Chapter Summaries

Kaguya Otsutsuki returned with Hagoromo Otsutsuki, Hamura, and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki to the mountain hollow, where Isshiki freed her and departed. In the Land of Rain, Genkawa Uchiha announced that the Ninja World's final battle was near and ordered letters sent to every village, leaving the villages to decide how to respond.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki returned the group to the mountain hollow, and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki removed the black markings from her body before leaving through a Space-Time passage.
• Madara Uchiha warned Hagoromo Otsutsuki not to underestimate Genkawa Uchiha, and Hagoromo said they needed to prepare thoroughly.
• Genkawa Uchiha summoned Nagato and Konan, then told the gathered group that the Ninja World's final battle was coming.
• Baki told Genkawa Uchiha that Gaara had not been found, and Genkawa reassured him that the Jinchuriki would not be needed for the battle.
• Genkawa Uchiha ordered Nagato and Konan to send letters in Amegakure's name telling every village the truth and letting them choose what to do.

After the Sage of Six Paths and other powerful figures appeared, Genkawa Uchiha told representatives from the Five Great Ninja Villages what had happened and warned them that a battle would affect the entire Ninja World. He urged them to unite, but they gave no answer before he left, and the villages prepared to respond.

• The ninja villages reinforced their defenses, moved forces, and exchanged intelligence after receiving Amegakure's letters.
• Representatives from Iwagakure, Kumogakure, Kirigakure, and Sunagakure returned to Amegakure to meet Genkawa Uchiha.
• Genkawa Uchiha recounted Gaara's abduction, the battle inside the moon, the arrival of Otsutsuki Toneri and Hamura Otsutsuki, and Kaguya Otsutsuki's release.
• A Sunagakure ninja asked whether Genkawa Uchiha could defeat their enemies, and he said he could not be certain.
• Genkawa Uchiha urged the villages to set aside their interests and unite, then left after the representatives remained silent.
• Messengers carrying the villages' replies and decisions traveled across the Ninja World as preparations continued.

Nagato considered Genkawa Uchiha’s advice to stop carrying the Ninja World’s troubles, while cooperation between the villages began to grow. In Konoha, Orochimaru consulted Tobirama Senju, who warned that Konoha must stay out of anything involving the Sage of Six Paths.

• Nagato asked Genkawa Uchiha whether the villages would accept his advice, and Genkawa told him to focus on his own path instead of trying to save everyone.
• Nagato left Genkawa’s residence saying he would think more about the advice, while Genkawa returned to organizing his fishing rod.
• The ninja villages began negotiating and cooperating more often, though Konoha’s participation remained hesitant and ambiguous.
• Orochimaru wondered what role Konoha should take as he reviewed the villages’ letters, then asked the portrait of Tobirama Senju for guidance.
• Tobirama Senju emerged from his portrait and told Orochimaru that Konoha could not participate in the matter because anything involving the Sage of Six Paths required caution.
• Orochimaru realized Tobirama was behind Shimura Danzō’s gloomy personality.

Tobirama Senju revealed that he had secretly remained in Konoha as Root’s leader, maintaining the village’s stability while Orochimaru served as Hokage. He opposed Orochimaru’s plan to cooperate with other villages, then revealed that the Sage of Six Paths had sent Orochimaru a scroll about the Byakugan’s evolution and offered Tobirama a new life.

• Tobirama Senju had secretly led Root for ten years, balancing the Uchiha Clan’s influence and suppressing conflict in Konoha.
• Orochimaru argued that Konoha should cooperate with other shinobi villages, but Tobirama opposed the plan.
• Tobirama gave Orochimaru a scroll describing the Tenseigan and possible ways to advance the Byakugan.
• Tobirama told Orochimaru that the Sage of Six Paths knew about his experiments and had sent the scroll to him.
• Orochimaru asked what Tobirama had received in return, and Tobirama said he had gained life.
• Orochimaru asked whether Tobirama was now among the living.

Tobirama Senju pressed Orochimaru to choose whether to cooperate with the Sage of Six Paths, but Orochimaru refused, saying Konoha had to follow its own path. Tobirama left, and Orochimaru reflected on the coming final battle and Tobirama’s decision to side with the Sage rather than Genkawa Uchiha.

