Chapter Summaries

Black Zetsu watched Uchiha Brahman overwhelm Sunagakure and dismissed him as an ordinary Uchiha who would eventually succumb to blindness and age. When Brahman hurled a devastating attack directly at him, Black Zetsu realized he had been discovered and fled.

• Black Zetsu reflected on Uchiha Brahman's overwhelming power and his conquest of the Shinobi World.
• Black Zetsu reasoned that Brahman's Mangekyō Sharingan would eventually go blind and that the Rinnegan might still defeat him.
• Uchiha Brahman threw a black kunai toward Black Zetsu, who tried to flee in alarm.
• The kunai struck the sand and unleashed an enormous explosion that left a crater.
• Black Zetsu fled, abandoning his plans to manipulate Uchiha Brahman.

Uchiha Brahman left the former Sunagakure ninjas to bring the remaining prisoners under his control, then headed with the Empire's forces toward Kumogakure. Rasa was brutally beaten for opposing him but survived, while the unconverted ninjas remained buried in sand.

• Uchiha Brahman dismissed a distant escapee as insignificant and ordered Kakashi to take the former Sunagakure ninjas back for conversion.
• The converted ninjas praised Brahman, while Rasa urged them to resist his control.
• An enraged former Genin and the other converted ninjas beat Rasa and the dissenters, leaving them gravely injured but alive.
• The converted ninjas dug the unconverted prisoners out of the sand, and Uchiha Brahman and the Empire's forces departed for Kumogakure.

In Kumogakure, A prepared to confront Uchiha Brahman after hearing that Iwagakure had fallen. He concluded that Ōnoki had used the Sacred Blessing Serum and may have exposed the other villages’ plans to Uchiha Brahman.

• An Anbu told A that Kumogakure's ninjas had assembled, and A threatened to start a new Shinobi World War against Uchiha Brahman.
• A condemned Uchiha Brahman for stripping other villages of their legal status and turning them into outlawed gatherings of ninjas.
• A destroyed a golden syringe of Sacred Blessing Serum and blamed the serum for Uchiha Brahman's swift victory over Ōnoki.
• A reasoned that Ōnoki had used the serum and may have revealed the four great ninja villages’ plans to Uchiha Brahman.

A convinced himself that Uchiha Brahman had attacked the villages because he feared their alliance, then prepared Kumogakure to support Sunagakure and seize the mind-control jutsu. After learning Sunagakure had fallen, A faced the approaching Uchiha Brahman, who turned toward Kumogakure with only Kirigakure left beyond it.

• A concluded that Uchiha Brahman was powerful but not invincible and had attacked Iwagakure to prevent the villages from uniting against him.
• A decided Kumogakure would march to support Sunagakure and hoped to obtain the jutsu behind the Sacred Blessing Serum.
• A learned that Sunagakure had fallen and resolved that Kumogakure would have to defend itself.
• Uchiha Brahman traveled toward Kumogakure, shooting serum needles at hidden observers and noting that only Kirigakure remained.

Uchiha Brahman attacked Kumogakure with anesthetic-filled Sacred Blessing Serum, knocking out many of its ninja before defeating A with a single kick. The surviving Kumogakure ninja were left stunned by his overwhelming power.

• Fugaku Uchiha praised Uchiha Brahman as his father and disowned Itachi Uchiha for saving Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Uchiha Brahman confronted A near Kumogakure and attacked him with a golden syringe, using Flying Thunder God to dodge A's response.
• Uchiha Brahman scattered vials of Sacred Blessing Serum over the Kumogakure ninja, and syringes knocked many of them unconscious.
• A struck at Uchiha Brahman with Lightning Style: Lightning Oppression Horizontal Chop, but Uchiha Brahman caught his wrist.
• Uchiha Brahman blocked A's lightning-wrapped punch with a chakra arm, then kicked him into a mountainside and left the surviving ninja shocked.

Uchiha Brahman defeated the Kumogakure ninja and fought A, who demanded the method for controlling those injected with the Sacred Blessing Serum. After overpowering A, Brahman proposed that he persuade his younger brother B to join the Empire.

