Chapter Summaries

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.

Hyuga Xiao rescued Shisui's clone from Danzo's experimental base in the Uchiha Ruins and escaped with Samui using his spatial abilities. After the clone recognized the aura of his eyes, Xiao chose to save him and let him decide what to do when he woke.

• Xiao discovered that Danzo had used twelve Uchiha corpses to cultivate Shisui's clone as a vessel for a Mangekyō Sharingan, then disabled the corpses' chakra threads and stored the cultivation tank in his temporary space.
• Xiao escaped the base with the injured Samui, but Shimura Danzō confronted them and demanded the clone back.
• Xiao exposed his knowledge of Danzo's Sharingan and First Hokage cells, then teleported himself and Samui away in a five-kilometer leap.
• Danzo issued an S-Rank Wanted Order for Xiao and ordered Root to preserve Shisui's ocular power samples.
• In a forest northwest of the ruins, the clone briefly awakened and recognized the aura of his eyes in Xiao before losing consciousness again.
• Xiao released the clone from the tank and used Tenseigan chakra to repair his damaged pathways, deciding to let him choose his own future when he woke.

Hyuga Xiao brought the wounded Samui and a Shisui Uchiha clone to a hidden safehouse, where he treated Samui and helped the clone regain his senses. The clone revealed that Xiao’s Caged Bird Seal connected to the moon and could be used to harvest Byakugan power, leaving Xiao preparing to investigate the seal before Danzo found them.

• Xiao treated Samui’s chakra-pathway damage and warned her not to use Lightning Release for three days.
• Xiao freed the clone from the cultivation tank, and the confused boy struggled to distinguish himself from Shisui Uchiha and the identity of Number Seven.
• Kurenai Yuhi arrived after setting genjutsu traps to delay pursuers and began tending to Samui’s injuries.
• The clone sensed the Caged Bird Seal on Xiao’s forehead and described it as a control curse mark with a deeper passage to the moon that monitored and harvested Byakugan power.
• Xiao ordered the clone to analyze the seal, assigned Samui to recall details of Root’s base and Danzo’s contacts, and prepared to break the Caged Bird Seal before Danzo found them.

Clone Shisui revealed that the Caged Bird Seal drew power from a hidden source beneath the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine, where a living specimen guarded the Byakugan Advancement Scroll. Hyuga Xiao stabilized Clone Shisui as Uchiha Qiye and set out alone to infiltrate the shrine before the approaching full moon.

• Clone Shisui recalled that Danzo had studied the Caged Bird Seal and discovered it siphoned ocular power through a closed chakra loop.
• Clone Shisui revealed a secret third underground level beneath the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine, where a living specimen was tied to the Seal’s source and an offering ritual took place every ten years.
• Clone Shisui disclosed that the Byakugan Advancement Scroll was beside the Seal’s source, and that Danzo had wanted to adapt the technique to control or mass-produce Sharingan power.
• Clone Shisui chose to keep his Sharingan, and Hyuga Xiao stabilized his chakra and gave him the new identity Uchiha Qiye.
• Hyuga Xiao decided to infiltrate the Hyuga Clan Grounds alone, while Kurenai Yuhi took Samui and Qiye to another safehouse.
• As the full moon approached, a hidden being beneath the Ancestral Shrine slowly opened its eyes.

Xiao split from Hong and Samui so they could seek medical help while he infiltrated the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine to find a way to control his Tenseigan and break the Caged Bird Seal. The chapter ended with Xiao and Clone Shisui racing toward the shrine as Hong and Samui headed for Tanzaku Street.

• Xiao explained that Samui needed treatment and Hong was weakened, so he ordered them to travel to Tsunade while he went alone to the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine.
• Xiao told Hong that the Caged Bird Seal was draining his ocular power and that his emotions were fading as the Tenseigan grew stronger; Clone Shisui revealed that chains from the seal reached his brain, eyes, and heart and extended toward the moon.
• Hong agreed to take Samui to Tsunade and made Xiao promise to return alive; Xiao gave her supplies and a spatial-formula kunai, then chose Clone Shisui to accompany him.
• Before leaving, Hong embraced Xiao, warned she would kill him if he became an emotionless monster, and said she would die if he died.
• Hong and Samui left for Tanzaku Street, while Xiao erased the safehouse traces and set out with Clone Shisui for the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine.

Xiao and Number Seven infiltrated the Hyuga Clan Grounds through an abandoned underground passage, where they discovered that Ko Hyuga was still alive and uncovered his account of the Main House’s Watcher Seeds and a secret harvesting ritual. They continued toward the Ancestral Shrine, where Xiao sensed an ancient, suffering presence beneath it.

• Xiao used the Tenseigan to hide himself and Number Seven from the Graveyard’s hidden Byakugan sentries and opened a way into an ancient drainage passage.
• Xiao discovered that Ko Hyuga’s body still showed faint signs of life beneath his grave.
• Xiao found Ko’s hidden scroll and learned that the Main House implanted Watcher Seeds in Branch House elites to collect their memories, ocular power, and remnants of their souls.
• Xiao read that Hyuga Hiashi and three elders had harvested power from a chained figure beneath the Ancestral Shrine, and he viewed a memory fragment showing the ritual.
• Xiao and Number Seven continued through the passage toward the Ancestral Shrine as Xiao sensed a powerful, ancient chakra presence ahead.

