Chapter Summaries

Uchiha Ying fought Falcon on the road to Ryūchi Cave and used his Mangekyō Sharingan and Flying Thunder God techniques to bring him down. As Falcon promised that his kin would avenge him, an immense pressure appeared and demanded to know who had killed him.

• Uchiha Ying attacked Falcon with Lightning Cutter and Dragon Fire Technique, but Falcon blocked and evaded the attacks.
• Uchiha Ying activated his Mangekyō Sharingan and used Space Compression, while Falcon countered with the Blood-Burning Technique and Eagle Soaring Slash.
• Uchiha Ying used Flying Thunder God Slash and Second-Stage Dragon Might Lockdown to immobilize Falcon and strike him to the ground.
• Falcon, wounded but still defiant, warned Uchiha Ying that his kin would avenge him.
• An immense pressure descended, and a voice asked who had killed its grandson.

The Heaven-Devouring Azure Dragon forced the Heaven-Splitting Ao Eagle to retreat and explained that he had reached the third revolution of Six Paths through traditional Senjutsu. After the dragon left to rest, Uchiha Ying continued his journey and entered Ryūchi Cave.

• The Heaven-Splitting Ao Eagle pressured Uchiha Ying, but the Heaven-Devouring Azure Dragon ordered him to stand down and drove him back.
• The Heaven-Splitting Ao Eagle blamed his failed breakthrough for his weakness, and the Heaven-Devouring Azure Dragon revealed that he had reached the third revolution of Six Paths.
• Uchiha Ying asked whether Six Paths was only a threshold in the chakra system, and the Heaven-Devouring Azure Dragon called it his master's trick.
• The Heaven-Devouring Azure Dragon said he needed half a year's rest, changed back into dragon form, and flew away.
• Uchiha Ying traveled through the mountain forests for Ryūchi Cave and entered it through the mist.

Uchiha Ying reached Ryūchi Cave and asked the White Snake Sage to return him to the Ninja World. After arriving, he sensed through his mark that Tsunade was in danger and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to rush to her.

• Uchiha Ying found Ryūchi Cave and entered, where he encountered the White Snake Sage.
• Uchiha Ying asked the White Snake Sage to send him back to the Ninja World, and she opened a portal for him because of his master, the Heaven-Devouring Azure Dragon.
• Uchiha Ying returned to a familiar forest in the Ninja World as the White Snake Sage watched him leave with curiosity.
• Uchiha Ying noticed his mark linking him to Tsunade flashing erratically and realized she was in danger.
• Uchiha Ying used the Flying Thunder God Technique to race toward Tsunade.

Uchiha Ying rescued Tsunade on the Hidden Stone Village battlefield and used Susanoo to devastate the Hidden Stone ninja. He and Tsunade charged Shi Yu together, and Ying launched a marked blade attack that ended with him teleporting beside Shi Yu to strike.

• Uchiha Ying arrived in time to catch Tsunade and unleashed Susanoo, killing fifty Hidden Stone ninja and splitting the battlefield with its sword.
• Uchiha Ying spotted Shi Yu, exchanged taunts with him, and charged into battle with Tsunade.
• Tsunade struck Shi Yu with Monster Strength Fist and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Uchiha Ying marked the Cold Moon Blade with a Flying Thunder God Mark, used Spatial Lockdown, and teleported beside the blade near Shi Yu.
• Uchiha Ying caught the Cold Moon Blade and began his Flying Thunder God, third stage—Shadow Strangulation attack.

Uchiha Ying defeated Shi Yu and led Konoha's counterattack, capturing Hidden Stone front-line territory. He reunited with Tsunade afterward, and they promised to stay together and hope for peace.

• Uchiha Ying killed Shi Yu, whose body shattered under the force of his attacks.
• The Hidden Stone ninjas fled in terror, and Uchiha Ying ordered Konoha's forces to charge.
• Uchiha Ying led Tsunade and the Senju Clan to seize the Hidden Stone front-line territory.
• Uchiha Ying and Tsunade reunited at camp, shared their fears, and promised to remain together until peace came.

Two years ago, Hyuga Mina mourned Uchiha Ying’s death and vowed to avenge him against the Hidden Stone Village. Hatake Sakumo told her he was leaving for the Land of Iron and urged her to stay strong until he returned.

