Chapter Summaries

Orochimaru read a scroll describing Hueco Mundo, Hollows, and a passage to the realm, then decided to seek and cultivate Hollows for their power. He left the chapter planning to find the passage and test whether Impure World Reincarnation could summon Hollows.

• Orochimaru read the scroll’s account of Hueco Mundo, the Pure Land, and the stages by which Hollows evolved into Gillians.
• Orochimaru inferred that the scroll’s owner and the Sage of Six Paths were connected to the Otsutsuki Clan, and wondered whether the scroll’s owner was still alive after changing bodies.
• Orochimaru recalled how the White Snake Sage healed him, offered him Sage Mode, and kept him under Ryūchi Cave’s surveillance after his fate supposedly changed.
• Orochimaru discovered that the scroll described a Space-Time Hole hidden on an island beyond the sea and guarded by the servant Grell.
• Orochimaru decided to cultivate Hollows, search for the Space-Time Hole, and try using Impure World Reincarnation to summon Hollows from Hueco Mundo.

Hyuga Yunchuan planned to turn his fabricated Hueco Mundo into reality by using Orochimaru’s research and a real dimensional passage, while preparing to prevent the Land of Rain from becoming Konoha’s vassal. Hanzo wrestled with his doubts about peace before learning that Konoha’s representatives had arrived.

• Hyuga Yunchuan’s lie about Hueco Mundo earned him 2,000 Reality Points after Orochimaru experienced intense doubt.
• Hyuga Yunchuan expected Orochimaru to develop a technique for souls to grow stronger by devouring other souls, which he could later make into a true rule with Reality Points.
• Hyuga Yunchuan considered Konoha’s proposed alliance with Amegakure and questioned whether the people of the Land of Rain, Nagato, Uchiha Obito, or he himself would accept its terms.
• Hyuga Yunchuan left a Shadow Clone in his room and disappeared beneath a black robe.
• Hanzo recalled his former ideals and concluded that he could not risk gambling on Yahiko’s vision of peace.
• A Rain Ninja informed Hanzo that people from Konoha had arrived to meet him.

Hanzo met Hatake Kakashi and a Konoha delegation after they requested an audience, then learned they proposed an alliance. Kakashi challenged Hanzo to consider how the Land of Rain would defend itself and meet its wartime needs if the great nations fought again.

• Hanzo ordered Shinda to bring three Anbu squads and escorted his men to meet Konoha's delegation.
• Hatake Kakashi greeted Hanzo on Sarutobi Hiruzen's behalf and presented him with a letter proposing an alliance.
• Hanzo accused Konoha of using alliances as disposable scraps of paper and suspected it wanted Amegakure as cannon fodder.
• Kakashi warned that the Land of Rain would become a route of attack for Iwagakure and Sunagakure in a war, then asked how Hanzo would resist and supply his people.

Hanzo recognized that Amegakure could no longer resist the great nations and accepted that cooperation with Konoha meant submission. Before negotiations could proceed, an unknown figure dropped a corpse between Hanzo and Hatake Kakashi, then appeared above them and mocked Hanzo.

• Hanzo recalled why he had spared Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade, and why he had joined Danzo in killing Yahiko.
• Hanzo asked the Amegakure shinobi what they thought, and they silently accepted that submission was their best option despite their anger and humiliation.
• Hatake Kakashi felt relieved that Hanzo had changed and expected the negotiation to proceed smoothly.
• A corpse fell through the shattered glass dome and landed between Hatake Kakashi and Hanzo, splattering blood across the crowd.
• Hanzo and Hatake Kakashi realized neither had caused the disturbance and looked up at a figure suspended above them.
• The figure called Hanzo a disappointment and mocked him as an old dog whose spine had been broken.

Hanzo met Hatake Kakashi’s delegation and read Sarutobi Hiruzen’s proposal for an alliance, but he doubted Konoha’s promises. Kakashi pointed out that the Land of Rain would be caught between the great nations in a coming war and would need outside resources to resist.

• Hanzo overcame his fear of appearing old and led Shinda and three Anbu squads to meet Konoha’s delegation.
• Hatake Kakashi greeted Hanzo and presented Sarutobi Hiruzen’s letter, which proposed an alliance while leaving Akatsuki as a threat to restrain Hanzo.
• Hanzo accused Konoha of using alliances as disposable scraps of paper, prompting the Rain Ninja to ready their weapons.
• Hatake Kakashi warned that Iwagakure and Sunagakure could use the Land of Rain as a route of attack if the Land of Fire went to war, and asked how Hanzo would supply a resistance.

