Chapter Summaries

Ren considered whether Orochimaru’s chakra research might explain Gamamaru’s prophecy and decided to intensify it. When Jiraiya asked to see Konoha’s intelligence, Ren agreed to open five years of records and left the story with a request of his own.

• Ren decided Orochimaru’s chakra research should continue and be intensified, despite the risks suggested by Gamamaru’s prophecy.
• Ren pretended to be alarmed by the prophecy as Jiraiya asked for Konoha’s recently gathered intelligence.
• Ren rejected Jiraiya’s request at first, then abruptly agreed to open five years of intelligence records from Konoha’s departments and forces.
• Ren told Jiraiya that his agreement came with a condition and asked for Jiraiya’s help.

Ren explained the Shinobi Alliance to Jiraiya and asked him to command its first joint operation against a powerful group of war fanatics. Jiraiya agreed, signed the participating villages’ agreements, and began reviewing Konoha’s intelligence with Xuanyue.

• Ren explained the Shinobi Alliance’s goals and organization to Jiraiya, who saw it as a chance for peace and wondered whether its destined leader might be among its members.
• Ren asked Jiraiya to command the Alliance’s first operation to eliminate war fanatics and rescue the shinobi and civilians under their control, and Jiraiya agreed.
• Jiraiya signed agreements from the participating villages and learned that Iwagakure would not join the operation or the Alliance.
• Ren gave Jiraiya a sealed file of targets and intelligence, then introduced Uchiha Xuanyue as the officer who could help him review Konoha’s records.
• Jiraiya asked Xuanyue to begin with Root’s intelligence.

Jiraiya examined Root’s old records and the latest intelligence, discovering Konoha’s knowledge of Akatsuki and the true scale of the coming operation against the Land of Earth and Iwagakure. He confronted Ren, condemned the operation as a war that would bring about the shinobi’s extinction, and found himself restrained by seals as Ren insisted he remain commander.

• Jiraiya reviewed former Root files and found records of Danzo’s operations, including Yahiko’s death and Akatsuki’s origins.
• Jiraiya read the latest intelligence and Ren’s operation documents, realizing that the so-called rescue mission was an invasion tied to the Shinobi Alliance.
• Jiraiya confronted Ren in the Hokage’s Office and accused him of starting a war that would threaten all shinobi.
• Jiraiya tried to resign and vowed to stop the war, but Ren said the operation would proceed with Jiraiya as commander.
• Jiraiya discovered that Ren’s sealing formulas had stopped his chakra and weighed down his body, while Ren urged him to accept command and avert the prophecy.

The Shinobi Alliance marched toward the Land of Earth while Ren left Konoha to search the world after becoming wary of the Sage of Six Paths. Half a month later, Jiraiya discovered a familiar name among documents about the allied forces joining up.

• Ren assigned Fugaku to impersonate him, then concealed himself and left Konoha to wander the Shinobi World.
• Fugaku transformed into Ren and headed to the Hokage Building in Hokage robes.
• Jiraiya reluctantly stamped orders issued in his name as the Shinobi Alliance advanced toward the Land of Earth.
• Half a month after leaving Konoha, the allied forces reached the Land of Earth border and joined another force dispatched by the villages.
• Jiraiya stopped stamping when he saw a familiar name on a document about incorporating the new forces.

After learning that Nagato was alive and leading Amegakure’s forces, Jiraiya abandoned his duties at the Allied Forces’ headquarters and went to meet him. Nagato and Konan prepared to face their former teacher, and Jiraiya recognized them as he arrived.

• Jiraiya saw Nagato’s name listed as an Amegakure unit captain and decided to visit the camp, believing Nagato might be key to the future of the ninja world.
• Jiraiya left the command tent despite a subordinate’s protests and told the ninja to follow him to Amegakure’s camp.
• Nagato, now recovered and involved in Amegakure’s administration, joined Ren’s Shinobi Alliance to witness its approach to peace firsthand.
• Nagato led Amegakure’s troops to join the Allied Shinobi Forces, with Konan accompanying him.
• When Jiraiya entered the camp, Konan grew anxious, and Nagato told her to stand behind him.
• Jiraiya saw Nagato and Konan and exclaimed in surprise that they were alive.

