Chapter Summaries

After Neji’s victory over the Cloud Village, Ōnoki chose to seize a mining region in the weakened Land of Lightning while claiming to coordinate with Konoha. The Third Mizukage accepted Sand Village’s alliance proposal and planned to attack Konoha’s eastern coast once its enemies had weakened it.

• Ōnoki and Iwagakure’s elders argued over whether to oppose Neji or avoid provoking Konoha after learning that Neji had transformed Thundercloud Canyon into a formidable fortress.
• Ōnoki ordered Iwagakure’s main force to advance into northwestern Land of Lightning and seize its mining region under the pretense of coordinating with Konoha.
• The Third Mizukage discussed Ōnoki’s advance and directed Kirigakure to accept Rasa’s alliance proposal from Sand Village.
• The Third Mizukage planned for Kirigakure and Sand Village to attack Konoha after Iwagakure and Neji weakened each other, targeting Land of Whirlpools and Konoha’s eastern coastal strongholds.

As the war spread to the Land of Lightning and the Land of Rain, Neji arranged for Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade to lead Konoha’s forces against the looming conflict there. He warned that a hidden danger beyond Hanzo threatened the region, while the three Sannin arrived changed by the brutality of war.

• Iwagakure’s forces led by Kitsuchi invaded the Land of Lightning and wiped out Cloud Village’s garrison at the Obsidian Mining District, leaving the Third Raikage facing enemies on two fronts.
• Neji and Hiruzen Sarutobi reviewed the escalating conflicts and discussed the growing threat in the Land of Rain.
• Neji ordered Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade to command Konoha’s forces in the Land of Rain, citing a hidden danger more threatening than Hanzo.
• Hiruzen approved Neji’s plan and warned him about Hanzo’s poison and the enemies lurking in the shadows.
• Orochimaru, Jiraiya, and Tsunade arrived at the command room and reflected on how the war had affected them.

Neji revealed the Ōtsutsuki origins of Chakra and urged Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru to pursue Sage Art rather than bloodline power before sending them toward the Land of Rain. After they left, he examined their Natural Energy Filters and discovered clues linking their Sage Chakra to time and the power to reshape matter.

• Neji showed Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru visions of Kaguya, the Sage of Six Paths, the Tailed Beasts, and the origins of Chakra bloodlines.
• Neji warned that pursuing Ōtsutsuki bloodline power led to becoming a mindless monster and urged the three to follow Sage Art and the Dao instead.
• Neji revealed that he came from another world and patrolled spacetime to stop threats seeking Ōtsutsuki power, then sent the three to face Hanzo in the Land of Rain.
• After the three left, Neji studied the Sage Chakra imprint in Jiraiya's filter and sensed a link to a node in the river of time.
• Neji examined Orochimaru's filter and recognized its violet energy as Dragon Cave's Creation Origin Force, capable of altering matter.

Neji attempted to condense the Mount Myoboku and Ryūchi Cave sage arts alongside his Shikkotsu Forest sage art, but their conflicting powers triggered a violent clash inside him. As his Crystal Release domain transformed into an unstable three-colored labyrinth, he called upon the Primordial Bagua Diagram to survive.

• Neji began forming separate Sage Art Yin Seals for Mount Myoboku and Ryūchi Cave, but Shikkotsu Forest's power disrupted his first attempt to gather orange Immortal Power.
• Neji sealed the Shikkotsu Forest Immortal Power and successfully condensed nine orange Mount Myoboku runes and nine emerald Ryūchi Cave runes.
• Neji's three Sage Art Yin Seals resonated, and their conflicting Immortal Powers collided inside his body.
• Neji's Crystal Release domain erupted into a shifting three-colored prism labyrinth as he struggled to balance the powers.
• Neji's body and consciousness neared collapse, so he called upon the Primordial Bagua Diagram.

Neji survived the clash of the three Sage Region senjutsu when the Primordial Bagua Diagram forcibly stabilized them into Three-Phase Immortal Power. As he assessed its limits, an unseen attacker struck from behind.

• The Primordial Bagua Diagram broke the conflicting senjutsu into eighty-one Magatama and fused them into nine stable, three-colored seals on Neji’s back.
• Neji’s wounds healed as the new Immortal Power coursed through him, greatly increasing his chakra reserves and strength.
• Neji resisted the intoxicating rush of power and recognized that the three senjutsu remained separate, requiring careful training before they could truly fuse.
• Neji reflected that experimenting in a separate spacetime had made the dangerous fusion possible.
• An eerie sound of something slicing through the air rang out behind Neji.

