Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Akira defeated Ōtsutsuki Shoshiki and absorbed his power, bringing Akira close to a new level of strength. He then sensed a powerful figure who mentioned a coming Holy War, before the Compass revealed two Ōtsutsuki traveling together nearby.

• Uchiha Akira used Divine Art: Kamui to pin Ōtsutsuki Shoshiki in place and taunted him for being unable to see through the ability.
• Ōtsutsuki Shoshiki begged Uchiha Akira to spare him, but Akira crushed his head and killed him.
• Uchiha Akira used Myriad Laws Revered to absorb Ōtsutsuki Shoshiki's corpse and felt that he was close to reaching a new level of power.
• A giant, horned face contacted Uchiha Akira, called him a new-generation Ōtsutsuki, and promised a surprise at the Holy War.
• Uchiha Akira suspected the face belonged to Shibai Ōtsutsuki, then saw on the Compass that two Ōtsutsuki were traveling together nearby.

Uchiha Akira ambushed Otsutsuki Hongshiki and used her life to pressure Otsutsuki Reishiki. Reishiki denied caring about her, but Akira challenged him to explain why he had stayed by her side.

• Uchiha Akira decided to intercept Otsutsuki Hongshiki and Otsutsuki Reishiki before returning to the Ninja World.
• Otsutsuki Hongshiki flirted with Otsutsuki Reishiki, who rejected her and warned her not to use her ability on him.
• Uchiha Akira suddenly punched through Otsutsuki Hongshiki's chest and used Reversal Power to keep her alive while destroying her heart's vitality.
• Otsutsuki Hongshiki begged Uchiha Akira to spare her, but he sealed her mouth and told Otsutsuki Reishiki to choose whether she or he would die.
• Otsutsuki Reishiki denied caring about Otsutsuki Hongshiki, and Uchiha Akira questioned why he had traveled with her and accommodated her.
• Uchiha Akira warned that an attack would end the power sustaining Otsutsuki Hongshiki, and Otsutsuki Reishiki called him a demon.

Ōtsutsuki Reishiki sacrificed himself to secure Ōtsutsuki Hongshiki’s freedom, but Uchiha Akira exposed her false claim that she would give her life to revive him. The chapter left Hongshiki pleading for her life as Akira rejected her offer to become his woman.

• Ōtsutsuki Reishiki admitted his feelings for Ōtsutsuki Hongshiki and killed himself after demanding that Uchiha Akira let her go.
• Reishiki told Hongshiki to find another path to strength before dying while looking at her gently.
• Uchiha Akira restored Hongshiki’s mouth and asked whether she would sacrifice her life to revive Reishiki; she claimed she would pay any price.
• Akira pretended to use his Dojutsu to revive Reishiki at the cost of Hongshiki’s life, and Hongshiki panicked and protested.
• Akira called Hongshiki a liar and prepared to kill her, while she begged for mercy and offered to become his woman.

Uchiha Akira killed Ōtsutsuki Hongshiki and Ōtsutsuki Reishiki, devoured the Chakra Fruit formed from their bodies, and prepared to return to the Ninja World. There, Orochimaru unveiled a successful potion, and Uchiha Itachi challenged Hyuga Neji to be its first test subject.

• Uchiha Akira drained Ōtsutsuki Hongshiki's life force, then used Myriad Laws Revered to turn her and Ōtsutsuki Reishiki into a Chakra Fruit.
• Uchiha Akira devoured the fruit, strengthening his golden Rinnegan and Tenseigan, and said he needed to devour two more Ōtsutsuki to reach the power to defeat the God of Ōtsutsuki.
• Uchiha Akira saw that the nearest Ōtsutsuki had reached the Ninja World and decided to return to learn how Ada planned to protect it.
• Orochimaru showed Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji a successful scarlet potion made with Dimon's blood.
• Hyuga Neji volunteered to take the potion first, but Uchiha Itachi insisted that he would go first.

Hyuga Neji confronted Uchiha Itachi about secretly getting genetic drugs first, then agreed to share a dose with him. Their argument ended when Orochimaru detected six Otsutsuki approaching the Ninja World, leaving Neji and Itachi stunned by the threat.

