Recaps

Chenshu Senju detected Nagato’s Rain Tiger at Will Technique and mocked him, exposing his location and abilities. Nagato reacted with anger and decided to probe Chenshu’s strength from Amegakure.

• Chenshu Senju sensed Nagato watching through the rain and created a Wood Release canopy to shield himself.
• Chenshu Senju insulted Nagato with a raised middle finger and mocking messages formed from wood.
• Nagato realized Chenshu had detected and traced his technique, and Konan and the Zetsu reacted to the revelation.
• Nagato judged Chenshu a dangerous, uncontrollable variable and resolved to test his strength.
• Nagato sent a repulsive-force ripple across the distance toward Chenshu in the Land of Fire.

Chenshu Senju repelled a remote attack from Pain and rushed back to Konoha to oversee Uchiha Sasuke’s defection. He ordered Tayuya and the Sound Five to stage a humiliating, nonlethal farewell ambush, while Sasuke prepared to leave the hospital under cover of night.

• Chenshu Senju blocked Pain’s long-range Shinra Tensei with a wooden shield and sent a Wood Dragon carrying the remaining force back toward its source.
• Chenshu Senju contacted Tayuya and ordered her to let Orochimaru’s people and Konoha’s ANBU proceed without interference while preparing a nonlethal trap for Uchiha Sasuke.
• Chenshu Senju instructed Tayuya to use loudspeakers, banners, and flash powder to publicly embarrass Sasuke as he left the village.
• Tayuya gathered Jirobo, Kimimaro, Sakon, and Ukon, and the Sound Five set out to prepare the staged farewell near the village gate.
• Uchiha Sasuke packed his ninja tools at Hidden Leaf Hospital and stared toward the world beyond the village.

Sasuke left Konoha to seek Orochimaru and gain the power to avenge himself, unaware that Chenshu Senju had secretly tracked him and arranged a humiliating trap. The chapter ended as Sasuke entered the canyon and Wood Release sealing formations lit beneath his feet.

• Sasuke escaped from Hidden Leaf Hospital and slipped past Konoha’s guards, believing his departure had gone unnoticed.
• Chenshu Senju’s Wood Release spores tracked Sasuke while the Sound Five watched and recorded him, preparing a public-humiliation trap.
• Sasuke reached Konoha’s outskirts, found no Sound Ninja waiting, and continued toward the canyon route to Orochimaru’s base.
• The Sound Five prepared speakers, banners, flash powder, and a Recording Toad to capture Sasuke’s defection.
• Sasuke stepped into the canyon, and dense Wood Release sealing formations suddenly lit beneath his feet.

Chenshu Senju’s trap caught Sasuke as he tried to leave Konoha, and Chenshu turned the capture into a public spectacle accusing him of defecting to Orochimaru. The crowd watched Sasuke’s humiliation as Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Shizune arrived and saw the scene.

• Wood Release vines bound Sasuke upside down above the canyon and drained his chakra.
• Tayuya activated loudspeakers, banners, and flash powder while Kimimaro photographed Sasuke.
• Villagers rushed to the canyon, where Chenshu Senju accused Sasuke of running away to join Orochimaru.
• The villagers mocked Sasuke as he hung helplessly before the crowd.
• Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Shizune reached Konoha and saw Sasuke’s public humiliation.

Tsunade took office as the Fifth Hokage and faced resistance from Danzō, but Chenshu Senju used his Wood Release and Senju authority to secure her position. Danzō retreated to Root and prepared to use Shin Uchiha’s Sharingan-covered arm against Chenshu.

• Tsunade returned to the Hidden Leaf Village after seeing Sasuke Uchiha subjected to a humiliating public spectacle and taken to the interrogation room.
• Tsunade ordered reforms to ANBU and the Konoha Military Police Force at a high-level meeting, but Danzō challenged her authority and demanded a role in reorganizing the village’s forces.
• Chenshu Senju entered the meeting, threatened Danzō with Wood Release, and warned that he would destroy Root if Danzō challenged Tsunade again.
• The clan heads and advisors fell silent, Tsunade’s position as Hokage became secure, and Danzō left the meeting in anger.
• At the Root base, Danzō uncovered Shin Uchiha’s arm, which was covered in Sharingan, and resolved to use it against Chenshu.

