Recaps

Mukade unleashed the Dragon Vein by absorbing Minato’s Sealing Formula and pulling out the Flying Thunder God Kunai, sending Naruto and Yamato into a future Rōran. Naruto met Queen Sara and Pakura, who explained that the world’s history had changed and left him bewildered about where he was.

• Mukade absorbed Minato’s Sealing Formula and removed the Flying Thunder God Kunai, unleashing the Dragon Vein and sweeping Naruto and Yamato away.
• Naruto woke in an underground ruin in Rōran and found Sara singing before she fled from him.
• Pakura appeared and protected Sara, who suspected Naruto was a spy for Anrokuzan.
• Pakura told Naruto that the Five Great Shinobi Villages had united as the Ninja Sect, and that Sara was the Fifth Kazekage while Gaara was only a baby.
• Pakura explained that Senju Tobirama was the current Hokage and that Madara Uchiha had perished alongside the Third Hokage, leaving Naruto confused as Rōran shook.

Pakura and Sara faced a devastating sandstorm in Rōran before Liao Wu emerged after defeating Shukaku and reunited with Pakura. He disguised himself as Sasuke and met a time-traveling Naruto, who agreed to help him fight his pursuers.

• Pakura took Sara from the underground ruins as a massive sandstorm engulfed Rōran, and Pakura urged the people to shelter underground.
• Shukaku crashed into Rōran unconscious, and Liao Wu appeared on his head before Candy sealed Shukaku in the Amber Purifying Pot.
• Pakura slapped Liao Wu and then embraced him tearfully, relieved to see him again.
• Naruto mistook Liao Wu for Sasuke, and Liao Wu changed into White-Clad Sasuke to maintain the disguise.
• Liao Wu told Naruto that he was being pursued, and Naruto angrily promised to help him.

Liao Wu captured Sara and used Pakura while searching for the Dragon Vein, as Naruto’s illusion-driven rampage brought him into conflict with Kaguya and Black Zetsu. Minato and Kushina recognized a blood connection to Naruto, and the chapter ended with Kushina uncovering the Eight Trigrams Seal on his stomach.

• Liao Wu sent Naruto after his pursuers, captured Sara, controlled Pakura, and forced Sara to lead him toward the Dragon Vein.
• Kaguya and Black Zetsu entered Rōran, discovered Naruto carried an incomplete Nine-Tails, and fought him after Liao Wu’s illusion triggered his four-tailed transformation.
• Obito brought Kushina, Minato, and the others into Rōran, where Kushina sensed her connection to Naruto and stayed behind to help him.
• Kushina struck Black Zetsu’s Susanoo while Minato rescued Naruto, and Kaguya attacked the group with Wood Style.
• Obito dispelled Liao Wu’s illusion and suppressed the Nine-Tails chakra, then discovered Naruto carried the Nine-Tails inside him.
• Kushina lifted Naruto’s clothing and saw the Eight Trigrams Seal on his stomach.

Minato learned that Naruto was his and Kushina’s future son and wept over the hardships Naruto had endured. Meanwhile, Liao Wu forced Sara to guide him to Rōran’s dragon vein, where Anrokuzan’s puppets blocked their path.

• Minato connected with the chakra in Naruto’s seal and learned Naruto’s history in a parallel timeline shaped by Liao Wu’s survival.
• Minato cried as he learned how Naruto had been bullied and struggled, and Kushina realized Naruto was their future child.
• Liao Wu threatened Sara into leading him to the dragon vein beneath Rōran, while Sara questioned him about rumors that he was Uchiha Ryobu.
• Candy reassured Sara that Liao Wu only wanted to borrow the dragon vein to address a problem with his body.
• Anrokuzan sent more than a dozen puppets to block Liao Wu and Sara, and Sara recognized them as his creations.

Liao Wu drove Anrokuzan from the Dragon Vein Tower and entered the Dragon Vein to break the seal inside him. As Minato’s group rushed to stop him, Minato revealed to Obito that his future self had killed Minato and Kushina, and explained how Madara had manipulated Obito through Rin’s death.

