Chapter Summaries

Mei Terumi organized an evacuation as tens of thousands of Colossal Titans crossed the sea and devastated Marley, while Tao Yu helped track their route. After the Mist Ninja and Marleyan forces saved as many people as they could, Mei Terumi invited Tao Yu to visit her village, where he hoped to arrange future cooperation.

• Mei Terumi mapped the Colossal Titans’ route and directed the Mist Ninja and Marleyan forces to evacuate the threatened area.
• Sun Shiyu invited Mei Terumi to join the settlement, but Mei Terumi declined because she wanted to restore her village.
• Sun Shiyu left to oversee the Pioneer Zone, while Tao Yu stayed to study ninjutsu and help monitor the Titans.
• Tao Yu discovered that the Colossal Titans were swimming rapidly across the sea, and signal flares marked their approach.
• Mei Terumi’s evacuation efforts saved many people, though some Marleyans died when they refused to leave in time.
• Mei Terumi invited Tao Yu to visit her village, and Tao Yu agreed while considering a future mission for the shinobi.

Tao Yu reached the Land of Water with Mei Terumi after learning and adapting several of her ninjutsu during the voyage. At the harbor, he encountered the resurrected Second Mizukage and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, leaving him stunned by the unexpected presence of figures from another era.

• Ao stayed in Marley while Mei Terumi, Tao Yu, and a small crew sailed toward the Land of Water.
• During the voyage, Tao Yu learned Mei Terumi’s ninjutsu and adapted Acid Release, Boiling Release, Water Clone, and other techniques to his own abilities.
• After half a month at sea, the ship reached the Land of Water, where alert ninjas awaited them without making a move.
• Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon welcomed Mei Terumi back and praised her for occupying fertile land.
• Tao Yu recognized Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon as the Second Mizukage and saw the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist standing behind him.

Tao Yu attended a Hidden Mist Village banquet celebrating its gains in Marley and discussed the village’s Jinchuriki with Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon. He asked to examine the Tailed Beasts’ power, and Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon agreed to arrange a demonstration after the banquet.

• Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon hosted Tao Yu at a banquet attended by Gengetsu, Mei Terumi, Yagura Karatachi, and Utakata.
• Tao Yu and Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon discussed their cooperation, Marley’s warning, and the Hidden Mist Village’s preparations for threats from the sea.
• Tao Yu asked why his Spiritual Sense detected danger from Yagura Karatachi and Utakata, and Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon explained that they were Jinchuriki who could wield the Tailed Beasts’ power.
• Tao Yu requested a closer look at the Tailed Beasts’ abilities, claiming he wanted to see whether he could imitate their power.
• Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon agreed to arrange a demonstration after the banquet so the village could witness Tao Yu’s abilities as well.

Tao Yu tested his abilities against Yagura Karatachi and defeated him after cutting away and sealing part of Isobu. He discovered that his newly Deified Sealing Technique could help him seal even intangible things, and the fight ended with Yagura surrendering.

• Yagura Karatachi explained how he and Utakata controlled their tailed beasts, then invited Tao Yu to attack first.
• Tao Yu used Water Clones and two lightning-infused Water Dragon Bullets to pierce Yagura's Tailed Beast Cloak, then trapped and weakened him with Water Prison and Water Sealing.
• Yagura broke the seal by fully transforming into Isobu, while Tao Yu drew his Mysterious Iron Heavy Sword and prepared to strike.
• Tao Yu used Yin-Yang Five Elements Divine Thunder to erase part of Isobu's tail and sealed the severed chakra inside the Corpse Hiding Mirror.
• Tao Yu Deified his Sealing Technique, gaining insight into sealing intangible things, while Yagura surrendered and said Isobu needed time to recover.

After Yagura Karatachi surrendered, Tao Yu exchanged knowledge with the Mist Village and learned its Ice Sealing technique. An urgent message from the northern outpost then warned of trouble at sea, leaving the threat unidentified.

• Tao Yu sealed Yagura Karatachi’s tailed-beast attack, and Yagura acknowledged the power of his strike.
• Tao Yu and Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon agreed to exchange knowledge, including access to the Mist Village’s sealing techniques.
• Tao Yu learned Ice Sealing and considered using it through his shadows to restrain opponents and capture tailed-beast chakra.
• A messenger seagull brought an urgent warning from the northern outpost about trouble at sea.
• Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon and Tao Yu ruled out the Colossal Titans and suspected another Abyss fragment was involved.