Chenshu Senju ambushed Danzo and his Root forces, then overwhelmed them with Wood Release techniques despite Danzo repeatedly reviving with Izanagi. Danzo escaped after cutting off his Sharingan-embedded arm, which Chenshu retrieved from the battlefield.

• Danzo trapped Chenshu Senju in a Four Violet Flames Formation and revealed the Sharingan embedded in his arm.
• Danzo ordered the Root elites to attack, but Chenshu summoned a Wood Dragon that swallowed their ninjutsu and crushed them.
• Chenshu raised a Wood Human and repeatedly killed Danzo, whose Izanagi consumed the Sharingan in his arm to revive him.
• With only two Sharingan left, Danzo cut off his own right arm to stop Izanagi and fled underground.
• Chenshu retrieved Danzo's severed arm with Wood Release vines.

Chenshu Senju took control of Root by defeating Danzo, freeing the Root shinobi from their cursed seals, and winning their loyalty. His reward draw granted him powerful new abilities, while Orochimaru appeared in a forest outside Konoha.

• Chenshu Senju collected Danzo's severed arm, Root's authority token, and a scroll of secret information and barrier codes.
• Chenshu Senju broke into Root's headquarters and told the assembled shinobi that Danzo had been crippled and Root was now under his control.
• Chenshu Senju purified Sai's Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal and offered to free the other Root shinobi from theirs.
• Sai and hundreds of Root shinobi pledged themselves to Chenshu Senju, giving him control of Root.
• Chenshu Senju used his ten-pull reward and received an Advanced Sage Body Origin Source and a fragment of Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands.
• Orochimaru emerged from the shadows in a forest outside Konoha.

Orochimaru infiltrated Konoha to ambush Chenshu Senju, but Chenshu survived his attacks and struck him with an even stronger laxative technique. Orochimaru fled by abandoning his body, threatening Chenshu over Sasuke Uchiha as he escaped.

• After suffering the effects of Chenshu's Sage Jutsu laxative, Orochimaru sensed Konoha's defenses were weakened and slipped into the village.
• Chenshu encountered Orochimaru on a secluded street and mocked him for squatting so long.
• Orochimaru attacked Chenshu with Hidden Shadow Many Snakes Hands and stabbed him with the Kusanagi Sword, but Chenshu healed instantly with Creation Rebirth.
• Chenshu struck Orochimaru with Wood Release: Sage Chakra Infusion, giving him an even more severe bout of stomach cramps.
• Orochimaru abandoned his body and escaped as a tiny white snake, warning Chenshu that he would regret what happened to Sasuke Uchiha.

Chenshu Senju showed Sasuke Uchiha a humiliating recording of Orochimaru fleeing and offered to train him to defeat Itachi and the Akatsuki. Sasuke’s resistance began to crumble, while Itachi Uchiha’s crow appeared over Konoha.

• Chenshu Senju entered the interrogation room and mocked Sasuke, who was bound in a chair and threatened to kill him.
• Chenshu Senju played a recording of Orochimaru fleeing in humiliation after their encounter, shattering Sasuke’s image of his would-be master.
• Chenshu Senju told Sasuke that Orochimaru could not defeat him and described how he had fought Itachi Uchiha, then offered to train Sasuke if he worked under his command.
• Sasuke questioned whether following Orochimaru could help him take revenge, and his stubborn resolve began to waver.
• A crow belonging to Itachi Uchiha silently appeared over Konoha.

Akatsuki learned that Chenshu Senju had defeated Orochimaru, humiliated Sasuke, and taken control of Root after killing Danzo. Pain postponed the Nine-Tails operation and ordered the organization to focus on eliminating Chenshu, then assigned Itachi a covert mission against him.

• Zetsu told the Akatsuki that Chenshu Senju had beaten Orochimaru and publicly humiliated Sasuke Uchiha during his attempted defection.
• Black Zetsu reported that Chenshu had slaughtered Shimura Danzō, freed Root operatives from their Cursed Tongue Eradication Seals, and taken over Root.
• Pain postponed the Nine-Tails capture plan and redirected the Akatsuki's reconnaissance toward Chenshu Senju, ordering the organization to eliminate him.
• After the meeting ended, Pain kept Itachi behind and ordered him to undertake a special covert mission targeting Chenshu.

