Chapter Summaries

Trapped in Yan’s pitch-black space, Shin endured crushing attraction and repulsion, then used Sage Art: Sword of Time to break through. The space shattered and Yan was wounded, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Shin’s Complete Body Susanoo cracked under the space’s opposing forces, and his Intangibility failed when strange chakra entered the darkness.
• Shin used the system to restore his chakra and ocular power, but Susanoo shattered under the pressure.
• Shin slowed the forces around himself with his Time Domain and prepared to cleave through the condensed space.
• Shin entered Sage Mode, poured his chakra into the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi, and unleashed Sage Art: Sword of Time.
• The pitch-black space cracked apart, and Yan staggered back with a bloody sword wound.

Shin fought Yan across a collapsing ocean dimension and a rocky space, using his system to restore his chakra and ocular power. As Yan’s regenerating rock dragons overwhelmed the battlefield, Shin concluded that Yan was drawing on each dimension’s energy and searched for a way to force him to spend his own chakra.

• Shin’s final strike weakened the ocean dimension, but Yan shifted them into a rocky space before it collapsed.
• Shin used his system to restore his chakra and ocular power, then summoned Complete Body Susanoo to fight Yan’s rock dragons.
• Yan merged the remains of ten rock dragons into a colossal rock dragon king that attacked Shin with Yin-Yang Release flames.
• Shin absorbed the flames into a spatial opening and redirected them at Yan, who absorbed them with the Rinnegan.
• Shin observed that Yan’s techniques changed with each space and reasoned that forcing Yan to use his own chakra could give him a chance.

Xuan unleashed a powerful Susanoo slash, forcing Yan to counter with Hachiman's Arrow and then trap him in Planetary Devastation. Pinned beneath the growing mass of rock, Xuan exchanged his points for the Rinnegan, though its effects had not yet appeared.

• Xuan used Sage Art: Deep Forest Emergence, and Yan countered the sword attack with Hachiman's Arrow.
• Yan cast Planetary Devastation and drew Xuan and Susanoo toward its growing gravitational core.
• Xuan struck the core but was trapped inside dense rock and prevented from escaping by chakra disrupting space.
• Xuan concluded that Yan's technique was consuming his chakra and silently asked the system to exchange points for the Rinnegan.
• The system confirmed Xuan had enough points, and he accepted the exchange as unfamiliar energy flowed into his eyes.

Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama continued their decisive battle, escalating to their strongest techniques as Madara launched the Nine-Tails’ attack against Hashirama’s colossal Buddha. Hashirama’s endless barrage of fists overwhelmed the Nine-Tails and left Madara unable to counter effectively.

• Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama paused atop their colossal fighters, but Madara refused to stop until they decided the victor.
• Hashirama urged Madara to remember their losses and their work establishing Konoha, but Madara took his words as a challenge and unleashed the Nine-Tails’ destructive chakra.
• Madara combined sword energy with a Tailed Beast Ball and attacked Hashirama with the fused strike.
• Hashirama summoned the Senju Great Buddha True Several Thousand Hands and met Madara’s attack with a barrage of Sage Art fists.
• The Buddha’s fists shattered Madara’s attacks, battered the Nine-Tails, and knocked it crashing toward the ground.

Senju Hashirama subdued the Nine-Tails, then continued his exhausting close-quarters battle with Uchiha Madara. After Hashirama wounded Madara with Ghost-Slaying Slash, Madara declared that their next move would decide the victor.

• Senju Hashirama used the Senju Great Buddha and sealing techniques to capture and restrain the Nine-Tails, forcing Uchiha Madara to retreat.
• Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, both exhausted and unable to use their strongest techniques, fought with weapons in the rain.
• Uchiha Madara used his left Mangekyo ability to anticipate Hashirama’s movements and wounded his shoulder before kicking him into a boulder.
• Uchiha Madara attacked Hashirama with his kama, but Hashirama rose through the rubble and answered with Ghost-Slaying Slash.
• Senju Hashirama’s attack cut Uchiha Madara’s chest, and Madara said their next move would decide the victor.

Hashirama and Madara fought to a mutual collapse at the Valley of the End, each trying to outwit the other before both fell unconscious and were swept away by the current. Elsewhere, Shin awakened the Rinnegan inside Planetary Devastation and prepared to test its power, knowing it had not made him Six Paths Level.

