Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Jin and Uchiha Obito watched Doctor Shinno treat villagers in a remote Tea Country village, while Jin revealed that Shinno’s charitable travels concealed a search for a vessel and subjects for his experiments. Shinno continued treating the villagers, unaware that the two Uchiha had uncovered his hidden motives.

• Doctor Shinno calmed the villagers, organized them into a line by the severity of their ailments, and began examining them.
• The Village Chief explained to Shinno that the village rarely saw outsiders or doctors, and then went to prepare food for him.
• Uchiha Obito questioned whether Shinno’s kindness was genuine, citing his years of free medical care across the Ninja World.
• Uchiha Jin pointed out that Shinno’s past before those travels was unverified, including his account of being a war orphan raised by a healer.
• Uchiha Jin revealed that Shinno was secretly searching for a suitable vessel to nurture Dark Chakra and cultivate Zero-Tails, while developing a Medical Forbidden Technique that required experimental subjects.
• Uchiha Jin explained that Shinno was a remnant of the Sky Ninja Village and used his medical work as cover for his revenge-driven plans.

Uchiha Jin explained Zero-Tails’ origins and Shinno’s Medical Forbidden Techniques to Uchiha Obito. He revealed that Shinno had created a version of the Eight Gates Released Formation that let its user open all eight gates and remain alive.

• Uchiha Jin told Uchiha Obito that Zero-Tails was a monster formed from Dark Chakra, which fed on people’s darkness and was likely native to the world.
• Uchiha Jin described Shinno’s Physical Body Activation and Physical Body Regeneration techniques, explaining that the latter could restore someone even after their body was cut into dozens of pieces.
• Uchiha Jin said Shinno had learned the Eight Gates Released Formation from Might Duy and used it as a foundation for Physical Body Creation.
• Uchiha Jin explained that Physical Body Creation converted physical damage into regenerative enhancement, allowing the user to open all eight gates for a long time without dying.

Uchiha Jin explained that Shinno could use the Eight Gates Released Formation without injury but was unlikely to reach Six Paths-level strength. Jin and Uchiha Obito decided to wait until Shinno finished treating the villagers and left before capturing him alive.

• Uchiha Obito asked whether Shinno could open the Gate of Death, and Uchiha Jin said he probably could.
• Uchiha Jin explained that the Eight Gates multiplied a user's existing power, so Shinno would likely reach only Kage Level combat power.
• Uchiha Jin recalled Shinno's defeat in the Original Plot and judged that he had no reason to fear the current Shinno.
• Uchiha Jin planned to capture Shinno alive and obtain his medical secrets, which could help train many injury-free Eight Gates users.
• Uchiha Jin and Uchiha Obito agreed to wait until Shinno finished treating the villagers and left the village before making their move.

Shinno finished treating villagers in a remote mountain village, but Uchiha Jin and Uchiha Obito soon confronted him as the leader of Sky Ninja Village's remnants. Shinno revealed his combat abilities and attacked Obito, whose body let the strikes pass through; the fight remained unresolved.

• Shinno treated the village's sick, stayed overnight at the Village Chief's home, and left the next morning.
• Uchiha Jin ambushed Shinno with shuriken, and Shinno pretended to be a harmless wandering doctor.
• Jin identified Shinno as the leader of Sky Ninja Village's remnants, while Uchiha Obito appeared and recognized Shinno's Physical Body Regeneration.
• Shinno stopped denying his identity, discarded his travel bag, and prepared to fight the two Uchiha.
• Shinno opened the Sixth Gate and kicked Obito, but his attack passed through Obito's head.
• Shinno launched a flaming punch at Obito, but it also passed through his body.

Shinno used the Eight Gates Released Formation Array and Dark Chakra to overwhelm Uchiha Obito, who was forced to rely on Kamui to avoid his attacks. Uchiha Jin watched closely, while Obito found himself trapped in a dangerous cycle of materializing and being struck back into Kamui Space.

• Shinno opened the Seventh Gate and attacked Obito, but his physical strikes passed through Obito's body.
• Obito criticized Shinno's weak combat experience, and Shinno deduced that Kamui sent attacked body parts into another space.
• Jin cut Shinno's Daytime Tiger Air Cannon in half and recognized the sinister energy in Shinno's Chakra as Dark Chakra.
• Shinno opened all eight gates and activated the Eight Gates Released Formation Array, gaining immense speed and power.
• Shinno repeatedly punched Obito back into Kamui Space whenever he tried to materialize, leaving Obito unable to escape the assault.

Uchiha Obito escaped Shinno by hiding underground and counterattacked with Kamui Shuriken and a fire technique. Shinno was caught in the shuriken’s spatial vortices and suffered repeated injuries and regeneration as Obito sent flames surging toward him.