Pain ordered Itachi to infiltrate Konoha, assassinate Chenshu Senju, and bring Sasuke back to Akatsuki. Itachi set out with Kisame but secretly sent crows to contact an unpredictable ally rather than returning to Konoha.

• Pain ordered Itachi to kill Chenshu Senju and retrieve Sasuke, while Zetsu warned him not to sabotage the mission.
• Itachi concealed his illness and accepted the order despite knowing he could not defeat Chenshu Senju head-on.
• Itachi returned to his body in a rain-soaked cave and coughed up blood as Kisame asked about Pain's orders.
• Itachi told Kisame they had to infiltrate Konoha, and Kisame protested that Chenshu Senju could easily kill them.
• Itachi left the cave with Kisame and sent red-eyed crows to contact an unforeseen variable instead of flying toward Konoha.

Chenshu Senju broke Sasuke Uchiha’s faith in Orochimaru and offered him power in exchange for submission. After Sasuke pledged loyalty, Chenshu unlocked an Uchiha-exclusive draw pool and began imagining the power he could gain from it.

• Chenshu Senju forced Sasuke Uchiha to watch slowed footage of Orochimaru’s humiliating illness and mocked him for wanting to join Orochimaru.
• Sasuke denied the footage was real, but Chenshu dismissed his genjutsu accusation and challenged him to choose between Orochimaru and submission.
• Chenshu promised to help Sasuke defeat Itachi Uchiha, and Sasuke accepted any price in exchange for the chance to kill his brother.
• Chenshu released Sasuke’s chains, and Sasuke knelt and pledged to submit to him.
• The system announced that Sasuke’s absolute submission had unlocked the Ultimate Twister of Fate achievement and an Uchiha Bloodline Exclusive Draw Pool.
• Chenshu realized the new draw pool could grant him powerful Uchiha abilities and imagined combining them with his Senju strength.

Chenshu Senju consolidated Root’s remaining forces, the Sound Four, and Sasuke Uchiha into the Senju ANBU, then received powerful rewards from a system ten-pull. As he began studying his new Flying Thunder God technique at home, a hidden intruder triggered his Wood Release sensors.

• Kimimaro reported that the Sound Four had eliminated Root’s remaining forces, and Tayuya provoked Sasuke before Chenshu Senju silenced them.
• Chenshu Senju reorganized Root’s former resources, the Sound Four, and Sasuke Uchiha into the Senju ANBU and demanded their loyalty to him alone.
• Chenshu Senju used his faction achievement reward for a ten-pull and obtained Flying Thunder God: Second Step and a 30% increase to his True Several Thousand Hands fusion rate.
• Chenshu Senju returned to the Senju Clan residence to study Flying Thunder God: Second Step, but a concealed chakra fluctuation triggered his Wood Release sensory network.

Itachi infiltrated Konoha to find Chenshu Senju and seek a way to protect both Konoha and Sasuke without obeying Pain’s order to assassinate Chenshu. After Chenshu’s Wood Release trap caught him, the vines withdrew, and Chenshu greeted him in the courtyard.

• Itachi slipped through Konoha’s sensory barrier and headed for the Senju Clan estate.
• Itachi watched the estate and found its apparent lack of guards and active defenses suspicious.
• Itachi vaulted over the wall, triggering Wood Release vines that attacked him from every direction.
• Itachi used a crow substitution to escape the vines, which then withdrew into the soil.
• Chenshu Senju greeted Itachi from the courtyard and teased him for climbing the wall instead of using the front gate.

Itachi Uchiha confronted Chenshu Senju after his infiltration was discovered, but his attacks—including Amaterasu—failed to harm Chenshu. As their fight continued, a familiar figure emerged from the residence, leaving Itachi staring in horror.

• Chenshu Senju blocked Itachi Uchiha's shuriken with Wood Release and taunted him.
• Itachi awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and used Amaterasu, but Chenshu sheltered behind a Wood Locking Wall that the flames could not penetrate.
• Chenshu emerged unscathed and mocked Itachi's bleeding eyes and exhaustion.
• Itachi rushed into close combat, but Chenshu stopped his Kunai with two fingers and began draining his chakra through it.
• Itachi escaped the chakra-draining grip and retreated as a sliding door opened and a familiar figure emerged from the residence.

