Chapter Summaries

Hatsumi lured Momonosuke into a terrifying encounter with a parasitic insect, while Zi Xu defeated the White Zetsu and faced Kōzuki Oden in the scorched desert. The chapter ended with Zi Xu wary of Oden’s strength.

• Hatsumi frightened Momonosuke with a story about a parasite before revealing herself as a swarm of insects and leaving him unable to move.
• Zi Xu named his new fire-and-lightning technique Devouring Ninjutsu after defeating the White Zetsu.
• Crocodile fled the battlefield, while Rain Shiryu lay unconscious after taking Zi Xu’s attack.
• Kōzuki Oden approached Zi Xu, who recognized him as a formidable opponent and readied himself for a fight.

Zi Xu fought Kōzuki Oden, countering his powerful swordsmanship with new fire-and-lightning abilities and accusing him of failing Wano. Their battle continued with both men wounded, and Zi Xu briefly gained the upper hand.

• Zi Xu confronted Kōzuki Oden, who sensed Kaido's presence on him, and the two prepared to fight.
• Kōzuki Oden attacked with soul-cutting sword strikes, while Zi Xu used black lightning-fire chains that devoured his Armament Haki.
• Zi Xu unleashed Crystal Release and Steel Release, then charged Oden with his heated Wolf Fang Club.
• Zi Xu and Oden clashed, drawing Crocodil's attention as the Conqueror's Haki shockwaves scattered sand.
• Oden influenced Zi Xu's thoughts, but Zi Xu resisted, summoned Golden Chains, and knocked Oden into the ground.
• The two continued trading wounds until Zi Xu's attacks grew stronger and he briefly suppressed Oden.

Zi Xu battered Kōzuki Oden while revealing what he claimed had happened to Oden’s family, steadily breaking his resolve. After learning Momonosuke had arrived and that insects had replaced most of his body, Oden lost control and Zi Xu knocked him away, leaving Crocodile terrified of being noticed.

• Zi Xu suppressed Oden’s Conqueror’s Haki and taunted him about his failure to protect the Land of Wano.
• Zi Xu described Oden’s father hiding and making puppets, then claimed Oden’s son was a coward and his daughter had become an Oiran serving Kurozumi Orochi.
• Zi Xu blamed Oden for telling his family and the people of Wano to wait twenty years instead of resisting, and Oden’s resolve began to collapse.
• Zi Xu learned that Momonosuke had arrived and told Oden that insects had replaced most of his son’s body.
• Oden went into a rage, and Zi Xu struck him with a Conqueror’s Haki-coated Thunderclap Furry, sending him flying.
• Crocodile watched from beneath the sand and feared that Zi Xu would notice him.

White Zetsu and Impure World Reincarnation summons overwhelmed the unprepared nations as the war spread across the world. In Iwagakure, Mu, Hozuki Gengetsu, Rasa, and the Third Raikage were summoned, and Kabuto forced them to attack the surrounding Ninja.

• White Zetsu infiltrated the nations’ ranks, copying their comrades and killing Ninja while ordinary fighters struggled to identify or defeat them.
• Kabuto’s Impure World Reincarnation summons fought while keeping their memories and much of their free will, turning battles into chaotic reunions and arguments.
• Mu emerged from a coffin in Iwagakure, and Ōnoki rallied the village to fight his former teacher despite their bond.
• Hozuki Gengetsu, Rasa, and the Third Raikage appeared alongside Mu, forming the Edo F4 and alarming the Iwagakure fighters.
• The Kage agreed to hunt down the summoner, but Kabuto tightened his control and made them attack the nearby Ninja.

Zi Xu dealt with the attackers near Sky City, took Kōzuki Oden and the Supreme Grade Great Blades, and brought Nagato and Konan back for treatment. As the allied forces struggled against the four resurrected Kage in the Land of Wind, Hatsumi arrived in Rōran’s giant puppet and prepared to demonstrate its power.

• Zi Xu took Kōzuki Oden and his two Supreme Grade Great Blades, then found Sara and led her giant puppet toward Sky City.
• Konan told Zi Xu that Madara Uchiha had taken Nagato’s eyes and used him, and Zi Xu agreed to bring them back for treatment and answers.
• Chino’s forces subdued the White Zetsu and sealed the Impure World Reincarnation fighters, while Kin'emon and the remaining fighters surrendered after Zi Xu revealed that Momonosuke had been captured.
• Zi Xu ordered Xianglin to operate on Nagato and transplant Sharingan, then put captured reincarnated fighters inside Rōran’s puppet to power it.
• The Third Raikage, Hozuki Gengetsu, Rasa, and Mu overwhelmed the allied forces in the Land of Wind despite Ōnoki’s efforts to hold them back.
• Hatsumi’s enormous Rōran puppet appeared before the allied forces and the four Kage, and she promised to show them the power of technology.

