Chapter Summaries

After Yoru departed, Orochimaru took Hidan to Iwagakure’s research institute and subjected his regenerative body to brutal experiments. Hidan was left dismembered and suspended in formalin jars, alive and unable to die.

• Orochimaru carried the bound Hidan through the spatial gate after Yoru vanished.
• At the underground institute, Orochimaru restrained Hidan and began investigating his extraordinary regeneration.
• Orochimaru severed Hidan’s arm and legs, removed his hearts, and observed that he remained alive and conscious.
• Orochimaru concluded that Hidan’s vitality came from faith energy tied to his soul and separated his body into pieces for further study.
• Orochimaru stored Hidan’s living body parts in jars and left his head connected to monitoring equipment, trapping him in endless torment.

Obito and Pain learned that Iwagakure had poached or defeated several Akatsuki members and was expanding its influence under Uchiha Yoru. They abandoned the gradual collection plan and decided to launch a direct strike against the Nine-Tails.

• Obito returned to the Akatsuki hideout as the signals for Kakuzu and Hidan went dark, and he blamed their losses on their incompetence.
• White Zetsu reported that Kakuzu had defected to Iwagakure and become its Minister of Finance, while Kakuzu had handed Hidan over to Orochimaru for research.
• Obito and Pain discussed how Uchiha Yoru's alliances, economic pressure, and new military technology threatened the Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Obito argued that Yoru's rise made the Akatsuki's gradual strategy impossible, and Pain agreed that they could no longer wait for Nagato to nurture the Rinnegan.
• Pain ended the step-by-step collection plan, and Obito declared that they would carry out their final plan by striking directly at the Nine-Tails.

Obito and the Akatsuki decided to avoid Stone Village and target weaker tailed beasts to restore the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. Pain assigned Kisame to capture the Two-Tails and Konan to capture Takigakure's Seven-Tails.

• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu warned Obito that Stone Village's defenses made attacking it to seize the Nine-Tails too dangerous.
• Black Zetsu proposed capturing the Two-Tails and Seven-Tails first to rebuild the Demonic Statue's power and gain leverage.
• Pain agreed that the Akatsuki should avoid a direct confrontation and secretly capture tailed beasts they could reach more easily.
• White Zetsu said its spore clones were positioned near the Land of Lightning and that Takigakure was vulnerable amid the chaos after Leaf Village's collapse.
• Pain assigned Kisame to help capture the Two-Tails and Konan to capture the Seven-Tails, while Obito ordered the operation to begin.

Yoru and Orochimaru developed a chakra-powered scientific ninja tool that let ordinary users fire powerful ninjutsu without hand seals. Kakuzu began arranging mass production as Stone Village equipped its patrols with advanced weapons, and Yoru declared that ninja warfare had entered the age of hot weapons.

• Orochimaru showed Yoru a chakra battery made from Hidan’s tissue and Hashirama Cells, explaining that it stored three times an ordinary jonin’s chakra and could be used by anyone.
• Yoru tested the bracer powered by the battery and blasted a huge crater into an alloy target with a fireball.
• Yoru ordered Kakuzu to mass-produce the bracers for sale, and Kakuzu hurried off to convert factories into assembly lines.
• Yoru and Kitsuchi watched a patrol squad equipped with Chakra Armor, beam swords, and Chakra Gatlings as its members discussed their gear.
• Yoru praised Stone Village’s mechanized forces and declared that ninja warfare had entered the age of hot weapons.

A squad of Leaf Village deserters ambushed an Iwagakure merchant caravan, expecting an easy assassination and robbery. The caravan guards instead unleashed Chakra Gatling guns, leaving Sha Shizi as the sole survivor of the attackers.

• Sha Shizi and his deserters waited in a canyon to ambush the Iwagakure caravan and kill its leader for a black-market reward.
• The deserters attacked when the caravan arrived, but the Iwagakure guards showed no fear and prepared heavy weapons.
• The chubby genin captain ordered the guards to open fire with their Chakra Gatlings, unleashing a torrent of Explosive Tags and bullets.
• The barrage destroyed Sha Shizi’s earth wall and killed his companions, while Sha Shizi survived behind rubble.
• After the guns fell silent, Sha Shizi watched the guards dust themselves off and wondered how anyone could fight them.

