Chapter Summaries

Dai and the Kage confronted Aizen, but his overwhelming strength left them struggling to harm him. The chapter ended with Aizen stopping Ōnoki’s Dust Release: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu with his bare hand and dismissing their power as weak.

• Dai battered Aizen with a barrage of punches, but Aizen remained unharmed and tore through Dai’s crimson chakra, launching him from underground with a chest wound.
• The Kage gathered around Dai, but Aizen rushed them and struck the Raikage, sending him flying through the trees.
• Ōnoki urged the others to keep fighting, and Minato and Dai agreed that the Kage had to stop Aizen themselves.
• Aizen mocked the Kage’s resolve and called their strength weak.
• Ōnoki attacked Aizen with Dust Release: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu, but Aizen caught the beam with his bare hand and claimed his spiritual pressure was impossible to shake.

Ōnoki unleashed a massive Dust Release attack after Minato and Duy failed to harm Aizen, and Aizen was swallowed by the beam. A crack sounded from within the still-glowing pillar, leaving the attack’s outcome uncertain.

• Ōnoki asked Minato and Might Duy to buy him time while he prepared a complex technique.
• Minato and Duy attacked Aizen together, but their strikes could barely affect his defenses.
• Minato asked Duy to restrain Aizen so he could use a powerful move, but Aizen struck them both and sent them flying.
• Ōnoki fired an enormous Dust Release: Detachment of the Primitive World Technique at Aizen, who stood his ground as the beam engulfed him.
• Dai and Minato watched the beam, then heard a crisp crack from within it.

Ōnoki’s Dust Release pushed Aizen into a third stage, restoring more of his power and changing his appearance. Aizen struck back with a devastating purple blast, and the Raikage charged him as Ōnoki prepared another technique.

• Sasuke watched Ōnoki’s Dust Release and recognized it as the power he needed.
• The Raikage saw Aizen emerge from the fading light in a changed form, while Aizen said his power was returning in a third stage.
• Aizen thanked Ōnoki and fired a purple energy sphere that forced Ōnoki and Mei Terumi to flee and devastated the ground.
• The Raikage rushed Aizen with Lightning Release Armor and attacked with Lariat: Chiyo Dance.
• Aizen dismissed the attack as meaningless and invoked Super Reiatsu Wall.

Aizen repelled the Raikage with the Super Reiatsu Wall, leaving him without an arm and convincing the gathered shinobi that Aizen was beyond their power. Minato still believed they had a chance and began preparing a sealing technique, while Jiraiya recognized what he was doing and cried out.

• Aizen formed the Super Reiatsu Wall, and the Raikage's attack was stopped as his right arm crumbled to dust.
• The Raikage retreated, and the gathered shinobi stared in shock at Aizen's overwhelming power.
• Sasuke yearned for Aizen's power, while Naruto awoke and looked on in horror.
• Ōnoki admitted that even a united group might not be able to defeat Aizen, but Minato insisted they still had a chance.
• Minato asked Dai and Ōnoki to restrain Aizen, then began preparing a sealing technique with a blood-marked scroll.
• Jiraiya arrived with Tsunade, saw Minato's seals, and cried out to him.

Minato prepared a final strike while Jiraiya, Tsunade, Dai, Fukasaku, and Sage Shima tried to restrain Aizen and create an opening. They briefly trapped Aizen with a Sage Art, but he broke free and stopped Dai’s attack with a Super Reiatsu Wall.

• Minato gave Jiraiya the Art Seal and asked him and the others to help create an opening for his final strike.
• Jiraiya, Dai, Tsunade, Fukasaku, and Sage Shima charged Aizen, but Aizen pierced Jiraiya’s flames and seized Tsunade’s fist before throwing her toward Dai.
• Fukasaku and Sage Shima used Sage Art: Demonic Toad Mental Restraint Prison, briefly immobilizing Aizen.
• Dai attacked Aizen with a powerful strike, but Aizen used Super Reiatsu Wall, and Fukasaku and Shima realized he had already escaped the illusion.

