Chapter Summaries

Chapter Summary: “Millennial Calamity, Why Mourn Autumn?”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Tornado absorbs Uzuki Yangyan’s Chakra—including the Six Paths Chakra granted by the Divine-Grade Blessing Talisman—to obtain enough power for her transformation.
• Yangyan is touched that Tornado calls her “Mommy,” even though Tornado has never addressed her that way before. The absorption causes Yangyan’s fused form to separate back into Xiyang and Yugao.
• Tornado transforms into her true identity, Ōtsutsuki Sana, gaining a mature human form, a Pure Eye, and a Rinne Tenseigan.
• Sana reunites with Ryushiki, her former lover and current enemy, on the battlefield after roughly 1,700 years.
• Their initial reunion is playful and intimate, but the conversation soon turns serious when Ryushiki realizes that Uchiha Riu is Sana’s “father” in her current identity as Uchiha Tornado.
• Ryushiki learns that Riu did not send Sana to confront him or use her as a shield, suggesting that Riu genuinely prioritizes Sana’s safety over his own.
• Sana and Ryushiki discuss the child they conceived together. Sana secretly gave birth to him and placed him in foster care a thousand years earlier because he could not safely survive within the Ōtsutsuki clan.
• Although Ryushiki is grateful to have become a father, he ultimately refuses to abandon his mission. He intends to destroy Uchiha Riu and Mitsuki Country, believing Riu’s ambition threatens both the Ōtsutsuki clan and Sana.
• Sana rejects Ryushiki’s attempt to decide what is best for her and attacks him, summoning the enormous Susanoo: Shikigami Body.

Character Developments

• Tornado/Sana: Reclaims her Ōtsutsuki identity and full consciousness, becoming vastly more powerful. Her attachment to her human life, especially Riu’s role as her father, is clear and deeply emotional.
• Uzuki Yangyan: Sacrifices her Chakra to empower Tornado. Rather than resenting the absorption, she is delighted that Tornado calls her “Mommy.”
• Ryushiki: Reveals a softer, conflicted side beneath his vengeful mission. He still loves Sana, cares about their forgotten child, and recognizes Riu’s devotion to Sana, but believes destroying Riu is necessary to protect her and prevent catastrophe.
• Uchiha Riu: Does not appear directly, but his character is indirectly developed. His refusal to exploit Sana against Ryushiki suggests genuine parental love and self-sacrifice.
• Sana and Ryushiki’s child: Though absent, the revelation of his existence adds emotional weight to their relationship and shows that Sana’s past choices were motivated by protection rather than abandonment.

Significant Themes

• Love versus duty: Ryushiki must choose between his love for Sana and his mission to destroy Riu and Mitsuki Country.
• Family and identity: Sana’s relationships as both an Ōtsutsuki and Tornado force her to reconcile her ancient identity with her human family.
• Protection versus control: Ryushiki claims he wants to protect Sana, but his insistence on deciding her fate causes her to reject him.
• The consequences of ambition: Riu’s extraordinary rise in power is portrayed as potentially dangerous, threatening either the Ōtsutsuki clan, himself, or Sana.
• Reunion and unresolved history: The former lovers’ playful affection survives centuries of separation, but their opposing loyalties make conflict unavoidable.
• Parenthood and sacrifice: Sana’s secret protection of their child and Riu’s apparent willingness to risk himself for Sana demonstrate different forms of parental love.

Character Interactions

• Tornado’s unexpected “Mommy” prompts an emotional reaction from Yangyan before Tornado absorbs her Chakra.
• Sana and Ryushiki exchange teasing, flirtatious dialogue that briefly revives the intimacy of their ancient relationship.
• They discuss Sana’s life with Riu, their shared child, and the painful reasons they were separated.
• Ryushiki asks whether Sana would hate him for killing Riu; Sana answers that she would not hate him, but would permanently cut him out of her life.
• Their conversation becomes an emotional confrontation when Ryushiki declares that he will destroy Riu and Mitsuki Country. Sana, furious that he intends to destroy her happiness, accepts that they must fight.
• The chapter ends with Sana and Ryushiki shifting from reunited lovers to opposing combatants.

Chapter Summary: “Millennial Calamity, Turning the Tide!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Sana fully manifests her enormous Susanoo Shikigami, riding it to a colossal height above Earth. Ryushiki meets her there, preparing for their long-awaited confrontation.
• Ryushiki attacks with his Diamond Body and Dragon’s Claw, but Sana protects herself with the True Yata Mirror, which reflects his strike and sends him flying.
• Sana’s Susanoo creates numerous powerful split bodies that swarm Ryushiki, treating him like a ball. Ryushiki counters with Dragon Abyss Palm, summoning eight golden dragons that destroy the clones and merge into a single devastating attack.
• Sana uses the Pure Eye’s Divine Purification to erase the dragon attack, neutralizing Ryushiki’s clan Chakra.
• Ryushiki recalls their past separation, admitting that Sana once spared his life despite recognizing him as a future threat. He declares that her willingness to follow her heart is both her greatest weakness and the quality he loves most.
• Ryushiki merges with Yamato Takeru, and the two colossal constructs engage in a battle so destructive that the surrounding ninjas must retreat. Their clashes devastate the planet and destroy orbiting asteroids.
• Observers initially assume Shadow is controlling the Susanoo, but Sasuke realizes otherwise. Mito identifies the fighter as Ajuan/Sana, who has become an Ōtsutsuki and created the Susanoo herself. Madara enthusiastically supports her, while Hashirama recognizes her as the Sana mentioned by Ubiji.
• Sana escalates the fight by using the Cloud-Cluster Sword and then the Sun-Chasing Bow. Ryushiki recognizes the danger and merges into Yamato Takeru for protection.
• Ryushiki points out that Sana’s Susanoo consumes tremendous Chakra and eye power. Sana acknowledges that her reserves are nearly depleted and decides to use her remaining strength to accomplish something meaningful.
• Sana fires the Sun-Chasing Arrow as a distraction. While Yamato Takeru blocks it with a shield, Sana simultaneously attacks with a burning True Sword of Totsuka, revealing her intention to seal Ryushiki.

Character Developments

• Sana/Ajuan demonstrates overwhelming power, tactical creativity, and a willingness to risk her life. Although weakened by the Susanoo’s enormous energy consumption, she remains determined to make her appearance count.
• Ryushiki reveals both his immense strength and deep emotional attachment to Sana. He recognizes her combat habits, understands her limitations, and still calls her “Nana,” emphasizing their intimate history.
• Mito becomes emotionally shaken upon realizing that Sana is the one fighting Ryushiki, suggesting a strong personal connection.
• Sasuke displays sharp perception by correctly identifying that Shadow is not controlling the Susanoo.
• Madara reacts with pride and excitement, openly cheering for Sana as though she were representing the Uchiha Clan.
• Naruto remains amazed by the battle but misunderstands Sana’s identity and assumes Shadow—or possibly Madara—is behind the Susanoo.

Significant Themes

• Love versus duty: Ryushiki acknowledges that Sana’s tendency to follow her heart has caused suffering, yet he also considers it the most lovable part of her.
• Past choices and consequences: Sana’s earlier decision to spare Ryushiki allowed their present conflict to develop, fulfilling his warning that he would eventually become a major threat.
• Sacrifice and purpose: Sana’s dwindling Chakra makes the battle a race against time. She refuses to let her return be meaningless and chooses to spend her remaining strength on a decisive move.
• Power and strategy: The fight emphasizes not only raw strength but also deception, timing, defensive abilities, and coordinated attacks.
• Identity and recognition: The surrounding characters struggle to understand who is truly controlling the Susanoo, while Sana’s transformation into an Ōtsutsuki reveals the dramatic changes she has undergone.

