Chapter Summaries

Urashiki attacked Naruto and Boruto beneath the blood-red full moon, and Sasuke fought him despite his dwindling Chakra. After Urashiki struck Sasuke down and trapped Boruto, Sasuke used Amenotejikara to switch places with him, letting Boruto hit Urashiki with a Rasengan.

• Urashiki descended onto the training ground and targeted Naruto, while Boruto tried to stop him with Shadow Clones and a Rasengan.
• Sasuke emerged from a space-time rift and fought Urashiki, but his low Chakra left him vulnerable to the Otsutsuki's fishing lines.
• Urashiki caught Sasuke in the lines and struck him into a crater, prompting Boruto and Naruto to rush onto the battlefield.
• Urashiki trapped Boruto by the neck, but Boruto formed a Rasengan and cut Urashiki's cheek as he struggled.
• Sasuke rose and used Amenotejikara: Mutual Flash to swap places with Boruto, who slammed his Rasengan into Urashiki's face and blasted him through three trees.

Boruto, Sasuke, Naruto, and Jiraiya fought Urashiki as Boruto devised a way to disrupt his Byakugan and break his fishing rod. After Jiraiya returned to confront Urashiki’s final attack, Boruto saw the battle’s aftermath unfolding but the chapter ended before its outcome was clear.

• Urashiki unleashed a devastating red attack, and Jiraiya used Gamabunta and Sage Art: Goemon to hold it back while Boruto, Sasuke, and Naruto escaped.
• Urashiki defeated Jiraiya’s fire technique and pursued the others, so Boruto shared a plan with Sasuke while Sasuke agreed to hold Urashiki off for three minutes.
• Sasuke drew Urashiki’s attention as Boruto used a Rasengan infused with Jiraiya’s Sage Art Chakra to obscure his Chakra from the Byakugan.
• Sasuke switched places with Boruto, letting Boruto strike Urashiki with the Rasengan and destroy his fishing rod, though Urashiki survived with his left arm blown off.
• Jiraiya returned and clashed with Urashiki’s remaining Truth-Seeking Orbs using Sage Art: Big Ball Rasengan, and Boruto saw Urashiki as the shockwave swept everyone away.

Urashiki used his blue Rinnegan to foresee possible futures and repeatedly reset Boruto’s attacks, leaving the group trapped in a punishing loop. Jiraiya trapped Urashiki with Sage Art: Toad Mouth Bind, giving Naruto and Boruto time to prepare their Rasengan, but Urashiki tore out and swallowed his Rinnegan, leaving the battle at a new turning point.

• Urashiki used his blue Rinnegan to rewind the fight and repeatedly reset Boruto’s attempts to attack him.
• Sasuke explained that Urashiki foresaw several seconds of possible futures, then identified that the ability consumed Chakra and faltered under too many possibilities.
• Sasuke exposed Urashiki’s weakness, and Jiraiya trapped him in a toad stomach wall that disrupted his Chakra sensing and precognition.
• Naruto and Boruto prepared two different Rasengan while Jiraiya held Urashiki in place.
• Urashiki tore out his two blue Rinnegan and swallowed them.

Urashiki transformed and overwhelmed Boruto, Sasuke, Naruto, and Jiraiya, but Cang intervened and secretly rescued him before he could kill Boruto. Boruto and Sasuke returned to their own era, while Cang prepared to use the wounded Urashiki as a pawn in his plans.

• Urashiki awakened a powerful golden Rinnegan form and attacked Boruto, while Sasuke took the arrows meant for Boruto and Naruto.
• Boruto struck Urashiki with a Rasengan, but Cang emerged through a rift and pulled Urashiki away as he was about to kill Boruto.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Jiraiya, and Boruto survived, and Boruto recovered before he and Sasuke said farewell and used the Plow to return to their era.
• Sasuke erased Naruto and Jiraiya's memories of Boruto and their farewell before entering the rift after him.
• Urashiki awoke injured in a distant forest and vowed to recover and take revenge on Boruto and the person who saved him.
• Cang told Zhi Li that he had saved Urashiki to use him as a pawn, monitor his recovery, and exploit the Causality Nodes he carried.

Cang sent Zhi Li to hunt the severely weakened Urashiki while he remained behind to digest Isshiki’s essence. He prepared her to avoid Urashiki’s Wedge and gave her a plan to trap, seal, and absorb his origin, leaving Zhi Li to set out with Cang’s confidence in her.

