Recaps

Orochimaru used a Taijutsu test as an opportunity to draw Yamada Juichi away from the Research Institute’s cameras, hoping to absorb his Divine Technique. Instead, Yamada Juichi’s overwhelming physical strength turned the test into a real fight, leaving Orochimaru badly injured in the mountains.

• Orochimaru began a Taijutsu test with Yamada Juichi while researchers watched from the testing field.
• Orochimaru activated Divine Technique Chakra Mode and punched Yamada Juichi through the guardrails into an adjacent field.
• Yamada Juichi unleashed his immense Chakra and struck Orochimaru hard enough to send him flying into the mountains.
• Yamada Juichi pursued Orochimaru, and their fight caused explosions and a mountain to collapse.
• Orochimaru spat blood among the rubble and realized that Yamada Juichi’s sheer physical strength surpassed his own.

Orochimaru fought Yamada Juichi across the mountains and gradually gained the upper hand, while his Divine Technique, Absorption, reacted strangely to Yamada Juichi. The chapter ended with Orochimaru pinning Yamada Juichi and activating Absorption.

• Yamada Juichi claimed his overwhelming strength came from his own power and resumed fighting Orochimaru, who switched to using speed and experience to avoid direct clashes.
• Orochimaru sensed that Absorption reacted differently to Yamada Juichi than it had to Owl and Genyumaru, and wondered whether Yamada Juichi had not fully awakened.
• At the Research Institute, Amado learned that Orochimaru and Yamada Juichi had fought their way into the mountains, and he declined to use the cursed technique to control Yamada Juichi.
• Amado, Tsunade, Scorpion, and other researchers watched from an airship as the battle reduced the mountains to rubble and Orochimaru's advantage grew.
• Orochimaru defeated Yamada Juichi, lifted him by the throat, and secretly activated Absorption.

Orochimaru provoked Yamada Juichi into awakening his divine technique, then secretly used Absorption to take it while the Research Institute watched from an airship. Amado ordered Delta to stop Orochimaru, but Orochimaru struck Yamada Juichi in the heart and knocked him unconscious.

• Orochimaru choked and taunted Yamada Juichi until Yamada Juichi's survival instinct began awakening his divine technique.
• Orochimaru realized Yamada Juichi's technique was awakening and used Absorption to drain it without his noticing.
• Amado, Tsunade, and Scorpion watched from the airship as Amado suspected Orochimaru was trying to kill Yamada Juichi.
• Amado ordered Delta to tell Orochimaru to stop, and Delta flew toward the battlefield.
• After finishing the absorption, Orochimaru punched Yamada Juichi in the heart, leaving him unconscious.

Orochimaru knocked out Yamada Juichi and secretly absorbed his Great Strength divine technique, which he mastered a few days later. Kabuto Yakushi then told him that an unauthorized ritual backed by the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning had caused a deadly disaster, prompting the Research Institute to plan a purge and internal audit.

• Orochimaru knocked out Yamada Juichi, and the medical team took him away after Tsunade confirmed his injuries were serious but not likely fatal.
• Orochimaru revealed that he had absorbed Yamada Juichi's Great Strength divine technique and mastered it, adding it to his Absorption and Claw Mark abilities.
• Orochimaru assessed his increased strength but remained unsure he could defeat Shinji Uchiha.
• Kabuto Yakushi told Orochimaru that a bribed research team leader had secretly prepared a ritual for the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning, but the test subject went berserk and caused many casualties.
• Kabuto Yakushi said the Research Institute planned to purge the Daimyo's faction, install a collateral branch, and conduct an internal audit that could affect Orochimaru's rituals.

Orochimaru tried to protect his position as the Research Institute conducted a sweeping audit and crackdown, while Shinji focused on the Artificial Otsutsuki Plan and watched World No. 3 collapse under the Bewitching Overlord’s corruption. The chapter left Shinji facing a fleeing insect swarm on the horizon.

• Orochimaru ordered Kabuto Yakushi to clean up loose ends and prepared to attack Ada and Daemon if his secrets came to light.
• The Research Institute uncovered widespread misconduct, punished dozens of personnel, and cracked down on powers that had tried to corrupt or bribe its staff.
• Shinji read Amado’s report about Orochimaru’s suspected divine-art breakthrough and chose not to confront him, hoping he would keep the Institute running.
• Shinji observed that the Bewitching Overlord’s corruption had plunged World No. 3 into disasters and that the assault on his mind had strengthened his Spirit Body.
• Shinji sensed an insect swarm on the horizon, and it noticed him before quickly flying away.

