Chapter Summaries

Orochimaru consulted the Nether Ninja Village’s core members about using force to unite the Shinobi World, and they unanimously supported the campaign. He planned to report their decision to the Nether King, consult the village, and give the Five Great Shinobi Villages one final chance to surrender.

• Orochimaru asked the core members for their views on uniting the Shinobi World by force, and most voiced immediate support.
• Miyashi Hizokurou warned that the Five Great Shinobi Villages might unite against them and urged preparation for their Jinchuriki and Tailed Beast Bombs.
• Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Pakura stayed silent, while the newly promoted Kage-Level ninjas also supported the campaign.
• The Nether Ninja Village’s ranks had grown through intense training and newly developed restorative medicine, strengthening Orochimaru’s confidence.
• Orochimaru counted the decision as unanimous and said he would inform the Nether King, consult the village, and send the Five Great Shinobi Villages a surrender letter within three days.

Orochimaru secured the Nether Ninja Village’s support for war and sent surrender demands to the Five Great Shinobi Villages. The Kage rejected immediate submission and began contacting one another as the one-day deadline approached.

• Orochimaru withheld the Wicked Arts from the Nether Ninja Village and confirmed that its ninja supported declaring war on the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
• Orochimaru sent surrender letters to all five villages through Miyashi Hizokurou’s Space Ninjutsu and gave them one day to answer.
• Shimura Danzō received the demand in Konohagakure, asked for time, and began contacting the other Kage.
• Ōnoki refused to submit, asked for time, and contacted the other Kage alongside Danzō.
• Rasa nearly rejected the demand outright, but Chiyo signaled him to hold back while Sunagakure’s envoy waited for an answer.
• Karatachi Yagura and Kirigakure’s elders asked for time to consider the demand, aware that their village had few fighters left.

The Five Great Shinobi Villages rejected the Nether Ninja Village’s demand for surrender and formed an alliance under Raikage A, believing their combined strength could match their enemy. Orochimaru mobilized his forces and sent five divisions to attack all five villages at once, while the allied villages did not realize the enemy army had split.

• The Five Kage agreed to unite against the Nether Ninja Village, chose Raikage A to lead them, and promised to aid whichever village was attacked.
• The Five Kage rejected surrender, and the Nether Ninja Village’s envoys returned to report their answer to Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru ordered war mobilization, and the Nether Ninja Village prepared its forces within two days.
• Orochimaru, Shirafuji Shizuka, Sasori of the Red Sands, Tian Qingcheng, and Miyashi Hizokurou each led a division against one of the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
• The Nether Ninja Village’s five divisions marched toward their targets, while the allied villages’ spies reported only that its army had departed.

Nether Ninja Village divided its armies and threatened all five great villages at once, preventing them from coordinating their defenses. As the villages prepared for war, their leaders recognized former allies and powerful defectors among the opposing forces, leaving Danzō, Yagura, Rasa, and Chiyo facing personal and political turmoil.

• The Five Kage mobilized their forces after learning of the threat, while Cloud Village revealed its charged Chakra Energy Cannon as a deterrent.
• Nether Ninja Village's five armies appeared near all five great villages, forcing each village to defend itself without support from the others.
• Orochimaru arranged the armies' simultaneous arrival to prevent the villages from coordinating, and the leaders saw former Konoha elites among the force approaching Konoha.
• Shimura Danzō feared Konoha's shinobi would defect when they faced their former leaders, while Karatachi Yagura was alarmed that six Shadow-Level Ninjas were approaching Mist Village.
• Rasa and Chiyo learned that Sasori was leading the force near Sunagakure and that Pakura was with him, prompting them to consider whether they could persuade Pakura to return.

Orochimaru and Nether Ninja Village prepared for war against the Five Great Shinobi Villages while trying to persuade former comrades to defect. The talks failed at Konohagakure, but Mist Village lost more elite fighters to Nether Ninja Village, and Karatachi Yagura chose war to stop further defections.

