Chapter Summaries

The Sage of Six Paths told Neji how he became the keeper of the Pure Land and helped create Six Paths Reincarnation with counterparts from other spacetime continuums. He warned that transmigrators becoming Ōtsutsuki fueled plunder and could awaken the God of the Ōtsutsuki.

• Neji asked whether other transmigrators existed, and the Sage of Six Paths explained that he had met counterparts in other spacetime continuums.
• The Sage of Six Paths said he had dispersed his body, become a stabilizing wedge beneath the Yellow Springs, and spent centuries ferrying souls before constructing Six Paths Reincarnation.
• The Sage of Six Paths described discovering souls that bypassed reincarnation and connecting with other Sages of Six Paths through the Pan-Six Paths Sea of Consciousness.
• The Sage of Six Paths explained that transmigrators who became Ōtsutsuki were driven toward plunder, while Children of Destiny opposed the clan’s expansion.
• The Sage of Six Paths warned Neji that the growing number of Ōtsutsuki showed signs of awakening their supreme ruler, the God of the Ōtsutsuki.

Neji learned that his Uniqueness had drawn him into a cosmic struggle tied to the Sage of Six Paths’ reincarnation and the God of the Ōtsutsuki’s attempt to transcend the multiverse. After failing to secure payment for helping, Neji eagerly reached for the Sage’s offered hand, hoping to receive something after all.

• Neji resisted the Sage of Six Paths’ claim that fate had brought him there and learned that his Uniqueness made him a potential tribulation for the God of the Ōtsutsuki.
• The Sage explained that the God of the Ōtsutsuki was nearing Uniqueness, and that the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s growth and flaws in the Six Paths Reincarnation were connected to his advancement.
• Neji agreed to take on the work fate would bring him, then argued that the Sage should compensate him for helping repair the Six Paths Reincarnation.
• The Sage refused to give Neji Pure Land materials or Source Energy, and urged him not to act for personal gain.
• As Neji prepared to leave, the Sage gestured for him to come closer and extended a hand, which Neji eagerly took.

Neji learned that Six Paths power could not simply be transferred to him, so the Sage of Six Paths enhanced the Jade Jue with spacetime anchoring. The Sage also gave Neji his forging insights and sent him away, then watched the mysterious river erupt into waves.

• Neji offered his hand to receive Six Paths power, but the Sage of Six Paths explained that he had meant to enhance Neji's Jade Jue instead.
• The Sage of Six Paths sealed Spacetime Anchoring into the Jade Jue so Neji could return from other spacetimes.
• The Sage showed Neji visions of Six Paths forging and gave him a scroll containing the Six Paths Forging Verse.
• Neji realized the verse might relate to Foundation Establishment, but the Sage of Six Paths sent him through a tunnel of light before he could ask more.
• The Sage of Six Paths sat beside a dim river, and his words about Hyuga Neji were followed by the river surging into towering waves.

Neji reunited with Tsunade, Shizune, and Xiao Xi in Loulan, where they had rescued Queen Sara and uncovered An Lushan’s control of the city. Neji set out to locate the altered Dragon Vein seal while the group prepared to stop An Lushan without exposing their identities.

• Neji fought the puppet soldiers patrolling Loulan until Tsunade arrived and led him to a hidden council chamber.
• Neji reunited with Xiao Xi and Shizune, who told him they had rescued Queen Sara from An Lushan.
• Xiao Xi explained that An Lushan had arrived six years earlier, captured Loulan’s people, and turned them into puppets.
• Tsunade and Shizune warned that An Lushan had altered the Dragon Vein seal and gained some of its power.
• Neji warned Tsunade to conceal her power to avoid changing history, then sensed the Dragon Vein’s seal and left to find it.

Neji secretly entered Loulan and stopped An Lushan from taking control of the Dragon Vein, then left Minato Namikaze to contain its unstable energy. Minato and his squad faced the collapsing chamber as they worked to seal the eruption.

• Neji made a mask with the Dragon Crystal to conceal his identity and entered the underground palace beneath Loulan.
• Neji interrupted An Lushan's attempt to extract the Dragon Vein's energy with a Great Waterfall Technique.
• Neji destroyed An Lushan's puppets and trapped him in a gravity water sphere, crushing him to death.
• Minato Namikaze, Choza Akimichi, and Shibi Aburame arrived, and Minato asked Neji who he was.
• Neji left Minato to handle the Dragon Vein, and Minato began sealing its eruption as the chamber collapsed.