Danzo attacked Neji from behind as Neji comprehended his newly awakened Three-Phase Immortal Power, but Neji’s power destroyed Danzo’s weapon and began disintegrating his arm. Danzo unleashed a forbidden sealing technique, and Neji answered with the Sage Art-Phase Pure Realm Lightwheel as their powers collided.

• Danzo emerged from a space rift and stabbed at the Three-Color Magatama core on Neji’s back.
• Neji’s silver-white core produced spatial ripples that shattered Danzo’s kunai and began disintegrating his arm.
• Danzo activated the Inner Four Symbols Seal, creating a black sphere that threatened to swallow Neji and the command room.
• Neji formed the Sage Art-Phase Pure Realm Lightwheel and used it to counter Danzo’s expanding seal.

Neji defeated Danzo, but the Black Bagua Compass remained unchanged, raising doubts about whether another transmigrator remained. As enemy nations launched coordinated attacks on Konoha’s fronts, Neji convened a war council, where the strategists argued over whether to abandon the Land of Rain and the eastern coast.

• Neji destroyed Danzo’s sealing sphere and mortally wounded him; Danzo admitted defeat and died.
• Neji checked the Sage of Six Paths’ Compass and found that it had not changed, leaving him uncertain whether the mission was truly complete.
• An ANBU reported that Hanzo was pressuring Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru in the Land of Rain while Sand Village and Iwagakure launched a pincer attack, and Kirigakure prepared to invade by sea.
• Neji ordered an immediate meeting of the Jonin captains and strategists as reports revealed Konoha faced attacks from multiple directions.
• The Nara Clan head proposed abandoning much of the Land of Rain and withdrawing from the eastern coast, prompting angry arguments until Neji silenced the room.

Neji intimidated Konoha’s commanders into approving his plan to eliminate every nation’s Kage, then assessed Chasing Fang’s new Purple Lightning abilities. The chapter left Chasing Fang demonstrating a powerful lightning technique with Neji’s guidance.

• Neji released his overwhelming presence in the conference room and proposed the Lightning Decapitation Plan to kill the enemy Kage before they could act.
• Neji displayed his destructive Immortal Power, silencing the objections and winning the commanders’ support for the plan.
• Neji met with Chasing Fang, Heart Butterfly, and Iron Maru, who had all reached Jonin level after their training and battles.
• Chasing Fang showed Neji his Lightning Release Chakra Mode and the Purple Lightning he had developed from battlefield experience and a secret scroll.
• Neji taught Chasing Fang to shape Lightning Release more freely, and Chasing Fang channeled his power into his White Fang Dagger to perform Violet Lightning: Thunderflash.

Neji equipped Chasing Fang, Heart Butterfly, and Iron Maru with powerful Crystal Release enhancements, then led them in an assault on the Third Raikage's camp. The attack began with the fortress's bombardment, and Neji confronted Raikage A's guards above the command tent.

• Chasing Fang demonstrated his new Kage Level combat power by slicing through four Mystic Crystal walls with Purple Lightning.
• Neji gave Chasing Fang, Heart Butterfly, and Iron Maru Crystal Release Chakra Sources that increased their energy and granted them crystal armor and invisibility.
• Neji ordered the Sky Fortress to bombard the Third Raikage's camp while he and the three warriors prepared to target Raikage A.
• The fortress's attack plunged the camp into chaos, and Chasing Fang, Heart Butterfly, Iron Maru, and Neji descended toward the command tent.
• Three Cloud Village Elite Jonin attacked Neji above the tent, and he countered by forming a spinning three-colored point of light in his palm.

Neji erased the Third Raikage A’s three elite guards with a three-colored lightwheel, then withstood A’s killing strike using Mystic Crystal Heavy Armor. They fought a devastating close-range battle, leaving A battered and exhausted while Neji’s armor began repairing itself.

• Neji’s Three-Phase World-Creation Lightwheel disintegrated three Elite Jonin and their Lightning Release Armor.
• The Third Raikage A charged Neji with Hell Stab: One-Finger Nukite, but Neji blocked the strike with Mystic Crystal Heavy Armor without moving.
• Neji mocked A’s weakened Strongest Spear, and A answered by launching a brutal close-combat assault.
• Neji and A traded thousands of powerful blows, devastating the camp and making the battlefield too dangerous for Cloud Shinobi to approach.
• Neji’s armor became cracked but began repairing itself with three-colored immortal light, while A’s armor dimmed and his body showed severe injuries and exhaustion.