• Hyuga Mina visited an izakaya, grieving as she traced Uchiha Ying’s name on the kunai he had used to master the Flying Thunder God.
• Hatake Sakumo joined Hyuga Mina, and she recalled how Uchiha Ying had saved and trained their comrades.
• Hatake Sakumo praised Uchiha Ying and urged Hyuga Mina to carry on his will; both vowed to avenge their fallen comrades against the Hidden Stone Village.
• Hatake Sakumo said he planned to travel to the Land of Iron to handle family matters, and Hyuga Mina warned him to be careful.
• Hatake Sakumo promised to return to Konoha, while Hyuga Mina pledged to protect the village and make the Hidden Stone ninja pay.

Hatake Sakumo prepared to leave for the Land of Iron to seek intelligence while urging Hyuga Mina to keep Konoha’s ninja united. At a Jonin meeting, Uchiha Inabi and the clan heads committed Konoha to war against the Hidden Stone Village and began planning its response.

• Hatake Sakumo warned Hyuga Mina that the Hidden Stone Village’s attack might be part of a larger plot and said he would seek intelligence in the Land of Iron.
• Hyuga Mina promised to coordinate with Konoha’s ninja and urged Hatake Sakumo to return safely.
• Uchiha Inabi announced that Konoha would go to war against the Hidden Stone Village, citing vengeance for his son Uchiha Ying and the defense of Konoha’s honor.
• Hyuga Yangyan, Sarutobi Sasuke, Shimura Tuanhui, and Senju Yun Jian pledged their clans’ support while acknowledging the costs of war.
• Uchiha Inabi ordered the clans to select their strongest ninja and gather intelligence on the Hidden Stone Village’s forces and plans.

After Konoha declared war, Ōnoki persuaded Mū to attempt negotiations before committing Hidden Stone to an alliance against Konoha. Ōnoki prepared to lead the mission while Mū reinforced the village and sent Shi Yu to assess the other nations.

• Mū struck Shi Yu and condemned his failure to kill a Konoha ninja, after Shi Yu proposed that the five nations unite against Konoha.
• Ōnoki warned Mū that an alliance could fracture, expose Hidden Stone to danger, and inflict heavy losses on the village.
• Ōnoki proposed negotiating with Konoha while secretly investigating its military preparations, and Mū approved the plan.
• Ōnoki volunteered to lead the negotiations, and Mū reluctantly entrusted him with the mission.
• Ōnoki selected trusted subordinates and prepared for the mission, while Mū ordered Shi Yu to sound out other villages and strengthened Hidden Stone’s defenses.

Ōnoki brought a Hidden Stone Village delegation to Konoha to negotiate peace, but Konoha’s leaders demanded heavy concessions over the earlier clash. When unidentified ninja were spotted nearby, the talks stopped and both villages became suspicious of each other.

• Ōnoki entered Konoha alone after the village’s guards questioned his delegation, then saw the village’s prosperity and discussed development with Xingtu.
• Konoha’s leaders condemned Hidden Stone Village and demanded a heavy price for the earlier clash.
• Ōnoki offered trade access, exchanges between ninja, training methods, and a binding treaty, but the Konoha leaders rejected his assurances.
• Uchiha Liuyun reported that unidentified ninja were moving secretly near Konoha, halting the negotiations and putting both villages on alert.
• The Third and Uchiha Inabi questioned Ōnoki, who insisted his delegation had come in good faith.
• Ōnoki and Xingtu agreed they needed to prove their innocence and considered the crisis a possible chance for cooperation.

Ōnoki and Konoha’s ninja pursued masked attackers together and seized a scroll revealing a plot to provoke war between Konoha and the Hidden Stone Village. When an injured former subordinate of Shi Yu was found among the attackers, Konoha accused the Hidden Stone Village, and Ōnoki left with his companions as the negotiations collapsed.

• Ōnoki persuaded Uchiha Inabi to let Hidden Stone ninja join Konoha’s investigation of the unidentified ninja.
• Ōnoki tracked the masked ninja, and he and Xingtu fought beside Konoha’s forces.
• Uchiha Liuyun awakened his Sharingan and helped Ōnoki break through the attackers’ defenses and seize their scroll.
• Konoha and the Hidden Stone ninja discovered that the scroll described a plan to provoke war between their villages.
• Uchiha Inabi and Shimura Tuanhui accused the Hidden Stone Village of plotting, while Ōnoki and Xingtu insisted they had been framed.
• Ōnoki led Xingtu and the other Hidden Stone ninja out of Konoha, unable to prevent the negotiations from collapsing.

