Recaps

The Dragon Vein’s rampage swept Liao Wu into another time-space, and Minato sealed it after the survivors escaped. Stranded in this era, Naruto decided he could not leave his friends behind, and Minato and Kushina accepted his choice.

• Liao Wu failed to stop the rampaging Dragon Vein from carrying him away, while Candy tried to save him and the others fled the underground ruins.
• Kaguya retreated after Black Zetsu warned her that the Dragon Vein’s distortion could take her to another time-space.
• Kushina, Obito, and the others realized Liao Wu’s actions had changed their fates, and Minato sealed the Dragon Vein beneath the earth.
• Sakumo pointed out that sealing the Dragon Vein left Naruto and Yamato without a way back to their own era.
• Naruto told Minato and Kushina that he could not abandon his friends in the future, and he embraced them as they accepted his decision.

Minato and Naruto planned to find Mukade and restore the seal to send Naruto and Yamato back to their era, while the Nine-Tails defeated Shukaku. Liao Wu and Sara were swept into the Dragon Vein’s spacetime tunnel, where Liao Wu encountered Boruto traveling toward Hikari’s past.

• Minato guessed that defeating Mukade and restoring the sealing formula might return Naruto and Yamato to the future, and the group agreed to search for him.
• The Nine-Tails defeated Shukaku and demanded to know where Candy had gone, while Shukaku insisted Liao Wu would return.
• Kaguya appeared in Rōran’s ruins with Susanoo and a wooden golem, seized Naruto, and demanded that Kushina hand over the Rinnegan.
• Liao Wu protected himself and the unconscious Sara as the Dragon Vein carried them through spacetime, showing him fragments of their lives and ninja history.
• Liao Wu spotted Old Master Boruto traveling through the tunnel within a Dragon Vein from another spacetime.
• Boruto’s memories revealed that he had met Hikari, helped defeat Organization Zero, and used Toneri’s plan, a Memory Crystal, and a full-moon Dragon Vein to travel to Hikari’s past and try to change her fate.

Liao Wu and Sara followed Boruto through the Dragon Vein and arrived in Uchiha Hikari’s Warring States era, where Liao Wu learned he might be stranded. Boruto recognized Liao Wu as the villain his family had fought and was shocked for taunting him.

• Liao Wu merged his Dragon Vein with Boruto’s and grabbed onto him, bringing Sara along as Boruto traveled toward Hikari’s era.
• Toneri sensed the collision and warned Sarada that a powerful Rinnegan user had joined Boruto’s journey.
• Liao Wu, Sara, and Boruto fell into a forest near an Uchiha clan camp during Uchiha Hikari’s era.
• Liao Wu sent Boruto his memories, and Boruto recognized him as the villain Naruto, Minato, and Kushina had banished into the Dragon Vein.
• Liao Wu told Sara they had returned to the Warring States Period and realized they had no known way back.
• Boruto mocked Liao Wu for being stranded, so Liao Wu shocked him with a Lightning Style clone.

Liao Wu exposed the Uchiha Clan’s attempt to steal his Sharingan and began slaughtering the clan, while Boruto escaped prison with Hikari and faced a choice about whether to save her captors. The camp remained in chaos as Sara struggled to accept Liao Wu’s violence.

• The Uchiha Clan arrested Boruto as an Uzumaki spy, sealed his Chakra, and put him in a cell with the prisoner they called Nameless.
• Liao Wu told the Uchiha Clan that he had returned to his family, but the clan leader poisoned him and tried to claim his Sharingan and Sara.
• Liao Wu awoke, revealed his Mangekyo, and began killing the Uchiha who had betrayed him.
• Boruto broke through the fire-talisman-covered cell door, escaped with Hikari, and heard the Uchiha survivors beg her to stop the murderous demon.
• Boruto recognized Liao Wu and urged Hikari to save the clan, while Sara struggled to watch Liao Wu slaughter his Uchiha ancestors.

Liao Wu used the Rinnegan to uncover how the Uchiha Clan had abused Hikari and stolen dojutsu, then punished the clan head by turning his soul into a dog. He took Sharingan for his ninja cats and urged Sara to accept the brutal reality of the Warring States Period.

