Chapter Summaries

Yu fought Torashiki while Kaguya battled Shinshiki in a desert space, and both confrontations revealed the opponents’ powers and motives. After Torashiki overcame Yu’s defenses, Yu joined the Shinobi Alliance’s shadows through Shikamaru’s plan and prepared to use their techniques to pursue his goal of awakening the Rinne Tenseigan.

• Yu deduced that Torashiki’s Izanagi consumed enormous amounts of chakra and would last only half a day, while Torashiki remained confident that his attacks would eventually win.
• Kaguya moved Shinshiki to a desert dimension, where Shinshiki revealed her love for Ryushiki and used Kotoamatsukami to seize control of the space.
• Torashiki bypassed Yu’s Absolute Seal with Izanagi, but Yu used Kamui to remove the Yata Mirror and Scorching Annihilation Demon before Torashiki overpowered him in a clash of strength.
• Yu escaped Torashiki’s attempt to drain him with the Preta Path by using the Substitution Technique and refused the Ten-Tails’ suggestion to retreat.
• Yu opened Yomotsu Hirasaka and connected the Ten-Tails’ shadow to the shadows of the Shinobi Alliance, using Nara Shikamaru’s plan to channel techniques from across the Ninja World.

Chapter Summary: Samsara Reincarnation, Decayed Yet Miraculous!

Key Plot Points and Events

• Torashiki pursues Yu through Yomotsu Hirasaka, relying on Izanagi Shikigami Mode, which makes his attacks “effective attacks” that cannot simply be dodged.
• Torashiki overwhelms Yu physically and appears to break his skull with a direct punch. However, Yu uses the Flying Raijin Technique through a marked kunai to teleport away at the instant Torashiki’s attack takes effect.
• Yu combines Flying Raijin with Lightning Release Chakra Mode, greatly enhancing his reflexes. He repeatedly escapes Torashiki’s attacks, gradually learning the precise timing needed to evade attacks that would otherwise be unavoidable.
• Torashiki increases his Chakra output and speed, nearly catching Yu several times. Yu’s Shadow Imitation Technique helps expose a weakness: Torashiki’s automatic defensive responses still require a brief reaction time.
• Torashiki counters by leaving the range of Yu’s shadow and suppressing his own shadow, preventing Yu from exploiting the same technique again.
• Yu attacks with Derivative Truth-Seeking Orbs, but Torashiki uses Defensive Transfer to redirect himself behind Yu and lands a devastating blow that collapses Yu’s spine.
• Yu survives through the Orochimaru-Style Substitution Technique, repeatedly producing new versions of himself from his mouth. These versions multiply in a bizarre, tree-like chain, leaving Torashiki shocked and uncertain how Yu can still be killed.
• The chapter ends with Yu revealing mouths in his palms and preparing to imitate Deidara’s Explosion Release by using a Truth-Seeking Orb as a substitute for Explosive Clay.

Character Developments

• Yu demonstrates remarkable adaptability. Although he lacks Minato’s natural mastery of Flying Raijin, he rapidly learns to use it in combination with Lightning Release Chakra Mode and his heightened reflexes.
• Yu’s willingness to experiment allows him to exploit tiny gaps in Torashiki’s seemingly invincible defensive system.
• Yu also reveals increasingly grotesque regenerative and substitution abilities, suggesting that his body has become highly abnormal through Samsara Reincarnation and related techniques.
• Torashiki remains overwhelmingly powerful, possessing unavoidable attacks, immense physical strength, rapid defensive repositioning, and multiple countermeasures. However, Yu identifies that Torashiki’s abilities are not completely instantaneous and can be evaded if one reacts quickly enough.
• Torashiki becomes increasingly frustrated by Yu’s repeated escapes and shocked by Yu’s ability to reproduce himself after receiving lethal damage.
• Minato serves as an implicit standard for Yu. Yu compares his developing Flying Raijin mastery to Minato’s legendary reflexes and freedom of movement.
• Orochimaru and Deidara, observing from the Space-Time Dimension, react to Yu’s bizarre techniques, emphasizing how far his abilities have diverged from normal ninjutsu.

Significant Themes

• Adaptation against overwhelming power: Yu cannot defeat Torashiki through strength, so he studies the timing and mechanics of Torashiki’s attacks and develops a practical counterstrategy.
• The limits of “absolute” abilities: Torashiki’s attacks are described as unavoidable, but the chapter reveals that even such abilities depend on reaction speed and execution.
• Imitation and mastery: Yu borrows or reproduces techniques associated with other ninja, including Flying Raijin and Deidara’s Explosion Release, raising questions about whether mastery comes from innate talent or creative application.
• Death, reincarnation, and identity: Yu’s repeated bodily regeneration and multiplication blur the boundary between survival and replacement. His statement that he is someone Torashiki cannot kill reflects his transformation into something increasingly inhuman.
• Body horror and grotesque immortality: The endless emergence of new Yus from one another presents reincarnation as both miraculous and physically disturbing.

Character Interactions

• Yu and Torashiki engage in a tactical battle rather than a simple contest of power. Torashiki repeatedly tries to overwhelm Yu, while Yu analyzes and exploits the brief delays in his attacks and defenses.
• Yu openly comments on Torashiki’s lack of mastery in certain techniques, provoking him by suggesting that devotion to immortality has limited his broader skill development.
• Torashiki rejects Yu’s judgment, insisting that only his elder brother Ryushiki has the authority to judge him.
• Orochimaru and Deidara observe the fight from the Space-Time Dimension, reacting with surprise to Yu’s use of their respective techniques.
• Yu’s invocation of Minato creates an indirect emotional and technical connection between them, as Yu seeks to understand the level of freedom and precision Minato achieved with Flying Raijin.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Riu unveils a new weapon: a miniature black fighter constructed from Truth-Seeking Orbs and activated through his Explosion Release. Once enlarged, it becomes a fully functional, living fighter with powerful cannons, permanent form, and the ability to conceal both its physical presence and Chakra signature.
• Riu pilots the fighter against Torashiki, bombarding him with Truth-Seeking Orb missiles. However, Torashiki’s Izanagi Mode makes him effectively unkillable for the time being, forcing Riu to rely on attrition and wait for Torashiki’s Chakra to weaken.
• Torashiki remains patient, realizing that Riu is deliberately hiding and waiting for Izanagi to end. Instead of recklessly pursuing him, Torashiki creates an enormous Planetary Devastation to reveal and trap the invisible fighter.
• Riu uses the technique’s gravitational pull to redirect missiles into the Planetary Devastation’s core, destroying the massive construct but exposing his fighter’s location.
• Torashiki attacks the revealed fighter, but Riu abandons it and detonates the entire machine. The explosion devastates thousands of miles of terrain, creating a massive basin. Riu survives through Phasing Mode, which protects him because the explosion was not directly launched by Torashiki.
• Both combatants acknowledge that their power reserves are declining: Torashiki’s Izanagi Mode may last less than four hours, while Riu’s current Chakra Mode is also weakening.
• Riu then drinks from the Heaven Wine Gourd and appears heavily intoxicated. Torashiki assumes this leaves him vulnerable and attacks using Defensive Transfer.
• Contrary to expectations, Riu’s drunken movements reveal a highly refined defensive martial art. He redirects Torashiki’s punch, neutralizes most of its force, and returns the remaining momentum against Torashiki, sending him staggering backward.
• The chapter ends with Rock Lee observing the technique and recognizing similarities to Drunken Fist, though Riu’s version is clearly far more advanced and fundamentally different.

Character Developments

• Riu: Demonstrates increased creativity and adaptability, combining Truth-Seeking Orb manipulation, Explosion Release, stealth technology, and Phasing Mode. His apparent drunkenness becomes a deliberate combat strategy, revealing a calm, instinctive fighting style based on redirection rather than brute force.
• Torashiki: Shows patience and tactical intelligence by resisting the urge to chase Riu blindly. He correctly understands Riu’s strategy, but his confidence is shaken when Riu survives his traps and unexpectedly counters his strongest punch.
• Rock Lee: Provides an outside perspective, recognizing that Riu’s drunken combat resembles Drunken Fist but is not the same technique.

Significant Themes

• Adaptability versus raw power: Riu repeatedly invents unconventional counters rather than trying to overpower Torashiki directly.
• Patience and attrition: Both fighters are waiting for the other’s limited power mode to expire, making endurance and timing as important as destructive strength.
• Deception and concealed ability: Riu’s invisible fighter and fake drunkenness emphasize the value of misdirection.
• Natural movement and effortless control: The chapter’s title is reflected in Riu’s new technique, which converts an opponent’s force through instinctive, fluid motion rather than rigid technique or direct resistance.
• Escalation and destruction: The battle reaches enormous destructive levels, yet neither combatant gains a decisive advantage.