• Ōnoki and Fourth Raikage A assessed Nether Ninja Village’s formidable forces and prepared to face them.
• After the Five Kage avoided a night raid, Orochimaru, Tsunade Hime, Jiraiya, Hiruko, and Uchiha Seijou went to Leaf Camp to offer Konohagakure a chance to surrender.
• Danzo rejected the defectors’ appeal, and Minato Namikaze, Kushina Uzumaki, and Yamashiro Uchiha refused to join Nether Ninja Village; Kushina also disobeyed Danzo’s order to attack them.
• Sasori dragged Pakura away from Sunagakure after its attempt to recruit her, then declared war on the village.
• Kuriyase Kushimaru, Suikazan Fuguki, and Jinin Akebino accepted their former teammates’ invitation to defect from Mist Village, prompting Karatachi Yagura to choose war.

Nether Ninja Village fought the Five Great Shinobi Villages after Cloud Village threatened to counter En no Gyōja's Forbidden Jutsu with its Chakra Cannon, so Orochimaru chose not to risk the village's home base. Over a month of fighting, defections weakened the opposing armies, and the chapter ended with Minato Namikaze beginning to act strangely.

• The Five Kage revealed that Cloud Village's Chakra Cannon was aimed at Nether Ninja Village, prompting Orochimaru to set aside En no Gyōja's Forbidden Jutsu while Miyashi Hizokurou searched for the weapon.
• Nether Ninja Village fought on all five fronts for a month, and its powerful fighters gradually gained the advantage over the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
• Ninja from several villages defected or refused to fight, especially those from Konohagakure and Mist Village, while Cloud Village's battlefield remained especially fierce.
• Hyuga Branch Family members defected en masse to escape the Caged Bird, and members of the Inuzuka, Aburame, and Uchiha clans also abandoned or withheld support from Konohagakure.
• As more Kage-Level fighters entered the war, the situation worsened, and Minato Namikaze began acting strangely.

Danzo forcibly loosened Kushina’s seal to unleash the Nine-Tails and try to save Konohagakure, but Nether Ninja Village’s prepared sealing team subdued the beast. Kushina survived unconscious, and Minato held her as the battle’s outcome turned against Konohagakure.

• Minato kept fighting Jiraiya while doubting Konohagakure’s cause, and the village’s other top fighters held back as Nether Ninja Village overwhelmed its forces.
• Danzo forcibly undid most of Kushina’s seal, causing her to transform into the berserk Nine-Tails.
• Orochimaru ordered Nether Ninja Village’s lower-ranked fighters to retreat while its eleven Quasi-Shadow Level fighters assembled sealing scrolls around the beast.
• Uzumaki Ayano restrained the Nine-Tails with Adamantine Sealing Chains, allowing the eleven fighters to bind it with Sealing Technique chains.
• Jiraiya stopped Minato from reaching Kushina, and Nether Ninja Village’s fighters sealed the Nine-Tails without serious harm to her.
• Minato rushed to Kushina, confirmed she was safe, and held her unconscious body in his arms.

As Konoha, the Mist Village, and Sunagakure neared collapse, Raikage A chose to intervene and negotiate with the Nether Ninja Village, hoping to preserve the Five Great Shinobi Villages. Miyashi Hizokurou accepted the talks but used them to isolate the Cloud Village while ordering decisive assaults on Konoha and the Mist Village.

• Danzo ordered Konoha to retreat behind its barrier, while Karatachi Yagura and Rasa struggled to keep the Mist Village and Sunagakure from collapsing.
• Miyashi Hizokurou confirmed that Space Ninjutsu could pull a target beyond the Amber Purifying Pot's effective range and help counter the Cloud Village's Six Paths Tools.
• After receiving urgent pleas from three villages, Raikage A decided to threaten the Nether Ninja Village with the Chakra Cannon and seek peace talks.
• Miyashi Hizokurou agreed to negotiate, then secretly cut off the Cloud Village's contact with the other villages using his control of space.
• Raikage A demanded the Nether Ninja Village withdraw or face the Chakra Cannon, but Miyashi Hizokurou countered with threats against the Cloud Village and refused to make concessions.
• While the negotiations proceeded, Miyashi Hizokurou ordered the Nether Ninja Village forces to launch decisive attacks on Konoha and the Mist Village.

The Nether Ninja Village conquered Konohagakure and Kirigakure and pressed Sunagakure, while Raikage A gambled that his threat to use the Chakra Cannon would force it to retreat. As the deadline arrived, reports from the other Kage showed that Miyashi Hizokurou had outplayed him, leaving Raikage A facing the consequences of his bluff.

