Chapter Summaries

Neji fused the powers of the Three Great Sage Regions into Chaos Immortal Power and created a lotus embodying the laws of the world. After emerging from seclusion with his body healed and his power beyond familiar ranks, he turned his attention to the Akatsuki and the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

• Neji used the Primordial Bagua Diagram to guide the conflicting powers of space, time, and creation as they threatened to destroy his body and inner world.
• The three powers fused into a gray current that Neji named Chaos Immortal Power, healing his injuries and transforming his half-crystallized body.
• Neji formed the Sage Art: Chaos Creation—Lotus of Laws, a real creation that could carry laws such as spatial exile, accelerated aging, or transformation.
• Neji sensed his life force and connection to nature had grown, then emerged from seclusion and prepared to settle old scores and confront future threats.

Neji tested the flight and immense speed granted by Chaos Immortal Power before traveling to Rain Village to confront Nagato. He exposed Nagato’s hiding place by disintegrating the central tower and left him and Konan terrified as he proposed they talk.

• Neji discovered that Chaos Immortal Power let him fly and move at extreme speeds, even crossing vast distances almost instantly.
• After testing his new abilities above Konoha, Neji decided to confront Nagato and flew to Rain Village.
• Deva Path Pain and Konan sensed Neji’s arrival and prepared for battle as he hovered before the tower.
• Neji revealed that he knew Nagato controlled the Six Paths of Pain and used Sage Art: Chaos Separation to disintegrate the tower.
• The vanished tower exposed Nagato’s frail body and machinery, and Neji calmly told him they could now talk.

Neji overwhelmed Nagato, Konan, and the Six Paths of Pain, deliberately sparing them to pressure them into growing stronger. Obito watched the confrontation and decided to accelerate his plans, while Neji left believing he had planted the seeds of future strength.

• Neji confronted Nagato and demanded that he show the full power of the Rinnegan, then effortlessly withstood the Six Paths of Pain's coordinated attacks.
• Neji disabled the Pains one by one and nullified Konan's Billion Explosive Tags, leaving Nagato and Konan helpless.
• Neji released the Deva Path Pain and warned Nagato to grow stronger before departing into the rain clouds.
• Obito watched through White Zetsu spores, grew wary of Neji, and decided to accelerate his plan.
• Neji looked back toward the Land of Rain and hoped Nagato and Obito would make his investment worthwhile.

After Hyuga Neji’s defeat left Nagato questioning his ideals, Obito Uchiha offered to restore his body in exchange for deeper commitment to the Eye of the Moon Plan. Nagato accepted, regained the ability to walk, and faced the prospect of confronting Neji again.

• Nagato wondered if he had been wrong after Neji overwhelmed him and destroyed the Rain Village tower.
• Obito Uchiha, disguised as Madara, and Black Zetsu appeared and warned Nagato that Neji threatened their plan.
• Obito offered to restore Nagato’s body if he pursued the Eye of the Moon Plan more thoroughly and cooperated unconditionally when needed.
• Nagato accepted the deal, and Obito gave him a specially cultivated White Zetsu made with Hashirama Senju’s cells.
• The White Zetsu fused with Nagato, repairing his lower body and strengthening his connection to the Six Paths of Pain.
• Obito and Black Zetsu departed, leaving Nagato and Konan among the ruins as Nagato remained uncertain whether his newfound power could defeat Neji.

Neji decided Orochimaru would live under punishment by working for Konoha, then revealed the threats facing the Ninja World and persuaded Jiraiya to stay and defend their home. Jiraiya chose to remain in Konoha as the group raised their cups beneath the moonlight.

• Neji told Tsunade, Shizune, and Xiao Xi that Orochimaru would be spared but forced to work for Konoha.
• Jiraiya thanked Neji for sparing Orochimaru and said he planned to leave Konoha to wander and gather material.
• Neji revealed that Obito and Nagato planned to revive the Ten-Tails and cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi.
• Neji warned Jiraiya that the Ōtsutsuki Clan posed a greater threat from beyond the heavens.
• Jiraiya abandoned his plan to leave and declared that he would stay to protect Konoha.

Neji upgraded the Sage Crystal Filters and used Shizune and Xiao Xi’s transformation to show Konoha’s top Jonin a new path to Shadow Rank power. He announced that shinobi could earn filters and Sage Art guidance through dangerous missions, launching a merit-based program to strengthen the village.