Hanzo weighed Amegakure’s desperate need for resources and accepted that it would have to depend on Konoha, despite the humiliation and resentment this caused. Before negotiations could continue, an unknown figure appeared above the tower after a mangled corpse crashed between Hanzo and Hatake Kakashi.

• Hanzo reflected on how his past choices against Yahiko and Akatsuki had left Amegakure without successors or leverage, and concluded that dependence on Konoha was its only option.
• Hanzo asked the Amegakure shinobi what they thought, and they silently struggled with his compromise even as they recognized their village could not resist the great nations alone.
• Hatake Kakashi felt relieved that Hanzo seemed willing to negotiate, but red droplets began falling from the tower’s shattered glass dome.
• A twisted corpse crashed between Hatake Kakashi and Hanzo, splattering blood across the Konoha and Amegakure shinobi.
• Hanzo and Hatake Kakashi realized neither had caused the death and looked up to see a figure hovering above them, mocking Hanzo as a broken old dog.

Hyuga Yunchuan appeared before Hanzo and the Konoha delegation, used his shadow abilities to defeat Hanzo and threaten Shinda, and stirred the Rain Ninja’s resentment toward Konoha. He said he had come to make a deal with Hanzo and presented the captured intruders as a gift, tightening the shadows around them.

• Hyuga Yunchuan introduced himself as Shadow while holding several people in shadow cocoons above the gathering.
• Hanzo charged at Hyuga Yunchuan with his Kusarigama, but Hyuga Yunchuan’s shadow blades wounded him in their rapid exchange.
• Hyuga Yunchuan threatened Shinda when he tried to interrupt, leaving a cut on his forehead.
• Hyuga Yunchuan questioned Kakashi and the Konoha delegation about their treatment of the Land of Rain, intensifying the Rain Ninja’s hostility toward them.
• Kakashi recognized Hyuga Yunchuan’s description of a monster from reports about the attack on Toroi and Kumogakure ninja.
• Hyuga Yunchuan told Hanzo he had come to make a deal, offered the captured intruders as a gift, and tightened the shadows around them.

Hyuga Yunchuan exposed infiltrators in the Land of Rain and urged Hanzo and Amegakure to resist the great nations, offering them support. His speech stirred the Rain Ninja against Konoha, while Hatake Kakashi secretly prepared to act.

• Hyuga Yunchuan released a torrent of bloodied remains and told Hanzo that spies from the great nations had infiltrated the Land of Rain.
• Hyuga Yunchuan offered Amegakure what Konoha could provide and privately planned to create Hollows from Hatake Sakumo and Nohara Rin.
• Hatake Kakashi warned Hanzo against trusting Hyuga Yunchuan, and Hanzo told the Konoha shinobi not to fight inside the Land of Rain.
• Hyuga Yunchuan described how the great nations had trampled the Land of Rain and denied its people dignity, stirring their anger.
• Shinda called on Hanzo to lead the Rain Ninja against the great nations, and Hatake Kakashi signaled his allies to prepare to act.

Hyuga Yunchuan offered to restore Hanzo's strength, but Hatake Kakashi and the Konoha shinobi attacked before Hanzo could respond. Yunchuan survived their water-and-lightning assault and killed or wounded the Konoha shinobi with a barrage of shadow spikes.

• Hyuga Yunchuan taunted Hanzo and offered to restore his body to its peak and grant him greater power.
• Hatake Kakashi ordered the Konoha shinobi to attack Hanzo's group with combined Water Release techniques.
• Hatake Kakashi and Hyuga Yunchuan both used Chidori to electrify the water dragon and send it crashing into Yunchuan.
• Hyuga Yunchuan blocked the assault with a shadow-wrapped prayer bead shield as the tower began to collapse, and Hanzo led the Amegakure shinobi away.
• Hatake Kakashi attempted to retreat, but Hyuga Yunchuan declared that distance had no meaning and launched shadow spikes that pierced the Konoha shinobi.

Hatake Kakashi escaped the tower with Hyuga Yunchuan and Yamato as Hanzo arrived to find the Konoha ninja dead or dying. Hyuga Yunchuan offered Hanzo food and a younger, more powerful body, but his attempt to place a Kusabi on Hanzo exposed a White Zetsu that had been secretly parasitizing him.

