Chapter Summaries

Nagato regained his mobility with Tobi’s help, made Hanzo and Amegakure part of Akatsuki’s plans, and began choosing new recruits. The chapter ended with Black Zetsu objecting when Nagato decided to seek out the monster from the Land of Hot Water.

• Obito returned to the cave and discovered Nagato’s mobility apparatus empty and stained with blood.
• Nagato revealed that he had taken control of Tobi and could now walk, while Obito concealed his frustration.
• Nagato told Obito that Hanzo had joined Akatsuki, Konan had gone to assist him, and Amegakure would operate openly.
• Obito proposed recruiting Kakuzu and Sasori, and Nagato agreed to have Hanzo and Konan approach them.
• Nagato announced that he would investigate the monster from the Land of Hot Water, and Black Zetsu abruptly objected.

Hyuga Yunchuan manipulated Nagato into seeking out Madara, then experimented with White Zetsu and Yamato’s flesh to uncover the essence of Wood Release. He gained the God Technique Growth and received a large reward after Gamamaru reacted to an unknown lie.

• Black Zetsu warned Nagato not to approach the monster, but Nagato asked Obito to accompany him, and Obito agreed.
• Konan told Hyuga Yunchuan that Madara had agreed to meet Nagato, and she asked what he intended to do.
• Hyuga Yunchuan told Konan and Hanzo he was clearing away pests, then said he would help Nagato expose Madara and asked for a room to prepare.
• Hyuga Yunchuan used White Zetsu and Yamato’s flesh to manifest Wood Release’s underlying formula as a technique, spending 4500 Reality Points.
• Hyuga Yunchuan awakened the God Technique Growth and watched a frail blade of grass rapidly flourish when he touched it.
• Gamamaru’s emotional reaction earned Hyuga Yunchuan 8000 Reality Points, leaving him puzzled about what lie he had told.

Ōnoki learned that Konoha and Kumogakure had sent teams to investigate a dangerous mystery in the Land of Hot Water. To avoid exposing Iwagakure ninja, he decided to hire bounty hunters to investigate both the Land of Hot Water and the Land of Rain.

• Ōnoki visited Iwagakure Hospital for treatment after throwing out his back again, and the head nurse made him agree to recuperate.
• Kitsuchi brought Ōnoki an Anbu report about Hyuga Yunchuan, and Ōnoki admired the young ninja’s talent and resolve.
• Ōnoki read reports of the Abyss in the Land of Hot Water and learned that Konoha and Kumogakure had both dispatched teams there.
• Ōnoki gave Kitsuchi a list of bounty hunters and groups, including Kakuzu and the Xuanyuan Group, and ordered them to investigate the Land of Hot Water and the Land of Rain.

Jiraiya reflected on the war and the Great Toad Sage’s prophecies as Kakashi asked him to send ninja to the Land of Hot Water. Hyuga Yunchuan realized Jiraiya’s reaction had earned him Reality Points, while Yugito Nii led a group through the forest near Konoha’s encampment.

• Jiraiya studied the casualties from the clash with Kumogakure and recalled the prophecy of a Child of Prophecy and a Child of Calamity.
• Kakashi asked Jiraiya to assign ninja to accompany him to the Land of Hot Water.
• Hyuga Yunchuan noticed that Jiraiya’s intense reaction to the prophecy had earned him 2,000 Reality Points.
• Jiraiya recognized Yunchuan and recalled that the youth had written the words in Konoha’s declaration of war.
• Yugito Nii led several figures through the forest within the Land of Hot Water, near Konoha’s encampment.

The Fourth Raikage learned that an ancient tomb’s inscription described the Otsutsuki Clan and a mysterious figure whose legends matched landmarks and artifacts across the Ninja World. Believing the tomb might contain powerful techniques or treasures, he postponed the attack on Konoha and set out to open it himself.

• The Fourth Raikage questioned Mabui and the researchers about sending Yugito back to the underground palace, where a shinobi had died after touching its door.
• A researcher explained that the palace was a tomb and presented a deciphered inscription about the Otsutsuki Clan, Kaguya, Hagoromo, and an ancient being who had lived for a thousand years.
• The researchers connected the inscription’s accounts to Xu Fu Mountain, the Island Turtle, Hell Valley, the Spear of Heaven, and Qingming, and said other ancient sources corroborated its claims.
• The Fourth Raikage concluded that the tomb might hold an inheritance or treasures and ordered the surprise attack on Konoha postponed while Yugito tried to open its door.
• The Fourth Raikage told Mabui to have Killer B guard Kumogakure and keep the discovery secret, then smashed through the office wall and headed out himself.

