Chapter Summaries

Shin, Uchiha Madara, and Senju Hashirama joined forces to fight Hamura Otsutsuki, but Hamura’s overwhelming chakra and Yin-Yang Release left Madara and Hashirama badly injured. The chapter ended with Shin urging Hashirama to use Sage Art, one of the few powers that could harm Hamura.

• Hashirama arrived to support Shin, learned their enemy was Hamura Otsutsuki, and prepared for battle with Madara.
• Madara and Hashirama attacked Hamura with Susanoo and Wood Style while Shin struck with a Yin-Yang Release sword, but Hamura countered their attacks.
• Madara, Hashirama, and Shin launched a combined assault, but Hamura unleashed a vast surge of chakra and overwhelmed them.
• Hamura’s Truth-Seeking Orb injured Madara, and his Yin-Yang Release punch shattered Hashirama’s wooden fist and wounded his shoulder.
• Shin warned that only Yin-Yang Release or Senjutsu could truly hurt Hamura and told Hashirama to use Sage Art.

Senju Hashirama, Uchiha Madara, and Shin combined their strongest attacks against Hamura Otsutsuki after creating an opening with their techniques. The assault struck Hamura beneath a barrage of gates, but the dust left them unsure whether they had defeated him.

• Senju Hashirama entered Sage Mode while Shin and Uchiha Madara attacked Hamura Otsutsuki, but Hamura easily countered their techniques.
• Shin shattered Hamura's Truth-Seeking Orb barrier with the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi and briefly distracted him with Tsukuyomi, allowing Senju Hashirama's Gate of the Great God to pin him down.
• Senju Hashirama summoned a wooden dragon, Uchiha Madara unleashed black lightning, and Shin struck with the Sword of Divine Punishment.
• The combined attacks hit Hamura in a massive explosion that shook Konoha, and Shin and the others wondered whether they had succeeded.
• Tobirama ordered the Konoha forces to use Earth Style to stabilize the village as the dust rose around the battlefield.

Ōtsutsuki Hamura unleashed the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, which injured Madara and Hashirama’s defenses and destroyed a third of Konoha. Enraged by the village’s destruction, Senju Hashirama summoned the Senju Great Buddha and attacked Hamura.

• Hamura survived the trio’s combined attack and unleashed the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Shin used Intangibility while Madara formed his Complete Body Susanoo and Hashirama raised a Sage Art: Hobi Technique shield against the Light Sword.
• The Light Sword overwhelmed Konoha’s barrier and erased a third of the village.
• Hashirama flew into a rage over Konoha’s destruction and summoned the Senju Great Buddha, True Several Thousand Hands.
• Hashirama sent the Buddha’s arms crashing down on Hamura in a barrage of fists.

Hashirama, Madara, and Shin fought Hamura Otsutsuki, whose immense power forced them to retreat far from Konoha. As the battle wore on, Shin gave Madara the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi and exchanged for Sage Mode.

• Hashirama struck Hamura with the Senju Great Buddha for ten minutes, but Hamura survived behind a Truth-Seeking Orb barrier with only minor injuries.
• Shin, Hashirama, and Madara fled Hamura to protect Konoha, then stopped hundreds of miles away to fight him again.
• The three struggled to hold Hamura off, but Madara's attacks could not truly hurt him, and Shin's chakra was running low.
• Shin threw the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi to Madara and used the system to exchange for Sage Mode.

Shin, Senju Hashirama, and Uchiha Madara coordinated their strongest attacks to force Hamura Otsutsuki to reveal an opening. After Hashirama and Madara launched their assaults, Shin believed they had hit Hamura, but the chapter ended before the result was clear.

• Shin entered Toad Senjutsu and attacked Hamura with a Senjutsu Susanoo while Hashirama and Madara held him back.
• Hamura evaded their combined attacks and summoned a giant stone warrior, which fought Hashirama’s wooden giant.
• Shin explained a plan to pressure Hamura into using his strongest attack, then exploit the opening with a decisive sword strike.
• Madara expanded his Susanoo while Hashirama used Blood Thorn Technique to attack Hamura from multiple directions.
• Madara fired Yin-Yang lightning orbs at Hamura, and Hashirama sent a giant wooden hand into the resulting explosion, declaring that they had hit him.

Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama failed to stop Hamura Otsutsuki’s devastating attack, but Madara used Izanagi to survive long enough for Shin to strike during Hamura’s brief opening. Shin’s Sword of Time reached Hamura as time froze, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Uchiha Madara unleashed the Yin-Yang Release: Samsara Sword, but Hamura Otsutsuki countered with Eight Martial Formless: Proliferation Break Strike and shattered the sword energy.
• Senju Hashirama used the Senju Great Buddha and Seven-Fold Rashomon to block Hamura’s attack, but both defenses were destroyed and Hashirama was badly wounded.
• Shin saw Hamura’s brief opening, but the destructive energy swept toward him before he could attack.
• Uchiha Madara shielded Shin from the attack and used Izanagi to rewrite his apparent death, losing the pattern in his left Eternal Mangekyo.
• Shin activated the Flying Thunder God Technique and attacked Hamura Otsutsuki with the Sage Art: Sword of Time, freezing time as the blade approached.

Shin defeated Hamura Otsutsuki, but the battle left Shin, Uchiha Madara, and Senju Hashirama exhausted and unconscious. Before collapsing, Shin took Hamura’s Tenseigan and secretly collected some of Hashirama’s cells.

• Shin’s sword broke through Hamura Otsutsuki’s defenses and killed him, while Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama both collapsed unconscious.
• Shin removed Hamura’s fading Tenseigan and preserved them in bottles in his storage space.
• Shin collected a piece of Hashirama’s flesh and stored it for later use.
• Shin returned to where he had landed and collapsed as the battlefield fell quiet.

After recovering from the battle with Hamura Otsutsuki, Shin considered how to restore Madara’s sight and decided to advance his research into Hashirama’s cells and Medical Ninjutsu. A conversation with Mito about Konoha’s new defenses gave Shin a sudden idea.

• Konoha’s shinobi found Shin, Senju Hashirama, and Uchiha Madara unconscious and carried them back to the village.
• More than a week after the battle, Shin recovered at home while Konoha rebuilt; Hashirama returned to help, and Madara remained blind in his left eye after using Izanagi.
• Shin speculated that Hashirama’s cells or the Eternal Mangekyo might eventually restore Madara’s sight and resolved to research the cells and develop Medical Ninjutsu.
• Mito told Shin that Hashirama was preparing new defenses after the village barrier had failed, and Shin suddenly had an idea.

Shin remembered Kakuzu, rescued him from the Kamui Dimension, and recruited him into Akatsuki before returning to Konoha’s recovery efforts. Half a month later, Hashirama asked Shin whether Mito could help develop a stronger village barrier.

• Shin found Kakuzu starving in the Kamui Dimension and gave him water and food.
• Shin threatened and persuaded Kakuzu to join his organization, Akatsuki.
• Shin visited Madara, who returned Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi, and learned he had received a million points for killing Hamura Otsutsuki.
• Shin checked on the Anbu headquarters and praised Hyuga Tamamo for her work.
• After Konoha’s initial reconstruction was completed, Hashirama summoned Shin and asked for his opinion on having Mito help create a new barrier.

Shin attended Hashirama’s meeting on Konoha’s defenses, where the Uzumaki Clan was ordered to develop a powerful new barrier under Uzumaki Mito’s leadership. Meanwhile, Tobirama visited a hidden underground organization and planned to seek an official identity for it so the Uchiha would not control Konoha’s Intelligence Division.

• Hashirama presented plans assigning clan defense zones, establishing outposts, and requiring the Uzumaki Clan to develop a barrier capable of withstanding his full-power attack within a year.
• Hashirama appointed Uzumaki Mito to lead barrier development and promised the Uzumaki Clan the village’s support.
• The meeting covered the Ninja Academy, the Ninja Department, and village reconstruction, and Hashirama asked Shin about Madara’s condition.
• Shin told Hashirama that Madara’s injuries were no longer serious but that a Uchiha forbidden jutsu complicated the situation.
• Tobirama inspected a hidden underground facility and learned that his agents had recovered ashes from a decomposed body for analysis.
• Tobirama said he would ask Hashirama to give the secret organization a legitimate identity, citing his concern about Uchiha control of the Intelligence Division.

Senju Tobirama investigated Hamura Otsutsuki’s ashes while plotting to turn the Shimura and Sarutobi Clans against the Uchiha. Shin inspected Hyuga Tamamo’s completed Anbu organization and learned of another intelligence group operating in Konoha.