After Ōnoki returned to the Hidden Stone Village, Mū ordered preparations for war while Ōnoki sought the mastermind behind the failed peace negotiations. The investigation revealed that Shi Yu had secretly aided a mysterious organization, and Mū confronted him for helping push the villages toward war.

• Ōnoki told Mū that events in Konoha had brought relations between the villages to the brink of war and warned that someone was manipulating them.
• Mū and Ōnoki agreed to prepare for battle while trying to uncover the conspiracy and protect both villages from war.
• Ōnoki organized defensive training, Earth Release traps, and expanded reconnaissance around the Hidden Stone Village.
• Several days later, the investigation found that Shi Yu had secretly colluded with the mysterious ninja and caused the peace negotiation plan to fail.
• Mū angrily confronted Shi Yu, who confessed that the organization had persuaded him it could cripple Konoha and admitted he had been used.

Ōnoki sent Shi Yu and evidence of the mysterious organization to Konoha to seek peace, but Uchiha Inabi rejected the offer and tensions continued to rise. At the Hokage Building, Uchiha Lan set out to grow stronger and avenge his master after Kagami Uchiha gave him a scroll of powerful Lightning Release techniques.

• Ōnoki proposed surrendering Shi Yu and sharing evidence with Konoha, while Mū ordered envoys to investigate the Land of Water and the Land of Lightning and seek talks with Konoha.
• The Hidden Stone envoys brought Shi Yu and evidence to Konoha, but Uchiha Inabi refused their offer and sent them away, warning them to prepare for war.
• Uchiha Lan asked to avenge his master, and Uchiha Inabi and Kagami Uchiha cautioned him against acting recklessly.
• Kagami Uchiha gave Uchiha Lan a scroll containing Lightning Release Chakra Mode, Chidori, and Lightning Cutter, and Uchiha Lan left determined to train.

Uchiha Lan grieved his master's death, awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and trained until he mastered Lightning Release: Chidori. He joined the Uchiha Clan's force as it set out to fight the Hidden Stone shinobi.

• Uchiha Inabi and Kagami Uchiha worried that hatred would consume Uchiha Lan, who awakened his Three-Tomoe Sharingan while mourning his master.
• Uchiha Lan studied a secret Lightning Release scroll and eventually mastered Chidori, piercing a wooden post and a wall with the technique.
• Uchiha Lan said goodbye to his master's photograph, took his ninja blade, and hurried to the Uchiha War Grounds.
• Uchiha Ryusuke rallied the Uchiha Clan to avenge the attack on their young clan leader and defend the clan's honor.
• Uchiha Lan and the younger generation joined the clan's battle cry, and Uchiha Ryusuke ordered the warriors to move out.

Tsunade grieved Shadow’s absence as she revisited places tied to their memories. Beneath the cherry tree on Shinji Mountain, she resolved to carry on their promise to protect Konoha.

• Tsunade wandered through Konoha, remembering Shadow and mourning the promise he had broken.
• Tsunade drank alone at the tavern where she and Shadow had once shared happy times.
• Tsunade wept beneath the cherry tree in the park, where Jiraiya found her and offered words of comfort before leaving her alone.
• Tsunade climbed Shinji Mountain and remembered making promises with Shadow beneath its great cherry tree.
• Tsunade held the amulet Shadow had given her and vowed to keep their convictions alive by protecting Konoha.

Uchiha Lan led his squad into battle during the Second Ninja World War, breaking through enemy defenses and defeating several Hidden Stone ninja. After drawing the enemy main force’s attention, he prepared for a more difficult fight.

• Uchiha Lan led his squad in a charge and broke through the enemy’s Earth-Style Walls with Great Dragon Flame Technique.
• Uchiha Lan’s squad repelled a Wind Release attack, and Lan struck down the Hidden Stone ninja who launched it with Chidori Sharp Spear.
• Uchiha Lan and his squad survived attacks from two elite ninja, with Lan defeating the Water Release ninja and the Lightning Release ninja.
• Uchiha Lan’s squad pushed deeper into the enemy lines, drawing the attention of the enemy’s main force.
• Uchiha Lan warned his squad to prepare for a harder battle as fighting intensified.

Kagami Uchiha and Orochimaru led Konoha’s forces through a sandstorm toward the Wind Country border, where Shamon and Sunagakure ninja ambushed them. As the two sides prepared to fight, Orochimaru offered to hold Shamon off so Kagami could take the main force ahead.

