Chapter Summaries

Naruto summoned the Kage of every generation from the Pure Land to reinforce him and Satsuki against Mai and the Akatsuki. The Kage arrived amid Konoha’s ruins and prepared to face the enemy forces.

• Satsuki recognized Neji Hyuga and Gaara among the Akatsuki, while Naruto recalled how he had once saved Neji’s father and let both young men return to their homes.
• Mai summoned the Nine Masked Beasts, surrounding Naruto and Satsuki with the Akatsuki forces.
• Satsuki grew angry at the hostile crowd, and Naruto stopped her from targeting Tsunade and the Anbu, saying different reinforcements were coming.
• Naruto revealed his Star Eye and opened golden gates across the battlefield, bringing forth the Kage of every generation from the Pure Land.
• Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, Uchiha Madara, Uchiha Izuna, Hozuki Gengetsu, Mu, and the Third Raikage arrived and prepared for battle.

Tsunade reunited with Hashirama and Tobirama, who had come to help Konoha without being controlled by Impure World Reincarnation. As Naruto faced Mai, Madara joined Hashirama and immediately attacked the Akatsuki army with a massive fire technique.

• The Anbu recognized Hashirama, Tobirama, and other deceased Kage on the battlefield, while Tsunade reacted with shock and anger at the sight of her grandfather and great-uncle.
• Hashirama recognized Tsunade, reassured her that he was not being controlled, and promised to fight beside her and play with her afterward.
• Hashirama asked Madara to fight alongside him, and Madara agreed while Izuna looked displeased.
• Mai questioned Naruto about summoning the dead, and Naruto explained that they had willingly come to help.
• Madara unleashed Fire Style: Great Fire Annihilation at the Akatsuki army.

Nagato and the Akatsuki fought Uchiha Madara and Izuna in Konoha’s ruins, where Madara used their shared Rinnegan powers to thwart Nagato’s rescue of Konan. As Nagato’s Chibaku Tensei struggled against Madara’s meteor, a golden blade split the meteor and let the technique absorb its fragments.

• Nagato shielded the Akatsuki from Madara’s Fire Release with an Earth Wall, then the group scattered across Konoha’s ruins.
• Madara found Nagato hiding inside a giant chameleon, evaded his Shinra Tensei, and challenged him to demonstrate the Rinnegan’s power.
• Konan attacked Madara with concealed Explosive Tags while Izuna countered her paper technique with Fire Release and caught her in Mangekyō Sharingan genjutsu.
• Nagato tried to rescue Konan with Shinra Tensei, but Madara used the same technique to cancel it.
• Nagato unleashed Chibaku Tensei as Madara summoned a massive meteor with Tengai Shinsei.
• A golden chakra blade split the meteor, allowing Nagato’s Chibaku Tensei to pull its fragments into the core.

Uchiha Madara destroyed the immense Chibaku Tensei with Complete Body Susanoo, but Gaara and Uchiha Izuna briefly restrained him with sand and fire. Madara then recognized Neji Hyuga's Tenseigan and demanded to know what the eye was called.

• Uchiha Madara formed Complete Body Susanoo and split the Chibaku Tensei that had absorbed Tengai Shinsei.
• Gaara bound Madara's Susanoo in sand mixed with sealing formulas, disrupting its Chakra control.
• Uchiha Izuna used his Susanoo's flames to scorch the sand, freeing Uchiha Madara.
• Uchiha Madara acknowledged Uchiha Izuna's help and focused on Gaara and Neji Hyuga, suspecting Neji had wielded the golden Chakra sword.
• Uchiha Madara recognized Neji Hyuga's Tenseigan and asked what the eye was called, while Uchiha Izuna explained his insult about the Hyūga Clan to Gaara.

Hashirama Senju tried to negotiate with Hidan, Deidara, and Kakuzu, but their hostility forced him and Tobirama to fight. Kakuzu recognized Hashirama as the man who had once terrified him, and the chapter ended with Tobirama detonating explosive tags on Hidan midair.

• Hashirama Senju noticed the Akatsuki members were keeping the destruction contained and offered to make their organization Konoha's ally if they helped rebuild the village.
• Hidan and Deidara mocked Hashirama and rejected negotiations, while Kakuzu trembled in fear after recognizing the man he had once fought.
• Tobirama Senju urged Hashirama to end the fight, and Deidara attacked them with explosive clay spiders.
• Hashirama blocked Deidara's attack with Wood Release: Wood Locking Wall, which remained intact after the explosions.
• Tobirama appeared beside Hidan, blocked his scythe, wrapped him in Explosive Tags, and kicked him into the air before teleporting back to Hashirama.
• Tobirama detonated the tags on Hidan as Kakuzu lunged at him.

