Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Emperor Ren visits Peach Star, where Namikaze Minato explains the world’s supernatural balance: Ugly Ghosts arise from human negativity and can merge into larger creatures, while Peach Trees grow from humanity’s positive feelings and produce Blessing Peaches.
• Ren praises Minato’s largely peaceful conquest, then jokes about finding him another wife. Minato firmly insists that he loves only Kushina.
• Ren invites Minato and his family to join a post-New Year gathering for the children.
• Beneath a Peach Tree, Ren recalls how Blessing Peaches helped him rise to power. He incorporates the tree into the Sea of All Beings beside the God Tree; the two coexist, and their presence appears to strengthen both the sea and the Peach Tree.
• Ren meets Yamashiro Ren, a powerful Earth Tier officer of the Peach Legion who seeks to become prime minister of the Island Nation. Proud and ambitious, she challenges the emperor, hoping to measure his strength and prove her country’s value.
• Ren initially says she is unqualified to stand before him, but grants her a chance. A single look from him overwhelms her with a primal, paralyzing terror, making her question whether she can truly face him.

Character developments and interactions

• Minato remains loyal, calm, and devoted to Kushina; his easy rapport with Ren reveals their mutual respect.
• Ren balances warmth and teasing with imperial authority. His memories underline his gratitude for the Blessing Peaches, while his response to Yamashiro’s challenge exposes the immense gap between their power.
• Yamashiro Ren is introduced as capable, self-assured, patriotic, and politically ambitious. Her confidence begins to collapse when she experiences the emperor’s overwhelming presence.
• The encounter between the emperor and Yamashiro shifts from a bold challenge to a moment of stark intimidation, foreshadowing a test of her strength and assumptions.

Significant themes

• Balance between negative and positive forces: Ugly Ghosts and Peach Trees reflect humanity’s darker and brighter emotions.
• Power and responsibility: The Empire uses conquest both to expand and to train its people, while adapting its methods to each world.
• Strength and hierarchy: The chapter contrasts Yamashiro’s formidable Earth Tier abilities with the emperor’s vastly greater power.
• Beauty, dreams, and reality: The Peach Tree’s integration into the Sea of All Beings suggests that humanity’s ideals can shape and stabilize the wider world.

Ren teased Yamashiro Ren, then offered her the chance to become Governor of Peach Star if she met him at the nearby hot spring. After researching first-time experiences and weighing the risks against her ambition, Yamashiro Ren prepared herself and arrived at the spring, where Ren was waiting.

• Yamashiro Ren fled after Ren intensified his pressure, then encouraged herself to challenge him again.
• Ren cornered Yamashiro Ren and promised her the position of Governor of Peach Star if she won, telling her to meet him at a nearby hot spring.
• Yamashiro Ren searched online about first-time sex, considered whether Ren might be exploiting her, and resolved to pursue her ambition.
• Ren relaxed in the secluded hot spring as Yamashiro Ren entered wearing a bath towel.

Ren spent the night with Yamashiro Ren, then discussed the Peach Legion's future and a new power-amplification method with her. Years later, the Empire completed its conquest of the Dragon Star, bringing its population to fifty billion.

• Yamashiro Ren joined Ren in the hot spring, and he challenged her with the idea of offering him mouth-chewed wine before they became intimate.
• Ren asked Yamashiro Ren about the Peach Legion, and she described her plan to build an elite force while leaving ordinary people to protect cities.
• Ren told Yamashiro Ren about Resonance Amplification, an experimental method for channeling the power of a group into one person.
• Ren carried the exhausted Yamashiro Ren to bed, where You and Ya settled beside her.
• Ren summoned Namikaze Minato in the Empire Building, gave him instructions, and returned to Shinra Capital.
• By January 1 of Kaiyuan Year Eight, the last Dragon Star had joined the Empire's orbit, completing its conquest and raising its population to fifty billion.

At the Imperial Assembly, Ren established four great committees to organize the Starsea Empire’s government and announced Uchiha Yao as crown prince. The chapter ended with several appointments confirmed, including Yamashiro Ren as Governor of Peach Star, while most ministerial posts and the premiership remained undecided.

• Ren announced the establishment of the Legislative, Executive, Judicial, and National Defense Committees and outlined their departments.
• The assembly considered the new administrative structure as officials weighed the competition for leadership positions.
• WarGreymon escorted Uchiha Yao into the hall, and Mikoto brought him to Ren on the dais.
• Ren declared Uchiha Yao the Empire’s crown prince before officials and subjects across the Empire.
• Ren appointed Yamashiro Ren Governor of Peach Star and transferred Namikaze Minato to the Planetary Governance Department as deputy minister, while leaving most ministerial posts and the premiership unsettled.

Momonga received a mandate from Ren to develop a model for governing multiple races, along with God Tree tea that restored his sense of taste. The chapter ended with the Imperial Central Elementary School's opening day and the families gathering for a photograph.

• Konan served Momonga God Tree tea, which restored his ability to taste.
• Ren told Momonga to use his province as a trial site for multiracial governance and produce results within five years.
• Konan gave Momonga a box of God Tree tea leaves from Ren, and Momonga resolved to consult the Floor Guardians and meet the emperor's expectations.
• Uchiha Mikoto, Naruto Uzumaki, Uzumaki Kushina, Hinata, Ren, and other parents gathered with the children for Imperial Central Elementary School's opening day.
• Uchiha Chiyao and Caiyin took a photograph of the children and their parents.

Two and a half years into the Empire’s rapid expansion, Demiurge promoted unity among the races while Mabui confronted Albedo over rumors in the Magic Province. Meanwhile, Shalltear watched a mind-controlled tribe enter a temple, where their people were processed underground.

• Demiurge addressed the Empire, praising its development and declaring integration among all races and unity across the stars inevitable.
• Mabui met with Albedo in the Magic Province and invoked the emperor’s policy of racial unity, prompting Albedo to promise a thorough investigation of the rumors.
• A nonhuman tribe led by a mind-controlled chief left for the forest as townspeople discussed their departure.
• Shalltear watched the tribe approach a temple guarded by Death Knights, where the frightened tribespeople were herded inside.
• Skeletons arranged the tribe members’ corpses on stone slabs and processed them underground.