Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Jin overwhelmed Senju Hashirama with a massive barrage of Tailed Beast Bombs, forcing the God of Shinobi to use Wood Release and driving him back. Hashirama recognized Jin’s extraordinary Chakra reserves and faced him with newfound seriousness.

• Hashirama summoned Five Layered Rashomon to block Jin’s first Tailed Beast Bomb, which left only a dent.
• Jin fired a Gatling barrage of Tailed Beast Bombs that shattered the Rashomon and forced Hashirama to use Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence.
• Jin’s barrage destroyed the forest around Hashirama and drove him back with a crater in his Chakra cloak.
• Leaf shinobi and civilians watched in disbelief as Hashirama was pushed back by Jin.
• Hashirama studied Jin’s immense Chakra and wondered how many Nine-Tails he would have to eat to possess that much.

Tobirama chose to use the Reaper Death Seal rather than risk becoming Orochimaru’s pawn, while Hashirama unleashed his Wood Dragon Technique against Uchiha Jin. Jin stopped the dragon’s shock wave before it struck the young shinobi and appeared behind Hashirama, who prepared to reveal his true power.

• Tobirama decided that sealing his soul with the Reaper Death Seal was preferable to letting Orochimaru control him, and he poured his Chakra into the technique.
• Hashirama summoned a massive Wood Dragon and sent it toward Jin, while Nara Shikaku evacuated the nearby shinobi and carried Temari and Kankuro away.
• Gaara and Naruto stayed to watch despite warnings, and Sasuke remained beside them as Shukaku and the Nine-Tails shielded their Jinchuriki from the dragon’s force.
• Jin halted the Wood Dragon’s shock wave before it hit the three young shinobi and appeared beside Hashirama using what Hashirama recognized as Flying Thunder God.
• Hashirama acknowledged Jin’s strength and formed a hand seal as dark crimson markings appeared on his forehead.

Uchiha Jin used his unusual abilities to overwhelm Senju Hashirama, who transformed into Sage Mode and summoned colossal Wood Release constructs. Jin then revealed his one-of-a-kind light-style Susanoo as the battle escalated.

• Uchiha Jin used Three Feet Before Me and Flying Thunder God Technique to seize Hashirama’s Wood Dragon and hammer him into the ground.
• Jin continued striking Hashirama before Hashirama gathered Natural Energy and entered Sage Mode.
• Hashirama summoned a massive Sage Art Wood Dragon and Wood Golem while Tobirama considered Jin’s potential benefit to Leaf.
• Yamato watched the towering Wood Release constructs as Jin’s glowing Susanoo appeared for the first time.

Hashirama unleashed his Sage Art Wood Golem against Jin, who answered by manifesting a unique, radiant Susanoo. The two giants faced each other as Hashirama acknowledged Jin’s strength, and Jin named himself the Giant of Light.

• Hashirama summoned a towering Wood Golem and wooden dragon infused with Senjutsu, shaking Konoha and overwhelming the nearby onlookers with their power.
• Kakashi and the others watched in awe as Jin’s white radiance grew into an enormous crystal-like Susanoo bearing rings of light like the sun and moon.
• Ōnoki, the Fourth Raikage A, Fugaku, and the Uchiha shinobi reacted with shock and admiration at Jin’s unique Susanoo.
• Hashirama sensed that Jin’s power was a manifestation of light and told him he had earned the right to give his name.
• Jin called himself the Giant of Light.

Jin used the Light Susanoo to destroy Hashirama’s Sage Art Wood Dragon and turn the Wood Golem’s punch back against itself. As Hashirama began preparing True Thousand Hands, Jin invoked Senra Heart Chain to end the fight quickly.

• Jin fired a Light Susanoo palm strike through the Sage Art Wood Dragon’s weak point, vaporizing it.
• Jin used Three Feet Before Me: Repulsion Force to deflect the Wood Golem’s punch into its own crotch, badly damaging it.
• Tobirama continued working on the final stage of his Cursed Mark as a huge shadow formed behind him.
• Hashirama poured Senjutsu Chakra into the Wood Golem and began summoning Sage Art: Wood Release: True Thousand Hands.
• Jin, unwilling to wait for Hashirama’s technique to form, clasped his hands and invoked Senra Heart Chain.

Uchiha Jin used his black chain to lock down Senju Hashirama and copied the Gate of the Great God trait, then fused it with the Senra Heart Chain into a stronger sealing technique. As Tobirama prepared a soul-sacrifice technique, Jin’s new Law Chain of Conferring Gods was ready to face what came next.