Hyuga Yunchuan’s plan to draw rival factions toward the Underground Palace took shape as Kumogakure redirected Yugito Nii there and Konoha learned that bounty hunters were also heading to the Land of Hot Water. The chapter ended with Yunchuan manifesting ten weapons and preparing to leave with Kakashi, anticipating the factions’ response.

• Yugito Nii began an attack on Konoha’s supply depot, but an order from the Fourth Raikage made her extinguish the fire rats and lead her squad toward the Land of Hot Water.
• Jiraiya learned that Yugito’s squad had withdrawn and, after hearing that bounty hunters were heading to the Land of Hot Water, sent Kakashi and Hyuga Yunchuan with additional Konoha ninja.
• Hyuga Yunchuan recognized that the competing factions were responding to his bait and manifested the First Layer of the Underground Palace along with ten weapons, including items intended for his aliases.
• Kakashi called Yunchuan to join the expedition, and Yunchuan followed him out of the tent, anticipating the consequences of the weapons and the Underground Palace.

Yugito Nii and the Kumogakure team reached an ancient Underground Palace deep in the Abyss and found its enormous gate. A bounty hunter touched the gate and was drained of his Chakra, flesh, and soul, and Yugito noticed that it had opened slightly.

• Yugito led the Kumogakure team down nearly a thousand meters into the Abyss and reached the Underground Palace.
• Yugito and her team examined the ancient palace and its enormous, sealed gate, while the Two-Tails reacted with fear.
• Yugito sensed someone in the darkness and led her team away to search for another entrance.
• A Kumogakure Missing-nin approached the gate and touched it, triggering its deep-blue glow and powerful suction.
• The gate drained the Missing-nin of his Chakra, flesh, and soul as Yugito and hidden watchers looked on.
• Yugito noticed that the gate had opened slightly after consuming the Missing-nin.

At the Underground Palace, the Giant Gate devoured Chakra and flesh as the Xuanyuan Group tried to force Yugito Nii to open it. The door opened only slightly before violence broke out among the gathered ninjas, leaving them fighting to become its next sacrifices.

• The Giant Gate consumed two men thrown against it, and Yugito Nii and the others saw that each death widened its crack slightly.
• The Xuanyuan Group revealed itself and threatened the gathered ninjas, while Explosive Bugs caused a Kumogakure ninja to swell and explode when he used Chakra.
• Yugito Nii touched the door and fed it her Chakra, opening it to a fist-width gap before her strength nearly ran out.
• Two members of the Xuanyuan Group were killed and thrown against the door, and a voice from the darkness urged everyone to kill.
• The gathered figures attacked one another as the Giant Gate and the Shadow watched.

Long Zhe, Nagato, Kakashi, and the others fought amid the chaos around the Giant Gate until it opened and drew the survivors into the darkness beyond. As the Bounty Ninja approached the entrance, Hyuga Yunchuan emerged and barred their way with a deadly warning.

• Long Zhe revealed himself as the Evil God Sect's cult leader, resisted the Xuanyuan Group's Explosive Bugs, and attacked them as sacrifices.
• Kakashi and Hyuga Yunchuan fought alongside the Konoha Ninja as the combatants turned on them and fed victims to the Giant Gate.
• Nagato repelled Kakuzu with an invisible force, then used Banshō Ten'in to throw another victim against the gate, causing it to open completely.
• Yugito, Kakashi, Hyuga Yunchuan, the surviving Bounty Ninja, Long Zhe, and Kakuzu entered the darkness beyond the gate.
• Obito appeared beside Nagato as Hyuga Yunchuan emerged from the darkness, killed the first Bounty Ninja at the entrance, and warned the others not to cross his line.

Hyuga Yunchuan slaughtered the bounty ninja outside the Underground Palace and fought Uchiha Obito, eventually trapping and nearly unmasking him. Obito escaped with Izanagi, while Nagato realized that the man calling himself Madara was an impostor and that his Rinnegan had been part of someone else’s scheme.

• Hyuga Yunchuan slaughtered the bounty ninja guarding the Underground Palace, then attacked Obito when Nagato and Obito approached.
• Obito used Kamui to evade Yunchuan’s shadow blades and tried to pull him into the Kamui Dimension, but Yunchuan deduced how his intangibility worked and interrupted his attempts.
• Obito reappeared beneath Yunchuan and began pulling him into Kamui, but Yunchuan’s Shadow Ninja pierced and bound Obito from his own shadow.
• Yunchuan explained how Obito’s Kamui worked and reached for his mask as Obito demanded that Nagato intervene.
• Obito activated Izanagi to escape, vanishing before Yunchuan could remove his mask.
• Nagato watched Obito disappear and realized that the supposed Madara was an impostor and that his Rinnegan had been part of a scheme.