Jiraiya reunited with Nagato and Konan, but they treated him as a wary stranger, and Nagato attacked when Jiraiya tried to approach. Jiraiya stopped a confrontation with the Konoha ninja and asked whether Yahiko’s death had changed Nagato.

• Jiraiya recognized Nagato and Konan and tried to embrace them, but Nagato aimed a chakra-weapon at him.
• Jiraiya appealed to their past, and Konan briefly turned away while Nagato remained guarded.
• Jiraiya claimed Nagato could kill him if he blamed him, but Nagato fired a beam at him.
• A Konoha ninja threatened Nagato with war, and Nagato aimed his weapon at the ninja.
• Jiraiya stopped the standoff and asked Nagato whether Yahiko’s death had changed him.

Nagato attacked Jiraiya after he mentioned Yahiko, leaving Jiraiya gravely injured before Konan and the Konoha shinobi rescued him. Ren arranged a minor penalty for Amegakure, learned of Obito’s activity in the Land of Demons, and found Orochimaru’s hidden base in the Land of Rice Paddies.

• Nagato flew into a rage over Jiraiya’s words about Yahiko and blasted him with the Asura Path, while Konan shielded Jiraiya with paper.
• The Konoha shinobi carried the badly injured Jiraiya away, and Ren reduced Amegakure’s resources to compensate Konoha.
• White Zetsu told Ren that Obito had begun causing trouble in the Land of Demons, and Ren sent back word that he understood.
• Ren traveled to the Land of Rice Paddies and located Orochimaru’s hidden base using Konoha’s intelligence.
• A messenger told Ren that Lord Orochimaru invited him to the base for a talk.

Ren met with a severely weakened Orochimaru, who revealed that he had uncovered the moon's connection to the Ōtsutsuki Clan and asked for help with an operation. Ren negotiated for command of the operation, the spoils, and copies of Orochimaru's research, and Orochimaru agreed.

• Haku led Ren to Orochimaru's underground chamber, where Ren saw that Orochimaru was too weak to stand without assistance.
• Orochimaru said he had nearly found answers to Ren's questions and revealed a high-purity Byakugan in his left eye.
• Ren inferred that Orochimaru's discovery concerned the moon, the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and the Tenseigan.
• Ren demanded command during the operation, ownership of its spoils, and copies of Orochimaru's research and current results.
• Orochimaru asked whether Ren could guarantee success, then accepted Ren's terms despite receiving no guarantee.

Ren, Orochimaru, and Haku prepared to reopen the passage to the moon, with Orochimaru drawing on Haku’s senjutsu chakra to restore his strength. After activating the passage’s formulas, Ren and Orochimaru stood ready to enter.

• Ren, Orochimaru, and Haku traveled to the cave containing the lunar passage, with Ren carrying Haku when he fell behind.
• While Orochimaru and Haku prepared the passage, Ren laid Flying Thunder God formulas along their route.
• Orochimaru used Haku’s senjutsu chakra through their curse marks until Haku ran out of chakra and the transfer ended.
• Orochimaru said Haku would stay behind, and Ren agreed to help activate the passage.
• Ren supplied chakra to the formulas until they all lit, including the central formula.
• Orochimaru offered to lead through the light, and Ren accepted.

The Allied Shinobi Forces invaded the Land of Earth and looted it under the banner of justice, while Nagato observed how war changed both the attackers and their victims. Iwagakure fractured into three rival factions before the invasion reached it, as reports of the alliance’s destruction turned many against surrender.

• The Allied Shinobi Forces entered the Land of Earth and systematically stripped its towns and estates of anything valuable, while Konoha’s forces spared the wealth of the nobles they executed.
• Nagato watched Amegakure’s ninja join the looting and observed the despair in the Land of Earth’s citizens, recognizing their eyes as like his own after he had believed himself a god.
• Iwagakure learned of the Shinobi Alliance’s declaration after losing contact with Ōnoki and the troops sent to Konoha, then split between resistance, surrender, and escape factions.
• The surrender faction initially gained the most support by arguing that the alliance would spare those who submitted, but reports of its looting and destruction drove more Iwagakure ninja away.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces’ plundering left many residents without food, and both nobles and commoners chose suicide rather than face hunger.