• Uchiha Obito rejected the idea of relying on Uchiha Jin and devised a way to escape Shinno’s attacks.
• Shinno searched for Uchiha Obito, ruled out Uchiha Jin’s involvement, and stomped the ground to expose him.
• Uchiha Obito emerged from a tree and formed his Third Form Susanoo to block Shinno’s punch.
• Uchiha Obito threw Kamui Shuriken, whose spatial vortices trapped Shinno in midair and repeatedly injured him as his body regenerated.
• Uchiha Obito used Fire Style: Blast Wave to send a rotating ring of flames toward Shinno, while Uchiha Jin held back his comment.

Shinno’s Dark Chakra-powered assault overwhelmed Uchiha Obito, but Obito’s Sharingan Genjutsu failed against Shinno’s Eight Gates. As Shinno’s body began to buckle under the Evil Power, he gathered all his Chakra into one final punch at Obito.

• Shinno intensified his black-red Crimson Steam, broke free of spatial restraints, and destroyed Obito’s Susanoo with an Evening Elephant.
• Shinno struck the ground to expose Obito, but Obito appeared from a leaf and caught Shinno in a Sharingan Genjutsu.
• Shinno quickly recovered because the chaotic Chakra of the Eight Gates made him immune to ordinary Genjutsu, and he attacked Obito, who evaded with Kamui.
• Jin explained that Shinno’s Dark Chakra was increasingly dominated by Evil Power, while Obito noticed Shinno’s movements slowing and breathing growing heavier.
• Shinno realized the Evil Power might take control of him, gathered all his Chakra into one fist, and slowly punched at Obito when he reappeared.

Uchiha Jin and Uchiha Obito defeated Shinno by sealing the Evil Power that fueled his Dark Chakra and capturing him. Uchiha Jin read Shinno’s memories, learning how the surviving Sky Ninja Village remnants had hidden themselves while struggling to gain power.

• Shinno struck Uchiha Obito with a punch that distorted space, but the effort left Shinno exhausted and Uchiha Obito only mildly injured.
• Uchiha Jin dodged Shinno’s desperate punch with a burst of flames, appeared behind him, and used the Four Symbols Seal to cut off his Evil Power.
• Uchiha Obito bound the weakened Shinno with vines, and Uchiha Jin explained that Shinno would recover from the effects of overusing his power.
• Uchiha Jin interrogated Shinno through Genjutsu and examined his memories.
• Uchiha Jin learned that Shinno, the former leader of Konokuni’s son, had survived its destruction and led the Sky Ninja remnants into hiding.
• Shinno’s memories revealed that the remnants struggled to grow stronger because their technical experts were dead and they lacked access to ninjutsu.

Shinno recounted how he founded an underground Konokuni fortress, stole the Zero-Tails Void's cultivation methods and the Eight Gates Released Formation, and spent decades developing his powers and Konokuni's military. He still sought a compatible vessel and prepared cannons as a weapon for revenge against Konoha.

• Shinno chose Konokuni's ruined territory as a hiding place and built an underground fortress, where he discovered ancient records about the Zero-Tails Void.
• Shinno disguised himself as a wandering doctor, obtained the Zero-Tails Void's cultivation and control methods from a ruin in Konoha, and learned the Eight Gates Released Formation from Might Duy.
• Shinno used himself as the Zero-Tails Void's vessel and spent decades developing Medical Forbidden Techniques to counter its damage and the Eight Gates' side effects.
• Shinno searched across much of the Ninja World for a compatible vessel but found none, while the remnants of Konokuni built a flying fortress and Flying Battleships.
• Shinno judged Konokuni too weak to defeat Konoha and developed cannons with power comparable to a Tailed Beast Ball as his ultimate weapon.

Uchiha Jin captured Shinno and considered how to study the Evil Power behind Shinno’s Medical Forbidden Technique. After testing White Zetsu’s Oddity Transformation, Jin prepared to head to Konokuni, where Obito’s forces were already waiting.

• Uchiha Jin explained that Shinno’s growing Evil Power threatened to destroy his body and that Shinno’s revenge plan had failed before he found a suitable vessel for Zero-Tails Void.
• Uchiha Jin considered studying Zero-Tails Void’s Evil Power and relied on Orochimaru to find a way to use the Eight Gates Released Formation without injury.
• Uchiha Jin ordered White Zetsu to bind Shinno and demonstrate a transformation into Shinno’s peak condition.
• White Zetsu used Oddity Transformation to copy Shinno’s appearance, aura, Chakra, and some abilities, impressing Uchiha Jin.
• Uchiha Obito told Uchiha Jin that Tobi had already led a battalion of White Zetsu soldiers to Konokuni, and Jin ordered them to set out.

