Recaps

Tobirama pushed the Fourth Raikage to support a Ninja Alliance against Madara and Liao Wu, and the Five Great Shinobi Villages agreed to establish one. He then revealed that Liao Wu had likely controlled the Sand Village’s High Command, leaving the alliance to investigate while prioritizing the threat from Madara.

• Tobirama threatened the Fourth Raikage and Killer B, but the Fourth Raikage agreed to an alliance that would protect the Cloud Village’s interests and remain independent of the Land of Fire’s Daimyo.
• Ōnoki and the others warned that Madara and Liao Wu posed threats no single village could handle, and Hashirama announced the formation of the Ninja Alliance.
• Tobirama told the Sand Village diplomat that Liao Wu had probably controlled Chiyo and the Kazekage with his Spores after capturing the One-Tails.
• The Sand Village diplomat agreed to contact Chiyo and Pakura and asked Hashirama to help if the Sand Village leadership had been controlled.
• Tobirama said the alliance would deal with Madara first and discuss the Sand Village afterward.

Mifune asked to bring the samurai into the Ninja Alliance, and Hashirama’s proposal to revive the Ninja Sect drew the approval of the assembled leaders. The Sage of Six Paths reunited with Hamura, who warned that Kaguya’s seal had weakened, and the brothers turned their attention to Sunagakure.

• Mifune asked Hashirama and Tobirama to let the samurai forces join the Ninja Alliance, and Hashirama agreed.
• Minato proposed a lengthy name for the alliance, but Hashirama suggested calling it the Ninja Sect, which the leaders accepted.
• The Sage of Six Paths watched the Ninja Sect’s founding and reflected that Hashirama had carried on Asura’s legacy.
• Hamura appeared before the Sage of Six Paths and said Liao Wu’s moon explosion had awakened him and that Kaguya’s seal had loosened, allowing her Chakra to leak out.
• The Sage of Six Paths moved with Hamura to the Kazekage’s Office in Sunagakure.

Hashirama was named leader of the Ninja Sect and given the title Spirit Wood Sage as the shinobi alliance organized under his authority. The chapter ended with Tobirama urging the group to relocate to Mount Myōboku, despite Hashirama’s concern that the villages would be left vulnerable.

• Liao Wu trained Temari and Kamatari harshly, then sensed someone spying on him and drove the watchers away with an insult.
• The Six Paths Sage and Hamura decided not to interfere in the living world, while Hamura discussed Toneri’s potential to inherit his role guarding the ninja world.
• The Six Paths Sage watched the meeting where Ōnoki proposed Hashirama as leader of the Ninja Sect, and the gathered leaders agreed.
• After repeated persuasion, Hashirama accepted the titles of Ninja Sect leader and Spirit Wood Sage, while the Five Kage kept their positions beneath him.
• Tobirama urged Hashirama to move the main force to Mount Myōboku, and Hashirama worried that the villages would be exposed to attack.

The Ninja Alliance prepared to move its forces to Mount Myōboku, where Kushina would reconcile with the Nine-Tails and the Tailed Beasts could learn Sage Mode. In Sand Village, Liao Wu learned that the villages had formed the Ninja Sect, while Pakura, Chiyo, Temari, and Kamatari remained under his control.

• The leaders agreed to evacuate civilians and make Mount Myōboku the site of their decisive battle with Madara and Liao Wu.
• The Contact Toad revealed that Kushina and Yugito had learned Sage Mode, and Yagura persuaded Three-Tails to seek Sage training at Mount Myōboku.
• Tobirama and Minato arranged to place Flying Thunder God marks, while Minato, Cloud Village's people, and Ōnoki set out to move Turtle Island to Mount Myōboku.
• Hashirama and Tobirama stayed behind to transfer the Ninja Alliance, and Hashirama rallied the Ninja Sect to begin its operation.
• Pakura and Chiyo told Liao Wu that the Allied headquarters suspected his control over them, and he reassured them that Madara was the Alliance's greater concern.
• Temari discovered that she and Kamatari had also been controlled by Liao Wu, and Chiyo reported that the Five Great Shinobi Villages had formed the Ninja Sect under Hashirama.

