Chapter Summaries

Otsutsuki Shiki left after his wounds flared up, while Eida revealed that he was Isshiki’s younger brother and had been injured by the Ancestor of Sage Arts. In Konoha, the gathered shinobi prepared to grow stronger and discussed a second fusion as Otsutsuki Yuhao fought a powerful opponent.

• Otsutsuki Shiki knocked Code and Daemon down, then left through a portal when his wounds began to flare up again.
• Eida told Code and Daemon that Shiki had arrived in the Ninja World three days earlier, had been injured by the Ancestor of Sage Arts, and was Isshiki’s younger brother.
• The shinobi in Konoha entered Imperial Sage Mode and watched the distant battle, while Senju Tobirama urged them to prepare for more enemies.
• Second Pillar, Uchiha Madara, Senju Hashirama, and Uchiha Izuna discussed attempting a second fusion to face the powerful opponent.
• Hatake Kakashi rejected Might Guy’s suggestion that they fuse, and Uchiha Shisui proposed that he and Kakashi test a second fusion.

Otsutsuki Kaguya told Otsutsuki Yuhao that Otsutsuki Shiki, Isshiki’s younger brother, had arrived and likely sought knowledge about Otsutsuki Shibai rather than a Chakra Fruit. Yuhao set out to confront Shiki and force him to reveal what he knew, while Kaguya warned him not to underestimate Shiki.

• Hatake Kakashi and Uchiha Shisui took Obito and Itachi into a remote forest to test the Fusion Technique again.
• Otsutsuki Kaguya identified the newcomer as Otsutsuki Shiki and explained that he had a poor relationship with Isshiki and likely possessed ancient clan knowledge.
• Kaguya said Shiki probably came seeking Otsutsuki Shibai rather than Chakra Fruits, whose benefits diminished after the first consumption.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao said he planned to beat Shiki into submission before questioning him about the secrets he knew.
• Kaguya warned Yuhao that Shiki might be hiding his true strength, and Yuhao left determined to confront him.
• Otsutsuki Black Zetsu watched Yuhao leave and felt relieved to be on his side rather than Shiki’s.

Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha Obito, Uchiha Shisui, and Uchiha Itachi successfully performed a second-stage fusion after sealing most of their chakra. Their new form, Six Paths Uchiha, asked Otsutsuki Yuhao to test his strength.

• Black Zetsu reflected on Yuhao's cunning and resolved to protect his mother from Otsutsuki Shiki.
• Kakashi and Itachi proposed sealing away most of their chakra to control the power of successive fusions.
• Kakashi and Obito fused into Six Paths Kato, while Shisui and Itachi fused into Six Paths Water Weasel.
• The two fused warriors successfully combined into Six Paths Uchiha, who chose that name for his new form.
• Yuhao returned to Konoha, and Six Paths Uchiha challenged him to test the strength of their fusion.

Six Paths Uchiha tested his fused power against Otsutsuki Yuhao, escalating into Imperial Sage Mode and launching his Rinnegan techniques. Yuhao repelled his attacks and continued growing stronger, leaving Uchiha to realize he needed to act before he lost his chance.

• Six Paths Uchiha attacked Otsutsuki Yuhao, who blocked most of his strikes and recognized that Uchiha had reached the Black Golden Core Stage.
• Six Paths Uchiha entered Imperial Sage Mode and struck with lower-sixth-step power, but Yuhao dodged and counterattacked, grazing Uchiha with black-gold lightning.
• Six Paths Uchiha used Kamui to avoid Yuhao's blow, then activated Double Amaterasu and sent Rinnegan-level flames after him.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao used Shinra Tensei to repel the Amaterasu flames and explained that any ninjutsu could become powerful when mastered.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao's power rose to the high rank of the Sixth Tier, and Six Paths Uchiha decided he had to act before Yuhao grew stronger.

Otsutsuki Yuhao and the four-man fusion team tested their second-stage Fusion Technique, which proved powerful but lasted only about five minutes. Yuhao warned that Otsutsuki Shiki could bring a stronger force to the Ninja World, and the group prepared to wait for him in Konoha while strengthening themselves.

• Uchiha Obito, Uchiha Shisui, Hatake Kakashi, and Uchiha Itachi separated from their second-stage fusion after five minutes and concluded that its stamina cost and accelerated time sharply limited its duration.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao recognized the fusion's potential and considered whether Naruto, Sasuke, Madara, and Hashirama might achieve a similar fusion.
• Uchiha Madara, Senju Hashirama, Senju Tobirama, Uchiha Izuna, Uzumaki Naruto, and Second Pillar observed the fusion's power, while Naruto and Second Pillar imagined combining their own abilities.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao explained that Otsutsuki Shiki was a powerful threat who might bring an elite force if he discovered their strength, and said the group should wait for him in Konoha.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao urged everyone to strengthen themselves, and Senju Hashirama revealed that he had reached the White Golden Core Stage a month earlier, prompting Uchiha Madara to resolve to catch up.