Might Dai used his final Evening Elephant to immobilize Aizen, giving Minato the chance to appear beside him and begin the Reaper Death Seal. As Dai lost consciousness, he remembered Sosuke and hoped they could return to how things were in Hell.

• Dai attacked Aizen with successive air columns that restricted his movements but did not injure him.
• Dai unleashed his final technique, Evening Elephant, and struck Aizen with a massive air column as his body began to break apart.
• Minato used an Art Seal to appear beside Aizen and began the Reaper Death Seal.
• Dai fell past the summoned figure, remembered Sosuke, and hoped they could return to their former relationship in Hell.

Minato used a forbidden technique to summon the Death God and seal Aizen, but the entity acted on its own and attacked him. The Death God pierced Aizen with its ancient blade as Minato’s life faded.

• Dai’s body crumbled away after his crimson chakra dissipated, leaving the battlefield silent.
• Minato told Aizen that he and Dai had prepared to sacrifice themselves with a technique meant to seal him.
• The Death God emerged above Minato, seized Aizen, and drained Minato’s strength without obeying his control.
• Aizen realized the Death God was a true god and speculated that the world’s authority remained in someone’s hands.
• The Death God called Aizen’s soul unimaginable and stabbed him through with its ancient blade as Minato’s eyes dimmed.

Aizen was swallowed by the Death God after it pulled his soul from his body, but the Hogyoku triggered his evolution and he re-formed in a higher dimension. He thanked Minato for pushing him to evolve and the Death God for revealing the key to opening the door behind the world.

• Yammy asked Ulquiorra whether they would intervene, but Ulquiorra said they had to obey Aizen's orders.
• The Death God pulled Aizen's soul from his body and swallowed it, believing it could reclaim its own body.
• The Hogyoku began flashing, and Aizen's soulless body turned to dust as white particles pierced the Death God's phantom and gathered in the sky.
• Aizen re-formed with three pairs of white butterfly wings, leaving the Death God shocked that he had escaped after being swallowed.
• Aizen thanked Minato for pushing him into a higher dimension and told the Death God it had helped him find the key to opening the door behind the world.

Aizen revealed his transformed body and used Kurohitsugi to crush the Death God, leaving it gravely weakened and afraid. As the Death God tried to speak, Aizen vanished, leaving its fate unresolved.

• Aizen reappeared in a transformed, butterfly-winged form, while Neji, Sakura, and the other examinees struggled under his pressure.
• The Death God attacked Aizen, but Aizen mocked it and cast Hado #90, Kurohitsugi.
• Kurohitsugi encased the Death God and pierced it with countless blades before dissolving into purple fragments.
• The wounded Death God realized Aizen's attack had only been an experiment and tried to bargain with him.
• Aizen turned into strands of light and vanished before the Death God could speak.

Aizen destroyed the Death God by unleashing Super Reiatsu Wall from inside its body, then approached Dai’s corpse. Might Guy and an elderly man confronted him, and Aizen said Dai’s fate was the choice made by the world’s rules.

• Aizen touched the Death God and began destroying its soul body, so it swallowed him and bound him with black seals.
• Aizen activated Super Reiatsu Wall inside the Death God, shattering its massive body while noting its true body remained elsewhere.
• Aizen gathered the scattered soul energy and walked toward Dai’s ruined corpse as the battlefield watched in despair.
• Aizen stood over Dai’s body, and Jiraiya and Tsunade watched his silence with complicated expressions.
• An elderly man and Might Guy arrived before Aizen, and the elderly man asked whether Dai’s death was the outcome Aizen wanted.
• Aizen answered that Dai’s death was the choice made by this world’s rules.

Aizen dismissed Sakumo’s condemnation and told Might Guy that he could one day show him the path to power, even if Guy used it to kill him. As Aizen faced the surviving Kage and threatened the Ninja World, two figures appeared to stand between them and him.

