Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Obito attacked as Kushina gave birth, taking Naruto hostage and extracting the Nine-Tails before unleashing it in Konoha. Ying Yue tracked Obito, rescued Kushina, and coordinated Konoha’s defenses; the chapter ended with the Nine-Tails rampaging while the sealing squad temporarily restrained it.

• As Kushina’s due date neared, Ying Yue strengthened Konoha’s defenses, but Obito used White Zetsu’s intelligence to locate her secret delivery site.
• After Kushina gave birth to Naruto, Obito appeared with Kamui, took Naruto hostage, and abducted Kushina to extract the Nine-Tails.
• Ying Yue detected Obito’s spatial movements and coordinated with Minato, who protected Naruto while Ying Yue pursued Obito and prepared a sealing response.
• Obito extracted the Nine-Tails and sent it to Konoha’s center using the Reverse Summoning Technique, then fled when Ying Yue arrived.
• Ying Yue brought the weakened Kushina to Minato and summoned Tsunade to treat her; Tsunade urged Minato to seek advice from Uzumaki Mito.
• Konoha’s evacuated residents avoided most casualties as Ying Yue’s sealing squad restrained the rampaging Nine-Tails for a short time.

Uchiha Ying Yue suppressed the Nine-Tails and drove Uchiha Obito from Konoha, bringing the attack close to an end. As Uzumaki Kushina neared death after the Nine-Tails was extracted, Uzumaki Mito split its chakra between Kushina and newborn Uzumaki Naruto and stabilized Kushina with a Taiji Eight Trigrams seal.

• Uzumaki Mito restrained the Nine-Tails with Adamantine Sealing Chains, but Uchiha Obito took control of it again and made it gather a Tailed Beast Ball.
• Uchiha Ying Yue pinned down the Nine-Tails with Sage Art: Gate of the Great God, teleported its Tailed Beast Ball away from Konoha, and subdued it with Sage Art: True Several Thousand Hands: Top Transformed Buddha.
• Uchiha Ying Yue severed Uchiha Obito's control over the Nine-Tails, and Obito escaped using Kamui as Konoha's ninja helped suppress the beast.
• Namikaze Minato asked Uzumaki Mito to save Uzumaki Kushina, and Tsunade explained that Kushina's life force was rapidly draining despite medical treatment.
• Uzumaki Mito proposed splitting the Nine-Tails' chakra between Kushina and Uzumaki Naruto, and Minato and Kushina agreed.
• Uzumaki Mito sealed the Yin Nine-Tails inside Kushina with a Taiji Eight Trigrams seal, stabilizing her life.

Uzumaki Mito sealed the Yang Nine-Tails into Naruto and warned Minato to keep the secret. Meanwhile, Ying Yue caught Obito in the Kamui Dimension, exposed his identity, and questioned his plans, leaving Obito overwhelmed but still withholding the Eye of the Moon Plan.

• Uzumaki Mito sealed the Yang Nine-Tails into Naruto and told Minato to conceal his jinchuriki status.
• Uchiha Ying Yue pursued Obito, analyzed Kamui, and broke into the Kamui Dimension after him.
• Ying Yue used World to stop time, repeatedly caught Obito when he fled, and removed his tiger-striped mask.
• Obito asked how Ying Yue had tracked him, and Ying Yue dismissed Kamui as nothing special.
• Ying Yue questioned Obito's reasons for wanting to destroy Konoha, but Obito withheld the Eye of the Moon Plan.

Uchiha Ying Yue revealed that Uchiha Madara had orchestrated Nohara Rin’s apparent death and showed Obito that Rin was alive. After reuniting with Rin, Obito agreed to act as Ying Yue’s spy while keeping his change of allegiance hidden from Black Zetsu and White Zetsu; Black Zetsu continued to worry about Obito’s unknown fate and Ying Yue’s pursuit.

