Chapter Summaries

Yang Hao pushed the Hidden Mist Village’s clan faction into a coup and equipped Zabuza with the killing-intent blade Demon Cutter, which he used to wound Yagura Karatachi. The fighting continued as the sword’s power strengthened Zabuza while corroding his arm.

• Kisame Hoshigaki apologized to Miru, and Yang Hao sent her back to the Heavenly Ninja Country with Kimimaro and Suigetsu Hozuki.
• Yang Hao ambushed Zabuza Momochi, offered him Demon Cutter, and ordered him to join the person who recruited him during the coming war and act as Yang Hao’s eyes.
• The Hidden Mist Village’s clan faction launched a coup against the Fourth Mizukage, but an ambush prepared with Uchiha Obito’s knowledge inflicted heavy casualties.
• Zabuza covered the battlefield in mist and slaughtered ninjas from both factions to strengthen Demon Cutter, while Mangetsu Hozuki and Kisame Hoshigaki fought Yagura Karatachi.
• Zabuza’s blade cut through Yagura Karatachi’s tailed-beast cloak and severed a chakra tail, but its power began corroding Zabuza’s arm until the sword’s ring-shaped guard suppressed it.

Zabuza and Mangetsu Hozuki’s coup against Yagura failed after a Tailed Beast Ball devastated the Hidden Mist Village, and Yang Hao recruited Mangetsu as an informant while giving him a powerful trident. In the Land of Earth, Konan secured a paid mission with Iwagakure before Naruto called out to her, leaving her wary of being targeted by Yang Hao.

• Zabuza, Mangetsu Hozuki, and Kisame Hoshigaki fought Yagura Karatachi in his Isobu form until Uchiha Obito used the Six-Tails jinchuriki to launch a Tailed Beast Ball at the Hidden Mist Village.
• Zabuza split the incoming Tailed Beast Ball with Ghost Slash, but the blast wrecked buildings, and the surviving rebels fled as their coup failed.
• Mangetsu carried the weakened Zabuza out of the village, then parted from him after Zabuza recovered enough to travel alone.
• Yang Hao approached Mangetsu, revealed that he had taken Suigetsu as his disciple, and gave Mangetsu a weight-adjustable trident in exchange for becoming his informant in the organization that would recruit him.
• Konan met Kitsuchi in the Land of Earth, agreed to cooperate with Iwagakure, and returned with an advance payment.
• Naruto called out to Konan as she flew overhead, and she recognized him from his photograph and grew wary.

Yang Hao pressured Konan into helping protect Nagato’s Rinnegan from Uchiha Madara, then traveled to Iwagakure to recruit Deidara and Kurotsuchi as disciples. He explained that he sought to unify the world to end war, leaving the two young ninja to consider his justification.

• Yang Hao told Konan he knew Akatsuki’s tailed-beast plan and threatened her until she agreed to use his spatial-disrupting sphere if Uchiha Madara tried to take Nagato’s eyes.
• Yang Hao investigated Iwagakure and found Deidara, offering to take him as a disciple.
• Kurotsuchi entered Deidara’s room and recognized Yang Hao as the feared Yellow Fiend, but Yang Hao invited her to become his disciple too.
• Yang Hao asked Deidara and Kurotsuchi what they thought of him and the Heavenly Ninja Country, and they called him bloodthirsty and ambitious.
• Yang Hao defended his actions by describing the suffering caused by the Ninja World Wars and said he wanted to unify the world to eradicate war.

Yang Hao secured Deidara and Kurotsuchi as disciples while preparing for war and pursuing further bloodline evolution. As the Akatsuki drew the Five Great Ninja Villages toward the Nine-Tails, Yang Hao focused on fusing Yin-Yang Release with Five Elements Release and considered Kaguya Otsutsuki as a source of the Divine Tree Fruit’s power.

• Yang Hao persuaded Kurotsuchi and Deidara to become his disciples by promising to teach them while threatening Iwagakure and Kitsuchi if they resisted.
• Yang Hao returned to the City of Heaven, then studied secrets of the Tenseigan and integrated Otsutsuki Toneri’s genes into his body to advance his Otsutsuki bloodline and evolve his Byakugan.
• The Heavenly Ninja Country expanded while Iwagakure and Sunagakure retreated, and the Akatsuki captured eight tailed beasts, leaving the Nine-Tails in the Heavenly Ninja Country’s Konoha Power Plant.
• Uchiha Obito, Konan, and Nagato planned to draw the Five Great Ninja Villages into an attack on the Konoha Power Plant, and the villages sent elite forces there.
• Yang Hao failed to fuse Yin-Yang Release with Five Elements Release and turned his thoughts to Kaguya Otsutsuki, who had consumed a Divine Tree Fruit.