Tao Yu and Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon went to the coast, where Hidden Mist ninja were helping a giant metal machine fight a colossal beast. After the beast was killed, Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon checked for casualties and called to the machine’s pilots, leaving the group poised to meet them.

• Tao Yu asked to see the intelligence on the nearby Abyss, and Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon led Mei Terumi and Utakata toward the northern forest while Yagura Karatachi stayed behind to guard the village.
• A seagull reported a beast over fifty meters tall with hard scales and blue blood, and Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon learned from a later message that a taller, humanoid metal machine had also appeared.
• Tao Yu recognized the machine as a Pacific Rim mech when he saw it fighting the lizard-skinned beast, while Hidden Mist ninja helped restrain the monster with jutsu and weapons.
• The machine’s pilots shoved a shoulder cannon into the beast’s wound and killed it with blasts fired from inside its body.
• Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon learned that two Chunin had died and thirteen people had minor injuries, then asked the machine’s pilots to come out and meet the ninja.

Tao Yu and Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon met the Tango Wolf Hunter Mech pilots, Cheng Tai Lang and Ci Lang, and learned about their world’s struggle against monsters and the Reincarnators who had helped close an ocean rift. The groups discovered that the monster threat was spreading through a neighboring world fragment, and Tao Yu prepared to inspect the monster’s Wish Power-bearing remains and the mech.

• Cheng Tai Lang and Ci Lang introduced themselves as the pilots of the Tango Wolf Hunter Mech, and Tao Yu and Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon compared what they knew about the Abyss and Reincarnators.
• Cheng Tai Lang explained that Reincarnators had helped his world close an ocean rift, then left after asking the locals to collect monster remains for a future trade.
• Cheng Tai Lang revealed that monsters deployed by the Pioneer Civilization were gathering in a neighboring world fragment, while his group hunted them to protect their world’s barrier.
• Tao Yu learned that the Reincarnators had temporarily restored nuclear weapons, enabling Cheng Tai Lang’s group to force the Pioneer Civilization to close its portal, but they had not found the local rift.
• Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon worried that the Land of Water’s surrounding seas made it vulnerable to monsters, while Tao Yu asked to inspect the monster’s horn and the Wish Power mech, and Cheng Tai Lang agreed.

After defeating a sea Monster, Tao Yu arranged an alliance with the Land of Water and prepared to leave with two Hidden Mist squads. He set out by sea toward Pandora, with Kisame Hoshigaki leading his escort.

• Tao Yu absorbed the Monster's horn, rejected its body-altering skills, and decided to leave part of its corpse for the Hidden Mist Village to study.
• Tao Yu discussed the Monster threat with Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon and suggested that the Hidden Mist Village might subdue Monsters as Spirit Channeling beasts.
• Tao Yu obtained Six-Tails' chakra and learned the Land of Water's Ice Sealing and Bubble Sealing techniques before finalizing an alliance with the Hidden Mist Village.
• Tao Yu paid Ghost Lantern Illusion Moon with the Life and Death Jade to secure two elite squads for his journey.
• Tao Yu boarded a sailboat with Kisame Hoshigaki, Kaguya Yao, and six Chūnin, and warned them that their chakra would weaken as they left the world.

Tao Yu and the Land of Water ninjas sailed along the Frozen World, discussing how leaving the ninja world weakened their chakra and limited sealing scrolls. When a giant monster attacked at sea, Tao Yu killed it in one strike after it surfaced while pursuing a Megalodon.

• Tao Yu learned that the ninjas' chakra activity and sealing scrolls weakened outside the Land of Water, and he explained that the scrolls depended on scarce special tree bark.
• Tao Yu and the others continued their ten-day voyage along the Frozen World, expecting to be nearing their destination.
• A giant sea creature approached the ship, and Tao Yu went to confront it while Kisame and Kaguya Yao followed.
• Tao Yu saw a Megalodon leap from the sea to escape the pursuing monster, then struck the monster's head with his Mysterious Iron Heavy Sword and killed it.

Tao Yu and the shinobi reached the Future Water World's boundary and discovered that it connected to a desert world inhabited by Starship Troopers Zerg, while Avatar's world lay nearby. After confirming the crossing was safe, Tao Yu and Kisame's group crossed the World Barrier and headed down toward the new world.