• A surviving Kumogakure ninja tried to flee while others charged Brahman, but Brahman’s syringes knocked them all unconscious.
• Brahman’s followers arrived and praised him as A rose from the crater and acknowledged Brahman’s strength.
• A activated his strongest Lightning Release Armor and attacked Brahman, but their clash left A unable to injure him.
• Brahman struck A hard enough to shatter his ribs, then threatened to involve A’s younger brother, B.
• Brahman asked the wounded A to persuade B to become a citizen of the Empire and accept the True Dharma.

Uchiha Brahman stopped A from killing himself, disabled him with a specialized electromagnetic jutsu, and killed him by suppressing his life and soul. He then revived A with a Seed of Blessing, leaving the defeated Raikage alive in his hands.

• A tried to kill himself rather than be captured by Uchiha Brahman and hoped Killer B could lead Kumogakure's survivors to safety.
• Uchiha Brahman caught A's wrist, shattered it, and used Bio-Electric Interference Pulse Jutsu to paralyze him.
• Uchiha Brahman explained the jutsu, suppressed A's cellular activity and soul, and stopped his heart.
• Uchiha Brahman placed a Seed of Blessing on A, restoring his vital signs and bringing him back to life.

A accepted Uchiha Brahman’s Seed of Blessing and received Sacred Blessing Serum for B, while Uchiha Brahman prepared to conquer Kirigakure. In the Land of Rain, Nagato decided to take the serum’s power from Uchiha Brahman and use it to impose his own vision of peace.

• A awakened to True Dharma, pledged himself to Uchiha Brahman, and accepted Sacred Blessing Serum for B.
• Uchiha Brahman ordered his shinobi to go to Kirigakure and convert its people.
• Nagato examined the Sacred Blessing Serum and concluded that it could restore his body while controlling those who received it.
• Nagato resolved to replace Uchiha Brahman, seize the serum’s method, and use it to bring peace to the Shinobi World.
• Nagato laughed about his plan and noted that the serum did not erase its recipients’ memories.

Nagato believed he would bring peace by controlling those who threatened it, while Orochimaru struggled to reverse-engineer the Sacred Blessing Serum and sought its advanced gene-editing technology. After Orochimaru proposed stealing factory equipment, Nagato refused, planning to wait until Uchiha Brahman had defeated the Shinobi Villages before taking everything from him.

• Nagato reflected that the Sacred Blessing Serum preserved free thought while adding a safeguard, and he envisioned himself as the Kami of the New World.
• A reddish-brown cockroach watched Nagato from the shadows as he wondered how Orochimaru's research was progressing.
• Orochimaru failed to decipher the serum's advanced gene-editing technology and discovered gene locks that blocked his research.
• Orochimaru proposed stealing equipment from a serum factory so he could uncover the technology.
• Nagato rejected the plan and said he would wait until Uchiha Brahman defeated the Shinobi Villages, then defeat him and claim everything he had.

Orochimaru left the Akatsuki, while Obito and Black Zetsu watched Uchiha Brahman approach Kirigakure and feared his power. Brahman overwhelmed the village’s defenders and left them bound above the water, preparing to give them his “blessing.”

• Orochimaru decided to leave the Akatsuki and act alone, fearing Nagato would capture him after their conflict with Uchiha Brahman.
• Black Zetsu told Obito that Brahman had nearly killed him and warned that Obito was no match for Brahman.
• Obito vowed to kill Brahman and watched as Yagura gathered Kirigakure’s ninja to confront him.
• Yagura transformed into a Tailed Beast and launched a Tailed Beast Ball, but Brahman caught it barehanded and crushed it.
• Brahman summoned a vast flood that swallowed Kirigakure’s ninja and bound them with water, leaving their heads above the surface.

Uchiha Brahman overwhelmed Kirigakure’s forces, broke Obito’s control of Yagura, and froze the village’s ninjas while his followers converted them. Obito decided he understood Brahman’s eye technique and attacked, but Brahman answered with a rain of syringes that knocked out the remaining Kirigakure ninjas.

