Recaps

Lin Qing and his allies rescued Lucy and Steel from the derailing train and pursued Funny Valentine, whose protection weakened as Lucy moved away. Lin Qing asked Gyro to use Ball Breaker against Valentine while he studied the technique, and Gyro’s first attempt grazed the president.

• Funny Valentine used the Saint’s blessing to deflect his hand injury and threatened Lin Qing and Johnny as they confronted him.
• Lin Qing derailed the train with a stone ball, and Hot Pants rescued Lucy and the dying Steel from the wreckage.
• Lin Qing, Hot Pants, Gyro, and Johnny chased Valentine as the protection of the light wall weakened with Lucy’s distance from him.
• Lin Qing explained that Gyro could use Ball Breaker to weaponize gravity and break through Valentine’s protection, while Lin Qing tried to learn the technique.
• Gyro threw his first imperfect Ball Breaker, grazing Valentine’s hair, and Johnny said he thought he understood the technique.

Lin Qing and Gyro fought Funny Valentine as Gyro awakened Steel Ball Breaker and struck the President, who escaped into a parallel world. Valentine sent five armed duplicates to kill Lin Qing and the others, but Lin Qing intercepted their bullets and killed them; Hot Pants then reached the Atlantic Ocean, where the soaked ground trapped her foot.

• Lin Qing admitted he had not mastered Ball Breaker as he, Gyro, and Johnny pursued Valentine, while Lucy briefly began breathing again as Hot Pants carried her away.
• Valentine attacked Hot Pants, but Steel shielded Lucy, and Gyro's steel ball struck Valentine after Steel Ball Breaker awakened and guided it past him.
• The ball wounded and rapidly aged Valentine, who escaped into a parallel world after Steel's deflection kept the attack from killing him outright.
• Valentine returned with five armed duplicates, who fired at Lin Qing, Gyro, and Johnny while the real Valentine continued after Hot Pants.
• Lin Qing shielded his companions by cutting apart the bullets, then used Gyro's stone balls to knock down and kill all five duplicates.
• Hot Pants reached a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean drawn across the road by the Saint's Corpse, and her foot sank into the softened, seawater-soaked ground.

Hot Pants sacrificed herself to shield Lucy and buy time for Lin Qing, Gyro, and Johnny to catch up with Funny Valentine. Valentine reclaimed Lucy and declared that the ritual to create a new era had begun.

• The Atlantic Ocean split into walls of seawater, and Funny Valentine caught up with Hot Pants as she carried Lucy through the flooded corridor.
• Hot Pants threw Lucy toward Lin Qing and faced D4C, using her own blood and Cream Starter to protect Lucy and hold Valentine back.
• Valentine shot Hot Pants at point-blank range, but Lin Qing dispelled Scary Monsters and saved her by restoring her human form.
• Gyro's stone balls struck Valentine's pistol and sent Hot Pants tumbling through the seawater, where Lin Qing caught her.
• Valentine reclaimed Lucy and told Lin Qing, Hot Pants, Gyro, and Johnny that the ritual had begun.

Lin Qing finally mastered Ball Breaker and broke through Funny Valentine’s light wall after Valentine displaced Johnny and Gyro to a parallel world. He defeated Valentine with the Steel Ball and a barrage of empowered punches, then caught Lucy as the world froze and a strange voice greeted him.

• Johnny and Gyro’s attacks destroyed a Valentine clone, but the real Valentine trapped them between two clones and sent them with their horses to a parallel world.
• Lin Qing chose to keep fighting beside Hot Pants, but Valentine attacked her to stop Lin Qing from using Ball Breaker.
• Gyro returned with Johnny and told Lin Qing to let the power passed from his mount run freely through his body.
• Hot Pants hurled Lin Qing into the air as their overlapping Golden Rectangles powered his first successful Ball Breaker.
• Lin Qing tore through Valentine’s light wall, struck him with the Steel Ball, and pummeled him until he was defeated.
• Lin Qing caught Lucy, the world froze, and a strange voice greeted him.