Jiraiya infiltrated Amegakure to investigate Pain and discovered that the leader was Yahiko, controlled through the Six Paths. The Six Paths overwhelmed him, and the chapter ended with Jiraiya gravely wounded and Pain raising a chakra rod toward his heart.

• Jiraiya captured an Amegakure shinobi, learned that Pain lived in the tallest tower, and entered it.
• Pain revealed himself, and Jiraiya summoned Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima before the Six Paths appeared.
• Jiraiya and the toad sages fought the Six Paths, but the Preta Path absorbed their chakra attacks and the linked vision made it difficult to land blows.
• Jiraiya trapped the Preta Path and Naraka Path in the Toad Gourd Prison, but Deva Path Pain blasted him into a wall.
• The Asura Path fired a tracking warhead that destroyed Jiraiya’s left arm, and Deva Path Pain raised a chakra rod over the badly wounded Jiraiya.

Uchiha Yoru arrived in Amegakure just as Pain was about to kill Jiraiya and rescued him. After Pain’s six Paths surrounded them, Yoru thwarted their coordinated attack with Kamui and prepared to fight back.

• Jiraiya lay helpless as Deva Path Pain struck at his chest, but a Flying Thunder God kunai appeared and Uchiha Yoru teleported between them.
• Yoru blocked Pain’s attack with Susanoo, shattered the chakra receiver, and tossed Jiraiya to safety, where Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima tended his wounds.
• Pain’s six Paths surrounded Yoru, while Jiraiya warned him that they shared vision and that Deva Path could repel attacks.
• Yoru dismissed Pain’s claim to godhood and used Kamui to absorb Deva Path’s attraction and Asura Path’s missiles.
• Yoru gathered Nine-Tails chakra and natural energy in his hand, challenged the six Paths, and announced that he would bring them down.

Uchiha Yoru confronted Pain to protect the wounded Jiraiya and revealed a perfect Sage Mode that overwhelmed Pain’s coordinated attack. The chapter left Jiraiya and the two toads stunned by Yoru’s unexplained power as Pain’s paths hesitated.

• Jiraiya, badly wounded, warned Yoru that Pain’s paths shared their vision and urged him to retreat.
• Yoru taunted Pain and claimed the six bodies were puppets controlled by Nagato and Obito.
• Yoru absorbed natural energy from across Amegakure and transformed into perfect Sage Mode without any frog-like changes.
• Yoru’s natural energy field detonated Asura Path’s missiles and blew back Animal Path’s giant hound.
• Jiraiya and the two toads questioned how Yoru learned Sage Mode, and Fukasaku said it was more perfect than Jiraiya’s and required no assistance.

Uchiha Yoru blocked Deva Path Pain’s Super Shinra Tensei with his Perfect Susanoo, saving Jiraiya and the others as the attack flattened much of Amegakure. He gathered Nine-Tails chakra and natural energy to attack Pain while Pain’s other Paths moved to defend him.

• Deva Path Pain unleashed Super Shinra Tensei, wrecking Amegakure and sending its repulsive force toward Yoru.
• Yoru summoned his Perfect Susanoo and stopped the attack, leaving its armor intact.
• Jiraiya and the sages recognized that Yoru had blocked Pain’s godlike strike, while Yoru taunted Pain about the technique’s cost and cooldown.
• Yoru gathered Nine-Tails chakra and natural energy as Pain ordered Preta Path and the other Paths to defend him.
• Yoru challenged Pain and prepared to drag him down from the sky.

Uchiha Yoru survived Pain’s Super Shinra Tensei unharmed and answered with a Sage Art: Wind Style: Ultra-Big Ball Rasenshuriken. The technique overwhelmed Pain’s defenses, leaving Pain terrified as the attack consumed the battlefield.

• Pain’s Super Shinra Tensei devastated Amegakure, but Yoru stood unharmed while Jiraiya and the sages watched in disbelief.
• Yoru gathered natural energy and formed a massive Sage Art: Wind Style: Ultra-Big Ball Rasenshuriken as Pain waited for Shinra Tensei’s cooldown.
• Yoru launched the Rasenshuriken, and its wind blades tore through Preta Path’s chakra absorption shield.
• The Rasenshuriken detonated against Preta Path and Naraka Path, engulfing the area in white light and shredding Preta Path.
• Pain watched Yoru calmly withdraw his hand and reacted with fear at the power of his attack.