Character Interactions

• Riu and Torashiki exchange taunts while analyzing each other’s weakening Chakra reserves.
• Torashiki dismisses Riu’s fighter as flashy but ineffective, only to be subjected to repeated attacks and eventually tricked into exposing its location.
• Riu provokes Torashiki into attacking after drinking, exploiting Torashiki’s assumption that intoxication means vulnerability.
• Rock Lee reacts with astonishment to Riu’s strange new martial art, distinguishing it from his own Drunken Fist.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Might Guy explains that Yu’s drunken movements are actually an advanced martial art called Tai Chi Fist, based on yielding, redirecting, and overcoming strength with softness. Although Yu originally could not truly perform it, Drunken Fist places him in the precise mental state needed to use it.
• Guy recognizes this as a rare learning opportunity and urges Rock Lee to memorize Yu’s movements. The Hyuga Clan also notices that Tai Chi Fist resembles Gentle Fist, though it has the additional ability to grow stronger when meeting force directly.
• In the Desert Space, Kaguya’s expanding Truth-Seeking Orb destroys Shinshiki’s sandstorm and forces Shinshiki to release her control over the space. Exhausted and unable to use her strongest mental techniques effectively, Shinshiki accepts that she cannot defeat Kaguya.
• Kaguya prepares to kill Shinshiki with an All-Killing Ash Bone. Though she hesitates, Shinshiki’s defiance ultimately causes Kaguya to commit to the attack.
• In Jianzhou Country, Torashiki finally uses Ultra Almighty Push, disrupting Yu’s Tai Chi Fist and dispelling his drunken state. Torashiki declares that he will not allow Yu to drink again.
• Yu reveals that his drunken clarity also forces him to remember painful memories, suggesting that his drinking is tied to emotional trauma.
• Torashiki attempts to attack Yu from behind using Defensive Transfer, but Yu counters with his own Ultra Almighty Push.
• Yu then combines several concealment techniques—Void, Boil, Water, and Wind Releases—to completely obstruct Torashiki’s vision. Since Defensive Transfer only works within the user’s field of vision, Yu traps Torashiki with a massive Quicksand Waterfall.
• With assistance from the Nara Clan’s shadow techniques, Yu creates the enormous Sandfall Layered Grand Burial Seal, then multiplies its weight with the Ultra-Added-Weight Rock Technique. The seal restrains Torashiki for nearly an hour.
• After escaping, Torashiki’s Izanagi Shikigami Chakra has been heavily depleted, shortening the remaining duration of his transformation to roughly thirty minutes. However, Yu has also exhausted most of his own techniques and can no longer use Flying Raijin.
• Torashiki believes Yu is finally helpless, but Yu proposes a high-stakes gamble. Despite the Ten-Tails’ warning, Yu prepares to use the Six Paths: Hundred Thousand Shadow Clone Technique.

Character Developments

• Yu/Feather Emperor: Demonstrates exceptional adaptability by transforming Drunken Fist into genuine Tai Chi Fist. He fights strategically rather than relying solely on power, identifying the limitation of Torashiki’s Defensive Transfer and exploiting it through vision-obscuring techniques. Even when nearly exhausted, Yu remains confident and willing to risk everything.
• Might Guy: Shows deep insight into taijutsu and recognizes that Yu has accidentally achieved a state even Yu himself once considered beyond his reach. He becomes an instructor to Lee, emphasizing the importance of learning from Yu’s movements.
• Rock Lee: Gains a potentially transformative opportunity to study Tai Chi Fist directly, reinforcing his dedication to mastering taijutsu.
• Torashiki: His arrogance and frustration intensify after Yu repeatedly neutralizes his attacks. He is forced to abandon his preferred taijutsu and rely on overwhelming force. Though he escapes Yu’s seal, his power and remaining transformation time are significantly reduced.
• Kaguya: Establishes her superiority over Shinshiki but reveals hesitation before delivering the killing blow, suggesting a complicated emotional connection or lingering uncertainty.
• Shinshiki: Exhausted and unable to defeat Kaguya, she refuses to surrender and openly challenges Kaguya to kill her.
• The Nara Clan: Their shadow techniques are crucial to Yu’s sealing strategy, but the prolonged battle drains their Chakra completely.
• The Ten-Tails: Acts as a cautious counterpoint to Yu, warning him that his final gamble could result in total defeat.

Significant Themes

• Softness overcoming strength: Tai Chi Fist embodies the chapter’s central martial philosophy: force can be redirected and turned against the attacker rather than opposed directly.
• Adaptation under pressure: Yu repeatedly invents new tactics from limited resources, while Torashiki is forced to change strategies after his usual methods fail.
• Vision and perception as weaknesses: Torashiki’s powerful Defensive Transfer depends on what he can see, demonstrating that even overwhelming abilities possess exploitable conditions.
• The cost of power: Both sides suffer severe Chakra depletion. Torashiki’s increased power shortens his transformation, while Yu exhausts his techniques and allies to survive.
• Risk and resolve: Yu’s decision to make a “huge gamble” highlights his willingness to stake everything on one final move.
• Pain beneath strength: Yu’s comments about drunkenness bringing back unpleasant memories reveal that his power and composure conceal unresolved emotional suffering.
• Mentorship and transmission of knowledge: Guy’s instruction to Lee shows how Yu’s battle can influence future generations of martial artists.

Character Interactions

• Guy explains Yu’s unusual martial art to Lee and urges him to learn from it, creating a mentor-student exchange centered on taijutsu.
• The Hyuga Clan compares Tai Chi Fist with Gentle Fist, recognizing Yu’s extraordinary martial understanding.
• Kaguya and Shinshiki confront one another in a tense, nearly fatal exchange, with Shinshiki refusing to submit and Kaguya struggling briefly with hesitation.
• Yu and Torashiki engage in a battle of counters: Torashiki relies on force and spatial movement, while Yu uses redirection, concealment, terrain control, and sealing.
• Yu taunts and psychologically challenges Torashiki, while Torashiki’s frustration turns into desperation and renewed hostility.
• Yu acknowledges the Nara Clan’s sacrifice after they exhaust themselves maintaining the shadow restraint.
• The Ten-Tails questions Yu’s final plan, but Yu insists that the danger is precisely what makes it a true gamble.

Chapter Summary: Samsara Reincarnation, What Is Despair?

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu creates 100,000 Shadow Clones, distributing his Chakra equally among them. Each clone manifests a black skeletal Susanoo, while their connected shadows form the outline of the Ten-Tails. The real Yu is hidden among the army.
• Torashiki dismisses the clones as weak, but they withstand his large-scale Silver Wheel Storm Palm using Susanoo: Myriad Bone Skeleton.
• The clones scatter and engage Torashiki in a massive battle. Torashiki relies on overwhelming physical strength and wide-range attacks such as Tyrant Fist: Annihilation in Ten Directions, destroying thousands of clones at a time.
• Torashiki attempts to identify Yu’s true body by observing the clones’ movements. He discovers a suspiciously retreating Susanoo and confirms it possesses the Yata Mirror, apparently proving that it is Yu’s original body.
• After using Defensive Transfer to appear behind the target, Torashiki pulls Yu from the Susanoo and attempts to crush him. However, the supposed original is revealed to be a clone. Yu had used the Plum for Peach technique to escape, tricking Torashiki and remaining hidden among the main army.
• This deception occurs repeatedly. Torashiki becomes increasingly frustrated and abandons careful identification, simply destroying every clone in his path.
• Eventually, only 3,000 clones remain. Torashiki’s Izanagi Shikigami Mode has roughly thirty seconds left before it expires.
• Torashiki uses Universal Pull to draw all remaining clones toward him, then unleashes Golden Wheel Tribulation Light, striking the entire group. Yu releases the clones at the last moment to reclaim their Chakra and prevent further waste.
• With Yu’s true form finally exposed, Torashiki launches Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion. Yu counters with the Ten-Tails’ Golden Dharma Body, black Susanoo armor, the Ten Directions Kamui Sword, and a Kamui Vortex that diverts part of the attack.
• Torashiki uses the final seconds of his transformation to reinforce his attack with Defensive Transfer, driving the remaining golden energy into Yu and apparently overwhelming him.
• Although Torashiki is exhausted and his transformation ends, Yu survives and attacks with the Ninth-Spear Kamui Magatama, striking Torashiki with a Kamui Vortex.
• Yu emerges from the attack severely depleted, his Shadow Mage Mode exhausted and his shadow restored to normal. He appears to have lost the battle—until Torashiki reveals that his eye technique’s cooldown has completed:

Ken•Tama•Yori•Hime•no•Mikoto is available again.

