Chapter Summaries

The Shinobi Alliance arrived in Stone City, where Hashirama addressed the Otsutsuki Clan and reaffirmed the alliance’s commitment to peace. The two sides agreed to exchange Puppet techniques for ninjutsu, while the Kage began competing over trade rights for the moon’s tea and liquor.

• The Shinobi Alliance entered Stone City, and Hashirama warned the Kage not to steal Byakugan from the welcoming Otsutsuki Clan.
• Hashirama spoke from the platform where Madara had once given a speech, introducing the Shinobi Alliance and sharing the Will of Fire.
• Reto, A, and the other Kage agreed to meet with Cang Lu to discuss the Flying Bird Puppets.
• Cang Lu offered the Otsutsuki Clan’s Puppet techniques in exchange for the Shinobi Alliance’s ninjutsu, and Tobirama and Hashirama finalized the agreement.
• The Kage argued over selling the moon’s tea and liquor, but Tobirama declared that trade would be negotiated under the Shinobi Alliance’s name.

Hashirama and the other Kage secured permission to see the God Tree, while Tobirama gained access to the ancient text about the Sage of Six Paths. When the group reached the sealed cave, they discovered the God Tree had vanished, and Rikusei recognized the cause as item summoning.

• Cang Lu agreed to show Hashirama and the others the God Tree after the welcoming ceremony, and allowed Tobirama to read the ancient text kept in the Temple.
• At the ceremony, Ginkaku and Kinkaku asked Tobirama to share anything he learned from the ancient records, and he agreed.
• The next day, Souritsu piloted the Flying Bird with the Shinobi Alliance to the sealed cave where the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was kept.
• Rikusei worried that the cut in the Demonic Statue might have healed, while Naori tried to comfort him during the flight.
• Souritsu opened the passage to the cave, but Reto found it empty and asked where the God Tree was.
• Souritsu looked shocked, and Rikusei realized the God Tree had been taken through item summoning.

Black Zetsu watched the shinobi discover that the missing God Tree had been the Ten-Tails' husk, while Cang Lu explained the moon clan's history and Madara's connection to its conflict. Meanwhile, Madara summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to Rōran and used it to draw chakra from the Dragon Vein, bringing his evolution toward the Rinnegan closer.

• Black Zetsu realized Madara had summoned the Ten-Tails' husk into the Shinobi World and believed his thousand-year plan had begun.
• Cang Lu revealed that the God Tree was the Ten-Tails' husk and explained that the moon clan guarded it and watched over the Shinobi World.
• Cang Lu said the Branch Family had planned to destroy the world and seize control after seeing Madara's Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, while Rikusei explained what the Uchiha Stone Tablet revealed.
• Tobirama concluded that Madara had taken the Ten-Tails' vessel into space to confront unknown beings, and Hashirama hoped Madara would return unharmed.
• Madara stored the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path in a cave near Rōran and discovered that it resonated with his Hashirama Cells.
• Madara connected the statue's Root to the Dragon Vein and felt his fusion advance, bringing the Rinnegan within reach.

Tobirama and the others explored the moon’s ancient temple, where its records offered little about Kinkaku and Ginkaku’s ancestry but hinted at powerful Yin-Yang Release. After Hashirama’s group defeated the moon’s forces, they prepared to return to the Shinobi World, stopping to dig up Lunar Soil along the way.

• Hashirama left the ancient books behind, while Tobirama, Souritsu, Kinkaku, and Ginkaku explored the floating islands and the temple.
• Tobirama read the temple’s ancient book but found few records about the Sage of Six Paths’ direct descendants; Kinkaku and Ginkaku remained hopeful about learning the origin of their unusual bodies.
• Tobirama noticed an invisible barrier around a floating island and wondered whether Otsutsuki Hamura had left behind the Tenseigan.
• Tobirama returned to find Hashirama drunk, and Hashirama reported that the battle had ended in complete victory.
• Hashirama, Tobirama, and their companions set out from the moon on Chomei, then Hashirama led the shinobi in digging up Lunar Soil until Cang Lu stopped them.
• Naori admired a stone figurine of herself and Rikusei sitting together as they watched the Shinobi World.

Hashirama, Tobirama, and the other Kage descended toward Konoha inside a chakra-covered wooden shell, narrowly controlling their landing outside the village. After they returned, Tobirama learned that Konoha’s territorial negotiations had reached one-fifth of the Land of Fire and directed officials to continue the village’s expansion and reforms.