• Ying Yue told Obito that Madara had manipulated Rin’s apparent death and used chakra to show him that Rin was alive.
• Obito asked to see Rin, and Ying Yue used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take him to the Dawn Organization in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Obito and Rin reunited, embraced, and confirmed that they were both alive.
• Obito promised to carry out Ying Yue’s plan, and Ying Yue gave him a Flying Thunder God kunai and told him to act normally around Black Zetsu and White Zetsu.
• Obito returned to his role as Madara’s agent while secretly serving Ying Yue, and Black Zetsu worried about Obito’s fate as Ying Yue hunted him.

Black Zetsu found Obito alive and decided to keep relying on him, though he considered reviving Madara if Obito failed again. Back in Konoha, Ying Yue helped secure the Nine-Tails and began rebuilding the devastated village with support from the Dawn Organization, leaving Konoha’s people looking to him as their leader and hope.

• Black Zetsu found the fleeing Obito, who claimed he had escaped Ying Yue and vowed to continue the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Black Zetsu warned Obito not to make another mistake and privately considered reviving Madara if Obito failed again.
• Ying Yue returned to Konoha and learned that Mito had sealed the Nine-Tails’ Yin and Yang halves within Kushina and newborn Naruto.
• Ying Yue mobilized the Dawn Organization to help modernize Konoha and used Wood Release to provide homes for villagers who had lost theirs.
• Konoha’s villagers praised Ying Yue for saving the village and directing its reconstruction, while construction began with the Dawn Organization’s aid.

After Ying Yue suppressed the Nine-Tails, the major ninja villages avoided conflict with Konoha and offered support, while the failed campaign against the rebels forced the Feudal Lords to make concessions to the villages. The Feudal Lords agreed to increase village funding and grant the Kage greater autonomy in military affairs.

• The Fourth Raikage A ordered Kumogakure to arrest those urging war against Konoha and maintain friendly relations with it.
• Ōnoki worried that Iwagakure lacked the talent to stand against Ying Yue, while Yagura sent Konoha condolence gifts.
• Rasa reaffirmed Sunagakure's alliance with Konoha and offered donations for its reconstruction.
• The major ninja villages chose peace with Konoha after witnessing Ying Yue's power, and Konoha began rebuilding.
• After the Five Nations Allied Army failed to suppress the rebels, the Feudal Lords met to secure the villages' support.
• The Feudal Lords agreed to double funding for the ninja villages, guarantee their permanent status, and give their Kage more freedom to make military decisions.

Uchiha Ying Yue limited Konoha’s role in the daimyo-led campaign while secretly funding rebel groups and rebuilding the village. As the allied forces crushed resistance across the Ninja World, Hatake Sakumo’s growing but disorganized army in the Land of Wind faced a crisis.

• The daimyo granted the major ninja villages more funding and authority to lead operations against rebellions, and the villages joined the campaign.
• Uchiha Ying Yue cited Konoha’s reconstruction after the Nine-Tails Incident to send mostly support units, while secretly monitoring events and funding resistance groups through the Dawn Organization.
• Ying Yue used Wood Release and the Dawn Organization to rebuild Konoha, strengthen its forces, and expand the Anbu.
• The Five Nations Allied Army gradually eliminated scattered rebel bands, while Ying Yue-backed groups survived and absorbed other resistance forces.
• Hatake Sakumo led the resistance in the Land of Wind and reclaimed land and resources for civilians before the allied army’s arrival put his forces under pressure.
• Sakumo’s army grew as scattered rebels joined it, but shortages and disorganized command left him in a crisis as the allied army advanced.

Uchiha Ying Yue secretly sent an External Incarnation to help Hatake Sakumo’s rebel army resist the Five Nations Allied Army, then began teaching its fighters the Way of Great Peace to strengthen them. The rebels held their ground in the Land of Wind, while Ying Yue prepared to build their power without revealing his identity as Konoha’s Fourth Hokage.

• Hatake Sakumo wrote to Uchiha Ying Yue, explaining the rebels’ cause and asking for help.
• Ying Yue sent an External Incarnation and Dawn Organization elites to the Land of Wind, where they planned guerrilla attacks with Sakumo and exploited divisions within the allied forces.
• The rebels repelled several encirclement campaigns and brought the fighting in the Land of Wind to a stalemate.
• Ying Yue’s External Incarnation told Sakumo that their aim was a future world without resistance, then Ying Yue turned to finding ways to increase the rebels’ strength.
• Ying Yue taught the rebel army to cultivate the Way of Great Peace and instructed its elite members in lightning arts such as the Five Thunder Righteous Method.
• Ying Yue ordered his clones to rely on the Essential Arts of Peace and avoid Uchiha abilities and Wood Release so they would not expose his identity.