• Hyuga Neji accused Uchiha Itachi of arranging to receive Orochimaru's genetic drugs before him.
• Uchiha Itachi admitted he had secretly reached an agreement with Orochimaru, and Neji warned him not to do it again.
• Hyuga Neji asked Orochimaru to give Itachi a portion of the drug so Itachi would not resort to underhanded tactics.
• Orochimaru recalled his missing friend Jiraiya and joked that he might have gone to the pleasure quarters.
• Orochimaru detected six Otsutsuki approaching the Ninja World, and his instrument confirmed their arrival.

Hyuga Neji and Uchiha Itachi chose to take Orochimaru’s serum made from Dimon’s genes so they could help defend the Ninja World against six invading Otsutsuki. Their power surged, and the chapter ended as they sensed the Otsutsuki arriving.

• Neji insisted that he and Itachi should stop relying on Akira and face the Otsutsuki themselves.
• Itachi agreed with Neji, and the two decided Neji would drink the serum first.
• Orochimaru warned them that the serum could not grant Dimon’s unique Killing Intent Reflection ability, then gave them the genetic serum.
• Neji and Itachi swallowed the serum, and their bodies changed as their strength rapidly increased.
• After half an hour, their bodies stabilized, and Itachi sensed several powerful auras approaching.

Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji tried to confront six Otsutsuki, but discovered the enemy was attacking a decoy Ninja World while Ada concealed the real one. Ada explained her illusion and ordered them to keep the deception secret as they waited for Akira to return.

• Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji charged toward the six Otsutsuki but were repelled by a barrier around the Ninja World.
• Uchiha Itachi realized the Otsutsuki were attacking a separate New Ninja World and could not see the real one.
• Ada arrived and explained that she had hidden the Ninja World behind a barrier and created the decoy with Kaguya.
• Ada said her eyes let her illusion deceive anyone except the God of Ōtsutsuki, and Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji were astonished.
• Ada told Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji to keep the matter secret from the others in the Land of God.

Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji accepted Ada’s offer to fight two isolated Ōtsutsuki, eager to prove they could protect the Land of God. In Ada’s illusion of the New Ninja World, Neji quickly overwhelmed his opponent while Itachi faced the other.

• Itachi and Neji learned Akira had prepared for the Ōtsutsuki threat, then agreed to fight despite Ada warning they could be surrounded.
• Ada teleported Itachi and Neji beside two isolated Ōtsutsuki, while Akira and Ada watched from Above the Heavens.
• Itachi and Neji saw the Ōtsutsuki slaughtering illusory humans in the Land of God and attacked them, each taking one opponent.
• Neji battered Ōtsutsuki Suishiki with a relentless assault, and Suishiki called for Moshiki to save him.

Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji battled Ōtsutsuki Suishiki and Ōtsutsuki Moshiki as Suishiki unleashed his Black Water Domain. They struck back with immense spiral Golden Swords and began cutting through the domain, leaving Suishiki shocked.

• Uchiha Itachi beat Ōtsutsuki Suishiki and condemned the Ōtsutsuki Clan for invading the Ninja World and seeking to harvest it for a Chakra Fruit.
• Ōtsutsuki Suishiki unleashed Heavy Water, trapping Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji in a Black Water Domain that made Itachi's body feel unbearably heavy.
• Ōtsutsuki Moshiki escaped Neji's beating and urged Suishiki to crush their enemies, while Suishiki scorned Moshiki for failing to grow stronger.
• Uchiha Itachi warned Hyuga Neji that the clinging black water carried immense weight, and they resolved to fight back against Suishiki.
• Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji formed enormous Golden and Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion swords and slashed through the Black Water Domain, frightening Ōtsutsuki Suishiki.

Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji shattered Ōtsutsuki Suishiki’s Heavy Water Domain and prepared a combined attack. As Ōtsutsuki Moshiki tried to flee, Suishiki seized him and began threatening to use him as nourishment for his evolution.

• Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji broke through Ōtsutsuki Suishiki’s Heavy Water Domain with their Reincarnation Explosions.
• Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji joined their flames and raised their swords to unleash a combined Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Ōtsutsuki Moshiki urged Suishiki to hold the pair off while reinforcements arrived, then tried to escape.
• Ōtsutsuki Suishiki grabbed Moshiki by the collar and accused him of having no potential to evolve into the God of Ōtsutsuki.
• Ōtsutsuki Moshiki begged Suishiki not to make him nourishment and warned that Lord Akira would punish him.

Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji combined their powers to break through Otsutsuki Suishiki’s evolved Heavy Water and fatally wound him. Suishiki’s golden Rinnegan dimmed as he froze in midair, questioning how he could have lost.

• Otsutsuki Suishiki overwhelmed Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji with evolved black-gold Heavy Water, trapping them in a shrinking space.
• Uchiha Itachi called Hyuga Neji to his side, and they prepared to use a combined attack.
• Hyuga Neji launched the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion first, followed by Uchiha Itachi’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Their attacks fused into a golden tornado that cut through Suishiki’s layers of Heavy Water.
• Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji struck Suishiki in the chest with their golden swords, leaving him wounded as his golden Rinnegan dimmed.

Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji defeated Ōtsutsuki Suishiki, but six more Ōtsutsuki arrived while the two fighters were nearly out of chakra. The newcomers ignored Suishiki’s pleas for help and prepared to claim his power after his death.

• Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji celebrated their victory after killing Ōtsutsuki Moshiki and mortally wounding Ōtsutsuki Suishiki.
• Uchiha Itachi taunted Suishiki and vowed that the Ōtsutsuki invaders would all die in the Ninja World.
• Hyuga Neji sensed six approaching enemies, and Itachi and Neji realized they were nearly out of chakra.
• Six Ōtsutsuki appeared and mocked Suishiki, showing no grief over his impending death.
• Ōtsutsuki Suishiki pleaded for rescue and claimed Moshiki had willingly given him his life energy, but the others said his power would become theirs once he died.

Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji, exhausted and badly injured, refused to retreat as six Otsutsuki tormented them. Itachi used Neji’s final attack as cover to slip past Raishiki and dive toward the wounded Suishiki.

• Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji realized their strength was nearly spent, but refused to lead the Otsutsuki toward Uchiha Akira in Konoha.
• Otsutsuki Raishiki mocked the wounded pair and crushed Neji under his pressure while another Otsutsuki attacked Itachi with Chakra needles.
• Itachi charged Raishiki as Neji struck upward with Eight Trigrams Palm: Skyward Thrust, but Raishiki shattered the attack and sent Neji crashing into a wall.
• An Otsutsuki pierced Itachi with a black rod, but the target was a crow clone that burst apart and concealed Itachi’s movement.
• Itachi’s true body fell toward the pit, aiming for the still-living Otsutsuki Suishiki.

Itachi killed Suishiki with a sword, and the Otsutsuki abandoned their attack on him to fight over the Chakra Fruit formed from Suishiki’s corpse. Kuroshiki seized the fruit and battled five Otsutsuki to keep it, refusing to let go even as they wounded him.

• Itachi drove his sword into Suishiki’s head and killed him.
• Kuroshiki took Suishiki’s Chakra Fruit, provoking the other Otsutsuki to attack one another for it.
• Raishiki attacked Kuroshiki with Takemikazuchi, but Kuroshiki used a black halo that produced weapons to resist.
• Four more Otsutsuki joined the assault, overwhelming Kuroshiki’s defenses and injuring him.
• Kuroshiki kept the Chakra Fruit clenched in his hand despite his wounds.

Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji watched the six Otsutsuki exhaust one another while waiting for an opening. Otsutsuki Kushiki stole the Chakra Fruit from Ishiki and confronted Raishiki over three thousand years of broken promises, leaving the standoff unresolved.

• Uchiha Itachi and Hyuga Neji mocked the Otsutsuki as beasts while tending their wounds and conserving their strength.
• Itachi and Neji decided to wait until the Otsutsuki weakened one another enough to expose an opening.
• Otsutsuki Kushiki unexpectedly appeared beside Ishiki and stole the Chakra Fruit before vanishing away from Ishiki's attack.
• The Otsutsuki stopped fighting and turned their attention to Kushiki, while Raishiki demanded that he hand over the fruit.
• Kushiki challenged Raishiki's claim of authority and recalled how Raishiki had promised for three thousand years that Kushiki would get his chance to evolve.

Kushiki confronted Raishiki over three thousand years of manipulation and tried to claim the Chakra Fruit, but Raishiki revealed he had secretly planted his Dojutsu in Kushiki’s meridians. As Raishiki reached for the fruit, another Ōtsutsuki struck it toward Kuroshiki, who rushed to seize it.

