Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Sanpo took Kurama Yakumo on a moonlit outing to a snowy mountain, where they skied and skated together before confessing their feelings. He asked Yakumo to become his Royal Consort, and she accepted.

• Unable to sleep, Uchiha Sanpo thought about Yamanaka Ino before noticing Kurama Yakumo looking at his photograph.
• Uchiha Sanpo visited Kurama Yakumo and invited her out, and she hurriedly changed into a pale blue dress.
• Uchiha Sanpo took Yakumo to a snowy mountain on the Ancestral Planet, where they snowboarded and watched rabbits in the snow.
• Uchiha Sanpo brought Yakumo to a frozen lake and patiently taught her to skate.
• On the ice, Uchiha Sanpo and Yakumo confessed their feelings and kissed.
• Uchiha Sanpo asked Yakumo to become his Royal Consort, and she accepted.

Yamanaka Ino realized Kurama Yakumo was happy after spending time with Uchiha Sanpo, then made a bold attempt to win Sanpo's affection at the office. Ino confessed that she wanted to be with him too, while Sanpo urged her to stop and said feelings could not be forced.

• Yamanaka Ino noticed Kurama Yakumo acting unusually cheerful and guessed that Uchiha Sanpo had visited her the night before.
• Kurama Yakumo blushed and denied anything had happened, while Yamanaka Ino resolved not to give up on Sanpo.
• Yamanaka Ino brought Sanpo a cooperation proposal from the Land of Wind and used the opportunity to touch and flirt with him.
• Kurama Yakumo overheard Ino's advances from outside Sanpo's office and quietly retreated.
• Yamanaka Ino confronted Sanpo about visiting Yakumo, embraced him, and pleaded for a chance to be with him.
• Uchiha Sanpo told Ino that feelings could not be forced, but she clung to him and said she wanted only him.

Yamanaka Ino confessed that she wanted to stay by Uchiha Sanpo’s side despite his other Royal Consorts, and he accepted her feelings. The two went to his lounge, where they kissed and grew intimate.

• Yamanaka Ino told Uchiha Sanpo she loved him and would be content to remain his Royal Consort and secretary.
• Uchiha Sanpo asked whether Ino feared sharing him with his other Royal Consorts, and Ino said she did not.
• Uchiha Sanpo accepted Ino and promised to cherish her feelings, and Ino kissed him.
• Uchiha Sanpo carried Ino to the lounge, where they exchanged kisses and declared their love for each other.
• Uchiha Sanpo and Ino became intimate in the lounge.

Sasuke drove Otsutsuki Urashiki to flee through time, but Urashiki arrived in Konoha's sixty-fourth year instead and faced Uchiha Sanpo. Sanpo overpowered him, and after Urashiki transformed into his final form, Sanpo dodged his feather blades and prepared to strike.

• Sasuke fought Urashiki until the wounded Otsutsuki activated the Plough and escaped into the past, hoping to kill Sasuke as a child.
• Urashiki's depleted Plough sent him to Konoha's sixty-fourth year, where Sanpo snatched the artifact from him.
• Sanpo read Urashiki's thoughts and learned of his plan, then blocked his attacks and defeated him in battle.
• Urashiki reversed time to heal and tried to escape, but Sanpo stopped him.
• Urashiki absorbed the Red Light Fish Basket's chakra, swallowed his Rinnegan, and transformed into Crane Form.
• Sanpo used God Speed to evade Urashiki's feather blades and formed a black longsword from a Truth-Seeking Orb.

Uchiha Sanpo defeated Otsutsuki Urashiki and learned from his memories that the Otsutsuki Main Branch posed a far greater threat than its lower-ranking members. He and Otsutsuki Kaguya fed Urashiki to their small God Tree, which grew substantially, leaving them with a stronger resource against a possible Main Branch invasion.