Character Interactions

• Sana and Ryushiki exchange teasing, emotionally charged dialogue throughout the fight, combining their former familiarity with the hostility of enemies.
• Ryushiki openly confesses his love for Sana, while Sana’s attachment to him is presented as one of the reasons she once spared him.
• Mito and Hashirama discuss Sana’s identity and origins, while Madara loudly supports her and Naruto and Sasuke debate who is behind the Susanoo.
• Sana and Ryushiki’s final exchange becomes a battle of wills: Ryushiki relies on Yamato Takeru’s defensive advantages, while Sana uses misdirection to launch the Sword of Totsuka sealing attack.

Chapter Summary: “Millennial Calamity, Deja Vu!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Sana uses the True Sword of Totsuka through Susanoo to seal Yamato Takeru, Ryushiki’s enormous Shikigami. Yamato Takeru collapses into Chakra and is drawn into the sword’s gourd, severing Ryushiki’s control over it.
• The sealing exhausts Sana’s Chakra. She can no longer maintain Susanoo and begins falling, but not before using her Rinne Tenseigan to fire a purple beam at Riu, temporarily immobilizing him.
• Madara catches Sana after she reverts to her Little Tornado form. Ryushiki watches her disappear with conflicted emotions but does not interfere.
• As Ryushiki prepares to face the assembled ninja forces, Riu warns everyone that they will need to activate Izanagi to survive a direct confrontation.
• Ryushiki unexpectedly creates a Shadow Clone after sensing a distant presence. The clone leaves the battlefield to investigate, alarming Naruto and the others.
• In a distant desert, Ananda and Feng attempt to return to the battle. Ananda criticizes Feng for failing to develop his Sharingan and Wood Release, arguing that their father’s overprotectiveness has prevented them from growing stronger.
• Ryushiki’s Shadow Clone intercepts them. He effortlessly neutralizes Ananda’s Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan and paralyzes him through sheer oppressive presence.
• The clone identifies Feng as the vessel of A-Hu’s Karma and attempts to kill him with a Black Receiver. Ananda instinctively sacrifices himself to block the attack.
• Ananda’s apparent death triggers Feng’s intense emotional awakening. Feng unlocks the Mangekyo Sharingan, while the previously dormant Karma in his palm also activates.
• The chapter ends with Feng unleashing gray Chakra and manifesting Crow Tengu Susanoo.

Character Developments

• Sana: Successfully seals Yamato Takeru but exhausts herself completely. Her final act of attacking Riu demonstrates her determination to protect the others, while her farewell suggests uncertainty about whether the world will survive until she awakens.
• Ryushiki: Loses Yamato Takeru and displays a rare emotional conflict toward Sana, nearly touching her before stopping because of the Amaterasu flames on his body. He also shows growing curiosity about ninjutsu by creating and studying a Shadow Clone.
• Riu: Is temporarily incapacitated by Sana’s attack but quickly focuses on the larger danger, urging everyone to prepare Izanagi.
• Madara: Rushes to rescue Sana and successfully catches her, while remaining wary of Ryushiki.
• Ananda: Despite acknowledging his own limitations, he chooses to face danger rather than retreat. His instinctive decision to shield Feng reveals courage and a protective bond between them.
• Feng: Begins as an insecure and underdeveloped child but undergoes a dramatic transformation after witnessing Ananda’s sacrifice. His Mangekyo Sharingan and Karma awaken simultaneously, marking a major escalation in his power and importance.
• Mito, Naruto, and the other ninjas: React to the sealing of Yamato Takeru as a major victory but immediately prepare for Ryushiki’s continued threat.

Significant Themes

• Sacrifice and protection: Ananda gives his life to save Feng, echoing the broader pattern of characters risking themselves for their companions.
• Power awakened through trauma: Feng’s emotional shock unlocks both his Mangekyo Sharingan and Karma, suggesting that extreme suffering can trigger hidden potential.
• Limits of protection: Ananda criticizes their father’s habit of sending them away from battles, arguing that excessive protection prevents growth and independence.
• Sealing and loss of control: Ryushiki’s inability to reclaim Yamato Takeru parallels earlier forced extraction techniques, emphasizing the vulnerability of even powerful beings when their abilities are forcibly severed.
• Human curiosity and adaptation: Ryushiki’s interest in Shadow Clones shows him analyzing and adopting ninja techniques, making him an increasingly dangerous opponent.
• Unresolved emotional bonds: Ryushiki’s conflicted reaction to Sana hints at a complicated relationship beneath the hostility between them.

Important Character Interactions

• Sana and Ryushiki: Sana defeats Ryushiki’s Shikigami, while Ryushiki silently watches over her falling form and nearly touches her before restraining himself.
• Sana and Madara: Madara risks himself to catch Sana after her Chakra is depleted.
• Riu and Madara: Riu asks Madara to continue toward Sana even while Riu is paralyzed by her attack, prioritizing her rescue over his own condition.
• Ananda and Feng: Their argument about weakness and overprotection develops into mutual loyalty when Ananda sacrifices himself for Feng.
• Ryushiki’s Shadow Clone and Feng: The clone reveals knowledge of Feng’s Karma and his connection to Uchiha Riu, identifying Feng as a vessel with significant potential.
• The ninja forces and Ryushiki: The gathered fighters prepare for a desperate confrontation, relying on Izanagi because Ryushiki’s power makes ordinary combat nearly impossible.

Kaede and Ananda survived Ryushiki’s shadow clone’s attack with help from Jiraiya and Orochimaru, who revealed the danger of Kaede’s Karma. Jiraiya and Orochimaru launched a series of Six Paths techniques against the clone, but it counterattacked with All-Killing Ash Bones.

• Kaede awakened greater ocular power and used Susanoo to protect Ananda from Ryushiki’s Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru arrived and stopped the remaining storm, then Jiraiya removed the Black Receiver from Ananda and Orochimaru healed him.
• Orochimaru explained that Kaede’s Karma came from Torashiki, whose Karma her father had transferred to her after the battle in Jianzhou Country.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru used their Heaven-Grade Blessing Talismans and tried to restrain Ryushiki’s shadow clone with the Gate of the Great God, but it shattered the gates.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru attacked the clone with Six Paths techniques, but it escaped their assault and unleashed All-Killing Ash Bones across the battlefield.

Chapter Summary: “Millennial Calamity, Bishamonten!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ryushiki’s Shadow Clone unleashes All-Killing Ash Bones, covering the battlefield in deadly ash bones that destroy victims from within and render even Yin-Yang Release healing ineffective.
• Orochimaru is pierced but survives by shedding his body and emerging from a new one, treating the attack as valuable research material.
• Jiraiya protects himself inside a Truth-Seeking Orb barrier, while Feng and Ananda miraculously survive amid the bone field. Feng’s Mangekyō Sharingan technique, Bishamonten, is revealed to influence luck.
• Jiraiya rescues the two children with Amenotejikara, and the allies regroup to launch a coordinated assault.
• Jiraiya’s Six Crimson Yang Formation and Flower Tree World are destroyed by Ryushiki’s Almighty Push.
• Orochimaru summons the eight-headed Yamata no Orochi and attacks with chakra-heating beams. Ryushiki counters with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, severing the serpents, but they regenerate.
• Ryushiki uses Planetary Devastation to trap Yamata no Orochi in massive floating spheres.
• Feng activates Bishamonten, subtly turning events in the group’s favor. Great Toad Bunta attacks, followed by Jiraiya’s karmic flames, but Ryushiki absorbs the flames with the Preta Path.
• Ryushiki becomes distracted after accidentally stepping on a strangely fresh, golden pile of feces. This seemingly absurd event is revealed to be an effect of Feng’s luck manipulation.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru exploit the opening. Using Amenotejikara, Jiraiya swaps the positions of Ryushiki’s ash bone and Orochimaru’s kunai, causing Ryushiki to be pierced by his own deadly technique.
• Ryushiki’s Shadow Clone begins to disintegrate. He recognizes that Feng’s Bishamonten caused his misfortune and accepts that luck has influenced the battle.
• The allies’ Blessing Talismans shatter from exhaustion, ending their Six Paths enhancements. At the same time, the Planetary Devastations holding Yamata no Orochi begin collapsing.

