neji and Ryūzetsu arrived to confront them.
• Mui abandoned Kusagakure's ambition to conquer the world and wished for the box to bring back his son, Muku.
• The Box of Ultimate Bliss produced an adult Muku, and Mui tearfully ran to embrace him.
• Mingren landed atop the box and struck before Muku could stab Mui, causing Muku to leap away.
• Muku told Mui that he had been wrong.

Muku transformed into a giant monster and attacked the prisoners as Kumogakure’s reinforcements arrived at the Box of Ultimate Bliss. Shennong challenged A, while Killer Bee and Amakawa Mingren assessed the monster and the box, which Mingren considered using in the Konoha Destruction Plan.

• Muku slaughtered prisoners, threw two into the Box of Ultimate Bliss, and transformed into a towering monster.
• A arrived with Kumogakure’s ninja and Killer Bee, then recognized Amakawa Mingren as the man who had cut off his arm.
• Shennong revealed himself and challenged A, prompting A to strike him into a building.
• Shennong opened the Fifth and Sixth Gates of his improved Dark Eight Inner Gates and fought A.
• Eight-Tails explained to Killer Bee how the Box of Ultimate Bliss corrupted and transformed its captives.
• Mingren considered the box’s usefulness as a prison and its possible role in the Konoha Destruction Plan.

Neji defeated the Four Guards and joined the fight against Wu, the monstrous form of Muku, while Mingren examined the supposedly indestructible Box of Ultimate Bliss. The group learned that Wu could only be killed or sealed back inside the box.

• Neji defeated the Four Guards by igniting the Chakra in their bodies, and Ringo Ameyuri and Jūzō Biwa took the captives away as witnesses.
• Neji, Ryūzetsu, and Yugito reached the plaza, where Neji attacked Wu but failed to hit the giant creature.
• Wu recognized Ryūzetsu and attacked the group with black feathers, injuring Mui as Ryūzetsu confronted him about slaughtering people to open the box.
• Ryūzetsu tried attacking the Box of Ultimate Bliss, but could not damage it, while Mingren considered testing its material with the Chimera Technique.
• Eight-Tails explained that Wu appeared when the box's conversion process malfunctioned and that Wu could only be killed or sealed back inside.

Mingren confronted Wu, whose ability to sense fear had let him dodge attacks, and exposed the fear and guilt behind his transformation. After overpowering Wu, Mingren began explaining how Kusagakure’s preference for diplomacy left it vulnerable between the predatory Five Great Nations.

• Killer B and Eight-Tails discussed the Box of Ultimate Bliss and warned that Wu had to be stopped before he trapped everyone.
• Mui, Ryūzetsu, and Neji failed to hit Wu because he sensed their emotions and dodged their attacks.
• Mingren struck Wu with a fast punch and explained that Wu’s power could not evade attacks that moved quickly enough.
• Mingren told Wu that he feared being trapped in the box again and reminded him that Mui had tried to save him.
• Wu attacked Mingren from behind, but Mingren blocked him with his katana and explained that Heavenly Prison was meant to prevent fighting.
• Mingren described how the Five Great Nations invaded smaller lands and left Kusagakure with few defenses.

Mingren helped Mui break Wu’s control over Muku and restore him to human form, while Kusagakure was offered protection through the Land of Rain Allied Forces. The Box of Ultimate Bliss remained open, and Shennong recovered from the Raikage’s attack as the conflict continued.

• Mingren urged the Kusagakure ninja to join the Land of Rain Allied Forces and promised that they would no longer be oppressed.
• Mingren attacked Wu, and Mui used Fire Style: Great Fire Heavenly Prison to restrain Muku and reach his son.
• Mingren absorbed the darkness from Muku, allowing him to return to human form and reunite with Mui and Ryūzetsu.
• Mingren noticed that the Box of Ultimate Bliss had not closed and wondered whether it would produce another Wu.
• Neji reported that he had infiltrated Kusagakure and subdued the Four Guards, and Mingren praised him.
• The Raikage slammed Shennong into the ground, but Shennong quickly repaired his injuries and claimed the attacks only made him stronger.

Mingren forced A and the Kumogakure ninja to withdraw, then began deciding how to deal with the Box of Ultimate Bliss and Hozuki Castle’s prisoners. Meanwhile, a broadcast exposed the Four Guards’ crimes and blamed the Land of Grass’s decline on the Five Great Nations.

• Shennong provoked A into attacking, but A withdrew after spotting Mingren and deciding to preserve his forces; Yugito also retreated after Mingren teased her about challenging A.
• Mingren rejected Mui’s plan to seal the Box of Ultimate Bliss with Fire Release: Heavenly Prison and ordered Dong Gua to bring him the Prisoner Registry.
• Mingren freed the political prisoners, returned some offenders to prison, and reserved the remaining criminals as test subjects for the box.
• The Land of Grass’s official broadcaster revealed the Four Guards’ embezzlement and use of prisoners to activate the box, while Tsunade, Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, Gaara, and others watched.

After the broadcast announced Kusagakure’s alliance with Amegakure and Mingren’s countdown to destroy Konoha, Tsunade prepared the Five Great Nations for war. Mingren assigned Neji to draw away Might Guy and arranged for Konoha’s residents to evacuate before the attack, as Asuka began a prewar declaration.

