Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Shisui's Clone captured Daiki, Amegakure's Five-Tails Jinchuriki, and escaped before Yahiko could arrive. Artificial Human Ninja then captured Takigakure's Seven-Tails Jinchuriki and left the village with him.

• Uchiha Shisui's Clone found Daiki's cabin but abandoned his plan to cause havoc in Amegakure.
• Four Rain Ninja tried to protect Daiki, but Uchiha Shisui's Clone knocked them unconscious with his red eyes and genjutsu.
• Uchiha Shisui's Clone sealed Daiki's Tailed Beast Chakra and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take him away.
• Yahiko questioned the Rain Ninja and suspected an Uchiha might have taken Daiki, so he planned to contact the Hokage.
• Artificial Human Ninja infiltrated Takigakure, subdued the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki, and carried him out despite the village's resistance.

Kirigakure overwhelmed the allied villages, killed the Third Raikage and Ōnoki, then ambushed and killed the Fourth Raikage as he rushed home to defend Kumogakure. With Kirigakure attacking Iwagakure as well, Kitsuchi unleashed the village’s secret Explosion Corps.

• Kirigakure’s expanded force of Artificial Human Ninjas defeated Iwagakure and Kumogakure, taking more Jinchuriki and killing the Third Raikage and Ōnoki.
• Kitsuchi and the Fourth Raikage A called a Four Kage Summit, but A left to defend Kumogakure after Kirigakure invaded the Land of Lightning.
• Kirigakure ambushed A on the road, where the Shadow Guard captain revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, Susanoo, and Wood Release, and declared himself Uchiha Madara’s heir.
• Kirigakure besieged Kumogakure and attacked Iwagakure, prompting Kitsuchi to deploy the Explosion Corps, whose members gave their lives in explosive attacks.

The Fourth Mizukage withdrew Kirigakure’s battered army after Iwagakure’s Exploding Ninjas devastated its ranks, then resolved to rely on more than a hundred Artificial Human Ninjas to destroy Iwagakure. Sarutobi Toru returned to the Underground Base, where Yugito waited, and judged the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path nearly ready to enter the conflict.

• The Fourth Mizukage ordered Kirigakure to retreat after Iwagakure’s Exploding Ninjas killed most of its ordinary ninja.
• Kirigakure’s strategists assessed the explosions’ range and casualties, and the Fourth Mizukage decided to use more than a hundred Kage-level Artificial Human Ninjas against Iwagakure.
• Kirigakure’s perceptive ninja worried that Uchiha Shisui or another party might control the Artificial Human Ninjas, but they felt unable to abandon them.
• Sarutobi Toru returned to the Underground Base, where Two-Tails Yugito greeted him; he explained that she had to remain hidden until his plan was complete.
• Sarutobi Toru observed that six eyes of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path were open and said it would soon be time for it to enter the conflict.

After Iwagakure and Kumogakure fell, Mei Terumi and Yugito brought news of Kirigakure’s Artificial Human Ninja rebellion and Uchiha Madara’s Moon Eye Plan, prompting a team to attack Uchiha Shisui’s base. Shisui revealed himself as a Konoha spy, revived Madara with Impure World Reincarnation, and prepared to use him as the final enemy in his plan.

• Kitsuchi destroyed Iwagakure with a buried Sealing Jutsu Formula, while Uchiha Shisui destroyed Kumogakure’s Chakra Cannons and helped its survivors escape.
• Mei Terumi arrived at Konoha Village and reported that Uchiha Shisui had led over four hundred Artificial Human Ninjas in a rebellion that devastated Kirigakure.
• Two-Tails Yugito reached Konoha Village and revealed Uchiha Madara’s Moon Eye Plan and Shisui’s use of Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
• A group attacked Uchiha Shisui’s base, where he revived Uchiha Madara and revealed that he was a Konoha spy who had fabricated his hatred.
• Uchiha Shisui placed a talisman in Uchiha Madara’s head to control him and prepared to stage the final battle.

The allied ninja villages’ elite squad arrived at the God Tree to carry out a decapitation strike against Uchiha Shisui. They faced Shisui, Uchiha Madara, and an army of reincarnated Kage and other powerful ninjas, and the chapter ended as Shisui and Sarutobi Toru unleashed immense chakra.

• Sarutobi Toru set out with Konoha’s elites alongside a strike squad assembled from the other four ninja villages.
• The squad reached the former Land of Earth and charged toward the God Tree after finding no Artificial Human Ninjas along the way.
• The allied ninjas encountered numerous reincarnated Kage, legendary fighters, and Artificial Human Ninjas guarding the God Tree, with Uchiha Madara at the front.
• Uchiha Shisui addressed the arriving ninjas and argued with Sarutobi Toru over his plan to create an illusory paradise.
• Sarutobi Toru and Uchiha Shisui released overwhelming chakra, shocking the assembled ninjas.

