Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan killed the ninjas who revealed where the Land of Earth’s forces were stationed, then flew with Konan to confront the Hidden Rock Village vanguard. He ordered the assembled force to leave the Land of Fire and warned them what had happened to the men behind him.

• A captured ninja told Chen Fan that Hidden Rock Village’s 22nd unit was nearby, and Chen Fan saw through his hope that they would attack and kill him.
• Chen Fan killed all the captured ninjas, and Konan emerged from her paper butterflies to speak with him.
• Chen Fan set off for the Land of Earth’s forces, and Konan followed and asked about the Rinnegan power he had used.
• Chen Fan reached the Hidden Rock Village vanguard, where its captain challenged him after recognizing the Konoha symbol on his clothing.
• Chen Fan ordered the force to leave the Land of Fire and pointed out that the men who had said similar things were already dead.

Chen Fan routed the Hidden Rock Village's forces and set out toward the Land of Earth, forcing them to abandon their alliance against Konoha and return to defend their village. Meanwhile, Uchiha Obito prepared to move against the allied armies as Konan headed toward Amegakure.

• Chen Fan used Tenfold Gravity and a collapsing battlefield to defeat the Hidden Rock Village vanguard, then announced he was going to assassinate the Third Tsuchikage.
• The vanguard captain ordered the surviving ninjas to warn their units and rescue those buried, and the Hidden Rock Village troops withdrew, canceling their plan to attack Konoha.
• Chen Fan defeated other units along his route, while Konan continued toward Amegakure, troubled by the feeling that something had happened there.
• Zetsu told Uchiha Obito that Chen Fan had reached the border of the Land of Earth and reported that Danzō had refused to cooperate.
• Uchiha Obito ordered Zetsu to give Uchiha Sasuke Danzō's location and to notify Yakushi Kabuto, then led about one hundred thousand White Zetsu toward the battlefield.

Yakushi Kabuto received Uchiha Madara's genetic material from Zetsu and prepared to revive him with Impure World Reincarnation. As Danzō left Konoha with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, Uchiha Sasuke's group prepared to confront him, and Sasuke warned White Zetsu not to treat them as subordinates.

• After Uchiha Obito left, Black Zetsu decided to carry out another plan and met Yakushi Kabuto in an underground cave.
• Zetsu gave Yakushi Kabuto Uchiha Madara's genetic material and told him to revive Madara with Impure World Reincarnation at a critical moment.
• Danzō sealed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and left Konoha with his group while Zetsu watched from a tree.
• At an inn, Uchiha Sasuke told Hozuki Suigetsu that Chen Fan was powerful and learned from White Zetsu that Danzō had left Konoha.
• Uchiha Sasuke held his sword to White Zetsu's neck and reminded him that their groups were cooperating, not serving one another.
• Uchiha Sasuke said he was unsettled because he was about to kill Danzō, and Jugo asked what they would do about Konoha.

Uchiha Sasuke explained Chen Fan’s strength to his companions, and the group set out to meet him. Chen Fan arrived alone above Hidden Rock Village and demanded that it surrender, then deflected an attack as its shinobi confronted him.

• Uchiha Sasuke told Hozuki Suigetsu and Karin that Chen Fan had taught him the Six Powers but possessed even stronger methods.
• Hozuki Suigetsu teased Karin about knowing Chen Fan, and she struck him after he accused her of being Chen Fan’s spy.
• Uchiha Sasuke stopped Karin from attacking Suigetsu again and led the group out to set off.
• Chen Fan appeared above Hidden Rock Village, gathered wind into a blue-white sphere, and told the village shinobi he had come to persuade them to surrender.
• A Hidden Rock shinobi threw three kunai at Chen Fan, but they veered away before reaching him.

Chen Fan confronted the Third Tsuchikage at Hidden Rock Village, arguing that the Fourth Great Shinobi War was inevitable and that Konoha’s growing alliance threatened the other nations. When persuasion failed, Chen Fan threatened to destroy the village with a compressed sphere, leaving the Third Tsuchikage unconvinced of its power.

• Chen Fan used Tenfold Gravity to send the shinobi in the sky crashing downward, but the Third Tsuchikage slowed their fall with Heavy Stone Jutsu.
• The Third Tsuchikage confronted Chen Fan and challenged him over his role in triggering the Fourth Great Shinobi War.
• Chen Fan said the war was inevitable and pointed out that the Third Tsuchikage had cooperated with Akatsuki.
• Chen Fan revealed that he had already encountered Hidden Rock’s deployed forces and said they were returning without casualties.
• The Third Tsuchikage admitted he feared Konoha’s expanding alliance would lead to the unification of the shinobi world.
• Chen Fan threatened to erase Hidden Rock Village with a compressed sphere, but the Third Tsuchikage doubted it could do so.