• Hatake Kakashi caught Hyuga Yunchuan and the badly wounded Yamato as they were thrown from the tower, then fled with them after Yunchuan warned that Hanzo and the Rain Ninja were coming.
• Hanzo entered the tower with the Rain Ninja and found Konoha ninja trapped in Hyuga Yunchuan's blood-soaked shadow web.
• Hyuga Yunchuan told Hanzo that Amegakure could buy supplies at a premium and hinted that he could give Hanzo a younger body and greater power.
• Hyuga Yunchuan placed a weakened Kusabi on Hanzo, and its chakra forced White Zetsu out of Hanzo's body.
• Hanzo seized White Zetsu and demanded to know what it was and how long it had been inside him.

Hyuga Yunchuan exposed White Zetsu infiltrators in Amegakure and captured one for the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu. After the White Zetsu network lost contact, Pain set out to confront Hanzo, while Black Zetsu sought help from Uchiha Obito.

• Hyuga Yunchuan killed several disguised White Zetsu as they tried to flee, revealing their identities to Hanzo and the Amegakure shinobi.
• Hyuga Yunchuan used his black shadows to cocoon the White Zetsu Hanzo had captured, preserving it as a sacrifice.
• A White Zetsu told Zetsu and Pain that all White Zetsu monitoring Amegakure had lost contact.
• Pain decided to go to Amegakure and kill Hanzo without waiting for Uchiha Obito to return.
• Black Zetsu ordered Tobi to follow Nagato and went with White Zetsu to find Lord Madara.

Uchiha Itachi awakened his Two-Tomoe Sharingan after Uchiha Obito killed his team, while Hyuga Yunchuan used the Kusabi to restore Hanzo’s strength and bind his soul. As Pain arrived in Amegakure, Hanzo confronted him at the height of his renewed power.

• Uchiha Obito killed Uchiha Itachi’s Jonin instructor, teammates, and the merchant caravan, causing Itachi to awaken the Two-Tomoe Sharingan.
• Zetsu warned Uchiha Obito that Nagato had gone to kill Hanzo in Amegakure.
• Hyuga Yunchuan identified the creatures inside Hanzo as White Zetsu and used the Kusabi to transform Hanzo’s aging body.
• Hyuga Yunchuan told Hanzo that Pain had arrived and urged him to show their arrogant god the power of a hero at his peak.
• Hanzo leapt to the tower, summoned a massive purple-black monster, and prepared to face Pain and his companions.

Pain and Konan advanced on Amegakure to confront Hanzo, whom Pain condemned as a collaborator with Shimura Danzō. Hanzo appeared atop a gigantic Salamander Ibuse, and he recognized Pain’s face as Yahiko’s.

• Pain told Konan that Hanzo had become a decaying figure allied with Shimura Danzō, and declared that only God could cleanse the Ninja World.
• As Pain and Konan approached Amegakure, someone summoned a gigantic beast from underground and attacked them.
• Pain used Shinra Tensei to repel the beast, while Konan took to the air with Dance of the Shikigami.
• The dust cleared to reveal Salamander Ibuse, towering over the battlefield and coated in poisonous mucus.
• Hanzo stood atop Ibuse, and the Rain Ninja at the gates recognized him as their restored, youthful leader.
• Hanzo studied Pain and asked if he was Yahiko of the Akatsuki.

Hanzo fought Pain and the other Paths, using Ibuse and discovering that Deva Path Pain’s repulsive force had an attack interval. When the Human Path tried to extract Hanzo’s soul, a mark on his palm stopped it and dragged Nagato’s soul into a strange mental space, where a mysterious figure questioned the origin of his eyes.

• Deva Path Pain used Banshō Ten'in and Shinra Tensei against Hanzo, while Hanzo evaded attacks and learned that the repulsive force had a five-to-six-second interval.
• The Asura Path crushed Hanzo’s wrist, and Ibuse drove back the Paths with a toxic mist that corroded the Asura Path.
• The Human Path began extracting Ibuse’s soul as Deva Path Pain pulled Hanzo toward it, but Hanzo’s wrist healed under the effect of Kusabi.
• The Human Path seized Hanzo and began extracting his soul, but the diamond-shaped mark on Hanzo’s palm pinned his soul in place.
• Black patterns spread from Hanzo’s mark onto the Human Path, dragging Nagato’s soul into a chaotic mental space, where a figure on a bone throne asked where Nagato had gotten his eyes.

Shiyue announced the book’s premium launch for June 13, 2025, and outlined bonus chapters tied to first-day subscriptions and other reader support. He promised at least four chapters on launch day and said he would aim to write six thousand words daily while maintaining quality.

