Recaps

Hiashi Hyuga mistook an ancient formation’s faint pulse for a chance to gain power and decided to sacrifice Hinata to activate it. He dragged her into the formation and prepared to extract her ocular power as it flared to life.

• Hiashi Hyuga discovered an ancient formation in the Ancestral Shrine glowing faintly and believed it could suppress the Branch House.
• Hiashi decided that Hinata’s pure Byakugan would serve as the sacrifice needed to activate the formation.
• Hiashi ordered the elders to bring Hinata to the shrine and dress her in ceremonial robes.
• Hinata realized Hiashi intended to take her eyes and life, but he seized her and dragged her toward the formation.
• Hiashi gathered chakra to extract Hinata’s ocular power, and the formation’s light blazed as Hinata thought of Xiao.

Hyuga Xiao discovered that the Caged Bird Seals were feeding a lunar landing beacon beneath the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine. He saw Hiashi Hyuga prepare to sacrifice Hinata Hyuga, and his anger sharpened into a plan as he recognized her position at the array’s most crucial node.

• Hyuga Xiao and Kurenai Yuhi entered Konoha and climbed to a rooftop overlooking the Hyuga Clan Grounds.
• Hyuga Xiao used his Tenseigan to trace life force from the Branch House Caged Bird Seals to a spatial beacon beneath the Ancestral Shrine.
• Hyuga Xiao realized Hiashi Hyuga had mistaken the beacon for a clan weapon and decided to let the array activate using the Main House elders as fuel.
• Hyuga Xiao saw Hiashi Hyuga and the Main House elders prepare to sacrifice Hinata Hyuga by extracting her ocular power.
• Hyuga Xiao’s killing intent surged when he saw Hinata at the array’s central node, and he decided Hiashi Hyuga no longer deserved to live.

Hyuga Xiao stopped time in the Ancestral Shrine and saved Hinata from Hiashi Hyuga's attempt to take her eyes. He strengthened Hinata with Tenseigan Chakra and instructed her to pretend to be helpless when time resumed so she could carry out his plan.

• As Hiashi Hyuga prepared to strike Hinata and take her eyes, Hyuga Xiao appeared and froze time throughout the shrine.
• Hinata saw Hyuga Xiao, obeyed his commands, and declared that everything she had belonged to him.
• Hyuga Xiao told Hinata that her eyes and life were his and implanted a Tenseigan Chakra Seed in her.
• The chakra transformed and strengthened Hinata, while the system confirmed her absolute submission and the stabilization of their Humanity Anchor.
• Hyuga Xiao told Hinata to pretend to be desperate when the genjutsu ended and follow his instructions during Hiashi Hyuga's ritual, and she agreed.

Hyuga Xiao redirected the Ancestral Formation’s power away from Hinata and into the Main House elders, turning their life force into fuel for the spatial coordinate. The overloaded coordinate cracked open and released a trace of an alien, frigid aura.

• Hyuga Xiao’s Tenseigan Chakra diverted the formation’s attraction away from Hinata and toward the Main House elders.
• The elders began losing their chakra and life force as the formation drained them.
• Hyuga Hiashi realized the ritual was consuming the elders, but the coordinate had already entered an irreversible overload.
• The elders’ life force activated the spatial coordinate, which began devouring energy and shaking the Ancestral Shrine.
• The coordinate’s outer barrier cracked, and a trace of a cold, foreign aura leaked through.

Hyuga Xiao ordered Kurenai Yuhi to surround the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine with lethal time traps while he prepared for the lunar visitor. As Root operatives approached, he told Kurenai to finish setting the traps and hide, intending to use the intruders to spread the news.

• Hyuga Xiao sensed the divine aura leaking from beneath the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine and ordered Kurenai Yuhi to secure the area around it.
• Kurenai Yuhi used her Eye of Time to weave zones of temporal stasis into a concealed perimeter of deadly traps.
• Kurenai Yuhi detected six elite ANBU approaching through the forest northwest of the Hyuga Clan Grounds.
• Hyuga Xiao recognized the approaching operatives as Root remnants and ordered Kurenai Yuhi to finish her work and hide.
• Hyuga Xiao watched the Root operatives approach, planning to use them as messengers to attract more spectators.