• Zhi Li told Cang that Urashiki was hiding in a cave in the Land of Bears, badly injured and reduced to a fraction of his strength.
• Cang explained that he could not move while digesting Isshiki’s essence and assigned Zhi Li to deal with Urashiki alone.
• Cang warned Zhi Li that Urashiki might plant a Wedge and explained how her ocular techniques could weaken him despite his resistance to genjutsu.
• Cang instructed Zhi Li to lure Urashiki into a dream with Phantom Moon, restrain him with Adamantine Sealing Chains, seal his Chakra, and absorb his origin.
• Zhi Li accepted the mission and left after Cang assured her that he believed in her; Cang then reflected on the difficulty of digesting Isshiki’s origin.

Urashiki remained badly injured in a mountain cave, haunted by his defeat and the mysterious person who had saved him. Zhi Li arrived alone to claim his origin, and Urashiki suspected the person who saved him could not come.

• Urashiki recalled how Jiraiya, Boruto, and the one-armed swordsman had nearly killed him, and vowed revenge against them and the planet.
• Urashiki sensed a woman approaching the cave but could not use his Byakugan because the black markings on his wound consumed his Chakra.
• The woman identified Urashiki by name, and he asked where the mysterious person who had saved him was.
• The woman said she had come on her own to take Urashiki's origin and become stronger.
• Urashiki mocked her weakness, then wondered whether the mysterious person could not come himself.

A woman confronted the wounded Ōtsutsuki Urashiki, revealed a powerful dream-weaving ocular technique, and moved to take his origin. Urashiki tried to fight back with his Rinnegan, but she caught him in her technique and left him sinking into darkness.

• Urashiki assumed the woman was an easy target, but she calmly explained that she had come because her teacher could not.
• The woman stopped Urashiki’s Truth-Seeking Orb attack and told him he could not defeat his enemies or escape his decline.
• Urashiki boasted about the Otsutsuki and their innate power, but the woman revealed that he did not dare use his Rinnegan.
• The woman named her ocular ability Yiyue Bixi: Darkness of the Eternal World and briefly trapped Urashiki in a vision of countless watching eyes.
• Urashiki demanded to know who had rescued and trained her, but she refused to reveal her teacher’s identity.
• Urashiki forced his Rinnegan into action, but the woman appeared beside him and left him unable to move as his consciousness sank into darkness.

Zhi Li trapped Urashiki in her ocular genjutsu, Darkness of the Eternal World, where perceived injuries became real. Urashiki realized too late that his apparent escape and counterattack had all been illusions, and the blade at his throat began draining his life force.

• Urashiki resisted Zhi Li’s initial genjutsu and asked what ocular technique she had used.
• Zhi Li unleashed Darkness of the Eternal World, and black hands drained Urashiki’s life force when he believed they were real.
• Urashiki burned part of his origin and activated his golden Rinnegan, apparently dispelling the illusion and attacking Zhi Li with Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Zhi Li stopped Urashiki’s spatial attack with The Moon Is Already There and rushed at him with her short blade.
• Urashiki realized that his escape, the Rinnegan’s activation, and his attack had all been illusions, while the blade’s perceived wound drained his life force.

Zhi Li defeated Urashiki after he burned his origin for a final attack, then absorbed the last remnant of his essence. Wounded but alive, she left the cave as dawn broke, carrying a new golden marking in her palm.

• Urashiki burned his origin to launch a desperate assault, and Zhi Li fought through the golden flames despite her injuries.
• As Urashiki’s borrowed power faded, he realized Zhi Li had treated him as a whetstone and unleashed a final curse of golden motes.
• Zhi Li trapped Urashiki’s final consciousness in the Darkness of the Eternal World, and he died in the cave.
• Zhi Li absorbed the last trace of Urashiki’s origin, easing her pain and leaving golden markings in her palm.
• Zhi Li left the cave and entered the forest as morning arrived.

Cang treated Zhi Li after she returned wounded from killing Urashiki and taking his source power. After hearing her account, he explained what she had learned from Urashiki’s final attack and recognized that her eye technique had begun to affect the soul; he then asked her to take him to Urashiki’s corpse.

• Zhi Li returned to Cang badly injured, reported that Urashiki was dead, and showed him the source power she had taken.
• Cang treated Zhi Li’s wounds and reassured her that surviving Urashiki’s final counterattack and claiming his source were successes.
• Zhi Li recounted the battle, including Urashiki’s curse and her use of Darkness of the Eternal World to make him see nothingness.
• Cang explained that Urashiki’s resolve revealed the Otsutsuki clan’s true power and identified his curse as the forbidden jutsu Origin Mutual Destruction.
• Cang told Zhi Li that her eye technique had begun affecting the soul and could develop further as she refined Urashiki’s source power.
• Cang asked Zhi Li to take him to Urashiki’s corpse so he could examine it himself.

Cang discovered that the Urashiki Zhi Li killed came from a parallel world and that his death could reveal her to this world's Urashiki. Cang severed the corpse’s causal connections to conceal the death temporarily, then warned Zhi Li to grow stronger before a more dangerous enemy arrived.