Character Developments

• Torashiki demonstrates immense physical power, endurance, and combat instincts, destroying nearly the entire clone army through direct combat. However, Yu’s deception repeatedly frustrates him and exposes the limits of relying on brute force and intuition.
• Torashiki shifts from confidence and contempt toward grim determination. By the end, he is physically exhausted but regains a decisive advantage when his ocular ability becomes available again.
• Yu displays exceptional strategy and adaptability. Rather than fight directly, he uses clone distribution, misdirection, the Yata Mirror, Plum for Peach, and carefully timed Chakra recovery to prolong the battle and confuse Torashiki.
• Yu’s composure gradually gives way to desperation. He successfully survives several near-death situations, but after exhausting Shadow Mage Mode and seeing Torashiki remain standing, his unwillingness and despair become clear.

Significant Themes

• Despair and false hope: Torashiki repeatedly believes he has found Yu, while Yu repeatedly believes he can survive through deception. Each apparent turning point proves temporary.
• Strategy versus overwhelming power: Yu’s elaborate tactics allow him to withstand an opponent vastly stronger in direct combat, but Torashiki’s raw power steadily eliminates his options.
• Truth and illusion: The battle constantly blurs reality and deception. Clones, disguises, transferred damage, Kamui, and sacrificial decoys make it impossible to know whether any apparent victory is genuine.
• Resource exhaustion: Both fighters are racing against time and Chakra limits. Yu’s clones multiply his expenditure, while Torashiki’s Shikigami Mode has only seconds remaining, making every attack a final gamble.
• The nature of despair: Yu’s greatest psychological blow comes not from being struck, but from realizing that even after exhausting his army, techniques, and last-resort attacks, Torashiki is still capable of continuing.

Character Interactions

• Torashiki and the clones openly taunt one another, with the clones insisting that their formation is a calculated gamble rather than a “rabble.”
• Yu praises Torashiki as the fiercest enemy he has ever faced, acknowledging the brutality and effectiveness of his opponent.
• Torashiki repeatedly tries to expose and kill Yu’s true body, while Yu counters by sacrificing clones and manipulating Torashiki’s assumptions.
• Their final exchange becomes a direct contest of ultimate techniques: Torashiki’s Golden Wheel attacks against Yu’s Ten-Tails, Susanoo, and Kamui defenses.
• The chapter ends with Torashiki delivering the psychologically devastating revelation that his eye-power cooldown is complete, leaving Yu facing the possibility that all of his efforts have only delayed defeat.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu and Torashiki’s battle reaches its final stage after Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto’s health bar reappears, restoring Torashiki’s defenses and effectively making him difficult to kill.
• Torashiki explains that he deliberately created a cycle between Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto and Izanagi’s Shikigami, allowing him to survive almost indefinitely by alternating between the two abilities.
• Both fighters acknowledge that their Chakra reserves are nearly exhausted. Yu argues that he still has an advantage because Kamui’s intangibility and his instant-kill ocular technique can bypass Torashiki’s Diamond Body.
• The two resume exchanging lethal blows. Torashiki’s health repeatedly recovers, while Yu relies on Kamui to avoid attacks. The battle becomes less destructive but remains extremely dangerous, with victory depending on who can endure longer.
• Elsewhere, in Kaguya’s Desert Space, Shinshiki survives Kaguya’s All-Killing Ash Bones by sacrificing a puppet created through her Tenseigan Heart Realm ability, Mindless Principle.
• Shinshiki reveals that she can forcibly open the mind’s “limiters,” releasing dozens of times her normal spiritual Chakra at the cost of irreversible mental death. She activates this power, disconnecting herself from the Mind Controller and unleashing the spiritual attack “Heart-Shattering Wave.”
• Shinshiki’s attack disrupts Kaguya’s control over the Expanding Truth-Seeking Orb and traps Kaguya inside a powerful Tsukuyomi world lasting one thousand years internally, equivalent to one thousand seconds outside.
• Shinshiki intends to use that brief external window to place one final Kotoamatsukami on Yu, forcing him to inherit her will and continue the Great Lord God Plan.
• Kaguya refuses to lose the peaceful home she has found in Mitsuki Country. She realizes that she may be able to escape by refining the Chakra of the Ten-Tails trapped inside the Tsukuyomi world.
• Kaguya finds the Ten-Tails, whose will belongs to Gandharva, and absorbs its Chakra. Using her unique ability to alter Chakra’s nature, she converts it into the power required to awaken the Tenseigan.
• Her Byakugan transforms into the Tenseigan. Kaguya then uses its power to reach the distant blood moon within the Tsukuyomi world and prepares to cast Infinite Tsukuyomi, presumably as a means of breaking free.

Character Developments

• Yu remains defiant despite exhaustion and Torashiki’s apparent immortality. His fighting spirit returns after briefly considering surrender, showing his refusal to rely on luck or abandon the battle.
• Torashiki reveals more of his combat strategy and demonstrates rare respect for Yu, acknowledging that Yu is the first opponent to force him into such an extreme battle.
• Shinshiki sacrifices her body and future consciousness to unleash her strongest spiritual power. Her determination is driven by her love for the person she wishes to protect and by her desire to ensure that her will survives through Yu.
• Kaguya shifts from defending herself to actively fighting for her newfound home and peace. She displays greater resolve, ingenuity, and willingness to exploit the Ten-Tails’ power.
• Kaguya’s successful Tenseigan awakening marks a major increase in her abilities and gives her a possible route out of Shinshiki’s trap.

Significant Themes

• Unyielding will and endurance: Both Yu and Shinshiki continue fighting despite overwhelming exhaustion and seemingly inevitable defeat.
• The cost of power: Torashiki’s techniques require immense Chakra, while Shinshiki’s ultimate ability destroys her mind. Kaguya’s power also depends on transforming and consuming external Chakra.
• Immortality versus limitations: Torashiki’s regenerative cycle appears immortal, but Yu identifies weaknesses in its timing and in the distinction between true invulnerability and merely recovering from damage.
• Love, loyalty, and inherited will: Shinshiki’s final plan is motivated by love, while her attempt to control Yu raises the question of whether a person’s will can truly be inherited without destroying their identity.
• Protection and belonging: Kaguya’s determination comes from her fear of losing the only place she now considers home.
• Strategic adaptation: The combatants repeatedly search for loopholes in each other’s abilities rather than relying solely on brute strength.

Character Interactions

• Yu and Torashiki exchange mutual respect while taunting and analyzing one another’s weaknesses. Their conversation makes clear that the battle has become a contest of endurance and technique rather than raw power.
• Shinshiki confronts Kaguya and explains the terrifying price of her Tenseigan Heart Realm technique before trapping her in Tsukuyomi.
• Shinshiki declares that she will overwrite Yu’s will with Kotoamatsukami, directly connecting her final sacrifice to both Yu and the Great Lord God Plan.
• Kaguya internally rejects Shinshiki’s plan, fearing that it would transform Yu and destroy the peace of Mitsuki Country.
• Kaguya temporarily cooperates with the Ten-Tails, using its Chakra to awaken the Tenseigan and challenge Shinshiki’s Tsukuyomi world.
  The chapter ends on a cliffhanger as Kaguya activates her newly awakened Tenseigan and prepares to cast Infinite Tsukuyomi from within Shinshiki’s mental prison.

Shinshiki released Kaguya from Tsukuyomi after Kaguya’s Rinne Sharingan projected Infinite Tsukuyomi into her mind. In Jianzhou Country, Torashiki restrained Yu and revealed the extraordinary circumstances of Ryushiki’s birth and childhood.

• Shinshiki struggled through the Supergravity Space toward the Origin Sphere Space, but Kaguya’s Infinite Tsukuyomi reached her through their connection and forced her to release Tsukuyomi.
• Kaguya and the Ten-Tails appeared in the Origin Sphere Space, where Kaguya revealed that she had refined chakra to obtain the Tenseigan.
• Torashiki restrained Yu while Yu relied on Izanagi, then agreed to answer Yu’s questions about Ryushiki.
• Torashiki explained that Ryushiki was Chuanlong’s posthumous son, kept in his mother Chiba Hime’s womb for thousands of years to protect him from the Progenitor Gods.
• Torashiki said the Progenitor Gods imprisoned Ryushiki in Dragon Palace City for a thousand years, but he emerged with the Rinne Tenseigan and powerful artifacts he had made.

Torashiki recounted Ryushiki’s sacrifices for their family before Yu broke Torashiki’s ocular defense with a prepared assault. Torashiki then entered his second-stage transformation, while Yu used the Ten-Tails’ last natural energy to unleash his own final power.