• Tobirama Senju challenged Orochimaru about his motives and whether he had agreed to cooperate with the Sage of Six Paths.
• Orochimaru accused Tobirama of allowing personal desires and his debt to the Sage to influence his choices.
• Orochimaru refused to cooperate, arguing that the choice best served Konoha and that Konoha had its own path.
• Tobirama warned Orochimaru that he would regret the decision, then left his office.
• Orochimaru rolled up the Sage’s scroll and wondered how the Ninja World’s final battle would end, criticizing Tobirama for choosing the Sage over Genkawa Uchiha.

As rumors of a war that could reshape the Ninja World spread, Orochimaru decided that Konoha should side with Genkawa Uchiha rather than the Sage of Six Paths and his allies. He summoned Fugaku and Hiashi to discuss his choice, as the coming conflict began to take shape.

• Ninja across the villages, including Konoha, exchanged rumors about an approaching war that would determine the future of the Ninja World.
• Orochimaru read Anbu intelligence and concluded that Tobirama Senju and others were pressuring him to choose a side.
• Orochimaru examined a branch from the God Tree that he had brought back from Amegakure and decided to support Genkawa Uchiha.
• Orochimaru ordered an Anbu ninja to summon Clan Head Fugaku and Clan Head Hiashi for an important discussion.

Orochimaru sided with Genkawa Uchiha, while Konoha’s Root faction remained noncommittal as the Ninja World braced for a final battle. After learning that the Sage of Six Paths and his allies were hiding in the Land of Hot Water, Genkawa decided to wait a few days before going there himself.

• Orochimaru judged Genkawa Uchiha’s potential greater than the Sage of Six Paths’ and chose to involve his faction in the coming turmoil.
• Orochimaru’s faction contacted other villages and exchanged intelligence, while Root maintained an ambiguous stance, dividing Konoha’s ninja into emerging factions.
• The Ninja World grew tense over the coming conflict and the destruction implied by the moon’s splitting and repair, while Genkawa continued his daily routine in Amegakure.
• Konan reported that the only unchecked location was the Sage of Six Paths’ hiding place in the Land of Hot Water.
• Genkawa refused to send scouts and decided to wait a few days before going to the Land of Hot Water himself.

Raikage A led a joint force of ninja from the great villages to attack the Jashin Religion’s last stronghold in the Land of Hot Water. The operation was meant to eliminate potential enemies before the final battle between the Sage of Six Paths and Genkawa Uchiha.

• Ninja from every village surrounded an evacuated town whose dry well concealed the Jashin Religion’s headquarters.
• Raikage A arrived and learned that he would command the advance force while the other Kage came later.
• Raikage A ordered the force to seal the exits and leave no cult members alive or the foundations of Jashin intact.
• The ninja surrounded the well and puppet masters raised barriers around the town as Raikage A watched.
• Raikage A’s force prepared to clear the Land of Hot Water of potential enemies ahead of the final battle against Genkawa Uchiha.

A and the allied village ninja sealed the Jashin Religion’s tunnels and subdued most of its members. A broke into the inner hall, killed one archbishop with lightning, and confronted the seven remaining archbishops as they prepared a final sacrifice.

• Mabui reported that 121 of the 129 identified Jashin Religion members had been dealt with, and A ordered every entrance sealed.
• Ninja from the villages sealed the tunnels and restrained the Jashin Religion members with chakra threads, talismans, and traps.
• The eight remaining archbishops gathered in the innermost hall and began drawing Cursed Seals in their blood for a final sacrifice.
• A blasted apart the stone entrance and killed an archbishop with a lightning attack.
• A and the allied ninja advanced on the seven remaining archbishops as they prepared to fight.

Raikage A and his ninjas confronted seven fanatical Jashin bishops, whose eerie rituals and resilience unsettled the attackers. The battle began, and the bishops proved capable enough to avoid being defeated immediately.

