Chapter Summaries

Shimura Danzō rejected Ōnoki’s proposal to secretly destroy the Senju Clan, while Orochimaru traded research notes with disguised Cloud ninja. The exchange revealed that the Senju and Uchiha descended from the Sage of Six Paths and left Orochimaru eager to continue dealing with Kumogakure.

• Orochimaru warned Shimura Danzō that his transplanted arm would eventually fail, while Danzō insisted it had to last through the war.
• An apparent Iwagakure emissary presented a forged scroll proposing that Shimura Danzō and Ōnoki secretly join forces against the Senju Clan, but Danzō refused to act while a certain person was still alive.
• Orochimaru followed the emissary and met four Cloud ninja, who offered ancient intelligence about the Senju and Uchiha in exchange for information about Danzō’s arm transplant method.
• Orochimaru exchanged scrolls with the Cloud ninja and learned that the Senju and Uchiha shared ancestry, that the Sharingan represented a reversion to ancestry, and that combining Uchiha and Senju powers might produce the Rinnegan.
• Orochimaru left satisfied with the exchange and looked forward to future transactions with Kumogakure.

Tamura Hiroshi formed the Yang Seal after months of training and storing chakra, then planned to pursue Swift Release by mastering Lightning and Wind Release. He remained focused on growing his strength and awaited Madara Uchiha’s progress, which could provide the chance to complete Kaguya Phantom.

• Tamura Hiroshi used a Sealing Scroll to gather enough chakra and successfully formed the Yang Seal, a chest mark that could store and release a Jonin’s worth of chakra.
• He assessed his limited chakra reserves and decided to improve his bloodline by pursuing Swift Release, starting with Lightning Release and later training Wind Release.
• Tamura Hiroshi noted that the Yozuki Clan’s Secret Medicine and his low-level Shikotsumyaku had strengthened his bones, though the medicine’s effects were diminishing.
• He considered how devouring an Otsutsuki from the moon could complete Kaguya Phantom’s transformation and waited for Madara Uchiha to awaken the Rinnegan and summon the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

Madara Uchiha awakened the Rinnegan after dying and returned to Konoha to read the full stone tablet. Its Moon Eye Plan and Human Evil Purification Plan convinced him that purging humanity’s base nature was the path to peace.

• Madara Uchiha’s soul returned to his body, awakening the Rinnegan as his body reached the point of death.
• Madara Uchiha summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and used its vitality to sustain himself.
• Madara Uchiha evaded Mito’s senses and hurried to Konoha to examine the stone tablet beneath the Uchiha Shrine.
• Black Zetsu concluded that Hagoromo had intervened and removed Indra’s chakra from Madara Uchiha, but vowed to continue his plans.
• Madara Uchiha read the Moon Eye Plan and Human Evil Purification Plan and declared that purging humanity’s base nature would bring peace.

Madara Uchiha accepted the Moon Eye Plan and the Plan to Purge Human Evil as his path to peace, while Tamura Hiroshi and Black Zetsu discussed the Sage of Six Paths’ role in his Rinnegan awakening. Tamura planned to steal the Sharingan power from Madara’s Rinnegan after it was transplanted, as the Ōtsutsuki descendants on the moon prepared to descend.

• Madara Uchiha read the stone tablet, embraced its two-part plan for peace, and left to restore his failing body with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path’s life force.
• Black Zetsu’s clone told Tamura Hiroshi that Madara had obtained the Rinnegan and summoned the Ten-Tails’ husk, and Tamura concluded the Sage of Six Paths had guided the awakening.
• Black Zetsu’s clone explained that he had expanded the Moon Eye Plan with the Plan to Purge Human Evil to strengthen Madara’s resolve, then chose to watch Hagoromo’s next moves.
• Tamura Hiroshi proposed extracting the Sharingan power from Madara’s Rinnegan after Madara found a transplant recipient, and Black Zetsu’s clone agreed.
• Black Zetsu’s clone told Tamura Hiroshi to prepare in Kumogakure for Hamura’s descendants, then left him to handle the rest.

