Chapter Summaries

Pain and Akatsuki trapped Konoha’s defenders while four tailed beasts prepared and launched Tailed Beast Bombs at the village. Minato Namikaze and the others were unable to break through the defensive line before the attacks were fired.

• Minato Namikaze realized Akatsuki had secretly taken control of Kirigakure after Pain captured the Mizukage and stole his tailed beast.
• Pain ordered four tailed beasts to form Tailed Beast Bombs, prompting Minato Namikaze, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, Uchiha Fugaku, and Uchiha Shisui to attack.
• Obito Uchiha intercepted Minato Namikaze, while Orochimaru’s Triple Rashōmon and the other tailed beasts blocked Konoha’s fighters.
• Shukaku, Matatabi, and Isobu helped hold back Fugaku, Shisui, Hiruzen Sarutobi, Jiraiya, and the Hyuga Clan elites.
• Pain declared the fight over and ordered four tailed beasts to fire their Tailed Beast Bombs.

Minato Namikaze used the Blue Sternritter Medal and Aokawa’s Shadow Clones to make Konoha’s barrier swallow four Tailed Beast Bombs. At the Hidden Rock Village camp, Ōnoki and Kitsuchi were caught beneath four devastating energy spheres that emerged from a spatial tear.

• Minato Namikaze channeled chakra into the Blue Sternritter Medal while Aokawa’s underground Shadow Clones activated their Yin Seals.
• A blue barrier covered Konoha and absorbed all four incoming Tailed Beast Bombs.
• Ōnoki told Kitsuchi he planned to wait out the three-day deadline until Minato Namikaze surrendered territory, while the Hidden Rock Village Barrier Team failed to decipher a damaged Flying Thunder God kunai.
• The diplomatic document in Ōnoki’s tent grew hot, burned away, and released a black spatial tear.
• Ōnoki grabbed Kitsuchi and fled the tent as four enormous black-red energy spheres emerged above the Hidden Rock Village army.

Kitsuchi sacrificed himself trying to shield the Hidden Rock Village army from four Tailed Beast Bombs, while Minato Namikaze organized Konoha’s defenders against seven scattered Tailed Beasts. As Minato faced Obito Uchiha and Orochimaru, Orochimaru summoned four powerful shinobi with Impure World Reincarnation, including Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju.

• Kitsuchi broke free of Ōnoki and used his strongest Earth Release techniques to shield the Hidden Rock Village army, but the four Tailed Beast Bombs shattered his defenses and devastated the army.
• Pain deduced that Minato Namikaze’s blue barrier had limited absorption and sent the seven Tailed Beasts rampaging in different directions through Konoha.
• Minato assigned Jiraiya to confront Pain, Fugaku and Shisui to fight four Tailed Beasts, Hiruzen Sarutobi to stop the Three-Tails, Gamabunta to face Shukaku, and Hyuga Ryosuke’s group to pursue Matatabi.
• Minato confronted Obito Uchiha and Orochimaru, who performed Impure World Reincarnation and raised four coffins from the ground.
• Orochimaru’s four reanimated shinobi emerged as the Third Raikage, Rasa, Tobirama Senju, and Hashirama Senju.

Orochimaru summoned Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, the Third Raikage A, and Rasa with Impure World Reincarnation, then seized control of their bodies and ordered them to attack Konoha. Minato Namikaze realized the village could not withstand the forces gathered there and decided he had to move the battle elsewhere.

• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju recognized that someone had revived them with Impure World Reincarnation, while the Third Raikage A and Rasa reacted to being brought back as well.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi recognized the Senju brothers, and Hashirama Senju greeted him as the Monkey before Tobirama Senju assessed the ruined battlefield.
• Orochimaru revealed himself as Hiruzen Sarutobi's disciple and explained that he had summoned the four Kage to attack Konoha.
• Tobirama Senju discovered that Orochimaru had strengthened the binding with Hashirama Senju's cells and could not control his own body.
• Orochimaru ordered the four Kage to destroy Konoha, and their bodies began unleashing powerful techniques against the village.
• Minato Namikaze assessed that the Flying Thunder God Formation was nearly exhausted and concluded that he had to draw the attackers away from Konoha.

Minato activated a vast Flying Thunder God barrier to send the Konoha battlefield and its combatants to the Land of Wind army. At Sunagakure’s command camp, Chiyo and Pakura discussed a sealed Flying Thunder God kunai before a sudden rumble interrupted them.

