Recaps

After returning from the Six Rings World, Shinji learned that the Overlord of Fear was increasingly eroding the Shinobi World and decided to deal with the missing Orochimaru himself. He absorbed all the Six Rings World’s magical knowledge and mastered its magic, greatly increasing his strength.

• Shion returned to the Flying Fortress with Shinji and Guang, where she recounted their battle in the Six Rings World to the waiting group.
• Karin told Shinji that the Overlord of Fear’s influence on the Shinobi World was growing, while the Research Institute had returned to normal.
• Karin reported that Orochimaru had left the base on an assignment, and Shinji decided to handle him personally rather than let Sasuke arrest him.
• Guang revealed that he had recorded the Six Rings World’s spellbooks with 'Yachihoko' and transmitted their knowledge to Shinji through 'Chakra Impact.'
• After several days of study, Shinji mastered the Six Rings World’s magic, analyzed the Magic Ring’s principles, and substantially increased his strength.

After absorbing the Six Rings World's magic, Shinji gained strength but realized that using foreign magic could contaminate the Shinobi World. He briefed his allies on the coming battle with the Overlord of Fear and asked them to develop defenses, leaving them tasked with improving devices to protect the world.

• Shinji assessed the strength he had gained from absorbing the Six Rings World's essence and information, then realized that using its magic could contaminate the Shinobi World.
• Shinji summoned the Akatsuki Organization and trusted Research Institute staff to a closed-door meeting about the Shinobi World's coming life-or-death battle.
• Uchiha Hikari used Tsukuyomi to show the attendees Shinji's battle against the Plague and Breeding Overlords in the Six Rings World.
• Shinji explained that he could suppress an Overlord's power within the spatial barrier but could not match one in the universe, and he confirmed that a battle inside the barrier could shatter the Shinobi World.
• Amado proposed constructing a barrier, and Scorpion asked for a sample of the devices that reinforced the Six Rings World's continental plates; Shinji agreed and told him to improve them.

Shinji ordered the Research Institute to reinforce the Shinobi World against the coming battle with the Overlord and assigned Shion to help. Suspecting Orochimaru had tampered with divine-technique test subjects, Shinji decided to arrest him himself and secretly summoned Ada and Daemon afterward.

• Shinji announced the confidential Bulwark Plan and ordered Amado to lead the Research Institute's efforts to strengthen the Shinobi World.
• Shinji assigned Shion to support the plan and told Sasuke, Naruto, Yakumo, and Haku to protect the Research Institute.
• Amado, Tsunade, and Scorpion voiced suspicions about Orochimaru, and Scorpion suggested the divine-technique test subjects could reveal what he had done.
• Shinji rejected Sasuke and Naruto's offers to confront Orochimaru, deciding that he would arrest him himself while Amado surveilled Orochimaru's associates.
• Shinji secretly summoned Ada and Daemon, and Ada asked him how strong he had become.

Shinji searched for Orochimaru after Ada and Daemon sensed fear from him, but found only an abandoned ritual laboratory and captive sacrifices. Evidence from a nearby island suggested Orochimaru’s secret ritual had succeeded, leaving Shinji to face the possibility of a powerful new enemy and wonder how the ritual overcame the Overlord of Fear’s interference.

• Ada failed to locate Orochimaru with her Telescopic Eye but sensed that he was somewhere over the sea to the east, and she and Daemon admitted they feared him.
• Shinji traveled to a remote island, broke its barrier, and found an underground laboratory containing ritual equipment and imprisoned sacrifices, but Orochimaru was gone.
• Shinji returned to the Research Institute and sent Amado’s staff to search the island laboratory.
• Amado reported that the facility had been used to prepare ritual sacrifices and that Orochimaru might have performed a ritual there.
• Tsunade reported battle-like traces on a nearby island, and she and Amado concluded that Orochimaru’s secret ritual had likely succeeded.
• Shinji worried that Orochimaru had completed the ritual despite the Overlord of Fear’s interference.

After discovering Orochimaru’s testing ground, Shinji feared the Overlord of Fear had infiltrated the Shinobi World and sealed away the meeting attendees’ memories of the war in the Six Rings World. He ordered the Bulwark Plan to be conducted under stricter secrecy and established a surveillance unit.

