Chapter Summaries

At the Second Ninja World Conference, Yunqing and the Sage of Six Paths led the Kage in discussing how to develop the ninja world and prepare for the approaching Otsutsuki Clan. The leaders agreed to consider sharing technology and resources, while the Mizukage called for extensive development of the oceans.

• Yunqing reflected on the hidden villages’ preparations against the Otsutsuki Clan and the Kage’s efforts to build balanced defenses.
• The Sage of Six Paths opened the Second Ninja World Conference and said the leaders needed to establish a path for developing the ninja world.
• Yunqing proposed sharing technology and resources, balancing trade, eliminating tariffs, and distributing quotas according to each nation’s contributions.
• Tobirama Senju explained Yunqing’s proposal to Hashirama Senju, who endorsed it and prompted other leaders to voice their support.
• The Mizukage urged the villages to extensively explore ocean resources, including the underwater world.

At a gathering of the hidden villages, the leaders agreed to trade resources and technology for shared development. Yunqing offered Sunagakure’s gold dust, but the others pressed him for more, especially satellite technology.

• The Third Mizukage proposed that the villages jointly develop the ocean, offering Kirigakure’s ships, supplies, and shipbuilding knowledge in exchange for resources and manpower.
• Ōnoki announced that Iwagakure would sell its mineral resources to the other villages.
• The Third Raikage offered Kumogakure’s Chakra- and natural-energy-rich cattle as food for the other villages.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi said Konoha would share techniques, research, a simplified Gene Potion, and medicinal herbs.
• Yunqing offered Sunagakure’s gold dust, but the other villages demanded greater contributions, such as satellite technology.

The hidden villages and countries advanced their technology and economies, eventually creating a ninja-world computer network powered by Tsukuyomi, the moon, and Chakra Energy. Yunqing marveled at the result, while Kakuzu celebrated the success of his logistics company.

• After the United Hidden Village Conference, villages expanded television access and later launched their own satellites and telephone networks.
• Kakuzu's logistics company grew through cooperation with the Five Great Hidden Villages, telephone orders, and television advertising, despite its costly delivery system.
• To reduce losses and improve information sharing, Orochimaru and Sāmon led researchers from across the ninja world in developing a computer network.
• The network used Tsukuyomi and the moon to relay information at extraordinary speeds, with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the God Tree supplying Chakra Energy.
• Yunqing inspected the familiar-looking computer interface and marveled at the network's speed.
• Kakuzu reviewed his company's profits and reflected that following Yunqing to Sunagakure had brought him safer, steadier work and greater wealth than missions.

Kakuzu reflected on how following Yunqing had led him to move his successful logistics company to United City, which had grown into a major center of the ninja world. The chapter described the city's Chakra Artificial Sun, the debate over its immense cost and weapon potential, and the former Land of Iron residents who benefited from its construction.

• Kakuzu reviewed his upgraded company's financial report and decided that United City was the right place for its headquarters.
• The major villages and investors built United City around the United Hidden Village, turning it into a prominent center of the ninja world.
• The Sage of Six Paths and others created a Chakra Artificial Sun to illuminate United City, but its immense Chakra consumption prevented Amegakure and other villages from obtaining one.
• Ayu protested the artificial sun's cost at the annual conference, but Orochimaru explained its expense and destructive potential, and researchers added ways to simplify it to their agenda.
• Yunqing saved the artificial-sun technology after considering its potential uses, including solar bombardment.
• Residents of the former Land of Iron gained food, lodging, and work building United City, despite receiving very low wages.

United City prospered under the Sage of Six Paths’s protection as the villages funded its industries and Orochimaru’s Research institute. The chapter ended with a comic account of Lady Pakura’s power over her husband and the young ladies’ companion-chat service.

• United City grew into a prosperous hub as the villages built factories, hired displaced people, and established branch companies.
• Orochimaru and the researchers used White Zetsu and rebels as laboratory assistants while developing technologies requested by the villages and the Sage of Six Paths.
• The great figures eagerly funded new research and accepted the researchers’ unexpected byproducts.
• The chapter described how Lady Pakura had raided a companion-chat gathering place and could use her influence to disrupt the business, leaving the Third Kazekage unable to visit.

The Sage of Six Paths found contentment in United City’s material peace and resolved to cultivate again to protect the world. He left for Mount Myōboku to seek Gamamaru, meeting the Great Toad Sage for the first time in a thousand years.

