Chapter Summaries

At Dream Organization’s monthly meeting, Moryo announced a plan to reclaim his body and attack the Land of Demons during Miroku’s childbirth, receiving promises of help from the others. In the Land of Demons, Miroku and the assembled ninja prepared for the attack, and Nara Shikamaru proposed luring Moryo to the volcano and trapping him while Miroku recovered.

• Moryo told Dream Organization that Miroku would give birth in half a month and planned to retrieve his body from the Land of Swamps before attacking the Land of Demons.
• Alucard and Black Zetsu agreed to help Moryo, and Jashin and Evil Spirit also offered their support.
• Miroku met with Kari, Nara Shikaku, Kisame Hoshigaki, and the other ninja guarding the Land of Demons, explaining that her power would weaken around childbirth.
• Miroku explained that Moryo commanded a regenerating Ghost Army of stone statues and had his body sealed inside a volcano in the Land of Swamps.
• Nara Shikamaru proposed luring Moryo to the volcano and trapping him there, saying a companion skilled in Sealing Technique could delay him while Miroku recovered.

Nara Shikaku persuaded Shrine Maiden Miroku to lure Moryo to Mount Fengmo and trap him for three days while she recovered enough strength to seal him. After Uzumaki Kushina demonstrated her sealing skills, Miroku approved the plan and assigned teams to prepare for the operation.

• Nara Shikaku proposed drawing Moryo to his sealed body and holding him with Konoha's Sealing Techniques, but Miroku warned that the plan risked letting him reclaim his body.
• Nara Shikaku persuaded Kitsuchi and Miroku by promising to summon a sealing specialist, and Uzumaki Kushina arrived to discuss techniques with the Shrine Maiden.
• Araki watched the meeting through a Demon Eye and suspected Konoha might have an ulterior motive, so he decided to alert Alucard to keep watch.
• After consulting Kushina, Miroku agreed to use Mount Fengmo in the Land of Swamps as bait and have Kushina secretly reinforce Moryo's seal there.
• Nara Shikaku assigned Konoha, Kirigakure, and Iwagakure ninja to prepare at the Land of Swamps while Sunagakure and Cloud Village ninja stayed to protect Miroku, and the teams departed.

Moryo sent hundreds of Yomi Cultists to attack Mount Fengmo as the Shrine Maiden's aura weakened after giving birth. Iwagakure fought the cultists while Nara Shikaku tried to preserve the plan to lure Moryo, but Kisame Hoshigaki's sudden attack threatened to disrupt it.

• After the Shrine Maiden's daughter was born and her aura plummeted, Moryo ordered the Yomi Cultists to attack Mount Fengmo.
• Hyuga Sōki detected hundreds of living enemies with nearly identical chakra signatures, and Nara Shikaku struggled to decide whether to expose Konoha's defenses.
• Kitsuchi recognized the attackers as Moryo's Yomi Cult and ordered Iwagakure's ninjas to stop them from returning to the Land of Earth.
• Kitsuchi and the Iwagakure ninjas used earth techniques to trap and bombard the advancing cultists, who countered with defenses and water attacks.
• Nara Shikaku told Uzumaki Kushina and the others to guard their preparations and let the cultists approach if they broke through Iwagakure's lines.
• Kisame Hoshigaki challenged the Iwagakure ninjas and unleashed Water Release: Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave despite Nara Shikaku's plea to stop.

Kisame Hoshigaki used Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave to overwhelm the Yomi Cult, while Alucard secretly tested Konoha’s intentions and then freed the cult members to keep Moryo’s assault moving. Alucard revealed to Kisame that he was controlling the Demon Eye and instructed him to stage their fight as a show.