Hyuga Xiao watched Root infiltrators approach the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine and secretly guided them toward a trap. When the barrier exposed them, Hiashi Hyuga mistook them for Leaf ANBU and turned his fury on them.

• Hyuga Xiao spotted Root's six-person squad near the Hyuga Clan Grounds and decided to let them approach so they could spread word of the unfolding events.
• Root captain Owl led two teammates toward the shrine, and Hyuga Xiao subtly distorted their path to draw them onto a shortcut.
• Owl's team saw the shrine's blood-red and blue markings, the drained corpses, and heard screams from within.
• One Root member stepped on a hidden barrier, whose blast exposed the three infiltrators and disturbed the shrine's energy balance.
• Hiashi Hyuga saw the Root members, mistook them for ANBU, and roared at them in rage.

Hyuga Hiashi mistook Root operatives for enemies sabotaging the Ancestral Shrine and led the Main House into a bloody battle with them. Hyuga Xiao secretly ensured the fighters died near the shrine, feeding the formation and accelerating the coming descent as a strange heartbeat sounded underground.

• Hyuga Hiashi emerged from the Ancestral Shrine, attacked Root captain Owl, and ordered the Main House to kill the intruders.
• The Hyuga Main House and Root operatives clashed in a brutal battle, while Hyuga Xiao watched from the attic.
• Hyuga Xiao saw the formation beneath the shrine absorb blood and learned that the added life-source essence had reduced the estimated descent time from 25 days to 20 days.
• Hyuga Xiao used his attraction ability to disrupt fleeing Root members and drive them to their deaths, feeding more blood into the formation.
• The formation's energy surged to an unprecedented peak, and a faint heartbeat echoed from deep underground.

The slaughter at the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine accelerated the arrival countdown, and Hyuga Xiao secretly helped Hiashi Hyuga defeat the Root forces. The underground coordinate fell silent before a strange signal from the stars fixed its attention on the moon.

• The deaths in the battle increased the coordinate’s charging efficiency and reduced the estimated arrival time from 25 days to 20 days.
• Hyuga Xiao used an unseen force to slow Owl’s escape, allowing Hiashi Hyuga to kill him with a Mountain-Breaking Strike.
• A Root member self-destructed, killing a Hyuga elder and adding more blood to the formation as the underground heartbeat quickened.
• The battle ended, and Hiashi Hyuga set aside his fear and prepared to inspect the formation.
• The underground heartbeat stopped, and a strange metallic whisper rose from the activated coordinate and focused on the moon.

Hyuga Xiao entered the activated Living Coordinate Formation in soul form, devoured Hyuga Hiashi’s control mark, and rewrote the coordinates to turn the passage from the moon into a trap. The new connection carried a distant command to begin purging the base.

• Hyuga Xiao sent Kurenai Yuhi to guard the attic and descended in soul form to the formation core.
• He suppressed the formation’s torrent of resentful souls and life energy with the Tenseigan’s power.
• Hyuga Xiao attacked and devoured the Hyuga Main House crest that Hyuga Hiashi had left to control the formation.
• He rewrote the coordinates with gravitational traps, added Kurenai Yuhi’s Eye of Time power as a contingency, and branded the core with his own crest.
• The altered passage to the moon transmitted a command to purge the base.

Hyuga Xiao repelled and devoured a spiritual attack from the Ōtsutsuki Clan, then watched as Hiashi Hyuga entered the Ancestral Shrine to continue sacrificing Hinata. The chapter left Hiashi unaware that the formation had changed and that his actions were bringing a deadly surprise closer.

• A powerful Ōtsutsuki spiritual presence reached Hyuga Xiao through the altered coordinate channel and called him a vermin who had stolen a god's power.
• Hyuga Xiao used the Tenseigan to seize the presence's spiritual power, tear off part of it, and devour the energy.
• Kurenai Yuhi sensed the oppressive force disappear as Hyuga Xiao declared the clash settled.
• Hiashi Hyuga discovered that he had lost his connection to the shrine's formation and rushed inside to check its altar.
• Hyuga Xiao watched Hiashi approach the altar where Hinata Hyuga was bound and urged him to drain the last of her blood.