• Candy destroyed Anrokuzan’s clay puppets, and Anrokuzan fled the Dragon Vein Tower with his puppet soldiers.
• Liao Wu jumped into the Dragon Vein to use its chakra against the seal inside his body, while Candy warned Sara that Loulan City would soon be destroyed.
• Minato, Kushina, and the others headed toward the Dragon Vein as Minato explained that its chakra had brought Naruto from the future.
• Minato told Obito that a mysterious masked attacker had used Obito’s Kamui to attack the Leaf Village during Kushina’s childbirth, killing Minato and Kushina.
• Minato revealed that Rin died after the Mist Village sealed the Three-Tails inside her, and Obito realized Madara had arranged for him to witness her death and fall into Madara’s scheme.

Minato explained how Liao Wu’s survival created a different timeline, while Naruto woke and reunited with Kushina. Kinkaku and Ginkaku headed to plunder Loulan as Kaguya and Black Zetsu attacked Liao Wu at the Dragon Vein, where he revealed his power and recited a poem.

• Obito apologized to Minato and Kushina for the future, and Kushina reassured him that he had escaped his lonely fate.
• Minato explained that Liao Wu’s survival had caused their timeline to diverge from Naruto’s future, and the group continued toward the Dragon Vein Tower.
• Minato told Asuma that he and Hong had married in the future, but that Kakuzu and Hidan had killed him.
• Naruto woke and asked about Sasuke, and Kushina told him that she was his mother.
• Kinkaku and Ginkaku arrived outside Loulan with their group and ordered them to raid the city.
• Kaguya and Black Zetsu attacked Liao Wu at the Dragon Vein, but he emerged with a huge Susanoo hand and recited a poem.

Liao Wu broke Hashirama's seal, mastered Madara's Rinnegan, and overwhelmed Kaguya and Black Zetsu in his restored perfect form. As the battle threatened Loulan City, the others evacuated its civilians while Liao Wu captured Kaguya and declared his intentions toward her.

• Liao Wu emerged from the Dragon Vein in his Perfect Susanoo and attacked Black Zetsu and Kaguya as they tried to escape.
• Kushina told Naruto that Liao Wu had broken Hashirama's seal, and the group set out to confront him.
• Candy used Shukaku to evacuate Rōran's civilians underground, then armed herself and prepared to join the fight with Pakura.
• Liao Wu repeatedly defeated Kaguya and Black Zetsu, using his Purple Dragon to restrain Black Zetsu's Susanoo.
• Liao Wu used Banshō Ten'in and Yin Yang Release Black Rods to capture Kaguya, then told her he wanted her to become his Xinglu.

Kushina and Kaguya allied with Black Zetsu to face Liao Wu, while battles spread through Rōran. The chapter left Naruto explaining the Uchiha Clan’s future massacre to a shocked Obito as Candy and Shukaku attacked Kinkaku and Ginkaku and Pakura stayed out of the conflict between the Sand Village and Liao Wu.

• Naruto told Obito and Minato that Sasuke’s brother Itachi had slaughtered the Uchiha Clan, prompting Obito to demand details about the clan’s future.
• Kushina rescued Kaguya from Liao Wu and persuaded her and Black Zetsu to join forces against him.
• Candy used the Amber Purifying Pot to challenge Kinkaku and Ginkaku, then sent Shukaku to attack them as they entered Demon Fox mode.
• Pakura drove the Raider Horn Rogue Ninja Group out of Rōran with Scorch Release and chose not to support either the Sand Village or Liao Wu.

Liao Wu and the allied fighters faced Kaguya and Black Zetsu while Naruto learned from Liao Wu that his parents and the Leaf Village had let him suffer despite knowing who he was. Liao Wu’s words left Naruto questioning whether he should forgive the people who had hurt him.

• Obito learned that Itachi had slaughtered the Uchiha Clan in Naruto’s timeline and discovered Sasuke was the only Uchiha left in the Leaf Village before he defected.
• Liao Wu revealed that he had read Naruto’s memories and said Naruto’s rapid growth had helped drive Sasuke to leave the Leaf Village.
• Naruto reunited with Minato and Kushina and asked why the Leaf Village had ostracized him despite his parents’ heroism.
• Liao Wu argued that Naruto should not have to forgive those who knew his identity and watched him suffer, leaving Naruto consumed by doubt.