Zi Xu transformed into a powerful magma dragon and fought the reanimated Kage while Gaara confronted his father, Rasa. Zi Xu sealed the Third Raikage and turned the battle against Kabuto’s forces.

• Zi Xu told Gaara to face Rasa while he took on the other Kage, and the Rōran puppet and Sky City snipers attacked the White Zetsu.
• Zi Xu transformed into an Azure Dragon, trapped the other Kage in a Crystal Barrier, and endured Mu’s Dust Release with Black Lightning reinforcing his tail.
• The Third Raikage, Mu, and Hozuki Gengetsu attacked Zi Xu, but he expanded into a magma-covered dragon and overwhelmed their techniques.
• Rasa fought Gaara, while Zi Xu’s magma melted the Third Raikage, who reappeared inside a Lava Golem and was sealed.
• Most of the White Zetsu were wiped out, leaving the Kage on the battlefield as Kabuto realized Zi Xu had overturned his plan.

Zi Xu learned Kabuto’s location and went after him, while Kabuto summoned Madara Uchiha to confront the Allied Shinobi Force. Madara overwhelmed the shinobi and deflected the Five Kage’s attacks, leaving them unable to break through his defense.

• Zi Xu seized Rasa, sensed Kabuto’s location through him, and declared that he was coming for Kabuto.
• The Kage assembled the Allied Shinobi Force in the Land of Wind as Mu completed Kabuto’s summoning of Madara Uchiha.
• Madara recognized the Impure World Reincarnation and challenged the Five Kage, while Zi Xu left to pursue Kabuto and ordered Sara, Chino, and the others to retreat if danger arose.
• Kabuto told Madara to hold Zi Xu off, and several reanimated shinobi followed Zi Xu as he left the battlefield.
• Madara slaughtered the Allied Shinobi Force, then summoned a blue phantom that deflected the Five Kage’s attacks.

Zi Xu fought the Masked Man, six resurrected Jinchuriki, and three Kage, using sealing techniques and battlefield tricks to disrupt their attacks. As Zi Xu trapped the Kage and pressured the Jinchuriki, the Swift Wind Swordsman appeared and pierced the Masked Man’s chest.

• Zi Xu sealed the pursuing forces and explained to Gaara that he had an advantage against those resurrected through Impure World Reincarnation.
• Zi Xu confronted the Masked Man, learned his plan to cast Infinite Tsukuyomi, and prepared to fight ten powerful enemies.
• The Masked Man’s forces attacked as Hozuki Gengetsu accidentally disrupted Mu and Zi Xu’s crystal dust turned Rasa’s gold dust against the Jinchuriki.
• Zi Xu used Dragon Flame and his tail to strike the transformed Jinchuriki, then roared and briefly froze the Masked Man.
• Zi Xu trapped the Kage in crystal cages, and the Swift Wind Swordsman appeared and stabbed the Masked Man through the chest.

Zi Xu fought the Masked Man, the Jinchuriki, and the Kage after the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path emerged. He survived their combined attacks with only minor injuries and prepared to reveal what happened when two Kekkei Genkai were fused.

• The Masked Man struck the Swift Wind Swordsman through his Wind Wall, while the freed Jinchuriki gathered behind him.
• The Masked Man summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and attacked Zi Xu as the Jinchuriki and Kage joined the assault.
• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path spread energy-draining black mist and sent chains and Tailed Beast Bombs at Zi Xu.
• Zi Xu transformed into his dragon form and endured the Tailed Beast Bombs and Dust Release, suffering only limited damage that quickly began to heal.
• Zi Xu asked what would happen if one Kekkei Genkai were fused with another.

Zi Xu destroyed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path with a fused sphere of power, thwarting the Masked Man’s attempt to become its Jinchuriki. Madara sensed that something had gone wrong and left the battlefield, while Orochimaru prepared a Zi Xu-like boy to make his entrance.

• The Masked Man and Kabuto attacked Zi Xu as he worked to merge two forces, but Zi Xu finished gathering his power while black insects overwhelmed their forces.
• Zi Xu opened the Eight Gates and charged the Demonic Statue, which absorbed the six Jinchuriki and several other figures before Zi Xu’s purple sphere exploded inside its mouth.
• Zi Xu burned the statue’s newly opened eyes with Black Flame, then tore the Masked Man’s eye out as he tried to become the statue’s Jinchuriki.
• The Demonic Statue collapsed, and Madara sensed trouble and abandoned his fight with the five Kage.
• The Rōran puppets and Sky City remained unharmed, and their people carried the five Kage away for treatment.
• Orochimaru drained a glass cylinder containing a boy who looked about eighty percent like Zi Xu and said it was time for him to make his entrance.

