Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Kō learned that Gato had hired samurai to kill the Konoha shinobi, and his forces slaughtered them while framing Zabuza and Haku as rogue Mist ninja. After arriving at the scene, Kō condemned the massacre, ordered Zabuza and Haku detained, and followed Gato to his villa to take charge of protecting his fortune.

• Uchiha Kō received Hatake Sakumo's report that Gato had issued a mission against Konoha and confirmed that Konoha alone knew about it.
• Uchiha Itachi, Momochi Zabuza, and Yuki Haku killed Gato's samurai, with Haku presenting the attackers as rogue ninja from the Mist Division.
• Gato realized Konoha had taken an interest in his wealth as the slaughter left only him and the Konoha shinobi alive.
• Uchiha Kō arrived, rebuked Itachi over the massacre, and ordered him to detain Zabuza and Haku after the mission.
• Uchiha Kō persuaded Gato to lead the group to his villa, intending to take charge of protecting Gato's assets.

Uchiha Kō uncovered Gato’s coercive sale of a young girl and forced Gato to release her and close his casinos. Gato offered Konoha a vast fortune to spare himself, and Uchiha Kō accepted the donation.

• Hatake Sakumo escorted Tazuna to the mission site while Uchiha Kō and Uchiha Itachi entered Gato’s villa.
• Uchiha Kō saw a terrified girl resist being forced into marriage with Gato and used Repulsive Force to knock Mina away.
• The girl explained that her foster father had gambled her away to Gato, and Uchiha Kō ordered Gato to release her.
• Gato agreed to free the girl and shut down his casinos, then offered Konoha eighty billion in funds of unknown origin.
• Gato pledged a total of one hundred and forty billion to Konoha, and Uchiha Kō thanked him and invited him to dinner.

Uchiha Kō forced Gato to surrender most of his wealth and reform, then escorted the fortune back to Konoha. As Uchiha Kō and Nara Rokumei discussed Konoha’s future, Rokumei pressed him to share the hidden dangers he was facing, but Uchiha Kō remained silent about Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and the Heavenly Dao.

• Uchiha Kō made Gato promise to abandon coercion and illegal business, then ordered Uchiha Itachi and Hatake Sakumo to collect his donated wealth.
• Uchiha Itachi and Hatake Sakumo supervised the loading of Gato’s gold and silver for three days and nights while Uchiha Rou, Second Pillar, Uzumaki Karin, and the others toured the Land of Waves.
• Uchiha Rou’s group and Zabuza’s team arrived to join the caravan, and Uchiha Itachi led everyone in thanking Gato as a philanthropist.
• Hatake Sakumo, Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Rou, Zabuza, Haku, Sasuke, and Karin escorted the treasure to Konoha, where Uchiha Kō and Nara Rokumei welcomed them.
• Uchiha Kō and Nara Rokumei discussed how to allocate the 140 billion and reflected on Konoha’s prosperity, risks, and future generations.
• Nara Rokumei urged Uchiha Kō to share his worries with his sworn brothers, but Uchiha Kō kept quiet about Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and the Heavenly Dao.

Uchiha Kō welcomed Momochi Zabuza and Yuki Haku into Konoha, then gave Zabuza Kubikiribōchō. When Zabuza asked to test the sword against him, Uchiha Kō trapped him in a genjutsu and prepared to fight there.

• Uchiha Kō celebrated the treasure’s arrival in Konoha and oversaw the heroes’ mission payments.
• Uchiha Kō welcomed Momochi Zabuza and Yuki Haku into Konoha after Zabuza explained that he wanted a safe home for Haku.
• Uchiha Kō demonstrated his overwhelming chakra pressure, then gave Zabuza Kubikiribōchō.
• Zabuza asked to test his new sword against Uchiha Kō, who agreed to fight him within a genjutsu.
• Uchiha Kō used his Sharingan to place Zabuza in an illusion where they stood on a vast lake.

Uchiha Kō tested Momochi Zabuza’s strength inside Mirror Lake, a genjutsu where pain felt real, and defeated him despite Zabuza’s powerful attacks and clever tactics. Zabuza conceded, then returned to reality and found Yuki Haku waiting for him.