• The Sage of Six Paths looked over United City and concluded that its people’s material well-being was a form of true peace.
• At the second Ninja World Allied Village conference, Hanzo of the Salamander raised doubts about the younger generation’s strength, and the leaders privately settled on pursuing immortality through Gene Potions.
• The Sage of Six Paths decided to cultivate and protect the ninja world from Yunqing, the Otsutsuki Clan, and any future threat from his mother.
• The Sage of Six Paths left a message in his office and traveled to Mount Myōboku to ask Gamamaru about something.
• Sage Shima escorted the Sage of Six Paths to Gamamaru, ending a thousand years without the two meeting.

The Sage of Six Paths visited Mount Myōboku to cultivate, where he and Gamamaru met again after a long separation and privately suspected each other of scheming. Gamamaru allowed Hagoromo to stay as long as he did not disturb him, and Hagoromo began cultivating while keeping the Three Sacred Lands as potential allies against the Otsutsuki Clan.

• The Sage of Six Paths reflected on his past conflict with Gamamaru and the Three Sacred Lands, and judged Mount Myōboku to be the weakest of the three.
• The Sage of Six Paths and Gamamaru sensed the other's immense vitality, exchanged polite greetings, and cursed each other in their thoughts.
• The Sage of Six Paths asked to cultivate at Mount Myōboku because natural energy was more abundant there.
• Gamamaru let the Sage of Six Paths cultivate wherever he wished as long as he did not disturb his rest.
• The Sage of Six Paths considered the Three Sacred Lands' influence on powerful shinobi and decided they could still be allies against an Otsutsuki invasion.
• The Sage of Six Paths left Gamamaru and began cultivating at Mount Myōboku.

The Sage of Six Paths trained at Mount Myōboku while the Three Sacred Lands considered the threat posed by the Otsutsuki Clan. Yunqing monitored the gathering from the Dark Plane and discovered that the Three Sacred Lands were powerful, long-lived pocket worlds.

• The Toad Sage watched the Sage of Six Paths leave and weighed the Three Sacred Lands’ opposition to Kaguya Otsutsuki and the Otsutsuki Clan.
• The Sage of Six Paths trained at the Three Sacred Lands by absorbing natural energy and learning to mobilize it.
• The Three Great Sages learned that the Sage of Six Paths had arrived at Mount Myōboku, while the Three Sacred Lands maintained their balance with one another.
• Yunqing received a warning from his Dark Plane device and watched the exchange between the Three Sacred Lands’ sages.
• Yunqing observed that the Three Sacred Lands were partly folded into the ninja world and partly independent, and that each held many powerful, long-lived summoned beasts.

Yunqing and the Sage of Six Paths planned to weaken the Three Sacred Lands by opening their contract trials to the entire ninja world. They confronted the Great Toad Sage at Mount Myōboku, with Yunqing hovering nearby as the Sage of Six Paths began negotiations.

• Yunqing and the Sage of Six Paths agreed that the Three Sacred Lands had grown too powerful and needed to be weakened, though their main enemy remained the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Yunqing proposed opening the Three Sacred Lands’ contract trials to everyone in the ninja world so more people would form contracts with them.
• The Sage of Six Paths questioned how they could persuade the Three Sacred Lands, and Yunqing said their strength would make them agree.
• Yunqing and the Sage of Six Paths immediately went to Mount Myōboku, where the Sage of Six Paths faced the Great Toad Sage while Yunqing watched from above.

Yunqing and the Sage of Six Paths pressured the Three Sacred Lands to open their summoning contracts to the ninja world and lower the trial requirements. The three sages agreed after witnessing Yunqing’s power, and he left with the Sage of Six Paths after firing his charged Flame Bombardment into outer space.

• The Sage of Six Paths asked the Great Toad Sage to establish trial sites across the ninja world and lower the trials’ difficulty.
• The Great Toad Sage summoned the White Snake Sage and Katsuyu, who arrived with reinforcements but lost their nerve after seeing Yunqing’s power.
• The White Snake Sage agreed to open Ryūchi Cave’s contracts and signed the new agreement drafted by Yunqing and the Sage of Six Paths.
• After confirming the agreement was not a trap, the Great Toad Sage and Katsuyu signed as well.
• Yunqing fired his charged Flame Bombardment into outer space, startling the three sages with its power, then left with the Sage of Six Paths and invited them to visit Sunagakure.

After Yunqing and the Sage of Six Paths left with the contracts, the Three Sacred Lands opened trials across the ninja world, making their summoning contracts and Sage Chakra training available to everyone. The sages took out their anger over the change on Jiraiya and Orochimaru, while Tsunade received only a scolding.

