Chapter Summaries

Yang Hao helped Mitarashi Shisui gain temporary access to Storm Release, then successfully fused Swift Release into his own bloodline. After upgrading his weapons with the Sword of the Thunder God, he prepared to leave with Orochimaru for the Land of Grass.

• Orochimaru explained that Mitarashi Shisui’s Cursed Seal could store Storm Release chakra and gave him ninjutsu scrolls and daily examination forms.
• Yang Hao announced he had studied Feather of Flight’s corpse and chakra and was ready to fuse Swift Release.
• Yang Hao merged Golden Lightning and wind chakra, completing the Swift Release fusion and gaining stronger physical qualities and Kage-level chakra.
• Tsunade gave Yang Hao the Sword of the Thunder God, and he incorporated its chakra-blade formula into his Holy Sword and Demon Blade martial souls.
• Yang Hao told Shizune and the others to stay together in the Senju Clan Compound while he left with Orochimaru for the Land of Grass.

Yang Hao and Orochimaru traveled to the Land of Grass, pursued by Fugaku Uchiha, who intended to capture Yang Hao for information. Yang Hao confronted Fugaku and learned he had awakened Mangekyo Sharingan, but the chapter ended with Fugaku’s tracking arrow chasing Yang Hao despite his Swift Release.

• Yang Hao left the village with Orochimaru, while Fugaku Uchiha followed them in secret.
• Yang Hao sensed Fugaku’s powerful chakra and discussed the Uchiha’s motives and Mangekyo Sharingan with Orochimaru.
• After several days in the Land of Grass, Yang Hao set out to confront Fugaku, who had paused to examine the limits of his newly awakened Mangekyo.
• Fugaku dodged Yang Hao’s opening strike with an ocular technique, formed Susanoo, and attacked with Amaterasu, which Yang Hao sealed away.
• Fugaku revealed his Mangekyo and summoned Susanoo’s bow and arrow, whose tracking ability forced Yang Hao to evade as it accelerated after him.

Yang Hao defeated Fugaku Uchiha, took his Mangekyo Sharingan, and brought him to Orochimaru for study. He then infiltrated the Grass Village, rescued Uzumaki Kana, and began earning her trust by asking about Uzumaki Kushina.

• Yang Hao used his Eight-Tails Avatar, sealing techniques, Sage Clan Talent, and a lightning sword strike to defeat Fugaku Uchiha and remove his Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Yang Hao gave Fugaku Uchiha and his eyes to Orochimaru for research, then transformed the sealed arrow into the God-Slaying Spear.
• Yang Hao headed to the Grass Village to seek the Box of Ultimate Bliss and Karin Uzumaki's mother, while Uzumaki Kana sensed another Uzumaki's chakra in the village hospital.
• Yang Hao infiltrated the hospital, rescued Uzumaki Kana with the Flying Thunder God Technique, and healed her injuries at the underground base.
• Yang Hao asked Uzumaki Kana whether she knew Uzumaki Mito and Uzumaki Kushina, and she brightened at the mention of Kushina.

Yang Hao explained Konoha’s betrayal to Uzumaki Kana, then left to steal and consume the Box of Ultimate Bliss as nourishment for his Demon Blade Martial Soul. After returning to the base, he discussed cloning Mangekyo with Orochimaru, who said the eyes could be cloned but their pupil powers and techniques could not.

• Yang Hao apologized to Uzumaki Kana and explained that Konoha’s leaders had let the Uzumaki Clan fall to secure control of the Nine-Tails and eliminate political rivals.
• Uzumaki Kana questioned Yang Hao’s motives, and he reassured her before leaving her at the base under Orochimaru’s supervision.
• Yang Hao infiltrated Hozuki Castle, stole the Box of Ultimate Bliss, and took it to an uninhabited island.
• Yang Hao destroyed the box’s seals, defeated the demon phantom inside, absorbed its dark energy, and refined the box into his three weapon martial souls.
• Yang Hao returned to the base and asked Orochimaru whether Mangekyo could be cloned; Orochimaru said the eyes could be cloned, but not their pupil power or eye techniques.

Yang Hao used Fugaku Uchiha’s eyes to awaken a time-based ability, then attacked Iwagakure’s frontline camp as ordered. He slaughtered many Iwa ninja and forced the survivors to retreat, while waiting for Iwagakure to send Steel Release ninja.

