Recaps

Sasuke defeated Kakuzu and forced Takigakure to disband, then confronted Kumogakure and demanded its jinchūriki. As A prepared to fight, Killer B urged him to accept that the village had already lost.

• Kakuzu attacked Sasuke with four elemental jutsu, but Sasuke absorbed them and sealed Kakuzu and his heart monsters with Chibaku Tensei.
• Fū surrendered to Sasuke and asked him to spare the villagers, while Shibuya announced that Takigakure was disbanding.
• A learned that smaller villages were surrendering to Divine Court and that Sasuke had arrived to demand the Four-Tails and Eight-Tails.
• Sasuke confronted A outside Kumogakure, and A refused to hand over Killer B and Rōshi, preparing to fight.
• Killer B arrived and told A that resisting would only get more people killed and that Kumogakure had already lost.

Killer B and Rōshi agreed to cooperate with Sasuke and the Divine Court, but Orochimaru attacked Kumogakure to capture the two Jinchuriki. Sasuke confronted Orochimaru, whose substitution technique let him recover from Sasuke’s first attacks.

• Killer B agreed to join the Divine Court’s plan for peace, and A agreed to bring Rōshi to Sasuke.
• Rōshi accepted Sasuke’s offer after Sasuke promised to protect innocent villagers and let Kumogakure keep its structure under the Divine Court’s rule.
• A Cloud shinobi reported that Orochimaru and modified shinobi were attacking Kumogakure’s defenses to seize the Jinchuriki.
• Sasuke flew to the mountain, defeated more than a dozen modified shinobi, and confronted Orochimaru.
• Sasuke used Banshō Ten’in and Shinra Tensei against Orochimaru, but Orochimaru escaped his damaged body with the Orochimaru-Style Substitution Technique and claimed he could keep returning to life.

Sasuke killed Orochimaru and destroyed his hidden backups, then returned to Kumogakure with Killer B and Rōshi. A accepted the Divine Court’s rule and gave up Kumogakure’s independence, leaving only Sunagakure and Iwagakure outside its authority.

• Sasuke used King Yama to consume Orochimaru’s soul, defeated the Giant Purple Snake with his three-headed hellhound, and killed Orochimaru again after he revived through a modified shinobi.
• Sasuke extracted Orochimaru’s memories, destroyed his hidden spare bodies with Shinra Tensei, and reduced his body to ash.
• Sasuke killed the remaining modified shinobi with Super Almighty Push and flew back to Kumogakure.
• Sasuke told A that Orochimaru was dead and Otogakure no longer existed, then left with Killer B and Rōshi to meet the Divine Master.
• A said goodbye to Killer B and ordered Mabui to announce that Kumogakure had joined the Divine Court.

Sasuke brought the Four-Tails, Seven-Tails, and Eight-Tails Jinchuriki to Uchiha Jin, who then went to Sunagakure to demand a meeting with Gaara. Gaara ordered the village to prepare to fight, and the chapter ended with Jin asking about Shukaku.

• Sasuke delivered Killer B, Rōshi, and Fū to Uchiha Jin, who ordered the Medical Team to help Rōshi and Fū accept their mission.
• Jin announced that Sunagakure and Iwagakure were his next targets and that he would visit them in person.
• After learning Kumogakure had surrendered, Gaara refused to surrender Sunagakure and ordered its shinobi to prepare for battle.
• Jin arrived above Sunagakure in Divine Court's fortress, then landed outside the village and called for the Kazekage.
• Gaara identified himself to Jin, who asked how Shukaku was doing.

Uchiha Jin overwhelmed Gaara and his siblings while demanding Sunagakure submit to Divine Court, then Akatsuki members Deidara and Sasori arrived to claim Gaara. Jin halted his attack on Gaara and turned his attention to the newcomers after Deidara’s explosives failed to damage his fortress.

• Jin demanded Gaara surrender control of Sunagakure to Divine Court, while his invisible force immobilized Kankuro and Temari’s attack vanished before reaching him.
• Jin took control of Gaara’s sand, choked him with it, and formed a sand Shukaku to attack him.
• Kankuro broke free and took the sand Shukaku’s blow meant for Gaara, leaving him motionless on the ground.
• Jin released Gaara from the sand hand and began burying him in a pyramid of sand, but the attack stopped when Deidara and Sasori arrived on a clay bird.
• Deidara bombed Jin’s black fortress, but the explosions left it unharmed, and Jin called the pair flies and criticized Deidara’s noisy art.

