Chapter Summaries

Kaguya Makura introduced his four sworn brothers and their abilities, while Kangetsu recognized them as ancestors of powerful clans and wondered how they had appeared. Beneath the ground, Black Zetsu watched and concluded that Kangetsu had taken control of the Hyuga Clan and orchestrated the clans’ attack on the Uzumaki Clan.

• Kaguya Makura introduced Tianping Heise, Suigetsu Hozuki, Kisame Hoshigaki, and his youngest sworn brother, describing their abilities and claiming the five were strongest together.
• Kangetsu recognized the five as future clan leaders and ancestors of figures from the original story, but could not explain their appearance.
• Black Zetsu observed from underground and realized that the Hyuga Tianyi on the platform was an impostor created by ninjutsu.
• Black Zetsu concluded that Kangetsu controlled the Hyuga Clan and had united the Warring States clans to attack the Uzumaki Clan.

Kangetsu entered Uchiha Dixin's hidden chamber and questioned Hyuga Tianguang about his actions against the Hyuga Clan. He then asked Isshin for the results of an investigation, learning that five people who had disappeared half a year earlier had returned with tremendous power.

• Kangetsu used his Mangekyō Sharingan to descend with Uchiha Dixin into a hidden chamber beneath the ground.
• Kangetsu gave Uchiha Dixin chakra containing Asura's and Indra's chakra, stopping the bleeding from his eyes.
• Kangetsu asked Hyuga Tianguang whether he regretted acting against his own clan, and Hyuga Tianguang said he still hated the Hyuga Main Family.
• Kangetsu asked Isshin about the investigation, and Nara Yiku reported that Kaguya Makura, Suigetsu Hozuki, Tianping Heise, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Riqing Meiming had disappeared half a year earlier and returned with tremendous power.

Kangetsu planned to weaken the Senju Clan by secretly building up rival factions and engineering conflict between powerful women. He also ordered Hyuga Tianguang to use expendable forces against the Uzumaki Clan and test the five clans allied with the Kaguya brothers.

• Kangetsu told Nara Isshin that the Hyuga and Uzumaki women joining the Senju Clan could be used to ignite infighting between Senju Hashirama and Tobirama Senju's factions.
• Kangetsu ordered Nara Isshin to secretly bring more clans under their control and later send them to the Senju Clan to strengthen the rival women.
• Nara Isshin agreed and privately feared Kangetsu's plans would torment the Senju brothers.
• Kangetsu ordered Hyuga Tianguang to put the Hyuga Main Family at the front against the Uzumaki Clan and send disobedient Branch Family members and those without the Byakugan into battle.
• Kangetsu also ordered Hyuga Tianguang to deploy the clans of the five Kaguya brothers at the front to test their strength.

Kangetsu ordered the Hyuga Clan members divided among squads and arranged for Hyuga Tianguang to live out his remaining years in an estate. Black Zetsu plotted to use the Seven-Tails to provoke a clash between the Uzumaki and Hyuga Clans, and Uzumaki Mingyan found Chomei.

• Kangetsu ordered Isshin and the others to split the fighting Hyuga Clan members among squads and prepare an estate for Hyuga Tianguang.
• Black Zetsu found the unconscious Seven-Tails, Chomei, and told Kaguya Makura to lure an Uzumaki Clan member to seal it.
• Black Zetsu planned to use the Uzumaki Clan's six tailed beasts to provoke a war with Uchiha Kangetsu's alliance and draw Kangetsu into the conflict.
• Kaguya Makura released chakra from Chomei to lead nearby Uzumaki Clan members toward the Seven-Tails.
• Uzumaki Mingyan saw Chomei and declared that he would claim the Seven-Tails.

As the alliance faced the Uzumaki Clan and its six Tailed Beasts, Kangetsu ordered the entire alliance onto the battlefield. When Hyuga Tianguang questioned the order, Kangetsu activated the murderous energy planted in him and forced him to command the charge.

