Chapter Summaries

Minato recruited the reincarnated Hashirama and Tobirama to join Konoha’s planned assault on the Moon Otsutsuki. He also ordered Ōnoki to prepare Iwagakure for the campaign and warned that he would eliminate threats before the attack, leaving Ōnoki resolved to follow Konoha’s lead.

• Minato explained to the reincarnated Hashirama and Tobirama that Hiruzen had died and that Moon Otsutsuki enemies threatened the world.
• Minato asked Hashirama and Tobirama to join a preemptive assault on the moon, and both agreed to help protect Konoha.
• Tobirama asked Snake Aunt about her relationship with the identical-looking Snake Amputee, but she said the story was long.
• Minato told Ōnoki that the assault would begin in five days and ordered him to prepare Iwagakure’s troops.
• Minato warned Ōnoki that he would deal with remaining threats and that villages refusing to join did not need to exist.
• Ōnoki agreed to follow Konoha’s command and resolved to make Iwagakure its staunch ally.

Konoha prepared an expedition against the Moon Otsutsuki and demanded that the other villages join or face Konoha’s force. With the deadline approaching and the prisoners’ claims verified, the villages remained divided and had yet to decide.

• Konoha mobilized its forces, while the Hyuga Clan eagerly joined preparations after learning the Moon Otsutsuki sought their Byakugan.
• Ōnoki returned to Iwagakure, crushed opposition to joining the expedition, and ordered the village to prepare for deployment.
• Konoha located the Crab Bubble Lake space tunnel in the Land of Frost and set February 25 as the assembly deadline, warning that holdouts would be treated as enemies.
• Minato visited the villages with Moon Otsutsuki prisoners, explained the threat, and demanded an alliance or warned that Konoha would eliminate potential threats before the decisive battle.
• The villages interrogated the prisoners and confirmed their information was genuine, but internal disagreements prevented them from reaching a decision.

Minato led Konoha and three allied villages to the Land of Frost to prepare for war on the moon, then set out alone to punish Kirigakure and the Land of Iron for rejecting the alliance. He attacked Kirigakure with the Nine-Tails, and a Tailed Beast Bomb sped toward the village.

• Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure agreed to join Konoha's alliance, while Kirigakure and the Land of Iron rejected its ultimatum.
• Konoha marched to the Land of Frost, where nearly ten thousand elite shinobi from four villages assembled.
• Minato told Fugaku he would destroy Kirigakure and the Land of Iron, then used the Flying Thunder God to travel to Kirigakure.
• Minato appeared near Kirigakure as the Nine-Tails and formed a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Kirigakure's alarm sounded as the Tailed Beast Bomb shot toward the village.

Minato and the Nine-Tails destroyed Kirigakure after giving its villagers time to flee, eliminating the village’s ability to threaten Konoha. Minato then headed for the Land of Iron to deal with another country that had stayed out of the fight against the Moon Otsutsuki.

• Minato and the Nine-Tails detonated a Tailed Beast Bomb above Kirigakure, warning the villagers and prompting a chaotic evacuation.
• Genji ordered Kirigakure’s Shinobi to help the villagers escape, then hurried toward Minato and offered to join the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• The Nine-Tails fired another Tailed Beast Bomb, vaporizing Genji and the Kirigakure Shinobi accompanying him.
• After giving the villagers ten minutes to flee, Minato and the Nine-Tails bombarded Kirigakure until the village and thousands of its main-force Shinobi were destroyed.
• Minato left for the Land of Iron to destroy another country that had remained neutral despite the Moon Otsutsuki threat.

Minato returned after destroying Kirigakure and the Land of Iron, then led the Allied Shinobi Forces toward the Moon. As the first assault entered the passage beneath Crab Bubble Lake, Otsutsuki Sōjin prepared a counterattack and ordered the Space-Time Tunnel destroyed once most of the enemy had entered.

• Minato confirmed to Fugaku and the other leaders that Kirigakure and the Land of Iron had been devastated and their main forces routed.
• Minato declined recovery time and ordered the Allied Shinobi Forces to advance toward Crab Bubble Lake.
• Fugaku directed nearly a hundred Uchiha shinobi to use their Sharingan genjutsu to protect the vanguard from the tunnel's traps.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces began entering Crab Bubble Lake, launching the Ninja World's first full-scale assault on the Moon.
• Otsutsuki Sōjin learned that the vanguard had entered the lake and ordered puppet units and Red Pincer Crabs to delay them.
• Otsutsuki Sōjin ordered his forces to destroy the Space-Time Tunnel after most of the Earth shinobi entered it.

Otsutsuki Sōjin tried to trap the allied shinobi by detonating the Space-Time Tunnel, but the Four Red Yang Formation protected it and let the invasion continue. With the enemy reaching the moon, Sōjin ordered his forces to hold them near Crab Bubble Lake and prepared Plan Two.

