Chapter Summaries

The surviving village leaders gathered in Shikkotsu Forest after the Otsutsuki destroyed Konoha and Kumogakure, but they could find no way to resist. Kisame reframed their dilemma: the Ninja World had never had the option of surrender or escape, and had to fight to defeat the invaders.

• Tobirama returned from Kumogakure with around sixty survivors and reported that the village had been destroyed, Killer B killed, and the Fourth Raikage left critically injured.
• Hashirama healed A and urged the leaders to find a countermeasure before the Otsutsuki discovered Shikkotsu Forest.
• Ōnoki proposed retreating to preserve their strength, while Terumi Mei angrily rejected his plan and Rasa acknowledged their weakness.
• Hashirama calmed the arguing leaders, but their fear and despair kept them from finding a solution.
• Kisame declared that they had never had the right to choose and urged them to focus on defeating the Otsutsuki rather than hiding or seeking escape.

Kisame proposed dividing the enemy forces and concentrating everyone’s strength to defeat them one by one, but the plan stalled because Madara and Natsume were missing. Tobirama recalled that their monsters might help hold back the Ten-Tails, so Hashirama set out to persuade Flame Hidden Village while the others prepared for a decisive battle.

• Kisame proposed using small forces to hold off enemies while the rest killed the Otsutsuki with spatial abilities first.
• Hashirama revealed that Madara and Natsume had gone to the enemy’s lair, leaving their whereabouts unknown and the plan without enough fighters to restrain the Ten-Tails.
• Tobirama remembered Madara and Natsume’s powerful monster mounts, and Hashirama suggested they might help hold back the Ten-Tails.
• Tobirama decided to negotiate with Flame Hidden Village, but Hashirama volunteered to go instead to avoid Tobirama starting a fight.
• Hashirama led Ōnoki, Rasa, and the Raikage to Flame Hidden Village while Tobirama and the others gathered forces and prepared the chosen battlefield.

Momoshiki Otsutsuki and his companions found Iwagakure deserted, then followed Senju Hashirama’s chakra to the ruins of Kirigakure. Urashiki pursued Utakata into a trap, where Tobirama brought four more Tailed Beasts onto the field.

• Momoshiki Otsutsuki and Urashiki discovered Iwagakure empty and decided to attack the remaining chakra gatherings before heading toward Senju Hashirama’s conspicuous chakra signal.
• Momoshiki led Urashiki and their companion through a portal to the Land of Water, where Senju Hashirama stood with Utakata, the former Six-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Utakata fled as planned, and Momoshiki sent Urashiki after him while warning him to watch for an ambush.
• Senju Hashirama had helped Utakata form a partnership with the Six-Tails, allowing Utakata to escape at high speed and stop at the designated ocean location.
• Urashiki caught up with Utakata, and Tobirama used Flying Thunder God to bring Shukaku, Isobu, Son Goku, Kokuō, and Saiken to the battlefield.
• Urashiki welcomed the five Tailed Beasts, eager to capture them all.

The tailed beasts attacked Otsutsuki Urashiki, but he released the Ten-Tails War Beast and quickly overwhelmed them. Tobirama's apparent defeat was part of Natsume's plan to lure Godzilla with uranium, and the chapter ended as Godzilla dragged the Ten-Tails beneath the sea.

• Mooncake led the tailed beasts in attacking Urashiki, whose red-light barrier withstood their assault.
• Urashiki released the Ten-Tails War Beast to block the tailed beasts' Large Tailed Beast Bomb, then used it to knock all five beasts away.
• Mooncake secretly signaled Tobirama, who summoned a water monster carrying uranium ore and was swallowed by the Ten-Tails.
• The uranium radiation inside the Ten-Tails attracted Godzilla, while the other tailed beasts fled to make Urashiki believe they were retreating in fear.
• The Ten-Tails grabbed the Four-Tails and Six-Tails, but Godzilla disrupted its chakra and pulled it into the sea, leaving Urashiki stunned.

Godzilla dragged the Ten-Tails into the deep sea and used hit-and-run attacks to keep it from escaping or charging its Tailed Beast Bomb. Urashiki, unaware of Godzilla’s presence, waited above the sea, confident the Ten-Tails would win while he turned his attention to the remaining Tailed Beasts and their allies.