Shinji stalled the Bewitching Overlord’s massive insect swarm while his Divine Trees absorbed World 3’s energy. After three days, the trees had gathered enough energy, so Shinji withdrew them and escaped as the world collapsed.

• Shinji learned that World 3 had less than ten days before its predicted destruction while he and the Bewitching Overlord remained locked in a stalemate.
• The Bewitching Overlord sent a vast insect swarm against Shinji as World 3 began to collapse.
• Shinji used Banshō Ten'in and Chibaku Tensei to trap the swarm in a celestial body and buy time for his Divine Trees.
• Shinji created another Chibaku Tensei as the Bewitching Overlord’s power seeped through the weakening spatial barrier.
• After three days, Shinji withdrew the Divine Trees and used the power of the 'Lamp' to escape World 3.

Naruto and Sasuke returned from training with the Sage of Six Paths and met Yakumo and Haku at the Research Institute. After learning the institute had grown chaotic because its experimental subjects were difficult to control, Sasuke and Naruto offered to help.

• Naruto and Sasuke reached the battlefield where Orochimaru and Yamada Juichi had destroyed much of the mountain range.
• Yakumo and Haku greeted Naruto and Sasuke, who revealed they had reached Six Paths level and could form Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Yakumo explained that Orochimaru and Yamada Juichi had gained Six Paths-level strength through the institute's ritual and fought a destructive battle.
• Sasuke and Naruto learned that Yakumo and Haku struggled to control the institute's experimental subjects, and Sasuke promised they would help.

Sasuke challenged Yamada Juichi at the Research Institute and defeated him decisively, demonstrating the Akatsuki Organization’s authority. As the commotion ended, the institute began its sixth ritual, while Haku and Amado noticed that Yamada Juichi seemed weaker than before.

• Sasuke challenged Yamada Juichi, and the researchers gathered to watch their match.
• Sasuke dodged Yamada Juichi’s attacks, used Amenotejikara to appear behind him, and pierced his chest with a lightning-charged arm.
• Sasuke knocked Yamada Juichi down and warned the researchers with his Six Tomoe Rinnegan, making them acknowledge the Akatsuki Organization’s leadership.
• Yakumo, Naruto, and Haku noticed that Yamada Juichi seemed weaker than he had during an earlier test, while Amado detected his deteriorating condition.
• The match ended, and the Research Institute began its sixth ritual.

The Research Institute began its sixth ritual in the Wind Country desert, using six criminals who had received Otsutsuki cells and tissues as sacrifices. The ritual appeared to succeed, but its subject emerged looking more like an Otsutsuki than any previous test subject, leaving Sasuke wary and Shinji with an inexplicable feeling.

• Naruto learned that the restrained criminals were sacrifices whose transplanted Otsutsuki power would be absorbed to awaken the ritual subject’s divine technique.
• Amado gave the order to begin the ritual, and the subject entered the Cocoon Transformation state without any apparent problems.
• Naruto and Sasuke sensed an unsettling Otsutsuki aura coming from the cocoon, while Orochimaru suspected the ritual had succeeded and worried about Sasuke and Naruto limiting his authority.
• The subject emerged with striking Otsutsuki features, surprising Amado and putting Sasuke, Haku, and Yakumo on guard.
• Shinji cleared the Overlord of Fear’s interference and noticed the subject’s transformation, but focused on repairing the mental damage from his battle with the Bewitching Overlord.

After recovering from his battle with the Bewitching Overlord, Shinji learned that the sixth ritual subject had become much stronger and took both him and Yamada Juichi to his alternate dimension. He sacrificed each man to one of his Divine Trees and rested, leaving the trees ready to cultivate two Chakra Fruits.

• Shinji visited the Research Institute, where Amado reported that the sixth ritual subject surpassed the earlier subjects in speed, strength, and Chakra reserves.
• Shinji ordered Amado to hand over both Yamada Juichi and the sixth ritual subject so he could use them as sacrifices for his two Divine Trees.
• Shinji led the two men through a Space Gate to a desolate dimension, where they recognized the Divine Trees and questioned why he had brought them there.
• When the sixth ritual subject attacked, Shinji blocked his punch, overpowered both men, and threw each into a different Divine Tree's flower bud.
• Shinji sat on one of the Divine Trees and closed his eyes to rest after sacrificing both men.

