Chapter Summaries

Princess Yukihime and Xiao Li discussed Naruto's suspicions and his mysterious demonic energy before Naruto left the Land of Iron with Yukihime and the others. At the Akatsuki base, Nagato agreed to risk integrating Madara Uchiha's cells to strengthen his use of the Rinnegan and Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Yukihime revived Xiao Li, and Xiao Li said Naruto had discovered their identities and possessed unusually pure demonic energy.
• Yukihime and Xiao Li discussed whether Naruto liked Yukihime, leaving her embarrassed.
• Naruto told Mifune that the mission was complete, then left for the Land of Fire the next morning with Konohamaru and Yukihime.
• Zetsu, Hidan, and Kakuzu delivered Madara Uchiha's body to Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan, while black gas slipped into Hidan unnoticed.
• Yahiko proposed that Nagato integrate Madara's cells to reduce the strain of using his eyes and unlock their full power.
• Nagato chose to undergo the risky procedure, and Konan agreed after Yahiko promised to support him.

Naruto reported Konohamaru, Huang Meng, and Udon’s successful graduation exercise to Tsunade, who then sent him to meet Ōnoki amid threats against the Five Kage Summit. At Thunder Gorge, Minato joined the Fourth Raikage, and they began investigating the attackers who had driven him into hiding.

• Naruto declared Konohamaru, Huang Meng, and Udon’s graduation exercise passed, and Tsunade officially approved their completion.
• Tsunade assigned Naruto to protect Ōnoki and planned for Sasuke to guard the Fifth Kazekage while Minato supported the Fourth Raikage.
• Naruto left to notify Sasuke, while Tsunade said Hinata and Kakashi would protect her.
• Minato found the Fourth Raikage hiding in Thunder Gorge after attackers in armor resistant to ninjutsu had assaulted him with seemingly unkillable fighters.
• Minato and the Fourth Raikage split up to search Thunder Gorge for whatever frightened the attackers and kept them from pursuing.

Minato and the Fourth Raikage were drawn into a hidden space in Thunder Gorge and discovered dragon-shaped armor containing the last fragment of the Thunder Giant Dragon Arka’s soul. Arka identified the Demon Race as a force that spread chaos through corrupted servants, linking it to the attacks on the shinobi leaders.

• A mysterious figure arrived at the cave where the Fourth Raikage had been hiding, found him gone, and vanished in a streak of black light.
• Minato and the Fourth Raikage were separately pulled through spatial passages into a hidden space in Thunder Gorge, where they joined forces and headed toward a strong concentration of lightning chakra.
• The Fourth Raikage challenged Minato to a speed contest, and they raced neck and neck to the summit despite the Raikage activating his lightning armor.
• Minato and the Fourth Raikage followed the dense lightning chakra into a cave and found dragon-shaped armor emitting it.
• The armor spoke as Arka, the last fragment of a Thunder Giant Dragon’s soul, and told them that he had died fighting the Demon Race.
• Arka said the Demon Race corrupted fallen souls and used its servants to create chaos, and Minato suspected it was behind the attacks on the Kage.

The Fourth Raikage agreed to fuse with Arka’s remnant soul and inherit the dragon’s power while Minato guarded him. Naruto reached the Land of Earth, rescued Kurotsuchi from demonized ninja, and took her to find the Third Tsuchikage.

• Arka offered the Fourth Raikage his lightning power, explaining that they had to fuse souls for him to control it safely.
• The Fourth Raikage accepted the risk and touched the Thunder Dragon Armor, beginning the soul fusion as lightning flickered around him.
• Minato and the Yin Nine-Tails discussed demonization, and Minato decided to guard the motionless Fourth Raikage for at least a day.
• Naruto reached the Land of Earth and found Kurotsuchi surrounded by demonized ninja who recovered from her attacks.
• Naruto used the Flying Thunder God Technique to rescue Kurotsuchi, learned where the Third Tsuchikage was, and took her there.