• Godzilla exploited the deep sea’s darkness and pressure to keep the Ten-Tails sinking and out of sight.
• The Ten-Tails tried to fire a Tailed Beast Bomb, but Godzilla’s Atomic Breath struck its mouth and detonated the half-formed attack.
• Godzilla repeatedly interrupted the Ten-Tails’ attempts to charge more Tailed Beast Bombs, trapping it on the seabed.
• Urashiki sensed the Ten-Tails’ attacks shaking the sea but could not identify its opponent or learn what was happening below.
• Urashiki decided the Ten-Tails would defeat its enemy and focused on draining the remaining Tailed Beasts and killing the people who had opposed him.

Tobirama and the others prepared a decisive attack against Otsutsuki Urashiki, leaving the final blow to Might Guy. Guy opened the Eighth Gate and unleashed Night Guy as a blood-red dragon burst from the sea toward Urashiki.

• Tobirama thanked Mooncake and the Tailed Beasts for helping restrain the Ten-Tails, then sent them away before the final battle.
• Tobirama gathered Terumi Mei, Kisame, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kakashi, and Might Guy to strike Urashiki together.
• Tobirama entrusted Urashiki to Guy, who vowed to avenge the dead and protect the Ninja World.
• Guy pressed his thumb against his heart and opened the Eighth Gate of Death.
• Guy unleashed Night Guy, sending a blood-red vapor dragon surging from the sea and twisting space as Urashiki stared in shock.

Hashirama and the allied ninja forces fought Momoshiki and Kinshiki after Bubble lured Urashiki away. Kinshiki was pinned down by the Kage and surviving jonin, while Ghidorah joined Hashirama against Momoshiki’s Ten-Tails War Beasts.

• Hashirama felt relieved when Bubble lured Urashiki away, and Kinshiki attacked him at Momoshiki’s command.
• Hashirama used Sage Mode and True Several Thousand Hands to injure Kinshiki and hurl him away from the battlefield.
• The Fourth Raikage A, Ōnoki, Rasa, Terumi Mei, Kisame, and surviving jonin surrounded Kinshiki and overwhelmed him with attacks, keeping him from helping Momoshiki.
• Momoshiki released two Ten-Tails War Beasts and sent them to attack Hashirama’s wooden giant.
• Ghidorah descended through a storm, blasted one Ten-Tails with a gravity ray, and clung to it while draining its chakra.

Flame Hidden Village’s elites joined the battle against Momoshiki and used coordinated long-range attacks to counter his Rinnegan. Momoshiki was wounded and forced onto the defensive as Natsume watched the fight from afar with Kaguya.

• Tobirama’s clone brought Flame Hidden Village’s elite fighters to reinforce Hashirama and the others against the Otsutsuki.
• Momoshiki spotted Hyuga Fukagawa’s Tenseigan and decided to seize his eyes.
• Tsukihime organized the group’s assault, while Chiyo and Sasori deployed Giant War Puppets that Fugaku and Itachi reinforced with Susanoo.
• Nichiyo and Gin fired Miniature Tailed Beast Bombs as Fukagawa shot Momoshiki with a poisoned physical arrow, injuring his right hand and nearly destroying his Rinnegan.
• Flame Hidden Village’s fighters used alternating arrows, heavy crossbow bolts, and Tailed Beast Bombs while retreating, keeping Momoshiki under sustained pressure.
• A young man watched the battle through a Crystal Ball beside Kaguya and praised the fighters’ coordination.

Natsume watched the Ninja World battle from afar and held back from joining, hoping to draw out Otsutsuki Hishiki’s hidden backup plan. Meanwhile, Emperor Guy used Night Guy to kill Otsutsuki Urashiki outright.

• Natsume watched the Otsutsuki fight the Ninja World forces and saw an opportunity for Flame Hidden Village to step in after the Five Great Hidden Villages had fallen.
• Kaguya urged Natsume to attack, but he chose to wait and suspected Otsutsuki Hishiki had prepared a backup measure.
• Natsume intended to let the battle test his allies and force Hishiki’s hidden plan to reveal itself, while standing ready to protect Flame Hidden Village.
• Above the sea, Urashiki tried to escape Emperor Guy’s Night Guy with a Yomotsu Hirasaka portal, but the attack’s spatial distortion sealed it.
• Emperor Guy’s Night Guy struck Urashiki in the head and blasted his body apart, killing him.

Momoshiki struggled against the allied ninja until Emperor Guy returned from defeating Urashiki and charged him in the Eight Gates state. Momoshiki devoured Kinshiki to transform and increase his power, but Guy battered him deep underground.