Tamura Hiroshi learned that Sunagakure had used Sarutobi and Shimura corpses as Human Puppets and discovered records linking the Hyuga and Kaguya clans to Ōtsutsuki Hamura. As Ōtsutsuki Karasuki's group searched Kumogakure for the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, the village's Byakugan-enhanced Sensory Barrier detected them, and the Third Raikage flew out to confront them.

• Tamura Hiroshi reviewed intelligence about Sunagakure's Human Puppets and heard Dodai explain that the first attack had caught Konoha's Sarutobi and Shimura shinobi off guard.
• Tamura Hiroshi found a forged Uzumaki clan record identifying an honored guest of the Ninshu Sect as the source of the Hyuga and Kaguya, and he persuaded the Third Raikage and Dodai to enhance Kumogakure's Sensory Barrier.
• Ōtsutsuki Karasuki led Ōtsutsuki Sari and their group toward Kumogakure to search for the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, while Black Zetsu watched and considered exploiting Sari's hostility toward the Ninja World.
• The Ōtsutsuki group concealed themselves and began observing Kumogakure, but the Byakugan-enhanced Sensory Barrier detected them.
• The Third Raikage flew out of the Raikage Building, followed by ANBU shinobi.

The Third Raikage ambushed a group of Ōtsutsuki who had come to reclaim the Byakugan, killing their leader and trapping most of them. Ōtsutsuki Sari escaped, while Tamura Hiroshi and Black Zetsu discussed using the Ōtsutsuki Bloodline and the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki to strengthen Lord Danzo.

• Ōtsutsuki Sari demanded that Kumogakure return the Byakugan, and the Third Raikage ordered his ANBU to attack.
• The Third Raikage pierced Otsutsuki Karasuki’s chest with One-Finger Nukite and killed him.
• Kumogakure reinforcements and Uzumaki kunoichi sealed the battlefield, trapping the remaining Ōtsutsuki.
• Ōtsutsuki Sari escaped through a hole in the barrier, while the Third Raikage and his allies surrounded the other three.
• Tamura Hiroshi watched the battle with Black Zetsu and suggested telling Lord Danzo about the Ōtsutsuki Bloodline and the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.

Tamura Hiroshi and Black Zetsu planned to draw the Hamura main lineage’s attention toward Konoha by preparing Shimura Danzō to become a Dark Ten-Tails Jinchuriki. They left the story plotting ways to strengthen Danzō’s bloodline and gather dark entities and ancient power for the scheme.

• Tamura Hiroshi explained that Konoha’s strength threatened their plans, so Black Zetsu should help make the village a target for the Hamura main lineage.
• Tamura Hiroshi gave Black Zetsu the Sword of Totsuka, which contained the dark power he called The Evil of This World, and proposed using it to create a Dark Ten-Tails for Shimura Danzō.
• Black Zetsu agreed to seek demons and monsters to feed the Little Ten-Tails and suggested using a portion of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to cultivate another Ten-Tails.
• Tamura Hiroshi urged Black Zetsu to search for ancient ruins, cultivation legacies, and treasures, including the Gelel Ore Vein, while planning to acquire Rōran’s Dragon Vein later.
• Black Zetsu warned that Danzō lacked the bloodline needed to host a Ten-Tails, so Tamura Hiroshi proposed using the Chimera jutsu to combine compatible bloodlines and make Danzō’s lineage more complete.
• Tamura Hiroshi and Black Zetsu discussed gathering dark-dispositioned bloodline candidates, and Tamura Hiroshi explained that sincerely calling Danzō “Lord Danzo” was part of fooling others by first fooling himself.

Ōtsutsuki Sari attacked Munemasa Hyuga to steal his Byakugan, but the Hyuga leader escaped with help from a Branch Family shinobi secretly controlled by Black Zetsu. Gravely wounded, Munemasa passed leadership to Hyuga Hiashi and revealed the lunar branch’s connection to the Hyuga Clan, along with a plan to strengthen Hiashi and seal the clan’s hidden treasure inside him.

