Chapter Summaries

Mingye learned that the Yuki Clan was a branch of the Snow Clan and obtained information about its families and Isobu’s hiding place. After Snow Clan ninjas attacked him, he abandoned his recruitment plan and set out to find Isobu, while Izuna received an unexpected visit from Fujiwara Muneyoshi.

• Madara left the temple after hearing an unseen voice, while a thin white thread merged into his hair.
• Mingye met Ancient Road Autumn Wind, who explained the Yuki Clan’s difficult bloodline awakening and its relationship to the Snow Clan.
• Ancient Road Autumn Wind gave Mingye a booklet about the Snow Clan and a route map to Isobu’s hiding place, which he said Byakuren had concealed.
• Snow Clan ninjas attacked Mingye in a tavern, but he escaped before their explosive tags destroyed the building.
• Mingye decided to stop trying to recruit the Snow Clan and go find Isobu.
• Fujiwara Muneyoshi visited Izuna in Okayama Castle and said he had come to clarify a matter.

Izuna confirmed that Fujiwara Muneyoshi had arranged for Uzumaki Mito to meet General Sato and ordered him to remain in Okayama. At sea, Mingye battled Isobu while Hozuki Gengetsu and Byakuren attacked him, and the fight continued after Mingye was wounded.

• Izuna questioned Fujiwara Muneyoshi, who admitted that he had brought Uzumaki Mito to General Sato on behalf of the Land of Fire.
• Izuna told Fujiwara Muneyoshi not to leave Okayama and made clear that the order came from the Uchiha Clan.
• Mingye approached Isobu through a storm, but the violent sea destroyed his ship and its crew.
• Hozuki Gengetsu and Byakuren appeared and attacked Mingye as he fought Isobu and summoned Manda, Wu, and other creatures.
• Mingye clashed with Byakuren and Hozuki Gengetsu using Sage Method and wind techniques, then suffered a wound from Byakuren's Water Severing Wave.

Mingye escaped Byakuren and Hozuki Gengetsu with Isobu, then survived the White Snake Sage’s Dragon Transformation Pool and completed his sage training. Back in his study, Mingye and Madara captured Black Zetsu, who hinted that he knew about Mingye’s knowledge of the “old hag.”

• Mingye used Sage Art: Howling Wind to evade Byakuren and Hozuki Gengetsu, then escaped with Isobu through the Reverse Summoning Technique.
• The White Snake Sage explained that Mingye’s mastery of wind as a sage art was corroding his body, but declared his training complete and sent him to seek his next inheritor.
• Mingye resealed Isobu, and Madara used Susanoo to pin the weakened beast and seal it into a scroll.
• After Mingye and Madara returned to the study, Mingye formed a barrier as Black Zetsu emerged from Madara and tried to flee.
• Madara confronted Black Zetsu about trapping him in memories, while Mingye tortured him with sage energy and said he did not want to hear him talk because he was sick of the old hag.
• Black Zetsu recognized Mingye’s knowledge of the old hag and laughed as Madara approached him.

Mingye struck a deal with Black Zetsu over the Uchiha Clan’s Sharingan and assembled a mixed-clan team to retrieve Hero’s Water from the Land of Waterfalls. The team found a map to the underground waterways, and Uchiha Feng urged them to use force against local ninjas as they prepared to proceed.

• Mingye heard Black Zetsu propose saving his mother in exchange for solving the Uchiha Clan’s Sharingan problem.
• Mingye asked Hatake Zangshuo for a blade and promised that three Hatake Clan members could join the Konoha Guard.
• Mingye gathered Yamanaka Saura, Nara Dogu, Akimichi Shan, Uchiha Feng, Hatake Ryunosuke, and Sarutobi Zhanwo, then ordered them to bring him Hero’s Water from the Land of Waterfalls.
• Yamanaka Saura reported that the team could not locate Hero’s Water, while Sarutobi Zhanwo delivered a map of the underwater passages.
• Uchiha Feng proposed finding a local ninja to lead them to the potion, and Hatake Ryunosuke supported killing anyone who stood in their way.

