Chapter Summaries

White Fang’s final slash failed to defeat Uzumaki, but Kakashi used Envy to sever the chain sealing Hueco Mundo from the outside world. Uzumaki rushed through the opened Black Moon toward the Ninja World, while Kakashi rallied the battered Allied Shinobi Forces to pursue her.

• White Fang burned through his remaining strength and unleashed two slashes, but Uzumaki survived and healed after losing her head and torso.
• Kakashi used Envy to strike Uzumaki five seconds in the future and severed the Black Chain that sealed off the outside world.
• Uzumaki realized the connection between Hueco Mundo and the Ninja World had opened, then charged into the Black Moon as White Fang lay dead.
• Hashirama Senju warned Kakashi that the danger remained, and Kakashi ordered the Allied Shinobi Forces to treat their injuries and move out on Hashirama’s Wood Dragons.
• At the Grell Ruins, Uchiha Madara and Second Pillar clashed their Perfect Susanoo swords, devastating the ruins and scattering the clouds.

Naruto Uzumaki fought Nagato, Konan, Hanzo, and their modified Summoning Beasts, shrugging off their coordinated attacks. When Human Path Pain touched Naruto with the Soul Absorption Technique, Nagato was pulled into a vision of the Mountain of Corpses, where the seated man warned him again.

• Nagato charged Naruto with his Tachi, but Naruto met his blade with Bone Claws and forced it down until Nagato used Asura Path mechanical arms to counterattack.
• Nagato summoned the modified Yatagarasu, while Konan joined him in the air and attacked Naruto with explosive paper and feathers as the Splitting Dog charged.
• Naruto broke the Splitting Dog's horn with a Bone Armor punch and endured the explosions without injury.
• Naruto crushed Ibuse and tore apart the Splitting Dog, then repelled Hanzo's Kusarigama, Black Rods, and Chameleon's tongue.
• Nagato used Shinra Tensei to slow Naruto, allowing Human Path Pain to touch him with the Soul Absorption Technique.
• The attack sent Nagato into a vision of the Mountain of Corpses, where the seated man told him that returning would bring death.

Nagato encountered the consciousness of Ōtsutsuki Yunshi inside Naruto's soul and collapsed after Yunshi spared him because of the Karma Object blade. Hanzo and Konan escaped with him as Naruto fought Orochimaru, whose body had become a near-indestructible fusion of Chimera Technique and Earth Grudge Fear.

• Nagato entered Naruto's soul and was slashed by the figure he recognized as Ōtsutsuki Yunshi, who spared him after seeing the Karma Object blade.
• Yunshi told Naruto that his techniques alone could not let everyone wield Chakra and urged him to force everyone into a corner with no way out.
• Nagato lost consciousness, and Hanzo and Konan escaped with him through Hanzo's spatial gate before Orochimaru's Black Threads could capture them.
• Naruto attacked Orochimaru, who fought back with transformed limbs, multiple Kekkei Genkai, and Earth Grudge Fear Black Threads.
• Orochimaru revealed that he had discarded his human body and could regenerate from a single remaining Black Thread, then appeared suddenly before Naruto.

Naruto nearly killed Orochimaru after Orochimaru’s soul-touching technique exposed him to a terrifying force within Naruto. Uchiha Madara intervened, and the battle escalated as Orochimaru took control of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path while Naruto’s Hollow Flash clashed with Madara’s Susanoo.

• Orochimaru attacked Naruto with transformed limbs, Storm Release lasers, and Demonic Mirroring Ice Crystals, but Naruto evaded or destroyed his attacks.
• Orochimaru touched Naruto’s soul through an ice mirror and cried out “Mui Reincarnation,” but a mysterious force within Naruto inflicted devastating wounds on Orochimaru’s body and soul.
• Uchiha Madara struck at Naruto with his Perfect Susanoo, interrupting Naruto as he prepared to finish Orochimaru, and Second Pillar attacked Madara in turn.
• Orochimaru recovered through Black Threads, ordered Madara to kill Naruto and Second Pillar, and then poured himself into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Naruto formed a massive fox-shaped bone and chakra construct and fired a huge Hollow Flash at Madara’s Susanoo.
• Madara braced his Susanoo’s blade against the Hollow Flash, while Second Pillar brought his purple Susanoo’s blade down at Madara.

