Chapter Summaries

A Jiraiya from five years in the future appeared before Hiruzen Sarutobi and his younger self to warn them about the Nether Ninja Village. In the future, Otsutsuki Hyuga Shin allowed the trip to pressure his past self while addressing the organization’s recent vulnerabilities.

• Future Jiraiya confronted Jiraiya and Hiruzen in the Hokage’s office, then proved his identity by revealing secrets only they knew.
• Future Jiraiya sealed the office and warned Hiruzen that the Nether Ninja Village would threaten the Five Great Shinobi Villages and seek control of the continent.
• Future Jiraiya described the Nether Ninja Village’s powerful members, including Miyashi Hizokurou, Cangwu, En no Gyōja, and a hidden Cursemancer, and urged the villages to unite.
• Hiruzen asked whether the villages could win a war, and future Jiraiya said the Five Great Shinobi Villages could crush the Nether Ninja Village together.
• Hiruzen decided to take time to consider the warning and plan a response.
• In the future, Miyashi Hizokurou questioned Otsutsuki Hyuga Shin about letting Jiraiya travel back, and Shin said he wanted to pressure his past self and counter Oda Kazuya’s secret conspiracy with the Three Great Sage Regions.

Jiraiya confirmed through the Great Toad Sage that the Dragon Vein could send people through time, and Hiruzen Sarutobi began organizing the Five Great Shinobi Villages for war against the Nether Ninja Village. Meanwhile, Hyuga Shin’s village strengthened its leadership and prepared to expand its influence into the Five Great Nations.

• Jiraiya consulted the Great Toad Sage, who confirmed the Dragon Vein could alter space-time and that Future Jiraiya’s account was plausible.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi decided to unite the Five Great Shinobi Villages and declare war on the Nether Ninja Village, with a summit and preparations expected to take one or two months.
• Future Jiraiya urged Hiruzen Sarutobi to convene the Five Kage and their advisers quickly, and Hiruzen sent encrypted summit invitations to the other four villages.
• Hyuga Shin assigned leadership duties across the Nether Ninja Village and the Land of Grass, while En no Gyōja worked with him to improve the Tsuchigumo Clan’s Forbidden Jutsu.
• Hidan learned his curse could reach targets three kilometers away and began training to use his ability stealthily; Hiruko also advanced his Chimera research with help from the village.
• With the Land of Grass consolidated, Hyuga Shin and his allies prepared to infiltrate the Five Great Nations and expand the Nether Ninja Village’s influence.

Hyuga Shin spread the Nether Ninja Village’s unification ideals across the Shinobi World while the Sage of Six Paths helped the Five Great Shinobi Villages form an alliance against him. As the villages prepared to attack, Future Jiraiya found himself unable to return to his own time because the Dragon Vein was depleted.

• The Sage of Six Paths decided to push the Five Kage into an alliance and destroy the Nether Ninja Village before Hyuga Shin could grow stronger.
• Hyuga Shin sent his ninja to spread Teacher Dalong’s books about unifying the Shinobi World, while the Nether Ninja Village expanded its influence in the Land of Grass.
• The Five Kage allied under Hiruzen Sarutobi and began preparing for war against the Nether Ninja Village.
• Future Jiraiya tried to return through the Dragon Vein but could not activate it, so he went back to Konohagakure to seek answers.
• After a month of unification ideals spreading, the Five Kage declared them a provocation and justified an attack, leaving their ninja confused about why another war was beginning.

Hyuga Shin prepared the Nether Ninja Village for a possible war against the Five Great Shinobi Villages, reassuring his allies that their abilities could deter the coalition. He left Oda Kazuya out of the fighting and assigned him to defend the village while the threat of the Three Great Insect Sages remained.

• After learning from Mitsuchi Ikeda that the Five Great Shinobi Villages might declare war, Hyuga Shin recalled the Nether Ninja Village's scattered ninjas and assembled his core team.
• Hyuga Shin reassured Miyashi Hizokurou, Cangwu, Sasori, Kakuzu, Hidan, and En no Gyōja that their numbers and special techniques gave them ways to resist the coalition.
• Hyuga Shin gave the team scrolls and told them to collect enemy blood for Hidan, explaining that Hidan's curse could strike targets from a distance.
• Hyuga Shin explained that En no Gyōja's Forbidden Jutsu could destroy a village, giving the Nether Ninja Village a deterrent against the Five Great Shinobi Villages.
• Hyuga Shin called for the Nether Ninja Village to fight and demonstrate its strength, but refused Oda Kazuya's request to join the battle and ordered him to guard the village instead.