Mingye’s team attacked a village to seize Hero’s Water, and he used the raid to criticize his subordinates’ lack of coordination and resolve. The team then traveled to a temple in the Land of Lightning, where Mingye explained why he had brought Akimichi Shan and Nara Dogu with him.

• Uchiha Feng demanded Hero’s Water from the village, while Hatake Ryunosuke killed civilians to pressure its defenders.
• Three ninjas attacked Uchiha Feng with powerful water techniques, but Mingye appeared and killed them with Wind Chaos Performance: Twist.
• Mingye told his subordinates that their divided hearts had made them ineffective, then had the old man and Shanwu killed and sent Hero’s Water to Konoha by war eagle.
• Mingye ordered the team to travel to the Land of Lightning and warned that anyone who failed to follow his instructions would leave the team.
• At a temple where a barrier silenced thunder, Mingye said he had brought Akimichi Shan and Nara Dogu because they looked kind, and joked that Yamanaka Saura was too handsome.

Mingye sent Nara Dogu and Akimichi Shan’s team to attack Sanzenin’s mountain gate as a diversion while he sneaked into the stone pagoda to take the Sage of Six Paths’ relics. He found all five artifacts, but a powerful monk confronted him, and their fight ended with Mingye summoning Manda.

• Mingye told Nara Dogu and Akimichi Shan to lead a nighttime raid on Sanzenin’s mountain gate and draw the monks’ attention.
• Akimichi Shan, Hatake Ryunosuke, and Uchiha Feng fought the lightning-armored monks, while Akimichi Shan was injured by a powerful monk’s Lariat.
• Mingye sent a venomous snake into the central stone pagoda and entered after it transformed back into him.
• Mingye found the five immortal artifacts and took the Seven Stars Sword and Golden Rope.
• A monk attacked Mingye, who fought back with the Seven Stars Sword, Golden Rope, and Snake Bite before summoning Manda.

Mingye defeated the monk defending Sanzenin, but a lightning attack and Saiken’s assault forced him to flee as the mountain was destroyed. He remained in the Land of Lightning to pursue the Tailed Beasts, then met a mysterious lord to propose a deal.

• Mingye poisoned the monk with the Golden Rope and Snake Bite, but the monk died peacefully after thanking him for experiencing the four poisons of the mortal world.
• A second monk ambushed Mingye and destroyed his right arm, so Mingye summoned Saiken and used the resulting battle to bring down Sanzenin’s mountain peak.
• Nara Dogu ordered Mingye’s injured subordinates to retreat, and the Land of Lightning’s ninjas began searching for Mingye and the stolen relics.
• While hiding in a ravine, Mingye told Sarutobi Zhanwo that he intended to capture the Tailed Beasts and that he was waiting for someone.
• Mingye met an ornate carriage on a wilderness road, where its occupant recognized him as the ninja who stole the Sage of Six Paths’ weapons and heard his offer of a deal.

Mingye accepted a bargain for information about the Eight-Tails, then learned that a pro-war general had helped lure him into an ambush at a military camp. Wounded while fighting Kinkaku and Ginkaku, he escaped the encirclement with Manda but stayed focused on finding out how the trap had been arranged so his spies would not be exposed.

• Mingye refused to kill a man in exchange for information about the Eight-Tails and instead secured directions to Cloud Thunder Gorge from the man in the carriage.
• Land of Lightning Number Three told Mingye that the man in the photograph was a pro-war general advocating an attack on the Land of Moon.
• Mingye warned his spies to stay careful, then led his group to a military camp and attacked its command tent with Manda.
• Kinkaku counterattacked Mingye with a lightning thrust, while Ginkaku joined the fight and more than a hundred ninja surrounded the camp.
• Manda carried Mingye through the encirclement, and Ara treated his shoulder wound as Mingye resolved to investigate the information leak before his spies were exposed.

