Recaps

Hyuga Xiao escaped the Hyuga forbidden area with Samui and reached Kurenai Yuhi, badly wounded after Root attacked her. After learning Torune Aburame had used her as bait to draw him out, Xiao faced Torune and six Root operatives in the Forest of Death.

• Hyuga Xiao and Samui escaped through a concealed drainage channel and used a contact talisman to find Kurenai Yuhi at the old Seventh Training Ground.
• Xiao found Kurenai gravely wounded in a hidden tree hollow and used Tenseigan: Purifying Erosion to cleanse the poison in her wound.
• Kurenai told Xiao that Torune Aburame and Root had ambushed her and sought to capture her on Danzo's orders to question her about Xiao.
• Xiao realized Root had surrounded the clearing with venomous insects and told Samui to carry Kurenai away while he stayed behind.
• Torune confronted Xiao on behalf of Danzo, and Xiao launched a barrage of azure arrows at the seven Root operatives.

Hyuga Xiao and Samui escaped Torune Aburame’s Root ambush with the poisoned Kurenai Yuhi, but discovered Danzo had placed a remotely triggered Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal on her. Xiao chose to use the Covenant Stone Fragments to try to save her, accepting that it could expose them and start an early war with Root.

• Hyuga Xiao identified the poison in Kurenai Yuhi’s wound as Aburame insect poison bound to a Root sealing technique while Torune Aburame and eleven Root ninjas surrounded them.
• Torune demanded the Byakugan Advancement Scroll and displayed a stolen Byakugan, but Xiao gave him a false location and prepared to fight.
• Xiao used the Tenseigan to disrupt the Root formation as Samui freed Kurenai, then collapsed the ground beneath Torune and the Root ninjas into the underground river.
• Xiao and Samui escaped to a hidden cave, where Xiao slowed Kurenai’s decline with Soldier Provision Pills and discovered Danzo’s remotely triggered Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal on her.
• Xiao determined that the Covenant Stone Fragments might sever the seal from Kurenai’s nervous system with less than a thirty percent chance of success, and decided to confront Danzo.

Hyuga Xiao brought the poisoned Hong to a hidden safe house and used the Covenant Stone’s power to extract the toxin, saving her at the cost of severely straining his Tenseigan. The procedure activated Orochimaru’s Curse Mark, raised the fragment’s purity to 24%, and left Xiao sensing that the Observer Envoy was watching him.

• Hyuga Xiao and Samui took the unconscious Hong to a secret room in an abandoned mine, where Xiao discovered that Torune Aburame’s Heart-Binding Gu had invaded her chakra network.
• Xiao stopped Hong’s convulsions by suppressing the poison with Tenseigan Chakra, then learned that she had stolen records about the Main House’s deal with Root and research on the Caged Bird Seal.
• Hong woke, gave Xiao the scroll, and asked him to kill her before the poison made her the caster’s puppet, but Xiao refused and prepared to extract it.
• Xiao injected Hong with Orochimaru’s Chakra Meridian Regeneration Catalyst and used the Covenant Stone Fragment to pull out the poison while Samui held Hong down.
• When Hong’s chakra meridians began collapsing, Xiao triggered the resonance between his two fragments, drawing on Kaguya Otsutsuki’s residual power and saving her, though his eyes bled and his Tenseigan dimmed.
• Xiao saw that Hong’s Curse Mark had activated, the fragment’s purity had risen from 18% to 24%, and a faint trace of Moon Ōtsutsuki chakra suggested the Observer Envoy was watching him.

Hyuga Xiao used the Tenseigan and Samui’s help to save Kurenai Yuhi from Torune Aburame’s poison and Orochimaru’s Cursed Seal. A mysterious Moon Ōtsutsuki mark appeared inside Hong, and the three left the safehouse to evade Danzo’s Root.