Liao Wu considered the Ninja Sect’s future and left Sand Village after warning Pakura and Chiyo to contact him if they faced trouble. At Mount Myōboku, Tobirama and the others encountered the Toads testing a powerful sound-based illusion called Toad Grand Chant.

• Chiyo explained that Sand Village had joined the Ninja Sect to preserve harmony with the other villages and escape the Land of Wind’s control.
• Liao Wu reflected on the Ninja Sect’s potential conflict with the great nations and let Temari and the others give him the title Sage of Prostitution.
• Liao Wu warned Pakura and Chiyo to hide or contact him if Sand Village tried to remove them, then teleported away after teasing Pakura.
• Tobirama returned to Mount Myōboku with Hashirama, Sarutobi Sasuke, and the group, where the Toads’ nighttime chorus left them dazed.
• Hashirama recognized the chorus as a powerful sound-based illusion, and the narration identified it as the Toads’ experimental technique, Toad Grand Chant.

Hashirama and the others experienced Mount Myōboku’s Toad Grand Chant, a powerful genjutsu that suppressed even Hashirama, before its barrier freed them and they learned how it could help against Madara. The chant stopped after half an hour, and the group discovered Orochimaru and two Snake Princesses had infiltrated Mount Myōboku to help defend against the Ninja Alliance.

• Mount Myōboku’s barrier freed Hashirama, Tobirama, and the others from the Toad Grand Chant, which Shisui recognized as a genjutsu beyond ordinary techniques.
• Sage Shima took Hashirama to meet the Great Toad Sage, while Toad Martial Venerable explained the chant’s effects and its half-hour limit to Tobirama and the others.
• Tobirama and the others agreed the chant could suppress Madara, though it could not match the Infinite Tsukuyomi’s range.
• Toad Martial Venerable sensed intruders after the chant ended, and the group found Orochimaru with Tagorihime and Tagitsuhime.
• The group learned that Orochimaru and the Snake Princesses had come to help defend Mount Myōboku against the Ninja Alliance, but the chant had put them to sleep upon arrival.

Orochimaru and the two Snake Princesses joined the effort against Madara, and Tobirama arranged to acquire more Kage corpses for Impure World Reincarnation. He revealed that his Flying Thunder God marks reached into other villages, then pressured their representatives into supplying the requested corpses.

• Martial Venerable dispelled the Illusion Technique on Orochimaru, Tagorihime, and Tagitsuhime, who said the White Snake Sage had sent them to fight Madara.
• Orochimaru requested Kage corpses to reincarnate stronger fighters, and the Fourth Raikage agreed to send the Third Raikage's corpse from Cloud Village.
• Tobirama asked for Kinkaku and Ginkaku's corpses so he could reincarnate and control them himself.
• Yagura agreed to provide the Second Mizukage's corpse, and Tobirama revealed he had a Flying Thunder God coordinate inside Kirigakure.
• The Fourth Raikage learned Tobirama had also marked Cloud Village, and Tobirama then persuaded Kitsuchi to provide the Second Tsuchikage Mu's corpse.

Liao Wu treated Natsuhi's radiation sickness and explained that the Star was harming her and Hoshigakure's other cultivators. Natsuhi realized her family and village were in danger, but as Liao Wu's prisoner she could not return to warn them.

• Liao Wu implanted a Spore in Natsuhi and used Wood Style Chakra to help her recover.
• Liao Wu explained that prolonged exposure to the Star had weakened Natsuhi's immune system and warned her to stop training with it.
• Natsuhi tried to return to Hoshigakure to warn Lord Star Kage, but Liao Wu stopped her and reminded her that she was his prisoner.
• Liao Wu told Natsuhi that Fire Fly was also suffering from the Star's radiation and might die, leaving her frightened for her husband and son.
• Natsuhi realized Liao Wu had trapped both her and Hoshigakure, and she had no way to save her family or village.