• Uchiha Jin’s black chain suppressed Hashirama’s Sage Art Wood Golem and weakened Hashirama’s control over it.
• Senju Hashirama summoned the Gate of the Great God, pinning Susanoo to the ground and suppressing its Chakra and movement.
• Uchiha Jin allowed the gates to restrain Susanoo while he targeted Hashirama, whose Impure World Reincarnation body was nearing its limit.
• Uchiha Jin used Double Kamui: Distortion to tear off Hashirama’s arms and legs, then drove the black chain into the opening.
• Uchiha Jin copied the Gate of the Great God trait and fused it with the Senra Heart Chain to create the Law Chain of Conferring Gods: Endless Lock.
• Tobirama stood up and began a technique that required his soul as the sacrifice.

Tobirama activated the Reaper Death Seal and aimed its blade at Jin, terrifying everyone who sensed the forbidden technique. Just as the blade pierced Light Susanoo, Jin invoked Golden Body of Light and dissolved into sunlight, leaving the Reaper’s attack unresolved.

• Tobirama summoned the Reaper and directed its blade toward Jin, causing Orochimaru, Yugito, Ōnoki, and Raikage A to react with fear or fascination.
• Ōnoki explained that the Reaper Death Seal consumed the souls of both its user and target, while Fugaku tried to reach Jin.
• Jin restrained Fugaku with black chains, and Fugaku saw a future vision in which Jin was unharmed and the Reaper roared.
• The Reaper’s blade pierced Light Susanoo and reached Jin as Tobirama believed the seal had succeeded.
• Jin activated Golden Body of Light and dissolved into sunlight as the Reaper’s blade came down.

Jin turned into sunlight to evade the Shinigami’s soul-seizing attack, then examined the apparition and discovered that interacting with it triggered an analysis. The Shinigami kept trying to grab him as Jin looked forward to learning about its power.

• The Shinigami’s blade and fingers passed through Jin after he merged with the sunlight, leaving Tobirama, Hashirama, Orochimaru, and the others stunned.
• Jin reassembled beside the sunlight while the Shinigami grew furious at its failed attempts to seize him.
• Jin approached the Shinigami, inspected it with his Mangekyo and Byakugan, and tried to talk to it.
• The Shinigami reached for Jin with its soul-extracting power, but Jin remained untouched.
• Jin received a notification that he had been conversing with the Shinigami for three minutes and analyzing its traits.

Uchiha Jin examined the Shinigami’s traits and provoked it until the apparition attacked him in a fury. The Shinigami swallowed Jin, but its body then began to shake apart as the stunned Leaf shinobi watched.

• Uchiha Jin discovered the Shinigami’s copyable traits, including Soul Reaper and Causality Contract, and suspected the contract’s payment was incomplete.
• The Shinigami grew furious, darkened the sky, and unleashed freezing rain before swinging its blade at Uchiha Jin.
• Uchiha Jin taunted the Shinigami and tested whether it could see him, while Tobirama and Hashirama mistook its repeated attacks for Tobirama’s achievement.
• The Shinigami swallowed Uchiha Jin, then began trembling as he continued insulting it from inside its mouth.

Uchiha Jin realized the Reaper’s icy rain was cleansing people’s souls and inferred that someone was watching from behind the Reaper. As the Reaper began to vanish after the ritual, Jin stopped it with chains and invited it to stay for a meal.

• The Reaper’s anger spread frigid rain that extinguished the shinobi’s fire techniques and forced Anbu and Kakashi’s group to endure the cold.
• Naruto offered Sasuke warmth with Nine-Tails Chakra, while Gaara protected himself with a sand umbrella and Sasuke endured the rain.
• Uchiha Jin sensed that the rain was cleansing souls and recognized that the chill affected older people more severely.
• Jin concluded that someone was watching through the Reaper and confronted it, but the Reaper remained silent as its power faded.
• As the Reaper began to disappear after the ritual, chains sounded and Jin invited it to stay for a meal.

Uchiha Jin used his newly forged Endless Lock and Yin Release: Tormentor to attack the Reaper apparition, revealing that his techniques could threaten the Pure Land’s laws. The Reaper tried to escape and fight back, but Jin’s chain bound its arm and began tightening around it.

