Chapter Summaries

Nagato made a bargain that cost him everything and became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, gaining complete control of his Rinnegan and the God Tree’s power. As Ōtsutsuki Isshiki attacked him, Naruto Uzumaki and another ally intervened, but Isshiki blocked the attack aimed at his neck.

• Nagato accepted the voice’s bargain, offering his eyes, life, soul, and everything in exchange for power.
• Nagato regained his missing Rinnegan, connected to the God Tree, and absorbed it as he transformed into the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki attacked Nagato, who blocked the strike with a Six Paths Staff but was driven backward.
• Ōtsutsuki summoned falling Daikokuten cubes, and a lightning-cloaked figure kicked one aside.
• A white-cloaked figure attacked Ōtsutsuki from behind with a Wooden Sword, but Black Rods blocked the slash; Ōtsutsuki recognized Naruto Uzumaki beneath a mask.

Second Pillar, Nagato, and Naruto attacked Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, who evaded them and summoned a storm of Black Rods. Meanwhile, a weakened Orochimaru resisted the White Snake Sage’s genjutsu and reached the Underground Palace, where Jiraiya and Tsunade appeared to confront him.

• Second Pillar joined Nagato and Naruto in attacking Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, but Isshiki shrank away and reappeared above them.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki summoned countless Black Rods and sent them raining down on Nagato, Naruto, and Second Pillar.
• Orochimaru resisted the White Snake Sage’s genjutsu by repeatedly killing himself within its illusion, despite his failing body and wounded soul.
• Orochimaru continued toward the Underground Palace, determined to reach the thing inside it.
• Orochimaru found Jiraiya and Tsunade standing by the enormous stone door and asked if they had come to stop him.

Jiraiya and Tsunade confronted Orochimaru, but his split body fought them while his ruined main body reached the Underground Palace’s fourth level. There, Orochimaru recognized the figure waiting at the stone door as Hyuga Yunchuan—or perhaps Ōtsutsuki Yunshi.

• Orochimaru accused Jiraiya and Tsunade of fleeing reality and declared that only death could make him stop pursuing his goals.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade prepared to fight Orochimaru, with Tsunade activating her Yin Seal.
• Jiraiya clashed with Orochimaru’s snake sword while Tsunade struck the body, which Orochimaru’s split soul had been controlling.
• Orochimaru’s broken main body emerged elsewhere in the Underground Palace after splitting off part of his soul to delay Jiraiya and Tsunade.
• Orochimaru collapsed before the fourth-level stone door and addressed the waiting figure as Hyuga Yunchuan, then Ōtsutsuki Yunshi.

Hyuga Yunchuan revealed to Orochimaru how he had manipulated his choices and experiments to make him evolve into the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki. He explained that Orochimaru, Naruto Uzumaki, and Hyuga Neji were his creations, each testing a different path toward uniting past, present, and future.

• Hyuga Yunchuan listed how he had lured Orochimaru with the Ōtsutsuki corpse and scroll, guided his research, opened the Hueco Mundo passage, and pushed him toward greater power.
• Hyuga Yunchuan admitted that he had arranged for Sarutobi Hiruzen to discover Orochimaru's forbidden experiments, causing Orochimaru to leave Konoha and work more freely.
• Orochimaru realized that Hyuga Yunchuan had steered the major choices of his life and demanded to know why.
• Hyuga Yunchuan said Naruto Uzumaki and Hyuga Neji were also his creations, whose lives had verified different ways to combine and control power, Vessel, and soul.
• Hyuga Yunchuan revealed that his eyes could see the future and interfere with the past, and that Orochimaru's future transformation into the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki had become fixed.
• Hyuga Yunchuan explained that Orochimaru had verified the final link: joining past, present, and future into a fate like a serpent consuming its own tail.

Ōtsutsuki Yunshi watched the centuries of Kaguya’s rise, the birth and sealing of her sons, and the unraveling of Hagoromo’s peace. As Hagoromo died and his soul entered another dimension, Yunshi finally acted, invoking the Eighteen Prison Realms.

• Kaguya merged with the God Tree, conquered humanity, and became worshipped as the Rabbit Goddess.
• Kaguya used gathered spiritual energy to conceive Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo and Ōtsutsuki Hamura, while Yunshi planted a revelation in Gamamaru’s dream.
• Hagoromo and Hamura discovered Kaguya turning humans into White Zetsu and sealed her after a prolonged battle, fulfilling the first condition for Kawashiki’s resurrection.
• Hagoromo founded the Ninja Sect and distributed Chakra, but Indra and Asura’s conflict and Black Zetsu’s interference fractured his ideals.
• After Hagoromo died, Yunshi watched his soul enter another dimension and invoked the Eighteen Prison Realms.