• Momoshiki was wounded repeatedly by Hyuga Fukagawa and became enraged as the allied ninja held him back.
• A surge of power rose from the sea, and Momoshiki sensed that Urashiki had disappeared.
• Tobirama brought Emperor Guy to the battlefield, where Guy charged at Momoshiki while still using the Gate of Death.
• Momoshiki called Kinshiki to offer himself, and Kinshiki escaped the Kage's attacks so Momoshiki could turn him into a Chakra fruit and swallow him.
• Momoshiki transformed and boasted of his increased power, but Emperor Guy struck him down and pummeled him into the ground.

After Momoshiki survived Guy’s Eight Gates assault, he killed Guy and launched a massacre against the allied ninja forces. With the battlefield collapsing, Hashirama activated Yin-Yang Sage Mode and the Eight Gates, entering Godslayer Mode to confront Momoshiki.

• The ninja leaders waited as Guy’s battle with Momoshiki shook the crater, while Natsume and Kaguya watched from afar.
• Momoshiki teleported out of the crater, survived his injuries, and killed Guy by snapping his neck.
• Momoshiki pinned Tobirama with Black Receivers and slaughtered or wounded the Raikage, Rasa, Mei, and the arriving ninja forces.
• Hashirama saw the allied forces collapsing and activated Yin-Yang Sage Mode and the Eight Gates, burning his life force to enter Godslayer Mode.

Hashirama used the Eight Gates to strike Momoshiki and disable the Ten-Tails War Beast. He vaporized Momoshiki, then left the still-regenerating beast alive for the moment.

• Hashirama struck Momoshiki from several thousand meters away, pulverizing his body and driving him into a huge crater.
• Hashirama punched through the Ten-Tails War Beast’s armor, then shattered its head to keep it from firing a Tailed Beast Bomb while it regenerated.
• Hashirama crossed several thousand meters and confronted Momoshiki as he struggled to restore his body.
• Momoshiki summoned Monkey Rock, but Hashirama’s full-powered kick destroyed the Lava Giant and vaporized Momoshiki.
• Hashirama’s strike carved a vast canyon through the surrounding landscape.

Senju Hashirama destroyed Momoshiki’s body but could not stop his soul from reforming, while Natsume watched and prepared to intervene. Momoshiki’s soul was consumed by the Shrine curse, which brought Otsutsuki Hishiki forth as the story’s new threat.

• Senju Hashirama’s devastating attack reduced Momoshiki to dust, and he turned toward the remaining Ten-Tails.
• Momoshiki’s soul reassembled behind Hashirama, who realized his physical attacks could not destroy it.
• Hashirama considered asking Tobirama to use a soul-sealing technique, but Momoshiki’s soul transformed into the Shrine.
• Otsutsuki Hishiki’s curse consumed Momoshiki’s soul and summoned Hishiki’s own soul from the Shrine.
• Otsutsuki Hishiki appeared before Senju Hashirama, revealing himself as the backup plan.

Otsutsuki Hishiki appeared after Momoshiki and the others were killed, then used a Ten-Tails as a vessel to gain a temporary body. He outmaneuvered Hashirama and annihilated Tobirama, leaving Hashirama facing a vastly stronger enemy.

• Otsutsuki Hishiki learned that Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Urashiki were dead and cursed them for ruining his plan.
• Hishiki attacked Hashirama's soul, but Hashirama evaded him at high speed and freed Tobirama by destroying the Black Receiver pinning him down.
• Hishiki used Karma to turn a Ten-Tails into a temporary body and fused it with his soul clone, releasing a pressure that weakened those nearby.
• Hashirama struck at Hishiki, but hit an afterimage while Hishiki teleported to Tobirama and suppressed his chakra.
• Hishiki engulfed Tobirama in a Truth-Seeking Orb, annihilating his body and soul.

Otsutsuki Hishiki killed Tobirama to provoke Hashirama into a desperate attack, then used Eternal Dark Starstrings to absorb the force of Hashirama’s Night Guy. With Hashirama left broken and powerless, Hishiki pierced his chest and ended his Eight Gates state.

• Otsutsuki Hishiki killed Tobirama with a Truth-Seeking Orb, enraging Hashirama.
• Hashirama unleashed Night Guy, risking his life to avenge Tobirama.
• Otsutsuki Hishiki formed Eternal Dark Starstrings, trapping Hashirama’s attack in warped space and draining its power.
• Hashirama broke through the barrier, but Otsutsuki Hishiki caught his weakened kick and left him with shattered bones.
• Otsutsuki Hishiki pierced Hashirama’s chest with a Truth-Seeking Orb spear, shattering the Gate of Death and ending his Eight Gates state.