Hiashi Hyuga tried to drain Hinata Hyuga’s Byakugan to restore his severed connection to the underground formation, while Hyuga Xiao watched from the attic and waited for his trap to spring. As Hiashi activated the Bloodline Severance Technique, a vast force suddenly sucked back from the formation beneath him.

• Hiashi Hyuga discovered that his connection to the underground formation had snapped and blamed Hinata’s bloodline for the failure.
• Hiashi decided to use Hinata as a sacrifice again and sealed her chakra pathways.
• Hyuga Xiao watched the scene through the Tenseigan and waited for Hiashi to trigger his trap.
• Hiashi prepared the Bloodline Severance Technique to forcibly extract Hinata’s Byakugan.
• As Hiashi’s technique activated, a tremendous suction force surged back from Hinata and the formation beneath his feet.

Hiashi Hyuga’s attempt to drain Hinata instead turned the ancient formation into a furnace that transferred its energy to her, while Hyuga Xiao received a surge of power through their bloodline connection. As Danzo’s forces began attacking the Hyuga Clan Grounds, Kurenai Yuhi opened her Eye of Time to face the intruders.

• Hiashi Hyuga’s forbidden technique failed to draw power from Hinata, and the formation redirected its energy through him into her body.
• Hinata’s chakra and Byakugan rapidly strengthened as Hiashi Hyuga was drained, and he realized she had been bait in a trap.
• Hyuga Xiao explained that he had changed the formation into a purification furnace, with Hinata as its core and the others as fuel.
• The system rewarded Hyuga Xiao with 5,000 Destiny Points and a five-percent increase in Byakugan bloodline purity after Hinata crossed the thirty-percent threshold.
• Hyuga Xiao detected Danzo and dozens of chakra signatures surrounding the clan grounds, then the Leaf Village ANBU attacked the barrier.
• Kurenai Yuhi opened her Eye of Time as the assault began.

Hyuga Xiao gained a major boost after Hinata Hyuga’s bloodline purity passed a threshold, while Root forces led by Shimura Danzō attacked the Hyuga Clan Grounds. He let Kurenai Yuhi draw the intruders through the barrier, where she trapped them in a distortion of time.

• Hyuga Xiao received 5,000 refined Destiny Points and a five-percent increase in Byakugan bloodline purity after Hinata Hyuga’s purification surpassed 30%.
• Hyuga Xiao watched Hiashi Hyuga collapse beside the altar as Hinata’s power continued to rise.
• Shimura Danzō led an elite Root force in an assault on the Hyuga Clan Grounds, but their attacks failed against Kurenai Yuhi’s barrier.
• Hyuga Xiao told Kurenai Yuhi through their Soul Link to let Root enter and then close the barrier.
• Kurenai Yuhi appeared before Root’s captain and slowed the intruders and their surroundings with her power over time.

Kurenai Yuhi trapped the Root squad in a time maze after the barrier around the Hyuga Clan Grounds vanished. As she tortured the intruders with temporal distortions, Wind recognized the power as time itself and began forming a forbidden technique to break free.

• The barrier dispersed, and the Root captain ordered his squad to rush the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine.
• The Root ninjas entered a silent time maze where they could neither approach the shrine nor escape, and one was forced to age and grow young repeatedly.
• Kurenai Yuhi manipulated time in the domain, making the Root ninjas’ bodies tear apart as their movements accelerated.
• Wind resisted the panic, realized the domain was controlled by time, and began using a forbidden technique to shatter it.

Kurenai Yuhi used Myriad Phenomena Mooring to stop Wind’s suicide technique and erase him with accelerated time. As the Root elites recovered, Danzo learned Wind was dead, while Hiashi Hyuga cried out in pain inside the sealed Ancestral Shrine.

• Wind activated Root’s Soul-Blasting Heart Burial, causing the Time Maze to tremble as the forbidden technique gathered power.
• Kurenai Yuhi stopped time with Myriad Phenomena Mooring, freezing Wind, the Root ninja, and the forming explosion.
• Kurenai accelerated time on a Root ninja, reducing him to ashes, then released Wind’s energy core under warped time and erased Wind with it.
• The domain dissipated, leaving the surviving Root elites in despair as they saw Wind and another ninja gone.
• Danzo saw Wind’s life-force token split and learned that Wind was dead.
• Hiashi Hyuga cried out in pain and horror from inside the sealed Ancestral Shrine.