Neji and the Raikage A unleashed enormous powers in a final battle that devastated the battlefield. Neji’s Wisdom King pierced the Thunder God, and A’s black lightning giant began to collapse.

• A accepted his defeat, then ignited his chakra and life force to summon the Thunder God Descends.
• Neji summoned the Three-Phase Glazed Wisdom King to meet A’s attack.
• The two giants clashed, sending destructive shockwaves across the battlefield and halting the fighting around them.
• Neji’s Wisdom King pierced the Thunder God’s chest, causing its black lightning body to collapse and its scarlet eyes to fade.

Neji killed the Third Raikage A, but his death drove B into a frenzied Eight-Tails transformation that attacked both armies. As Neji struggled to control his power, Chasing Fang, Heart Butterfly, and Iron Maru stepped in to face the beast.

• Neji defeated the Third Raikage A and delivered the killing blow, ending Cloud Village's faith in its leader.
• B mourned A and transformed into the Complete Form of Eight-Tails Gyuki, his hatred for Neji driving the beast mad.
• Gyuki attacked Neji and indiscriminately devastated the battlefield, killing shinobi from both sides.
• Neji struggled to steady the three merged streams of Genesis Immortal Power after his battle with A.
• Chasing Fang, Heart Butterfly, and Iron Maru appeared to defend Neji, and Chasing Fang unleashed Violet Lightning: Nine Thunderclap Flashes.

Chasing Fang, Heart Butterfly, and Iron Maru fought the Eight-Tails while the Cloud Shinobi army fled, but the beast began forming an unstable Ultra Tailed Beast Ball. As Chasing Fang launched a desperate strike, Neji appeared before the Eight-Tails and invoked the Mystic Crystal Wisdom King.

• Chasing Fang severed three of the Eight-Tails' tentacles and wounded its body with Purple Lightning, suffering severe backlash from pushing his power beyond its limits.
• Heart Butterfly attacked the Eight-Tails' consciousness with spiritual butterflies, while Iron Maru raised a shifting rock maze to hinder the beast's movements.
• The surviving Cloud Shinobi lost their fighting spirit and fled, leaving the Cloud Village army completely collapsed.
• The Eight-Tails began forming an unstable Ultra Tailed Beast Ball that threatened to destroy everything nearby.
• Chasing Fang poured his chakra and life force into a massive Purple Lightning strike as Heart Butterfly and Iron Maru cried out in alarm.
• Neji appeared before the Eight-Tails and shouted as he activated Sage Art: Crystal Release: Mystic Crystal Wisdom King.

Neji used his Crystal Release and Senjutsu Chakra to force the Eight-Tails' Tailed Beast Ball into its own mouth, destroying Gyuki and B in a massive internal explosion. As Neji stood over the crater, Konoha's surviving ninja hailed him as a god while the remaining Cloud Village soldiers lost the will to resist.

• Neji summoned a massive Mystic Crystal Wisdom King and struck the Eight-Tails as it prepared a Tailed Beast Ball.
• Neji sealed the Tailed Beast Ball, then shoved it into the Eight-Tails' open mouth.
• The Tailed Beast Ball exploded inside the Eight-Tails, annihilating Gyuki and B and leaving a huge crater.
• Neji descended beside the crater as Konoha's ninja stood in stunned silence and the surviving Cloud soldiers collapsed in despair.
• A Konoha Chunin called Neji a god, and the Konoha forces erupted in cheers that further broke the Cloud soldiers' morale.

Neji diverted the Sky Fortress from the collapsing Land of Rain front to the Land of Whirlpools, where Hidden Mist forces and the Three-Tails were overwhelming Uzushiogakure. As the Great Elder prepared to sacrifice himself to save the women and children, a furious voice announced that help had arrived.

• Neji ordered the Sky Fortress to overload its engines and head for Uzushiogakure instead of the Land of Rain.
• The Uzumaki Clan fought Hidden Mist shinobi through the fog, using Sealing Jutsu to hold off the attackers.
• The Third Mizukage ordered the Three-Tails, Isobu, to attack and destroy the village.
• Isobu's Water Iron Cannons shattered the ancestral hall, injured the Great Elder, and knocked women and children down near the evacuation route.
• The Great Elder began the Reaper Death Seal to protect the children as Isobu gathered another attack, but a calm voice declared, "Sorry. I'm late."