• Orochimaru explained that the Uchiha clan’s hidden eyes could awaken into Mangekyo Sharingan and noted that Fugaku Uchiha’s capture would delay the selection of a new clan head.
• Yang Hao remembered Karura, summoned her from Ryuchi Cave, and arranged for Uzumaki Kana to bathe, clothe, and feed her.
• Orochimaru ordered Yang Hao to kill the thousand Iwa ninja at the frontline camp and provoke Iwagakure into sending Steel Release ninja; he also told Yang Hao not to reveal his Flying Thunder God Technique prematurely.
• Yang Hao absorbed Fugaku Uchiha’s eyes and merged the Futodama ability into his Sharingan Soul Bone, gaining a basic ability to foresee the future.
• Yang Hao infiltrated Iwagakure’s camp and killed many Iwa ninja with Orochimaru’s Kusanagi Sword until Frozen Man ordered the survivors to evacuate through tunnels.
• Yang Hao let the retreating Iwa ninja go and guarded the camp’s supplies, expecting Iwagakure to send Steel Release ninja capable of withstanding the Kusanagi Sword.

Yang Hao raided the Star Ninja Village and stole its chakra-altering meteorite while Orochimaru prepared to build their own village. In Konoha, Sarutobi Hiruzen and his advisers decided to block Yang Hao from becoming Fourth Hokage and considered transferring him away from the Iwa front; Yang Hao returned to the Land of Grass to news of a Cloud ninja raid.

• Yang Hao proposed developing a sharpness-focused bloodline limit, and Orochimaru told him to gather supplies from the abandoned Iwa camp while they prepared to establish a ninja village.
• Yang Hao created shadow clones to collect supplies and corpses, then flew to the Star Ninja Village to obtain its meteorite.
• Yang Hao used a White Zetsu spore and the Flying Thunder God Technique to steal the star while the village's seven Peacock Mystic Method practitioners rested.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura agreed that Yang Hao could not become Fourth Hokage and discussed moving him away from the Land of Grass front.
• Yang Hao returned to Orochimaru's base with the star meteorite and read a report that Cloud ninja had raided a border outpost.

Yang Hao and Orochimaru infiltrated Iwagakure to search for the First and Second Tsuchikage’s remains, then returned to prepare another strike against Iwagakure’s army. The chapter ended with them reaching the outskirts of the enemy camp, ready to attack.

• Orochimaru told Yang Hao that Iron Fang and twelve other Steel Release ninja were coming, while Onoki might lead Iwagakure’s forces in person.
• Yang Hao and Orochimaru planned to raid Iwagakure’s cemetery for the Second Tsuchikage’s remains, and Yang Hao used Flying Raijin marks to scout the village.
• Yang Hao found that the First and Second Tsuchikage’s graves held only clothes, so he and Orochimaru infiltrated Iwagakure to locate their remains.
• Orochimaru returned from scouting the village, and Yang Hao warped them back to their base as Iwagakure’s army gathered at the border camp.
• Orochimaru explained that Onoki was trying to tie down Konoha and that the Third Hokage was using the conflict to manage Konoha’s internal tensions.
• Yang Hao and Orochimaru left for Iwagakure’s camp, where Orochimaru planned to hold off Onoki while Yang Hao captured the Steel Release ninja.

Yang Hao and Orochimaru attacked the Iwa ninja camp, where they fought through Iwagakure’s traps and escaped after killing Iron Fang and twelve Steel Release ninja. They returned to their underground laboratory, while the Third Tsuchikage demanded that Konoha release the missing Iwa ninja.

• Orochimaru and Yang Hao used a summoned giant snake and the Flying Thunder God Technique to infiltrate the Iwa ninja camp.
• The Third Tsuchikage, Onoki, trapped Yang Hao inside the Black Rock Barrier and attacked him with Dust Release while Orochimaru engaged Onoki in the air.
• Yang Hao defended against explosive tags with the Four Violet Flames Formation, then killed Iron Fang and twelve Steel Release ninja with his fused weapon.
• Yang Hao cut through the Black Rock Barrier and escaped, and Orochimaru abandoned his fight with Onoki and flew away.
• Kitsuchi told Onoki that Iron Fang and the others had disappeared, and Onoki ordered Konoha to release them within a week or face an invasion.
• Yang Hao and Orochimaru retreated to their underground laboratory, where Orochimaru asked whether Yang Hao had gotten them all.