Ying Yue’s Way of Great Peace strengthened the resistance and drew the attention of the major ninja villages, while he advanced Konoha’s reconstruction and resolved to use technology and cultivation to replace the Ninja World’s feudal order. He planned to make Konoha a model for a fairer society and spread that transformation throughout the Ninja World.

• The resistance grew stronger as its members cultivated the Way of Great Peace, allowing some ordinary fighters to rival Chunin and Jonin and hold their own against elite ninja forces.
• The Kage of the major villages and the Five Nations Allied Army’s commanders noticed the resistance’s new abilities and began to suspect a hidden power was supporting them.
• Ying Yue used the Dawn Organization’s technology and construction teams to rebuild Konoha rapidly after the Nine-Tails Incident.
• Standing atop the Hokage Building, Ying Yue concluded that noble and clan monopolies were holding back technological progress and ordinary people.
• Ying Yue resolved to combine cultivation, technology, infrastructure, and education in Konoha and the Land of Whirlpools, making Konoha a model for a new social order.

Ying Yue led the Oasis Resistance Army to abandon its bases and use guerrilla warfare to evade the Five Nations Allied Army, while organizing liberated communities and expanding its support. The chapter left the resistance movement growing stronger as its opponents struggled to suppress it.

• Ying Yue urged the resistance army to preserve its people and main force rather than defend its oasis bases, so it broke into smaller guerrilla units and retreated.
• The guerrilla units defeated local lords, redistributed land and wealth, and organized civilians, attracting new recruits and support.
• The Five Nations Allied Army confiscated supplies from liberated areas, angering civilians and prompting some allied soldiers to desert to the resistance army.
• Ying Yue coordinated attacks on enemy supply lines, while resistance members sustained their campaign through local production and mutual aid.
• Resistance meetings reinforced Ying Yue’s strategy of preserving the revolutionary movement, and he told Hatake Sakumo that its ideals would spread across the Ninja World.
• The resistance army expanded its guerrilla operations, land reforms, and propaganda, gaining intelligence, supplies, and shelter from newly empowered villagers.

The Resistance Army grew across the Ninja World as the Five Nations Allied Army weakened, prompting the Feudal Lords to launch a final campaign against Hatake Sakumo’s eight thousand soldiers. Ying Yue learned the enemy’s movements and chose to face the threat, while Hatake Sakumo prepared defenses in the Land of Rice Fields.

• The Resistance Army won popular support through land reform and guerrilla warfare as civilians joined its ranks and Allied Army soldiers defected.
• Ying Yue continued supplying cultivation methods, and a year later the Resistance Army had spread throughout the Ninja World while the Allied Army neared collapse.
• The Feudal Lords assembled sixty thousand soldiers for a final campaign against Hatake Sakumo’s eight thousand elite Resistance Army troops in the Land of Rice Fields.
• Ying Yue used his intelligence network to assess the threat and decided to face the encirclement despite the limits of his External Incarnation.
• Hatake Sakumo organized layered defenses at strategic points in the Land of Rice Fields and prepared to use the terrain for guerrilla warfare.

Ying Yue used a summoned meteorite to shatter the Five Nations Allied Army’s attack on the rebels in the Land of Rice Fields, turning a desperate battle into a decisive victory. The disaster spread fear among the Feudal Lords’ forces and strengthened resistance across the Ninja World, while conscripted soldiers began questioning whom the war served.

• The Five Nations Allied Army surrounded Hatake Sakumo’s eight thousand rebels with sixty thousand soldiers and gradually overwhelmed their defenses.
• Ying Yue summoned a meteorite that struck the allied army’s main camp, causing twenty thousand casualties and throwing its forces into chaos.
• Ying Yue rallied the rebels for a counterattack as Hatake Sakumo led an elite squad to destroy the allied army’s rear command headquarters.
• The Five Nations Allied Army collapsed and fled, giving the rebels a complete victory that encouraged uprisings across the Ninja World.
• The defeat shook forcibly conscripted soldiers’ loyalty to the Feudal Lords, and many began questioning why they were fighting.