• Uchiha Kō placed Zabuza in Mirror Lake and invited him to attack without holding back.
• Zabuza struck with the Kubikiribōchō, but Uchiha Kō blocked his blows, resisted the sword with Dragon Scale Armor, and evaded his follow-up attacks.
• Zabuza trapped Uchiha Kō in a Water Prison Technique while his clone retrieved the Kubikiribōchō, but Uchiha Kō’s burning chakra boiled the prison and his punch destroyed the clone.
• Uchiha Kō charged Zabuza at overwhelming speed, and Zabuza dropped the Kubikiribōchō and surrendered before Uchiha Kō’s punch landed.
• Uchiha Kō released Zabuza from the genjutsu, and Zabuza opened his eyes in reality as Yuki Haku called to him.

Uchiha Kō rewarded Zabuza after their spar, then rushed to Ryūchi Cave when Manda reported it was under attack. The White Snake Sage fought to defend the sacred land as an Otsutsuki figure demanded her submission, while threats also emerged at Shikkotsu Forest and Mount Myoboku.

• Zabuza learned Uchiha Kō's genjutsu had lasted only three seconds in reality, accepted mission payment, and asked about buying a house with Haku.
• Uchiha Kō summoned Manda, subdued him from his bloodthirsty frenzy, and learned that Ryūchi Cave was under attack.
• Uchiha Kō headed for Ryūchi Cave while Tsunade set out for Shikkotsu Forest and Jiraiya returned to Mount Myoboku after receiving urgent summons.
• The White Snake Sage used the Nine Dragons Shining Heaven Art and Inorganic Reincarnation against the attackers while Garaga fought the three divine princesses.
• The Otsutsuki figure offered to spare Ryūchi Cave if the White Snake Sage swore submission to the Otsutsuki clan.

Otsutsuki Nu arrived at Ryūchi Cave as one of the Heavenly Dao’s four spokesmen and demanded the White Snake Sage submit. Uchiha Kō intervened when Nu attacked, redirecting his Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion into a spatial rift, where it split a planet in two.

• Otsutsuki Nu threatened to destroy Ryūchi Cave unless the White Snake Sage served the Heavenly Dao, and she feared his status as one of its four spokesmen.
• Uchiha Kō recognized Nu as a likely Otsutsuki who had joined the Heavenly Dao, while the Heavenly Dao urged Nu to kill Kō in exchange for greater power and immortality.
• Otsutsuki Nu declared Uchiha Kō a defier of Heaven and unleashed his aura as the world’s forces seemed to validate his claims.
• The White Snake Sage urged Uchiha Kō to leave, but Otsutsuki Nu offered to spare Ryūchi Cave if she submitted and threatened to destroy it if she refused.
• Otsutsuki Nu attacked the White Snake Sage with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, and Uchiha Kō intercepted it by opening a spatial rift that redirected the attack and split a planet in two.

Uchiha Kō defied the Heavenly Dao and prepared to fight Otsutsuki Nu, summoning Qiongqi and reclaiming the Chixiao Sword. The Heavenly Dao ordered Otsutsuki Nu to kill everyone, but the chapter ended as it warned him to dodge Uchiha Kō’s sword strike.

• Uchiha Kō condemned the Heavenly Dao, causing it to summon storm clouds and order everyone present killed.
• Otsutsuki Nu remembered the Heavenly Dao’s massacre of Otsutsuki Planet and urged Uchiha Kō to surrender to protect his family.
• Uchiha Kō declared that man could conquer Heaven, summoned Qiongqi with the Flame Demon Necklace, and rode it into battle.
• The Chixiao Sword flew from the Ninja World to Uchiha Kō, who caught it and blasted Otsutsuki Nu backward.
• Otsutsuki Nu demanded the Chixiao Sword, but Uchiha Kō attacked him with a crimson sword aura, and the Heavenly Dao warned him to dodge.

Uchiha Kō tricked Otsutsuki Nu into switching places with Tagitsuhime, then fought back against Nu’s escalating Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion attacks. As Nu prepared to strike him with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, Kō opened the Gate of Death and charged into the attack.

