Chapter Summaries

Natsume used the Golden Wheel Eye to enter Isshiki’s alternate-space fortress, where he subdued and pocketed the imprisoned Ten-Tails juvenile. He searched the base for Isshiki’s subordinates and technology, then reached the fourth underground level, where someone attacked him with a Fire Release fireball.

• Natsume implanted Isshiki’s Golden Wheel Eye and used its spatial link to enter Isshiki’s alternate-space fortress.
• Natsume sensed four life presences and found the Ten-Tails juvenile pinned beneath the fortress.
• Natsume controlled the Ten-Tails juvenile with Weak Infinite Tsukuyomi, freed it from the black rods, and shrank it to pocket size.
• Natsume explored the base, considering its technology and architecture a source of research and intelligence about the Otsutsuki clan.
• Natsume reached the fourth underground level, where a massive Fire Release fireball flew at him.

Natsume defeated Victor and Kara’s puppets at the underground base, then confronted Amado about a clone. Amado resisted Natsume’s Three-Tomoe genjutsu but fell to his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, leaving Natsume poised to question him further.

• Victor attacked Natsume with Fire Release, but Natsume absorbed the fireball without being harmed.
• Amado ordered eight semi-intelligent puppets to attack, and Natsume destroyed them and knocked Victor unconscious with genjutsu.
• Amado said he knew Isshiki was dead and claimed he had been forced to work for him.
• Natsume asked Amado where the clone was, but Amado pretended not to understand.
• Amado broke free of Natsume’s Three-Tomoe genjutsu, but Natsume activated his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and overwhelmed him.

Natsume used genjutsu to uncover Amado’s cloning research, including a Jiraiya embryo and experiments with Isshiki’s Karma, then took Amado, Victor, and the research materials. He left the remaining creations and equipment for Orochimaru to investigate.

• Natsume used his Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan to control Amado and reveal three hidden biocultivation chambers, one holding an embryo with Jiraiya’s aura.
• Amado explained that his clones were unstable, described his progress toward perfecting cloning, and revealed that he had Hashirama’s cells and had recorded about sixty percent of Isshiki’s Karma.
• Natsume considered using Amado’s cloning and Karma research to create backups, study Kekkei Genkai, and strengthen his forces.
• Amado told Natsume that thawed Karma could grant power close to the Five Kage, though he had not tested it on anyone.
• Natsume left the alternate space with Amado, Victor, technical blueprints, and more than thirty million taels, leaving the base’s remaining assets for Orochimaru to collect.

After returning from another dimension, Natsume handed Amado and Victor over to his allies and enjoyed a feast and hot spring with his household and the Tailed Beasts. He quieted their squabbling by bringing out the Ten-Tails, then checked his remaining Gold Coins and decided to try drawing prizes.

• Natsume handed Amado to Orochimaru and told him about Jiraiya's cloned embryo, then entrusted Victor to Uncle Ryu and the clan elders.
• Natsume returned home and enjoyed a large meal with Nonō, Madam Huiyi, and Mooncake, who had been hiding from his father, Rice Dumpling.
• Natsume soaked in the backyard hot spring with Mooncake and the One-Tail Shukaku, Three-Tails, Four-Tails, and Five-Tails, while Mooncake tried to claim he was their boss.
• Natsume tossed the miniature Ten-Tails into the pool, silencing the arguing Tailed Beasts and making them massage its tails.
• Natsume checked his system balance of 17,316 Gold Coins and decided to try drawing prizes.

After spending 4,440 gold coins on fifty draws, Natsume obtained several valuable rewards, including the divine artifact Ukiyo-e Orb. He resolved to expand his search for gold and silver mines so he could earn more Value Points and grow strong enough to face the Ōtsutsuki God.

• Natsume spent 4,440 gold coins on five ten-draw pulls and received a recruitment order, accessories, a Binding Curse Talisman, and the Ukiyo-e Orb.
• Natsume examined the accessories and determined that the Legendary Sealing Pendant was the highest-tier item, with a 100% boost.
• Natsume learned that the Ukiyo-e Orb could increase Luck, turn its surroundings into a sea, and create a protective barrier powered by chakra.
• Natsume inventoried his accumulated items and noted that his balance stood at 12,876 gold coins.
• Natsume decided to search for undiscovered gold and silver mines, mint the metals into currency, and use the resulting Value Points to obtain more God Tree Fruits.