• Shinji considered whether Orochimaru had joined the Overlord of Fear or had been manipulated by it, but avoided issuing an arrest warrant to prevent provoking an invasion.
• Shinji summoned the previous meeting’s attendees and used a genjutsu to seal their memories of the war in the Six Rings World.
• Shinji explained that he had sealed the information to keep it from reaching the Overlord of Fear, and Hikari apologized for showing it to the group.
• Shinji raised the Bulwark Plan’s security classification and ordered everyone to conceal its operations behind a cover plan.
• Shinji ordered the Research Institute to form a temporary surveillance unit, include Ada, and punish anyone who leaked information.

After the meeting, Shinji strengthened security around the Bulwark Plan and arranged training for Hikari before offering Karin a chance to reach the Kekkei Mōra level. The chapter ends with Karin preparing to become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Shinji told Hikari and Shion he had sealed memories of the Six Rings World War and placed techniques in their minds to detect anyone examining them.
• Shinji sent Shion to help Amado improve the Bulwark Plan and had his Shadow Clone train Hikari in an uninhabited dimension.
• Shinji ordered Otsutsuki Toneri to focus the Giant Tenseigan's surveillance on the Research Institute.
• Shinji offered Karin a chance to reach the Kekkei Mōra level through another method, and she agreed to try.
• Shinji took Karin to Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's dimension and revealed the grown Ten-Tails, explaining that she could try becoming its Jinchuriki.

Karin suppressed the Ten-Tails and became its jinchūriki, raising her Chakra to the peak of the Six Paths level. Shinji began using Yachihoko to force more Chakra into her in an attempt to help her reach the Kekkei Mōra, leaving Karin badly strained but determined to continue.

• Karin used Wood Release, Adamantine Sealing Chains, and her Six Paths-level Susanoo to subdue the Ten-Tails.
• Karin sealed the Ten-Tails inside herself and became its jinchūriki, causing her Chakra to grow stronger.
• Shinji told Karin that the Ten-Tails would bring her to the peak of the Six Paths level but that reaching the Kekkei Mōra through training could take a century.
• Shinji warned Karin that he would use Yachihoko to force Chakra into her, and Karin agreed to endure the dangerous process.
• Shinji unleashed a Chakra shock on Karin, knocking her back and causing her to bleed as her body neared its limit, but both continued.

Shinji trained Karin until she advanced to Kekkei Mōra, then brought her to train with Hikaru. He began removing the Karma threats from Neji and Kimimaro, but after Momoshiki warned that turning Neji’s Karma into White Kāma would weaken him, Shinji extracted Momoshiki’s consciousness and sealed it inside the “H” parasitizing Neji.

• Shinji confirmed Karin had advanced to Kekkei Mōra and arranged special training for her and Hikaru.
• Shinji summoned Neji and Kimimaro to remove the Otsutsuki consciousnesses within their Karma.
• Shinji discovered that Neji’s Karma was thirty percent released and Kimimaro’s was fifty percent released.
• Momoshiki took control of Neji and warned Shinji that extracting his consciousness would leave Neji with a weakened White Kāma.
• Shinji extracted Momoshiki’s consciousness from Neji’s Karma and sealed it inside the “H” parasitizing Neji.

Shinji sealed Momoshiki and Kinshiki’s consciousnesses inside H, preserving the power of Neji and Kimimaro’s Kāma while containing its danger. After sending them to test their new Fusion State, Shinji assessed his forces and concluded he still needed more reliable fighters to prepare for Orochimaru and the Bulwark Plan.

• Shinji extracted Momoshiki’s consciousness from Neji’s Kāma and sealed it inside H, leaving Neji with a White Kāma.
• Neji and Kimimaro vowed they were willing to risk their lives to help the world, and Shinji explained that they could regain the full Kāma power by fusing with H and releasing the sealed consciousnesses.
• Shinji extracted Kinshiki’s consciousness from Kimimaro’s Kāma and sealed it inside H, then sent Neji and Kimimaro to test the arrangement.
• Shinji counted Hikari, Karin, Neji, Kimimaro, Toneri, Shion, Sasuke, and Naruto among his Six Paths-level forces, but set some aside because Orochimaru was an unpredictable threat.
• Shinji decided his forces were still insufficient and that he needed more trustworthy fighters to face Orochimaru safely.

Shinji planned ways to help Haku and Yakumo approach Six Paths level and began cultivating the Jōgan to create his own divine technique. His experiments were underway when one clone awakened the Byakugan and another died, leaving the results uncertain.