• Uchiha Inoue reported that the Uzumaki Clan had brought all six Tailed Beasts onto the battlefield.
• Kangetsu ordered Hyuga Tianguang to send everyone in the alliance onto the battlefield.
• Hyuga Tianguang warned Uchiha Inoue that crowding the battlefield would make the alliance vulnerable to a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Kangetsu threatened Hyuga Tianguang and activated the murderous energy he had planted in him six years earlier.
• Kangetsu ordered everyone to charge, and Hyuga Tianguang repeated the command from the command hall.

The Uzumaki Clan unleashed six Tailed Beasts against the opposing alliance, and Kaguya Makura countered the Seven-Tails’ attack with his Bone Release. The other five Tailed Beast Bombs struck the alliance, leaving the battlefield engulfed in a gigantic explosion.

• Uzumaki Mingyan and Guangyan argued over their Tailed Beast transformations before the six Uzumaki fighters transformed into Tailed Beasts.
• Kangetsu watched as the Tailed Beasts prepared to fire their bombs, while alliance ninjas rallied to fight them.
• Uzumaki Mingyan fired a Tailed Beast Bomb toward Kaguya Makura and the troops he was leading.
• Kaguya Makura used Bone Release-Corpse Bone Forest to absorb the Seven-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb.
• The other five Tailed Beast Bombs exploded among the alliance’s ninja, creating a gigantic sphere of white light.

Kangetsu ordered the Akimichi Clan to scatter a deadly stimulant over the battlefield, driving both sides into a frenzy of fighting. The battle escalated into mass slaughter as those exposed continued fighting until their life force ran out or they were killed.

• Kangetsu told Nara Isshin to have the Akimichi Clan scatter all their prepared pills over the battlefield.
• Akimichi Clan members dropped the powder into the rain, and those it touched gained strength and an overwhelming urge to fight.
• Kangetsu’s drug began draining its victims’ life force and was designed to last two hours, leaving almost everyone exposed doomed to die.
• Drugged fighters on both sides fought with deadly ferocity, while only a few protected by chakra remained unaffected.

The allied forces and the Uzumaki Clan fought a bloody battle, with drug-driven allied fighters inflicting heavy casualties and coordinated ninjutsu devastating the battlefield. The six Tailed Beasts were pinned down by Onmyo Giants as golden-chain giants joined the clash.

• The allied forces and the Uzumaki Clan's troops clashed, and the crazed allied fighters inflicted heavy losses on the Uzumaki Clan.
• Nara Isshin used Hyuga Tianguang to command the allied forces to combine Fire Style and Wind Style, creating a massive sea of flames.
• The six Tailed Beasts pooled their power to launch an enormous Tailed Beast Bomb at the allied forces.
• Hyuga Clan elders sent more than a dozen Onmyo Giants to pin down the six Tailed Beasts.
• Uzumaki Clan experts formed golden-chain giants and sent them charging toward the Onmyo Giants.

The Uzumaki Clan and the allied forces waged a frenzied ninjutsu battle as Kangetsu watched from the sidelines. Black Zetsu realized Kangetsu’s drug had driven the five clans into uncontrollable slaughter and feared his plans had been ruined.

• The Uzumaki Clan and the allied forces divided the battlefield and exchanged ninjutsu while giants and tailed beasts fought elsewhere.
• The two armies continued killing each other until both sides’ ranks rapidly dwindled amid mountains of corpses and pools of blood.
• Three thousand members of the Kaguya Clan used Bone Release-Corpse Bone Forest against the Uzumaki Clan.
• Another allied group attacked the Uzumaki Clan with chakra beams, while Kisame Hoshigaki and Suigetsu Hozuki unleashed enormous Water Style attacks.
• Kangetsu watched as Black Zetsu, hidden underground, cursed him for using a drug that drove the clans into frenzied slaughter and affected even Black Zetsu’s descendants.

Uchiha Kangetsu revealed that he had engineered the slaughter that left nearly two million dead and declared that he would destroy every clan gathered in the forest. He prepared to use the fewer than one hundred thousand survivors as the next part of his killing spree.

