Chapter Summaries

As Shin considered Konoha’s future and his plans to unite the Naruto World, he wondered whether Uchiha Madara would still turn against the village and whether Hyuga Tamamo had found Black Zetsu. In the Uchiha compound, Tamamo uncovered a possible lead in the Land of Waterfalls and ordered an investigation.

• Shin reflected on Konoha’s future, Uchiha Madara’s uncertain path, and the challenges of uniting the Naruto World.
• Shin reaffirmed his plans to weaken the Akatsuki, infiltrate the Land of Fire, and kill Black Zetsu.
• Hyuga Tamamo finished reviewing Uchiha records for clues about how someone who should have died could remain alive.
• Hyuga Tamamo found a record connecting the Land of Waterfalls to Earth Grudge Fear.
• Hyuga Tamamo ordered a Black Shadow to assemble an elite squad and investigate the ninjas of the Land of Waterfalls.

Shin returned to Xin City, where he learned that Konoha’s founding had spread hopes of peace across the Land of Fire. He reunited with Uchiha Shinji to review the Akatsuki intelligence organization, then came face to face with Akabane Koromo.

• Shin entered Xin City and overheard merchants discussing Konoha’s alliance between the Senju and Uchiha and its efforts to end the wars.
• Shin arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion, revealed his identity to the guards, and was warmly greeted by Uchiha Shinji.
• Shin declined a welcoming feast and privately asked Shinji about the intelligence organization Akabane Koromo had been training.
• Shinji reported that the organization was ready for missions, though its training had caused a high death rate.
• Akabane Koromo entered the hall, and Shin reacted with surprise at her changed appearance.

After reuniting with Akabane Koromo, Xuan inspected Akatsuki’s northern base and ordered the young organization to spread across the Land of Fire as an intelligence network. The chapter ended with Kakuzu fleeing through a forest while mysterious pursuers followed him.

• Uchiha Shinji tactfully left Xuan and Akabane Koromo alone when they reunited.
• Xuan soothed Akabane Koromo, and they spent the night together after four years apart.
• Akabane Koromo led Xuan to Akatsuki’s base, where he met the Xing sisters and inspected the 132 surviving members.
• Xuan ordered Akatsuki to disperse across the Land of Fire, recruit more members, and gather intelligence under a new hierarchy.
• Kakuzu of the Land of Waterfalls raced through a forest while trying to escape a group of mysterious pursuers.

Kakuzu fled from mysterious black-clad ninja while searching for Takigakure’s stolen forbidden technique, the Earth Grudge Fear. He used Water Style to create a misty escape, but the pursuit continued.

• Kakuzu recalled that Takigakure had sent him to the Land of Fire four years earlier to recover the Earth Grudge Fear, a forbidden technique that could grant its user multiple hearts and potentially eternal life.
• Kakuzu connected his latest sensing of the technique to an attack by powerful black-clad ninja and wondered whether they had stolen it.
• A black-clad ninja attacked Kakuzu with Wind Style, and Kakuzu countered with Water Style.
• Kakuzu spread dense mist through the forest and plunged toward the ground to escape his pursuers.

Hyuga Tamamo’s team captured Kakuzu and confirmed he had stolen Earth Grudge Fear from Takigakure. Shin received word that their investigation had made progress and hurried back to the Uchiha Clan Compound with Akabane Koromo.

• Kakuzu tried to escape the flames and mist, but an Uchiha Elite Jonin trapped him with the Sharingan’s Golden Binding Illusion.
• Hyuga Tamamo questioned Kakuzu about his origins, his arrival in the Land of Fire, and the theft of Earth Grudge Fear.
• Hyuga Tamamo ordered Kakuzu taken to the Uchiha Clan Compound and sent a message to Uchiha Shin about the investigation’s progress.
• Shin walked through the woods with Akabane Koromo and received the message from his war hawk.
• Shin told Akabane Koromo he needed to return to the Uchiha Clan Compound, and she offered to go with him.

Uchiha Madara confronted the Two-Tails in the Forest of Death and overpowered it with his Susanoo. He demanded that the beast submit or die.

