Chapter Summaries

Tsunade sent Team 7 to investigate the supernatural upheaval at the crater as Sasuke completed the three divine artifacts and began nurturing Otsutsuki Rei. Sasuke received an Otsutsuki combat inheritance and discovered Rei’s Karma battle mode, while he prepared for the dangerous day ahead.

• Tsunade ordered Team 7 to investigate the crater and told Shizune to arrange shelter for nearby residents, while Jiraiya also hurried toward the site.
• Otsutsuki Toneri noticed the Purple Tenseigan briefly react, but it became still before he could discover the cause.
• The Rainbow Ice Wall, Heavenly Spear, serpent, and Flaming Mountain formed the Futsu-no-Mitama Mirror, Sword of the Heavenly Gathering of Clouds, and Yasakani no Magatama around Otsutsuki Rei.
• Disonas warned Sasuke that naming Rei Amaterasu-Omikami might invite a taboo, and Sasuke killed him for his murders of civilians and children.
• Sasuke identified Rei’s brow eye as a Golden Byakugan and received an inheritance of Otsutsuki combat skills, including Gentle Fist—Baguazhang.
• Sasuke prepared to summon help as Rei grew older, developed Karma markings, and awakened the Otsutsuki Clan’s Karma seal transformation battle mode.

Sasuke prepared to defend Otsutsuki Rei’s unborn body at the Giant Crater as powerful forces converged on the site. Naruto’s Team 7 and Kara approached, while Sasuke’s allies took their positions for the coming battle.

• Sasuke reviewed Karma’s abilities and judged that Otsutsuki Rei had great potential but could not yet use Karma’s combat forms.
• The Sage Clone brought Guren, Honoka, Kimimaro, Team Taka, the Sound Four, and other Sound ninja to the tower through Takamagahara.
• Sasuke assigned Amachi and the Sound Four to operate the Ancor Vantian fortress, while his other allies guarded the tower and Flaming Mountain.
• Kakashi led Naruto, Yakumo, and Sakura toward the Giant Crater as Naruto declared he would defeat Orochimaru and show Sasuke how much he had grown.
• Delta urged Koji Kashin to approach the Giant Crater, but Koji chose to wait for other groups to arrive and serve as their vanguard.

Sasuke defended the Heavenly Spear tower from Nagato and Konan’s attacks as the Otsutsuki Clone neared its birth. Uchiha Madara summoned a massive meteorite toward the Giant Crater, and Sasuke flew to stop it while Team 7 rushed to protect the nearby towns.

• Nagato attacked the Ancor Vantian fortress with Super Shinra Tensei, but the Sage Clone blocked it with a golden sword beam.
• Konan sent a vast Paper Person of God Jutsu toward the tower, and Sasuke diverted the explosive paper into the Takamagahara Original Sphere Space with Flying Raijin Guiding Thunder.
• Sasuke prepared to attack Konan, but a gigantic meteorite darkened the sky and threatened the Giant Crater and nearby settlements.
• Kakashi led Team 7 toward the crater, while Sasuke ordered Guren to fight Konan and flew toward the meteorite.
• Uchiha Madara revealed that he had summoned the meteorite with Divine Art: Tengai Shinsei.

Sasuke used Flying Raijin Guiding Thunder to divert Uchiha Madara’s first meteorite, but Kakashi and his teammates had to stop the second with Kamui. The second meteorite ended up in the Kamui Dimension, where Obito was caught beneath it.

• Sasuke transferred Madara’s first meteorite into another dimension with Flying Raijin Guiding Thunder to protect the Flying Fortress, the Heavenly Spear, and the Flaming Mountain.
• Madara summoned a larger second meteorite, while Black Zetsu explained that Sasuke had likely sent the first into his Yomotsu dimension.
• Kakashi used Kamui to pull the second meteorite into the Kamui Dimension, with Yakumo and Sakura supplying him Chakra as Naruto watched.
• Inside the Kamui Dimension, Obito decided to ally with Nagato against Madara so he could become the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki.
• The second meteorite appeared above Obito, and he cried out, “Kakashi!!!”