• Senju Tobirama’s medical researchers found no unusual signs in Hamura Otsutsuki’s ashes, but he ordered them to continue searching for a secret that could help him create a powerful forbidden technique.
• Senju Tobirama learned that the Shimura Clan had lost about half its members and the Sarutobi Clan about a third in the disaster, then arranged to visit their leaders.
• Senju Tobirama planned to stir up resentment against the Uchiha by spreading blame for the village’s destruction among the Shimura and Sarutobi Clans.
• Shin visited the Anbu headquarters, where Hyuga Tamamo described the masked, codenamed squads she had organized from Uchiha operatives and Konoha clan members.
• Hyuga Tamamo told Shin that her subordinates had found clues suggesting another large intelligence organization operated in Konoha, and Shin suspected Senju Tobirama was behind it.

Shin ordered Anbu to hunt down Konoha’s other intelligence organization and watch Senju Tobirama. On the moon, the Ōtsutsuki Clan Head sent Otsutsuki Hufu to investigate the appearance of Hamura’s aura in the Main World.

• Shin praised Hyuga Tamamo and told her she could return home to sleep, but she slapped his hand away and left.
• Shin ordered Anbu to find and destroy Konoha’s other intelligence organization and to monitor Senju Tobirama.
• The Ōtsutsuki Clan Head explained that his clan had guarded the Ten-Tails’ seal on the moon for generations and that some members wanted to return to the Main World.
• The Ōtsutsuki Clan Head told Otsutsuki Hufu, Hamura’s direct descendant and the clan’s strongest member, to investigate Hamura’s aura in the Main World.

As Konoha neared the end of its reconstruction, Shin handed off his village duties and reviewed Akatsuki’s expanding intelligence network and medical research. The chapter left him urging Uchiha Shinji to match and surpass Konoha’s medical advances, especially in research related to cells.

• Senju Hashirama visited villagers who had suffered the heaviest losses, offered compensation, and began planning Konoha’s expansion.
• Shin handed his reconstruction work to Uchiha Zhan and returned home, where he learned Uzumaki Mito was developing a new barrier and Hyuga Tamamo had briefly visited.
• Akabane Koromo reported that Akatsuki members were establishing informant networks across the Land of Fire through Shin’s Sky Net Intelligence System.
• Akabane Koromo said Uchiha Shinji had assigned Kakuzu to Akatsuki but recommended keeping him outside its inner circle until his loyalty was proven.
• Akabane Koromo shared medical research copied from Konoha, and Shin ordered her to tell Shinji to spare no funding and prioritize medical ninjutsu, especially cell research.

Uchiha Shin enjoyed an unusually quiet day while Konoha’s founding inspired the other great nations to begin building villages of their own. The chapter left him examining two drained Tenseigan eyes in jars.

• Shin realized that everyone around him was busy and welcomed a rare half-day of leisure.
• Konoha prospered during its first year as ninjutsu research expanded into practical uses for ordinary life.
• The other great nations reacted to Konoha’s founding by forming alliances, waging campaigns, and pursuing the establishment of villages.
• Historians later debated what to call the transition from the Warring States Period, while all credited Senju Hashirama with leading the way.
• Uchiha Shin inspected two Tenseigan eyes and concluded that they had lost all their vitality.

Shin lamented that studying the two Tenseigan and cultivating Hashirama Cells required advanced Medical Ninjutsu, then turned his attention back to uniting the Ninja World. In Amakusa City, Xing Ruluo and Xing Ruyu ran an Akatsuki tavern as a front for building the organization’s intelligence network, until a group arrived after closing.

• Shin reflected that Medical Ninjutsu would take years to advance enough for him to study cells and cultivate Hashirama Cells.
• The former Matsushita City had become Amakusa City under Feudal Lord Minggu as Konoha Ninja helped take cities from the great noble families.
• Xing Ruluo and Xing Ruyu operated a popular tavern whose staff drove off customers who harassed the sisters.
• Xing Ruluo told Xing Ruyu that their mission was to spread Akatsuki’s intelligence network through the Land of Fire and that they could leave once the city operation was established.
• As the staff prepared to close the tavern, a visitor stopped one of them at the door and entered with more than a dozen people.

Xing Ruyu helped Shin’s organization seize control of ordinary criminal groups across the Land of Fire while Shin learned that Senju Tobirama had secretly founded an intelligence organization in Konoha. Shin decided to infiltrate it and prepare to destroy it if necessary.