• The Raikage warned against using Water Style to extinguish the burning wooden shell, so Hashirama and the others combined their chakra to shield Chomei and slow their descent.
• Konoha shinobi spotted the blazing object in the sky, and a Hyuga elder mistook it for an enemy and ordered the village to prepare defenses.
• Hashirama and the other Kage safely landed in the forest outside Konoha, where Sarutobi Sasuke and the village shinobi welcomed them and lifted the alert.
• Shikahira told Hashirama and Tobirama that the daimyo’s latest territorial negotiations had reached roughly one-fifth of the Land of Fire.
• Tobirama instructed Konoha officials to distribute land abandoned by nobles, put notorious rogue shinobi and bounty hunters on public trial, and continue the previously agreed administrative policies.

Rikusei proposed a Tailed Beast Farm to use ninja, tailed beasts, and Hashirama’s Wood Release for large-scale agriculture. Hashirama and Tobirama gathered the alliance leaders to discuss and test the plan with a chakra-conducting iron plow.

• Rikusei wrote a proposal for Tailed Beast Farms that would grow staple grains while villagers focused on higher-value vegetables and fruit.
• Hashirama embraced Rikusei’s proposal and summoned Tobirama to discuss trying it before the four Kage left the village.
• Tobirama agreed to test the farm, and Hashirama’s order brought Konoha’s department heads to the southwest of the village.
• Kohei showed the leaders the specially forged iron plow, and Hashirama completed its tool-summoning contract.
• Hashirama explained the farm to the Shinobi Alliance leaders, who debated its cost, location, and benefits for ordinary people.

Hashirama organized the Tailed Beasts to prepare farmland, using Isobu to turn a vast plain and bringing Kokuō and Chomei together with a summoned iron plow and Wood Golem. The group began figuring out how to connect the plow to the Wood Golem with chakra threads.

• Hashirama released Isobu and persuaded him to roll across the plain, crushing the vegetation and turning the soil.
• Tobirama and Byakuren used Water Style to wash the mud from Isobu, who stayed to watch Kokuō and Chomei work.
• Hashirama released Chomei and Kokuō, then summoned Konoha’s iron plow and used Wood Golem Technique to create a Wood Golem.
• Mu and Ishikawa used Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique on Kokuō and the Wood Golem, while Isobu complained that they had not lightened him earlier.
• Reto asked how they would connect the iron plow to the Wood Golem, and A suggested they use chakra threads.

Hashirama, Tobirama, Reto, and the Tailed Beasts worked together to plow and sow fields, startling travelers and a nobleman on the road. The nobleman learned that homes in Daimyo City had become so expensive that he chose to turn back rather than spend his wealth there.

• Black Zetsu returned from checking on Madara and the Rinnegan, then watched in astonishment as Ashura organized the Tailed Beasts to farm.
• Hashirama used chakra threads to guide Kokuō pulling an iron plow while Chomei scattered wheat seeds from the air, and Reto regretted leaving Shamon behind in Konoha.
• Traveling merchants first feared the Tailed Beasts but relaxed after recognizing Lord Hokage's Wood Release and realizing the beasts were working in the fields.
• A nobleman mistook Kokuō's appearance for a possible threat to his journey to Daimyo City, then learned the Tailed Beasts were plowing and that their pressure had immobilized his animals.
• After hearing that a three-courtyard residence in Daimyo City would cost nearly half his wealth, the nobleman ordered his convoy to turn around.

Rikusei and the Konoha leaders demonstrated how tailed beasts could cooperate in farming, while Konoha’s records revealed that several allied villages had moved nearly their entire populations into the village. Hashirama and Tobirama were left considering how to address the growing integration and the tailed beasts still owned by those villages.

• Kokuō explained that pulling an iron plow helped her use her excess energy, and Nara Shikahira proposed inviting nearby onlookers to witness the tailed beasts working together.
• Hashirama got Isobu’s approval, and Konoha shinobi brought merchants and travelers to watch the demonstration.
• Isobu washed mud from the Five-Tails with a chakra waterfall, then irrigated the newly planted fields as Shikahira interviewed the amazed visitors.
• Hashirama drafted a proposal for a Tailed Beast Farm, while Tobirama noticed that the listed rotating personnel from several villages nearly matched their entire populations.
• Hashirama concluded that Hidden Valley Village, Sugakure, and Lockfront Village had moved their populations to Konoha within the rules, and Tobirama urged him to discuss village integration and outstanding tailed-beast payments with their leaders.

Wen Cun led villagers in an uprising against the nobles who had exploited them, while Uchiha Setsuna and Konoha ninja subdued the estate’s guards. Setsuna promised the villagers that everyone would receive land, leaving them hopeful as the captured men awaited trial.

• Wen Cun led torch-bearing villagers to the noble estate and smashed its gate.
• Shan Ren confronted the crowd with wandering ninja, but Wen Cun disarmed him and said the lord had fled toward the Daimyo Mansion.
• Uchiha Setsuna and Yamanaka Satoru arrived, and Setsuna used his Sharingan and a kunai to defeat the guards.
• Setsuna showed Shan Ren a map of the redrawn Land of Fire borders and said the villagers, not Konoha, would deal with the captured men.
• Setsuna asked Yamanaka Satoru to read the captives’ memories and said Konoha would oversee the trial at dawn.
• Setsuna promised the villagers that everyone, regardless of age or sex, would receive land.