Neji and his companions returned from the parallel time and space, resealed the Dragon Vein, and traveled to a border town. There, Neji began recounting their adventure, including Tsunade's awakening of Wood Release.

• Neji blurred Sara's memories of the group before the Jade Jue sent them back to their own time.
• Neji reinforced the Dragon Vein seal with Sage Art: Yin-Yang Seal and led his companions past Sand Shinobi patrols.
• The group reached a border town, where Xiao Xi and Shizune asked Neji and Tsunade about their adventure.
• Neji recounted meeting Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, then revealed that Tsunade had awakened Wood Release.
• Tsunade stood up and told Shizune and Xiao Xi to watch as she prepared to demonstrate.

Tsunade demonstrated her newly developed Wood Release while Neji refined his spiritual power and planned his next steps toward Foundation Establishment. He began improving the Sage Art Yin Seal and considered seeking Crystal Release to strengthen his combat options.

• Tsunade used Wood Release: Palm Tree Realm, impressing Shizune and Xiao Xi with its living branches and flowers.
• Neji cultivated the Spirit Visualization Method until his spiritual power formed a miniature Thousand-Armed Statue that could stabilize itself but prevented him from activating Sage Mode.
• Neji put his plan to seize the Evil God from Hidan on hold and decided to pursue Foundation Establishment by storing Sage Chakra in improved Sage Art Yin Seals.
• Tsunade improved the Sage Art Yin Seal for Neji, who placed two large seals on his back and began slowly filling them with Sage Chakra.
• Neji considered seeking Crystal Release because he wanted stronger options in battle while his Sage Arts remained unavailable.

Neji decided to return to Konoha ahead of the Uchiha Clan massacre to seize the clan’s Sharingan, records, and corpses for his own plans. He slipped through Konoha’s sensory barrier and entered the village, where he surveyed its defenses and mocked its decline.

• Neji concluded that the Uchiha Clan massacre was imminent and planned to obtain Fugaku Uchiha’s Mangekyo Sharingan and other Uchiha resources.
• Neji told Tsunade he would return to Konoha for materials, and Tsunade allowed him to go while Xiao Xi reluctantly stayed behind.
• Neji traveled toward Konoha, reasoning that he would let the Uchiha Clan be destroyed rather than intervene and that he needed to outpace Danzo and Obito Uchiha in claiming its spoils.
• Neji used his Byakugan and Breath Concealment Art to pass through Konoha’s sensory barrier without detection.
• Neji stood on Hashirama Senju’s statue on Hokage Rock, surveyed the village, and criticized the Third Hokage’s leadership.

Neji reflected on Konoha’s power struggles and resolved to control the rules through strength. As the Uchiha extermination began, he infiltrated Root’s base, stole its resources and records, and discovered something disturbing behind a prison door.

• Neji concluded that ideals alone could not change the ninja world and vowed to become the one who moved the pieces.
• Neji monitored Konoha’s defenses and entered Root’s base while its guards were away surrounding the Uchiha District.
• Neji bypassed the base’s traps and emptied its supply warehouse into his separate space.
• Neji copied Root’s archives, including Danzo’s research into Hashirama’s cells and Wood Release.
• Neji followed groaning to a prison door, looked through its window, and froze at what he saw.

Neji left Root’s laboratory and entered the Uchiha Clan District after the massacre, collecting several Uchiha bodies and preparing to take Fugaku’s Mangekyo Sharingan. Obito appeared and attacked him, but Neji countered Kamui and revealed that he understood Obito’s ability and motives.

• Neji saw Root’s suffering test subjects but decided to destroy Root rather than rescue them before Danzo could capture more people.
• Neji entered the Uchiha Clan District, found Shinichi dead, and stored his body and several other young Uchiha corpses.
• Neji reached Fugaku’s residence and prepared to remove Fugaku’s Mangekyo Sharingan after Itachi had left and Fugaku and Mikoto were dead.
• Obito appeared through Kamui and attacked Neji, who evaded his strikes and used a water blade that Obito phased through.
• Neji trapped Obito’s space-time technique with a Sage Art seal, then identified Kamui and mocked Obito’s desire to escape reality.
• Obito realized Neji knew too much and tried to flee, but Neji ordered him to leave something behind.