• The seven bishops calmed their panic by invoking Lord Jashin and grew increasingly frenzied.
• A bishop’s mangled head spoke and threatened the ninjas, so Raikage A destroyed it with a lightning-charged punch.
• The bishops cut their wrists and sent blood toward Raikage A and his ninjas, but his lightning burned the blood to ash.
• Raikage A ordered his ninjas to attack, and they surrounded the bishops as the battle erupted.
• The seven bishops fought with the fundamentals of ordinary jonin and eerie abilities, preventing the expected swift defeat.

Raikage A overwhelmed the Jashin bishops with his lightning-fast attacks, destroying their blood seals and defeating most of them. As the last archbishop invoked Jashin through a glowing chest pattern, Raikage A opened a dark scroll to examine it.

• Raikage A raced through the hall in a storm of lightning, scorching the blood seals and paralyzing the seven bishops.
• Raikage A struck down the bishops one by one as they panicked and questioned why their ritual had failed.
• A bishop tried to use a concealed needle and his own blood to sacrifice Raikage A, but Raikage A stopped the weapon, mocked the ritual, and killed him.
• Raikage A confronted the three remaining archbishops and asked why Jashin was not saving them.
• The leading bishop exposed a glowing pattern carved into his chest and claimed Jashin was upon him.
• Raikage A took out and unfurled a dark scroll to examine the pattern.

The archbishop transformed into a towering, bone-armored figure that claimed to be divine, while Raikage A prepared the scroll Genkawa Uchiha had given him. Raikage A released whatever the scroll contained to confront the figure.

• Raikage A watched as the archbishop’s skeletal mark awakened and blood gathered around him.
• The two remaining archbishops fought the ninja, but the ninja restrained and subdued them.
• The blood formed a cocoon, which cracked open and released a tall figure covered in bone armor and living flesh.
• The figure roared at Raikage A and demanded that he die for blaspheming the divine.
• Raikage A questioned whether the figure was Jashin, then used the scroll and called, “Release!”
• White smoke burst from the Sealing Scroll, and a phantom figure emerged.

A summoned a humanoid phantom that was a fragment of the Death God, and its power made the blood-cocoon creature retreat. The phantom restrained the creature with ethereal chains, leaving it immobilized and visibly afraid.

• A watched the humanoid creature recoil from the newly revealed phantom and taunted it for being scared.
• A sent the phantom forward, and the creature retreated as it recognized the phantom's power.
• The phantom attacked as the creature spread crimson light that turned the floor into bloody sludge.
• The phantom cast ethereal chains throughout the hall, stopping the crimson light and suppressing the creature.
• The chains immobilized the humanoid creature, and genuine fear appeared in its eyes as A watched.

The humanoid monster drained the two remaining archbishops and the shattered bodies, then grew stronger and covered the underground hall with spreading crimson patterns. Raikage A and the ninjas watched from beyond the chains as the monster’s transformation continued.

• The humanoid monster attacked the archbishops and shattered bodies with blood threads instead of trying to escape the chains.
• The blood threads drained the archbishops, who pleaded with Jashin before they died, while also reclaiming power from the shattered bodies.
• Raikage A signaled for the ninjas to retreat beyond the chains’ sealed range and watched the monster cautiously.
• The monster swelled as its bone armor thickened and its aura grew more chaotic.
• The monster roared and released blood that formed crimson patterns across the floor, walls, and ceiling, filling the hall with oppressive pressure.

Raikage A discovered that the humanoid monster was draining vitality from everyone in the hall, then used the Death God phantom to bind and reap it. The monster was left standing motionless, its vitality extinguished.

• Blood-red patterns spread through the hall as Bloody Mist carrying chakra and vitality drifted from the gathered ninjas toward the humanoid monster.
• The ninjas realized they were losing blood and vitality even as they retreated, and Raikage A found that his chakra defenses and Lightning Style could not stop the draining.
• Raikage A commanded the Death God phantom to tighten its chains around the humanoid monster, suppressing the spreading patterns and slowing the Bloody Mist.
• The Death God phantom produced a scythe and swung it through the bound monster.
• The humanoid monster stopped moving as the flames of vitality in its eyes turned gray-white, leaving it standing intact but lifeless.