Yang Hao gathered his students and allies to face the Fourth Ninja World War, while Akatsuki captured the Nine-Tails and transformed the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path into the Ten-Tails. The Five Great Ninja Villages’ army was devastated by the monster, until Jiraiya arrived and explained that Akatsuki had created it.

• Yang Hao gathered his disciples and allies, announced that the Fourth Ninja World War had begun, and led them toward Konoha’s power plant on Garaga.
• Nagato Uzumaki absorbed the Nine-Tails into the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, triggering its transformation into the Ten-Tails.
• The Five Great Ninja Villages’ elites arrived, but the Ten-Tails escaped Kitsuchi’s earth trap and destroyed most of their army with a Tailed Beast Ball.
• Jiraiya protected the surviving fighters from a second Tailed Beast Ball and told Sarutobi Hiruzen that Akatsuki, not the Heavenly Ninja Country, had created the Ten-Tails.

Nagato Uzumaki sealed the Ten-Tails within himself and transformed into its jinchuriki, disrupting Uchiha Obito and Uchiha Madara’s plans. Meanwhile, Sasuke Uchiha defeated Itachi Uchiha and absorbed his eyes, body, and soul, intending to give him a new life.

• Jiraiya identified Akatsuki as the group behind the Ten-Tails, while Sarutobi Hiruzen suspected the Heavenly Ninja Country had let them reach the battlefield on purpose.
• Konan used Yang Hao’s ninja tool to stop Uchiha Obito’s Kamui as Nagato Uzumaki sealed the Ten-Tails within himself and transformed into its jinchuriki.
• Nagato Uzumaki summoned the Ten-Tails again and guided its transformation into the Divine Tree, while Uchiha Obito summoned Uchiha Madara as a final trump card.
• Hashirama arrived with Sasuke Uchiha and others, and Sasuke confronted his brother Itachi Uchiha.
• Sasuke Uchiha overpowered Itachi Uchiha’s techniques and Susanoo, then extracted and sealed his soul and absorbed his eyes and body so he could give him a new life.

Sasuke Uchiha pursued Sarutobi Hiruzen as Nagato Uzumaki attacked New Konoha and battled Otsutsuki Toneri over the Ten-Tails. As the tailed beasts escaped and Madara was resurrected through Nagato, Hashirama gave Madara one of his eyes and suggested they watch the battle unfold.

• Sasuke Uchiha killed Fukasaku while holding Jiraiya back, then pursued Sarutobi Hiruzen after he escaped with Reverse Summoning Technique.
• Nagato Uzumaki fired a Tailed Beast Ball at New Konoha, explaining to Jiraiya that he was avenging Yahiko and Akatsuki by destroying Konoha.
• Otsutsuki Toneri attacked Nagato for the Ten-Tails and repeatedly overwhelmed him with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, while Hashirama pinned down Madara elsewhere.
• The Divine Tree bloomed, and the nine tailed beasts broke free from Nagato, leaving him weakened and no longer the Ten-Tails jinchuriki.
• Madara activated the contingency in Nagato and used the Rinne Rebirth Technique to become truly alive.
• Hashirama celebrated Madara's return, transplanted one of his own eyes into Madara, and told him to watch what happened next.

Yang Hao defeated Otsutsuki Toneri, claimed Nagato Uzumaki’s Rinnegan, and captured the Tailed Beasts to evolve his Divine Tree Martial Soul. After thwarting Black Zetsu’s plan to revive Kaguya Otsutsuki, he formed his own Bloodline Snare, freed the people trapped by the Divine Tree, and intercepted a group of time travelers from the future.

