Recaps

Tianyi struck Obito while Rin’s image vanished, severing Obito’s legs before Obito escaped into Kamui Space and replaced them with White Zetsu’s limbs. Obito returned to threaten Tianyi, who revealed his plans to expose and punish him, then destroyed Obito’s right eye as he fled.

• Rin’s image shattered and disappeared from Obito’s arms, leaving him distracted as Tianyi attacked with Waterline Slash.
• White Zetsu shielded Obito from a fatal strike, but Tianyi’s slash severed both of Obito’s legs before Kamui pulled him away.
• Obito grafted White Zetsu’s legs onto his stumps while Kakashi asked Tianyi whether he could revive Rin, and Tianyi said he could not.
• Obito returned and vowed to kill Tianyi, who condemned his plans and told him that Rin loved Kakashi, not him.
• Obito spat blood and began escaping through a vortex, but Tianyi destroyed his right eye.

After Obito returned from the Leaf Village broken and consumed by hatred, he demanded that Black Zetsu resurrect Uchiha Madara. Black Zetsu used Nagato’s Rinne Rebirth to pour life force into Madara’s corpse as Nagato’s body rapidly withered.

• Obito’s tampered Sharingan shattered, and he repeatedly struck the stone in the cave as his chakra and hatred spiraled out of control.
• Obito ordered Black Zetsu to resurrect Uchiha Madara immediately.
• Black Zetsu took control of Nagato while White Zetsu brought out Madara’s coffin and possessed his corpse.
• Black Zetsu made Nagato perform the Outer Path - Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique, draining Nagato’s life force into Madara’s body.

Uchiha Madara was resurrected in a restored body and learned from Black Zetsu about the changes in the Ninja World and Hyuga Tianyi’s role in them. He left the cave with Obito and vowed to personally hand Tianyi over to him.

• Madara awakened in the coffin with a youthful body and destroyed it as he rose.
• Obito, injured and missing his left eye, asked Madara to help him kill Hyuga Tianyi.
• Black Zetsu gave Madara Nagato’s Rinnegan and recounted years of events, including Tianyi’s defeat of Obito.
• Madara dismissed Tianyi’s strength and promised Obito he would personally deliver Tianyi to him.
• Madara walked out of the cave with Obito and Zetsu, then declared that he had won this round against Hashirama Senju.

Obito and Zetsu announced that Uchiha Madara would replace Pain as the Akatsuki’s leader, then Madara appeared in person and shocked Kakuzu and Danzo. Hidan challenged Madara and charged at him.

• Obito and Zetsu appeared before the Akatsuki members, who demanded to know where Pain was.
• Black Zetsu declared that Pain was no longer the leader and named Uchiha Madara as his replacement.
• Kakuzu and Danzo doubted the masked man’s claim, while Danzo recognized him as the real Madara when he emerged from the shadows.
• Madara identified Danzo as Tobirama Senju’s student, confirming Danzo’s fears.
• Hidan challenged Madara’s right to lead the Akatsuki and charged at him with his scythe.

Uchiha Madara demonstrated his overwhelming power to the Akatsuki, then used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to extract and seal several tailed beasts. He led the group out toward Kumogakure to pursue the Eight-Tails.

• Hidan attacked Madara, but Madara's Susanoo pierced him and pinned him to the hall's wall.
• Madara expanded Susanoo through the base's roof and silenced the onlookers by asking who else would challenge him.
• Kakuzu restrained Hidan and warned him that Madara was the real Uchiha Madara.
• White Zetsu brought in the unconscious One-Tail, Two-Tails, Five-Tails, Six-Tails, and Eight-Tails jinchuriki.
• Madara summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which extracted and sealed the tailed beasts within seconds.
• Madara announced that the group was heading to Kumogakure, and the Akatsuki followed him out.

Killer B held a loud concert in Kumogakure, provoking Raikage A into punching him through the stage and into a distant wall. As the village fell silent, Akatsuki members arrived at the gates, and the guards rushed to warn the Raikage.

• Killer B performed a rap concert in central Kumogakure while Raikage A trained in his office and asked Mabui about the noise.
• Mabui told Raikage A that Killer B was holding a concert, and A hurried out to confront him.
• Killer B rapped insults about A before A struck him with a powerful punch that sent him into a stone wall.
• The concert crowd fled, leaving Raikage A standing alone on the stage as Kumogakure grew quiet.
• Several Akatsuki members approached Kumogakure's gates, and a guard shouted for someone to inform Lord Raikage.

