Chapter Summaries

Kangetsu watched a younger brother die at his older brother’s hand and awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan as he joined the battle. He unleashed Slaughter Puppet on a dozen Hagoromo Clan fighters, turning them against their own side under his control.

• The younger brother used his older brother’s short sword to kill himself, thanking him, while the older brother wept.
• Kangetsu vowed to avenge his little brother and charged onto the battlefield with the Black Blade.
• Kangetsu’s Mangekyō Sharingan froze a Hagoromo clansman, allowing him to kill the man with a slash.
• Kangetsu hurled a red flame at a dozen attackers, and it split apart to strike them despite their weapons.
• Kangetsu used Slaughter Puppet to make the attackers turn on their allies and keep killing under his control.

Kangetsu released the killing intent he had stored for years, and it empowered his Susanoo while granting it an ability to absorb the essence, energy, and spirit of those he killed. His Susanoo evolved into its mature form, and he turned to face Hagoromo Koze and the hundreds of blue laser beams.

• Kangetsu released his stored killing intent, which surged into his Susanoo and fused with its chakra.
• Kangetsu gained a passive ninjutsu that let his Susanoo absorb the essence, energy, and spirit of those he killed and use them to grow.
• Kangetsu formed hand seals and brought out a gray piece of wood, which accelerated his Susanoo's growth and formed a sinister Black Blade on its right hand.
• Kangetsu's Susanoo reached its mature form, became covered in flesh, and began burning with a blood-red flame.
• Kangetsu looked at Hagoromo Koze and the blue laser beams, then raised his left hand.

Kangetsu fought Hagoromo Koze with his Susanoo against the Storm Release giant, trading powerful blows as the battle exhausted them both. Kangetsu’s vision blurred and blood tears flowed from his eyes, while Hagoromo challenged him to keep fighting as his Mangekyō Sharingan weakened.

• Kangetsu swung his Susanoo’s Black Blade at Hagoromo Koze, who praised his skill before attacking with Storm Release-Thunder God Descends.
• Hagoromo formed a blue lightning giant with a coiling dragon, and it clashed with Kangetsu’s Susanoo.
• The lightning giant formed a sword of blue laser light and fought Kangetsu as he relied on Indra’s chakra absorbed from Uchiha Madara.
• Kangetsu and Hagoromo exchanged repeated blows until both were panting from the prolonged fight.
• Hagoromo warned that Kangetsu’s Mangekyō Sharingan would not hold out much longer as Kangetsu’s vision blurred and blood tears streamed from his eyes.

Kangetsu battled Hagoromo Koze, but faced the lightning giant’s explosive lasers after his Susanoo failed to stop its dissolution. His mother, Uchiha Eiko, and Uchiha Tajima, Uchiha Madara, and Izuna watched in anguish as he was caught in danger.

• Kangetsu slashed Hagoromo Koze’s lightning giant and clashed with its lightning arm using blood-red flames that turned it into ice.
• Kangetsu thrust Masamune toward the giant’s brow, forcing Hagoromo Koze to leap out and abandon his hand seals.
• Hagoromo Koze formed hand seals in midair and taunted Kangetsu as the dissolving lightning giant unleashed lasers toward him.
• Kangetsu realized his incomplete Susanoo could not withstand the explosion’s lasers.
• Uchiha Eiko called out to Kangetsu while Uchiha Tajima, Uchiha Madara, and Izuna watched in anguish.

Kangetsu attacked the Hagoromo Clan with his Susanoo and used Ice Age to freeze thousands of its members. As Hagoromo Koze’s elite fighters counterattacked, Kangetsu prepared a Rasenshuriken with his restored and strengthened Susanoo.

• Kangetsu struck the ground, killing many Hagoromo Clan members, and threatened Hagoromo Koze before unleashing Ice Age.
• Kangetsu’s blood-red flames spread across the ground as ice, freezing nearly seven thousand of the roughly ten thousand clan members surrounding him.
• Hagoromo Koze recognized Kangetsu’s Space-Time Ninjutsu and vowed to kill him.
• The Hagoromo Clan’s elite fighters fired Storm Release-Laser Circus at Kangetsu.
• Kangetsu formed a Rasenshuriken in Susanoo’s left hand after absorbing the energy of those frozen by his attack.