Hyuga Hiashi’s ritual turned against him, draining his chakra and using it to purify Hinata’s bloodline. As he neared death, he reached for the Caged Bird Seal Master Control Scroll and resolved to sacrifice the Branch House to save himself.

• After the Root shinobi outside were killed, Hyuga Hiashi resumed the ritual and demanded Hinata’s ocular power.
• The altar trapped Hyuga Hiashi’s hands and began siphoning his chakra into Hinata.
• Hinata’s aura rose as her bloodline was purified, while Hyuga Hiashi rapidly aged and realized he was the sacrifice.
• As his chakra and strength dwindled, Hyuga Hiashi reached for the Caged Bird Seal Master Control Scroll.
• Hyuga Hiashi planned to detonate the Branch House members’ Curse Marks and use their lives to feed the formation.

Hiashi Hyuga, desperate to escape being drained by the formation, activated the Hyuga Clan’s Caged Bird Seal Master Control Scroll to sacrifice every Branch House member. The command swept across the Clan Grounds, and Hiashi waited for the seals to detonate.

• As the formation drained him, Hiashi Hyuga decided he would do anything to survive.
• Hiashi tore out the Caged Bird Seal Master Control Scroll, which linked him to every Branch House member’s seal.
• Hiashi soaked the scroll’s central rune with his blood and poured his remaining chakra into it.
• Hiashi shouted the command to activate the Caged Bird Seal across the entire clan.
• A destructive wave swept across the Hyuga Clan Grounds and locked onto every Branch House member’s seal.

Hyuga Xiao used the Tenseigan to overwrite the Caged Bird Seal network and seize control from Hiashi Hyuga, making Hiashi’s final attempt to destroy the Branch House fail. After discovering the seals now answered to someone else, Hiashi broke down, and the altar began tearing the last of his life away.

• Hiashi Hyuga activated the Caged Bird Seal Master Control Scroll, but no Branch House members were harmed.
• Hyuga Xiao revealed that he had rewritten the Curse Mark network with a higher-priority command and taken control of it.
• Hiashi Hyuga saw a Branch House shinobi’s Curse Mark flicker with azure light and realized his authority had been usurped.
• Hiashi Hyuga dropped the scroll and broke down after losing his last hope.
• The altar suddenly increased its suction and began tearing Hiashi Hyuga apart.

Hinata awakened with a transformed power as the altar drained Hiashi Hyuga until he became a powerless living corpse. The sacrifice activated Hyuga Xiao’s modified Coordinate Core, opening the ancient passage between the Shinobi World and the moon.

• Hinata received Hiashi Hyuga’s life force and chakra, awakened with silver radiance in her eyes, and looked down at him without fear.
• Hyuga Xiao watched from the loft and judged Hinata’s change in attitude as well as her increased strength.
• The altar drained Hiashi’s remaining chakra and life force, leaving him crippled and barely alive.
• The altar’s energy flowed underground into the Coordinate Core beneath the Hyuga Clan Grounds.
• Hyuga Xiao saw the core distort as the thousand-year-old passage between the Shinobi World and the moon activated.

Hyuga Xiao forcibly suppressed the spatial storm caused by activating the underground passage, saving the Hyuga Clan Grounds from destruction. He sensed Root or ANBU forces approaching afterward, setting up a confrontation.

• The underground passage triggered a spatial backlash that battered the Ancestral Shrine and threatened to tear apart the Hyuga Clan Grounds and part of Konoha.
• Hyuga Xiao used the Tenseigan’s power to pin down the spatial turbulence and seal the passage entrance beneath the shrine.
• Hinata confirmed she was unharmed, while Hyuga Hiashi remained collapsed and drained of chakra.
• Hyuga Xiao sensed probing chakra signatures approaching the clan grounds and suspected Danzo’s men or the Third Hokage’s ANBU.

Hyuga Xiao awakened Hinata’s transcendent vision after taking Hyuga Hiashi’s power, and Hinata ordered her father imprisoned as she assumed control of the Hyuga Clan. With Hiashi removed and the Caged Bird Seal crisis temporarily resolved, Hinata and Xiao faced the challenge of explaining his disappearance and securing her authority.

