Recaps

Uchiha Yū and his allies captured Mu Lei’s territory and prepared to use it as their first base for invading the Underworld. Uchiha Yū claimed rule over the residents, while Minato Namikaze went to arrange a portal and reinforcements.

• Uchiha Obito complained as he cleared corpses from his Kamui space, while Minato Namikaze told him the work suited him as the least senior ninja.
• Uchiha Yū returned carrying the defeated Mu Lei and described him as an expert comparable to Uchiha Madara.
• Uchiha Yū rejected Mu Lei’s refusal to provide intelligence, saying residents of the territory would be willing to cooperate.
• Uchiha Yū ordered Minato Namikaze to contact Orochimaru and establish a portal so the captured territory could become their main base.
• Uchiha Yū killed Mu Lei’s followers when they threatened him, then announced that he would rule the territory.

Minato Namikaze returned from the Underworld and helped organize the ninja’s move into Uchiha Yū’s captured territory. After studying the surrounding powers, Uchiha Yū rewarded the first group to pledge loyalty by branding them with Curse Marks.

• Minato Namikaze told the ninja about the Underworld’s dangers and Uchiha Yū’s newly seized territory, while Orochimaru agreed to relocate the portal and research equipment.
• Minato Namikaze ordered the ninja to enter the territory and help Uchiha Yū suppress resistance, and Kakuzu directed the villages to gather elite forces.
• A group pledged loyalty to Uchiha Yū and gave him a map and information about nearby territories and their strongest fighters.
• Uchiha Yū judged that the neighboring large territories were too dangerous to attack for now and decided to focus on resources and securing his domain.
• Uchiha Yū granted the new followers power by branding them with Curse Marks to keep them under control.

Uchiha Yū secured Mu Lei’s territory, opened a portal for Orochimaru and the Ninja World’s elite ninjas to enter the Underworld, and began planning the next invasion. The chapter left the group studying a map of neighboring territories as Uchiha Yū identified their next target.

• Uchiha Yū forced the new allegiance-seekers to accept a Curse Mark and gave them authority to form a patrol team, then ordered the hall sealed.
• Uchiha Yū’s patrol team suppressed resistance, while the crippled Mu Lei realized his former territory had fallen beyond his control.
• Minato Namikaze activated the portal in the hall, and Orochimaru stepped through into the Underworld.
• Orochimaru brought elite ninjas from every village, and Uchiha Yū ordered them to disguise themselves and avoid venturing outside the territory.
• Uchiha Yū showed the ninjas a map of more than ten neighboring territories and named the next region to invade.

Uchiha Yū laid out strategies for exploiting the Underworld while prioritizing the Ninja World's survival and acquiring energy. Orochimaru revealed that Underworld creatures could be consumed for power, prompting a debate over strengthening everyone or focusing on making Yū overwhelmingly strong.

• Uchiha Yū described four ways to invade the Underworld and warned that a direct military invasion would cause heavy losses.
• Uchiha Yū argued that the Ninja World's technological advantage and commercial ties could help it plunder the Underworld while securing energy.
• Orochimaru revealed that Underworld creatures were made of energy and that their power could be extracted by killing and consuming them.
• Orochimaru proposed gathering enough Underworld energy to raise Uchiha Yū's strength, while still strengthening enough ninja to support him.
• Uchiha Yū objected that relying on his strength alone would leave the Ninja World without a future if anything happened to him.
• Orochimaru argued that stronger ninja could help capture more creatures and beast corpses, providing more energy for Yū to absorb.

Uchiha Yū approved Orochimaru’s plan to strengthen himself by drawing on the companions who would fight in the Underworld, and the group accepted the slaughter it would require. Seeking a way to protect the living ninjas there, Yū summoned the First Hokage to ask about the Sage of Six Paths, who emerged and heard that the Ninja World faced a crisis.