• Neji redesigned the Sage Crystal Filter, and Shizune and Xiao Xi received the new versions and reached Shadow Rank.
• Shizune and Xiao Xi fought at the Third Training Ground, demonstrating their enhanced Sage Art abilities before Konoha’s senior fighters.
• Jiraiya, Kakashi, Kai, Asuma, and Kurenai Yuhi watched the battle and recognized how much Neji had changed their power.
• Neji announced that high-risk missions would earn shinobi the qualification for a Sage Crystal Filter implant and further Sage Art training.
• Konoha’s top Jonin resolved to pursue the missions, beginning Neji’s merit-for-power program.

After Team Seven’s successful Snow Country mission, Neji gave Kakashi a Sage Crystal Filter that awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan and restored the Hatake Clan’s combat arts. Kakashi pledged to master his new powers as Konoha’s mission-driven resurgence continued.

• Neji and Tsunade reviewed Kakashi’s S-rank mission report and noted his renewed use of Hatake swordsmanship.
• Neji gave Kakashi a Sage Crystal Filter at the training ground while Jiraiya, Kai, Asuma, and others watched.
• The filter let Kakashi close his transplanted Sharingan and awakened his Mangekyo Sharingan, revealing the Kamui spatial technique.
• Kakashi awakened the Hatake Clan’s Lightning Release Chakra Mode and demonstrated extraordinary speed with his White Fang Dagger.
• Kakashi thanked Neji and vowed not to disappoint him, while the gathered ninjas grew eager to earn greater strength through missions.

Konoha’s top jonin competed for S-rank missions and gained Sage Crystal Filters that greatly enhanced their abilities. After Kai, Asuma, and Kurenai reached Kage-level strength, Neji warned that their next missions would target threats to the Ninja World’s balance.

• Kai defeated Asuma in a match to claim an S-rank mission, then returned from defeating a rogue ninja leader and received a Sage Crystal Filter that let him use the Seventh Gate without pain or a time limit.
• Asuma completed an S-rank mission to destroy a forbidden technique laboratory and received a filter that strengthened his Wind Release and chakra blades.
• Kurenai infiltrated a Kirigakure research base, gathered intelligence using a large-area genjutsu, and received a filter that amplified her spiritual power and genjutsu.
• Kurenai tested her new genjutsu on Kai, trapping him in a powerful illusion that he escaped only after opening the Seventh Gate and struggling against it.
• Neji told the assembled shinobi that Kage Level was only a beginning and that their future missions would involve even greater threats.

Neji’s revised Mount Myoboku Sage Art helped Jiraiya overcome his training bottleneck and awaken a vastly improved Sage Mode. After demonstrating his new strength in a fierce spar with Tsunade, Jiraiya reached Transcendent Shadow Rank, further strengthening Konoha’s forces.

• Tsunade gave Neji’s revised Sage Art scroll to Jiraiya, who studied its insights and left to train in seclusion.
• Several days later, Jiraiya activated his revised Sage Art instantly without the sage toads and challenged Tsunade to spar.
• Jiraiya and Tsunade clashed with powerful Sage Art fire and Wood Release techniques as Kakashi, Kai, Asuma, and Kurenai watched.
• Jiraiya stabilized his improved Sage Art and crossed into Transcendent Shadow Rank before he and Tsunade ended their spar.
• Neji watched the battle from a distance and noted Konoha’s growing strength.

Neji completed his transformation of Chaos Immortal Power, erased the chakra imprints within himself, and reached Foundation Establishment Completion. He left the secret base with a clearer path toward the Ōtsutsuki Clan and his next stage of cultivation.

• Neji realized Chaos Immortal Power was a manifestation of the Dao rather than a superior form of chakra.
• Chaos Immortal Power spread through Neji's body and erased the chakra imprints left by his former life.
• The Primordial Bagua Diagram fully unfolded, and Neji formed a nine-tier Dao Platform, reaching Foundation Establishment Completion.
• Neji discovered he could shape Chaos Immortal Power into different energies without hand seals or ninjutsu.
• Neji sensed the natural energy network across the Forest of Death and concluded that the Ōtsutsuki Clan's power was a future cultivation benchmark.
• Neji detected the Ōtsutsuki Clan's traces more clearly and looked toward his next journey.