Natsuhi Star accepted that Liao Wu would control her in exchange for saving her husband, child, and village, but a duel between Snake Aunt and Sasori interrupted them. Liao Wu took Natsuhi to watch the fight, where Konan and Nagato were also present, as Snake Aunt and Sasori faced off at sea.

• Natsuhi Star struggled with Liao Wu's demand and let him embrace her, believing it was the only way to save Fire Fly, Ang, and Star Village.
• Cheers outside interrupted Liao Wu as Snake Aunt and Sasori began testing Impure World Reincarnation against Human Puppets.
• Liao Wu explained the duel to Natsuhi Star and took her hand to lead her to the seaside battle after she asked to watch.
• Liao Wu took Konan's hand as well, making Konan blush and prompting Nagato to flee when Liao Wu offered to hold his hand.
• The Four-Tails and Five-Tails watched from Liao Wu's shoulders as Konan greeted Kokuō, while Snake Aunt and Sasori stood poised above the rushing sea.

Sasori admitted defeat after his human puppets could not match Snake Aunt’s Reanimation Bodies, then handed over the promised cell tissue. After the brief fight, Ryobu took Natsuhi Star and Konan to a cave, where Konan protested his behavior.

• Sasori and Snake Aunt sent the human puppets and Reanimation Bodies of Rōshi and Han into battle, while Natsuhi Star and Konan watched.
• Rōshi and Han’s Reanimation Bodies used their Kekkei Genkai freely, and their endless chakra and immunity to poison gave them an advantage over Sasori’s human puppets.
• Sasori withdrew the puppets, admitted that Impure World Reincarnation was stronger, and argued that his puppets could still be improved.
• Sasori gave Snake Aunt a Sealing Scroll containing cell tissue from the Third Kazekage and Rasa, as promised after losing.
• Sasori and Snake Aunt left, and Ryobu took Natsuhi Star and Konan to a cave while Konan protested.

The Great Toad Sage told Hashirama he could help him obtain a complete Truth-Seeking Orb so he could defeat Madara. Meanwhile, Turtle Island arrived at Mount Myōboku, where Minato reunited with Kushina as the village prepared for Madara’s attack.

• Sage Shima brought Hashirama to the Great Toad Sage, who discussed Hashirama and Madara’s fated connection and said he would help Hashirama obtain a complete Truth-Seeking Orb.
• Ōnoki used the Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique and Minato’s Flying Thunder God Technique to transport Cloud Village’s Turtle Island to Mount Myōboku.
• The giant Summon Toads marveled at Turtle Island, and the Fourth Raikage explained that Kumogakure had kept the colossal turtle secret for generations.
• Second Hokage challenged the Fourth Raikage’s claims about Turtle Island’s combat power, while Ōnoki urged everyone to make room for it.
• Minato met Kushina at Mount Myōboku, and she embraced him, relieved that he had returned safely.

Liao Wu prepared to join Madara’s decisive battle against the Ninja Alliance at Mount Myōboku, while Minato learned that Jiraiya might have been resurrected and imprisoned. Before departing, Liao Wu’s forces revived the Third Kazekage and Rasa through Impure World Reincarnation.

• Kushina left with Yugito to train in mastering the Nine-Tails’ power, while Minato joined Tobirama in moving the Ninja Alliance to Mount Myōboku.
• Sage Shima told Minato that she had sensed Jiraiya was alive, and Minato and Tobirama concluded that Liao Wu might have resurrected and imprisoned him.
• Candy summoned Liao Wu to join Madara’s battle, and Liao Wu reluctantly left Konan and Natsuhi Star to gather his forces.
• Liao Wu brought Sasori and Snake Aunt’s forces together, and Snake Aunt gave him summoning circles to control four Reanimation Bodies remotely.
• Liao Wu implanted Spores in the revived Third Kazekage and Rasa, and the Third Kazekage awoke beside Sasori’s Human Puppet.

The Third Kazekage and Rasa learned that Scorpion had made their bodies into puppets and Liao Wu had reincarnated their souls, while Liao Wu gathered the Hakimi Army and brought them to Amegakure. There, Ryobu arrived to face Madara, Kisame, and the forces guarding the Demonic Statue as Kaguya watched from the ruins.