• Yunqing and the Sage of Six Paths left with the contracts after the Great Toad Sage and White Snake Sage refused to visit Sunagakure.
• The Three Sacred Lands opened trial sites throughout the ninja world, and ninja from every country began seeking contracts and Sage Chakra training.
• Konoha sent Jiraiya to Mount Myōboku, where giant toads beat him in their anger at Yunqing, the Third Kazekage, and the Sage of Six Paths.
• The White Snake Sage Reverse Summoned Orochimaru to Ryūchi Cave and forced him to endure a beating, leaving him repeatedly using the Shedding Skin Technique until he ran out of Chakra and mental energy.
• Tsunade was summoned to Shikkotsu Forest and received a fierce verbal lashing from its great sage.

After the Three Great Sacred Lands opened their trials to the ninja world, other summoning beast clans followed suit and began offering contracts and doing business. Konoha lost its former advantage from exclusive ties with summoning beasts, and Hiruzen Sarutobi suspected Yunqing had engineered the change to retaliate against Konoha.

• The Three Great Sacred Lands opened their trials indefinitely, causing the Sannin's summoning beasts to lose much of their exclusive value.
• The Three Great Sages convened other summoning beast clans, which agreed to offer contracts to humans while blacklisting anyone who treated them as tools.
• Summoning beast clans began opening trials across the ninja world, while the Ninja Cat Clan continued its weapons and intelligence business.
• The Monkey Clan opened its trials to every country, leaving the Sarutobi Clan and Konoha furious at losing their former advantage.
• Konoha arranged more summoning contracts, while the Third Raikage and Ōnoki praised Konoha for sharing its advantages.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi suspected Yunqing had orchestrated the change in revenge for Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha's challenge to him.

Online gossip about prominent figures shook the ninja world, angering Mito Uzumaki and Madara Uchiha. Madara suspected Yunqing was behind the rumors and decided to find a wife to refute claims about his relationship with Hashirama Senju.

• Trending online rumors about the Sannin, Mito Uzumaki, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Shimura Danzō spread across the ninja world.
• Mito Uzumaki scolded Tsunade over gambling, marriage, and the love-triangle rumors while Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju stayed quiet.
• Madara Uchiha berated the Uchiha elders for failing to suppress the gossip, and Mina Uchiha said their team needed another day.
• Madara Uchiha reasoned that Yunqing was behind the rumors and chose to train rather than confront him.
• Madara Uchiha returned to the Uchiha meeting and announced he would find a wife to disprove the rumors.

Madara Uchiha publicly announced his marriage, prompting the Uchiha Clan to host a wedding attended by the Ninja World’s major leaders. At the reception, Yunqing joined the First Kage in praising the gathering as a sign of peace, despite privately disliking the ceremony’s polite talk.

• Madara Uchiha announced his marriage, and Fugaku Uchiha led the Uchiha Clan in delivering betrothal gifts to Madara’s Miko in the Land of Demons.
• Mito Uzumaki celebrated Madara’s engagement by releasing Tsunade and sending a lavish gift, which enraged Madara.
• The Uchiha Clan recalled its members to host the wedding, where leaders and powerful figures from across the Ninja World gathered.
• Yunqing attended in Liedou’s place and spoke with Ishikawa and Byakuren about all the Kage gathering in one hidden village.
• Ishikawa and Byakuren described the gathering as a hopeful step toward peace, while Yunqing privately regarded their talk as scheming praise.

Madara Uchiha and Miko held a brief wedding attended by powerful figures and wealthy guests, while Yunqing observed Nagato representing Amegakure. The chapter ended with Yunqing dismissing the Sharingan’s rapid advancement as dangerous when the user’s body was weak.

• The Uchiha Clan hosted Madara Uchiha and Miko’s wedding in a lavish ancestral home, and the Sage of Six Paths officiated the swift ceremony.
• Madara Uchiha and Miko toasted the guests, while Yunqing noticed the young attendees and turned his attention to Nagato.
• Nagato and Konan greeted guests to strengthen Amegakure’s connections, and Yunqing considered the wedding a valuable opportunity for the Land of Rain.
• The First Tsuchikage Ishikawa, the First Hokage, and the First Mizukage Byakuren discussed Nagato’s Rinnegan and the Uchiha Clan’s power.
• Yunqing argued that the Sharingan’s rapid advancement carried side effects, especially for users with weak bodies.