• Kisame Hoshigaki flooded the area around Mount Fengmo and trapped more than a hundred Yomi Cult members in a massive Water Prison.
• Nara Shikaku warned Kisame not to let Samehada absorb the ominous chakra, and Alucard concluded from the warning that Konoha had its own intentions.
• Moryo charged at Kisame, but Alucard cut open the Water Prison with the Kamui Sharingan in his palm, letting the surviving cult members escape.
• Moryo led the diminished Yomi Cult force toward Mount Fengmo while Alucard fought Kisame to cover their advance.
• Alucard used the Demon Eye to reveal his control to Kisame and told him to pretend they were fighting.

Moryo led his empowered Yomi Cultists toward Mount Fengmo while Kitsuchi and the others struggled to hold them back. He entered the mountain to reclaim his body, only to be trapped by Konoha’s seal, and summoned the Ghost Army.

• Moryo infused the Yomi Cultists with energy, strengthening them as they attacked Kitsuchi and the Iwagakure reinforcements.
• Kitsuchi used an Earth Style technique to create an armored clay giant that battled a rock-armored cultist, while Hikō and the others fought the remaining enemies.
• Nara Shikaku and Hyuga Sōki intercepted most of the cultists, but Moryo and fewer than ten of his followers entered Mount Fengmo.
• After Moryo entered the mountain, Shikamaru and Shikaku activated sealing scrolls, and Konoha’s other teams raised a purple barrier around Mount Fengmo.
• Moryo found an unfamiliar seal blocking access to his body and failed to break through the barrier.
• Furious, Moryo summoned the Ghost Army, awakening countless armored stone soldiers beneath the Land of Demons.

Moryo chose to break the seal on his original body before attempting to escape Mount Fengmo, while the Ghost Army marched from the Land of Demons toward him. Shrine Maiden Miroku ordered civilians evacuated and departed for the Land of Swamps with shinobi from Cloud Village and Sunagakure, leaving her newborn daughter Shion with Taruho.

• Alucard returned to the cliff after knocking Kisame back, and Jashin and the Evil Spirit claimed the barrier around Mount Fengmo was Moryo’s protection.
• Kisame told Nara Shikaku that Alucard was far stronger than him, leaving the gathered shinobi wary of the unknown enemy.
• Moryo weighed breaking his second seal against breaking the barrier and chose to reclaim his body first.
• The Ghost Army emerged beneath the Land of Demons and flattened obstacles as it marched toward Mount Fengmo in the Land of Swamps.
• Miroku ordered civilians evacuated from the Ghost Army’s route and told her priest that she had plans for Moryo.
• Miroku left Shion with Taruho, then departed for the Land of Swamps with shinobi from Cloud Village and Sunagakure.

Miroku and the others reached the Land of Swamps as Moryo escaped his seal and sent the Ghost Army toward them. The ninjas slowed the army, but its overwhelming numbers left Kitsuchi preparing to ask Kisame for help.

• Moryo broke through the seal and entered the Otherworld where his body was trapped.
• Hyuga Sōki spotted the approaching Ghost Army and warned the others that Miroku was being pursued.
• Nara Shikaku sent Akimichi Taishoku to assist Miroku and asked Kitsuchi and Kisame to slow the Stone Statues.
• Akimichi Taishoku knocked aside a row of Stone Statues while Kisame and Kitsuchi trapped others, but the army quickly overwhelmed their obstacles.
• Kitsuchi accepted an Iwagakure ninja's proposal to seek Kisame's help with a technique to contain the Stone Statues.

The Evil Spirit attacked Miroku and the others to keep her from reaching Moryo, but the Konoha and Iwagakure ninjas fought back. Nara Shikaku caught the airborne Evil Spirit with a shadow technique, leaving him to fall toward the ground.