The Five Great Shinobi Villages declared war on the Nether Ninja Village and assembled a huge allied force in the Land of Grass. Hyuga Shin rallied his small force and led it to the battlefield, where the first battle was about to begin.

• Hiruko and Hozuki Mangetsu pledged themselves to the Nether Ninja Village after Hyuga Shin summoned them and explained the coming war.
• The Five Great Shinobi Villages declared war and gained the Daimyo’s support, while Hyuga Shin reassured his anxious villagers that he and the core members would lead from the front.
• The allied villages dispatched twenty thousand ninjas and nearly ten Kage Level fighters to the Land of Grass, though the Five Kage themselves did not arrive.
• Hyuga Shin used Space Ninjutsu to bring Miyashi Hizokurou, Sasori, Kakuzu, En no Gyōja, and just over three hundred others to the battlefield.
• The allied forces arrived and their numbers overwhelmed the Nether Ninja Village’s fighters until Hyuga Shin and the four core members released their auras; the first battle was about to begin.

The Allied Forces of the Five Great Shinobi Villages confronted Hyuga Shin and the Nether Ninja Village, and Jiraiya failed to persuade Hyuga Shin to abandon his plans. The battle began, and after repelling a coordinated assault from Jiraiya, Kaguya Changming, Bunpuku, and Han, Hyuga Shin challenged them to fight with their full strength.

• Jiraiya urged Hyuga Shin to disband the Nether Ninja Village, but Hyuga Shin defended his goal of uniting the Shinobi World and raised the ground beneath his followers.
• Jiraiya ordered the Allied Forces to attack, and powerful shinobi charged the Nether Ninja Village while the rest began to surround it.
• Kakuzu, Sasori, Miyashi Hizokurou, and En no Gyōja joined the fighting as Jiraiya, Kaguya Changming, Bunpuku, and Han surrounded Hyuga Shin.
• Kaguya Changming, Bunpuku, Jiraiya, and Han launched a coordinated series of attacks and restraints against Hyuga Shin.
• Hyuga Shin used Rotation and Heavenly Rejection to break the attacks and send all four opponents flying, then hovered above the ground and demanded that they show their full strength.

Hyuga Shin and the Nether Ninja Village fought the Five Great Shinobi Villages, while Scorpion faced Ebizo and Pakura. Scorpion revealed that he had killed the Third Kazekage, and as Ebizo and Pakura attacked with lethal intent, he struggled to hold his own.

• Hyuga Shin held back his full repulsive force because allies were still on the battlefield, and the Five Great Shinobi Villages sent elite shinobi rather than charging with all twenty thousand troops.
• Ebizo and Pakura confronted Scorpion and tried to capture him, but Scorpion used a sand clone and summoned the Third Kazekage as a puppet.
• Pakura and Ebizo realized Scorpion’s actions had caused the Third Kazekage’s disappearance and ignited the Third Shinobi War, then attacked him with lethal intent.
• Scorpion admitted that he had killed the Third Kazekage, claiming he had acted as a pawn for a mastermind and joined the Nether Ninja Village after its leader showed him the truth about the Shinobi World.
• Ebizo kept the Third Kazekage puppet occupied while Pakura and Ebizo pressed their attacks, leaving Scorpion struggling to defend himself.

The Nether Ninja Village’s fighters struggled against the Five Great Shinobi Villages, while Miyashi Hizokurou watched the battles and suspected that information about Hidan’s Forbidden Jutsu had leaked. When four Kage Level opponents attacked him, Miyashi revealed a powerful Ice Release and froze Torifu Akimichi, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Shirafuji Shizuka and Enotsuchi trapped Kakuzu with Ice Release, but his masked creatures broke him free, and the two opponents regrouped to plan another attack.
• Miyashi Hizokurou observed that Kakuzu and Sasori were barely holding their ground and that En no Gyōja was under heavy pressure from Minato Namikaze and a Konohagakure Elite Jonin.
• After Minato destroyed the blood En no Gyōja had taken from the wounded jonin, Miyashi suspected that Hidan’s Forbidden Jutsu had been exposed.
• Kagami Uchiha, Torifu Akimichi, and two Cloud Village Elders attacked Miyashi, who shattered their Storm Release and Lightning Release techniques with Heaven-Splitting.
• Miyashi used Ice Release: Absolute Zero to freeze Kagami Uchiha’s fire and encase Torifu Akimichi in ice, while the two Cloud Village Elders continued their assault.