Hyuga Xiao and Number Seven uncovered the Main House’s system for draining Branch House members’ Byakugan and sustaining a mysterious corpse beneath the Ancestral Shrine. After Ko Hyuga died warning them about the corpse, Xiao confronted the Main House and disrupted the Caged Bird Seals, leaving the Hyuga Clan Grounds in alarm.

• Hyuga Xiao found Ko Hyuga’s letter and blood sample, which revealed that the Caged Bird Seal drained dead Branch House members’ Byakugan to nourish a living corpse.
• Xiao and Number Seven entered the underground Graveyard and found twenty-three Branch House members preserved as Living Corpses, with their Byakugan mounted on stone pillars.
• Ko told Xiao that the corpse was an ancient, nonhuman being whose power inspired the Caged Bird Seal, then died when the Watcher Seed consumed him and his eye triggered an alarm.
• Main House elites and Branch House guards confronted Xiao, who disrupted the Caged Bird Seals with his Tenseigan and caused the guards’ Byakugan to malfunction.
• Xiao destroyed the Byakugan embedded in the pillars, sending beams through the barrier and alerting the Hyuga Clan Grounds as cracks appeared in the Caged Bird Seal on his forehead.

Xiao and Clone Shisui exploited the Hyuga Clan’s response to Corpse’s awakening to infiltrate the Ancestral Shrine and search for the Byakugan’s advancement method. They escaped after discovering the method was a trap and learning that the path to the origin required a Main House member and a Branch House member; Moon Ōtsutsuki vessels were waiting outside.

• Xiao learned from Ko Hyuga that Corpse would awaken soon and that the Main House planned to sacrifice living Branch House members to suppress it.
• Xiao and Clone Shisui used the Tenseigan to jump into the Ancestral Shrine and bypass its seals.
• Xiao opened the sealed scroll repository and found that the apparent Byakugan advancement scroll would turn its practitioner into a vessel for the Moon Ōtsutsuki.
• Xiao saw an ANBU-insignia blade and a secret record behind a hidden wall, then learned from the central tome that the third-level entrance required simultaneous Main House and Branch House blood sacrifices.
• Xiao spotted three Main House vessels bearing Watcher Seed patterns and escaped with Clone Shisui before they entered the library.

Xiao and Number Seven entered the Hyuga Ancestral Shrine’s hidden chamber, where Xiao uncovered the Main House’s use of Branch House members to strengthen the Byakugan. After destroying the chamber’s system and taking its secret record, Xiao left with plans to retrieve Hinata and confront Hiashi.

• Xiao used Ko Hyuga’s blood to open the sealed door to the shrine’s third underground level.
• Xiao and Number Seven found Corpse, a giant Byakugan, and the bodies of Branch House shinobi whose ocular power was being harvested.
• Xiao used the Tenseigan’s High-Level Suppression to cross the living floor and neutralize Corpse’s attacks.
• Xiao overwrote the Caged Bird Seal system, retrieved a jade slip containing the Byakugan advancement record and harvest schedule, and caused the chamber to collapse.
• Xiao and Number Seven escaped to the Graveyard, where Xiao said he would retrieve Hinata and show Hiashi the truth about the Main House legacy.

Hyuga Xiao discovered that the Main House had turned Branch House ninjas, including his friend Ryota, into a Byakugan experiment. After destroying the aggregate and stealing the research records, he triggered the laboratory alarm while trying to reach the Advanced Byakugan Manual, and eight reserve test subjects emerged.

• Hyuga Xiao and Clone Shisui found a Byakugan aggregate containing Ryota and the consciousnesses of other Branch House ninjas.
• Ryota told Hyuga Xiao that Ryuichi Hyuga had lured twenty Branch House elites into a trap, where the Main House extracted their eyes and used their bodies in experiments.
• Hyuga Xiao recovered Ryota's memories, destroyed the aggregate, and sealed Ryota's intact Byakugan as a memento and evidence.
• Hyuga Xiao took the laboratory's research records and found the Advanced Byakugan Manual and a metal box behind a heavily sealed door.
• Hyuga Xiao tried to break the door's seals, triggering an alarm and the release of eight reserve test subjects from hidden rooms.

Hyuga Xiao destroyed the Soul Stitching talisman that bound Ryota and the other Branch House members, then discovered Hiashi had lured him into a trap. Xiao escaped the complete Corpse after injuring its eye, while Hiashi promised that it would hunt him again.

• Xiao used the Tenseigan to analyze the aggregate and destroyed its control talisman, freeing Ryota and the other imprisoned consciousnesses.
• Xiao recorded the Advanced Byakugan Manual before Hiashi sealed the entrance and revealed that the underground level had been prepared as a trap.
• Hiashi sent curse-marked chains after Xiao and Shisui, but Xiao’s azure energy shattered them and crushed Hiashi’s projection.
• A complete Corpse emerged and tried to strip Xiao’s Tenseigan Prototype, so Xiao activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode and opened a rift through space.
• Xiao deflected Corpse’s beam, wounded its giant eye, and escaped through the rift with Shisui.
• Hiashi watched the escape and said Corpse would grow more eager to make Xiao its nourishment.