• Kushiki accused Raishiki of keeping him weak as a Blood Pack and declared that Raishiki would have to look up to him.
• Kushiki evaded attacks from the five Ōtsutsuki with his space-time Dojutsu and taunted them while preparing to eat the Chakra Fruit.
• Raishiki triggered the Dojutsu he had planted in Kushiki’s meridians three thousand years earlier, burning Kushiki’s arm and forcing him to drop the fruit.
• Raishiki used black lightning to reach for the Chakra Fruit, but another Ōtsutsuki cut off his attack and knocked it toward Ōtsutsuki Kuroshiki.
• Kuroshiki opened his halo, launched hundreds of black spears, and lunged toward the Chakra Fruit.

Kushiki used his thousand years of study to turn Raishiki’s black lightning against him, but Raishiki countered and left Kushiki unable to move. As the Ōtsutsuki fought over the falling Chakra Fruit, Kuroshiki seized it and revealed he had been waiting for his chance, while Ishiki condemned the group’s arrogance.

• Kushiki attacked Raishiki with black lightning tuned to resonate with Raishiki’s own power, disrupting his Chakra pathways.
• Raishiki changed the lightning’s frequency and struck Kushiki with a spear, forcing him to drop the Chakra Fruit and leaving him immobilized.
• The Ōtsutsuki rushed to claim the falling fruit, and Kuroshiki reached it before Raishiki could.
• Kuroshiki explained that he needed the fruit to survive, not evolve, and said he had been waiting for an opportunity.
• Ishiki told Raishiki that none of the Ōtsutsuki, including Suishiki, had taken the inferior world seriously.

Uchiha Akira appeared on the battlefield and took the Chakra Fruit just before Ōtsutsuki Kuroshiki could swallow it. The Otsutsuki turned their wary attention to Akira, who held the fruit and asked whether they wanted it.

• Ōtsutsuki Kuroshiki accused Raishiki of coveting the Chakra Fruit and explained that eating it would let him evolve.
• Itachi and Hyuga Neji realized they could not reach Kuroshiki before he swallowed the fruit.
• The Chakra Fruit vanished from Kuroshiki's hand, and the other five Otsutsuki gravely wounded him with their attacks.
• Uchiha Akira appeared in midair holding the Chakra Fruit, leaving the Otsutsuki wary of his unfamiliar power and speed.
• Raishiki asked Akira who he was, and Akira asked whether they wanted the fruit.

Uchiha Akira rejected the Otsutsuki's offer to join them and revealed that he was their enemy, then identified himself as the man who had killed their clansmen. The five Otsutsuki surrounded him and launched an attack, with the Chakra Fruit still in his hand.

• Raishiki tried to recruit Uchiha Akira by promising him the benefits of joining the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Uchiha Akira pretended to consider the offer and tossed the Chakra Fruit in his palm.
• Uchiha Akira asked whether the Otsutsuki Clan could accept an enemy who had killed their clansmen, then revealed his name.
• Raishiki recognized Uchiha Akira as the anomaly Lord Akira had warned them about and ordered the others to kill him.
• The five Otsutsuki surrounded Uchiha Akira and unleashed their powers, while Kuroshiki moved to the front of the attack.

Uchiha Akira ate the Chakra Fruit instead of surrendering it, triggering the Gate of Evolution and a phenomenon that the Ōtsutsuki recognized as a sign of evolution into the God of Ōtsutsuki. As the five Ōtsutsuki unleashed their strongest attacks to stop him, Ōtsutsuki Kushiki appeared behind Akira and touched his clothes.

• Kuroshiki and the other Ōtsutsuki demanded that Uchiha Akira hand over the Chakra Fruit and threatened to kill him.
• Uchiha Akira ate the fruit, absorbing the life energies of Otsutsuki Suishiki and Otsutsuki Moshiki.
• The Gate of Evolution formed behind Uchiha Akira and expanded to a thousand meters, making the Ōtsutsuki realize he might evolve into the God of Ōtsutsuki.
• Otsutsuki Raishiki urged the others to kill Uchiha Akira before his evolution could destroy them and their homeworld.
• Kuroshiki, Raishiki, and two other Ōtsutsuki launched their strongest attacks at Uchiha Akira.
• Ōtsutsuki Kushiki appeared behind Uchiha Akira and touched his clothes, declaring that he had caught him.