• A broadcast showed the execution of Kusagakure’s Four Guards and Mui’s announcement that Kusagakure would join the Land of Rain Allied Forces and release prisoners framed at Hozuki Castle.
• Tsunade and the other Kage reacted angrily as they watched Kusagakure join Amegakure, while Mingren publicly declared that Amegakure would destroy Konoha in seven days.
• Tsunade ordered Shizune to contact the Raikage and told her to prepare Might Guy, hoping he could stop Mingren alongside Naruto, Nagato, and Itachi.
• At Hozuki Castle, Mingren told Neji to draw Might Guy away during the coming operation, then directed Ringo Ameyuri to have Asuka call for Konoha’s residents and ninja to evacuate.
• Asuka summoned official reporters and began a prewar declaration, which the Five Kage watched on television.

Asuka announced that Konoha would be destroyed in a week, prompting Tsunade to rally the village while Kurenai Yuhi argued that its forces should retreat. As Konoha began to fracture, Shibuki arrived to survey the village and open negotiations between Amegakure and Konoha.

• Asuka declared that Konoha's residents and rank-and-file ninja had one week to leave before the Land of Rain Allied Forces razed the village.
• Tsunade vowed to defend Konoha, but Kurenai Yuhi warned that Amakawa Mingren could not be stopped and urged her to preserve the village's fighting strength.
• Wealthy residents fled Konoha, and Shikaku Nara told Tsunade that their departure reflected how people had once fled countries Konoha invaded.
• ANBU agents found many poor civilians who had fled, saying Konoha had given them little and was not worth dying for; Uzuki Yugao reported that there were too many to arrest.
• Shibuki arrived in Konoha to conduct a survey and serve as a bridge between Amegakure and Konoha.

Shibuki organized evaluations of Konoha residents’ property so they could leave and receive subsidies, angering Tsunade as more civilians fled. Meanwhile, Mingren strengthened himself with the Box of Ultimate Bliss and arrived near Konoha with his forces to begin the destruction operation.

• Shibuki defended his decision to help Konoha residents leave, accusing Konoha of exploiting Rougakure Village under the guise of alliance.
• Tsunade smashed the conference table after Shibuki’s evaluations led many middle-class residents to leave Konoha.
• Mingren absorbed the Box of Ultimate Bliss’s Negative Emotions, raising his true body’s power to 80, then compressed the box into a cube.
• Mingren prepared his forces in Amegakure, assigning Hanzo, Asuka, Ying, Shennō, Hiruko, Hizashi Hyuga, Neji Hyuga, and others roles in the assault.
• Two days before Konoha’s destruction, Mingren’s airship reached the skies near Konohagakure, and Mingren stepped out with his team.

Mingren arrived at Konoha and killed Hayate Gekko with a single breath while the battle was broadcast across the Ninja World. As Konoha’s destruction began, Naruto Uzumaki continued training underground, unaware of the attack.

• Mingren arrived at Konoha as its gates stood empty, and Hayate Gekko challenged him while cameras broadcast the encounter.
• Mingren warned Hayate Gekko that he had once spared him and mentioned his fiancée, Uzuki Yugao, but Hayate stood firm and attacked with the Dance of the Crescent Moon.
• Mingren killed Hayate Gekko with a burst of breath, destroying his Shadow Clones and original body in front of the cameras.
• Uzuki Yugao and the ANBU Sixth Squad grieved Hayate Gekko’s death as the footage spread across the Ninja World.
• Naruto Uzumaki trained with Itachi and Nagato in Danzo’s former underground base, unaware of the attack on Konoha.

Mingren killed Konoha Jonin Kunugi Mokume after effortlessly blocking his strongest strike, then announced that Konoha had 35 hours left before he would destroy the village. Konoha’s leaders could do nothing to stop his broadcast and continued trying to buy Naruto time to train.

• Konoha civilians began fleeing the village as Mingren waited for the destruction countdown to continue.
• Kunugi Mokume confronted Mingren and invoked the Will of Fire, vowing that Konoha’s ninja would keep fighting.
• Mingren stopped Kunugi Mokume’s S-rank Chakra Flow strike with one finger and killed him with a hand blade.
• Hanzo, Hizashi Hyuga, and the others discussed Mingren’s overwhelming speed after witnessing Kunugi Mokume’s death.
• Mingren flew above Konoha and announced that he would destroy the entire village when the 35-hour countdown ended, while allowing challengers to face him before then.
• Tsunade and Konoha’s other leaders watched helplessly as Mingren’s declaration reached the village, and they focused on buying Naruto more time to train.

Amakawa Mingren declared his plan to conquer the Ninja World and reform it, while Konoha struggled to prepare for his deadline and possible defeat. With twelve hours remaining, Sage Fukasaku arrived to help Konoha, suggested Mount Myōboku as a refuge, and set out with Sage Shima to confront Mingren.

• Shikaku Nara attempted to negotiate with Mingren, who declared he would unite the planet and reshape society under his rule.
• Mingren rejected further discussion, while Konoha civilians began fleeing and several challengers were swiftly killed.
• Tsunade and Shikaku Nara discussed the Preserve the Flame Plan as Konoha faced Mingren and Madara Uchiha.
• Sage Fukasaku arrived from Mount Myōboku with summoned beasts and offered the sages’ refuge if Konoha fell.
• Fukasaku decided to meet Mingren, and Sage Shima accompanied him toward Konoha’s entrance.