• Uchiha Sanpo severed Otsutsuki Urashiki's wing, then defeated him by piercing its root and disrupting his chakra.
• Uchiha Sanpo read Urashiki's memories and learned that the Otsutsuki Main Branch controlled the clan and gained power from God Tree fruit and chakra pills.
• Uchiha Sanpo realized the Main Branch could threaten the Ninja World and brought the defeated Urashiki to Otsutsuki Kaguya.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya agreed that the small God Tree could use Urashiki as nourishment, while warning that she and Sanpo might barely be able to resist the Main Branch together.
• Uchiha Sanpo collected a sample of Urashiki's flesh and blood, then threw him to the small God Tree, which consumed him and grew from over six hundred meters to more than nine hundred.

Uchiha Sanpo destroyed Ōtsutsuki Urashiki’s soul in the Underworld and absorbed an imprint of Time Reversal, adding it to his Time Acceleration and Time Stop abilities. He promised Ōtsutsuki Kaguya a visit around the Ancestral Planet, but the two went to her palace instead, where she asked him to help her cultivate.

• Uchiha Sanpo caught Ōtsutsuki Urashiki’s soul as it emerged from the young God Tree and dragged it into the Underworld.
• The Underworld’s black grinding disc destroyed Ōtsutsuki Urashiki’s soul and revealed imprints of the Law of Time.
• Uchiha Sanpo absorbed the Time Reversal imprint, gaining the ability to return himself to six seconds earlier and deepening his mastery of time.
• Uchiha Sanpo asked Ōtsutsuki Kaguya to watch over the unstable God Tree and promised to take her around the Ancestral Planet.
• Uchiha Sanpo kissed Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, and they went to her palace, where she asked him to help her cultivate.

Uchiha Sanpo used the Infinite Tsukuyomi and the God Tree to harness more than a thousand death-row prisoners’ consciousnesses and accelerate his study of Time Reversal. After repeated calculations, he learned to reverse objects more precisely and planned to reuse the prisoners after they recovered.

• Uchiha Sanpo told Otsutsuki Kaguya that he wanted to connect the Infinite Tsukuyomi to the God Tree to help him understand the laws of Time Reversal.
• Uchiha Sanpo ordered Anwu to bring more than a thousand death-row prisoners to the God Tree, then put them to sleep with the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Uchiha Sanpo connected the prisoners’ consciousnesses to the God Tree, while Otsutsuki Kaguya stabilized its energy and the tree coordinated their calculations.
• Uchiha Sanpo used the resulting insights to restore a broken stone, realizing he needed to lock onto an object’s position in time before reversing it.
• After three more two-hour periods of deduction, Uchiha Sanpo restored a broken rock and gained control over the reversal’s speed and time range.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya warned that repeated Infinite Tsukuyomi use could permanently damage the prisoners, and Uchiha Sanpo planned to let them recover while working in the southern region before using them again.

Ōnoki and the daimyos of the Land of Wind and Land of Lightning forced the Land of Fire’s princes to surrender their cities to the Land of Water, hoping to weaken the Land of Water and the Land of Akatsuki against each other. Enshi Qiang agreed to surrender after the Land of Earth withdrew its troops, while Enshiryu and Enshi Xing also gave in, leaving Enshiko to consider what to do.

• Ōnoki persuaded the Daimyo of the Land of Earth to demand that Enshi Qiang offer his cities to Uchiha Sanpo, intending to provoke conflict between the Land of Water and the Land of Akatsuki.
• The daimyos of the Land of Wind and the Land of Lightning sent matching ultimatums to Enshiryu and Enshi Xing, and the three nations dispatched envoys to the Land of Fire.
• Shi Dashan told Enshi Qiang to surrender his cities within seven days and revealed that the three great nations would withdraw their troops from the Land of Fire.
• After a soldier reported that the Land of Earth's shinobi were already withdrawing, Enshi Qiang pleaded to surrender to the Land of Water in exchange for more time to hold the city.
• Enshiryu and Enshi Xing also yielded to their envoys' pressure, while Enshiko considered the situation after learning what had happened to his brothers.

