Chapter Summaries

Tao Yu used Dream Divination on Fied and discovered that secret traders had supplied the Harkonnen family with weapons and intelligence, then killed Fied after finding what he considered revolting. He demanded compensation from Rasa and Ye Cang, ultimately forcing Rasa to agree to hand over a tailed beast.

• Tao Yu demanded spice and a Holtzmann Shield from the Harkonnen family, and Fied offered more than thirty tons of crude spice and two tons of refined spice while admitting he lacked authority.
• Fied revealed that secret traders among the colonizers had exchanged equipment and information with the Harkonnen family.
• Tao Yu used Dream Divination to learn about the traders’ concealed identities and the dangerous weapons they had provided, but found no clues to their trading patterns.
• Tao Yu praised Fied, then killed him with black shadow mud after saying he disliked perverts.
• Tao Yu asked Rasa and Ye Cang what compensation they would offer, and Rasa agreed on behalf of the Kazekage to provide a tailed beast.

After Tao Yu defeated the Harkonnens, Paul and the Fremen accepted him as a powerful ally, while a divination hinted that an unexpected figure would soon cross his path. At the Harkonnen stronghold, Baron Harkonnen negotiated with a mysterious pioneer for a cure, but the Fremen arrived before he could learn the visitor’s plan.

• Tao Yu’s victory over Fied strengthened the Fremen’s faith in him, and Paul wondered whether Tao Yu meant to help him claim the throne.
• Tao Yu’s coin divination suggested that someone in the world was about to cross paths with him.
• A ghostlike pioneer offered Baron Harkonnen an Abyss-bound contract in exchange for Sand Village ninja support and promised to treat his illness.
• The pioneer showed Baron Harkonnen mechanical and biological body-replacement procedures, and Baron Harkonnen eagerly agreed to hear the plan after signing.
• Baron Harkonnen felt the ground tremble and learned that the Fremen had ridden sandworms to his stronghold.

Baron Harkonnen signed a contract with the ghostly pioneer, who used a song to calm the sandworms while a nimble fighter killed all five. As the fighter collected their Wish Power scales, a black-light attacker killed him and took the body and scales.

• Baron Harkonnen ordered Raban to deal with the missing forces, then discovered giant sandworms were tearing apart the mountain barrier.
• The ghostly pioneer offered to help and required Baron Harkonnen to sign a contract before acting.
• The pioneer sang a melody that soothed the sandworms, while a nimble companion attacked and killed all five with giant blades of light.
• The nimble fighter collected the sandworms’ Wish Power scales, but a black-light attacker split him in two and took his corpse and the scales.
• The attacker accused the fighter of killing his pets and acting as if he were not there.

Tao Yu retaliated against the Harkonnen family after they attacked his subordinates, using a bombardment and a sinister Tree World Descent to devastate their stronghold. He captured Baron Harkonnen and the ninja escorts, then wondered whether the destruction fulfilled his divination.

• Tao Yu identified Frie, a powerful Company Security Department Patrol Executive, as the man who had killed his sandworm, and killed him with the Shadow Blade.
• Scathach captured Frie's fleeing companion and brought him to Tao Yu, who sealed the man with chains.
• Baron Harkonnen ordered a massive rocket and gunfire barrage against Tao Yu and the captive, destroying the mountainside as Tao Yu escaped into shadow.
• Tao Yu unleashed a vast Wood Release powered by black mud and Engraved Insects, and its vines captured Baron Harkonnen, the ninjas, and the surviving soldiers.
• Tao Yu watched the landslide and demon tree consume the area and wondered what divination had meant by advising him to make a big move.

Tao Yu used Dream Divination on Frie and questioned a captured conspirator, learning that powerful forces were trying to undermine the Sun Family’s control of the New Frontier. He left the prisoner believing Tao Yu might join their cause and asked him to provide Wish Power.

• Tao Yu used Dream Divination on Frie and saw that Frie’s Security Department superior and that superior’s boss had arranged his involvement, but the contract corrupted the remaining memories.
• Tao Yu concluded that the people behind Frie’s mission had enough influence to challenge the Sun Family and learned they wanted Baron Harkonnen to act, though the timing and purpose remained hidden.
• Tao Yu pulled a heavily corrupted prisoner from the black sludge, and the prisoner mistook him for an Evil God Cultist and offered to join his group.
• The prisoner said their goal was to prove the Sun Family could not manage the New Frontier, while his contract prevented him from revealing their specific plans.
• Tao Yu asked the prisoner for a contract to inspect, then requested Wish Power when the prisoner said his contracts were single-use and Tao Yu’s document could not override them.