• Uchiha Yū approved Orochimaru’s plan, and his companions agreed to bear the darkness and slaughter needed to secure a future for the Ninja World.
• Uchiha Yū and Orochimaru chose to summon the First Hokage to learn about the Sage of Six Paths rather than risk using the Time-Travel Machine.
• Uchiha Yū left Orochimaru to renovate the Underworld territory and move his laboratory there, with soil to be transported back to the Ninja World.
• Uchiha Yū ordered Uchiha Shisui to prepare a White Zetsu and performed Impure World Reincarnation using the First Hokage’s cells.
• The First Hokage emerged from the coffin, complained about being disturbed, and listened as Uchiha Yū said the Ninja World faced a crisis.

Hashirama Senju agreed to ask the Sage of Six Paths how to hide living people from soul beasts, while warning Uchiha Yū about the Underworld. The Sage of Six Paths traveled to Dawn Hidden Village to confront Uchiha Yū, but Shisui intercepted him before he could reach the hall.

• Uchiha Yū told Hashirama Senju that ninjas in the Underworld needed a way to avoid soul beasts, and Hashirama agreed to relay the request to the Sage of Six Paths.
• Hashirama Senju warned Uchiha Yū not to venture recklessly into the Underworld, and Uchiha Yū assured him that the ninjas were focused on exploration and research.
• After returning to the Underworld, Hashirama Senju told the Sage of Six Paths about the soul beasts and Uchiha Yū's request.
• The Sage of Six Paths learned that many souls had recently arrived from a Ninja World devastated by war, and he decided to visit Uchiha Yū himself.
• The Sage of Six Paths arrived at Dawn Hidden Village, marveled at its rapid industrial development, and sensed the Ten-Tails' chakra within the hall.
• Shisui detected the Sage of Six Paths approaching the village and moved to intercept him.

Uchiha Yū met the Sage of Six Paths, who warned him that living people risked angering gods in the Underworld. The Sage proposed entering as souls, but Uchiha Yū doubted the method and remained set on carrying the war there.

• Uchiha Shisui mistook the arriving Sage of Six Paths for an Ōtsutsuki, then learned his identity and escorted him into the village.
• Uchiha Yū left his laboratory to meet the Sage of Six Paths, and they assessed each other's power.
• Uchiha Yū explained that the Ninja World's scarce resources and the soul beasts obstructed his plans to enter the Underworld.
• The Sage of Six Paths warned Uchiha Yū that gods in the Underworld would punish living intruders who caused slaughter.
• The Sage of Six Paths suggested that Uchiha Yū's group enter the Underworld as souls, but Uchiha Yū found the proposal impractical and unsuitable.

The Sage of Six Paths proposed using Underworld soil to protect living people from soul beasts, but warned Uchiha Yū against turning the Underworld into a large-scale battlefield. Uchiha Yū rejected sacrificing ordinary people and began exploring remote-controlled puppets as a way to gather resources while reducing ninja casualties.

• The Sage of Six Paths explained that Underworld soil could conceal living people from soul beasts and warned Uchiha Yū not to cause a massacre.
• Uchiha Shisui offered to secretly control ordinary people and use them to obtain Underworld soil, but Uchiha Yū refused because mass sacrifices would cripple the Ninja World's population.
• Muichiro Tokito asked Uchiha Yū for advance funding because his war-machine research team was running out of money.
• Uchiha Yū approved funding on the condition that Muichiro Tokito test and extend the distance at which puppeteers could control their puppets.
• Uchiha Yū realized that remotely controlled puppets could replace ninjas in dangerous wilderness battles, while Shan Juhua began preparing a commercial harvest in the Underworld.

Orochimaru established an energy-collection system that turned Underworld residents into energy for artificial fruits, while Shan Juhua prepared to acquire slaves through trade. Uchiha Yū gave her soil that concealed her from soul beasts, and Orochimaru revealed that it came from Impure World Reincarnation and represented a life.