After his death, Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo recognized that his ideals had failed to resolve the Ninja Sect’s growing interest in power and created the Pure Land to preserve souls as a future defense. As the new realm began drawing in souls, a mysterious black rift appeared and started eroding it.

• Hagoromo died in his sickbed while Asura and his family mourned him.
• Hagoromo’s soul observed the Ninja Sect and realized that people were secretly pursuing Indra’s ninjutsu after his death.
• Hagoromo reflected on his failure to reconcile Indra’s pursuit of power with Asura’s path of connection and cooperation.
• Hagoromo entered an empty dimension and used Amenonuhoko, Yin Power, and Yang Power to create the Pure Land.
• The Pure Land began drawing in ordinary souls, but a black rift appeared in its sky and started eroding the realm and Hagoromo’s control over it.

A black fissure began contaminating the Newborn Pure Land, and Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo discovered that it connected to a hostile space called Avīci. When Hagoromo traced the space upward, a huge eye noticed his perception and sent black mist toward him.

• Black liquid dripped from the fissure onto a soul, transforming it into a monstrous black creature with a Pale Bone Mask.
• Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo destroyed the creature with a Truth-Seeking Orb, but its black mist further eroded the Pure Land.
• Hagoromo used Yin and Yang powers to seal the expanding fissure, then realized he had to maintain the seal continuously.
• Hagoromo extended his perception through the crack and found a dark space containing a stone tablet marked Avīci.
• Hagoromo sensed that Avīci was the lowest layer of a constructed multilayered space and tried to reach the layers above it.
• A huge eye opened in Avīci, and black mist surged toward Hagoromo’s perception as he realized its owner meant to turn him into a monster.

Ōtsutsuki Yunshi trapped Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo in the Pure Land by forcing him to maintain the seal against Avīci’s erosion. He then went to Otsutsuki Shibai’s coffin and raised an ordinary sword to strike the godlike being.

• Ōtsutsuki Yunshi watched Avīci invade the Pure Land and forced Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo to seal the rift and devote most of his strength to resisting its corrosion.
• Yunshi decided to prevent Hagoromo from interfering with the future and declared that he would impose his own will on the world.
• Yunshi recalled eating ramen beside Naruto Uzumaki and reflected that his earlier promise to act was still an expression of his own will.
• Yunshi traveled from the fifth level of the Underground Palace to the fourth and found Otsutsuki Shibai lying in a coffin-like cube.
• Yunshi drew an ordinary sword and slashed it down at Otsutsuki Shibai.

Yunshi discovered that Shibai’s passive Reflection returned every attack against him, so he could not harm the remains. He began forging seven Zanpakuto from his own body and soul, accepting that the process weakened him as he prepared to challenge Shibai.

• Yunshi’s attack rebounded through Shibai’s Reflection, severing Yunshi’s left arm, and he realized the God Technique operated without Shibai’s awareness or consent.
• Yunshi regenerated the severed limb with blood, then repeatedly attacked Shibai and had his legs and arms severed by Reflection until his sword shattered.
• Yunshi vowed to keep trying until he killed Shibai or died in the Underground Palace, then used golden flames and precious materials to begin forging weapons from his severed limbs.
• Yunshi added his kidney, stomach, and heart to the forge, revealing that he intended to create seven Zanpakuto from his own flesh and soul rather than use Shibai’s remains.
• Yunshi recognized that forging the blades would divide his power and that the shortcut of consuming Chakra Fruits would lead to Shibai, who already stood at the end of that path.

Yunshi forged the Seven Deadly Sins weapons and created Shadow as Espada No. 0, then used a water mirror to trace his past and discovered his original self in another world. The chapter ended as a crimson blaze engulfed that young man.

• Yunshi sent the seven Seven Deadly Sins weapons and six Zanpakuto, along with the reassembled Rusty Sword, toward the First Layer of the Underground Palace.
• Yunshi created Shadow from the darkest two-tenths of his soul, named it Espada No. 0, and sent it to wait in Hueco Mundo.
• Yunshi opened a water mirror to observe his past and realized that seeing himself at the Memorial Stone was not the first moment he had arrived in the world.
• Yunshi traced a spatial fluctuation at Hyuga Yunchuan's birth and saw his original self standing before a bathroom mirror in another world.
• Yunshi recognized his original self across the mirror, and a scorching crimson blaze suddenly engulfed the young man.

Ōtsutsuki Yunshi created a prototype of God Technique: Omnipotence in the form of the Hogyoku and sent it through time and space to the young Hyuga Yunchuan, completing the cycle that had created the system. After exhausting his power and soul, Yunshi understood death as rebirth and died in the Underground Palace.

