Chapter Summaries

Madara and Rikusei defeated the Moon clan’s Tenseigan attack, and the exhausted Takumi collapsed as the Tenseigan fell silent. Afterward, Madara explained that he had shown the clan the Nine-Tails’ sealing and everyday life in Konoha, then sealed the Nine-Tails into a teapot.

• Cang Lu ordered his clansmen to raise an Earth Wall while the Tenseigan fired chakra beams at Madara’s armored Nine-Tails.
• Takumi drained his clansmen’s chakra to unleash a powerful beam, but Madara used Natural Energy to protect the Nine-Tails and survive the attack.
• The Tenseigan ran out of chakra, and Takumi collapsed as his clansmen lay unconscious and the Moon clan dismantled the vessel.
• Rikusei asked Madara what he had agreed to in the Illusion Space, and Madara said he had shown the clan the Nine-Tails’ sealing and daily life in Konoha.
• Madara offered to seal the conscious Nine-Tails into a teapot, and the fox entered it as crimson smoke.

After the Otsutsuki Main Family won the war, Otsutsuki Souritsu prepared to pursue the Branch Family while Uchiha Madara and Rikusei slipped away to inspect the Ten-Tails. Madara completed a Summoning Contract with the Ten-Tails, named it the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and gave Rikusei the scroll so he could learn the technique.

• Otsutsuki Souritsu decided to pursue the Branch Family and punish those involved according to clan law, while Madara and Rikusei chose not to join him.
• Madara and Rikusei used a Shadow Clone Technique to disguise their departure and returned to the cave where the Ten-Tails was sealed.
• Rikusei saw that the pillar above the Ten-Tails was slowly repairing itself, and Madara formed a Summoning Contract with the creature.
• Madara named the Ten-Tails the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and told Rikusei that the contract was complete.
• Rikusei asked to learn the technique, and Madara gave him a scroll, then struck him when he guessed the Hokage had provided it.

After the war, Rikusei watched Madara celebrate with the Otsutsuki and met Otsutsuki Rina, who hoped to attend Konoha’s Ninja Academy. Cang Lu gave Rikusei a scroll about space-born Meteorite Iron and asked him about the Hokage, leaving their discussion of Konoha’s future alliance to continue.

• Madara fought thirty Otsutsuki shinobi in a drunken Taijutsu match while Rikusei watched and admired his fighting technique.
• Otsutsuki Rina introduced herself to Rikusei and asked about Konoha and its Ninja Academy; Rikusei told her she could attend after the Otsutsuki allied with Konoha.
• After Rina left, Rikusei considered splitting the Ten-Tails and secretly giving Tobirama a piece to study, while keeping his promise to Madara in mind.
• Otsutsuki Cang Lu inspected Rikusei’s short blade and gave him a scroll directing him to Kohei at the Village of Artisans to forge the Meteorite Iron.
• Cang Lu asked Rikusei what kind of person the Hokage was.

Rikusei and Madara discussed the Otsutsuki Clan’s future and the aftermath of the moon’s rebellion with Cang Lu. Madara declined most of the spoils and learned that the Otsutsuki Clan had never produced someone born with the Tenseigan.

• Rikusei accepted Cang Lu’s scroll of Puppet doll blueprints and discussed the Hokage’s terrible gambling luck with him.
• Rikusei asked Cang Lu about the Otsutsuki Clan’s relationship with Konoha, then deferred the discussion to his Teacher.
• Madara arrived, took the tea and liquor Cang Lu offered, and gave the other spoils of war back for the village.
• Cang Lu explained that he planned to let the Branch Family recover after the rebellion, and Rikusei noted that they had tested how many people were needed to fuse the Tenseigan.
• Madara asked whether an Otsutsuki had ever been born with the Tenseigan, and Cang Lu confirmed that none had.

Rikusei and Madara left the moon through a passage to the Shinobi World, and Rikusei suggested a way for Madara to awaken the Rinnegan. They emerged into a snowy landscape at dawn, ready to begin their return journey.

• Cang Lu showed Rikusei and Madara the hidden passage from the moon to the Shinobi World and saw them off at its glowing lake.
• Rikusei and Madara traveled through the lake and discussed whether Madara would summon the Ten-Tails or awaken the Rinnegan.
• Rikusei suggested that Madara obtain Hashirama's cells during a physical examination at Konoha Hospital, and Madara considered the plan viable.
• Rikusei and Madara crossed the water passage and emerged in a cave beneath a vast, snow-covered landscape.