• Orochimaru used imprisoned Underworld residents to test a device that collected their energy and could produce artificial fruits.
• Orochimaru and Shan Juhua agreed to buy slaves and trade for people before launching a larger war.
• Uchiha Yū gave Shan Juhua Underworld soil to conceal her scent from soul beasts and assigned her the business matters.
• Shan Juhua smeared the soil on her body, reassured Uchiha Yū that she would handle the trade, and hugged him before leaving.
• Orochimaru teased Uchiha Yū about his feelings for Shan Juhua, then identified the soil as material from Impure World Reincarnation that represented a life.

Uchiha Yū negotiated with Orochimaru over Nether Soil, funding, and Muichiro Tokito’s puppet research, then brought their rival teams together in a new department. He improved residents’ lives to build support for a future war, but other people had already set their sights on his territory.

• Orochimaru criticized Uchiha Yū’s plan to use Nether Soil to conceal their scent from soul beasts, and Uchiha Yū explained that he had no substitute yet.
• Uchiha Yū told Orochimaru that Muichiro Tokito’s puppets could prevent soul beast attacks, and Orochimaru demanded access to their research data while complaining about funding cuts.
• Uchiha Yū proposed a joint research project centered on the Underworld, and Orochimaru agreed to cooperate with Muichiro Tokito if he accepted.
• Uchiha Yū established a new department for the rival researchers and required them to maintain progress and produce results for the coming war.
• Uchiha Yū rewarded residents for their labor, winning their goodwill as he prepared for the future, while unknown people began targeting his territory.

Neighboring lords conspired to seize Mu Lei Territory, and Xue Ying detained Shan Juhua’s merchants and their goods. Uchiha Yū prepared for war while Shan Juhua and Uchiha Obito disguised themselves in Snow Eagle Territory to recover the goods.

• Several neighboring lords agreed to join forces to seize Uchiha Yū’s territory, and Xue Ying volunteered to detain merchants from Mu Lei Territory.
• A ninja reported to Uchiha Yū that Xue Ying had seized Shan Juhua and her goods, while Uchiha Obito had taken Shan Juhua to safety.
• Uchiha Yū ordered Dawn Hidden Village to prepare for battle as neighboring lords gathered forces and encroached on his territory.
• Uchiha Yū mobilized White Zetsu to turn corpses into Underworld soil ahead of the coming battles.
• Shan Juhua and Uchiha Obito disguised themselves in Snow Eagle Territory, where Obito located the goods and planned to retrieve them that night.

Uchiha Yū led an elite scouting force into Snow Eagle Territory to reclaim stolen goods, while planning how to weaken the territory and its suzerain state. Uchiha Obito found the goods and fought Xue Ying, whose ice attacks failed against Obito’s spatial powers.

• Uchiha Yū and Kakuzu assessed Snow Eagle Territory and the danger posed by its suzerain state.
• Uchiha Yū decided to display Dawn Hidden Village’s strength and later target the suzerain state.
• The nearby lords secretly allied and sent forces to the border while using Xue Ying to test their enemy.
• Uchiha Obito located the goods and confronted Xue Ying while Shan Juhua waited in the Kamui dimension.
• Uchiha Obito countered Xue Ying’s ice mist and thorns with Kamui, then appeared behind him and began pulling him in with a powerful suction force.

Uchiha Obito fought Xue Ying, an Underworld powerhouse whose ice abilities and hypnotic patterns pushed him into a dangerous disadvantage. Just as Xue Ying’s blizzard threatened to freeze Kamui itself, dazzling sunlight split the ice and snow apart.

