Chapter Summaries

Chen rescued the badly injured Xiaonan and learned that Nagato and Yahiko were dead, while Obito had taken Nagato’s body and was preparing to activate the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Xiaonan asked Chen to help her get revenge, and he challenged her offer by asking whether she would pay with herself.

• Chen treated Xiaonan after finding her unconscious, and she woke up wary of him.
• Xiaonan told Chen that the Tsuchikage had killed Nagato during the mission to retrieve the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails, and that Obito had later taken Nagato’s body and wounded her.
• Chen revealed that the man posing as Madara was Uchiha Obito, Madara’s chosen successor, and warned Xiaonan that she was too weak to take revenge.
• Chen explained that Obito could activate the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path using a substitute for the missing Tailed Beasts, leaving Xiaonan to realize Nagato’s attack had been futile.
• As Chen prepared to leave, Xiaonan asked him to help her get revenge and promised to pay any price.
• Chen lifted Xiaonan’s chin and asked whether she would pay with herself.

Chen teased Konan by demanding her body as payment for revenge, then prepared to meet the Akatsuki pursuers who had come to take her back. Deidara mistook Chen for Sasuke, but Sasori identified him as Uchiha Chen, and the confrontation was about to begin.

• Chen asked Konan what she would do if he wanted her, then challenged her to offer something besides her body in exchange for revenge.
• Konan refused to use her body as payment and watched Chen walk toward the door without calling him back.
• Deidara and Sasori arrived to bring Konan back to the Akatsuki Organization, arguing over their strength and their ideas about art.
• Chen sensed the pursuers and invited Konan to see who had come before opening the door.
• Deidara recognized Chen as Sasuke and demanded a chance to settle their old grudge, but Sasori stopped him and identified Chen as Uchiha Chen.

Uchiha Chen confronted Sasori and Deidara, who had come to capture Konan, while Konan remained trapped inside his wooden house. After Sasori said they were not there for Chen, Chen attacked Deidara for trying to enter his territory without permission.

• Sasori recognized Uchiha Chen and said he wanted to turn Chen's body into a puppet.
• Deidara urged Sasori to demand Konan and threatened Chen with his explosive art.
• Sasori stopped Deidara and said Chen was not their target, confirming to Konan that they had come to capture her.
• Konan realized she could not escape Chen's wooden house and watched him helplessly.
• Chen warned the pair that the wooden house was his territory, then appeared before Deidara and thrust his hand through Deidara's chest.

Chen used natural Chakra and black lightning to destroy Deidara’s body and soul, leaving Sasori and Konan shaken by his strength. Konan began to see Chen as a possible ally in her quest for revenge, while Sasori braced for what Chen might do next.

• Chen revealed that he had fought Deidara using only physical strength before channeling Lightning Release Chakra into Deidara’s chest.
• Sasori sent Hirling’s tail needle at Chen, but Chen used Amaterasu to burn the puppet and force Sasori to abandon it.
• Chen gathered natural Chakra and unleashed Sage Art: Black Prison Thousand Kills, destroying Deidara’s body and soul.
• Konan reconsidered Chen’s strength and resolved to seek revenge, while Sasori realized he was no match for Chen and feared becoming his next target.

Sasori attacked Chen with his Human Puppets and the Third Kazekage puppet, but Chen destroyed nearly all of the puppets with Sage Art: Hell. Sasori then unleashed a poisoned Iron Sand attack, leaving Chen facing a storm of sharp shards.

• Sasori admitted he resented being controlled by Impure World Reincarnation and released his 296 Human Puppets to fight Chen.
• Chen let Sasori’s puppets attack, then used Sage Art: Hell to destroy all but a few of them.
• Sasori brought out his greatest creation, the Third Kazekage puppet, and attacked Chen with poisoned Iron Sand.
• Sasori watched the Iron Sand storm rush toward Chen, expecting it to pierce him.