• Uchiha Kangetsu proclaimed that he would rule the era after destroying the Uzumaki, Hyuga, and other clans.
• Uzumaki Ziyan accused Kangetsu of causing the fighting and the deaths of nearly one and a half million people in a single day.
• The survivors realized that Kangetsu had driven them into madness and feared him.
• Kangetsu said the remaining hundred thousand people would suffice for his stage and promised to kill them.
• Kangetsu’s speech was followed by verses praising slaughter and condemning mercy.

Kangetsu led the Crimson Village troops into another assault, wielding his compact Susanoo and Masamune to cut down the enemy. After killing a Hyuga Clan elder inside an Onmyo Giant, he appeared beside a steel giant.

• Kangetsu declared that the slaughter would begin again and ordered his followers to kill.
• Uzumaki Ziyan questioned Kangetsu’s decision to continue slaughtering, while the surviving fighters chose to fight rather than surrender.
• Kangetsu descended with the Crimson Village troops and summoned his initial-form Susanoo.
• Kangetsu combined Masamune with his Susanoo’s scarlet chakra and swiftly cleaved a Hyuga Clan elder inside an Onmyo Giant in two.
• Kangetsu appeared beside a steel giant.

Kangetsu sent Watanabe and his fifty Mangekyō Sharingan followers to slaughter the remaining tens of thousands of enemies while the Nine-Tails charged at the other tailed beasts. The fifty-one Susanoo joined the battle, stunning the onlookers as the massacre resumed.

• The Nine-Tails boasted that it was the strongest tailed beast and charged at the six tailed beasts opposite it.
• Kangetsu ordered Watanabe to kill every one of the remaining tens of thousands of enemies.
• Watanabe and fifty Mangekyō Sharingan followers summoned fifty-one semi-complete Susanoo and charged into the crowd.
• The fifty-one Susanoo tore through the enemy forces with their weapons, leaving the onlookers stunned.
• Uchiha Inoue praised Watanabe as Kangetsu's sharpest blade, while Nara Isshin privately marveled at the force's overwhelming strength.

Kangetsu’s killing intent and the Nine-Tails’ effortless defense drove Uzumaki Ziyan and the six Jinchūriki into fear. The Jinchūriki sacrificed themselves with Soul Sealing, summoning six tailed beasts as Uzumaki Ziyan transformed into Eight-Tails Gyuki, while Kangetsu faced the gathering with a cold smile.

• Kangetsu unleashed his killing intent, and the Nine-Tails neutralized the six Jinchūriki’s attack without effort.
• Uzumaki Ziyan and the six Jinchūriki recoiled as Kangetsu took a step toward them.
• The Three-Tails Jinchūriki used Soul Sealing and sacrificed himself, manifesting Isobu.
• Ming Yan, the Seven-Tails Jinchūriki, followed with Soul Sealing and manifested Chōmei.
• The remaining four Jinchūriki used Soul Sealing, bringing the other tailed beasts forth.
• The Nine-Tails named the gathered beasts, and Kangetsu coldly watched Uzumaki Ziyan transform into Eight-Tails Gyuki.

Kangetsu unleashed his Killing Fist intent and summoned a crimson Sea of Slaughter. He sent the blood sea surging toward the seven enormous Tailed Beasts.

• Kangetsu declared his intent to kill and released his Killing Fist intent.
• Scarlet killing aura formed a divine dragon, a qilin, and a phoenix, which drew in the battlefield’s killing aura.
• Kangetsu summoned a crimson Sea of Slaughter that stained the sky and filled onlookers with fear.
• Kangetsu moved his right fist toward a drifting cloud as the blood sea churned overhead.
• The Sea of Slaughter rushed toward the seven enormous Tailed Beasts.

Uzumaki Ziyan faced the six defeated Tailed Beasts and begged Gyuki to take complete control of his body so he could kill Kangetsu. Meanwhile, a black-haired man headed toward the battlefield, driven by a mysterious power and the desire to see his little brother again.

