Chapter Summaries

Hyuga Xiao uncovered the Hyuga Main House’s underground collection of stolen Byakugan and freed the souls powering its defenses. He defeated Hyuga Hiashi’s sacrificial trap and learned the location of the Ancestor’s Eye, then prepared to raid the Main House treasury before going to Forgotten Gorge.

• Hyuga Xiao sealed Ko Hyuga’s Watcher Seed and learned that Hiashi had planted it in all thirty-seven guards while secretly collecting Branch House Byakugan.
• Hyuga Xiao opened the shrine’s forbidden underground levels, where he and Samui found preserved eyes taken from executed Branch House members.
• Hyuga Xiao destroyed the barrier powered by thirty-six imprisoned souls and freed them to pass on.
• Hyuga Xiao discovered that three hundred pairs of Byakugan powered the altar and confronted Hyuga Hiashi’s consciousness, which revealed the scroll was bait for a bloodline-sacrifice scheme.
• Hyuga Xiao reversed the altar’s energy flow, shattered Hiashi’s consciousness, and found the location of the sleeping Ancestor’s Eye on the moon.
• Hyuga Xiao told Samui their cooperation would continue but redirected their next move toward emptying the Hyuga Main House treasury.

Hyuga Xiao disarmed the forbidden altar’s trap and learned that the Ōtsutsuki intended to harvest a Tenseigan awakener, treating both Hyuga houses as nourishment. He defeated the Watcher Seed hosts, escaped with Samui and a parasite list, and left determined to become strong enough to oppose the harvesters.

• Xiao overloaded the altar’s chakra nodes, then absorbed the scroll’s curse with the Covenant Stone Fragments and saw a memory of the Lunar Overseer ordering Hiashi to cultivate a Tenseigan awakener for harvest.
• Ten Watcher Seed-infected Hyuga Main House guards confronted Xiao and demanded the Covenant Stone Fragments and scroll, while Samui went to retrieve the archive list.
• Xiao shattered the chamber with Cycle Rotation: Starburst, then used a Covenant Stone domain to destroy the Watcher Seeds and kill all ten hosts.
• Samui returned with a list naming 372 parasites and their estimated maturation times, including one set to mature in three years.
• Xiao and Samui escaped through the secret passage as Main House guards pursued them, and Xiao resolved to fight the beings who planned to harvest them.

Hyuga Xiao defeated Samui after she attacked him in the passage, then recognized a connection between her and the Moon Ōtsutsuki Branch Family. The chapter ended with Xiao realizing Samui was descended from an observer sent to the shinobi world.

• Samui attacked Xiao under orders to take his eyes, but he dodged her strike and subdued her with the Tenseigan.
• Samui used lightning kunai and Thunderstorm Jade, but Xiao dismantled her attacks and broke her ANBU mask.
• Xiao recognized Samui’s resemblance to a woman in memories from the Covenant Stone Fragments, and Samui sensed her missing older sister’s aura in his eyes.
• Xiao revealed the Nine Luminaries Star Chart, and Samui identified it as an imprint awakened by pure-blooded branch house descendants.
• Samui said her older sister had vanished during a moon surveillance mission three years earlier and that Xiao’s eyes held her soul fragments.
• Xiao concluded that Samui was descended from a Moon Ōtsutsuki Branch Family observer sent to the shinobi world.

Xiao learned that the Hyuga Main House served the Moon Ōtsutsuki Main House and agreed to join forces with Samui to save her sister and fight back against the moon. After discovering a message from Hamura Temple, they left the forbidden area to plan their counterattack, while an ancient consciousness beneath the Leaf Village awakened.

• Samui revealed that Kaguya Otsutsuki was her sister and that she had infiltrated the Leaf Village to learn whether her sister was still alive.
• Xiao showed Samui her sister’s soul fragments in the Covenant Stone and read a contract revealing the Hyuga Main House’s bargain with the Moon Ōtsutsuki Main House.
• Samui explained that Isshiki had captured her sister, and she and Xiao agreed to cooperate against the lunar main house.
• Xiao took one-tenth of Samui’s Otsutsuki bloodline origin, and Samui agreed to cut ties with Kumogakure and provide him with her lunar intelligence.
• Xiao found a magatama that summoned him to Hamura Temple on the moon, and he and Samui left to plan their counterattack.
• An ancient consciousness beneath the Leaf Village sensed that the Tenseigan had awakened nine years early.

Hyuga Xiao spoke with Kaguya Otsutsuki’s soul inside the Covenant Stone and learned that it was designed to harvest Tenseigan awakeners for the Lunar Main House. He escaped the Hyuga Main House with Samui, while Hyuga Hiashi ordered the Moon Eclipse Plan and an early harvest.

• Hyuga Xiao contacted Kaguya Otsutsuki in the Covenant Stone and learned that Samui’s sister had sacrificed herself to protect her.
• Kaguya revealed that the Covenant Stone would extract Hyuga Xiao’s soul when his purity reached thirty percent, and advised him to sever their link just below that threshold.
• Hyuga Xiao learned that the Hyuga Clan served the Lunar Main House’s harvesting scheme and that a dead Branch House genius had hidden research about the Tenseigan.
• Hyuga Xiao told Samui that her sister remained alive as a weak soul, then tasked her with exposing the parasite list and gathering soul-stabilization materials.
• Hyuga Xiao used the freed souls to unleash a spiritual attack on the Main House forces and left the clan grounds with Samui.
• Hyuga Hiashi ordered the Moon Eclipse Plan and told the Lunar Overseer to harvest Hyuga Xiao early.

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.