Character Developments

• Orochimaru demonstrates his extreme survivability by replacing his destroyed body and remains fascinated by Ryushiki’s techniques, viewing the war as an unprecedented research opportunity.
• Jiraiya maintains a protective and strategic role, shielding the group, rescuing Feng and Ananda, and coordinating the final attack with Orochimaru.
• Feng gains importance as the hidden decisive factor. His Bishamonten does not guarantee victory, but alters probability in favor of those determined to survive.
• Ananda begins to understand Feng’s abilities and recognizes that their earlier survival was not merely coincidence.
• Ryushiki remains overwhelmingly powerful, but his confidence gives way to frustration and realization when seemingly random misfortune allows the heroes to defeat his Shadow Clone.

Significant Themes

• Luck versus strength: The chapter argues that luck is not separate from power; it becomes meaningful when supported by determination and the will to survive.
• Adaptation and survival: Orochimaru’s bodily regeneration and the group’s repeated counters show survival through flexibility, preparation, and improvisation.
• Teamwork against overwhelming power: No single fighter can defeat Ryushiki alone. The victory depends on Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Feng, and Ananda combining their abilities.
• Human ingenuity versus divine power: Ryushiki possesses godlike techniques, but ninja tactics, timing, and clever use of abilities overcome his advantage.
• Fate and coincidence: Events that appear accidental—including the children’s survival and Ryushiki stepping on the feces—are revealed to be influenced by Bishamonten.

Character Interactions

• Ananda questions Feng about Bishamonten, prompting Feng to explain its limits and connection to survival.
• Jiraiya uses Amenotejikara to save Feng and Ananda, reinforcing his protective relationship with the younger fighters.
• Jiraiya and Orochimaru coordinate a synchronized assault, combining Jiraiya’s teleportation with Orochimaru’s close-range attack.
• Ryushiki mocks and threatens the group but becomes increasingly irritated as their teamwork and Feng’s luck undermine him.
• Orochimaru declares that victory belongs to the ninja, directly challenging Ryushiki’s superior power and worldview.

Chapter Summary: “Millennial Calamity, Utterly Vicious”

Key Plot Points and Events

• After defeating one of Ryushiki’s Shadow Clones, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Xiao Feng, and Ananda remain near the battlefield. Feng wants to join the main fight, believing his newly awakened eyes and ocular powers can help.
• Jiraiya refuses, explaining that the younger generation must be preserved for the future. He knocks Feng and Ananda unconscious and orders Orochimaru to take them back to the Borderland.
• Orochimaru agrees, recognizing how much Jiraiya’s experiences with the Kara Organization have changed his personality. Jiraiya opens a spatial gate with his Rinnegan and sends them away.
• Before Jiraiya can return to battle, another Ōtsutsuki appears. The stranger has a Rinne Sharingan resembling Kaguya’s and reveals that he intends to take Jiraiya as an experimental subject. Jiraiya prepares to resist, but discovers that his Rinnegan can no longer open spatial gates.
• On the main battlefield, every strategy against Ryushiki has failed. The ninjas’ continued use of Izanagi allows them to survive temporarily, but Ryushiki remains completely unharmed.
• Madara has exhausted his ocular power after using hundreds of Divine Illuminations, while Hashirama warns that the group cannot continue sacrificing their strength indefinitely. Yu insists that they must keep weakening Ryushiki until the right opportunity appears.
• When Ryushiki attempts to use the Heaven-Sealing Chessboard, Yu employs Kamui to intercept and destroy the treasure chest, scattering Ryushiki’s powerful artifacts across the battlefield. The ninjas rush to claim them after White Zetsu encourages them.
• Ryushiki analyzes Nether Sage Art and concludes that all chakra types are fundamentally related. Using his Rinne Tenseigan, he artificially recreates Netherworld Force and manifests white Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Ryushiki declares that this new power will allow him to overcome the ninjas’ Izanagi strategy. He then releases a massive wave of All-Killing Ash Bones, killing large numbers of ninjas and turning them to ash.

Character Developments

• Jiraiya demonstrates a more mature and protective leadership style. Rather than allowing the younger fighters to participate, he prioritizes preserving them for the future and accepts the burden of facing danger alone.
• Orochimaru shows trust and cooperation with Jiraiya, willingly retreating with the children because his knowledge and technology are considered too valuable to risk.
• Xiao Feng and Ananda remain eager but inexperienced, emphasizing the gap between their generation and the older warriors currently fighting the calamity.
• Madara is pushed close to his limits by repeated use of his ocular techniques, revealing the immense cost of the battle.
• Hashirama becomes increasingly alarmed about the group’s dwindling resources, while Yu remains calm and confident that a decisive opportunity will eventually emerge.
• Yu briefly gains the upper hand by destroying Ryushiki’s treasure chest, but his advantage is overturned when Ryushiki adapts to Netherworld Force.
• Ryushiki evolves from a seemingly invincible opponent into an even greater threat by scientifically deciphering and reproducing the enemy’s unique power.

Significant Themes

• Generational responsibility: Jiraiya’s decision to protect Feng and Ananda reflects the duty of older generations to preserve hope and knowledge for the future.
• Sacrifice and survival: Izanagi keeps the ninjas alive, but its repeated use consumes irreplaceable power, forcing them to choose between immediate survival and long-term victory.
• Adaptation and escalation: Ryushiki repeatedly learns from the heroes’ techniques and turns their advantages against them, showing that brute force and repeated tactics cannot defeat him.
• Knowledge as power: Orochimaru’s knowledge is treated as a strategic asset, while Ryushiki’s understanding of chakra mechanics allows him to replicate Netherworld Force.
• The limits of strategy: Even carefully planned attacks fail when faced with an enemy who can analyze and counter every technique.
• An expanding cosmic threat: The appearance of another hidden Ōtsutsuki suggests that Ryushiki is not the only extraterrestrial danger involved in the conflict.

Character Interactions

• Jiraiya and Feng clash over whether the younger fighters should join the battle, with Jiraiya asserting authority and knocking both children unconscious.
• Jiraiya entrusts Orochimaru with Feng and Ananda, showing respect for Orochimaru’s knowledge while ordering him to remain away from the battlefield.
• An unknown Ōtsutsuki confronts Jiraiya and attempts to intimidate him into becoming an experimental subject, forcing Jiraiya into immediate self-defense.
• Hashirama questions Yu’s plan, but Yu reassures him that their continued resistance is part of a larger strategy.
• Yu directly counters Ryushiki’s attempt to retrieve the Heaven-Sealing Chessboard, turning the battlefield into a scramble for the scattered artifacts.
• Ryushiki responds to Yu and the ninjas’ tactics by analyzing their powers, then annihilating the assembled forces with All-Killing Ash Bones.