Kangetsu fed chakra to the gray block of wood, which moved to his heart and began absorbing his chakra and hidden black spots. He discovered that the slaughter aura he had absorbed still carried traces of its former owners.

• Kangetsu drew on the remaining slaughter aura and his spiritual energy to extract more chakra, seeking to test his soul's strength.
• Kangetsu poured his chakra into the gray block of wood, which began absorbing it.
• Kangetsu recalled the block into his body, and it moved to his heart as some of his vision returned.
• Kangetsu sensed the block absorbing black spots within him and examined them with his spiritual energy.
• Kangetsu realized the slaughter aura he had absorbed belonged to others and retained traces of their presence.

Kangetsu’s Rasenshuriken devastated the battlefield, leaving Hagoromo Koze and the other survivors near death. He discovered that Masamune absorbed the souls of the dead, then sent a Shadow Clone toward a dying man while he dealt with black spots inside his body.

• Kangetsu’s unstable Rasenshuriken burst apart, carving a massive crater and scattering deadly blasts across the battlefield.
• Hagoromo Koze and the other powerful survivors clung to life amid the wreckage.
• Kangetsu realized that Masamune absorbed blood and souls, growing clearer and more powerful as the dead joined it.
• Kangetsu focused on a dying man and created a Shadow Clone because he still had black spots inside his body to deal with.
• Kangetsu’s Shadow Clone descended to the ground as the nearby Uchiha Clan members looked on with respect.

Kangetsu ordered Yamanaka In to find and kill everyone connected to Hagoromo Koze, then vanished while suffering bleeding eyes. Madara and Izuna awakened their Mangekyo Sharingan, drawing the attention of a black figure who hoped Kangetsu would force Indra and Asura to unite.

• Kangetsu ordered Yamanaka In to search Hagoromo Koze’s associates’ memories and kill them and everyone connected to them.
• Kangetsu disappeared in a puff of smoke, and blood ran from the eyes of his real body.
• Madara’s frustration awakened Indra’s chakra, and his Sharingan evolved into the Mangekyo Sharingan.
• Izuna’s Sharingan also evolved into the Mangekyo Sharingan.
• A black figure watched Madara and hoped he would evolve the Rinnegan to save Mother.
• The black figure watched Kangetsu and hoped his strength would drive Indra and Asura to unite.

Kangetsu discovered that the sapling in his heart was a new God Tree that grew by absorbing chakra made from the black spots of the people he had killed. As he accelerated its growth, his mental energy nearly ran out, and he sensed a brilliant light within it that drew him in.

• Kangetsu realized that extracting chakra from the black spots had nearly exhausted his mental energy.
• Kangetsu learned that the sapling in his heart was a seed from the original God Tree and could grow into another God Tree by absorbing chakra.
• Kangetsu decided that those he killed would become nourishment for the sapling and intensified his chakra extraction.
• Kangetsu felt his mental energy run dry and sensed a brilliant light he could not resist exploring.

Kangetsu’s soul lightning purified his body, gave him longevity, and let him control his soul directly. After dismissing his Susanoo, he joined Uchiha Eiko and Uchiha Tajima and addressed them as his parents.

• The sapling entered Kangetsu’s dantian and drained his chakra as the lightning purified it.
• Kangetsu realized he could control his soul directly and decided to channel future murderous energy into the God Tree.
• Kangetsu expelled black energy and blood from his eyes, then froze the blood into ice crystals.
• Kangetsu understood that the soul lightning purified his body and granted longevity, while his Susanoo still needed the eternal mangekyō and the nine tailed beasts to reach its further forms.
• Kangetsu dismissed his Susanoo, leaped over to Uchiha Eiko and Uchiha Tajima, and called them Father and Mother.

Kangetsu met with the Uzumaki, Senju, and Hyuga leaders and told Nara Isshin to preserve the Uzumaki and Hyuga clans for now. When Senju Hashirama attacked him in anger, Kangetsu struck him and sent him flying.

