Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Shisui and Captain Elephant led a purge of a spy stronghold, but a pale nonhuman creature wielding Wood Style ambushed them and proved difficult to defeat. As they waited for reinforcements, the creature asked them what poop felt like.

• Uchiha Shisui ordered the final spy stronghold purged and let Captain Elephant lead the assault.
• A pale creature used Wood Style to burst from the trading house, injuring Special Duty Ninja and transforming the area into a grove.
• Uchiha Shisui and the Special Duty Ninja attacked the creature, but its wooden defenses and techniques overwhelmed their assaults.
• Uchiha Shisui beheaded what turned out to be the creature's wooden clone, and the real creature knocked him back with Wood Style.
• Captain Elephant confirmed a secret telegram had been sent for help, while he and Uchiha Shisui tried to identify the nonhuman attacker.
• The pale creature asked Uchiha Shisui and Captain Elephant what poop felt like.

Uchiha Shisui and Captain Elephant’s team struggled to hold off a pale Wood Style user until Uchiha Tokimitsu arrived in his Perfect Susanoo. Matatabi identified the enemy as an exceptionally powerful ancient artificial soldier of the Rabbit Goddess: Zetsu.

• Uchiha Shisui and Captain Elephant attacked the pale freak, but its Wood Style and deceptive Body Flicker overwhelmed their techniques and killed a Special Duty Ninja.
• The pale freak unleashed a sea of trees, forcing Shisui and the surviving Special Duty Ninja to retreat together while they waited for reinforcements.
• The pale freak began preparing a Wood Dragon, but Uchiha Tokimitsu arrived in his Perfect Susanoo and struck it with Yasakani no Magatama.
• Tokimitsu ordered Shisui and the Special Duty Ninja to fall back, while Matatabi identified the pale freak as an exceptionally powerful ancient artificial soldier named Zetsu.

Uchiha Tokimitsu battled a special White Zetsu using his Perfect Susanoo, lava, and Hikari-no-Mikoto, eventually exposing Black Zetsu. Black Zetsu escaped deep underground after reciting a secret phrase from the Uchiha stone tablet, while Tokimitsu kept half of Tobi’s White Zetsu body.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu attacked White Zetsu before it could use Wood Style, then trapped its Mayfly Technique with underground lava.
• White Zetsu summoned a wooden golem and a forest, but Uchiha Tokimitsu’s Sage Art and Hikari-no-Mikoto overwhelmed its defenses.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu cut White Zetsu in half as Konoha ninja arrived to establish a Sealing Barrier, and Black Zetsu emerged from its lower body.
• Black and White Zetsu’s Wood Style weakened under Tokimitsu’s lava assault, and it recited an ancient phrase before escaping underground through the barrier.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu failed to capture Black Zetsu but retained half of Tobi’s White Zetsu body.

After Tobi the White Zetsu's Wood Style battle exposed his existence, Uchiha Tokimitsu allowed Konoha's forces to inspect the battlefield while keeping the creature's full nature secret. In hiding, Tobi and Black Zetsu argued over the failed infiltration and the delayed Moon Eye Plan, then agreed to target the Eight-Tails when it revived.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu comforted Uchiha Shisui, let Konoha forces collect Wood Style remnants, and told Tsunade that the defeated creature was a nonhuman being capable of Wood Style.
• Tsunade examined the battle site while Orochimaru gathered samples, and Tokimitsu returned to the village with his Attendant Ninja.
• Black Zetsu berated Tobi for exposing Wood Style and ruining their attempt to infiltrate Iwagakure's spy organization.
• Tobi challenged Black Zetsu over the stalled Moon Eye Plan and pointed out that the Tokimitsu Shogunate controlled five Tailed Beasts.
• Black Zetsu said they would begin by capturing the Eight-Tails once it revived, and Tobi left after criticizing him for failing to identify the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki.

Uchiha Tokimitsu led a Uchiha Clan Meeting to set the clan’s course, outlining plans to strengthen its rule and prepare for threats across the Ninja World. He announced that Uchiha Makoto would become the Shogunate Matriarch, and the clan members celebrated.