After reaching Foundation Establishment Completion, Neji awakened the Inner Landscape’s Second Realm, the Myriad Worlds Portal, which connected to spacetime realms he had already visited. He resolved to grow stronger and use those known timelines to gather resources and knowledge before exploring further.

• Neji’s Chaos Immortal Power flooded the Primordial Bagua Diagram, causing it to transform the Inner Landscape and form the Myriad Worlds Portal.
• Neji learned that the portal could theoretically reach countless worlds but currently required known coordinates or distinct anchors.
• Neji identified stable portal connections to the timelines where Madara Uchiha became Hokage and where Tsunade, Chasing Fang, and Orochimaru had encountered him.
• Neji concluded that he could travel between known spacetime realms and considered revisiting Madara or obtaining resources from the second timeline.
• Neji left the Inner Landscape determined to pursue Core Formation and make the portal’s promise a reality.

Neji returned to Madara Uchiha's Konoha with a transcendent power beyond chakra and discussed the Six Paths realm with him. Their exchange clarified how the Ninja World's laws related to Neji's Core Formation Stage, while Neji left with new insight for condensing a Golden Core.

• Madara Uchiha sensed an inexplicable disturbance in his Hokage Office, and Neji emerged from a primordial spatial ripple.
• Madara was astonished that Neji had no chakra and could not be examined by his Rinnegan, while Neji revealed his Chaos Immortal Power and a path beyond the Ninja World's framework.
• Neji asked Madara to explain the Six Paths realm and how it related to his Core Formation Stage.
• Madara described Yin-Yang Release, the Rinnegan, the Ten-Tails' jinchuriki, and the laws underlying Six Paths power as Neji compared them with cultivation theory.
• Neji recognized Truth-Seeking Orbs as resembling an inferior Golden Core, and Madara questioned the term.

Neji explained to Madara that Six Paths Power and Kekkei Mōra were limited compared with the cultivation path of the Dao, and clarified how he would pursue Core Formation. After leaving Madara, Neji set his sights on the Tenseigan on the moon as a resource for condensing his Golden Core.

• Madara described Yin-Yang Release, the Rinnegan's Six Paths, and how becoming the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki produced Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Neji examined Madara's Truth-Seeking Orb and contrasted its fragmented rules with his vision of a complete Golden Core.
• Neji demonstrated how Chaos Immortal Power could cycle through chakra attributes and return to chaos, calling Kekkei Mōra an intermediate stage.
• Madara questioned whether the Sage of Six Paths' power was the ultimate realm, and Neji explained that Six Paths corresponded only to Core Formation.
• Neji ended the discussion and departed, while Madara reconsidered his path and Neji resolved to use the moon's Tenseigan to aid his Golden Core condensation.

Neji traveled to the moon to obtain the Giant Tenseigan as a cultivation resource that could help him reach the Core Formation Stage. He entered the moon’s interior and stood before the Giant Tenseigan, ready to seize and refine its power.

• Neji concluded that his Chaos Immortal Power would let him survive the journey through space and fly to the moon without assistance.
• Neji left the Forest of Death and crossed the void, protected from the moon’s harsh environment by his Chaos Immortal Power.
• Neji sensed the Giant Tenseigan and several descendants of Hamura Ōtsutsuki on the moon, then stealthily approached the energy source.
• Neji found a concealed entrance beneath a crater and entered the moon’s interior, passing murals about Kaguya Otsutsuki and the Sage of Six Paths.
• Neji reached the Giant Tenseigan and prepared to seize and refine its power.

Neji confronted the descendants of Hamura who guarded the Giant Tenseigan and overwhelmed them with Chaos Immortal Power. He began draining the Tenseigan’s source energy to prepare for forming a Golden Core.

• Five lunar guardians surrounded Neji and warned him not to touch the Giant Tenseigan.
• A young guardian attacked Neji, but his blue chakra fists dissolved before reaching him.
• The guardians attacked together, but Neji’s Myriad Transformations Void Return Mirror absorbed and nullified their techniques.
• Neji’s counterattack disintegrated four guardians and their constructs, while the old leader survived with a ruined arm.
• Neji reached the Giant Tenseigan and began extracting its source power into his Foundation Establishment Dao Platform.

