Chapter Summaries

Xuanyu and Shisui learned that the Evil God Sect had seven Red Robes at its base, though Hidan’s whereabouts were unknown, and Xuanyu killed the captured Red-Robed Disciple with Dust Release. They followed a genjutsu-controlled disciple to the sect’s base with Jiraiya, where the guards fled into the cave to warn the Red Robes.

• The Red-Robed Disciple explained that the sect had once had twelve Red Robes, with seven currently at the base, and that he did not know where Hidan was.
• Xuanyu used Dust Release to erase the Red-Robed Disciple after questioning him.
• Xuanyu and Shisui decided to go to the Evil God Sect’s base and take its experimental materials, using genjutsu to make a dying disciple reveal the location.
• Xuanyu invited Jiraiya to join them, and Jiraiya agreed to accompany them for protection.
• The group reached the cave entrance, where guards recognized the captive as an Evil God Sect disciple and ran inside to summon the Red Robes.

Xuanyu confronted the Evil God Sect’s gathered forces and rejected their leader’s attempt to negotiate. The battle began with Xuanyu annihilating two Red-Robed Cultists and several Jonin with Dust Release, prompting the cultists to call Hidan for help.

• Jiraiya questioned Xuanyu’s decision to provoke the Evil God Sect, but Xuanyu said he wanted to gather the cultists and kill them all at once.
• The Evil God Sect’s leader arrived with eight Red-Robed Cultists and more than thirty Jonin, then asked Xuanyu why he was targeting the sect.
• Xuanyu condemned the Evil God Sect for abducting children and conducting experiments, and vowed that other hidden perpetrators would also face consequences.
• The cultists charged after their leader ordered an attack, and Xuanyu used two Dust Releases to annihilate two Red-Robed Cultists and several Jonin.
• The shaken cultists urged their leader to call Hidan back from nearby.

Xuanyu, Shisui, and Jiraiya fought the Evil God Sect as its cultists sent a distress signal for reinforcements. After a cultist obtained Jiraiya’s blood and activated the Death Possession Blood Cursed Technique, he began transferring his wounds to Jiraiya, leaving Jiraiya in peril.

• Xuanyu used Dust Release to frighten the Evil God Sect cultists while Shisui and Jiraiya fought them.
• The cultists sent a distress signal, and Hidan set out to investigate the trouble at the Evil God Sect.
• Xuanyu watched the battle and taunted the cultists as Shisui and Jiraiya defeated many of them.
• An Evil God Sect jonin cut Jiraiya’s shoulder and took his blood on a kunai.
• A red-robed cultist swallowed Jiraiya’s blood and activated the Death Possession Blood Cursed Technique, transferring the wounds he inflicted on himself to Jiraiya.

Xuanyu destroyed the Evil God Sect’s Cursed Seal and trapped its fighters in a Gravity Domain, allowing Shisui and Jiraiya to attack them. Hidan arrived as the battle was underway and entered the domain.

• Xuanyu’s Black Flames devoured the Cursed Seal, freeing Jiraiya from the cultist’s Death Controlling Possessed Blood technique.
• Jiraiya examined the Black Flames while Xuanyu told Shisui he would empower him to finish the fight quickly.
• Xuanyu activated a Gravity Domain that made movement difficult for the Evil God Sect Disciples and briefly pressed down on everyone nearby.
• Shisui killed several gravity-suppressed disciples, and Jiraiya charged into the fight against the weakened opponents.
• Hidan arrived carrying a Three-Bladed Long Scythe and furrowed his brows when he entered the Gravity Domain.

Hidan entered the Gravity Domain to confront the people attacking the Evil God Sect, confident that his Undying Body would protect him. He fought Shisui and drew his blood, beginning to prepare his curse as Black Flames spread across his feet.

• Hidan noticed the Gravity Domain's crushing pressure but entered after seeing the Evil God Sect's disciples under attack.
• The Red Robe Leader warned Hidan to flee and explained that Xuanyu's Black Flames and Dust Release could defeat the sect's disciples and Hidan.
• Hidan attacked Xuanyu with his Three-Bladed Scythe, but an invisible force deflected it and sent it past his grasp.
• Shisui stepped forward to fight Hidan while Jiraiya took over binding the fallen Red-Robed Cultists.
• Hidan traded blows with Shisui until his scythe cut Shisui's arm, then began drawing a cursed seal with his foot as Black Flames spread to it.

Shisui and Xuanyu defeated the Evil God Sect’s fighters and forced a surviving cultist to lead them to the sect’s laboratory. They discovered hundreds of children held in Culture Vessels and cages, leaving the full extent of the experiments still to be uncovered.

