Chapter Summaries

Naruto reported Lin Bei’s return to Tsunade, who ordered a search and heightened security while worrying that he might attack Konoha again. Lin Bei reflected on his fading emotions, then opened Chaos Academy in the ruins of the Whirlpool Country to teach orphaned children, beginning with a lesson on music.

• Naruto told Tsunade he had met Lin Bei at Ichiraku Ramen, and Tsunade ordered Shizune to search Konoha and alert everyone to stay on guard.
• Tsunade arranged for Naruto to wait in her office for Kakashi and worried that Lin Bei might repeat his attack on Konoha.
• Lin Bei sat on Hokage Rock, reflected on his fading emotions, and decided to seek purpose beyond cultivation by spreading knowledge.
• Lin Bei opened Chaos Academy in the ruins of the Whirlpool Country and began teaching war orphans from other worlds’ knowledge.
• Lin Bei welcomed a young orphan to class and told him they would learn music.

Tsunade learned that Lin Bei had founded a large academy in Whirlpool Country and sent Kakashi’s team, with Jiraiya, to investigate. The group set out for the country while Jiraiya considered why Tsunade had included Naruto.

• Shizune told Tsunade that Team Kurenai had found an academy for war orphans and homeless people in Whirlpool Country, founded by the Wandering Samurai Lin Bei.
• Tsunade ordered Kakashi to investigate with Naruto and the others, then added Jiraiya to the team for safety.
• Jiraiya met Kakashi’s team at Konoha’s gate and learned that Otsutsuki Toneri had joined Team 7.
• Kakashi led the group toward Whirlpool Country and explained Lin Bei’s previous appearances in Konoha to Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya wondered whether Lin Bei’s choice of Whirlpool Country explained why Tsunade had sent Naruto along.

Jiraiya and Kakashi visited Lin Bei’s Chaos Academy in the ruins of Whirlpool Village and saw how it educated war orphans. Lin Bei challenged the philosophy of ninja schools, leaving Jiraiya and Kakashi struck by his argument that they trained children to become killing machines.

• Jiraiya, Kakashi, Naruto, and their companions reached Chaos Academy and wondered why they could understand its unfamiliar characters.
• Lin Bei appeared with Kurenai Yuhi’s squad and invited the visitors inside after discussing Konoha’s reasons for investigating the academy.
• Lin Bei showed Jiraiya and the others the academy grounds, where Inuzuka Kiba played basketball with the students and children played soccer.
• Jiraiya asked whether Lin Bei’s academy trained ninja, and Lin Bei criticized ninja schools for teaching children to use ninjutsu for conflict while hoping for peace.
• Jiraiya and Kakashi froze as Lin Bei argued that ninja schools cultivated killing machines instead of teaching children to benefit the people and the world.

Lin Bei explained to Jiraiya how Chaos Academy taught children to become decent people before teaching them Chakra, prompting Jiraiya to reflect on the ninja world's war-focused schools. Lin Bei proposed that the villages unite through shared interests, and Jiraiya left the academy with Naruto and the others to pursue that idea.

• Lin Bei told Jiraiya and the others that Chakra and extraordinary power should serve more than conflict, then showed them Chaos Academy's peaceful approach to teaching.
• Lin Bei explained that students had to learn benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and integrity before he would teach them Chakra.
• Jiraiya reflected on Orochimaru and worried that changing Konoha's academy alone could leave it vulnerable to war while the other villages continued training child soldiers.
• Jiraiya asked Lin Bei how the ninja world could change, and Lin Bei suggested gathering the village Kage to discuss cooperation and form an alliance based on shared interests.
• Jiraiya accepted the proposal and left Chaos Academy with Naruto and the others.

Jiraiya and Tsunade decided to convene the ninja world in the Land of Iron to discuss the Otsutsuki threat and invite Lin Bei to moderate. Orochimaru arrived at Chaos Academy seeking to trade for Lin Bei’s Sharingan, and Lin Bei confronted him.

• Jiraiya told Tsunade that ninja power could be used to improve the world, and they agreed to invite the villages and other ninja forces to a meeting.
• Tsunade chose the Land of Iron as the meeting place and agreed that Lin Bei could serve as its moderator.
• Tsunade asked Jiraiya to travel to Whirlpool Country and invite Lin Bei.
• Orochimaru arrived at Chaos Academy, remarking that Lin Bei’s orphanage had reduced the children available for his experiments.
• Lin Bei appeared behind Orochimaru and asked what he intended to do.
• Orochimaru said he wanted to trade for Lin Bei’s Sharingan and offered a bargaining chip.