Shinji harvested two Chakra Fruits from the Divine Trees and consumed the fourth, reaching the uppermost ranks of Kekkei Mōra and healing his mental trauma. Still unable to perceive the realm of Kekkei Sōra, he swallowed the fifth fruit in hopes of growing stronger.

• Shinji endured the noise in his mind for three days as he used his willpower to reunite his divided consciousness.
• Both Divine Trees bloomed, and Shinji harvested their Chakra Fruits, realizing six would likely be the most he could collect.
• Shinji ate the fourth Chakra Fruit and spent two days absorbing its power and understanding the new techniques it revealed.
• Shinji emerged far stronger, with his mental trauma healed, but remained unable to discern the Kekkei Sōra realm.
• Shinji swallowed the fifth Chakra Fruit without hesitation.

After consuming the fifth Chakra Fruit, Shinji grew stronger, developed Godly Emperor Mode, and prepared to face the Bewitching Overlord as World 6 collapsed. With the Overlord’s insect swarm massing around him, Shinji rose atop the Divine Tree and braced for the coming battle.

• Shinji planted two Divine Trees in World 6 and discovered that the fifth Chakra Fruit had greatly increased his Chakra reserves and strengthened his ocular jutsu.
• Shinji found he could combine Godly Emperor Musubi with a second-stage transformation, which he named Godly Emperor Mode.
• After a month of mastering his new abilities, Shinji resisted the urge to test himself against the Overlord and focused on gathering planetary energy.
• Shinji considered how long to fight the Bewitching Overlord, knowing he needed to absorb energy without risking capture as World 6 collapsed.
• The Overlord’s insect swarm grew larger and more grotesque, and after another ten days, Shinji rose atop the Divine Tree as the swarm gathered for its attack.

Shinji fought Bewitching Overlord’s evolving swarm, using Godly Emperor Mode and Amaterasu to burn through its ranks. The battle shifted when Dark Light Bugs immune to the black flames merged into a Shinji-sized opponent that he suspected was Bewitching Overlord’s true body.

• Shinji realized Bewitching Overlord’s swarm had adapted by combining its members’ gravity to weaken his gravitational techniques.
• Shinji charged into the swarm, entered Godly Emperor Mode, and vaporized bugs with the explosive force of his transformation.
• Shinji spread Amaterasu across the swarm and used Banshō Ten'in to restrain bugs as they tried to scatter.
• Dark Light Bugs that could pass through Amaterasu attacked Shinji, and he dodged their strikes.
• The Dark Light Bugs converged into a Shinji-sized bug, which Shinji suspected was Bewitching Overlord’s true body or a part of it.

Shinji fought the Bewitching Overlord as World 6 collapsed, using Godly Emperor Mode and Umutada to drain the Overlord’s energy. He seized the opening when its dark light vanished and destroyed the Dark Light Bug with a golden sword.

• Shinji clashed with the Dark Light Bug in Godly Emperor Mode, and their blows devastated the surrounding swarms and flames.
• Shinji resisted the Bewitching Overlord’s mental influence while their battle fractured World 6’s spatial barrier and accelerated the world’s collapse.
• Shinji used Umutada to amplify the Overlord’s belief in its own invincibility, causing it to waste energy against his Godly Emperor Mode.
• The dark light vanished from the Dark Light Bug, and Shinji pierced and shredded it with a golden sword.

Shinji destroyed the Bewitching Overlord’s infiltrating clone in World 6, then held the Overlord at bay while his Divine Trees drained the collapsing world. He escaped through the Lamp to the Six Rings World just before the Overlord broke in, leaving the Overlord behind in an empty, doomed world.

• Shinji annihilated the Dark Light Bug with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, destroying the Bewitching Overlord’s source power in World 6.
• Shinji faced the Bewitching Overlord across the spatial rift and used Umutada to magnify its doubts while hiding his own fear with an illusion.
• Shinji waited as the Divine Trees drained World 6, keeping the Overlord from entering until the world’s collapse became irreversible.
• Shinji dispelled his illusion and escaped through the Lamp to the Six Rings World with the two Divine Trees.
• The Bewitching Overlord broke through the spatial barrier and found World 6 empty after Shinji had fled.

After escaping World 6, Shinji cleansed the Bewitching Overlord’s taint and discovered that both Divine Trees had filled their energy stores. He returned to the Six Rings World, learned that it had about six months left, and set the Lantern Bearers’ assault on the Overlords for one month later.

