Chapter Summaries

Minamoto Takuya made a force of intelligent puppets on the moon, erased Otsutsuki Toneri’s memories and sent him to the Snow Village Orphanage, then completed the Chimera Technique’s fifth-bloodline fusion at the Gelel Ore Vein. The fusion strengthened him and left him able to begin cultivating a Tenseigan if he obtained sufficiently pure Byakugan.

• Minamoto Takuya crafted dozens of Smart Puppets, named the first Number One, and ordered them to build a Laboratory in the palace’s outer area.
• Minamoto Takuya took over the remaining Smart Puppets, left the moon with the unconscious Otsutsuki Toneri, and brought him to the Snow Village Orphanage after stripping away his memories of the moon and his Otsutsuki surname.
• Minamoto Takuya recovered in his underground Laboratory while training for Permanent Sage Mode and repairing his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Minamoto Takuya performed the final Chimera Technique fusion at the Gelel Ore Vein, using his Sage Mode to force the Natural Energy into the conditions he needed.
• Minamoto Takuya sensed that the Otsutsuki bloodline had broken through his power ceiling and realized that sufficiently pure Byakugan could let him cultivate a Tenseigan.

Minamoto Takuya secretly replaced Hinata Hyuga’s Byakugan with a spare pair, then connected her pure eyes to the Golden Tenseigan to begin cultivating his own. He left the process underway and started developing a sealing formula to enhance his neural reflexes.

• Minamoto Takuya replaced Hinata Hyuga’s Byakugan while she slept, implanting a spare pair without waking her.
• Minamoto Takuya connected himself to the Golden Tenseigan and began nourishing Hinata Hyuga’s Byakugan to awaken a Tenseigan.
• Minamoto Takuya implanted Hinata Hyuga’s Byakugan in his own eye sockets and tested their enhanced perception.
• Minamoto Takuya decided to use the Tenseigan as a powerful trump card while continuing to rely on his Mangekyō Sharingan as his main eyes.
• Minamoto Takuya entered the new lunar Laboratory and began designing a sealing formula to improve his neural reflex speed.

Minamoto Takuya developed a way to inscribe a neural reflex enhancement formula into a removable spine bone, but paused its construction when his eyes showed signs of change. He absorbed the Golden Tenseigan’s power, bringing his eyes close to awakening the Tenseigan and achieving Permanent Sage Mode, while the formula remained unfinished.

• Minamoto Takuya realized the Shikotsumyaku would let him remove a spine bone, inscribe the formula on it, and replace it without risking the formula’s stability in battle.
• Minamoto Takuya began drafting the formula and expected to establish a preliminary framework within days.
• Minamoto Takuya noticed prickling and brief blurring in his eyes, so he slowed work on the formula and focused on his Byakugan.
• Minamoto Takuya sensed his Byakugan had reached the stage needed to awaken the Tenseigan, but continued accepting the Golden Tenseigan’s power to strengthen his eyes further.
• Minamoto Takuya began absorbing the Golden Tenseigan’s power without restraint and achieved Permanent Sage Mode, which his body could maintain even during sleep.

Minamoto Takuya stopped drawing power from the Golden Tenseigan when his Byakugan reached their limit, then waited as they evolved into a perfect pair of Tenseigan. Their awakening pushed him into the Six Paths level and granted him Tenseigan Chakra Mode, Yin-Yang Release, and a way to summon Perfect Susanoo without Sharingan.

• Minamoto Takuya cut off the Golden Tenseigan’s chakra flow to protect his Byakugan, planning to resume absorbing power after his physique grew stronger.
• Minamoto Takuya’s Byakugan began an unstoppable transformation, and he sat still until the Tenseigan finished forming a day or two later.
• Minamoto Takuya awakened with deep azure Tenseigan and discovered that they could lift him and let him move at tremendous speed.
• Minamoto Takuya activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode on the moon and realized its power had carried him beyond Super Shadow and into the Six Paths level.
• Minamoto Takuya created Prayer Beads and an Energy Cage, understood Yin-Yang Release, and summoned a Perfect Susanoo using only his Tenseigan.