Uchiha Madara attacked Kumogakure and overpowered Raikage A and Killer B when they confronted him. Killer B transformed into the Eight-Tails and fled with Raikage A, while Madara pursued them in his Third-Stage Susanoo.

• Uchiha Madara cut through Kumogakure's gates and fought off the Hidden Cloud Village ninja defending the entrance.
• Raikage A and Killer B attacked Madara together, but his Susanoo blocked their strikes and knocked them both away.
• Killer B heard Gyūki warn him about Madara, then transformed into the Full Eight-Tails.
• Raikage A and Killer B fled toward the outskirts of Kumogakure to avoid fighting inside the village.
• Madara formed his Third-Stage Susanoo and chased the Eight-Tails across the plains.

Raikage A and Killer B’s Eight-Tails attacked Uchiha Madara’s Susanoo, with A breaking through its head armor before Madara transformed it into its fourth stage. Susanoo’s sword clashed with the Eight-Tails’ Tailed Beast Ball in a massive explosion, and the Hidden Cloud shinobi kept advancing toward the battlefield.

• Killer B’s Eight-Tails grappled with Susanoo and hurled Raikage A at its head.
• Raikage A used the Eight-Tails’ momentum and Lightning Release Chakra Mode to break through Susanoo’s head armor, surprising Uchiha Madara.
• Madara transformed Susanoo into its fourth stage and brought a massive fist down on the Eight-Tails.
• The Eight-Tails pulled A out of danger, retreated, and fired a Tailed Beast Ball at Susanoo.
• Susanoo slashed the Tailed Beast Ball with a chakra greatsword, causing a huge explosion and shockwave.
• Hidden Cloud shinobi were knocked down by the blast, but they got up and continued toward the battlefield.

Uchiha Madara used Complete Body Susanoo to overpower the Eight-Tails after it destroyed his Wood Dragon. Killer B was left kneeling and exhausted as Raikage A stared at Madara’s towering Susanoo.

• Uchiha Madara summoned a Wood Dragon and sent it to bind the Eight-Tails.
• Killer B used Tailed Beast Eight Rolls to tear the Wood Dragon apart in a massive storm.
• Gyūki took control of the Eight-Tails and gathered chakra for an attack while Uchiha Madara expanded and armored Susanoo into its complete form.
• The Eight-Tails fired Continuous Tailed Beast Balls, but Complete Body Susanoo cut them apart with a single sword swing.
• Uchiha Madara’s slash severed the Eight-Tails’ right half and tails, leaving Killer B kneeling as Raikage A watched.

Raikage A rallied the Hidden Cloud Village’s shinobi to resist Uchiha Madara’s attack, while Killer B joined him in the charge. The next day, news of Kumogakure’s destruction and A’s death reached the Ninja World, and Tsunade convened Konoha’s senior officials.

• Raikage A refused medical treatment and rallied the Hidden Cloud Village’s shinobi to stand their ground against Uchiha Madara.
• Killer B rose and joined Raikage A as thousands of shinobi charged Madara’s Susanoo.
• Uchiha Madara unleashed Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence, and Raikage A led the Hidden Cloud Village’s forces into the spreading forest.
• The next day, news reported that Raikage A had died, Killer B had been captured, more than four thousand shinobi had been killed, and Uchiha Madara had returned to life.
• Tsunade ended a call with the Mizukage and Kazekage, summoned Konoha’s senior officials, and began addressing them about the Hidden Cloud Village.

Tianyi revealed how Uchiha Madara had been revived and confronted Jiraiya over his past connection to the Akatsuki leaders. He presented Nagato’s Rinnegan and persuaded the Leaf to meet Madara in the Hidden Mist Village, where the chapter ended with Jiraiya leaving suspicious of him.

• Hiruzen confirmed that Madara’s body had vanished from its grave, and Tianyi explained that the Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique had revived him at the caster’s cost.
• Tianyi accused Jiraiya of hiding that Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan had been his students and blamed him for failing to report the Rinnegan, but Tsunade stopped their argument and ordered Jiraiya to submit a report.
• Shikaku and the clan representatives supported an alliance with the Hidden Mist and Hidden Sand Villages against the Akatsuki.
• Tianyi revealed the Rinnegan he had taken from Nagato and described its abilities, while Jiraiya accused him of harboring ambitions and Tianyi challenged him over trusting a toad’s prophecy.
• Tianyi proposed escorting Kushina to the Hidden Mist Village to confront Madara there, with Minato returning to the Leaf for reinforcements using the Flying Thunder God Technique; Tsunade approved the plan.
• Jiraiya left the meeting in silence, still watching Tianyi with suspicion.