• Minato Namikaze learned the truth in the Small World, joined the Nether Ninja Village, and persuaded Kushina Uzumaki to leave Konohagakure.
• The Nether Ninja Village captured Konohagakure within a month, while Shimura Danzō, Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Homura, Hyuga Hiko, and their followers escaped.
• Orochimaru thanked Yahiko for supporting the campaign, and the two grew closer as they talked.
• The Nether Ninja Village overran Kirigakure, forcing Karatachi Yagura to flee with the sealed Six-Tails Jinchuriki and a handful of followers.
• Sasori of the Red Sands used poison against Sunagakure, pushing its defenses toward collapse as Rasa cursed Raikage A over the communicator.
• As the deadline neared, Miyashi Hizokurou removed the spatial barrier, Raikage A received the other Kage's reports, and he realized he had been outplayed.

Miyashi Hizokurou redirected the Cloud Village's Chakra Cannon attack away from the Nether Ninja Village, but the Cloud Village concealed the weapon before he could find it. At the Cloud Village Battlefield, Raikage A threatened to fire on multiple villages as the Five Great Shinobi Villages prepared to gamble on the cannon's threat.

• Raikage A ordered the Cloud Village to bombard the Nether Ninja Village, and Miyashi Hizokurou redirected the Chakra Cannon's attack into the sea.
• Miyashi Hizokurou traced the cannon's firing direction, but the Cloud Village sealed it in a storage scroll and moved it before he could locate it.
• Miyashi Hizokurou brought Orochimaru, Tsunade Hime, Jiraiya, Hiruko, Shirafuji Shizuka, Kaguya Changming, Hozuki Mangetsu, and Raiga Kurosuki to the Cloud Village Battlefield.
• Raikage A contacted the other four Kage, and Ōnoki, Danzo, Yagura, and Rasa agreed that the Cloud Village should stand firm and threaten to target Konohagakure and the Mist Village.
• Raikage A told Nether King Orochimaru that the Cloud Village would fire indiscriminately at the Nether Ninja Village, Konohagakure, and the Mist Village if pushed further.

After discovering that the Shinobi World was an insect farm controlled by man-eating Bug Immortals, Hyuga Shin returned with his three clones to rewind time and prepare a new plan. He arrived back to find devastation and understood why the world had been kept in darkness.

• Hyuga Shin discovered that the stars were illusions and that powerful bugs treated the Shinobi World as an insect farm.
• Hyuga Shin decided to return to the Shinobi World and use time reversal to start over with his memories intact.
• Hyuga Shin considered finding different helpers instead of relying on Orochimaru, but had not chosen when to go back.
• Hyuga Shin returned to the Shinobi World with his three clones, frightening the Shinobi World Will.
• Hyuga Shin saw the devastation after returning and understood why the Shinobi World was so dark.

Orochimaru and Raikage A negotiated an armistice, with the Three Great Shinobi Villages agreeing to pay compensation while refusing to surrender their Chakra Cannons. The Nether Ninja Village withdrew from the Sunagakure and Iwagakure fronts, taking prisoners and defectors with it, while Orochimaru warned that the villages’ safety depended on their secret weapon.

• Rasa urged Raikage A to settle with the Nether Ninja Village as Sunagakure’s defenses collapsed and the One-Tail was sealed again.
• The Five Kage agreed to Orochimaru’s first two demands, rejected the demand for their Chakra Cannons, and authorized Raikage A to negotiate compensation.
• Raikage A and Orochimaru settled on 375,444,444 ryō, and Orochimaru ordered his forces to withdraw from the Sunagakure and Iwagakure battlefields.
• Sasori and Black Rock led their forces out of Sunagakure, while Tian Qingcheng led the withdrawal from the Earth Village front; the Nether Ninja Village took captured and surrendered shinobi with them.
• Orochimaru ordered the Three Great Shinobi Villages to deliver compensation within ten days, then warned Raikage A that their secret weapon would determine how long they remained safe.

After the Nether Ninja Village withdrew from the war, Orochimaru handled the aftermath and prepared its next steps toward unification. Miyashi Hizokurou volunteered to infiltrate Cloud Village for the Chakra Cannon’s plans, while Uchiha Madara ordered Black Zetsu to incite the Five Kage against Akatsuki and help Nagato awaken the Rinnegan.