Mingye fought A, the head of the Moon Night Clan, while escaping with the stolen treasure, then recovered in Ryūchi Cave and learned of a possible path to immortality. The chapter ended with Mingye proposing to use the Uzumaki Clan’s soul-extraction technique to take other people’s souls for himself, leaving Ara unsettled.

• Mingye used Sage Art against A, but both were badly injured before Mingye escaped by summoning pythons and captured a minor leader.
• Mingye ordered Uchiha Feng to interrogate the captive about the ambush and warned his allies to remain inside the barrier.
• Ara took Mingye to the Dragon Transformation Pool and warned that repeated Sage Arts transformations could leave him with only a few years to live.
• Mingye told Ara that he refused to give up after surviving blindness and rebuilding his resolve following his past-life suicide.
• Ara revealed a method that could let humans live for a very long time, though their souls would eventually weaken and vanish.
• Mingye suggested using the Uzumaki Clan’s soul-extraction technique to absorb other people’s souls, alarming Ara.

Mingye learned that creating a replacement body with human essence blood would require killing vast numbers of people, but he chose that he wanted to live. After sending his team toward the Land of Wind to find the One-Tail, he arrived as Madara fought the Nine-Tails and realized their plan had begun before Madara had reached his full strength.

• Ara explained that Mingye could make a new body from human essence blood, though gathering enough would require killing many people, and Mingye declared that he did not want to die.
• Uchiha Feng confirmed the enemy had targeted Mingye, and their captured leader identified Ai as the operation’s leader before Uchiha Feng killed him.
• Mingye ended the Land of Lightning operation, ordered his companions to return to Konoha and then search for the One-Tail in the Land of Wind, and learned that Black Zetsu had found the Nine-Tails.
• Madara confronted the Nine-Tails, withstanding its attacks and answering its Tailed Beast Ball with a powerful Susanoo fire technique.
• Mingye reached the battlefield and concluded that Madara could not yet subdue the Nine-Tails with genjutsu, but that neither of them could afford to wait.

Mingye and Madara subdued the Nine-Tails and planned to use Tailed Beasts to devastate the Land of Lightning, provoke a foreign war, and secure Konoha’s military command under the Hokage. The chapter left Hashirama meeting Zuo Wujian at the Hyuga Clan compound.

• Madara used Tsukuyomi to control the weakened Nine-Tails, then told Mingye he would teach him the Summoning Guidance Technique.
• Mingye and Madara surveyed Cloud Thunder Gorge and decided to weaken the Land of Lightning by attacking the civilian relatives of the Moon Night Clan in Thunderclap Valley.
• Mingye proposed unleashing the Isobu, Saiken, and Nine-Tails against one another inside a barrier, and Madara agreed to the plan despite his reservations about killing civilians.
• Mingye said the war should establish that the Hokage would be Konoha’s sole military commander and that every general must die.
• Hashirama visited the Hyuga Clan compound and recognized Zuo Wujian, whom he had not seen in five years.

Senju Hashirama tried to persuade Hyuga Zuowujian to join Konoha, but Hyuga Tianren challenged him to a duel with the clans’ allegiance at stake. Meanwhile, Madara attacked a village in the Land of Lightning, where Mingye prepared to collect blood for a new body.

• Senju Hashirama warned Hyuga Zuowujian that Konoha would fight the Hyuga Clan and argued that joining Konoha would preserve its status.
• Senju Hashirama explained that the Uchiha Clan’s possession of the Uzumaki Clan’s sealing techniques could threaten the Hyuga Clan’s branch house and Caged Bird seal.
• Hyuga Tianren arrived and challenged Senju Hashirama to a match: if Hashirama lost, he would leave Konoha; if Tianren lost, the Hyuga Clan, Kurama Clan, and southern ninja would join Konoha.
• Madara descended into a village in the Land of Lightning with three tailed beasts and ordered them to bombard it with Tailed Beast Balls.
• Mingye revealed that he had spread at least ten thousand venomous snakes through the village to collect blood for creating a new body, and said the war was only the first step.

