Chapter Summaries

Cang and his allies prepared a barrier on Ancient Reef Island for Isshiki’s arrival, while Cang acknowledged Zhi Li as his disciple and Shisui and Light resolved to fight. Isshiki emerged from a golden rift with seven figures, and Cang activated the barrier as the battle began.

• Cang learned from Zhi Li that her barrier could hold Isshiki for only three to five breaths, then told her he had chosen her for her potential and urged her to find her own path.
• Shisui and Light watched the unnatural sea fog and agreed to face Isshiki together.
• Uchiha Keita led six others, including Hatake Sakumo, onto the island; Sakumo reflected on his dead son Kakashi before disappearing into the mist.
• Cang sensed Isshiki approaching, and Isshiki arrived through a golden rift with seven figures behind him.
• Cang activated Zhi Li’s barrier, trapping the island in mist as the battle began and Zhi Li maintained the barrier from the sea.

Cang and Isshiki confronted each other across the reefs, discussing their shared history, Kaguya Clan’s legacy, and the choices that shaped them. Isshiki admitted his fear before declaring that he would fight Cang, and both prepared to clash.

• Isshiki recounted his thousand-year wait and Kaguya Clan’s betrayal, while Cang questioned whether he was lonely.
• Isshiki revealed that Cang carried Kaguya Clan’s remnants within the essence he had absorbed and warned that Cang was bound to Otsutsuki causality.
• Cang accused Isshiki of fearing that someone could escape the Otsutsuki’s fate, and Isshiki admitted he feared his thousand years had been for nothing.
• Cang said he believed everyone had the right to choose, and Isshiki recalled Kaguya Clan defending humanity’s ability to choose, love, and protect others.
• Cang named Zhi Li and his concealed allies as the people he chose to protect, while Isshiki said power would decide their conflict.
• Isshiki and Cang moved to within ten meters of each other and raised their powers as the sea breeze stopped.

Cang fought Isshiki and turned the techniques of Isshiki’s black rods against him, breaking free of a chain that threatened to awaken the Wedge within him. Isshiki escalated the battle with a giant golden avatar, and Cang answered with a burst of purple threads.

• Isshiki attacked Cang with black rods that appeared without warning, while Cang used his Rinnegan and Chakra to block them.
• Isshiki formed a chain from the rods that restrained Cang and made the Wedge fragments within him stir, forcing him to choose between breaking free and suppressing them.
• Cang used his changed Rinnegan to trace the black rods’ techniques back to Isshiki, weakening Isshiki’s Wedge and snapping the chain.
• Isshiki summoned a colossal golden phantom and sent its palm crashing down at Cang.
• Cang raised his hand and sent countless purple threads toward the descending golden palm.

Cang, also called Uchiha Sou, used Causality Threads to dismantle Isshiki’s golden phantom and learned to interfere with his movements, but Isshiki tore free at the cost of his arm. Isshiki unleashed the Golden Wedge, and the two charged into their next clash with neither knowing who would win.

• Cang unraveled Isshiki’s golden phantom with Causality Threads and explained that he had learned the power by studying the fragments Isshiki left in his body.
• Isshiki attacked Cang at close range, and Cang struck back before being badly injured by Isshiki’s blows.
• Cang grabbed Isshiki’s wrist and used Causality Threads to disrupt his movements, but Isshiki tore away his own arm to escape the threads.
• Isshiki revealed the Golden Wedge and unleashed his accumulated power as Cang formed a vast web of Causality Threads around himself.
• Cang and Isshiki charged at each other as the battle resumed.

Isshiki released his Golden Wedge and overwhelmed Cang with his enhanced power, but Cang’s Wedge-awakened instincts let him absorb Isshiki’s Chakra and fight back. After Cang survived their exchange and revealed his space-time folding ability, Isshiki summoned a divine staff that disrupted Cang’s lines of Causality and challenged him to continue.

• Isshiki emerged in his golden form and struck Cang with enough force to smash him through several reefs.
• Cang discovered he was passively absorbing Isshiki’s golden Chakra, awakening his Otsutsuki instincts and sharpening his perception of Causality.
• Cang used Sage Art: Yin Release Lightning School to track Isshiki, then countered his attack and fought him with close-range strikes.
• Cang used space-time folding acceleration to land a powerful kick, though the technique badly injured his leg.
• Isshiki summoned a divine Yin–Yang Release staff and used it to twist Cang’s lines of Causality, making his predictions unreliable.