Lin Qing met the Saint in the frozen world and learned that the Saint could answer three questions but could not reveal the secrets of Fate Ink. The Saint warned that Lin Qing could defeat the Otsutsuki only at great cost, then admitted he could not predict whether reviving Kaguya would reduce the casualties.

• Lin Qing met the Saint, who explained that he had watched over him since he obtained the Crown of Thorns and would answer three questions.
• The Saint refused to disclose Fate Ink's secrets, warning that a pen was simply a pen and advising Lin Qing not to use it.
• Lin Qing asked whether he could win the war with his current strength and allies, and the Saint said many people would die before the enemy was defeated.
• The Saint said Ball Breaker and Lin Qing's other advantages could prevent near-total annihilation, but would not spare many lives.
• Lin Qing asked whether reviving Otsutsuki Kaguya would reduce the casualties, and the Saint said he could not predict what she would do.

Lin Qing used Ball Breaker’s space-type Infinite Folding to defeat Funny Valentine, then stopped the folding and offered him a deal. Valentine had to find Aisar, whose Stand was Civil War, in the parallel worlds, while Lin Qing promised to protect him if he succeeded.

• After the Saint’s Time Stop space collapsed, Lin Qing used Ball Breaker to fold the space around Funny Valentine, leaving him gravely deformed.
• Lin Qing revealed that he had used Spin to keep both Hot Pantses alive and able to use Cream Starter.
• Lin Qing halted Valentine’s spatial folding and placed Ball Breaker’s power in his eyeball, warning that transferring D4C would make it explode.
• Despite Gyro’s warning that Valentine could escape through a parallel world, Lin Qing said the charged eye would prevent him from switching bodies safely.
• Lin Qing promised Valentine protection if he found Aisar, whose Stand was Civil War, across the parallel worlds.

After the battle, Lin Qing asked Aisar to use Civil War on him so he could remove the endlessly spinning eyeball. The Stand summoned a blood-red ocean beneath Lin Qing, leaving the group to face whatever his sins would bring.

• Johnny, Gyro, and Lin Qing waited at the battlefield until evening, while Lucy wept in Steel’s arms and Hot Pants joked with Lin Qing.
• Funny Valentine emerged from his coat with Aisar and reminded Lin Qing of their agreement to remove the spinning eyeball.
• Aisar summoned Civil War, and Lin Qing explained that the Stand summoned things its target had discarded or destroyed and could turn guilt into a covering membrane.
• Lin Qing asked Aisar to use Civil War on him and sent Johnny, Gyro, and Hot Pants away, telling them to kill Aisar if danger arose and he did not stop the ability.
• Aisar activated Civil War, and a blood-red ocean rose from beneath Lin Qing’s feet.

Lin Qing faced the thousands of people he had killed, then kept his promise to Funny Valentine while recovering Whitesnake. He welcomed Whitesnake back as his brother, gaining a potential ally against the Otsutsuki and a path toward resurrecting Kaguya.

• Lin Qing's Civil War sins emerged from a sea of blood, but the Saint's golden light stopped the deceased from touching him.
• Funny Valentine crawled toward Lin Qing, hoping to survive and begin his plans again, and Lin Qing stopped the Spin by touching Valentine's eye.
• Whitesnake appeared behind Valentine and extracted his Stand and Memory Discs, leaving Valentine alive but unconscious.
• Lin Qing explained that Civil War had let him find Whitesnake among his sins and that Whitesnake could examine Black Zetsu's memories to find a way to resurrect Kaguya.
• Whitesnake reunited with Lin Qing, and the two bumped fists as brothers.

Lin Qing said farewell to his Steel Ball Run companions and returned to the History Memorial Hall, where he prepared to summon Civil War before Kirigakure’s scheduled signing ceremony. The chapter left him facing an urgent, high-stakes mission with only forty minutes remaining.