• Liao Wu used Mind Layer Dive on the Uchiha Clan Head and learned that the clan had used Daikokuten to steal dojutsu and make Hikari its weapon.
• Liao Wu discovered that the Uchiha Clan had stripped Hikari of her name, imprisoned her, and fed her like a dog.
• Liao Wu pretended to be Indra, extracted the clan head's soul, and forced it into a Shiba Inu through the Rinnegan.
• Liao Wu removed the clan head's Sharingan and sent a clone to collect the eyes of the clan head's dead confidants for his ninja cats.
• Liao Wu approached the frightened Sara with Three Tomoe Sharingan and told her that survival in the Warring States Period required killing.

Liao Wu implanted Sharingan in Sara and fought the Uchiha Clan ninja who attacked him after he killed their leaders. He broke their Uchiha Flame Formation and transformed his Susanoo into its Perfect form, leaving the clan camp in ruins as Boruto and Hikari retreated.

• Liao Wu implanted Sharingan in Sara and used a spore to keep her alive, then left a clone to guard her.
• Liao Wu repelled the Uchiha Clan ninja's Great Fireball Technique with Shinra Tensei and killed or scattered the attackers.
• Boruto and Hikari confronted Liao Wu, and he used Banshō Ten'in to pull a Uchiha ninja in front of Hikari's Amaterasu.
• The Uchiha Clan ninja trapped Liao Wu in an inward-burning Uchiha Flame Formation, but his Susanoo broke through it.
• Liao Wu poured chakra into his Susanoo and transformed it into the Perfect Susanoo, forcing Boruto, Hikari, and the Uchiha civilians to retreat.

Liao Wu used his Complete Susanoo and Rinnegan to make the Uchiha Clan submit, claiming he was Hikari’s older brother and the reincarnation of Indra. Hikari began to believe him after he revealed her name, while Boruto remained wary of Liao Wu’s lies.

• Liao Wu’s Complete Susanoo terrified the Uchiha, and they knelt before him while Boruto refused to back down.
• Liao Wu called Hikari his younger sister, and Boruto told her and the Uchiha that Liao Wu had come from the future.
• Liao Wu claimed the Rinnegan proved he was Indra’s reincarnation, and the Uchiha accepted his story and blamed their dead leaders for Hikari’s mistreatment.
• Liao Wu revealed that he had turned the clan leader into a Shiba Inu, then made him obey Hikari and eat shit.
• Hikari asked whether Liao Wu was really her older brother, and he told her their mother had named her Uchiha Hikari; she began to believe him.

Boruto used Momoshiki’s Karma to escape with Hikari, then showed her a memory crystal that restored her trust in him. Liao Wu pursued them to a cliff, where Hikari tried to mark him with Yachihoko, but he stopped time, seized her, and reached for one of her eyes as Boruto attacked him.

• Boruto’s Karma activated as Liao Wu’s Susanoo reached for Hikari, letting Boruto escape with her at tremendous speed.
• Liao Wu used Sage Mode to locate the pair and ordered the Uchiha ninja to pursue them.
• Boruto gave Hikari the memory crystal, and its memories helped her recognize and trust him.
• Liao Wu cornered Boruto and Hikari at a cliff, revealed he was Sasuke’s maternal uncle, and dismissed Boruto’s appeal to family ties.
• Hikari offered to become Liao Wu’s little sister in exchange for Boruto’s freedom, then tried to use Yachihoko on him.
• Liao Wu stopped time, seized Hikari, and reached for one of her eyes; Boruto lunged at his leg to stop him.

Liao Wu stole Hikari’s Yachihoko, controlled her with a spore, and tried to mark Boruto before Boruto was sent back to his own time. Boruto returned devastated, and Toneri asked him to recount what happened in the past.

• Liao Wu took Hikari’s Yachihoko and transferred his own ruined Mangekyo into his right eye socket.
• Hikari swallowed Liao Wu’s spore and became his puppet despite Boruto’s protests.
• Liao Wu marked Boruto with Hikari’s Yachihoko, but the Jōgan resisted his attempt to control him.
• Liao Wu threatened to change history and destroy the Senju and Uzumaki clans before Boruto vanished back to his timeline.
• Sarada and Mitsuki found Boruto in Toneri’s temporal rift, and Toneri asked him to describe his experiences in the past.

