Chapter Summaries

Asura traveled through the Land of Rain and met Hanzō of the Salamander to learn about the Shogunate’s military buildup and Amegakure’s place in it. Hanzō revealed that he had accepted the Shogunate’s summons, then vowed to stop drinking so he could resume training.

• Kitsuchi defied Ōnoki by lighting a cigarette and leaving in a Body Flicker after losing most of his political power.
• Asura learned that the Shogunate’s purchasing efforts had raised food prices while the United Company and Hanzō’s Rain ninja lowered prices on goods such as salt and cloth.
• Asura used Uchiha Tokimitsu’s Passage Pass to gain entry to Amegakure and request an audience with Hanzō of the Salamander.
• Hanzō told Asura that he had accepted the Shogunate’s summons and that its military buildup was not aimed at the defeated Stone and Cloud Ninja Villages.
• Hanzō explained that Rain ninja wanted the Shogunate’s long-term salaries, then decided to stop drinking and begin restorative training.

Uchiha Tokimitsu’s Military Affairs Department prepared for war as Kumogakure’s crushing taxes plunged the Land of Lightning into rebellion and Konoha helped spread unrest in the Land of Earth. The Land of Earth’s crisis deepened as its nobles and merchants fled toward Shogunate territory, while Kitsuchi failed to convince the Daimyo’s court to act.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu convened the Military Affairs Department, where Hatake Sakumo and Tsunade discussed Kumogakure’s tax-driven collapse and the Land of Lightning’s uprisings.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the Intelligence Department to intensify unrest in the Land of Earth and directed the United Company’s Charity Association to distribute porridge near the border.
• Tobi urged Black Zetsu and Sasori to join a rebellion, accusing Black Zetsu of abandoning Madara’s ideals and showing them a newspaper article by Uchiha Tokimitsu.
• Konoha’s Intelligence Department helped trigger unrest in the western Land of Earth, and Iwagakure brutally suppressed it before unrest spread into economic paralysis and flight toward Shogunate territory.
• Kitsuchi urged the Land of Earth’s court to declare an emergency, but officials defended letting people flee; he stormed out after they dismissed Uchiha Tokimitsu’s writings.

Asura traveled through the Land of Grass, where he saw how the Shogunate’s rule had brought both exploitation and stability, then decided to investigate the Land of Earth and the White Zetsu. Meanwhile, Tobi took command of White Zetsu rebels and began building a public uprising in the Land of Earth, drawing the attention of Konoha’s Intelligence Department and Uzumaki Ashina.

• The Third Raikage reported that Kumogakure had crushed the rebellion, while the Taira Daimyo warned the surviving nobles to share the country’s fate.
• Asura entered the Land of Grass and learned from a merchant that Kusagakure and local civilians had prospered under Uchiha Tokimitsu’s Shogunate, despite its harsh labor system.
• Asura reconsidered his assumptions about the Ninja World and set out for the Land of Earth to investigate Kitsuchi’s agreement and the White Zetsu he had discovered.
• Tobi took control of most of the White Zetsu after Black Zetsu and Sasori returned to their secret base, then used them to raid garrisons and trading houses for food.
• Konoha’s Intelligence Department failed to capture Tobi’s elusive Free Iwagakure rebels, so Uzumaki Ashina led a team toward the Land of Birds to investigate their seal-breaking technique.
• Tobi rallied the White Zetsu to claim territory in the Land of Earth, and they ended their chants by shouting Lord Tobi’s name.

Asura failed to persuade Kitsuchi to rebel against Iwagakure, then escaped Sage Fukasaku’s attempt to bring him back to Mount Myōboku. He returned to Konoha urging Uchiha Tokimitsu to destroy Mount Myōboku, but Tokimitsu refused his request to visit the Uchiha Clan Compound.

• Asura met Kitsuchi in a secret chamber and urged him to lead the former Southern Garrison Ninja Army in overthrowing Iwagakure’s leadership, but Kitsuchi refused and declared they would be enemies.
• Sage Fukasaku spoke to Asura through the chamber door, and Kitsuchi realized Mount Myōboku had concealed Asura’s supposed death and had been spying on Iwagakure.
• Asura rejected Fukasaku’s invitation to return to Mount Myōboku, accused Gamamaru of making reconciliation impossible, and escaped with the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Fukasaku summoned the Great Toad of Rock Dwelling to seal space, but it arrived after Asura had vanished and Fukasaku left the chamber.
• Asura returned to Konoha and urged Uchiha Tokimitsu to eliminate Mount Myōboku, then asked to visit the Uchiha Clan Compound, which Tokimitsu refused.