• Torashiki explained that Ryushiki gave a Divine Tree Chakra Fruit to Huiyue to secure her position, though he had originally wanted to use it to cure Shinshiki’s inherited curse.
• As Yu’s Izanagi ended, he absorbed Torashiki’s remaining chakra, opened the Sixth Gate of View, and attacked with Shock Release: Spacequake until Torashiki’s Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto broke again.
• Torashiki revealed that Ryushiki had rebuilt his chakra pathways and inspired him to train, then transformed into a Heaven-Devouring Tiger using the Ten-Tails to activate his second stage.
• Yu asked the Ten-Tails for its remaining natural energy, fused a Truth-Seeking Orb into his body with Dōko Agaru: Full Power, and opened the Seventh Gate of Shock.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• After six years of brutal training, Yu unlocks the Seventh Inner Gate, the Gate of Shock, a level normally requiring a century of preparation. His body has been strengthened by years of True Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu, allowing him to surpass his previous limit.
• Because his body is fused with the power of the Truth-Seeking Orbs through Dōko Agaru, Yu’s Seventh Gate manifests differently: instead of the usual blue vapor, white steam and ember-like markings cover his body, while his hair catches fire.
• Yu tests his new power against Ōtsutsuki Torashiki, who is in his second-stage, Heaven-Devouring Tiger transformation. Their first punch ends in a stalemate, and Torashiki acknowledges that Yu’s physical strength now rivals—or slightly exceeds—his own pre-transformation power.
• When the true battle begins, Yu uses Shock Release: Multi-Spacequake, creating massive spatial fractures that crush Torashiki’s arm and severely damage his body.
• Torashiki’s extraordinary regeneration quickly restores his injuries. He retaliates with a claw strike that deeply wounds Yu’s chest, forcing Yu to recognize that he must destroy Torashiki’s vital point rather than merely damage his body.
• The two exchange increasingly destructive blows. Their attacks shatter each other’s hands, but Torashiki’s regeneration gives him an apparent advantage. Yu adapts by forming Multi-Spacequake around his head and attacking with a Shock Blast Headbutt.
• Torashiki catches Yu with his tail, crushes him, and hurls him through the atmosphere into the moon. He then fires a massive golden beam that destroys the moon and seemingly kills Yu.
• Yu survives and reappears above Torashiki, gripping his head. He unleashes Multi-Spacequake directly into Torashiki’s skull, destroying his Rinnegan, Tenseigan, and entire head.
• Just as Yu believes he has won, Torashiki’s enormous hand grabs him. Torashiki reveals that he can regenerate even after decapitation, reforming his head from scattered blood and continuing the fight.

Character Developments

• Yu demonstrates the successful culmination of his extreme training. The Seventh Gate greatly increases his speed, strength, endurance, and destructive capacity, allowing him to challenge an enemy who previously surpassed him.
• Yu also shows tactical growth. Rather than relying only on raw strength, he tests the mode, studies Torashiki’s regeneration, targets his head, and improvises by using his head and claws when his fists become damaged.
• Despite suffering severe injuries, Yu remains determined and resilient. His survival after being blasted into space and struck by a moon-destroying attack emphasizes his toughness.
• Torashiki is revealed to be far more durable and dangerous than expected. His regeneration allows him to recover from crushed limbs, massive spatial damage, and even the destruction of his head.
• Torashiki becomes increasingly aggressive and murderous as Yu begins to threaten him. His confidence shifts from acknowledging Yu’s strength to attempting to overwhelm him through superior regeneration and overwhelming attacks.

Significant Themes

• Power gained through suffering: Yu’s new transformation is the result of years of torture, training, and endurance, turning past hardships into strength.
• Adaptation versus brute force: Although the battle is dominated by enormous physical attacks, Yu survives by adjusting his strategy and exploiting Torashiki’s apparent weakness.
• Limits and transcendence: Yu surpasses the limits of the Sixth Gate, but Torashiki’s regeneration repeatedly forces him beyond what he thought was possible.
• Persistence against seemingly impossible odds: Both fighters continue after suffering catastrophic injuries, making the battle a test of will as much as power.
• The uncertainty of victory: Destroying an opponent’s body—even their head—does not guarantee death, reinforcing the chapter’s emphasis on hidden abilities and escalating danger.

Character Interactions

• Yu and Torashiki openly compare their strength before beginning the serious battle, establishing mutual recognition and rivalry.
• Torashiki acknowledges Yu’s improved taijutsu but immediately challenges him to withstand his full power.
• Their dialogue remains taunting and competitive throughout the fight: Yu insists he can win by crushing Torashiki’s head, while Torashiki dares him to try.
• Torashiki’s surprise attack with his tail and subsequent regeneration temporarily shifts control of the battle.
• Yu’s final head-destroying attack appears to secure victory, but Torashiki’s regeneration turns the apparent triumph into another confrontation, leaving their deadly conflict unresolved.

Chapter Summary: “Samsara Reincarnation, Pull the Rug Out from Under Him!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Torashiki’s head regenerates after Yu destroys it, revealing that his Second-Stage Transformation can regenerate indefinitely as long as even one drop of blood remains.
• Torashiki overwhelms Yu and smashes him into the earth, sending him toward Jianzhou Country’s molten core. Yu loses hope, believing Torashiki may be undefeatable.
• Shikamaru contacts Yu mentally and points out a weakness Yu had overlooked: Torashiki’s transformation depends on the Ten-Tails’ Chakra.
• Using the last of his Seventh Gate power, Yu attacks Torashiki’s abdomen and physically seizes the Ten-Tails Chakra inside him. He begins pulling it out, attempting to “pull the rug out from under” Torashiki rather than destroy his regenerating body.
• Sasuke opens Yomotsu Hirasaka, allowing Naruto and the allied forces—including hundreds of thousands of ninja, White Zetsu, and samurai—to join Yu in extracting the Ten-Tails Chakra.
• Torashiki resists through sheer willpower and uses his terrifying roar to mentally weaken the allied forces. His power even begins drawing Naruto’s Ten-Tails Chakra back toward him.
• Xiaoxue uses Void Release: Sound Severance to silence Torashiki’s roar, restoring the allies’ ability to fight.
• As the forces reach a stalemate and morale begins to collapse, Might Guy releases his Chakra chain and activates the Eight Inner Gates Formation. His Night Guy attack strikes Torashiki and becomes the decisive force that breaks his resistance.
• The Ten-Tails Chakra is fully removed from Torashiki. Hashirama seals it with Myojin Gates, while Naruto and the others withdraw through Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Torashiki’s Second-Stage Transformation ends, leaving him a dying shell. He falls to the ground and dies while maintaining his proud posture.
• In the spiritual world, Torashiki reveals that he understands Yu’s ambitions: obtaining Tsukuyomi’s Shikigami, Kotoamatsukami, opening the Rinne Tenseigan, and acquiring Karma.
• Torashiki chooses to imprint his Karma onto Yu, but Yu secretly uses a bloodline-based technique to transfer the Karma to his son, Uchiha Feng. A blue diamond-shaped mark consequently appears on Feng’s palm.
• Yu honors Torashiki after death, taking his weapon, Scorching Annihilation Demon, and placing it beside his body while promising to remember him.

Character Developments

• Uchiha Yu: Moves from despair to strategic determination. Rather than trying to overpower Torashiki’s regeneration, he adapts Shikamaru’s insight and exploits the transformation’s dependence on the Ten-Tails. He also reveals long-term ambitions and demonstrates that he had prepared a countermeasure for Karma.
• Torashiki: Though arrogant and confident in his divine superiority, he develops respect for humanity and Yu. Even while dying, he refuses to surrender his pride and acknowledges that humans should never be underestimated.
• Shikamaru: Demonstrates his exceptional tactical intelligence by identifying the crucial weakness in Torashiki’s transformation.
• Naruto: Becomes the emotional and physical rallying point for the allied forces, encouraging them to draw on their shared strength.
• Sasuke: Re-enters the battle after recovering and provides the dimensional support essential to the extraction plan.
• Might Guy: Makes the ultimate sacrifice by activating the Eight Inner Gates and using Night Guy to turn the battle in the allies’ favor. His final request is that the others bring him home.
• Xiaoxue: Protects the alliance by neutralizing Torashiki’s psychologically devastating roar.
• Uchiha Feng: Becomes the unexpected recipient of Torashiki’s Karma, setting up a major future conflict or inheritance of power.