The narrator explained that they had not gone in and were still there, then said a run of bad luck had hit them hard and caused the hiatus.

• The narrator clarified that he had not gone in and was still there.
• The narrator attributed the hiatus to a series of bad events that may have made this year unlucky.
• The narrator said the run of bad luck had hit them hard.

Uchiha Madara confronted Sasuke at the Giant Crater, while Obito and Kara’s members moved toward the battlefield and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki watched for a chance to seize Sasuke’s body. Sasuke nearly sealed Madara by exploiting his shock at seeing Izuna’s face, and the two ended in a tense standoff as Sasuke tried to buy time.

• Uchiha Madara sent Obito to handle his former bonds and went to confront Second Pillar, while Kisame Hoshigaki and the Edo Tensei ninja followed Obito.
• Koji Kashin, Boro, and Delta headed for the Giant Crater, and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki secretly watched them while planning to take Sasuke’s body.
• Sasuke recognized Madara’s approaching challenge and launched a Purple Electricity attack before Madara could reach him.
• Uchiha Madara repelled Sasuke’s attack with Shinra Tensei, but Sasuke revealed his Lightning Susanoo and shattered Madara’s weapon and arm while attempting to seal him.
• Madara lost focus when he saw Sasuke’s resemblance to Izuna, but he blasted Sasuke away before the sealing jutsu could land.
• Sasuke and Madara faced each other in silence, with Sasuke waiting to stall for time.

Sasuke fought Uchiha Madara while mocking him with an invented account of the first Shinobi World Conference. Madara lost his temper and struck Sasuke with a half-bodied giant, sending him flying.

• Uchiha Madara acknowledged Sasuke after Sasuke wounded him, and Sasuke praised Madara while ranking him below Hashirama.
• Uchiha Madara attacked with Majestic Destroyer Flame and a black scythe, but Sasuke cut through the flames and damaged the weapon with Kagutsuchi.
• Sasuke narrated a fabricated story about Madara and Hashirama at the first Shinobi World Conference while the two exchanged blows.
• Uchiha Madara became enraged at Sasuke's story and summoned a half-bodied giant that punched Sasuke dozens of meters away.

Sasuke battled Uchiha Madara, using taunts and layered attacks to break through Susanoo and cost Madara an arm before unleashing a new blue flame against his Wood Release. Meanwhile, Otsutsuki Rei discovered the Hyuga Clan’s Tenseigan and realized it was the source of the Caged Bird seal’s link to the Branch Family.

• Sasuke countered Uchiha Madara’s Yasakani no Magatama with his Lightning Susanoo and Ame no Makako Bow, then used Flying Raijin to strike Madara with a Black Flame arrow and a close-range lightning attack that shattered Susanoo and crushed his left arm.
• Uchiha Madara scattered Flying Raijin-marked crystal daggers, then used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to trap them inside a forest and limit Sasuke’s teleportation options.
• Sasuke mocked Uchiha Madara’s Wood Release and combined fire, lightning, and ocular power into a destructive pale-blue flame, then unleashed it as a vast sea of fire against the forest.
• Otsutsuki Rei’s consciousness entered a mysterious underground palace and found the Hyuga Clan’s ancestral Tenseigan stone.
• Otsutsuki Rei realized that the Caged Bird marks on Branch Family members linked their ocular power to the Purple Tenseigan, which was the source behind the seal’s effects.

Otsutsuki Rei discovered that the Hyuga Caged Bird seal sent Branch Family ocular power to the Tenseigan Stone and accepted Otsutsuki Hamura’s goodwill. Meanwhile, Obito confronted Team 7 on the road to the Giant Crater, where Yakumo’s genjutsu and Naruto’s attack forced him to reveal his powers; Yakumo began to suspect he was Kakashi’s former teammate.