Boruto told Toneri and the others about Uchiha Ryobu and learned that Ryobu’s actions had separated Hikari’s era from their timeline. Though Sarada warned him against risking history to save Hikari, Boruto decided he only wanted to see her again and arranged to return next month, with Sarada insisting on coming too.

• Boruto recounted meeting Ryobu in Hikari’s era and revealed that Ryobu was Sasuke’s uncle, prompting Sarada to ask him to check the Uchiha registry.
• Boruto worried that Ryobu’s threat to destroy the Senju and Uzumaki clans might have changed the present, but Toneri concluded that Ryobu’s era had become a parallel timeline.
• Sarada warned Boruto that changing history could endanger everyone, while Mitsuki reminded her that changing fate might sometimes be worthwhile.
• Boruto told Sarada he could not abandon Hikari because he was the only one who remembered her, then asked Toneri to help him return just to see her.
• Toneri used Ryobu’s mark on Boruto’s hand to confirm he could locate Ryobu’s spacetime and agreed to help during the next full moon.
• Sarada insisted that Boruto take her and her father along next time so they could help protect him from Ryobu.

Liao Wu led the Uchiha Clan across the Land of Wind desert in search of Rōran and the Dragon Vein, while Sara sensed they were close. He urged Hikari to stop living in fear and sent her to face the pursuing Senju and Sarutobi clans.

• Liao Wu migrated the Uchiha Clan to the Land of Wind, hoping Sara's connection to the Dragon Vein would guide them to Rōran.
• Liao Wu made Hikari his sister and placed her above the clan, while the former Uchiha Clan Leader served her as a Shiba Inu.
• Sara and Liao Wu comforted Hikari, who admitted she wanted comrades and worried about what would happen after they left.
• Liao Wu told Hikari that the Senju Clan had caught up and ordered her to fight them, despite her reluctance to kill again.
• Hikari used the Body Flicker Technique to race toward the pursuing Senju and Sarutobi clans and block their path.

Hikari defeated the Senju pursuit without killing them, while Liao Wu captured the Senju and Sarutobi forces and made them serve the Uchiha Clan. Later, as the Dragon Vein surged at Mangetsu, Sasuke and Sarada prepared to travel to the past and confront Ryobu.

• Hikari defeated the Senju Clan Ninjas, destroyed their Sealing Scroll, and told their leader she had taken the name Uchiha Hikari.
• Hikari spared the Senju leader and urged the Senju Clan to stop pursuing the Uchiha Clan.
• Liao Wu appeared with the Rinnegan, and Hikari found that he had captured the Senju and Sarutobi forces and made them Uchiha Clan Slaves.
• Ryobu used Sara's connection to the Dragon Vein to find deserted Rōran and planned to use the Dragon Vein at Mangetsu to return to his spacetime.
• Sasuke and Sarada left home as the Dragon Vein surged, and Sasuke told Sarada that Uchiha Ryobu had died as a child from Kekkei-genkai Illness.
• Sarada and Sasuke prepared to return to the past and fight Ryobu, whom Sasuke feared because of his Perfect Susanoo and Rinnegan.

Sasuke joined Boruto and Sarada as Toneri opened a temporal gate to ancient Rōran, where they hoped to rescue Light and defeat Ryobu. Boruto arrived at the pyramid, and Ryobu recognized him as someone who had come for Hikari.

• Sasuke questioned Boruto about keeping his time-travel mission from Naruto, then agreed to accompany Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki.
• Toneri opened a spacetime gate using the Dragon Vein, and Boruto leaped through before the full moon ended.
• In ancient Rōran, Sara drew Dragon Vein power through the pyramid while Ryobu guarded her and suggested Hikari become emperor or travel to the future with them.
• Hikari rejected Ryobu's proposal that she rule as Emperor Kōnin and said she wanted companionship and friends.
• Boruto, Sasuke, and Sarada emerged outside the pyramid, where Uchiha ninja surrounded them.
• Ryobu identified Boruto to Hikari, who felt happy that Boruto had traveled through time again to find her.