Uchiha Jin confronted Deidara and Scorpion, overpowering them until A intervened and challenged him. After Jin defeated A, Killer B joined his brother, and the two attacked together as Jin began using Chibaku Tensei.

• Jin disrupted Deidara's Chakra, causing his clay bird to fall, and Scorpion caught him with his puppet tail.
• Jin used sand to tear apart Scorpion's Hiruko puppet and expose Scorpion's heart core, but A struck the sand hand with lightning and freed him.
• A attacked Jin with the Liger Bomb, but Jin shrugged off the blow and slapped A into a crater.
• A repeatedly charged Jin with Lightning Release, but Jin deflected his attacks until A collapsed from exhaustion.
• Killer B arrived to help A, transformed into the Eight-Tails, and joined A in attacking Jin.
• Jin calmly invoked Chibaku Tensei as A and Killer B's assault closed in.

Uchiha Jin defeated Ōnoki and rejected Naruto’s challenge, then announced that the Divine Court would rule the Shinobi World. Might Guy opened the Seventh Gate and attacked Jin.

• Ōnoki shattered Jin’s gravity core, but Jin crushed Ōnoki’s Dust Release and drained his life force.
• Jin turned the Iwagakure shinobi’s Earth Release attacks back on them and killed Ōnoki, then offered A and Killer B a chance to submit.
• Naruto and the Leaf shinobi arrived to rescue Gaara, but Jin dispelled Naruto’s Shadow Clones and knocked him away.
• Sasuke defended Jin and told Naruto that only the Divine Master could save the rotten world, while Naruto argued that ruling by force would bring more suffering.
• Jin announced across the Shinobi World that the old shinobi system was over and that resisting the Divine Court would mean death.
• Might Guy opened the Seventh Gate and launched Morning Peacock at Jin.

Jin overwhelmed the shinobi and exposed the truth behind Obito’s Moon Eye Plan, revealing that Black Zetsu intended to resurrect Kaguya. Jin chose to allow Kaguya’s resurrection so he could take her power, then read Obito’s memories and learned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was at his base.

• Jin defeated Might Guy’s attacks and sent him crashing into a rock wall, then warned the others away and focused on Naruto.
• Naruto entered Sage Mode and attacked Jin with a Rasenshuriken, but Jin caught and dissolved it.
• Obito arrived, and Jin identified him and revealed that the Infinite Tsukuyomi was meant to resurrect Kaguya, not create a world for Rin.
• Jin explained that Black Zetsu was Kaguya’s son and had manipulated Obito, then said he wanted Kaguya resurrected so he could take her power.
• Obito attacked Jin with Kamui, but Jin appeared behind him, immobilized him, and read his memories.
• Jin learned from Obito’s memories that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was with Nagato, though it should now be at Jin’s base.

Jin challenged the Sage of Six Paths’ ideals and fought him across the desert, overpowering his techniques. He claimed to come from a higher dimension, but Naruto still opposed his right to trample on other people’s lives.

• Jin restrained Naruto and tightened the sand around Gaara before the Sage of Six Paths appeared and confronted him.
• Jin and the Sage of Six Paths argued over whether peace justified taking away people’s freedom, then began fighting.
• Jin caught and crushed one of the Sage of Six Paths’ Truth-Seeking Orbs with his bare hand.
• The Sage of Six Paths used Six Paths: Chibaku Tensei, but Jin’s Super: Chibaku Tensei swallowed it and forced the Sage to teleport away.
• Jin said he came from a higher dimension and commanded the world’s fundamental laws, but Naruto declared that this did not give him the right to trample on others’ lives.

Uchiha Jin showed Naruto a peaceful world where his loved ones were alive and every tragedy had been undone, but Naruto rejected it as false. Jin returned the battlefield to reality and challenged Sasuke’s faith in the people he served.

• Jin touched Naruto’s forehead and trapped him in a world where Jiraiya and the villagers were alive and Naruto was Hokage.
• Naruto saw Sasuke and Sakura with their child and Neji training with Hinata, but decided the perfect world was fake and rejected it.
• The illusion shattered, and Jin condemned humanity for choosing painful reality over effortless perfection.
• Obito trembled after seeing his dream life with Rin created and erased, while Killer B admitted he and A could not defeat Jin.
• Jin asked Sasuke whether he had understood the will Naruto defended, and Sasuke silently questioned which choice was more foolish.