Chapter Summary: Millennial Calamity, Broken Halberds and Sinking Sands

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ryushiki unleashes Dragon Snipe Kill, killing Mito with a beam through the forehead after she uses the Tenseigan to neutralize his All-Killing Ash Bones.
• Yu and Hashirama attempt to defend the remaining ninjas. Yu destroys one wave of ash bones with a Shock Release punch, while Hashirama creates a giant golden lotus through Sage Art Wood Release. Both defenses are overwhelmed.
• Kaguya transforms into Rabbit Form and activates the Expanding Truth-Seeking Orb, absorbing the incoming ash bones and enclosing the survivors inside a vast hemispherical space.
• Naruto and Sasuke analyze the interior of Kaguya’s technique, realizing that the orb expands by increasing its thickness and contains a vulnerable core.
• Yumetolu reverses time and revives Mito, but the attack has already killed more than half the ninjas, leaving only about fifty survivors.
• Yu notices that Wan Sheng is missing and realizes she remains outside with Ryushiki.
• Ryushiki prepares to destroy the Truth-Seeking Orb by targeting its core, but Wan Sheng appears and challenges him through a final musical performance.
• Wan Sheng plays and sings “Dispelling Sorrow” on the Heavenly Marsh Zither, moving Ryushiki and revealing her acceptance of death and emotional attachment to the land and people she has chosen as her home.
• Ryushiki honors her performance but attacks. Wan Sheng counters with sound waves, though her zither strings snap one by one and she is eventually overwhelmed and badly wounded.
• Ryushiki activates Infinite Sage Art, summoning and enlarging the Ten-Tails while absorbing the natural energy of Mitsuki Country. This drains the survivors’ Six Paths Mode.
• He shatters the upper half of the Expanding Truth-Seeking Orb and unleashes an enormous rain of All-Killing Ash Bones.
• A hundred thousand White Zetsu combine into a living fortress to shield the trapped survivors, but the chapter ends with their defenses being consumed in an immense slaughter.

Character Developments

• Mito is briefly killed by Ryushiki but revived by Yumetolu, emphasizing both Ryushiki’s overwhelming power and the extreme cost of the battle.
• Yu displays courage and leadership by attacking the ash bones and protecting the survivors, but his grief and anxiety deepen when he realizes Wan Sheng is still outside.
• Hashirama contributes his strongest defensive Wood Release technique, though even it cannot withstand the ash bones.
• Naruto and Sasuke remain analytical under pressure, studying the structure and weaknesses of Kaguya’s technique rather than reacting blindly.
• Wan Sheng undergoes the chapter’s most significant emotional development. She abandons her usual indifference, accepts the possibility of death, and chooses to defend her adopted homeland through music.
• Ryushiki is shown to possess an unusual appreciation for art and music. He respects Wan Sheng’s talent and grants her time to perform, but ultimately remains ruthless and committed to annihilating his enemies.
• Kaguya continues to demonstrate the destructive potential of her ultimate technique, while Ryushiki proves capable of overpowering even it.

Significant Themes

• The cost of war: The ninja forces suffer catastrophic casualties, with only a small fraction surviving the initial assault.
• Sacrifice and chosen homeland: Wan Sheng’s final song frames home as something chosen through belonging and memory rather than birthplace.
• Art amid destruction: Music becomes a final expression of identity, sorrow, and dignity in the middle of an apocalyptic battle.
• Overwhelming power versus resistance: The survivors repeatedly create defenses, but each is eventually broken, highlighting the vast gap between Ryushiki and the combined forces opposing him.
• Death, revival, and impermanence: Mito’s resurrection contrasts with the apparently irreversible losses of countless ninjas and the impending destruction of the country.
• Hope under despair: Even as the battle becomes nearly hopeless, Yu, Wan Sheng, Kaguya, and the White Zetsu continue attempting to protect others.

Character Interactions

• Mito, Hashirama, and Yu fight together to protect the ninja forces, with Yu and Hashirama reacting emotionally to Mito’s apparent death.
• Naruto and Sasuke cooperate in examining the Expanding Truth-Seeking Orb and identifying its structure.
• Yu and Mito share a familial bond, with Mito apologizing to him after being revived and Yu deeply distressed by her death.
• Wan Sheng and Ryushiki engage in a rare respectful exchange. He recognizes her mastery of the Heavenly Marsh Zither, while she asks him to listen to her final song.
• Their musical confrontation becomes both a literal battle and an ideological one: Wan Sheng defends her chosen home through art, while Ryushiki answers with overwhelming force.
• The White Zetsu collectively sacrifice themselves to shield the survivors, transforming their bodies into a final protective barrier against Ryushiki’s attack.

Yu tried to persuade Ryushiki to pursue harmony between humans and the Heavenly People, but Ryushiki rejected the proposal after demanding that Yu hand over Amado. As Ryushiki resumed his attack, the masters of the Three Sage Houses arrived and joined forces.

• Yu reversed the rain of All-Killing Ash Bones with Heaven-Earth Unity just before his Phasing Mode expired.
• Yushiki revived Wan Sheng with his Tenseigan and persuaded her to return to the Borderland instead of rushing back to the battlefield.
• Yu confessed his past actions to Ryushiki and explained his vision of humans and the Heavenly People living as equals through Karma.
• Ryushiki accused Yu of trying to alter his Karma and demanded Amado, but Yu refused to betray his comrade.
• Ryushiki ended their conversation and prepared to attack, but Toad, White Snake, and Katsuyu arrived and formed the Three Talents Boundless Tribulation Formation.

Ryushiki shattered the sages’ formation and defeated them, leaving Yu alone against him. Just as Ryushiki prepared to kill Yu, Amaterasu wounded him, and Yu revealed that his ocular technique had made Ryushiki vulnerable.

• The three sages trapped Ryushiki in the Three Talents Boundless Tribulation Formation, but he endured its tribulation light and broke it with Dragon Abyss Palm.
• The sages attacked Ryushiki with shock waves, venom, and acid, triggering a massive volcanic eruption that devastated the planet.
• Ryushiki emerged from the magma, sent the three sages into space, and trapped them in enormous Planetary Devastation spheres.
• Ryushiki confronted Yu, who accepted his apparent impending death and called him the strongest human in history.
• Amaterasu burned Ryushiki’s shoulder, and Yu revealed that his Rinne Tenseigan technique, Zengpo Jiali, had made Ryushiki vulnerable.

Chapter Summary: “Millennial Calamity, Reversal of the Situation”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu reveals the true nature of Zengpo Jiali, his supreme ocular technique, which manipulates entropy—the tendency of ordered systems to deteriorate into disorder.
• Ryushiki’s Tenth-Layer Diamond Body represents an exceptionally ordered and powerful physical state. Yu’s technique has been gradually increasing its entropy, weakening the body and reducing Ryushiki’s power.
• Yu explains that the ninjas’ earlier attacks were not futile. They were deliberately weakening Ryushiki and helping push his Diamond Body below the tenth level, where Zengpo Jiali could affect him more effectively.
• Yu reveals that he placed Zengpo Jiali on Ryushiki from their very first encounter, meaning the entire battle has been part of a long-term strategy.
• With Ryushiki weakened, Yu uses Kamui to distort and twist his head toward the Space-Time Dimension. Although the technique still cannot completely sever Ryushiki’s head, it seriously damages his neck and exposes his spine.
• Yu announces that Ryushiki’s current battered appearance is his true condition after the protective halo has been removed.
• The other ninjas return through the Space-Time Dimension and witness Ryushiki’s weakened state.
• Yu charges forward using the Gate of Shock and begins the final counteroffensive with his Shock Release Fist, marking the beginning of the battle’s reversal.

Character Developments

• Yu is revealed to be patient, strategic, and willing to endure a prolonged battle to achieve victory. His confidence grows as his entropy-based plan succeeds, though he remains impressed and somewhat alarmed by Ryushiki’s resilience.
• Ryushiki suffers a major decline. His supposedly invincible tenth-level Diamond Body is no longer intact, and even his extraordinary durability is beginning to fail. Nevertheless, he remains terrifyingly strong, as Yu cannot immediately remove or destroy his head despite weakening him.
• The allied ninjas gain renewed hope and purpose after realizing that their previous attacks contributed to Ryushiki’s downfall. Their return signals a shift from desperate resistance to coordinated retaliation.