Lin Bei rejected Orochimaru’s offer of a Chakra extraction method and revealed his power by turning an explosive-tag scroll into a book and showing his golden Rinne Sharingan. Orochimaru agreed to stay at Lin Bei’s academy and teach his students basic ninjutsu in exchange for an explanation of the eye.

• Orochimaru offered Lin Bei a Chakra extraction method in exchange for the Sharingan Lin Bei had taken from Danzo, but Lin Bei laughed and rejected the deal.
• Orochimaru threw a summoning scroll covered in Explosive Tags at Lin Bei, who changed it into a book and caught it without moving.
• Lin Bei revealed the golden Rinne Sharingan on his forehead, leaving Orochimaru stunned by the vision of an immense golden eye.
• Orochimaru asked Lin Bei to explain the eye, and Lin Bei agreed on the condition that Orochimaru teach his students basic ninjutsu at the academy.
• Lin Bei told Orochimaru that his students would use their knowledge to benefit the world rather than become killing machines, and Orochimaru fell into thought.

Lin Bei explained the origins of chakra, the Otsutsuki, and the major events behind the Shinobi World to Orochimaru. He revealed that Kaguya had left Earth and that his own Rinne Sharingan was a power above the Sharingan and Rinnegan.

• Lin Bei told Orochimaru that Otsutsuki Kaguya came to Earth, sacrificed Otsutsuki Isshiki to the Divine Tree, and became the Rabbit Goddess after eating its fruit.
• Lin Bei explained that Kaguya's sons, Otsutsuki Hagoromo and Otsutsuki Hamura, sealed her on the moon to protect humanity, and admitted that he had made the moon disappear before promising to restore it that night.
• Lin Bei revealed that Black Zetsu had manipulated Uchiha Madara and Obito for over a thousand years to revive Kaguya, and that Obito had caused the Nine-Tails' Attack that killed the Fourth Hokage and Kushina.
• Lin Bei said that Kaguya had been revived and left Earth with Black Zetsu, leaving Madara and Obito's plans uncertain.
• Lin Bei explained the Otsutsuki origins of the Sharingan and Byakugan, described how the Rinnegan evolved, and identified his own eye as the more powerful Rinne Sharingan.

Jiraiya visited Chaos Academy and invited Lin Bei to host the Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron. Lin Bei agreed and proposed inviting Akatsuki and other ninja organizations, while Jiraiya learned Orochimaru had stayed to teach the students under Lin Bei's watch.

• Orochimaru taught children at Chaos Academy after Lin Bei asked him to teach them basic ninjutsu.
• Jiraiya arrived, found Orochimaru teaching, and went to speak with Lin Bei after confirming the children were safe.
• Jiraiya invited Lin Bei to host the Five Kage Summit in the Land of Iron next month, and Lin Bei agreed.
• Lin Bei suggested inviting Akatsuki and other ninja organizations so they could take part in discussions about peace.
• Jiraiya questioned Orochimaru's presence, and Lin Bei explained that Orochimaru had come seeking Danzo's Sharingan before agreeing to teach at the academy.
• Lin Bei assured Jiraiya that Orochimaru would not repeat his past crimes while staying at Chaos Academy.

Nagato and Konan received an invitation from Konoha to attend a meeting in the Land of Iron, but they wondered how Konoha had found them. Nagato suspected the god he had seen in the sun had revealed their location, leaving him and Konan to consider the being’s connection to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

• Nagato had recovered after Lin Bei returned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to the moon, though his legs remained damaged from Hanzō of the Salamander’s trap.
• Konan gave Nagato Konoha’s invitation to a meeting about the fate of the ninja world in the Land of Iron.
• Nagato questioned how Konoha had learned that he and Konan were in the Land of Rain, since his Rain Tiger at Will Technique had detected no suspicious visitors.
• Nagato recalled the being he had seen in the sun and suggested that it had told Konoha where they were.
• Nagato explained that the being had taken the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and sealed it inside the new moon, severing his Rinnegan’s connection to it.

Nagato decided the Akatsuki would attend Konoha’s meeting in the Land of Iron, while Obito struggled with Black Zetsu’s revelations and learned that White Zetsu scouts had been wiped out near Chaos Academy. At the academy, Lin Bei gave Orochimaru a captured White Zetsu to study and warned him to leave the students alone.

• Nagato chose to attend the meeting and ordered Konan to bring all of the Six Paths while he supported her from the shadows.
• Obito questioned Uchiha Madara’s corpse about Black Zetsu, Otsutsuki Kaguya, and whether the Infinite Tsukuyomi could revive Rin.
• White Zetsu told Obito that Konoha planned to convene the Five Great Shinobi Villages and other shinobi villages in the Land of Iron next month.
• White Zetsu reported that every scout sent to investigate Whirlpool Country’s academy had been discovered and killed, so Obito called off further scouting there.
• Lin Bei allowed Orochimaru to research a restrained White Zetsu but warned him not to experiment on the academy’s students.