Uchiha Madara revived Kinkaku and Ginkaku, then used the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to extract Gyūki and the Nine-Tails chakra they carried. After learning that the Leaf Village was taking the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki to the Hidden Mist Village, Madara accepted the invitation and prepared to go there.

• White Zetsu brought Kinkaku and Ginkaku’s bodies to Madara, who revived them with Impure World Reincarnation and took control of them.
• Kakuzu recognized Kinkaku and Ginkaku, and Madara remarked on his knowledge of the pair.
• Madara summoned the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, which extracted Gyūki from Killer B and swallowed the Nine-Tails chakra from Kinkaku and Ginkaku.
• Madara noted that only the Three-Tails and Seven-Tails remained, while Obito said the Seven-Tails was with Hyuga Tianyi and its location was unknown.
• White Zetsu reported that the Leaf Village was openly escorting the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki to the Hidden Mist Village, and Madara decided to go there.

Blue Star and the Hidden Mist Village prepared for the coming battle against Uchiha Madara and the Akatsuki, with Tianyi assigned to confirm when the enemy entered the designated area. Yagura declared that Mei Terumi would succeed him after his death, leaving the village’s future in her hands.

• Blue Star’s operations personnel selected an uninhabited island near the Hidden Mist Village as the battlefield and planned to trap the enemy there.
• Colonel Li briefed the conference on the Dong F-5C missile and its five-megaton warhead, while Tianyi agreed to signal when Uchiha Madara and the Akatsuki’s main force reached the target area.
• Tianyi returned to the Ninja World after confirming the operation’s tactical details.
• Yagura told Genji, Mei Terumi, and the elders that the final war would be fought at the Hidden Mist Village and named Mei Terumi as his successor after his death.
• Yagura refused Genji’s attempt to dissuade him, saying he had to take responsibility for the village’s suffering and restore the honor of the Mizukage.

Tianyi's team destroyed another wave of White Zetsu and sent Kushina to Shikkotsu Forest for protection before continuing toward Kirigakure with a disguised ANBU member. Meanwhile, Uchiha Madara reached Turtle Island and learned it could help Jinchuriki achieve Perfect Tailed Beast Transformation.

• Tianyi used Sage Mode to expose White Zetsu underground, then killed them with Water Release and Metal Spears as Minato noted this was the third wave.
• Tianyi sent Kushina to Shikkotsu Forest with Katsuyu, while an ANBU member transformed into a duplicate of Kushina.
• Tianyi led Minato and the ANBU squad toward Kirigakure with the disguised Kushina among them.
• Uchiha Madara surveyed the giant island in the Land of Lightning and compared its power to Hashirama Senju's True Several Thousand Hands.
• Black Zetsu explained that the Sage of Six Paths had sealed the Ten-Tails on the island and that Jinchuriki could train there for Perfect Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Uchiha Madara expressed interest in discovering the power of the Ten-Tails' Perfect Tailed Beast Transformation.

Kirigakure detected Uchiha Madara near Turtle Island after he arrived with Kisame and Zabuza, and the patrol sent a warning before Kisame destroyed it. Karatachi Yagura and Tianyi prepared a joint response, and thousands of Kirigakure ninja set out for the northeastern border.

• Kirigakure deployed patrol squads across the Land of Water with orders to signal and report if they found Akatsuki members.
• A patrol captain sensed an enormous chakra presence near an uncharted island and ordered his men to send a flare and messenger bird identifying Uchiha Madara.
• Kisame overwhelmed the patrol boat with a massive water technique, while Zabuza criticized him for handling the patrol noisily.
• Kisame reported to Uchiha Madara on Turtle Island that the patrol had sent a signal, and Madara said he had never meant to hide his movements.
• Karatachi Yagura received the patrol's report, and Tianyi, Genji, and Yagura agreed to take the initiative against Uchiha Madara.
• Tianyi sent Minato back to the Leaf Village, then Karatachi Yagura led thousands of Kirigakure ninja toward the northeastern border.

Uchiha Madara confronted Hyuga Tianyi and Karatachi Yagura as Kirigakure prepared to defend its island from the Akatsuki. Yagura and his forces pulled Madara from Susanoo and launched a massive water dragon at him, but Madara answered with Shinra Tensei.