Natsume enjoyed a hot spring visit with Terumi Mei and Nonō while Madara broke the seal on the Giant Tenseigan and used its chakra to revive the Ten-Tails. Madara celebrated as the Ten-Tails emerged, leaving him close to achieving his goal of becoming a god.

• Natsume wore the Ukiyo-e Orb on his wrist and ordered Son to heat the hot spring.
• Terumi Mei and Nonō arrived to keep their appointment, and Natsume began a back-scrubbing session.
• Madara used Perfect Susanoo to break the Giant Tenseigan’s seal and had the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path swallow it.
• The statue absorbed the Giant Tenseigan’s chakra, opened all ten eyes, and transformed into the Ten-Tails.
• Madara celebrated the Ten-Tails’ resurrection and declared that he was close to becoming a god.

Madara absorbed the Ten-Tails and created a Divine Tree on the moon to gain the power needed to awaken the Eye of God. Meanwhile, Obito arrived at Konoha planning to reclaim his Sharingan from Kakashi and reunite both eyes.

• Madara became the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, spat out the Amber Purifying Pot, and realized he still lacked the Eye of God.
• Madara released part of the Ten-Tails to form a Divine Tree on the moon, intending to let it mature and absorb it.
• Madara planned to use the Divine Tree's power to awaken the Rinne Sharingan and considered taking the Nine-Tails to speed its growth.
• Tobirama arranged Konoha's recovery and helped keep news of the Otsutsuki threat from the village's people.
• Obito appeared outside Konoha and decided to find Kakashi, reclaim his other Sharingan, and reunite both eyes.

Kakashi recovered in Konoha’s hospital as Might Guy told him Danzo had been reinstated and Kakashi had become one of the Second’s personal guards. Obito infiltrated the hospital demanding Kakashi’s missing Sharingan, then vanished after Kakashi claimed Tobirama had it, leaving Kakashi to send Guy to warn the Second.

• Might Guy told Kakashi that Danzo had been restored to command Root and that Kakashi and Guy had been assigned as the Second’s personal guards.
• Kakashi explained that his father had returned to the Pure Land to recover and that he felt better after losing his Sharingan.
• Obito appeared in the hospital room and demanded to know where Kakashi’s left eye was, threatening to blow up the hospital with explosive tags.
• Kakashi claimed the Second had taken the Sharingan to study it, and Obito vanished after hearing Tobirama’s name.
• Might Guy returned to the room, and Kakashi ordered him to warn the Second that the intruder had a Mangekyō Sharingan.

Obito confronted Tobirama in the Hokage Building and demanded Kakashi’s Sharingan, while Tobirama secretly used the misunderstanding to bargain for a Tailed Beast. Obito left to fulfill the deal, and Tobirama hoped the captured beast would provide the life force needed to revive Hashirama.

• Obito believed Kakashi’s story that Tobirama had taken his Sharingan and infiltrated Konoha to retrieve it.
• Tobirama studied how to revive Hashirama and worried that he lacked enough life force for the technique.
• Obito threatened to destroy the Hokage Building unless Tobirama handed over Kakashi’s Sharingan.
• Tobirama falsely claimed to have the eye and demanded a Tailed Beast in exchange, giving Obito three days to deliver one.
• Obito accepted the deal and vanished with Kamui, while Tobirama hoped to use the Tailed Beast as a resurrection sacrifice.

Natsume used his enhanced spiritual energy to locate hidden mineral veins near Flame Hidden Village and began planning how to turn them into wealth. He also arranged a village-wide ninjutsu tournament before setting out to investigate something he had long wanted to explore.

• Natsume created ten clones to survey the land within a hundred li of Flame Hidden Village for underground mineral deposits.
• After two days, Natsume found one unmined gold mine and two silver mines, worth billions of ryo once processed.
• Natsume assigned Deidara's mining team to use clay bombs and arranged for other clan members to help extract the ore.
• Natsume planned a three-day Ninjutsu Combat Tournament for Jonin, Chunin, and Genin, leaving the preliminaries to the Elder Council and Sister Tsukihime.
• Natsume left a clone behind and prepared to investigate something he had long wanted to explore.