Liao Wu chose to leave his era with Hikari while a clone guarded Sara’s Dragon Vein ritual. Boruto, Sasuke, and Sarada arrived at Liao Wu’s pyramid, where Boruto confronted Hikari about the Uchiha’s enslavement of other clans, leaving her silent.

• Liao Wu told Hikari she could not return with Boruto and offered to leave the era with him and Sara, so she chose to go with her Older Brother.
• Toneri brought Boruto, Sasuke, and Sarada to the pyramid, where Uchiha guards recognized Boruto and Sarada saw Senju and Sarutobi Ninja enslaved to build it.
• Liao Wu and Hikari appeared, and the Uchiha and their enslaved workers knelt before them.
• Liao Wu claimed he had learned Sasuke and Sarada’s names by reading Boruto’s memories, prompting Sarada and Boruto to argue about the Uchiha.
• Liao Wu threatened Hikari with his sword to stop the argument, but Hikari knocked it aside and kicked him, revealing that she had become his sibling.
• Boruto accused Hikari of becoming like the people who had hurt her, and Hikari fell silent after defending her indifference to the suffering around the pyramid.

Boruto, Sasuke, and Sarada confronted Liao Wu, who planned to use the Dragon Vein to return to his own time. Sasuke swapped places with Sarada to attack Liao Wu, but Liao Wu blocked the strike and sent Sasuke flying.

• Liao Wu’s supporters claimed he had once protected the Senju Clan, but he ordered the Uchiha to attack Boruto, Sasuke, and Sarada.
• Sasuke used his Mangekyo Sharingan to trap the Uchiha present in an illusion, while Boruto revealed that Liao Wu had come from Minato’s time and intended to use the Dragon Vein to return.
• Liao Wu stopped time, seized Sarada, and hypnotized Boruto into attacking Sasuke before Sasuke freed him.
• Liao Wu admitted he possessed Time and Space Ninjutsu and warned Sasuke and Boruto not to interfere while Sara prepared to activate the Dragon Vein.
• Sasuke used Amenotejikara to swap places with Sarada and attacked Liao Wu with his Chidori Blade, but Liao Wu blocked it with a Yin Yang staff and knocked Sasuke away.

Liao Wu confronted Sasuke while Boruto, Sarada, and Hikari moved away to settle their own conflict. Liao Wu revealed that he could wield both a Perfect Susanoo and Hashirama’s Wood Style, leaving Sarada shocked that Sasuke faced such an opponent without Naruto.

• Boruto urged Sasuke to destroy the pyramid and leave Liao Wu in the past, while Liao Wu ordered Hikari to attack Boruto and Sarada.
• Boruto drew Hikari away to talk, and Sarada followed, leaving Sasuke to face Liao Wu.
• Liao Wu criticized Sasuke for neglecting his family and mocked his life with Sakura, but Sasuke refused to leave and summoned his Perfect Susanoo.
• Liao Wu summoned his own Perfect Susanoo, then used the Wood Golem Technique to create a giant that shocked Sasuke.
• Sarada bragged about Sasuke’s strength until Liao Wu’s Wood Golem appeared beside his black Susanoo, prompting her to regret not bringing Naruto.

Hikari rejected Boruto’s hope and chose to leave the era with Ryobu, using Yachihoko to control Senju and Sarutobi ninjas against him. Meanwhile, Liao Wu overwhelmed Sasuke in battle and prepared to finish him with a yin-yang spear.

• Hikari defeated Boruto’s Shadow Clones and knocked Sarada unconscious with an Illusion Technique.
• Hikari told Boruto she would leave the era with Ryobu and Sara, saying Ryobu had taught her to resist those who tried to use her.
• Hikari used Yachihoko to mark Senju and Sarutobi ninjas as Puppets and set them against Boruto, who fought them while insisting he would protect her.
• Liao Wu used his Susanoo and Wood Golem to overpower Sasuke, whose Susanoo collapsed after the Wood Golem struck it.
• Liao Wu rode his Susanoo toward the injured Sasuke, wielding a yin-yang spear.