• Xiao used Domain Isolation to separate the Heart-Binding Gu poison from Orochimaru’s Cursed Seal before they destroyed Hong’s chakra pathways.
• A dormant silver chakra repaired much of Hong’s damage but left a closed-eye mark near her heart, which Samui identified as resembling a Moon Ōtsutsuki Main House Surveillance Mark.
• Hong recalled her father, Shinku Yuhi, once telling her that her eyes were special and that she might see what others could not.
• Samui led Xiao and the weakened Hong from the safehouse toward a hidden passage to the Land of Fire’s border.

Samui traced Kurenai Yuhi’s awakened bloodline and discovered it could buffer the poisons threatening her life. Xiao sacrificed part of his Covenant Stone power to strengthen the buffer, revealing memories of an azure eye that controlled fate and a map to Starfall Valley, where they hoped to find a cure.

• Samui used the Moon Branch House’s secret art to trace Kurenai Yuhi’s bloodline and learned her ancestor had inherited an embryonic Genjutsu Eye from an Ōtsutsuki warrior.
• Xiao gave up part of his Covenant Stone power to reinforce the bloodline buffer protecting Kurenai from the Curse Mark and poison parasite.
• Kurenai awakened briefly and saw memories of an azure eye on a Starry Sky Altar extracting Threads of Fate from figures across the Shinobi World.
• The poisons became isolated for at least a month, and Samui noticed a pale violet halo remaining in Kurenai’s eyes.
• Xiao identified Starfall Valley, near the border of the Land of Fire and the Land of Hot Water, as the destination marked on Kurenai’s ancestral star map.

Hyuga Xiao used physical clones and Tenseigan abilities to mislead Kakashi Hatake’s Root squad and escape the safe house with Samui and the weakened Kurenai Yuhi. The group fled through the underground drainage tunnels while Kakashi realized Xiao had escaped and prepared to report to the Third Hokage.

• Hyuga Xiao sensed Root’s approaching scouts and created three physical clones to protect Kurenai Yuhi and distract the pursuers.
• Xiao captured Raven, forced him to reveal Kakashi Hatake’s and Torune Aburame’s positions, then knocked him unconscious.
• Kakashi confronted Xiao’s clones, witnessed one absorb his Lightning Release, and fought them while the real Xiao returned to the safe house.
• Xiao incapacitated Torune Aburame’s three ambushers, collected Kurenai, and escaped with Samui through an underground passage.
• Xiao’s clone self-destructed in chakra-interfering dust, preventing Kakashi from tracking the escapees; Kakashi decided to report Xiao to the Third Hokage.

Hyuga Xiao fought off Kakashi, Torune Aburame, and Fu Yamanaka while protecting the unconscious Kurenai Yuhi, then escaped with her and Samui using Tenseigan space ninjutsu. Kakashi connected Xiao’s spatial traces to Shisui Uchiha’s disappearance, while Xiao set out for the third Covenant Stone Fragment beneath Naka Shrine before the Uchiha coup.

• Kakashi, Torune Aburame, and Fu Yamanaka attacked Hyuga Xiao in the safe house, but Xiao blocked Fu’s mind technique and evaded Kakashi’s blade strikes.
• Torune unleashed his Nano Venom Insects, and Xiao protected himself, Kurenai Yuhi, and Samui inside a Tenseigan chakra barrier.
• Kakashi recognized spatial traces like those at Shisui Uchiha’s disappearance site, and Xiao opened a space vortex to escape with Kurenai and Samui.
• Kakashi failed to analyze Xiao’s technique and recommended raising his danger rating to S-rank, warning that his eyes might surpass the Sharingan.
• In an underground cavern, Xiao told Samui he had rescued Shisui from Orochimaru’s Laboratory and revealed that the third Covenant Stone Fragment lay beneath Naka Shrine.
• Xiao decided to head for the Uchiha Clan Grounds while the impending coup made them chaotic, hoping to retrieve the fragment before the buffer in Kurenai’s body expired.