Mingye and Madara carried out their assault on the Land of Lightning, overwhelming its defenders and turning the village into a disaster zone. A fought Madara to the brink of death and prepared to strike his own heart, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Mingye explained his blood-refining methods to Ara and killed a charging ninja to feed one of his venomous snakes.
• A attacked Madara, who fought back with Susanoo, while Kinkaku and Ginkaku assaulted the Nine-Tails and were swallowed by it.
• Madara recalled Isobu and signaled Black Zetsu to activate the sealing plan as Mingye launched the scroll into the sky.
• Mingye's barrier and magma attack engulfed the village, while Madara's Complete Body Susanoo cut down hundreds of fleeing people.
• A charged Madara with Hell Stab, but Madara blocked him with the Uchiha Gunbai, struck him with a Rasengan, and pierced his chest with Susanoo's swords.
• Near death, A laughed at Madara and pulled his mangled arm back to stab his own heart.

Mingye and Madara continued their assault in the Land of Lightning, while Konoha’s forces seized border positions and killed Shida Yasuto during the Land of Lightning’s invasion. Mingye removed Sato from power, secured the Daimyo’s backing for Konoha to handle the conflict, and encountered Senju Tobirama outside the palace.

• Mingye rescued Madara from the thunderbolt blast, then the two continued killing survivors while Ai died beside the man who had subdued Isobu.
• Land of Lightning ninjas invaded the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Hot Water, and Izuna helped Konoha take control of the city and ordered it sealed off.
• Mingye ignored Sato’s accusations, revealed that Sato’s trusted ninjas had turned to his side, and left Sato to die after restraining him.
• Mingye persuaded the Daimyo to let Konoha handle the invading Land of Lightning ninjas, and the Daimyo accepted his pledge to protect the Land of Fire.
• Senju Tobirama appeared outside the palace carrying a box and confronted Mingye.

Mingye recounted how his attack on the Land of Lightning had provoked its retaliation, while Tobirama negotiated for fairness and protection for the Senju Clan in the coming Hokage succession. The story left Mingye explaining the devastation he had caused to Fujiwara Muneyoshi.

• Tobirama delivered the heads of Tokugawa Ieteru, Shimura Sasuke, Funazai Yuraya, and Morikukawa, and warned Mingye that Ishida Hosei was heading to Okayama Castle.
• Mingye agreed to leave the Hyuga Clan and Kurama Clan alone for one week while Hashirama tried to resolve matters with them.
• Three days earlier, Madara left Mingye to handle the Land of Lightning while he rested and summoned Tobirama back.
• Tobirama asked Mingye to promise fairness for the Senju Clan, and Mingye agreed to consider it if Tobirama offered a worthy bargaining chip.
• Mingye told Fujiwara Muneyoshi that he had burned Sanzenin, killed the Moon Night Clan leader, and caused the deaths of thousands of villagers and more than a hundred ninja.

Mingye and Senju Tobirama struck a deal to eliminate the Land of Fire’s generals and magistrates amid an invasion by the Land of Lightning. Three days later, Mingye recounted the officials’ deaths to Fujiwara Muneyoshi, who struggled to rise as Mingye held him in place.

• Mingye defended slaughtering more than three thousand people by recounting how ninja had killed his family, leaving Fujiwara Muneyoshi horrified and unable to answer.
• Senju Tobirama showed Mingye a secret letter proposing an alliance against Sato and Konoha, then offered to help kill the three generals and two magistrates on his elder brother’s behalf.
• Senju Tobirama warned that hundreds of Land of Lightning ninja were preparing to invade, and Mingye agreed to stop Shida Yasuto while keeping the attackers from advancing deep into the Land of Fire.
• Senju Tobirama revealed that he had created a space-time ninjutsu, and Mingye promised to accept the proposed deal once the generals’ and magistrates’ heads were brought to him.
• Three days later, Mingye told Fujiwara Muneyoshi that Sato, Shida Yasuto, Tokugawa, Funasai, and Morikukawa had died in different ways while holding Muneyoshi’s arm steady as he tried to stand.

