Recaps

Sarutobi Toru decided to return to the Parallel World to collect the remaining White Zetsu, bringing Tsunade and Pakura along while Konan and Kushina stayed behind. In Roran, the women from both worlds compared their lives, and Toru explained why their worlds differed and why this Konoha lacked him.

• Sarutobi Toru told Tsunade, Konan, and Kushina about the Parallel World’s Akatsuki and the tragic fates their counterparts faced.
• Pakura asked to visit the Parallel World, and Sarutobi Toru agreed to take her and Tsunade; Konan and Kushina chose to remain behind.
• After several days, Sarutobi Toru traveled to the Parallel World with Tsunade, Pakura, and Queen Sēramu, who wanted to meet her counterpart and learn about Queen Sara.
• In Roran, Queen Sēramu met her counterpart while the Tsunades and Pakuras from both worlds exchanged experiences.
• Sarutobi Toru explained to Little Tsunade that the worlds had different unique places and people, and Little Tsunade concluded that Konoha was weaker because Toru was absent.

Sarutobi Toru and the leaders from the parallel world prepared to clone kekkei genkai ninja, but Kumogakure’s invasion of a weakened Iwagakure plunged the Shinobi World into another war. As the other villages moved to divide the Land of Earth, Tsunade explained why Kumogakure’s funding system encouraged its wars.

• Elder Tsunade and Elder Pakura teased Sarutobi Toru about their different pasts, and the women from both worlds grew close.
• Sarutobi Toru, Elder Tsunade, and Elder Pakura spent three months building a research base and preparing to clone kekkei genkai ninja.
• Kumogakure invaded Iwagakure after its leaders and high-level fighters had been killed, quickly overwhelming the disorganized village.
• Konoha and the other great villages moved to claim territory in the Land of Earth while leaving Iwagakure to its fate.
• Tsunade explained that Kumogakure’s share of the Land of Lightning’s tax revenue gave it an incentive to expand through war.

Tsunade and Sarutobi Toru decided Konoha would avoid joining the war directly while supporting Amegakure’s rise as a great power. Yakura’s forces conquered most of the Land of Earth, and Iwagakure ultimately agreed to merge with Amegakure.

• Tsunade said Konoha would preserve the balance between the great nations and focus on development, while Amegakure and the Akatsuki Organization could challenge the other villages.
• Yakura led Amegakure into the war, defeating or capturing Iwa Ninja and occupying nearly half of the Land of Earth.
• Yakura routed the Cloud and Sand forces, killing Rasa, severely wounding the Fourth Raikage, and driving the surviving Cloud Shinobi out of the Land of Earth.
• Amegakure withdrew its troops after taking control of most of the Land of Earth, leaving Iwagakure’s fate uncertain.
• Pakura negotiated with Iwagakure’s Elder Council and the Land of Earth Daimyo, and Iwagakure agreed to merge into Amegakure.

Sarutobi Toru took Deidara and Kurotsuchi as disciples under his control as Iwagakure merged into Amegakure. Four years later, after preparing his forces and sensing the moon had gone quiet, he decided it was time to confront the last surviving Otsutsuki there.

• Pakura introduced Deidara and Kurotsuchi to Sarutobi Toru as her new disciples and asked him to unlock their potential.
• Sarutobi Toru used a Hormone Injection on Deidara and Kurotsuchi, making them stronger and shifting their loyalty to him.
• Amegakure occupied the Land of Earth, absorbed Iwagakure, and legitimized the Akatsuki Organization.
• Sarutobi Toru spent four years modifying one hundred thousand Kage-level White Zetsu and prepared to collect the Otsutsuki bloodline on the moon.
• Sarutobi Toru sensed the moon's watching Chakra fall silent and concluded that only the blind Otsutsuki Toneri remained there.

Sarutobi Toru reached the moon, broke through Otsutsuki Toneri’s Puppet forces, and challenged Toneri’s plan to destroy the Shinobi World. The chapter ended with Toru mocking Toneri for condemning the world below after his own clan had destroyed itself through internal conflict.

• Sarutobi Toru traveled to the moon and sensed the Tenseigan, the sealed Otsutsuki Kaguya, and Otsutsuki Toneri beneath its surface.
• Sarutobi Toru flew into the approaching Auto Puppets and tore through them, then smashed through two more groups on his way to Toneri.
• Sarutobi Toru found Otsutsuki Toneri outside a castle and asked about his plan to destroy the Shinobi World and create a new humanity.
• Otsutsuki Toneri declared that shinobi had strayed from their ancestors’ ideals and that he would destroy the world below.
• Sarutobi Toru pointed out that the Shinobi World’s population had grown while the Otsutsuki Clan’s internal conflict had left Toneri alone, then mocked him for judging others.