Samui exposed herself and attacked a Root supply warehouse to draw Leaf Village’s forces away from Hyuga Xiao and Kurenai Yuhi, while Danzo used the incident to accuse Hidden Cloud and set a trap for her. After receiving Samui’s warning, Xiao woke Hong and escaped east through spatial folding toward an old barrier route, while Samui was surrounded by Root shinobi.

• Samui decided to expose herself, then attacked a Root supply warehouse and left her Hidden Cloud identification token and a taunting message.
• Danzo interpreted Samui’s actions as evidence that Hidden Cloud was helping Hyuga Xiao, and ordered Root to search for her, involve Hyuga Hiashi, and let her lead them toward Xiao.
• Xiao stabilized Hong’s condition and learned from Samui’s message that she had exposed herself to draw away the pursuers.
• Xiao woke Hong and chose to head east, planning to use an old emergency route through Leaf Village’s barrier.
• Xiao used Short-Range Spatial Folding to move himself and Hong away from the safe house as Samui fought off Root shinobi and was surrounded.

Hyuga Xiao searched Tanzaku Street for clues to the third Covenant Stone Fragment while Kurenai Yuhi’s Surveillance Mark continued to drain her life. He confirmed the fragment was tied to the Shrine of the Priestess in the Land of Demons, where the Akatsuki and a mysterious Eye of the Starry Sky also threatened the seal, and set off with Hong for the shrine.

• Hyuga Xiao paid the Snake Den’s old man for leads on ancient Curse Marks and learned that Carrion Raven had died mysteriously and that Akatsuki cloaks had been seen near the Land of Demons.
• Hyuga Xiao questioned The Lame Fox, who described a chakra-absorbing black mineral with golden threads beneath the Shrine of the Priestess and said he had sold a Curse Mark rubbing to a man in an Akatsuki cloak.
• Hyuga Xiao visited Mute Granny, who identified his Active Curse Mark Seed as a Covenant Stone and revealed that the third fragment was connected to the shrine’s seal, warning him that the Eye of the Starry Sky watched the place.
• Hyuga Xiao used Memory Reversal on Carrion Raven’s corpse and saw an azure eye extract something from him after he reached for the black mineral beneath the shrine.
• Hyuga Xiao concluded that the third fragment was at the Shrine of the Priestess and left for the Land of Demons with Hong, knowing they had little time.

Hyuga Xiao infiltrated the Land of Demons capital and learned from Miroku that the Netherworld Core could save Hong, but removing it would unleash Mōryō and endanger the capital. He agreed to help reinforce the seal and take Miroku’s daughter Shion away, then began the dangerous operation as Miroku prepared to sacrifice herself.

• Hyuga Xiao studied the capital’s barriers, disguised himself as a merchant, and slipped into the city by exploiting their brief energy gaps.
• Hyuga Xiao discovered the cracked Netherworld Core in the shrine and was confronted by Miroku, who recognized him from a prophecy.
• Miroku offered Hyuga Xiao the Netherworld Core in exchange for his help reinforcing Mōryō’s seal and taking Shion away from the Land of Demons.
• Miroku warned that the Akatsuki Organization would attack within three months and explained that the Eye of Destiny connected the Tenseigan, the Covenant Stone Fragments, and ancient bloodlines.
• Hyuga Xiao followed Miroku underground to Mōryō’s true body, where she began suppressing the demon and gave him ten seconds to take the Netherworld Core and reconstruct the sealing array.

Xiao uncovered a Yomi Sect plot to weaken Mōryō’s seal in collusion with Kakuzu and learned that White Zetsu had detected his Tenseigan chakra. After stopping an attempt to corrupt the shrine’s sealing array, he headed to the main hall to take the Netherworld Core before confronting the cult’s blood sacrifice at the western mine.