Kawaki resolved to leave Konoha and seek a Tailed Beast so he could become stronger, while Eida worried about the dangers facing Daemon. At the Immortal Palace Hall, Otsutsuki Yuhao cultivated with the continent’s fortune and advanced to the middle tier of the seventh step as Madara and Hashirama continued training.

• Kawaki accepted that he could not approach the battle and decided to leave Konoha the next day to find a Tailed Beast.
• Eida watched Otsutsuki Yuhao and Six Paths Uchiha battle through her Clairvoyance and concluded Daemon needed more training.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao sensed that the Sage Art Continent’s fortune was strengthening his cultivation and began cultivating the Imperial Golden Core.
• Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama trained at the peak of the White Golden Core Stage, striving to reach the Purple Golden Core Stage.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao broke through from the lower tier to the middle tier of the seventh step, increasing his strength by more than half again.

Otsutsuki Yuhao reached the Blue Golden Core Stage, while Code, Daemon, and Eida approached Konoha to avenge Isshiki. At Konoha’s gates, Code fought Boruto and found that Boruto’s power and chakra made a quick victory difficult.

• Otsutsuki Yuhao reached the middle level of the Seventh Stage and believed he could fight an Eighth Stage Otsutsuki.
• Code, Daemon, and Eida neared Konoha after Code mastered White Karma and reached the Fourth Stage.
• Boruto, Sarada, Mitsuki, and Kawaki confronted the trio at Konoha’s gates, and Code declared that he had come to kill the Hokage and Second Pillar.
• Boruto entered Azure Dragon Mode and Sage Mode to fight Code, while Sarada, Mitsuki, and Kawaki also entered Sage Mode.
• Boruto used clones, Chidori Stream, and an Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan, but Code dispersed the Rasengan with a powerful punch.
• Code realized that Boruto’s greater chakra reserves could put him at a disadvantage if the fight continued.

Boruto used Rasengan Uzuhiko and the Flying Thunder God Technique to defeat Code, while Eida and Daemon asked to join Konoha. Eida revealed her Omnipotence, and Kawaki attacked her, prompting Daemon to step in.

• Boruto struck Code with Rasengan Uzuhiko after teleporting behind him with the Flying Thunder God Technique, leaving Code collapsed.
• Eida asked to join Konoha, while Daemon urged her to make everyone submit by force.
• Kawaki questioned whether they could trust Eida and Daemon, and Eida warned him not to harbor ill intentions toward her brother.
• Boruto identified Eida's power as Omnipotence, which influenced Mitsuki and Sarada despite their resistance.
• Kawaki entered Imperial Sage Mode and attacked Eida, but Daemon stepped forward to protect her.

Kawaki attacked Daemon but was badly injured when Daemon reflected his attack with his divine technique, Killing Intent Reflection. Eida explained that she wanted Konoha's protection from a powerful future enemy, and Boruto agreed to bring her and Daemon to his home while he consulted the Hokage.

• Kawaki's punch struck Daemon without effect, and Killing Intent Reflection sent Kawaki flying and left him injured.
• Daemon explained that he could absorb the energy of attacks and return them with several times the force, while Boruto and Kawaki resolved to find a weakness in his ability.
• Eida tried to prevent further fighting, and Boruto said he lacked authority to admit the siblings to Konoha without asking his father, the Hokage.
• Eida said she wanted true friends and later revealed that she sought Konoha's protection for herself and Daemon from a powerful enemy she had foreseen.
• Boruto offered to bring Eida and Daemon to his house as friends until he could speak to the Hokage, and Kawaki reluctantly accepted.

Kawaki agreed to fuse with Boruto to protect the Hokage, while Shikamaru approved Eida and Daemon joining Konoha and warned Boruto to monitor their dangerous abilities. With Naruto and the elders away, Konoha’s new generation worked to secure Code and consider what to do about him.

• Boruto persuaded Kawaki to use the Fusion Technique, and Kawaki agreed on the condition that he was doing it to protect the Hokage.
• Shikamaru approved Eida and Daemon’s admission to Konoha and told Boruto and Kawaki to watch them closely, especially Eida.
• Ino reassured Shikamaru that Konoha still had the Sannin to defend it while Naruto was away.
• Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki discussed reinforcing Code’s seal, while Boruto proposed persuading Code to join or cooperate with Konoha.
• Kawaki called Boruto naive and walked away after Boruto argued that Code could help them fight the Otsutsuki.

Otsutsuki Yuhao discovered that Isshiki’s Ten-Tails juvenile possessed divine genes and intervened when Otsutsuki Shiki tried to devour it. Shiki escaped with half the creature, and Yuhao pursued him, determined to recover the rest and kill him.