Raikage A confirmed that the humanoid monster had been defeated by the Death God phantom summoned through Genkawa Uchiha’s single-use scroll. He ordered the ninjas to seal the corpse and search the hall as the operation to purge the Jashin Religion in the Land of Hot Water neared completion, leaving only the final battle.

• Raikage A inspected the motionless humanoid monster and found that it had no warmth, pulse, or reaction.
• Raikage A realized that the Death God phantom’s scythe had overwhelmed the monster with a single strike.
• Raikage A released the phantom’s chains, and the monster fell and rapidly withered into a lifeless corpse.
• Raikage A ordered the Sealing Squad to seal the corpse and sent the other ninjas to search the hall and clear remaining dangers.
• Raikage A put away the spent scroll and left as the Death God phantom faded and the purge operation approached its end.

Raikage A coordinated the purge of the Jashin Religion’s remnants and hosted the other village leaders in Yugakure to discuss an enemy in the northern mountains. Orochimaru argued that intelligence gathering was pointless because they only needed to wait for one person, and the chapter ended as reports arrived that this person had come.

• Raikage A established a headquarters near Yugakure and organized patrols to secure the Land of Hot Water.
• The Kage of the great ninja villages and leaders of smaller villages gathered in Yugakure while outside forces detained locals connected to the Jashin Religion.
• Raikage A presented reports identifying the northern mountains as the enemy’s location and said his scouting teams had not returned.
• Orochimaru told Raikage A that further intelligence gathering was useless because they only needed to wait for one person to arrive.
• Ninjas brought urgent reports to the leaders, whose expressions changed as they learned that person had arrived.

Genkawa Uchiha arrived at the conference with Konan, Nagato, Yugito Nii, and Karin Uzumaki's group, shifting the room's mood. He accepted Orochimaru's proposal, ordered Raikage A to withdraw his people, and declared that he would handle the rest.

• Konan and Nagato entered the conference room, followed by Genkawa Uchiha and his companions.
• Raikage A demanded to know why Yugito Nii had not been allowed to return to Kumogakure.
• Genkawa Uchiha dismissed Raikage A's complaint and took the seat at the head of the table.
• Genkawa Uchiha said Orochimaru's proposal was fine and ordered Raikage A to pull his people back.
• Raikage A accepted Genkawa Uchiha's order, and Orochimaru did not object.

Genkawa Uchiha told the gathered Kage and village leaders that a great war was imminent and that they should preserve stability while he fought. To reassure them, he transported them to a real, isolated space he had created, leaving Raikage A convinced that victory might be within reach.

• Raikage A asked whether Genkawa Uchiha still needed the other villages, and Genkawa said they could maintain balance in the Ninja World during the coming war.
• Raikage A asked whether Genkawa could defeat the Sage of Six Paths and the others, and Genkawa confidently assured him he could.
• Orochimaru urged Genkawa to give the gathered leaders confidence because they had placed their bets on him.
• Genkawa snapped his fingers and transported everyone from Yugakure's Council Chamber to a vast, isolated plain.
• The Kage and village leaders examined the grass, trees, soil, flowers, and sunlight and concluded that the place was real rather than a genjutsu.
• Genkawa explained that he had created the space and that battles there would not affect the Ninja World, and Raikage A accepted his explanation.

Genkawa Uchiha revealed the Thirty-Three Heavens, a system of interconnected spaces he created using knowledge derived from Kaguya Otsutsuki’s chakra. Impressed by his power, Raikage A asked what kind of Ninja World he wanted after the war.

• Genkawa Uchiha explained that he had analyzed chakra taken from Kaguya Otsutsuki and adapted the principles of the Expansive Truth-Seeking Ball using his own Space-Time abilities.
• Genkawa Uchiha described the Thirty-Three Heavens as thirty-three linked spaces, with the First Heaven serving as a habitable alternate Ninja World and the other spaces designed to trap and kill enemies.
• Orochimaru praised Genkawa Uchiha’s ability to create an independent space.
• Raikage A asked Genkawa Uchiha whether the Thirty-Three Heavens was the confidence he had spoken of, and Genkawa Uchiha asked if he was still unsatisfied.
• Raikage A said that everyone was satisfied and asked what Genkawa Uchiha wanted the Ninja World to become after the war.