Chen Fan demonstrated his power to the Third Tsuchikage and proposed settling Hidden Rock Village’s surrender through a one-on-one fight. Onoki attacked with gravity techniques, but Chen Fan used the Rinnegan to seize control of him.

• Chen Fan detonated a compressed ball of wind, creating a vast crater and forcing Hidden Rock Village’s ninjas to defend themselves from the blast.
• The Third Tsuchikage recognized that Chen Fan had compressed natural wind, but refused to surrender Hidden Rock Village.
• Chen Fan proposed a bet: if Onoki won, he would return the tailed beasts; if Chen Fan won, Hidden Rock Village would surrender, and Chen Fan later agreed that Konoha would surrender if he lost.
• Onoki attacked Chen Fan with the Heavy Rock Technique, but Chen Fan emerged unharmed and challenged him to prove his gravity techniques were superior.
• Chen Fan used the Rinnegan’s attraction to pull Onoki down and then lifted him into the air, manipulating his body with his fingers.

Chen Fan used the Rinnegan-assisted telekinetic control to overpower the Third Tsuchikage, then dodged and neutralized Onoki’s rock attacks. The chapter left Chen Fan immobilized as Onoki’s Super Heavy Rock Technique turned him into stone.

• Chen Fan released his control over Onoki, who fell to the ground after the ability’s duration ran out.
• Onoki angrily attacked Chen Fan with the Earth Style: Rock Fist Technique, but Chen Fan dodged the strike.
• Onoki’s stone fist reappeared behind Chen Fan, but Chen Fan sat unharmed atop the arm after the attack missed.
• Kurotsuchi asked Akatsuchi about Chen Fan and remarked that Onoki was no match for him.
• Onoki used the Earth Style: Super Heavy Rock Technique, making Chen Fan’s body heavy and stiff until he became a stone statue.

Chen Fan fought the Third Tsuchikage and shattered his Rock Giant with his fists. After surviving the Tsuchikage’s Dust Release, Chen Fan appeared behind him, leaving the fight unresolved.

• The Third Tsuchikage’s petrification jutsu failed to affect Chen Fan, so he summoned a Rock Giant and strengthened it with the Super Heavy Rock Technique.
• Chen Fan charged the Rock Giant and broke both of its fists with his own, shocking Akatsuchi and Kurotsuchi.
• Chen Fan pursued the Third Tsuchikage through the air and grabbed what turned out to be a decoy as the Tsuchikage prepared Dust Release.
• The Third Tsuchikage fired his Atomic Dismantling Jutsu, and the Hidden Rock Village ninja cheered when the beam seemed to erase Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan appeared behind the Third Tsuchikage unharmed and praised the power of his Dust Release.

Chen Fan defeated the Third Tsuchikage and incapacitated the Hidden Rock Village’s assembled ninja. As he landed, Kurotsuchi attacked him from behind with a kunai.

• The Third Tsuchikage questioned how Chen Fan had survived Dust Release, and Chen Fan said the attack had hit him but failed to harm him.
• Chen Fan used Tenfold Gravity to bring down the Third Tsuchikage’s rock clones and hold the Tsuchikage helpless in midair.
• The Third Tsuchikage’s clones charged Chen Fan, but Chen Fan redirected them into their creator, leaving him unable to resist.
• More than a thousand Hidden Rock ninja attacked Chen Fan, who used Almighty Push to send their weapons back and injure them all.
• Kurotsuchi rushed at Chen Fan from behind and struck at a vital point with her kunai.

Chen Fan defeated Kurotsuchi’s attacks and took her hostage to force the Third Tsuchikage to negotiate. After demonstrating a devastating sphere of compressed wind, he secured Hidden Rock Village’s unconditional surrender.

• Kurotsuchi trapped Chen Fan in cement and sealed him underground, but he broke free and pulled her into his grasp.
• Chen Fan held Kurotsuchi hostage and exposed the Third Tsuchikage’s feigned unconsciousness.
• The Third Tsuchikage admitted Chen Fan had not used his full strength and asked what he wanted.
• Chen Fan demanded Hidden Rock Village surrender unconditionally and formed a scorching sphere of compressed wind to threaten the village.
• The Third Tsuchikage agreed to surrender.

The Third Tsuchikage surrendered to Chen Fan and was ordered to send Hidden Rock’s troops to the war against the Land of Lightning. As the three-nation alliance pushed forward, Uchiha Sasuke’s group arrived in Konoha to capture Chen Fan’s family, where Jugo turned on Kiba.