Significant Themes

• Human unity versus divine power: Torashiki’s strength represents the overwhelming superiority of the gods and Ōtsutsuki, while the allied forces prove that cooperation can overcome even an individual of cosmic power.
• Strategy over brute force: Yu cannot defeat Torashiki directly, so victory comes from identifying and exploiting the source of his power.
• Willpower and sacrifice: Torashiki’s resistance and Guy’s final attack emphasize the importance of determination, while Guy’s sacrifice inspires the entire alliance.
• Respect between enemies: Torashiki and Yu remain adversaries, but each recognizes the other’s courage, ambition, and strength.
• Inheritance and destiny: Torashiki’s Karma is transferred to Feng, suggesting that power, conflict, and responsibility will continue into the next generation.
• Pride versus cooperation: Torashiki fights alone as a proud “god,” whereas Yu succeeds by relying on Shikamaru, Sasuke, Naruto, Guy, and the entire alliance.

Important Character Interactions

• Yu and Shikamaru: Shikamaru gives Yu the strategic idea that enables the turnaround.
• Yu and Torashiki: Their battle shifts from direct combat to a contest of strategy and will. Torashiki acknowledges Yu’s ambition, while Yu ultimately respects Torashiki’s fighting spirit.
• Yu and Naruto/allied forces: Yu coordinates the extraction of the Ten-Tails Chakra, while Naruto mobilizes the entire army through a shared memory of their earlier struggle against Nagato.
• Sasuke and Naruto: Sasuke opens the dimensional passage and sharply orders Naruto to act, while Naruto celebrates Sasuke’s timely assistance.
• Torashiki and the alliance: Torashiki’s roar temporarily overwhelms the ninja, revealing the psychological impact of his power.
• Xiaoxue and the alliance: Xiaoxue’s sound-severing technique protects everyone from Torashiki’s intimidation.
• Guy and Lee: Guy’s farewell to Lee frames his final attack as both a sacrifice and a lesson for his student.
• Yu and Feng: Yu secretly redirects Torashiki’s Karma to Feng, making his son the bearer of Torashiki’s inherited power.
• Yu and the dead Torashiki: Yu honors his fallen enemy by preserving the memory of his battle and placing his weapon beside him.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu arrives at the Myojin Gate, where the Ten-Tails—still contained within Torashiki’s body—is suppressed. Using the Preta Path, he absorbs chakra directly from its eye, restoring the six tomoe on his Rinnegan.
• Yu then uses Kamui to extract the Ten-Tails from beneath the gate and stores it in his Space-Time Dimension, intending to give it a new “home.”
• He finds Might Guy dead after his sacrifice. Since the Myriad Grotto-Heaven has withered and Yu can no longer restore the lifespan required for One’s Own Life Reincarnation, Guy is placed in the resurrection queue for the Naraka Path/Pure Land Summoning method. Yu preserves Guy’s body in a coffin.
• Yu waits for Kaguya, but Shinshiki emerges from a Yomotsu Hirasaka portal alone. Torashiki’s corpse remains behind, confirming Yu’s victory over him.
• Shinshiki reveals that Kaguya will not return, implying she has trapped or otherwise dealt with her. Yu remains confident that Kaguya cannot truly die and that he can eventually undo the technique.
• Yu extracts the Shikigami within Shinshiki’s eyes—Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto and Kotoamatsukami—using the hidden ability of his Kamui Shikigami.
• Inside the Kamui Space-Time Dimension, Kamui binds the two Shikigami in black-thread cocoons, declaring that they will be forcibly integrated into Yu’s eyes. Kamui resents Yu for killing its former host, Koshiki, and relocating its “nest,” but agrees to help Yu evolve his eyes in exchange for a better dwelling.
• With the two Shikigami secured, Yu’s Rinne Tenseigan is close to opening. Shinshiki, stripped of her Shikigami and left with a blank Rinnegan, launches her final technique, Mind’s End, threatening to destroy Jianzhou Country and bury everyone with it.

Character Developments

• Yu demonstrates increasing control and ambition. He restores his ocular power, captures the Ten-Tails, preserves Might Guy for resurrection, and successfully claims two powerful Shikigami.
• Might Guy is confirmed to have died protecting others, emphasizing the cost of the previous battle. Yu’s decision to preserve him shows respect and a commitment to restoring him.
• Shinshiki is revealed to be near death, her life force apparently exhausted by a technique resembling the Eight Gates. After losing her Shikigami, she abandons any hope of survival and chooses a destructive final attack.
• Kamui is characterized as resentful, sarcastic, and self-interested. Though forced to serve Yu, it accepts the situation and seeks compensation through a more luxurious “nest.”
• Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto and Kotoamatsukami are captured and restrained, setting up their forced incorporation into Yu’s evolving eye power.
• Kaguya remains absent and possibly trapped by Shinshiki, but Yu insists that she cannot truly be killed.

Significant Themes

• Power through absorption and possession: Yu continually expands his strength by taking chakra, beasts, bodies, and Shikigami into his own domain.
• Death, sacrifice, and resurrection: Might Guy’s death and planned revival highlight the cost of victory and the limits of Yu’s restorative abilities.
• Control versus autonomy: The Shikigami resent being captured and bound, while Yu treats them as components necessary for his evolution.
• Fate and inevitability: Yu speaks of meeting the Ten-Tails as fate and confidently predicts that Shinshiki’s Shikigami will become his, reinforcing his belief that events are moving toward his intended destiny.
• Desperation and vengeance: Shinshiki’s final attack reflects her refusal to accept defeat, while Kamui’s resentment creates a darker, more comic version of the same desire to make others suffer alongside him.

Character Interactions

• Yu addresses the Ten-Tails almost respectfully while forcibly draining and relocating it.
• Yu mourns Might Guy’s sacrifice, calling him the “Crimson Beast” and promising him rest before arranging his future resurrection.
• Yu confronts Shinshiki and taunts her over Torashiki’s defeat, while Shinshiki accuses him of using dishonorable methods.
• Yu and Shinshiki argue over ownership of the Shikigami, with Yu asserting that possession of Kamui gives him an advantage she does not understand.
• Kamui confronts Tsukuyomi and Kotoamatsukami, mocks their resistance, and binds them despite their protests.
• The chapter ends with Shinshiki declaring her final attack, placing Yu and the entire Jianzhou Country in immediate danger.

Shinshiki sacrificed Jianzhou Country’s humans to create billions of Mutant White Zetsu and trap Yu between staying to fight and risking the pollution spreading if he fled. Yu ultimately escaped with Xue and the shinobi, triggering the catastrophe, while Ōtsutsuki Ryushiki discovered what had happened and vowed to visit Uchiha Riu in Mitsuki Country.

• Shinshiki transformed Jianzhou Country’s humans into Mutant White Zetsu and warned Yu that leaving would spread the mind pollution source across Reed Plain Country.
• Shinshiki died after revealing that he had altered space to bring others to Jianzhou Country, and Yu fought the Mutant White Zetsu as they swarmed him.
• An infant-bodied Mutant White Zetsu bit Yu, bringing back memories of a child he had killed, but he destroyed it and continued fighting.
• Xue embraced Yu and offered to share his guilt, persuading him to return home with her and the shinobi through Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Yu’s escape caused the mind pollution source to spread from Jianzhou Country into Reed Plain Country.
• Three days later, Ōtsutsuki Ryushiki found Torashiki’s remains and Shinshiki’s heart-shaped gemstone, learned what had happened, and vowed to visit Uchiha Riu.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• After returning victorious from the war in Jianzhou Country, Yu sleeps peacefully for three days. Rin watches over him and comforts him when he awakens.
• The Ninja Kingdom celebrates the army’s return by restoring electricity. During the soldiers’ absence, citizens had voluntarily kept their homes dark as a sign of solidarity.
• Yu visits a hall containing the coffins of twelve fallen comrades: Kakuzu, Uchiha Shisui, Minato and Kushina Uzumaki, Might Guy, Mei Terumi, Gaara, Kitsuchi, Mifune, Monzaemon, Granny Chiyo, and Reto.
• Yu determines that Monzaemon can later be restored through Impure World Reincarnation, while Chiyo and Reto should remain in the Pure Land according to Chiyo’s wishes. The remaining nine can be revived through Yama’s limited resurrection ability, at a rate of three per year.
• Unsure whether to prioritize emotional bonds, military strength, or political stability, Yu summons the nine dead leaders as souls to consult them directly.
• Gaara argues that the strongest fighters should be revived first, but Yu insists that maintaining internal stability is equally important.
• The group agrees that capable successors should temporarily replace the deceased leaders.
• Gaara recommends his son, Sandfall Gaara, as the next Kazekage. Yu approves him as acting Fifth Kazekage.
• Mei Terumi recommends Minazuki Haku as the next Mizukage. Despite Yu’s concerns about Haku’s youth and inexperience, Mei persuades him by emphasizing Haku’s strength, bloodline, and symbolic importance to the Hidden Mist Village.
• Haku is appointed Sixth Mizukage of the Hidden Mist Ninja Vassal State.