Jin forcibly extracted Shukaku from Gaara and turned the tailed beast into an inert sphere, then punished Sasuke for challenging his claim that power alone defined order. Jin left Sasuke pinned beneath his foot and declared that disobedient tools were scrap.

• Jin pulled Shukaku out of Gaara, leaving Gaara bleeding and collapsed as Naruto, Temari, and Kankuro failed to intervene.
• Jin prepared to extract the Eight-Tails from Killer B, but Sasuke stepped forward and challenged Jin’s methods.
• Sasuke argued that Jin was enforcing obedience rather than establishing order, while Jin insisted he could make and break any rules he wanted.
• Jin compressed Shukaku into a purple sphere, demonstrating that he could reduce the tailed beast’s life and consciousness to an object.
• Jin crushed Sasuke with invisible pressure, pinned him into the sand, and called him a tool that would become scrap if it thought for itself.

Sasuke, Obito, and the others worked together to rescue their allies and temporarily remove Shukaku’s energy from Jin’s grasp. Jin retaliated by summoning and fusing the Chakra of all nine Tailed Beasts into a new destructive entity he named “Zeroing.”

• Obito urged Sasuke to use Heavenly Hand Power, and Sasuke switched Jin’s Shukaku-energy sphere with the unconscious Kankuro.
• Obito used Kamui to send the sphere to another dimension while Killer B rescued Raikage A and Naruto prepared to carry Gaara and Sasuke away.
• Jin praised the group’s teamwork, then declared that he would crush their bonds by forcibly gathering the Tailed Beasts’ Chakra.
• Gyūki, the Nine-Tails, the Beasts sealed in the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and Shukaku’s energy all poured toward Jin.
• Jin fused the Chakra of all nine Tailed Beasts into a vast black sphere and named the new creation “Zeroing.”

Uchiha Jin unleashed Zeroing, a sphere that threatened to erase all Chakra and life, while the Sage of Six Paths gave Naruto and Sasuke his final power and urged them to redefine it through their will. Naruto and Sasuke joined forces as Zeroing descended, and Naruto began their counterattack with Sage Art: Super Tailed Beast Rasen Barrage.

• Jin named the black sphere Zeroing and declared that it would erase the world before he created a new one.
• Zeroing drained Naruto's and Killer B's Chakra as it descended, leaving the gathered ninjas unable to resist.
• The Sage of Six Paths told Naruto and Sasuke that their will could oppose Jin's control of the world's rules, then gave them his remaining power.
• Naruto and Sasuke awakened new Six Paths abilities as the Sage explained that they must redefine Zeroing rather than destroy it.
• Naruto and Sasuke exchanged a wordless understanding, and Naruto launched Sage Art: Super Tailed Beast Rasen Barrage at Zeroing.

Naruto and Sasuke transformed Jin’s Zeroing into a World Egg by combining life-giving Yang Release with Sasuke’s law-shaping Yin Release. Jin acknowledged their creation but warned that he held the world’s highest authority, leaving the World Egg’s fate uncertain.

• Naruto used the Six Paths Staff to accelerate the battlefield’s natural cycle and explained how bonds had turned his once-empty life into something full.
• Naruto formed the Sage Art: Genesis Rasengan while Sasuke created a silver Susanoo and used Shinra Tensei to steady Zeroing for the attack.
• Naruto’s Rasengan entered Zeroing, but the black sphere began absorbing his power until Sasuke cut Jin’s law of devouring with a starlight chisel.
• The Nine Tailed Beasts’ Chakra colors emerged as the sphere transformed into a World Egg that began nurturing a new world.
• Jin praised Naruto and Sasuke’s creation, then warned that it still needed permissions and that he held the highest authority.

Naruto and Sasuke used Naruto’s will and Sasuke’s inherited creation authority to rewrite the World Egg as Jin’s control over reality faltered. The Egg evolved into a new ten-tailed being, leaving the battlefield facing a creature no one recognized.