• Hashirama used a Wood Style Clone to stab Madara, but Madara countered with a Shadow Clone and drove a sickle into Hashirama.
• Hashirama pierced both himself and Madara with his sword, declaring that he would protect Konoha at any cost.
• Hashirama and Madara both lost consciousness and sank into the torrent, which carried them away from each other.
• Shin opened his eyes inside Planetary Devastation and awakened the Rinnegan.
• Shin assessed his new ocular power and recognized that awakening the Rinnegan had not made him Six Paths Level.

Shin broke free of Yan’s Planetary Devastation by awakening the Rinnegan and unleashing Super Shinra Tensei. After restoring his chakra, he combined Sage Mode, the Rinnegan, and several chakra natures to launch a powerful attack, leaving the battle poised for its impact.

• Shin dismissed his Susanoo and used Super Shinra Tensei to shatter Planetary Devastation and escape its pull.
• Yan questioned how Shin had awakened the Rinnegan, but Shin attacked him with repulsive force and refused to explain.
• As Planetary Devastation crumbled, Shin sensed the earth-nature chakra forming the space and realized how much control his new Rinnegan gave him.
• Shin restored his chakra through the system and used Wood Style to send giant trees and vines toward Yan.
• When Yan shattered the vines, Shin struck with a Sage Art Spiraling shuriken enhanced by Amaterasu and wind, fire, and water chakra.

Shin's five-attribute God Release clashed with Yan's Return-to-Dust Technique, destroying the space around them. Yan vanished into the collapse after promising they would meet again, while Shin survived and found himself in a space fissure.

• Shin combined wind, fire, water, earth, and lightning chakra with Sage Art chakra to create God Release, Five Poles Five Phases, Skybreaker.
• Yan countered Shin's attack with God, Return-to-Dust Technique, and their collision began rewriting and destroying the surrounding space.
• Yan withdrew his technique, and Shin's Rasenshuriken swallowed Yan as he fled into a black fissure of space.
• Shin activated Intangibility to survive the space's collapse and appeared in a pitch-black void beside fragments of the destroyed rocky space.

Shin explored a rift containing six Origin Ball Spaces, then returned through the Kamui Dimension to seek Madara. In the world of death, Hagoromo received and absorbed a chakra body that had been destroyed in the human world.

• Shin used his Rinnegan to survey six spaces and spotted a neighboring group of spheres that seemed to belong to Kaguya, but he could not reach them.
• Shin left a Flying Thunder God Kunai in the rift, returned to the Kamui Dimension, and set out to find Madara.
• The chapter described the River of the Dead, where unconscious souls crossed toward the land of death under the ferryman’s care.
• A concentrated mass of chakra fell onto the mountain on the eastern bank, and the old man in the hut opened his barrier to catch it.
• The old man recognized the chakra as a body he had left in the human world to observe it, then absorbed it into his chest.

After absorbing chakra, an old man in the world of death learned that Uchiha Shin had destroyed his chakra body and discussed the living world with his younger brother. Back among the living, Shin found Uchiha Madara trapped beneath the river, rescued him, and was asked where Hashirama was.

• The old man learned that Uchiha Shin had destroyed his chakra body and told his younger brother that Shin had awakened the Rinnegan.
• The younger man recalled that Shin had destroyed the body beneath the Hyuga clan along with the reincarnations of Indra and Asura.
• The old man explained that he stayed between life and death to watch over the living world and could return through contingencies in Indra and Asura's consciousnesses.
• Shin emerged beside the river near the Valley of the End and used Water Style to expose Uchiha Madara wedged in a crack in the riverbed.
• Shin pulled Madara free and revived him after he had swallowed water; Madara woke and asked where Hashirama was.

After the battle, Shin and Madara left the ravaged area, while Konoha's search party found the badly injured Hashirama. Hashirama woke to learn Shin and Yan were missing and Madara was dead, then protected the Uchiha who remained as the village began rebuilding.