• Uchiha Shifang worried that the Clan Meeting might depose him, but Great Elder Setsuna turned the meeting over to Uchiha Tokimitsu to explain its purpose.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu described the Uchiha Clan’s vast territories and influence, then warned that Cloud and Stone Villages, Mount Myōboku, Ryūchi Cave, and other forces threatened its position.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu proposed rotating clan Jonin through ninja armies, integrating the clan’s territories under direct rule, rewarding childbirth, and expanding ninja education and wartime preparations.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu offered Sage Art Seeds to eligible Jonin on the condition that they share their research with the clan, prompting an excited response.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu took Uchiha Makoto’s hand and announced that she would become the Shogunate Matriarch, and the clan Jonin congratulated them.

As the Uchiha Clan quietly built up its forces, the Third Kazekage vanished in the desert, throwing Sunagakure into crisis. Ebizo moved to give the Kage Guard control of the standing ninja army and summon Rasa, while Pakura opposed his plan and stormed out.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu oversaw troop rotations, company reforms, land reform, expanded recruitment in Kirigakure, and increased production of ninja tools.
• The Third Kazekage disappeared after entering the desert to search for gold dust, and Sand Ninja search parties found no trace of him.
• Pakura clashed with the Kage Guard over whether to expand the search, while Ebizo noted the growing factional conflict in Sunagakure.
• Ebizo ordered fifteen detachments of the standing ninja army to join the search and assigned mobilization procedures to the Kage Guard.
• Ebizo summoned Rasa and suggested that the village would need a unifying Kazekage if the Third Kazekage did not return.
• Pakura rejected Ebizo's plan, accused him of privately choosing the next Kazekage, and fled after burning open the command tent with Scorch Release.

Rasa was urged to return to Sunagakure and take charge after the Third Kazekage disappeared, but he demanded Konoha’s involvement in the investigation. Uchiha Tokimitsu approved a joint deployment, leaving Rasa poised to pursue the Fourth Kazekage position and reform the Land of Wind.

• A Kage Guard Jonin told Rasa that Ebizo wanted him to return to Sunagakure and take charge after the Third Kazekage disappeared.
• Rasa asked for the disappearance to be reported to the Governor and requested that his Konoha subordinates join the search.
• Ebizo agreed in principle, and Rasa asked the Tokimitsu Shogunate for permission to bring the First Column into the Land of Wind.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu authorized the deployment, ordered preparations for possible cross-border operations, and tasked the Intelligence and Internal Affairs Departments with investigating Sasori.
• Uchiha Shiina attached Kisame-kun’s Intermediate Combat Unit to Rasa’s command, and Rasa promised to pursue reforms if he became Fourth Kazekage.

Tobi persuaded Black Zetsu to let him establish a White Zetsu base in the Land of Birds, then gathered the White Zetsu to plan an infiltration of Iwagakure. Black Zetsu used Tobi’s departure to protect the hidden base in the Land of Snow and pursue contact with Uchiha Tokimitsu.

• Tobi argued with Black Zetsu about moving to the Land of Birds, and Black Zetsu agreed to let him build a branch base but kept the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and Nagato in the Land of Snow.
• After the Akatsuki Organization Base was destroyed, Tobi led Ordinary White Zetsu to the Land of Birds, where Rock Ninja were searching the caves for treasure.
• Tobi held a meeting with the White Zetsu and approved their plan to kill Rock Ninja, impersonate them, infiltrate Iwagakure, and create more White Zetsu.
• Nagato asked Black Zetsu why Tobi had left, and Black Zetsu explained that Tobi’s departure would keep the hidden cave safe and make it easier to approach Uchiha Tokimitsu.

After learning that an unknown Wood Style user had appeared, Asura decided to enter the Ninja World and search for his descendant. He arrived in the Land of Fields, where Konoha intelligence shinobi began watching him as a possible threat.