Naruto resisted Ryobu’s attempt to turn him against those who had hurt him, using the Harem Technique to disrupt Ryobu’s manipulation. He affirmed that Iruka and his parents had given him reasons to keep going, leaving Minato proud of the boy’s Hokage-like resolve.

• Kaguya stopped Black Zetsu from attacking Ryobu because she wanted to see what Naruto would choose, while Obito and Sakumo berated Kakashi for failing to protect Naruto.
• Ryobu urged Naruto to join him and destroy the people who had hurt him, and Naruto appeared to approach before unleashing the Harem Technique.
• Naruto’s Naruko clones distracted and beat Ryobu until Kaguya dispersed them with Wood Style; Ryobu escaped the Wood Dragon with Time Stop, and Minato brought Naruto to safety with Flying Thunder God.
• Ryobu accused Naruto of choosing to tolerate his abusers, but Naruto said he would not become extreme because Iruka and his parents cared for him.
• Kushina apologized for being unable to avenge Naruto, and Naruto said he did not hate anyone and cherished what he had because he had lost so much.

Kushina, Minato, Naruto, and their allies fought Liao Wu while Naruto struggled to understand his family and the past. Elsewhere, Candy and Shukaku drove Kinkaku and Ginkaku into the desert, where Shukaku prepared to strike them with his tail.

• Kaguya and Black Zetsu attacked Liao Wu, but he used Time Stop to evade their Wood Golem and Susanoo.
• Naruto charged Liao Wu with a Rasengan, but his attack failed against the complete-body Susanoo, and Minato caught him as he fell.
• Kushina used her Rinnegan abilities and a well-timed kick to knock Liao Wu's Susanoo down while Black Zetsu and Kaguya pursued him with a Wood Dragon.
• Naruto learned that Kushina was pregnant and that he belonged to the Uzumaki Clan, but he knew little about his own past or why he had traveled back in time.
• Candy helped Shukaku drive Kinkaku and Ginkaku into the desert, where Shukaku used his sand and fused Six Paths Ninja Tools to overwhelm them.
• Shukaku anticipated the brothers' escape route and swung his enormous tail at Kinkaku and Ginkaku.

Shukaku used the Six Paths Ninja Tools to seal Ginkaku and nearly captured Kinkaku, but the Four-Tails rescued Kinkaku as several other beasts arrived. Orochimaru secured the unconscious Kinkaku, and Rōshi urged him to go help Kushina and the others in Loulan City.

• Shukaku sealed Ginkaku inside his Sand Body after Ginkaku said Kinkaku’s name, then tried to capture Kinkaku too.
• A giant blue-green hand grabbed Kinkaku, and Four-Tails Son Goku emerged from the sand with Rōshi.
• Son Goku and Shukaku argued, while Candy reminded Shukaku that he was there.
• Five-Tails Kokuō, Eight-Tails Gyuki, Orochi, Orochimaru, and Hiruko joined Son Goku, so Shukaku retreated into the sand.
• Orochimaru had Son Goku knock Kinkaku unconscious, then left him paralyzed inside a large snake’s belly.
• Rōshi urged Orochimaru to support Kushina and the others as Loulan City shook from the battle.

Orochimaru joined the fight in Rōran as Liao Wu battled Kushina and the others with his powerful Susanoo and Time Stop Dojutsu. While Naruto warned Asuma about the circumstances of his future death, Liao Wu’s fusion with Rōran neared completion and he vowed to enslave his opponents.

• Orochimaru entered Rōran with Hiruko after the other fighters charged into the city to hunt Liao Wu.
• Naruto explained Kushina’s Nine-Tails Chakra Mode to Shizune and warned Asuma that Hidan’s curse would kill him, while Hong noted Kakuzu had joined the Ninja Sect.
• Kushina, Yugito, Mei Terumi, and the Six-Tails attacked Liao Wu, but his Susanoo withstood their assaults and regenerated with Dragon Vein chakra.
• The Six-Tails asked Liao Wu whether Utakata had been resurrected, and Liao Wu said he did not know but believed Utakata likely had been.
• Liao Wu declared that his fusion with Rōran was nearly complete and threatened to enslave the fighters, kill the men, and take the Tailed Beasts as pets.