• Lin Qing gave Gyro Funny Valentine's Memory Disc and explained that it could help secure a pardon for the imprisoned child.
• Lin Qing offered Johnny and Hot Pants D4C's Stand Disc, allowing them to travel to parallel worlds and bring their families to the primary world.
• Lucy realized Lin Qing was leaving, and he said goodbye to the group; Hot Pants asked whether she might someday see his real appearance.
• Lin Qing severed both his lower legs to leave the trial world, and Diego appeared in his place, confused and horrified.
• Lin Qing returned to the History Memorial Hall, saw that forty minutes remained before the signing ceremony, and used the Resonance Sound System to lock onto Civil War and draw.

Lin Qing spent Soul Shards to pull and strengthen Civil War, Silver Chariot, and Dragon's Dream, then used Civil War to bring back Whitesnake. He ordered Whitesnake to inspect Black Zetsu’s memories for the method of reviving Kaguya so they could prepare a backup plan.

• Lin Qing reserved fifty thousand Soul Shards for possible Fate Ink costs and used the rest to pull Stands.
• Lin Qing obtained Silver Chariot, Civil War, and Dragon's Dream, then spent nearly twenty thousand Soul Shards to max them out.
• Lin Qing found that maxed Civil War could selectively summon his abandoned sins within a larger domain, and he used it to revive Whitesnake.
• Whitesnake asked Lin Qing whether he had taken down Mei Terumi, but Lin Qing cut off its teasing and handed it Black Zetsu.
• Lin Qing told Whitesnake to examine Black Zetsu’s memories and find out how to revive Kaguya as a backup plan.

Lin Qing learned how Kaguya could be revived and prepared fallback plans for the coming battle, while Kirigakure strengthened its defenses. After gathering senjutsu chakra, he heard the Great Toad Sage say that the absolute darkness ahead was no longer merely a shadow: he had touched it.

• Lin Qing searched Black Zetsu's memories and learned that reviving Kaguya required the Ten-Tails, immense chakra, Sage powers, and Black Zetsu.
• Lin Qing set out three plans: attack directly, revive Kaguya if necessary, and seek the pen to evolve his Stand if all else failed.
• Lin Qing and Whitesnake discussed whether Ame-no-Futodama-no-Mikoto should be moved, and Lin Qing decided to keep it where it was.
• Lin Qing gathered senjutsu chakra from Mount Myoboku and Shikkotsu Forest with help from Jiraiya and Tsunade.
• The Great Toad Sage told Lin Qing that the absolute darkness ahead was no longer a shadow because he had touched it.

Lin Qing used Dragon's Dream to place Isshiki at a dangerous position and prepare him to be struck by a planet-destroying cannon. After detonating Jigen's body and forcing Isshiki to reincarnate, Lin Qing rode to an auspicious position and unleashed Ball Breaker.

• At Shikkotsu Forest, the Katsuyu Sage warned Lin Qing that she could sense the overwritten timeline and urged him to beware of the White Snake Sage.
• In the Land of Wind, Lin Qing brought Isshiki's head out of the Ghost Room and extracted discs containing Jigen's memories and sutra-chanting ability.
• Lin Qing used Dragon's Dream to find an auspicious position and marked Isshiki's location as dangerous, then set Isshiki's head on an X-shaped reflective panel.
• Lin Qing placed an employee badge identifying Isshiki as a planet-destroying cannon close-range observer around his neck as a blazing light descended from the sky.
• Lin Qing detonated the seal and killed Jigen's body, prompting Isshiki to reincarnate at the dangerous position as the cannon descended.
• Lin Qing rode to the auspicious position, entered the Golden Rectangle, and fired Ball Breaker.

After Isshiki completed his reincarnation, Lin Qing struck him with an iron ball that wielded spatial power and the Star-Destroying Cannon, leaving Isshiki gravely wounded in a magma-filled abyss. Isshiki burned his life energy to heal and charged at Lin Qing, determined to kill him even at the cost of his remaining lifespan.

• Isshiki completed his reincarnation in his true body and believed he could overpower Lin Qing.
• Isshiki failed to shrink Lin Qing's iron ball because it possessed spatial power, and its Infinite Spin struck him.
• The Star-Destroying Cannon fired through a portal and devastated the desert around Isshiki.
• Isshiki survived with shattered bones and severe wounds, then burned life energy to heal himself.
• Isshiki charged at Lin Qing, resolved to seek life through death.