• Liao Wu controlled the Third Kazekage with spores, explained that he and Rasa were dead, and sealed them back inside their coffins.
• Rasa learned that Gaara and Karura had survived and offered to prospect for gold to support Sand Village before Liao Wu closed his coffin.
• Fish Ball, Cai Lai, Nekomata, and the Hakimi Army arrived, and Liao Wu summoned Scorpion and the cats to Amegakure.
• Madara waited atop the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path while Kaguya urged Black Zetsu to hurry the Ten-Tails' resurrection.
• Ryobu arrived with Sasori, four Human Puppets, and the Ninja Cats, and Black Zetsu explained his abilities and plans to Kaguya.
• Ryobu complained to Madara about being called before dinner and invited Madara and Kisame to a brothel, prompting Kaguya to decide he would be her first target.

Madara led Liao Wu and his forces toward Mount Myōboku on Satoru, while the defenders prepared for their arrival. At Turtle Island, Yugito explained the Waterfall of Truth to Kushina, who considered whether to confront her inner self.

• Madara sent the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path underground, then rode Satoru toward Mount Myōboku with Kisame and the others.
• Madara scolded Liao Wu for reading smut books and tore them up, while Black Zetsu urged Kaguya to use her beauty to influence Madara.
• At Mount Myōboku, Sage Shima learned that nearly ninety percent of the Ninja Alliance had been relocated and warned that Hashirama and Kushina were vital to their chances.
• Killer B and Yagura asked Sage Shima to teach them Sage Mode, and he agreed to explain how to practice it.
• At the Waterfall of Truth, Yugito told Kushina how the waterfall could help her face her true self, and Kushina weighed whether she needed to do so.

Yugito guided Kushina through the Waterfall of Truth to confront the loneliness and resentment behind her inner demon. Kushina faced a Nine-Tails-like version of herself, and Yugito urged her to accept it so she could control the Nine-Tails’ power for the battles ahead.

• Kushina entered the Waterfall of Truth with Yugito and discovered her inner self sealed in a cage, consumed by loneliness.
• Kushina’s inner demon questioned why she had suffered and warned that Minato might die and Naruto might leave her.
• The inner demon transformed into a miniature Nine-Tails and declared it would take Kushina’s power to protect Minato and Naruto from Madara and Uchiha Ryobu.
• Yugito told Kushina not to fight her inner demon with strength, but to embrace and accept it.
• Yugito pressed Kushina to overcome herself quickly because the Ninja Sect needed her to control the Nine-Tails in the coming battles.

Kushina overcame her inner demon at the Waterfall of Truth and prepared to face the Nine-Tails, while its final warning left her wary of Orochimaru. At Mount Myōboku’s forward base, Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to revive several Kage.

• Kushina trusted Yugito’s advice, embraced her inner demon, and accepted her past before it vanished after warning her to protect Minato and her unborn child from Orochimaru.
• Kushina thanked Yugito and wondered whether Cloud Village might have made her a Jinchuriki if it had captured her as a child.
• Yugito led Kushina toward the final training stage, where Kushina could master the Nine-Tails’ Power.
• Orochimaru obtained cellular tissue from the Third Raikage, Second Tsuchikage Mu, and Second Mizukage Hozuki Gengetsu, but could not revive Danzo or Jiraiya because their bodies were unavailable.
• Orochimaru gathered criminals, spies, and terminally ill Ninja as sacrifices and revived the Third Raikage and the other Kage through Impure World Reincarnation.

Tobirama used Impure World Reincarnation to bind Kinkaku and Ginkaku, then brought them toward Leaf Village to help face the looming catastrophe. He planned to reanimate Uchiha Izuna as a last resort against Madara and ended the chapter overlooking Leaf Village.

