Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Shin cornered Hyuga Tamamo and used the safety of the Hyuga Clan to force her into a deal. He offered to spare the clan if she signed a mysterious contract, and Tamamo asked him for a pen.

• Uchiha Shin confronted Hyuga Tamamo over her past attempts to kill him and subdued her with genjutsu and a chokehold.
• Shin threatened to kill the Hyuga Clan, and Tamamo pleaded to take his punishment in exchange for sparing its members.
• Shin rejected Tamamo's attempt to bargain and struck her into a tree.
• Shin offered to consider sparing the Hyuga if Tamamo signed a mysterious contract, and she asked for a pen.

Hyuga Tamamo signed Shin’s Divine Maiden Contract, which strengthened her and forced her to obey him. Shin used her to learn where the Hyuga Clan had fled, then transported her away, while a tracker arrived at the ruined compound and pursued them.

• Hyuga Tamamo signed the contract, and the system raised her to Peak Jonin with Exceptional talent.
• Shin forced Tamamo to call him Master and discovered that the contract prevented her from attacking him or taking her own life.
• Shin ordered Tamamo to reveal the Hyuga Clan’s escape route, and she disclosed that they were hiding in Stone Valley before withdrawing toward the Senju.
• Shin admitted he still intended to wipe out the Hyuga Clan and vanished with Tamamo in a flash of light.
• A figure arrived at the destroyed Hyuga compound, tracked the clan’s trail, and set off after them.
• The Hyuga Clan took shelter among jagged rocks, where a voice addressed Tamamo and mocked her clansmen’s confidence.

Uchiha Shin slaughtered the Hyuga who tried to save Hyuga Tamamo, while she renounced her Main Family status and ordered the survivors to protect Hyuga Meishu. As Shin unleashed a black-flame dragon against the fleeing clan, a red-armored figure arrived and blocked its path with Wood Style.

• Uchiha Shin released Hyuga Tamamo, then stood unharmed after the Hyuga attacked him.
• Shin used Susanoo and Amaterasu to blast away the Hyuga fighters and set many of them ablaze.
• Hyuga Tamamo swore to kill Shin and relinquished her Main Family status in favor of Hyuga Meishu, ordering the clan to protect him.
• An Elite Jonin carried the injured Hyuga Meishu away as the surviving Hyuga scattered.
• Shin formed a Dragon of Amaterasu and sent it toward the Hyuga, but a red-armored figure arrived and raised a Wood Array Wall.

Uchiha Shin battled Senju Hashirama after Hashirama arrived to protect the Hyuga clansmen and help them retreat. As Hashirama summoned his Sage-powered Wood Human and Wood Dragon to face Shin's Complete Body Susanoo, Hyuga Tamamo slipped away to pursue her own goal of breaking her contract and killing Shin.

• Shin rejected Hashirama's demand to release Tamamo and the Hyuga clansmen, while Tamamo asked Hashirama to protect her people as they retreated.
• Hashirama ordered the Hyuga clansmen to flee to the Senju Clan Grounds, and Shin attacked him with Flying Thunder God and Susanoo Heavy Fist.
• Hashirama used a Wood Clone to survive Shin's punch, then proposed that the Senju and Uchiha join forces to build a village.
• Shin refused to discuss their shared dream until the conflict was settled and summoned his Complete Body Susanoo.
• Hashirama summoned the Wood Human and Wood Dragon, entered Sage Mode, and prepared to fight Shin as the Hyuga clansmen escaped.
• Tamamo departed without returning to the Hyuga Clan, determined to break her contract and kill Shin.

Shin and Senju Hashirama clashed with overwhelming Wood Style and Susanoo power, devastating the mountains around them. After Shin claimed he was stronger, Hashirama said he had never intended to fight him to the death.

• Shin recognized that Hashirama had mastered Sage Mode and the Wood Human Technique, then readied his Susanoo’s sword.
• Hashirama pleaded with Shin not to fight, but Shin attacked with Deep Forest Emergence, all returned to one sword.
• Hashirama sent a Wood Dragon to meet the sword strike, and their collision shattered the surrounding forest and mountains.
• The Hyuga clansmen fled toward Senju territory while Hyuga Tamamo used Rotation to shield herself from the distant shockwaves.
• After the blast, Shin stood firm in his Susanoo while Hashirama, exhausted on the Wood Human, acknowledged Shin’s strength and said he had never meant to fight to the death.