Significant Themes

• Order versus disorder: The chapter uses entropy as both a scientific concept and a combat mechanism. Ryushiki’s strength comes from imposing order on his body, while Yu defeats him by returning that order to chaos.
• Persistence and preparation: The battle’s earlier attacks seemed ineffective, but they were essential steps in Yu’s larger plan. Victory comes through sustained effort rather than a single overwhelming strike.
• The reversal of power: Ryushiki, previously appearing nearly invincible, is finally shown in a vulnerable state. The chapter marks the transition from the heroes’ survival struggle to an active counterattack.
• Limits of invincibility: Even the tenth-level Diamond Body can be undermined when its underlying structure is disrupted, though Ryushiki’s remaining durability emphasizes how formidable he still is.

Character Interactions

• Yu directly confronts and explains his strategy to Ryushiki, emphasizing that their entire encounter has been leading toward this moment.
• Yu’s use of Kamui physically damages Ryushiki, demonstrating the changing balance between them.
• Yu addresses the returning ninjas, urging them to recognize Ryushiki’s true weakened condition and inspiring them to rejoin the battle.
• The chapter ends with Yu taking the initiative, setting the stage for a united assault against Ryushiki.

Chapter Summary

1. Key Plot Points and Events

• The chapter is an extended, escalating assault on Ryushiki, who is repeatedly attacked by nearly every major fighter on the battlefield.
• Madara opens with a devastating combination of lightning-enhanced weapon strikes, Five-Element cannons, and Limbo Susanoo blades.
• Hashirama sacrifices twenty manifestations of True Thousand Hands to empower a crimson-gold Susanoo, which restrains Ryushiki with Wood Dragons and bombards him with thousands of Buddha-powered punches.
• Mito transforms the Ten-Tails into a Phoenix and attacks Ryushiki in outer space with Phoenix Nirvana and Lightflame Tailed Beast Bombs, obliterating the magma sea and creating a massive abyss.
• Kushina drags Ryushiki from the abyss with Adamantine Sealing Chains and batters him with a Truth-Seeking Orb frying pan. Minato follows with a teleportation-based Wind-Fire Tailed Beast Bomb Rasenshuriken assault.
• Hiruzen launches Ryushiki through the moon with the Adamantine Ruyi Staff, allowing Kaguya to strike him with Eighty Divine Void Strikes before sending him back to Earth.
• Sasuke uses a visual technique to exchange his damaged eye state with Ryushiki’s, causing Ryushiki’s left eye to explode while restoring Sasuke’s eye. Naruto then attacks with nine Tailed Beast-powered Rasenshuriken.
• Numerous fighters continue the coordinated assault: samurai slash Ryushiki, Wind and Lightning users strike his wounds, Mini-Tailed-Beast Jinchūriki attempt to dismember him, and Mei and Kakashi combine lava, acidic mist, and Purple Lightning.
• Gaara, his father, Haku, Deidara, Shinki, Saori, Konan, Kisame, and Sasori successively trap, freeze, bombard, bury, drown, and shred Ryushiki.
• Kakuzu attacks Ryushiki’s internal organs with black threads while Hidan uses a blood curse. Kakuzu stops Hidan from sacrificing himself, but Choji’s impact tears Ryushiki’s damaged tissues apart.
• Shino’s insects consume Ryushiki from within. Sakura, Anko, and Youmeng combine their sage arts, while Tenten uses Ryushiki’s own sacred weapons against him.
• Sai’s ink beast swallows Ryushiki, and Kimimaro’s Ash Bones further injure him. Hinata destroys the ink construct with a Silver Wheel-based Gentle Fist attack.
• Neji, initially mistaken for Momoshiki, unleashes the Eight Trigrams One Thousand and Twenty-Four Palms, striking Ryushiki repeatedly and sending him flying.
• Jiri’s ultimate technique, Death Butterfly Imprint, creates a crimson “Butterfly Guy” empowered by space-time energy. Using Sukunahikona to bypass the technique’s range limitation, Jiri enables the avatar to strike Ryushiki twice across the planet.
• The final blow severs Ryushiki’s head, apparently killing him.
• When Yu attempts to extract Ryushiki’s Karma, the headless body inexplicably rises, walks through Yu, retrieves its head, and reattaches it.
• Sakura hesitates when ordered to destroy Ryushiki’s right eye. Although she finally attacks, Ryushiki opens the eye and mentally incapacitates her before the kunai can land.
• Ryushiki regenerates his head, sheds the Ash Bones, heals his wounds, and declares that destroying the eye would not have changed the outcome. He then rises into the sky, apparently still alive and undefeated.

2. Character Developments

• Madara asserts his identity and pride, angrily insisting that Ryushiki remember his name.
• Hashirama demonstrates desperation and ingenuity by sacrificing his True Thousand Hands to create a stronger Susanoo form.
• Mito displays overwhelming mastery over both Tenseigan and Ten-Tails power, becoming one of the chapter’s most destructive attackers.
• Kushina and Minato fight in complementary styles: Kushina relies on raw force and sealing chains, while Minato uses precision teleportation and rapidly chained attacks.
• Sasuke acts tactically, identifying Ryushiki’s eye as a potential weakness and protecting Sakura after Ryushiki counters her.
• Sakura struggles with fear and hesitation when confronted by Ryushiki’s terrifying resilience, though she ultimately attempts to carry out Sasuke’s order.
• Kakuzu shows unexpected concern for Hidan, stopping him from killing himself even while continuing to attack Ryushiki ruthlessly.
• Tenten proves her skill with ninja tools but overextends herself, rapidly exhausting her Six Paths Chakra.
• Sai reveals personal anger over Ino’s suffering, motivating his attack against Ryushiki.
• Neji returns in a dramatic, heroic fashion and reclaims his identity after being mistaken for Momoshiki.
• Jiri unveils a new, carefully engineered technique, using Sukunahikona creatively to solve its weakness and deliver the apparent finishing blow.
• Ryushiki shifts from silent endurance to openly dismissive confidence. His regeneration and survival reveal that the battlefield’s combined attacks have not truly defeated him.

3. Significant Themes

• Overwhelming teamwork versus an impossible enemy: The entire battlefield unites, layering attacks from different fighters and disciplines, yet Ryushiki survives everything.
• Escalation and spectacle: Each attack surpasses the previous one in scale, moving from individual strikes to planetary, spatial, and dimensional destruction.
• Ingenuity under pressure: Many fighters adapt their abilities creatively, such as Hashirama’s Chakra sacrifice, Sasuke’s eye exchange, Minato’s teleportation pattern, and Jiri’s use of Sukunahikona.
• Pride and identity: Madara’s declaration of his name and Neji’s insistence on his true identity emphasize the importance of self-definition amid overwhelming conflict.
• Sacrifice and restraint: Hidan is willing to die to injure Ryushiki, but Kakuzu prevents him from going too far, showing a rare moment of concern between the normally antagonistic pair.
• The limits of apparent victory: Ryushiki’s decapitation seems conclusive, but his resurrection overturns the battlefield’s assumption that brute force can end the fight.
• Fear versus resolve: Sakura’s hesitation contrasts with the relentless courage of the other fighters, while Ryushiki’s remaining eye becomes a symbol of his terrifying, still-unbroken will.