• Hinata’s Byakugan transformed, allowing her to see chakra flows and the essence of energy throughout the world.
• Hinata rejected Hiashi as her father and clan head, then asked Xiao how to deal with him.
• Hinata ordered Branch House guards to cripple Hiashi, bind him with chakra-suppressing chains, and imprison him in the deepest dungeon.
• The guards dragged Hiashi away, leaving the former Main House ruler imprisoned and the Ancestral Shrine quiet.
• Hinata worried about explaining Hiashi’s disappearance to the Main House elders and Leaf Village so she could take over the clan.

After learning that his elite squad had been wiped out by a spatial disturbance in the Hyuga Clan Grounds, Danzō mistook the upheaval for a chance to seize the clan’s secrets. He ordered Root’s expendable Serpent division to force its way into the remnants of Kurenai Yuhi’s Time Maze.

• Danzō sensed a strange spatial tremor beneath Konoha and learned that Yamanaka Wind’s ambush squad had been wiped out.
• A raccoon-masked Root ninja reported that the tremor came from the Hyuga Clan Grounds and that a powerful barrier contained the chaotic chakra.
• Danzō decided the upheaval had weakened the Time Maze’s outer defenses and saw an opportunity to exploit the Hyuga Clan’s disorder.
• Danzō ordered Team Three of the Serpent division to charge into the remnants of Kurenai Yuhi’s Time Maze, regardless of whether they survived.
• Root’s masked dead soldiers marched out and raced toward the Hyuga Clan Grounds.

Hyuga Xiao and Kurenai Yuhi destroyed Danzo’s Root fighters and staged the attack to look like Hiashi had unleashed a forbidden technique. As Xiao turned to deal with Hinata, he spotted Hiruzen’s ANBU surrounding the Hyuga grounds.

• Hyuga Xiao used the Soul Link to soothe Kurenai Yuhi’s exhaustion and ordered her to draw Danzo’s Root fighters into the Time Maze.
• Kurenai Yuhi activated Eye of Time: Ashes of the Years, aging the Root fighters until they crumbled into bone dust.
• Hyuga Xiao hurled Hiashi’s remaining chakra into the aftermath, creating a blast that made the destruction look like a forbidden technique had gone out of control.
• Kurenai Yuhi reported that the fighters and traces had been dealt with, and Hyuga Xiao ordered her to hide.
• Hyuga Xiao’s Byakugan revealed Hiruzen Sarutobi’s ANBU, led by a silver-haired agent in a dog mask, encircling the Hyuga Clan Grounds.

After the Hyuga Clan's internal purge, Hinata followed Xiao's orders and confronted the Hokage's ANBU alone at the clan gates. As the ANBU threatened to force their way inside, she steadied herself and unleashed the power of her Byakugan.

• Xiao instructed Hinata to wear Hiashi's bloodstained hunting robe and present herself as the Hyuga Clan's new head.
• Hinata appeared atop the main gate wall as Kakashi and the ANBU surrounded the clan grounds.
• Hinata rejected the ANBU's demand to enter, claiming the disturbance came from internal clan affairs and that Hiashi was in seclusion.
• The ANBU advanced with kunai after Hinata refused to let them inspect the grounds.
• Xiao calmed Hinata through their spiritual link, and she raised her hand as silver light flared in her Byakugan.

Hinata unleashed a silver-eyed power that overwhelmed the ANBU sent to the Hyuga Clan Grounds, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo mistook her for Hyuga Hiashi after a forbidden eye-seizing ritual. The threat outside the compound withdrew, but Xiao sensed that the ancient path beneath the ground remained dangerous.

• Hinata resisted the ANBU's killing intent and released a silver ocular power that incapacitated their squad.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi saw the ANBU fall and concluded that Hyuga Hiashi had used the forbidden Eye-Seizing Technique on Hinata.
• Danzo reached the same conclusion and ordered Root to suspend operations against the Hyuga Clan.
• Hiruzen ordered the ANBU to retreat, and the wounded squad withdrew from the Hyuga Clan Grounds.
• Hinata's silver eyes faded after the confrontation, and Xiao praised her while sensing the still-pulsing Spatial Storm underground.