Sasuke fought Liao Wu but was overwhelmed after Liao Wu revealed his Ryūchi Cave Sage Art and countered Sasuke’s attacks. Sarada intervened just before Liao Wu could kill Sasuke, and Liao Wu spared them after Sarada called him Great-Uncle.

• Sasuke used Planetary Devastation on Liao Wu, but Liao Wu broke the seal with Sage Art: Susanoo.
• Liao Wu attacked Sasuke with his Susanoo and companion white snake, while Sasuke failed to defeat him with Amaterasu and his other techniques.
• Sasuke tried to prepare Kirin with Fire Style, but Liao Wu recognized the plan and dispersed the flames with his Uchiha Gunbai.
• Liao Wu restrained Sasuke, drained his chakra, and threatened to kill him when Sasuke refused to call him Uncle.
• Sarada rushed in to protect Sasuke, and Liao Wu withdrew his spear and offered to spare them if she called him Great-Uncle.
• Sarada hugged Liao Wu’s arm and called him Great-Uncle, then blamed Boruto for describing him as a demon king.

Liao Wu healed Sarada’s eyesight, freed Sasuke, and challenged Sasuke’s views on atonement and power by showing him his own painful past. After draining Sasuke’s Chakra, Liao Wu said Sarada had spared him from killing Sasuke and explained that he defected to avoid being killed by Sasuke’s Older Brother.

• Liao Wu repaired Sarada’s retinal nerves, removed her glasses, and released Sasuke from the vines.
• Liao Wu criticized Sasuke’s atonement and reminded him that Danzo had destroyed the Uchiha and framed Itachi for the massacre.
• Sasuke explained that he cherished his life with Naruto and Sakura and no longer wanted to pursue the power he had once sought.
• Liao Wu showed Sasuke and Sarada his history of illness, suppression by the Leaf Village, forbidden research, and eventual defection.
• Sasuke tried to attack Liao Wu with Amaterasu, but Liao Wu used Yachihoko to control him and absorb his Chakra.
• Liao Wu spared Sasuke because Sarada was present and said he had defected to avoid being killed by Sasuke’s Older Brother.

Liao Wu prepared to return to his own time after giving Sarada information, protection, and the Flame Uchiha Gunbai. As the Dragon Vein surged out of control, he caught Sara and confirmed they could leave.

• Liao Wu shocked Sasuke with Lightning Style, then offered to teach Sarada Ryūchi Cave's Sage Mode but refused when she agreed.
• When Sara drew the active Dragon Vein into the pyramid, Liao Wu sealed future information about Eida's Omnipotence and a protective Yang Release spore inside Sarada.
• Liao Wu gave Sarada the Flame Uchiha Gunbai and bound it to the Dragon Vein so she could take it to her own time.
• Uchiha Hikari told Boruto she was leaving, and they exchanged farewells as she set out to follow her own path.
• The Dragon Vein surged beyond Sara's control and sent her flying, but Liao Wu caught her and said they could leave.

Liao Wu used Sara’s blood to bind his Rinnegan to the Dragon Vein and left the alternate spacetime with Sara and Hikari, escaping Sasuke and abandoning the mission. Back in the present, Boruto, Sasuke, and Sarada recounted what happened, and Toneri discovered that Sarada’s Flame Uchiha Gunbai was preserved by Dragon Vein Chakra and could return to its original spacetime.

• Liao Wu used Sara’s blood to give his Rinnegan a contract with the Dragon Vein, then carried Sara and Hikari through it to leave their spacetime.
• Liao Wu shocked Sasuke when he tried to pull him back, and the Dragon Vein vanished into the clouds with Liao Wu, Sara, and Hikari.
• Boruto, Sasuke, and Sarada returned to Toneri and Mitsuki, with Sasuke admitting Liao Wu had overpowered him and Boruto relieved that Hikari had not been forced to rule the world.
• Sarada showed off the Flame Uchiha Gunbai Liao Wu had given her and defeated Boruto’s shadow clones with a single swing.
• Toneri examined the fan and realized Dragon Vein Chakra had preserved it from the past, and destroying its seal would send it back to its original spacetime.