• On the Sage Art Continent, Yuhao observed the many Six Paths experts and reflected that the planet’s Heavenly Dao favored ninjas from the Ninja World over those born on the continent.
• Yuhao used his Jōgan’s Clairvoyance to see Shiki inside Isshiki’s Ten-Tails space, where Shiki revealed that the juvenile Ten-Tails had divine genes.
• Shiki began absorbing the Ten-Tails, but Yuhao teleported in and fought him for control of the creature.
• Shiki used Black Eye to split the Ten-Tails in two and fled with half, leaving Yuhao with the other half.
• Yuhao resolved to recover the missing half and kill Shiki, then pursued him through space and time.

Otsutsuki Shiki absorbed the Ten-Tails and fought Otsutsuki Yuhao in the real world and across the starry cosmos. Yuhao unleashed his Imperial Blade Art, and its final strike hit the Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan on Shiki’s forehead.

• Otsutsuki Shiki refined the Ten-Tails within his body, reached the seventh step, and turned to attack Otsutsuki Yuhao.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao and Otsutsuki Shiki clashed with powerful techniques, shattering the spatial tunnel and returning to the real world.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao entered Imperial Sage Mode and fought Otsutsuki Shiki with Sage Art: Sixfold Rasengan against Apocalypse Death Bullet.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao discovered that Otsutsuki Shiki had reached the upper tier of the seventh step and used Tenfold King Realm Fist to sever Shiki’s Black Receiver.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao unleashed Imperial Blade Art, and its blade radiance struck Otsutsuki Shiki’s forehead Nine-Tomoe Rinnegan despite Shiki’s attempt to shrink the attack with Sukunahikona.

Otsutsuki Yuhao destroyed Otsutsuki Shiki’s newly awakened Rinnegan and summoned a colossal Sage Body Susanoo, overwhelming Shiki’s attack. Shiki then transformed into the ten-thousand-meter Divine Ten-Tails Form, leaving the two powerful beings poised for a greater clash.

• Otsutsuki Yuhao slashed through Otsutsuki Shiki’s Rinnegan, sharply reducing Shiki’s power.
• Otsutsuki Shiki amplified Great Soldier Heaven and sent enormous weapons raining down on Yuhao.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao formed a thousand-meter Sage Body Susanoo surrounded by nine Truth-Seeking Orbs and destroyed Shiki’s weapons with a flap of its wings.
• Uchiha Izuna and Uchiha Madara watched from space and marveled at Yuhao’s super Susanoo beyond the Complete Body form.
• Otsutsuki Shiki unleashed the Divine Ten-Tails Form, transforming into a ten-thousand-meter beast with nine heads and ten tails.

Otsutsuki Yuhao fought Otsutsuki Shiki in the starry void, using his Jōgan’s Destruction technique to erase Shiki and his soul. Gaara and Daemon witnessed Yuhao’s overwhelming power from afar.

• Otsutsuki Yuhao dodged Shiki’s nine Tailed Beast Bombs by phasing into another dimension.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao unleashed Myriad Blades of Heaven and Earth against the Ten-Tails, wounding it with a barrage of giant swords.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao charged Otsutsuki Shiki and struck him with the Jōgan’s Destruction technique.
• Otsutsuki Shiki tried to defend himself with two red energy spheres, but Yuhao’s destructive energy broke down his body and chakra.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao erased Otsutsuki Shiki’s remaining form and soul, leaving no chance for his resurrection.
• Gaara and Daemon watched the battle from a distance, and Daemon realized he could not have faced Yuhao’s full power.

After killing Otsutsuki Shiki, Otsutsuki Yuhao captured the young Ten-Tails that remained and planned to combine it with his divine Ten-Tails. Three years later, Konoha’s leaders discussed spending Sage Art contribution points, and Senju Hashirama revealed he needed points to buy Mito a Chakra Fruit.

• Otsutsuki Yuhao discovered that Shiki’s half of the Ten-Tails had survived and grown into a young Ten-Tails.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao used Sage Body Susanoo to capture the Ten-Tails, intending to combine its power with his divine Ten-Tails.
• Three years later, Uchiha Itachi planned to use his contribution points to buy Sage Art Chakra Fruits for Kiyomi, whose Mangekyō Sharingan had awakened.
• Senju Hashirama asked Uchiha Madara to lend him five thousand contribution points, but Madara refused because he planned to buy Chakra Fruits for Izuna.
• Uchiha Izuna asked Hashirama why he needed so many points, and Hashirama admitted he had used them all and had promised to buy Mito a Chakra Fruit before the final day to purchase one.

Senju Hashirama revealed that he was developing Thousand-Hand Buddha Transformation, a technique meant to restore life to battle-scarred land, while Uchiha Madara reflected on his own Sage Body Susanoo. Three years later, Otsutsuki Yuhao had advanced to the Deep Blue Golden Core Stage and was comprehending the Dao of nature.