Uchiha Yoru destroyed Nagato’s Chibaku Tensei and smashed Deva Path Pain, leaving Nagato badly injured in the tower. Yoru then located Nagato’s hidden source body and challenged him directly.

• Nagato used Chibaku Tensei to try to seal Yoru, while Jiraiya and Sage Fukasaku warned Yoru of the danger.
• Yoru’s Ultra-Big Ball Rasenshuriken tore apart the gravitational sphere before it could form, and Nagato vomited blood from the backlash.
• The remaining Pain puppets faltered as Nagato’s chakra connection weakened, and Yoru destroyed Deva Path Pain with a single punch.
• Yoru sensed Nagato’s source body inside the tower and taunted him for hiding.

Uchiha Yoru entered Nagato’s chamber and restored Amegakure with a display of power that surpassed Nagato’s understanding of the Rinnegan. He revealed that Black Zetsu had manipulated Nagato’s life, while Orochimaru arrived intending to take Nagato’s eyes, leaving Nagato broken and bewildered.

• Nagato’s attempt to rise from his life-support device worsened his injuries, and Uchiha Yoru appeared inside the sealed chamber.
• Yoru used a combination of Banshō Ten'in and Shinra Tensei to rebuild the ruins of Amegakure.
• Yoru mocked Nagato’s claim to godhood and told him that Black Zetsu had scripted the deaths of his parents and Yahiko.
• Yoru blamed Nagato’s ruined body on overusing the Rinnegan and showed him genetic fluid from Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru appeared and offered to remove Nagato’s eyes for a clone body, leaving Nagato despairing over Yoru’s overwhelming power.

Yoru tore Nagato from his life-support apparatus and challenged his belief that he was a god, revealing that Obito’s plan would feed the shinobi world to Kaguya’s God Tree. After Nagato rejected the truth and tried to attack him, Yoru punched him into submission and asked whether he still considered himself omnipotent.

• Yoru ripped Nagato from the life-support apparatus, tearing out the black chakra rods, and knocked Konan aside when she tried to protect him.
• Yoru mocked Nagato’s weakened body and revealed that Obito had deceived him about the Eye of the Moon Plan and the purpose of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Nagato insisted that he was a god and attacked Yoru with Shinra Tensei.
• Deidara offered to attack Nagato, but Yoru sent him away and struck Nagato with a fist infused with Nine-Tails chakra and natural energy.
• Yoru watched Nagato collapse with a swollen, bloodied face and asked whether he still believed he was an omnipotent god.

Yoru effortlessly defeats Konan’s explosive-tag attack, captures her, and leaves Nagato powerless to stop him. The chapter ends with Nagato giving up and begging Yoru to spare Konan.

• Konan shielded Nagato and threatened to detonate six hundred billion Explosive Tags, but Yoru mocked her threat.
• Konan set off the tags, and Yoru used Kamui to suck them all into a spatial vortex without an explosion.
• Yoru grabbed Konan after her chakra ran out and knocked her unconscious.
• Orochimaru injected Konan to keep her sedated, then sent her to the underground laboratory with Kisame and Akatsuchi.
• Nagato helplessly watched Konan being taken away, and Yoru taunted him for failing to protect her.
• Nagato surrendered and begged Yoru to kill him but spare Konan.

Yoru exposed evidence that Obito had deliberately allowed Yahiko to die so Nagato would awaken the power of his Rinnegan, then revealed that Nagato’s plans would only serve Kaguya’s revival. Nagato’s faith in Madara and his life’s purpose collapsed, leaving him screaming in despair.

• Yoru activated a memory crystal and showed Nagato a recording of Danzō and Hanzō conspiring to kill Yahiko.
• The recording revealed Obito watching Yahiko’s death and refusing Zetsu’s offer to save him, so Nagato’s Rinnegan would be forced to awaken.
• Yoru told Nagato that the Demonic Statue and Eye of the Moon Plan would drain people to revive Kaguya and turn them into White Zetsu.
• Nagato rejected the evidence as deception, but Yahiko’s final words and the memories of Konan and Obito overwhelmed him.
• Jiraiya lamented that they had all become pawns, while Nagato broke down and screamed in despair.

