Chapter Summaries

After Nagato’s Akatsuki uncovered Gamamaru’s plot at Mount Myōboku, Nagato brought the captured Sage of Six Paths to the Sun God Star, where Hyuga Hitoshi reunited Hagoromo with Kaguya and revived him for an experiment involving Isshiki’s Ten-Tails. The chapter left Hagoromo facing Hitoshi’s proposal to use him as a fresh Otsutsuki.

• Jiraiya told Orochimaru how Nagato’s forces had defeated the Sage of Six Paths, and Orochimaru urged him to report threats to the Sun God Country rather than act alone.
• Nagato confirmed that Gamamaru, Hagoromo Otsutsuki, and Hagoromo’s sons had plotted to disrupt the Shinobi World Tournament, while Shima Sage died from grief after killing Sage Fukasaku.
• Nagato warned Mount Myōboku’s toads that they would remain under observation, then escorted the captured Hagoromo through the passage to the Sun God Star.
• Hyuga Hitoshi praised Nagato’s work and offered him a wish-fulfillment Limited Tsukuyomi dream before meeting Kaguya and Hagoromo.
• Kaguya asked Hagoromo where Hamura was, and Hyuga Hitoshi revealed Hamura’s ashes and challenged Hagoromo’s worthiness of her grief.
• Hyuga Hitoshi revived Hagoromo and proposed using him to activate Isshiki’s Ten-Tails, calling the experiment a way to strengthen the Shinobi World.

Hyuga Hitoshi captured Hagoromo and exposed Gamamaru’s conspiracy in an emergency broadcast that shocked the Shinobi World. After Uchiha Madara discussed the plot with Hashirama, the Surrendering Trio asked him to help Momoshiki’s younger sister, Ōtsutsuki Tae, enter the Maid Selection Contest.

• Hyuga Hitoshi sealed away Hagoromo’s power, handed him to Nagato, and told Nagato to take him away.
• The Sun God Network broadcast that Gamamaru, Hagoromo, Indra, and Asura had plotted to sabotage the tournament; it reported that Gamamaru and Hagoromo were arrested and Indra and Asura were killed.
• Hashirama told Uchiha Madara that Gamamaru’s scheme would have made him the chief suspect, and Madara said he trusted His Majesty Sun God to clear him.
• Urashiki, Isshiki, and Momoshiki asked Madara to introduce Ōtsutsuki Tae for the Maid Selection Contest after the broadcast warning convinced them to defect.
• Madara learned that Tae ranked among the Ancestral Planet’s most beautiful women and agreed to help her enter after discovering her formal relation to Ryūshiki.

Hyuga Hitoshi directed Sun God Country affairs while preparing to attend the Shinobi World Tournament and allowing every Maid Selection Contest entrant to advance. In the Limited Tsukuyomi, Naruto and Sasuke became rogue ninja together, and Naruto joined the Akatsuki to expose Obito and uncover the truth behind the Uchiha tablet.

• Nagato captured the Sage of Six Paths and Gamamaru, who surrendered and chose to infiltrate the Sun God Country.
• Hyuga Hitoshi told Yugito to leave investigations of similar threats to Nagato's Akatsuki, reviewed plans for civil-service graduates and genjutsu-resistant tools, and agreed to attend the tournament in three days.
• Hyuga Hitoshi told Yugito to let every Maid Selection Contest entrant advance and create a Second Division if needed, while Kushina questioned his interest in the candidates.
• Naruto supported Sasuke's revenge, investigated the Uchiha massacre, exposed Danzo's deal with Uchiha Itachi, and left Konoha with Sasuke.
• Naruto and Sasuke joined the Akatsuki, where Naruto revealed that Obito had deceived Nagato and sought Uchiha Itachi to decipher the Uchiha tablet and expose the Infinite Tsukuyomi.

Sasuke transformed the Uchiha Clan’s future in the Limited Tsukuyomi world, became Hokage, and joined Naruto in turning Nagato and Black Zetsu against Obito. Naruto then used the Dragon Vein to bring Hyuga Hitoshi to Kushina, leaving Naruto convinced he had successfully swapped fathers.