• Uchiha Obito evaded Xue Ying’s attacks with Kamui, and Xue Ying offered to make amends after realizing how formidable he was.
• Uchiha Obito rejected Xue Ying’s assumption that he was the lord, then used Fire Release to melt the ice and snow that let Xue Ying shift positions.
• Xue Ying raised an Ice Wall, used an icy-blue crystal to strengthen himself, and struck Uchiha Obito in the chest during a moment of distraction from the patterns on his face.
• Xue Ying expanded his blizzard until the cold slowed the formation of Kamui space, while Uchiha Obito considered retreating and worried about abandoning the goods.
• As Xue Ying declared that everything in the blizzard would freeze and Uchiha Obito prepared to leave, dazzling sunlight appeared and split the ice and snow apart.

Uchiha Yū rescued Obito from Xue Ying and forced Xue Ying to reveal that neighboring lords had conspired to test and undermine him. Yū then placed a Curse Mark on Xue Ying, binding him to serve as one of his local forces.

• Uchiha Yū destroyed Xue Ying’s ice attack and reprimanded Obito for recklessly fighting a lord.
• Yū controlled Xue Ying’s ice crystals, wounded him with an ice dagger, and demanded to know why he had attacked.
• Xue Ying admitted he had been ordered to test Yū’s strength and revealed the neighboring lords’ plans against him.
• Yū seized Xue Ying and placed a Curse Mark on him, declaring that Xue Ying would serve him.

Xue Ying accepted Uchiha Yū's control and helped provoke the lords' alliance into a full-scale attack. Uchiha Yū planned to lure the invading forces into the territory's center and convert them into energy with a gathering formation.

• Uchiha Yū ordered Xue Ying to intensify the war and draw out the alliance's full strength.
• Xue Ying lied to the alliance that he had fought Uchiha Yū to a standstill, encouraging the lords to invade and divide the territory's spoils.
• The alliance mobilized larger forces toward Uchiha Yū's territory, while its residents and fence-sitters feared the coming battle.
• Uchiha Yū rejected Kakuzu's suggestion to ambush the enemy and ordered Orochimaru to prepare the energy-gathering formation.
• Uchiha Yū planned to abandon the defenses and lure every attacker into the territory's center to turn them into energy.

As the allied lords invaded Uchiha Yū’s territory, he and Orochimaru prepared to use a device to harvest their energy, with Uchiha Shisui ready to trap them in a mass illusion. The invaders broke through the city walls, and Xue Ying revealed that he had brought them there as instructed.

• Residents panicked and prepared to flee while Uchiha Yū watched without intervening.
• Orochimaru activated the energy conversion device, and Uchiha Yū arranged for Shisui to cast a large-scale illusion while he restrained the invaders.
• Blood Dragon led the allied forces through the city gates, destroying the walls and demanding Uchiha Yū surrender his wealth and submit.
• Uchiha Yū welcomed the invading lords as they looted the city, then immense pressure descended upon them.
• Xue Ying left the allied forces and told Uchiha Yū that he had brought them all as instructed.

Uchiha Yū and his allies annihilated the Lord Alliance, harvested the energy from its members, and funneled it into Uchiha Yū. As his strength rapidly increased, Orochimaru hailed the collection as a groundbreaking experiment.

• Xue Ying betrayed the Lord Alliance, and Uchiha Yū confronted Blood Dragon and the invading lords.
• Uchiha Obito trapped the alliance in Dreamland while Uchiha Shisui helped suppress their resistance, and Orochimaru activated his energy-collecting machine.
• Uchiha Yū buried the unconscious invaders as Orochimaru's machine drained their life energy and killed them.
• Blood Dragon briefly broke free of the dream but could not resist the energy drain, while Xue Ying watched the alliance fall.
• Orochimaru praised the collected energy, and Uchiha Yū absorbed it, causing his strength to rise rapidly.

Uchiha Yū absorbed the energy of his defeated enemies and increased his strength by twenty percent, alarming the people of his territory and drawing the attention of the suzerain state. An elder of the Ōtsutsuki Clan recognized him as a clansman and summoned him to the suzerain state, intending to steer him away from recklessly absorbing Underworld energy.