Shin defeated Hashirama’s Wood Human and returned to the Uchiha compound with Hyuga Tamamo after Hashirama escaped. There, Tamamo met Shin’s little maid and Uzumaki Mito, whose recognition of each other left their encounter tense.

• Shin’s Susanoo broke through Hashirama’s Wood Human, but Hashirama escaped toward the Far South after confirming the Hyuga had fled.
• Shin decided the badly weakened Hyuga Clan posed little threat and returned to the Uchiha compound with Tamamo using their Divine Maiden connection.
• Shin told the guards to summon Uchiha Yutaka the next day, then brought Tamamo home as the sun set.
• Shin’s little maid greeted him and eyed Tamamo coldly after learning she was the Hyuga princess who had once tried to kill him.
• Uzumaki Mito arrived, recognized Tamamo, and Tamamo recognized her in turn.

Shin settled Hyuga Tamamo into his household after destroying the Hyuga Clan, then managed Uchiha affairs and ordered a search for the missing Madara. Meanwhile, Hashirama completed the Hyuga Clan’s new settlement, and Tobirama arrived with progress on the person who had incited the Hozuki Clan.

• Shin returned home with Mito and had Tamamo massage him before taking her to bathe; he also pulled Mito into his antics.
• The next morning, Shin assigned Tamamo household work and discussed the Uchiha Clan’s need for stability with Uchiha Yutaka.
• Shin ordered Uchiha intelligence shinobi and Izuna to find Madara within a month, and secretly told Akabane Koromo to expand intelligence gathering and watch for Madara.
• Hashirama finished arranging the Hyuga Clan’s new grounds after the Senju took them in.
• Tobirama told Hashirama that intelligence shinobi had made progress identifying the person who incited the Hozuki Clan against the Senju.

Senju Tobirama told Senju Hashirama that the Senju suspected the mysterious Wood Style user called “Owl” might be connected to Uchiha Shin. Hashirama ordered the Hidden Ninja to prioritize capturing Owl and to increase surveillance of the Uchiha, while Shin returned home to find Hyuga Tamamo doing chores under the maid’s direction.

• Senju Tobirama reported that a mysterious person had supplied the Kaguya Clan, destroyed the Hozuki Clan Compound with Wood Style, and taken the Water Origin Pearl.
• Senju Tobirama explained that the Nara Clan Head had identified Uchiha Shin as a possible suspect because he had the means and benefited from Hashirama being delayed.
• Senju Hashirama rejected the idea that Shin was the Wood Style user, and Senju Tobirama said the culprit more likely resembled the missing figure known as “Owl.”
• Senju Hashirama ordered the Hidden Ninja to make Owl their highest-priority target and to increase surveillance of the Uchiha without approaching their compound.
• Shin returned home and found Hyuga Tamamo doing chores while Uzumaki Mito watched nearby.

Xuan watched Mito develop Ninja Scrolls while considering his enemies and unresolved plans. After recalling Hyuga Tenin’s mysterious technique, he asked the System about the Eight Martial Formless and learned that the inquiry cost 5,000 points.

• Mito explained the difficulties of sealing ninjutsu into scrolls and suggested beginning with Water Release techniques.
• Xuan relaxed in the courtyard, watched Mito and Hyuga Tamamo, and decided to keep Tamamo serving as a maid for now.
• Xuan reflected on Hashirama’s growing strength, Madara’s disappearance, and the need to monitor the Senju Clan.
• Xuan recalled Hyuga Tenin blocking Susanoo with eight motions and asked the System about the Eight Martial Formless.
• The System said that answering the inquiry about the hidden ninjutsu required an additional 5,000 points.

Shin paid 5,000 system points to learn about Eight Martial Formless, a god-level technique created by Otsutsuki Hamura to wound the Ten-Tails. The system transported Shin to witness the ancient battle, where the Sage of Six Paths and Hamura attacked the beast, but Hamura’s strike cut only a third of the way through it.