• Otsutsuki Sōjin waited on the moon for the allied forces to enter the Space-Time Tunnel, intending to destroy it and trap them.
• After learning that more than half the allied forces, including Minato Namikaze, had entered Crab Bubble Lake, Sōjin ordered the tunnel bombed.
• The Four Red Yang Formation withstood the explosion, allowing the allied shinobi to keep moving through the tunnel.
• Sōjin learned that the six Jinchuriki had reached the moon and were overwhelming his puppet forces and Red Pincer Crabs.
• Sōjin ordered every puppet sent to the front and prepared Plan Two to kill the invaders outside the tunnel.

The Ninja World advance force landed on the moon and fought off Red Pincer Crabs, puppets, and other defenders as the main force arrived. After Ōnoki cleared the collapsing cavern with Dust Release, he discovered the moon’s boiling artificial ocean and a colossal wave rushing toward the allied forces.

• The Elite Jonin advance unit was besieged by Red Pincer Crabs, but the six Jinchuriki broke through the surrounding enemies after landing.
• Minato’s clone and the allied leaders arrived, and they discovered that the Moon Otsutsuki had planted explosives in the Space-Time Tunnel.
• Chiyo attacked the remotely controlled enemy puppets while Ōnoki joined the battle, but the Moon Otsutsuki collapsed the cavern ceiling.
• Ōnoki used Dust Release to vaporize the falling rocks and much of the cavern, then flew outside to scout.
• Ōnoki saw that the Artificial Sun had boiled the vast artificial ocean, and a towering wave of boiling water surged toward the allied forces.

As a boiling tidal wave threatened to wipe out the Shinobi Alliance, Minato revealed that he had prepared a countermeasure with Orochimaru and the reanimated Kage. Hashirama blocked the wave with Wood Style, and the Alliance charged out to attack the Moon Otsutsuki.

• Ōnoki urged the Shinobi Alliance to retreat into Crab Bubble Lake as the boiling tidal wave approached, but Minato assured him they could handle it.
• Orochimaru appeared beside Minato and summoned seven coffins, revealing the reanimated Kage.
• Hashirama used Wood Style to raise a hundred-meter wooden wall around the Alliance and Crab Bubble Lake.
• The boiling wave crashed against the wall without breaking through, while the wooden vines crushed the enemy puppets trapped inside.
• Hashirama formed a wooden staircase over the wall and led the Shinobi Alliance in a charge against the enemy.

The Moon Otsutsuki's Red Eagle Corps used their aerial advantage to suppress the Shinobi Alliance, which could barely fight back. After Minato's real body arrived, he led the six Jinchuriki into battle, and the seven Tailed Beasts launched their Tailed Beast Bombs at the Artificial Sun.

• Hashirama Senju's Wood Style stopped the boiling sea from overwhelming the Shinobi Alliance, while the Moon Otsutsuki recognized the threat posed by the Reanimated Ninja.
• Otsutsuki Sōjin sent more than five thousand Red Eagle Corps warriors to attack the Alliance from the air and advanced the Artificial Sun.
• The Red Eagle Corps' long-range attacks inflicted casualties, and Ōnoki's Dust Release destroyed dozens of enemies but could not overcome the Alliance's aerial disadvantage.
• Acting Raikage Dodai asked Minato and the Reanimated Hashirama for a solution, and Minato told the Alliance to hold on until his real body arrived.
• Minato's real body arrived with Tsunade and Fugaku after the Alliance passed through the Space-Time Tunnel, then led the six Jinchuriki out from behind the wooden wall.
• Minato and the six Jinchuriki transformed into Tailed Beasts and fired seven Tailed Beast Bombs at the Artificial Sun.

The Allied Shinobi Forces used a space-time barrier to send Tailed Beast Bombs past the Artificial Sun’s defenses, forcing Otsutsuki Sōjin to switch the Tenseigan from defense to attack. Sōjin fired a devastating beam at the alliance, where Hashirama’s layered defenses stood in its path.

• The seven Tailed Beasts fired Tailed Beast Bombs at the Artificial Sun, but its barrier repelled them.
• Minato and Tobirama used paired Flying Thunder God barriers to teleport six Tailed Beast Bombs inside the Artificial Sun, damaging the floating island castle and scattering Sōjin and the Moon Otsutsuki elders.
• Sōjin ordered the elders to lower the Artificial Sun’s defensive barrier so he could turn the Tenseigan to attack mode.
• The Artificial Sun went dark as Sōjin activated the Tenseigan and launched a massive beam of purple Chakra energy toward the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Hashirama prepared multiple Wood Release techniques and the Five-Layered Divine Wall to defend the alliance against the beam.