Orochimaru took control of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and the surviving shinobi and Espada gathered for a confrontation. After Orochimaru used the statue to control the Impure World Reincarnations, Madara proposed combining his Susanoo with Hashirama’s Wood Release technique.

• Second Pillar’s Susanoo and Madara’s Susanoo destroyed each other, but Madara regenerated on the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path as it began to move.
• The statue struck back against Second Pillar’s Susanoo, opened five golden eyes, and allowed Orochimaru to take control of its body and use its abilities.
• Minato brought Naruto and the others to the battlefield, while Rock Lee and Might Duy attacked the statue and the surviving Allied Shinobi Forces assembled.
• Yunchuan, Madara, Orochimaru, and the assembled shinobi faced Uzumaki, Kagokage, Sandstorm, and Flame Ape, who held several captured Jinchuriki.
• Orochimaru amplified his control over Impure World Reincarnation through the statue, forcing Hashirama, Tobirama, and Rasa to join him; Madara then asked Hashirama about combining Susanoo with True Several Thousand Hands.

Orochimaru unleashed a storm of lightning against the Allied Shinobi Forces and accused Hyuga Yunchuan of manipulating him, but the shinobi rejected his claims and charged. The battlefield erupted into clashes between the Allied forces and Orochimaru’s side, while Hyuga Yunchuan confronted Orochimaru directly.

• Might Duy asked Rock Lee to kill him, and Rock Lee absorbed him; Naruto likewise absorbed Minato Namikaze before Minato could speak.
• Orochimaru used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to summon a massive hurricane and thunderstorm, while Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju manifested their Susanoo and Wood Man.
• Hyuga Yunchuan returned to the Allied Shinobi Forces, promised to face Orochimaru and the statue, and was joined by Sasuke and Naruto, who volunteered to fight Madara and Hashirama.
• Orochimaru accused Hyuga Yunchuan of supplying him with an Ōtsutsuki body and framing him, but the Allied shinobi dismissed the accusation and charged after Yunchuan ordered them to fight.
• Orochimaru and his forces attacked the Allied shinobi with lightning, Susanoo, Wood Release, water, and gold sand, while Second Pillar and Naruto countered Madara and Hashirama.
• Hyuga Yunchuan met the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path’s punch with a fist formed from his Chakra Beads.

Hyuga Yunchuan overwhelmed Orochimaru, but Orochimaru absorbed the White Snake Sage's remains and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path gathered the chakra of all nine Tailed Beasts. The battlefield faced a new calamity as the transformed Orochimaru confronted Hyuga Yunchuan.

• Hyuga Yunchuan battered the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path until Orochimaru summoned the White Snake Sage's corpse from Hashirama Senju's scroll.
• Orochimaru devoured and absorbed the White Snake Sage's remains while Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara moved to shield him from Hyuga Yunchuan.
• At Shadow's order, Uzumaki sent five captured Jinchuriki toward Orochimaru, while Kagokage used gravity to pin Yamato, Pakura, and the other Allied shinobi.
• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path swallowed Yugito Nii, Kisame Hoshigaki, Blue B, Kinkaku, and Ginkaku, then awakened all nine eyes after gathering chakra from all nine Tailed Beasts.
• Orochimaru emerged covered in white snake scales and laughed at his newfound sage power as the Great Toad Sage watched through the Crystal Ball and wondered whether Hyuga Yunchuan could stop the calamity.

Orochimaru transformed the Demonic Statue into the Ten-Tails, reshaped it with his Black Threads, and unleashed tentacles and Kekkei Genkai-wielding clones against the Allied Shinobi Forces. Sarutobi Hiruzen and Ōnoki realized they had traveled into the future and raced toward the Land of Earth to warn their past selves, while Orochimaru sent the Ten-Tails after Hyuga Yunchuan.

• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path transformed into the Ten-Tails, and Orochimaru drew Natural Energy into it with his Sage Mode.
• Orochimaru used Mui Reincarnation and his Black Threads to reshape the Ten-Tails, giving its tails snake heads and unleashing tentacles that devoured Allied shinobi.
• The tentacles spawned Ten-Tails Clones with varied Kekkei Genkai, and the clones tore through the Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen and Ōnoki realized the scene they had witnessed in the Underground Palace was the future, not a prophecy, and decided to warn their past selves about Danzō.
• Ōnoki cleared a path with Dust Release as Sarutobi Hiruzen rushed toward the Land of Earth, while Orochimaru sent the Ten-Tails' snake-headed tails to attack Hyuga Yunchuan.

As the Ten-Tails’ tentacles attacked coastal settlements, the God Sect evacuated civilians and fought to hold back the destruction. Hidan defended a harbor while the old man and two boys fled inland with a cultist, and the sect’s rescue efforts spread across several nations.

• An old fisherman spotted Sarutobi Hiruzen and hundreds of fleeing ninja racing across the stormy sea, then decided to take his grandsons to the God Sect for protection.
• The Ten-Tails’ tentacles unleashed towering waves on the harbor and pursued the old man and boys as they tried to escape.
• Hidan arrived and cut apart the attacking tentacles, then ordered cultists to hurry the civilian evacuations and take the three survivors inland.
• A black-robed cultist guided the old man and boys away while Hidan stayed behind to fight, complaining about Kabuto’s approach to the sect’s recruits.
• God Sect members evacuated civilians throughout the Land of Wind, Land of Lightning, Land of Water, and Land of Fire as the Ten-Tails’ tentacles attacked populated areas.

Sasuke used his new Eight Thunder Gods techniques to wound Madara’s Perfect Susanoo, but Madara retaliated with Wood Clone Susanoo and devastating sword slashes against the Allied Shinobi Forces. Meanwhile, Hyuga Yunchuan revealed power comparable to Orochimaru’s Ten-Tails and met its supermassive Tailed Beast Ball with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

• Sasuke used Wakaikazuchi, Fuseikazuchi, and Naruikazuchi to repel Madara’s Susanoo, paralyze it, and drive a lightning arrow through it into a mountain.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces trapped Madara’s Susanoo with Earth Style and bombarded it, but Madara recovered and created Wood Clone Susanoo that killed thousands of shinobi.
• Madara’s Susanoo unleashed sweeping sword slashes, forcing Sasuke’s Susanoo to block one as the attacks cut through the battlefield.
• Hyuga Yunchuan appeared opposite Orochimaru with nine cross-shaped swords, having severed the Ten-Tails’ ten snake-headed tails.
• Orochimaru and the Ten-Tails fired a supermassive Tailed Beast Ball as Yunchuan brought down his arm and invoked Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

Hyuga Yunchuan’s attack nearly destroyed the Allied Shinobi Forces, but the Healer sacrificed herself to shield and heal them. Orochimaru rejected Yunchuan’s offer to leave the game, targeted Pakura for her Kekkei Genkai, and revealed that Shimura Danzō from the past was still alive.

• Hyuga Yunchuan split the Ten-Tails’ Tailed Beast Ball, and the Healer transformed its destructive force into healing petals before vanishing as her body broke apart.
• Orochimaru realized Hyuga Yunchuan had guided him since his defection from Konoha, but refused the chance to sever his bond with the Ten-Tails and retreat.
• Orochimaru sent tentacles after Pakura to take her Scorch Release, and she killed Yamato to prevent him from obtaining Wood Release.
• Orochimaru’s Black Threads stopped Pakura from killing herself, and a tentacle pierced and drained her as she watched him show no regret.
• Orochimaru’s tentacles dragged Shimura Danzō from underground, revealing that he was the Danzō from the past.

Orochimaru absorbed Danzo and the Ten-Tails, transforming into the White Snake Sage, who defeated Hyuga Yunchuan with a barrage of attacks. As Yunchuan fell toward the Land of Hot Water, he left the White Snake Sage to face two approaching fighters and prepared for the arrival of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and his reinforcements.