• Hidan’s Cursed Seal failed because Xuanyu’s Black Flames erased it, and Shisui trapped Hidan in a Genjutsu.
• Xuanyu declared the Evil God Sect deserved extermination and demanded that the red-robed cultist lead him to the laboratory.
• The cultist agreed, and Xuanyu and Shisui entered the cave while Jiraiya carried Hidan after them.
• The group reached a vast laboratory containing hundreds of Culture Vessels with children inside and cages farther within.

Xuanyu discovered that the Evil God Sect had tortured abducted children in experiments and planned to sacrifice successful subjects as catalysts for the Evil God Baptism. After learning how many children had died and seeing the surviving subjects, he resolved that the sect could not be allowed to remain.

• Xuanyu entered the laboratory with Shisui, Kakashi, and Jiraiya, then demanded to know what would happen to the children in the Culture Vessels.
• The White Robe Experimenter admitted the children were test subjects who would be used as catalysts and die during believers' baptism.
• Xuanyu found three children in iron cages and learned that hundreds from their batch had yielded only three catalysts, including one likely to produce a Perfect Undying Body.
• The experimenter said the children had Undying Bodies but would be sacrificed because they hated the sect, then mistook Xuanyu for a new member and offered him baptism.

Xuanyu and Jiraiya confronted the Evil God Sect experimenters and exposed the sect’s destruction, but a surviving red-robed cultist tried to collapse the laboratory with explosive tags. Xuanyu stopped him, and Jiraiya discovered a Flying Thunder God mark on the cultist, leaving him shocked that Xuanyu had used the technique.

• Jiraiya and Shisui were enraged by the children’s suffering as Xuanyu told the experimenters that the Evil God Sect had been destroyed.
• Jiraiya said Hidan was still standing at the laboratory entrance, and the experimenters began to believe Xuanyu’s claim.
• A red-robed cultist triggered a mechanism that revealed thousands of explosive tags throughout the laboratory and began forming hand seals to detonate them.
• Xuanyu used space-time ninjutsu to reach the cultist, broke both his hands, and kicked him away before Shisui trapped him in a genjutsu.
• Jiraiya found a Flying Thunder God mark beneath the cultist’s robe and asked Xuanyu if he had used the Flying Thunder God Technique.

Xuanyu revealed that he and Shisui had mastered the Flying Thunder God Technique, stunning Jiraiya. He freed the children held in the Evil God Sect’s laboratory and tried to earn the trust of a mute girl who said she had no name.

• Jiraiya recognized Xuanyu’s Flying Thunder God Mark and was shocked to learn that Xuanyu had mastered the technique.
• Xuanyu revealed that Shisui also knew the Flying Thunder God Technique and had modified it to allow short-distance jumps without a mark.
• Xuanyu used Black Flames to consume the liquid in the Culture Vessels, freeing the children, while Shisui subdued a protesting researcher with Genjutsu.
• Xuanyu ordered the laboratory staff to treat the children and sent Shisui to bring Feng Ling and arrange for their care at the Merchant Guild.
• Xuanyu opened three iron cages and coaxed the wary children out, including a mute girl who told him she had no name.

Xuanyu rescued the children from the Evil God Sect’s laboratory, gave the mute girl the name Chen Xi, and arranged for the children to be cared for by Yugakure villagers and the Merchant Guild. After destroying the underground base, he prepared to return to Konoha with the captured cultists.

• Xuanyu named the mute girl Chen Xi and promised Megure Yuki and Toyama that he would help them find their parents.
• Shisui and Uchiha Fuling arrived with villagers and Merchant Guild members, who helped rescue the injured children.
• Xuanyu ordered the children returned to their parents if possible and promised the Merchant Guild would raise those whose parents could not be found.
• Xuanyu destroyed the Evil God Sect’s underground base with Explosive Tags and arranged for the rescued children to be taken back to the Merchant Guild.
• The next day, Xuanyu pieced the captured Red-Robed Cultists back together, loaded them onto carriages, and prepared to return to Konoha.

Xuanyu asked Uchiha Fuling to protect Yugakure Village and care for the orphaned children before leaving for Konoha with captives and experimental subjects. On the way, Jiraiya questioned him about the Akatsuki Organization and the Konoha Assassin, but Xuanyu’s first explanation for his closeness to the Uchiha Clan left Jiraiya stunned.

• Xuanyu told Uchiha Fuling to remain in Yugakure Village, protect it from the Evil God Sect’s surviving cultists, and let orphaned children choose whether to train as the Uchiha Merchant Guild’s shinobi.
• Xuanyu left Yugakure Village for Konoha with the Red-Robed Cultists and experimental subjects.
• Jiraiya stopped Xuanyu’s convoy and asked to speak with him, while Xuanyu sent Shisui ahead and followed Jiraiya to a secluded corner.
• Jiraiya asked Xuanyu whether he was the Black-Clothed Assassin who had attacked the Sarutobi Clan and what the Akatsuki Organization wanted.
• Xuanyu said he was close to the Uchiha Clan because he found them pleasing to the eye, leaving Jiraiya bewildered.