• Shinji judged that Haku, Yakumo, Ryūsetsuna, and Chiyo had little potential left to reach Six Paths level through strength alone.
• Shinji planned special environments to amplify Haku’s Ice Release and Yakumo’s Red Dragon Eye, then asked Amado to arrange cell transplants for them.
• Shinji examined his Naruto and Hinata-derived clones and decided to use them to cultivate the Jōgan.
• Shinji connected the clones to himself with Naobi and used Magatsu to guide Chakra toward their brains and optic nerves.
• One clone opened its eyes with the Byakugan, while another’s brain exploded as Shinji continued the experiment.

Shinji successfully cultivated a pair of Jōgan from clones and discovered their Hope ability, which revealed a path to finding hope in desperate situations. He began considering how to use the Jōgan’s connection to the future to create a divine technique powerful enough to affect Kekkei Sōra or an Overlord.

• Shinji adjusted his chakra stimulation until one clone developed stable Jōgan, while the other clones’ eyes failed to progress beyond an unstable stage.
• Shinji took the Jōgan to the Flying Fortress’s central training ground and used Susanoo Lamp to control them.
• Shinji examined the Jōgan and found their basic abilities resembled the Byakugan, but allowed him to see through objects in color.
• Shinji activated the Jōgan’s Hope ability and discovered it could reveal a glimmer of hope in desperate situations.
• Shinji considered using the Jōgan’s future-related power to create a unique divine technique capable of affecting Kekkei Sōra or an Overlord.

Shinji fused three time-related dōjutsu into The River, then began anchoring it to the Shinobi World’s past, present, and future. After finding only a storm-darkened future a few months ahead and being unable to travel farther, he realized he might have to create the world’s future himself.

• Shinji fused the Imperial God Palace, Dragon Palace City, and Hope into a new dōjutsu called The River, which let him travel through time.
• Shinji traveled hundreds of thousands of years into the past and left marks across the Shinobi World’s history to anchor The River to its past.
• Shinji returned to the present and aligned The River’s present with the Shinobi World by remaining at the Flying Fortress’s central training ground.
• Shinji traveled a few months into the future and saw a storm-darkened world resembling those near destruction in the World Destruction Society.
• Shinji failed to reach a more distant future and realized he might need to create the Shinobi World’s future himself.

Shinji witnessed a future in which the Overlord of Fear destroyed the Shinobi World and realized the Overlord had cut off the world’s future, leaving him as the only variable able to change it. After returning to the present, he understood that his “River” had become a true conceptual divine art, which he named the Time River.

• Shinji saw the Overlord of Fear destroy the Shinobi World in a future where Kaguya Otsutsuki’s Expansive Truth-Seeking Orb and Kaguya herself were reduced to ash.
• Shinji escaped the approaching Overlord by entering the “River” and returned to his own timeline.
• Shinji concluded that the Overlord had severed the Shinobi World’s future, explaining why he was absent from the future he had visited.
• Shinji realized that his “River” had transcended ocular techniques and become a concept after its past and present aligned with the Shinobi World.
• Shinji named his transformed technique the Time River.

Shinji created the Time River divine art and went to the moon with Sasuke and Naruto to confront Kaguya Otsutsuki about joining the fight against the Overlord. Meanwhile, Orochimaru struggled against Fuma Ichiro’s consciousness after absorbing his divine art.

• Shinji realized the Time River remained flawed because the Overlord had severed the Shinobi World's future, and he considered recruiting Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Shinji brought Sasuke and Naruto to the moon, where Toneri confirmed Kaguya Otsutsuki was sealed.
• Shinji told Toneri, Sasuke, and Naruto that Kaguya must either join their side against the Overlord or be eliminated before the great battle.
• Kabuto reported that the Research Institute had not acted against Orochimaru, and Orochimaru suspected Shinji would soon come for him.
• After Kabuto left, Orochimaru fought against Fuma Ichiro’s consciousness, which he believed was trying to take over his body.

Orochimaru negotiated with Fuma Ichiro over their shared body and learned that Ichiro wanted to target Kaguya Otsutsuki for more Chakra. Kaguya broke free of her lunar seal, and Shinji prepared Sasuke and Naruto to confront her.

• Orochimaru threatened to return to the Research Institute unless Fuma Ichiro revealed how he had hidden his consciousness inside a divine art.
• Fuma Ichiro urged Orochimaru to keep pursuing power, then proposed taking Chakra from Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Orochimaru and Fuma Ichiro sensed Kaguya's Chakra surge as she broke free of her seal on the moon.
• Kaguya asked Shinji whether he had undone the seal, and Shinji said the Shinobi World needed her power.
• Shinji called on Sasuke and Naruto to explain the current state of the Shinobi World to Kaguya, and she regarded them with hostility.