Neji arrived in time to protect the Great Elder and the Whirlpool women and children, then overwhelmed the Three-Tails Isobu with brute force. He left Isobu battered and flying through the air as he prepared to drive it back down.

• Neji appeared before the Great Elder and punched apart Isobu's Water Iron Cannon, shielding the people behind him from the blast.
• Isobu charged Neji, but Neji armored himself in Mystic Crystal Heavy Armor and smashed the Three-Tails' jaw with a rapid strike.
• Neji battered Isobu with more than a hundred armored punches, breaking its shell and scattering its attempts to counterattack.
• The Whirlpool survivors and the Hidden Mist leaders watched in shock as Neji struck Isobu's abdomen and sent its massive body flying.
• Neji followed Isobu into the air and raised his armored foot to stomp down on its battered back shell.

Neji defeated and sealed Isobu, then killed the Third Mizukage after rejecting his claim that the Hidden Mist attack was a misunderstanding. The Hidden Mist forces were left stunned and silent.

• Isobu crashed into the tidal flats, and Neji sealed the unconscious Three-Tails inside a black crystal cocoon.
• The Hidden Mist shinobi and Uzumaki survivors watched in shock as Neji confronted the Third Mizukage.
• The Third Mizukage called the attack a misunderstanding, but Neji told him to choose a Fourth Mizukage.
• Neji used Spatial Confinement to stop the Third Mizukage from escaping and pierced his heart with a crystal finger.
• The Third Mizukage died on the Hōzuki Maru as thousands of Hidden Mist shinobi stood frozen in silence.

Neji froze the Hidden Mist army and its tsunami attack with Sage Art: Ten Thousand Miles of Ice, saving the Land of Whirlpools and leaving the survivors stunned. As he prepared to leave for the Land of Rain, he sensed a hidden attacker and used his enhanced vision to locate a disturbance behind the Grand Elder.

• Neji declared that he had crushed Hidden Mist's pride after killing the Mizukage, driving the Hidden Mist ninja to charge him in fury.
• The Grand Elder rallied the surviving Uzumaki to fight, while the Hidden Mist ninja unleashed a massive Water Release assault.
• Neji used Sage Art: Ten Thousand Miles of Ice to freeze the sea, the tsunami, and thousands of Hidden Mist ninja into ice sculptures.
• Neji told the Grand Elder that the immortal ice would remain as a warning to those who attacked Konoha's allies, and the Grand Elder thanked him.
• Neji sensed a concealed attacker, vanished from a blade's path, and used his three-colored Genesis Immortal Radiance to spot a presence behind the Grand Elder.

Neji used Three-Phase Immortal Power to seal the God of Death after it attacked him. With the Land of Whirlpools saved but the war still underway, Neji left for the Land of Rain as the Great Elder began considering the Uzumaki Clan’s future.

• The God of Death attacked Neji with a soul-severing slash, but Neji escaped with Space Leap.
• Neji struck the God of Death with a Tricolor Bagua Diagram and discovered that Three-Phase Immortal Power could harm it.
• Neji expanded the diagram into a sealing wheel and trapped the God of Death inside a palm-sized Bagua seal.
• The Great Elder was freed from the God of Death’s chains, and the Uzumaki Clan celebrated surviving the battle.
• Neji warned the Great Elder that the war was not over, then vanished toward the Land of Rain.
• The Great Elder surveyed the frozen battlefield and began resolving to decide the Uzumaki Clan’s future.

After defeating the Allied forces, Neji suffered a dangerous backlash from his Three-Phase Immortal Power and began searching for a way to stabilize it. As he weakened, Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura moved to reclaim power in Konoha, targeting his allies and disrupting his command network.

• Neji noticed his body crystallizing and his chakra destabilizing after overusing Three-Phase Immortal Power, and ordered his forces to hold position and monitor rival villages.
• Neji began using the Primordial Bagua Diagram to search for an object that could harmonize yin and yang while secretly suppressing his worsening backlash.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura concluded that Neji was gravely injured and planned to weaken his influence by targeting Mitarashi Momiji and his allies.
• Former Root officials accused Momiji of misconduct, while the elders' faction obstructed Nara Shikaku's efforts to delay the investigation.
• Chasing Fang, Heart Butterfly, and Iron Maru rejected the elders' attempt to win their support, then discovered that some Spirit Board permissions and their direct channel to Neji had been restricted.
• Guard-unit ninja took Momiji away for questioning, and Konoha's internal power struggle intensified as Neji remained secluded in the Sky Fortress.