• Ōnoki canceled Iwagakure’s planned operation against Sunagakure and ordered some Rock Ninjas stationed abroad to withdraw after the Wood Style incident raised fears of a conspiracy.
• Asura learned from Sage Fukasaku that an unidentified Wood Release Ninja had fought Uchiha Tokimitsu, and decided to investigate personally.
• Asura traveled to the Ninja World, marveled at its modern inventions, and ate more than a hundred bowls of ramen and assorted snacks at a shop in the Land of Fields.
• Four Konoha Intelligence Department shinobi observed Asura and noted that he had no detectable Chakra or ordinary human presence.
• The Intelligence Department Jonin warned his subordinates not to approach Asura before the Combat troops arrived.

Uchiha Josuke led a small Anti-Terrorism Unit detachment to arrest Asura, while Asura ate his way through a ramen shop and had no money to pay. When the arrest began, Asura revealed overwhelming Chakra and repelled the detachment’s attacks, leaving the operation in danger.

• Uchiha Josuke argued with the Intelligence Department jonin about the small force sent to arrest the suspect, then arranged the operation with his twelve subordinates.
• Asura ate the ramen shop’s entire stock, including 150 bowls of ramen, and told the owner he had no money but could perform a mission instead.
• The ramen shop owner called for help, and a dispute with United Company Hired Ninja ended in an explosion at the shop.
• The Intelligence Department jonin spotted the commotion and urged Josuke to act as the United Company Hired Ninja confronted Asura.
• Uchiha Josuke’s detachment attacked Asura with genjutsu, Lightning Style, and nonlethal tools, but Asura used Wind Style: Whirlwind Formation to repel them.
• The Intelligence Department jonin recognized Asura’s immense Chakra and called for reinforcements from nearby ninja forces.

Asura fought the Joint Anti-Terrorism Unit after refusing to pay for his meal, overpowering Uchiha Josuke and his squad with powerful Wind Style and Lightning Style techniques. He vanished with the unconscious Josuke, leaving the remaining ninjas to report the abduction to Lord Tokimitsu.

• Uchiha Josuke confronted Asura over the unpaid ramen and ordered him to surrender, but Asura rejected the unit's authority.
• Asura deflected the squad's attacks with Wind Style, injuring several Chunin and forcing Uchiha Josuke and the other Jonin into battle.
• Asura seized Uchiha Josuke's kunai, sent Lightning Style Chakra through it, and resisted attacks from the surrounding Jonin.
• Asura and Uchiha Josuke argued over the unpaid meal until Josuke attacked with Fire Style, backed by the Jonin's Wind Style techniques.
• Asura appeared behind Uchiha Josuke, stunned him with Lightning Style, and vanished with him using Flying Thunder God.
• The Intelligence Department Jonin ordered the survivors to report to headquarters and Lord Tokimitsu.

Asura questioned Uchiha Josuke about merchants, ordinary people, and the Ninja World’s modernization while taking him through Udoki County Castle. After learning more about the scale and changes of the Ninja World, Asura headed for a ramen shop, while Uchiha Tokimitsu tracked Josuke and ordered a large-scale operation to intercept his captor.

• Asura released Uchiha Josuke’s speech restriction and questioned him about merchants, prompting Josuke to answer with lines from Tokimitsu's Sayings and United Company materials.
• Asura admitted he had failed to consider the damage his battle caused to a ramen shop and took money from Josuke’s Sealing Scroll to compensate its owner.
• Uchiha Josuke explained that the Shogunate governed at least ten million people, and Asura reconsidered his belief that merchants were unnecessary before asking about the city’s lamps and modernization.
• Asura rejected Josuke’s comparison of modernization to eating bowls of ramen, then headed toward a ramen shop with the money.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu learned that Josuke’s registered Golden Yuan Note had been used in Udoki County Castle and ordered the Joint Anti-Terrorism Unit, the Shogunate's Ninja Army, the Red Force, and the security Patrol Forces to move north.
• Uzumaki Ashina pledged a large-scale barrier, with Uzumaki Kushina supplying its Chakra and Karatachi Yagura supporting the Sealing Squad; Tokimitsu named Toba, Fushimi as the combat zone.

Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo prepared a massive sealing operation to capture the unknown user of Flying Thunder God, while Asura toured the Land of Fire with captive Uchiha Josuke and planned to travel onward. Josuke covertly passed clues about their movements to the Shogunate, and the chapter left Asura teleporting toward Fushimi County as the operation began.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo assembled a huge Sealing Squad, backed by two Jinchuriki and the Seven-Tails, to pursue the unknown powerhouse.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu departed to patrol Toba and Fushimi Counties while Hatake Sakumo stayed behind to coordinate the operation.
• Asura wandered through Toba County with Uchiha Josuke and questioned him about ordinary people's lives and the nobles.
• Asura decided to visit Fushimi County, and Josuke directed him south while secretly relying on clues and coded messages to reveal their route.
• Asura threw a strange Kunai toward Fushimi County and waited beneath a tree, while Josuke recognized that the Shogunate had begun its operation.

Asura took Uchiha Josuke through Fushimi County Castle and into the wilderness, where Uchiha Tokimitsu arrived with his forces to rescue Josuke and confront him. As Tokimitsu prepared to act, Asura noticed that the wilderness had fallen into unnatural darkness.

• Asura learned from Uchiha Josuke that Shogunate ninja openly mingled with ordinary society and reflected on how the Ninja World had changed.
• Asura and Uchiha Josuke toured Fushimi County Castle while Josuke recognized coded drumbeats announcing Uchiha Tokimitsu’s arrival and the forces assembling.
• Asura released his control over Uchiha Josuke’s body, and Josuke used the Body Flicker Technique to retreat to his Attendant Ninja.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu emerged with the divine Flame Fan as eight pillars of flame lit the wilderness, while Josuke’s forces reinforced his seals and reported what they had learned about Asura.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu recognized Asura and prepared to confront him, while Asura looked up and noticed the darkness surrounding the wilderness.

Uchiha Tokimitsu fought Asura after exploiting the Barrier Sealing Array, but Asura used the brief opening to summon Fukasaku and Shima. Tokimitsu gained the upper hand with Matatabi, Susanoo, and Hikari-no-Mikoto, then discovered that Asura’s will survived within his Chakra and that destroying it could prevent his return.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu confronted Asura beneath the Barrier Sealing Array and prevented him from using space-time ninjutsu.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Asura began fighting, but Asura used the barrier key’s brief opening to summon Fukasaku and Shima as Hatake Sakumo and Matatabi appeared.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu fought Asura’s group with his Perfect Susanoo and Matatabi, while Hatake Sakumo attacked from hiding.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu struck Asura with Hikari-no-Mikoto’s Sage Art Yin Fire, disrupting Asura’s link to Natural Energy and revealing traces of his Chakra-based will.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu concluded that Asura had no soul and survived by parasitizing descendants through his Chakra, while Matatabi attacked Asura after he invoked her debt to the Sage of Six Paths.

Uchiha Tokimitsu overwhelmed Asura and the Two Sages of Mount Myōboku, injuring Asura and trapping them in the air as Yin Fire burned through his defenses. Asura escaped through a portal to Mount Myōboku, but Hatake Sakumo cut Sage Shima in half and carried her away before the portal closed.

• Asura's attacks failed to break Uchiha Tokimitsu's Perfect Susanoo, while Hatake Sakumo wounded Asura's left thigh and Tokimitsu seized him and flew into the air.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu used Yin Fire to burn Asura and the Two Sages of Mount Myōboku, while Asura argued that his actions were necessary to protect the Ninja World from Otsutsuki Kaguya.
• Asura disrupted the Barrier Sealing Array with the Mount Myōboku Summoning Scroll and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to escape Tokimitsu's grasp.
• Asura summoned the Great Toad Sage, who held open a Space-Time Channel to Mount Myōboku, but Tokimitsu attacked the portal as Asura and the Two Sages tried to flee.
• Hatake Sakumo split Sage Shima in two and escaped with her head, while the Great Toad Sage pulled Sage Fukasaku through the closing portal before Tokimitsu's attacks struck Mount Myōboku.