• Tobirama reincarnated Kinkaku and Ginkaku and restrained them with Curse Mark Sage Mode.
• Tobirama questioned the brothers about their coup, and they admitted they had wanted the war to continue and Leaf Village to be destroyed.
• Tobirama controlled the brothers and told them Madara might still be alive, leaving them alarmed by the threat.
• Tobirama explained that he intended to reanimate Uchiha Izuna to exploit Madara's love for his Younger Brother.
• Tobirama stood atop a tall building and looked down at Leaf Village.

Tobirama, Kinkaku, and Ginkaku searched the Uchiha Naka Shrine for the stone tablet and Izuna’s remains. The chapter ended with Tobirama opening Izuna’s coffin, ready to use Impure World Reincarnation despite the risk of provoking Madara.

• Tobirama entered the evacuated Konoha with Kinkaku and Ginkaku, who eagerly agreed to fight Madara.
• Tobirama found the Uchiha Stone Tablet beneath the seventh tatami mat and discovered that it could not be damaged by his Lightning Style.
• Tobirama allowed Kinkaku and Ginkaku to move the tablet, then led them to search for Izuna’s remains.
• Tobirama found Izuna’s sarcophagus and opened the coffin after Kinkaku warned that disturbing Madara’s brother’s grave would escalate their conflict.

On the way to Mount Myōboku, Ryobu and the others ate hotpot while Madara questioned the Moon Eye Plan after hearing Hashirama’s suspicions about Kaguya. The group debated ways to enforce lasting peace, but left without a convincing alternative to the plan.

• Ryobu summoned food for the group, and everyone—including Madara and Kaguya—joined the hotpot feast on Satoru’s back.
• Madara told the group that Hashirama had heard from the Slug Sage that Kaguya was the Six Paths Sage’s mother and that the Moon Eye Plan would revive her.
• Sasori said Hashirama was unlikely to have lied and suggested that Madara gather the Tailed Beasts and gain enough power to suppress the world’s wars.
• Madara worried that peace would end after his death, and Ryobu proposed that Madara oppose all humanity to unite it against a common enemy.
• Fish Ball suggested turning half the people into bean paste and reviving them with Impure World Reincarnation, while Sasori dismissed the idea and proposed making everyone Puppets instead.

Kushina and Yugito faced the Nine-Tails after Kushina released it, while the Ninja Alliance regrouped at Mount Myōboku and Sakumo confronted his doubts at the Waterfall of Truth. The chapter ended with Sakumo reaffirming that comrades mattered more than the mission.

• Kushina released the Nine-Tails to earn its acknowledgment, but it attacked her and Yugito, forcing Yugito to teleport them away as they struggled to survive.
• Yamato told the gathered chunin that Anko had been caught in the destruction of Ryūchi Cave, though he hoped she might have survived.
• Obito reunited with Asuma and the others at Turtle Island, heard about the war’s devastation, and offered to take Itachi to Mikoto.
• Sakumo faced his dispirited inner self at the Waterfall of Truth and answered that comrades mattered more than the mission.

Sakumo reunited with Kakashi, while Orochimaru summoned several former Kage to prepare for Madara. Madara reached Mount Myōboku and attacked its outer barriers, leaving Tobirama and the Ninja Sect’s defenders to buy time for Hashirama and Kushina.

• Sakumo woke and reunited with Kakashi, then urged him to find a girlfriend after spotting the book in his Ninja Tool Pouch.
• Orochimaru, Tagorihime, and Tagitsuhime summoned Mu, Hozuki Gengetsu, and the Third Raikage to help fight Madara.
• Mu urged Ōnoki to become the Ninja Sect’s head or unite the other villages against the Leaf Village, and Ōnoki agreed.
• Tobirama arrived with Kinkaku and Ginkaku, whose return shocked the assembled Kage and villagers.
• Madara led Liao Wu’s group to Mount Myōboku, summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and used it to destroy the mountain’s outer barriers.
• Tobirama and the defenders prepared to delay Madara until Hashirama and Kushina finished their trials.

As Madara attacked Mount Myōboku, Sakumo reconciled with Kakashi and gave him White Zetsu Serum before rushing to confront the invaders. Liao Wu called on the Ninja Alliance to surrender Kushina and Yugito, while Ōnoki and Mu identified him as Uchiha Ryobu.