Uchiha Jin learned that Konokuni’s flying fortress had weak defenses but housed about eight hundred people and contained a self-destruct system. He assigned a raid to seize its key rooms and ordered that everyone inside be killed.

• Tobi presented Uchiha Jin with a crude map of the underground fortress, but had not scouted its layout or personnel.
• Uchiha Jin sent Uchiha Obito to investigate the fortress, especially its Warehouse and Armory.
• Uchiha Obito reported that the fortress had no outer barriers, relied on monitoring cameras, and held about eight hundred people, including roughly two hundred adult combatants.
• Uchiha Jin planned for a White Zetsu disguised as Shinno to gather the residents while his teams seized the monitoring room, control room, Warehouse, and Armory.
• Uchiha Jin ordered his forces to leave no one alive inside the flying fortress.

Uchiha Jin and his forces captured the Konokuni remnants’ Flying Fortress by posing as Shinno and wiping out its inhabitants. After sparing seven infants, Jin headed to the control room to test the fortress, believing he had a replacement for the missing Zero-Tails Void as its power source.

• Uchiha Jin ordered the Konokuni remnants killed, with infants under two years old spared and sent to Konoha Orphanage.
• A White Zetsu disguised as Shinno entered the Flying Fortress and gathered most of its residents in the Meeting Hall.
• When the gathered remnants dismissed the impostor’s threat as a sign Shinno had gone mad, Uchiha Jin revealed himself and ordered the White Zetsus to open fire.
• Uchiha Jin’s forces wiped out the remnants throughout the fortress, sparing seven infants under two years old.
• Uchiha Jin led Uchiha Obito and Tobi to the control room to see if the Flying Fortress could fly, and considered using something he possessed in place of Zero-Tails Void.

Uchiha Jin and his group entered Konokuni’s Flying Fortress control room and discovered that Tobi and the White Zetsu had learned to operate it from a training manual. With the fortress’s energy supply still unresolved, Jin prepared to use the Summoning Technique.

• Uchiha Jin asked whether anyone knew how to operate the Flying Fortress, and Uchiha Obito admitted that the control panel overwhelmed him.
• Tobi and several White Zetsu volunteered to pilot the fortress and explained that they had learned its systems from a training manual they found while scouting.
• Uchiha Jin allowed Tobi and the White Zetsu to assign themselves operating posts after confirming their knowledge.
• Uchiha Obito asked how they would supply energy, since the Flying Fortress had remained underground for lack of power.
• Uchiha Jin told the others to move aside and began the Summoning Technique.

Uchiha Jin summoned Matatabi to charge the Flying Fortress’s Energy Core, and she supplied enough Chakra for it to recover on its own. Tobi activated the fortress, which burst out of the ground and shot into the sky.

• Matatabi appeared in the control room, bumped into the ceiling, and argued with Uchiha Jin about her size and his sudden summons.
• Uchiha Jin asked Matatabi to charge the Flying Fortress’s Energy Core instead of fighting.
• Matatabi poured Chakra into the core until it glowed blue and said its supply could recover in two or three days if not overused.
• Tobi activated the Flying Fortress, illuminating its Light Paths and setting the surrounding ruins shaking.
• The Flying Fortress broke free of the earth and shot into the sky.

Sarutobi Hiruzen told Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu that Uchiha Jin was secretly escalating conflict with neighboring countries and preparing to cooperate with Kumogakure. Convinced that they needed to regain control of Konoha to stop him, Hiruzen revealed that the Daimyo of the Land of Fire and the nobles had agreed to support them.

• A hidden agent delivered Sarutobi Hiruzen intelligence that Uchiha Jin had attacked merchant groups in the Land of Rainbow and the Land of Hot Water and planned to meet Kumogakure's envoys.
• Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu worried that Uchiha Jin's actions would bring disaster to Konoha Village, but Hiruzen explained that Jin was laying groundwork to blame the attacks on Konokuni's remnants.
• Homura and Koharu said they could not openly expose Jin's plan without harming Konoha, especially with Minato Namikaze likely to support him.
• Hiruzen urged Homura and Koharu to seize power so they could stop Jin, while they doubted their chances after Nara Shikaku and others had turned against them or stayed away.
• Hiruzen revealed that the Daimyo of the Land of Fire and the nobles had agreed to support them.