Mingye confronted Fujiwara Muneyoshi over his betrayals and left him alive while tightening his control over Okayama. At the border, Konoha and Land of Lightning forces clashed, while Madara prepared to lead Konoha’s army toward the Land of Lightning with a peace-talk letter.

• Mingye accused Fujiwara Muneyoshi of aiding the Senju Clan and leaking information that caused heavy Anbu losses, then left him after dismissing his demand to see the Daimyo.
• Izuna fought the new A at the border between the Land of Hot Water and the Land of Fire, and a signal flare summoned three hundred Konoha ninja against five hundred Land of Lightning ninja.
• Senju Hashirama restrained several Land of Lightning fighters and urged A to stop, but Izuna ordered Konoha’s forces to fight, and Hashirama joined the battle.
• Mingye’s crackdown left nobles and officials in Okayama too afraid to exploit the chaos, while nearly a thousand nobles had died in two days.
• Madara took command of eight hundred Konoha ninja and received Mingye’s letter to deliver to the Land of Lightning’s Daimyo as he advanced toward its capital.

Mingye focused Konoha’s plans on finding the Two-Tails in the Land of Lightning and welcomed Hyuga Tianren and the Kurama Clan into Konoha. The chapter ended with Mingye learning that Hyuga Tianren had probably lost his battle with Hashirama, while recognizing him as one of Konoha’s strongest fighters.

• Mingye told Madara to ignore Hashirama and focus on the Two-Tails, and Madara left to fight at the border.
• Hyuga Tianren arrived at Konoha after bringing his clan and the Kurama Clan into the village, and Mingye welcomed him.
• Mingye let the Hyuga Clan choose where to settle and asked them to help guard Konoha in exchange for a greater share of the benefits.
• Mingye offered Hyuga Tianren chakra-absorbing metal for a pair of gauntlets and asked him to protect the Daimyo at Okayama Castle.
• After Hyuga Tianren left, Mingye questioned a hidden observer, who reported that Tianren’s severe injuries suggested Hashirama had won their duel.

Mingye kept the Kurama Clan hidden as a reserve while Madara’s conquest forced the Land of Lightning to accept Konoha’s demands. After celebrating Sarutobi Sasuke’s son’s choosing ceremony, Mingye hinted that he had another matter to discuss with Sasuke.

• Mingye ordered the Kurama Clan leader to keep the clan’s ties to him secret and build a close relationship with the Hyuga Clan.
• Madara’s forces routed the Lightning ninja and swept through the Land of Lightning, making Konoha known across the world.
• Madara demanded tribute, reparations, and a limit on the Land of Lightning’s ninja forces, and the Daimyo agreed under threat of further bloodshed.
• Mingye visited Sarutobi Sasuke during his son’s choosing ceremony and said he would discuss another matter after the ceremony.
• Mingye watched the family celebration and felt uncomfortable, recalling that the Uchiha Clan had never held a choosing ceremony for him.

Mingye offered Sarutobi Hiruzen a chance to become his disciple and laid out rules for Konoha’s future Hokage, while insisting the position would not belong to the Uchiha Clan by inheritance. Later, Ara warned that Ryūchi Cave could not provide enough energy to temper Mingye’s developing body, and Mingye proposed using Rōran’s Ryūmyaku.

• Mingye interpreted Sarutobi Hiruzen’s choice of a book and a wooden stick as signs of talent, then offered to take him as a disciple.
• Mingye told Sarutobi Sasuke that Konoha would have a Hokage chosen for strength rather than inheritance, and that candidates under forty could compete to become the Second Hokage.
• Mingye explained that the Hokage would serve ten-year terms and told Sarutobi Sasuke that his son might have a chance at the position.
• Ara told Mingye that Ryūchi Cave could not sustain his developing body and that it needed a powerful source of chakra to be tempered.
• Mingye decided to try using Rōran’s Ryūmyaku as a source of energy, while asking Ara to let Ryūchi Cave support the process for now.
• Ara asked Mingye how he knew so much about ancient secrets, including the Goddess of Night.