Sarutobi Toru demonstrated his overwhelming Six Paths-level power against Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Madara while the other ninjas watched. After he kicked Madara’s meteor back at him, the stunned forces joined Konoha in attacking the remaining Impure World Reincarnation ninjas and Artificial Human Ninjas.

• Uchiha Shisui summoned a Wood Golem armored with Perfect Susanoo and struck at Sarutobi Toru and the surrounding ninjas with a Coiled Dragon Staff.
• Sarutobi Toru punched the staff apart and staggered the Wooden Golem while remaining steady in midair.
• Uchiha Madara joined Shisui, but Sarutobi Toru blasted his Susanoo backward with a compressed-air punch.
• Uchiha Madara summoned a meteor, and Sarutobi Toru kicked it flying back toward him.
• Sarutobi Toru ordered the ninjas to handle the other enemies, and they charged after Konoha’s forces.

After the battle, Sarutobi Toru sealed the God Tree in the Amber Purifying Pot and led his unharmed team back to Konoha. He planned to restore the tree and grow a Chakra Fruit in a Parallel World while Konoha prepared to take control of the other villages.

• Hiruko, Orochimaru, and Sasori examined the God Tree, discussing its material and potential uses.
• Sarutobi Toru sealed the God Tree inside the Amber Purifying Pot with the Six Paths, Ten-Tails Seal.
• Sarutobi Toru declared the mission complete and led his team away from the battlefield, where most of the ninjas remained dazed.
• Sarutobi Toru met Tsunade and returned to Konoha with her main force.
• Sarutobi Toru planned to restore the God Tree in a Parallel World and use the Gold and Silver Brothers' Nine-Tails chakra to grow a Chakra Fruit.

Sarutobi Toru revived the God Tree in the Parallel World and fed it the Gold and Silver Brothers and a massive Tenseigan, prompting it to bear fruit naturally. He merged it with a weakened God Tree from another world and accelerated the merged tree’s growth until it produced a Chakra Fruit in less than a day.

• Sarutobi Toru sent White Zetsu to retrieve the Gold and Silver Brothers’ remains, then performed Impure World Reincarnation on them.
• Sarutobi Toru released the Amber Purifying Pot in the Land of Snow and fed both sets of the Gold and Silver Brothers to the half-dead God Tree.
• Sarutobi Toru gave the God Tree a massive Tenseigan, and it grew rapidly as a flower bud formed at its peak.
• Sarutobi Toru summoned a shriveled Demonic Statue of the Outer Path containing the other God Tree and used his Hormone Fruit ability to merge the two trees.
• Sarutobi Toru accelerated the merged God Tree’s natural growth and supplied it with his Chakra until it bore a Chakra Fruit in less than a day.

Sarutobi Toru ate another Chakra Fruit and emerged from a three-day transformation with immense power, then returned to Konoha after testing a devastating new strike. The chapter left him arriving in a prosperous Konoha where Tsunade was serving as Hokage.

• Sarutobi Toru ate a larger Chakra Fruit and slept for three days while Kazahana Dōtō and Nadare Rōga stationed Snow Ninja at Snow Valley.
• Sarutobi Toru awoke with greatly increased Chakra and physical strength as the Truth-Seeking Orbs fused into his body.
• Sarutobi Toru formed a golden sword and accidentally sliced through the atmosphere, realizing his attack could devastate vast areas.
• Sarutobi Toru told the Snow Ninja to inform Kazahana Dōtō he would soon leave, then sealed the God Tree into the Amber Purifying Pot.
• Sarutobi Toru used the Flying Thunder God Technique to return to Konoha, where Tsunade had overseen the village’s growth and new hospital.

Sarutobi Toru visited Root and discovered Tobirama Senju experimenting with Uchiha powers and developing artificial humans whose Kekkei Genkai had awakened. The breakthrough suggested that the two Shinobi Worlds could build immense strength, and Toru began imagining a future counterattack against the Otsutsuki.

• Sarutobi Toru teleported into Root and found Tobirama Senju using Susanoo and Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Tobirama explained his interest in studying Uchiha and Senju powers, then told Toru that Artificial Human technology had advanced.
• Sarutobi Toru saw clones with awakened Three Tomoe Sharingan and Byakugan, along with Senju clones showing partially activated Sage Bodies.
• Tobirama said Yin Release Chakra could create artificial consciousness and stimulate the clones to produce Chakra.
• Sarutobi Toru considered combining the cloning technology with his God Tree to strengthen the Shinobi Worlds and eventually challenge the Otsutsuki.