• Nara Isshin told Kangetsu that a joint assault involving the Four Clans was planned and that their leaders were gathered in the main tent.
• Kangetsu awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and asked Isshin about the Uzumaki and Hyuga clans' strength.
• Isshin explained that the Hagoromo forces had withdrawn, sparing the Uzumaki and Hyuga from worse losses.
• Kangetsu warned Isshin to preserve the Uzumaki and Hyuga clans because they faced serious dangers.
• Senju Hashirama charged Kangetsu, vowing to avenge Senju Kawarama and Senju Hojima, and Kangetsu punched him in the abdomen, sending him flying.

Kangetsu absorbed the Asura chakra within Senju Hashirama and warned Senju Butsuma not to let his son attack again. He then dismissed Tobirama Senju and settled among Uchiha guards as the other clans watched in confusion.

• Senju Butsuma asked Kangetsu how he knew about the power inside him, and Kangetsu explained that it belonged to an ancestor he called an old bastard.
• Kangetsu pressed his hand to Senju Hashirama’s forehead and absorbed the Asura chakra present in his body.
• Kangetsu flung Senju Hashirama through the tent entrance and into a stone wall, then warned Senju Butsuma that another attack would not be settled with chakra.
• Kangetsu insulted Tobirama Senju and walked past him to a seat.
• Several Uchiha Clan fighters sat beside Kangetsu to guard him while the Hyuga and Uzumaki clans silently wondered about his words.

Uzumaki Mito introduced herself to Kangetsu as the allied clans gathered to discuss their plans against the Hagoromo Clan. Senju Butsuma challenged the Senju Clan’s share of the spoils, but Uzumaki Suien blamed the Senju for spreading the Uchiha’s Military Ration Pill formula and defended the current arrangement.

• Uzumaki Suien was described as a master of the Uzumaki Clan’s Sealing Jutsu who used chakra chains to seal anyone they touched.
• Uzumaki Mito introduced herself to Kangetsu and praised his exploits, and he nodded in response.
• Uchiha Tajima opened a discussion of the clans’ plans against the Hagoromo Clan.
• Senju Butsuma objected that the Senju Clan received only twenty percent of the spoils despite its contributions.
• Uzumaki Suien accused the Senju Clan of spreading the Uchiha’s Military Ration Pill formula, strengthening the Hagoromo Clan, and causing the need to bring in the Uzumaki and Hyuga clans.

Kangetsu rebuked Tobirama Senju for manipulating the other clan leaders, then redirected the alliance’s attention to defeating the Hagoromo Clan. As the leaders discussed battle plans, Kangetsu considered information about Hyuga Tianguang’s mistreatment by the Hyuga Main Family.

• Kangetsu told Tobirama Senju that he would never gain standing in the Senju Clan while his older brother held him back, and suggested he could kill him.
• Uzumaki Suien and Hyuga Tianyi turned hostile toward Tobirama Senju after realizing he had manipulated them.
• Kangetsu urged the four clans to focus on the Hagoromo Clan, which still had twenty thousand fighters, before discussing the spoils.
• The clan leaders began discussing battle plans while Kangetsu considered Inoue’s information about Hyuga Tianguang.
• Kangetsu recalled that Hyuga Tianguang, Hyuga Tianyi’s nephew, had suffered humiliation from the Main Family and had become a leading branch-family figure.

Kangetsu rejected Nara Isshin’s suggestion to court the Uchiha loyal to Tajima and ordered Isshin to prepare for a split within the clan. He then continued recording Hyuga secret techniques for his own purposes.

• Nara Isshin warned Kangetsu that Tajima’s favored son, Madara, could claim the loyalty of the twenty percent of the Uchiha who had fought beside Tajima.
• Kangetsu told Isshin not to spread word of the family matter and said he would not try to win over that faction.
• Kangetsu ordered Isshin to prepare to split off the eighty percent of the Uchiha under his control and purge its unstable elements.
• After Isshin left, Kangetsu thought the clan would eventually split and that Madara could use the remaining faction against the Senju.
• Kangetsu took a fresh scroll and resumed writing down Hyuga techniques, including Eight Trigrams Thirty-Six Palms and Rotation.