Uchiha Setsuna and the Konoha ninja discussed the burden of Hidden Valley Village’s relocation and decided how to manage its tailed beasts and criminal newcomers. Meanwhile, Uchiha Madara examined mysterious white creatures in the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path before a familiar pain struck his right eye.

• Uchiha Setsuna and the other Konoha ninja worried that Hidden Valley Village’s relocation would strain the village’s resources and create risks from its tailed beasts.
• Yamanaka Satoru and Uchiha Setsuna proposed sealing the tailed beasts until they were weak enough for even a genin to control.
• After Yamanaka Satoru read the wandering ninjas’ memories, Setsuna ordered their crimes tried under the Konoha Code and appointed Wen Cun to oversee the public trial.
• Wen Cun heard witnesses confirm the wandering ninjas’ crimes, and Konoha executed them despite their pleas.
• Uchiha Madara studied mysterious white creatures inside the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and wondered why they had been kept there.
• Uchiha Madara felt familiar pain in his right eye and reflected on the village, bonds, and ideal he had gained.

Madara's Rinnegan began to awaken as he resolved to surpass the Sage of Six Paths and establish a new system for the Shinobi World. Meanwhile, Rikusei and Shikahira attended Tobirama's wedding to a member of the Uzumaki Clan, where the clans gathered on friendly terms.

• Madara absorbed chakra from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the Dragon Vein, and his right eye began evolving into the Rinnegan.
• Madara rejected becoming another Sage of Six Paths and vowed to surpass him in power and in the system he established.
• Rikusei reminded Shikahira that it was noon and that they needed to leave for Tobirama's wedding.
• Rikusei and Shikahira attended the modest wedding, where the Uzumaki Clan had joined the Senju gathering and Kage and other invited clans were present.
• Rikusei observed Uchiha and shinobi from other clans mingling amicably, then learned he would be seated at the children's table.

Over three years, the Hidden Villages transformed their territories and economies with the Tailed Beasts, while Rikusei’s reforms spread ninja education across the Land of Fire. Rikusei, Mao, and Naori received permits to travel with Chomei, and Rikusei prepared to lead their squad on its next outing.

• The great nations and smaller Hidden Villages separated their territories, while the Tailed Beasts crushed resistance from local lords and rebels.
• Kirigakure developed seafood farms with Isobu and Gyuki, while the Land of Wind discovered that the One-Tail’s Magnet Release could help turn the desert into a gold mine.
• Konoha registered privately owned Tailed Beasts, banned their trade, and began testing children for chakra and opening Ninja Academies throughout the Land of Fire.
• Tobirama assigned Rikusei to a squad with Mao and Naori, with Hashirama as their instructor.
• Rikusei and Mao waited for Naori near the Uchiha Clan Grounds, then met her at the Hokage Building after she obtained their exit permit.
• Rikusei opened the scroll containing Chomei and showed Kaku the squad’s flight permit.

Rikusei and the others harvested the farm’s wheat with help from Son Goku, while Chomei drank fruit juice and wine. Uchiha Madara watched the work, pleased by Konoha’s progress, and planned to surprise Rikusei with the Rinnegan.

• Chomei carried Rikusei and Mao to the farm, where Sarutobi Saku and Shimura Ibuki offered him fruit juice made with the ape clan’s brewing method.
• Rikusei released Son Goku from the teapot, and Son Goku smelled the fruit wine and agreed to help harvest the wheat.
• Rikusei summoned a giant scythe, and Son Goku wielded it while Mao rode on him and guided his swings across the field.
• Uchiha Madara arrived and watched Son Goku harvest, concluding that Konoha had put the Tailed Beasts to work and was building a flourishing Shinobi World.
• Madara saw Son Goku mention Rikusei and smiled as he planned to show the boy his Rinnegan.

Madara disguised himself to explore Konoha and learned how the village had changed since his absence. After catching a fraudster selling supposed God Tree tea, he considered experimenting with growing tea around the God Tree’s roots.

• Madara entered Konoha in disguise and was astonished by the village’s expansion and prosperity.
• He learned from a newspaper seller that a small Hidden Village had merged with Konoha and that the Tailed Beast Balls contained power comparable to Genin.
• Madara encountered a street merchant who offered him pills made with lunar soil and tea supposedly grown around the God Tree.
• When the Police Force arrived, Madara caught the fleeing merchant and asked for the promised four hundred thousand ryo.
• Madara examined the tea leaves and wondered what would happen if the God Tree were incorporated into a tea plant.