• Jashin and the Evil Spirit persuaded Alucard to stop Miroku from reaching Moryo, and Alucard agreed.
• The Evil Spirit swooped toward Miroku's group, prompting Iwagakure and Konoha's ninjas to raise defenses and attack him.
• Uzumaki Kushina reacted furiously to the Evil Spirit's connection to Kusagakure's disappearance, but Nara Shikaku calmed her and promised to help find Jiraiya and Minato.
• The ninjas' attacks failed to hit the Evil Spirit because he read their thoughts and dodged in advance, while his feather spikes wounded them.
• Nara Shikaku coordinated with Akimichi Taishoku, who enlarged himself to cast a huge shadow over the Evil Spirit.
• Nara Shikaku linked his shadow to Akimichi Taishoku's and immobilized the Evil Spirit, who began falling from the air.

Evil Spirit nearly fell into Uzumaki Kushina’s sealing chains, but Alucard intervened and saved him. Meanwhile, Moryo reclaimed his body, erupted from Mount Fengmo, and broke the barrier as he announced his return.

• Nara Shikaku restrained Evil Spirit with the Shadow Possession Technique while Uzumaki Kushina sent her Adamantine Sealing Chains toward him.
• Alucard severed the chains with Kamui and stopped Kushina’s attack, rescuing Evil Spirit.
• Nara Shikaku demanded to know who Alucard and Evil Spirit were as Miroku sensed that Moryo had reclaimed his body.
• Moryo caused Mount Fengmo to explode and shattered the purple barrier with torrents of lava.
• Moryo emerged from the lava and declared that his king had returned.

Kisame used a wall of mist to help Miroku and the others escape, while Uzumaki Kushina and Kitsuchi stayed behind to hold off Moryo. Moryo pursued the retreating group, and Kitsuchi launched a massive earth-based attack to stop him.

• Moryo unleashed magma, and Kisame countered with a tidal wave that cooled it into rock and filled the area with mist.
• Kisame expanded the mist with the Hidden Mist Technique and called for someone to stay behind and delay the enemy.
• Uzumaki Kushina volunteered to cover the retreat, and Kitsuchi agreed to stay with her after entrusting Hikō with protecting Miroku.
• Alucard and the others watched from the cliff as Moryo emerged from the magma transformed and demanded to know where the Shrine Maiden was.
• Uzumaki Kushina attacked Moryo, but he drove her and Kitsuchi back with purple tentacles before pursuing the mist.
• Kitsuchi raised a giant clay figure from the ground and combined the Super-Weighted Rock Technique with the Million Ton Punch.

Uzumaki Kushina discovered that her sealing technique could stop the Ghost Army’s Stone Statues, frightening Moryo and forcing him to join the battle. Meanwhile, Nara Shikaku concluded that the other members of the Dream Organization were unlikely to pursue them and proposed a way to deal with the Ghost Army.

• Kitsuchi and Uzumaki Kushina held off Moryo and the Ghost Army while the Shrine Maiden’s group escaped.
• Uzumaki Kushina used Contract Seal: Release on a Stone Statue, immobilizing it and severing Moryo’s link to the Ghost Army.
• Moryo recalled the Ghost Army pursuing the Shrine Maiden and charged at Kushina himself, enraged by the threat to his immortality.
• After Kisame and Nara Shikaku led the Shrine Maiden’s group to safety, Nara Shikaku reasoned that the other Gods had helped Moryo only because they shared that status.
• Nara Shikaku proposed using the Land of Wind’s Death Desert as a burial ground for the Ghost Army’s Stone Statues.

Nara Shikaku proposed using the Land of Wind’s quicksand to bury the Ghost Army, but Tessa and Hikō argued over which nation should bear the threat. Araki ordered Kisame Hoshigaki to push for the Land of Earth, and Kisame argued that the desert would leave him unable to use Water Release.

• Tessa rejected Nara Shikaku’s proposal to take the Ghost Army into the Land of Wind and suggested the Land of Earth instead.
• Nara Shikaku explained that the Stone Statues could not jump, making the Land of Wind’s quicksand a way to trap them.
• Tessa and Hikō clashed over whether the Land of Wind or the Land of Earth should face the Ghost Army, while Nara Shikaku welcomed their discord.
• Araki watched through the Demon Eye and recognized Konoha’s plan to use the Ghost Army to restrain a neighboring nation, then ordered Kisame Hoshigaki to advocate for the Land of Earth.
• Kisame Hoshigaki argued that the Land of Earth was preferable because the desert had too little moisture for him to use Hidden Mist Technique or Water Release.