• The Third Tsuchikage rejected his ninjas’ plan to keep fighting, and Chen Fan ordered Hidden Rock Village to join the allied assault on the Land of Lightning.
• The three-nation alliance advanced into the Land of Lightning, and Killer B joined the battle but could not halt the enemy’s superior numbers.
• Uchiha Sasuke and his group went to Chen Fan’s home to take Kurenai Yuhi and her unborn child hostage for Obito’s plan.
• Kiba confronted the group while patrolling near Chen Fan’s home, and Jugo’s Curse Mark activated before he charged at Kiba.

Uchiha Sasuke and his companions confronted Konoha’s guards while trying to capture Kurenai as a hostage. Kiba, Hinata, and Shino recognized Sasuke as an enemy and prepared to stop him.

• Kiba struck Jugo with a punch and sent him crashing through several trees.
• Sasuke revealed himself to Kiba and said he had come to take Kurenai away; Kiba accused him of betraying Konoha by joining Akatsuki.
• Jugo transformed into State Two and charged at Kiba, but Hinata arrived and struck Jugo with Tempest Kick, sending him flying and briefly calming him.
• Hinata and Shino joined Kiba, and Shino said Sasuke intended to use Kurenai to threaten Chen Fan.
• Kiba explained that Chen Fan had predicted Akatsuki would target Kurenai and had assigned them to protect her; Sasuke told Suigetsu that the guards’ Taijutsu and Six Powers concealed their Chakra from Karin’s sensing.

Uchiha Sasuke and his team attacked Hinata Hyuga, Inuzuka Kiba, Shino Aburame, and pregnant Kurenai in Konoha. Hinata outmatched Sasuke with her Six Powers, and she used her Byakugan to guard against his Sharingan as their fight continued.

• Uchiha Sasuke assigned himself to fight Hinata, sent Hozuki Suigetsu and Jugo after Inuzuka Kiba and Shino, and ordered Karin to capture Kurenai without hurting her.
• Karin was stopped by Akamaru, while Hozuki Suigetsu attacked Inuzuka Kiba and was sent flying by his Shave technique.
• Jugo struggled against Shino Aburame's Kikaichū as Shino watched Hinata and Uchiha Sasuke face off.
• Uchiha Sasuke rejected Hinata Hyuga's appeal to return to Konoha and challenged her with the Six Powers.
• Hinata used her Gentle Fist and Byakugan-enhanced Six Powers to overpower Sasuke's techniques and see through his Sharingan-based illusion attempt.

Hinata Hyuga, Inuzuka Kiba, and Shino Aburame defeated Uchiha Sasuke’s team when Sasuke’s old injuries returned, forcing the group to abandon its mission against Kurenai. Sasuke realized Chen Fan had likely anticipated their move, and his group headed for the main battlefield, where Chen Fan was leading the Land of Earth’s forces.

• Hinata Hyuga kicked Uchiha Sasuke into a tree after his Danzō injuries flared up, while Inuzuka Kiba and Shino Aburame’s insects overwhelmed the rest of Sasuke’s team.
• Uchiha Sasuke called off the mission, and his group escaped using the Body Flicker Technique.
• Shino Aburame stopped Inuzuka Kiba from chasing the fugitives, warning that they might be lured away from protecting Kurenai.
• Chen Fan led the ninja army from the Land of Earth toward another battlefield while Konoha continued gathering its forces.
• Uchiha Sasuke told Hozuki Suigetsu, Karin, and Jugo that Chen Fan had likely anticipated their mission and that they might have died if they had acted against Kurenai.
• Uchiha Sasuke’s group rested, then set out for the battlefield, where Hozuki Suigetsu expected to see Chen Fan.

As the Allied Shinobi Forces prepared for battle, Uchiha Obito launched Akatsuki’s attack with Impure World Reincarnation before Chen Fan could return from the Hidden Rock Village. The revived dead attacked both Konoha’s allies and the Hidden Cloud Village, while Obito moved to capture the tailed beasts.

• Tsunade told Gaara and Mei Terumi that Akatsuki still had remnants and clones, and that Chen Fan was in the Hidden Rock Village.
• After learning that Chen Fan had defeated the Tsuchikage and brought the Hidden Rock Village to Konoha’s side, Uchiha Obito ordered Zetsu to have Yakushi Kabuto release the troops.
• Reanimated ninja attacked the allied forces and the Hidden Cloud Village, and Tsunade’s forces distributed sealing tags to counter Impure World Reincarnation.
• The Fourth Raikage questioned Konoha’s envoy but distributed the sealing tags after learning Akatsuki targeted the Tailed Beasts and Killer B was on the battlefield.
• Uchiha Obito encountered Killer B, while Hoshigaki Kisame reunited with the reanimated Itachi and spoke of capturing the Nine-Tails.