Kaguya Otsutsuki sent Sasuke and Naruto to the Origin World with Amenominaka, where they fought her and proved more capable than their counterparts in the original timeline. Shinji and Toneri arrived after the battle paused, and Shinji approached Kaguya to talk.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki used Amenominaka to transport Sasuke and Naruto to the Origin World, while Shinji and Toneri remained on the moon.
• Shinji explained that he had prevented Amenominaka from moving him and assured Toneri that Sasuke and Naruto could handle Kaguya.
• Sasuke and Naruto fought Kaguya in the Origin World, using Susanoo, Six Paths Mode, and shadow clones to counter her attacks.
• Kaguya and the two shinobi exhausted much of their chakra, and both sides paused to recover.
• Shinji and Toneri entered through a Space Gate, and Shinji walked toward Kaguya to speak with her.

Shinji forced Kaguya Otsutsuki to choose between joining his faction to defend the Shinobi World and dying, and she agreed to cooperate. He left Kaguya on the moon to recover and learn about the crisis while he returned to the Research Institute with Sasuke and Naruto.

• Shinji activated Godly Emperor Mode and overwhelmed Sasuke, Naruto, and Kaguya Otsutsuki with his Chakra.
• Shinji told Kaguya that an Overlord stronger than him threatened the Shinobi World and demanded that she cooperate or die.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki agreed to join Shinji's faction after hesitating.
• Shinji told Toneri to explain the situation to Kaguya and use the Giant Tenseigan's Chakra to help her recover.
• Shinji, Sasuke, and Naruto returned to the Research Institute, where Naruto questioned whether they had really released Kaguya.

Shinji and the Research Institute developed a plan to reinforce the Shinobi World with nine key nodes, while discussing how to protect the project and its defenders. With Orochimaru still missing and posing a threat, Shinji considered traveling into the past to eliminate him.

• Amado, Shion, and the others proposed nine key nodes to support a worldwide barrier and reinforce the continental plates.
• Tsunade offered to discreetly borrow shinobi for the Barrier Squads, while Scorpion explained how the Engineering Squad would manufacture and install the reinforcement spikes without exposing the full plan.
• Shinji approved moving forward but reserved judgment on how to assign forces to defend the nodes.
• Tsunade reported that captured subordinates could not reveal Orochimaru's location, and Amado urged Shinji to deal with him before the war.
• Shinji considered killing Orochimaru in the past, knowing that changing the timeline could bring unpredictable backlash.

Shinji, Amado, and Shion designed a powerful world-spanning barrier for the Bulwark Plan, using the Divine Tree and Infinite Tsukuyomi to draw on the Shinobi World's Chakra. After Shinji improved the design to counter the Overlords, the Research Institute and forces across the Shinobi World mobilized to prepare for its construction.

• Shinji decided to prioritize completing the Bulwark Plan before taking major action against Orochimaru, whose ritual had revealed the Overlord of Fear's involvement.
• Amado and Shion proposed using the Divine Tree as the barrier's core and the Infinite Tsukuyomi to gather Chakra from across the Shinobi World.
• Shion reported that the Divine Tree could make the barrier seven times stronger than the Six Rings World's magical shield, and the Infinite Tsukuyomi could raise its power to over a hundred times that level.
• Shinji approved the proposal and added improvements designed to counter the Overlords.
• The Research Institute organized teams to design the barrier, produce reinforcement stakes, and survey nine key nodes.
• Shinji's orders set the Research Institute's allied forces, villages, Daimyo, black markets, and bounty hunters across the Shinobi World in motion.

Shinji inspected the nine key nodes for the Divine Tree plan and began shaping their defenses. At a snowy node, he created an extreme environment for Haku and, after hearing Haku’s advice, made it even colder.

• Shinji rejected Scorpion’s proposal to send construction crews to modify the valley and decided to handle the work himself.
• Shinji visited all nine key nodes and assessed where to deploy high-level fighters.
• Shinji transformed a snowy plain into a frozen lake surrounded by concentrated Natural Energy for Haku.
• Haku said the environment could let him challenge a ritual experiment subject, though he still could not match Sasuke and Naruto.
• Shinji decided Haku could endure greater cold by combining Sage Mode and the Curse Mark, then reshaped the plain and nearby mountains to lower the temperature further.