Sarutobi Hiruzen explained how he pressured the Fire Daimyo into ending support for Uchiha Jin and backing his return to power. He then outlined a plan to win over Konoha’s clans by preserving their current benefits and distributing spoils of war.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu that the Fire Daimyo had initially trusted Uchiha Jin, but other nobles persuaded him to compromise.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen said the Daimyo had agreed to stop aiding Uchiha Jin and the Uchiha Clan and to publicly support Hiruzen when needed.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen argued that the Uchiha could no longer offer Konoha’s clans enough benefits, while the East Water West Transfer project risked making Konoha bear the costs.
• Utatane Koharu agreed that the clans could be warned about the danger of the Uchiha moving against nobles, then asked what benefits Hiruzen could offer them.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen proposed leaving the clans’ current holdings untouched and distributing much of the Uchiha’s remaining spoils of war.

Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu planned to remove Minato Namikaze as Hokage by invoking the Daimyo’s authority, while preparing for possible resistance from Uchiha Jin. They agreed to seek support from the village’s ninja clans by the next day and leave the Uchiha elderly, women, and children a way out.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen proposed using the Daimyo of the Land of Fire’s authority to dismiss Minato Namikaze, arguing that Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Jin had fewer allies in the village while many supporters were away.
• Mitokado Homura worried that Sarutobi Hiruzen intended to seize power by force, and Sarutobi Hiruzen said they needed to prepare in case Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Jin resisted.
• Utatane Koharu suggested eliminating the Uchiha Clan, and Sarutobi Hiruzen and Mitokado Homura considered the risks of leaving surviving Uchiha who might become powerful.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen proposed sparing the Uchiha Clan’s elderly, women, and children to limit backlash from other ninja clans, and Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu agreed.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen told Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu to approach the village’s ninja clans and reach an agreement by the next day while making further preparations.

Minato Namikaze and Nara Shikaku discussed Sarutobi Hiruzen’s attempts to rally Konoha clans and the Land of Fire’s Daimyo against them. Minato believed Hiruzen’s effort would fail and planned to use the crisis to reveal where the clans’ loyalties lay.

• An Anbu Ninja reported that Sarutobi Hiruzen, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu were visiting Konoha clans, with Hiruzen still meeting the Akimichi Clan.
• Nara Shikaku deduced that Hiruzen was seeking Torifu Akimichi’s support to counter the Nara, Akimichi, and Yamanaka clans’ allegiance to Minato.
• Minato cautioned that Hiruzen likely had a Trump Card, while Shikaku doubted Torifu Akimichi would return to Konoha’s political center.
• Shikaku predicted the other clan heads would stay neutral until the situation became clearer because Hiruzen could offer them no tangible benefits.
• Minato said he would let the clans reveal their loyalties, noting that Jin’s resources from the Land of Wind could tempt them and that Shisui and the others were watching the Daimyo.
• Minato explained that the Daimyo had developed reservations about Jin and was using the dispute to test others, but said strength would ultimately decide the matter.

Sarutobi Hiruzen and his former advisers struggled to recruit the clans to oppose Minato Namikaze and Uchiha Jin, while Hiruzen’s visit to Torifu Akimichi ended in a bitter confrontation. Torifu’s questions about Kagami Uchiha’s suspicious death left Hiruzen with an accusation he could not easily answer.

• Sarutobi Hiruzen returned home and learned that Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu had secured little support from the Ninja Clans, who preferred the benefits and stability under Minato Namikaze.
• Homura said the village’s abundant finances and the gains Uchiha Jin brought back from the Land of Wind made the clans less concerned about the risks of Jin’s actions against nobles.
• Hiruzen told Homura and Koharu that Torifu Akimichi had refused to help and scolded him during their meeting.
• Hiruzen had reminded Torifu of their shared history and warned that Minato and Jin’s aggressive actions could endanger Konoha, but Torifu trusted Nara Shikaku’s judgment and stood by the younger generation.
• After Hiruzen repeatedly appealed to their old friendship, Torifu recalled Kagami Uchiha’s death and questioned whether it had truly been an accident during a mission with Shimura Danzō.

Torifu Akimichi accused Sarutobi Hiruzen of covering up Shimura Danzō’s role in Kagami Uchiha’s death and refused to leave retirement to help him. Sarutobi Hiruzen revealed that Danzō had taken Kagami’s Sharingan, and Utatane Koharu demanded to know why Hiruzen had kept the truth from her.

• Torifu Akimichi connected Shimura Danzō’s crimes to Kagami Uchiha’s death and berated Sarutobi Hiruzen for concealing the truth.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen failed to persuade Torifu Akimichi to come out of retirement and left the Akimichi Clan’s territory furious.
• Utatane Koharu asked whether Kagami’s death had been related to Danzō, and Sarutobi Hiruzen revealed that Danzō had worn Kagami’s Sharingan beneath his bandages.
• Utatane Koharu accused Danzō of murdering their comrade and confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen for not telling her what he knew.