• Xing Ruluo ordered Xing Ruyu to kill the gang leader in Amakusa City and take control of his gang.
• The organization expanded across the Land of Fire, taking over local forces while ninja ignored its growth among ordinary people.
• Shin learned that Senju Tobirama and several Senju elders had founded a covert intelligence organization beneath Konoha.
• Shin ordered his people to infiltrate the organization and secretly gather forces to wipe it out if he gave the signal.
• The ninja reported that there was one more matter to tell Shin.

Shin learned that the Shimura and Sarutobi Clans were spreading rumors blaming him and Uchiha Madara for Hamura Otsutsuki’s disaster, and he moved against them. Senju Tobirama revealed that he had arranged the rumors and planned a confrontation with the Uchiha during the next day’s mourning ceremony.

• Shin heard from an Anbu ninja that villagers were blaming him and Uchiha Madara for Hamura Otsutsuki’s attack, and that the Shimura and Sarutobi Clans were spreading the claim.
• Shin suspected someone was directing the clans and went to the Anbu before visiting Uchiha Madara’s residence.
• Black Shadows lured two Shimura ninjas and two Sarutobi ninjas to the back mountain, where masked figures with Sharingan genjutsu incapacitated them and carried them away.
• Senju Tobirama learned that the rumors had turned villagers against the Uchiha and asked about preparations for the next day.
• The Cat-Mask Ninja told Senju Tobirama that the clans were ready to confront the Uchiha at the Hokage-designated day of mourning.

Senju Hashirama led Konoha’s memorial ceremony and apologized to the villagers for failing to protect them, strengthening their trust in him. As the crowd rallied behind him, the Shimura Clan Head claimed the disaster had been caused by people, leaving Shin anticipating a confrontation.

• Senju Tobirama exchanged a brief glance with the Shimura and Sarutobi Clan Heads, who were worried that two of their clansmen had vanished during patrol.
• Senju Hashirama laid white flowers at every grave and bowed, moving villagers with his grief and sincerity.
• After the villagers paid their respects, Senju Hashirama apologized for the disaster and promised that it would never happen again.
• The villagers shouted that they believed Senju Hashirama, but the Shimura Clan Head interrupted to claim that people had caused the disaster.
• Shin narrowed his eyes and anticipated the Shimura Clan Head’s attempt to make a scene.

Senju Tobirama and the Sarutobi and Shimura clan heads turned Konoha’s grief toward Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Shin, but Shin let their accusations continue. The Two-Tails then rampaged through Konoha, and an Anbu shinobi revealed that the Sarutobi and Shimura clans had released it and launched a coup.

• The Shimura and Sarutobi clan heads blamed Uchiha Madara and Uchiha Shin for bringing the disaster to Konoha, turning the villagers against the Uchiha.
• Uchiha Yutaka warned Shin that the clan heads were targeting them, but Shin calmly said they would not get another chance.
• Senju Hashirama tried to quiet the villagers and defend the Uchiha as their anger grew.
• An explosion and the appearance of the Two-Tails at Hokage Cliff interrupted Hashirama, as the beast rampaged through Konoha and Anbu shinobi attacked it.
• An Anbu shinobi told Senju Hashirama that Sarutobi and Shimura clansmen had released the Two-Tails and that the two clans had launched a coup.

Uchiha Shin led the Uchiha and Anbu in attacking the Sarutobi and Shimura after accusing them of releasing the Two-Tails and staging a coup. As Konoha descended into chaos, Senju Hashirama confronted Shin, who urged him to stop the rampaging beast.

• An Uchiha ninja fired a Great Fireball as a signal, and smoke and fighting erupted around Senju Tobirama's underground organization.
• Uchiha Shin ordered the Uchiha and Anbu to eliminate the Sarutobi and Shimura, and both groups attacked them.
• The Two-Tails rampaged through Konoha while masked ninja fought it, and a red-armored Uchiha wielding a Gunbai cut down opponents.
• Senju Tobirama fought Shin briefly, then used Flying Thunder God to return to his organization as Senju Hashirama arrived and demanded an explanation.
• Shin told Hashirama the Sarutobi and Shimura had released the Two-Tails and urged him to contain it, so Hashirama began the Great Forest Binding Technique.