Sasori used the Third Kazekage’s Iron Sand to attack Chen, escalating to a massive barrage that buried him deep underground. Sasori believed he had killed Chen and mocked him for being arrogant.

• Sasori’s Iron Sand Needles struck an invisible shield around Chen and bounced away.
• Sasori grew enraged at Chen’s taunts and used Iron Sand to encase him in a sphere.
• Sasori smashed the Iron Sand sphere around Chen into a second sphere, causing a violent collision and explosion.
• Sasori reshaped the scattered Iron Sand into needles and unleashed another barrage at Chen.
• Sasori used Iron Sand Funeral to bury Chen beneath a mass of Iron Sand, then declared him dead.

Chen overwhelmed Sasori, evaded his attacks, and prepared to finish him with a powerful fire technique. Sasori recognized that his pride had driven him to keep fighting, while Chen’s fire dragons rose into the sky and left his next move unclear.

• Chen judged that Sasori’s pride and overconfidence had kept him from fighting effectively against Chiyo and Sakura.
• Chen revealed that Sasori had not trapped him and warned that he would kill him again.
• Sasori dodged as Chen’s Amaterasu flames erupted where he had been standing, then demanded to know how Chen had evaded his detection.
• Sasori realized that he had kept fighting because he could not accept that Chen was a greater genius than he was.
• Chen rose into the air and used Fire Release: Dragon Flame Song Technique, sending several fire dragons into the sky instead of toward Sasori.

Chen unleashed his black Lightning Release Ink Prison Kirin and annihilated Sasori, leaving a massive crater. He warned Konan to flee the blast, then walked away as she struggled with whether to accept his offer of revenge.

• Sasori grew wary of Chen but stayed in place as Chen’s fire dragons exploded and drew clouds into a storm.
• Chen infused the storm with compressed Lightning Release Chakra and formed a gigantic black kirin in the clouds.
• Chen sent the black kirin plunging into Sasori, annihilating him and blasting a vast crater into the earth.
• Chen warned the approaching Konan to run, and she saw the destruction and marveled at his power.
• Konan wrestled with whether to accept Chen’s offer of revenge, while Chen turned away and left without answering her.

Xiaonan struggled to choose a path after Chen left, then decided to seek him out and accept his condition in exchange for help taking revenge. Chen revealed that his demand had only been a joke, leaving Xiaonan humiliated and stunned.

• Xiaonan reflected on Yahiko and Nagato's deaths and resolved to pursue revenge, with Chen as her only hope.
• Xiaonan stood up and vowed to find Uchiha Chen, even if she had to seek revenge herself.
• Chen reappeared beside Xiaonan and teased her about wanting him to stay.
• Xiaonan agreed to Chen's condition and shouted that she would even give him her body if he helped her get revenge.
• Chen admitted he had only been joking, and Xiaonan stiffened in humiliation.

Chen refused to help Konan take revenge on the Akatsuki Organization, leaving her devastated after she had believed he was her only hope. He planned to let the Akatsuki’s hidden figures emerge while he dealt with dangers in the Naruto World on his own terms.

• Chen confirmed that he would not go after the Akatsuki Organization because he needed it to draw out the people behind it.
• Konan realized Chen would not help her confront the Akatsuki Organization and the Five Great Shinobi Villages, and she staggered from the shock.
• Konan clutched Chen’s clothes and pleaded with him, but Chen told her to let go and pushed her away with a surge of air.
• Konan vomited blood and collapsed, overwhelmed by despair, while Chen acknowledged that his teasing had contributed to her condition.
• Chen decided to let the Akatsuki Organization make its moves while he used his strength to eliminate hidden dangers in the Naruto World.

Konan tried to kill herself after Chen refused to help her seek revenge, but Chen stopped her and treated her wound. After hearing Nagato’s final instructions and recognizing Konan’s despair, Chen promised to avenge her.