The intruders fought over the treasures atop the statue, and Kakuzu stole a worthless sword before Yugito claimed the God-Beating Whip and used it to defeat him. As the survivors fled with their prizes, Hyuga Yunchuan rescued the exhausted Kakashi and turned his feathered wings against Kakuzu.

• Long Zhe, Kakuzu, Yugito Nii, Kakashi, and Hyuga Yunchuan raced up the statue while fighting off other treasure seekers.
• Kakuzu snatched a rusty, broken sword with his Black Threads, while Yugito and Kakashi failed to stop him.
• Yugito seized the God-Beating Whip, shattered Kakuzu's lightning attack, sealed his Chakra, and dragged him off the statue.
• Other intruders claimed the remaining weapons, Kakashi took a heavy black box, and the survivors tried to escape as Kakuzu attacked them.
• Hyuga Yunchuan flew in, rescued the exhausted Kakashi, and unleashed a barrage of sharp white feathers against Kakuzu's black tentacles.

Hyuga Yunchuan escaped the Underground Palace with a Konoha ninja while the others emerged into a blood-soaked slaughterhouse. Shadow and Nagato defeated the attackers, and Shadow pointed the surviving prisoners toward the exit.

• Hyuga Yunchuan cut through Kakuzu’s threads, grabbed the Konoha ninja holding the Rusty Sword, and flew out of the Underground Palace as the other captives rushed for the entrance.
• The prisoners found the area outside submerged in blood and flesh, with Shadow and Nagato standing amid the carnage.
• Ooyashiro En awakened his Ketsuryūgan and fired a blood arrow at Shadow, but Shadow destroyed the attack and struck him down.
• The Hannya Group leader attacked Shadow from behind with a sword, but Shadow split him in two, and Nagato claimed the Chakra Blade.
• Yugito Nii prepared to lead the Kumogakure ninja against Shadow, but he pointed out the exit and told them to stop charging toward him.

Nagato and Shadow recruited Kakuzu into Akatsuki by offering him the bounty hunters' corpses, while Kakuzu agreed on the condition that they help carry Ame-no-Murakumo. At the Abyss exit, the Fourth Raikage nearly killed Long Zhe, but Hyuga Yunchuan escaped after threatening Kumogakure, leaving the Raikage wary of his plans.

• Long Zhe and the other survivors left the Underground Palace, and Nagato declined to capture the Two-Tails Jinchuriki because it was not yet time.
• Kakuzu emerged exhausted, accepted Nagato and Shadow's offer to join Akatsuki in exchange for the corpses, and demanded help carrying Ame-no-Murakumo.
• Long Zhe reached the surface first, where the Fourth Raikage struck him with Lariat and crushed him nearly to death.
• Hyuga Yunchuan confronted the Fourth Raikage from the air, threatened Kumogakure, and wounded him with Feather Blades and Wind Blades before escaping with the others.
• The Fourth Raikage ordered Yugito and the Kumogakure ninja to pursue those who took the items and told forces in the Land of the Moon to watch the skies.

Hidan broke free from Long Zhe’s restraints, recognized the scythe Four-Scythe Child as a sign of Jashin-sama, and killed Long Zhe in a frenzied sacrifice. Hyuga Yunchuan gained Reality Points from Hidan’s worship, then Jiraiya asked him about launching an air raid on Kumogakure’s base.

• Long Zhe crawled into his laboratory, found Hidan restrained there, and tried to kill him to protect himself.
• Hidan twisted free of his restraints, seized Four-Scythe Child, and saw a vision he identified as Jashin-sama.
• Hidan killed Long Zhe with the scythe and offered his death to Jashin-sama.
• Hidan decided to recruit followers and sacrifice strong people after the scythe warned him against wasting deaths on worthless followers.
• Hyuga Yunchuan received 3000 Reality Points when Hidan worshipped him as a god, and Jiraiya asked whether he planned to launch an air raid on Kumogakure’s base.

Kakuzu took dozens of bounty targets to the Underground Black Market and collected 134 million ryō, while leaving Ōnoki’s bounty target, Ame-no-Murakumo, for the Third Tsuchikage to retrieve. He emerged with Ooyashiro En, the Kusabi Real Estate owner who had joined Akatsuki, and the two prepared to leave together.

• Kakuzu revealed a mountain of corpses at the Bounty Exchange, and the scarred attendant identified them as bounty targets.
• The attendant calculated a total bounty of 134 million ryō, and Kakuzu counted the banknotes three times before pointing out an extra hundred ryō.
• Kakuzu left Ame-no-Murakumo at the exchange for Ōnoki to collect.
• Kakuzu exited with two suitcases of money and told Ooyashiro En, who had joined Akatsuki, that they should go.