• Yang Hao killed Otsutsuki Toneri and took Nagato Uzumaki’s Rinnegan after Nagato admitted defeat and separated the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path from himself before dying.
• Yang Hao defeated the nine Tailed Beasts, sealed them into his body, and used their power to advance the Divine Tree Martial Soul’s evolution.
• Yang Hao cast Infinite Tsukuyomi and Infinite Kotoamatsukami, then used Divine Tree World Arrival to bind people across the planet and absorb the Divine Tree.
• Black Zetsu revived Kaguya Otsutsuki through Yang Hao, but Yang Hao stopped the transformation and drained Kaguya’s power to complete his evolution.
• Yang Hao formed his own Bloodline Snare, freed everyone from the Divine Tree’s roots, and dispelled Infinite Tsukuyomi while leaving Infinite Kotoamatsukami’s effects in place.
• Yang Hao intercepted a group traveling from the future, crushed their turtle-shaped time-traveling ninja tool, and confronted the newcomers who blamed him for destroying their timeline.

Boruto Uzumaki and the time travelers discovered that this past differed sharply from their own, where Naruto was a man and Hinata was his mother. Future Sasuke’s group attacked Yang Hao to restore their ruined timeline, but after Heavenly Ninja Country overwhelmed them, they used Rinne Rebirth to revive their fallen allies and renew the assault.

• Boruto Uzumaki reunited with Hinata Hyuga and learned that Neji Hyuga had died protecting his parents in the Fourth Ninja World War.
• Uzumaki Naruko revealed that she was born a girl, was engaged to Sasuke Uchiha, and had a different family history from Boruto Uzumaki’s timeline.
• Future Sasuke declared that the time travelers had to kill Yang Hao to restore their future, then Sasuke Uchiha swiftly pierced him with a lightning-charged blade.
• Uzumaki Naruko and the fighters of Heavenly Ninja Country defeated the attackers’ forces, while Mangetsu Hozuki complained that there were too few enemies.
• Future Sasuke used Izanagi to return beside Naruto, and the two performed Rinne Rebirth, sacrificing themselves to resurrect their allies.
• The revived fighters charged Yang Hao, who watched calmly because he was waiting for his true opponent.

Yang Hao defeated the returning Sage of Six Paths and Otsutsuki Hamura inside a small world he had created, absorbing Hamura’s power through a ruse. After cutting the Sage of Six Paths in half, he was caught in the Sage’s desperate Planetary Devastation technique.

• Zabuza Momochi, Mangetsu Hozuki, and the Heavenly Ninja Country’s fighters overwhelmed the revived ninja army while Senju Hashirama and Tobirama Senju watched.
• Black Zetsu possessed Kawaki, and Kaguya Otsutsuki turned him into a fruit and ate it to recover some strength.
• The Sage of Six Paths and Otsutsuki Hamura appeared as Ten-Tails jinchuriki, and Yang Hao trapped them inside his small world.
• Yang Hao wounded Otsutsuki Hamura, who transformed himself into a fruit for his brother, but Yang Hao used genjutsu to intercept and absorb it.
• Yang Hao froze the surrounding space and time, then cleaved the Sage of Six Paths in half.
• The Sage of Six Paths unleashed Planetary Devastation and pulled Yang Hao toward him with overwhelming gravitational force.

Yang Hao defeated the Sage of Six Paths and his allies, ended the future invaders’ timeline, and sensed danger threatening the Douluo Plane. He then awakened in a new life amid a battle at Stark Industries and realized he had arrived in the Marvel world.

• Yang Hao endured the sun’s energy, devoured the Sage of Six Paths, and repaired the damaged small world after the Divine Tree Martial Soul was burned.
• Might Guy defeated his future self and his father, while Hatake Kakashi and his allies overwhelmed Uchiha Obito, whom Mikoto Uchiha killed.
• Sasuke Uchiha captured Konoha’s former leaders and summoned the Uchiha clansmen he had revived to avenge the clan; Uzumaki Naruko killed Sarutobi Hiruzen after Sasuke showed Naruto evidence of his crimes.
• Future Sasuke and Naruto died as their timeline vanished, and Yang Hao celebrated victory before sensing that the Douluo Plane faced danger from the God Realm.
• Yang Hao’s consciousness awakened in a man at Stark Industries after an electrical current restarted his heart, and his memories identified the new world as Marvel.

Yang Hao stole Tony Stark’s Arc Reactor and used his spinal injury to persuade Hydra to send him into the Winter Soldier Project. After surviving the Super Soldier Serum, he began recovering from his injuries and would be able to stand again.