• Madara attacked Mount Myōboku with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and demanded that Hashirama face him, while the Great Toad Sage urged Hashirama to trust his comrades.
• Kushina's sealing chains broke when the Nine-Tails sensed Madara, and the enraged Kurama vowed to kill him as the Two-Tails tried to restrain him.
• Sakumo apologized to Kakashi, urged him to cherish his comrades, and injected him with White Zetsu Serum so the Sharingan would no longer burden him.
• Sakumo covered the unconscious Kakashi with his clothes and rushed toward Madara and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• A spore transferred from Itachi to Mikoto and promised to protect her; when Itachi tried to join the battle, Mikoto slapped him after the spore urged her to discipline him.
• Liao Wu demanded that the Ninja Alliance hand over Kushina and Yugito or face Mount Myōboku's destruction, and Ōnoki and Mu recognized him as Uchiha Ryobu.

Ryobu and Orochimaru summoned reanimated warriors for opposing sides as their forces clashed at Mount Myōboku. Madara unleashed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and the battle began with Kisame facing former allies.

• Mu and other Elite Ninja emerged from Mount Myōboku as Ryobu recognized Orochimaru behind the enemy reinforcements.
• Ryobu trapped Orochimaru in a Mangekyo genjutsu, which Tagorihime dispelled, before Ryobu threatened him and called forth four Reanimation Bodies.
• Ryobu summoned the Third Kazekage, Rasa, Rōshi, and Han, while Sasori controlled Human Puppets made from former jinchūriki bodies.
• The Third Kazekage and other Reanimation Bodies asked Tobirama how to escape their control, but Tobirama said only overwhelming strength could suppress it.
• Ryobu ordered the Reanimation Bodies to attack as Madara sent the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path against Mount Myōboku and both armies charged.
• Tobirama and Might Duy led the defense, while Kisame confronted former allies including Ao and Mei Terumi.

Kisame and the Mist Village forces clashed with the Ninja Alliance as Ryobu confronted the resurrected Tagorihime and Tagitsuhime and searched for the tailed beasts. Kinkaku and Ginkaku stopped Ryobu and showed him the Uchiha Clan's ancestral stone tablet, which he could decipher with his Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Kisame charged at his former Mist Village comrades while Mei Terumi, Cai Lai, Nekomata, and the Hakimi Army fought back against him and the White Zetsu.
• Tagorihime and Tagitsuhime confronted Ryobu, but Candy swept them away with Ryobu's Chakra, and Ryobu sent a Spore Clone toward the Great Toad Sage's temple to search for sage paper.
• Ryobu sensed Yagura and Killer B in the Toad Stone Forest and Kushina and Yugito on Turtle Island, while Black and White Zetsu split up to capture the tailed beasts.
• Ryobu told Candy to watch Black Zetsu and headed toward Yagura and Killer B, but Kinkaku and Ginkaku blocked his path.
• Ginkaku revealed the Uchiha Clan's ancestral stone tablet, and Ryobu read its runes with his Mangekyō Sharingan and explained that stronger eyes could decipher more of it.

Liao Wu confronted Kinkaku and Ginkaku over their Six Paths ninja tools and Nine-Tails Chakra while Madara fought the Ninja Sect at Mount Myōboku. Madara fed Mu to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and Minato went to help Liao Wu as Tobirama feared Kinkaku and Ginkaku would fall to his Dojutsu.

• Liao Wu refused to explain the Uchiha Stone Tablet and demanded Kinkaku and Ginkaku surrender their ninja tools and Nine-Tails Chakra.
• Might Duy and Great Toad of Rock Lodging helped the Ninja Sect hold back Madara and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path until Madara unleashed Super Shinra Tensei.
• Mu attacked the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path with Dust Release, but Madara blocked the attack with Susanoo and captured him.
• Madara fed Mu to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which absorbed Mu's chakra and restrained his Reanimation Body.
• Minato sensed Kinkaku and Ginkaku approaching Liao Wu, and Tobirama sent him to help before they were defeated.