• Tao Yu turned the ship back at the turbulent boundary and rode the giant sharks with Kisame and two elite shinobi squads.
• A Chunin used the Ninja Gull to scout beyond the World Barrier and reported a vast lake, desert terrain, and a barrier the bird could not cross.
• Tao Yu spotted Avatar's world nearby and recognized the flying creatures over the desert as aerial Zerg from Starship Troopers.
• Kisame tested the air, confirmed it was safe to breathe, and crossed the World Barrier with the shinobi.
• Tao Yu carried the Ninja Gull across the barrier, set it free, and leaped down toward the new world.

Tao Yu and the ninjas fought their way across an insect-infested lake toward the Avatar world, where they found three battered human soldiers beside a crashed landing craft. After reaching safety on a plateau, Tao Yu asked whether they had a base and how long ago their world had fallen.

• Tao Yu sensed hostile giant insects underwater, and the group crossed the lake while fighting them off.
• Tao Yu and the ninjas learned to target the insects' central nervous systems and continued toward a cliff-sided plateau.
• A summoned seagull spotted three wounded soldiers with futuristic guns near a wrecked landing craft, and Tao Yu warned them that his group meant no harm.
• The soldiers warned Tao Yu's group about a minefield, so the ninjas went around it and climbed the cliff to the plateau.
• Tao Yu found the crashed landing craft and asked the three soldiers whether they had a base nearby and how long ago their world had fallen.

Tao Yu met the surviving soldiers from a crashed transport plane on Pandora and used an illusion to secure their cooperation. He planned to use them and their equipment to contact the humans and infiltrate the RDA, leaving the group poised to investigate the planet’s forces.

• Johnny Rico explained that Mount Rorke Base had fallen to the Zerg, and only three people from the crashed transport had survived.
• Johnny told Tao Yu that the survivors were trapped between Pandora’s dangerous wilderness and a frozen world they could not endure.
• Tao Yu learned that the soldiers had breathing equipment suited to toxic gases and decided they could help him.
• Tao Yu used an illusion technique to influence Johnny and the other two survivors into cooperating.
• Tao Yu and the ninjas changed into crew uniforms and breathing helmets, and Tao Yu planned to have the soldiers send a distress call to draw the human forces to them.

Tao Yu led Kisame and the others through a barrier into Pandora, where they met Johnny’s stranded soldiers and helped them contact the Pioneer Company. The company sent a blue Avatar to inspect the opening, which began shrinking, and collected the soldiers’ weapons as the groups prepared to deal with the dangerous planet.

• Tao Yu used his Pioneer ability and an illusion to lead Kisame and the others through the barrier behind Johnny’s group.
• Johnny’s soldiers entered Pandora’s rainforest, and their radio operator contacted the Pioneer Company over a local frequency.
• Johnny explained the group’s situation, and the Pioneer Company agreed to send help while warning them to stay put and remain on guard.
• Two aircraft arrived, and Sully climbed down in a blue Avatar to inspect the opening and confirm that it was slowly shrinking.
• Sully tested the opening with gunfire, causing flames to blast through it, then planted a sensor and told the group to hand over their guns.
• Tao Yu and the others surrendered their weapons, and Sully climbed back toward the aircraft with them.

Tao Yu and his companions arrived at the Pandora base, where Colonel Miles Quach demanded security checks before allowing them inside. Sully revealed that the RDA had clashed with ninjas working for the Harkonnen family on a desert world, leaving Tao Yu to wonder which worlds and factions had converged.

• Tao Yu and his companions reached the base in transforming helicopters and were met by armed power armor units.
• Colonel Miles Quach ordered the newcomers to be scanned for signs that they were disguised ninjas, but Parker interrupted and told him to handle the group later.
• Tao Yu used an illusion to influence Sully, who escorted the group toward the scanning equipment instead of confronting them.
• Tao Yu asked Sully about the enemies, and Sully explained that the ninjas appeared to work for the Harkonnen family, rulers of the desert world Arrakis.
• Tao Yu connected the desert world to the Land of Wind and wondered about the origins of the Harkonnens and the person who had summoned Parker.

Tao Yu used illusions and sealing techniques to conceal his group’s arrival, then watched Pavas negotiate privately with RDA leaders at the refinery. Suspecting Pavas had hidden motives, Tao Yu prepared to capture him while disguised as a Sunagakure ninja.

• Tao Yu dazed the people in the facility and implanted altered memories so they believed the group’s checks had cleared.
• Tao Yu warned his companions to find a safe route and protect themselves while he acted.
• Pavas told Parker and Miles that the RDA lacked powerful fighters and warned that the strange sky threatened their mothership’s crew.
• Pavas asked Parker and Miles to speak with him in private, and Tao Yu watched from hiding.
• Tao Yu found that Pavas’s shielding device blocked his probing, so he changed his appearance and prepared to capture him.