• Otsutsuki Nu swapped places with Tagitsuhime to avoid Uchiha Kō’s crimson blade aura, but the attack passed through her unharmed because it was a feint.
• Uchiha Kō mocked Otsutsuki Nu, who unleashed the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion and clashed with Kō’s Super Shinra Tensei, blasting the others away.
• Otsutsuki Nu split the Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion into three attacks, trapping Kō’s Shinra Tensei inside a silver dragon and battering it with fierce winds.
• Otsutsuki Nu prepared a Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion while Kō opened the Gate of Death, endured the winds tearing into him, and cut down the silver dragon with the Chixiao Sword.
• Otsutsuki Nu brought the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion down as the bloodied Uchiha Kō faced it, prompting the White Snake Sage to shout for him to dodge.

Uchiha Kō endured and absorbed Otsutsuki Nu’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, triggering a transformation as golden armor and a Dragon Pearl spread across his body. While he cultivated, Ichikishimahime and Tagorihime plotted to take the pearl, but Orochimaru arrived to protect him and aimed a Barrett at Ichikishimahime.

• Uchiha Kō caught the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, repeatedly healing as it destroyed his body, then absorbed its last trace of power while Otsutsuki Nu collapsed.
• The White Snake Sage went to finish off Otsutsuki Nu, while Uchiha Kō sat down and began transforming as golden armor and a Dragon Pearl formed around him.
• Tagorihime recognized the Dragon Pearl’s potential and warned her sisters, but Ichikishimahime chose to seize it, and Tagorihime was forced to oppose their youngest sister.
• Manda reverse-summoned Orochimaru, who weakened Ichikishimahime with realgar wine and trapped her behind Triple Rashōmon.
• After Manda explained that Ichikishimahime intended to steal Uchiha Kō’s Dragon Pearl, Orochimaru set up a Barrett, aimed at her vital spot, and fired.

Orochimaru killed Ichikishimahime and wounded Tagorihime with Barrett, while the White Snake Sage faced Otsutsuki Nu, revealed as an avatar of the Deva Path. Uchiha Kō awakened, seized the imperial seal, and proclaimed the Human Dao equal to the Deva Path.

• Orochimaru used Barrett to kill Ichikishimahime, and Tagitsuhime warned Tagorihime that he had a powerful weapon.
• Orochimaru used a thermal-imaging scope to spot Tagorihime and shot her when she approached Manda and Uchiha Kō.
• Otsutsuki Nu revealed himself as the Deva Path's avatar, and the White Snake Sage discovered that Ichikishimahime had been killed by Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru fired three Tailed Beast Bomb shots at the descending imperial seal before Barrett's barrel exploded and blasted him away.
• Uchiha Kō rose, claimed the damaged imperial seal, and seized Otsutsuki Nu, preventing him from escaping with the Deva Path's power.
• Uchiha Kō proclaimed the Human Dao equal to the Deva Path, and a force descended upon him as the Deva Path protested.

Heavenly Dao recalled how its ambition and conflict with Ōtsutsuki Shibai led to the Ōtsutsuki clan’s destruction and its loss of the World Will’s support. In Ryūchi Cave, the World Will protected Uchiha Kō and destroyed Otsutsuki Nu, while Heavenly Dao vowed revenge from the stars and Uchiha Kō’s fortune continued to grow.

• Heavenly Dao remembered how it rose from an ordinary cultivator, became a ruler of the Ninja World, and grew selfish and hungry for control.
• Ōtsutsuki Shibai discovered Heavenly Dao’s existence and led his clan in a revolt, but Heavenly Dao and the World Will imprisoned him and destroyed most of the Ōtsutsuki clan.
• Heavenly Dao saw Uchiha Kō surrounded by growing fortune and attacked him through Otsutsuki Nu, but the World Will shielded Uchiha Kō and blasted Otsutsuki Nu apart.
• Heavenly Dao’s true body received the news, destroyed a planet in anger, and vowed to settle the score with Uchiha Kō after refining other stars.
• Uchiha Kō felt his soul, body, and senses grow stronger, then looked toward the sky as though meeting Heavenly Dao’s gaze across the universe.