• Konan stabbed herself, but Chen grabbed her wrist, stopped her, and healed her wound with Wood Release chakra.
• Chen challenged Konan’s fixation on revenge, and she revealed that Nagato had told her to leave the Akatsuki Organization and beware Uchiha Obito.
• Konan explained that Nagato had wanted her to hide until the Ninja World War ended and then live.
• Chen reminded Konan of Nagato’s hopes for her and offered to help her get revenge without asking for anything in return.
• Chen declared that he would avenge Konan, leaving her surprised.

Chen helped Konan recover from her injuries with pills, then brought her into the crater to search for an Elemental Origin. The system revealed that his enhanced Lightning Release had accidentally caused a nascent Elemental Origin to form deep below.

• Chen gave Konan two pills that restored her Chakra and healed her internal injuries.
• After Konan recovered, Chen lent her a robe and told her to follow him into the crater.
• Chen asked the system whether an Elemental Origin lay beneath the crater, and it located one about eight hundred meters down.
• The system explained that Chen's concentrated Lightning Release had accelerated the formation of an Elemental Origin that had been unable to form amid the area's balanced elemental affinities.

Chen discovered that his Kirin strike had accidentally formed a lightning-attributed Elemental Origin, a dangerous and valuable concentration of pure energy. After Konan was tempted by it and nearly harmed, Chen learned that the system could absorb it for Points or help him use it to forge a divine weapon, but he still hesitated to approach its barrier.

• Chen learned from the system that Elemental Origin was rare, dangerous, and had formed only because an embryonic one already existed.
• Konan descended into the crater, became captivated by the Elemental Origin, and started walking toward it as if under its influence.
• Chen called out to Konan, breaking her trance; she spat blood, and Chen demonstrated the Elemental Origin's danger by throwing a kunai that was reduced to ashes.
• Konan backed away from the Elemental Origin and inferred that Chen was a powerful genjutsu expert because he had resisted its temptation.
• Chen asked the system about collecting the Elemental Origin and learned it could be converted into Points, fused into his personal space, or used to forge a powerful weapon.
• Chen decided that capturing the Elemental Origin would require care and did not dare enter its barrier.

Chen transformed into Six Paths mode and entered the Elemental Origin’s lightning field, enduring its accumulating effects as he approached. When the treasure tried to repel him, Chen countered with a powerful Shinra Tensei.

• Chen revealed his Rinnegan and Six Paths form to Konan, who recognized the eyes and wondered how he had obtained them.
• Chen warned Konan to stay back, then encased himself in Susanoo and entered the Elemental Origin’s lightning field.
• Chen pushed through the lightning’s numbing effects and advanced toward the Elemental Origin while the system reminded him of the danger.
• The Elemental Origin unleashed lightning and repulsive force to drive Chen away, but Susanoo protected him from the assault.
• Chen used Shinra Tensei to release a repulsive force stronger than Nagato’s.

Xiaonan was nearly killed by the Elemental Origin’s lightning and gale, but Chen shielded her and sent her to safety. As the Elemental Origin gathered power for another attack, Chen healed his injuries and prepared to fight with a Rinnegan Six Paths Clone.

• Xiaonan’s Paper Rashomon defenses were shredded by the Elemental Origin’s lightning and gale, leaving her convinced she was about to die.
• Xiaonan closed her eyes and thought of Nagato, Yahiko, and the revenge she had yet to take.
• Chen shielded Xiaonan from the blast, then sent her flying to safety and ordered a Wood Clone to protect her.
• Chen turned back to the Elemental Origin as it gathered energy for another burst, while his injuries and Susanoo healed with Ten-Tails Chakra.
• Chen created a temporary Rinnegan Six Paths Clone using his Wood Clone, with his real body and Susanoo serving as the Outer Path.

Chen sealed the Elemental Origin after absorbing its Lightning Chakra and considered using it to craft a weapon rather than exchanging it for Points. He put the stone away and told Konan they should leave.