Ryobu controlled Mei Terumi and the Six-Tails with his Rinnegan, forcing Minato’s group into a desperate fight while Obito evacuated Naruto and the others into Kamui Space. Naruto watched Kushina get blasted away and struggled to understand Ryobu’s many powers, while Obito explained the abilities that made him so formidable.

• Ryobu controlled Mei Terumi and the Six-Tails with his Rinnegan, and they attacked Kushina’s group with Boiling Style and acid.
• Minato told Obito to take Naruto and the others into Kamui Space, and Obito evacuated them while Kushina, Minato, Yugito, and the others stayed to fight.
• Naruto told Shizune about his fear of losing control of the Nine-Tails, then confided in Obito that Sakura liked Sasuke.
• Ryobu stood atop the Six-Tails and reached toward Mei Terumi, but Kushina attacked him with Enma before Ryobu blasted her into a Rōran high-rise with Shinra Tensei.
• Naruto watched the battle through Obito’s projection and questioned why Ryobu was so powerful, so Obito explained his Mangekyo, Sage Mode, Rinnegan, and Dragon Vein.

Liao Wu defeated Kushina’s Shadow Clone, pursued Yugito, and drew the tailed beasts and other fighters into the battle. After summoning Sara, he connected his Susanoo to the Dragon Vein, while Kaguya decided to take control of Madara’s body and unleash her powers.

• Liao Wu struck Kushina’s Shadow Clone with his Six Paths Rod, but Minato teleported her away before the clone dissipated, then fled himself.
• Liao Wu used Banshō Ten'in to pull Yugito toward him, but Eight-Tails and Killer B arrived to rescue her.
• Five-Tails dispelled the illusion on Six-Tails and Mei Terumi, while Orochimaru arrived with Yamato, who had traveled from the future through the Dragon Vein.
• Liao Wu ordered Candy to release Sara, then pulled her onto his Susanoo, forming a connection between the Susanoo and the Dragon Vein beneath Rōran.
• Dragon Vein chakra changed Liao Wu’s Susanoo and rapidly restored White Snake and Purple Dragon after Black Zetsu damaged them.
• Kaguya told Black Zetsu to let her control Madara’s body, and she merged into it to unleash her powers.

Liao Wu used his bond with the dragon vein to gain the space-time technique Kunado God, then overwhelmed the tailed beasts with his new abilities. The battle ended with Five-Tails restrained and Killer B and Eight-Tails trapped in Liao Wu’s illusions.

• Orochimaru identified the dragon vein as the source of Liao Wu’s power and sent the tailed beasts to attack it.
• Liao Wu used Kunado God to strike Four-Tails and Six-Tails, canceling their summons and sending them back to the Leaf Village.
• Obito realized Liao Wu’s dragon-vein-powered space-time ninjutsu had removed the advantage he and Minato had relied on.
• Liao Wu bound Five-Tails with dragon vein chains and Yin Yang Release black rods, preventing Kokuō from returning to the Summoning World.
• Liao Wu hypnotized Killer B and Eight-Tails with his Rinnegan illusion technique, stopping B from canceling the summoning.

Ryobu controlled the Dragon Vein and attacked Yugito, but Kushina and Minato arrived to confront him. Their clashing Rinnegan powers began tearing Rōran from the desert.

• Ryobu controlled Sara and used her as his link to the Dragon Vein, then demanded that the Two-Tails submit and threatened Yugito.
• Minato brought Kushina's main body to Rōran, where she and the Nine-Tails rescued Yugito from Ryobu.
• Kushina and Minato joined forces against Ryobu, whose Rinnegan resonated with Kushina's.
• Ryobu and Kushina unleashed opposing Shinra Tensei forces, and their clash tore buildings, streets, and bridges from Rōran.