After Orochimaru and Yang Hao captured thirteen Steel Release ninja, Konoha faced the prospect of war with Iwagakure while its leaders worried about Orochimaru’s growing power and schemed to elevate Namikaze Minato. Orochimaru reached the northeastern front, where he and Yang Hao anticipated a difficult fight against Onoki and the Four-Tails jinchuriki Zi.

• Yang Hao and Orochimaru studied the bodies of thirteen Steel Release ninja, and Yang Hao prepared to fuse Steel Release after mastering Swift Release.
• The Third Tsuchikage sent Konoha a letter and a three-year ceasefire agreement, prompting Sarutobi Hiruzen to learn that Orochimaru’s forces had killed the Steel Release ninja.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo Shimura, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura debated Orochimaru’s actions and Namikaze Minato’s training, while Danzo planned to use Uzumaki Mina to advance his bid for the Hokage position.
• Konoha appointed Torifu Akimichi to lead the northwestern front and sent Ino-Shika-Cho forces and two thousand civilian ninja to fight Iwagakure.
• Orochimaru and Yang Hao discussed Konoha’s plan to counter Onoki with the Yamanaka and Nara clans, and Orochimaru revealed that the Four-Tails jinchuriki Zi was close to Onoki and had likely gone to the front lines.

Yang Hao won support at the northeastern camp, developed a new Blade Release bloodline limit, and planned to challenge the Third Raikage as Orochimaru considered how to build their strength. On the northwestern front, Roshi’s arrival as the Four-Tails jinchuriki drove Konoha’s forces toward retreat.

• Orochimaru warned Torifu Akimichi about Iwagakure’s likely use of a jinchuriki and told Yang Hao that Uzumaki Mina had been sent to the southwestern front to await Namikaze Minato.
• Yang Hao served as a medical ninja at the camp, earned the troops’ goodwill, and fused Steel Release and Wind and Lightning chakra into new abilities.
• Orochimaru named Yang Hao’s new offensive bloodline limit Blade Release, and they discussed using it against powerful Kage and recruiting people from Konoha.
• Onoki sent Roshi, the Four-Tails jinchuriki, into battle, and Roshi’s rampage pushed Konoha’s northwestern forces to the brink of collapse.
• Nara Shikaku ordered Yamanaka Inoichi to have the troops retreat and abandon their first defensive line.

Nara Shikaku and Torifu Akimichi adopted Orochimaru’s mobile-warfare tactics, withdrawing Konoha’s forces and turning the Ino-Shika-Cho clans toward guerrilla warfare. As their attacks disrupted Iwagakure and prompted Onoki to seek allies, Yang Hao left camp to find Uchiha Madara.

• Nara Shikaku ordered Konoha’s forces to retreat from the first defensive line after Iwagakure deployed a tailed beast jinchuriki.
• Torifu Akimichi showed Nara Shikaku Orochimaru’s sixteen-character mobile-warfare principles and explained the need to preserve their clans and stay neutral in the contest for Fourth Hokage.
• Nara Shikaku and Torifu Akimichi decided to adapt Orochimaru’s tactics for the Ino-Shika-Cho clans and Konoha’s defense.
• The Ino-Shika-Cho clans split into concealed units and launched guerrilla attacks, including incursions into Grass Village, frustrating Iwagakure.
• Onoki sent envoys to seek an alliance with the Third Kazekage and Hanzo of Amegakure, and both leaders agreed to cooperate against Konoha.
• Yang Hao left camp after fusing Steel Release and Blade Release and headed for Uchiha Madara’s hiding place.

Yang Hao harvested Demonic Statue of the Outer Path tissue and the Gelel Mineral Vein to evolve his Divine Tree Martial Soul and transform his bloodline. After killing An Lushan and taking his place in Loulan, he reached the Dragon Vein and confirmed that it held the power of time.

• Yang Hao secretly cut a small piece from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and used it to evolve his Divine Tree Martial Soul.
• Yang Hao absorbed the Gelel Mineral Vein, purified the Divine Tree's power, and fused his Ōtsutsuki bloodline Soul Bone powers into his body.
• Yang Hao finished absorbing the Gelel Mineral Vein after more than a year and produced Gold of Life.
• Yang Hao captured An Lushan, searched and destroyed his soul, then created a White Zetsu clone to impersonate him and stabilize Loulan.
• Yang Hao traveled beneath Loulan to the Dragon Vein and confirmed that it possessed the power of time.