• Chen and six Wood Clones gathered the seven elemental Chakra sources and drew the Elemental Origin's Lightning Chakra into them.
• Chen and his clones trapped the Elemental Origin with the Six Paths Samsara Sealing Technique.
• Chen left Six Paths Mode, drank Pulse, and picked up the sealed Elemental Origin, which the system said had taken on a Kirin shape.
• Chen declined to exchange the Elemental Origin for ten million Points and instructed the system to find materials for crafting a weapon.
• Chen put away the Elemental Origin, told Konan they should go, and Konan asked if he was all right.

Chen sent Konan to his system space and checked the information from his Wood Clones, learning that Naruto had already left the island. Elsewhere, Naruto and Killer B faced the reanimated Itachi, who asked Naruto where Sasuke and Chen were.

• Konan chose to accompany Chen, and he sent her into his system space while he handled other business.
• Chen connected to his Wood Clones’ shared memories and learned that Naruto had left the island.
• Chen vanished from the crater, amused at the prospect of what was about to happen.
• Naruto and Killer B confronted Itachi and another shinobi revived with Impure World Reincarnation.
• Itachi asked Naruto where Sasuke and Chen were, and Naruto struggled to control his anger before declaring that he would bring them back to the village.

Naruto and Itachi discussed Naruto’s determination to bring Sasuke and Chen back to Konoha before Itachi’s Impure World Reincarnation forced him to attack. As Naruto and Killer B fought Itachi and Kisame, a mysterious voice interrupted them.

• Kisame admitted he held no grudge against Chen for killing him, though he wished Chen had fought him at full strength.
• Itachi’s Impure World Reincarnation body attacked Naruto and Killer B, and Itachi warned them that he could not control himself.
• Naruto attacked Itachi with a Rasengan, but Itachi turned into crows and asked how Naruto truly felt about Sasuke and Chen.
• Naruto said Sasuke was his comrade and Chen was his first friend, and he vowed to bring them both back to Konoha.
• Itachi warned Naruto to avoid his eyes, then attacked with the Phoenix Sage Fire Technique; Naruto blocked it without looking at his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• A mysterious voice appeared and startled Naruto, Killer B, Itachi, and Kisame.

Uchiha Chen appeared before Naruto and Killer B, and Naruto mistook him for Sasuke before recognizing him and attacking. Chen trapped Naruto and drew the Flowing Light Starfall Blade to cut through Naruto’s chakra hands, leaving Naruto facing the blade’s ominous power.

• Naruto and Killer B cautiously watched a spatial ripple appear, and Naruto initially believed Sasuke was emerging from it.
• Uchiha Chen stepped out of the ripple, and Naruto recognized him and prepared to fight.
• Naruto summoned Nine-Tails Chakra hands and charged at Chen, demanding that he return to the village and apologize.
• Killer B warned Naruto that Chen’s stillness was a trap, but Chen caught Naruto with an outstretched hand.
• Chen revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, summoned the Flowing Light Starfall Blade, and swung it at Naruto’s chakra hands.
• Naruto’s instincts warned him that the ominous blade must not touch him.

Chen used the Flowing Light Starfall Blade to overwhelm Naruto, whose Nine-Tails Chakra hands blocked the initial strike but let the blade’s ghostly aura invade him. Chen left Naruto alive because he planned to use him to draw out Namikaze Minato.

• Naruto blocked Chen’s sword strike with two additional hands made of Nine-Tails Chakra.
• Chen’s ghostly aura spread through Naruto’s Chakra and began draining his strength and life force.
• The Nine-Tails cut off its Chakra supply to protect itself, causing Naruto to lose Nine-Tails Mode and fall unconscious.
• Chen stopped draining Naruto and said he needed him alive to draw out Namikaze Minato.
• Chen suspected Orochimaru might still be alive and believed Namikaze Minato would appear despite history’s disruption.