• White Zetsu warned Uchiha Madara that the Hidden Mist fighters, including Hyuga Tianyi and Karatachi Yagura, were approaching, and Madara decided to capture Tianyi and learn where he had hidden the Seven-Tails.
• Tianyi detected Madara's approach, and Karatachi Yagura deployed Kirigakure's ninja into defensive, sensory, medical, and special operations units.
• Tianyi and Yagura met Madara on the sea, where Madara demanded that Tianyi hand over the Seven-Tails and Tianyi challenged him to prove his strength.
• Yagura concealed the battlefield with Hidden Mist Technique as Tianyi attacked Madara with Metal Spears, which Susanoo blocked.
• Yagura and dozens of Kirigakure ninja combined their chakra into a massive Water Dragon Bullet, while Yagura used Water Whip to pull Madara out of Susanoo.
• Madara faced the water dragon and unleashed Shinra Tensei.

Tianyi vanished into the sky while Yagura borrowed Isobu’s power to hold back Madara’s overwhelming forces. The chapter ended with a missile warhead approaching its target as a countdown to reentry began.

• Tianyi and Yagura destroyed Madara’s Wood Release clone, but the real Madara revealed ten Wood Clones armed with Susanoo and Wood Dragons.
• Tianyi told Yagura to hold Madara off for one minute, then shot upward and disappeared above the clouds.
• Yagura asked Isobu for help, received the Three-Tails’ chakra, and fired a Tailed Beast Ball that a Wood Dragon absorbed and survived.
• Tianyi used Flying Thunder God to transport an ANBU ninja disguised as Kushina Uzumaki to an island thirty kilometers away.
• A warhead streaked toward the target at more than ten times the speed of sound as a technician began counting down to reentry.

Tianyi detonated a five-megaton hydrogen bomb over the sea, engulfing Uchiha Madara, Isobu, and the Hidden Mist forces in its blast. Minato Namikaze then led a group of Leaf shinobi through a Flying Thunder God array toward the battlefield.

• Wood Dragons restrained Isobu and drained its chakra while the Hidden Mist ninja attacked them, only to be intercepted by Kakuzu and Hidan.
• A hydrogen bomb exploded above the sea, producing a vast fireball, shock wave, and mushroom cloud that overwhelmed the battlefield.
• Tianyi watched the blast from thirty kilometers away and activated a marked kunai to signal Minato Namikaze.
• Minato assembled Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Shisui, and other Leaf shinobi at the prepared teleportation array.
• Minato and the others activated the Flying Thunder God array and vanished in a flash of golden light.

Tianyi returned to an island devastated by a hydrogen bomb, where the Kirigakure Ninja and Isobu had been wiped out. Uchiha Madara arrived badly injured but regenerated, then declared Tianyi the strongest ninja of the era.

• Tianyi descended over the ruined island, where black shadows, fish carcasses, and debris marked the destruction of the Kirigakure forces and Isobu.
• Tsunade, Uchiha Shisui, and the others arrived through the Flying Thunder God array and questioned Tianyi about the battlefield.
• Tianyi told them that the shadows were the remains of the Kirigakure Ninja, and Fugaku realized the Hidden Mist Village's elite fighters were gone.
• Uchiha Madara, Uchiha Obito, and Zetsu emerged from a spatial vortex, and Madara replaced his severed arm with White Zetsu's arm as his wounds regenerated.
• Tsunade recognized Hashirama Senju's face on Madara's chest and lunged at him, but Orochimaru and Jiraiya restrained her.
• Uchiha Madara praised Tianyi's power and declared him the strongest ninja of the era.

Madara and Obito raised the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path clad in Susanoo armor to face Tianyi. After sending Tsunade and the others to Kirigakure and assigning Minato, Fugaku, and Shisui to support him, Tianyi revealed his evolved Tenseigan and summoned a massive stone statue; the two giants charged toward each other.

• Madara covered the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path in complete Susanoo armor, linking its chakra with Obito’s as they prepared to kill Tianyi.
• Tianyi sent Tsunade, Orochimaru, Jiraiya, Sakumo, Kakashi, and Guy to pacify Kirigakure, then told Minato, Fugaku, and Shisui to coordinate feints.
• Tianyi removed his goggles and revealed his blue Tenseigan, which Madara recognized as powerful enough to pressure his Rinnegan.
• Tianyi activated Sage Mode and gathered the island’s rocks into a hundred-meter stone statue that he stood atop.
• Madara and Tianyi urged their towering statues forward, and the two giants charged toward each other.