Jiraiya met Konan and Nagato-controlled Yahiko before the peace talks in the Land of Iron and learned more about how Danzo and Hanzō had betrayed his former students. He apologized for failing to protect them, while Konan said she and the others had remained grateful for his teachings.

• Shizune reported to Tsunade that the villages and delegates had arrived for the talks, including Gaara, Killer Bee, and the new Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist.
• Jiraiya met Konan and Yahiko, who was being controlled by Nagato, and invited them to have a drink with him.
• Konan told Jiraiya that Yahiko was dead and that Nagato had used the Rinnegan to turn his corpse into its current form.
• Jiraiya cursed Danzo and apologized for failing to protect his students after Danzo and Hanzō had set them up.
• Konan told Jiraiya that she, Yahiko, and the others had been grateful that he taught them ninjutsu, and explained that she and Nagato had avoided him after Yahiko's death.

Jiraiya challenged Nagato and Konan’s plan to impose peace through fear and urged them to consider using shinobi abilities to improve people’s lives. At the conference’s opening, Lin Bei made a startling entrance through a spatial rift before the gathered leaders.

• Jiraiya told Konan and Nagato that Obito had misled them about collecting the Tailed Beasts and explained why fear and pain could not create lasting peace.
• Jiraiya asked Konan and Nagato how they defined shinobi, then proposed using chakra to grow crops, build houses, and benefit the world.
• Konan revealed that their Tailed Beast plan was suspended because the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had been sealed onto the moon.
• The next morning, the Five Kage and other faction leaders gathered for the conference, while Tsunade and Mei Terumi wondered where the host was.
• A spatial rift opened in the center of the venue, and Lin Bei stepped out before the stunned attendees.

Lin Bei appeared at the ninja assembly as its host, astounding the gathered Kage and ninja with his power and mysterious eye. After Tsunade delivered an opening speech urging them to use ninja abilities to improve the world rather than wage war, the assembly was ready to begin.

• Lin Bei emerged from a spatial rift and introduced himself as the host invited by Konoha.
• Tsunade confirmed that Lin Bei, the dean of Chaos Academy, would preside over the assembly.
• Lin Bei welcomed the attendees and invited Tsunade to give the opening address.
• Tsunade argued that ninja power should transform the world instead of fueling war and hatred.
• The assembled ninja applauded Tsunade's speech.

The first day of the talks focused on forming a Ninja World Alliance, while the Five Great Shinobi Villages argued over who should lead it. Obito decided to sabotage the summit, and Lin Bei warned the assembled Kage to protect their people.

• The delegates argued over which village should lead the proposed alliance, while the Five Great Shinobi Villages sought support from other forces.
• Tsunade invited Lin Bei for a drink, and Mei Terumi, the Tsuchikage, the Raikage, and Gaara joined them.
• Konan noticed Obito watching Lin Bei in disguise, but Yahiko told her not to follow the Kage.
• Obito left the venue and resolved to destroy the talks before the alliance could be founded.
• Lin Bei warned Tsunade and the others that opponents of the alliance might target their people, and Mei Terumi asked him about his identity.

Lin Bei and Jiraiya survived an explosive-tag attack meant to frame the villages and disrupt their alliance talks. Obito then began his next move against Nagato, who recognized him as Uchiha Obito.

• Lin Bei explained that Jiraiya’s doubts about Nagato and the others had been understandable, then they dodged a kunai attack.
• Lin Bei neutralized the explosive tag with spatial power, while Jiraiya identified a Hidden Cloud marking on the kunai and suspected a frame-up.
• Explosions destroyed the inn where Tsunade and the other Kage were staying, and Jiraiya rushed to investigate how the attackers had bypassed the guards.
• Obito’s White Zetsu reported planting explosive tags and village symbols in the Kage’s rooms, and Obito said the attack would sow distrust and hinder the talks.
• Konan and Nagato discussed the alliance and Jiraiya’s proposal for changing the role of ninja when Obito appeared, and Nagato recognized him.

Obito attacked Nagato to reclaim Madara's Rinnegan, but Nagato and Konan resisted as Akatsuki members arrived to oppose them. Lin Bei brought Jiraiya and Kakashi into the confrontation, leaving Obito stunned when Kakashi recognized him.