As nobles from other countries brought aid and new policies to the Land of Earth, Iwagakure's surrender faction gained strength. Rōshi returned to the village, rejected his rogue-ninja label, and declared his bid to become the Fourth Tsuchikage, winning support from ninjas desperate for a leader.

• Foreign officials brought food, seeds, tools, and relief measures to the people of the Land of Earth, while nobles and the Allied Shinobi Forces divided control over resources.
• The improved conditions among the people strengthened Iwagakure's surrender faction, but a meeting between the village's factions failed to reach agreement.
• Rōshi returned to Iwagakure and challenged the ninjas for calling him a rogue, arguing that the village had no leader to make that judgment.
• Rōshi displayed his Four-Tails chakra and Lava Release Chakra Mode, then declared that he would become the Fourth Tsuchikage.
• Rōshi's supporters stood behind him, and other ninjas began to rally to him as a potential leader.

Rōshi became Iwagakure’s Fourth Tsuchikage and ordered the village to prepare to fight the Allied Shinobi Forces. He then secretly tasked Han with arranging a defection during the decisive battle to preserve a remnant of the village.

• Iwagakure’s shinobi backed Rōshi as Tsuchikage, and he ordered them to prepare for a fight to the bitter end.
• Rōshi gathered Han and other leaders in Ōnoki’s former office and challenged Han for supporting surrender.
• Han argued that surrender could save lives, while Rōshi warned that the Allied Shinobi Forces were still shinobi and offered little certainty of safety.
• Rōshi ordered Han to secretly recruit shinobi and contact the Allied Shinobi Forces so they could defect during the decisive battle.
• Han objected that he would be more useful on the front lines as a jinchūriki, but Rōshi insisted that Han’s strength made him best suited to protect the defectors, and Han accepted.

Rōshi became Tsuchikage, reunited Iwagakure, and secretly prepared the village to resist the Allied Shinobi Forces. As Sunagakure advanced, its shinobi encountered a devastating Hidden Stone attack that killed Tongmaru and engulfed his squad in flames.

• Rōshi ordered Han, Tsuchikawa, and Gray Stone to escape with selected shinobi, while he and five others stayed behind to buy them time.
• Rōshi's appointment as Tsuchikage restored Iwagakure's resolve, and he began interrogating suspected spies and rebuilding counterintelligence efforts.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces received news of Rōshi's appointment and anticipated that they would soon clash with Hidden Stone Village shinobi.
• Sunagakure's forces advanced quickly with upgraded puppets, and Tongmaru's squad prepared for its first encounter with Hidden Stone Village shinobi.
• Hidden Stone shinobi struck Sunagakure's formation with Earth Release, killing Tongmaru and leaving his teammates and captain gravely injured.
• The squad saw white objects rain from the sky, then was swallowed by flames.

Iwagakure’s aerial raids slowed the Allied Shinobi Forces, but the alliance adapted and resumed its advance. More than a thousand Iwagakure shinobi then sacrificed themselves to destroy the Hidden Grass Village forces, before Takigakure troops killed their lone survivor and called it justice.

• Iwagakure’s clay aerial attacks inflicted casualties and forced the Allied Shinobi Forces to advance more than ten times slower.
• The alliance studied the clay fragments, worked out how to counter them, and resumed its march the next morning.
• An Iwagakure jonin leader told his men their sacrifice served the Tsuchikage’s plan and that the village would remember them.
• Led by more than twenty jonin, over a thousand Iwagakure shinobi attacked the Hidden Grass Village forces and killed nearly two thousand of them, but were wiped out except for their leader.
• Fū asked her uncle whether Takigakure was truly on the side of justice, and he answered that Iwagakure had to want their help.
• Fū’s uncle and the Takigakure shinobi used Earth Release: Earth Spear to kill the last Iwagakure survivor, then declared it justice.

Ren and Orochimaru entered the moon’s palace and fought Toneri and his army of puppets. Ren defeated them with Supernova, leaving Orochimaru badly weakened and Toneri stunned.