After Uchiha Tokimitsu’s attack devastated Mount Myōboku, the Great Toad Sage tried to steady the grieving Fukasaku and the wounded Asura. Asura questioned Mount Myōboku’s account of righteousness but resolved to keep following the ninja way, while Fukasaku vowed to continue despite losing his transcendent heart.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu’s Yasakani no Magatama passed through the Space-Time Channel, wrecking the Great Toad Sage’s bedchamber as Asura and the Two Sages escaped to Mount Myōboku.
• The Great Toad Sage subdued Fukasaku’s rampaging Sage Chakra, but Fukasaku began petrifying again as he grieved Shima’s death.
• Asura recovered his senses and questioned whether Mount Myōboku, the Sage of Six Paths, or the Uchiha could define righteousness, recalling the peace he had seen among ordinary people.
• The Great Toad Sage told Fukasaku that Shima might be allowed to return if they saved the Ninja World, but Fukasaku doubted she would be the same after rebirth.
• Fukasaku vowed to continue his duty despite losing his transcendent heart, and Asura said the ninja way meant remaining unchanged and doing what needed to be done.

After rescuing Uchiha Josuke and defeating Sage Shima, Uchiha Tokimitsu confronted the Daimyo’s envoy over the Daimyo’s claim to sacred authority. He threatened to march on the capital one day, leaving Hatake Sakumo aware that conflict with the Daimyo might be inevitable.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu lamented the cost of the battle and learned that Sage Shima’s corpse held no Sage Power, while Hikari-no-Mikoto devoured Asura’s left leg.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu promised to have the United Company repair Fushimi County Castle and compensate its people for the battle’s damage.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo discussed Mount Myōboku, the Daimyo’s growing involvement, and the timing of a possible northern campaign.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu and Hatake Sakumo met the Daimyo’s envoy, who asserted the Daimyo’s sacred status through his lineage and the Curved Jewel.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu formed a Chakra magatama and challenged the envoy to explain the Daimyo’s authority, then threatened to march on the capital.

After Uchiha Tokimitsu secured the allegiance of Fushimi County's nobles, the Daimyo struggled to respond to the Shogunate's growing power and dismissed Hattori Heiji as commander of the Attendant Ninja Corps. Hizashi Hyuga then arrived to take Hattori Heiji to meet Lord Tokimitsu.

• The nobles and county guardians of Fushimi County submitted domain ledgers to Uchiha Tokimitsu, who set their taxes and allowed them to retain self-funded domain forces.
• The Daimyo demanded that Hattori Heiji explain the Attendant Ninja Corps' strength, and Hattori Heiji reported that it had 2,280 ninja.
• The Daimyo summoned the High Monk and 500 ninja monks from the Land of Fire Temple, then ordered Hattori Heiji to retire under house arrest and leave his accumulated wealth with the Hattori Family.
• Hizashi Hyuga appeared at Hattori Heiji's residence and told him that Lord Tokimitsu wanted to see him.
• Hattori Heiji agreed to go with Hizashi Hyuga after learning that Lord Tokimitsu was already waiting.

Rasa used negotiations over Sunagakure’s factional violence to promote an election for the Fourth Kazekage and present himself as a candidate with an ambitious platform. After the meeting, he learned that Sasori was the leading suspect in the Third Kazekage’s disappearance and ordered him placed under surveillance while the investigation continued.

• Pakura and Rasa assembled rival forces in Sunagakure as assassinations spread, prompting Ebizo to force their factions to negotiate.
• Pakura challenged Rasa’s loyalty and fitness to lead, but Rasa turned the argument against her and proposed that all Jonin vote for the next Kazekage.
• Rasa presented promises of better pay, benefits, renewed oasis tax negotiations, and a water-diversion project, while Ebizo set the registration and election dates.
• The Kage Guard Captain told Rasa that Sasori was the leading suspect in the Third Kazekage’s disappearance and had not yet been interrogated.
• Rasa ordered personnel to confirm Sasori’s whereabouts and keep him under surveillance until he and Ebizo could decide what to do.