Character Developments

• Yu shows both emotional vulnerability and political responsibility. He deeply mourns the dead, especially Minato, Kushina, and Kakuzu, but recognizes that his position requires him to prioritize the stability of the entire kingdom.
• Rin becomes a source of warmth and emotional support for Yu, caring for him after the war and helping him reconnect with peaceful life.
• Gaara demonstrates maturity and selflessness by putting national interests above personal concerns. He supports his son as a successor rather than insisting on his own immediate resurrection.
• Mei Terumi remains bold, flirtatious, and politically shrewd. She uses both persuasive reasoning and teasing references to Yu’s past behavior to secure Haku’s appointment.
• Kakuzu retains his practical, money-conscious personality even in death, immediately asking whether the light in his room was turned off.
• Monzaemon’s backstory highlights his dedication to puppet creation: he previously rejected resurrection so he could continue developing as a puppet master through his Impure World Reincarnation body.
• Haku is elevated from a powerful young ninja to a major political leader, symbolizing a possible new era for the Hidden Mist.

Significant Themes

• The value of peace: Yu’s appreciation of sunlight after the darkness of war reflects how conflict makes ordinary peace feel precious.
• Sacrifice and remembrance: The twelve coffins and Yu’s reflections emphasize the immense human cost of victory.
• Duty versus personal attachment: Yu must balance his desire to resurrect loved ones with the political needs of the Ninja Kingdom.
• Succession and continuity: The discussion of temporary leaders shows that stable institutions must survive even when their established leaders die.
• Generational change: Sandfall Gaara and Haku represent younger successors capable of carrying their nations into the future.
• Life, death, and resurrection: The chapter treats resurrection not as a simple miracle but as a limited resource requiring moral and political decisions.
• Unity among nations: The Ninja Kingdom and its vassal states are shown as interconnected, with leadership changes affecting the stability of the entire alliance.

Character Interactions

• Yu and Rin share a tender domestic moment after the war, contrasting sharply with the violence Yu has recently endured.
• Yu’s exchange with Kakuzu provides comic relief and reinforces their familiar relationship.
• Yu consults the summoned souls as equals, allowing the deceased leaders to influence decisions concerning their own successors.
• Gaara and Yu debate whether military strength or internal stability should take priority.
• Mei openly flirts with Yu while negotiating Haku’s appointment, using their complicated past to pressure him into agreeing.
• Yu also notes Haku’s close relationship with his daughter’s organization, showing that personal and political ties influence the succession decision.

Chapter Summary

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu consults the souls of Kitsuchi and Mifune about suitable successors for the leadership of Hidden Rock Village and the Samurai Kingdom.
• Kitsuchi admits that his son Akatsuchi is powerful but too honest and politically inexperienced to rule an entire nation. Yu offers to appoint another qualified Hidden Rock ninja, making Kitsuchi uneasy.
• Mifune cannot identify a successor, acknowledging that samurai have become increasingly outmatched by enemies from the heavens. Their lack of ninjutsu and fragile blades have caused many samurai to question whether bushido still has a place in the modern world.
• Yu reveals that Mifune’s teacher, Zatoichi, is willing to return from seclusion, lead the Samurai Kingdom, and train the next generation. Mifune is relieved but ashamed that the samurai must rely on his teacher. He resolves to continue refining his swordsmanship even after death.
• Yu seals away the souls of Mifune and the three Kage, postponing their resurrections.
• Minato and Kushina volunteer to delay their own revivals after revealing that they have reached a mysterious location different from the afterlife realm they previously entered. Their words suggest they may soon reunite with Yu.
• The three candidates ultimately selected for immediate revival are Uchiha Shisui, Might Guy, and Kakuzu. Yu revives them using the Naraka Path and the King of Hell.
• Kakuzu immediately intends to return to work and handle his unfinished accounts.
• Guy worries that returning too soon could interfere with Rock Lee’s development. Having recognized the limits of the Eighth Gate and Night Guy during his battle with Torashiki, he seeks a technique even stronger than Night Guy and plans to train in secret with Tian Dou.
• Shisui tells Yu that his current strength and lifespan may not allow him to use Ayakashi against stronger enemies. Yu gives him a rotten-looking “Inferior Chakra Fruit,” explaining that it came from a failed Divine Tree sapling in Myriad Grotto-Heaven and can be absorbed by anyone with even a slight blood connection to the Divine Tree’s lineage.

Character Developments

• Yu continues consolidating control over the revived and living forces, strategically deciding who should return and who should remain dead for now. He also takes responsibility for strengthening his allies.
• Kitsuchi recognizes that traditional strength and honesty are insufficient for modern political leadership, showing concern over Hidden Rock’s future.
• Mifune accepts that samurai tradition must adapt rather than cling to past glory. His humility and sense of duty deepen as he entrusts the samurai’s future to Zatoichi.
• Zatoichi is presented as a powerful former master returning to society after years of isolation.
• Minato and Kushina demonstrate selflessness by postponing their revival, while hinting that they have discovered an important new realm or location.
• Might Guy acknowledges his limitations and begins pursuing a dangerous new level of power beyond Night Guy.
• Shisui recognizes the gap between his current abilities and the coming enemies, setting up his acceptance of Yu’s unusual power-enhancing gift.
• Kakuzu remains focused on practical matters, immediately thinking about unfinished financial work after revival.

Significant Themes

• Tradition versus adaptation: The samurai must abandon dependence on former glory and find a way to evolve in response to unprecedented enemies.
• Leadership and political responsibility: Choosing a Kage requires more than combat power; judgment, diplomacy, and national governance are now essential.
• Sacrifice and duty: Minato, Kushina, Mifune, and Guy all place larger responsibilities above their own personal desires.
• Death, revival, and second chances: Resurrection allows characters to continue unfinished missions, but it also forces them to reconsider their purpose and limitations.
• The pursuit of greater power: Guy and Shisui both confront the inadequacy of their existing abilities, while Yu introduces a potentially dangerous source of Divine Tree power.
• Legacy and mentorship: Zatoichi’s return, Guy’s concern for Lee, and Shisui’s relationship with Yu emphasize the influence teachers and successors have on one another.

Important Character Interactions

• Yu and Kitsuchi discuss the future of Hidden Rock and the possibility of Yu selecting its next leader.
• Yu and Mifune confront the decline of samurai culture, leading to the revelation that Zatoichi will return and train the samurai.
• Mifune’s respect and concern for Zatoichi reveal the deep bond between master and disciple.
• Minato and Kushina entrust Naruto and Keduo to Yu before postponing their revivals.
• Yu encourages Guy to pursue a stronger technique, supporting his dangerous ambition.
• Shisui calls Yu “Master,” reinforcing their mentor-student relationship. Yu then entrusts him with the Inferior Chakra Fruit, ending the chapter on a major revelation about Divine Tree power.

Shisui ate the Chakra Fruit and evolved into a Six-Tomoe Rinnegan wielder, while Yu’s forehead eye began to awaken. Yu’s power suppressed other Rinnegan and Tenseigan across the world before his Rinne Tenseigan finally opened.

• Shisui ate the rotten Chakra Fruit and transformed, gaining a Six-Tomoe Rinnegan, Six Paths attire, and a Truth-Seeking Orb staff.
• Shisui regenerated a Three-Tomoe Sharingan in his empty left eye and told Yu he would keep his new right-eye power secret.
• Yu felt his forehead eye stir and headed toward Sky Feather Pavilion as Tongtong watched him in the rain.
• Mito’s Tenseigan, Hashirama’s Rinnegan, and the magatama in Madara’s, Naruto’s, and Sasuke’s eyes lost their power.
• Ubiji recognized Yu’s awakening as the rare Rinne Tenseigan, and Yu opened the new golden eyes at Sky Feather Pavilion.