• Uchiha Brahman’s followers injected Sacred Blessing Serum into captured Kirigakure ninjas, who began praising him and the Empire.
• Uchiha Brahman broke Obito’s genjutsu on Yagura, then froze the water and imprisoned the Kirigakure forces, including the transformed Tailed Beast.
• Uchiha Brahman claimed his Mangekyō Sharingan let him learn Kekkei Genkai, and Obito concluded that Brahman’s eye technique copied them.
• Obito charged at Uchiha Brahman, who summoned a rain of golden syringes that knocked out the remaining unconverted Kirigakure ninjas.
• Uchiha Brahman’s followers and the Empire’s citizens knelt and praised him as the Kirigakure forces lay incapacitated.

Uchiha Brahman defeated Obito by piercing Kamui with an anesthetic syringe and froze Yagura near death before sedating him. Black Zetsu watched in despair as his plan to resurrect his mother was disrupted, then recalled that someone had recently detected him.

• Obito watched a syringe pierce through Kamui and injected his arm, then cut off the arm to slow the anesthetic.
• Uchiha Brahman shattered the ice encasing Yagura, leaving him numb and dying, then injected him with a golden syringe.
• Black Zetsu watched through White Zetsu's eyes and despaired over Obito's defeat and Uchiha Brahman's overwhelming power.
• Black Zetsu questioned whether Nagato could defeat Uchiha Brahman but decided to continue waiting for the monster to die.
• Black Zetsu remembered that someone had recently detected him for the first time in ages.

Uchiha Brahman captured Obito Uchiha with a shinobi-targeting anesthetic, leaving Obito stunned that his Kamui had failed and that Brahman knew his identity. Kakashi and the Konoha shinobi urged Obito to abandon his plan, accept the Sacred Blessing Serum, and join the Empire, while Obito remained paralyzed.

• Black Zetsu despaired after Uchiha Brahman discovered him and proved capable of killing him.
• Obito Uchiha lay paralyzed after the anesthetic overcame him, unable to understand how Brahman had bypassed Kamui.
• Obito denied being Obito and claimed he was Madara Uchiha, fearing Brahman had uncovered his identity.
• Kakashi admitted killing Rin and urged Obito to join the Empire so Rin could be resurrected.
• Kakashi threw Obito a vial of Sacred Blessing Serum and urged him to stand up and accept it.
• Might Guy and the Konoha shinobi joined Kakashi in cheering for Obito to take the serum.

Uchiha Brahman’s forces defeated Kirigakure and Obito escaped before he could be given the Sacred Blessing Serum. With the Five Great Ninja Villages destroyed, a new era began, and Shimura Danzō sensed an unexpected visitor at his home.

• Uchiha Brahman and Kakashi urged the anesthetized Obito to accept the Sacred Blessing Serum and join the Empire.
• Obito regained awareness, remembered his conflict with Kakashi over Rin, and accused Kakashi and Uchiha Brahman before escaping through twisted space.
• Uchiha Brahman comforted Kakashi, who praised him, while the anesthetized Kirigakure ninjas lay frozen in ice awaiting their transformation.
• Uchiha Brahman declared the fall of Kirigakure and the end of the Five Great Ninja Villages, heralding a new era.
• At home in Konoha, Shimura Danzō opened his eyes, called out to someone nearby, and a figure appeared.

Sarutobi Hiruzen tried to rescue Shimura Danzō, but Danzō attempted to inject him with the Sacred Blessing Serum and discovered he had approached only a Shadow Clone. Meanwhile, Killer B waited at Kumogakure’s gates, confident that A and the village forces could defeat Uchiha Brahman.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen reflected on Uchiha Brahman’s rise to power and the fall of the Land of Fire.
• Shimura Danzō pretended to be free of Brahman’s control and lured Sarutobi Hiruzen closer, intending to inject him with the Sacred Blessing Serum.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen vanished after Shimura Danzō injected his Shadow Clone, and Danzō angrily lamented that his old friend had not trusted him.
• Killer B waited at Kumogakure’s gates and wondered how A and the others were faring against Uchiha Brahman.