Uchiha Sanpo’s council debated whether to accept the four princes’ offer to surrender the Land of Fire despite its ruined economy and the danger of a political trap. Sanpo approved the takeover and ordered officials, troops, and food sent to restore order, leaving the Land of Water preparing to secure the territory.

• Namikaze Minato presented Prince Enshi Qiang’s letter offering the Land of Fire to the Land of Water.
• Nara Shikaku and Kurama Unkai warned that the territory’s ruined resources would impose enormous costs and serve the three great nations’ schemes.
• Hyuga Hiashi argued that restoring the Land of Fire’s trade and farmland would bring long-term benefits and create a buffer against the Land of Akatsuki.
• Uchiha Sanpo accepted the four princes’ surrender but stripped them of military and administrative authority.
• Uchiha Sanpo ordered one thousand officials and ten thousand ninja to begin taking over major cities within three days and forbade soldiers from mistreating civilians.
• Uchiha Sanpo assigned Kakashi to Yan City and Uchiha Shisui to Feng City, and ordered ten million tons of grain distributed to the people.

Uchiha Sanpo welcomed Enshi Qiang and took control of the Land of Fire, promising food, tax relief, medical care, and protection for its people. As the former Land of Fire became part of the Land of Water and drew new settlers, Ōnoki realized his plan to weaken the Land of Water had instead strengthened it and feared the consequences.

• Uchiha Sanpo arrived in Yan City, reassured Enshi Qiang, and reminded him of the late Daimyo’s request to spare his family.
• Uchiha Sanpo promised Yan City’s people free grain, a year without taxes, free medical treatment, protection, and help rebuilding their homes, earning their cheers.
• The cities of the Land of Fire completed their handover, and the Land of Water’s flag rose over its last city as the Land of Fire ceased to exist.
• Reports told Ōnoki that the Land of Water had delivered ten million tons of grain, built hospitals, won the support of former officials and commoners, and attracted over a million new residents.
• Ōnoki realized his scheme to burden the Land of Water had instead expanded its influence, and he worried that the Daimyo would blame him for the failure.

Uchiha Sanpo oversaw the Land of Fire’s reconstruction, introducing communications, infrastructure, and security while preparing to attract merchants with incentives. The new trade center opened successfully, drawing merchants and local residents to buy and sell goods.

• Uchiha Sanpo arranged phone distribution and a base station, while Neji Hyuga selected a suitable site and helped engineers prepare it.
• Workers rebuilt the Daimyo Residence’s commercial streets, improved mining and irrigation, and received training and employment opportunities.
• Nara Shikaku reported that fifty border patrol outposts had been established, and Sanpo assigned Namikaze Minato to arrange their garrisons and planned a grand auction with tax incentives.
• Saya of the Land of Wind questioned the area’s security, then toured the streets and decided to investigate the investment policies further.
• Merchants from several countries gathered in the central square to sell goods, and A-Ming and Uncle Wang decided to buy a kitchen knife and silk.

Uchiha Sanpo countered neighboring countries’ efforts to scare civilians away from immigrating by offering generous rewards and tools to spread proof of life in the Land of Water. Ali left the registration office determined to bring his family and relatives from the Land of Wind.

• Nara Shikaku reported that spies from the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth were committing crimes while disguised as people from other countries, and Uchiha Sanpo concluded they wanted to provoke war and prevent emigration.
• Uchiha Sanpo ordered a reward of 200,000 taels for each person brought to immigrate, with an additional 1,000,000 taels for bringing more than twenty people, and directed guards to catch spies and officials to give migrants phones.
• Ali visited the Yan City immigration registration office and confirmed that the new rewards and free mobile phones were available to returning migrants.
• The registration official gave Ali a phone and poster, and Ali recorded his housing and salary as evidence to share with villagers in the Land of Wind.
• After hearing about wages, farming income, free medical care, and border protection in the Land of Water, Ali set out to bring his family and relatives.