• Shinji escaped the collapsing World 6, cleansed the taint from himself and the two Divine Trees, and found that both trees had stored their full energy.
• Shinji told Shion that Sasuke and Naruto had reached Six Paths level, prompting Shion to vow she would surpass them.
• Arcane told Shinji that the Contaminated Zones were spreading and the Six Rings World had about six months left.
• Alice urged Shinji to begin their move, and Shinji scheduled the assault for one month later because the world could only hold out another month or two.
• The Lantern Bearers pledged to fight the Overlords, and Shinji assured them they would win.

The Research Institute completed its seventh ritual, transforming Fuma Ichiro into a test subject who seemed unusually Otsutsuki-like and unnervingly calm. Shinji planned to wait for the Institute to test him before sacrificing him to the Divine Tree, while Orochimaru grew convinced Shinji was stealing divine arts and resolved to strengthen himself.

• The Research Institute successfully completed the seventh ritual, and its researchers celebrated their progress toward mass-producing test subjects.
• Orochimaru suspected Shinji had killed Yamada Juichi and the sixth ritual's subject to steal their divine arts, and he decided he had to grow stronger before his secret was exposed.
• Fuma Ichiro emerged from the cocoon with an impassive expression, unsettling the senior officials and drawing concern from Scorpion, Tsunade, and Amado.
• Naruto agreed to fight Fuma Ichiro later after Sasuke yielded the chance, while Haku warned Naruto not to let his guard down.
• Shinji noticed Fuma Ichiro seemed more Otsutsuki-like than the previous subject but chose to wait for the Institute's tests before offering him to the Divine Tree.

Naruto fought Fuma Ichiro in a remote Wind Country desert as the Research Institute recorded the test, but even Naruto’s Sage of Six Paths Mode failed to give him the advantage. Fuma Ichiro continued to suppress him, leaving the observers stunned and Orochimaru fixated on the power within him.

• The Research Institute tested Fuma Ichiro’s physical abilities, then Naruto began a combat test with him in an uninhabited desert.
• Naruto used the Multiple Shadow Clone Technique, but Fuma Ichiro easily defeated the clones and kept control of the fight.
• Naruto activated Sage of Six Paths Mode and charged Fuma Ichiro, sending shock waves that rocked the airships watching overhead.
• Fuma Ichiro continued to suppress Naruto despite his transformed state, while the Institute’s instruments exceeded their detection limits.
• Amado wondered what had gone wrong, Tsunade reflected on Naruto’s strength, and Orochimaru stared at Fuma Ichiro, consumed by a desire to absorb his divine technique.

Naruto and Menma fought Fuma Ichiro, whose mysterious ability let him anticipate their attacks, until Delta ended the test. Naruto suspected Fuma Ichiro could see the future, and Sasuke prepared to challenge him as Orochimaru watched with keen interest.

• Fuma Ichiro repeatedly blocked Naruto's attacks with uncanny precision, then trapped Naruto as Menma prepared to strike with Great Spiraling Ring.
• Menma weakened Great Spiraling Ring before it hit the ground to avoid badly injuring Naruto, but the blast shook the desert and battered the Research Institute's airships.
• Menma concluded that Fuma Ichiro had a precognitive divine technique, and Naruto wondered how they could defeat him.
• Delta called off the test, and Naruto and Fuma Ichiro stopped fighting as the sandstorm subsided.
• Naruto told Sasuke, Yakumo, and Haku that Fuma Ichiro seemed able to see the future, while Sasuke looked forward to fighting him.
• Orochimaru observed the battlefield and became certain that Fuma Ichiro possessed a powerful divine technique.

Orochimaru and Kabuto discovered that their ritual produced a subject with an unusually severe Otsutsuki transformation, while the Research Institute suspended its own rituals over similar concerns about Fuma Ichiro. Amado recommended suspending the rituals to Shinji, leaving the cause of the changes and Fuma Ichiro’s abilities uncertain.

• Orochimaru told Kabuto that he was certain Fuma Ichiro had awakened a concealed divine technique, and they concluded that time was running out after Yamada Juichi and the others failed to return.
• Orochimaru chose to betray the Research Institute and ordered Kabuto to prepare another ritual.
• Orochimaru and Kabuto created an experimental subject whose Otsutsuki transformation was more severe than Genyumaru’s, and the subject awakened a divine technique in less than three hours.
• Tsunade persuaded the Research Institute’s senior staff to suspend the rituals because Fuma Ichiro’s transformation made him seem increasingly dangerous.
• Tsunade warned Amado to stay vigilant about Fuma Ichiro, then Amado found Shinji reviewing Fuma Ichiro’s file and recommended suspending the rituals.