Naruto and Kurotsuchi found Ōnoki and Kitsuchi fighting demonized ninja, then Naruto rescued Kitsuchi and helped end the battle. After Naruto sealed the remaining enemies inside a massive sphere, Ōnoki destroyed it with Dust Release.

• Naruto watched Ōnoki and Kitsuchi battle demonized ninja, whose bodies revived until their demonic energy ran out.
• Naruto used the Flying Thunder God Technique to move Kitsuchi out of the encirclement, and Kurotsuchi reunited with her father.
• Naruto told Kitsuchi that the Fifth Hokage had sent him to protect the Kage and activated his White Eye and Rinnegan.
• Ōnoki recognized Naruto's eyes and Flying Thunder God Technique, considered killing him, then acknowledged Naruto's resolve after they spoke.
• Naruto used True Planetary Devastation to gather the demonized ninja into a huge rock sphere and sealed it with the Gate of the Great God.
• Ōnoki erased the sealed sphere with Dust Release, annihilating the demonized ninja inside.

Naruto asked the Third Tsuchikage about Madara Uchiha, and the Third Tsuchikage recounted how Madara and Hashirama overcame their clans’ opposition, founded Konoha, and later planned to conquer the Shinobi World. The account left Konoha’s history looking very different from what its textbooks revealed.

• Naruto praised the Third Tsuchikage’s Dust Release, then explained his Planetary Devastation technique.
• Naruto asked the Third Tsuchikage what Madara Uchiha was like, and the Third Tsuchikage invited him to hear the story in a bamboo grove.
• Naruto served tea for the Third Tsuchikage, Kurotsuchi, and Kitsuchi, and explained that his White Eye contained a private storage space only he could access.
• The Third Tsuchikage described how Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha planned to unite their clans, but Tobirama Senju and Uchiha Izuna secretly killed the dissenters by staging a battle between the clans.
• Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha founded Konoha, and Madara later proposed conquering the Shinobi World to unite it and achieve peace.

Naruto learned from the Third Tsuchikage that Madara Uchiha had once tried to conquer the Shinobi World, and he considered how that history differed from his memories. Meanwhile, Sasuke escorted Mei Terumi toward the Land of Iron, where they were ambushed by demonized ninja but defeated them and continued by boat.

• Naruto wondered whether Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, or both had caused history to diverge, then asked the Third Tsuchikage what had followed Madara's failed campaign.
• The Third Tsuchikage explained that the clans united to stop Madara and later formed the shinobi villages, and he and Naruto's group set off for the Land of Iron.
• Sasuke escorted Mei Terumi, Ao, and Chojuro toward the Land of Iron, and Mei teased Sasuke and Chojuro along the way.
• At the Land of Water's border, Sasuke deflected an ambush and recognized the attackers as demonized ninja with demonic energy.
• Chojuro's sword strikes failed to keep the demonized ninja down, but Mei's Lava Release and Sasuke's Amaterasu destroyed them completely.
• Sasuke and the others boarded his boat and continued toward the Land of Iron.

Sasuke and Mei Terumi were separated when a supernatural sea disaster destroyed their ship, and Sasuke found Mei unconscious in an underwater palace receiving the Frost Dragon Chris’s legacy. Chris explained that the Lucifer royal clan was invading and that the Guardian Dragons were joining their souls with suitable humans to prepare for the coming war; Sasuke stayed to wait while Mei’s inheritance took at least a day.

• Chojuro, Ao, and Mei Terumi explained that the shifting Demon Sea distorted space and time, and Sasuke opened a spatial passage to escape with them.
• A water column split the ship and closed Sasuke’s passage; a whirlpool dragged Mei Terumi underwater, and Sasuke followed her with Shinra Tensei.
• Sasuke found Mei Terumi unconscious in a dry palace beneath the sea and learned from Chris, the Frost Dragon, that Mei was receiving her power and merging with her soul remnant.
• Chris told Sasuke that the Seven Demon Kings ruled the Demon Race and that the Lucifer clan was invading, while the other royal clans were unlikely to join because they were at war with one another.
• Chris said the Guardian Dragons were passing their power to humans and assured Sasuke that Mei would remain herself and that the Five Kage Summit would face no problems.
• Sasuke sat down in the palace to wait for Mei Terumi to complete the legacy process.