Natsume traveled to the Land of Hot Water, where he investigated the Jashin Cult and tracked its bloody rituals to a major lair. He found Hidan bound at the altar as nearly two hundred captives were sacrificed.

• Natsume visited the Four Seas Maritime Trade Group and rewarded Uchiha Takashi for his successful leadership.
• Uchiha Takashi gave Natsume intelligence about Yugakure, Hidan’s defection, and the Jashin Cult’s killings.
• Natsume set out to investigate the cult and flew to locations marked on a map.
• Natsume destroyed four cult strongholds and killed more than a hundred followers.
• Natsume found the cult’s lair, where two Jonin-level priests oversaw a mass sacrifice and Hidan waited eagerly at the altar.

Natsume secretly observed a Jashin Cult ritual meant to give Hidan an Immortal Body, then impersonated its prayer and encountered a terrifying force he believed belonged to Jashin. He survived with help from his Legendary Sealing Pendant and collected the remaining Jashin energy, leaving him considering how to test and use it.

• Natsume concealed himself in the woods and watched the cultists channel the life force of more than two hundred sacrifices into Hidan.
• As Hidan struggled against the ritual, a Jashin Cult priest pinned him to the altar with a spear, and the priests activated its curse markings.
• Natsume linked his consciousness to the altar's spiritual ripple and impersonated its connection to Jashin.
• A vast, evil will assaulted Natsume's consciousness, but his Legendary Sealing Pendant's resistance boost shielded him until the force faded.
• Natsume gathered the grayish-black energy left in the chaotic space and began considering how to test and use it.

After barely surviving Jashin’s automatic response, Natsume controlled a remnant of its power and used it to heal Hidan, then impersonated Jashin to deliver commandments. Hidan and the cultists accepted Natsume’s deception, leaving Natsume poised to control the Jashin Cult and investigate the ritual further.

• Natsume realized Jashin’s power far exceeded his expectations and resolved to focus on using the remnant he could control.
• Natsume sent part of the remnant through the ritual connection, restoring Hidan’s shattered body and bringing him back to life.
• The cultists worshipped the healing as Jashin’s gift, while Hidan rejoiced at gaining an Immortal Body.
• Natsume transmitted false commandments into Hidan’s mind, and Hidan knelt and pledged to obey them.
• Natsume recognized that Hidan believed his impersonation and planned to use him to test Jashin’s power and control the Jashin Cult.

After receiving Natsume’s false divine oracle, Hidan interpreted its commandments as permission to sacrifice sinful people and slaughtered nearly seventy cultists. When he offered their life force to the Evil God, the energy flowed to Natsume, who accepted it.

• Natsume returned to his main body with the remaining Jashin power and watched to see how Hidan responded to the oracle.
• Hidan decided that the cultists’ blood was the sinful blood demanded by the oracle and resolved to offer them as sacrifices.
• Hidan killed one priest and attacked the cultists, slaughtering nearly seventy while another priest and more than thirty followers escaped.
• Hidan drew a sacrificial curse array and offered the dead cultists’ life force to the Evil God.
• Natsume sensed the life force flowing toward him and accepted it as the fake Lord Evil God.

Natsume covertly fed the sacrificed life force to the remnant of Jashin’s power, while Hidan believed his offering had earned the evil god’s favor and set out to hunt more sinners. Natsume returned to Flame Hidden Village, where a combat tournament was helping ease tensions among its clans.

• Natsume fed the sacrificed life force into the remnant of evil god power, then sealed the enlarged energy inside the Kunwu Blade.
• Hidan believed Lord Jashin had accepted his offering and vowed to purge the Land of Hot Water’s false and sinful followers.
• Natsume watched Hidan resume hunting cultists and expected the sacrifices to strengthen Jashin’s power without endangering the Four Seas Maritime Trade Group.
• Natsume instructed Uncle Ryu to build an underground shelter and prepare evacuation drills before returning to Flame Hidden Village.
• Natsume found the village’s combat tournament underway, with its preliminaries giving the Uchiha, Hyuga, and former Amegakure ninjas a chance to prove themselves and ease clan tensions.