• Sasuke used Impure World Reincarnation and Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami to draw Kirigakure into a war that raised the Uchiha Clan’s standing.
• Sasuke defeated Itachi, took his eyes, and became a war hero with the path to becoming Hokage open before him.
• Sasuke and Naruto persuaded Nagato to reconcile with Konoha and supported Black Zetsu’s plan to revive Kaguya, leaving Obito isolated.
• Naruto released the Dragon Vein seal and sent Hyuga Hitoshi a warning that Kushina was in danger.
• Hyuga Hitoshi rescued Kushina, and Naruto declared his father-swap plan a success.

Naruto and Sasuke altered their Limited Tsukuyomi trials by traveling to the past and making Hyuga Hitoshi their father, creating a peaceful timeline in which they grew up as brothers. They awoke with the trials’ changes carried into reality, and Kushina realized Naruto’s Byakugan and Sun God Seal confirmed that the events had truly happened.

• Naruto helped Hyuga Hitoshi court Kushina in his trial, and Hitoshi entered the Tsukuyomi world with Kushina and made Naruto his biological son.
• Sasuke returned to the past and introduced both Uchiha Mikoto and Kushina to Hyuga Hitoshi, and Hitoshi merged the two trial worlds.
• Naruto and Sasuke grew up as brothers in a peaceful Konoha, while Mikoto led the Uchiha Clan and Minato served as a diligent Hokage.
• Naruto and Sasuke helped resolve threats to the Shinobi World, and Hyuga Hitoshi defeated Kaguya when she broke free.
• Naruto and Sasuke awoke from the trials and reunited, and Naruto discovered that he had Byakugan and a Sun God Seal.
• Kushina realized that Naruto’s trial had changed reality and that Hyuga Hitoshi was now Naruto’s father.

Hyuga Hitoshi arrived at Konoha’s public trial and tournament opening, where Gamamaru accused him of being an outsider who had changed the Shinobi World. Hyuga Hitoshi dismissed the accusation, revealed the history and aims of the Otsutsuki Clan, and left Momoshiki Otsutsuki and his companions to publicly denounce their own clan.

• Hyuga Hitoshi concluded his Limited Tsukuyomi experiment with Naruto and Sasuke and decided to adapt Danzo’s life as a final mental examination for the tournament.
• Yugito informed Hyuga Hitoshi that the tournament’s main event would begin in Konoha, with a speech and public trial of Gamamaru and Hagoromo Otsutsuki.
• Uchiha Madara told Momoshiki Otsutsuki, Urashiki, and Isshiki that they needed to prove their loyalty to Hyuga Hitoshi before the crowd.
• Gamamaru accused Hyuga Hitoshi of being an outsider who had brought disaster, but the gathered shinobi remained silent as he explained the accusation’s origins.
• Hyuga Hitoshi recounted Kaguya and Isshiki’s arrival, Kaguya’s sealing, and the Otsutsuki Clan’s practice of draining planets with God Trees.
• Momoshiki Otsutsuki, pressured to speak onstage, called the Otsutsuki Clan inherently evil.

The Otsutsuki trio revealed the clan’s threat, and Hyuga Hitoshi reassured the Shinobi World by announcing that Shinobi World Tournament victors could join the God Guard Squad. After the trial, Uchiha Itachi and Sasuke shared an awkward first step toward reconciliation.

• Urashiki and Momoshiki warned that the Otsutsuki Clan would send stronger forces to Earth, while Isshiki cautioned that the clan’s elders posed a serious threat.
• Ryūshiki reflected on Hyuga Hitoshi’s ambitions and Shibai God’s distant schemes, and chose to remain within Uchiha Madara rather than attempt possession.
• The Otsutsuki trio’s testimony shocked the trial audience, while the Sage of Six Paths and Gamamaru realized they had misunderstood the coming threat and Hyuga Hitoshi’s role.
• Hyuga Hitoshi declared that the Shinobi World Tournament would help prepare for the Otsutsuki and that its victors could be selected for the God Guard Squad.
• Uchiha Itachi returned home after qualifying for the tournament, where Sasuke gave him Blue Eye Drops and left after Itachi apologized.
• Naruto watched the brothers’ brief exchange and decided not to interfere as their relationship began to mend.