Hashirama Senju overwhelmed Kakuzu and Deidara with Wood Release, capturing them in a forest that covered Konoha’s ruins. Afterward, Tobirama scolded Hashirama for the destruction, and Hashirama suggested asking Madara to help clear the trees.

• Hidan lay badly injured but alive, taunting the Hokage brothers while Kakuzu hesitated to rescue him.
• Kakuzu gathered his resolve and attacked Hashirama Senju with combined Wind and Fire Release, but Hashirama extinguished the assault with Deep Forest Emergence.
• Deidara rescued Kakuzu with the C2 Dragon, but Hashirama grew the forest upward, captured Deidara and Kakuzu, and incapacitated them with Chakra-draining roots and pollen.
• Hashirama wondered whether he recognized Kakuzu before Tobirama reprimanded him for turning Konoha’s ruins into a vast forest.
• Hashirama suggested that Madara help chop down the trees, promising to apologize to him.

Uchiha Madara challenged Gaara, Neji, and Nagato with a display of his Perfect Susanoo’s power, but the three joined forces to unleash the Magatsuhi Ritual. Nagato collapsed after summoning four powerful Chakra giants, leaving Madara and Izuna to face them.

• Uchiha Izuna explained an idiom to Gaara, who politely refused to share information with the enemy.
• Uchiha Madara cleaved a distant mountain in half with a single swing of his Perfect Susanoo’s sword.
• Gaara and Neji formed a triangle with Nagato and channeled their Chakra into him.
• Nagato fused Rinnegan, Tenseigan, and Tailed Beast Chakra, then summoned four Chakra giants through the Magatsuhi Ritual.
• Nagato collapsed from exhaustion, and Konan carried him away as Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Izuna assessed the four giants.

Uchiha Madara battled the four Magatsuhi, whose coordinated attacks trapped and buried his Susanoo underground. He escaped with Uchiha Izuna using a black sphere and emerged exhilarated, praising the challenge.

• Uchiha Madara's Susanoo absorbed Hayakitsu-hime's vortex by hurling a meteor at it, but the Gate of the Underworld began devouring the meteor itself.
• Water God of Heaven trapped Susanoo in corrosive Primordial Water, and Uchiha Izuna used Amaterasu to free it from the water prison.
• Kagutsuchi struck Susanoo's chest as it escaped, injuring Uchiha Madara, while Kukunochi split the ground and dragged Susanoo underground with its roots.
• Kukunochi closed the earth over Susanoo as the four Magatsuhi waited above, but a black sphere burst through the ground and revealed unharmed Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Izuna.
• Uchiha Madara laughed and praised the four Magatsuhi for nearly sealing him.

Hashirama joined Madara against the four Chakra colossi after Madara revealed he had learned to create a Truth-Seeking Orb in the Pure Land. The chapter ended with Hashirama entering Sage Mode and summoning True Several Thousand Hands.

• Hashirama recognized Madara's Truth-Seeking Orb and recalled how Madara had learned from Hagoromo Otsutsuki in the Pure Land.
• Hashirama asked Tobirama to evacuate Tsunade, the Anbu, and Izuna while he went to fight beside Madara.
• Tobirama restrained Izuna and took him away with the Flying Thunder God Technique after Madara accepted Hashirama's help.
• Hashirama stood beside Madara, entered Sage Mode, and used Sage Art: Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands.

Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara combined Wood Release and Susanoo to create a Buddha-clad destructive power that defeated the four Magatsuhi. The chapter ended with Madara approving the name Hashirama had given their combined technique.

• Hashirama Senju summoned the thousand-handed great Buddha, towering over the four Chakra giants as Uchiha Madara recalled seeing the technique at the Valley of the End.
• Hashirama ordered the Buddha's thousands of fists to strike the four Magatsuhi, but they recovered from the blows through fire, water, Wood Release, and absorption.
• Hashirama asked Madara for stronger destructive power, and Madara used the Rinnegan's Preta Path to draw on Hashirama's Chakra.
• Madara covered the great Buddha in Susanoo armor while Hashirama named their combined technique True Several Thousand Hands: Top Transformed Buddha: Magatsu Halo.
• The combined attack annihilated Kagutsuchi, Water God of Heaven, Kukunochi, and Hayakitsu-hime, leaving a vast crater.
• Madara looked over the crater and quietly told Hashirama that the technique's name was not bad.

