Chapter Summaries

Nagato organized the Shinobi Alliance's attack on Hozuki Castle and selected Naruto, Sasuke, and Yuki-onna to infiltrate its laboratory. The trio departed that night, while the remaining forces prepared to attack at dawn.

• Nagato told the gathered alliance that the Shadow Organization had taken over Hozuki Castle and was researching Artificial Tailed Beasts.
• Nagato assigned Naruto, Sasuke, and Yuki-onna to destroy the laboratory's equipment and rescue its prisoners, explaining how their abilities could counter the castle's defenses.
• The Raikage withdrew his objection, and Nagato ordered the vanguard to infiltrate before the main force attacked at dawn.
• Nagato sent Kisame to investigate abnormal energy fluctuations near the Land of Heaven instead of joining the vanguard.
• Karin gave Naruto supplies and explained how he could recover Chakra by biting her arm, while Konan gave Sasuke an Emergency Contact Talisman.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Yuki-onna infiltrated Hozuki Castle, where a Soundless Wall suppressed sound and drained Chakra. Karin joined them and connected their minds with a sensory seal, but the four were overwhelmed by relentless Cyborg prisoners, and Karin was stabbed in the shoulder.

• Naruto, Sasuke, and Yuki-onna approached Hozuki Castle and discovered that its Soundless Wall blocked sound and absorbed Chakra.
• The three entered the castle and were ambushed by silent Cyborg prisoners whose attacks showed no Chakra fluctuations or warning signs.
• Karin entered the Soundless Wall to rescue the others and used an Uzumaki sensory seal to let the four communicate through thoughts.
• Yuki-onna identified the Soundless Wall's energy node in a tower on the east side of the castle, while Sasuke warned that it would be heavily guarded.
• The Cyborg prisoners pressed their attack without fear of pain or death, and one stabbed Karin through the shoulder.

Yuki-onna broke Muon’s infrasound killing field and froze the sea around Hozuki Castle, allowing Naruto, Sasuke, and Karin to reach its main building. Inside, they discovered a laboratory and a prototype artificial Two-Tails whose chakra was ominously black.

• Yuki-onna detected that Muon was using infrasound to control the modified prisoners and froze the sound waves, breaking the Soundless Wall and stopping their attackers.
• Muon activated Hozuki Castle’s sinking mechanism, flooding the island and unleashing mechanically modified sea creatures.
• Yuki-onna froze the sea within five hundred meters, trapping the creatures and letting Naruto, Sasuke, Karin, and her cross toward the castle.
• Muon requested backup from White Bone, who said support would take ten minutes.
• Yuki-onna shattered the sealed iron doors, and the group entered a laboratory filled with failed test subjects and a huge tank containing a black-chakra artificial Two-Tails prototype.

Naruto, Sasuke, Yuki-onna, and Karin discovered a laboratory where kidnapped ninja were drained to create an Artificial Tailed Beast, and they rescued the surviving captives. A cloned Two-Tails Jinchuriki and the monster broke loose, leaving the team battling the rampaging creatures as Naruto prepared a massive Rasenshuriken.

• Naruto and his companions found more than a hundred Culture Tanks holding kidnapped ninja, along with corpses discarded after their Chakra had been drained.
• The team rescued the surviving captives, but Sasuke identified a young woman with a Two-Tails tattoo as a clone carrying an unstable Artificial Tailed Beast.
• The cloned Jinchuriki broke free and released poisonous black Chakra, forcing Sasuke to shield the group with Susanoo.
• The laboratory activated its defenses, freed failed test subjects, and the giant Artificial Tailed Beast shattered its Culture Tank and attacked everything in the hall.
• Sasuke fought the monster with full-body Susanoo while Naruto entered Sage Mode and formed a Super Tailed Beast Rasenshuriken.

Naruto, Sasuke, Yuki-onna, and Karin fought Muon, who controlled Hozuki Castle through sonic resonance and drew power from its systems. As Muon overwhelmed them with multiple Kekkei Genkai, Sasuke identified a central Node as his likely weakness, and Yuki-onna charged in to distract him.

• Muon revealed that sonic resonance let him control Hozuki Castle and disrupt the group’s jutsu.
• Muon explained the Shadow Organization’s God's Vessel plan and attacked the group with his transformed body and mechanical tentacles.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Karin, and Yuki-onna struggled against Muon’s sound-based attacks, while Yuki-onna weakened him by freezing an energy pipe.
• Muon drew power from more of the fortress, transformed again, and unleashed multiple Kekkei Genkai that pushed the group to the brink.
• Sasuke concluded that destroying the central Node could cut off Muon’s power, and Yuki-onna charged at Muon to distract him.

Sasuke developed a new use for Heavenly Hand Power and used it to disable Muon’s core, but Muon’s remains transformed into a swelling mass of flesh that threatened to explode and destroy Hozuki Castle and the nearby allied forces. Naruto and Sasuke combined Nine-Tails Chakra with Susanoo to face the blast.