Zi Xu shattered the eye Madara sought and fought Madara and Black Zetsu’s Nika-powered double, then summoned the Hundred Bestowal Organization to join the battle. As the fight continued, Rosinante approached Kabuto with a plan from Zi Xu involving a Moon Landing Plan.

• Madara summoned Perfect Susanoo and attacked Zi Xu after Zi Xu crushed the eye, but Zi Xu smashed through Susanoo with his Wolf Fang Club.
• A white-haired man who looked like Zi Xu appeared and revealed the Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika; Madara identified him as Black Zetsu.
• Zi Xu switched to Wind Blade attacks against Black Zetsu’s rubber-like body, wounding him as Madara began growing more solid and a sapling formed among the Demonic Statue’s remains.
• Zi Xu called the Hundred Bestowal Organization to assemble, and its members joined the battle with moonlit blades, Azure Flame, sand, and ice.
• Rosinante appeared behind Kabuto and asked him to help with Zi Xu’s Moon Landing Plan.

Zi Xu and his enemies survived a devastating assault as Black Zetsu revealed he had gained a system and Madara Uchiha revived himself in a living body. With a strange sapling growing from the Demonic Statue’s remains beneath a red moon, Madara, Obito, and Black Zetsu launched another attack on Zi Xu.

• Black Zetsu dodged Zi Xu’s Wind Blades and endured his Moon Blades while Madara Uchiha used Impure World Reincarnation to summon meteorites.
• Madara broke free of Impure World Reincarnation and became alive, while the Masked Man returned with a Sharingan in his eye.
• Zi Xu fired the Sky City and Loulan cannons, using chains to bind Madara, the Masked Man, and Black Zetsu as the barrage engulfed the battlefield.
• Black Zetsu restored himself by asking the system to add points, and the sapling beneath the Demonic Statue’s remains absorbed energy from Loulan’s Chakra cannon.
• Under a deep red moon, Madara used Wood Release against Zi Xu, Obito set the wooden spikes ablaze, and Black Zetsu launched himself at Zi Xu.

Zi Xu fought Black Zetsu, Madara, and Obito despite his injuries, using Inorganic Reincarnation and Haki to turn the battle against them. As Madara's sapling transformed and Hatsumi's insect swarm joined the fight, Zi Xu unleashed a devastating attack that left Black Zetsu stunned.

• Black Zetsu declared that Zi Xu's defeat was inevitable, but Zi Xu recalled the figure from his dreams and rejected the idea of fate.
• Zi Xu activated Inorganic Reincarnation and Conqueror's Haki, then struck Black Zetsu with his Wolf Fang Club, disrupting his rubbery transformation.
• Madara's hidden sapling grew to reveal a blood-red Sharingan with Nine Tomoe and ten emerging tails.
• Hatsumi's insects swarmed the battlefield, adapting to Obito's Kamui, while Madara and the others burned many of them.
• Zi Xu continued battering Black Zetsu, who gradually learned to block some of his attacks, and then unleashed a burst of red steam and pressure that sent him flying into a trench.

Zi Xu realized Madara had been secretly revived and that the Ten-Tails had survived, but Madara absorbed the beast and became its Jinchuriki. The chapter ended with Zi Xu unable to attack Madara’s protective shell as the crimson blood moon rose.

• Black Zetsu struggled to recover from Zi Xu’s kick, while Zi Xu realized Madara had abandoned his Impure World Reincarnation body and suspected someone had revived him.
• Hatsumi sent World-Eaters after the trees Madara was protecting, and Zi Xu used Inorganic Reincarnation to help them expose the hidden Ten-Tails.
• Madara absorbed the newly revealed Ten-Tails with Six Paths: Ten-Tails Coffin Seal before Obito could claim it.
• Obito and Zi Xu concluded that Madara had deceived them and planned his revival and transformation into the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Zi Xu considered breaking Madara’s dark shell but could not use kekkei genkai fusion because his Chakra was in disarray.

Orochimaru used the Shinigami mask to release souls and summon the First, Second, and Fourth Hokages through Impure World Reincarnation. As the moon reddened and the war continued, Naruto sensed a familiar presence while the group aboard Loulan and Sky City prepared to travel to the moon.

• Orochimaru gathered allies in ruined Konoha and used four White Zetsu as sacrifices to summon the Shinigami.
• Orochimaru cut open the Shinigami’s stomach, released the trapped souls into the White Zetsu, and escaped the Shinigami’s attempt to reap him.
• Three White Zetsu became Impure World Reincarnation bodies bearing the First, Second, and Fourth Hokages, while a fourth body shattered.
• Naruto sensed a familiar presence near Konoha as he traveled with Killer B toward the Allied Shinobi Forces’ battlefield.
• Kabuto, Chino, Xianglin, and Rosinante rode Loulan and Sky City toward the moon while Xianglin worried about the journey.