Hyuga Hitoshi absorbed the Dragon Vein’s power in Roran, using its visions of alternate lives to strengthen his spirit and prepare to fuse with the Energy Vessel Tenseigan. As the Shinobi World Tournament reached its final stage, he began an Infinite Tsukuyomi trial for the contestants and himself, launching the next step toward surpassing his limits.

• Hyuga Hitoshi entered the Dragon Vein’s sealing grounds in the Ancient Kingdom of Roran and experienced alternate lives across different points in history, while Queen Sara watched the visions.
• Hyuga Hitoshi emerged with the Dragon Vein’s power fused into him, a stronger inner conviction, and a plan to break his physical limits by absorbing the Energy Vessel Tenseigan.
• Hyuga Hitoshi reviewed the tournament and Maid Selection, accepted Hinata and Hanabi’s participation, and learned that Ōtsutsuki Tae had entered as a likely undercover agent.
• Hyuga Hitoshi confronted Ōtsutsuki Tae, who later abandoned her undercover mission and joined his side.
• Hyuga Hitoshi gathered the tournament contestants, summoned the moon and Sun God Country, and used Infinite Tsukuyomi to begin a spiritual trial and temper the Energy Vessel Tenseigan.

Hyuga Hitoshi used Earth’s energy and Infinite Tsukuyomi to absorb the Energy Vessel Tenseigan, reaching a level of power that let him perceive across the universe. As he prepared the God Guard Squad for its role in spreading his influence, Isshiki, Momoshiki, and Urashiki resolved to serve him and devise a way to bring the Otsutsuki elders to Earth.

• Hyuga Hitoshi redirected the Chakra gathered by Infinite Tsukuyomi into the Energy Vessel Tenseigan and merged with it, completing his evolution.
• Hyuga Hitoshi perceived distant life and dimensions, captured a passage Otsutsuki Shibai had used, and identified the Karma he had left behind.
• Hyuga Hitoshi explained that the God Guard Squad would follow him across dimensions and that its members had to earn recognition through the Infinite Tsukuyomi trial.
• Isshiki, Momoshiki, and Urashiki felt Hyuga Hitoshi’s overwhelming power and began accepting their surrender as the right choice.
• Urashiki pledged loyalty to the Yang God, while Momoshiki proposed helping Hyuga Hitoshi take control of the Otsutsuki Clan.
• The trio planned to use the power of planetary revival to lure the Otsutsuki elders to Earth, beginning the God Guard Squad’s first operation.

Hyuga Hitoshi lured the Otsutsuki elders into a virtual battlefield and defeated them after destroying the remnant of Shibai God they had brought. With the Otsutsuki Clan subdued and his universe concealed, he opened a passage toward one of Shibai God's Divine Consciousness Clones and set out to expand his power.

• The Surrendering Trio helped Hyuga Hitoshi bait the Otsutsuki Clan with the Bootleg Chakra Fruit, while he prepared a Virtual Battlefield Space and strengthened the God Guard Squad.
• The Otsutsuki elders arrived with Shibai God's horns, but Hyuga Hitoshi recognized the remnant as a shell and crushed it, awakening and then destroying Shibai God's divine consciousness.
• The God Guard Squad fought the Otsutsuki forces in the virtual battlefield, and Hyuga Hitoshi's return secured their victory and ended the war.
• Hyuga Hitoshi subdued the Otsutsuki Clan and concealed his universe within the Multidimensional Universe to protect it from Shibai God's other divine consciousnesses.
• Hyuga Hitoshi opened a Dimensional Passage to one of Shibai God's Divine Consciousness Clones and pointed toward the Vast and Boundless Sea.