Soldiers in the Five Nations Allied Army increasingly defected to the Resistance, whose land reforms and promises of equality won support across liberated regions. In the Land of Lightning, oppressed soldiers revolted, killed the Feudal Lord and his family, and attacked the capital as Kumogakure’s ninja prepared a small response.

• Stories of the Resistance’s land distribution and ideals led commoner soldiers in the Five Nations Allied Army to defect, while those who remained lost their will to fight.
• After the decisive battle in the Land of Rice Fields, soldiers from the Land of Lightning turned against their Feudal Lord and killed the samurai sent to supervise them.
• The Land of Lightning’s soldiers attacked the capital, killed the Feudal Lord, his family, and many nobles, and looted wealth without intending to occupy the city.
• A, the Fourth Raikage of Kumogakure, failed to answer the Feudal Lord’s plea for aid in time, and Kumogakure’s ninja chose to send a small squad to quell the unrest.
• The rebels in the Land of Lightning united around their right to live with dignity, while the upheaval shook the Five Nations Allied Army and alarmed other Feudal Lords.

After the Land of Lightning’s daimyo and heirs were killed in a rebellion, A established a shogunate and took control while appointing the young Lightning Flash as nominal daimyo. The other nations followed suit, leaving the major ninja villages and their Kage with practical control over national affairs.

• A declared an emergency after rebel soldiers killed the Daimyo of the Land of Lightning and discovered that his sons had also died.
• A established a shogunate, assumed governing authority, and appointed the sixteen-year-old Lightning Flash as daimyo while retaining real power.
• A tutored Lightning Flash and faced opposition from former nobles who plotted against Kumogakure’s growing influence.
• The Third Kazekage consolidated power in the Land of Wind, while Ōnoki and the Third Mizukage persuaded their daimyos to establish shogunates in the Land of Earth and the Land of Water.
• Uchiha Ying Yue persuaded the Daimyo of the Land of Fire to establish a shogunate and became both Hokage and Shogun.
• The shogunate system spread across the Ninja World, and the Kage gained practical political, economic, and military authority while the daimyos remained rulers in name.

The chapter described the ninja villages’ growing power under the shogunate system, the Feudal Lords’ concerns, and the Resistance Armies’ continued covert growth. It then showed how Uchiha Ying Yue’s rule transformed Konoha into a prosperous, modern village, while leaving the wider Ninja World’s future conflicts unresolved.

• The Feudal Lords privately considered how to curb the ninja villages’ power, while the Resistance Armies continued growing in secret.
• The shogunate system expanded the ninja villages’ influence, but tensions with the Feudal Lords and the Resistance Armies remained unresolved.
• After the Nine-Tails Incident, Uchiha Ying Yue led Konoha’s reconstruction and introduced modern infrastructure, technology, education, and medical services.
• Uchiha Ying Yue promoted economic growth and social welfare, improving villagers’ living standards and opportunities for orphans.
• Uchiha Ying Yue strengthened the Police Force and restored the Uchiha Clan’s role in Konoha’s security, earning widespread respect for his leadership.

As Fourth Hokage, Uchiha Ying Yue strengthened Konoha by opening education, resources, and advancement to civilians. He then turned his attention to the Hyuga Clan’s main-house and branch-house system and went to confront Hyuga Hiashi and the main-house elders.

• Uchiha Ying Yue introduced a contribution system that let civilian and clan ninja earn access to resources and ninjutsu through their work.
• Uchiha Ying Yue established free compulsory schools and talent examinations to recruit capable ninja into Konoha’s key departments.
• Uchiha Ying Yue created research and administrative institutions that helped civilian specialists contribute to the village.
• Konoha’s combat strength, research, and economy grew under Ying Yue’s reforms, earning him the trust of civilian and clan ninja.
• Uchiha Ying Yue identified the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird system as a source of oppression and decided to intervene.
• Uchiha Ying Yue went to meet Hyuga Hiashi and the Hyuga main-house elders, who anticipated his purpose.