Yunqing dismissed the Sharingan as a risky bloodline whose effects depended on the user's health and judgment. He concluded that the Uchiha Clan's volatile members had made the clan seem dangerous, leaving him to lament that its misfortune was beyond saving.

• Yunqing reasoned that Itachi Uchiha and Uchiha Sasuke developed bloodline disease because they were young, physically weak, and overused their eyes.
• Yunqing praised Ice Release and argued that Wood Release's strength depended on powers he would not possess.
• The Uchiha Clan members and the other major figures listened to Yunqing's criticism without taking offense.
• Yunqing concluded that ordinary Sharingan Genjutsu was of little use against Kage-level opponents.
• Yunqing reasoned that the Uchiha Clan had been targeted because its members could become dangerously unstable, then lamented that the clan was unlucky beyond saving.

After Madara Uchiha’s wedding, Konoha hosted visiting village leaders and kept them occupied with guided tours while protecting its important locations. Yunqing toured with Mizuyu Kurama, learned that Gene Potions had eased her clan’s physical problems, and predicted the Kurama Clan would soon grow more powerful.

• Madara Uchiha’s wedding ended after half a day, and Yunqing suspected that Madara had copied Hashirama Senju and Mito Uzumaki’s old wedding ceremony.
• After the wedding, visitors from other villages stayed in Konoha, and Hiruzen Sarutobi concealed important sites while assigning the visitors Kurama Clan guides.
• Yunqing toured Konoha with Mizuyu Kurama and praised the Kurama Clan’s Five Senses Manipulation as a formidable battlefield technique.
• Mizuyu Kurama told Yunqing that Gene Potions had improved her clan’s physical condition, and Yunqing predicted the Kurama Clan would soon produce Kage-level experts and rise to prominence.

Yunqing discussed the Kurama Clan’s newfound prospects and the support they could receive from the Uchiha Clan as they dealt with a dangerous bloodline problem. He then toured Konoha, visiting local businesses and landmarks before sparring with Hatake Sakumo.

• Yunqing explained that the Kurama Clan’s physical ailments had been resolved and that, with Uchiha support, they could produce a Kage-level expert such as the future Yakumo Kurama.
• Yunqing described how Madara Uchiha and other powerful figures could help the Kurama Clan handle the monster threatening its future.
• Mizuyu Kurama accepted the need for the clan to report problems and seek help from Konoha’s powerful allies.
• Yunqing toured Konoha, eating at Ichiraku Ramen and visiting an Uchiha-run cake shop, the Nara Clan’s Deer Park, and the Yamanaka Clan’s Flower Shop.
• Yunqing met Hatake Sakumo and sparred with him at the Hatake Family Kendo Dojo.

After the wedding, Yunqing left Konoha and discovered why statues of the Sage of Six Paths were appearing across the ninja world. The chapter ended with nations continuing to flatter the embarrassed Sage in hopes of securing his favor.

• The major figures who attended the wedding left Konoha after three days, wary of its schemers and violent maniacs.
• Yunqing spotted a statue of the Sage of Six Paths while traveling away from Konoha and investigated through the Dark Plane.
• Yunqing learned that people worshipped the Sage because he was real, had descendants in Konoha, and had become the target of oaths people feared he might enforce.
• Ninja-world figures blamed Konoha and Hiruzen Sarutobi and Shimura Danzō for encouraging the statues, and the two renovated their offices after the accusations spread.
• Countries across the ninja world built more statues to curry favor with the Sage, while the embarrassed Sage decided he should go out less often.

Yunqing was summoned from East Blue to join the Summit War, but a stop at Sabaody Archipelago drew him into a clash with the Supernovas and Silvers Rayleigh. Rayleigh blocked Yunqing’s attack on Luffy, leaving the other marines outmatched by the pirates.

• Yunqing recalled how the system had sent him from the ninja world to the pirate world and stripped away his former abilities, leaving him with the Annihilation Eye and Zancrow’s template.
• Yunqing and Fia sailed toward Marine Headquarters after receiving orders to prepare for the Summit War.
• Vice Admiral Kongming gave the young marines a few days to relax at Sabaody Archipelago, but Yunqing encountered Luffy, Trafalgar Law, and Killer outside the auction house.
• Yunqing sent the other marines to rescue people and attacked the Supernovas with Flame Fist, but Killer blocked his slash and Silvers Rayleigh stopped his black flames.
• Yunqing roared at Luffy, but Rayleigh held him back, and the other marines struggled against the pirates without Kongming or Kizaru present.