Shinji suspended the ritual after Amado warned that its subjects might be influenced by an Ōtsutsuki, and he considered using Urashiki as a sacrifice to cultivate a Chakra Fruit. He also checked on cell clones made from Naruto and Hinata’s cells, hoping they might awaken the Jōgan and give him control over the future.

• Shinji agreed to suspend the ritual and asked Amado to investigate Fuma Ichiro, whose profile suggested split personalities and a hidden divine art.
• Amado suspected that the ritual had affected all its subjects, including Orochimaru, and Shinji told him to test the others for signs of influence.
• Shinji considered sacrificing Otsutsuki Urashiki to the Divine Tree but left him alive for the moment, prioritizing the cultivation of a Chakra Fruit.
• Shinji inspected fifteen cell clones made from Naruto and Hinata’s cells, hoping they would awaken the Jōgan and mature in about a month.

Orochimaru absorbed the Mark divine art and decided to raid the Research Institute to steal more powers before his secrets were exposed. He followed Fuma Ichiro, but found that Fuma was waiting for him in the corridor.

• Orochimaru absorbed the test subject’s Mark divine art, bringing his total to four and increasing his strength.
• Orochimaru decided to absorb Fuma Ichiro’s divine art, then Ada’s and Daemon’s, before the Research Institute uncovered his secret.
• Orochimaru returned to the Research Institute and watched Fuma Ichiro spar with Sasuke using taijutsu alone.
• Orochimaru followed Fuma Ichiro toward the underground rest area and discovered Fuma waiting for him around a corridor bend.

Orochimaru used his divine arts to absorb Fuma Ichiro’s Premonition, but Fuma Ichiro’s strange cooperation left him suspecting that the ritual had gone terribly wrong. Amado learned that Orochimaru and Fuma Ichiro had met in an unmonitored passage and asked Delta to summon Ada to investigate.

• Orochimaru marked Fuma Ichiro, grabbed him through Claw Mark, and activated Absorption.
• Fuma Ichiro silently urged Orochimaru to hurry, and Orochimaru absorbed his Premonition, which let him foresee attacks about to harm him.
• Fuma Ichiro signaled Orochimaru to keep quiet, and Orochimaru withdrew Claw Mark before Fuma Ichiro left.
• Orochimaru grew suspicious that something had gone wrong with the ritual and wondered whether Fuma Ichiro’s soul was truly his own.
• Delta told Amado that Orochimaru had followed Fuma Ichiro toward the underground rest area but that there were no surveillance cameras or signs of a struggle.
• Amado agreed to have Delta call Ada so she could use her Telescopic Eye to inspect the passage.

Amado’s investigation into Fuma Ichiro and Orochimaru stalled when Ada’s 'Telescopic Eye' could not see what happened in the passageway. Shinji found no evidence in Fuma Ichiro’s memories, concluded Orochimaru was involved, and left with Fuma Ichiro to focus on more urgent matters.

• Amado asked Ada to use her 'Telescopic Eye' to investigate the passageway, but she saw only a blur and could not determine what had happened.
• Ada and Delta disagreed over whether Orochimaru or Fuma Ichiro was more suspicious, and Amado sent them away before contacting Shinji.
• After hearing Amado’s report, Shinji ordered him to bring Fuma Ichiro in for questioning.
• Shinji pulled out Fuma Ichiro’s Spirit Body and checked his memories, confirming that Fuma Ichiro had not met Orochimaru in the passageway.
• Shinji concluded Orochimaru was involved, told Amado to keep the Research Institute under control, and left with Fuma Ichiro.

Shinji sacrificed Otsutsuki Urashiki and Fuma Ichiro to two Divine Trees, then guarded the forming Chakra Fruits. When the trees bloomed, he discovered that Urashiki’s sacrifice had produced a fruit larger than an ordinary one.

• Shinji brought Otsutsuki Urashiki and Fuma Ichiro to the Divine Trees in a secluded dimension.
• Shinji sacrificed Otsutsuki Urashiki, and the Divine Tree began forming a Chakra Fruit.
• Fuma Ichiro claimed that something had controlled him after a ritual and might have gone to Orochimaru, but Shinji sacrificed him anyway.
• Shinji guarded the two trees for two days while waiting for the Chakra Fruits to mature.
• Shinji saw that the fruit produced from Urashiki was a full size larger than the other newly formed fruit.