• Cang examined Urashiki's corpse and determined that the dead Otsutsuki came from a parallel world.
• Cang found a Causality Thread linking Urashiki to an existence in this world and concluded that a powerful figure had foreseen or manipulated the encounter.
• Cang used Causality Severance despite the turmoil from assimilating Isshiki's essence, cutting off the causal transmission of Urashiki's death.
• Cang told Zhi Li the concealment was temporary and urged her to refine the origin essence and strengthen her abilities.
• Cang praised Zhi Li for her battle, then left her beside Urashiki's corpse.

Momoshiki and Kinshiki harvested a dead planet and encountered Urashiki, who asked to join their mission to investigate planet EY-39 after Kaguya and Isshiki went missing. Momoshiki agreed, while noticing Urashiki briefly lapse into an unexplained state as they set course for EY-39.

• Momoshiki collected the Chakra Fruit from the dead planet after its six-thousand-year harvest, then prepared to leave with Kinshiki.
• Urashiki arrived alone and told Momoshiki his partner had returned with a fruit and that he was looking for something interesting to do.
• Momoshiki revealed that he and Kinshiki were bound for EY-39 to investigate why Kaguya and Isshiki had sent no news for over a thousand years.
• Urashiki asked to accompany them, arguing that the planet and its natives sounded intriguing, and Momoshiki allowed him to come.
• Urashiki briefly lost focus, but claimed he was merely tired; Momoshiki sensed something unusual and quietly increased their speed toward EY-39.

Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Urashiki traveled through the void toward the planet where Kaguya Clan and Isshiki had been sent. Urashiki experienced two unexplained disturbances that left a small emptiness within him and made his Chakra pills lose their flavor, while Momoshiki recorded the anomalies and continued toward their destination.

• Urashiki complained about the long journey and showed Momoshiki his fish basket of Chakra pills, while Momoshiki and Kinshiki discussed Kaguya Clan and Isshiki.
• Urashiki felt a faint, inexplicable loss, and Momoshiki sensed a Dissonance coming from him.
• A second, stronger disturbance struck Urashiki, who felt something snap and leave a small empty place inside him.
• Momoshiki examined Urashiki but found no cause for the disturbances, then kept his perception trained on him as they continued traveling.
• Urashiki discovered that his Chakra pills had lost their flavor, while Momoshiki memorized the moment and wondered whether their destination would explain the anomalies.

Cang and Zhi Li discussed their progress fusing Isshiki’s and Urashiki’s essence, weighing the limits and potential of their new power. Zhi Li continued her fusion alone, sensing her Rinnegan awakening and wondering what unusual changes it might bring.

• Cang said he had fused seventy percent of Isshiki’s essence but could not fully wield its power in his human body.
• Zhi Li described Urashiki’s essence as powerful but difficult to control, and Cang said she could surpass Urashiki once she completed the fusion.
• Cang warned Zhi Li that she would still be no match for Momoshiki and said her strength would depend on mastering the essence herself.
• Cang cautioned that Zhi Li’s Rinnegan might change in unusual ways after fusing with Urashiki’s golden Rinnegan.
• After Cang left, Zhi Li watched the golden markings spread across her body and sensed her Rinnegan beginning to awaken.

Cang and Zhi Li escaped to the hidden Peach Blossom Valley to continue assimilating Isshiki’s and Urashiki’s power in safety. Three years later, Momoshiki sensed something strange near the valley, while Cang continued cultivating and Zhi Li’s new power still needed more time to mature.

• Zhi Li awakened her golden Rinnegan and briefly saw an unclear vision of Cang facing an unknown figure.
• Cang told Zhi Li that they needed to leave before the Otsutsuki discovered Urashiki’s death, and he proposed hiding in Peach Blossom Valley.
• Cang and Zhi Li reached the border of the Land of Mountains and the Land of Birds, where Peach Blossom Valley appeared, and entered the sanctuary.
• Inside the valley, Zhi Li saw another fleeting vision of herself with long hair and an unfamiliar sword, then settled there with Cang.
• Three years later, Momoshiki sensed something strange near the valley, while Cang continued cultivating and Zhi Li’s golden markings had mostly faded.

After three years and seven months in Peach Blossom Valley, Cang fully fused with Isshiki’s essence and reached Six Paths level, while Zhi Li continued developing her Rinnegan and glimpsed an inexplicable chaos. Outside the valley, Sasuke prepared to meet Itachi, Pain began capturing tailed beasts, and Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Urashiki continued toward the Ninja World, still fifteen to twenty years away.