• Ōtsutsuki Yunshi used the last fifty percent of his power and soul to create a blue-black Hogyoku, a prototype of God Technique: Omnipotence.
• Yunshi revealed that the system had been a disguise for his own power, created to guide his younger self toward becoming the person who would make it.
• Yunshi sent the Hogyoku through the water mirror and across time and space to Hyuga Yunchuan as he was about to be consumed by flames.
• Yunshi realized that the system formed a self-fulfilling cycle linking his past and future selves.
• As death approached, Yunshi understood that death meant rebirth and identified the Rinnegan as the true form of his power.
• Yunshi closed his eyes, and the Underground Palace fell silent and dark.

Hyuga Yunchuan explained why he had chosen Orochimaru, then defeated Orochimaru’s desperate counterattack and used Mui Reincarnation to compress him and Snake Princess into a sphere. He left with the sphere, intending to fulfill a promise he had made to a brat.

• Hyuga Yunchuan told Orochimaru that they were alike and said he was sad that Orochimaru’s story was ending.
• Orochimaru used Mui Transformation to reshape the Underground Palace and attack Hyuga Yunchuan with stone spikes.
• Hyuga Yunchuan shattered the spikes with his chakra, and Orochimaru lunged through the dust to touch his throat.
• Hyuga Yunchuan clasped Orochimaru’s hand, nullified Mui Transformation, and told him that his mistake was believing he had become perfect.
• Hyuga Yunchuan used Mui Reincarnation to compress Orochimaru, including his soul, chakra, and memories, into a dark sphere.
• Hyuga Yunchuan examined the sphere formed from Orochimaru and Snake Princess and said it would help him fulfill a promise to a brat.

Naruto, Nagato, and Sasuke used their living weapons to pierce Isshiki and force him to reveal his true form, but he quickly overwhelmed them. When the Underground Palace rose and Isshiki sensed Shibai’s power within it, he abandoned the fight and raced toward the palace.

• Naruto held back Isshiki’s Daikokuten cubes while Nagato deflected the Black Rods and Sasuke unleashed lightning arrows.
• Naruto fired a Hollow Flash, and Sasuke hurled the living Silver Spear at Isshiki while using Tsuchiikazuchi to paralyze him.
• The Silver Spear pierced Isshiki and split his body at the waist, but Isshiki survived and transformed into his true form.
• Isshiki destroyed Sasuke’s Susanoo with a kick, then pinned Nagato and Naruto with Black Rods.
• The Underground Palace rose from beneath the earth, and Isshiki sensed Shibai’s power within it and rushed toward the palace.

Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju used the Wisdom King Colossus to fight Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki’s Ape Rock, overwhelming it with a barrage of Susanoo-armored arms. The Colossus dodged Ape Rock’s counterattack and split it in two with a sword strike.

• Ape Rock shattered the Wisdom King Colossus’s first two fists, but Madara answered with more than a thousand Susanoo-armored arms that battered it and broke through its defense.
• Madara recalled his repeated defeats by Hashirama and relished watching Ape Rock struggle beneath the many-handed assault.
• Momoshiki made Ape Rock smash the ground, sending stone spikes toward the Colossus, but Hashirama stomped them apart as the barrage continued.
• Ape Rock formed crystallized armor and blasted away the fists pressing down on it, then swung at the Colossus’s head.
• The Wisdom King Colossus ducked the punch and cut upward with its black sword, splitting Ape Rock from crotch to head.

Uchiha Madara and Hashirama Senju overwhelmed Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki, but the Underground Palace emerged from beneath the battlefield and drew the surviving Ōtsutsuki toward it. After learning that Hyuga Yunchuan and others had been injured and fled inside, Hyuga Aoi rushed after them as Hatake Kakashi led the Allied Shinobi Forces in pursuit.

• Uchiha Madara battered Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki with the Wisdom King Colossus while Hashirama Senju warned that Momoshiki's chakra remained.
• A massive ancient Underground Palace rose from the ground, drawing the attention of the battlefield's survivors.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and the battered Ōtsutsuki Urashiki fled toward the palace as Kawashiki watched Urashiki retreat.
• Hatake Kakashi's arriving Allied Shinobi Forces learned that the Ōtsutsuki had injured Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Hyuga Yunchuan, who had escaped into the palace.
• Hyuga Aoi charged into the Underground Palace, and Hatake Kakashi ordered the Allied Shinobi Forces to advance after her.

Tsunade and Jiraiya defeated Orochimaru's split body in the Underground Palace, with Jiraiya reversing time to set up Tsunade's final blow. When tremors revealed that Yunchuan had opened the Fourth Layer, two Ōtsutsuki rushed toward it ahead of them.