4. Character Interactions

• Madara confronts Ryushiki directly and verbally reasserts his identity.
• Hashirama and Mito coordinate large-scale attacks, with Hashirama setting up Ryushiki’s launch and Mito following with a space-based Phoenix assault.
• Kushina and Minato each take turns attacking Ryushiki, creating a generational Uzumaki-Namikaze offensive.
• Hiruzen’s attack sets up Kaguya’s dimensional intervention, forming a coordinated pincer assault.
• Sasuke rescues Sakura after Ryushiki’s eye technique incapacitates her and directs her toward Ryushiki’s suspected weakness.
• Naruto uses Flying Raijin to remove Sasuke from the blast created by the combined Tailed Beast Rasenshuriken.
• Kakuzu restrains Hidan from making a suicidal final strike, then continues attacking Ryushiki through his internal organs.
• Sai’s attack is fueled by his grief and anger over Ino, while Kimimaro and Hinata immediately follow up against the ink construct and Ryushiki.
• Ryushiki mocks Neji by confusing him with Momoshiki, prompting Neji to assert his identity before unleashing his signature barrage.
• Jiri and the Death Butterfly Guy operate as a combined unit, with Jiri overcoming the technique’s limitation so the avatar can land the decisive blow.
• Yu’s attempt to claim Ryushiki’s Karma triggers the final twist, exposing that Ryushiki’s apparent death was only temporary.

Ryushiki transformed into a giant Eastern Dragon and erased Earth and the surrounding asteroids with his Dragon’s Roar, killing Yu and the others. Afterward, Tongtong opened a gate from the Netherworld, and Ubiji appeared and activated World Time Reversal.

• Ryushiki sealed Kaguya, then transformed into an Eastern Dragon through his Ōtsutsuki clan’s Second-Stage Transformation.
• Yu and the others rose to face Ryushiki, who unleashed Dragon’s Roar and annihilated Earth, the surrounding asteroids, and everyone caught in the torrent.
• Ryushiki reverted to his smaller form and reflected on his injuries, the cost of transforming, and his plans to consume a Chakra Fruit to recover.
• Tongtong appeared before Ryushiki and opened a gate between the Netherworld and the living world.
• Ubiji emerged through the gate and activated Yumotolu: World Time Reversal.

Chapter Summary: Millennial Calamity, Clashing Convictions

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ubiji uses the secret power of Yumotolu’s Shikigami to reverse time on a massive scale, restoring the destroyed Earth and resurrecting Yu and the others killed by Ryushiki.
• Yu realizes that Ubiji’s power comes from his awakened Shikigami and learns that Ubiji has secretly possessed this ability since ancient times.
• Ubiji explains that Yama reconstructed his body in the Netherworld, allowing him to return temporarily to the living world. However, if he dies there, his soul will be erased permanently.
• He warns Yu that the time-reversal technique cannot be used again. If Yu and his allies lose a second time, they will truly die.
• Yu reveals that he has gained a new power and asks the others to cooperate in a strategy against Ryushiki.
• Ubiji confronts Ryushiki and urges him to abandon the conflict, explaining that he had hoped Ryushiki and Yu—both Children of Prophecy—would eventually acknowledge one another through battle.
• Ryushiki refuses to stop. He believes the fruit cultivated by the Earth’s people is essential to his survival and argues that taking it would still fulfill the prophecy of “heaven and earth becoming one.”
• Ubiji withdraws rather than fight his former student, leaving Yu and Ryushiki to settle the conflict.
• Yu rises to face Ryushiki, setting the stage for the decisive battle between their opposing convictions.

Character Developments

• Ubiji: Revealed as the secret bearer of Yumotolu’s Shikigami and as someone connected to the Netherworld’s power. Despite his immense abilities, he is limited by the risk of permanent soul destruction. His compassion and impartiality are tested when he chooses to support Yu while still sympathizing with Ryushiki.
• Yu: Gains renewed determination after being resurrected and appears to have acquired a new power. He accepts the danger of a final battle and takes responsibility for coordinating his allies.
• Ryushiki: Shows deep emotional vulnerability beneath his calm and philosophical demeanor. Although he understands Ubiji’s reasons for favoring Yu, he feels painfully abandoned. His conviction hardens, and he decides to fight for survival rather than yield.
• Naruto and the others: Their resurrection reinforces the scale of Ubiji’s intervention and gives them another chance to oppose Ryushiki.

Significant Themes

• Conviction versus compromise: Both Yu and Ryushiki possess unshakable beliefs, making peaceful resolution nearly impossible.
• Abandonment and loyalty: Ryushiki’s pain comes not from misunderstanding Ubiji, but from understanding that his teacher has chosen someone else.
• Prophecy and self-interest: Ryushiki challenges the objectivity of prophecy, arguing that people interpret it according to their own desires and political interests.
• Life, death, and sacrifice: Ubiji’s return carries an ultimate cost, while the resurrected characters are warned that they have only one final chance.
• Teacher and student bonds: Ubiji’s relationship with Ryushiki remains affectionate despite their opposition, but their differing ideals ultimately force them into conflict.

Important Character Interactions

• Yu and Ubiji: Yu expresses gratitude and urges his teacher not to risk himself further. Ubiji warns Yu about the limits of his resurrection technique, while Yu assures him that they will not repeat their previous defeat.
• Ubiji and Ryushiki: Their reunion becomes an emotional confrontation. Ubiji asks Ryushiki to stop, but Ryushiki interprets this as being abandoned in favor of Yu. Though he still reveres Ubiji, Ryushiki refuses to obey him.
• Yu and Ryushiki: Their ideological conflict moves toward its final physical confrontation, with each prepared to fight for the future he believes is right.

Chapter Summary: “Millennial Calamity, As If Aided by the Gods”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Ryushiki and Yu continue their battle in the starry sky. Although Ryushiki’s Diamond Body has been weakened to ninety percent, he remains extremely fast and begins avoiding Yu’s ocular techniques rather than relying solely on defense.
• Yu reveals that he can use Limbo, creating eight invisible shadows that possess abilities and chakra similar to his own. The shadows surround Ryushiki and launch Limbo: Six Paths: Beastly Calamity, combining Shadow Susanoo, Shadow Ten-Tails, Tailed Beast Bombs, and the Ten Directions Kamui Sword.
• Yu uses Amenotejikara Realm to forcibly teleport Ryushiki into the center of the combined attack. However, Ryushiki survives through his newly activated ocular technique, Fudouni Fate, escaping an otherwise unavoidable annihilation.
• Ryushiki reveals that Fudouni Fate involves a shikigami he sealed for a thousand years because a former friend died due to its power. Yu attempts to undermine Ryushiki’s relationship with the shikigami, but Ryushiki dismisses his manipulation as “Talk Release.”
• Ryushiki attacks aggressively with Sokyu Gate: Reverse, automatically deploying All-Killing Ash Bones along Yu’s escape routes. Yu uses Limbo: Mutual Instant Exchange and Phasing Mode to evade, but Ryushiki counters by striking Yu’s true body with Dragon Abyss Palm.
• Yu survives through Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto, whose golden health bar repeatedly empties and restores itself. Ryushiki realizes that Yu has somehow retained and integrated the shikigami’s power rather than using it only once.
• The chapter then reveals that Yu’s transformation was enabled by Kamui’s Assimilation Mode. Seven powerful figures are sealed in cocoons to contribute their chakra, abilities, ocular powers, and shikigami: Hashirama, Madara, Mito, Kushina, Minato, Naruto, Sasuke, and Kimimaro.
• Yu declares that Ryushiki is no longer fighting him alone but the combined foundation of Mitsuki Country. He summons a gigantic, six-headed, twelve-armed, sixty-tailed golden chakra monster, setting up the next stage of the confrontation.