After mastering the Human Path, Uchiha Kō healed Orochimaru and left Ryūchi Cave to answer the White Snake Sage’s request for help at Mount Myoboku. He arrived with Orochimaru to find the sage region under attack, and Orochimaru recognized Jiraiya’s chakra near the mountaintop.

• Uchiha Kō used his new Resurrection ability to heal Orochimaru after accidentally knocking him down, then praised him for developing Barrett and Tailed Beast Bomb containment crystals.
• The White Snake Sage accepted that Ichikishimahime had brought her death upon herself and asked Uchiha Kō to save Mount Myoboku and Shikkotsu Forest from the same calamity.
• Uchiha Kō and Orochimaru entered a portal to Mount Myoboku, while the White Snake Sage sentenced Tagorihime to a thousand years of confinement.
• A toad attacked Uchiha Kō when he and Orochimaru arrived, but Uchiha Kō blocked its water projectile with an iron-sand curtain.
• Orochimaru sensed Jiraiya’s chakra surging near the mountaintop and rushed ahead to find him.

Jiraiya struggled to defend Mount Myoboku against Otsutsuki Dō, who controlled evil thoughts and souls. After Jiraiya and the two sages fled toward the main hall, Otsutsuki Dō captured pure toad souls and prepared to use them against the sages.

• Uchiha Kō used Flying Thunder God to catch Orochimaru and flew with him toward Mount Myoboku’s summit on the Chixiao Sword.
• Jiraiya, badly wounded and exhausted, refused Sage Shima and Sage Fukasaku’s pleas to retreat and rose to keep fighting for Mount Myoboku.
• Otsutsuki Dō appeared and sent manifestations of failed Sage Mode practitioners’ evil thoughts to attack Jiraiya and the two sages.
• Jiraiya entered Sage Mode with the sages’ help, attacked Otsutsuki Dō with an expanding Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan, and escaped with them toward Mount Myoboku’s main hall.
• Otsutsuki Dō found that Jiraiya and the sages had fled to the main hall, then summoned and took control of Mount Myoboku toad souls to keep the sages from fighting back.

Uchiha Kō arrived at Mount Myoboku after battling Otsutsuki Nu and awakening Human Dao, and Gamamaru chose to submit the toad sages to him rather than face Heavenly Dao alone. Orochimaru explained the stakes of the struggle between Human Dao and Heavenly Dao, then warned Mount Myoboku against betraying their new alliance.

• Gamamaru greeted Jiraiya and recognized that Uchiha Kō had arrived at Mount Myoboku.
• Gamamaru offered to submit Mount Myoboku to Human Dao, teach Senjutsu to its cultivators, and even serve Uchiha Kō through a master-servant contract.
• Uchiha Kō accepted responsibility for Mount Myoboku's fate but refused the contract, telling Gamamaru to remember his promise.
• Orochimaru explained to Jiraiya that the Three Great Sage Regions had to choose between Heavenly Dao and Human Dao, and that Mount Myoboku had joined Uchiha Kō's side.
• Orochimaru warned Mount Myoboku not to play both sides and revealed a device bearing a radiation symbol as a last-resort threat.

Orochimaru revealed to the Great Toad Sage that he had developed hundreds of world-destroying scrolls, while outside, Uchiha Kō confronted Otsutsuki Dō over his allegiance to Heavenly Dao. Their fight escalated when Otsutsuki Dō summoned a vast army of souls, and Uchiha Kō charged at them with the Chixiao Sword.

• Orochimaru showed the Great Toad Sage two hundred dangerous scrolls and asked him to keep their existence secret from Lord Hokage.
• Otsutsuki Dō noticed Uchiha Kō's immense fortune and demanded to learn how he had gathered it.
• Uchiha Kō mocked Otsutsuki Dō as Heavenly Dao's dog and refused to trade his fortune for the captured toad souls.
• Otsutsuki Dō attacked Uchiha Kō with taijutsu, but Uchiha Kō dodged his punch and beat him down.
• Furious, Otsutsuki Dō summoned every soul he had collected and ordered them to tear Uchiha Kō apart.
• Uchiha Kō drew the Chixiao Sword, identified the attackers' weaknesses, and charged into the mass of souls.