Chapter Summary: Slaughtering Gods in the Netherworld, Calm as Ever

Key Plot Points and Events

• After the recent celestial phenomenon ends, Yu’s allies gather beneath Sky Feather Pavilion, anxiously waiting for him to emerge. Orochimaru, Tobi, Hashirama, Mito, Madara, Chiri, Naruto, Sasuke, and Xiaoxue all arrive.
• Orochimaru reveals that Yu has awakened a new ocular power: the Rinne Tenseigan. Xiaoxue confirms that Yu has opened these eyes but asks everyone to wait while he handles private matters.
• Inside the pavilion, Yu releases Jiraiya and Uzuki Yangyan from the seals that had contained them. Both had been controlled by Shinshiki through Kotoamatsukami.
• Using his newly awakened power and the merged Shikigami abilities of Tsukuyomi and Kotoamatsukami, Yu removes Shinshiki’s mind control. Jiraiya leaves discreetly, allowing Yu and Yangyan to reconcile privately.
• Yu discovers that Shinshiki secretly implanted Karma on Yangyan, meaning Shinshiki may still have a way to influence or use her in the future.
• Yu travels to the Amenominaka, Origin Sphere Space, where he finds Kaguya asleep in Tortoise-Breath Slumber. She had deliberately entered a deep sleep to prevent Shinshiki from controlling her with Kotoamatsukami.
• Yu removes the mind control affecting Kaguya but does not awaken her. He absorbs Hun Shi’s Ten-Tails into his space-time dimension and carries Kaguya away.
• Yu searches the desert and retrieves Shinshiki’s abandoned Mind Control Tower, though its condition and purpose remain uncertain.
• At Guanghan Palace on the moon, Yu orders Kaguya to be cared for and decides to imprison the defeated Ōtsutsuki women—Huashiki, Juanshiki, and Mengshiki—in the Ninja Kingdom rather than execute them, respecting Kaguya’s decision to spare them.
• Meanwhile, Madara grows impatient while waiting outside Sky Feather Pavilion. The chapter ends as the doors finally begin to open.

Character Developments

• Yu demonstrates complete control over his new Rinne Tenseigan abilities, freeing multiple people from Kotoamatsukami and managing the aftermath of Shinshiki’s defeat.
• Yangyan is freed from mind control but feels intense guilt over the harm she caused while controlled. Her relationship with Yu is restored, though the Karma implanted by Shinshiki creates a serious unresolved threat.
• Jiraiya is also liberated and quickly recognizes the intimate situation between Yu and Yangyan, leaving them alone.
• Kaguya shows improved strategic judgment. Rather than risk being controlled, she placed herself into a protective sleep, demonstrating growth since the Fifth Shinobi World War.
• Madara remains suspicious and resentful toward Orochimaru because of Chiri’s resurrection, while also becoming increasingly impatient with Yu’s absence.
• Tayuya is revealed to be two months pregnant with Kimimaro’s child, adding a domestic development amid the larger supernatural conflict.
• Yu adopts a measured approach toward the defeated Ōtsutsuki, choosing custody and later judgment instead of immediate execution.

Significant Themes

• Recovery from manipulation: Yu’s removal of Kotoamatsukami symbolizes the restoration of free will after Shinshiki’s psychological control.
• Hidden threats and incomplete victory: Yangyan’s Karma and the recovered Mind Control Tower suggest that Shinshiki’s influence may not be entirely gone.
• Trust and responsibility: Yu reassures Yangyan rather than punishing her for actions committed while controlled, emphasizing compassion and personal loyalty.
• Strategic growth: Kaguya’s self-imposed slumber reflects the importance of restraint and defensive intelligence over brute force.
• Power tempered by mercy: Despite his overwhelming strength, Yu chooses to preserve the lives of the defeated Ōtsutsuki and determine their fate later.
• Public authority versus private relationships: The chapter alternates between Yu’s responsibilities as ruler and his intimate reconciliation with Yangyan.

Character Interactions

• Orochimaru and Madara maintain visible tension, with Madara still blaming her for Chiri’s resurrection.
• Naruto and Sasuke arrive confused about Yu’s awakening, while Xiaoxue explains the significance of the Rinne Tenseigan.
• Yu comforts Yangyan, forgives her, and restores their emotional and romantic bond after freeing her from control.
• Yu treats Kaguya protectively, carrying her from the Origin Sphere Space and ordering her attendants to let her rest.
• Yu consults Kimimaro regarding the fate of the imprisoned Ōtsutsuki, establishing a respectful but authoritative relationship.
• Madara’s impatience builds as the others wait for Yu, setting up the likely confrontation or briefing when the doors open.

Yu awakened the Rinne Tenseigan and used its power to create a winter night as a birthday gift for Xue. He then gave the two Ten-Tails to Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara, who became Ten-Tails Jinchūriki.

• Yu revealed his Rinne Tenseigan, and those around him marveled at its power.
• Yu turned day into night and brought winter snow to the Ninja Kingdom for Xue's twenty-second birthday, and she embraced him.
• Kimimaro and Tayuya saw the celestial body shift from the moon and realized Yu had changed Earth's position.
• Yu separated the Divine Tree portions from two Ten-Tails and gave one to Hashirama Senju and one to Uchiha Madara.
• Hashirama Senju and Uchiha Madara absorbed the Ten-Tails and transformed into Six Paths Jinchūriki.

Chapter Summary: “Netherworld Slays Gods, Overwhelmed by Favor”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Tsunade recuperates at Ninja Kingdom Medical Hospital after losing her left eye. The wound has been treated, but she now bears the Ōtsutsuki “Karma” mark left by the deceased Cannon Princess, tying her permanently to the heavenly race.
• Her disciples, Shizune and Sakura, visit her. Shizune has mastered the Strength of a Hundred Seal and is expected to learn Silent Sage Art, while Sakura has surpassed Shizune medically and is set to become Tsunade’s successor. Sakura is also preparing to marry Hinata and become one of Yu’s wives.
• Yu arrives and gives Tsunade a Tenseigan obtained from a captive, allowing her to restore her missing eye. He also gives her the Ōtsutsuki Human Cannon, binding it to her chakra.
• Yu explains that conventional medical ninja are becoming less important because Seal-less Healing and powerful Ten-Tails Jinchūriki have reduced battlefield casualties. He wants Tsunade to transition toward combat.
• Tsunade agrees in principle but insists that Sakura must first be strengthened enough to replace her. Yu agrees to have Orochimaru enhance Sakura in the future.
• Tsunade accepts that, as someone who has defeated a god and bears Karma, she is no longer merely human. She takes possession of the Human Cannon and prepares to enter a new phase of her life.
• Meanwhile, at the Ninja Academy, the children hold a snowman-building contest. Little Tornado creates an enormous and absurdly inappropriate statue of the Root King, amusing some children and frustrating Iruka.
• Xiao Feng quietly builds a snowman with Little Bird while repeatedly using his left hand and hiding his clenched right hand. Ananda notices that Xiao Feng possesses a Karma mark resembling his own.
• Yu reveals that he gave Xiao Feng Torashiki’s Karma and hopes his son will use it to discover his own “Ninja Way.”
• Jiraiya returns from Mount Myoboku with grave news: the Great Toad Sage has issued a new prophecy.

Character Developments

• Tsunade: Moves from wounded medical leader toward a powerful combatant with a Tenseigan and the Human Cannon. Though initially concerned about abandoning medicine, she accepts the changing nature of warfare and her own transformation through Karma.
• Sakura: Has matured into Tsunade’s leading successor, surpassing Shizune in medical skill and gaining personal happiness through her upcoming marriage. Yu now plans to enhance her further.
• Shizune: Remains highly capable, having mastered the Strength of a Hundred Seal and pursuing Silent Sage Art, though she still trails Sakura professionally.
• Yu: Continues expanding the power and influence of his allies and family. He treats Tsunade’s transformation pragmatically and secretly entrusts Xiao Feng with dangerous Ōtsutsuki power.
• Xiao Feng: Begins showing signs of possessing and possibly struggling with Karma. His concealed behavior suggests he is not yet ready—or willing—to reveal the power.
• Ananda: Demonstrates perceptiveness by identifying Xiao Feng’s Karma and recognizing its similarity to his own.
• Little Tornado: Displays overwhelming creativity and power, but also childish mischief and a tendency toward inappropriate humor.
• Jiraiya: Returns as the bearer of ominous information from Mount Myoboku.

Significant Themes

• Humanity and transcendence: Tsunade’s Karma and new eye force her to confront the loss of her ordinary human status.
• The changing role of ninjas: As healing and superhuman abilities become widespread, traditional medical and combat roles are being redefined.
• Power passed between generations: Tsunade considers Sakura’s future, while Yu places Karma in Xiao Feng’s hands, emphasizing inheritance and succession.
• Fate versus personal choice: The Great Toad Sage’s prophecy and the Ōtsutsuki Karma suggest powerful external forces, yet Yu hopes Xiao Feng will still find his own path.
• Family and duty: Sakura’s marriage, Tsunade’s concern for her successor, and Yu’s expectations for Xiao Feng connect personal relationships with political and supernatural responsibilities.
• Humor amid danger: The children’s snowman contest, especially Little Tornado’s creation, contrasts with the serious developments involving Karma, divine power, and prophecy.