• Shin and Akabane Koromo hurried toward the Uchiha Clan Compound after Hyuga Tamamo reported a lead on Black Zetsu.
• Uchiha Madara entered the Forest of Death to find the Two-Tails.
• The Two-Tails charged Madara and attacked him, but his Susanoo severed its forepaw.
• The Two-Tails regenerated its paw and questioned Madara after sensing his immense chakra.
• Madara activated his fully matured Susanoo and told the Two-Tails to submit or die.

Uchiha Madara battled the Two-Tails in the Forest of Death and subdued it after surviving its Tailed Beast Bomb. He set out to return with the beast to Konoha.

• The Two-Tails attacked Madara's Susanoo, but Madara's counterblow damaged its paw and made it recall Indra's Complete Body Susanoo.
• Madara unleashed Majestic Demolisher Flame, setting the Forest of Death ablaze as the Two-Tails prepared a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• The Two-Tails fired its Tailed Beast Bomb, and Madara met it head-on with Susanoo's sword, destroying half the forest.
• Madara pierced the Two-Tails with a chakra sword and placed it under his control.
• Madara dismissed Susanoo, climbed onto the Two-Tails' head, and ordered it to return to Konoha.

Shin met Hyuga Tamamo beneath the Uchiha Ancestral Hall and learned she had found a likely lead connecting Black Zetsu to Earth Grudge Fear and Kakuzu. He agreed to let Tamamo return to the Hyuga Clan early, sending her and Akabane Koromo to Konoha with orders for the Uchiha intelligence ninjas.

• Shin arrived at the Uchiha Compound with Akabane Koromo and went to meet Hyuga Tamamo in the hidden Stone Chamber.
• Hyuga Tamamo reported that her investigation identified Earth Grudge Fear as the likely life-prolonging jutsu used by Black Zetsu to keep Onmyo Seimei alive.
• Hyuga Tamamo said Takigakure had sent elite shinobi into the Land of Fire four years earlier and that Kakuzu confirmed Earth Grudge Fear had been stolen around that time.
• Hyuga Tamamo explained that Kakuzu's village had a jutsu that could vaguely sense Earth Grudge Fear's location, and Shin demanded to be taken to Kakuzu.
• Hyuga Tamamo asked Shin to honor their agreement and let her return to the Hyuga Clan, and Shin gave her an Anbu token and ordered her to take the Uchiha intelligence ninjas to Konoha.
• Shin told Akabane Koromo that she was going to Konoha too.

Uchiha Shin told Hyuga Tamamo and Akabane Koromo to move the Uchiha intelligence network to Konoha, then gave Kakuzu a month to find Earth Grudge Fear. He left Kakuzu under a genjutsu that would kill him if he failed.

• Hyuga Tamamo and Akabane Koromo prepared to take the Uchiha Clan's intelligence shinobi to Konoha, and Shin said he would be away for about a month.
• Shin visited Kakuzu in the Uchiha Ancestral Hall and confirmed that Kakuzu could sense Earth Grudge Fear.
• Kakuzu explained that Takigakure had sent him to track Earth Grudge Fear, but he had not found it.
• Shin freed Kakuzu's wrists and placed a month-long ocular jutsu on him, promising to remove it if Kakuzu found Earth Grudge Fear and warning that otherwise it would explode.
• Shin left and ordered someone to remove the seal suppressing Kakuzu's chakra.

Shin prepared for a possible hunt for Black Zetsu, searched the Uchiha records for a way to obtain Yin Release, and discovered that Hamura Otsutsuki had led the Ōtsutsuki Clan to the moon. The chapter left him wondering whether the clan still lived there and might return.

• Shin sent a letter to Uchiha Madara, asking a messenger to deliver it in Konoha if Madara was there or wait for his return.
• Hyuga Tamamo and Akabane Koromo finished organizing the Uchiha Clan's Intelligence Division and led most of the clan's members to Konoha.
• Shin examined the Raw Stone and concluded that it gave him a fifty percent chance of sealing Black Zetsu, but he still needed to find Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi for Yin Release.
• Shin searched the Uchiha records for Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi and learned that Hamura Otsutsuki had led the Ōtsutsuki Clan to live on the moon.
• Shin wondered whether the Ōtsutsuki Clan still remained on the moon and could return to the world.