• Tsunade attacked the White Snake Sage, but Jiraiya used Reverse Fate: Sloth to rewind the fight and restore the rubble to its earlier paths.
• Tsunade struck Orochimaru's split body with the rubble, then finished him with a powerful punch that crushed his head.
• Tsunade looked toward Jiraiya after confirming Orochimaru had died, but tremors from the Fourth Layer interrupted them.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade realized Yunchuan had opened the Fourth Layer and hesitated over whether to enter or seek support.
• Two Ōtsutsuki sped past Jiraiya and Tsunade toward the Fourth Layer.

Hyuga Aoi and Kakashi reached Jiraiya and Tsunade as the shinobi forces pursued the two Ōtsutsuki into the Underground Palace. In the Fourth Layer, Urashiki attacked Hyuga Yunchuan beside Shibai’s chained coffin, and Yunchuan drew Seven Deadly Sins: Pride as the world twisted around them.

• Tsunade stopped Hyuga Aoi from rushing into the Fourth Layer and asked what had happened outside.
• Kakashi arrived with the Allied Shinobi Forces, warned that the Ōtsutsuki had come for the Underground Palace, and followed Jiraiya toward the Fourth Layer.
• Urashiki and Isshiki found Ōtsutsuki Shibai’s remains bound inside a chained cube, while Isshiki noticed Hyuga Yunchuan standing beneath it and facing the gate to the Fifth Layer.
• Urashiki charged at Yunchuan and launched a powerful chakra attack as Jiraiya, Tsunade, Aoi, Kakashi, and the shinobi entered the chamber.
• Yunchuan summoned a sword from his shadow, drew Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, and declared, “Praise my existence—Pride,” causing the world before everyone to twist.

Hyuga Yunchuan used Pride to stop Ōtsutsuki Urashiki’s attacks and erase him from existence, then prevented Ōtsutsuki Isshiki from claiming the coffin containing Otsutsuki Shibai. The chapter ended with Isshiki watching in fury as Yunchuan crushed the coffin and its occupant, spilling Shibai’s golden blood.

• Hyuga Yunchuan used Zeno's Tortoise to make Ōtsutsuki Urashiki’s attack stop just short of him.
• Ōtsutsuki Urashiki tried to seal Yunchuan, but Yunchuan imposed a fifty-percent life-or-death outcome and erased him from reality.
• Tsunade urged Yunchuan to keep the Otsutsuki from obtaining the coffin, and Yunchuan began pulling at its Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki attacked Yunchuan with Black Rods, then tried to store the coffin in his dimension with Daikokuten.
• Yunchuan tightened the chains and crushed the coffin into a solid cube, spilling Otsutsuki Shibai’s golden blood as Isshiki roared in rage.

Jiraiya tried to free the Allied Shinobi Forces from their trance as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki summoned his imprisoned Ten-Tails Larva and turned his fury toward Hyuga Yunchuan. Isshiki then pulled a battered Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki from a space-time vortex, leaving Momoshiki to realize what Isshiki intended to do.

• Jiraiya created Shadow Clones to restore the entranced Allied Shinobi Forces, and one of them awakened Hyuga Aoi.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki opened a space-time vortex and dragged his smaller Ten-Tails Larva into the Underground Palace.
• The Ten-Tails Larva roared at Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, revealing its hatred for the one who had imprisoned and drained it.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, consumed by rage against Hyuga Yunchuan, reached through a space-time vortex and pulled out the badly injured Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki.
• Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki saw the Ten-Tails Larva and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, then realized what Isshiki planned to do.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki fed Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki to the Ten-Tails, triggering its transformation into a God Tree as its roots surged toward Hyuga Yunchuan. After Hyuga Aoi and the others stood between Yunchuan and the roots, Yunchuan stabbed Aoi and revealed his betrayal, while Shadow appeared holding Sarutobi Hiruzen’s severed head.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki threw Ōtsutsuki Momoshiki into the Ten-Tails, which devoured him as Momoshiki’s golden blood seeped into its body and began transforming it into a God Tree.
• The Ten-Tails drove roots across the ground toward Hyuga Yunchuan, and Hyuga Aoi, Jiraiya, Tsunade, Kakashi, and the others gathered in front of him to protect him.
• Hyuga Yunchuan thanked them and embraced Hyuga Aoi, then told her that her love for him was lust before stabbing her through the heart.
• Hinata Hyuga caught the wounded Hyuga Aoi as Hyuga Yunchuan stepped away with his bloodied sword and revealed his cold, unfamiliar expression.
• Shadow emerged from Yunchuan’s shadow holding Sarutobi Hiruzen’s severed head, and Jiraiya shouted at Shadow in fury.