Character Developments

• Yu demonstrates a dramatic increase in power after dying and reviving. He now possesses Limbo, Amenotejikara, Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto, and the combined strength of seven elite ninja figures.
• Yu also becomes more analytical during combat, quickly identifying how Limbo works and using coordinated feints, teleportation, and spatial manipulation to trap Ryushiki.
• Ryushiki loses the invulnerability provided by his weakened Diamond Body but compensates with exceptional speed, evasive movement, and the activation of Fudouni Fate.
• Ryushiki’s use of Fudouni Fate suggests a troubled history involving betrayal, loss, and distrust of the shikigami connected to the technique.
• Kamui is shown to be directly supporting Yu’s evolution, strategically selecting the seven strongest candidates for assimilation.

Significant Themes

• Power through combination versus individual supremacy: Yu’s strength comes from the fusion of multiple legendary warriors, while Ryushiki relies on the unique upper limit of Fudouni Fate.
• Transformation through death and rebirth: Yu’s resurrection has fundamentally altered his abilities and made him more than his former self.
• Trust, betrayal, and loyalty: Ryushiki’s sealing of the shikigami reflects his belief that it betrayed or caused the death of someone close to him, while Yu views the shikigami as the true victim.
• Adaptation in battle: Both fighters rapidly analyze and counter each other’s techniques, shifting from defense to evasion, teleportation, and overwhelming attacks.
• The limits of fate and power: The climax frames the battle as a test between Yu’s collective, assimilated strength and the maximum potential of Ryushiki’s Fudouni Fate.

Character Interactions

• Yu repeatedly provokes Ryushiki psychologically, especially by criticizing his treatment of the sealed shikigami. Ryushiki recognizes this as Yu’s usual verbal manipulation but remains outwardly unmoved.
• Ryushiki questions the source of Yu’s new powers, realizing that Yu has absorbed abilities that originally belonged to other beings.
• Their exchange becomes ideological as well as physical: Ryushiki represents the dangerous power of a singular, fate-based ocular technique, while Yu presents himself as the embodiment of Mitsuki Country’s combined strength.
• Kamui’s detached assessment of the assimilation process contrasts with Yu’s dramatic declaration, emphasizing that his final form is the product of careful preparation rather than simple individual growth.

Yu and Ryushiki fought as Yu’s Ten-Tails Composite Beast unleashed dense Kamui attacks, but Ryushiki used Fudouni Fate’s Quantum Transfer to evade and repeatedly deplete Yu’s protection. After striking a bargain with Fudouni Fate, Ryushiki broke through the barrage and shattered Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto; Yu answered his final attack with Kamui Substitution Technique.

• Yu transformed six Ten-Tails into a composite beast and bombarded Ryushiki with Kamui-infused rays, but Ryushiki evaded them using Quantum Transfer.
• Ryushiki repeatedly struck Yu’s head, draining Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto’s health bar, while Toka urged Yu not to give up.
• After an hour of fighting, Ryushiki promised Fudouni Fate a thousand years of control over his body in exchange for maximum output.
• Ryushiki accelerated through the close-range barrage, used Yomotsu Hirasaka to reach Yu, and broke Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto with a rapid series of punches.
• Ryushiki prepared to strike Yu as his protection expired, but Yu activated Kamui Substitution Technique.

Chapter Summary: “Millennial Calamity, Soul-Stirring”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu uses Kamui Substitution Technique to evade Ryushiki’s attack and tear off Ryushiki’s left arm, sending it—and the corresponding portion of his soul—into the Space-Time Dimension. Because the soul is removed, Ryushiki cannot regenerate the limb.
• Ryushiki replaces the missing arm with a mechanized Asura Path limb, while his companion, Fudouni Fate, confirms that his damaged eye technique, Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto, is no longer usable.
• Yu launches a coordinated assault using:

Kamui: Heavenly Demon Chaos

• Ten-Tails Chakra beams

Izanagi Shikigami Mode

Kamui: All-Killing Ash Bones

• Ryushiki avoids all attacks rather than retaliating, hoping Yu will deactivate Izanagi and expose himself to a lethal counterattack. Yu recognizes the trap and refuses to lower his defenses.
• The battle becomes a prolonged war of attrition lasting seven days and seven nights. Ryushiki expects Yu’s Chakra and ocular power to run out first, but he overlooks the continuing effect of Zengpo Jiali, which keeps burning him with Amaterasu.
• The flames gradually weaken Ryushiki’s Diamond Body from the eighth level toward the seventh. Yu reveals that once it reaches the seventh level, Ryushiki will die within three days, even if he wins the battle.
• Ryushiki counters by planning to take Yu’s left eye after defeating him and use it to extinguish the Amaterasu flames and restore his missing eye.
• When Yu revives Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto, Ryushiki chooses not to attack recklessly. Acknowledging Yu’s strength and endurance, he instead gathers enormous Chakra from Kaguya and three other sealed beings.
• Ryushiki forms a massive Ten-Tails construct and creates thirty-six Truth-Seeking Orbs, compressing them into an immense weapon called the Great Taishihō Truth-Seeking Tear.
• The attack is more than three times stronger than its previous version and is launched directly at Yu.
• Yu uses Sukunahikona to shrink the weapon, then uses the last of his Kamui power to store it in the Space-Time Dimension. With Flying Raijin, he teleports behind Ryushiki’s Ten-Tails and releases the enlarged weapon into its back.
• The chapter ends with the Truth-Seeking Tear detonating in a massive explosion that appears to annihilate everything.

Character Development

• Yu demonstrates tactical patience, endurance, and growing mastery of his abilities. Rather than being baited into abandoning Izanagi, he carefully preserves his invulnerability while using Amaterasu and long-range attacks to weaken Ryushiki.
• Yu’s final strategy shows his willingness to expend the last of his Kamui power for a decisive counterattack. He combines multiple techniques—Sukunahikona, Kamui, Flying Raijin, and Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto—in a highly calculated maneuver.
• Ryushiki suffers major physical and strategic setbacks: he loses an eye, loses an arm and part of his soul, and has his Diamond Body weakened by Amaterasu.
• Despite his arrogance, Ryushiki comes to respect Yu’s tenacity and recognizes him as a genuine threat. He shifts from direct combat to a more cautious, calculated approach.
• Ryushiki’s reliance on Chakra reserves and defensive endurance becomes a weakness because he fails to account for the long-term damage caused by Zengpo Jiali.

Significant Themes

• Attrition versus endurance: The battle is determined not only by explosive attacks but by the cumulative effects of prolonged combat.
• Strategy and counterstrategy: Both fighters attempt to manipulate the other into making a fatal mistake, creating a battle of patience and psychological calculation.
• The hidden cost of invincibility: Yu’s Izanagi grants near-perfect protection but consumes immense Chakra and ocular power, forcing him to balance defense with limited resources.
• Overconfidence and overlooked variables: Ryushiki’s calculations are nearly flawless, but his failure to account for Amaterasu’s continuous weakening of his body undermines his entire plan.
• Respect between rivals: Ryushiki’s acknowledgment of Yu’s strength marks a shift from contempt to recognition between the two combatants.
• Soul and bodily damage: The severing of Ryushiki’s arm is especially significant because the loss includes part of his soul, making it impossible to repair through ordinary regeneration.

Character Interactions

• Yu taunts Ryushiki after severing his arm, emphasizing his ruined eye and limb.
• Fudouni Fate reassures Ryushiki that the loss of his arm was unavoidable, and Ryushiki responds without blame.
• Yu and Ryushiki mentally analyze each other’s tactics throughout the battle, each recognizing the other’s attempts at deception.
• Ryushiki openly acknowledges Yu’s tenacity and chooses a more cautious strategy instead of immediately engaging him at close range.
• Their final exchange is both verbal and tactical: Ryushiki challenges Yu with the Great Taishihō Truth-Seeking Tear, while Yu turns Ryushiki’s own attack against him in a devastating surprise counterattack.