• Obito tried to pull Nagato into his alternate dimension, but Nagato used Yahiko's Universal Pull to disrupt the attack, and Konan countered with Paper Release.
• Nagato's Six Paths puppets surrounded Obito, but Obito summoned White Zetsu and was joined by Deidara, Sasori, Kakuzu, Hidan, Kisame Hoshigaki, and Itachi.
• Deidara attacked Nagato and Konan with Explosive Clay, but Yahiko protected them with Almighty Push; the Akatsuki members explained why they had sided with Obito.
• Lin Bei snapped his fingers and brought Jiraiya and Kakashi into the confrontation, where Jiraiya recognized Nagato and Konan as his former students.
• Kakashi asked Obito if he was the man in the spiral mask, leaving Obito bewildered that everyone knew his identity.

Obito led the Akatsuki in an attack on Nagato to seize the Rinnegan, but Jiraiya and Kakashi’s unexpected arrival turned the battlefield against him. Obito withdrew without the Rinnegan, while Nagato and Konan prepared to deal with the Akatsuki members left behind.

• Obito launched an assault on Nagato as the Akatsuki engaged Jiraiya, Kakashi, and the others; Itachi and Kisame Hoshigaki stayed out of the fighting.
• Jiraiya overwhelmed Hidan and Kakuzu, burning Hidan without killing him and destroying four of Kakuzu’s five hearts.
• Deidara and Sasori pressured Kakashi, but Kakashi used Lightning Cutter to smash Sasori’s puppet before retreating from the Third Kazekage puppet.
• Obito fought Nagato’s Six Paths puppets with White Zetsu’s help, while Lin Bei watched from the sidelines.
• Seeing that the battle was turning against him and that Nagato’s Rinnegan was out of reach, Obito ordered a retreat and escaped with his Sharingan.

After Jiraiya sealed Hidan, Itachi and Kisame left to find Obito, while Nagato and Konan remained in the aftermath of the battle. The Five Kage then gathered to discuss the attacks and whether to suspend their talks.

• Jiraiya sent Hidan's sealed scroll to Mount Myōboku and learned from Nagato that Obito wanted to take his Rinnegan, which had been given to him by Madara.
• Itachi concluded that the masked man was likely Obito and left with Kisame Hoshigaki to find him.
• Nagato told Jiraiya that he and Konan could handle Obito and the White Zetsu, and Jiraiya left with Kakashi for an emergency meeting.
• Nagato refused to rely on the Five Kage's talks, while Konan chose to support him.
• At the emergency meeting, Tsunade and Mei Terumi said the attacks were meant to sabotage the talks, while the Raikage and Tsuchikage favored suspending them until the culprit was caught.
• Gaara argued that the talks should continue, and Tsunade agreed with him.

Lin Bei and Liu Shen returned to the Douluo God Realm after ten years of comprehending the Dao and learned that the Spirit Empire was close to defeating the allied empires. As the alliance’s commanders lost hope, Tang San admitted to Xiao Wu that his Buddha Fury Tang Lotus could not defeat Bibi Dong or Qian Renxue.

• Shi Hao accepted Shi Yi’s challenge to fight in the Divine Void Realm, with their decisive battle set for three days later.
• Lin Bei and Liu Shen left the world origin and returned to the Douluo God Realm after ten years had passed in the lower realm.
• Lin Bei learned that Bibi Dong led the Spirit Empire and that the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires were struggling against it without god-level fighters.
• After Qian Renxue forced the allied army back again, Dai Mubai and the others lost heart, while Xiao Wu encouraged them with hopes for Tang San’s Buddha Fury Tang Lotus.
• Away from the others, Tang San told Xiao Wu that his Hidden Weapon could not defeat Bibi Dong or Qian Renxue and suggested letting the Spirit Empire unify the continent.

Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu discussed the Spirit Empire, revenge, and their hopes of inheriting god positions from Lin Bei. Lin Bei contacted them from the God Realm and said he would soon open their god trials, leaving them to prepare and tell the others.

• Xiao Tang San said he could accept the Spirit Empire unifying the continent, while Xiao Xiao Wu warned him that Da Tang San and their allies had reasons to resist it.
• Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu discussed whether Bibi Dong had killed Xiao Xiao Wu's mother, and Xiao Tang San promised to help her seek revenge if Bibi Dong was her enemy.
• Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu talked about inheriting god positions from Lin Bei and Liu, and agreed that life in the God Realm might suit them better than the lower realm.
• Lin Bei connected his consciousness to Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu, then told them he would open their god trials and that they only needed to prepare.
• Xiao Tang San and Xiao Xiao Wu decided to tell the others before beginning the trials, since an army attack could interrupt them.