Uchiha Tokimitsu explained to Asura why the Shogunate was the best choice for the Ninja World and declared the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth doomed. As Mount Myōboku feared an impending Shogunate assault, the Great Toad Sage left its palace to visit Ryūchi Cave and ordered Gamabunta to strengthen the defenses.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu told Asura that the Shogunate planned to gather supplies and a Ninja Army to march on Mount Myōboku, but refused to reveal the details.
• Asura described how commoners cared most about daily survival, and Uchiha Tokimitsu argued that the Shogunate had improved their lives compared with other lands.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu called the Land of Lightning and the Land of Earth dead ends and insulted Mount Myōboku, while refusing to explain his attack plan to Asura.
• The Great Toad Sage recognized that the Shogunate knew Mount Myōboku's location and had likely prepared to attack after the toads' repeated defeats.
• The Great Toad Sage announced it would visit Ryūchi Cave and ordered Toad Gamabunta to ensure Mount Myōboku's defensive line was properly established.

Namikaze Minato recruited Hattori Heiji to gather intelligence on the Daimyo’s forces and assigned Yahiko and Konan to coordinate future contact with him. He then gave Yahiko and Konan a plan to stir public anger against the nobility and prepare the way for Uchiha Tokimitsu to move against the Minamoto Clan.

• Hattori Heiji met Namikaze Minato, who questioned him about the Daimyo’s Attendant Ninja Army and learned that a monk named Jirō was training its forces.
• Namikaze Minato gave Hattori Heiji a scroll containing his new intelligence mission and introduced Yahiko and Konan as his future contacts.
• Namikaze Minato explained that Yahiko and Konan would serve as bait while they worked in the Information Department, despite their wish to join the Anti-Terrorism Unit.
• Namikaze Minato gave Yahiko and Konan the “Respect the Shogunate, Expel the Barbarians Plan,” intended to build public anger against the Minamoto Clan and the nobility.
• Namikaze Minato pointed out a Garrison Army samurai abusing a street vendor as material Yahiko and Konan could use to amplify public grievances.

Uchiha Sekka secured Sunagakure’s approval for a Shogunate forward base after revealing its secret plan to attack Mount Myōboku. As the Shogunate prepared its deception and Tokimitsu proposed removing the Genji Daimyo, the Great Toad Sage sought an alliance with the White Snake Sage, who remained wary of aiding Mount Myōboku.

• Uchiha Sekka showed Rasa a classified document revealing the Shogunate’s expedition against Mount Myōboku, and Rasa approved the forward base coordination document.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu explained to Hatake Sakumo that the oversized base plan would conceal the Mount Myōboku campaign and provide a supply point, while keeping initial construction limited to a port and a five-thousand-person military zone.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu proposed deposing the Genji Daimyo to reduce Konoha’s debt and remove the court nobles.
• The Great Toad Sage entered Ryūchi Cave alone and met the White Snake Sage, who accused him of arriving too late to save Mount Myōboku.
• The Great Toad Sage warned that Ryūchi Cave would also be threatened if Mount Myōboku fell and argued that the two lineages needed one another.

Tsunade refused Kazuma’s request to make Konoha oppose the Shogunate, warning that the daimyo’s forces could not withstand them. Kazuma was captured after attempting to take Dan Katō hostage, and Uchiha Tokimitsu asked Namikaze Minato how to handle him.

• Kazuma infiltrated Konoha and asked Tsunade to pressure the Shogunate to withdraw its ninja from Kinki.
• Tsunade refused, explaining that the Senju Clan could not risk opposing Uchiha Tokimitsu and that the daimyo’s forces were far too weak.
• Tsunade warned Kazuma that the Konoha Military Police Force had found him and gave him time to send a message before surrendering or facing capture.
• Kazuma lunged at Dan Katō to seize him as a hostage, but Dan used the Spirit Transformation Technique and Senju jonin restrained Kazuma.
• Uchiha Shisui reported Kazuma’s capture to Uchiha Tokimitsu, and Uchiha Tokimitsu asked Namikaze Minato how he should be punished.
• Uchiha Shisui proposed executing Kazuma and displaying his head in Kinki to deter the Noble Clans.