Sasuke appeared in Senju ANBU clothing and revealed that he had pledged himself to Chenshu Senju, devastating Itachi. Chenshu stopped Sasuke from attacking and offered Itachi a deal that could save the Hidden Leaf Village and Sasuke, leaving Itachi poised to hear the terms.

• Sasuke entered wearing a Senju ANBU uniform and stood beside Chenshu Senju as Itachi stared in disbelief.
• Sasuke told Itachi he had found a true master and would do anything to kill him.
• Sasuke knelt to ask Chenshu Senju for permission to kill Itachi, but Chenshu ordered him to stand down.
• Itachi demanded to know what Chenshu had done to Sasuke, and Chenshu said he had given him hope of personally ending Itachi.
• Chenshu warned that Itachi's weakened body could not withstand another Susanoo and offered him a deal to save the Hidden Leaf Village and Sasuke.

Chenshu Senju coerced Itachi into becoming his spy inside Akatsuki by threatening Sasuke, while promising to protect and train Sasuke. Outside Konoha, Kisame arrived with Kakuzu and Hidan as part of Pain’s expanded operation to eliminate Chenshu.

• Chenshu revealed that Itachi’s body was near its limit and that Akatsuki was monitoring him through Zetsu, then ordered Itachi to provide intelligence from within the organization.
• Chenshu threatened to hand Sasuke over to Pain unless Itachi agreed, and Itachi accepted while warning Chenshu not to harm his brother.
• Itachi left, and Chenshu celebrated gaining Sasuke and an intelligence source within Akatsuki.
• Kisame, Kakuzu, and Hidan gathered in the rain outside Konoha, with Kakuzu warning Hidan not to damage Chenshu because he wanted the bounty and Root’s assets.

Pain ordered Kisame, Kakuzu, and Hidan to launch a direct assault on Konoha, while Chenshu Senju waited for them with a trap. The attack began at the village gates, where Hidan triggered Chenshu’s Ultimate Laxative Trap and lost control of his bowels.

• Pain ordered Kisame, Kakuzu, and Hidan to raid Konoha after losing contact with Zetsu’s intelligence from Itachi’s mission.
• Konoha’s barrier team detected three powerful intruders, and Tsunade mobilized the village’s elite forces.
• Chenshu Senju chose to let the attackers advance, while Sasuke and the Sound Five waited with him at the Senju Estate.
• Kisame, Kakuzu, and Hidan entered Konoha through its destroyed gates, and Hidan vowed to kill Chenshu Senju.
• Hidan stepped on Chenshu Senju’s hidden trap, which made him explosively defecate as Kakuzu and Kisame watched in shock.

Chenshu Senju ambushed the Akatsuki trio with a diarrhea-inducing trap, then sent Sasuke, Kimimaro, and Tayuya to fight them while he watched. His subordinates gained the upper hand, and Kakuzu prepared to unleash his ultimate technique.

• Chenshu Senju appeared with Sasuke and the Sound Five after Hidan, Kakuzu, and Kisame were caught in the trap.
• Chenshu Senju assigned Sasuke to fight Kisame, Kimimaro to fight Kakuzu, and Tayuya to restrain Hidan.
• Sasuke used Chidori Current to pressure Kisame, while Tayuya trapped Hidan in a genjutsu.
• Kimimaro's Sage Art: Ten-Finger Drilling Bullets destroyed two of Kakuzu's masked hearts.
• Kakuzu, enraged by the loss of his hearts, formed a seal to unleash his ultimate trump card.

Chenshu Senju routed Kakuzu, Kisame, and Hidan when they attacked the Hidden Leaf Village, prompting Pain to prepare the Six Paths for a personal assault. Zetsu then revealed that Obito was also watching Chenshu and considered him a threat to the Eye of the Moon Plan.

• Chenshu Senju struck Kakuzu with a Flying Thunder God attack, destroyed another of his hearts, and forced Kisame to retreat with Kakuzu and Hidan.
• Kisame reported that he had been overwhelmed, while Hidan had suffered severe diarrhea after stepping on a senjutsu trap.
• Pain learned of the trio’s defeat and unleashed Shinra Tensei in his tower.
• Pain summoned the other five Paths and ordered all Six Paths to attack the Hidden Leaf Village.
• Zetsu told Pain that Obito had watched the battle and was keeping Chenshu under surveillance because of his actions against Root and his strange Wood Release.