• Shin paid 5,000 points to learn that Eight Martial Formless was created by Otsutsuki Hamura and could be used by a pure-blooded Hyuga Main Family member or someone with the Tenseigan.
• Shin questioned the unfamiliar Tenseigan and accepted the system’s offer to view the technique’s original version.
• Shin found himself on a desolate plain as the Ten-Tails rampaged, and realized he was observing the battle without being affected by it.
• The Sage of Six Paths attacked the Ten-Tails with nine Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Otsutsuki Hamura struck the Ten-Tails with a radiant arc, but the attack lost power after cutting only a third of the way through its body.

Shin witnessed the Sage of Six Paths and Otsutsuki Hamura attack the Ten-Tails, only for Otsutsuki Kaguya to appear and break their attempt to seal it. As Kaguya absorbed the Ten-Tails and faced the brothers, Shin suddenly returned to the pavilion, where he had been drinking tea.

• The Ten-Tails healed from Hamura's wound and attacked the Sage of Six Paths and Hamura with chakra spheres.
• Hamura struck the Ten-Tails with Eight Martial Formless, Proliferation Break Strike, destroying a third of its body.
• The Sage of Six Paths used Divine Planetary Devastation to surround the Ten-Tails with rocks and form a moon around it.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya appeared, shattered the rocks, and released the Ten-Tails from Divine Planetary Devastation.
• Kaguya began absorbing the Ten-Tails as the Sage of Six Paths and Hamura attacked her, and Shin abruptly returned to the pavilion.

Shin planned to find Madara, eliminate Black Zetsu, and prepare for Konoha’s founding while worrying about the dangers ahead. Meanwhile, bandits attacked a village near the Land of Fire, and a mysterious long-haired figure appeared as the villagers faced death.

• Shin decided that finding Madara was his top priority and considered how to deal with Black Zetsu and prepare for Konoha’s founding.
• Old Tano and the villagers harvested rice while hoping to trade their surplus with passing caravans.
• A warning announced that bandits were approaching, and the villagers rushed to defend their homes.
• The bandit leader’s Jonin strength overwhelmed the villagers, and he ordered the men and older women buried alive.
• Old Tano held his terrified daughter Lulu-ko as a mysterious long-haired figure appeared at the far end of the village.

Madara arrived at a village seeking water and killed the disguised shinobi bandits who were threatening its people. After Lulu-ko thanked him and invited him to stay, Madara found himself unable to get a word in as she peppered him with questions.

• Madara approached the bandits and killed one who called him blind.
• Madara used Fire Style: Phoenix Sage Flower Nail Crimson to defeat the attacking shinobi, then killed their Jonin leader as he tried to flee.
• Madara asked the villagers for water, and Lulu-ko fetched it for him despite old Tano's concern.
• Madara drank the water, thanked Lulu-ko, and told her his name when she asked.
• Lulu-ko asked Madara about his technique and travels, then invited him to stay in the village, leaving him unable to reply.

Madara learned from Lulu-ko about a damp forest that might be Shikkotsu Forest and left the village to investigate. He searched for a way to restore his failing eyesight, but the chapter left him traveling toward a possible entrance after escaping a battle with toads at Mount Myoboku.

• Madara asked Lulu-ko about a place that could heal sickness, and she described a warm, damp forest eighty miles west of the village.
• Madara left that night without saying goodbye, while Lulu-ko cried and old Tano felt relieved to see him go.
• Madara recalled that years of using Mangekyō Sharingan and Susanoo had damaged his eyesight, prompting him to search for Shikkotsu Forest after a strange dream and research in Uchiha records.
• Madara followed a map of possible entrances to the Three Great Sage Regions and forced his way through a spatial disturbance, only to arrive at Mount Myoboku.
• Madara fought hostile toads with Susanoo, was injured by their Senjutsu, and retreated when a gigantic old toad appeared.

Xing Ruluo and Xing Ruyu, intelligence agents tasked by Hagoromo to find someone, discovered that a ninja named Madara had passed through a village. After confirming he was likely an Uchiha, they learned he had gone west toward the Healing Forest and prepared to report their find.