Yahiko and Konan gave Hattori Heiji Kazuma’s severed head and pressured him to hang it above the Daimyo’s Mansion, then resume command of the Attendant Ninja Corps. The Daimyo prepared to restore Hattori Heiji to command, but Uchiha Shisui arrived with Special Duty Ninja to demand accountability, leaving the two sides facing off in the palace.

• Yahiko and Konan gave Hattori Heiji Kazuma’s severed head and told him to display it above the Daimyo’s Mansion, then return to command of the Attendant Ninja Corps.
• The Daimyo learned of Kazuma’s death and the head’s display, rebuked the Grand Eunuch for trying to blame Hattori Heiji, and ordered Kazuma’s remains recovered for burial.
• The Daimyo consulted Jirō, who advised him to restore Hattori Heiji to command and rely on the Land of Fire Temple if Hattori Heiji proved disloyal.
• A court noble reported that Uchiha Shisui had arrived and Hattori Heiji was leading a standoff, so Jirō went to receive Shisui and escort him to the Daimyo.
• Uchiha Shisui entered the palace with the Special Duty Ninja, mocked the Daimyo’s Jonin as inferior to them, and claimed Chief Superintendent Minato could benefit from capturing them.

Uchiha Shisui delivered Tokimitsu’s decree to the Genji Daimyo, ending the Genji Clan’s authority over most of the Land of Fire and laying out the Shogunate’s terms. After the Daimyo dismissed his court nobles and secured the loyalty of his Jonin, he appointed Hattori Heiji to command the Ninja Army and signed the letter as Great Lord Genji.

• Uchiha Shisui addressed the Genji Daimyo as Great Lord and declared that the Uchiha Shogunate would rule the Ninja World, provoking the Daimyo and Jirō.
• Uchiha Shisui read Tokimitsu’s seven terms, which ended the alliance and vassal relationship, restricted Genji territory, and required the Genji Ninja Army to aid the Shogunate in war.
• The Genji Daimyo accepted the decree, dismissed his court nobles, reclaimed their lands, and gave his Jonin three days to leave if they would not remain loyal.
• The direct Jonin pledged loyalty to the Genji Daimyo, who promised to share power with them if the Genji Clan restored its authority.
• The Genji Daimyo chose Hattori Heiji to command the Ninja Army and signed his appointment under the new title Great Lord Genji.

Uchiha Tokimitsu discussed the Hawkish Faction’s reckless war plans, the stalled route to Mount Myōboku, and the missing Eastern Sea fleet. The lost fleet found a vast new land and prepared for a brutal first battle, while a report that the Hurricane Barrier was weakening pushed Tokimitsu to accelerate the Mount Myōboku campaign.

• A Hawkish Faction representative urged Uchiha Tokimitsu to conquer the Ninja World through successive wars, and Tokimitsu dismissed him for being too extreme and careless with confidential plans.
• Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Tokimitsu discussed the fleet’s slow progress toward Mount Myōboku, the missing Eastern Sea fleet, and the lack of trustworthy replacements for its command ranks.
• Uchiha Runbu and Uzumaki Ichiraku discovered a vast landmass on the fleet’s radar after drifting at sea for forty or fifty days.
• Uzumaki Ichiraku advised showing no mercy if the land held unfamiliar humanoid inhabitants, and Uchiha Runbu ordered the fleet to leave no survivors in the coming battle.
• An Uzumaki Ninja delivered an Eastern Sea report to Uchiha Tokimitsu, who learned that the Hurricane Barrier was weakening and decided to accelerate the Mount Myōboku conquest.

Uzumaki Ashina reported that the Hurricane Barrier might conceal a New World, prompting Uchiha Tokimitsu to fund further research and plan a signal relay to find the missing fleet. Ashina then proposed tying the Uchiha and Uzumaki clans together through Kushina’s marriage to Tokimitsu, leaving him stunned.

• Uzumaki Ashina presented Uchiha Tokimitsu with a report arguing that a New World lay beyond the Hurricane Barrier, based on experiments with three hundred Signal Flares.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu questioned the report and learned that the barrier might subside in about a year, possibly revealing a passage or closing it forever.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the research to continue and proposed launching a signal-amplifying station to search for the Oceanic Fleet.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu allocated another thirty billion Golden Yuan Notes and assigned the First Division of the Red Force to guard the Observation Post Base.
• Uzumaki Ashina offered Kushina as a marriage tie between the clans, and Uchiha Tokimitsu was left speechless as Ashina went to propose to Chief General Nakagen.