• Senju Hashirama told Uchiha Madara, Senju Tobirama, and Izuna that he had spent their contribution points researching Thousand-Hand Buddha Transformation.
• Senju Hashirama explained that the technique merged chakra with natural energy to create Wood Buddha Power capable of defending and healing the land.
• Uchiha Madara thought that his Sage Body Susanoo could face Ōtsutsuki Isshiki at his peak and escape even if he could not win.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao merged his two half-Ten-Tails into one, advanced to the upper level of the seventh tier, and reached the Deep Blue Golden Core Stage.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao meditated on a boulder, sensing nature as he worked to comprehend the Dao of nature and the Imperial Golden Core.

After three months of meditation, Otsutsuki Yuhao approached the peak of the seventh step and used shadow clones and spiritual materials to continue training. In an alternate dimension, Kawaki and Daemon fought, and Daemon realized that Sage Chakra Fruits had helped Kawaki and others grow far stronger.

• Otsutsuki Yuhao sensed that he could reach the peak of the seventh step in less than a month and created ten shadow clones to train.
• Otsutsuki Yuhao used his Jōgan to drain hundreds of spiritual materials and energy stones, then left his clones behind to continue training.
• Daemon destroyed Kawaki's falling cubes while Kawaki observed him and gathered natural energy for a counterattack.
• Daemon noticed Kawaki's improvement and accused him of gaining strength from Sage Chakra Fruits.
• Kawaki said he had trained relentlessly for three years, while Daemon had spent that time playing around.

Kawaki explained that he and the others had grown stronger by exchanging spiritual items for Sage Power Fruits, while Daemon set off to find some himself. At the Land of Fire border, future Naruto and Sasuke arrived in a parallel world and learned from Obito about Otsutsuki Yuhao, the Sage of Six Paths’ younger brother.

• Kawaki told Daemon that spiritual items could be exchanged for Sage Power Fruits, and Daemon left to search for them.
• Boruto and Kawaki discussed the fruits’ power and the danger of Otsutsuki using God Trees to create Chakra Fruits.
• Middle-aged Naruto and Second Pillar arrived at the Land of Fire border and were surprised by the strength of the parallel world’s ninjas.
• Obito appeared and confirmed that Naruto and Sasuke had arrived in a parallel world, not their own past.
• Obito told Naruto and Sasuke that Otsutsuki Yuhao was the Ancestor of Sage Arts and the Sage of Six Paths’ younger brother.
• Obito opened a portal with his Rinnegan to take Naruto and Sasuke to meet Yuhao.

Uzumaki Naruto and Second Pillar arrived in Otsutsuki Yuhao’s time-space while pursuing Demon King Kulisa, and explained Kulisa’s ki-based power and their escape through a time-traveling ring. Yuhao judged Kulisa to be at least peak fifth tier, while Kulisa appeared above Konoha with power surpassing Isshiki’s.

• Uchiha Obito showed Uzumaki Naruto and Second Pillar the God Tree, which Otsutsuki Yuhao had made from the Ten-Tails after killing Otsutsuki Shiki.
• Obito brought Naruto and Second Pillar to meet Yuhao, who asked about Kulisa and his abilities.
• Naruto explained that Kulisa had no chakra or special abilities, relying instead on a powerful body and ki.
• Naruto told Yuhao that he and Second Pillar had followed Kulisa through time and space using a ring after failing to defeat him.
• Yuhao assessed Naruto and Second Pillar as upper fourth tier and concluded Kulisa was at least peak fifth tier.
• Demon King Kulisa appeared above Konoha in battle armor, surrounded by demonic creatures, radiating chakra more powerful than Isshiki’s.

Konohamaru’s strongest Rasengan failed to harm Demon King Kulisa, who easily struck him down. Kawaki and the others confronted Kulisa, and Sarada’s Amaterasu damaged his energy shell as they prepared to draw him away from Konoha.

• Konohamaru attacked Demon King Kulisa with Big Ball Wind-Fire Rasengan, but Kulisa dispelled it with a finger and sent Konohamaru crashing into the ground.
• Kawaki attacked Kulisa with Daikokuten cubes and questioned who he was while Boruto, Sarada, and Mitsuki helped Konohamaru.
• Sarada awakened her Rinnegan to track Kulisa, while Mitsuki sensed the chakra around them and prepared to enter Sage Mode.
• Kulisa assessed Kawaki and the others’ strength as Kawaki warned Boruto that Kulisa had likely surpassed the Fifth Step.
• Mitsuki proposed luring Kulisa to another dimension, and the group agreed they could not fight him in Konoha.
• Sarada struck Kulisa with Amaterasu, causing cracks to appear in his energy shell.