Hyuga Shin fought Jiraiya, Bunpuku, Han, and Kaguya Changming, overwhelming their attacks and collecting their blood. The four escalated to their strongest techniques, but Hyuga Shin absorbed their Tailed Beast Bombs, leaving Bunpuku to prepare a Complete Tailed Beast Transformation with Shukaku.

• Jiraiya, Bunpuku, Han, and Kaguya Changming attacked Hyuga Shin together, but he blocked their techniques and Han's charge with Rotation.
• Hyuga Shin unleashed Fire Release and Wind Release attacks, and his tornado wounded the four and drew their blood into his hand.
• Jiraiya summoned Gamabunta, Shima, and Fukasaku, while Bunpuku and Han transformed and launched Tailed Beast Bombs at Hyuga Shin.
• Hyuga Shin dispelled Jiraiya's attack, destroyed Kaguya Changming's technique, and absorbed both Tailed Beast Bombs with Sealing Technique: Attraction.
• Bunpuku asked Shukaku to help him perform a Complete Tailed Beast Transformation so they could keep fighting after Hyuga Shin took their blood.

Kaguya Changming’s sacrifice gave Jiraiya and the Jinchuriki time to unleash their strongest forms against Hyuga Shin. Hyuga Shin overwhelmed them with a colossal stone giant, leaving Jiraiya and the toads badly wounded while the Tailed Beasts’ condition remained unclear.

• Hyuga Shin defeated Kaguya Changming with the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack and imprisoned him in his Small World, while Changming bought Jiraiya and the Jinchuriki time.
• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode, Bunpuku completed his Complete Tailed Beast Transformation, and Han released Kokuō.
• Shukaku and Kokuō attacked Hyuga Shin, who blocked them with Triple Rashomon; Jiraiya and the toads then trapped him briefly with Toad Song and unleashed Sage Art: Goemon.
• Hyuga Shin redirected Goemon to the sea, evaded the Tailed Beasts’ follow-up attacks, and summoned a colossal stone giant with Ninja Art: Earth God.
• Hyuga Shin’s Earth Tremor struck through the group’s defenses, badly injuring Jiraiya, the toads, and the two Tailed Beasts; Gamabunta fled back to Mount Myōboku, and Jiraiya realized Hyuga Shin had not been fighting seriously.

Hyuga Shin used Tengai Shinsei against the Five Great Shinobi Villages, overwhelming the battlefield and demonstrating the Nether Ninja Village’s power. The attack left many allied shinobi badly shaken, while the Five Kage watched from the Land of Rice and realized their forces had suffered losses without killing a single enemy.

• Hyuga Shin revealed that he had recovered the blood of Jiraiya and the two Tailed Beasts, then threatened them with submission to the Nether Ninja Village.
• Miyashi Hizokurou ordered the Nether Ninja Village’s core members to withdraw, and Hyuga Shin used Space Ninjutsu to bring their fighters safely to his side.
• Hyuga Shin summoned a massive meteor with Tengai Shinsei, forcing Jiraiya, Shukaku, Kokuō, and the assembled shinobi to combine their attacks against it.
• The combined attacks split the meteor but could not stop it, and its fragments crashed into the battlefield, where Minato Namikaze rescued only a few people.
• The Nether Ninja Village’s fighters watched in awe as Hyuga Shin stood against the allied forces, while the Five Kage received reports from the Land of Rice and learned that their side had lost fighters without killing any enemies.

Hyuga Shin defeated the allied forces with Tengai Shinsei and exposed Future Jiraiya as the source of their information about the Nether Ninja Village. As the wounded forces recovered and Future Jiraiya feared the consequences of changing the past, the Sage of Six Paths prepared to confront Hyuga Shin.