More than ten years after Sarutobi Toru resolved to strengthen the Shinobi World against the Otsutsuki, Konoha had unified the world and transformed it through peace, technology, and education. The chapter ended with Root thriving as an intelligence and elite force in a modernized Konoha.

• Sarutobi Toru accepted that he could not find Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and decided to give the Shinobi World time to develop while keeping his Space-Time Beacon as a last resort.
• Over a decade passed as Konoha unified the Shinobi World, reduced the Daimyo to figureheads, and made the other Great Ninja Villages subordinate bases led by Sarutobi Toru's allies.
• Konoha's schools and textbooks named the peaceful period the New Era, while new technology reshaped the village into a city of skyscrapers and aerial maglev cars.
• After an Anbu fell while crossing between skyscrapers, Konoha banned ninja from traveling across buildings taller than ten stories.
• Root became popular for its Mysterious Peacock Method, expanded into an intelligence network and elite force, and left Shimura Danzō grumbling about its lost traditions.

Temari, Gaara, and Kankuro arrived in Konoha and learned that a battle between two academy graduates had drawn a crowd. They saw the fighters clash as a gigantic Wooden Arhat and a Chakra Susanoo, leaving Gaara wary and Kankuro stunned by their power.

• Kankuro marveled at Konoha while Gaara and Temari mocked his interest in classic Puppet Design and urged him to consider Intelligent Puppet Design.
• Temari asked Ebisu about the commotion, and he explained that two of the academy's greatest young geniuses were fighting.
• Gaara and Temari recognized who the crowd had come to watch and headed toward the battle with Kankuro.
• The siblings sensed powerful Chakra ahead, and Kankuro questioned whether academy graduates could truly possess such strength.
• Two enormous figures, a Wooden Arhat and a Chakra Susanoo, rose above the Training Ground and clashed as a blue Chakra Shield blocked the shockwaves.
• Gaara carried the siblings over the Training Ground wall on sand, where he and Kankuro watched the two fighters and realized how formidable they had become.

Naruto Namikaze and Sasuke competed in a sparring match, each unveiling a new technique. Sasuke won by teleporting Susanoo behind Naruto’s Wooden Arhat, then concealed how badly the maneuver had drained him.

• Naruto Namikaze empowered his Wooden Arhat with the Sage Art Yin Seal and Mysterious Peacock Method: Armor, then attacked with six Sage Art Rasengan.
• Sasuke surrounded Susanoo with Chidori Stream and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport behind Naruto’s Wooden Arhat and split it in half.
• Naruto conceded the sparring match, and Sasuke let his exhausted Susanoo disappear while hiding his weakness.
• Naruto asked when Sasuke had learned Flying Thunder God, and Sasuke coolly acknowledged the question.
• The narration explained that Naruto’s Space-Time talent was too weak for him to learn Flying Thunder God, despite his exceptional abilities in other areas.

Naruto Namikaze and Sasuke’s strength impressed Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro as they discussed Konoha’s advantages before leaving to observe the other villages. At the Hokage’s Office, the Kage gathered after an intimate interlude with Sarutobi Toru, and Kurotsuchi said she might succeed the absent Tsuchikage in a year or two.

• Naruto Namikaze complained that Minato had taught Sasuke the Flying Thunder God Technique, while Sasuke’s Mangekyō Sharingan had made it practical for him to use in combat.
• Kankuro, Temari, and Gaara discussed how powerful Konoha’s young ninja were, and Gaara said Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji were roughly equal without their special techniques.
• Gaara and the others left the Training Ground to observe the visiting villages and gather intelligence ahead of the Chunin Selection.
• At the Hokage’s Office, Yugito teased Sarutobi Toru about Samui and Mabui, who had joined him while Tsunade, Pakura, and Mei Terumi recovered.
• Tsunade remembered the meeting, and Mei Terumi suggested that Kurotsuchi replace the absent Tsuchikage; Kurotsuchi said Akatsuchi expected her to take over in a year or two.

Kurotsuchi waited to become Tsuchikage while Sarutobi Toru attended a meeting and learned that the Kara Organization had emerged in the Land of Lightning. After watching the Chunin Selection, he planned to investigate Ōtsutsuki Isshiki once the event ended, and Gaara took first place.

• Kurotsuchi attended the meeting as part of the Tsuchikage's Shadow Guard with Deidara, who had devoted himself to establishing a new Explosion Corps.
• Sarutobi Toru heard the Land of Lightning report that Victor and chief scientist Amado had founded a bio-company called Kara, and he recognized it as a lead on Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Sarutobi Toru decided to finish the Chunin Selection before using his Space-Time Ninjutsu to search for the Kara Organization.
• Chojuro, Gaara and his siblings, and Kumogakure's competitors performed well in the Chunin Selection, while Kurotsuchi and Deidara did not participate.
• Gaara won first place after surpassing his Original Work self through the Perfect Potion and a strong upbringing.