The Giant Tenseigan’s beams battered the Allied Shinobi Forces, forcing them to rely on Hashirama’s Wood Style and the Four Red Yang Formation. As Sōjin prepared a fifth attack, a matching purple beam emerged from the Space-Time Tunnel to meet it.

• Otsutsuki Sōjin fired the Giant Tenseigan, and its first beam pierced Hashirama’s defenses and tore through the Allied Shinobi Forces’ line.
• Minato, Orochimaru, Fugaku, and Tsunade raised the Four Red Yang Formation, which blocked the second beam but weakened under repeated attacks.
• The fourth beam shattered the barrier, and Hashirama stopped its weakened force with Wood Style while Tobirama offered to help rebuild the formation.
• Orochimaru said their allies were ready and that the battle was already won, even as Sōjin prepared another beam.
• A purple beam burst from the Space-Time Tunnel and collided head-on with Sōjin’s fifth attack.

Konoha’s forces revealed a Tenseigan from another world and used it to counter the Moon Otsutsuki’s Artificial Sun and devastating beam. With the Moon clan’s trump card weakened, Minato and the allied Kage-level fighters reached the central floating island to launch their final assault.

• Konoha’s Tenseigan countered the Moon Otsutsuki Tenseigan’s beam, shocking Otsutsuki Sōjin and the surrounding forces.
• Orochimaru’s plan was revealed: Konoha had lured the Moon Otsutsuki into dropping its defensive mode while buying time to transport and activate their Tenseigan.
• Sōjin dismissed Konoha’s Tenseigan as a fake and fired another beam, but his Tenseigan’s attack had weakened.
• Konoha’s Tenseigan countered the second beam, and Minato, Tobirama, Hashirama, Snake Aunt, Ōnoki, and other Kage-level fighters reached the central floating island.
• With the Moon Otsutsuki’s Tenseigan threat contained, Minato and the allied fighters prepared to assault the clan’s stronghold.

Minato and the Ninja World’s fighters launched a surprise assault on Otsutsuki Sōjin, who survived their concentrated attacks with his ultimate defense. Tobirama and Minato then used Flying Thunder God to isolate Sōjin and trap him inside a Tailed Beast Bomb followed by Tobirama’s explosive technique.

• Minato’s forces teleported onto the floating island using a Flying Thunder God Mark left there during an earlier mission.
• Eighteen Kage-level fighters attacked Sōjin while nine Branch Family leaders tried to intercept them.
• Sōjin blocked the attackers’ techniques with his Silver Wheel Destruction Technique, including Dust Release.
• Hashirama sent a marked Wood Release vine beneath Sōjin’s barrier, allowing Tobirama to teleport in and seize him.
• Tobirama transported Sōjin a thousand meters away, where Minato teleported in and placed a Tailed Beast Bomb against him.
• Tobirama followed the blast with his Mutual Multiplication Summoning Technique, creating an enormous chain of explosions.

The Allied Shinobi Forces appeared to kill Otsutsuki Sōjin with a coordinated barrage, but Minato spotted Sōjin’s surviving consciousness fleeing in a Spirit Ball. The orb merged with the Tenseigan, which began charging another devastating attack.

• Tobirama, Minato, and Hashirama combined their attacks to blast Sōjin and defeat the Moon Otsutsuki forces.
• Minato sensed no trace of Sōjin’s Chakra, and Hashirama cleared the smoke to reveal Sōjin’s vanished body and Tobirama’s damaged body regenerating.
• Tobirama confirmed that Sōjin had been blown apart, and the Allied Shinobi Forces celebrated their victory.
• Minato noticed a dark purple Spirit Ball escaping toward the Tenseigan and chased after it.
• The Spirit Ball dodged Minato’s attacks and merged with the Tenseigan, which began building energy for another devastating beam.

Aoto’s mental orb used the Tenseigan to destroy the supports holding up the Moon’s inner artificial space, setting millions of meteorites on course for Earth. Minato and the others realized the resulting catastrophe could wipe out nearly all life and end the shinobi world.

• Minato realized the Alliance’s Tenseigan was still cooling down and could not counter the enemy’s next attack.
• Minato returned to the Alliance, prepared a Tailed Beast Bomb and Flying Thunder God barrier, and braced to defend the shinobi below.
• Hashirama and the others layered Wood Style and Earth Style defenses on the floating island.
• Aoto’s mental orb split the Tenseigan’s attack into more than a hundred beams that struck the Moon’s inner space in every direction.
• The beams blasted apart the cavern’s supporting rock, causing the artificial space to collapse and sending countless rocks drifting toward Earth.
• Minato and the others faced the prospect of a meteor shower that could destroy Earth’s ecosystems and the shinobi world.