• The Five Kage, Madara, and Jiraiya learned that Hyuga Shin's Tengai Shinsei had devastated the battlefield, while Shukaku and Kokuō had shielded some of the allied forces.
• Future Jiraiya told Jiraiya that the preparations to control the allied ninjas were unfinished and complained that the Five Kage had ignored his warnings.
• The Sage of Six Paths used Orochimaru's body after suppressing his will and prepared to settle his score with Hyuga Shin.
• Hyuga Shin recognized the mysterious ninja as Future Jiraiya and revealed that he had learned about the future travel by overhearing Jiraiya's conversation.
• Hyuga Shin warned Future Jiraiya that his actions could drastically change the future and endanger his friends and family, leaving Future Jiraiya deeply unsettled.

Hyuga Shin proclaimed his ambition to unite the Shinobi World, swaying both allies and enemies until Future Jiraiya warned Jiraiya against his persuasive words. The wounded forces regrouped as Tsunade Hime treated them, while the Five Kage and the villages’ Jinchuriki headed toward the battlefield for the coming fight.

• Hyuga Shin declared that he was invincible and would unite the Shinobi World, stirring admiration among shinobi from both sides.
• Future Jiraiya slapped Jiraiya and warned him that Hyuga Shin’s words could manipulate people, but Hyuga Shin countered Jiraiya’s objections by arguing that joining the Nether Ninja Village would prevent bloodshed.
• Jiraiya returned to the other fighters and found that only about half the powerful shinobi could still fight; Tsunade Hime arrived to treat the wounded.
• Hyuga Shin approached Tsunade Hime, asked about Nawaki, and told her he believed she would eventually join the Nether Ninja Village.
• The Five Kage and the villages’ Jinchuriki advanced toward the battlefield as reinforcements.

Hyuga Shin revealed that the Sage of Six Paths was secretly exploiting the Shinobi World and offered the gathered shinobi a chance to verify his claims. Several powerful fighters entered his space-time passage, while Jiraiya tried and failed to stop them.

• Hyuga Shin warned the gathered shinobi that he would kill them if they refused to reconsider, then announced that he would reveal the truth about the Shinobi World and Chakra.
• Hyuga Shin used Wind Release to drive Jiraiya back and declared that the Sage of Six Paths treated shinobi as resources and pawns in a plan to control the world.
• Jiraiya, the Tailed Beasts, Kagami Uchiha, and others rejected or doubted Hyuga Shin's claims, while Ebizo asked him for proof.
• Hyuga Shin opened a space-time passage and invited the skeptics to investigate for themselves.
• Ebizo, Pakura, Shirafuji Shizuka, Kagami Uchiha, Explosion Release Gari, and an injured elder from the Land of Lightning entered the passage, while Jiraiya held Minato Namikaze back.

The Five Kage and six Jinchuriki arrived and attacked Hyuga Shin under the Sage of Six Paths’ influence. Hyuga Shin repelled their combined assault, and the Tailed Beasts began preparing a barrage of Tailed Beast Bombs.

• Hyuga Shin refused to let Shukaku, Kokuō, and Tsunade enter his Small World, then closed the passage after the others went inside.
• The Sage of Six Paths prepared to have powerful figures summoned through Impure World Reincarnation, expecting the arriving Kage and Jinchuriki to weaken Hyuga Shin.
• The Five Kage and six Jinchuriki reached the battlefield, and the Kage and transformed Tailed Beasts immediately launched a coordinated attack on Hyuga Shin.
• Hyuga Shin sent the Nether Ninja Village forces away, while Tsunade evacuated Enotsuchi and the allied forces from the battlefield.
• Hyuga Shin swept away the attackers’ techniques with a massive sword slash, blasting the combatants back and forcing the Tailed Beasts to regroup.
• Kurama ordered the Tailed Beasts to prepare Tailed Beast Bombs, and the other fighters retreated to avoid being caught in the barrage.

Hyuga Shin tested the Tenseigan against the Five Kage, other powerful ninja, and eight Tailed Beasts, repelling their combined attack with Heavenly Rejection. He then unleashed Palm of Heavenly Destruction, leaving his opponents to face the descending energy hand.

• Hyuga Shin used Heavenly Rejection to blast back eight Tailed Beast Bombs, sending the attackers flying and injuring Raikage A.
• Hyuga Shin claimed he had used seventy percent of his strength, prompting Ōnoki and Hiruzen Sarutobi to rally the shaken fighters.
• The Five Kage and Tailed Beasts renewed their resolve, and Hyuga Shin announced Palm of Heavenly Destruction.
• The Five Kage and Tailed Beasts attacked the giant energy hand, but their strikes only broke parts of it before it recovered.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi urged everyone to defend together and endure the descending attack.