Cang used causal threads and Yin–Yang Release to seize part of Isshiki’s Wedge power, then used it to heal himself. He challenged Isshiki to confront the person he had been before his thousand years of isolation, and Isshiki agreed to continue fighting.

• Cang used a fireball as cover to bind Isshiki with restored causal threads and began rewriting his Wedge with Yin–Yang Release.
• Isshiki struck Cang with his staff, but Cang tore a core fragment of the Wedge from him and sealed it within himself, taking nearly one-third of Isshiki’s source power.
• Cang rose from the sea and used Yin–Yang Release to heal his injuries by consuming the stolen Wedge power, despite the backlash threatening his body.
• Cang urged Isshiki to consider whether he had lost his former self along with his power, recalling Isshiki’s past curiosity and longing to reach for something.
• Isshiki stopped his attack, then accepted Cang’s challenge and raised his staff as both men moved at once.

Cang fought Isshiki while his Causality threads consumed Isshiki’s Wedge origin, even after Isshiki crushed Cang’s heart. Isshiki unleashed a forbidden self-destruction technique, engulfing them both in golden light as Cang’s consciousness faded.

• Isshiki attacked Cang in a fury and punched through his back, crushing his heart.
• Cang used Causality threads to reconnect his heart and bind Isshiki’s arm, draining Isshiki’s Wedge origin.
• Isshiki broke the threads and began a forbidden technique that detonated his Wedge origin.
• Isshiki’s golden explosion erased the surrounding ocean and trapped Cang in its light.
• Cang’s body and Causality threads began to burn as he lost consciousness.

Cang survived Isshiki’s forbidden technique by binding and assimilating part of Isshiki’s Wedge essence, then provoked Isshiki into burning his bloodline for greater power. The battle continued with Isshiki badly injuring Cang while Cang stole another portion of his origin, and Cang ended by promising that this was only the beginning.

• Cang resisted Isshiki’s golden flames by binding the stolen Wedge essence to his own Causality until its imprints were rewritten into his shape.
• Isshiki halted his self-destructive technique, grabbed Cang, and attacked him as Cang taunted him about fearing the loss of his origin.
• Isshiki activated Blood Wedge Release, sacrificing bloodline and lifespan to gain power, then punched a hole through Cang’s chest.
• Isshiki crushed and stomped Cang while Cang continued to taunt him, and Cang used their contact to steal one-tenth of Isshiki’s Wedge origin.
• Cang rose from the sea as the stolen golden power was digested by his Causality, and he told Isshiki that this was only the beginning.

Uchiha Sou sealed Isshiki’s source essence against its corrupting influence and fought him to a standstill, proving that his identity and strength were his own. After Isshiki acknowledged him, he told Sou the ancient origins of the Ōtsutsuki and their power, leaving Sou with new questions about his path.

• Isshiki told Sou that swallowing his source essence would never make Sou a true Ōtsutsuki, and Sou sealed the essence with Causality Threads rather than letting it define him.
• Sou challenged Isshiki, and the two fought fiercely across the sea, sky, and deep ocean as Sou developed a new power shaped by his own will.
• Isshiki admitted that he had underestimated Sou, and Sou insisted that perseverance and conviction could rival power inherited through bloodlines.
• Before Isshiki left, Cang asked about the origins of the Ōtsutsuki and their power, so Isshiki recounted the God Tree, Chakra, and the loneliness behind the gods’ pride.
• Cang and Isshiki parted with mutual understanding and respect, as Cang considered the revelations that might shape his future.

Cang and Isshiki escalated their battle as Isshiki reversed Cang’s Causality Threads, but Cang used Isshiki’s re-encoded Wedge source to injure him. Both were left badly wounded, and Isshiki asked Sou whether sacrificing three years of his life for the fight had been worth it.