• Yuki-onna battled Muon while Sasuke traced the energy flowing into the core beneath the shattered Culture Tank.
• Naruto distracted Muon, but Sasuke’s attack on the core failed against its three layers of protection.
• Sasuke used Heavenly Hand Power: Concept Exchange to swap the core’s existence with the emptiness of rubble, cutting off Muon’s energy and destroying his body.
• Muon’s remains fused into a swelling mass of flesh, and Karin warned that it was about to explode with enough force to destroy Hozuki Castle and the approaching allied forces.
• Naruto and Sasuke combined Nine-Tails Chakra with Susanoo, creating Armored Susanoo.

Naruto, Sasuke, and their allies escaped Muon’s attempt to destroy Hozuki Castle when Nagato redirected the explosion into the sky with the Rinnegan. As the allied forces continued advancing, a Dragon Vein-powered tailed-beast monster emerged from the sea, and Nagato sealed it inside a massive sphere of stone.

• Sasuke spotted the metal core in Muon’s chest, but Muon activated a self-destruct program that threatened Hozuki Castle and the allied forces outside.
• Nagato arrived with Konan, Gaara, the Raikage, and the other Kage, then used Super Almighty Push to redirect the explosion vertically and protect the allied forces.
• A giant monster assembled from tailed-beast remains and enhanced by Dragon Vein energy rose from the sea and fired Tailed Beast Bombs at the allied forces.
• Nagato used Chibaku Tensei to pull back the bombs and seal the monster inside a hundred-meter-wide sphere of stone.

Nagato defeated the nine-tailed beast with his Rinnegan powers, but Kisame discovered that it had emerged from a fissure beneath Hozuki Castle. The fissure opened into an unknown space, where a massive claw radiating Ōtsutsuki energy began to emerge.

• Nagato repeatedly pulled and repelled the beast, weakening its Dragon Vein energy, then absorbed its Tailed Beast Bomb before sealing it inside a massive Chibaku Tensei sphere.
• Kisame reported finding a fissure beneath Hozuki Castle and showed Sasuke a black scale bearing residual Ōtsutsuki Chakra.
• Nagato suspected the Shadow Organization had experimented in the unknown space connected to the fissure.
• Black markings formed a giant eye across the stone sphere as the fissure widened and revealed a claw covered in Rinnegan-like markings.
• The Raikage ordered the Allied Shinobi Forces to retreat as the claw reached out from the rift.

White Bone halted the Gatekeeper’s awakening, incapacitated the Raikage, and delivered Lord Shadow’s challenge to Nagato and Sasuke. Sasuke found the Moon Country’s emblem on the scroll, and Ōnoki revealed that the ancient nation had vanished a thousand years ago.

• White Bone appeared before the rift, addressed the Gatekeeper, and convinced it to withdraw.
• White Bone paralyzed the Raikage, then gave Nagato a scroll and showed the Alliance Lord Shadow’s image and Tenseigan.
• Lord Shadow explained that the Gatekeeper targeted the Alliance and challenged Nagato and Sasuke to prove themselves worthy of entering the Divine Realm.
• White Bone disintegrated as Naruto tried to stop him, and Sasuke picked up the scroll.
• The Raikage and Ōnoki recognized the scroll’s emblem as belonging to the vanished Moon Country, which Ōnoki said had ancient, godlike technology.

After the Gatekeeper began awakening, Tsukimi revealed that its true body slept inside the moon and chose a team to teleport there and fight it. As the five departed, the Gatekeeper’s tentacles rose from the sea, leaving the remaining shinobi to defend the battlefield and buy them time.

• Mei Terumi and Sasuke read the scroll and learned that the Gatekeeper had awakened because the Shinobi World's Chakra had reached a critical level and would hunt everyone involved.
• Tsukimi introduced herself as the last guardian of the Moon Country and explained that the Gatekeeper's true body slept inside the moon, where a teleportation device could take five people.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Nagato, Gaara, and Karin were chosen to travel to the moon, while Tsukimi used Sasuke's memory-reading to prove she was telling the truth.
• Tsukimi teleported the five away, and Konan, Yuki-onna, and the others stayed behind as the Gatekeeper's tentacles emerged from the sea.
• Yuki-onna urged the remaining shinobi to hold off the tentacles and buy Nagato and the others time.

Sasuke and the others discovered that the Moon Country was real and had hidden itself in another dimension to escape the Otsutsuki. Its last king, Tsukimi, revealed that the Gatekeeper was an Otsutsuki harvesting system triggered by their attack on Hozuki Castle, and warned it might already be too late to stop it.