Naruto and Satsuki fought Mai, who sought Kurama's power and revealed extraordinary abilities. After Naruto stopped her Nine Masked Beasts, Mai unleashed the Sage Chakra of all three sacred lands and a devastating Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, leaving Naruto and Satsuki shielded inside his chakra barrier.

• Mai explained that she pursued every source of power and challenged Naruto for holding back.
• Mai's sages activated a chakra-draining seal and the grim reaper attacked, but Naruto's Rasengan: Ring Star immobilized all Nine Masked Beasts.
• Mai revealed that she had combined Sage Chakra from Mount Myōboku, Ryūchi Cave, and Shikkotsu Forest, then attacked Naruto at close range.
• Satsuki struck at Mai with her lightning-covered Kusanagi Sword, but Mai caught the blade and produced two green Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Naruto recognized the orbs' technique as Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and shielded himself and Satsuki as Mai unleashed a colossal tornado.

Naruto and Satsuki fought Mai with combined wind and fire techniques, then launched a joint attack after Mai revealed the Tenseigan and Six Tomoe Rinnegan in her palms. The chapter ended with Naruto charging at Mai alongside Satsuki, wielding a composite Rasengan and calling out its name.

• Naruto and Satsuki joined hands, blending Kurama chakra with Susanoo power as they prepared to attack Mai.
• Naruto used Great Breakthrough to meet Mai’s Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, and Satsuki infused his storm with Phoenix Sage Fire.
• Their combined Wind Release and Fire Release technique collided with Mai’s attack, creating an enormous explosion that devastated the battlefield.
• Mai appeared in the sky, revealed a Tenseigan in her left palm and a Six Tomoe Rinnegan in her right, and fired a Great Spiraling Ring at the ground.
• Naruto and Satsuki rose to meet Mai, combining Rasengan, lightning, Yin Release, Amaterasu, and Susanoo power into a joint attack.

Naruto shattered Mai’s mask, exposing her identity and her deep alienation from others. Sasuke confronted her, but Mai rejected his feelings, and his anguish awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Naruto’s attack shattered Mai’s Fox Mask, revealing her face and blue eyes as she prepared to continue fighting.
• Naruto warned Mai that using her Nine-Tails chakra would draw sensory ninja, so she stopped forming a Tailed Beast Ball and waited.
• Sasuke arrived, recognized Mai, and demanded to know why she had become the Akatsuki leader.
• Mai told Sasuke she had sought power because she felt treated as a monster, then rejected his claim that they had a meaningful relationship.
• Mai’s Kurama chakra overwhelmed Sasuke, but he stayed conscious by biting his tongue; Mai dismissed his efforts and feelings as meaningless.
• Sasuke’s grief and anger fused his Three Tomoe into a Mangekyō Sharingan.

Mai sent Sasuke away safely, then fought Naruto and Satsuki with increasingly powerful attacks. The battle escalated as Mai created an armored Wood Release Nine-Tails, while Naruto and Satsuki answered by combining Kurama with Susanoo armor.

• Mai sealed Sasuke inside a Truth-Seeking Orb and launched him away from the battlefield with Shinra Tensei, leaving him unharmed.
• Mai combined Sage Mode, Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, and Tenseigan Chakra Mode before attacking Naruto and Satsuki with a Rasenshuriken and Truth-Seeking Orb-enhanced strikes.
• Satsuki's Thousand Cranes clashed with Mai's Rasenshuriken, and Naruto and Satsuki defended against Mai's Tailed Beast Ball barrage with a golden fox-head barrier reinforced by Susanoo armor.
• Mai rejected Naruto's plea to stop fighting and summoned a gigantic Wood Release Nine-Tails, then covered it in dark golden Nine-Tails Chakra.
• Naruto fully transformed into Yang Kurama, and Satsuki covered him in Susanoo armor, creating Kurama: Majestic Attire: Susanoo Mode.

Sasuke watched Mai battle the otherworldly beasts and was approached by Hagoromo, the Sage of Six Paths. Hagoromo revealed that Mai had taken power from him and asked Sasuke to accept his remaining power so he could reach her and help her abandon her hatred.