Pain and the other five Paths launched a devastating invasion of Konoha, with Deva Path Pain’s Super Shinra Tensei destroying much of the commercial district. As Pain prepared to attack again, a massive Wood Release pillar rose from the Senju Clan estate, signaling that Chenshu Senju had entered the battle.

• The six Paths of Pain descended on Konoha and began attacking across the village.
• Deva Path Pain unleashed Super Shinra Tensei, erasing half of the commercial district and killing many shinobi.
• An ANBU shinobi warned Tsunade that Akatsuki had invaded, and she ordered the village’s forces and Barrier Team to respond.
• Deva Path Pain prepared another Shinra Tensei against the surviving shinobi.
• A dark-purple pillar of Wood Release and Sage Jutsu chakra rose from the Senju Clan estate, drawing Deva Path Pain’s attention.

Chenshu Senju arrived above the ruined Hidden Leaf Village with a Wood Dragon and deployed the Senju ANBU to battle Pain’s forces. As his ANBU stabilized the fighting across the village, Chenshu provoked Deva Path Pain, who gathered power for an even greater attack.

• Chenshu Senju appeared atop a colossal Wood Dragon, and the Hidden Leaf survivors cheered when they saw him.
• Sasuke Uchiha, Kimimaro, and the other Senju ANBU members arrived and obeyed Chenshu’s order to fight Pain’s forces separately.
• Kimimaro confronted Asura Path Pain, while Sasuke struck down Animal Path Pain’s Multi-Headed Dog and challenged Animal Path.
• Tayuya, Kidomaru, Jirobo, Sakon, and Ukon attacked Pain’s summons and helped steady the village’s collapsing defenses.
• Chenshu faced Deva Path Pain in the crater and mocked his claim to godhood.
• Deva Path Pain erupted in fury and gathered chakra for a powerful attack as the other five Paths stopped fighting.

Chenshu Senju overwhelmed the Six Paths of Pain, killing Human Path and Asura Path in quick succession. Enraged, Nagato empowered Deva Path, who began using Planetary Devastation against Chenshu.

• The Six Paths of Pain focused their attacks on Chenshu, who used Wood Clones to block Asura Path’s laser and knock down Animal Path’s Yatagarasu.
• Chenshu teleported behind Human Path and killed him with a Sage Art: Rasengan before Naraka Path could revive him.
• Chenshu bound Asura Path with Wood Release and destroyed him with a Big Ball Rasengan.
• Chenshu taunted Nagato, who roared and channeled more chakra into Deva Path.
• Deva Path invoked Planetary Devastation against Chenshu.

Nagato’s Deva Path Pain unleashed Planetary Devastation, pulling Konoha and Chenshu Senju toward a growing sphere in the sky. As the village faced destruction, Chenshu Senju awakened his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and began summoning a colossal golden warrior.

• Deva Path Pain raised a black sphere that tore up Konoha and dragged people, buildings, and terrain into the sky.
• Kimimaro, Sasuke, Tayuya, Kidomaru, and the other survivors struggled to anchor themselves against the force.
• Chenshu Senju and his Wood Dragon began collapsing under the pull as Tsunade and the village leaders watched in despair.
• Deva Path Pain taunted Chenshu Senju and declared that Konoha’s destruction was the fate of mortals who challenged a god.
• Chenshu Senju revealed his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and announced that the fight would end.
• Chenshu Senju released immense golden chakra that formed a towering golden skeleton behind him.

Chenshu Senju summoned True Several Thousand Hands and smashed Pain’s Planetary Devastation into a mountain beyond the Hidden Leaf Village, ending the gravitational storm. After dismissing the chakra-draining Buddha, he faced four injured Paths of Pain and prepared for the battle to continue.

• Chenshu Senju formed a hundred-meter True Several Thousand Hands around his golden skeleton as Pain’s Planetary Devastation continued growing above the village.
• Chenshu Senju used Top Transformed Buddha to batter the rocky sphere and knock its gravitational core off course.
• Planetary Devastation crashed into a barren mountain outside the village, ending the storm and dropping the wreckage and villagers back to the ground.
• The surviving villagers stared in awe, while Kimimaro admired Chenshu Senju and Sasuke resolved to pursue his strength.
• Chenshu Senju dismissed the Buddha, then identified Deva Path, Animal Path, Preta Path, and Naraka Path as the remaining nearby opponents and readied himself to fight.