The Moon Clan detected compatible Rinnegan and Tenseigan powers in the Ninja World and decided to kill their wielders rather than destroy the world. As Tianyi and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path continued battling, the Moon Clan redirected a massive meteor toward the Ninja World.

• The Tenseigan reacted violently, and the Moon Clan used it to view the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the Giant Stone Bear Statue fighting in the Ninja World.
• The Main House and Branch House debated whether to destroy the Ninja World and agreed instead to kill the wielders of the Rinnegan and Tenseigan.
• The Moon Clan channeled chakra into the Giant Tenseigan and used its gravitational force to redirect a meteor toward the Ninja World.
• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and the Giant Stone Bear Statue traded powerful punches that shook the sea and damaged the island.
• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path swung a chakra blade at the Giant Stone Bear Statue, and Tianyi countered with a Magnet Release metal blade.

Tianyi countered Uchiha Madara’s Planetary Devastation with Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, destroying all five stone spheres while perceiving Madara’s Limbo: Border Jail attack. Black Zetsu realized Tianyi had awakened the Tenseigan and concluded that Madara needed to become the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki to overcome him.

• Uchiha Madara summoned five enormous stone spheres with Planetary Devastation while a Limbo: Border Jail shadow attacked Tianyi from the flank.
• Tianyi detected and dodged the shadow, then unleashed Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion against the falling spheres.
• Tianyi’s storm pulverized all five spheres and forced their fragments into the sea.
• Uchiha Madara praised Tianyi’s Truth-Seeking Orbs, while Black Zetsu recognized the Tenseigan in Tianyi’s eyes.
• Black Zetsu decided Tianyi had to die to free Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and considered making Madara the Ten-Tails Jinchūriki.

Uchiha Madara and Tianyi continued their battle as the people on the moon attacked with a meteor, which Madara destroyed. Minato’s Flying Thunder God tactics and Tianyi’s Giant Stone Bear Statue then forced Madara’s Demonic Statue of the Outer Path to one knee, and Madara began transforming it.

• Black Zetsu urged Madara to become an Incomplete Ten-Tails Jinchūriki to gain power that could suppress the tenseigan.
• The people on the moon sent a meteor toward the battlefield, but Madara cleaved it apart with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path’s chakra blade.
• Black Zetsu whispered to Madara, who began forming hand seals as he faced Tianyi.
• Minato’s Flying Thunder God kunai appeared on the Demonic Statue, and two Third-Stage Susanoo attacked Madara and Obito before Madara repelled one with Shinra Tensei.
• Tianyi’s Giant Stone Bear Statue struck the Demonic Statue with its metal blade, driving it onto one knee in the seabed.
• Madara pressed both hands against the Demonic Statue, whose body twisted and whose back split open.

Tianyi fought Uchiha Madara and the transformed Ten-Tails with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion. The attack cut through the Ten-Tails and the sea, but the chapter left the battle’s outcome unclear.

• The Demonic Statue of the Outer Path transformed into the Ten-Tails’ First Form and knocked the Giant Stone Bear Statue away with its tails.
• Tianyi sensed the Ten-Tails absorbing natural energy and warned that it could not maintain its form for long without the Seven-Tails’ chakra.
• Uchiha Madara charged a devastating Ten-Tails Tailed Beast Wave while Tianyi summoned the Giant Tenseigan and compressed his Truth-Seeking Orbs into a golden attack.
• The Ten-Tails fired its beam as Tianyi unleashed the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, and the two attacks collided over the sea.
• Tianyi’s golden light cut through the Ten-Tails, split the sea and seabed, and parted the clouds above.

Uchiha Madara absorbed the Ten-Tails and emerged as its Jinchūriki, prompting Tianyi and his allies to attack him. Their assault battered his expanding body, but Madara began regaining control from within the flesh sphere.

• The Ten-Tails split apart, and Madara absorbed its collapsing body while Obito escaped with Kamui.
• Madara emerged in a transformed Ten-Tails Jinchūriki state, and Tianyi warned Minato, Fugaku, and Shisui about his Truth-Seeking Orbs and weaknesses.
• Minato struck Madara with a Sage Art: Rasengan while Tianyi countered a Truth-Seeking Orb and slashed at him with Waterline Slash.
• Madara's body swelled into a white sphere, which Fugaku and Shisui bombarded with Yasaka Beads and Tianyi covered with Mutual Multiplication Explosive Tags.
• As the explosions engulfed the sphere, Madara's inner will began to take control of his Ten-Tails Jinchūriki body.