Minamoto Takuya explored how Tenseigan Chakra Mode interacted with the Eight Inner Gates, then found an exhausted Purple Tenseigan and took it to the Laboratory as experimental material. He resolved to pursue the Rinnegan despite preferring his Tenseigan, because he believed it would help him become a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Minamoto Takuya realized that Tenseigan Chakra Mode could guide his Yin-Yang Release training toward eventually creating Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Minamoto Takuya opened the Sixth and Seventh Gates while in Tenseigan Chakra Mode, but found their combined power unstable and decided against risking the Eighth Gate.
• Minamoto Takuya left the mode and sensed an aura of the Golden Tenseigan's origin coming from the northwest.
• Minamoto Takuya uncovered the drained Purple Tenseigan at the battle site and carried it to the Laboratory for experiments.
• Minamoto Takuya hesitated to give up his Tenseigan for the Mangekyō Sharingan, but concluded that he needed the Rinnegan to help contain the Ten-Tails and become its Jinchuriki.

Minamoto Takuya implanted the Mangekyō Sharingan in his palms and developed a way to switch them instantly with the Tenseigan in his face. He left the extra eyes in standby and considered how to conceal his changed appearance and avoid detection, especially by the Hyuga’s Byakugan.

• Minamoto Takuya activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode and used Yin-Yang Release and Shikotsumyaku to create protected eye sockets and chakra pathways in his palms.
• Minamoto Takuya placed the Mangekyō Sharingan in his palms, then blocked their visual signals to prevent their images from overwhelming his vision.
• Minamoto Takuya tested his eye-switching technique and instantly exchanged the Tenseigan in his palms with the Sharingan in his original eye sockets.
• Minamoto Takuya returned the Tenseigan to his face and considered creating a specialized ninjutsu to disguise his altered eyes.
• Minamoto Takuya recognized that Hyuga could potentially detect the eyes and chakra pathways in his palms, but decided to keep the eyes and rely on caution and his limited public appearances.

Minamoto Takuya completed constant Sage Mode and used Yin-Yang Release to train without ordinary rest, while pushing his body beneath a mountain of Moon Rock on the moon. After his Shadow Clone finished designing the Neural Reflex Speed Technique, he inscribed it onto his bone and completed the technique.

• Minamoto Takuya resumed developing the Neural Reflex Speed Technique while his Shadow Clone worked on its design.
• Minamoto Takuya completed constant Sage Mode and devoted his freed training time to exploring Yin-Yang Release.
• Minamoto Takuya lifted a mountain of Moon Rock with the Tenseigan and trained beneath its crushing weight to strengthen his body.
• Minamoto Takuya recovered in a Lava Release-heated hot spring and received word that his Shadow Clone had completed the technique model.
• Minamoto Takuya analyzed the research, carved the Neural Reflex Speed Technique into his bone, and let his body heal around it.

Minamoto Takuya completed his neural-reflex enhancement, allowing him to control his ultimate speed in combat. He left the Moon Base and began raising the Little Ten-Tails in the Gelel Ore Vein, where it started devouring the energy.

• Minamoto Takuya tested his enhanced reflexes and found that he could now safely use his full theoretical speed.
• Minamoto Takuya assigned maintenance tasks to the Moon Base's Smart Puppets, returned to the Shinobi World, and packed up his laboratory equipment.
• Minamoto Takuya sealed the Little Ten-Tails into a scroll and carefully secured the rare materials stored in his equipment.
• Minamoto Takuya traveled to the Gelel Ore Vein, reserved some energy for his own future use, and created a concealed barrier around the vein's core.
• Minamoto Takuya released the Little Ten-Tails into the energy, and it began greedily absorbing the Gelel Ore Vein's power.

Minamoto Takuya activated the Time-Space Hole formula on the moon and sent a Shadow Clone through it, discovering a vast void linked to other spaces. He learned he could use it as a low-cost teleportation hub and an untraceable refuge, then considered testing whether Kensei could also reach Kamui Space.