Shadow and Nagato relaxed in Yugakure before Shadow proposed visiting Hozuki Castle to find the Box of Ultimate Bliss. At the Konoha camp, Jiraiya revealed that the box Kakashi recovered contained seven living weapons called the Seven Deadly Sins, which could only be wielded by those they recognized.

• Shadow soaked in a Yugakure hot spring with Nagato and considered preparing contingencies for Naruto Uzumaki as threats to Ōtsutsuki Yunshi grew.
• Kakuzu joined Shadow and Nagato, and Shadow suggested they visit Hozuki Castle.
• Jiraiya discussed Hyuga Yunchuan's proposed operation against Kumogakure and said he had sent the Underground Palace discoveries to the Hokage.
• Jiraiya read a prophecy-like inscription on Kakashi's black box, and seven heartbeats sounded from inside it.
• Jiraiya opened the box, revealed the seven blades called the Seven Deadly Sins, and told the Konoha Jonin to try drawing them to earn their recognition.

Hyuga Yunchuan revealed that the seven blades contained living souls and would choose their wielders, while secretly relying on their growing fame to earn Reality Points. After several people failed to draw them, Jiraiya took hold of Sloth at Yunchuan’s suggestion, and the chapter ended as the blade reacted.

• Jiraiya told the gathered ninja that the seven blades had souls and chose who could wield them, earning Hyuga Yunchuan 3,000 Reality Points through their reactions.
• Hyuga Yunchuan recalled that he had sealed seven unique souls into the blades, which could grow stronger through absorbed souls and their wielders’ spiritual energy.
• Akimichi Shidong failed to draw Gluttony, and a Nara Jonin and Jiraiya also failed to draw blades they tried.
• The gathered ninja took turns testing the blades, but none succeeded; Kakashi’s attempt to draw Lust produced a noticeable hum before he failed.
• Hyuga Yunchuan suggested that Jiraiya try Sloth, and Jiraiya gripped its hilt as the blade began to react.

Jiraiya drew Sloth after it exposed his lifelong avoidance, and discovered that the blunt sword could slow time within a small radius. Kakashi then drew Envy, confronted his resentment toward his former self, and revealed the blade’s ability to create a future reflection that fought its target.

• Jiraiya drew Sloth, whose judgment revealed that he had spent much of his life avoiding painful realities and placing his hopes in the Child of Prophecy.
• Jiraiya used Sloth to slow time within five meters for ten seconds, though he sensed the sword could grow stronger.
• Nara Jonin explained that others could try the remaining weapons, and the group resumed testing them.
• Kakashi drew Envy and realized that his resentment was directed at his former self, whom he blamed for losing everything and betraying Obito’s expectations.
• Jiraiya stopped Kakashi from throwing Envy away, and Kakashi explained that the sword created a possible future reflection of its target to fight them.

Hyuga Yunchuan drew Greed and revealed its power to dominate the five senses, while hiding its true ability to alter cognition. After Jiraiya ordered the swords secured and the events kept secret, Yunchuan said he was completely confident in leading a surprise attack against Kumogakure.

• The Nara Jonin explained that the swords could create bizarre mirror images of people from the future, leaving Hyuga Yunchuan wondering how they involved time.
• Hyuga Yunchuan drew Greed, whose eye opened and made everyone feel watched.
• Hyuga Yunchuan used Greed to make the people in the tent see him vanish and reappear behind them, while Jiraiya alone remained unaffected.
• Hyuga Yunchuan received 4,000 Reality Points after the others reacted with awe, and he privately recognized that Greed's true ability was cognitive domination.
• Jiraiya ordered the remaining four swords sealed and sent back to Konoha, then asked Hyuga Yunchuan how confident he was.
• Hyuga Yunchuan declared himself completely confident in leading the ground forces' surprise attack on Kumogakure.

Nagato, Shadow, and Kakuzu traveled to Kusagakure after learning that a red-haired woman there could heal injuries by being bitten. They found Karin’s mother being brutally exploited by a Kusagakure shinobi, and Nagato killed him as he reached for Karin.

• Nagato questioned Shadow about whether Yahiko’s ideals could have saved the Land of Rain, and Shadow argued that the Land of Grass showed how negotiations left small nations vulnerable.
• Kakuzu confirmed hearing rumors of a red-haired woman in Kusagakure whose bite healed wounds, and Nagato agreed to detour there with Shadow and Kakuzu.
• A Kusagakure shinobi repeatedly bit Karin’s mother to heal his injuries while Karin watched helplessly.
• Karin charged the shinobi to protect her mother, but he knocked her into a wall and bit her mother again.
• As the shinobi reached for Karin, Nagato appeared behind him, pierced his heart, and turned his fury toward Karin’s suffering mother.