• Orochimaru left forces to guard conquered Konohagakure and the Mist Village as the Nether Ninja Village withdrew and the other villages paid reparations.
• Minato Namikaze, Yamashiro Uchiha, and Kushina arrived at the Nether Ninja Village, where Yamashiro joined and Kushina was examined.
• Orochimaru used most of the reparations to aid war casualties and rewarded participating shinobi with money and access to jutsu.
• Miyashi Hizokurou volunteered to infiltrate Cloud Village and obtain the Chakra Cannon’s blueprints, and Orochimaru approved the mission.
• Orochimaru and Shikatoshi Nara planned to conquer the Land of Fire and the Land of Water after a brief rest.
• Uchiha Madara ordered Black Zetsu to incite the Five Kage against Akatsuki and help Nagato awaken the Rinnegan.

Nether Ninja Village invaded the Land of Fire and the Land of Water to bring both under the Country of the Cauldron’s rule. After the nobles incited commoners to resist, Kakuzu and Kaguya Changming ordered a brutal crackdown, while the nobles fled to the Land of Lightning.

• Miyashi Hizokurou infiltrated Cloud Village by taking the appearance and Chakra signature of a patrol captain, but sealed memories about the Chakra Cannon slowed his search.
• Kakuzu led Nether Ninja Village forces into the Land of Fire, while Kaguya Changming and Uesugi Aoki led the Ninja Blade Corps through the Land of Water.
• The nobles paid commoners to obstruct Nether Ninja Village and attack its shinobi, hoping to buy time to escape.
• After Kakuzu and Kaguya Changming reported the resistance, Orochimaru told them to do as they pleased, and they ordered the deaths of anyone obstructing unification.
• Kakuzu explained the consequences to the captured commoners before ordering them killed, while Kaguya Changming ruthlessly crushed resistance in the Land of Water.
• The nobles fled to the Land of Lightning after learning Karatachi Yagura and Danzo had retreated there with the remnants of Mist Village and Konohagakure.

Nether Ninja Village took control of the Land of Fire and the Land of Water, alarming the remaining nations. In the Small World, Hyuga Shin discovered that the World Will had tried to use his sage clones to control him, severed their soul connections, and left the fourth clone planning retaliation.

• Kakuzu and Kaguya Changming executed the nobles who had incited opposition, and Nether Ninja Village claimed the Land of Fire and the Land of Water for the Country of the Cauldron.
• Orochimaru declared that wandering shinobi and Black Market Ninjas had to report to Nether Ninja Village branches or be treated as rebels.
• Hyuga Shin emerged from seclusion in the Small World, where Tiger King greeted him, and reviewed the fourth clone's recent information.
• Hyuga Shin concluded that the World Will had tried to infiltrate him through his sage clones, severed his soul connections to the two clones, and informed them of his discovery.
• The fourth sage clone grew angry at the World Will and contacted Miyashi Hizokurou, telling him to slow the campaign against the Cloud Village while he prepared his own plan.

Black Zetsu manipulated the great villages into attacking Amegakure to force Nagato’s Rinnegan to awaken. After Yahiko was mortally wounded, Nagato awakened its power and brought him to the Nether Ninja Village, where Tsunade Hime might be able to save him.

• Miyashi Hizokurou slowed his Cloud Village operation according to the fourth clone’s arrangements, while the Nether Ninja Village continued integrating its conquered territories and its visitors settled into village life.
• Black Zetsu persuaded Danzo, Rasa, Karatachi Yagura, and Ōnoki to target Amegakure, and their forces ambushed the Three Great Sages.
• Yahiko fought the three Kage to protect Nagato and Konan, but Karatachi Yagura pierced him and left him near death.
• Nagato’s grief awakened the Rinnegan’s power, and he summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to drive back the attackers and rescue Yahiko.
• Konan activated Jiraiya’s Space Scroll and brought Yahiko and the weakened Nagato to the Nether Ninja Village, where patrol ninjas summoned a Medical Ninja.

Tsunade Hime saved Yahiko after his heart was badly wounded, easing Nagato’s resentment toward Jiraiya. Black Zetsu reported Nagato’s Rinnegan awakening to Uchiha Madara, who dismissed the Nether Ninja Village as a threat and ordered him to prepare Obito’s succession.