After returning from space, Uchiha Rikusei and Madara sought warmth in the Land of Snow and discovered how Konoha’s influence had grown. The chapter ended with news of unrest in the Land of Demons and a warning about a recurring calamity, though the Land of Snow was said to be safe.

• Uchiha Rikusei and Madara reached a town in the Land of Snow, bought warm clothes, and entered a Konoha-themed hot pot restaurant.
• Rikusei showed Madara a newspaper reporting that Konoha had verified the rumor that Uchiha Madara went to the moon.
• Rikusei reflected that early peace and flourishing trade had made Konoha the Shinobi World’s center of economic and political exchange.
• Rikusei paid the restaurant owner to keep others from disturbing Madara while he read the newspaper.
• Soldiers posted notices warning that the town would face restrictions in three days because of unrest in the Land of Demons.
• An old man told the worried crowd that a past disaster would happen again, but it would not reach the Land of Snow.

Rikusei and Madara headed toward the Land of Demons, where they met Kuan at a military camp. Rikusei persuaded Kuan to work for the Shinobi World against the Daimyo, then learned that the demons were towering stone statues unaffected by ordinary attacks.

• Rikusei and Madara left town and raced toward the Land of Demons as armies gathered near the border.
• Rikusei found Kuan at the rear camp and asked whether he had decided what to do about the Chinoike Clan.
• Rikusei urged Kuan to become the Shinobi World's blade and said the plan would begin at the first Five Kage Summit.
• Kuan warned Rikusei and Madara that the Land of Demons' stone Terracotta Army resisted ordinary weapons, ninjutsu, and Illusion Techniques.
• Rikusei noticed Kuan's greed for the stone statues and snapped him out of it by striking his sword against one.

Moryo led his Terracotta Army against Bai Wei’s shrine, seeking revenge for his thousand-year imprisonment. Bai Wei confronted him with the Jade Pendant and warned that the world’s dwindling negative emotions might no longer sustain his power, while she worried about the other demons attacking beyond the Land of Demons.

• Moryo split his Terracotta Army into three groups, sending two to attack neighboring countries while he led the third toward the shrine.
• Bai Wei prepared to face Moryo as the samurai defended the Barrier, but their arrows failed to harm the Terracotta Army.
• Bai Wei used the Jade Pendant to cut down two Terracotta Army soldiers as Moryo taunted her and shifted between the stone figures.
• Moryo’s destroyed soldier reassembled, shaking the samurai’s confidence.
• Bai Wei identified Moryo’s dependence on humanity’s negative emotions and questioned whether he could still create another Terracotta Army.
• Bai Wei worried that sealing Moryo might cost her life while other demons continued rampaging through the land.

Madara destroyed Moryo’s Terracotta Army, then reached the Shrine and found Bai Wei fighting to protect it. As Bai Wei unleashed her sealed power to confront Moryo, Madara sent Rikusei into the battle, and Rikusei leaped off the cliff with a scroll.

• Madara incinerated the Terracotta Army, while Kuan reported finding no one behind the attack and buried the molten remains with Earth Style.
• Moryo sensed his army’s destruction and reassembled it to attack Bai Wei and the Shrine’s Barrier.
• Bai Wei held off Moryo’s strikes until the Barrier cracked, then released her power and stepped out to face him.
• Madara and Rikusei arrived; Madara noticed Natural Energy in Bai Wei’s power and told Rikusei it was his turn.
• Kuan used Transcription Seal as Rikusei shouldered a scroll and leaped off the cliff toward the battle.

Rikusei summoned the Nine-Tails and formed a crimson Susanoo wielding the Painted Halberd, crushing Moryo’s Terracotta Army. Moryo rebuilt the army into a giant stone warrior and possessed it, but Rikusei cut down the warrior with a decisive strike.

• Rikusei awakened the Eternal Mangekyo and drew the Nine-Tails’ chakra from the teapot.
• The Shrine Maiden recognized the Nine-Tails’ chakra as a sign that Konoha’s reinforcements had arrived, while Moryo fought her with black mist.
• Rikusei used his Eternal Mangekyo to subdue the Nine-Tails, then formed a crimson Susanoo atop its back.
• Rikusei shaped the Painted Halberd and charged through the Terracotta Army, shattering its Stone Statues.
• Moryo used black mist to rebuild the Terracotta Army into a giant warrior and transferred his spirit into one of its soldiers.
• Rikusei severed the warrior’s blade with the Painted Halberd and felled the Stone Statue beneath the Nine-Tails.

Lu Sheng battled Moryo and the resurrecting Terracotta Army with the Nine-Tails and Susanoo. Bai Wei sealed the weakened Moryo, then found that Lu Sheng and the Nine-Tails had vanished.