The representatives argued over whether to lure Moryo’s Ghost Army into the Land of Wind or the Land of Earth, while Moryo pursued Uzumaki Kushina and Kitsuchi toward the Land of Earth. Hikō realized Nara Shikaku’s plan benefited Konoha, but he could not find a practical way to change the decision.

• Kisame claimed the dry terrain made Water Release difficult, and Nara Shikaku drew Oroi into the argument over where to lead the Ghost Army.
• Hikō tried to pressure Oroi into supporting the Land of Wind, but Oroi instead backed the Land of Earth, with Tessa standing beside him.
• Shrine Maiden Miroku urged the representatives not to fight while Moryo remained undefeated, and the group settled on the Land of Earth.
• Moryo continued pursuing Uzumaki Kushina and Kitsuchi, who retreated along Nara Shikaku’s markers toward the Land of Earth.
• Hikō concluded that Nara Shikaku’s proposal had redirected attention away from sealing Moryo and favored Konoha, but he saw no feasible alternative.

Oyashiro En told Araki that the Land of Artisans’ craftsmen planned to revive their ancestor Seimei, and asked him to help delay Mist Village’s campaign in hopes of obtaining a resurrection technique. Araki warned that Seimei might be an ultimate weapon rather than an ordinary person, so the method might not work on anyone else.

• Oyashiro En visited Araki to discuss Mist Village’s campaign to infiltrate and control island nations.
• Oyashiro En revealed that the Land of Artisans’ craftsmen were preparing to revive their ancestor, Seimei.
• Araki recognized the name Seimei and questioned whether the Land of Artisans’ powerful-sounding Four Celestial Symbols could challenge the Anbu.
• Oyashiro En admitted he hoped to obtain the resurrection technique to revive his wife and asked Araki to persuade the Mizukage to delay the attack.
• Araki warned Oyashiro En that Seimei might be an ultimate weapon, making the resurrection method unsuitable for reviving ordinary people.

Araki and Oyashiro En discussed how to accelerate the plan to resurrect Seimei while bringing the Land of Artisans under Kirigakure’s control. In the Land of Artisans, Ryugan Sanzoku gathered three other heirs, and the next day all four legendary ninja tools and heirs disappeared.

• Oyashiro En told Araki that the Four Grandmaster Families’ heirs wanted to gather Seimei’s four legendary ninja tools and use powerful chakra to resurrect him, but their elders had imprisoned them.
• Araki rejected waiting for the heirs to inherit their families and advised approaching the Land of Artisans openly, while linking the resurrection plan to bringing the country under Kirigakure’s control.
• Ryugan Sanzoku saw red, slit-shaped pupils in the stream and later noticed a flash of red while looking at the Dragon Eye Telescopic Sword.
• Ryugan Sanzoku summoned Kujaku Rei, Mugenmon Satoru, and Kokko Nao, telling them that something concerned the future of the Land of Artisans.
• The next day, the Four Grandmaster Families discovered that their ancestral ninja tools and their heirs had disappeared.

Kitsuchi and Uzumaki Kushina lured Moryo and the Ghost Army into Iwagakure’s Death Swamp, where Ōnoki and the Iwa shinobi sprang an ambush. As the swamp swallowed the Stone Statues and Ōnoki battled Moryo, Moryo called on Alucard and Zetsu for help.