Natsume attended the finals of the First Flame Hidden Village ninja Practical Combat Tournament, which showcased the village’s combatants and announced winners at the Jonin, Chunin, and Genin levels. He welcomed Amegakure’s success in the tournament and planned other competitions for ninja in different roles.

• Natsume arranged a village-wide day off for the finals and set up a barrier to protect spectators and ensure the matches were safe.
• After more than thirty matches, Uchiha Nichiyo, Hyuga Fukagawa, and Uchiha Gin took the top three places in the Jonin division.
• Uchiha Nago won the Chunin division, while Uchiha Izumi placed second after training privately with Sister Tsukihime.
• Hyuga Neji won the Genin division, and Amegakure's Ajisai and Fuyo placed second and third.
• Natsume inferred that Konan had trained Ajisai and Fuyo, approved of their fair success, and planned future competitions for support, reconnaissance, and medical ninja.

Natsume rewarded the tournament winners and celebrated with the village, while Konan settled into her role supporting the former Amegakure citizens. Meanwhile, top-secret intelligence about a powerful alien threat sent the Five Great Hidden Villages into a panic.

• Natsume handed out valuable prizes and money to the tournament winners, earning their clans honor and respect.
• Ajisai and Fuyo thanked Konan for her guidance, and Konan reflected that she had abandoned hopes of reviving Nagato and focused on helping the former Amegakure people.
• Top-secret intelligence from Konoha warned Ōnoki and the other village leaders of an alien threat capable of overwhelming Senju Hashirama.
• Ōnoki fainted after reading the intelligence, and the leaders of the Five Great Hidden Villages feared the Ninja World faced destruction or enslavement.

Genji considered how Kirigakure should use the spoils from Flame Hidden Village to prepare for the Otsutsuki invasion, while Obito chose Takigakure as an easy target to obtain a Tailed Beast. Obito abducted Kaede and stole the village’s sacred water, then headed for Konoha to trade for his other Sharingan.

• Genji praised Terumi Mei for securing Kirigakure’s share of the spoils, and she left without telling him what she had seen the night before.
• Genji weighed how Kirigakure could use its new wealth to strengthen the village and considered investigating Takigakure’s Hero’s Water.
• Obito decided Takigakure was the easiest place to capture a Tailed Beast because its defenses lacked Kage-level fighters.
• Obito invaded Takigakure, abducted the Seven-Tails Jinchuriki Kaede, and stole the village’s sacred water.
• Obito left for Konoha, intending to trade the Seven-Tails for his other eye from Tobirama Senju.

Tobirama prepared to resurrect Hashirama with his new forbidden technique, Yellow Springs Reincarnation, and secretly arranged to trade with the masked Obito. He left Hashirama waiting in the chamber and set a trap for Obito, intending to secure the Tailed Beast and protect Konoha.

• Tobirama told Hashirama about Yellow Springs Reincarnation, and Hashirama agreed to wait in the secret chamber while the technique activated.
• Tobirama summoned Danzo and demanded a Sharingan from his Hashirama Cells arm.
• Tobirama cut off Danzo's right arm, took its remaining Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and sent Danzo to the Medical Department for treatment.
• Tobirama placed the Sharingan in an aura-isolating bottle and teleported to meet Obito, who had been waiting in a tiger-striped mask.
• Tobirama planned to deceive Obito in the exchange, obtain the Tailed Beast, and prevent the masked man from escaping Konoha.

Tobirama and Obito exchanged a Sharingan for the Seven-Tails, but Tobirama trapped Obito in an endless barrage of explosive tags and took control of the beast. Obito remained trapped and struggled to decide whether to sacrifice another Sharingan to escape.

• Obito showed Tobirama the genjutsu-controlled Seven-Tails Chōmei, intending to unleash it after getting his Sharingan.
• Tobirama and Obito exchanged the Sharingan and the caged Seven-Tails at the same time.
• Obito absorbed the bottle into his Kamui Dimension while Tobirama teleported away with the cage, triggering Mutual Multiplying Explosive Tags around Obito.
• Obito waited as the tags continued exploding, then tried to use the Seven-Tails to force Tobirama to stop the attack.
• The Seven-Tails' connection to Obito was severed, leaving him trapped and debating whether to use Izanagi at the cost of another Sharingan.