Shin found a possible clue that the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi was hidden beneath the Uchiha Ancestral Hall and went to investigate. Meanwhile, Madara returned to Konoha with the Two-Tails, then read Shin’s letter and erupted in anger, demanding to know where Shin was.

• Shin found an old Uchiha record suggesting the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi might be in the secret fourth floor beneath the Uchiha Ancestral Hall, and went to check.
• Hyuga Tamamo brought the Uchiha Intelligence Division into Konoha’s Anbu, informed Senju Hashirama that Shin would be away, and visited the Hyuga Clan.
• Uchiha Madara returned to Konoha with the Two-Tails, which the Uzumaki Clan sealed in the mountains behind the village.
• After a welcoming banquet, Madara received Shin’s handwritten letter, read it, and demanded to know where Shin was.

Shin entered the Uchiha Clan’s Ancestral Hall and discovered that Black Zetsu had altered the stone tablet’s message about the Infinite Tsukuyomi. After finding no sword in the chamber, Shin used the Raw Stone to reveal a phantom blade emerging from the tablet.

• Shin opened the fourth-level chamber by breaking the Uchiha’s Crimson Flame Formation with Fire-style chakra.
• Shin read the stone tablet with his Sharingan and Mangekyo, uncovering its account of the Sage’s powers and the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Shin realized Black Zetsu had altered the tablet to deceive Madara and support his plan for Kaguya.
• Shin searched the chamber for Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi but found nothing, so he suspected the Yin and Yang powers might resonate.
• Shin brought out the Raw Stone, and its Yang Style power caused a phantom sword to emerge from the tablet.

Shin drew the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi, Indra’s illusory Yin Release blade, from the stone tablet and began claiming it with his chakra. The sword unleashed a phantom of Indra, and Shin met its attack head-on.

• Shin used the Raw Stone’s Yang Style power to reveal the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi inside the stone tablet.
• Shin seized the illusory sword and gradually covered it with his Yin Release Chakra.
• The blade erupted with ancient, freezing chakra, extinguished the campfires, and formed a figure that Shin recognized as Indra.
• The phantom Indra charged Shin with a punch, and Shin transformed into a Black Shadow and struck back with an identical punch.

Xuan faced a powerful vision of Indra in a boundless sandscape, where Indra tested him with formidable Yin Release techniques and space-shifting attacks. After Indra wounded him through his intangibility, Xuan recognized the danger and welcomed the first fight since awakening his Eternal Mangekyo against someone stronger than himself.

• Xuan found himself in a vast sandscape and learned that he had to defeat Indra to obtain the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi.
• Indra attacked Xuan with Yin Release: Thunderbolt Flash, then struck at him with a rapid kick.
• Xuan used Wind Style: Rasenshuriken, but Indra evaded it by shifting through space and leaving a short sword in its path.
• Indra used Yin Release: Black Light and Yin Release: Spatial Technique to hit Xuan despite his intangibility, cutting his abdomen.
• Xuan acknowledged Indra's strength and grinned as he prepared to face his first opponent stronger than himself since awakening his Eternal Mangekyo.

Shin fought Indra in a mysterious desert, using his space-time techniques and Complete Body Susanoo against Indra’s matching abilities. As their battle continued without a clear advantage, Shin wondered whether the opponent and the strange space were more than they seemed.

• Shin used the Flying Thunder God Barrier, but Indra followed each teleport with Amenotejikara.
• Shin summoned Susanoo, struck Indra, and attacked him with Amaterasu and Scorch Style: Kagutsuchi, but Indra evaded the flames and nullified Kamui.
• Shin and Indra each summoned their Susanoo and clashed with swords, unleashing a sandstorm and wrecking the desert as they used space-time ninjutsu.
• While fighting, Shin questioned how a mere illusion of Indra could be so powerful and wondered whether the strange space had drawn him from the Uchiha Clan’s Stone Tablet Chamber.