Uchiha Kō injured Otsutsuki Dō’s three-headed spirit hound, then stole the power of Spirit Restoration and awakened Spirit Binding and General Command. He seized control of the hound and rallied the other spirits against Otsutsuki Dō and the nine-headed serpent, while the hound finally got its chance to seek revenge.

• Uchiha Kō pierced the three-headed dog with Chixiao Sword, wounding its spirit body.
• Otsutsuki Dō used Spirit Restoration to heal the dog, but Uchiha Kō trapped it and absorbed the green light, taking half of Otsutsuki Dō’s origin power.
• Uchiha Kō awakened Spirit Binding and General Command and used Spirit Seizure to bind the three-headed wolf, which obeyed him instead of attacking.
• Uchiha Kō sent the spirits under his control against Otsutsuki Dō and the nine-headed serpent, overwhelming them with a swarm.
• The three-headed hound charged Otsutsuki Dō, driven by its long-held memory of him killing its family.

Uchiha Kō and Otsutsuki Dō fought at Mount Myoboku, where Dō sacrificed a Rinnegan to unleash his soul power and destroy the Three-Headed Dog. Kō defeated the Nine-Headed Hydra with a barrage of weapons, then revealed another cluster of golden weapons above Dō.

• The Three-Headed Dog attacked Otsutsuki Dō relentlessly, but Dō swallowed his Rinnegan and used a surge of power to kill it and wipe out the nearby spirit bodies.
• Otsutsuki Dō ordered the Nine-Headed Hydra to kill Uchiha Kō, while Kō coated iron sand spikes in the hydra's poison and hurled them at Dō.
• The Nine-Headed Hydra began charging Elemental Grand Explosion, but Uchiha Kō summoned ten thousand swords and additional weapons to strike it first.
• The hydra's heads used elemental attacks to block many weapons, but Kō's remaining swords pierced its body and severed eight heads.
• Uchiha Kō cut off the hydra's last head with Flying Thunder God Slash and sent all nine heads away with Nine Dragons Shining Heaven Art, causing the hydra to dissipate.
• Uchiha Kō told Otsutsuki Dō to look at the sky, where Dō saw a cluster of golden weapons hanging above him.

Uchiha Kō killed Otsutsuki Dō and hurried from Mount Myoboku to Shikkotsu Forest, where Tsunade was fighting a masked man and his nine masked beasts. He protected Tsunade from the masked man's enormous Rasengan, stopping its blast with a golden shield.

• Uchiha Kō severed Otsutsuki Dō's hand before he could sacrifice his Rinnegan, then killed him with the Chixiao Sword and erased his body with golden flames.
• After Otsutsuki Dō's death, Uchiha Kō sensed a destructive chakra at Shikkotsu Forest and used the Flying Thunder God to leave Mount Myoboku.
• The masked man and his nine beasts attacked Shikkotsu Forest; the Katsuyu Sage was blown into thousands of slugs, and Tsunade was injured while fighting him.
• Tsunade used Ōtsutsuki Kinshiki's power to form a spear and clashed with the masked man's Tailed Beast Bomb Rasengan.
• Uchiha Kō arrived, caught Tsunade, and drove the Chixiao Sword into the masked man's Rasengan, then blocked its explosion with a golden shield.

Uchiha Kō fought Uzumaki Menma and the Nine Masked Beasts in Shikkotsu Forest, killing three beasts and repelling six others. Menma and the surviving beasts were left wary of Kō’s overwhelming power.

• Uchiha Kō identified the unmasked enemy as Uzumaki Menma, who ordered the Nine Masked Beasts to attack him and Tsunade.
• Uchiha Kō escaped the beasts’ encirclement, killed Haku with the Chixiao Sword, then used ice techniques to kill Zhu.
• Uchiha Kō shattered Ao’s dragon claw with a punch and forced Ao to crash to the ground with Pressure.
• South and North trapped Uchiha Kō in purple pillars while Sky absorbed his chakra, but Kō broke the formation with Shinra Tensei and repelled the beasts’ attacks.
• Uzumaki Menma and the six surviving Nine Masked Beasts hesitated to attack Uchiha Kō again.