• Aizen called Duy’s final hope a mercy, prompting Sakumo to condemn him as a monster.
• Guy revealed that Duy was his father and vowed to make Aizen pay, while Aizen offered to show him a path to power.
• Aizen summoned Kyoka Suigetsu and surveyed the wounded Kage, pausing when he saw Minato’s corpse.
• Ōnoki, Mei Terumi, and the one-armed Raikage stood together and declared that the Ninja World would survive as long as ninja remained.
• Aizen warned that destroying all ninja would end the Ninja World, and two figures suddenly appeared in front of the Kage.

Jiraiya and Tsunade confronted Aizen as he threatened to continue his attack, but he quickly pierced Tsunade with Kyoka Suigetsu. Tsunade healed the wound and struck back, sending Aizen crashing into the crater as Mei Terumi reacted in horror.

• Jiraiya, Fukasaku, and Shima stood with Tsunade to stop Aizen from continuing his slaughter.
• Aizen dismissed Tsunade’s strength, but Tsunade vowed to stop him even if it cost her life.
• Aizen moved in and pierced Tsunade’s shoulder with Kyoka Suigetsu.
• Tsunade healed her wound, seized Aizen’s hand, and attacked him despite the blade still impaling her.
• Aizen was blasted into the crater, and Mei Terumi cried out in disbelief at Tsunade.

Aizen revealed that Las Noches had developed a drug that could turn humans into immortal Hollows and announced the founding of the Hollow Spirit Empire, with himself as its emperor. The Kage and other ninjas faced the prospect that civilians and shinobi might abandon their old allegiances to join him.

• Tsunade accidentally struck Jiraiya, mistaking him for Aizen, and left to treat his near-fatal injuries.
• Aizen used Kyoka Suigetsu before Sakumo, Might Guy, the Kage, and the other ninjas, and Mei Terumi realized they had fallen under his genjutsu.
• Aizen told the gathered ninjas that Hollows would replace ninjas and claimed Las Noches had made a drug that could grant ordinary humans eternal life as Hollows.
• Aizen declared the creation of the Hollow Spirit Empire, named himself its sole emperor, and offered immortality to those who renounced their ninja identities and joined.

Aizen announced his plan to establish the Hollow Spirit Empire by turning humans into Hollows and tried to recruit the defeated ninja by promising them power. As the ninja struggled between suspicion and longing, Aizen injected a vial into an elderly Konoha ninja who warned them against his offer.

• Aizen declared that he would establish the Hollow Spirit Empire and described the ninja as potential recruits.
• Gin realized Aizen intended to use Hollow-making serums to build an empire strong enough to challenge the Soul Society.
• Aizen told the defeated ninja that they had the potential to become strong and presented Jirobo as proof of what they could become.
• Several experienced ninja warned the others that Aizen's offer was a tempting shortcut rather than earned strength.
• Aizen sent a vial into the body of the elderly Konoha ninja who had spoken against him.

Aizen injected Sasaki with a serum that transformed him into a powerful Hollow, and Sasaki pledged himself to the Hollow Spirit Empire. Aizen declared that Sasaki must address him as Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Hollow Spirit Empire.

• Aizen injected the elderly ninja Sasaki with a white serum as the gathered ninjas watched in alarm.
• Sasaki endured intense pain, vomited a white, bone-like substance, and developed a hollow in his right palm.
• Sasaki tested his newfound strength by punching the ground and splitting it open, shocking the assembled ninjas.
• Sasaki knelt before Aizen and apologized for his earlier disrespect, pledging his allegiance.
• Aizen accepted Sasaki's submission and ordered him to address Aizen as Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Hollow Spirit Empire.

Aizen declared himself Emperor of the Hollow Spirit Empire, and the members of Las Noches knelt before him as the defeated ninja leaders watched. He offered the one-armed young ninja Feishi power and a place in his empire, and Feishi hesitated as someone urged him to accept.