• Otsutsuki Rei deduced that the Caged Bird seal connected the souls and Byakugan of Hyuga Branch Family members to the Tenseigan Stone, and she promised to return after completing her ritual.
• Otsutsuki Rei wondered why Otsutsuki Hamura had shown her goodwill and decided to reclaim the Tenseigan’s power once her ritual was complete.
• Obito waited for Team 7, resolved to take back his Mangekyō Sharingan from Kakashi so he could strengthen himself and pursue the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Yakumo caught Obito in a genjutsu, and Naruto struck him with Konoha Dragon God, but Obito used Tobi’s Wood Release and his intangibility to survive.
• Yakumo noticed that Obito’s Mangekyō Sharingan matched Kakashi’s and guessed that the two eyes had originally belonged to a pair.

Yakumo suspected that the masked man shared Kakashi’s Mangekyō, and Kakashi used Kamui to test the theory, forcing the man’s real body to appear. Kisame Hoshigaki arrived to stop Team 7, and Kakashi confronted the masked man about his eye as mist gathered in the forest.

• Yakumo told Kakashi that the masked man’s Mangekyō matched his, and Kakashi prepared to use Kamui to test whether they were a pair.
• Obito realized Kakashi’s attack could expose him, but Sakura struck Kisame Hoshigaki’s Seven-Star Sword away before the test could proceed uninterrupted.
• Kisame confronted Sakura, said Akatsuki had come to clear the field while someone important fought Sasuke Uchiha, and warned Obito that Yakumo’s genjutsu was formidable.
• Kakashi’s Kamui affected Obito and forced his real body to appear, while Yakumo nearly caught him in a genjutsu.
• Kakashi demanded to know who Obito was and why he had the eye, and Obito called himself a forgotten ghost as mist rose through the forest.

Jiraiya recognized the battlefield’s illusion as the Second Mizukage’s Mirage Technique while Team 7 faced attacks from the resurrected Mizukage and the Seven Ninja Swordsmen. Sakura and Yakumo broke the First Mizukage’s water control, but an explosive sword attack separated Team 7 as the chapter ended.

• Jiraiya arrived and identified the thick fog and shifting images as the Second Mizukage’s Mirage Technique.
• Sakura explained that the fog was a projection rather than real mist or genjutsu, just before the attackers launched coordinated lightning and water strikes at Team 7.
• The First Mizukage used remote water control to bind Team 7, but Sakura and Yakumo drew their blades and severed the surrounding moisture.
• The First, Second, Third, and Fourth Mizukage gathered, and Karatachi Yagura fell silent under their questioning about Kirigakure’s condition.
• Naruto cut through the white water-and-lightning dragon with a Rasenshuriken, but the Exploding Blade Shibuki flew from its hollow center.
• Kakashi warned Team 7 to move, and the explosive sword’s approach split Kakashi, Naruto, Sakura, and Yakumo into three separate positions.

Yakumo used genjutsu and a forbidden soul technique to free the First Mizukage from Kazuma’s control, then joined Sakura against Kisame Hoshigaki and Kirigakure’s revived swordsmen. Their enemies were caught in a vast underground illusion, while Naruto encountered an Ice Release user and Kakashi confronted a masked man connected to the truth of the past.

• Sakura and Yakumo fought Kisame Hoshigaki and the First Mizukage as the mist separated them from Naruto and Kakashi.
• Yakumo turned her genjutsu into tangible bindings and used the Soul Imprisonment Technique to interrupt Kazuma’s control of the First Mizukage.
• Yakumo sealed the First Mizukage after learning that the sacrifice contained the First Hokage’s power; before disappearing, he warned her about Uchiha Madara.
• Sakura and Yakumo faced Kisame Hoshigaki and the revived Seven Ninja Swordsmen, then trapped them in an underground palace with Earth Release: Yūi Tenpen and Yin Release: Demonic Illusion Palace.
• Kazuma struggled as the swordsmen resisted his control, while Naruto stumbled into a snowy world and Kakashi confronted a masked man after the mist vanished.