Madara became the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki and attacked the Allied forces with his new powers, while Zi Xu fought to stop him. The chapter ended with Hatsumi's insect swarm overwhelming Obito as he urged Madara to summon the Divine Tree.

• Obito used Kamui to erase Hatsumi's explosive insects and protect Madara as he transformed, while Zi Xu restrained Black Zetsu and Black Zetsu cut off his hands to escape the spreading markings.
• Madara broke out of the pale shell as the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki, then attacked Gaara with an invisible Limbo strike.
• Zi Xu used Observation Haki to detect Madara's Limbo clones and escaped their attack with a marked iron bead.
• Madara formed black spears from his Truth-Seeking Orbs and launched them at Zi Xu as Hatsumi's Sage-empowered insects swarmed the battlefield.
• Obito struggled to stop Hatsumi's insects and urged Madara to summon the Divine Tree.

Neji’s group launched Sky City and the Loulan toward the moon, where Chino followed a mysterious summons linked to the Byakugan. After Xianglin sensed immense chakra beneath the lunar surface, a giant mechanical puppet appeared and Chino fell underground.

• Neji ordered Sara to push the Loulan to full power as Sky City rose beyond the clouds and into zero gravity.
• Chino felt a voice calling to her from the moon, while Xianglin, Rosinante, and Kabuto reacted to the weightlessness in their own ways.
• Neji landed Sky City and the Loulan on the moon, and Kabuto told Chino to seek the Byakugan’s secret while he began digging in the lunar soil.
• Chino followed the summons with Xianglin until Xianglin sensed a vast mass of chakra and warned her about the Byakugan.
• A gigantic mechanical puppet emerged beneath Xianglin and separated the two, and Chino was pulled downward as gravity returned around her.

Chino glimpsed a strange figure at the moon’s center before losing consciousness, while Madara survived Zi Xu’s and the insects’ combined assault and fought the Allied forces. Madara reclaimed most of the Tailed Beast Chakra and began growing the Divine Tree to cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

• Chino briefly saw a pale, eyeless figure resembling Madara at the moon’s center, then collapsed as blood seeped from her Red Eye.
• Zi Xu’s elemental attack amplified the exploding Senjutsu-infused insects and battered Madara, though Madara survived and began regenerating.
• Hashirama, Minato, and Tobirama attacked Madara, but he used hidden chains to seize Naruto, Killer B, and Gaara while Black Zetsu helped conceal his plan.
• Killer B escaped by sacrificing a tail, Minato gave Naruto the Nine-Tails inside him, and Madara retrieved only a tuft of Gaara’s tail fur.
• Madara declared his intention to create a perfect world and began growing the Divine Tree to initiate the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Xianglin rescued Chino from Otsutsuki Toneri, who had stolen one of her Byakugan and used it to awaken the Tenseigan. Chino recovered her eye, but the moon began moving toward Earth, leaving her, Xianglin, and Neji facing an imminent collision.

• Xianglin tracked Chino through the moon's mechanical puppets and leaped into a vast pit to reach her.
• Chino woke in a room filled with stored Byakugan and learned that Otsutsuki Toneri had taken her eye to create the Tenseigan.
• Otsutsuki Toneri explained his clan's history and declared that Chino would become his wife, but Xianglin arrived to confront him.
• Xianglin resisted the Tenseigan's powers while Chino's Red Eye produced a seal that weakened Toneri.
• Chino and Xianglin restrained Toneri, and Chino took back her eye as the moon began veering off course.
• Chino and Xianglin reunited with Neji and saw Earth growing rapidly larger as the moon approached it.

As Toneri sent the moon toward Earth, Chino used the Tenseigan to restore its orbit while Zi Xu and the Kage fought Madara to stop Infinite Tsukuyomi. The moon began moving back into place, and Hashirama joined Zi Xu in planning how to defeat Madara.

• Madara and Obito prepared to cast Infinite Tsukuyomi as the moon rapidly grew larger and Loulan began falling toward Earth.
• Chino tried to pull the moon back into its original orbit with the Tenseigan while the Kage and Jiraiya fought Madara and restrained the Divine Tree's roots.
• Zi Xu joined the battle, and Madara canceled his technique to face the combined attacks of Zi Xu and the others.
• Zi Xu struck Madara hard enough to make him cough blood, though Madara survived and recovered from the assault.
• As Chino gradually restored the moon's orbit and its light faded, Hashirama asked Zi Xu to work with him to defeat Madara.