Tao Yu killed the captive who refused to lend him Wish Power, claimed useful spoils, and arranged with the rich young lady to take half the spice profits. He secured Paul’s cooperation and learned that 2,177 kilograms of refined spice were ready, though production could not expand quickly.

• Tao Yu killed the captive, used Dream Divination to verify his information, and took the Light Shadow Sword, Ghost Cloak, Gravity Shackles Scroll, and sandworm scales.
• Tao Yu contacted the rich young lady, warned her about efforts to incite the Harkonnens, and agreed to take half the spice shares.
• Tao Yu arranged the handover with Paul after Baron Harkonnen was captured and his two heirs were dead, easing Fourth Kazekage Rasa’s concerns.
• Paul showed Tao Yu 2,177 kilograms of refined spice and explained that refining could manage a little over 200 kilograms a month, but expanding production would take time.

After securing a peaceful transfer of power between the Harkonnen family and the Fremen, Tao Yu took Rasa and Yukura to Sunagakure to obtain the One-Tails. They arrived by dragon to a wary village, where Tao Yu hinted that he knew about Rasa's actions against Yukura.

• Tao Yu emerged with the Alien Dragon and learned that Paul had united the Fremen and Harkonnen family after the Baron Harkonnen's costly attack.
• Tao Yu agreed to preserve the Harkonnen family's arrangement with Sunagakure and decided to accompany Rasa to retrieve the One-Tails.
• Tao Yu ordered the Fremen and the remaining ninja to restore the valley, resume spice mining, and protect Paul while he was away.
• Tao Yu, Rasa, and Yukura flew to Sunagakure on the Alien Dragon, where the village's guards fired on them before Rasa identified himself and stopped the attack.
• After they landed, Tao Yu remarked that Rasa's position seemed insecure and referenced news he had heard from Kirigakure, making Rasa uneasy.

Tao Yu accompanied Rasa and Chiyo back to the Sand Village, where Chiyo and Ebizo realized the two had been captured. Tao Yu explained that Rasa had offered a tailed beast as compensation and said he had come to discuss an alliance.

• Mas recognized Tao Yu and privately realized that Rasa and Chiyo had likely been captured too.
• Rasa dismissed the other arriving ninja, kept Mas with them, and led Tao Yu toward a conference room.
• Chiyo and Ebizo arrived, questioned Rasa and Chiyo, and inferred that Tao Yu had captured them.
• Chiyo cleared the room so the leaders could speak privately with Tao Yu.
• Tao Yu said Rasa had promised a tailed beast as compensation and proposed discussing the Sand Village's alliance with him.

Tao Yu and Sunagakure’s leaders agreed to a pact centered on protecting a spice-collection department, while discussing the tailed beasts, chakra, and nearby worlds. The chapter ended with the alliance preparing for possible attacks as spice harvesting began.

• Chiyo and Ebizo accepted Rasa’s decision to negotiate with Tao Yu, despite their reservations about trading a tailed beast.
• Chiyo agreed to teach Tao Yu Puppet Technique and poisons, while Tao Yu explained that he had encountered Kirigakure and described the surrounding worlds.
• Tao Yu gave Sunagakure three devices for crossing and stabilizing world barriers, and Rasa said the village would use them to search for better living conditions without abandoning the pact.
• Tao Yu and Sunagakure agreed that the pioneers would work with the Spice Collection Department, where Tao Yu would hold a fifty percent stake and Sunagakure would provide protection.
• Tao Yu warned that spice harvesting could attract probing and major attacks, and offered to share his information about potential enemies as a reference.

Tao Yu examined the One-Tails Sealed Artifact and considered using the Tailed Beast as an energy source and absorbing it into himself. While learning puppet techniques in Sunagakure, he persuaded Chiyo to teach him the life-consuming Reanimation Jutsu, then prepared to experiment with the One-Tails.

• Tao Yu read that the One-Tails Sealed Artifact could produce 10,000 Wish Power each month and decided to keep it rather than absorb its Wish Power.
• Tao Yu considered using his abilities to absorb the One-Tails and draw on its power outside the shinobi world.
• Tao Yu demonstrated his rapid progress in Puppet Technique to Chiyo and asked about the vitality he sensed within her.
• Tao Yu convinced Chiyo that Sunagakure could have someone less valuable learn her self-sacrificing technique, and she explained the Reanimation Jutsu.
• Tao Yu learned the Reanimation Jutsu and concluded that his abilities could help him replenish its life-force cost.
• Tao Yu turned his attention to figuring out how to absorb the One-Tails.