• Shin and Madara left the battlefield, believing the Uchiha Clan members had evacuated safely.
• Konoha's search party found Hashirama washed onto a riverbank and carried him back for treatment.
• Hashirama woke and learned Shin and Yan had disappeared, the village was destroyed, and Madara was missing.
• Hashirama declared Madara dead and ordered the Uchiha matter left unrecorded, while refusing treatment for the wound Madara had inflicted.
• After three days of rest, Hashirama returned to the front lines and defended the Uchiha who remained in Konoha from calls to drive them out.

After the Uchiha Clan departed, Konoha struggled to rebuild its intelligence network while Hashirama searched for the missing Uchiha and later welcomed the birth of his son. The chapter ended with Shin in a remote village, teasing someone about whether they would send a gift to Hashirama’s newborn son.

• Konoha’s leaders could not classify Madara and Shin as rogue ninja because the founding charter protected their status in the highest Decision-making Body.
• Hashirama put the reorganized Anbu under the Hokage’s leadership, while Tobirama secretly preserved Root’s core and Konoha’s intelligence network had to start over.
• Hashirama searched Xin City and the Feudal Lord’s Mansion for the Uchiha, learned they had withdrawn, and agreed to train the Twelve Guardian Ninja.
• Hashirama’s wife, Uzumaki Suiling, gave birth to a boy whom Hashirama named Senju Hushen.
• Shin entered a crude village in a mist-shrouded valley and joked that Hashirama’s newborn son deserved a gift from his uncle.

Shin settled with the Uchiha in a concealed valley and considered how to achieve immortality so he could carry out his long-term plan. Meanwhile, Konoha proposed sealing Tailed Beasts inside people and calling them Jinchuriki.

• Uchiha Madara remained in the bamboo house while Shin told him about Konoha's recent movements.
• Shin returned to his residence and considered developing a ninjutsu that could grant him immortality.
• Shin rejected relying on the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique and decided to prioritize gathering intelligence and setting his plan in motion.
• Shin vanished from the valley through an inverted vortex.
• Senju Hashirama heard a proposal to seal Tailed Beasts inside human bodies and call the resulting people Jinchuriki.

Konoha’s Jinchuriki experiments ended with Uzumaki Suiling becoming the Nine-Tails’ first host, while Senju Hashirama’s health continued to deteriorate. Shin later told Uchiha Madara that Hashirama Cell transplants remained too dangerous, leaving Madara to wait as he recovered from the Valley of the End.

• Senju Hashirama approved the Jinchuriki project, but halted it after test subjects died from the unstable Tailed Beast chakra.
• Uzumaki Suiling volunteered to bear the Nine-Tails and became its first Jinchuriki as Konoha entered its fifth year.
• Senju Hashirama coughed blood in the cold, reassured Uzumaki Suiling, and asked whether she felt discomfort from the sealing.
• Shin visited Uchiha Madara and said Hashirama’s injuries were serious, while Madara explained that his curse-like Yin Release stab should not permanently threaten Hashirama.
• Uchiha Madara asked when he could receive Hashirama Cells, but Shin warned that the cells had killed every test subject and told him to wait until he recovered.

Senju Hashirama decided to distribute and sell the Tailed Beasts to prevent another war and help fund Konoha’s reconstruction, despite opposition from the village’s upper ranks. He summoned the other four Kage to the first Five Kage Summit and prepared Senju Tobirama to succeed him.

• Konoha’s residents visited the Valley of the End, where two statues were built to commemorate the battle between Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara.
• Senju Hashirama considered rumors about dividing the Tailed Beasts and, fearing his death could leave Konoha isolated and provoke war, resolved to abandon his original peace plan.
• Senju Hashirama decided to sell the Tailed Beasts to help pay for Konoha’s reconstruction, overriding the objections of the village’s upper ranks.
• Senju Hashirama invited the Kage of the four major villages to a summit in the Land of Fire, and Mu attended as the Second Tsuchikage.
• Senju Hashirama asked Senju Tobirama to accompany him to the Five Kage Summit and prepare to take over Konoha.

Senju Hashirama sold the Tailed Beasts to the other villages and Takigakure, while preparing Senju Tobirama to take over some Hokage duties. After learning of the distribution, Shin suspected Hashirama was racing against time and ordered Hyuga Tamamo to keep watching him.