Tsunade’s party encountered Obito and Rin on the way to the Five Kage Summit and allowed them to join, while Itachi helped Gaara defeat demonized ninja before Gaara was abducted. Naruto followed Kurotsuchi through a black hole and learned that the Diamond Dragon Yanxi intended to pass its legacy to her.

• Tsunade, Kakashi, and Hinata encountered Obito and Rin, who said they had come to protect Tsunade, and Tsunade invited them to travel together.
• Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari fought demonized ninja in the Valley of the Wind, and Itachi burned away the enemies and their demonic energy with black flames.
• A black hole appeared and swallowed Gaara before Itachi could stop it.
• A black hole abducted Kurotsuchi in the Land of Earth, and Naruto followed her through it before the portal closed.
• Naruto found Kurotsuchi unconscious in a palace and questioned the stone dragon statue, whose voice identified itself as Yanxi and said it planned to pass its legacy to her.
• Naruto confirmed through his Rinnegan that Kurotsuchi’s soul and power were growing stronger and asked Yanxi why it was helping her.

Naruto learned that Sasuke was another Successor of Reincarnation and used Yanxi’s connection to the Frost Dragon to locate him. Meanwhile, Jis prepared to attack the Fifth Hokage as his rivalry with Aris escalated.

• Yanxi explained that Naruto was a Successor of Reincarnation and revealed that Sasuke was another one staying with Chris, the Frost Dragon.
• Naruto used Yanxi’s connection to Chris to sense Sasuke and left a Kunai before preparing to travel to him.
• After Naruto departed, Yanxi focused on fusing with Kurotsuchi’s soul and worried that the many successors signaled coming chaos.
• Aris confronted Jis over his failed assassination attempt and warned him not to fail against the Fifth Hokage.
• Jis revealed that Aris had drained the Demonized Humans’ power, prompting Aris to leave in anger.
• A soldier told Jis that the Fifth Hokage was nearing the Land of Fire border, and Aris vowed revenge as Jis set out to prepare the attack.

Sasuke told Naruto that he was the reincarnated Hides Loran, a prince betrayed by his father after becoming powerful. He left his story with his identity revealed, while Naruto prepared to explain his own past.

• Naruto sat beside Sasuke without asking about his identity, and Sasuke admitted that he had recently begun remembering a life in another world.
• Sasuke recounted how Hides Loran, a gifted prince of the Imperial Dragon Empire, earned his father Emperor Reikas's suspicion and was betrayed after defeating the Undersea World.
• Emperor Reikas had Hides's wife and son killed and tried to kill Hides, who escaped the capital with help from his six sworn companions, all of whom died during their flight.
• Hides recovered, used the Blood Puppet Technique to turn his army into undying monsters, defeated Emperor Reikas, and sealed him in ice before his family's graves.
• Hides destroyed the capital and ended the Blood Puppet curse with his own life, but his soul survived and reincarnated as Sasuke.
• Sasuke told Naruto that he was Hides Loran, and Naruto said he would explain his own story next.

Naruto and Sasuke shared the tragedies of their past lives and chose to pursue the dangerous transformation stage to gain greater strength by devouring demons. Meanwhile, Tsunade’s group fought off Jis William’s ambush at the Flame Mountains, forcing the Demon Race to retreat.