• Ōtsutsuki Sari resolved to obtain the Hyuga Clan’s pure Byakugan after his defeat and traveled to Konoha, where he arranged to meet Munemasa Hyuga at the Valley of the End.
• Ōtsutsuki Sari attacked Munemasa Hyuga, wounded him, and gouged out both his eyes, but three Branch Family shinobi intervened and one carried Munemasa toward Konoha.
• Black Zetsu, secretly controlling the Branch Family shinobi who carried Munemasa, brought him to the Hyuga compound and then killed the carrier while concealing his soul and Caged Bird Seal.
• Munemasa Hyuga sent away visitors and told his son Hyuga Hiashi that he was dying, naming him the new Hyuga Clan Head.
• Munemasa Hyuga explained the Hyuga Clan’s shared origin with the Kaguya Clan and another branch, then instructed Hiashi to transplant the severed arm of Ōtsutsuki Sari and seek a way to seal the Hyuga Clan’s secret treasure inside himself.

Black Zetsu manipulated Munemasa Hyuga and planted memories in a captive Uzumaki boy, leading the boy to reveal a clan legend to Shimura Danzō. Danzō became convinced that combining the Sage of Six Paths’ descendant clans’ bloodlines could let him surpass the First Hokage and Madara Uchiha.

• Black Zetsu secretly influenced Munemasa Hyuga and then learned that Konoha was searching for Uzumaki clan members as potential Nine-Tails Jinchūriki.
• At a secret base, Black Zetsu found five imprisoned Uzumaki and planted memories in a young boy whose fear was mixed with hatred.
• After the other captives were taken away, the boy begged to meet a superior and offered important Uzumaki intelligence in exchange for his life.
• The boy told Shimura Danzō that the Uzumaki, Senju, Uchiha, Hyuga, and Kaguya clans shared ancestry through the Sage of Six Paths and the Ninshu Sect.
• Shimura Danzō linked the legend to his research and considered using a Forbidden Jutsu to combine the bloodlines of the Sage’s descendant clans.

Tamura Hiroshi and the Third Raikage learned that the attackers were Otsutsuki from the moon and discussed how to prepare for their return. The Third Raikage ordered Kumogakure to strengthen its defenses and develop weapons against future threats.

• The ANBU reported that the dead Otsutsuki had fused traits associated with the Hyuga Byakugan and Kaguya's Shikotsumyaku, but studying the bloodlines further required living experiments.
• Dodai explained that Kirigakure was nearing civil war, giving Kumogakure an opportunity to rescue children from the ninja clans.
• Tamura Hiroshi suggested using the Amber Purifying Pot and Red Gourd to carry people through the Heavenly Transfer Technique, and the Third Raikage praised his idea.
• The Third Raikage let Tamura Hiroshi take one corpse for Samehada to consume and ordered him to report the results.
• The Third Raikage ordered Kumogakure to reduce frontline fighting, advance the Split Tailed Beast Jinchuriki Plan, expand its barriers, and improve the Chakra Cannon and firearms plan.

Tamura Hiroshi brought the transformed Kaguya Phantom home and discovered that Little Ten-Tails could supply him with life force, helping him overcome his chakra shortage. With his chakra cultivation now progressing steadily, he decided to focus on developing Chidori.

• Tamura Hiroshi fed the Ōtsutsuki corpse to Little Ten-Tails and the Kaguya Phantom, which transformed into a small, living version of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.
• Tamura Hiroshi bought clothes for Princess Kaguya, dressed her, and linked his chakra with hers, improving his compatibility with both her and Little Ten-Tails.
• Tamura Hiroshi directed Little Ten-Tails to send life force through the seal and found that it could continuously support his chakra cultivation.
• Tamura Hiroshi adapted to the life force and cultivated chakra at low intensity, expecting to fill his Yang Seal much faster.
• Tamura Hiroshi chose to develop Chidori, confident that Kumogakure's Lightning Release expertise and his access to the Third Raikage would help him succeed.

Uchiha Hikari attacked Tamura Hiroshi to avenge an earlier humiliation, and the two fought in the underground hive. Hikari won by striking him with a tracking lightning technique, but Tamura’s final remark left her embarrassed and furious.