• Orochimaru devoured Danzo and fused the stolen powers within himself, then absorbed the Ten-Tails into a black cocoon.
• The Fourth Raikage, Ōnoki, and the Allied Shinobi Forces attacked the cocoon, but it absorbed their techniques and Chakra before hatching.
• Orochimaru emerged as the White Snake Sage, with a serpent tail, mismatched Byakugan and Sharingan, and nine Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• The White Snake Sage explained that Hyuga Yunchuan had driven Orochimaru to swallow him, letting him seize Orochimaru's body, then attacked Yunchuan with Storm Release lasers and a Truth-Seeking Orb.
• The explosion blasted Yunchuan toward the Land of Hot Water as he watched two green figures rush toward the White Snake Sage and planned for Ōtsutsuki Isshiki's return.

Orochimaru woke in a warm family home, briefly wondered about a fading dream, and found comfort in the ordinary morning around him. He left with Tsunade and Jiraiya, carrying his mother’s lunch and heading toward a day with his friends.

• Orochimaru woke early, greeted his parents, and watched the peaceful morning from the window as the last traces of a strange dream faded.
• Orochimaru ate breakfast with his parents, received a packed lunch from his mother, and listened to her reminders before leaving.
• Tsunade and Jiraiya arrived to meet Orochimaru, and Jiraiya urged the group to hurry so they could visit a dango shop.
• Orochimaru walked down the stairs with Tsunade and Jiraiya, taking comfort in the vivid, ordinary details of their morning together.

Orochimaru amazed Tsunade and Jiraiya by performing a C-rank Wind Release technique, then joined them on an outing to catch fish. At the river, his reflection turned furious and reached through the water to seize his wrist.

• Orochimaru performed Wind Release: Great Breakthrough, startling Tsunade and Jiraiya with his skill.
• Jiraiya, hungry and without lunch, persuaded Orochimaru and Tsunade to go catch fish at the lower Naka River instead of buying food.
• Orochimaru noticed a strange figure in a green jumpsuit disappear into an alley, but followed Jiraiya and Tsunade toward the woods.
• Jiraiya slipped into the river while trying to catch a fish and splashed Tsunade, who angrily confronted him.
• Orochimaru studied his reflection in the water, then watched it turn furious and reach out to grab his wrist.

Orochimaru realized the peaceful life he had experienced was a false world woven from his deepest desires and memories, but he could not break free by destroying it. After the illusion showed him killing his parents, he condemned the White Snake Sage and cut his own throat, leaving his fate uncertain.

• A reflection dragged Orochimaru underwater and urged him to wake up, reminding him that his real desires were knowledge, power, and eternity.
• Orochimaru emerged from the river, attacked Tsunade and Jiraiya, and then killed Sarutobi Hiruzen and several Anbu with Wind Blades when he could not dispel the Genjutsu.
• Orochimaru unleashed a hurricane through Konoha, destroying the village and killing his father as his mother watched in horror.
• Orochimaru realized the world was a cage built from his own memories and desires, and he suspected the White Snake Sage had trapped him.
• Orochimaru threatened to kill the White Snake Sage, gathered his remaining Chakra into a blade, and cut his own throat.

The White Snake Sage overwhelmed the Allied Shinobi Forces with Truth-Seeking Orb lasers and Mangekyō Sharingan mind control, while Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke attacked him without success. As Might Guy, Rock Lee, the Fourth Raikage, and Minato Namikaze prepared to fight, Minato entered Sage Mode.

• The White Snake Sage blasted Hyuga Yunchuan away, then carved ravines through the battlefield with Truth-Seeking Orb lasers as Hinata Hyuga pulled Hyuga Aoi out of danger.
• Naruto Uzumaki fired a Hollow Flash and Sasuke launched a lightning arrow, but Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara intercepted the attacks before they reached the White Snake Sage.
• The White Snake Sage used his Mangekyō Sharingan to make Allied shinobi attack their comrades, while his Truth-Seeking Orb shields nullified Ōnoki's Dust Release.
• The Fourth Raikage rescued Ōnoki from a controlled shinobi's fireball, and Ōnoki concluded that taijutsu or Sage Mode might be their best chance.
• Might Guy and Rock Lee opened the Seventh Gate, and the Fourth Raikage prepared to join them in attacking the White Snake Sage.
• Minato Namikaze arrived, explained that Naruto had freed him from Orochimaru's control, and entered Sage Mode.