Tao Yu erased Shouhe’s consciousness and fused his energy with pieces of two other Tailed Beasts, gaining power that made him a newly qualified Catastrophe-level fighter. He secured Ye Cang and the Sand Village’s support for his spice operation, then flew back toward the Harkonnen estate.

• Tao Yu pickled Shouhe’s energy in black mud, erased his consciousness, and fused it with energy from the Six-Tails and Three-Tails.
• Tao Yu judged that the fused energy and the Demoness of Despair’s power had made him a Catastrophe-level powerhouse, though he chose not to reveal his full strength yet.
• Chiyo and Rasa assigned Ye Cang to serve as Tao Yu’s bodyguard and the Sand Village’s representative, and Tao Yu promised to help the village in return for its support.
• Tao Yu flew with Ye Cang toward the Harkonnen estate as Talia arrived to assert the base’s authority over it.
• Tao Yu kept two tons of refined spices in scrolls inside the Corpse Hiding Mirror and left the remaining raw ore under guard at the estate.

An attack destroyed the control center at the Avatar world's superconducting mining site while Cheng Yu was away. Cheng Yu raised the site's alert level and sent Shaman to investigate the attackers, who were suspected to belong to a faction opposing the base.

• Na'vi arrows struck the mining machines, and the drivers heard a warning that a giant xenomorph was approaching.
• An explosion hit the mining site's control center, cutting off communications and leaving it engulfed in flames.
• Shaman used a destructive blast to destroy the oxygen tank and eventually extinguish the fire.
• Cheng Yu arrived and learned that the control center had been attacked while he was checking on Fuyuki City.
• Cheng Yu decided to contact Talia, report the attack, raise the mining site to Level Two Alert, and take charge there.
• Shaman volunteered to investigate the attackers, and Cheng Yu agreed.

Shaman met with Hope and Dulan in a xenomorph-filled cave, where they discussed Tao Yu’s growing power and considered raiding the Harkonnen family for its spice. Tao Yu sensed that trouble was near and decided to wait at the Harkonnen estate for the people targeting his stockpile.

• Shaman told Hope and Dulan that he had escaped Tao Yu’s tracking mark by transferring it to a puppet double.
• Hope and Dulan reported that the Harkonnen family had changed hands and that Tao Yu had defeated Stidi and reached Boundary Breaker strength.
• Shaman proposed raiding the Harkonnen family for its spice, and Dulan agreed that the group could try using their trump cards and outside help.
• Tao Yu sensed hidden enemies in the area, while Talia explained that hostile forces had grown more active as more people arrived through the transport device.
• Tao Yu failed to locate the hidden enemies with divination and chose to wait at the Harkonnen family estate, suspecting they were coming for his spice stockpile.

Shaman, Huo Pei, Ai, and Killer B crossed a sandstorm toward the Harkonnen stronghold to attack the Eight-Armed Vajra and seize the family’s spice. Huo Pei briefed the shinobi on Tao Yu’s suspected abilities as they approached.

• Huo Pei explained that the priest had chosen the sandstorm as the time for their mission and that he knew where the Harkonnen family stored its spice.
• Shaman and Huo Pei discussed the damaged stronghold, where the Harkonnen family’s counterattack had failed and plants had captured Baron Harkonnen.
• Ai speculated that the plants might be connected to the God of Shinobi’s Wood Release technique.
• Huo Pei described Tao Yu’s physical toughness and suspected ability to force opponents into one-on-one battles so Ai and Killer B could prepare a tailored attack.

Hope, Dulan, and Shaman approached the Harkonnen family’s territory with Killer B, intending to attack its base and spice stockpile. Killer B transformed into the Eight-Tails and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb, but Tao Yu used a Wood Style dragon to seize the bomb and drive it back toward the attackers.

• Hope and Dulan explained that they had withheld details about the target because they were unsure whether Shaman could be trusted, then gave him a Blood of the Fallen to use against a physically powerful opponent.
• At the collapsed mountainside, Dulan asked Killer B to make his move against the Harkonnen family’s territory.
• Killer B transformed into the Eight-Tails Ox-Demon and began forming a Tailed Beast Bomb, alerting Ye Cang, the Sand Village jōnin, Kisame, and Kaguya Yao at the base.
• Kisame raised a huge Water Wall to block the incoming bomb, but the Tailed Beast Bomb pierced it without slowing down.
• Tao Yu used Wood Style: Wood Dragon Technique to catch the bomb in its jaws, seal it against exploding, and drive it back toward the breach.
• Hope realized that Tao Yu had acquired a new ability, while Ay and Killer B faced the wooden dragon carrying their own Tailed Beast Bomb toward them.