• Uchiha Hikari attacked Tamura Hiroshi with her Ninja Sword after her vision recovered, and he drew his twin blades to meet her.
• Tamura Hiroshi used Lightning Release Chakra to boost his speed as the two traded attacks, while Karura, Uzumaki Kushina, and Black Zetsu’s clone watched.
• Uchiha Hikari decided she could not win by swordsmanship alone and fired Lightning Release: Lightning Snake Fang Pursuit at Tamura Hiroshi.
• Tamura Hiroshi endured the lightning strike but collapsed twitching, and Uchiha Hikari planted her foot on his face and declared victory.
• Tamura Hiroshi muttered a remark that made Uchiha Hikari look down, blush, and grow angry.

After Uchiha Hikari beat Tamura Hiroshi, he gave Karura pure Hashirama Chakra to help her train in Yang Release. He also proposed that she study the One-Tail’s chakra to develop Magnet Release, and she agreed to learn it for defense.

• Uchiha Hikari and Uzumaki Kushina left Tamura Hiroshi after Hikari beat him, while Karura treated his injuries.
• Tamura Hiroshi admitted that Hikari had overpowered him once she used ninjutsu, and Karura reassured him that Hikari was exceptionally strong.
• Tamura Hiroshi gave Karura pure Hashirama Chakra and urged her to seal it inside her body so she could refine it while training in Yang Release.
• Karura sealed the chakra in a mark on her palm using a sealing formula she had learned from Uzumaki Kushina.
• Tamura Hiroshi proposed that Karura use chakra from the One-Tail to develop Magnet Release from her Sand Manipulation Secret Technique, and Karura agreed to learn it to protect people.

As tensions between the Third Mizukage’s faction and the Ninja Clans escalated, Genji’s neutral faction prepared to keep outside forces from interfering in Kirigakure’s coming civil war. The clans assembled to attack the Mizukage Building, planning to use Explosive Tags to overcome their weaker forces and kill the Third Mizukage quickly.

• Genji and Terumi Kyu discussed how the First, Second, and Third Mizukage’s decisions had led Kirigakure toward civil war and further decline.
• Genji ordered his faction to monitor the village’s borders and prevent outsiders from entering once the fighting began, while Terumi Kyu reported that the Kaguya Clan had brought people back from outside.
• The Ninja Clans mobilized their members for a desperate coup before the Third Mizukage’s two Tailed Beast Jinchuriki could master their powers.
• A Hyuga Branch Family ninja used his Byakugan to map more than a thousand Chunin-level guards around the Mizukage Building but found no Tailed Beast Jinchuriki.
• Hozuki Chigetsu, the Kaguya Clan Head, and the Yuki Clan Head agreed they needed a swift attack, and Hozuki Chigetsu proposed using Explosive Tags to break the enemy’s defenses.

The Third Mizukage’s forces defeated the clan rebellion in Kirigakure, but the Third Raikage arrived with a large Kumogakure force and forced him to let them leave with the Yuki children. Kumogakure also captured the Hyuga ninja, while a shadow clone rescued the Kaguya Clan Head.

• Hozuki Chigetsu led the clans’ attack on the Mizukage Building with a huge barrage of explosive tags, but the Third Mizukage’s forces ultimately slaughtered most of the attackers.
• The Third Mizukage prepared to kill the defeated Hozuki Chigetsu, Yuki Clan Head, and Kaguya Clan Head, while a Hyuga Ninja sealed the Kaguya heir’s corpse in a scroll.
• A shadow clone emerged from underground, summoned Baku, and rescued the injured Kaguya Clan Head before dispersing.
• The Third Raikage arrived with over a thousand cloud ninja and two Tailed Beast Jinchuriki, then demanded that his forces be allowed to take the Yuki children.
• The Third Mizukage agreed to let Kumogakure leave within half an hour, and the cloud ninja captured the Hyuga Ninja and collected genetic samples.

The Third Raikage withdrew from Kirigakure with the rescued clan children and secured an alliance with the Third Mizukage against Konoha. The Third Mizukage ended the Blood Mist Policy, while Tamura Hiroshi gained Power of Destiny and continued developing Chidori.