A tricked Killer B was injected with anesthetic as A returned to Kumogakure to bless the village in Uchiha Brahman’s name. Elsewhere, Uchiha Brahman’s clones began the final stage of the Rat Superman experiment.

• A reached Kumogakure badly injured and warned Killer B to flee because Uchiha Brahman had defeated their forces.
• Killer B tried to help A escape, but A injected him with anesthetic and praised Brahman as Killer B lost consciousness.
• A injected himself with Sacred Blessing Serum, then entered Kumogakure to bless the villagers who had not yet received it.
• In a laboratory, Uchiha Brahman’s Shadow Clones began the Final Experimental Protocol and injected a giant rat with Genetic Modification Serum.
• The clones installed advanced mechanical equipment on the rat as they prepared to complete the Rat Superman Project.

Uchiha Brahman completed the transformation of a giant rat into a powerful, cybernetically enhanced follower and named him Great Horned Rat. Elsewhere, Brahman advanced the Cockroach Angel Project to its final stage and activated the next step.

• Uchiha Brahman’s Shadow Clones completed the giant rat’s mechanical and genetic modifications, and its intelligence awakened.
• The giant rat praised Brahman, while the Shadow Clones checked the systems and recorded the experiment’s results.
• A Shadow Clone named the rat Great Horned Rat, who gratefully prostrated himself and praised his master.
• Uchiha Brahman’s Shadow Clones presented Great Horned Rat with a huge green trident.
• At another laboratory, Uchiha Brahman’s Shadow Clones prepared the Cockroach Angel Project’s humanoid creatures and pressed a red button to begin its final stage.

Uchiha Brahman created and enhanced the Angel Cockroach Abbot and the Deep One leader Dagon, adding two powerful races to his growing forces. At Mount Myoboku, the Great Toad Sage foresaw a changed destiny and an attack, as rats poured onto the mountain.

• The Angel Cockroaches emerged from their jars, praised Uchiha Brahman, and knelt before their creator.
• Uchiha Brahman modified the strongest Angel Cockroach with cybernetics and named it Abbot.
• Uchiha Brahman created the Deep Ones and named their strongest leader Dagon.
• The Great Toad Sage foresaw a catastrophe, a changed destiny, and a force concealing the Child of Prophecy, then warned the Toads that Mount Myoboku was finished.
• Cockroaches formed a summoning array, and rats erupted from the Rat Nest to attack the living creatures on Mount Myoboku.

Rat Supermen led by the Great Horned Rat attacked Mount Myoboku and overwhelmed the toads with advanced weapons and technology. Uchiha Brahman watched from above as the Great Toad Sage, wounded, roared amid the massacre.

• A frightened toad warned that Mount Myoboku was overrun by rats, and the Great Toad Sage realized his prophecy had come true.
• The Great Horned Rat praised Brahman and used a Chakra Blast Cannon to blast a hole through Gamabunta's chest.
• The Great Horned Rat killed Gamabunta with his trident and pierced Gamaken's chest with a laser from his tail.
• A brown rat wielding a laser katana joined the slaughter as the Rat Supermen routed the toads across Mount Myoboku.
• Uchiha Brahman's Shadow Clones watched the battle and confirmed that their experiment had succeeded.
• The wounded Great Toad Sage let out a tremendous roar.

The Great Toad Sage spent his life force to hold off the Great Horned Rat and give the surviving toads time to escape. Meanwhile, Abbot and the Angel Cockroaches attacked Ryūchi Cave, and the White Snake Sage realized they were connected to Uchiha Brahman before Abbot completed his chant against her.

• The Great Toad Sage restored his body with Senjutsu Chakra and ordered Fukasaku and Shima to flee and find Jiraiya.
• The Great Toad Sage charged the Great Horned Rat and its swarm while the surviving toads escaped.
• Abbot killed Manda and fought through Ryūchi Cave alongside the Angel Cockroaches.
• The White Snake Sage probed Abbot's information and learned that the Angel Cockroaches were connected to Uchiha Brahman.
• The White Snake Sage failed to break Abbot's golden sutra defenses, tried to flee, and begged for mercy as Abbot finished chanting.