• Naruto told Sasuke about his three lives, including the deaths of the women he loved and how Ao Ming had used him as a vessel, and declared that he would seize control of his fate.
• Sasuke proposed that he and Naruto transform during the fourth stage of their cultivation and use the Demon Race’s powerful souls to strengthen themselves, and Naruto agreed.
• At the Land of Fire border, Tsunade used Star God power against the Demonized Ninjas, prompting Jis William to order his forces to capture her.
• Kakashi and Obito summoned a combined Susanoo and devastated the attackers with a sword strike and Kamui Shuriken, while Rin used the Three-Tails’ chakra to stabilize it.
• Hinata unleashed Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, wiping out more than half of the remaining demons, and Jis William ordered a retreat.

Naruto and Sasuke devoured the demonized ninjas at the Land of Water border and began refining the power they absorbed. At the Flame Mountains, Aris moved to execute Jis William, but Tsunade arrived and struck Aris down with a slap.

• Sasuke told Ao and Chojuro that Mei was receiving the Diamond Dragon's inheritance and asked them to wait while he and Naruto left.
• Naruto and Sasuke transformed into pythons and devoured the demon souls and demonic energy from the demonized ninjas at the Land of Water border.
• Naruto and Sasuke returned to human form and sat down to refine the energy they had absorbed.
• Aris stripped Jis William of his position, accused him of treason, and ordered his soldiers to kill him.
• Jis William's soldiers vowed to stand by him as Aris prepared to attack.
• Tsunade appeared and slapped Aris so hard that he flew to the ground.

Hinata battled Aris, whose Lucifer abilities let him wield Black Flames and reflect attacks with his Fallen Angel Wings. After Hinata gained the upper hand and Jis William escaped, a dark figure rescued Aris from Hinata’s finishing attack, and Tsunade led the group onward toward the Land of Iron.

• Aris attacked Tsunade with Black Flames, but Kakashi sent them into the Kamui Dimension, and Jis William explained Aris’s Fallen Angel Wings to his guard.
• Hinata struck Aris with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, but his wings blocked and reflected it; she then used the Yata Mirror to stop his Black Flames and attacked with the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.
• Aris rushed Hinata, but she tracked him with her perception and fought him using Gentle Step: Twin Lion Fists and her Eight Trigrams Field.
• While Hinata kept Aris occupied, Jis William led his forces through the encirclement and escaped.
• Hinata struck Aris with Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms and prepared to finish him with the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, but a dark figure rescued him before it hit.
• Tsunade led Hinata and the others toward the Land of Iron.

Tsunade and her team discovered a hidden palace beneath the Flame Mountains, where the Red Dragon Asmodeus chose Obito to inherit his power. Meanwhile, Naruto and Sasuke entered a sealed village of demonic energy, where a girl named Avril offered to show them around while Sasuke remained suspicious of her.

• Hinata detected barrier fluctuations beneath the Flame Mountains, and Tsunade broke through the ground to reveal a hidden entrance.
• Tsunade and the others entered a palace and met the Red Dragon Asmodeus, who chose Obito as the inheritor of his power.
• After absorbing nearby demonized soldiers, Naruto and Sasuke sensed demonic energy in a village sealed by a barrier and entered it.
• Princess Christina ordered Aris Lucifer to eliminate the intruders and learned that Avril was out with General Kallet.
• Naruto and Sasuke found the village filled with black demonic energy and crimson light, then met Avril, who offered to guide them around.
• Sasuke warned Naruto that Avril's sudden appearance seemed suspicious, and Naruto said he already knew to be cautious.

Naruto and Sasuke followed Avril to her home, where they discovered her food contained potent demonic energy and allowed her to trap them with a sealing barrier. Avril accused them of threatening her sister, but her confrontation with Aris was interrupted by General Kallet, while Naruto remained captured and amused.

• Naruto and Sasuke followed Avril to her house while pretending not to notice the villagers' dark auras and the barrier beneath the dining table.
• Naruto and Sasuke devoured Avril's food, absorbing its pure demonic energy and gaining far more dark power than they had in the Land of Water.
• Avril accused Naruto and Sasuke of coming to harm her sister, then activated the barrier and sealed their chakra with black chains.
• Naruto asked Kurama to keep the chains intact so Avril would lead them to the person in charge of the village.
• Aris revealed himself and thanked Avril for capturing Naruto and Sasuke, but Avril struck him with a whip of black flames and accused him of using her.
• General Kallet arrived and reprimanded Avril and Aris, and Naruto laughed at Aris and called him trash.