• An aged man inside the black-haired man sensed the slaughter and vowed to kill whoever caused it.
• The black-haired man told his brother that a power within him was urging him toward the battlefield, though he would not interfere even if Kangetsu was responsible.
• Uzumaki Ziyan shouted at the six fallen Tailed Beasts to get up.
• The six Tailed Beasts rose, and Uzumaki Ziyan begged Gyuki to take over his body and help him kill the demon.

Kangetsu attacked the seven tailed beasts with his Susanoo and Masamune as they launched a combined Tailed Beast Bomb. He cleaved the bomb in half with a scarlet strike enhanced by golden and black flames, and the blast exploded in the sky.

• Kangetsu formed a scarlet Susanoo around himself, drew Masamune, and charged at the seven tailed beasts.
• The seven tailed beasts launched a massive combined Tailed Beast Bomb at Kangetsu.
• Kangetsu sent a scarlet blade wave toward the bomb and called down golden and black flames to strengthen it.
• Kangetsu's blade cleaved the Tailed Beast Bomb in half, and the divided bomb exploded in the sky.

Kangetsu survived the Tailed Beasts’ coordinated attacks and mocked their inability to break his Susanoo armor. As the beasts switched to shock-wave attacks, he countered at close range with the Ice-Armored Horned Demon Dragon.

• The seven Tailed Beasts detonated their Tailed Beast Bombs around Kangetsu, but he emerged completely unharmed.
• Kangetsu kicked a newly launched Tailed Beast Bomb into the others, causing another explosion.
• The Eight-Tails recognized that Kangetsu’s Susanoo armor was too strong for their bombs, and Chomei suggested attacking with their shock waves.
• As the seven Tailed Beasts unleashed shock waves, Kangetsu appeared beside them and formed the Ice-Armored Horned Demon Dragon with his Killing Fist.
• Kangetsu swung his fist at the Eight-Tails.

Kangetsu overpowered all seven Tailed Beasts in a clash of physical strength, leaving them terrified and their attacks seemingly useless. As his killing intent filled the heavens and earth, two other men of the Warring States Period sensed it.

• Kangetsu drove the seven Tailed Beasts backward with his immense strength, alarming them and the Nine-Tails.
• The collision left a crater more than three kilometers across and a hundred-meter stone pillar, where Kangetsu stood watching the beasts.
• The Tailed Beasts realized their Tailed Beast Bombs, chakra, and physical strength had failed against Kangetsu.
• Kangetsu's aura surged as the Blood Sea in the sky turned crimson and churned.
• Kangetsu's killing intent spread across the world, and two other men of the Warring States Period sensed it.

Kangetsu learned from Kurama that Uzumaki Ziyan’s Human Body Seal transformed him into a temporary Ten-Tails shell at the cost of his life. Kurama warned that Ziyan would be unstable without the One-Tail, and Kangetsu faced him with a faint smile.

• Kangetsu asked Kurama about the Human Body Seal as Uzumaki Ziyan roared.
• Kurama explained that the seal turned an Uzumaki into an empty Ten-Tails shell and would eventually kill him.
• Kurama said Ziyan would absorb the Eight-Tails first, while the other tailed beasts would be harder to subdue.
• Kurama warned that without the One-Tail, Ziyan’s borrowed power would destabilize and kill him sooner.
• Kangetsu looked at Ziyan and nodded with a faint smile.

Uzumaki Ziyan revealed that he had planted seals in the souls of Ming Yan and the other Uzumaki clansmen, killing them through his own Sealing Jutsu. He absorbed seven tailed beasts and transformed into an enormous eight-headed serpent, leaving Kangetsu facing a monstrous enemy.

• The Nine-Tails recognized that Uzumaki Ziyan had tampered with the souls of the six Uzumaki Clan members who used 'Soul Sealing.'
• Uzumaki Ziyan admitted that his seals had obliterated Ming Yan and the others, then blamed Kangetsu and vowed to kill him.
• Uzumaki Ziyan used golden chains to absorb Matatabi, Isobu, Son Goku, Kokuō, and the other tailed beasts, while his body grew monstrous.
• After absorbing seven tailed beasts, Uzumaki Ziyan transformed into an enormous serpent with eight heads, seven resembling tailed beasts and the central one resembling him.