Sarutobi Toru defeated Otsutsuki Toneri and took the moon’s Tenseigan for himself. He returned to the Shinobi World planning to seek another Tenseigan and use Toneri’s memories to find the right opportunity.

• Sarutobi Toru challenged Otsutsuki Toneri’s beliefs about their ancestors, then knocked him unconscious and sealed him in the Reincarnation Warehouse.
• Sarutobi Toru inspected the Tenseigan, considered using cloning technology to create more, and stored it in the Reincarnation Warehouse.
• Sarutobi Toru decided to search for the Tenseigan in his own world and considered capturing the moon clan when they visited the Shinobi World.
• Sarutobi Toru found the passage to Earth, returned to the Land of Fire, and teleported away.

Sarutobi Toru assembled White Zetsu-enhanced forces to seize the Tailed Beasts and attack rival villages. In Kirigakure, the Fourth Mizukage revealed powerful artificial ninja as he prepared to wage war on Sunagakure and Kumogakure.

• Sarutobi Toru fused Tobi White Zetsu with Uchiha Shisui's Clone, creating a fighter with vastly increased Chakra.
• Sarutobi Toru had White Zetsu possess more than a hundred brainwashed Root ninja, boosting them to Kage-level strength.
• The Fourth Mizukage announced that Kirigakure would wage war against Sunagakure and Kumogakure, alarming the village's leaders.
• The Fourth Mizukage summoned more than twenty masked Anbu with Chakra surpassing Kisame Hoshigaki's and introduced them as Kirigakure's Artificial Human Ninja.

The Fourth Mizukage presented the Artificial Human Ninja as powerful, obedient weapons, and Kisame Hoshigaki challenged one of them to test its strength. After the Artificial Human Ninja matched Kisame in close combat and used Earth Release to overwhelm his Water Release, Genji stopped the test before Kisame could unleash his trump card.

• The Fourth Mizukage praised the Artificial Human Ninja and claimed they could help the Mist Ninja defeat their rivals and seize resources.
• Kisame Hoshigaki asked to test an Artificial Human Ninja, and the Fourth Mizukage agreed to move the test to the Training Ground.
• Kisame Hoshigaki struck the Artificial Human Ninja with Samehada, but the ninja blocked the blow and its wooden sword resisted Samehada’s Chakra absorption.
• Kisame Hoshigaki and the Artificial Human Ninja fought evenly in taijutsu, then their Water Release and Earth Release techniques clashed.
• The Artificial Human Ninja’s Earth Flow River overwhelmed Kisame Hoshigaki’s Great Waterfall Technique and buried him in mud.
• Kisame Hoshigaki prepared to use the Great Exploding Water Wave, but Genji ordered him to stop, and the Artificial Human Ninja returned to the Fourth Mizukage’s side.

Kirigakure’s leaders agreed to attack Sunagakure first after the Fourth Mizukage displayed the Artificial Human Ninjas, though they remained suspicious of their origins. Uchiha Shisui's Clone’s altered memories and personality kept the Mizukage convinced the conquest plan was his own, while Mei Terumi remained Sarutobi Toru’s planted agent.

• The Fourth Mizukage presented the Artificial Human Ninjas, and Kirigakure’s higher-ups questioned whether the village had really developed them.
• Genji advised attacking one village first, and the Fourth Mizukage agreed that Kirigakure should target Sunagakure.
• Uchiha Shisui's Clone watched the Fourth Mizukage organize supplies and explained that altered memories and personality made the Mizukage believe in his own ambitions.
• Kirigakure’s higher-ups stayed wary of the Artificial Human Ninjas but did not openly resist the Fourth Mizukage.
• Mei Terumi, aware of the situation as Sarutobi Toru’s planted agent, met with Sarutobi Toru at her villa.

Sarutobi Toru urged Mei Terumi to use the coming war to strengthen her position in Kirigakure. Kirigakure invaded and conquered Sunagakure, leaving Mei Terumi famous for her victories but the Fourth Mizukage at the height of his power.

• Sarutobi Toru told Mei Terumi that the war was her chance to gain influence, and she said she had recruited young ninja and become Kirigakure's strongest fighter.
• Kirigakure invaded the Land of Wind, and its Kage-level forces crushed Sunagakure's defenses despite the Sand Shinobi's Puppet Army.
• The Fourth Mizukage led a surprise attack on Sunagakure and abducted One-Tails Shukaku, depriving the Puppet Army of its crucial Chakra supply.
• Kirigakure overran Sunagakure and occupied its village after the Puppet Army collapsed.
• Mei Terumi killed Rasa, severely wounded Chiyo, and later held off Sasori of the Red Sands, Kinnara, and the Fourth Kazekage while her allies withdrew.