Minato Namikaze, Might Guy, Rock Lee, and the Fourth Raikage attacked the White Snake Sage while Ōnoki warned them about her Truth-Seeking Orbs. After the White Snake Sage unleashed devastating attacks, Guy and Lee launched a coordinated assault, ending with Lee striking from above with the Daytime Tiger.

• Ōnoki warned Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Raikage, Might Guy, and Rock Lee that the White Snake Sage's nine Truth-Seeking Orbs could wield powerful chakra transformations.
• Minato, Guy, and Lee evaded the White Snake Sage's sweeping laser net as Ōnoki raised a rock wall to help Lee escape the tightening beams.
• The White Snake Sage fired Scorched Earth of Truth-Seeking at Guy and Lee, while Minato used Flying Thunder God to attack her from multiple directions.
• The White Snake Sage triggered an Explosion Release blast that destroyed Minato's marked Kunai and vaporized nearby Allied Shinobi Forces.
• Might Guy struck the White Snake Sage's Truth-Seeking Orb shield with Evening Elephant after the Fourth Raikage launched him toward her.
• The Fourth Raikage hurled Rock Lee above the White Snake Sage, and Lee unleashed the Daytime Tiger from overhead.

Minato Namikaze, Might Guy, Rock Lee, and the Fourth Raikage coordinated their attacks against the White Snake Sage. Might Guy landed his Fifth Leg and smashed the Sage into the ground, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain beneath the dust.

• Minato Namikaze, Might Guy, and Rock Lee struck the White Snake Sage from three directions, but the Sage survived behind a Truth-Seeking Orb shield and cut Rock Lee in half with a laser.
• Rock Lee insisted that he could survive and attacked the White Snake Sage with an Evening Elephant despite being severed, while Might Guy opened the Gate of Death again.
• Might Guy’s First through Fourth Feet shattered the Sage’s defenses and badly injured him as Rock Lee’s attack pinned him from behind.
• Minato Namikaze brought the Fourth Raikage to contain the Sage’s exploding Truth-Seeking Orbs inside a Lightning Giant.
• Might Guy unleashed his Fifth Leg, crushed the White Snake Sage into the ground, and triggered a shockwave that cracked the nearby mountain.

Might Guy’s Fifth Leg left Orochimaru’s White Snake Sage body gravely damaged, but Orochimaru tore free and revealed a reborn form he called the perfect Dragon. As Orochimaru prepared to reshape the world and challenged Guy to use his full strength, Guy gathered himself for one final attack.

• The Fourth Raikage survived the blast but was too badly injured to fight, while Minato found Rock Lee cut in half and struggling to live.
• Ōnoki urged Might Guy to keep attacking, but Guy’s body was too damaged to rise or strike again.
• The White Snake Sage’s body began regenerating as she and Orochimaru fought for control, and Orochimaru crawled out through her mouth.
• Ōnoki attacked the emerging Orochimaru with Dust Release, but Orochimaru erased the beam with a Truth-Seeking Orb.
• Orochimaru fully emerged in a new form, declared himself the one and only Dragon, and challenged Guy to unleash his full strength.
• Might Guy rejected his doubts, stepped toward Orochimaru, and roared, “Gather!!”

Might Guy unleashed his final attack against Orochimaru as Orochimaru swept the battlefield with a deadly Wood Release. Minato and Ōnoki helped Guy reach him, and Night Guy smashed through Orochimaru’s defenses and drove him through a giant tree, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Orochimaru created a vast black forest infused with Magnet Release and Steel Release, forcing the Allied Shinobi Forces to flee.
• Uzumaki and the other Espada judged Orochimaru to have reached the Six Paths level, while Kagokage recalled Shadow calling Orochimaru the ideal subject for an experiment.
• Might Guy charged toward Orochimaru in his burning final state, and Ōnoki spent his remaining Chakra to blast a path through the forest.
• Orochimaru fired a compressed Scorch Release attack, but Minato redirected it with Flying Thunder God and sacrificed himself to protect Guy.
• Might Guy struck Orochimaru with Night Guy, breaking the Six Paths Khakkhara and Orochimaru’s defenses before driving him through a massive black tree.