• Minato assessed the four allied armies and decided to send Sunagakure the One-Tail and the culprits behind the Tailed Beast attacks.
• Rasa spotted Shukaku rampaging in Konoha as Minato promised to bring him the One-Tail and those who had captured the Tailed Beasts.
• Minato poured chakra into his Sternritter Medal, activating the seals of four Qingchuan Shadow Clones and enveloping the battlefield in a blue barrier covered with Flying Thunder God formulae.
• Chiyo asked Pakura whether Konoha had agreed to negotiate, and Pakura explained that Minato had requested three days to reach an internal consensus.
• Pakura revealed that she had sealed Minato’s kunai and sent it to a remote desert, and Chiyo praised the precaution before a sudden rumble shook the camp.

Minato Namikaze transported the tailed beasts, Akatsuki, and Konoha’s forces into Sunagakure’s camp, where they devastated the army. As Orochimaru forced Rasa to attack Pakura and Chiyo, Pain prepared to unleash Shinra Tensei on the battlefield.

• Minato Namikaze appeared in Sunagakure’s camp with seven rampaging tailed beasts, the Akatsuki, reanimated shinobi, and Konoha’s forces, then taunted Pakura and Chiyo with his explanation for returning the One-Tail.
• Obito Uchiha accused Minato of using Sunagakure to wear down the Akatsuki, while Pain decided to destroy the Land of Wind as well as the Land of Fire.
• Orochimaru ordered the reanimated former Kage to attack, and he used Rasa’s body to unleash a Gold Dust Burial against Pakura and Chiyo.
• Pakura and Chiyo struggled to defend themselves from Rasa’s gold dust, while Rasa fought helplessly against Orochimaru’s control.
• Pain rose above the battlefield, declared that the nations needed to understand pain, and began Shinra Tensei.

Pain’s attack devastated Sunagakure, forcing Pakura and Chiyo to accept Minato’s proposal for an alliance against Akatsuki. The chapter ended with Minato assigning Sunagakure the One-Tail and Two-Tails, while Konoha would face the remaining Tailed Beasts and reincarnated Kage.

• Chiyo offered Pain Sunagakure’s military support against Konoha, but Pain rejected her and unleashed Shinra Tensei.
• Pain’s repulsive force crushed hundreds of Sunagakure ninja and destroyed the central camp, while Pakura and Chiyo were badly wounded.
• Minato appeared before Pakura and Chiyo, warned them that Akatsuki threatened every nation, and urged them to unite.
• Chiyo asked how Sunagakure could cooperate, and Minato assigned it Shukaku, Matatabi, and support against Akatsuki’s main bodies.
• Pakura protested that Minato was crazy to expect Sunagakure to handle the One-Tail and Two-Tails.

Minato persuaded Sunagakure to ally with Konoha by promising the Land of Wind both the One-Tail and the Two-Tails after the war. As Sunagakure joined the battle, Orochimaru ordered the reanimated former Kage to attack, and the allied forces’ defenses began to collapse.

• Minato offered Sunagakure both tailed beasts and Konoha’s support against Kumogakure, and Pakura accepted the deal.
• Pakura summoned reinforcements while Granny Chiyo organized Sunagakure’s sealing squads and puppet corps to contain the tailed beasts and distract Orochimaru and Obito.
• Minato advanced toward the four wooden coffins as Orochimaru ordered Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju to erase the allied forces.
• Hashirama Senju unleashed Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, and Tobirama Senju destroyed Minato’s two Shadow Clones with a water attack.
• The Third Raikage pierced Hiruzen Sarutobi’s Shadow Clone while Hiruzen struggled against Isobu, and Uchiha Fugaku’s Susanoo became badly cracked.

Shisui's Kotoamatsukami failed against the Akatsuki leader, leaving him vulnerable as Konoha's forces fell into collapse. With the battle nearly lost, Ryosuke and the other Sternritter prepared to sacrifice their Quincy powers to protect their village.

• Fugaku struggled to maintain Susanoo under Saiken and Chōmei's assault while Shisui fought Kokuō.
• Shisui used Kotoamatsukami on the Akatsuki leader, but the genjutsu found only emptiness and rebounded painfully.
• Kokuō struck and shattered Shisui's Susanoo, sending him crashing into the ruins.
• Minato considered using the Reaper Death Seal but concluded that sacrificing himself could not stop the many enemies.
• Ryosuke and the other four Sternritter agreed to break their Spirit-Dispersing Gloves despite the risk of losing their Quincy powers.

Hyuga Ryosuke and four others broke their gloves’ switches and entered a powerful final form fueled by Reishi. Ryosuke crippled the Five-Tails before it regenerated, while the others spread out to hold back the remaining tailed beasts.