Pakura and the others witnessed Rōran being torn apart as Liao Wu used Time Stop to try to take Kushina’s Rinnegan. Kaguya took control of Madara’s body and saved Kushina, then searched her shadow clones for the real one.

• Pakura saw the ground beneath Rōran City break apart while Shukaku and Candy helped rescue its people.
• Inside Kamui Space, Naruto learned from Obito and Kakashi about Nagato, the Rinnegan, and how events differed between their timelines.
• Liao Wu used Time Stop and reached for Kushina’s left eye, but a Kaguya-controlled Madara kicked him away.
• Kaguya merged her Chakra and an enhanced White Zetsu body into Madara, while Black Zetsu yielded control to her.
• Kushina made more than ten shadow clones, and Kaguya used her Byakugan but could not identify the real Kushina.

Liao Wu, Kaguya, and Kushina’s faction clashed over control of the world as Liao Wu attacked with his Susanoo and companion beasts. The Nine-Tails revealed that it could use Wood Style, startling Liao Wu.

• Liao Wu proposed dividing the world among the three factions, but Kushina rejected his offer and defended the Land of Wind.
• Liao Wu sent Purple Dragon and White Snake to attack Kaguya and Kushina; Yugito transformed into Two-Tails mode to fight White Snake.
• Kaguya used Shinra Tensei to repel Purple Dragon, and Black Zetsu explained that her primordial Chakra could restore Madara’s power.
• Liao Wu used Kunado God and a Yin Yang Release spear to attack Kaguya, while Kushina tried to bind him with Adamantine Sealing.
• Purple Dragon restrained Kaguya, allowing Liao Wu to pierce her Susanoo, but the golden Nine-Tails used Wood Style to bind Liao Wu’s Susanoo and let Kaguya escape.
• Liao Wu stared in surprise as the Nine-Tails claimed it could use ninjutsu.

Kushina and Minato planned to seal Liao Wu, but first they needed to cut him off from the Dragon Vein. Obito brought his team to the Dragon Vein, where they debated how to neutralize it and left the problem unresolved.

• The Nine-Tails failed to restrain Liao Wu, who struck it and forced it back into Kushina’s body.
• Minato and Kushina agreed to fight together and seal Liao Wu, but recognized that his connection to the Dragon Vein made him nearly invincible in Rōran.
• Kushina remembered Obito’s team, and Minato ordered Obito to use Kamui to reach the Dragon Vein and sever its connection to Liao Wu.
• Obito brought Baki, Asuma, Kakashi, Naruto, and the others into the underground passage, where they saw the Dragon Vein’s liquid-like chakra.
• Asuma suggested pulling the Dragon Vein into the Kamui Space, but Kakashi warned that this could give Liao Wu a spatial anchor inside it.
• Obito asked Naruto to use the Nine-Tails’ power against the Dragon Vein, but Naruto refused because excessive Nine-Tails Chakra could make him lose control.

Obito and Kakashi used their Mangekyō Sharingan to control the Nine-Tails inside Naruto, allowing him to take on a four-tailed cloak while retaining his reason. Sakumo reconsidered keeping Obito’s eye with Kakashi as a safeguard against the Uchiha Clan’s growing power and planned to negotiate with them.

• Obito urged Naruto to reveal his seal, and he and Kakashi activated their Mangekyō Sharingan to control the Nine-Tails.
• Naruto released the Nine-Tails Chakra and reached four tails while remaining rational, surprising himself and the others.
• Obito and Kakashi argued over the Sharingan and the Uchiha Clan’s demand that Kakashi marry into the clan, until Sakumo told them to focus.
• Sakumo reflected on Tobirama’s warnings about the Uchiha Clan’s strength and decided Obito’s eye should remain with Kakashi for now.
• Sakumo planned to return to Leaf Village and negotiate a marriage arrangement in which Kakashi’s future child would take the Uchiha or Hatake name depending on whether they awakened the Sharingan.

Naruto reached his Six-Tails Form beneath the Dragon Vein as Liao Wu rushed to stop Candy and Shukaku from destroying it. Candy and Shukaku then attacked Naruto’s group, while Obito and the others tried to defend themselves.