After Obito Uchiha escaped a mysterious attacker, Neji harvested Fugaku Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan and examined Danzo’s research in a hidden chamber. He planned how to gain power amid the coming turmoil, then turned to the nearly saturated Heavenly Secrets Spring for a possible breakthrough.

• Obito Uchiha refused Black Zetsu’s suggestion to reclaim Kakashi’s Sharingan, and he left with the Zetsus to replace his severed arm.
• Neji removed Fugaku Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan, replaced them with ordinary eyes, and vanished before Itachi Uchiha returned.
• Neji entered a hidden chamber in the Forest of Death and studied Fugaku’s eyes and the Root supplies and research records he had looted.
• Neji considered how to build influence in Konoha and manage turmoil elsewhere, then entered the Primordial Bagua Diagram to use the Heavenly Secrets Spring’s technique deduction.

Neji deduced the Avatar Technique and refined Uchiha Shinichi’s corpse into an independent, self-cultivating avatar. He prepared to leave Konoha and use the two identities to pursue plans in both Konoha and the outside world, but remembered one final matter as he reached the cave entrance.

• Neji used the Heavenly Secrets Spring to deduce the Avatar Technique from his knowledge of ninjutsu and secret techniques.
• Neji used rare materials and a portion of his spirit to refine Uchiha Shinichi’s corpse into an avatar with a Sharingan and Uchiha abilities.
• Neji discovered that he could switch consciousness between his main body and the avatar, which could also act and cultivate independently.
• Neji planned to use his two identities to control Konoha’s power and influence events outside the village, then prepared to leave Konoha.
• Neji took a glass bottle containing a pair of sinister Sharingan from his storage space.

Neji implanted Fugaku Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan into Shinichi’s avatar, awakening a unique time-manipulating power that could perceive traces of the Dao. After testing its abilities and their costs, Neji sent the newly revived Uchiha Shinichi toward the massacre site, where Shinichi found Uchiha Izumi’s body and discovered Root ninjas stealing Sharingan from the dead.

• Neji implanted Fugaku Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan into Shinichi’s avatar, and it awakened with a Taiji pattern and the ability to see Dao Rhyme.
• Neji learned that the left eye could reverse three seconds within five meters and the right eye could erase a target’s next three seconds from the timeline.
• Neji tested both abilities, suffered severe pain, mental strain, vision loss, and violent impulses, then used prepared eye drops to ease the damage.
• Neji concealed the procedure and sent Uchiha Shinichi toward the Uchiha Clan District while his true body left by another route.
• Shinichi found Uchiha Izumi’s corpse and closed her eyes, then used his Byakugan to spot Root ninjas extracting Sharingan from the dead.

Uchiha Shinichi confronted Itachi Uchiha after burning Root ninjas, then fought Itachi and turned his attack on Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo. As his Mangekyō Sharingan began to strain his eyes, Shinichi retreated toward the Naka River.

• Shinichi burned the Root ninjas inside a house and faced Itachi, who had left Sasuke unconscious nearby.
• Itachi trapped Shinichi in Tsukuyomi, but Shinichi rewound time with Heaven's Eternal Stand and counterattacked.
• Shinichi's silver-white Susanoo overwhelmed Itachi's orange-red Susanoo as Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo arrived with ANBU.
• Shinichi redirected his attack toward Hiruzen and Danzo, then used High Heaven's Hunting Power to erase several ANBU and create a crater.
• Danzo declared that he wanted Shinichi's eyes, while Shinichi's vision blurred from Mangekyō strain and he retreated toward the Naka River.

After leaving Konoha, Uchiha Shinichi encountered Zetsu and Obito Uchiha, who invited him to join Akatsuki. Shinichi accepted while concealing his true intentions and headed for the Land of Rivers.

• Uchiha Shinichi rejected the Third Hokage’s offer, disowned Konoha, and vanished into the darkness.
• The Third Hokage ordered an S-rank warrant for Shinichi and relieved Danzo of his duties, while Itachi Uchiha left with the unconscious Sasuke Uchiha.
• Shinichi sensed Zetsu following him and pretended to be wary when Zetsu offered to help him get revenge.
• Obito Uchiha appeared and posed as Madara Uchiha, then invited Shinichi to join Akatsuki.
• Shinichi accepted the invitation and left for the Land of Rivers, where Akatsuki planned for someone to contact him.