• Jin summoned the Endless Lock, a black chain attached to a red pillar, and Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama suspected he had created a new jutsu.
• Jin swung the Endless Lock at the Reaper, whose deathly aura retreated from the chain and pillar.
• Jin used a second chain to trap the Reaper, then activated Yin Release: Tormentor against its consciousness.
• The Tormentor caused the Reaper intense pain, making it roar and slow its movements.
• Jin’s chain wrapped around the Reaper’s weapon arm and tightened as the apparition struggled to break free.

Jin used his Endless Lock to bind the Shinigami and taunted it about staying to talk. When the Shinigami attacked the chain and then tried to strike at Jin’s soul, Jin used Weak Presence to evade its power and copied a new trait.

• Jin’s Endless Lock bound the Shinigami’s arm, and he urged it to stop struggling and tell him how to reach the Netherworld.
• The Shinigami struck its own bound arm with its remaining hand, and the laws of death and sealing collided above the Hokage Building.
• The Shinigami sent its deathly power along the chain toward Jin’s soul, but Jin activated Weak Presence and made himself impossible to locate.
• Jin successfully copied the Shinigami’s trait and obtained Blade of Judgment (Black).

Uchiha Jin continued battling the Reaper while the gathered shinobi watched in shock and Orochimaru plotted to capture him. The Reaper began unleashing a new ultimate move as Jin noticed the Blade of Judgment’s effect.

• Hashirama and Tobirama watched in disbelief as Jin gained the upper hand against the Reaper, while Orochimaru sent out snakes and prepared to seize Jin or his cells.
• Sasuke, Naruto, Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro watched the battle below, and Gaara focused on his dead father’s body.
• Shikaku realized Jin’s strength explained why he had entrusted him with the Leaf’s finances, while Ōnoki and A also marveled at the fight.
• The Reaper roared, summoned a swirling funnel of dark clouds, and unleashed a soul-pulling force as Jin noticed the Blade of Judgment entry appear.

Uchiha Jin exploited the connection between Senju Tobirama and the Shinigami to bind Tobirama’s soul while trying to tear off the Shinigami’s arm. The enraged Shinigami began gathering its full power for a final attack, leaving a massive vortex over the Hokage Building.

• Uchiha Jin used a Law Chain of Conferring Gods: Endless Lock to pierce the soul-link between the Shinigami and Senju Tobirama, causing Tobirama’s Impure World Reincarnation body to crack.
• Senju Tobirama realized the chain was sealing his soul, and Senju Hashirama tried unsuccessfully to heal him with Wood Release.
• Uchiha Jin dismissed Tobirama’s accusations and accidentally drove the chain deeper, worsening the damage to both Tobirama and the Shinigami.
• The Shinigami became enraged and gathered a powerful Death Origin attack, willing to destroy its projection to kill Uchiha Jin.
• Uchiha Jin formed a black-and-white Tailed Beast Bomb infused with Yin Release and Light Susanoo power, then threw it toward the Shinigami.
• A massive vortex formed above the Hokage Building as the Shinigami’s attack enveloped the area above the Leaf.

Konoha’s defenders struggled to protect the village from the Shinigami’s enormous Death vortex, while Tobirama realized Hiruzen was the threat to Konoha and ordered him to use the Reaper Death Seal. As Hashirama and the others prepared to act, Uchiha Jin assessed the vortex’s chaotic power and summoned his Light Susanoo.

• Kakashi’s Kamui failed to stop the vortex, so Might Guy carried him and Yamato away while Shikaku ordered an evacuation.
• Fugaku shielded Sasuke and Naruto with Susanoo, and Hashirama summoned True Several Thousand Hands to block the Death Origin and protect Konoha.
• Tobirama told Hiruzen to use the Reaper Death Seal on the Shinigami, and Hiruzen accepted the suicidal task after realizing his teacher was disappointed in him.
• Tobirama concluded that Hiruzen was the villain threatening Konoha, while Hashirama praised Jin’s reform efforts and prepared to intervene.
• Jin sensed that the Shinigami’s Death Rule power had become chaotic and that the vortex might persist indefinitely, then summoned his Light Susanoo.

Uchiha Jin pulled on the Shinigami’s arm while Hashirama and the others tried to stop the death vortex. Sarutobi Hiruzen summoned another Shinigami with the Reaper Death Seal, but it turned its blade toward Jin, who prepared to use his Giant of Light Susanoo against it.