Hyuga Shin survived the Kage’s attempt to counter his giant energy palm and accepted Raikage A’s challenge to fight at close range. After battling the gathered powerhouses, he collected their blood and concluded that Nether Ninja Village’s rise could not be stopped.

• Ōnoki, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and Rasa sheltered the gathered powerhouses in a reinforced pit and Gold Dust Prison, allowing them to survive Hyuga Shin’s energy palm.
• The Kage and others found the Tailed Beasts badly injured, while Hyuga Shin considered how to improve his technique.
• Hyuga Shin accepted Raikage A’s challenge and fought him as the other powerhouses joined in, coordinating their attacks against him.
• Hyuga Shin created eighteen clones to counter the group’s numbers, then used Space Ninjutsu to injure them and collect their blood.
• Hyuga Shin left Raikage A heavily injured and decided the battle was over, certain that Nether Ninja Village would rise.

Hyuga Shin's clones overwhelmed the Five Great Shinobi Villages' fighters until the Sage of Six Paths arrived through Orochimaru with reinforcements: the previous Kage. After Hyuga Shin rejected Hashirama Senju's demand to abandon his goal of unifying the Shinobi World, the Sage of Six Paths ordered the dead Kage to prepare for battle.

• Hyuga Shin's clones trapped the Kage and other fighters, while he held the badly wounded Fourth Raikage A.
• Hyuga Shin sensed a spatial fluctuation and recognized Orochimaru, Hashirama Senju, and the previous generations of Kage arriving.
• The arriving fighters rescued the trapped warriors, and Hyuga Shin tossed aside Fourth Raikage A and addressed Hashirama Senju and the others.
• Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and First Kazekage Retsu questioned Hyuga Shin's actions and ideals, while First Tsuchikage Ishi criticized the wounded Kage.
• Hyuga Shin rejected Hashirama Senju's offer to avoid a fight by disbanding the Nether Ninja Village and insisted on pursuing his ideals.
• The Sage of Six Paths, controlling Orochimaru, ordered the former Kage to prepare for battle, though Hashirama Senju first asked for time to speak with Hyuga Shin.

Hyuga Shin fought the nine previous-generation Kage summoned through Impure World Reincarnation while the Sage of Six Paths restored the unconscious Jinchuriki and the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails. The Kage’s teamwork kept Shin from sealing them, and the battle left him wounded as the Sage’s forces prepared to strengthen their side.

• The Third Raikage attacked Hyuga Shin with Hell Stab, but Shin blasted him away and nearly split his Impure World Body with a sword strike.
• Hozuki Gengetsu, the Third Kazekage Tensho, and Second Tsuchikage Mu joined the fight, while Shin blocked their attacks and redirected Mu’s Dust Release into Tensho.
• Hashirama Senju ordered Tobirama Senju and the other four First Kage to help, and their combined attacks forced Shin to use Heavenly Rejection and take to the air.
• The Sage of Six Paths, controlling Orochimaru, healed the six unconscious Jinchuriki, the Eight-Tails, and the Nine-Tails with power from the Pure Land.
• The nine previous-generation Kage coordinated their attacks against Shin, who struggled to fight their Impure World bodies and had no chance to seal them.

As Hyuga Shin faced the revived Kage and other forces summoned by the Sage of Six Paths, allies and rivals considered the battle’s stakes from afar. The Three Great Insect Sages decided to watch Hyuga Shin and learn how he maintained his strength.

• Miyashi Hizokurou told the Nether Ninja Village that the Sage of Six Paths had controlled Orochimaru and summoned the previous Kage, and he urged the others to trust Hyuga Shin rather than join the battle.
• Tsunade Hime rushed toward the main battlefield after learning that Hashirama Senju and her other grandfather had appeared.
• Uchiha Madara reconsidered Hyuga Shin’s claims about the Sage of Six Paths and wondered whether his own will had been controlled.
• The Great Slug Sage, White Snake Sage, and Great Toad Head discussed Hyuga Shin’s unusual strength and agreed to observe him, while opposing humans learning true-method cultivation.