Ying Yue pressured the Hyuga Clan to abolish its main family-branch family system and arranged for experts to remove the Caged Bird seals. He later learned that Shisui had awakened Kotoamatsukami and warned him to keep the ability secret.

• Ying Yue challenged Hiashi and the Hyuga elders to end the system and argued that Konoha could protect the Byakugan without oppressing the branch family.
• Hiashi and the elders agreed to cooperate with abolishing the system and removing the Caged Bird seals, and Ying Yue arranged support from Uzumaki sealing experts.
• The branch family members gradually gained freedom as their seals were removed, and the Hyuga Clan began emphasizing equality and cooperation.
• Ying Yue learned that Shisui had become deputy director of the Military Police Force and that Itachi admired and trained under him.
• Shisui told Ying Yue that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and Kotoamatsukami, and Ying Yue warned him to keep the ability secret.

Uchiha Fugaku told Ying Yue that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Ying Yue urged him to have Itachi examined for a possible illness caused by his rapid Sharingan growth. As Uchiha Chōkaku neared death, he gave Ying Yue his Mangekyō Sharingan and asked him to investigate the clan stone tablet and uncover why Uchiha Madara had turned against Konoha.

• Uchiha Fugaku reported that his Mangekyō Sharingan abilities were Amaterasu and Ame-no-Koyane, which could foresee an opponent’s movements.
• Ying Yue warned Fugaku that Itachi’s rapid progress might burden his body and urged him to take Itachi to Orochimaru for an examination.
• Uchiha Chōkaku summoned Ying Yue and reflected on his long life, his support for Ying Yue, and the Uchiha Clan’s place in Konoha.
• Uchiha Chōkaku told Ying Yue that he suspected the clan stone tablet had influenced Uchiha Madara’s decision to betray Konoha.
• Uchiha Chōkaku handed Ying Yue his Mangekyō Sharingan and asked him to seek the Eternal Mangekyō and uncover the tablet’s secrets.

After Chōkaku died, Ying Yue used the Destiny System to fuse Chōkaku’s Mangekyō Sharingan with his own and awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. Meanwhile, Black Zetsu continued preparing to manipulate Ying Yue and guide him toward the Eye of the Moon Plan.

• Ying Yue mourned Chōkaku, who had left him his Mangekyō Sharingan and asked him to awaken the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• The Destiny System warned Ying Yue that fusing eyes from someone who was not a direct blood relative had a low chance of success, but explained that enough ocular power could also trigger the evolution naturally.
• Ying Yue chose to spend 550,000 Destiny Points to fuse Chōkaku’s eyes, gaining Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi as his own Mangekyō powers grew.
• Ying Yue completed the fusion and awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, combining his existing ocular techniques with Amaterasu and Kagutsuchi.
• Black Zetsu watched Ying Yue and continued plotting to use the Uchiha stone tablet and the Eye of the Moon Plan to resurrect Kaguya Otsutsuki.

Uchiha Ying Yue reinterpreted the Uchiha stone tablet as a call for peace, bringing the Uchiha, Senju, and Uzumaki clans closer together while angering Black Zetsu. He also expanded the Resistance Army through rural reforms and technology, leaving its influence growing across the Ninja World.

• Uchiha Ying Yue used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to read the altered stone tablet and decided to present its message as a prophecy of unity and peace.
• Ying Yue told Konoha’s clans that Indra and Asura were ancestors of the Uchiha and the Senju and Uzumaki, and that the Sage of Six Paths had founded Ninshu to help people understand one another.
• Ying Yue promoted intermarriage and alliances among the Uchiha, Senju, and Uzumaki clans, strengthening unity in Konoha and drawing the support of its leaders and villagers.
• Black Zetsu watched Ying Yue’s reinterpretation undermine his plan to lead the Uchiha toward the Eye of the Moon Plan and grew furious that no one could challenge Ying Yue’s reading.
• Ying Yue guided the Resistance Army to organize oppressed rural communities, distribute land, and use technology from the Dawn Organization to improve farming and villagers’ lives.