• Kitsuchi and Uzumaki Kushina escaped Moryo’s attacks and led him into the Death Swamp.
• Alucard, Jashin, Evil Spirit, and Black Zetsu watched Moryo pursue them and remarked that he was being stalled.
• Ōnoki arrived with Iwa Anbu, sealed the Ghost Army’s retreat, and attacked Moryo with Dust Release.
• Iwa shinobi used Swamp of the Underworld to drag the Ghost Army’s Stone Statues into the mud.
• Moryo’s attacks failed against Ōnoki and Deidara, so he called Alucard and Zetsu to help.

Black Zetsu convinced Alucard, Jashin, and the Evil Spirit to help Moryo and reveal the [Dream Organization] to the world. They arrived before Ōnoki and the other ninjas, then declared themselves gods.

• Ōnoki retreated when Moryo called for Alucard and Zetsu, while Nara Shikaku and the others feared who might answer.
• Black Zetsu argued that the Otsutsuki clan had either left the planet or died and urged the group to restore the ancient faith to regain their strength.
• Jashin and the Evil Spirit agreed with Black Zetsu that the group should announce its existence to the world.
• Hyuga Sōki sensed four approaching auras, and Alucard arrived carrying Black Zetsu alongside Jashin and the Evil Spirit.
• Ōnoki demanded to know who they were, and Alucard and the others unleashed their power and declared, “We are gods!”

Alucard and the other supposed gods demanded ninety-nine percent of the Five Nations’ authority, but Ōnoki redirected the decision to Konoha and Nara Shikaku pushed for a Five Kage Summit. The summit was set for seven days later in the Land of Iron, while Moryo left without capturing Miroku.

• Jashin and Alucard declared themselves immortal gods and demanded ninety-nine percent of the Five Nations’ authority.
• Ōnoki avoided agreeing outright and insisted that Konoha should decide the future of the Five Great Nations.
• Nara Shikaku rejected Konoha’s authority over the Land of Earth and proposed a Five Kage Summit to decide the matter together.
• Ōnoki and Nara Shikaku agreed to hold the summit in the Land of Iron seven days later.
• Alucard and the other two flew away, and Moryo left after failing to seize the Shrine Maiden Miroku.

After the Dream Organization escaped the Land of Earth, Black Zetsu proposed choosing a leader by strength, and Moryo and Evil Spirit fought over the position. Alucard defeated Moryo by sending part of his body into the Kamui Dimension and demanded that Moryo acknowledge him as leader.

• Ōnoki asked Kitsuchi, Nara Shikaku, and the others to explain the Dream Organization after its members left, and Shrine Maiden Miroku stepped forward to answer.
• Moryo berated Black Zetsu and Alucard for failing to capture the Shrine Maiden, but Black Zetsu persuaded him to wait until the Five Kage Summit in seven days.
• Black Zetsu proposed choosing a leader, and Moryo argued that strength should decide who became boss.
• Evil Spirit attacked Moryo, who countered with magma and then unleashed Meteor Volcano, nearly catching the onlooking Alucard, Black Zetsu, and Jashin.
• Alucard fought Moryo, cut him with spatial power, and sent part of his body into the Kamui Dimension.
• Alucard told the panicked Moryo he would reveal where his missing body part had gone if Moryo acknowledged him as leader.

Alucard subdued Moryo, won the Evil Spirit and Black Zetsu’s surrender, and defeated Jashin’s challenge. The others accepted Alucard as the Dream Organization’s leader.

• Moryo refused to become second-in-command, but Alucard restrained him with Baskerville and knocked him unconscious with his Mangekyou Sharingan.
• Alucard demanded the Evil Spirit’s submission, and the Evil Spirit surrendered; Black Zetsu also agreed to submit.
• Jashin challenged Alucard for the leadership, attacking him with Seeds of Curse and discovering Alucard’s bats had no souls to extract.
• Jashin charged Alucard, but Alucard’s Kamui Sharingan created a spatial vortex that made Jashin retreat and concede.
• Alucard asked whether they had reached an agreement, and the Evil Spirit, Black Zetsu, Moryo, and Jashin bowed and accepted him as Leader.