Shin battled an illusion of Indra, whose Susanoo and lightning attacks kept him on the defensive. As he evaded and countered, Shin assessed Indra’s likely strength and outlined the hierarchy of Six Paths-level fighters.

• Indra’s Susanoo overwhelmed Shin’s Susanoo, even severing its arm before Shin escaped with the Flying Thunder God and restored it.
• Indra launched nine lightning dragons, and Shin countered with nine black dragons formed from Amaterasu using Kagutsuchi.
• The two attacks destroyed each other, but Indra exploited the opening to strike Shin’s unsteady Susanoo and drive it backward.
• Shin used the Flying Thunder God repeatedly to evade Indra’s attacks while reasoning that Indra had likely possessed Six Paths Initial Level strength.
• Shin ranked Six Paths fighters, placing Obito’s Ten-Tails form below Indra and Asura, Six Paths Madara above them, and Kaguya and the Sage of Six Paths at the pinnacle.

Shin fought Indra’s apparition with his Complete Body Susanoo, but their strongest attacks collided and created a miniature black hole in the fragile space. The chapter ended with Shin resisting its pull as the unstable realm began to break apart.

• Shin created five Shadow Clones and sent them to attack Indra’s apparition while he prepared his strongest technique.
• Shin summoned his hundred-meter Complete Body Susanoo, and Indra’s apparition destroyed the clones before summoning its own Complete Body Susanoo.
• Shin’s Susanoo unleashed two successive sword slashes, while Indra’s Susanoo countered with the Sword of the Thunder God.
• The opposing attacks collided and formed a miniature black hole that began devouring the desert, the wind, and the forces around it.
• Shin controlled his Susanoo to resist the black hole’s pull as the chapter explained that the fragile space had triggered its formation.

Shin battled Indra’s powerful clone and restored his chakra with the system to turn the fight around. After surviving a direct Rasenshuriken, Indra’s clone reformed with consciousness and challenged Shin to endure ten minutes against his full strength for the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi and a path to true peace.

• Shin survived the energy blast that destroyed his Complete Body Susanoo and faced the battered Indra, who still wielded the Thunderbolt longsword.
• Shin spent 10,000 system points to restore his chakra just as Indra attacked him again.
• Shin used Amenotejikara to pursue Indra and struck him at close range with a Rasenshuriken.
• Indra reformed from dark chakra with consciousness and told Shin to survive ten minutes against his full strength to win the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi and an unexpected gift.

Shin faced the second-stage Indra, a Six Paths-level clone who overwhelmed him with speed and destructive Yin Release lightning. Shin stopped trying to outlast Indra and launched a desperate counterattack, ending the chapter with Indra caught in a Forest Binding Technique.

• Indra attacked Shin with black Yin Release lightning and a crushing punch, but Shin escaped using Flying Thunder God and Intangibility.
• Shin realized Indra's power exceeded his own and resolved to fight for his life before the clone's ten-minute limit expired.
• Shin unleashed Scorch Style: Dance of Amaterasu, but Indra dodged the flames at overwhelming speed.
• Shin used Forest Binding Technique to predict Indra's movements and restrain him after Indra appeared behind him.
• Shin revealed that he had formed two sets of Hand Seals at once and anticipated Indra's ability to leap through space.

Shin struggled to survive Indra’s attacks as Indra revealed a gravity-controlling dojutsu that left Shin helpless beneath a descending sword. Facing death, Shin unleashed his own Mangekyo ability, and time appeared to stop.

• Shin attacked Indra with Amaterasu and several ninjutsu, but Indra’s skeletal shell withstood them.
• Shin used the Flying Thunder God to evade Indra’s attacks, realizing his other abilities could not overcome Indra’s strength.
• Indra used his dojutsu to increase Shin’s gravity, forcing him to his knee as Indra raised his Thunderbolt sword.
• Shin rejected his remaining escape options and activated his Mangekyo ability, causing the world to turn black and white and Indra’s sword to stop.