• Uchiha Yū gained a twenty percent increase in strength by absorbing the energy of his enemies, though some of it remained stored in his body.
• Orochimaru warned that raising Uchiha Yū to a new level would require a considerable price, and Uchiha Yū resolved to incorporate his territory’s population into his forces.
• People in Uchiha Yū’s territory feared his power and expected the suzerain state to punish him for slaughtering enemies and absorbing their strength.
• The defeated lords’ subordinates reported the battle to the suzerain state, where an elder of the Ōtsutsuki Clan saw Uchiha Yū’s portrait and recognized him as a clansman.
• The elder ordered an envoy to summon the lord of Dawn Hidden Village to the suzerain state, planning to guide him away from recklessly absorbing Underworld energy.

Uchiha Yū learned that the Ōtsutsuki Clan had influence in the Underworld and discussed the dangers of absorbing its energy with the Ninja World's leaders. He chose to maintain peace with the suzerain nation for now while gathering intelligence and preparing for a possible clash with the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

• The revenge-seeking group learned they could not defy the suzerain nation and left Uchiha Yū's territory without taking revenge.
• Uchiha Yū gathered the Underworld's upper ranks and said they would have to keep fighting the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Uchiha Yū asked Orochimaru whether he had absorbed Underworld energy, and Orochimaru admitted he had experimented on himself and felt mentally unstable.
• Uchiha Yū explained that remnants of an enemy's consciousness could contaminate absorbed energy, so Orochimaru advised ordinary ninjas to avoid absorbing it in large amounts.
• Minato Namikaze proposed maintaining peace with the suzerain nation while gathering energy, and Shisui warned that pretending to be Ōtsutsuki could expose them.
• Uchiha Yū agreed with Minato Namikaze's proposal and called for detailed intelligence on the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

Uchiha Yū proposed unsealing Ōtsutsuki Kaguya to gain intelligence on the Ōtsutsuki Clan, hoping to make peace through her descendants and Naruto and Sasuke. Minato Namikaze and Itachi Uchiha agreed to let their sons take part, and Uchiha Yū and Shisui flew toward the moon to unseal her.

• Uchiha Yū revealed that Ōtsutsuki Kaguya remained sealed on the moon and could provide information about her clan.
• Uchiha Yū explained that Naruto and Sasuke would appeal to Kaguya through their inherited ties, while he and Shisui would stop her by force if she threatened the Ninja World.
• Minato Namikaze and Itachi Uchiha agreed to let Naruto and Sasuke take part after Uchiha Yū promised their safety.
• Itachi Uchiha entrusted Sasuke to Shisui, and Uchiha Yū and Shisui flew toward the moon to unseal Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.

Uchiha Yū and Uchiha Shisui broke apart the moon’s seal and freed Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. Kaguya learned that Uchiha Yū ruled the Ninja World and had defeated Ōtsutsuki pursuers, then demanded that he accept her rule if she was to help him.

• Uchiha Yū and Uchiha Shisui used their Rinnegan powers to draw down and shatter the moon, breaking Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s seal.
• Kaguya Ōtsutsuki emerged from the moon and asked whether Uchiha Yū and Uchiha Shisui were members of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Uchiha Yū explained that he and the other ninjas were Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s descendants and refused her request to help her rule the Ninja World.
• Uchiha Yū told Kaguya Ōtsutsuki that he ruled the Ninja World and had defeated the Ōtsutsuki pursuers, but that he needed her help and intelligence about the clan.
• Kaguya Ōtsutsuki agreed to consider helping Uchiha Yū only if he accepted her rule.

Uchiha Yū rejected Ōtsutsuki Kaguya’s demand to control the Ninja World and tried to ease her hatred by appealing to her love for her family. After Uchiha Shisui took Naruto and Sasuke to safety, Uchiha Yū faced Kaguya alone as she attacked him.