Uchiha Tokimitsu’s fleet cleared a route through the Wilderness reefs while Mount Myōboku planned a larger attack, and Uchiha Runbu’s forces investigated an unfamiliar world after capturing an island. The chapter left the Shogunate preparing for further threats at sea and Runbu concealing his forces’ presence from the island’s inhabitants.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the reef-breaking ships to clear the route as speedboat units scouted ahead for Ninja Frog attacks.
• When radar detected creatures approaching underwater, Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered the fleet to fire, killing nearly half of them and prompting him to request a supporting Third Fleet.
• Gamahiro reported the fleet’s strength to Toad Gamabunta, who decided to seek the Sage’s approval for an attack in three days with Ryūchi Cave’s Giant Snakes.
• Uzumaki Ichiraku told Uchiha Runbu that the humanoid inhabitants of the captured island were unlike anyone from the Ninja World, and Runbu ordered the island burned and contact restricted to Jonin.

Garaga and the Mount Myōboku toads argued over who would face the Shogunate Navy first, while Uchiha Tokimitsu’s fleet prepared to meet a large frog force. Mount Myōboku’s waves of cannon-fodder frogs drew out the fleet’s firepower as Garaga readied his snakes and an escape route.

• Gamahiro provoked Garaga by mentioning Mother Shima’s death, and Gamabunta tried to keep the two sacred lands allied.
• Garaga refused to lead Ryūchi Cave’s snakes into battle first, but agreed to join the sixth wave after Gamabunta outlined Mount Myōboku’s attack plan.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered supply preparations and arranged the Shogunate ships into a battle line after scouts detected more than three thousand frogs.
• Gamahiro’s dispersed frog assault sent successive waves of frogs into the fleet’s bombardment, and he took the declining shell fire as proof the tactic was working.
• Garaga prepared his Ninja Snakes and checked that his Reverse Summoning Talisman could return him to Ryūchi Cave if the battle turned against him.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu watched the frogs’ movements on the radar and told his ready Jonin he would observe their coming fireworks from the command cabin.

The Shogunate Fleet lured the Mount Myōboku and Ryūchi Cave forces into range, then crushed their assault with Chakra Cannons and coordinated troops. As Garaga escaped and Gamahiro faced defeat, Uchiha Tokimitsu learned that Iwagakure and Kumogakure had attacked the Joint Anti-Terrorism Unit and prepared to return to Konoha after destroying the aberrations.

• Gamahiro led the Ninja Frogs into battle after the Giant Frogs drew down the Shogunate Fleet’s ammunition, but sea mines and renewed bombardments disrupted their assault.
• Toad Gamabunta committed the remaining Mount Myōboku forces to a decisive charge, and Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered all eight Ironclad Ships to unleash their Chakra Cannons and cut off the attackers.
• The Shogunate reserves joined the fight; Uzumaki ninja restrained Gamahiro with Adamantine Sealing Chains while bombardments battered the emerging Ninja Frogs.
• Garaga abandoned the battle and escaped using a Reverse Summoning Talisman, while Gamahiro broke two chains and roared that he would die rather than surrender.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu received news that Iwagakure and Kumogakure forces led by Akatsuchi had attacked the Joint Anti-Terrorism Unit, then vowed to return to Konoha after the campaign and attacked with Susanoo’s Yasakani no Magatama.

Uchiha Tokimitsu’s forces annihilated the Ninja Toads and Ninja Snakes, while Ōnoki prepared to confront the shogunate near Takigakure. Back in Konoha, Tokimitsu promised to march against Iwagakure and protect the bond claims of merchant families driven from the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu’s Susanoo killed Gamahiro and Toad Gamabunta, breaking the Ninja Toads’ will to fight.
• The Ninja Toads fled, and Tokimitsu ordered his forces to take no prisoners as they finished off the toads and Ninja Snakes.
• Ōnoki surrounded Takigakure with Iwagakure forces and sought negotiations, worried that the shogunate’s campaign against Mount Myōboku would leave Iwagakure and Kumogakure vulnerable.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu returned to Konoha and told the displaced merchant families that he would lead the shogunate army north to confront Ōnoki.
• Tokimitsu guaranteed that registered bonds would pass to verified heirs, promised an investigation into missing bearer bonds, and halted their external redemption.

Uchiha Tokimitsu mobilized a huge Shogunate force against Ōnoki’s Iwagakure and Kumogakure alliance, whose leader struggled with the Shogunate’s overwhelming strength and his village’s uncertain future. The chapter ended with Tokimitsu arriving alongside the Two-Tails and Three-Tails as the Shogunate encircled the allied camp.