• Xiao detected three Yomi Sect followers tunneling beneath the shrine and discovered that they planned to plant an Impure World Seed at a spirit vein node.
• Xiao extracted a cultist’s memories and learned that Kakuzu had agreed to help weaken Mōryō’s seal while the Yomi Sect prepared a blood sacrifice.
• Xiao suppressed the Impure World Seed, subdued the cultists, and learned that the sect leader was holding a ritual at an abandoned mine using captured people and ten children.
• Xiao erased the surviving cultist’s memories, returned to the shrine’s eaves, and realized White Zetsu had sensed his Tenseigan chakra.
• Xiao left for the main hall to take the Netherworld Core, save Hong, and then go to the western mine to stop the Yomi Sect.

Hong awakened after the Netherworld Core transformed her chakra and granted her new genjutsu abilities, while she and Xiao learned that Mōryō’s seal was weakening faster than expected. As Xiao prepared to defend the shrine during Miroku’s reinforcement ritual, Yomi Sect fighters confronted him and Hong in the bamboo grove.

• Xiao guided the Netherworld Core’s Yin-natured power into Hong, stabilizing the Curse Mark, poison, and genjutsu chakra in her body.
• Hong awoke with the ability to perceive chakra and emotions, sensed Mōryō’s growing power, and demonstrated a new genjutsu that worked without hand seals.
• Miroku warned Xiao and Hong that Mōryō’s seal could crack within two months because of ancient power tied to Ōtsutsuki runes and Akatsuki activity.
• Xiao agreed to defend the shrine for six hours while Miroku reinforced the seal, and he began testing Hong’s new abilities.
• An old man with Impure World Reincarnation residue led nine Yomi Sect cultists into the bamboo grove and demanded the Netherworld Core, while Xiao urged Hong to attack with her genjutsu.

Hyuga Xiao and Kurenai Yuhi intervened in the battle at Sealing Canyon as Kakuzu attempted to break the seal around the Netherworld Core. Xiao defeated Kakuzu, but the seal shattered, releasing the monster beneath the canyon.

• Hyuga Xiao and Kurenai Yuhi surveyed the battle and found Kakuzu breaking the sealing core while a monster stirred underground.
• Kurenai used her new emotion-sensing ability to overwhelm Yomi Sect followers with genjutsu, allowing the Land of Demons ninjas to counterattack.
• Hyuga Xiao confronted Kakuzu and used his Tenseigan to absorb Kakuzu's attacks and destroy four Earth Grudge Fear hearts.
• Hyuga Xiao killed Kakuzu and claimed the Netherworld Core as his target.
• The seal shattered, and a deafening roar came from deep underground.

Hyuga Xiao defeated Kakuzu with a full-release Tenseigan technique, but their battle shattered Mōryō’s underground seal. The chapter left Xiao and Kurenai facing the released threat as purple-black chakra surged from the canyon.

• Kakuzu attacked Xiao with combined elemental ninjutsu, but Xiao dismantled the firestorm and destroyed the Lightning Release Mask Fiend.
• Xiao severed the tendrils linking the Earth Release and Wind Release Mask Fiends, destroying them and leaving Kakuzu with two hearts.
• Kakuzu fused the remains of his Mask Fiends into his body and launched a five-nature attack, while Xiao countered with Tenseigan Chakra Mode and Star Collapse.
• Xiao annihilated Kakuzu’s five hearts, and Kakuzu died after revealing his contempt for the Leaf Village’s failure to recognize Xiao’s power.
• Kurenai supported the nearly exhausted Xiao, but they discovered that Kakuzu’s attack had weakened Mōryō’s seal, which then shattered.

Hyuga Xiao killed Kakuzu with his prototype Divine Void Strike: Scattering Blossom, but the blast broke the Land of Demons seal and awakened Mōryō. As Mōryō’s true body emerged, Xiao prepared to face it while White Zetsu escaped to inform Obito about the Tenseigan.