Villagers from the Land of Wind were persuaded by Ali’s proof of the Land of Water’s wages and fled across the border, while the Land of Earth’s daimyo blamed Ōnoki for failing to prevent mass emigration. The chapter left Rasa facing an even greater exodus, with more than ten million people already gone from the Land of Wind.

• Ali showed villagers videos, an identity card, and his pay to convince them that jobs in the Land of Water were real.
• After Zhao Er and Old Man Zhang questioned his story, Ali argued that the Land of Water had no reason to rob poor villagers, and the group agreed to follow him.
• That night, more than thirty villagers left for the border, and similar crossings spread as returnees’ videos and promised wages drew people from neighboring countries.
• The Land of Earth’s daimyo confronted Ōnoki over millions of people fleeing and five border cities becoming ghost towns, then ordered someone else to take charge of the border.
• Rasa collapsed after receiving a report that the Land of Wind had lost more than ten million commoners in a month, leaving more than six cities empty.

Rasa faced pressure from the Daimyo as neighboring nations tried to stop people fleeing to the Land of Water, but harsh border controls could not stem the migration. In the Land of Water, Ali welcomed new immigrants and shared his recruitment bonus, while Zhao Er made peace with their past.

• The Daimyo berated Rasa over failed efforts to stop migration and ordered him to enforce the border or die.
• The Land of Wind, the Land of Earth, and the Land of Lightning issued a Guilt-by-Association Decree, while Xiao Yu and his father joined migrants hoping to reach the Land of Water.
• Rasa ordered the execution of 90 people caught crossing the border, then worried that more migrants would keep coming.
• At the Land of Water's registration office, Ali received a seven-million-ryo bonus for bringing 30 immigrants and promised to share money and supplies with them.
• Zhao Er told Ali he felt he had wronged him, and Ali reassured him that they could build better lives together in the Land of Water.

The Daimyo of the Land of Wind ordered officials and merchants to send twenty-five million civilians to the Land of Water in exchange for gold, ignoring warnings that the exodus would weaken the country. Merchants began organizing and transporting civilians, and the first groups were persuaded to leave.

• The Minister of Finance proposed profiting from the Land of Water’s immigrant rewards, and the Daimyo ordered twenty million civilians sent there while dismissing the Minister of Revenue’s warnings.
• The Daimyo tasked the Minister of Finance with arranging the migration and approved prioritizing elderly people and children.
• The Minister of Finance summoned merchants and nobles, offering them fees to organize twenty-five million immigrants and instructing them to accept only gold.
• Merchant Li Si promised villagers in Yellow Sand Village housing, jobs, and travel expenses in the Land of Water, and gathered nearly one hundred thousand people within three days.
• Merchants across the Land of Wind persuaded civilians to leave and began sending them to the Land of Water in batches.

Uchiha Sanpo used the Land of Wind’s population-for-gold scheme to entice the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning into sending immigrants, while staging a gold shortage to promote an auction of the Water of Life. The Daimyo of the Land of Wind believed the potion’s promises and prepared to spend his gold to win the high-grade supply.

• Uchiha Sanpo told Nara Shikaku to accept population exchanges from the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning at two hundred thousand ryō per person, paid in gold and potentially in batches.
• Uchiha Sanpo ordered a Treasure Auction and instructed Nara Shikaku to publicize the Water of Life’s effects and its three grades.
• News of the auction spread across the Ninja World, and the finance minister of the Land of Wind showed its promotional booklet and demonstration video to the Daimyo of the Land of Wind.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Wind believed his population-for-gold plan had strained the Land of Water’s reserves and ordered his officials to gather all available gold so he could bid for high-grade Water of Life.