• Yang Hao took the Arc Reactor from Obadiah Stane’s Iron Man suit and hid it inside his abdominal wound before Hydra agents led by Crossbones Brock Rumlow retrieved him.
• Yang Hao handed the reactor to Crossbones and asked him to seek treatment for his paralyzed legs, while a doctor confirmed his spinal cord was severely damaged.
• Crossbones brought the reactor to Alexander Pierce, who approved sending Yang Hao to the Winter Soldier Project in exchange for the valuable technology.
• Crossbones took Yang Hao to a secret base, where staff injected him with the Super Soldier Serum.
• Yang Hao endured the serum’s effects and survived the transformation, beginning to heal as Crossbones congratulated him.

Yang Hao used his serum-enhanced abilities to win access to Hydra’s research and impress Alexander Pierce, who began planning to deploy him as an independent operative. After Hao noticed the Arc Reactor’s output was far below its intended capacity, he deduced that Howard Stark had designed it to create a new element.

• Yang Hao joined the serum research, obtained its data, and demonstrated exceptional learning and marksmanship.
• Crossbones reported Yang Hao’s abilities to Alexander Pierce, who authorized an independent identity and broader access to research materials.
• Yang Hao studied advanced technology and helped repair and reproduce the Arc Reactor at Hydra’s base.
• Alexander Pierce observed the reactor test and questioned Yang Hao about his dissatisfaction with its output.
• Yang Hao explained that the reactor should produce far more power and deduced that Howard Stark had designed it around a new, artificially created element.

Yang Hao helped Hydra create a powerful new element reactor and then used Tesseract-energy scanners to locate Captain America's plane in the Arctic. He found Captain America alive and frozen, and Pierce ordered a cell sample taken before arranging his recovery.

• Yang Hao used Howard Stark's recordings and model to identify the new element, then developed it with a particle accelerator and powered an Arc Reactor that exceeded its previous output.
• Pierce ordered Hydra to gather materials for an Iron Legion and gave Yang Hao full access to Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. technical files.
• After studying weapons powered by Tesseract energy, Yang Hao led a team to northern Russia to search for Captain America's plane and its remaining bombs.
• Yang Hao deployed ten thousand miniature drones, and after half a month they detected the plane beneath the ice.
• Yang Hao found Captain America frozen inside the plane and confirmed he was alive, then told Crossbones and Pierce.
• Pierce ordered Yang Hao to take a cell sample from Captain America while he arranged to have him brought back.

Yang Hao used Hydra’s resources to investigate Bruce Banner and develop a serum combining Hulk’s power with the Super Soldier Serum. After undergoing Tesseract-energy irradiation, he transformed into a proportionate blue giant, though the chapter left the experiment’s success unconfirmed.

• Yang Hao learned that Bruce Banner had reappeared in Brazil and asked Crossbones to obtain Banner’s blood and search Betty Ross’s home for his experimental records.
• Hydra secured Banner’s blood and the records, while Yang Hao explained that Hulk’s abilities might be compatible with a perfected Super Soldier Serum.
• Yang Hao reported that his diluted serum could raise recipients to Captain America’s level with reduced risk, earning Alexander Pierce’s support.
• Yang Hao studied the Hulk research and combined Banner’s blood with the Super Soldier Serum, then used Tesseract energy to transform himself.
• Yang Hao emerged from the apparatus as a proportionate, blue, two-and-a-half-meter giant, and Pierce watched from outside the laboratory.

Yang Hao completed his Hulk-like transformation, secretly extracted the Space Stone from the Tesseract, and began preparing to loot Asgard. After Thor arrived in New Mexico, Yang Hao arranged to collect Thor’s blood and skin cells.

• Yang Hao replenished his body with nutrition solution, recovered from the transformation, and demonstrated strength exceeding one hundred tons and skin that withstood a sixty-ton hydraulic press.
• Alexander Pierce ordered the Super Soldier Serum completed and left the secret base with Crossbones.
• Yang Hao infiltrated the S.H.I.E.L.D. Tesseract research site, secretly removed the Space Stone while leaving the Tesseract intact, and used the Stone to expand his Kamui dimension.
• Yang Hao learned that Thor had arrived in New Mexico and traveled there using the Space Stone to empower Kamui.
• Yang Hao used an illusion-controlled nurse to collect Thor’s blood and skin cells, then retrieved the sample outside the hospital.

Yang Hao infiltrated Asgard while Odin slept, stole its books and treasures, and took the crippled Destroyer Armor before pursuing the Infinity Stones. After securing the Power Stone on Morag, he began searching for the Reality Stone while planning to strengthen his body.