• Kakuzu launched his unstable five-nature Final Shot, and Xiao answered with Divine Void Strike: Scattering Blossom, destroying Kakuzu and leaving Xiao badly injured.
• The blast cracked the Netherworld Core, and Mōryō’s chakra erupted from underground and targeted Xiao.
• Xiao dodged Mōryō’s tentacles while Kurenai used Genjutsu: Heart-Prison Corridor to trap its consciousness briefly; the Land of Demons sealing team tried to contain it, but its captain was killed.
• Xiao pierced the Netherworld Core with his Tenseigan Secret Technique: Boundary-Breaking Needle, widening the crack and freeing Mōryō’s true body.
• White Zetsu watched the seal break, recognized the Tenseigan, and disappeared to tell Obito.

Hyuga Xiao turned Mōryō’s attempt to devour him into a struggle between their powers, uncovering a trapped Ōtsutsuki Branch Family consciousness and the third Covenant Stone Fragment. He summoned and fused all three fragments, awakening his second-stage Tenseigan, but the chapter left him looking at Hong with godlike indifference.

• Mōryō’s chakra tentacles pierced Xiao’s defenses and flooded him with corrosive power and destructive memories.
• The two Covenant Stone Fragments in Xiao’s chest devoured Mōryō’s chakra, and Xiao discovered a third fragment and a trapped consciousness inside Mōryō’s core.
• Xiao drew more of Mōryō’s power into himself as Divine Erosion threatened to erase his emotions, while Hong held onto him through their emotional connection.
• Xiao used Mōryō’s chakra to force the third fragment out of its core, and all three fragments fused inside his chest.
• Xiao awakened the second-stage Tenseigan as Mōryō’s tentacles turned to ash, but he looked at Hong without warmth.

Miroku sacrificed her life to activate the Starry Sky Altar, sealing Mōryō for three years and bringing the third Covenant Stone Fragment to Hyuga Xiao. Xiao learned that the Ōtsutsuki threat was approaching, promised to protect Shion and the Land of Demons, and set out to prepare for what came next.

• Miroku and twelve shrine maidens tried to seal Mōryō, but the monster broke through and attacked the canyon.
• Miroku revealed that the Starry Sky Altar required a miko's life and asked Xiao to protect Shion and seek her ancestor beyond the stars.
• Miroku sacrificed herself to activate the altar, which sealed Mōryō temporarily and drew the third Covenant Stone Fragment out of its core.
• Xiao received memories revealing the Branch Family's conflict with the Ōtsutsuki Main House and that Mōryō would break free in three years if he did not complete the Descent Ritual.
• Xiao took responsibility for Shion and the Land of Demons, while the Observer Envoy on the moon began to awaken.

Hyuga Xiao and Kurenai Yuhi devised a plan to use Yomi and the Yomi Sect remnants to draw out the third Covenant Stone Fragment sealed within Mōryō. Yomi’s forbidden ritual instead triggered the fragment’s resonance, and Mōryō’s tentacles attacked Xiao as the battle began.

• Hyuga Xiao explained that the third Covenant Stone Fragment was sealed inside Mōryō and that extracting it by force could break the seal.
• Kurenai Yuhi proposed baiting Mōryō into exposing its core by creating an opening in the weakened seal.
• Yomi began a forbidden flesh-and-blood sacrifice ritual, draining five followers to make himself a vessel for Mōryō’s power.
• Hyuga Xiao and Kurenai Yuhi confronted Yomi, and Xiao urged him to continue the ritual while revealing the two Covenant Stone Fragments.
• The fragments resonated with the third fragment, causing Mōryō’s chakra to devour Yomi and tear him apart.
• Mōryō’s tentacles surged toward Hyuga Xiao, while Kurenai Yuhi formed a genjutsu net and the third fragment’s light grew brighter.