Natsume prepared a surprise attack on Otsutsuki Hishiki while Kaguya hid them in her Origin Sphere Space. After Hishiki pierced Hashirama’s heart, Kaguya returned Natsume to the battlefield, where he unleashed his stacked power and struck at Hishiki.

• Natsume decided to attack Hishiki with Kaguya’s help, while Kaguya agreed to support him without revealing herself.
• After Hishiki killed Tobirama and Hashirama prepared [Night Guy], Kaguya teleported herself and Natsume into her [Origin Sphere Space].
• Natsume stacked his abilities, modes, and boosts, preparing a single decisive strike against Hishiki.
• Kaguya used nearly all her chakra to teleport Natsume back to the Ninja World just as Hishiki pierced Hashirama’s heart.
• Natsume fired ten [Heavenly Kaku] arrows at Hishiki and rushed forward at tremendous speed to attack him.

Natsume used an immensely powerful strike and ten soul arrows to destroy Otsutsuki Hishiki’s body and soul clone, though the attack badly injured him. As he searched the blast zone for any trace of Hishiki, Senju Hashirama’s surviving soul contacted him.

• Natsume launched a high-speed strike that caught Otsutsuki Hishiki off guard and vaporized Hishiki and Senju Hashirama’s bodies.
• Hishiki’s soul clone re-formed at the blast’s center, but all ten of Natsume’s [Heavenly Kaku] arrows struck it and erased its aura.
• The recoil shattered Natsume’s [Sage Art Tyrant Body] and blew apart most of his legs, leaving him badly injured.
• Natsume searched the blast zone for Hishiki’s soul and prepared to fire again when he sensed a new soul fluctuation.
• Senju Hashirama told Natsume not to attack, revealing that his soul had survived the destruction of his body and the arrows’ explosions.

Natsume reunited with the survivors after killing Otsutsuki Hishiki’s avatar, but the Ninja World had suffered devastating losses and Natsume appeared near death. As the survivors prepared to subdue the remaining Ten-Tails, it compressed itself and tore open a passage through space, allowing Hishiki’s true body to emerge.

• Natsume told Hashirama that the group’s plan had succeeded but that Otsutsuki Hishiki’s avatar had attacked, and Hashirama mourned Tobirama and the other fallen ninjas.
• The surviving ninjas gathered around Natsume, and Tsukihime ordered them to attack the remaining Ten-Tails after Natsume insisted they deal with it first.
• The Ten-Tails suddenly shrank into a tiny, high-density mass and exploded, crushing a small patch of space and opening a wormhole.
• Otsutsuki Hishiki’s true body crawled out of the wormhole, shocking Natsume and the survivors.

Otsutsuki Hishiki descended in his true body and overwhelmed the battlefield, leaving Natsume to bluff that he belonged to the Otsutsuki royal family. The chapter ended with Natsume offering Hishiki access to his soul as proof of his identity, exposing the shrine-shaped curse within it.

• Otsutsuki Hishiki emerged from the void wormhole, then released his aura across the Ninja World and revealed his Demigod-level power.
• Hishiki's soul shockwave incapacitated or killed most of the fighters, and he forcibly grabbed Natsume from a thousand meters away.
• Hishiki questioned Natsume about his life-burning power and threatened to search his soul, while Natsume realized the Jōgan could glimpse possible futures.
• Natsume claimed that killing him would provoke a war between the Otsutsuki royal family and the council, and Hishiki began to believe he was a royal-family member sent ahead of Kaguya.
• Hishiki demanded tangible proof, so Natsume offered his soul for inspection and revealed the shrine-shaped curse within it.

Natsume tricked Otsutsuki Hishiki into believing he was a royal family's subordinate and brought him to the Moon. Hishiki inspected Natsume's mission scroll, triggering a Jashin sacrificial ritual that sent a vast, malevolent power toward him.

• Otsutsuki Hishiki sensed a [Cage] curse in Natsume's soul and concluded that he served a member of the Otsutsuki royal family.
• Natsume claimed a companion was watching nearby and threatened that his death would expose Hishiki, then offered to submit if Hishiki spared him.
• Natsume persuaded Hishiki to take him to the Moon, where he sent a [Phoenix True Spirit] through a spatial rift into the [Kamui Dimension].
• Natsume offered Hishiki his mission scroll, and Hishiki accepted it, believing it was genuine.
• When Hishiki opened the scroll, its Jashin Sacrificial Ritual Curse Mark activated and a powerful malevolent consciousness struck toward him.