Recaps

Hashirama and the Shinobi Alliance expanded their cooperation, secured new allies, and traveled to the moon to negotiate with the Otsutsuki Clan. They discovered Madara had taken the Ten-Tails’ husk, then returned to Konoha and resumed reforms across the Land of Fire.

• Hashirama and Tobirama captured the Phantom Alliance’s island base with the Tailed Beasts, while Zouta’s faction plotted to secure Kumogakure’s support in the daimyo succession dispute.
• Rikusei helped Hashirama and Tobirama plan a giant plow and new laws, while Hashirama proposed expanding Konoha’s authority and putting the Tailed Beasts to work.
• Hashirama agreed to support Zouta’s claim to the daimyo position after Chihisa offered the Chinoike Clan’s release and a proposal to replace nations with villages.
• Tobirama led the Uzumaki to Hidden Valley Village, whose people chose to move to Konoha, while the Kage prepared a diplomatic journey to the Otsutsuki Clan on the moon.
• The Shinobi Alliance reached the moon, agreed to exchange ninjutsu for Otsutsuki puppet techniques, and discovered that the God Tree had vanished from its sealed cave.
• Cang Lu explained that the God Tree was the Ten-Tails’ husk, while Black Zetsu realized Madara had summoned it to the Shinobi World and Madara connected it to the Dragon Vein near Rōran.
• Hashirama and the Kage returned safely to Konoha, where Hashirama reported their victory and Tobirama ordered land redistribution, public trials for notorious criminals, and continued administrative reforms.

Konoha expanded through Tailed Beast farming and village integration while Madara awakened the Rinnegan and joined Hashirama’s plans for the unified Shinobi World. During the Chunin Exams, Rikusei’s alliance-building led to a clash among five Tailed Beasts, leaving the Sunagakure genin caught in the chaos.

• Rikusei proposed Tailed Beast Farms, and Hashirama and Tobirama put the idea into practice as the beasts plowed and planted fields.
• Uchiha Setsuna helped villagers reclaim land from a lord’s estate, while Konoha tried the wandering ninjas for their crimes and executed them.
• Madara absorbed chakra from the Demonic Statue and the Dragon Vein, awakened his Rinnegan, and discovered that the Uchiha Stone Tablet’s account of the Infinite Tsukuyomi had been altered.
• Hashirama and Rikusei supported making Madara the first leader of a unified Shinobi World, while Konoha prepared for the Chunin Exams and Rikusei’s squad tested new weapons.
• Madara showed Rikusei his Rinnegan and proposed revealing the incomplete Ten-Tails during the exams, and Rikusei suggested bringing Chomei into the survival exercise from the horizon.
• Tobirama began the Chunin Exams, and Rikusei, Naori, and Mao joined the survival exercise, where they gathered allies and agreed that the villages should cooperate.
• Rikusei ordered scouts toward an explosion near Sunagakure’s route, where Shukaku and Kurama fought as Son Goku, Chomei, Gyuki, and Kokuō joined the battle.
• Kurama unleashed a barrage of Tailed Beast Bombs, and the village leaders feared for the Sunagakure genin until Reto saw that Chiyo and the others had survived behind their defenses.

The hidden villages united against Madara and the Ten-Tails, but Madara transformed, summoned the God Tree, and exposed Black Zetsu’s attempt to revive Kaguya. After the battle, Madara and Hashirama returned to Konoha, while Tobirama began investigating conflicting accounts of the Rinnegan’s history.

• Chiyo refused to let Sunagakure retreat, and after Konoha and Sunagakure fought the Tailed Beasts, Son Goku and Gyuki agreed to join Rikusei’s alliance.
• Rikusei led allied shinobi into the battles between the villages and Tailed Beasts, then joined forces with Kurama when Kurama gathered the beasts against them.
• Chomei reported that Madara was reviving the Ten-Tails, and Madara attached himself to it and challenged Hashirama as the allied forces arrived.
• Hashirama fought Madara and the Ten-Tails, while Tobirama helped the shinobi survive its attacks and the White Zetsu army emerged to join the battle.
• Madara absorbed the Ten-Tails and declared himself stronger than the Sage of Six Paths, but resisted the God Tree’s urging to absorb it and pursue Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Madara exposed Black Zetsu as Kaguya’s creation and learned that Black Zetsu had manipulated events to use Madara as a vessel to unseal her.
• Madara reshaped the land around the God Tree and returned to Konoha with Hashirama and the Tailed Beasts, while Tobirama questioned Rikusei about the Stone Tablet and the Rinnegan’s origins.

Madara became Hokage as the Uchiha began integrating into Konoha, while Rikusei and his companions worked with White Zetsu on new research. As conspiracies against the villages escalated and the Chunin Exams continued, Mao defeated Taketori Shusuke and ran to rejoin Rikusei and Naori.

• Rikusei and Tobirama discussed preserving Wood Release, studying the Shinobi World’s history, and using Kaguya Otsutsuki’s ancient unification to support future reunification.
• Madara and Kaku persuaded the Uchiha to spread through Konoha while preserving their clan grounds, and Madara announced that the village would build a library of jutsu.
• Madara trained Rikusei with the Rinnegan and revealed his plan to publicly absorb Hashirama’s chakra, while Tobirama interrogated Black Zetsu about Kaguya and the Ten-Tails.
• Rikusei, Naori, and Mao brought Afei to Tobirama’s laboratory, where they studied the White Zetsu’s Wood Release and experimented with God Tree roots and Tailed Beast tissue.
• Madara accepted the Hokage Hat as the crowd cheered, while Hashirama ordered warnings sent to other villages about the conspirators’ plans.
• An allied force attacked Kirigakure, where Genji released the Tailed Beasts to fight alongside the Mist, and the Land of Water’s daimyo ordered Bounty Hunters to arrest his ministers.
• Gamabunta and Fukasaku toured Konoha, discussed Sage Jutsu training and the God Tree, and joined Hashirama as the Chunin Exams resumed.
• Hiruzen defeated the Nine-Tails’ Jinchuriki Yamanari, Kaito beat Danzo with an explosive-tag trap, and Chiyo’s Puppet Susanoo overwhelmed Ōnoki before Mao defeated Shusuke with her wind and lightning techniques.