Xuanyu explained to Jiraiya why he had targeted the Sarutobi and Shimura Clans, blaming their leaders for plotting against the Uchiha. He said Akatsuki sought peace and the people from beyond the heavens, then prepared to leave as Jiraiya offered him a gift.

• Jiraiya questioned Xuanyu about his cooperation with the Uchiha and his attacks on Konoha ninja.
• Xuanyu said Sarutobi Hiruzen had sent Sarutobi jōnin to assassinate him, the Uchiha Merchant Guild’s young master.
• Xuanyu said he attacked the Shimura Clan because Shimura Danzō’s Root ninja had helped Itachi massacre the Uchiha.
• Jiraiya worried the Uchiha might retaliate, while Xuanyu said they would consider the village’s interests and urged him to inspect the rival Military Police Forces.
• Xuanyu told Jiraiya that Akatsuki sought peace in the Shinobi World and acted for people from beyond the heavens, then said they might meet again when he returned to Konoha.
• Jiraiya stopped Xuanyu and reached into his robe to give him a gift.

Xuanyu gave Jiraiya guarded answers about the Akatsuki Organization before returning to the convoy with Jiraiya’s lewd picture book. Shisui read it, mistaking it for Jiraiya’s valuable training notes until he discovered the truth on its signed final page.

• Jiraiya gave Xuanyu his picture book, Make-Out Paradise, and decided to visit Mount Myōboku to ask the Toad Sage about the Akatsuki Organization and Xuanyu’s reference to an Outer Space Visitor.
• Xuanyu returned to the moving convoy, and Shisui asked whether Jiraiya had questioned him about the Uchiha Clan.
• Xuanyu told Shisui that he had described them as partners and said the Akatsuki Organization aimed to bring peace to the Shinobi World.
• Xuanyu handed Jiraiya’s book to Shisui, who believed it might contain valuable cultivation experience and began reading it.
• Shisui grew increasingly embarrassed as he read, then found Jiraiya’s signature identifying the book as Make-Out Paradise.

Xuanyu brought the Evil God Sect prisoners and Chen Xi to Deidara's Pond Side, where he offered to train Chen Xi after she said she wanted to become stronger. Deidara greeted Xuanyu with news of a more powerful explosive clay he had developed, then demonstrated it by creating a flying clay bee.

• Xuanyu revealed his face to Hidan and the Red Robe Leader, who recognized him as the Uchiha Clan's Double Pupil Young Clan Leader.
• Xuanyu struck Hidan unconscious when he arrogantly claimed the Evil God Sect would survive.
• Chen Xi told Xuanyu that experiments on Hidan had given her an Undying Body, and she asked to become as strong as him.
• Xuanyu agreed to train Chen Xi if she could endure hardship, and she accepted.
• Deidara welcomed Xuanyu back and explained that his research had produced clay several times more powerful than ordinary Explosive Clay.
• Deidara chewed a small piece of beige clay and created a lifelike flying clay bee.

Deidara showed Xuanyu a new lightning-resistant Explosive Clay, but admitted he could produce only a limited amount. Xuanyu then visited the underground laboratory, where Owuya Bai was studying Jugo and Kimimaro's Cursed Seals.

• Deidara explained that his new clay could withstand ordinary Lightning Chakra and demonstrated a Little Bee's powerful explosion for Xuanyu.
• Xuanyu asked how much clay Deidara could make, and Deidara revealed that he could produce less than one kilogram a day.
• Xuanyu reminded Deidara that using the clay without limit would make him stronger, then headed to the underground laboratory with Deidara following.
• Shisui explained to Chen Xi how Xuanyu's demeanor changed between his masked Akatsuki role and his identity as the Uchiha Young Clan Leader.
• Xuanyu, Deidara, Shisui, and Chen Xi watched as Owuya Bai guided Jugo through controlling his Cursed Seal and asked Kimimaro to show his Cursed Seal form for examination.

Owuya Bai investigated Kimimaro’s Cursed Seal and learned that Orochimaru had implanted it, prompting him to suspect Xuanyu was involved with the Konoha Rogue Ninja. Xuanyu arrived and, after Owuya Bai confronted him about Orochimaru’s experiments on living people, challenged him to consider whether Konoha had stopped such experiments.