After Kirigakure occupied Sunagakure and gained official recognition from the Daimyo of the Land of Wind, Konoha's leaders debated how to respond. Sarutobi Toru persuaded them to let Kirigakure draw hostility while Konoha prepared to benefit, and the meeting ended with a plan to aid and gather Sunagakure's ninja.

• The Fourth Mizukage obtained a Letter of Recognition from the Daimyo of the Land of Wind, giving Kirigakure legitimacy as it hunted Sand Shinobi.
• Tsunade stopped Sarutobi Hiruzen from smoking during Konoha's conference-room meeting, while the leaders discussed Kirigakure's growing strength.
• Nara Shikaku proposed providing humanitarian aid to Sunagakure and gathering Sand Shinobi for future use.
• Sarutobi Toru argued that Konoha should let Kirigakure draw hostility before eventually eliminating it, and several attendees recognized the hidden implications.
• Konoha approved a plan to take in and aid Sunagakure's ninja.

With Kirigakure closing in on Sunagakure’s last surviving forces, Sasori of the Red Sands weighed the survivors’ options and refused to abandon his post as Kazekage. Kinnara prepared to take Gaara, Yashamaru, and the other survivors to Konoha, while Sasori chose to remain behind.

• Kirigakure focused on hunting the remaining seven or eight hundred loyal Sand Shinobi, forcing them to seek refuge in Konoha.
• Sasori of the Red Sands worried that the survivors were being killed and that his supplies were becoming difficult to obtain.
• Kinnara asked Sasori whether he would activate Sunagakure’s poison contingency plan or join Konoha, and Sasori rejected the plan because Kirigakure controlled the coast and the route was blocked.
• Kinnara said he would take Yashamaru, Gaara, and the other children to Konoha, and Sasori agreed that he should bring all the survivors.
• Sasori of the Red Sands declared that he would remain behind as Kazekage and be buried alongside Sunagakure.

Kinnara led most of Sunagakure’s surviving Sand Shinobi to Konoha, where Pakura settled them as Konoha prepared to use their exile for a political alliance. The chapter left Sasori and the elders behind in the Land of Wind to resist Kirigakure, while Sarutobi Toru visited Pakura after her work was done.

• Sasori refused to flee, and Chiyo, Ebizo, and Rena stayed with him as the surviving Sand Shinobi split over whether to leave.
• Kinnara became the leader of the Sand Shinobi who chose to seek refuge in Konoha.
• With help from Uchiha Shisui’s Clone, Kinnara’s group evaded Kirigakure’s searches and left the Land of Wind after a month.
• Pakura welcomed the Sand Shinobi to Konoha and spent the day arranging their resettlement.
• Sarutobi Toru visited Pakura, where he found her with Big Pakura, and then returned to the Senju Estate.

Sarutobi Toru oversaw the capture of Shukaku and strengthened his plans to use Kirigakure to seize the other villages’ Tailed Beasts. Half a year later, Kirigakure’s forces confronted Iwagakure and Kumogakure while its growing force of Artificial Human Ninjas stirred excitement among its Jōnin.

• Sarutobi Toru visited the Underground Base, where Otsutsuki Toneri reported that Shukaku had been absorbed by the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Sarutobi Toru praised Otsutsuki Toneri and noted that the statue’s Chakra reserves had grown far beyond their former peak.
• Over the next half year, Konoha rebuffed Iwagakure and Kumogakure’s attempts to coordinate against Sunagakure, while the two villages joined forces and shifted ninja toward the Land of Fire’s borders.
• Kirigakure sent large numbers of ninja to confront Iwagakure and Kumogakure along the Land of Earth’s border.
• At Kirigakure’s Land of Wind stronghold, Jōnin discussed the growing number of Artificial Human Ninjas and speculated that Tailed Beasts could produce them, raising hopes that Kirigakure might conquer the Shinobi World.

The Fourth Mizukage planned to divide Kirigakure’s forces, using Artificial Human Ninja to seize the Tailed Beasts of Takigakure and the Rain Ninja while his main force attacked the Rock and Cloud Shinobi. As the invasion stalled against a coalition, Uchiha Shisui’s Clone split from his squad and headed for the Rain Ninja village, leaving the easier Seven-Tails target to the other Artificial Human Ninja.

• The Fourth Mizukage told the Mist Ninja that Kirigakure would attack the Rock and Cloud Shinobi while secretly taking the Tailed Beasts from Takigakure and the Rain Ninja.
• Three days later, Kirigakure attacked the Land of Earth's defensive line as the Rock Shinobi, Cloud Shinobi, and a Konoha force formed a coalition to resist.
• The coalition struggled to hold against Kirigakure until Sasori of the Red Sands arrived with the remaining Sand Shinobi to reinforce them.
• Uchiha Shisui’s Clone split from more than a dozen Artificial Human Ninja and sent them toward Takigakure while he went to confront the Rain Ninja.

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.