• Uchiha Yū and Uchiha Shisui revealed the chakra within Naruto and Sasuke, which reminded Ōtsutsuki Kaguya of Hagoromo and Hamura.
• Uchiha Yū explained that Kaguya’s sons had died long ago and that the chakra belonged to Hagoromo’s sons, prompting Kaguya to voice her grief and resentment over their betrayal.
• Uchiha Yū acknowledged Kaguya’s desire to protect her family but refused to surrender authority or accept her demand for obedience.
• Uchiha Shisui escorted Naruto and Sasuke away while Uchiha Yū stayed behind to confront Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.
• Uchiha Yū and Ōtsutsuki Kaguya clashed in the sky, and Kaguya attacked him with Rabbit Hair Needle.

Uchiha Yū and Uchiha Shisui pursued Ōtsutsuki Kaguya into her Amenominaka dimension, where Yū forced her out of hiding and offered a compromise. Kaguya remained wary as Yū proposed protecting the two chakra beings she considered her descendants.

• Uchiha Yū countered Ōtsutsuki Kaguya’s Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack and All-Killing Ash Bones with his Mysterious Peacock Method and Atomic Fission.
• Uchiha Shisui returned after securing the two children, and Ōtsutsuki Kaguya used Amenominaka to enter another dimension.
• Uchiha Yū and Uchiha Shisui followed Ōtsutsuki Kaguya into the ultra-gravity dimension, where Shisui warned that the conditions would suppress their taijutsu.
• Uchiha Yū used a miniature Truth-Seeking Orb to damage the dimension and force Ōtsutsuki Kaguya out of hiding.
• Uchiha Yū told Ōtsutsuki Kaguya he would not surrender power but offered to protect her family’s safety.
• Ōtsutsuki Kaguya rejected the idea of finding her dead sons, and Uchiha Yū clarified that he meant the two masses of chakra energy, whom he called her grandsons.

Uchiha Yū negotiated with Ōtsutsuki Kaguya for information about the Ōtsutsuki Clan in exchange for her freedom, while Shisui stood ready to use genjutsu. The deal nearly collapsed over Kaguya’s request for chakra, but she agreed to accept a small amount so she could leave the Ninja World and gather chakra elsewhere.

• Uchiha Kaguya offered to help resist the Ōtsutsuki Clan only from the sidelines and said she would leave if the situation became dangerous.
• Uchiha Yū agreed not to interfere with Kaguya’s life as long as she caused no trouble in the Ninja World, and asked her for detailed information about the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Kaguya suspected Uchiha Yū wanted to join the Ōtsutsuki Clan and demanded a condition in exchange for sharing what she knew.
• Uchiha Shisui prepared to use nightmare to extract information, but Uchiha Yū stopped him and asked Kaguya to state her price.
• Kaguya revealed that she needed chakra after her long sealing and said the Chakra Tree she planted had borne the fruit Uchiha Yū ate.
• Uchiha Yū refused to give her a Chakra Fruit but offered to provide some chakra, and Kaguya accepted a small amount so she could leave the Ninja World and gather chakra in other worlds.

Uchiha Yū received detailed intelligence from Ōtsutsuki Kaguya about the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s hierarchy, powers, and etiquette in exchange for chakra to help her travel through space. The chapter ended with Kaguya opening a passage to Amenominaka after she and Yū reached an agreement.

• Uchiha Yū offered Ōtsutsuki Kaguya chakra equivalent to one Tailed Beast so she could travel through the void, and she accepted.
• Ōtsutsuki Kaguya explained that the clan had three factions ruled by powerful kings who could sense even their names being spoken.
• Kaguya described the clan’s hierarchy, from the three rulers and noble factions to the expeditionary forces that gathered Chakra Fruits.
• Kaguya taught Uchiha Yū clan etiquette, unaware that her own noble status made her examples unsuitable for his current rank.
• Uchiha Yū promised to provide Kaguya with chakra, planning to extract it from White Zetsu, and Kaguya opened a passage to Amenominaka.