• Madara watched Lu Sheng fight and praised his use of the crimson halberd while Kuan nervously questioned him about controlling a Tailed Beast.
• Moryo absorbed the Nine-Tails' accumulated malice, restored the Terracotta Army, and sent the stone warriors against Lu Sheng.
• Lu Sheng enlarged Susanoo with the Nine-Tails' chakra, cut through the army, and hurled his halberd to pin Moryo to the ground.
• Lu Sheng placed the Shrine Maiden on the Nine-Tails, and they joined their power to overwhelm Moryo's black sphere with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Bai Wei leapt to Moryo and sealed him away, then found herself alone amid the battered land.

After the Nine-Tails was sealed, Bai Wei sent warriors to search the Land of Demons and prepare for the country’s recovery. Tobirama Senju and Uzumaki Kaimi arrived, and Tobirama concluded that Uchiha Rikusei had wielded the red Susanoo; he left hoping Rikusei had not changed.

• Bai Wei rallied the surviving warriors to search for other demons and report conditions across the Land of Demons.
• Alone after sending out her guards, Bai Wei reflected on the country’s vulnerability and the warmth the warriors had shown.
• Tobirama Senju and Uzumaki Kaimi arrived, introduced themselves, and told Bai Wei they had found no other demons on their way to the Shrine.
• Bai Wei described the red Chakra Giant’s halberd, and Tobirama recognized that Rikusei, not Madara, had used Susanoo with the Nine-Tails.
• Tobirama considered Rikusei’s power and loyalty, then left for the cliff and hoped time had not changed him.
• Kaimi mentioned that other nations’ shinobi might expect payment, and Bai Wei told him to shut up.

Rikusei freed the Nine-Tails from its seal, learned it could shrink and was named Kurama, then sealed it again. Kuan chose Konoha for the Chinoike Clan, and his account of the Dragon Vein led Rikusei and Madara to connect its energy to the Ten-Tails.

• Rikusei explained to Kuan that intelligent beings existed beyond the Tailed Beasts and learned that Konoha had introduced new requirements for joining the village.
• Kuan decided that the Chinoike Clan would join Konoha once it regained its freedom.
• Rikusei released the Nine-Tails, made it shrink to fox size, and learned its name was Kurama and that it had no gender.
• Rikusei sealed Kurama back into the teapot after joking about its name and the other Tailed Beasts.
• Kuan described sealing the Dragon Vein with Sunagakure and a mysterious clan, and Rikusei and Madara connected its energy to the Ten-Tails.

Rikusei, Madara, and Kuan traveled back to the Land of Fire and learned about Konoha from a ramen shop owner before reaching the village. As they arrived after two years away, Uchiha Ku spotted them while slacking off at the gate.

• Rikusei, Madara, and Kuan stopped at a ramen shop, where the owner described Konoha’s gates, restricted areas, and growing prosperity.
• Madara listened proudly to the owner praise Konoha, while Rikusei paid for their meal and the owner noticed they had overpaid.
• Rikusei teased Kuan about restoring the Blood Pond Clan’s glory, and Madara corrected him by invoking the Uchiha instead.
• Rikusei noticed that roads in the Land of Fire had been repaired and saw Konoha rising ahead as the group approached at dusk.
• Uchiha Ku looked up from his novel in the guard booth, recognized the approaching figures, and panicked that the clan head would catch him slacking.

Madara returned to Konoha with Rikusei and Kuan, reunited with Hashirama, and presented treasures brought back from the moon. He told Hashirama that Otsutsuki Souritsu would soon arrive to form an alliance with Konoha.

• Madara told Rikusei and Kyu to keep his return secret, then Rikusei, Madara, and Kuan headed to the Hokage Building.
• The people in the Mission Hall recognized Madara, and Rikusei led him and Kuan to Hashirama’s office.
• Hashirama welcomed Madara and agreed to arrange a shinobi identity for Kuan, promising the Chinoike Clan would not suffer another tragedy.
• Madara had Hashirama create a new desk and showed him lunar tea, liquor, and a scroll containing the God Tree.
• Madara told Hashirama that the moon was home to descendants of Hamura Otsutsuki with perfect Byakugan, and that their clan head, Otsutsuki Souritsu, would soon visit to ally with Konoha.
• Rikusei left the office and headed toward the Ninja Academy as the sun set.

Rikusei returned to Konoha and told Kaku and Tobirama about the moon, including its inhabitants, the Tenseigan, and a God Tree sample. He also raised the possibility of using the Chinoike Clan in a future plan involving the daimyo, leaving Tobirama to arrange a classified meeting.