Lin Qing fought Isshiki and used a coordinated attack to eject the disc from Isshiki’s head, then contaminated him with his blood. Obito arrived as Isshiki lay weakened, leaving the confrontation poised to continue.

• Lin Qing and Isshiki exchanged devastating attacks, and Lin Qing redirected Isshiki’s Daikokuten cubes with C-Moon.
• Isshiki recognized that Lin Qing’s steel-ball attack could be dodged, but Danzo’s Kotoamatsukami altered his thoughts while the dead distracted him.
• Whitesnake struck Isshiki and ejected his disc, and Lin Qing stopped time while Isshiki shrank to evade capture.
• Lin Qing enveloped the tiny Isshiki in his blood, contaminating him and forcing him to flee and cough up blood.
• Obito emerged from a space ripple, saw the weakened Isshiki, and hesitated as he faced Lin Qing.

Obito arrived at Lin Qing’s battlefield expecting to help Isshiki, but found Isshiki near death and was soon joined by Momoshiki and Kinshiki. The White Snake Sage detected that one version of the present had been erased and headed to the Research Institute for answers, while Lin Qing prepared for the four Ōtsutsuki and Obito.

• The White Snake Sage told Obito that Lin Qing had released Isshiki, and Obito eagerly asked Kabuto Yakushi to take him to the battlefield.
• Obito arrived to find Isshiki gravely wounded and the desert battlefield devastated, then charged at Lin Qing after Kabuto Yakushi disappeared into the Kamui Dimension.
• Kinshiki emerged with Momoshiki and knocked Obito away, leaving Obito to endure another sudden change in the battle.
• The White Snake Sage sensed two different presents, realized one had been erased, and continued toward the Research Institute seeking an answer from Ame-no-Futodama-no-Mikoto.
• Isshiki stood and confronted Momoshiki, who wanted to refine and eat him, while Lin Qing checked the time and prepared to summon his steed.

Lin Qing used Ball Breaker and Infinite Folding to create a temporary black hole and destroy Isshiki, while Kinshiki tried to rescue him. The battlefield fell silent, and the White Snake Sage called on Kabuto to send every Impure World Reincarnation, especially Madara Uchiha, to support him.

• Kabuto Yakushi disrupted Lin Qing’s summoning technique, but Lin Qing summoned a crystalline horse using Ripple resonance and prepared Ball Breaker and the Blade of Ruin.
• Isshiki tried to distract Lin Qing and dismissed the steel ball as a bluff, but he realized a command disc had given the horse enough autonomy to enable Ball Breaker.
• Lin Qing’s steel ball struck Isshiki’s black chakra rods, and Infinite Folding collapsed them into a temporary black hole that trapped and sliced Isshiki.
• Kinshiki intercepted Lin Qing’s charged Blade of Ruin, but Star Platinum grabbed Isshiki and hurled him into the black hole before it vanished.
• Kabuto Yakushi retreated farther from the battle as the White Snake Sage demanded support and ordered him to send every Impure World Reincarnation, especially Madara Uchiha.

The White Snake Sage’s army attacked the Research Institute but was pinned down by invisible Sky Battleships, so she summoned reinforcements, including Madara Uchiha. Madara discovered that Kabuto Yakushi and the White Snake Sage had revived him at near-peak strength but had sealed away his ability to break free.

• The White Snake Sage’s Impure World Reincarnation army charged the Research Institute and was bombarded by Sky Battleships from beyond visual range.
• The White Snake Sage confirmed through Itachi Uchiha that Ame-no-Futodama-no-Mikoto was inside the Research Institute, while Itachi remained committed to his plan for Infinite Tsukuyomi if he could not change the past.
• The White Snake Sage ordered Kabuto Yakushi to send the Impure World Reincarnation fighters to her position, especially Madara Uchiha, and Kabuto released nearly a hundred coffins from the Kamui Dimension.
• Madara Uchiha emerged from his coffin, recognized Nagato’s Rinnegan, and realized he had been revived through Impure World Reincarnation.
• Madara attempted to release the technique but failed, and the White Snake Sage told him that she and Kabuto had designed his restraints specifically to keep him under control.

Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju helped the reincarnated ninjas break into the Research Institute, where White Snake Sage pursued Ame-no-Futodama-no-Mikoto. By meeting its gaze, White Snake Sage saw the parallel timelines and realized Lin Qing had come from another world to invade the Baseline World.

• Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju led the reincarnated ninjas through the artillery blockade and breached the Research Institute's defensive barrier.
• Minato Namikaze explained that the Ninja World had been unified, Obito had become the Ten-Tails' Jinchuriki, and three Otsutsuki were threatening the world.
• Madara Uchiha and the others discussed breaking free of the Impure World Reincarnation, while White Snake Sage continued toward the central control room with Itachi Uchiha.
• White Snake Sage and Itachi Uchiha found Ame-no-Futodama-no-Mikoto waiting in the central control room, despite the researchers' evacuation.
• White Snake Sage saw parallel timelines and recognized the world where Lin Qing existed as the Baseline World, concluding that Lin Qing was a ghost from another world.

The White Snake Sage and the Impure World Reincarnation army were trapped on the moon, while Lin Qing continued fighting Obito, Momoshiki, and Kinshiki. Lin Qing killed Kinshiki and turned his attention to Momoshiki.

• The White Snake Sage warned Obito to attack Lin Qing, but the Research Institute sealed the group inside the control room and teleported them to the moon.
• The White Snake Sage realized the distance disrupted her control over the Impure World Reincarnation army, and Madara Uchiha grabbed her by the throat.
• Lin Qing confirmed the lunar plan had succeeded and signaled Sasuke to wait for his command as he fought Obito, Momoshiki, and Kinshiki.
• Obito transformed into the Ten-Tails to hide from Lin Qing, while Lin Qing used Sasuke's Ninjutsu Nullification to clear Momoshiki's attacks and trap Kinshiki with Whitesnake.
• Lin Qing extracted Kinshiki's discs, killed him, and challenged Momoshiki to continue fighting.

Madara Uchiha considered abandoning the Infinite Tsukuyomi after learning that Lin Qing had unified the world, but Itachi persuaded him to read Lin Qing’s political ideals first. The White Snake Sage warned that Lin Qing’s path was dangerous and proposed a way to address the Otsutsuki threat by making Madara a Jinchuriki.

• Madara prepared to kill the White Snake Sage, but Itachi stopped him and urged him to learn about Lin Qing’s Awakening Ideology.
• Madara read about Lin Qing’s ideals and admitted they were impressive, though he believed their path was radical and difficult.
• The White Snake Sage warned that Lin Qing had ended old conflicts but could not prevent new ones from emerging.
• Minato and Tobirama explained that the group was too far from the Ninja World to return quickly, leaving Madara unable to reach the battle in time.
• The White Snake Sage asked Madara whether he had considered becoming a Jinchuriki, then named the Ritual Lama.

Isshiki escaped the black hole but was dying, so the White Snake Sage offered him a way to revive through Madara. As Madara and Isshiki joined forces against Lin Qing, the White Snake Sage launched a desperate plan to distract him.

• Isshiki saw the White Snake Sage's message on the moon and teleported there, where she proposed that he implant Kāma in Madara and revive in his body.
• The White Snake Sage offered Isshiki her heart to improve Madara's compatibility, and Madara agreed after securing Isshiki's promise to drive the Otsutsuki from the Ninja World.
• Momoshiki devoured Kinshiki but gained little, then demanded Obito's body and Ten-Tails before Star Platinum struck him.
• Obito used the Outer Path: Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to bring Madara back, and Madara activated Kāma State Two and summoned Susanoo to face Lin Qing.
• The White Snake Sage ordered Kabuto to send the Impure World Reincarnation army to attack Kyoto and kill civilians to distract Lin Qing; when Kabuto refused, she said she would do it herself and sent him to save Hidan and Orochimaru.