• Hatake Sakumo reported that Konoha had five staffed standing columns and fifteen reserve columns ready, and Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered five standing columns and ten reserve columns to deploy.
• Ōnoki watched the Shogunate forces rapidly expand and fortify their camp, recognized Iwagakure’s technological and mobilization disadvantage, and tried to raise morale by arranging a fish banquet.
• Kumogakure’s main force arrived at the Iwagakure camp, easing Ōnoki’s concern about his alliance.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu arrived as the Shogunate deployed more than ten thousand troops, formed a crescent around the allied camp, and brought the Two-Tails and Three-Tails.

Ōnoki and the Third Raikage accepted that they had no way back and prepared to fight the Shogunate, while Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered a broader campaign. As Uchiha Kamon's forces attacked the Iwagakure line in the Land of Frost, Kensei revealed that his troops lacked the will and supplies to fight, leaving their response uncertain.

• Ōnoki dismissed the uneasy banquet guests, then learned that the Third Raikage had arrived and hoped his presence would steady the Alliance Ninja Army.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu ordered troops to threaten Iwagakure's northern route and summoned Hanzō of the Salamander to reinforce his forces.
• Ōnoki and the Third Raikage concluded they could not spare their reserves and agreed to fight because the Land of Lightning could no longer sustain the war.
• Uchiha Kamon received orders to attack north, coordinate with a planned Iwagakure mutiny, and later join the campaign against the Land of Lightning.
• Kensei told a Supervising Jonin that his troops lacked supplies and would not fight a deathmatch, then went to the front as Uchiha Kamon's army began its attack.
• Uchiha Kamon praised his subordinate's staff officers, then led the Headquarters Assault Ninja Army forward after the bombardment.

Uchiha Tokimitsu began the decisive battle against the Stone and Cloud alliance with a devastating artillery barrage, while Ōnoki and the Third Raikage recognized how badly their forces had fallen behind. As the enemy commanders moved to counterattack, Tokimitsu delegated command and took to the sky in Complete Body Susanoo.

• Uchiha Tokimitsu learned that Uchiha Kamon had captured the northern Land of Frost and taken nearly three thousand Iwagakure ninja prisoner, then ordered Kamon to advance into the Land of Lightning.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu addressed the Shogunate army, declared the battle the start of a unified and peaceful Ninja World, and ordered nearly a thousand Chakra Cannons to fire on the Alliance Ninja Army.
• Ōnoki and the Third Raikage lamented that their forces could not match the Shogunate’s firepower, while Ōnoki revealed that eight thousand Ninja Snakes from Ryūchi Cave had arrived and assigned command to Kitsuchi.
• The Third Raikage charged into the bombardment and detonated Chakra Shells in midair, while Ōnoki rose to prepare an attack and Uchiha Tokimitsu placed Uchiha Shiina in command.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu assigned Hanzō of the Salamander to confront the Raikage and ordered Karatachi Yagura to support the units with Tailed Beast Balls.
• Uchiha Tokimitsu used Ōkuninushi to empower the Uchiha ninja, then summoned Complete Body Susanoo around himself and Two-Tails Matatabi and flew toward Ōnoki.

Uchiha Tokimitsu defeated Ōnoki after their strongest techniques clashed, then killed him when he refused to surrender. Before dying, Ōnoki asked Tokimitsu to spare Iwagakure and keep his corpse from being used for experiments; Tokimitsu promised equal treatment for a reformed Iwagakure that joined the campaign against Mount Myōboku.

• Ōnoki and Uchiha Tokimitsu unleashed Dust Release and Five-Colored Divine Light, and their attacks collided in a massive explosion without either gaining the advantage.
• Ōnoki continued fighting with Earth Style techniques, but Tokimitsu's Perfect Susanoo broke through them and overwhelmed him with its weapons and Yin Fire.
• Tokimitsu struck Ōnoki down with the flat of Susanoo's sword, leaving him alive but gravely injured and out of Chakra.
• Tokimitsu offered to let Ōnoki live and continue managing Iwagakure if he bowed his head, but Ōnoki refused to abandon the Will of Stone.
• Ōnoki asked Tokimitsu to give Iwagakure a chance to surrender and to prevent his corpse from being used for experiments; Tokimitsu agreed to both requests and killed him with Yin Fire.