• Sasuke deciphered the scroll and learned that the Moon Country had used its land as a sealing array to trap the Gatekeeper beneath the sea, while the Shadow Organization had led them to damage the seal's key nodes.
• Nagato sensed an ancient power stirring beneath the sea, but Kisame soon reported that its chakra signature had disappeared.
• The sea split open, revealing the Moon Country in another dimension, and Tsukimi emerged and identified himself as its last king rather than the Gatekeeper.
• Tsukimi explained that the Otsutsuki had planned to sacrifice the Moon Country to the God Tree, but its former king had hidden the country in another dimension, leaving its people asleep.
• Tsukimi told Nagato and Sasuke that the Gatekeeper was an automated harvesting system that their attack on Hozuki Castle had activated, and warned that it would devour all life on the planet.

Tsukimi warned Naruto, Sasuke, Nagato, and the others that the Gatekeeper was about to arrive and offered the Moon Core as a way to fight it, but Sasuke exposed Tsukimi as a deception. The Bait revealed that the Moon Core was a parasitic seed, and the Gatekeeper emerged from the sea.

• Tsukimi said the Gatekeeper would arrive within ten minutes and offered the Moon Core to someone willing to sacrifice their life.
• Tsukimi said only a pure human with ocular power on the level of the Rinnegan could use the Moon Core, and Nagato volunteered instead of Sasuke.
• Sasuke attacked Tsukimi and challenged his story, prompting Tsukimi to reveal his monstrous form.
• The Bait admitted it was a core consciousness of the Gatekeeper and said the Moon Core would feed the Gatekeeper and give it the Rinnegan's power.
• The Bait explained that the Moon Country had tried to steal the God Tree's power, then black tentacles erupted from the sea as the Gatekeeper arrived.

The Gatekeeper attacked the shinobi forces and rapidly analyzed and copied their techniques, adapting to each counterattack. Nagato realized its copying process had limited capacity, but the battle continued with the enemy growing more dangerous.

• The Gatekeeper emerged from the sea, identified the strongest fighters, and launched hundreds of tentacles at the battlefield.
• Nagato, Sasuke, and Naruto attacked, but the Gatekeeper analyzed Shinra Tensei, Chidori Blade, and the Rasengan and adapted its tentacles to counter them.
• The Gatekeeper copied the Raikage's Lightning Armor and strength, then created a tentacle humanoid that fought him evenly.
• Ōnoki used Dust Release against the tentacles, while Gaara shielded him; the Gatekeeper learned both Dust Release and Gaara's sand manipulation.
• Mei Terumi, Konan, and Yuki-onna attacked as the Gatekeeper copied their techniques, while Karin failed to locate its core.
• Nagato observed that the Gatekeeper prioritized high-threat techniques and realized its capacity to process new information was limited.

Nagato and Sasuke tried to exploit the Gatekeeper’s processing delay, but it learned their Rinnegan techniques and assembled a giant weapon capable of using their jutsu. As the giant overwhelmed the shinobi, Nagato spotted a strain in its core and prepared a human-wave attack.

• Nagato and Sasuke combined gravitational and spatial jutsu to test the Gatekeeper, but it recorded their abilities and activated its highest-priority elimination protocol.
• The Gatekeeper built a three-hundred-meter Rinnegan Giant Soldier that combined the jutsu it had learned.
• The giant attacked with Dust Release, gravity, and Rasengan volleys, forcing Nagato, Sasuke, Naruto, Gaara, and the other shinobi to defend themselves.
• The giant shattered Gaara’s sand defense, launched multiple Chibaku Tensei cores, and blocked the Tsuchikage’s Dust Release with a defensive barrier.
• Nagato noticed that the Rinnegan in the giant’s chest flickered when it used multiple jutsu and told Sasuke, Naruto, and Gaara to follow his human-wave tactic.

Nagato forced the Allied Shinobi Forces to use waves of basic ninjutsu against the Rinnegan Giant Soldier, then revealed that the attacks briefly overwhelmed its processing core. The shinobi prepared a coordinated second wave after discovering the opening.

• Nagato proposed a saturation attack using basic ninjutsu, but A, Mei Terumi, and Ōnoki objected over the expected casualties.
• Nagato used Shinra Tensei to hold the hesitant shinobi in place and ordered them to either follow his commands or wait to die.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces launched basic attacks, and the Giant Soldier analyzed and copied them before striking back and killing several shinobi.
• Nagato linked his vision with Sasuke and the Five Kage, revealing that the Giant Soldier’s core briefly stalled while processing the attacks.
• The Raikage, Ōnoki, and Gaara recognized the processing delay as an opening, and Nagato ordered the Earth Release unit to build defenses while the Wind Release and Fire Style units prepared a second volley.

Nagato and Sasuke coordinated the Alliance into synchronized jutsu formations that damaged the Giant Soldier, while Naruto’s Shadow Clones disrupted its Dust Release beam. The Alliance advanced on the Giant Soldier’s legs as it began an emergency purge protocol.