• The Third Raikage led his Cloud ninja and the rescued clan members away from Kirigakure without fighting the Mist ninja.
• At Kirigakure’s gates, the Third Raikage proposed an alliance against Konoha and exchanged intelligence with the Third Mizukage after they signed the contract.
• The Third Mizukage told Genji that Kumogakure was now Kirigakure’s ally and declared the Blood Mist Policy over.
• Tamura Hiroshi gained a large amount of Power of Destiny as a result of the changes in Kirigakure.
• The Third Raikage sent Mist corpses and parts of the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails to Tamura Hiroshi, who resolved to keep training his Chidori.

Tamura Hiroshi completed Chidori, then used Adamantine Sealing Chains to defeat Uchiha Hikari and settle their old scores. He told Uzumaki Kushina that a member of her clan might be imprisoned and drained of blood in Kusagakure, leaving her stunned as he slipped away.

• Tamura Hiroshi finished developing Chidori, and Uchiha Hikari copied the technique with her Sharingan.
• Tamura Hiroshi and Uchiha Hikari tested Chidori in a fast-paced spar as Uzumaki Kushina watched.
• Tamura Hiroshi restrained Uchiha Hikari with Adamantine Sealing Chains and struck her 125 times to settle their past grievances.
• Uzumaki Kushina confronted Tamura Hiroshi about knowing the Uzumaki clan's secret technique, and he denied desecrating clan graves.
• Tamura Hiroshi told Uzumaki Kushina that an Uzumaki clan member might be held in Kusagakure and drained of blood, then slipped away.

Tamura Hiroshi completed Chidori, gave its scroll to the Third Raikage for refinement, and received the Raikage’s secret techniques before setting out on a mission to the Land of Iron. The Third Raikage reflected on Hiroshi’s other invention, Rasengan, as the team prepared to leave.

• Tamura Hiroshi presented the Third Raikage with Chidori’s training scroll and asked him to refine the technique.
• The Third Raikage refined Chidori and gave Tamura Hiroshi scrolls for Hell Stab and Lightning Release Armor, which Hiroshi memorized.
• The Third Raikage assigned Tamura Hiroshi, Fukai, and A to lead a procurement mission to the Land of Iron and modify ninja swords obtained from Kirigakure.
• Tamura Hiroshi left the Raikage Office intending to study the secret techniques and incorporate them into the Chidori system.
• The Third Raikage told Dodai that Tamura Hiroshi had also proposed Rasengan, a technique with potential for incorporating Chakra nature transformations.

The Third Raikage and Dodai discussed Kumogakure’s plans for industrial growth, Chakra Technology, and secret Firearms research. They prepared to attack Kusagakure under Yozuki A, with an Uchiha girl’s Sharingan potentially aiding the operation.

• Dodai learned that the Third Raikage’s talented disciple had created the Rasengan, and the Third Raikage praised the boy’s potential.
• Dodai reported that Kumogakure had built a train prototype and a large steamship, and the Third Raikage planned to seek the daimyo’s support for railways, shipping, and metal production.
• Dodai revealed that the Land of Snow was researching Chakra Armor and Chakra Technology, while the Third Raikage ordered tighter security around Turtle Island, Kumogakure’s secret Firearms base.
• The Third Raikage and Dodai discussed expanding the ninja workforce to build roads and railways while secretly preparing reserves for the Firearms army.
• The Third Raikage chose Kusagakure as Kumogakure’s first target and assigned Yozuki A to lead fifty jonin and five hundred chunin there.
• Dodai suggested that the Uchiha girl brought to Kumogakure could help them thoroughly strip Kusagakure of its resources.

Tamura Hiroshi and his companions left Kumogakure to lead a secret campaign against Kusagakure. A, Fukai, and Tamura Hiroshi began planning the operation aboard their ships, while an experienced veteran watched over them.

• Uzumaki Kushina hurried Tamura Hiroshi out of bed, and Karura gave him, Uchiha Hikari, and Kushina medical kits before they departed.
• Tamura Hiroshi met Yozuki A and Fukai, shared his Chidori training method, and asked them to help refine the technique.
• The group used a secret passage to leave Kumogakure and boarded ships with more than five hundred shinobi.
• Yozuki A relayed the Third Raikage's orders to destroy Kusagakure while minimizing casualties, and he and Fukai began considering their command responsibilities.
• An experienced veteran sent by the Third Raikage observed the planning and prepared to take command if Iwagakure or Konoha forces intervened.