The Sage Clone fought Nagato and the Six Paths of Pain, surviving their firearms, Wood Release, and devastating attacks while Nagato revealed how much he had grown since his defeat by Second Pillar. When Nagato’s laser barrage threatened the Giant Crater, the Sage Clone reflected it back and destroyed all nine laser spheres, then began forming a powerful golden construct as Nagato prepared to respond.

• The Asura Path attacked the Sage Clone with chakra-powered Gatling guns while Nagato’s Deva Path crushed the battlefield with Super Shinra Tensei.
• Nagato struck the Sage Clone with a laser from his nine mechanical spheres, but the clone survived the blast and revealed himself to Nagato.
• Nagato recognized the Sage Clone as Second Pillar’s puppet and attacked with the Six Paths, Wood Release, and laser cannons.
• Nagato fired a combined laser barrage toward the Giant Crater to force the Sage Clone and Second Pillar’s main body to react, but the Sage Clone reflected the beam and destroyed all nine laser spheres.
• Nagato glimpsed a pair of sacred eyes before the Sage Clone began forming golden energy channels, while Nagato raised vines beneath himself.

Otsutsuki Rei used the Futsu-no-Mitama Mirror to absorb and return Nagato’s laser attack, then sensed that the Sage of Six Paths was watching her. The Sage of Six Paths reflected on Sasuke’s arrogance and chose to let Ōtsutsuki Isshiki appear as a test for the Shinobi World’s future guardians, confident he could intervene if needed.

• Otsutsuki Rei absorbed Nagato’s laser attack with the Futsu-no-Mitama Mirror and sent its stored light and heat back toward its source.
• Otsutsuki Rei sensed a faint gaze nearby and used her Golden Byakugan to search the empty space.
• The Sage of Six Paths watched Otsutsuki Rei and worried that Sasuke’s arrogance and lack of belonging resembled Otsutsuki Kaguya’s.
• The Sage of Six Paths recalled a prophecy in which Ōtsutsuki Isshiki appeared with overwhelming power and disrupted the expected course of events.
• The Sage of Six Paths decided not to stop Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, intending to use him to temper Sasuke and Naruto before passing his power to them.
• The Sage of Six Paths recognized that his own confidence in controlling events might make him as arrogant as Sasuke.

Otsutsuki Rei detected and attacked Delta’s spying drone, prompting Kara’s members to confront Kimimaro, Jugo, and Suigetsu at the tower. Meanwhile, Yakushi Kabuto watched the spectacle from afar and set out for Takigakure to interfere with Sasuke’s next target, the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki.

• Otsutsuki Rei sensed Delta’s drone watching her and ordered Kimimaro’s Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets to strike it, damaging the device before it escaped.
• Koji Kashin, Boro, and Delta approached the tower, where Boro and Delta clashed with Jugo and Kimimaro; Delta’s laser destroyed the cells in Kimimaro’s bone drill.
• Jugo recognized Koji Kashin as someone who resembled Kakuzu, and Kimimaro warned the intruders to leave or die.
• Suigetsu arrived with Samehada and joined Kimimaro and Jugo as they prepared to fight Kara’s members.
• Yakushi Kabuto saw the upheaval at Sanctuary Crater, decided to complicate Sasuke’s plans, and headed to Takigakure to target the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki.

Sasuke fought Uchiha Madara and revealed Pale Flame, a powerful new Kekkei Tōta born from his Sharingan abilities and Fire- and Lightning-nature Chakra. He rejected Madara’s faith in the Sage of Six Paths’ stone tablet and declared that the old era had no place for Madara.