• Minamoto Takuya left a Shadow Clone to guard the Gelel Ore Vein and returned to the moon's Laboratory for the Time-Space Hole formula and Timothy's blood.
• Minamoto Takuya engraved the formula on the moon and activated it with Timothy's blood, creating a powerful black tornado that devoured a Shadow Clone.
• The Shadow Clone returned unharmed, and Minamoto Takuya learned through its memories that the Time-Space Hole was a boundless realm connected to other spaces with almost no spatial distance.
• Minamoto Takuya realized he could use the realm as a low-cost relay for Kensei travel and as a secure refuge that enemies could not track.
• Minamoto Takuya planned to send a Shadow Clone into Kamui Space to test whether Kensei worked there and could challenge Obito Uchiha's exclusive access.

Minamoto Takuya destroyed the formula leading to the Time-Space Hole, then tracked down Shennong and extracted the Zero-Tails seed and Dark Chakra research from him. He left Yuryu alive but sealed away her memories of Shennong, and began examining the formulas in the Time-Space Hole.

• Minamoto Takuya destroyed the Time-Space Hole formula engraved in the Gelel Ore Vein so no one else could use it.
• Minamoto Takuya found Shennong in a remote village and rendered him unconscious with his power.
• Minamoto Takuya extracted the Zero-Tails seed from Yuryu and sealed her memories of Shennong.
• Yuryu woke with no memory of her teacher and returned home, unaware of what had happened.
• Minamoto Takuya examined Shennong's memories in the Time-Space Hole and learned that the Dark Chakra formulas for cultivating and controlling Zero-Tails were complete.

Minamoto Takuya discovered that the Zero-Tails technique could not produce unlimited Dark Chakra, then returned to lunar cultivation while waiting for the Little Ten-Tails to finish absorbing the Gelel Ore Vein. Meanwhile, Orochimaru abandoned his plan to use unstable One-Tail experiments for personal power and turned his attention to acquiring Uchiha Itachi’s body and eyes.

• Minamoto Takuya concluded that Dark Chakra was limited by a person's chakra capacity and left the Time-Space Hole disappointed.
• Minamoto Takuya returned to the lunar Laboratory, dismissed the shrine maidens' Natural Energy methods and the Box of Bliss as unhelpful or dangerous, and resumed cultivating while planning to seek the Dragon Vein in Roran.
• Minamoto Takuya planned to have the Little Ten-Tails absorb the One-Tail's chakra if the Dragon Vein proved inaccessible.
• Orochimaru reviewed his One-Tail experiments and found that his test subjects could use only weak Tailed Beast power before becoming uncontrollably violent.
• Orochimaru decided to use the unstable test subjects as weapons against enemy ninja villages and examined the Sharingan he had collected from Uchiha clansmen.
• Orochimaru judged the collected Sharingan and their owners inadequate, then fixed his ambition on Uchiha Itachi.

Black Zetsu realized Shisui Uchiha’s Mangekyō had altered Obito Uchiha’s will, leaving Obito unable to act against Konoha and delegating its affairs to Black Zetsu. Meanwhile, Minamoto Takuya prepared to travel to Rōran by retiring from Konoha’s Anbu and handing command to Kakashi Hatake.

• Black Zetsu concluded that Shisui Uchiha had secretly used his Mangekyō technique to change Obito Uchiha’s will and warned him of the possibility.
• Obito Uchiha recognized that he could not overcome his resistance to attacking Konoha and assigned all matters involving the village to Black Zetsu.
• Minamoto Takuya confirmed that the Little Ten-Tails had absorbed the Gelel Ore Vein and reached about twenty percent of the Complete Ten-Tails’ power.
• Minamoto Takuya told Minato Namikaze that he would retire and recommended Kakashi Hatake as his successor before leaving for Rōran.
• Konoha transferred Anbu command to Kakashi Hatake, and Minamoto Takuya departed after saying goodbye to Kakashi Hatake and Minato Namikaze.

Minamoto Takuya activated the Dragon Vein in Rōran and was sent back to the past, where he discovered that his future self had concealed some spacetime coordinates from him. He identified the era as the period after the Second Ninja World War and considered giving his younger self the Chimera Technique.