Shinji prepared the Icefield as a key node and chose Haku to guard it, then brought Yakumo to Hell Valley and asked her to guard another node. He took Yakumo and Ido to the Icefield to test whether its conditions could help Yakumo defend her post, where Haku agreed to fight them at full strength.

• Shinji fine-tuned the Icefield's terrain and Natural Energy, then appointed Haku as its guard.
• Shinji explained that he needed reserves and could not place all his trusted Six Paths-level fighters at the nine key nodes.
• Shinji traveled to Hell Valley and summoned Yakumo, explaining that he wanted her to guard that key node.
• Yakumo and Ido worried they were not strong enough, so Shinji brought them to the Icefield to demonstrate its effects.
• Haku arrived and agreed to fight Yakumo and Ido at full strength.

Shinji enhanced Hell Valley to strengthen Yakumo and Ido, then continued inspecting the nine key nodes while keeping their guards' identities secret. At a cavern node with unusual air currents, he considered assigning Ryūsetsuna and Chiyo to guard it together, but had not yet decided whether they could handle the task.

• Haku defeated Yakumo and Ido in a spar, explaining that the environment had greatly enhanced her Ice Release.
• Yakumo volunteered to guard a key node after Shinji described how the Divine Tree network would strengthen its guards.
• Shinji altered Hell Valley's Yin Release Chakra, empowering Yakumo and Ido, and promised to make a balanced cavern where Yakumo could recover.
• Shinji kept the identities of the nine node guards secret and traveled to another key node, a vast underground cavern with unusual air currents.
• Shinji considered assigning Ryūsetsuna and Chiyo to the cavern node together, but recognized that he first needed to confirm they could fight at Six Paths level.

Shinji improved the Yin Seal and Eight Gates so Ryūsetsuna and Chiyo could reach Six Paths-level power in short bursts, then assigned guards to the nine key nodes. He planned to conceal Karin’s role at the core node while publicly claiming he would guard it himself.

• Ryūsetsuna and Chiyo offered to store Chakra for battle, giving Shinji the idea to enhance their temporary combat strength.
• Shinji increased the Yin Seal’s Chakra capacity and the Eight Gates’ maximum output, then gave both techniques to Ryūsetsuna and Chiyo to master.
• Shinji assigned Haku, Yakumo, Shion, Sasuke, Naruto, and Toneri to six key nodes, with Ryūsetsuna and Chiyo possibly guarding another if they mastered the techniques.
• Shinji planned to publicly claim he would guard the core node and plant the Divine Tree, while secretly having Karin impersonate him there.
• Shinji chose Neji and Kimimaro to guard the final node together, hoping they could combine their Kāma powers.

Shinji organized guards for the nine critical nodes of the Bulwark Plan while keeping two powerful fighters in reserve, and learned that someone had been stealing chakra from important sites. He suspected Orochimaru was behind the thefts and considered a new way to draw him out after the Bulwark Plan was completed.

• Shinji finalized assignments for the nine critical nodes and kept Uchiha Hikari and Kaguya Otsutsuki in reserve.
• Two weeks later, Amado reported that reinforcement stakes were seventy percent complete and barrier development was sixty percent complete.
• Amado told Shinji that investigation teams had found no trace of Orochimaru.
• Amado reported that the Ryūmyaku beneath ancient Rōran and several other chakra sources, including Takigakure's Hero Water, had been stolen.
• Amado proposed using Ada and Daemon as bait, but Shinji rejected the plan and said he had a better candidate in mind after the Bulwark Plan was finished.

Orochimaru and Fuma Ichiro argued over whether to raid the Research Institute as its new barrier threatened to expose them. When Shinji Uchiha appeared atop a summoned Divine Tree, Fuma Ichiro realized the barrier was nearly complete, but Orochimaru sensed that Owl was still alive.

• Orochimaru complained that gathering enough chakra had become difficult as the Bulwark Plan changed the Shinobi World.
• Fuma Ichiro warned Orochimaru that the Research Institute's powerful barrier could leave them nowhere to hide and urged him to steal Ada and Daemon's divine techniques.
• Orochimaru refused to raid the Research Institute because Ada, Daemon, Sasuke, and Naruto made the mission too risky.
• Orochimaru and Fuma Ichiro saw a colossal Divine Tree rise and recognized Shinji Uchiha standing at its top.
• Fuma Ichiro realized the Divine Tree could power a barrier covering the entire Shinobi World and panicked that they had lost their chance.
• Orochimaru sensed Owl and realized that he was still alive.