• Naruto revealed that his will had followed Jin’s connection to the world and infected it like a virus.
• Naruto resonated with Natural Energy across the battlefield while Sasuke prepared to force their authority of creation into the World Egg.
• Jin’s anger caused reality to glitch, but Naruto’s will disrupted his control long enough for Sasuke to inscribe Yin-Yang Fusion into the Egg.
• The World Egg absorbed the distorted fragments of reality and developed a will independent of Jin’s system.
• The World Egg shattered, and a ten-tailed creature combining the traits of the tailed beasts, Naruto, and Sasuke emerged.

Naruto and Sasuke created an independent Ten-Tails, but Jin began to analyze and dominate it. Obito offered Jin his Kamui and everything he had in exchange for bringing Rin back, then revealed that the Kamui Dimension existed beyond Jin’s rules.

• Naruto and Sasuke transformed Zero into an independent Ten-Tails, which showed fear of Jin and affection toward them.
• Jin attacked the Ten-Tails, absorbed its combined assault, and bound it with golden chains to analyze and overwrite its free will.
• Naruto and Sasuke stood against Jin as he tightened the chains around their creation.
• Obito stepped between Jin and the Ten-Tails and offered his Kamui, Sharingan, and help with Jin’s plan in exchange for a world with Rin.
• Obito told Jin that Kamui connected to a dimension beyond the rules Jin controlled, prompting Jin to ask what he meant.

Obito bargained with Jin to send the newborn Ten-Tails into Kamui in exchange for a world with Rin, but Jin killed him and took his powers instead. Jin absorbed the Ten-Tails and prepared to test Naruto and Sasuke, with a puppet-like Rin at his side.

• Obito offered to move the newborn Ten-Tails into his Kamui Dimension in exchange for a private world with Rin, and Jin accepted the deal.
• Sasuke warned Naruto that Jin seemed to have anticipated their choices and was waiting for a key variable.
• As Obito used Kamui to pull the Ten-Tails into his dimension, Jin appeared behind him and tore out his heart.
• Jin killed Obito, took his eyes, Kamui Dimension, and obsession with Rin, then used Kamui to pull the Ten-Tails completely into the dimension.
• Jin named Naruto and Sasuke the world's final variables and prepared to test them with a lifeless-looking Rin Nohara beside him.

Jin used a data-based replica of Rin to torment Kakashi and test whether his reason or feelings would prevail. As Kakashi struggled to face the crying replica, Sasuke urged him to consider what the real Rin would want, leaving the choice unresolved.

• Jin revealed that he had created a replica of Rin from Obito's memories and argued that she could function as the real Rin.
• Rin approached Kakashi and healed his wound, but Kakashi identified details that proved she was not the Rin he remembered.
• Kakashi thrust his kunai toward Rin, then froze when she began to cry and pleaded with him not to kill her.
• Jin immobilized Naruto's attack and challenged Kakashi to choose between reason and his feelings for Rin.
• Sasuke explained that Rin was made of programmed data and reminded Kakashi that someone who truly loved him would not want to become his shackles.

Jin used Kamui to trap Sasuke in a vision of the Uchiha massacre and an imitation of Itachi, trying to make Sasuke doubt his brother’s love and his own choices. Sasuke rejected the counterfeit and affirmed that Itachi’s tenderness and love were real.

• Jin challenged Sasuke over abandoning revenge and forgiving the Leaf, invoking the deaths of Fugaku, Mikoto, and the Uchiha clan.
• Sasuke attacked Jin with his lightning-charged Kusanagi Sword, but Jin dodged and trapped him in Kamui’s Inner World.
• Jin recreated the Uchiha District massacre and used an imitation of Itachi to accuse Sasuke of being a pawn in his brother’s plan.
• The imitation claimed Itachi’s love was an act and dismissed his tears as a deception, causing Sasuke’s Susanoo to waver.
• Sasuke remembered Itachi’s final touch, their embrace after Impure World Reincarnation, and his brother’s confession, then declared Jin’s imitation soulless and unable to understand their love.

Sasuke broke Jin’s illusion by choosing his own path, and Jin subjected Naruto to a perfect vision of the life he had lost. Naruto began to question the illusion after tasting its recreated ramen, leaving Jin unsettled.