• Toneri recognized Ren and confronted him with ranks of puppets, while Orochimaru warned Ren that Toneri was a puppet whose real body had no eyes.
• Toneri identified Ren as a descendant of Hagoromo and ordered his puppets to attack.
• Ren unleashed Supernova, melting the puppets and knocking down Toneri and Orochimaru.
• Orochimaru recovered from his mud-like state and complained that Ren had nearly killed him with the attack.
• Toneri asked what Ren’s power was, and Ren called it the Will of Fire.

Ren and Orochimaru approached the lunar palace, where Toneri sent Hamura’s stone statue to block their way. Ren destroyed the statue with his Surtur form, and the two continued toward the palace as Ren remained puzzled by his earlier premonition.

• Toneri spotted Ren and Orochimaru approaching the palace and decided to use Hamura’s statue against them.
• Ren felt a sudden jolt, searched the area, and dismissed it as oversensitivity when he found nothing.
• Hamura’s stone statue crashed down in front of Ren and Orochimaru, blocking their path.
• Ren transformed into a lava giant and cleaved the statue into pieces with the Twilight Sword.
• Ren returned to normal, and he and Orochimaru continued toward the palace while Ren questioned what had caused his earlier feeling.

Ren and Orochimaru chased Toneri through the Moon Palace toward the Giant Tenseigan, which Toneri used to slow and attack them. The attack left Orochimaru’s head destroyed and Ren unharmed, while Orochimaru’s sealing scroll opened to reveal a lifeless body.

• Ren activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and led Orochimaru in pursuit of Toneri through the Moon Palace.
• Toneri fled to the chamber containing the Giant Tenseigan, and Ren sensed its overwhelming power before shutting off his Sharingan.
• Toneri used the Tenseigan’s repulsive force to hamper Ren and Orochimaru as they struggled toward the chamber.
• Toneri fired two streams of light at Ren and Orochimaru while intensifying the force pinning them down.
• Orochimaru’s head was blown apart, while Ren transformed into Surtur’s form and endured the attack.
• Orochimaru’s sealing scroll opened, revealing a lifeless body.

Ren survived Toneri’s two powerful attacks without injury, while Orochimaru secretly revived himself in a prepared body and stole a Byakugan. As Toneri tried to unleash another attack, Orochimaru’s actions left the Tenseigan flickering, and Ren realized what had happened.

• Ren returned to normal unharmed after Toneri’s overloaded attacks drained the Tenseigan’s power.
• Orochimaru revived himself in a specially prepared body through Living Corpse Reincarnation.
• Orochimaru retrieved a Byakugan from his former body and implanted it into his empty left eye socket.
• Toneri began charging the Tenseigan for another attack while Ren shut his eyes against its glare.
• Ren opened his eyes to find Toneri stunned and the Tenseigan flickering, then recognized Orochimaru’s handiwork.

Ren captured Toneri after Orochimaru asked him to intervene in the struggle for control of the Tenseigan. Orochimaru then tried to claim Toneri, but Ren insisted that Toneri belonged to Konoha, and Orochimaru ultimately accepted their original agreement.

• Ren realized Orochimaru's appearance resembled Toneri's father and suspected Orochimaru and Toneri were fighting for control of the Tenseigan.
• Orochimaru called on Ren to stop watching from the sidelines, and Ren approached Toneri while both Toneri and Orochimaru were immobilized.
• Ren used a silencing package to capture Toneri, allowing Orochimaru to move again while the Tenseigan continued shining.
• Orochimaru asked Ren to hand Toneri over, but Ren reminded him that Toneri belonged to Konoha under their agreement.
• Orochimaru offered compensation and pressed his request as the room grew brighter, but Ren held firm and Orochimaru agreed to follow their original arrangement.

Ren let Orochimaru study the Tenseigan while he searched the palace and investigated the strange sensation he had felt. Inside his mind, he discovered a damaged game-like interface and found a clear image of the Land of Wind in the final frame of its Logs gallery.

• Ren refused to hand Toneri over to Orochimaru, who stayed behind to study the Tenseigan.
• Ren left Orochimaru working with his equipment and wandered through the palace, searching for the source of his earlier palpitation.
• Ren entered his mind and found a shattered interface whose Inventory button did not work.
• Ren opened the colored Logs icon and explored an endless gallery of blurred pictures.
• Ren reached the last frame, recognized its clear image as the Land of Wind, and touched it.