Toneri restored Sasuke’s arm with Liao Wu’s spore, and Sarada received a vision of a dangerous future after the group returned from the Temporal Rift. In the main timeline, Obito rescued Naruto from Kaguya and confessed that his future self had caused Naruto’s suffering, while Pakura searched for Liao Wu.

• Toneri explained that Liao Wu’s spore could provide chakra and regenerate Sasuke’s missing arm, and Sasuke chose to keep the arm while placing Mangekyo power beside Sarada’s spore as a safeguard.
• Sasuke removed his Yachihoko Mark, while Boruto kept his because he still hoped to see Hikari again.
• After Sasuke led the group out of the Temporal Rift, Sarada received Liao Wu’s visions of Isshiki, Kawaki, Kara, Eida, divine arts, and the swapped identities of Kawaki and Boruto, then shared them with Sasuke.
• Obito used Kamui to rescue Naruto from Kaguya, allowing Kushina to attack Kaguya’s Susanoo with the Golden Nine-Tails.
• Obito apologized to Naruto and revealed that his future self had released the Nine-Tails, killed Naruto’s parents, and made Naruto its Jinchuriki.
• Pakura watched Kushina’s battle with Kaguya from Rōran and wondered where Liao Wu had gone.

Candy enlisted Pakura to help break Minato Namikaze’s sealing of the Dragon Vein so Liao Wu could return, while Naruto forgave Obito and they joined Kushina against Kaguya. Kaguya was pushed back and tried to escape, but Kushina launched Planetary Devastation.

• Candy told Pakura that Kushina and the others had sent Liao Wu into the Dragon Vein and asked her to use Scorch Release to break Minato Namikaze’s sealing; Pakura agreed after Candy promised Liao Wu would leave Sunagakure alone.
• Obito confessed to Naruto that he had caused Minato and Kushina’s deaths, but Naruto forgave him and urged him to prevent further harm.
• Obito opened Kamui and sent Naruto’s Shadow Clones out to attack Kaguya while he phased past her Susanoo defenses.
• Kaguya destroyed Naruto’s Shadow Clones with Byakugan: Pressure, but Kushina’s Golden Nine-Tails and Adamantine Sealing kept driving her back.
• Black Zetsu urged Kaguya to retreat, and Kushina threw a black sphere at her with Planetary Devastation.

Kushina trapped Kaguya with Planetary Devastation, but Candy and Pakura destroyed Minato’s Dragon Vein seal, allowing Liao Wu to return from another dimension. Liao Wu overwhelmed the group and escaped their attempt to flee with Yugito under his control, vowing to destroy the Leaf Village.

• Kushina used Planetary Devastation to draw Kaguya into the sky, but Minato warned that Candy and Pakura had destroyed his seal on the Dragon Vein.
• The Dragon Vein surged upward, allowing Liao Wu to sense Spore inside Candy and find his way back to the main timeline.
• Liao Wu returned in a black Susanoo and struck down the Golden Nine-Tails, while Obito used Kamui to evacuate Sakumo, Kakashi, Rin, and the others.
• Liao Wu used Amenominakanushi and Yachihoko to stop Minato, Kushina, and Yugito from escaping, but nine-tails chakra protected Minato and Kushina.
• Minato escaped with Kushina using Flying Thunder God, leaving Yugito behind under Liao Wu’s control, and Liao Wu threatened to destroy the Leaf Village.

After Rōran was destroyed, Sara sought Liao Wu’s help rebuilding shelter for its people and insisted that the city still had a future because the Dragon Vein remained. Liao Wu considered the Dragon Vein’s power and left open the possibility that it drew strength from other time-spaces.

• Rōran’s citizens emerged from Shukaku’s body and grieved over their ruined city, while Sara promised to rebuild it.
• Sara found Ryobu torturing Ginkaku and spoke with Hikari, who revealed she had come from an ancient era through the Dragon Vein.
• Sara told Pakura that Liao Wu had given her Sharingan and Wood Style spores, and explained why she trusted him more than Sunagakure or the Land of Wind’s Daimyo.
• Sara asked Liao Wu to build shelters, and he sent a Spore Clone to help Rōran’s residents.
• Sara affirmed that Rōran could be rebuilt as long as the Dragon Vein remained, while Liao Wu reflected on its power and possible connection to other time-spaces.