Neji absorbed the Giant Tenseigan’s energy and formed a Golden Core, reaching the Core Formation Stage and surpassing the Six Paths Level. After testing his new powers, he sensed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki hiding on the Ninja World and flew there to confront him.

• Neji refined the Tenseigan’s energy despite its violent power and used it to transform his Dao Platform into a Golden Core.
• Neji reached the Core Formation Stage, gained control over fundamental laws, and overwhelmed the wounded Otsutsuki Toneri with his presence.
• Neji created Truth-Seeking Orbs and altered the moon’s surface with his new power.
• Neji sensed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki concealed on the Ninja World and declared him his next target.
• Neji left the moon and sped toward the Ninja World.

After forming his Golden Core, Neji awakened his Daoist Divine Eye and used it to find Isshiki's hidden dimension. He confronted Isshiki in the form of Jigen and prepared to end his parasitic existence.

• Neji sensed the alien energies corrupting the Ninja World, including Kaguya's remnants and Isshiki's concealed presence.
• Neji awakened his Daoist Divine Eye, which revealed the laws of the world and exposed Isshiki's hidden dimension beneath the border between the Land of Fire and the Land of Grass.
• Neji stepped through the dimension's barriers and found Jigen recovering in a pool of life fluid beside a potential vessel.
• Jigen realized Neji had breached his hiding place, but Neji suppressed his connection to the dimension and identified him as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Neji condemned Isshiki's use of Karma and vessels, then gathered his Core Essence as the dimension's laws bent toward him.

Neji defeated Ōtsutsuki Isshiki in the other-dimensional hall by seeing through his abilities and severing his connection to Jigen. After absorbing Isshiki’s power and knowledge, Neji left to eradicate the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s remaining threats on the planet.

• Isshiki attacked Neji with Daikokuten’s black pillars, but Neji erased them with Chaos Core Essence.
• Isshiki tried to strike Neji physically and then used Sukunahikona to shrink and conceal himself, but Neji tracked him with the Divine Eye.
• Neji locked Isshiki’s Karma connection to Jigen with Heaven-Earth Essence Lock, forcing Isshiki back into Jigen’s form and disrupting his power.
• Isshiki tried to detonate the other dimension, but Neji pierced his forehead with Chaos Origin-Returning Seal and absorbed his will, memories, and power.
• Jigen’s body died as the dimension’s trembling subsided, and Neji returned to the Ninja World with new knowledge and a plan to eliminate the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s remaining threats.

Neji completed and activated the Cosmic Crystal Release Formation, purging Black Zetsu and refining Kaguya Otsutsuki to absorb their power and knowledge. With the Ninja World purified and information about the Ōtsutsuki Homeworld and its God revealed, Neji turned his attention to the sun for his next advancement.

• Neji used his Golden Core power to build the Cosmic Crystal Release Formation across the Ninja World over seven days and nights.
• Neji activated the formation, which struck at foreign wills and evil origins throughout the planet.
• The formation severed Black Zetsu’s link to Kaguya, refined him into energy, and erased him.
• The formation reached Kaguya Otsutsuki in Primordial Space and stripped away her chakra, will, memories, and knowledge before refining her existence.
• Neji absorbed the information and power from Kaguya and Black Zetsu, then looked toward the sun to prepare for his final advancement.

Neji used the sun as a furnace to purify the powers and knowledge he had sealed, forging them toward a pill aligned with his Golden Core Dao. After forty-nine periods of two hours, the pill took shape and he began the final condensation.

• Neji flew to the sun and constructed an illusory Eight-Trigrams Chaos Pill Furnace from his cultivation and the Solar True Flame.
• Neji placed Isshiki Otsutsuki's will and energy, Kaguya's refined source power, Black Zetsu's purified power, Ten-Tails knowledge, and a thread of his own Core Essence into the furnace.
• Neji used solar and stellar flames to burn away foreign wills and impurities while purifying and harmonizing the materials.
• After forty-nine periods of two hours, the furnace contained a rotating mass of purified liquid substance, and Neji began infusing it with Great Dao runes.
• Neji drove his final rune of transcendence into the pill embryo, then commanded it to condense under maximum heat and pressure.