• Cang injured Isshiki for the third time, and Isshiki revealed his Causality Reversal technique, turning Cang’s Threads against him.
• Isshiki struck Cang’s shoulder, but Cang used Isshiki’s Wedge source to make their origins clash inside Isshiki’s body.
• Isshiki branded Sou’s chest with a golden handprint, leaving both fighters wounded and their Chakra disrupted.
• Isshiki asked Sou whether trading three years of his life for the brief battle was worth it, and Sou said Isshiki would not understand.

Uchiha Sou used his remaining Causality Threads to connect and buffer the conflicting origins inside Isshiki, slowing him and leaving a lasting effect. Though gravely wounded and nearly out of power, Sou faced Isshiki again as the confrontation continued.

• Cang and Isshiki, both badly injured, prepared to continue fighting while the origins inside Isshiki clashed.
• Cang turned his own blood into purple Causality Threads and used Isshiki's slowed movement to pierce his chest with a thread that linked the conflicting origins.
• Cang added three more threads to Isshiki before his power faded, leaving the origins more stable and their conflict reduced.
• Isshiki asked Cang's name, and Cang identified himself as Uchiha Sou before retreating to a reef and struggling to his feet.
• Uchiha Sou raised his last three Causality Threads and challenged Isshiki, who gathered golden light and agreed to continue.

Sou and Isshiki resumed their fight after Sou awakened a second stage by balancing Dragon Vein, the priestess’s power, and Mōryō through Isshiki’s Wedge essence. Their blades collided again, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Isshiki activated Wedge: Second Stage and formed a golden longsword as he and Sou argued over whether their previous fight had ended in a draw.
• Sou explained that Isshiki’s Wedge essence had enabled him to hurt Isshiki, then announced that he would reveal his own second stage.
• Sou awakened Dragon Vein Chakra, the priestess’s power, and Mōryō’s power, linking and balancing them with Isshiki’s Wedge essence.
• Sou’s wounds began to recover, the golden palm print stopped spreading, and countless multicolored Causality Threads gathered into a short blade.
• Sou and Isshiki stepped forward and clashed their purple and golden blades once more.

Cang and Isshiki fought across the sea, each turning the other’s causal powers against him as their bodies and energy weakened. After their final clash left both gravely injured, they charged at each other again with nearly spent weapons.

• Cang and Isshiki exchanged rapid attacks above the sea, and Cang used causal threads to wound Isshiki while suffering injuries himself.
• Isshiki refined Cang’s causal threads into his own power and used them to seal Cang off from the Dragon Vein, the priestess, and Mōryō.
• Cang formed a black hole that absorbed Isshiki’s causal net, while Isshiki summoned an ancient Otsutsuki combat phantom armed with eight weapons.
• Cang and Isshiki’s attacks collided and vanished, leaving Cang’s right arm badly damaged and eight cracks across Isshiki’s arms.
• Cang and Isshiki acknowledged their dwindling strength, then stepped forward and charged at each other again.

Cang used his evolved Causality Thread to wound Isshiki and narrow his possible movements, though Isshiki remained faster and kept attacking. Isshiki called Cang’s tactic provocation as the two prepared to continue their fight.

• Cang redirected the causality of Isshiki’s strike and pierced Isshiki’s cheek with the Causality Thread.
• Cang used grafting to make a thread pierce Isshiki’s ribs through the void, while Isshiki wounded Cang in their exchanges.
• Isshiki recognized that Cang had deliberately accepted injuries to land his attacks.
• Cang triggered a seed hidden in Isshiki’s rib wound, constricting Isshiki’s Chakra flow and limiting his movements.
• Isshiki called Cang’s tactic provocation and smiled coldly.

Cang used causality-based powers to evade Isshiki’s attacks, mark him, and distort his perception, forcing Isshiki to adapt. Both prepared to unleash their full power for a final strike over the sea.

• Isshiki’s golden energy overwhelmed Cang’s causality threads, but Cang redirected the attack into the sea.
• Cang connected his distant and nearby positions through causality, reached Isshiki, and carved a persistent palm mark into his chest.
• Isshiki spread golden light over his body to sense the causality threads and dodged Cang’s first three-thread attack.
• Cang distorted Isshiki’s perception with thirty threads, allowing three real threads to wound him and leave new marks.
• Isshiki formed a red-tinged golden blade as Cang gathered four-colored power into a net, and both stepped forward for a decisive strike.