Neji traveled to the Land of Fields to obtain Guren’s Crystal Release method and infiltrated two Sound Ninja bases to find her. After using a Sharingan and genjutsu to make Guren reveal the method, he returned to his Byakugan and successfully created a crystal kunai, leaving with Crystal Release now within reach.

• Neji traveled toward the Land of Grass while planning to strengthen his allies and practice Fire Release on the way.
• In the Land of Fields, Neji tracked Dosu and two Sound Ninja to an underground laboratory, where he found imprisoned and experimented-on wandering ninja but no sign of Guren.
• Neji learned from researchers that Guren was at a more concealed mountain base and infiltrated it three days later.
• Neji anesthetized Guren, temporarily replaced his right Byakugan with a Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and used genjutsu posing as Orochimaru to make her write down Crystal Release’s chakra ratios and hand seals.
• Neji left Guren alive with a warning to leave Orochimaru, restored his Byakugan at dawn, and formed a crystalline kunai using the method he had obtained.

Neji returned to the inn and told Tsunade, Shizune, and Xiao Xi that the Uchiha Clan had been exterminated, then explained the political tensions that led to their downfall. Tsunade asked how he would solve Konoha’s problems, and Neji proposed separating authority and bringing all military forces under the Hokage.

• Neji tested Sage Chakra-infused Mystic Crystal, creating a longsword that cut through boulders and trees, then returned to the inn.
• Xiao Xi rushed to embrace Neji, while Shizune welcomed him with tea and Tsunade took the aged wine he brought from the Land of Tea.
• Neji told Tsunade, Shizune, and Xiao Xi that the Uchiha Clan had been exterminated, with Sasuke Uchiha and Itachi Uchiha surviving alongside a masked man.
• Neji explained that Danzo had masterminded the massacre while the Third acquiesced, and described how the Police Force and village politics had deepened conflict with the Uchiha.
• Tsunade asked what Neji would do as Hokage, and he proposed separating legislative, judicial, and law-enforcement authority and preventing Danzo from maintaining a private armed force.

Neji discussed his newly acquired Crystal Release with Tsunade and learned that developing it might require spiritual growth through dangerous combat. He left the conversation resolved to treat the Bloodline Limit as part of his body and test it through fighting.

• Neji showed Tsunade a rigid, lifeless crystal created with Crystal Release and explained that he had learned the ability from Guren using Sharingan genjutsu.
• Tsunade warned Neji that Bloodline Limits usually awakened through bloodlines, while Neji argued that understanding their laws could make them learnable.
• Tsunade connected Bloodline Limit transformation to spiritual power and suggested that spiritual strength required tempering through warfare and hardship.
• Tsunade advised Neji to treat Crystal Release as an extension of his body and keep fighting to develop a more agile command of it.
• Neji realized that Crystal Release was part of his body, not merely a tool, and felt his battle intent rise.

Shinichi slaughtered Root ninja and joined the Akatsuki, openly provoking Itachi and questioning Pain about his Rinnegan. Pain accepted him into the organization and assigned Orochimaru as his partner.

• Shinichi used his Sharingan and shuriken techniques to kill the Root ninja sent by Danzo.
• Obito Uchiha brought Shinichi to the Akatsuki gathering and told him to meet the leader.
• Shinichi taunted Itachi Uchiha over the clan massacre and declared that he wanted more battles.
• Shinichi questioned Pain about the Rinnegan and embraced Pain's plan to use war to bring peace.
• Pain gave Shinichi the East ring and assigned Orochimaru as his partner.

Uchiha Shinichi confronted Orochimaru at River Temple and used genjutsu to overpower him, forcing him to flee the Akatsuki. Shinichi left intending to ask Pain for a new partner of his choosing.

• Shinichi climbed the mountain path to River Temple, planning to use genjutsu to drive Orochimaru out of the Akatsuki.
• Orochimaru revealed his interest in Shinichi's Mangekyō Sharingan and attacked him with Hidden Shadow Snake Hands.
• Shinichi exposed the encounter as a genjutsu and trapped Orochimaru with Demonic Illusion: Shackling Stakes Technique.
• Shinichi severed Orochimaru's left hand at the wrist before Kabuto Yakushi intervened and helped Orochimaru escape.
• Shinichi let Orochimaru and Kabuto flee, then headed toward the Land of Rain to propose a new partner to Pain.