• Shiyue announced that the book would go premium at midnight on June 13, 2025.
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• Shiyue thanked readers for their support and promised to keep writing and updating while maintaining quality.

Nagato entered the domain within Hanzo and confronted Hyuga Yunchuan, who warned him to stay away and demonstrated his overwhelming power. Hyuga Yunchuan tore apart Nagato’s spirit body and expelled him from the domain.

• Nagato crossed into a silent, hostile space and found Hyuga Yunchuan seated atop a Mountain of Corpses.
• Hyuga Yunchuan told Nagato he would spare him for the sake of the Rinnegan and warned him not to return.
• Nagato demanded to know why the eyes mattered more than him, and Hyuga Yunchuan called him a weak vessel for eyes that did not belong to him.
• Hyuga Yunchuan used his power to sever Nagato’s limbs and crack his spirit body, causing him intense pain.
• Hyuga Yunchuan threatened to crush Nagato if he entered again, then chains dragged Nagato out of the domain.

Konan rescued Pain’s bodies when Nagato’s suffering forced them to collapse, then hurried to his hidden cave and found Tobi helping him recover. Hanzo and Hyuga Yunchuan arrived at the cave, leaving Nagato’s conflict with Hanzo unresolved.

• The Deva Path, Asura Path, and Human Path collapsed, so Konan wrapped them in paper and fled Amegakure while Hanzo recovered.
• Hyuga Yunchuan stopped Hanzo from pursuing Konan and promised to explain what had happened before Hanzo made his choice.
• Nagato was struck by intense pain through the Chakra Black Rod linking him to the Human Path, and Tobi wrapped around him to ease the pain and restore his vitality.
• Konan reached the cave and tried to pull Tobi away, but Nagato told her that White Zetsu was helping him.
• Hanzo and Hyuga Yunchuan entered the cave and faced Nagato.

Hyuga Yunchuan brought Hanzo to Nagato, where Hanzo confessed his responsibility for Yahiko’s death and Akatsuki’s purge. He offered his life and asked Nagato to take over Amegakure, then drove his kusarigama toward his chest.

• Nagato recognized Hanzo and sensed the familiar presence of Hyuga Yunchuan, who introduced himself as Shadow and apologized on his master’s behalf.
• When Nagato asked if they had come to die, Hanzo confirmed that he had come to offer his life.
• Hanzo admitted that he had colluded with Danzo, caused Yahiko’s death, and ordered the purge of Akatsuki.
• Hanzo recalled losing the ideals he once held and accepted that Nagato could punish him however he wished.
• Hanzo asked Nagato to lead Amegakure toward the future Yahiko had envisioned, and Konan told him to die.
• Hanzo thrust his kusarigama toward his chest.

Hanzo urged Nagato to use overwhelming power to force peace in the Ninja World, while insisting he had no regrets about killing Yahiko and the Akatsuki. Nagato condemned him, and the chapter ended with a sudden clang instead of the expected killing blow.

• Hanzo tried to drive his scythe deeper into his chest, but Nagato used Banshō Ten'in to hold his arm in place.
• Nagato admitted that he still hated Hanzo and wanted to kill him, while Hanzo challenged him to explain his hesitation.
• Hanzo argued that a weapon capable of destroying a nation could deter war and give the Land of Rain decades of peace.
• Nagato asked whether Hanzo regretted killing Yahiko, but Hanzo said he would make the same choice again because he believed the Akatsuki's ideals would doom Amegakure.
• Nagato's Pupil Power surged as he declared that Hanzo deserved to die, but a clang sounded before the blade struck.

Nagato spared Hanzo, deciding that he was more useful alive than dead, while Hanzo pledged his life to Nagato’s cause. Hyuga Yunchuan then exposed the masked man as a false Madara and provoked Nagato to question his allegiance.

• Nagato disarmed Hanzo and explained that killing him would be meaningless, choosing instead to let him live as a potential ally.
• Hanzo accepted Nagato’s decision and offered his life to support Nagato’s future, but Hyuga Yunchuan said half of Hanzo’s life belonged to his master as the price of his rebirth.
• Hyuga Yunchuan offered information that could save Nagato and Konan, then used his shadow to restrain Tobi and suppress his Chakra.
• Hyuga Yunchuan told Nagato and Konan that the Rinnegan belonged to Uchiha Madara and that the masked man was only a pawn, not the real Madara.
• Nagato rejected the revelation at first, then recalled being called a weak vessel and demanded to know what Hyuga Yunchuan intended to do.