• Konan and Nagato brought the critically injured Yahiko to the Nether Ninja Village, where Tsunade Hime treated him for fourteen hours and repaired his heart.
• Nagato realized Jiraiya’s space-time transportation scroll and care had saved Yahiko, and his resentment toward Jiraiya disappeared.
• Black Zetsu returned to his lair and told Uchiha Madara that Nagato had awakened the Rinnegan and summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Uchiha Madara said Amegakure’s ties to the Nether Ninja Village would not derail his plan and instructed Black Zetsu to manage Obito’s bonds and teammates before his graduation.

After the failed attack on Amegakure, Sage Hyuga Shin secretly secured partnerships with Uchiha Madara and Black Zetsu for a plan involving Kaguya. Meanwhile, Miyashi Hizokurou advanced his infiltration of the Cloud Village and closed in on locating its Chakra Cannon.

• Danzo regretted failing to capture Nagato’s eyes after Konan and the others escaped with space-time scrolls.
• Nagato and Konan returned to Amegakure after confirming Yahiko was out of danger.
• Sage Hyuga Shin approached Madara and Black Zetsu separately, and Madara agreed to cooperate despite suspecting Taiyi was connected to Shin.
• Taiyi exposed Black Zetsu’s identity and promised to help free Kaguya, leading Black Zetsu to agree to the plan.
• Madara treated Black Zetsu as a partner after Taiyi left, while Black Zetsu stopped pretending to be his loyal subordinate.
• Miyashi Hizokurou replaced the Cloud Village’s Chakra Cannon development team head and gained access to its blueprints, leaving only the weapon’s location to find.

Miyashi Hizokurou stole Kumogakure’s Chakra Cannons and research, allowing Orochimaru to defeat the Five Great Shinobi Villages and bring the Shinobi World under the Country of the Cauldron’s rule. As the founding ceremony approached, the chapter followed the new nation’s preparations and the personal lives of its people.

• Miyashi Hizokurou seized Kumogakure’s Chakra Cannons, research scrolls, and researchers, leaving Raikage A, Danzo, and Karatachi Yagura without their last major weapon.
• Orochimaru led the Country of the Cauldron’s forces to defeat the Five Great Shinobi Villages, killing the Five Kage and capturing the Jinchuriki and Shadow-Level Ninja.
• Orochimaru’s forces secured the surrender of the remaining nations, and the Queen of Roran agreed to join the Country of the Cauldron after Shirafuji Shizuka threatened her daughter’s future.
• Orochimaru scheduled the founding ceremony for the end of Year 46 and recruited Shikaku Nara to help govern the unified Shinobi World.
• Hizashi agreed to marry Hinata Ayane to unite the Hyuga Clan, while Tian Qingcheng waited to return to Takigakure and Hidan reached a new agreement with the Evil God.
• Kakuzu became Minister of Finance, En no Gyōja celebrated his clan’s renewed standing, and Sasori and Uzumaki Ayano planned to marry next year.

As the Country of the Cauldron prepared to challenge the Three Great Sages and the Sage of Six Paths, Orochimaru and Taiyi assembled powerful allies and weapons for the final battle. Taiyi, Kaguya, Madara, and their companions confronted the Sages, and although the enemy gained the advantage at first, Miyashi Hizokurou and Oda Kazuya joined the fight and turned the tide.

• Shirafuji Shizuka froze Jiraiya and announced their relationship to the core members, while Senju Nawaki schemed to bring Tsunade Hime and Orochimaru together, prompting Tsunade Hime to confront Orochimaru and accept his proposal.
• Orochimaru and his allies reorganized the Country of the Cauldron, fought the spread of the fortune-stealing wicked art, and began preparing for conflict with the Three Great Sages and the Sage of Six Paths.
• Obito awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan, took Madara's Rinnegan, and helped revive Uchiha Madara, while the Country of the Cauldron advanced its cultivation system and developed more Chakra Cannons.
• Taiyi, Uchiha Madara, Kaguya, Oda Kazuya, Miyashi Hizokurou, and Obito declared war on the Three Great Sages and the Sage of Six Paths, while Orochimaru prepared the Country of the Cauldron's forces and cannons.
• Taiyi fought the White Snake Sage and Great Slug Sage, Kaguya faced the Great Toad Sage, and Madara challenged the Sage of Six Paths; when the Sages gained the upper hand, Miyashi Hizokurou and Oda Kazuya joined the fight and helped their allies push back.