The moon’s collapse sent millions of meteors drifting toward Earth, threatening to destroy the Ninja World. After Minato and the shinobi failed to stop them, Natsu Yuu activated Super Chibaku Tensei to deal with the catastrophe.

• The moon’s interior collapsed, leaving a vast opening and sending enormous quantities of rock toward Earth.
• Ōnoki, Tobirama, the Raikage, Hashirama, and the others tried to stop the meteors, but the fragments were too numerous.
• Minato asked Snake Aunt for a solution, but she had no way to halt the meteor shower.
• Natsu Yuu teleported Minato and Snake Aunt to the floating archipelago, then questioned Snake Aunt about what she had learned from the battle.
• Natsu Yuu opened his Nine-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan and activated Super Chibaku Tensei.

Natsu Yuu used Super Chibaku Tensei to pull the scattered lunar fragments back into the hollow moon, preventing them from destroying the Ninja World. The allied forces marveled at his power, and Minato apologized for nearly causing a catastrophe.

• Natsu Yuu spread his gravitational power across the area and drew the countless lunar fragments back toward the moon.
• The reanimated Hashirama and Tobirama, the Kage, and the other shinobi watched in astonishment as the meteorites returned.
• Chiyo and Ōnoki struggled to comprehend Natsu Yuu's power, while Ōnoki felt relieved that Iwagakure and the Ninja World had been saved.
• Orochimaru excitedly wondered whether the Rinnegan's power depended on its user, and Snake Aunt noted that Nagato had never achieved anything comparable.
• Minato thanked Natsu Yuu and apologized for his carelessness, and Natsu Yuu reassured him that the rushed battle had made an oversight understandable.

While maintaining Super Chibaku Tensei, Natsu Yuu explained to Minato how the Moon Otsutsuki Branch Family’s envy of Earth had fueled their hatred and desire to destroy the Ninja World. Minato concluded that guarding the sealed goddess on the moon could cause future guardians to become resentful too, leaving the problem seemingly unsolvable.

• Natsu Yuu asked Minato what he thought of the Moon Otsutsuki, and Minato called them enemies for threatening the world and hurting his loved ones.
• Natsu Yuu brought up Minato’s beating of Hiruzen Sarutobi and explained that Minato had acted out of hatred, despite believing in the Will of Fire.
• Natsu Yuu asked Minato why the Moon Otsutsuki had transformed the moon’s interior, leading Minato to recognize their envy of Earth’s living conditions.
• Minato realized the Branch Family had chosen to interpret Hamura’s instructions as a justification for destroying the Ninja World because generations of hardship had bred resentment.
• Minato worried that leaving ninja to guard the sealed goddess on the moon would eventually make them resentful and turn against the Ninja World.

Natsu Yuu warned Minato that guarding the moon would raise difficult questions about who controlled it, and urged him to prepare for his growing role as the Ninja World’s guardian. As Natsu Yuu finished rebuilding the moon’s interior, the Tenseigan began charging another attack, and he moved to contain it.

• Natsu Yuu suggested rotating guards to prevent the Moon Otsutsuki from changing sides, and Minato recognized the idea as a possible solution.
• Natsu Yuu pointed out that the villages would dispute who guarded the moon, leaving Minato to consider the political and security risks.
• Natsu Yuu told Minato that Konoha’s coming dominance would make him responsible for the planet and the Ninja World, while subtly encouraging him to unify the villages.
• Snake Aunt and No. 4 Orochimaru listened as Natsu Yuu also used the discussion to remind Snake Aunt that her world’s moon would need guarding.
• Natsu Yuu’s Super Chibaku Tensei gathered the shattered rock into a vast mountain range inside the moon.
• The Tenseigan began charging a destructive beam, so Natsu Yuu surrounded its metal sphere with six Truth-Seeking Orbs and activated the Six Crimson Sun Formation.

Natsu Yuu shielded the Tenseigan with the Six Crimson Sun Formation, but Sōjin destroyed it rather than let it fall into enemy hands. As the floating islands began to crash, Natsu Yuu saved the main island, leaving the Moon Otsutsuki defeated and their stronghold preserved.

• Natsu Yuu cast the Six Crimson Sun Formation and stopped the Tenseigan's beam from hitting the main island.
• Minato proposed destroying the dangerous Tenseigan, while Orochimaru and Snake Aunt argued that it should be preserved for study.
• The trapped Tenseigan erupted in purple lightning and shattered into countless pale purple Byakugan, apparently destroyed by Sōjin.
• The floating islands began falling after the Tenseigan lost its power, and the captured Moon Otsutsuki gave up hope.
• Natsu Yuu manipulated gravity to halt the main island's fall and preserve the Moon Otsutsuki stronghold.