• Kagami Uchiha told Orochimaru to watch their surroundings as they approached the border between the Wind Country and the Land of Fire.
• Orochimaru stopped the team after hearing a rumble and ordered them to prepare for an attack.
• Shamon and dozens of Sunagakure ninja emerged from the dust and confronted Kagami Uchiha’s team.
• Kagami Uchiha and Shamon exchanged accusations, then Kagami rallied Konoha’s forces to fight.
• Orochimaru offered to face Shamon alone while Kagami took the main force ahead, but Kagami warned that Shamon was too dangerous.

Orochimaru stayed behind to face Shamon while Kagami Uchiha led Konoha’s main force toward camp. Orochimaru summoned Manda and coordinated attacks against Shamon’s sand defenses as war spread across the ninja world and stretched Konoha’s battlefront thin.

• Orochimaru used Wind Release: Wind Serpent against Shamon, who crushed the serpents with Sand Release: Sand Waterfall Funeral.
• Kagami Uchiha warned Orochimaru to retreat if necessary, then led the main force onward.
• Orochimaru attacked Shamon with wind techniques, but Shamon stopped them with his sand defenses.
• Orochimaru summoned Manda, who charged through Shamon’s Sand Spear Rain while Orochimaru joined in with wind dragons.
• Shamon enclosed himself in Absolute Sand Defense as Manda and the wind dragons struck the barrier.
• War erupted between Konoha and the four great nations, leaving Konoha’s battlefront dangerously stretched.

Uchiha Lan led his surrounded squad in a desperate charge against the Hidden Stone ninja, but a surprise attack left him gravely wounded. Hatake Sakumo arrived after seeing the signal flare and struck the Hidden Stone jonin who had attacked him, turning the battle’s course.

• Uchiha Feihuo reported that more than thirty Hidden Stone ninja had surrounded the squad, and Uchiha Lan fired a signal flare before ordering his team to break through.
• Uchiha Lan awakened his three-tomoe Sharingan and cut down two Hidden Stone ninja with Uchiha Blade Art—Flying Fire Slash.
• Uchiha Feihuo attacked with Fire Release—Phoenix Sage Fire Technique, while Senju Yunlong raised an Earth Release—Mud Wall to protect Uchiha Lan.
• Shatu used Earth Release—Earth Spear and tried to reform the Hidden Stone formation as both sides fought fiercely.
• A Hidden Stone jonin attacked Uchiha Lan from behind, leaving him badly wounded and fearing he would die before avenging his master.
• Hatake Sakumo arrived after seeing the signal and attacked the Hidden Stone jonin with Lightning Release—Hatake Blade Technique—Lightning Cloud Slash.

Hatake Sakumo led Konoha Ninja in a counterattack that drove the Hidden Stone ninja into retreat, then treated the wounded and poisoned Uchiha Lan. They returned to the Konoha Camp together, where gratitude and mutual admiration brought them closer.

• Hatake Sakumo rallied twenty Konoha Ninja and attacked the Hidden Stone force with his White Fang technique, killing five Hidden Stone Jonin.
• The Konoha Ninja surrounded the Hidden Stone ninja and forced them to flee, while Hatake Sakumo found Uchiha Lan badly wounded.
• Hatake Sakumo treated Uchiha Lan’s poisoned wound by removing a barb and debris and bandaging him.
• Hatake Sakumo helped Uchiha Lan walk back to the Konoha Camp as the sun set.
• At the camp, Uchiha Lan thanked Hatake Sakumo, and they exchanged compliments and began talking comfortably.

After surviving a dangerous battle, Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Lan trained and recovered before receiving an urgent assignment to the Land of Earth front lines. They began scouting there and were ambushed by Earth Release ninja.

• Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Lan returned to camp wounded, and Hatake Sakumo vowed to find a way to counter their enemies.
• Hatake Sakumo trained relentlessly while Uchiha Lan studied ninjutsu during his recovery; once Uchiha Lan healed, they resolved to grow stronger together.
• Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Lan received an urgent assignment to the Land of Earth front lines and were ordered by Jonin Feng Jianhao to patrol, scout enemy movements, and report back.
• Hatake Sakumo and Uchiha Lan encountered Land of Earth ninja who attacked from underground, and Hatake Sakumo warned Uchiha Lan before engaging them.
• Uchiha Lan used Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique against the enemy, and the blast shook the ground.