Sarutobi Toru learned that Gaara’s sand gourd had fused with Shamon’s Sand Dragon, then spent time with Temari and assigned Kurama Yakumo to serve as his secretary and bodyguard. He later infiltrated Kara’s headquarters in the Land of Lightning to investigate Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, reaching the company’s hidden underground levels.

• Sarutobi Toru asked Temari about Gaara’s evolved sand gourd, and she explained that only Gaara could use the relic left by her mother and Shamon.
• Sarutobi Toru recalled destroying his Kinnara Clone five years earlier after it had helped raise Temari and her siblings, then spent time with Temari.
• Kurama Yakumo entered on duty, and Sarutobi Toru reflected on her formidable genjutsu powers and her training under Root.
• Sarutobi Toru spent several days at Konoha before setting out for the Land of Lightning to investigate Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Sarutobi Toru infiltrated Kara’s Bio-Company headquarters with his modified Kamui and passed its guards and sealing barriers.
• Sarutobi Toru reached the company’s hidden underground world, which his divine sense had been unable to clearly perceive.

Sarutobi Toru discovered Kara’s research facilities, captured Chief Researcher Amado, and used him to enter the organization’s Pocket Dimension. There he attacked Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, who became fixated on taking Sarutobi Toru’s body as his new vessel.

• Sarutobi Toru found a Minor God Tree in Kara’s laboratory and learned it could potentially grow into a true God Tree.
• Sarutobi Toru met Amado at the Augmented Human Center and used his Rinnegan to learn that Kara’s leader was Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and that Amado could access the organization’s Pocket Dimension.
• Sarutobi Toru entered the Pocket Dimension with Amado, alerting Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, who had been uneasy about a possible threat.
• Sarutobi Toru appeared behind Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and punched through Jigen’s body after catching his backhanded strike.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki rejoiced at the prospect of reincarnating into Sarutobi Toru’s powerful body.

Sarutobi Toru defeated Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and had the God Tree devour him, while Isshiki believed his Karma would let him take over Toru’s body. Toru suppressed the God Tree’s urge to bear fruit and planned to wait for more rewards and another Isshiki before feeding it again.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki transformed and attacked Sarutobi Toru with a black cube, but Toru blasted it away with an Air Cannon.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki used Karma when Toru intercepted his apparent escape, but Toru cut off Isshiki’s fist and discovered the Karma Seal on his own palm.
• Sarutobi Toru slashed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki in half with Space Rift and summoned a God Tree into the Pocket Dimension.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki assumed his Karma would let him reincarnate into Toru after the sacrifice, but Sarutobi Toru controlled the God Tree and had it devour him.
• Sarutobi Toru suppressed the God Tree’s urge to bear fruit and decided to wait for his remaining gift packs and a Parallel World Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.

Sarutobi Toru destroyed Otsutsuki Isshiki’s soul and absorbed his Karma, gaining Isshiki’s ocular techniques before harvesting Isshiki’s Ten-Tails for his God Tree. After taking control of Kara, he left its handover to his allies and set out for the moon to claim its Tenseigan.

• Sarutobi Toru used Soul Vortex to consume Isshiki’s soul and Chakra, erased the Karma Seal, and gained Sukuna and Mahādevā.
• Sarutobi Toru found Isshiki’s dormant Ten-Tails and had his God Tree absorb it, deciding to delay growing a Chakra Fruit until he gathered more power.
• Sarutobi Toru left the Pocket Dimension base with Amado and used his Hormone Fruit ability to make Kara’s members his subordinates.
• Sarutobi Toru told Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Yakushi Nonō to handle Kara’s handover to Konoha.
• Sarutobi Toru traveled to the moon to pursue its Tenseigan and use Isshiki’s Pocket Dimension as a research base.

Sarutobi Toru took the Tenseigan and Otsutsuki Toneri from the moon, then traveled to the Parallel World to confront Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. He sealed Isshiki and fed him to the God Tree, destroying his Karma before it could take hold.

• Sarutobi Toru seized the Tenseigan, knocked out Otsutsuki Toneri, and took them both to his Pocket Dimension.
• Sarutobi Toru reviewed Konoha’s progress with Tsunade, Sakura, and Hinata, then left the sleeping women to search for Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Sarutobi Toru located a spatial weak point in the Land of Rain and opened a passage into Ōtsutsuki Isshiki’s Pocket Dimension.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki attacked Sarutobi Toru and tried to make him a vessel, but Sarutobi Toru sealed him in place.
• Sarutobi Toru used the God Tree to devour Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and destroyed the emerging Karma with his Soul Vortex.