Hyuga Xiao lured Yomi and the Yomi Sect into exposing Wangyan’s chakra, then destroyed Yomi’s fused monster form and claimed the third Covenant Stone Fragment. After the fragment accelerated Divine Erosion and revealed a memory of the Ōtsutsuki Branch House, Xiao discovered that an unseen force was making Wangyan mature into a catastrophic explosion.

• Kurenai Yuhi reported that Yomi had begun a living-sacrifice ritual with five civilians, and Xiao waited until Wangyan’s consciousness emerged before attacking.
• Xiao charged into the valley as Kurenai fought the Yomi Sect followers, and he tried to cut through the altar to seize the third Covenant Stone Fragment.
• Yomi fused with Wangyan’s chakra and formed a massive, devouring body around the fragment, but Xiao resonated with it and destroyed the creature from within.
• Xiao claimed the fragment, saw a vision of Branch House members’ Byakugan being gathered in an Ōtsutsuki temple, and merged the fragment with the other two.
• Xiao and Kurenai realized Wangyan was rapidly contracting toward a potentially explosive final stage, while Xiao spotted a mysterious black dot watching from high above the clouds.

Hyuga Xiao and Kurenai Yuhi defeated the fused Yomi and Mōryō, allowing Xiao to claim the third Covenant Stone Fragment. A hidden scroll revealed that fusing the three Pact Stones required him to travel to the moon and meet the Gravekeeper.

• Hyuga Xiao used the Covenant Stone Fragments to enter the monster’s consciousness and discovered that Yomi and Mōryō were fighting over the third fragment.
• Kurenai Yuhi sensed Yomi’s obsession beneath the fragment and used Heart-Prison Corridor to distract the monster with an illusion of Miroku.
• Hyuga Xiao pierced the monster’s chest and overloaded Yomi’s consciousness with the power of his two fragments, blasting out the third fragment and destroying Yomi’s remnant soul.
• Kurenai Yuhi recalled a memory showing that a horned figure in white had sealed the fragment inside Mōryō for a descendant of the Ōtsutsuki Clan to claim.
• Hyuga Xiao and Kurenai Yuhi found an ancient scroll that told the holder of all three Pact Stones to go to the moon and meet the Gravekeeper to fuse them.

Kurenai Yuhi used a forbidden genjutsu to break Yomi’s hold over the fused creature, allowing Hyuga Xiao to destroy its weak point and recover the third Covenant Stone Fragment. Xiao sealed the unstable fragment despite worsening Divine Erosion, then left with Hong for the Leaf Village to settle debts before the Moon Ōtsutsuki descended in ten years.

• Kurenai Yuhi used Genjutsu: Heart-Binding Funeral to confront Yomi with Miroku’s judgment and disrupt his control of the fused creature.
• Hyuga Xiao pierced the creature’s weakened fissure with Tenseigan chakra, triggering its collapse and freeing the Covenant Stone Fragment.
• Xiao used Tenseigan: Gravity Manipulation to contain the fragment’s unstable chakra sphere and sealed it in a scroll, worsening the crystallization on his hand.
• Xiao and Hong left the cave at dawn after the remnants of Yomi and Mōryō dissolved.
• Xiao told Hong they were returning to the Leaf Village to settle debts, with ten years remaining before the Moon Ōtsutsuki’s Observer Envoys arrived.

Hyuga Xiao absorbed the third Covenant Stone Fragment, increasing his Tenseigan purity and awakening spatial teleportation as Divine Erosion further blunted his emotions. The fragments drew the attention of a presence on the moon, forcing Xiao and Kurenai Yuhi to accelerate their plans before the Observer Envoy could descend.