• Owuya Bai studied how Kimimaro’s Cursed Seal enhanced his body and asked who had implanted it.
• Kimimaro told Owuya Bai that Orochimaru had extracted the Cursed Seal ability from Jugo and branded it onto him.
• Owuya Bai grew suspicious that Orochimaru had used Xuanyu’s name as a cover, while Hashira explained that Xuanyu had lent Jugo the Chakra-absorbing Samehada.
• Xuanyu arrived, and Hua Yu greeted him before eyeing Chen Xi warily; Xuanyu introduced Chen Xi as someone he had rescued from the Evil God Sect.
• Owuya Bai confronted Xuanyu about cooperating with Orochimaru, and Xuanyu questioned whether Konoha had stopped experimenting on living people after Orochimaru left.

Xuanyu convinced Owuya Bai that Konoha’s human experiments continued and revealed the Evil God Sect subjects available for research, while insisting the Uchiha Clan sought only to protect itself. Meanwhile, Jiraiya arrived at Mount Myōboku to meet Toad Maru Sage, leaving the reason for his visit unresolved.

• Xuanyu challenged Owuya Bai to consider how human experiments could continue in Konoha without Sarutobi Hiruzen knowing, and Owuya Bai concluded that Hiruzen had been involved.
• Xuanyu told Owuya Bai that the Uchiha Clan intended to defend itself rather than destroy Konoha, and pointed out that Owuya Bai’s Cursed Seal research had also crossed Konoha’s limits.
• Xuanyu promised Owuya Bai he would not use civilians or innocents for experiments and showed him Chen Xi, a child taken by the Evil God Sect for experiments, while refusing to let anyone experiment on her.
• Xuanyu showed Owuya Bai the dismembered but living Evil God Sect disciples and said their research materials were available for study.
• Jiraiya arrived at Mount Myōboku and asked Bunta to take him to Toad Maru Sage; Toad Maru Sage then ordered Fukasaku and Shima to let Jiraiya in.

Jiraiya asked Toad Maru Sage whether he had foreseen the Akatsuki Organization, whose members wielded extraordinary abilities. Toad Maru Sage dreamed of the organization fighting mysterious outsiders who might be Visitors from Beyond the Heavens, leaving Jiraiya seeking answers about their strength.

• Jiraiya asked Toad Maru Sage if he had dreamed of the Akatsuki Organization and described its powerful members and abilities.
• Toad Maru Sage entered a restless sleep while Jiraiya and the other toads waited for his vision.
• Toad Maru Sage awoke and described explosions, a Blood-Red Domain, a Bone Forest, a massive Susanoo, a Five-Pointed Star Cursed Seal, and the Akatsuki figures fighting.
• Jiraiya suggested the enemies might be Visitors from Beyond the Heavens, and Toad Maru Sage agreed they could be outsiders resembling Kaguya's clan.
• Jiraiya asked Toad Maru Sage who the Visitors from Beyond the Heavens were and how strong they were.

Jiraiya learned from Toad Maru Sage that powerful Outer Space Visitors threatened the Shinobi World, and that he could not prevent their arrival. In another vision, Toad Maru Sage encountered a towering figure with double pupils who told him not to interfere, leaving him shaken by the figure’s immense power.

• Toad Maru Sage told Jiraiya that Kaguya had been an Outer Space Visitor and warned that the coming invaders might be just as powerful.
• Toad Maru Sage urged Jiraiya to keep doing his work and become stronger, while warning that the invasion could not be stopped or changed.
• After Jiraiya and the others left, Toad Maru Sage entered another dream to see the future battle.
• Toad Maru Sage saw a towering figure among Black Flames turn toward him across time and space, then tell him not to worry or change anything.
• Toad Maru Sage woke in fear and told Fukasaku that the figure at the front had double pupils.

Toad Maru Sage warned that Twin Pupils were tied to a changed prophecy and a chaotic future, while Jiraiya pondered the Akatsuki Organization before returning to his usual routine. Owuya Bai, Hashira, and Hua Yu confronted Orochimaru at his cave, where Orochimaru began accusing Sarutobi Hiruzen of ordering the human experiments.

• Toad Maru Sage told Fukasaku and his wife not to search for people with Twin Pupils and to keep his warning secret.
• Jiraiya returned to Yugakure Village, considered the Akatsuki Organization and the Outer Space Visitor, then headed for Uchiha Custom Street.
• Owuya Bai, Hashira, and Hua Yu arrived at Orochimaru's cave to discuss his research and the Cursed Seal.
• Owuya Bai criticized Orochimaru for using living people in experiments, while Hua Yu explained that she wanted to learn from his research.
• Orochimaru claimed Sarutobi Hiruzen had ordered the research and supplied people for the experiments before trailing off.