Tao Yu overwhelmed the team that attacked him, killing Dulan and cornering Shaman before Hope summoned a hidden lightning-wielding ally. Tao Yu survived the surprise strike and pursued the fleeing attacker into a dark world, where he trapped him.

• The Wood Golem and wooden dragon restrained the Eight-Tails and turned its Tailed Beast Bombs against it, while Ai charged Tao Yu and was hurled into a mountainside.
• Hope’s floating cannons blasted Tao Yu’s substitute and damaged the Wood Golem, but Tao Yu evaded the attack and destroyed Shaman’s snowflake serpent.
• Tao Yu restrained Dulan with chains and killed him with the Light Shadow Sword, then trapped Shaman with the Chains of Heaven and killed him.
• Hope called for help, and a hidden figure struck Tao Yu with a powerful lightning bolt before fleeing through shattered space.
• Tao Yu pursued the attacker into a dark world and confronted him while he floated above churning black sludge.

Tao Yu trapped and defeated Teng Lianghong inside his Inherent Domain, then returned to the valley to find Shaman restrained and another enemy gone. He pursued the fleeing man with floating cannons, leaving the battlefield behind.

• Tao Yu questioned the lightning figure, who revealed that he had inferred how Tao Yu captured him but refused to answer further.
• Tao Yu activated his Divine Era Magic formation and attacked the lightning figure with tentacles and the Chains of Heaven.
• Teng Lianghong abandoned his flesh to become lightning, but Scathach pinned him with her spear and Shouhe swallowed and sealed him.
• Tao Yu left the Inherent Domain and found Shaman restrained while the man with floating cannons had escaped.
• Tao Yu turned into a shadow and raced across the clouds to pursue the fleeing man.

Tao Yu captured Hope and Teng Lianghong after Lord Teng’s failed attack, leaving Hope defeated and his plans exposed. At the base, Talia discovered that Shaman had abandoned his post and stolen from the place he was supposed to guard.

• Hope fled after Lord Teng withdrew, but Tao Yu chased him down with a black-lightning spear and a net of black ribbons.
• Tao Yu pulled the sealed Teng Lianghong from his shadow, and Hope realized his powerful backer had been captured alive.
• Hope gave up resisting as Tao Yu’s chains sealed his self-destruct devices.
• Talia found Shaman bound in vines and realized he had stolen from the mining base he was assigned to guard.

Tao Yu defeated Kumogakure’s forces, extracted the Eight-Tails from Killer B, and offered to revive him in exchange for Kumogakure becoming a vassal and handing over the Two-Tails’ Jinchuriki. A accepted the terms, leaving Kumogakure’s fate nearly decided.

• Pakura persuaded the injured A to put on the shackles rather than risk Kumogakure by resisting.
• Tao Yu returned on an Alien Dragon, broke the Iron Armor Seal, and extracted the Eight-Tails from Killer B, killing him.
• A grieved over Killer B’s death and blamed himself for trusting the promises that led to the attack.
• Tao Yu claimed he could revive Killer B at a cost, and A begged him to do so.
• Tao Yu demanded that Kumogakure become a vassal and surrender the Two-Tails’ Jinchuriki in exchange for sparing the Jinchuriki’s life, and A agreed on behalf of his village.

Tao Yu learned that Teng Lianghong and Huo Pei belonged to the Assassin Alliance and uncovered their connection to a mysterious diviner called Lord Oracle. After Teng Lianghong resisted Dream Divination and offered to join the Alliance, Tao Yu killed him and tried to extract useful memories, but found little of value.

• Talia identified Huo Pei as Starbreaker, a top assassin from the Assassin Alliance, and explained the organization to Tao Yu.
• Tao Yu used Dream Divination on Huo Pei and learned that Teng Lianghong ranked fourth in the Alliance’s White Star State branch, while Lord Oracle had helped with the operation.
• Teng Lianghong revealed that he had bypassed energy-level restrictions by separating his body from himself and traveling in an energy form with his consciousness sealed.
• Teng Lianghong tried to recruit Tao Yu and offered to have the Assassin Alliance ransom him, but Tao Yu refused and dissolved him into shadow.
• Tao Yu captured Teng Lianghong’s spirituality and performed Dream Divination again, but recovered only mundane memories.