• Rikusei visited the Academy office, where he told Kaku he had returned from the moon and learned that Kyu had not reported in.
• Rikusei and Kaku discussed the moon and the Chinoike Clan before Tobirama arrived and insisted they continue somewhere private.
• On the rooftop, Rikusei presented bottles of lunar liquor and asked Tobirama what the village would do if a daimyo cut its funding.
• Kaku guessed Rikusei intended to use the Chinoike Clan against the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning, and Tobirama agreed to keep the matter classified for a special meeting.
• Rikusei explained that the moon held descendants of Hamura Otsutsuki, described how the Tenseigan was formed, and revealed that they had brought back a God Tree sample.
• Tobirama hurried to the Hokage Building to examine the sample while Rikusei stayed on the rooftop with Kaku.

Madara, Hashirama, and Tobirama discussed reforming the shinobi system and examined a piece of the Ten-Tails, while Rikusei reunited with Naori after the Ninja Academy let out. Rikusei gave her lunar materials and proposed making a pair of Flame Gunbai for them both.

• Tobirama found Hashirama drunk with Madara in the Hokage's Office and helped him sober up.
• Madara proposed forming a Shinobi Alliance to improve conditions across nations and questioned whether Daimyo and nobles would still be needed.
• Madara produced a pillar of the Ten-Tails, and Hashirama suggested cultivating it with Wood Release while Tobirama promised to develop a suitable seed.
• Rikusei went to the Ninja Academy, where Hagoromo Mao arranged a secret spar with him before Naori came out of Class A.
• Naori teased Rikusei about smelling of alcohol, and he gave her scrolls containing Lunar Soil and Meteorite Iron.
• Rikusei proposed that they make a pair of Flame Gunbai together, and Naori agreed that they belonged to both of them.

Rikusei and Naori shared a meal beneath the night sky as she told him about clashes between students from the Hidden Villages, then they parted at his home. Rikusei reunited with his grandmother Chiri, who pretended not to recognize him before hinting she might listen to his travel stories as a substitute for the Konoha Daily.

• Rikusei and Naori shared an outdoor meal, and Naori described academy battles, including Mao defeating Chiyo and Hiruzen defeating Ōnoki.
• Naori told Rikusei that a powerful blond Kumogakure ninja had beaten Danzo, Rai, Baru, Naka, and the others.
• Naori urged Rikusei to go home and reunite with Grandmother, then silently promised to see him at the Ninja Academy.
• Rikusei entered his home and found trophies and certificates showing that Chiri had won several competitions while he was away.
• Chiri pretended not to recognize Rikusei, then offered him saved food and dismissed his travel stories before suggesting they could replace the morning Konoha Daily.

Rikusei returned to the Academy and reunited with his classmates before attending the Uchiha clan meeting with Naori. Madara’s three short remarks about returning from the moon and beating the Senju sent the clan into a frenzy.

• Rikusei returned to the Ninja Academy, where Naori watched him from the back of the classroom and classmates crowded around him.
• Kaku reminded Rikusei and Naori to attend the Uchiha clan meeting that evening, and Rikusei learned their class would graduate through an examination.
• On the walk through Konoha, Rikusei told the crowd they had flown to the moon with Susanoo but evaded Hyuga Ye’s question about the Otsutsuki’s Pure Byakugan.
• Rikusei scolded Kagami, Rai, and two others for worrying about awakening their Sharingan, insisting that they would awaken it too.
• At the clan meeting, Madara declared that he was back, dismissed the moon as unremarkable, and claimed the Senju could never match his first flight there, prompting Uchiha cheers.

Madara proposed involving the entire Shinobi World in capturing the Two-Tails, and the Uchiha Clan supported the plan. Hashirama agreed it could serve as a rehearsal for a Shinobi Alliance, and Madara planned to add that justification to the operation document.

• Setsuna urged Madara to lead the Uchiha in capturing the last Tailed Beast, while Kaku objected that the decision belonged to the village.
• Setsuna reminded the Uchiha of their past captures and rallied their desire to seal a Tailed Beast alongside Madara.
• Madara proposed that the whole Shinobi World capture the Two-Tails together, and the Uchiha elites agreed to help draft a plan for Hashirama.
• Madara presented the operation plan to Hashirama, who questioned whether involving the entire Shinobi World was excessive.
• Madara suggested they could release and reseal all eight other Tailed Beasts, and Hashirama accepted the operation as a rehearsal for a Shinobi Alliance.