• Sasuke strengthened his Susanoo with his will and severed the illusion’s imposed definition of Itachi, shattering the scene.
• Jin praised Sasuke’s resistance and began his final experiment on Naruto, touching his forehead to draw him into an idealized Konoha.
• Naruto saw his living parents, friends, and a peaceful village, and Jin urged him to accept this perfect world.
• Naruto visited Ichiraku and tasted Jin’s recreated ramen, then complained that Jin misunderstood ramen.
• Jin’s voice wavered at Naruto’s criticism.

Naruto rejected Jin’s flawless illusion, arguing that pain and imperfection gave life meaning and helped people cherish their bonds. Back on the battlefield, Naruto asked the survivors to lend him their strength, and their combined Chakra and will gathered in his sun mark as Jin struggled to understand their choice.

• Naruto exposed the illusion’s perfect ramen as unlike the messy, changing food made by real people, then rejected the flawless world Jin had created.
• Naruto told Jin that hardship, loss, and conflict helped people value happiness and strengthen their bonds, and the illusion shattered.
• Naruto challenged Jin and argued that human flaws and struggles made people alive and resilient.
• Naruto called on Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi-sensei, Gaara, Uncle Killer B, and the other survivors to lend him their strength.
• The battlefield’s shinobi and samurai willingly sent their Chakra and will into Naruto’s sun mark, leaving Jin unable to understand their choice.

Naruto used the Shinobi Alliance’s shared memories and bonds to stop Jin from deleting the world, but Jin identified Sasuke as a critical link in their network. Jin used Kamui to bring Uchiha Itachi out of the void.

• Jin analyzed the golden energy in Naruto’s palm and concluded that their bonds formed a chaotic network he could not understand.
• Jin began deleting the world, causing the landscape and the shinobi to break apart into pixels.
• Naruto asked everyone to put what they treasured into his Rasengan, and memories from the Shinobi Alliance flowed into it.
• Naruto’s Super Big Ball Bonds Rasengan restored the pixelated world and forced Jin’s deletion command into a stalemate.
• Jin decided that severing a core node could collapse the bonds network and targeted Sasuke.
• Jin used Kamui to bring Uchiha Itachi out of the void.

Jin offered Sasuke a chance to restore Itachi in exchange for severing his bond with Naruto, but Sasuke rejected the choice and reaffirmed both bonds. His renewed resolve strengthened the Bonds Rasengan and pushed back Jin’s delete command.

• Jin presented Sasuke with a living vessel for Itachi and demanded that he choose between his brother and Naruto.
• Sasuke wavered as he saw that the vessel was real, and Naruto sent him a silent expression of trust.
• Sasuke touched Itachi’s forehead, told him to rest, and chose to walk the road ahead himself.
• Sasuke told Jin that family and friendship were both essential to him, then called out to Naruto.
• Sasuke and Naruto’s bond grew stronger, making the Bonds Rasengan blaze brighter and forcing Jin’s delete command back.

Jin turned Itachi into a flawless killing machine and forced Sasuke to fight his brother’s image. As Sasuke struggled to strike back, Naruto reminded him that the real Itachi had never been perfect.

• Jin activated the sleeping Itachi and ordered him to kill Sasuke.
• Sasuke defended himself from Itachi’s Amaterasu and precisely calculated attacks, then broke free of his Tsukuyomi with his Rinnegan.
• Itachi summoned his Susanoo and drove Sasuke back, exploiting Sasuke’s hesitation to attack his brother’s face.
• Naruto remained occupied resisting Jin’s formatting command and could not help Sasuke directly.
• Naruto recalled the ramen that had tasted real despite being bland and shouted that Itachi had never been perfect.

Sasuke used his memories of Itachi’s flaws and his love for his brother to crash Jin’s perfect imitation, giving Naruto the chance to destroy Jin and end the apocalypse. The survivors found the world restored, and Sasuke caught the exhausted Naruto as Sakura hurried to them.

• Sasuke recognized that Jin’s imitation of Itachi lacked the subtle shoulder movement caused by Itachi’s damaged eyesight.
• Sasuke used Heavenly Hand Power to reach the imitation and poured his feelings into it, causing its system to fail and its Susanoo to vanish.
• Sasuke called out to Naruto, who unleashed his power and destroyed the immobilized Jin with a wave of golden light.
• The survivors saw that the world had returned to normal, and Ino asked whether the battle was over.
• Sasuke caught the exhausted Naruto, and Sakura reached them and scolded them for the destruction and danger.