• Hyuga Ryosuke, Hyuga Himon, Hyuga Go, Hyuga Shin, and Hyuga Iroha snapped the switches on their gloves and unleashed immense blue-white energy.
• The energy blast struck the Five-Tails Kokuō and knocked it away from the injured Uchiha Shisui.
• Ryosuke formed a massive Reishi bow and shot apart Kokuō’s foreleg as it tried to attack Shisui.
• Kokuō regenerated its foreleg, and Ryosuke ordered the other four to spread out and pin down the tailed beasts.
• Himon held back the Four-Tails with Blut Vene and Mini Sacred Arrows, while Shin, Go, and Iroha engaged the Three-Tails, Six-Tails, and Seven-Tails.

Hyuga Ryosuke’s group fought the Tailed Beasts while Minato Namikaze adjusted the battle line and sent Hyuga Shin to assist against the Akatsuki. Jiraiya used intelligence from Aokawa to kill the Naraka Path, but the remaining Pains prepared to counterattack.

• Hyuga Ryosuke told Minato Namikaze that the Hyuga fighters would handle the remaining five Tailed Beasts so he could focus on the Akatsuki.
• Minato Namikaze sent Gamabunta to hold off the Three-Tails and ordered Hyuga Shin to withdraw and join the fight against the Akatsuki.
• Jiraiya struck the Naraka Path with a Sage Art: Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan while the Deva Path could not use Shinra Tensei during its cooldown.
• Jiraiya credited Aokawa’s intelligence for revealing the Naraka Path’s role and the vulnerability in Shinra Tensei.
• The Animal Path began a Summoning Technique as the Deva Path faced Jiraiya and the four remaining Pains.

Minato Namikaze and Konoha's forces struggled to contain Pain's summons, the reanimated Kage, and Orochimaru's attacks. After learning that Shisui's Kotoamatsukami had failed against Deva Path Pain, Minato stopped him from trying again and turned his attention to Orochimaru.

• Jiraiya summoned Gamaken and Gamahiro, who blocked Animal Path's Split Dog and rhinoceros from reaching Minato's forces.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi held off Third Raikage A while Uchiha Fugaku used Susanoo to smash into Fourth Kazekage Rasa's golden sand wave.
• Minato activated Sage Mode, sent two Shadow Clones to delay Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju, and went to check on Uchiha Shisui.
• Shisui told Minato that Kotoamatsukami had failed against Deva Path Pain and that his right eye needed time to recover.
• Minato focused on Orochimaru and told Shisui not to use his left eye on Pain.

Minato advised Shisui to use Kotoamatsukami on Orochimaru, whose damaged soul might make him vulnerable, rather than on Pain. As Minato’s clones held off the reanimated Hokage, Obito learned Orochimaru had erased their consciousness to control them and worried that Hyuga Seisen might reach the battlefield.

• Minato told Shisui to save his left eye’s Kotoamatsukami for Orochimaru, and Shisui agreed.
• Minato’s two Sage Mode Shadow Clones used Flying Thunder God to evade Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju’s attacks.
• Obito Uchiha questioned why the First and Second Hokage could not defeat Minato’s clones, and Orochimaru explained that he had erased their consciousness to keep control of them.
• Obito recognized that the reanimated Hokage still had immense power despite their rigid, diminished fighting ability, while Orochimaru expected their infinite chakra to wear Minato’s clones down.
• Obito warned Orochimaru that Sunagakure was moving and feared Hyuga Seisen would arrive, then looked toward Pain’s battle with Jiraiya.

Orochimaru summoned a powerful, unnamed reanimated body after Obito demanded that he reveal his hidden card, exposing Obito’s Madara disguise to Shisui. Meanwhile, Hyuga Seisen received system rewards for the Flying Thunder God Formation’s transfers and realized the battle had likely exhausted the formation’s chakra reserves.

• Obito Uchiha cursed Nagato for disrupting the plan to capture Kushina by attacking Konoha and forcing the battlefield into the Land of Wind.
• Orochimaru offered to summon an exceptionally powerful reanimated body, and Obito ordered him to use it.
• Uchiha Shisui watched Orochimaru while his left Mangekyō Sharingan recovered enough chakra to use Kotoamatsukami.
• Orochimaru summoned a crimson-armored figure from a dark-red coffin, and Obito Uchiha reacted with fury and panic as his disguise was exposed.
• Hyuga Seisen received 120,000 Energy Crystals for the Flying Thunder God Formation’s transfers and concluded that the formation’s chakra reserves were nearly depleted.

Aokawa discovered that the Stone Gate could be distracted by energy crystals, but its slow digestion left him unable to escape in time to help the battle in the Land of Wind. He released the mental chains and endured the Nine-Tails’ renewed suffering to create a Shadow Clone, leaving the clone ready to go out and save the situation.