After absorbing the Dragon Vein’s power and refining his abilities, Yang Hao returned to the front and revealed his new Gold Release to Orochimaru. The two attacked the Hidden Cloud Village, where Yang Hao began a colossal assault as its ninja mobilized to defend it.

• Yang Hao spent more than a year absorbing the Dragon Vein’s power of time while a White Zetsu clone solved Loulan’s water shortage.
• Yang Hao returned to the northeastern border camp and learned from Orochimaru that Namikaze Minato had mastered Sage Mode and that the war remained active.
• Yang Hao showed Orochimaru his Gold Release and endured the reanimated Mū’s Dust Release without injury.
• Yang Hao and Orochimaru set out to attack the Hidden Cloud Village, with Orochimaru sneaking inside while Yang Hao approached from the front.
• Yang Hao transformed into a golden, hundred-meter-tall Eight-Tails form and advanced on the village with the God-Slaying Spear, prompting its ninja to mobilize.

Yang Hao attacked the Hidden Cloud Village, defeated its defenders, and took Matatabi’s tails before demanding a ceasefire meeting with the Third Raikage. Back at camp, he and Orochimaru examined the Sage of Six Paths ninja tools and discussed recruiting the Chinoike Clan for their new village.

• Toroi and the Two-Tails jinchuriki tried to stop Yang Hao, but Yang Hao absorbed their Tailed Beast Balls and overwhelmed the Cloud ninjas.
• The Two-Tails jinchuriki released Matatabi, who fled after Yang Hao severed her two tails and absorbed them.
• Toroi led the Hidden Cloud ninja in a desperate charge, but Yang Hao killed them and ordered the Third Raikage to meet him in the Land of Hot Water in one month to sign a ceasefire agreement.
• Yang Hao returned to camp, where Orochimaru showed him the Amber Purifying Pot and the corpses of Kinkaku and Ginkaku.
• Yang Hao and Orochimaru discussed the Sage of Six Paths, the ninja tools, and the Chinoike Clan; Orochimaru said a clan member had agreed to bring its women and children to join their future village.

Yang Hao and Orochimaru prepared to challenge Konoha’s leadership after taking on the Hidden Cloud Village, while Sarutobi Hiruzen and Danzo Shimura plotted to secure Minato’s succession by transferring the Nine-Tails from Uzumaki Kushina to Uzumaki Mina. The transfer succeeded, and Mina’s body withstood the seal.

• Yang Hao told Orochimaru he was waiting for Konoha’s elders to move against him so he could justify breaking with them, while they planned to subdue the other ninja villages before confronting Konoha.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen, Danzo Shimura, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura discussed Yang Hao’s power, and Hiruzen agreed to Danzo’s plan to replace Uzumaki Kushina as the Nine-Tails jinchuriki.
• Danzo recalled Uzumaki Mina from the front lines, drugged Uzumaki Kushina, and had Root take her out of the village.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen ordered Mina to marry Namikaze Minato after the war, then joined Danzo and Sarutobi Shinnosuke in preparing the Nine-Tails transfer.
• Uzumaki Mina used her Adamantine Sealing Chains to draw the Nine-Tails from Kushina’s seal and transfer it into her own, and her body successfully endured the seal.

Sarutobi Hiruzen transferred the Nine-Tails into Uzumaki Mina and sent her to the front lines disguised as Kushina, while Yang Hao and Orochimaru secretly rescued the real Kushina. A month later, the Third Raikage, Onoki, and the Third Kazekage gathered to coordinate an assault against Yang Hao and Orochimaru.

• Uzumaki Mina endured the Nine-Tails seal, became an ANBU operative called Fox, and was ordered to impersonate Kushina while assisting Namikaze Minato.
• Sarutobi Shinnosuke buried the dying Kushina and the altar, then the group returned to the village, where Tsunade later found Kushina's letter and confronted Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Tsunade read intelligence about Yang Hao's attack on Hidden Cloud Village, warned Sarutobi Hiruzen to protect Kushina, and reminded him why her second grandfather had chosen him as Hokage.
• Yang Hao and Orochimaru rescued Kushina and kept her unconscious in a nutrient tank while planning to give her power extracted from Kinkaku and Ginkaku.
• The Third Raikage moved ten thousand troops to the Land of Hot Water, where Onoki and the Third Kazekage joined him to plan an encirclement and discuss exchanging hostages.