The Daimyo of the Land of Earth agreed to send twenty million people to the Land of Water in exchange for gold to bid on the Water of Life, and the Land of Lightning made the same deal. At the auction, the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning won the High-Grade Water of Life for sixteen hundred tons of gold.

• After watching proof that the Water of Life restored youth, the Daimyo of the Land of Earth ordered Ōnoki to arrange the immigration of twenty million people to fund a bid.
• Nara Shikaku told Uchiha Sanpo that the Land of Earth and the Land of Lightning had agreed to send twenty million immigrants each, and Sanpo ordered officials to monitor the arrangements and send them the usage rules.
• A month later, the Daimyo of the Land of Wind won the Low-Grade Water of Life and the Mid-Grade Water of Life at auction.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Earth and the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning competed for the High-Grade Water of Life, and the Land of Lightning won with a bid of sixteen hundred tons of gold.

At the Daimyo Residence of the Land of Water, demonstrations of the Water of Life convinced the assembled rulers of its rejuvenating and healing effects. The auction continued, with the Daimyo of the Land of Wind and the Daimyo of the Land of Earth winning portions of the high-grade Water of Life.

• The Daimyo of the Land of Wind ordered his finance minister to test low-grade Water of Life, and the minister transformed from an old man into a healthy young man.
• The host pricked the finance minister with a needle, and his wound healed almost immediately.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Lightning drank high-grade Water of Life, regained his youth and strength, and bought mid-grade Water of Life for 720 tons of gold.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Wind outbid the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning and the Daimyo of the Land of Earth, winning a portion of high-grade Water of Life for 1,800 tons of gold.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Earth outbid a mysterious noble to win another portion of high-grade Water of Life.

Uchiha Sanpo arranged the resettlement of millions of immigrants and asked Nagato to unite the Land of Wind, Land of Earth, and Land of Lightning against the Land of Water. After Pain persuaded their Daimyos to form an alliance, the four nations agreed on an invasion plan, leaving their forces preparing to attack in ten days.

• Uchiha Sanpo reviewed the auction’s 22,300 tons of gold in proceeds and planned to disperse and resettle the incoming immigrants across the Land of Water.
• Uchiha Sanpo asked Nagato to persuade the Daimyos of the Land of Wind, Land of Earth, and Land of Lightning to attack the Land of Water so he could retaliate and unify the Ninja World.
• After a month of unrest over the sale of civilians, Deva Path Pain persuaded the three Daimyos to join an alliance by promising they could reclaim their gold and civilians and obtain the Water of Life formula.
• The Daimyos of Akatsuki and the three nations met in Black Stone City, where Deva Path Pain flattened a distant hill with Super Shinra Tensei to demonstrate his strength.
• Deva Path Pain set a plan for the Land of Akatsuki to attack first in ten days while Iwagakure, Kumogakure, and Sunagakure encircled the Land of Water’s forces from the flanks.

Uchiha Sanpo assigned forces to defend the Land of Water against a 68,000-strong alliance, deciding to face Akatsuki Village alone. He also allowed several of his children to join the other battlefronts under trusted commanders and ended by warning his daughters to prioritize safety.

• Nara Shikaku reported that Iwagakure, Kumogakure, Sunagakure, and Akatsuki Village had gathered 68,000 ninja across four fronts.
• Uchiha Sanpo assigned Namikaze Minato to defend against Kumogakure, Uchiha Shisui to defend against Iwagakure, and Nawaki to face Sunagakure, while reserving Akatsuki Village for himself.
• Uchiha Sanpo rejected offers of support, explaining that his shadow clones and Susanoo could handle the Akatsuki forces and that allies might be harmed by the battle.
• Bai Qi, Uchiha Shiryu, and Xingchi were assigned to join Namikaze Minato, while Sasuke Uchiha was assigned to accompany Uchiha Shisui and learn Sharingan techniques.
• Uchiha Sanpo sent Kikyo, Karin, and Shion to assist Nawaki as medical ninja and ordered them to stay away from the front lines.