• Aokawa learned through his Shadow Clone’s fading memories that it had been dispelled after running out of chakra.
• Aokawa realized the Stone Gate could absorb pure energy crystals and fed it 100,000, easing its drain on the Nine-Tails.
• Aokawa sent another 40,000 crystals toward the Stone Gate, but they remained suspended while it slowly digested the first batch.
• Worried that Minato and Ryosuke could not hold out in the Land of Wind, Aokawa decided to send a Shadow Clone to help.
• Aokawa released the mental chains, causing the Stone Gate to drain the Nine-Tails again, and formed a new Shadow Clone.

Hyuga Seisen created a durable Spirit Particle Shadow Clone and sent it to Konoha as the village came under attack. The clone learned that Minato had used a Flying Thunder God barrier to absorb Pain’s repulsive-force technique and then transported everyone away.

• Seisen stopped the Nine-Tails from draining chakra and explained that his Shadow Clone was formed from Reishi and could absorb more Reishi on its own.
• Seisen sent the clone to check on the battle and stabilize the situation while he remained behind.
• The clone tore open space, emerged from underground in Konoha’s ruined streets, and was greeted by ANBU.
• An ANBU leader reported that Pain and his allies had attacked the village with rampaging tailed beasts and that Minato had absorbed Pain’s repulsive-force ninjutsu with a Flying Thunder God barrier.
• The ANBU leader told Seisen that Minato had taken everyone away.

Hyuga Seisen's clone tracked Minato's displaced battlefield to Sunagakure and went to help, while Uchiha Madara emerged from Impure World Reincarnation and exposed Obito's identity to Minato. The chapter ended as Madara noticed Senju Hashirama fighting among the trees.

• Hyuga Seisen's clone sensed the Quincy Reishi of the fighters in the Land of Wind and reported their location to Seisen's main body.
• Seisen sent his clone through a Shadow Domain rift to the ruins of Sunagakure to help the fighters.
• Uchiha Madara emerged from the Impure World Reincarnation coffin and questioned Obito about activating the plan before obtaining the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails.
• Minato realized that the masked man was his former student, Obito Uchiha, who had attacked Konoha on the Night of the Nine-Tails.
• Madara dismissed Obito's anger and said he would capture the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails himself.
• Madara spotted Senju Hashirama forming hand seals amid the sea of trees.

Uchiha Madara rejected Orochimaru’s offer to fight alongside Akatsuki and unleashed his speed against the battered forces on the battlefield. Hiruzen Sarutobi led a desperate barrage at Madara, but Madara remained standing as the smoke cleared.

• Uchiha Madara found that Senju Hashirama was a soulless puppet, and Orochimaru explained that he had erased Hashirama’s consciousness to control him.
• Orochimaru told Uchiha Madara about Akatsuki’s actions and removed the Impure World Reincarnation restraints, inviting Madara to use his full strength.
• Uchiha Madara vanished, prompting Hiruzen Sarutobi to warn the battlefield to retreat and attack from long range.
• The surviving Konoha and Sunagakure ninja launched a mass ninjutsu barrage, while Hiruzen Sarutobi added a combination attack with two Shadow Clones.
• The smoke cleared to reveal Uchiha Madara standing unharmed in his dark crimson armor.

Uchiha Madara slaughtered the Allied forces and overwhelmed Hiruzen Sarutobi, but Minato Namikaze used a Flying Thunder God mark on Madara’s katana to strike him with a Sage Art: Big Ball Rasengan. Madara regenerated and summoned Susanoo, while Minato ordered the surviving forces to retreat.

• Madara cut through the Allied forces and knocked Hiruzen Sarutobi unconscious with a blow to the abdomen.
• Madara attacked Minato Namikaze, who used Flying Thunder God to evade his strikes and land a Sage Art: Big Ball Rasengan.
• The Rasengan blasted Madara through the desert, but his Impure World Reincarnation body repaired the damage as he praised Minato’s combat skill.
• Madara released overwhelming chakra and manifested a massive, armored Susanoo while Minato warned the surviving Allied forces to flee.
• Madara raised Susanoo’s four arms toward Minato without drawing its chakra swords.

Madara summoned a colossal meteorite to destroy the battlefield, but Orochimaru, under Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami, used Wood Release to stop its fall. The chapter ended with Madara staring at the Wood Human, his astonishment turning into fierce fighting spirit.

• Madara used Susanoo to perform hand seals and summoned a huge meteorite with Heaven Obstructing Star.
• Minato refused to abandon Sunagakure’s forces and prepared to fight despite the danger.
• Orochimaru used Wood Dragon Technique and Wood Human Technique to catch the falling meteorite.
• Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami took control of Orochimaru and gave him the command to protect Konoha at all costs.
• Madara watched the Wood Human stop the meteorite and responded with intense fighting spirit.