• Minamoto Takuya entered Rōran, where its people hailed him as their king and led him to Queen Sarah.
• Queen Sarah refused Minamoto Takuya's request to meet someone and directed him to spill a drop of blood on the gap in an Ouroboros pattern.
• Minamoto Takuya's blood activated the Dragon Vein, and the pattern completed its loop as he recognized the power of Time Return Command.
• A stranger with a Tomoe Rinnegan appeared beside Sarah after Minamoto Takuya vanished, while Sarah remained alone in the hall.
• Minamoto Takuya awoke among Rōran's ruins, sensed that he had returned to the past, and deduced that his future self had hidden some coordinates.
• Minamoto Takuya encountered his younger self shortly after the Second Ninja World War and wondered what would happen if he gave him the Chimera Technique.

Minamoto Takuya broke free of an endless time loop after realizing that changing his past self created a paradox, then chose to remain in ancient Rōran and use the Dragon Vein to pursue greater power. After years of training, he awakened the Rinnegan and began planning to restore his former Mangekyō abilities within it.

• Minamoto Takuya recognized that his repeated attempts to give his past self the Chimera Technique had trapped him in a time paradox, and he used Time Return Command to escape the cycle.
• Minamoto Takuya realized that changing history could work if the change remained hidden, then left his past self and headed for Rōran's Dragon Vein.
• Minamoto Takuya took control of Rōran, left Sarah's mother to rule as queen, and guided the Little Ten-Tails to feed on the Dragon Vein while preserving some of its energy.
• Minamoto Takuya spent three years mastering his Mangekyō Sharingan and another five years fusing Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha's inherited chakra.
• Minamoto Takuya awakened the Rinnegan through the fused chakra and planned to transplant Kensei and Time Return Command into his new eyes.

Minamoto Takuya completed a Truth-Seeking Orb, awakened a Three Tomoe Rinnegan, and continued preparing for the arrival of another version of himself in Rōran. As that arrival drew near, he readied his growing Little Ten-Tails to consume the Dragon Vein and begin absorbing stored Tailed Beast Chakra.

• Minamoto Takuya spent years researching Truth-Seeking Orbs but initially produced only an empty shell, while his Mangekyō ability awakened within his Rinnegan and formed three tomoe.
• Minamoto Takuya abandoned hopes of quickly advancing to higher tomoe forms and resumed studying Yin-Yang Release with support from his Rinnegan and Tenseigan.
• Sarah became Rōran’s queen, married Minamoto Takuya, and considered how to develop the kingdom during its newfound peace; Minamoto Takuya refused her request to have a child.
• Minamoto Takuya finally created a complete Truth-Seeking Orb before the spacetime loop closed and began preparing for another version of himself to arrive in Rōran.
• Minamoto Takuya visited his Little Ten-Tails, which had grown to about forty percent of the God Tree’s full size, and prepared to let it consume the Dragon Vein before absorbing stored Tailed Beast Chakra.

Minamoto Takuya activated the Dragon Vein technique that sent his past self back through time, while he watched him depart and reflected on how his choices and struggles shaped his strength. Sarah asked whether they could have a child, but Minamoto Takuya said they would have to wait a few more years.

• Minamoto Takuya engraved an Ouroboros mark on the Dragon Vein and told Sarah his past self would arrive, asking her to receive him.
• Sarah led her core subordinates to the ruins of the Ancient Kingdom of Roran to meet the younger Minamoto Takuya.
• Minamoto Takuya watched his past self arrive and recalled that an experiment with Time Return Command had accidentally drained some of his younger self's energy.
• With Sarah's help, the younger Minamoto Takuya activated the time-travel technique and vanished in a pillar of light.
• Minamoto Takuya told Sarah that his past self would not return and would eventually meet her younger self, after which events would unfold as she remembered.
• Sarah asked Minamoto Takuya if they could have a child, and he said it would be a few years before the time was right.

Minamoto Takuya left Rōran after the Little Ten-Tails absorbed the Dragon Vein’s remaining energy, then began feeding it the nine Tailed Beast chakra origins at the Moon Base Laboratory. In Konoha, Namikaze Naruto graduated at the top of his class, and Minato Namikaze assigned him, Sasuke Uchiha, and Hinata Hyuga to the same genin team.