• Cang finished absorbing Isshiki’s essence, awakened its full power, and sensed a mysterious presence connected to the Sage of Six Paths.
• Zhi Li told Cang that her Rinnegan sometimes showed her flashes of chaos, and he urged her to let her eyes develop while asking her to tell him if she ever saw the chaos clearly.
• Cang estimated that Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Urashiki would reach the Ninja World in fifteen to twenty years, while Zhi Li had about a year left to fuse with Urashiki’s essence.
• Sasuke waited by the Naka River for his long-awaited meeting with Itachi Uchiha.
• Pain ordered the Akatsuki to begin capturing tailed beasts, starting with the One-Tail.
• Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Urashiki continued their journey toward the planet as Zhi Li briefly sensed something watching her from within the chaos.

Cang returned to Angkor Fortress and learned that Akatsuki was moving against Sunagakure, while he chose not to interfere with the coming events involving Gaara, Naruto, and Sasuke. Naruto returned to Konoha after two and a half years of training and learned that Sasuke had escaped Orochimaru and joined Akatsuki.

• Cang told Zhi Li they were leaving Peach Blossom Valley as Hatake Sakumo and Kagami discussed the coming conflict and the news Shisui brought from Konoha.
• Shisui told Xiyue that Cang would arrive the next day, and Xiyue urged him to be careful.
• Cang met with White Fang, Kagami, Xiyue, and Shisui at Angkor Fortress, where Shisui reported that Kakashi's team was heading to Sand Village and that Sasori and Deidara were about to attack.
• Cang predicted that Gaara would lose his life protecting Sunagakure and that Naruto would pursue Akatsuki and encounter Sasuke, but he ordered his people not to intervene.
• Naruto returned to Konoha and Sakura told him that Sasuke had escaped Orochimaru and joined Akatsuki.

Sasuke killed Orochimaru, formed Hebi, and finally fought and killed his older brother, Itachi, at the Naka River. Sasuke left the scene seeking the truth, while the news of Itachi’s death spread across the Ninja World.

• Sasuke killed Orochimaru before he could perform his reincarnation jutsu and formed Hebi with Karin, Jugo, and Suigetsu, naming Itachi as his next target.
• Shisui reported Orochimaru’s death and Sasuke’s plans to Cang, while Naruto learned of Jiraiya’s death and decided to find Sasuke.
• Pain spoke with Sasuke about his plan to kill Itachi, while Itachi waited for their meeting despite his failing health.
• Sasuke met Itachi at the Naka River and fought him, using every technique he could as Itachi countered with his Mangekyō Sharingan powers.
• Itachi tapped Sasuke on the forehead, apologized, and died; Sasuke thanked him before leaving to seek the truth.
• Zetsu witnessed Itachi’s death, Shisui learned the news at Angkor Fortress, and word soon spread that Sasuke had killed Itachi.

After learning the truth about Itachi, Sasuke turned his anger toward Konoha’s leaders, while Pain continued Akatsuki’s Tailed Beast mission despite mounting losses and his failing health. By May, Akatsuki had captured seven Tailed Beasts, leaving only the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails.

• Sasuke learned from Madara that Itachi had massacred the Uchiha clan to protect Konoha and Sasuke, and he set out to seek justice from Konoha’s leaders.
• Pain ordered Akatsuki to continue collecting the Tailed Beasts after learning that Itachi had died and Sasuke knew the truth.
• Kakashi and Team 10 killed Kakuzu, while Shikamaru trapped Hidan and buried him in the Nara clan’s forbidden grounds.
• Deidara died after using his ultimate art against Sasuke, who escaped the blast with Manda and recovered at the hideout.
• Granny Chiyo killed Sasori, leaving Pain and Konan as the last of the companions who had founded Akatsuki together.
• Akatsuki captured Utakata and Kaede, bringing its total to seven Tailed Beasts and leaving Killer B and Naruto as the final targets.

Nagato prepared to attack Konoha, convinced that pain was the only way to bring peace, while Konan stood by him despite her fear that he might have to fight Jiraiya. Cang sensed Nagato’s decision and sent Zhi Li to summon Shisui as Nagato connected his consciousness to the Six Paths of Pain.

• Nagato dismissed concern about Naruto’s Sage Art and declared that pain, not stronger ninja, would bring peace.
• Konan told Nagato that Konoha had sent scouts to the Land of Rain and warned that Jiraiya might come; Nagato said he would face his former teacher.
• Zetsu reported that Pain was about to move against Konoha, and the news spread to the villages and those watching Akatsuki.
• Cang sensed Nagato’s decision, spoke his name, and told Zhi Li to call Shisui.
• Nagato questioned Madara’s trustworthiness, then affirmed to Konan that he would pursue Yahiko’s dream by his own methods.
• Nagato connected his consciousness to the Six Paths of Pain, with Deva Path Pain watching the road from Konoha and preparing to face Jiraiya.