Pavas negotiated with Miles and Parker over the New Frontier’s demand for superconductive ore, but Tao Yu ambushed and captured him after Pavas’s attack knocked the two men unconscious. Tao Yu questioned Pavas about the shielding orb and kept it for himself.

• Pavas offered Miles and Parker a private deal, then demanded that the Na’vi surrender one of their sacred superconductive ore sites.
• Miles refused to abandon the alliance with the Na’vi and said they would negotiate with them first.
• Pavas’s sonic attack dispelled Tao Yu’s fire dragons and knocked Parker and Miles unconscious, prompting Tao Yu to block the follow-up blast with an Earth Flow Wall.
• Tao Yu used a Water Clone and a sealing technique to trap Pavas and bind him, then slapped him for calling him vermin.
• Tao Yu took Pavas’s shielding orb and threatened him with a kunai while questioning how it worked.

Tao Yu forced Pavas to reveal that the Enges family and other factions were maneuvering against the Sun Family’s control of the Pioneer Zone, then killed him and discovered a powerful neural implant hidden in his body. With the political situation in Floating City still unclear, Tao Yu kept the implant and the information he had gathered for further investigation.

• Tao Yu tested the confidentiality document by making Pavas violate it, and Pavas suffered severe Abyss corruption before recovering enough to explain its cost.
• Tao Yu and Pavas signed the confidentiality agreement, after which Pavas revealed that the Sun Family controlled the Pioneer Zone and that the Enges family was allied with it.
• Pavas explained that factions including the Guandi Family opposed the Sun Family’s control of teleportation and wanted to bring in a Guandi expert to open the New Frontier to other powers.
• Pavas offered his family’s support and resources in exchange for access to the region’s superconducting ore, and Tao Yu accepted his gifts before killing him and burning his body.
• Tao Yu found a Neural Reflex Acceleration Module hidden near Pavas’s spine, learned it could briefly enhance speed up to five times, and sealed it away for later use.

Tao Yu abandoned secrecy and launched a coordinated assault to seize control of the RDA base, intending to force its leaders into an alliance. After bypassing the base’s defenses, he confronted Grace and demanded that the staff surrender or die.

• Tao Yu left Parker and Miles alive, returned to his compartment, and decided to strike openly before Pavas’s actions drew more suspicion.
• Tao Yu told Kisame and the others to take assigned areas, distract the RDA, and help disarm its personnel once he took the command tower.
• Tao Yu’s group scattered through the base, triggering alarms and prompting Grace to rush to the control room.
• Tao Yu revealed that Sully was trapped in his illusion and explained that he had entered by another route.
• Tao Yu disabled the guards and automated defenses, then demanded that Grace and the others surrender or die.

Tao Yu secured the RDA base, contacted the pioneers, and arranged to speak with Sun Shiyu about a serious problem. Before he could investigate further, an attack on the mining site sent him and Kisame to respond.

• Grace moved the unconscious Parker and Miles to the medical bay while Tao Yu explained that his group had arrived through a neighboring world.
• Tao Yu put the RDA base under control, sent Kaguya Yao and his squad to contact the Sand Ninja, and ordered the base disarmed.
• Tao Yu contacted Andy Klein and asked to speak with Sun Shiyu, who joined the call and agreed to visit after Tao Yu mentioned a serious matter.
• An alarm reported that the mining site was under attack, apparently by the Harkonnen family and the Sand Ninja.
• Tao Yu left two Water Clones to guard the base and went with Kisame to the mining site.

The Hidden Sand Village ninja and Harkonnen forces captured the RDA mining area after the guards surrendered. When Raban threatened to kill the prisoners, Mas objected, but an enemy ninja ambushed the gathering with dense fog and a dragon-like attack, forcing the attackers to retreat.

• The Hidden Sand Village ninja exploited lax RDA patrols to destroy turrets and open a breach at the mining area.
• Harkonnen warriors and ninja attacked the RDA defenses, disabling power armor and prompting the RDA troops to surrender.
• Raban celebrated the capture, then ordered the surrendered soldiers killed despite their captain's protest.
• Mas warned Raban that killing the prisoners would make others less likely to surrender, but Raban dismissed his objection.
• A vast fog engulfed the area, and Dragon's Roar sounded as attackers struck; Mas and Raban ordered their forces to retreat.