• Senju Hashirama told Senju Tobirama he would hand over some Hokage duties and warned him to observe more than he spoke at the Five Kage Summit.
• Senju Hashirama hosted the summit, where the villages negotiated for the Tailed Beasts and the Land of Wind secured only the One-Tail.
• The Land of Earth obtained the Four-Tails and Five-Tails, the Land of Lightning obtained the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails, and the Land of Water obtained the Three-Tails and Six-Tails; Konoha kept the Nine-Tails and Seven-Tails.
• Senju Hashirama sold the Seven-Tails to the leader of Takigakure after he arrived in Konoha with riches and supplies.
• Hyuga Tamamo reported the sale to Shin, who suspected Hashirama was racing against time and ordered her to monitor his condition.

Shin inspected Akatsuki’s research, asking about experiments on Hashirama’s cells, Otsutsuki Hufu, and the No. 2 Serum before wondering about immortality. Half a year later, peace had settled across the world, while Hashirama’s health worsened and Shin surveyed the Uchiha clan’s renovated home.

• Shin questioned Elder Shui about the Hashirama and Otsutsuki Hufu experiments, and Elder Shui reported progress on Hashirama’s cells but no results on immortality.
• Elder Shui told Shin that the No. 2 Serum had reached live testing and appeared likely to succeed.
• Six months after the Tailed Beasts were distributed, the villages focused on studying Jinchuriki seals and open conflicts had faded.
• Hashirama felt increasingly weary despite handing much of the Hokage’s work to Tobirama, and he reflected on protecting Konoha.
• Shin viewed the renovated Uchiha clan grounds, where Mito relaxed in his courtyard and Madara was away traveling around the world.

Shin reflected on the fragile peace among the great nations and the threat posed by the Sage of Six Paths. After confirming that the Sage was behind Yan’s appearance, Shin worried that he might eventually have to face him and had no plan beyond preparing to survive.

• Shin watched a mantis catch a cicada before a bird carried both away.
• Shin considered how the current peace depended on the villages’ need to recover and on Hashirama’s presence in Konoha.
• Shin recalled Yan’s death and concluded that the Rinnegan user had been the Sage of Six Paths.
• Shin reasoned that the Sage might be stronger than Kaguya and could intervene directly if Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke failed.
• Shin sighed over the threat and resolved to prepare as much as he could while ensuring he stayed alive.

Shin considered the Otsutsuki clan on the moon a lingering threat and resolved to find a passage there while focusing on mastering his Rinnegan. On the moon, the Otsutsuki Clan Head learned that someone in the Main World might be trying to summon the Ten-Tails' shell and suspected they had awakened the Rinnegan.

• Shin decided to search for a passage to the moon and keep the Ten-Tails' shell under his control.
• Shin reflected on why he could not summon the Ten-Tails' shell and resolved to master the Rinnegan's abilities.
• The Otsutsuki Clan Head worried that Hufu had not returned from the Main World after several years.
• The Third Elder told the Otsutsuki Clan Head that the Ten-Tails' shell had stirred half a year earlier and that the sealing team suspected a Summoning Technique was responsible.
• The Otsutsuki Clan Head realized that someone in the Main World might have awakened the Rinnegan.

The Otsutsuki Clan Head decided to send the imprisoned Otsutsuki Guiyan to investigate the suspected awakening of the Rinnegan, while planning to control him with an ancestral curse. In Konoha, Senju Tobirama’s plan to use unified small nations as buffers gained approval from the leadership, including Senju Hashirama.

• The Otsutsuki Clan Head chose Otsutsuki Guiyan, a former branch-family leader imprisoned for a century, to investigate the suspected Rinnegan awakening in the Main World.
• The Otsutsuki Clan Head promised to place the Yin-Yang Command Curse on Otsutsuki Guiyan, and the Third Elder agreed that a Clan Meeting should be convened.
• Senju Tobirama became the Hokage’s First Assistant and head of the Ninja Department as Senju Hashirama gradually withdrew from daily affairs.
• Senju Tobirama proposed the Small Nation Defense Line Plan, which would help small nations unify and serve as buffers between the great nations.
• Konoha’s leadership praised the plan, and Senju Hashirama approved it despite his misgivings.