Uchiha Itachi learned that Sasuke had joined Akatsuki to destroy Konoha, while Yakushi Kabuto summoned the genuine Uchiha Madara to fight Chen Fan. Madara dismissed Chen Fan’s strength and asked where he could find him.

• Uchiha Itachi correctly guessed that Chen Fan had started the war, and Hoshigaki Kisame confirmed it.
• Hoshigaki Kisame told Uchiha Itachi that Sasuke had joined Akatsuki to avenge him and planned to destroy Konoha.
• Uchiha Itachi accepted the news and went with Hoshigaki Kisame to carry out their mission.
• The Allied Forces held their ground against the Impure World Reincarnation attacks and quickly treated their wounded.
• Uchiha Madara emerged from his coffin and learned from Yakushi Kabuto that Nagato was dead and Chen Fan held one of Nagato’s Rinnegan.
• Yakushi Kabuto said Chen Fan could rival Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju, but Madara rejected the comparison and asked where Chen Fan was.

Yakushi Kabuto sent Uchiha Madara to attack the Allied Shinobi Forces’ base, where Tsunade and the other Kage were stationed. Madara overwhelmed the defenders, and Tsunade’s group confronted him as he revealed himself.

• Yakushi Kabuto pointed out the guarded tent and told Uchiha Madara that killing those inside would draw Chen Fan out.
• Uchiha Madara attempted to summon the Nine-Tails and learned from Yakushi Kabuto that it was sealed inside Uzumaki Naruto.
• Uchiha Madara and the Second Tsuchikage defeated the ninja who surrounded them, wiping out the Second Division.
• Tsunade, Gaara, and Mei Terumi went to confront the attackers while Tsunade ordered the wounded evacuated and the remaining forces withdrawn.
• Uchiha Madara descended before the Kage and their forces, and Tsunade recognized him.

Uchiha Madara attacked Tsunade, Gaara, and Mei Terumi while waiting for Chen Fan, and Tsunade chose to hold him off. Their teamwork and Tsunade’s unfamiliar Taijutsu sent Madara crashing into a cliff, but he regenerated and remained trapped by Gaara’s sand as Tsunade charged again.

• Uchiha Madara said he had come to draw out Chen Fan by attacking Tsunade and the others, and Tsunade ordered the surrounding shinobi to evacuate.
• Mei Terumi countered Uchiha Madara’s Great Fire Annihilation with her Great Waterfall Technique, and Tsunade cut through their clash with Tempest Kick.
• Tsunade used her speed to rush Uchiha Madara while Gaara secretly bound his feet with sand, letting Tsunade smash him through boulders and into a cliff.
• Uchiha Madara regenerated his damaged arm and was surprised by Tsunade’s Taijutsu as she charged him again through the air.
• Gaara’s sand bound Uchiha Madara’s hands and feet as Tsunade closed in for another attack.

Uchiha Madara overwhelmed Gaara, Tsunade, and Mei Terumi with his Rinnegan and Wood Style, leaving them injured and outmatched. As Yakushi Kabuto declared the mission a success, Chen Fan appeared behind the Second Tsuchikage and said it had failed.

• Madara awakened his Rinnegan to repel Tsunade’s punch and blasted away Gaara’s sand.
• Madara used Wood Style: World of Trees Descent, and the trees broke through Gaara’s Strongest Shield as the three dodged.
• Gaara, Mei Terumi, and Tsunade attacked Madara, but he deflected Tsunade’s Tempest Kick and used Universal Pull to drag Gaara toward him.
• Madara absorbed Mei Terumi’s ninjutsu, punched Gaara away, and injured the three fighters in the ensuing battle.
• Yakushi Kabuto judged the mission a success, but Chen Fan appeared behind the Second Tsuchikage and said it had failed.

Chen Fan arrived as Tsunade, Mei Terumi, and Gaara struggled against Uchiha Madara, and he seized control of Yakushi Kabuto’s reanimated Second Tsuchikage. He rescued Tsunade from Madara’s attack and reunited with the other leaders, leaving him ready to face Madara.

• Yakushi Kabuto recognized Chen Fan and turned to confront him while Uchiha Madara continued to overpower Tsunade and the other leaders.
• Chen Fan used his power to pull the Second Tsuchikage toward him and punched the reanimated body toward Uchiha Madara.
• Madara used Almighty Push to destroy the Second Tsuchikage’s body and blast Tsunade away from him.
• Chen Fan caught Tsunade and shielded her from the explosion, and she warned him that Madara was as powerful as her grandfather.
• Mei Terumi and Gaara joined Chen Fan, and Mei Terumi complained that he had taken too long to arrive.