• Xing Ruluo warned Xing Ruyu to take Hagoromo's search mission seriously as they traveled with a merchant caravan.
• The caravan reached a village, where villagers traded the merchants ninja tools left behind by bandits.
• A villager said a ninja named Madara had killed the bandits, and Xing Ruluo asked to inspect their bodies.
• Xing Ruluo identified the bandits' deaths as the Uchiha's Phoenix Sage Fire Nail technique.
• Xing Ruyu threatened the villager until he revealed that Madara had gone west to the Healing Forest.
• Xing Ruluo ordered Xing Ruyu to send a report back with a War Hawk.

Shin read an ancient Uchiha text that suggested the Sage of Six Paths’ Yin Release sword, the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi, might be in the Uchiha Clan. A message from Akabane Koromo then gave him news of Madara.

• Shin read about Yin Release in an ancient Uchiha text while Mito tended the garden and Hyuga Tamamo sat silently in the rain.
• Shin discovered a legend saying the Sage of Six Paths’ sword, Amanogumo, had been passed to Indra and wondered whether it was the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi.
• Shin recalled Uchiha Tajima telling him that a sword called Heaven Cloud was a replica of the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi, and suspected the Uchiha Clan possessed the real sword.
• A War Hawk delivered a message from Akabane Koromo, and Shin smiled as he realized he had finally received news of Madara.

Shin left in pursuit of Madara, while a mysterious Black Shadow watched him depart and vowed to interfere. Hashirama also headed west to investigate, leaving Tobirama behind as a storm swept across the Land of Fire.

• Shin burned the intelligence report, said goodbye to Mito and Xiaoying, and raced west through the rain to find Madara.
• Mito covered the soaked Tamamo with a blanket and sat with her to talk.
• Senju shinobi reported Shin’s departure, while a Black Shadow appeared in the Uchiha compound and vowed to settle a score and disrupt Shin’s plans.
• Tobirama told Hashirama that Shin had gone west and argued that the Senju should use his absence to attack the Uchiha.
• Hashirama refused to treat the Uchiha as enemies, armed himself, and left to investigate, ordering Tobirama to guard the Senju.

Uchiha Madara found a spatial ripple in a grove outside Shikkotsu Forest and waited for a chance to break through. Inside the forest, the Great Slug finished treating Shen, a powerful clan leader recovering from a battle with the Yotsuki Clan.

• Uchiha Madara sensed Natural Energy in the grove and traced it to a spatial ripple at its center.
• Uchiha Madara recognized the unstable space from his experience at Mount Myoboku and sat down to wait for it to become turbulent enough to break open.
• The Great Slug finished healing Shen's internal injuries and told him to rest for about a month.
• Shen celebrated his recovery by kicking the cave wall, causing the mountain to tremble and the Great Slug to scold him.
• Shen's history revealed that he had killed the Yotsuki Clan leader with a forbidden technique and come to Shikkotsu Forest for treatment.

After Katsuyu healed Shen, she told him that the Onmyo School had been destroyed and opened a gateway for him to leave Shikkotsu Forest. Uchiha Madara then forced his way into the forest and demanded treatment for his eyes, but Katsuyu refused.

• Katsuyu told Shen his injuries had healed and led him toward the gateway to the Main World.
• Shen declared he planned to kill Onmyo Seimei, and Katsuyu explained that an Uchiha brat and Ino-Shika-Cho had killed him years ago.
• Katsuyu’s slugs began opening a gateway while Uchiha Madara sensed the space rippling and blasted the entrance open.
• Madara entered Shikkotsu Forest and demanded that Katsuyu treat his eyes.
• Katsuyu refused to treat Madara and told him to leave.

Uchiha Madara attacked Katsuyu after she refused to treat his Mangekyo blindness, then demanded she cure him or face his violence. When Katsuyu again said she could not heal his eyes, Madara launched a fire attack, and Katsuyu ordered Shen to drive him out, dead or alive.

• Uchiha Madara attacked Katsuyu, but she split apart to evade his kunai, and he burned many of her smaller slugs with a fire technique.
• Madara threatened the slugs, but Shen arrived with an explosive kick that forced Madara to retreat.
• Katsuyu healed the scorched slugs and told Madara she could not treat his Mangekyo condition.
• Madara attacked Katsuyu and Shen with the Great Dragon Fire Technique, but Shen shattered the fire dragon with a punch.
• Katsuyu ordered Shen to drive Madara out, dead or alive.