• Sasuke struggled to stand and go to Mai despite his exhausted chakra and inability to survive the battle.
• Hagoromo appeared before Sasuke and identified him as Indra’s current reincarnation.
• Hagoromo explained that Mai had taken Black Zetsu’s power and his own chakra, gaining the strength to fight the otherworldly Asura and Indra.
• Hagoromo said Mai’s obsession with power had grown from her childhood suffering and that the otherworldly Asura might be their only chance to stop her ambition.
• Hagoromo offered Sasuke all the power he had left and asked him to help Mai let go of her hatred.

Naruto and Satsuki’s Susanoo Nine-Tails defeated Mai’s Wood Nine-Tails and left her giant destroyed. Mai then unleashed the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, damaging the Susanoo before summoning the Ten-Tails.

• Mai enlarged the Wood Nine-Tails’ tails and attacked from every direction, but the Susanoo Nine-Tails countered with a Tailed Beast Ball.
• The Susanoo Nine-Tails emerged unscathed while the Wood Nine-Tails suffered severe damage and lost two tails.
• The Susanoo Nine-Tails cut through the Wood Nine-Tails with its Chakra Greatsword, then pulverized its remains with its armored tails.
• Mai launched repeated Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion strikes, leaving shallow cuts and cracks on the Susanoo’s armor.
• Mai formed Hand Seals and summoned the Ten-Tails.

Naruto and Satsuki faced Mai after she summoned the Ten-Tails, and Naruto used Flying Thunder God to redirect its Tailed Beast Ball. Mai absorbed the Ten-Tails and emerged as its Jinchuriki, leaving Naruto and Satsuki to prepare to fight her together.

• Mai summoned the Ten-Tails, whose immense size forced Naruto and Satsuki to face its first attack.
• Naruto and Satsuki worked together as Naruto used Flying Thunder God: Guiding Thunder to send the Ten-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball far away.
• Mai compressed and absorbed the Ten-Tails, emerging in a white robe with a black staff and Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Naruto and Satsuki joined their powers and agreed to fight Mai together.

Mai transported Naruto and Satsuki to a vast other dimension where she restricted their movement and healing. Naruto resisted her Truth-Seeking Orb needles with Sun-infused Nine-Tails Chakra, then discovered that Mai’s dimension prevented wounds and damaged armor from regenerating.

• Mai transformed her Truth-Seeking Orbs into needles and launched them at Naruto and Satsuki, but Naruto protected them with white Chakra formed from the Sun and Kurama’s power.
• Mai used Void Star Creation to displace Naruto and Satsuki into a vast other dimension without contact or a portal.
• Mai struck Naruto and Satsuki while their movements were unnaturally slowed, sending Naruto flying and knocking Satsuki’s Susanoo across the ground.
• Satsuki noticed their speed had been halved, and Naruto found that Satsuki’s damaged Susanoo armor did not repair itself.
• Naruto cut his finger and used Life Energy and Yang Power, but the wound continued bleeding, revealing that Mai’s dimension also prevented healing.

Naruto and Satsuki broke Mai’s dimensional rules and overwhelmed her with coordinated attacks. Naruto shattered her Six Paths Staff and landed a decisive blow, leaving Mai to admit that he was stronger.

• Black flames from Satsuki’s Mangekyō ocular technique healed Naruto and Satsuki, breaking Mai’s rules against healing and unrestricted speed.
• Naruto and Satsuki used their restored speed and coordinated taijutsu to batter Mai, interrupt her counterattacks, and injure her.
• Naruto declared that Mai’s many powers could not match an opponent who had mastered a single power, then shattered her Six Paths Staff.
• Naruto synchronized Kurama Chakra with Starry Sky Chakra and punched through Mai.
• Mai admitted that Naruto was stronger, while still reacting with resentment and fury.

Uzumaki Mai explained that she had sought power and tried to unify the Ninja World because she feared the Otsutsuki would arrive and believed the world's destined heroes could not stop them. Naruto spared her after hearing her reasons, leaving Mai bewildered by his words as he walked away.

• After Mai lost her Ten-Tails Jinchuriki form, Yin Kurama's Chakra surged to protect her from Naruto, but Mai told it to stop and accepted defeat.
• Naruto asked Mai why she had pursued every source of power she could find, and she revealed that she had once lived in another world and recognized this world from a book.
• Mai said she knew the Otsutsuki would descend in less than twenty years, so she intended to surpass the Sage of Six Paths, unify the Ninja World, and take control of her own fate.
• Naruto observed that Mai's actions would not have the Sage of Six Paths' approval, and Mai defended unification as the only way to gather the world's strength against the Otsutsuki.
• Naruto left Mai alive, telling her to do her best and stay true to herself, while Mai opened her eyes in confusion at his words.