• Aizen declared himself Emperor, and Sasaki, Jirobo, and the members of Las Noches knelt before him, followed by Kaname Tosen and Gin.
• The ninja forces and the Kage stayed silent, wary of provoking Aizen’s powerful followers.
• Tsunade continued healing Jiraiya as he awoke, and Jiraiya recognized that the battle was lost.
• Aizen addressed the one-armed Feishi, offering him greater power and a new world in exchange for joining the Hollow Spirit Empire.
• Feishi hesitated over Aizen’s offer until someone urged him to remember his dream and accept His Majesty’s promise of glory.

Sasaki convinced Feishi to join the Hollow Spirit Empire, and Aizen’s syringe regenerated Feishi’s severed arm and filled him with new power. Aizen then told the Kage that the battle would end, as beams of light descended from the sky.

• Sasaki urged Feishi to pursue his dream by joining Aizen and demonstrated the power granted by his Hollow Hole.
• Feishi knelt before Aizen and asked to join the Hollow Spirit Empire.
• Aizen gave Feishi a syringe, and Feishi injected himself, enduring agony as a new arm grew from his severed limb.
• Feishi praised his newfound strength and bowed reverently to Aizen, who had Sasaki lead him aside.
• Aizen told the Kage that the battle would end and said the Ninja World had paid a sufficient price.
• Massive beams of light tore through the clouds and plunged toward the ground.

Aizen and the people of Las Noches rose toward the black rift as he declared the Hollow Spirit Empire open to ninja seeking power. Jiraiya and Tsunade accepted that they were now enemies, while Gin pledged loyalty to Aizen as Emperor.

• Pale yellow beams enveloped Aizen, Sasaki, Feishi, and the others from Las Noches, lifting them and the rocks beneath them toward the black rift.
• Aizen announced that the Hollow Spirit Empire would welcome civilians and ninja who sought power, provoking an uproar among the gathered ninja.
• Jiraiya said Aizen had changed beyond turning back, and Tsunade vowed that they would be enemies until death and that Dai or Minato would be avenged.
• Gin asked whether he should address Aizen as Emperor, and Aizen told the people of Las Noches to adapt to their new identities.
• Gin pledged himself and the others to the Hollow Spirit Empire, while Ulquiorra glared at him and Aizen turned his attention to Kimimaro, Kidomaru, and the others.

After Aizen and his forces departed, the surviving ninjas mourned their losses and learned that Minato was Naruto’s father. As the Kage carried Minato and Dai toward Konoha, Sasuke resolved to seek power from Aizen, and Kakashi and Sakura reached him.

• Aizen and his group vanished through the black rift, leaving the battlefield silent and the surviving ninjas grieving their dead.
• Ōnoki, the Raikage, Rasa, and Mei Terumi carried Minato and Dai’s bodies as Naruto approached and recognized Minato as his father.
• Jiraiya comforted Naruto, who fainted from his injuries and grief, and Tsunade confirmed he would recover with rest.
• The four Kage led Minato and Dai’s bodies toward Konoha while other ninjas stayed behind to clear the battlefield.
• Sasuke resolved to gain power by relying on Aizen, then Kakashi and Sakura arrived and asked about his injuries.

Tsunade and Jiraiya discovered that Sarutobi had died defending the ruined Konoha. Meanwhile, Orochimaru confronted the hidden ninjas who had followed him, led by an elderly man with a cane.

• The Four Kage and the returning Konoha ninjas found the village reduced to ruins, and Tsunade rushed inside to check on Sarutobi.
• Tsunade found Sarutobi's corpse in a crater and collapsed in grief as the Anbu stood around him.
• Jiraiya arrived above the crater, saw Sarutobi's body, and murmured, "Old man..."
• Orochimaru stopped in a distant forest and taunted the figures following him.
• An elderly ninja emerged from the darkness with several others and told Orochimaru he had not expected him to detect them despite losing his ninjutsu.