Cang and Isshiki fought a brutal battle using causality and their remaining source power, each inflicting serious wounds on the other. The chapter ended with both battered and exhausted, as Isshiki formed an almost transparent blade and Cang gathered the last of his causality power in his empty hands.

• Cang pierced Isshiki with black rods that struck through causality, and Isshiki sensed their power and burned his origin to strengthen his blade.
• Cang’s rods trapped Isshiki’s possible movements, but Isshiki gathered his origin essence for a certain-hit strike.
• Cang released the rods’ accumulated causality to redirect Isshiki’s attack back at him, blasting Isshiki across the sea and leaving Cang severely weakened.
• Isshiki charged Cang, and the two traded blows that shattered Cang’s remaining rods and left both of them with new wounds.
• Isshiki formed a nearly transparent blade as his source power neared its limit, while Cang gathered the residual causality in his empty hands.

Cang and Isshiki clashed in a final battle of Causality, with Cang sacrificing his body to stop Isshiki’s origin-burning blade. The blade disintegrated before killing Cang, leaving both warriors gravely weakened as a deep hum stirred beneath the sea.

• Cang spread a web of Causality around Isshiki and used his body to bear its backlash.
• Isshiki forged a giant blade from his burning origin and swung it to erase Cang from Causality.
• Cang wrapped the blade in causal threads, delaying its strike as his body disintegrated.
• Cang used the threads’ lingering aura to graft part of Isshiki’s origin to his own consciousness, halting the blade inches from his forehead.
• Isshiki released the blade, which disintegrated, and both fighters remained wounded as a purple rune persisted in his palm.
• The sea quieted after the battle, then a low hum rose from its depths.

Cang defeated Isshiki when his transformed Truth-Seeking Orb swallowed Daikokuten, and then absorbed Isshiki’s Wedge and power. Left gravely injured but regenerating, Cang survived Isshiki’s final disappearance and swam toward shore.

• Isshiki unfolded Daikokuten, raising the sea into a vast sphere as his body disintegrated.
• Cang drew a powerful Truth-Seeking Orb from Isshiki’s essence and used it to swallow Daikokuten.
• The Truth-Seeking Orb collapsed into motes that began healing Cang, while Isshiki acknowledged his defeat.
• Isshiki’s Wedge dissolved into Cang, who absorbed its power and gained new patterns in his Rinnegan.
• Isshiki disappeared, and Cang began reconstructing his ruined body before swimming toward shore.

After recovering from his battle with Isshiki, Cang realized he needed the Chakra Fruit to cross into the Six Paths realm and decided to seek Isshiki’s hidden Small Ten-Tails. Once his body was fully restored, he used Isshiki’s spatial mark to travel toward it.

• Cang examined his reconstructed body and sensed that he had formed the rudiments of Kekkei Mōra but remained short of the Six Paths level.
• Cang concluded that he needed the Chakra Fruit and expected the Sage of Six Paths to oppose him when Infinite Tsukuyomi began.
• Cang discovered through Isshiki’s memories that Isshiki’s Small Ten-Tails remained hidden in an alternate dimension and decided to retrieve it.
• Cang sensed the Small Ten-Tails’ location through Isshiki’s mark as the God Tree’s roots stirred and the moon approached fullness.
• Cang finished restoring his body at dawn, opened a space-time passage with Isshiki’s mark, and vanished.

Amado spoke with Isshiki’s fading remnant about the collapse of his Wedge and the threat posed by Uchiha Sou. Isshiki vanished after warning the remaining Inner Circle members to wait, while Amado turned his attention to Sou’s file and whatever came next.

• Isshiki appeared in Amado’s laboratory and explained that Sou had absorbed his Wedge, leaving him unable to resurrect.
• Amado told Isshiki that only Sae, Bag, and a modified human remained able to act for the Inner Circle.
• Isshiki warned that Sou would pursue the Ten-Tails and Chakra Fruit, and Amado agreed that Sou was more interesting than Isshiki.
• Isshiki told Amado to dissuade the Inner Circle from seeking revenge and urged them to endure until Sou clashed with Kaguya Clan and Ōtsutsuki Hamura.
• Isshiki admitted he could not accept his death, then his remnant soul dispersed into motes of light.
• Amado opened Uchiha Sou’s file and wondered whose turn would come next.