The Third Kazekage, Third Raikage, and Onoki formed an alliance against Konoha, while Orochimaru and Yang Hao prepared their forces for battle. Yang Hao revealed his Wood Release to Tobirama Senju and spotted the allied enemy army advancing toward their camp.

• The Third Kazekage, Third Raikage, and Onoki offered hostages as proof of their alliance and began planning their attack.
• Orochimaru ordered Konoha’s jonin to pursue the Hidden Cloud forces if they fled, while protecting their own lives.
• Yang Hao told Orochimaru and Tobirama Senju that he intended to change Konoha or establish a new village, and Tobirama supported that path over a civil war.
• Yang Hao showed Tobirama Senju that he had mastered Wood Release, and Tobirama later discussed arranging a child with Wood Release using Yang Hao’s and Tsunade’s genes.
• Yang Hao flew above the camp and used his strengthened Byakugan to see the Cloud ninja army charging toward them.

Yang Hao and Orochimaru lured the allied shinobi forces into a battle, where Yang Hao tore through Kumogakure’s ranks and faced the Third Raikage and the other Kage. The fight escalated as several Tailed Beasts joined in, and Yang Hao ended the chapter confronting the Third Raikage’s strongest attack.

• Yang Hao shared his vision with Orochimaru, who planned to weaken the ninja villages while preserving them for a future war.
• The Third Raikage led ten thousand shinobi to the Leaf camp, where he, Onoki, and the Third Kazekage found Yang Hao and Orochimaru waiting.
• Yang Hao charged into the Kumogakure army with his God-Slaying Spear while Orochimaru’s explosive-tag traps blasted the scattered shinobi.
• Killer B, the One-Tail jinchuriki, Roshi, and the Seven-Tails unleashed their Tailed Beast forms, while Yang Hao summoned the Eight-Tails’ true form as a separate fighter.
• Yang Hao severed the Seven-Tails’ wings and used the One-Tail to smash incoming Tailed Beast Balls as he fought the opposing Kage.
• The Third Raikage charged at Yang Hao with Hell Stab’s One-Finger Nukite.

Yang Hao defeated the Hidden Cloud Village, killed the Third Raikage, and forced A to sign a ceasefire before turning his campaign toward the Hidden Mist Village. He unleashed a lightning storm on the village and slaughtered its defenders, the Seven Ninja Swordsmen, and two jinchuriki, then discovered the Third Mizukage was still alive.

• Yang Hao killed the Third Raikage and drove the Hidden Cloud forces into retreat, while the other tailed beasts escaped with injuries.
• With Orochimaru and more than a thousand Konoha ninja helping rout the Cloud forces, Yang Hao pursued them until fewer than thirty percent escaped and declared the war over.
• A returned a month later and signed a ceasefire agreement with Yang Hao, who then planned campaigns against the other villages and Hanzo of Amegakure.
• Yang Hao and Orochimaru flew to the Hidden Mist Village, where Yang Hao formed a lightning storm that killed the ninja guarding its walls.
• Yang Hao struck the Mizukage Building with lightning, then killed the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist and two jinchuriki before spearing the Third Mizukage, who was still alive.

Yang Hao forced the Hidden Mist Village to sign a ceasefire, recruited three persecuted clans, and helped Tobirama Senju return to life. He then attacked Sunagakure, where his clones slaughtered Sand ninja as he fought the Third Kazekage.

• Yang Hao killed the Third Mizukage, demanded a ceasefire, and obtained a signed agreement from the man claiming to be the Fourth Mizukage.
• Yang Hao recruited Mei Terumi, Ringo Ameyuri, and the Terumi, Ringo, and Yuki Clans, then left them to sail to the Land of Fire.
• Yang Hao told Tobirama Senju that he wanted to replace the ninja system with a unified government and new order.
• Yang Hao and Orochimaru transferred Tobirama Senju's soul into a cloned body, bringing him back to life.
• Yang Hao flew to Sunagakure with nine White Zetsu clones, who killed Sand ninja along the village walls while Yang Hao fought the Third Kazekage and impaled him.