Naruto and Sasuke escaped the trap, and Kallet killed Aris before challenging Naruto. Kallet's immense durability and compressed Black Flames overwhelmed Naruto, but Naruto rose from the rubble and demanded a rematch.

• Aris attacked Naruto, but Kallet struck him with Black Flames and burned him to ashes.
• Naruto and Sasuke walked out of the trap, and Naruto chose to fight Kallet alone while Sasuke stood by.
• Naruto hit Kallet with a Rasengan and a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, but Kallet emerged unharmed and distorted space to block Naruto's Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Kallet struck Naruto with compressed Black Flames, and Naruto absorbed the power with the Demon Dragon Nine Transformations while struggling to keep his body from bursting.
• Sasuke prepared to fight Kallet, but Naruto climbed out of the rubble and claimed Kallet as his prey.

Naruto and Kallet traded powerful attacks until Naruto drew on Kurama’s power and revealed his jinchuriki form. Kallet survived Naruto’s sealing techniques and Tailed Beast Bomb, then unleashed black fire dragons against Naruto’s massive sealing formation.

• Naruto and Kallet exchanged blows, and Kallet revealed that he had been holding back when he struck Naruto hard enough to send him flying.
• Kurama reminded Naruto to use a tailed beast’s power, and Naruto transformed with nine golden tails and chakra ears.
• Naruto identified himself as a jinchuriki, attacked Kallet with a Crimson Rasengan, bound him with Adamantine Sealing Chains, and hit him with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Kallet protected himself from the Tailed Beast Bomb with a black shield, then grew black wings and pressed Naruto with increased speed.
• Naruto created the Eight Trigrams Heaven Locking Formation and summoned the Gate of the Great God, while Kallet responded with Blazing Inferno and eight black fire dragons.

Naruto and Kallet destroyed the Eight Trigrams Heaven Locking Formation and fought in Avril’s protected space, with Naruto secretly absorbing Kallet’s demonic energy as they traded blows. Kallet unleashed his tracking Light-Dark Chains, leaving Naruto scrambling to escape them.

• Kallet made the eight Black Flame Demon Dragons explode, destroying Naruto’s formation and badly injuring both fighters.
• Naruto and Kallet charged at each other, and Avril used her Crystal Ball to move the fight into a separate space.
• Naruto and Kallet traded punches until Kallet realized Naruto was absorbing some of his demonic energy with every hit.
• Kallet summoned his Light-Dark Chains, and Avril explained that they sealed and absorbed their target’s power.
• Naruto dodged and teleported with Flying Thunder God, but the chains tracked him, prompting him to curse their tracking ability.

Naruto and Sasuke escaped Kallet and absorbed the immature God Tree to complete their rebirth, transforming into dragons. Meanwhile, Princess Tamahime warned Mifune that the Demon Race was invading and gave him a crystal ball before the Five Kage Summit.

• Naruto and Sasuke escaped Kallet through a space-time passage, then destroyed his pursuing chains with Amaterasu at the underwater Crystal Palace.
• After recovering their strength, Naruto and Sasuke entered Naruto's White Eye Space and decided to absorb the God Tree rather than let it mature by consuming a world's life force.
• Naruto and Sasuke absorbed the God Tree, which the Nine-Tails took into the sealing space so he could gain a real soul and body.
• Naruto and Sasuke used their rebirth techniques and transformed into four-meter-long dragons.
• Princess Tamahime told Mifune that the Demon Race had begun invading the Shinobi World and handed him a crystal ball to help prepare for a possible attack at the Five Kage Summit.
• Mifune summoned his guards and set off for the meeting venue.