• Uchiha Jin tightened the chain on the Shinigami’s left arm as it continued feeding power into the death vortex.
• Senju Hashirama raised True Several Thousand Hands to shield the Leaf, and Tobirama urged Sarutobi Hiruzen to use the Reaper Death Seal.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen summoned a second Shinigami but secretly tried to have it seal both the Shinigami and Uchiha Jin.
• The two Shinigami projections noticed each other, then both focused on Uchiha Jin; Hiruzen and Tobirama realized the new Shinigami was not obeying him.
• The new Shinigami swung its short blade at Uchiha Jin, who grinned and said that striking him would be the same as striking his Giant of Light.

Uchiha Jin used Light Transformation to evade the Shinigami’s blade, causing it to strike the chained Shinigami instead. Their clashing death powers opened a space tunnel, and Jin recognized the ancient aura emerging from it as the Pure Land’s.

• Uchiha Jin transformed into sunlight, causing the Third Hokage’s Shinigami to miss him and strike the Shinigami trapped by the Endless Lock.
• The trapped Shinigami’s body began to crumble, and Uchiha Jin yanked off its arm with the chains.
• Senju Tobirama blamed Sarutobi Hiruzen for the chaos, while the Third Hokage’s Shinigami dropped its blade and stood aside.
• A black vortex formed in the trapped Shinigami’s chest and swallowed the Death Vortex, debris, and nearby corpses.
• The vortex expanded into a tunnel through space, releasing an ancient aura that Uchiha Jin recognized as the Pure Land’s.

Uchiha Jin defeated the Grim Reaper projections by disrupting their summons and forcing them back toward the Pure Land, while Senju Tobirama’s soul entered the passage. After the passage exploded and the battle ended, Jin revealed he had left a Flying Thunder God formula on Tobirama and resolved to accelerate his plan involving Orochimaru.

• The first Grim Reaper was pulled into the Pure Land, and Senju Hashirama tried to save Senju Tobirama as Tobirama’s soul was dragged toward the passage.
• Jin attached an Endless Lock to Tobirama’s soul, and Tobirama entered the Pure Land passage willingly, halting it briefly.
• Jin struck the Grim Reaper summoned by Sarutobi Hiruzen and threw Hiruzen into the Pure Land, breaking the summoning medium.
• Jin and the Light Susanoo attacked the second Grim Reaper projection with the Law Chain of Conferring Gods and overwhelmed it with combined sun-and-moon power.
• The second Grim Reaper projection exploded, destroying the Pure Land entrance as soul-searing rain fell over the Leaf before the skies cleared.
• Jin revealed that an Endless Lock and Flying Thunder God formula remained on Tobirama’s forehead and decided to hurry his plan for Orochimaru to exploit a bug.

After the battle destroyed the Hokage Building, Uchiha Jin sat untouched by the rain while Konoha’s survivors assessed the damage. Jin stopped Orochimaru from escaping by offering him permission to conduct experiments, a body for Impure World Reincarnation, and the Shinigami’s phantom arm.

• Uchiha Jin remained unharmed at the edge of the ruined Hokage Building as Konoha’s shinobi watched from a distance.
• Uchiha Fugaku used his damaged Susanoo to rescue Sasuke and Naruto, while Sasuke refused Naruto’s offer of warmth.
• Gaara headed toward the ruins to retrieve his father’s corpse, and Nara Shikaku, Kakashi, Might Guy, and Yamato helped organize rescue and cleanup efforts.
• Orochimaru tried to escape the battlefield in the form of small snakes, but Uchiha Jin recognized him and called him back to talk.
• Orochimaru started to leave again, but Uchiha Jin offered to support his experiments, provide a body for Impure World Reincarnation, and let him experiment on the Shinigami’s phantom arm.

Uchiha Jin persuaded Orochimaru to join the Konoha United Committee’s research institute by offering access to the Shinigami’s arm, First Generation Cells, and all nine tailed beasts. As Senju Hashirama found Raikage A and Ōnoki in the rubble, a surge of Lightning Release Chakra approached.

• Uchiha Jin offered Orochimaru a research-director position and promised resources including the Shinigami’s arm, First Generation Cells, and all nine tailed beasts.
• Orochimaru accepted, asking to live outside the village and bring the war orphans he had adopted in Otogakure.
• Senju Hashirama mourned Tobirama and the Third Hokage, then crossed the crater to question Uchiha Jin.
• Hashirama found Raikage A and Ōnoki crawling from the wreckage and greeted them as juniors.
• A powerful surge of Lightning Release Chakra rushed toward them, alarming Fourth Raikage A.