Yoru forced Nagato to revive the innocents he had killed and surrender Amegakure to Stone Village, leaving Konan to lead the defeated village. With Amegakure under Stone Village’s control, Yoru began turning it into a strategic base against Leaf Village.

• Yoru offered Nagato a choice between dying with Konan or using the Outer Path — Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique to revive his victims and submit Amegakure to Stone Village; Nagato chose the second option.
• Nagato revived the dead guards and civilians, then died as Konan began to stir.
• Orochimaru revived Konan, and Yoru demanded her cooperation, Nagato’s eyes, and control of Amegakure; Konan agreed to lead the village into submission as long as its civilians were protected.
• Jiraiya was taken away through a spatial teleportation array, while Stone Village ninja replaced Amegakure’s village emblem with the Iwagakure emblem.
• Yoru ordered Kakuzu and Konan’s paper clone ninja to organize trade records and build an information relay station to monitor Leaf Village troop movements.
• Ōnoki praised Yoru’s capture of Amegakure, and Yoru declared that his plans against Leaf Village were only beginning.

Obito learned that Nagato had died, Konan had defected, and nearly all of the Akatsuki Organization had been captured or recruited by Iwagakure. Left with only Black Zetsu and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, he decided to attack the Leaf Village and seize the Nine-Tails.

• Obito discovered that Nagato and Konan's chakra had vanished from the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Black Zetsu told Obito that Nagato had died after using the Outer Path — Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique, while Konan had defected to Iwagakure.
• Black Zetsu explained that Uchiha Yoru had revealed the truth about Yahiko's death to Nagato and that the remaining Akatsuki members had been captured, recruited, or turned against Obito.
• Obito learned that Itachi had joined Iwagakure's Anbu and that Kisame had been captured by Uchiha Yoru, leaving only Obito, Black Zetsu, and the statue.
• Obito resolved to go to the Leaf Village and seize the Nine-Tails before Uchiha Yoru could stop him.

Black Zetsu tried to recruit Sasuke Uchiha by claiming Uchiha Yoru planned to take his eyes, but Sasuke dismissed the claims and threatened to hand Black Zetsu over to Orochimaru. Black Zetsu was left stunned by Iwagakure’s Sharingan research as Sasuke sent it away.

• Black Zetsu urged Obito to target Sasuke Uchiha and use him against Uchiha Yoru rather than attack the Leaf Village directly.
• Black Zetsu approached Sasuke during late-night training in Iwagakure and claimed Uchiha Yoru intended to take his and Itachi Uchiha’s eyes.
• Black Zetsu offered to take Sasuke to the still-living Madara Uchiha, promising power beyond Uchiha Yoru’s.
• Sasuke revealed that Uchiha Yoru had recently broken Madara’s leg and mocked Black Zetsu for not knowing.
• Sasuke explained that Orochimaru’s laboratory had an Artificial Sharingan Gene-Recombination Plan, then warned Black Zetsu to leave before Uchiha Yoru arrived.

Sasuke rejected Black Zetsu’s attempt to manipulate him and revealed that he knew about its origins and altered stone tablet. He awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan, burned Black Zetsu with Amaterasu, and called out to Yoru, who had watched from behind a tree.

• Sasuke told Black Zetsu that he knew about Kaguya, the Sage of Six Paths, and the stone tablet’s alterations.
• Sasuke declared that he would gain power through his own strength rather than steal his brother’s eyes.
• Sasuke awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and struck Black Zetsu with Amaterasu.
• Black Zetsu sacrificed much of its body, escaped through a crack in the ground, and called for Obito.
• Sasuke wiped blood from his eye and complained to Yoru about his muddy pants.

Sasuke used a Sage-enhanced Amaterasu to burn Black Zetsu, forcing it to sacrifice most of its body and flee underground. Yoru emerged as Sasuke praised the serum but complained that Black Zetsu had escaped too quickly.

• Black Zetsu screamed as Sasuke's Amaterasu burned its body and the Sage energy in the flames countered its Yin-Yang Release nature.
• Sasuke explained that Orochimaru had adjusted his ocular power with energy from the Basic Sage Body Gene Serum.
• Black Zetsu tore away most of its burning body and escaped into a deep crack in the earth.
• Sasuke let his Mangekyō Sharingan fade, praised the serum, and complained that Black Zetsu had fled too fast.
• Yoru walked out from the shadow of a tree at the edge of the training ground.