• Hyuga Xiao used the Pact Stone Domain to stabilize and absorb the chakra surrounding the third Covenant Stone Fragment, then fused it into his body despite severe injuries.
• The three fragments formed a stable structure, raising Xiao's Tenseigan purity to 18% and granting him the Spatial Mark ability, which let him teleport to marked locations.
• Xiao's emotional detachment frightened Kurenai Yuhi, and he told her the Caged Bird Seal would be weakened completely within two months.
• After Kurenai Yuhi asked whether the fusion could alert the moon, Xiao sensed a brief gaze from the Observer Envoy and warned that its arrival might be moved forward to next year.
• Xiao ordered their plans accelerated: they would return to Leaf Village, deal with the Main House, take control of the Hyuga Clan, and prepare to awaken his complete Tenseigan before the Observer Envoy arrived.

Hyuga Xiao stabilized Mōryō’s seal, returned Miroku’s jade pendant to Shion, and learned of a vision involving a red moon and a watching shadow. After reuniting with Samui, he discovered the final Covenant Stone Fragment lay in the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine and set his course back to Leaf Village.

• Hyuga Xiao extracted Mōryō’s core energy to stabilize the seal, while the surviving shrine maidens reinforced the barrier.
• Hyuga Xiao gave Shion Miroku’s life jade and entrusted the chief shrine maiden with three Tenseigan Chakra marks for emergencies.
• Shion prophesied that blue eyes would be devoured by a red moon and warned Hyuga Xiao about a black shadow watching him.
• Hyuga Xiao healed Kurenai Yuhi and explained that his memories and bonds anchored him against Divine Erosion.
• Hyuga Xiao reunited with Samui and found the last Covenant Stone Fragment marked at the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine.
• Hyuga Hiashi woke as the Caged Bird Seal stirred and realized Hyuga Xiao was alive and more dangerous.

Hyuga Xiao infiltrated Root Base with Kurenai Yuhi and rescued Samui, escaping with files exposing Danzo’s experiments on missing Leaf shinobi. He left Samui in his care as they headed for a safehouse, while Danzo identified Xiao as the intruder and prepared to pursue him.

• Kurenai Yuhi discovered an abandoned ventilation route beneath the Uchiha Clan Grounds, and Xiao planned to use her genjutsu as a diversion to reach Samui in Root Base.
• Xiao teleported into Samui’s laboratory during the alarm, freed her, and took her equipment and Root’s experiment files before escaping through the base’s underground passages.
• Xiao carried the weakened Samui out to the rendezvous point, where Kurenai Yuhi joined them and gave Samui supplies.
• The files revealed that Danzo had used missing Leaf Village shinobi in experiments, including Gekko Hayate, who was alive but unconscious.
• Samui agreed to follow Xiao and grow strong enough to kill Danzo, while Xiao resolved to investigate the Uchiha Ruins and continue removing the Caged Bird Seal.
• Danzo learned that Hyuga Xiao had rescued Samui, then inspected a Shisui Uchiha clone and a stolen Sharingan as a masked figure watched from the shadows.

Hyuga Xiao and Samui infiltrated Danzo’s hidden laboratory beneath the Uchiha Ruins and discovered an unstable experiment that combined the ocular power of twelve Uchiha corpses. As Xiao analyzed the test subject’s control seal, he uncovered evidence linking Danzo, the Moon Observer, and Hyuga Hiashi to a plan targeting the Hyuga Branch House.

• Xiao detected a recently disturbed sealing barrier beneath the Uchiha Ruins and sensed traces of Sharingan chakra inside it.
• Xiao and Samui entered the hidden chamber, where twelve Uchiha corpses fed their ocular power into a boy in a cultivation tank.
• The corpses launched a spiritual attack, and Xiao shielded Samui before realizing Danzo was attempting to create an Artificial Mangekyō Sharingan.
• The boy warned Xiao to save or kill him, while Xiao recognized Moon Ōtsutsuki sealing techniques in the Curse Marks controlling him.
• Xiao touched the boy’s Curse Mark with Tenseigan Chakra and discovered Danzo’s laboratory coordinates, records of meetings with the Moon Observer, and a plan to harvest ocular power from the Hyuga Branch House signed by Shimura Danzō and Hyuga Hiashi.