• Minamoto Takuya told Sarah he would leave for about a year, and she accepted his decision despite her reluctance.
• The Little Ten-Tails consumed the Dragon Vein’s remaining energy, after which Minamoto Takuya silently departed Rōran and Sarah sensed the Dragon Vein had gone lifeless.
• At the Moon Base Laboratory, Minamoto Takuya used the Phantom Dragon Nine Sealing Jutsu to make the Little Ten-Tails begin devouring the nine Tailed Beast chakra origins.
• Namikaze Naruto graduated from the Ninja Academy at the top of the rankings, and Sasuke Uchiha vowed to surpass him.
• Minato Namikaze confirmed to Fugaku Uchiha that Naruto and Sasuke would share a genin team with Hinata Hyuga.

Minato Namikaze appointed Uchiha Itachi Anbu Deputy Captain and urged Kakashi Hatake to consider marriage, while reflecting on the absent Minamoto Takuya. On the moon, Minamoto Takuya continued studying the Little Ten-Tails and absorbed nearly all the Golden Tenseigan’s remaining energy, greatly increasing his Tenseigan’s power.

• Minato Namikaze gave Kakashi Hatake Uchiha Itachi’s confidential appointment as Anbu Deputy Captain and told him to keep the promotion secret from the Uchiha Clan.
• Minato Namikaze asked Kakashi Hatake to lead a genin team and then encouraged him to find a wife, prompting Kakashi to flee the office.
• Minato Namikaze reflected on Kakashi Hatake’s emotional wounds and wondered where Minamoto Takuya had gone since leaving Konoha.
• On the moon, Minamoto Takuya continued feeding the Little Ten-Tails Nine-Tails chakra while studying how the Tailed Beasts’ powers fused.
• Minamoto Takuya absorbed nearly all the energy from the enormous Golden Tenseigan, raising his Tenseigan’s ocular power beyond that of his Three Tomoe Rinnegan.

Minamoto Takuya completed the Little Ten-Tails’ transformation and suppressed it with a sealing array and the Three Tomoe Rinnegan, revealing that he had reached the Six Paths level. When the creature began to break through his control, he decided to seal it into his body and become its Jinchuriki.

• Minamoto Takuya activated a sealing array to bind the Little Ten-Tails after it absorbed the Nine-Tails’ chakra and transformed into its first form.
• The Little Ten-Tails formed a Tailed Beast Bomb, but Minamoto Takuya crushed it with Shinra Tensei and absorbed its chakra with the Preta Path.
• The Little Ten-Tails changed into a second, humanoid form, while Minamoto Takuya continued to suppress it with the Three Tomoe Rinnegan.
• Minamoto Takuya revealed that he had achieved the Six Paths realm through years of studying Yin-Yang Release with the Tenseigan’s guidance.
• The Little Ten-Tails grew stronger and partially broke free enough to roar, prompting Minamoto Takuya to begin the Six Paths Ten-Tails Coffin Seal and prepare to become its Jinchuriki.

Minamoto Takuya became a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki and studied the effortless transformation as the Ten-Tails’ power reshaped his body and enhanced both his Rinnegan and Tenseigan. After emerging with new Six Paths abilities, he returned to his ordinary appearance and considered the limits of the power gained from the incomplete Little Ten-Tails.

• Minamoto Takuya used the Six Paths Ten-Tails Coffin Seal to absorb the Ten-Tails and deliberately slowed his transformation so he could study each stage of his evolution.
• Minamoto Takuya emerged from the shattered cocoon as a Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, with white hair, horns, Truth-Seeking Orbs, and a Six Paths Staff.
• Minamoto Takuya found that his Three Tomoe Rinnegan had strengthened without evolving, while his Tenseigan had gained a significant boost.
• Minamoto Takuya demonstrated that he could create Truth-Seeking Orbs and wield the power of All Creation without relying on his staff.
• Minamoto Takuya judged that the incomplete Little Ten-Tails had increased his power but could not transform his already formidable strength, then changed back to his ordinary form.