Hyuga Tianguang offered Kangetsu the loyalty of the Hyuga Clan's Branch Family in exchange for help avenging his mother. Kangetsu gave him powerful Gentle Fist techniques and a seal to ensure his loyalty, leaving Tianguang to train and take revenge himself.

• Hyuga Tianguang knelt before Kangetsu and offered the service of two hundred thousand Branch Family members if Kangetsu helped avenge his mother.
• Kangetsu told Hyuga Tianguang to kill his enemies himself as his first task.
• Hyuga Tianguang explained that the Branch Family could not learn Sealing Jutsu and had no chance against the Main Family.
• Kangetsu gave Hyuga Tianguang a scroll of Gentle Fist techniques he had created, which Tianguang believed could defeat the Main Family.
• Kangetsu placed a seal on Hyuga Tianguang and warned that betrayal would bring unbearable suffering.
• Hyuga Tianguang swore loyalty to Kangetsu in exchange for the power to take revenge.

Kangetsu told Isshin to use the tailed beasts’ destructive power to turn the clans against the Uzumaki Clan and asked about the Nine-Tails. Isshin reported that the Nine-Tails lived in the Rock Forest in the Land of Fire, and Kangetsu focused on obtaining its power.

• Nara Yiku promised to make two hundred thousand people Kangetsu’s loyal followers using the resources provided.
• Isshin told Kangetsu that plans concerning the Hyuga Clan were ready, but that the Uzumaki Clan was difficult to target without a major clan joining the attack.
• Kangetsu explained that they should provoke tailed beasts, demonstrate their power, and spread word that the Uzumaki Clan could control them.
• Isshin reported that his people had located several tailed beasts, including the Nine-Tails in the Rock Forest in the Land of Fire.
• Kangetsu thought about obtaining the Nine-Tails’ power and becoming the first to wield the eternal Mangekyō.

Kangetsu used specially marked weapons and a limited Susanoo to unleash space-time ninjutsu on the battlefield. He left the Hagoromo Clan and its allies suffering a rapid series of beheadings.

• Kangetsu ordered Inoue and the others to throw his specially made kunai and shuriken, marked with three-tomoe patterns, at the enemy.
• Kangetsu formed a partial Susanoo, drew his Black Blade, and enveloped it in wind-nature chakra.
• Kangetsu vanished and reappeared beside a Hagoromo Clan jonin, beheading him as the man recognized the technique as Space-Time Ninjutsu.
• Kangetsu repeatedly appeared beside other fighters and cut off their heads, including one who was attacking an Uzumaki Clan member.
• A silvery-white light darted across the battlefield, and most of its flashes marked another death.

Kangetsu rescued Uzumaki Mito and used the Flying Thunder God Technique and Rasengan to overwhelm the Hagoromo Clan forces. He left a group of more than a dozen Hagoromo Clan members dead after detonating a Rasengan among them.

• Kangetsu appeared above the Hagoromo Clan jonin while holding Uzumaki Mito and struck him with a Rasengan, leaving him barely alive in a crater.
• The dying Hagoromo Clan jonin warned his clansmen that Kangetsu’s Space-Time Ninjutsu used kunai marked with three tomoe.
• Kangetsu declared that his Flying Thunder God Technique relied on speed, not surprise, and formed another Rasengan without hand seals.
• Kangetsu appeared among more than a dozen Hagoromo Clan members, vanished, and left a Rasengan that exploded and killed them.

Kangetsu drove off the Hagoromo Clan after humiliating Hagoromo Tian with his Flying Thunder God Technique and Rasenshuriken, raising his reputation. Afterward, Uzumaki Suien suggested a marriage alliance between the Uzumaki and Uchiha clans.

• Kangetsu threatened to kill Hagoromo Tian's clansmen if Hagoromo Tian ambushed him, then struck him with a Rasenshuriken.
• Hagoromo Tian countered with two black laser dragons, but the explosion left him battered and furious.
• Hagoromo Tian ordered the Hagoromo Clan to withdraw, and Kangetsu's techniques and victory became known throughout the world.
• Kangetsu asked Uzumaki Mito to let go of him, and she jumped down, blushing with embarrassment.
• Uzumaki Suien suggested to Uchiha Tajima and Uchiha Eiko that their clans be joined through marriage.