• Nagato’s first command failed to coordinate the Alliance, and the Giant Soldier overwhelmed the disorganized shinobi with a barrage of attacks.
• Sasuke proposed matrix-style attacks, and he and Nagato used their Rinnegan to synchronize the shinobi’s movements.
• The Alliance’s Fire, Wind, Water, and Lightning matrices struck the Giant Soldier’s left shoulder and tore open a large wound.
• The Giant Soldier targeted the Fire and Lightning formations with a wide-area Dust Release beam, but Naruto’s Shadow Clones countered it with a barrage of varied Rasengan.
• Nagato ordered Gaara and the Earth and Water Release units to attack the Giant Soldier’s foundation, prompting it to initiate an emergency purge protocol.

Naruto and Sasuke exploited the Giant Soldier’s exposed core and damaged it with an Amaterasu-wreathed Rasenshuriken, ending its battlefield-wide purge. As the Allied Shinobi Forces gained the advantage, the Giant Soldier began concentrating its remaining energy for a self-destruct.

• The Giant Soldier unleashed a data-level purge that disrupted the shinobi’s Chakra and left many wounded or incapacitated.
• Nagato and Sasuke identified the exposed core and coordinated with Naruto to attack during the Giant Soldier’s 1.5-second delay.
• Naruto fused Amaterasu with a Rasenshuriken and used Sasuke’s Heavenly Hand Power to strike the Giant Soldier’s Rinnegan core.
• The core cracked and its systems faltered, weakening the Giant Soldier’s copied techniques and turning the battle in the Allied Shinobi Forces’ favor.
• The damaged core began drawing in energy and distorting the space and sea around it, prompting Nagato to warn that the Giant Soldier was going to self-destruct.

After the Giant Soldier’s core went silent, its body dissolved into black liquid that spawned hundreds of specialized Hunters capable of countering the allied ninja’s techniques. As the Hunters overwhelmed the battlefield, Sasuke watched the remains of the Giant Soldier, which continued producing monsters.

• Nagato warned that the Giant Soldier was about to self-destruct, but its core went silent and its body melted into the vortex.
• The black liquid created hundreds of Hunters with different elemental abilities, and a Leaf commander ordered the Fire Release unit to attack them.
• The water-armored Hunters survived the fire volley and cut down dozens of Fire Release ninja with high-pressure water streams.
• Raikage A attacked a blue-armored Hunter, but its body resisted his strike; Wind and Earth Hunters combined their abilities to slice through ninja and an Earth Wall.
• Gaara trapped a blue-armored Hunter with sand, but his crushing attack failed to stop it, while the Hunters continued killing the exhausted allied forces.
• Sasuke remained on floating ice and watched the Giant Soldier’s remains continue producing Hunters.

Sasuke and Nagato devised a plan to sever the Chakra threads controlling the Hunters, but cutting them triggered a berserk final protocol. Nagato discovered he could extract and destroy the Hunters’ core data, revealing a way to eliminate them completely.

• Nagato identified the Chakra threads linking the Hunters to the Giant Soldier’s remains, and he organized a strike team with Sasuke, Naruto, and Raikage A while Gaara and Ōnoki cleared a path.
• Sasuke and Nagato used Banshō Ten'in to pull intercepting Hunters away as Raikage and Naruto charged toward the web of threads.
• Raikage’s Lightning attack and Naruto’s Rasengan failed to break the threads, so Sasuke instructed Naruto to use Rasenshuriken and swapped a Water-attribute Hunter with the attack using Heavenly Hand Power.
• Naruto’s Rasenshuriken struck the web’s central node and severed nearly a hundred threads, causing the disconnected Hunters to activate a berserk protocol and attack indiscriminately.
• Nagato used Human Path to extract a rampaging Hunter’s core data, then destroyed it and announced that he had found a way to destroy the Hunters completely.

Tsukimi sacrificed herself to freeze the Hunters, giving the Shinobi Alliance a chance to launch a final attack against the Giant Soldier. Naruto struck the monster with a Rasengan powered by the Alliance’s Chakra, while Tsukimi left Konan a mysterious blue gem before vanishing.

• Nagato extracted data from a Hunter, but the Hunters’ attacks continued to overwhelm the exhausted Alliance.
• Tsukimi used a life-consuming technique to calm the Hunters and stop their Energy Cores from detonating.
• Sasuke identified the pause as the Alliance’s last chance, and Naruto gathered Chakra from the surviving ninja to form the Alliance Rasengan.
• The Giant Soldier recalled the frozen Hunters and rebuilt itself, while Sasuke and Nagato used Chibaku Tensei to hold it in place.
• Tsukimi gave Konan a blue gem and vanished as Naruto struck the Giant Soldier with the Alliance Rasengan.