Important Character Interactions

• Tsunade and Shizune/Sakura: Their bedside conversation highlights the disciples’ loyalty and their differing levels of growth.
• Tsunade and Yu: Yu equips Tsunade with the Tenseigan and Human Cannon, while Tsunade challenges him to secure Sakura’s succession before she changes roles.
• Yu and Sakura’s future: Yu agrees to have Orochimaru enhance Sakura, acknowledging her importance as both a medical successor and a future member of the ruling household.
• Little Tornado, Little Flower, Xiao Yue, and Iruka: Their reactions to the snow statue reveal Tornado’s playful arrogance and the adults’ differing responses to her behavior.
• Xiao Feng and Little Bird: Their innocent cooperation contrasts with Xiao Feng’s secretive handling of Karma.
• Ananda and Xiao Feng: Ananda silently detects Xiao Feng’s hidden power, establishing potential tension or curiosity between them.
• Yu and Xiao Feng: Yu’s private expectations suggest that Xiao Feng’s Karma may play a major role in his future.
• Jiraiya and Yu: Jiraiya’s return introduces the chapter’s final mystery through the Great Toad Sage’s new prophecy.

Chapter Summary: “Netherworld Slays a God, the Truth Revealed!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu and Jiraiya visit the Great Toad Sage at Mount Myoboku to hear a new prophecy.
• The Great Toad Sage explains the concept of Soul Rings, spiritual records that measure the true number of years a person has lived. Yu possesses 137 Soul Rings, reflecting his seventeen years before transmigration, twenty years in the Shinobi World, and one hundred years spent inside Shinshiki’s Tsukuyomi.
• He reveals that ordinary mortals can live for a maximum of 300 years, regardless of body transfers, life-force absorption, or other methods of extending life. Other races possess higher limits:
  • Ancient Takamagahara’s major races: around 3,000 years
  • Powerful races: up to 5,000 years
  • The Three Sage Houses: up to 6,000 years
  • The Ōtsutsuki main family: up to 9,000 years
• Reincarnation through Karma does not reset Soul Rings. True immortality is possible only by consuming a Divine Tree Chakra Fruit, which removes the Soul Ring limitation.
• The Great Toad Sage then reveals a terrifying prophecy: in two years, Dragon Calamity will strike Mitsuki Country, bringing unprecedented destruction. A major figure—possibly Yu or someone close to him—will perish completely, with body and soul erased beyond any possibility of resurrection.
• Though this death cannot be prevented, it will create a small opportunity to alter Mitsuki Country’s otherwise doomed fate. The outcome will depend on Yu’s preparation.
• Yu returns to Feather Emperor City, summons the Council of Review, and informs its leaders of the prophecy.
• The council decides to keep the prophecy secret from the wider population to prevent panic. Yu announces his plan to use the power awakening in Double-Moon Space to cast Infinite Kotoamatsukami over all humanity, presumably to unite mankind against the coming catastrophe.

Character Developments

• Yu learns that his apparent youth does not change the true age recorded in his soul. The revelation forces him to reconsider his plans to spend centuries cultivating within the Tsukuyomi World.
• His reaction shifts from confidence to urgency: he realizes he has only a little over a century of usable lifespan remaining before reaching the mortal limit and becomes determined to grow stronger.
• The Great Toad Sage displays unusual seriousness, emphasizing that this prophecy differs from previous visions and that the predicted death will be absolute.
• Jiraiya acts as Yu’s intermediary and reminds the Sage of the important purpose of their visit.
• Mito, Hashirama, and Madara respond as responsible leaders, choosing secrecy, unity, and preparation rather than public disclosure.
• Yu adopts a more extreme strategy, preparing to control or mentally unite all humanity through Infinite Kotoamatsukami.

Significant Themes

• The limits of immortality: Physical youth, reincarnation, and stolen life force cannot defeat the natural limits imposed by Soul Rings.
• The price of time: Every year spent cultivating or surviving is permanently recorded in the soul, making time an unavoidable resource.
• Fate versus free will: The Great Toad Sage claims the catastrophe and death are ordained, yet suggests that the resulting opportunity may allow Yu to change the larger outcome.
• Preparation in the face of catastrophe: The chapter shifts from revelation to strategic planning as Yu and the council prepare for an apocalyptic threat.
• The danger of salvation through control: Yu’s proposed use of Infinite Kotoamatsukami raises the possibility that humanity’s survival may come at the cost of its freedom.

Character Interactions

• The Great Toad Sage humorously fails to recognize Yu and even momentarily forgets Jiraiya, creating a brief comic exchange before turning grave.
• Yu questions the Sage about Soul Rings, immortality, and whether the prophecy can be changed.
• Jiraiya prompts the Sage to deliver the prophecy.
• Afterward, Yu consults Mito, Hashirama, Madara, and the Council of Review. They agree that the prophecy must remain classified and that the world’s leaders must unite.
• Madara places responsibility on Yu, stating that aside from Kaguya, only Yu has the power to bring humanity together.
• Yu accepts the burden and reveals his plan to invoke Infinite Kotoamatsukami once the entity in Double-Moon Space awakens.

Chapter Summary: Netherworld Slays Gods, the Highest Good Is Like Water

Key Plot Points and Events

• The chapter opens at the Nadeshiko Residence, where Nadeshiko Saori prepares for work while Amamiya Shinki sleeps beside Haohao, an independent clone resembling Yu.
• Haohao’s origins are revealed. Years earlier, Saori used the powerful Six Desires in Disarray Technique to claim Yu’s exhausted clone while he was away on a Netherworld mission. When the clone reverted to wood, its experiences were transmitted to Yu’s true body.
• Rather than punish Saori, Yu separated the clone’s influence from himself and created Haohao through Yin-Yang Release, allowing Saori to keep him as a companion.
• Saori and Shinki have since maintained a secret three-person relationship with Haohao for more than five years. Saori reflects that the arrangement was not exactly what she originally wanted, but she does not regret it.
• Haohao is confined to the Nadeshiko Residence and is forbidden from leaving. He possesses a unique Wood Release technique, Evil Root Technique, which he uses to tease and sexually torment Saori. Although he promises to behave, his private smirk suggests otherwise.
• Saori leaves for the Feather Emperor’s office, maintaining her dignified public image as Yu’s chief secretary.
• At the office, Yu handles reports concerning anti-ninja insurgents. The Ninja Kingdom has become the dominant political and economic power after weakening the daimyo system, controlling currency, and overtaking the firearms industry.
• Anti-ninja groups continue attacking isolated ninjas, but Yu orders that no action be taken because the planned Infinite Kotoamatsukami will eventually eliminate internal opposition.
• Yu assigns Saori to organize grand inauguration ceremonies for the new Kage of three affiliated nations while he leaves on an unspecified mission.
• The chapter ends with Yu noticing that Saori is apparently pregnant and thinking that “the times have really changed.”

Character Developments

• Saori is shown as both politically capable and privately conflicted. She has accepted the unconventional relationship with Haohao and Shinki, while continuing to project dignity and authority in public. Her likely pregnancy marks a major change in her life.
• Haohao is established as an independent being with Yu’s appearance but a more playful, seductive, and mischievous personality. Despite his lack of freedom, he appears content with his secluded life and relationship with Saori and Shinki.
• Shinki is portrayed as Saori’s intimate companion and as someone fully integrated into the secret household arrangement. Her snake-like traits remain prominent.
• Yu is depicted as a pragmatic hegemon. He is willing to tolerate minor unrest while preparing a massive mind-control operation to unify the country and eliminate opposition.

Significant Themes

• Power and compromise: Saori’s original attempt to gain status through Yu’s clone results in an unconventional compromise rather than punishment.
• Private desire versus public order: Saori’s secret domestic life contrasts sharply with her respected, formal role as chief secretary.
• Freedom and happiness: Haohao has almost no physical freedom, yet the narration emphasizes that confinement does not necessarily prevent him from feeling fulfilled.
• Political consolidation: The Ninja Kingdom’s rise reflects the decline of traditional monarchies, the centralization of money and technology, and the creation of a ninja-led empire.
• The danger of enforced unity: Yu’s plan to use Infinite Kotoamatsukami suggests that the regime’s stability will come through control of thought rather than genuine social harmony.

Character Interactions

• Saori and Haohao share a flirtatious, intimate relationship, with Saori promising to reward him when she returns.
• Shinki playfully awakens Haohao with her snake tail, reinforcing the household’s unconventional intimacy.
• Saori treats Haohao affectionately but also attempts to control his behavior, especially his use of the Evil Root Technique.
• Yu and Saori interact formally in the workplace. He entrusts her with important political responsibilities, demonstrating his confidence in her competence.
• Yu’s prolonged look at Saori implies that he recognizes or suspects her pregnancy, though he does not confront her directly.