Madara discovered that the Uchiha Stone Tablet had been altered to deceive him into using the Infinite Tsukuyomi, then attended Konoha’s Tailed Beast Battle. The first final began with Yamanaka Zhi and Qingshan Hao, while Tobirama briefly sensed an unfamiliar presence in the crowd.

• Madara used his Rinnegan to read the Uchiha Stone Tablet and realized its account of the Infinite Tsukuyomi was false.
• Madara concluded that a hidden mastermind tied to the Otsutsuki Clan had altered the tablet and studied the recorded Rinnegan techniques.
• Madara transformed his appearance and went to watch Konoha’s Tailed Beast Battle, where Yamanaka Tianling introduced himself and Yamanaka Zhi.
• Tobirama announced the final between Yamanaka Zhi and Qingshan Hao, explained the rules, and started the match inside a Four Violet Flames Formation.
• Tobirama sensed a presence that seemed both unfamiliar and strangely familiar, but dismissed it and watched the match.

Yamanaka Zhi and Qingshan Hao fought for the Crown of the Tailed Beasts, but Shukaku's sealing technique trapped the Nine-Tails and turned the battle in Shukaku's favor. Madara left the arena with a plan to ask his crafty disciple whether the Ten-Tails could be separated.

• Yamanaka Zhi used the Mind Transfer Jutsu while Shukaku formed a Tailed Beast Bomb, and Qingshan Hao answered by having the Nine-Tails fill the arena with a chakra-laden sandstorm.
• Shukaku sensed his opponent through the sand and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb, which collided with Kurama's and shook the Four Violet Flames Formation.
• Qingshan Hao and the Nine-Tails attacked after recovering, but Yamanaka Zhi disrupted Qingshan Hao's chakra and forced him to stay close to Kurama.
• Shukaku turned the ground to sand and began sealing the Nine-Tails, while Yamanaka Zhi prepared his Mind Body Switch Technique.
• Madara considered separating the Ten-Tails and decided he should discuss the plan with his crafty disciple before Hashirama or Tobirama learned of it.

Rikusei, Naori, and Mao finished their farm mission with Chomei and flew back to Konoha, where they passed an airspace inspection and landed in the village plaza. Naori reminded Mao that the mission would only be complete after they reported to their teacher.

• Rikusei suggested calling the latest wheat harvest Tailed Beast Flour, but Son Goku preferred Konoha Flour and Rikusei proposed Ninja Flour.
• Son Goku returned to the tea kettle, and Naori asked Rikusei whether their era could surpass the Ninjutsu Sect; he answered that it could because they were there.
• Rikusei, Naori, and Mao rode Chomei back toward Konoha while Mao described the Four-Tails' ability to learn.
• Aburame Zhixing's airspace control team stopped Chomei and checked Rikusei's flight permit before allowing them to descend.
• Chomei landed in Konoha's plaza and returned to Rikusei's tea kettle, and Naori reminded Mao to report to their teacher before considering the mission complete.

Hashirama told his squad and the Anbu that Madara should succeed him as Hokage and lead the expanding Konoha Hidden Nation. Rikusei and Naori backed the choice, but Hashirama warned that the Shinobi World was more complicated than the map suggested.

• Rikusei reported that Son Goku had harvested all the wheat, and Hashirama turned to plans for storing and processing it.
• Hashirama called Konoha a Hidden Nation and said Madara would be its first leader instead of himself.
• Hashirama summoned the Anbu, reminded them that Tobirama had once guided public opinion to make him Hokage, and ordered them to keep their discussion from Tobirama while promoting Madara.
• Hashirama argued that Madara was the right choice to govern a unified Shinobi World, and Rikusei tore up the map before agreeing with him.
• Naori also supported Madara, while Hashirama warned Rikusei that the Shinobi World's surface was not as simple as it looked.

Rikusei realized Hashirama’s certainty about the Shinobi World might come from Otsutsuki Hamura, while Hashirama explained the dangers awaiting Konoha’s team at the upcoming Chunin Exams. The team left the Hokage’s office aware that rival villages could bring Jinchuriki and tailed beasts to the competition.

• Rikusei reasoned that Hashirama’s information likely came from Otsutsuki Hamura, whose chakra remained on the moon.
• Mao and the Anbu declared their support for Hashirama, and Hashirama dismissed them after receiving their answer.
• Hashirama told Rikusei, Mao, and Naori that the other Hidden Villages had already leaked news of the upcoming Chunin Exams and praised Rikusei’s idea to hold them under the Shinobi Alliance.
• Hashirama warned the team to watch for Tailed Beasts, and Naori read intelligence describing the villages’ Jinchuriki techniques.
• Rikusei explained that Artisan Ninja could forge Tailed Beast Balls at scale, while Hashirama considered moving the exams to a remote venue.
• Mao suggested using the Ketsuryūgan and sealing techniques against tailed beasts, but Naori reminded her that the exams were meant to promote ninja.