• Yang Hao used Pym Particles to follow Loki into Asgard, stole the palace library’s books, and later looted Odin’s treasury, including the Infinity Gauntlet and part of the Eternal Flame.
• Yang Hao followed Loki and the Destroyer Armor through the Bifrost to Earth, then waited until Thor crippled the armor before storing it in Kamui space and suppressing it with the Space Stone.
• Yang Hao returned to his base, continued refining the Super Soldier Serum, and studied Asgard’s books to learn about the Infinity Stones and locate the Power Stone and Reality Stone.
• Yang Hao traveled to Morag, bypassed the Orb’s seal with the Space Stone, and set the Power Stone into the Infinity Gauntlet, enduring its energy while discovering it made the Space Stone easier to control.
• Yang Hao began searching the Nine Realms for the Reality Stone and planned to use the Space Stone and Power Stone to keep it dormant.

Yang Hao used the Infinity Stones to strengthen himself and secretly gathered them from Captain America’s time heist, then returned them so Avengers 4 could proceed. After Thanos erased half of life, Yang Hao confronted him and tried to stop him from destroying the Stones, but he was too late.

• Yang Hao studied the Reality Stone, fused the Destroyer Armor with the Infinity Gauntlet, and prepared his body to withstand more Stone energy.
• Yang Hao returned the Power Stone and Reality Stone to their original places, then stole the Mind Stone and the other Stones from Captain America’s team in the Quantum Realm to study and strengthen himself.
• Yang Hao returned the Stones to Captain America’s team, resumed their frozen time, and later left the Quantum Realm to wait for Thanos in Wakanda.
• Thanos completed the Infinity Gauntlet and snapped his fingers, erasing half of all life before teleporting to a secluded place with Yang Hao clinging to his armor.
• Yang Hao confronted Thanos and declared that he would use the Stones to restore the erased lives, but Thanos began destroying the Stones.
• Yang Hao seized the Infinity Gauntlet and severed Thanos’s arm, but the Infinity Armor failed to stop the Stones from being destroyed.

Yang Hao returned from the Hokage world to the Douluo Plane but was caught in a spacetime storm and awakened as Blue Silver Grass in the era of Douluo I. After six years of cultivation, he watched a young Soul Master force Wang Baoyu to absorb a dangerously old Soul Ring, and Wang Baoyu began to suffer fatal backlash.

• Yang Hao evolved his Divine Tree Martial Soul into a World Tree, spent a year preparing, then opened a passage to the Douluo Universe and was destroyed by a spacetime storm.
• Yang Hao used his Golden Finger to pass through the storm, but awakened in the body of Blue Silver Grass in a Soul Hunting Forest during the era of Douluo I.
• Yang Hao cultivated for six years, became a hundred-year Soul Beast, and learned that the timeline was the era of Tang San and Spirit Hall's war with the Clear Sky Sect.
• Zhao Peng urged Wang Baoyu to absorb a nearly four-hundred-year-old Bloodthirsty Python Soul Ring, citing Yu Xiaogang's theory and promising it was safe.
• Wang Baoyu killed the Bloodthirsty Python and began absorbing its Soul Ring as Yang Hao recognized the danger; Wang Baoyu soon screamed and started bleeding from his eyes, nose, and ears.

Yang Hao possessed the dying Wang Baoyu after Zhao Peng abandoned him in Soul Hunting Forest, then used the boy’s identity to expose Zhao Peng’s crime to Spirit Hall. Zhao Peng was arrested at Notting Academy as Yang Hao’s account stirred the students against him and Yu Xiaogang’s theory.

• Zhao Peng killed the critically injured Wang Baoyu and left his body behind after the soul ring refinement failed.
• Yang Hao sacrificed his Blue Silver Grass body to possess Wang Baoyu, healed him, and hid in a tree until Spirit Hall enforcement officers found him.
• Yang Hao told Liu Yi and the other officers that Zhao Peng had abandoned him, and they took him to Notting City for treatment and an investigation.
• At Notting Academy, Yang Hao identified Zhao Peng, whose attempt to flee prompted the Spirit Hall officers to subdue him.
• Yang Hao recounted the incident to the academy, and students and teachers condemned Zhao Peng and questioned Yu Xiaogang’s theories.