The White Snake Sage launched an Impure World Reincarnation assault on Kyoto and Konoha, but Lin Qing’s forces used prepared defenses and spatial portals to contain the attacks. As the White Snake Sage shifted toward the core battlefield, Android 18 detected White Snake Sage No. 1 there and set out with Jiraiya to kill it.

• The White Snake Sage summoned hundreds of Impure World Reincarnation warriors into Kyoto, where the Extermination Army attacked them under Amber’s command.
• Kakuzu threatened civilians in a shelter, but Mayuri froze him, Miyamoto Musashi decapitated him, and Konan sealed him.
• The White Snake Sage withdrew the reincarnated army from Kyoto and sent it into Konoha, where Katsuyu protected civilians and the Extermination Army arrived through spatial portals.
• Nagato apologized as Konan and the others fought him, and he recognized that Konan had found a home among the people she protected.
• Android 18 detected White Snake Sage No. 1 at the core battlefield and persuaded Jiraiya to accompany her there.

Lin Qing used the Infinite Tsukuyomi as part of his plan to revive Kaguya, after learning that the mysterious “pen” was somewhere in the Ninja World. The God Tree absorbed chakra gathered through Katsuyu Sage, leaving Black Zetsu poised to bring Kaguya back as Momoshiki and Madara attacked.

• Lin Qing asked Ame-no-Futodama-no-Mikoto whether the “pen” was in the Ninja World and learned that it was, but severed the connection before asking where it was.
• Lin Qing used Star Platinum and Whitesnake to pull Obito out of the Ten-Tails, while Isshiki, Momoshiki, and Madara tried to stop him.
• Sasuke, Might Guy, A, Tsunade, Kakashi, Mei Terumi, and Ōnoki intercepted Momoshiki and Madara, holding them off long enough for Lin Qing to reinsert Obito’s command disc.
• Obito transformed the Ten-Tails into the God Tree, and the Sky Fortress linked it through a portal to Shikkotsu Forest, where Katsuyu Sage relayed chakra gathered from the Tailed Beasts, ninja, and ordinary people.
• Obito activated the Infinite Tsukuyomi, and Lin Qing summoned Black Zetsu, placed him on Obito’s face, and told him to bring his mother as Momoshiki and Madara charged.

Kaguya was revived through Obito, but instead of joining Lin Qing against Momoshiki and Isshiki, she tried to escape and seize chakra from Shikkotsu Forest. Lin Qing pursued her and asked where the “pen” was.

• Black Zetsu attached himself to Obito, and the God Tree's chakra transformed him into Kaguya.
• Madara learned the Infinite Tsukuyomi was a ritual to revive Kaguya, while Obito and Itachi realized their hopes had been built on a lie.
• Lin Qing waited for Kaguya to choose a side, but she used Shinra Tensei to push him away and opened a portal to Shikkotsu Forest.
• Kaguya headed for Shikkotsu Forest to absorb chakra from the Tailed Beasts and ninjas, intending to leave the planet.
• Lin Qing pursued Kaguya with Ame-no-Futodama-no-Mikoto and asked where the “pen” was.

Lin Qing, Madara, Isshiki, and Momoshiki fought over the God Tree while Kaguya tried to escape and attack Konoha. Ame-no-Futodama-no-Mikoto revealed that the pen was the shrunken God Tree in Lin Qing’s hand, and the system asked whether he would use Fate Ink.

• Lin Qing pursued Kaguya as she opened portals toward Konoha, while Katsuyu Sage’s slugs sealed the first portal and Star Platinum struck Kaguya with a punch.
• Madara rejected Isshiki’s plea to prioritize the God Tree, but Isshiki took control of their body until Madara regained it and cut down the God Tree.
• Android 18 wounded the White Snake Sage, who learned that Itachi had left without warning her and called for Kabuto Yakushi and Obito’s help.
• Momoshiki attacked the God Tree, but Kabuto Yakushi and Hidan rammed him with their flesh-and-steel Sky Battleship while Isshiki seized the severed tree.
• Lin Qing stopped time, took the shrunken God Tree from Isshiki, and learned that it was the pen as the system prompted him to use Fate Ink.