• Uchiha Madara analyzed Sasuke’s Pale Flame and judged its destructive power comparable to Wood Release.
• Sasuke attacked with Nintaijutsu, but Uchiha Madara exploited its openings, kicked him away, and struck with Storm Release.
• Sasuke explained that Pale Flame combined his Black Flame and Purple Electricity, could be inherited, and had briefly inspired him to imitate a character from his past life.
• Uchiha Madara urged Sasuke to trust the Uchiha stone tablet and its promised way to save the Shinobi World, but Sasuke said he had no interest in Madara’s plan.
• Sasuke argued that each generation must take responsibility for its own era and told Uchiha Madara that he was no longer worthy of dancing.

Sasuke and Uchiha Madara escalated their battle as Nagato used Limbo: Border Jail and follow-up techniques to trap the Sage Clone. With Yinglong unable to move or control his Chakra, he summoned the Dragon Balls and unleashed Super Rage of Heaven Jutsu.

• Uchiha Madara summoned Complete Body Susanoo and attacked Sasuke, who countered with two enormous wooden palms.
• Nagato struck the Sage Clone with Limbo: Border Jail, then used Wood Release: Tree Bind Eternal Burial and Chibaku Tensei to bind Yinglong.
• Yinglong recovered from Limbo: Border Jail but could not escape the vines or Chibaku Tensei’s gravitational pull.
• The Sage Clone summoned three Dragon Balls, whose Senjutsu Chakra broke the Wood Release restraints and helped form a fourth Dragon Ball.
• The Sage Clone gathered natural energy, charged his Rage of Heaven Chakra particles, and unleashed Super Rage of Heaven Jutsu.

The Sage Clone unleashed the Super Rage of Heaven Jutsu, devastating Nagato’s forces but failing to kill Nagato. With Zetsu appearing to aid Nagato and Madara’s revival imminent, the Sage Clone decided to retreat while the Sage of Six Paths continued searching for Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.

• The Sage Clone released the Super Rage of Heaven Jutsu, destroying Nagato’s Wood Golem and Six Paths of Pain in a massive explosion.
• The Sage Clone replenished his Chakra, but Nagato emerged atop the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, battered but alive.
• Zetsu appeared beside Nagato, who ordered him to lend his power, and the Sage Clone decided to retreat as Uchiha Madara’s revival approached.
• In a forest clearing, a figure fell from a spiral vortex, and another person emerged and pinned him to the ground.
• In the Pure Land, the Sage of Six Paths watched shifting scenes and continued searching for Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.

Obito defeated Kakashi, revealed himself, and reclaimed his left Sharingan before taking the unconscious Kakashi away. Meanwhile, Sakura fought Kisame in the flooded underground palace and unveiled Sage Release to counter his chakra-absorbing water technique.

• Obito revealed his face to Kakashi and blamed him for failing to protect Rin.
• Obito removed Kakashi’s left Sharingan, awakened its Kamui, and gained access to Susanoo.
• Obito left Kakashi alive but unconscious, then vanished with him through a space-time ripple.
• Sakura battled Kisame in the flooded palace while Yakumo dealt with the reanimated Seven Ninja Swordsmen elsewhere.
• Kisame’s giant water shark absorbed Sakura’s Water Severing Wave, prompting Sakura to activate Yin Seal: Sage Release.
• Sakura launched Sage Art: Water Severing Wave at Kisame’s giant water shark.

Black Zetsu controlled Nagato and used him to resurrect Uchiha Madara, who reclaimed his Rinnegan and returned to life. Sasuke withdrew from their confrontation, leaving Madara newly revived and eager to pursue him.

• Black Zetsu seized control of Nagato, revealed that Madara had orchestrated the Akatsuki and placed the Rinnegan in Nagato, then transported Nagato and the others away with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Sasuke and Madara paused their Susanoo battle as Sasuke received reports about Koji Kashin and mysterious companions, while he anticipated completing his ritual to reach godhood.
• Madara summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and ordered Black Zetsu to use Nagato's Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to revive him.
• Madara became youthful and alive, removed the Rinnegan from Nagato, and implanted them in his own eyes.
• Sasuke mocked the newly resurrected Madara, then vanished with his Susanoo before Madara's slash could reach him.