• Candy and Shukaku sensed Naruto’s four-tailed Chakra and went underground to attack whoever was destroying the Dragon Vein.
• Liao Wu sensed the threat to the Dragon Vein and left his fight against Kaguya, Kushina, and the others, giving them a brief reprieve.
• Kaguya and Black Zetsu demanded Kushina’s Rinnegan, but Kushina refused and prepared to face them alongside Minato and Yugito.
• Naruto’s cloak grew to six tails and formed skeletal armor, and he warned Obito and Kakashi that he was about to use a Tailed Beast Ball.
• Obito and Kakashi argued about the danger of the Dragon Vein distorting time and space, and Obito promised to keep Naruto from being swept away.
• Candy tried to seal Obito with the Amber Purifying Pot, then Shukaku fired Sand Scattershot at the group, forcing them to defend themselves.

Candy, Liao Wu, and their allies fought Shukaku and Six-Tails Naruto as the battle for the Dragon Vein intensified. Liao Wu stopped Naruto’s attack, but Kaguya and Kushina joined forces against him, and Minato advised them to stagger their assaults around his Time Stop.

• Candy used Triple Rashomon to shield herself and Shukaku from Naruto’s Tailed Beast Ball, but the blast destroyed all three gates.
• Liao Wu arrived in his Susanoo and absorbed Naruto’s Tailed Beast Ball, then redirected it into Orochimaru and Hiruko’s hiding place, forcing Orochimaru to flee.
• Liao Wu seized Naruto and taunted him, but Obito used Kamui to rescue Naruto and then rushed toward Rin and Kakashi after Liao Wu threatened them.
• Liao Wu reinforced the Dragon Vein with Wood Style while Kaguya and Kushina attacked him together.
• Liao Wu used Time Stop to strike Kaguya and Kushina, and Minato advised them to attack one after the other to exploit the opening afterward.

The Nine-Tails persuaded Kushina and Minato to send Liao Wu through the Dragon Vein, where he could no longer use the Rinnegan. Their battle pushed them toward the Dragon Vein, and Obito and Six-Tails Naruto arrived to replenish Kushina’s strength as Liao Wu remained at full power.

• The Nine-Tails told Kushina and Minato that they could not defeat Liao Wu and proposed using the Dragon Vein to send him to another time-space.
• Kushina agreed with Minato and the Nine-Tails that the Rinnegan was too dangerous to leave in their world, and they devised a plan to send Liao Wu away.
• Kushina, Minato, and Kaguya attacked Liao Wu, but he blocked their assaults and escaped their sealing and Wood Style techniques.
• The prolonged battle moved toward the Dragon Vein as Kushina’s golden Nine-Tails weakened and Kaguya’s Susanoo disappeared, while Rōran replenished Liao Wu’s Chakra.
• Obito appeared with Six-Tails Naruto, whose Chakra restored Kushina’s golden Nine-Tails, and Kushina encouraged Naruto to fight Liao Wu.

Naruto, Kushina, and Minato fused their Rasengans into a Three-Phase Rasengan and overwhelmed Ryobu, while Kakashi triggered an upheaval in the Dragon Vein. Ryobu was hurled into the twisting Dragon Vein as the chapter ended.

• Naruto, Kushina, Minato, and Liao Wu formed enormous Rasengans and clashed.
• Minato explained that matching chakra outputs could let the family's Rasengans merge, and Yugito and Obito held back Liao Wu.
• Naruto, Kushina, and Minato fused their Rasengans into a Three-Phase Rasengan that destroyed Liao Wu's Dragon Vein Rasengan and struck his Susanoo.
• Minato asked Kakashi to use Kamui on the Dragon Vein, prompting Black Zetsu to warn Kaguya that Ryobu could be sent to another spacetime.
• Ryobu used Time Stop, but Kushina kept the Three-Phase Rasengan against him, and the Dragon Vein upheaval disrupted his Kunado God teleportation.
• Kushina's Three-Phase Rasengan knocked Ryobu into the Dragon Vein, where it exploded and caused the Dragon Vein to twist.