Chapter Summary: “Millennial Calamity, Battle Still Rages”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The battle between Yu and Ryushiki continues after their devastating explosion in outer space. Ryushiki survives by activating his Great Truth-Seeking Armor, while Yu’s Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto is destroyed once again. Its destruction grants Yu several seconds of invincibility, but the protection soon ends.
• Ryushiki attempts to finish Yu with a concentrated Ten-Tails chakra cannon. Yu uses Uka-no-Mitama to remove the attack’s control, causing the beam to disappear and reappear above Ryushiki, where it creates a massive abyss.
• Underground, Yu attacks with Moga Betsurai, a series of indigo lightning pillars, but Ryushiki easily avoids them through Fudouni Fate, his seemingly absolute evasion ability.
• Yu enhances his body with Truth-Seeking power through Dōko Agaru: Full Power, allowing him to withstand Ryushiki’s All-Killing Ash Bone Slash. He counters with Dao Bone Revolving Heaven, surrounding the area with deadly black ash bones, but Fudouni Fate lets Ryushiki evade every strike.
• Ryushiki attacks with Dragon Abyss Palm, manifesting a gigantic golden dragon. Yu blocks it using his strongest taijutsu form, though his right arm is badly injured. Both fighters recognize that Ryushiki retains the overall advantage and more stamina.
• Yu challenges Ryushiki to a wager: if Yu cannot defeat Fudouni Fate, Ryushiki may execute him; if Yu succeeds, Ryushiki must call him “Father-in-Law.” Ryushiki accepts, confident that victory is inevitable.
• Yu summons Takemikazuchi-no-Mikoto and unleashes Kirin Rain, forcing Ryushiki to repeatedly teleport away. Yu suddenly begins following Ryushiki perfectly, eventually striking him in the face and proving that Fudouni Fate has been countered.
• Ryushiki reluctantly honors the wager and calls Yu “Father-in-Law.” Yu then explains his method: he used Other-Transforming Bodhi to strengthen causal connections, established quantum entanglement through three previous physical contacts, and linked Ryushiki’s evasive movements to his Flying Raijin Technique.
• The chapter ends with Yu revealing that the strange world Ryushiki once visited in his dreams truly exists—and that Yu himself came from that dimension.

Character Developments

• Yu demonstrates remarkable resilience and tactical creativity despite depleted Chakra, serious injuries, and the repeated destruction of his defensive forms. Rather than overpowering Ryushiki, he studies the mechanics of Fudouni Fate and develops a precise countermeasure.
• Ryushiki remains overwhelmingly powerful and confident, relying on his abundant Chakra, durable Diamond Body, and Fudouni Fate. However, his confidence is shaken when Yu defeats the ability he considered untouchable. He also shows reluctant respect for Yu’s intelligence and admits they might have been kindred spirits under different circumstances.
• Yu and Ryushiki’s relationship gains a humorous but tense familial dimension through the wager, with Yu forcing Ryushiki to acknowledge him as his father-in-law.
• Yu’s final revelation radically changes the context of Ryushiki’s dreams and suggests that their conflict may be connected to a larger dimensional history.

Significant Themes

• Strategy versus overwhelming power: Yu cannot win through strength alone, so he relies on analysis, preparation, and exploiting the underlying rules of Ryushiki’s technique.
• Science and supernatural power: The chapter blends advanced concepts such as quantum teleportation, quantum entanglement, causality, and fundamental forces with ocular techniques, Chakra, and divine transformations.
• Fate and determinism: Ryushiki’s Fudouni Fate represents absolute predestined evasion, while Yu’s counterattack suggests that even fate can be disrupted by changing the connections governing it.
• Respect amid conflict: Although Yu and Ryushiki remain committed to killing each other, they recognize one another’s intelligence and potential kinship.
• Dimensional truth and hidden origins: Yu’s claim that he comes from Ryushiki’s dream world introduces a major mystery concerning alternate dimensions, shared history, and the true nature of reality.

Character Interactions

• Yu repeatedly challenges Ryushiki verbally, using confidence and calculated provocation to undermine his opponent’s certainty.
• Ryushiki dismisses Yu’s attacks as futile but becomes increasingly surprised by Yu’s defensive strength and tactical breakthroughs.
• Their wager creates a moment of comedic humiliation for Ryushiki while reinforcing the personal and familial connection between him, Yu, and Nana.
• After discovering how Fudouni Fate was defeated, Ryushiki expresses admiration and regret that he and Yu did not meet under different circumstances.
• The final exchange shifts from combat to revelation, as Yu claims knowledge of Ryushiki’s dream world and identifies himself as someone from it.

Yu told Ryushiki that their world was a fictional setting and urged him to seek a way to cross into the three-dimensional world, but Ryushiki rejected the claim and demanded an end to the battle. Yu unleashed the dangerous power of quark confinement release, and both fighters prepared to enter the final stage of their fight.

• Yu revealed to Ryushiki that Naruto's world had been created from Masashi Kishimoto's writing and suggested they could someday break through the fourth wall.
• Ryushiki dismissed Yu's claims as an attempt to shake his resolve and insisted they finish the battle.
• Yu activated Rinne Tenseigan Chakra Mode and began releasing his chakra's primal power by undoing quark confinement.
• Ryushiki's Dragon Snipe Kill failed to penetrate Yu's growing mass of colored light, and he recognized the danger of the process.
• Yu completed Quark Confinement Release, transforming his chakra into an unstable three-colored cloak powerful enough to warp space and time.
• Ryushiki admitted Yu had made him unleash all his power, and both fighters charged into the battle's final stage.

Chapter Summary: “Millennial Calamity, Turning the Tide”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu releases Chakra from its confined particle state back into its primordial quark form, unlocking three enhanced powers:
  • Red: berserk physical strength comparable to the Eight Inner Gates’ Gate of Death.
  • Green: extreme healing and regeneration, rivaling or surpassing the Ōtsutsuki.
  • Blue: highly advanced Dao Law and spell-casting abilities.
• This transformation gives Yu overwhelming taijutsu, regeneration, and casting power, but the unstable form risks destroying him if maintained too long.
• Ryushiki activates his single-eye Rinne Tenseigan Chakra Mode, which is naturally three times stronger than Yu’s comparable Chakra Mode. He uses compressed Amaterasu within his Chakra cloak.
• Ryushiki analyzes Yu’s strategy and realizes that Yu uses spells to trigger Fudouni Fate’s evasion effect, then teleports to Ryushiki’s position to attack him physically.
• Yu demonstrates overwhelming close-combat superiority:
  • He destroys Ryushiki’s mechanical arm with one punch.
  • He knocks Ryushiki away with successive punches and kicks.
  • He survives an All-Killing Ash Bone attack and rapidly heals from the wound.
• Ryushiki destroys the Takemikazuchi Shikigami and its Kirin Rain technique with Dark-Controlling Void, preventing Yu from repeatedly exploiting the lightning attack as a distraction.
• Ryushiki creates numerous Tenseigan and fires golden beams at Yu. Yu evades by using Limbo: Mutual Instant Exchange.
• Yu then reveals an even more advanced ability: Psychic Casting, allowing him to manifest techniques instantly at chosen locations without preparation or visible guidance. He uses this to create a fireball behind Ryushiki and force another close-range attack.
• Yu casts over a hundred ninjutsu simultaneously to trigger Ryushiki’s evasion ability, but Ryushiki counters with Dragon Abyss Palm, dispersing all the techniques and driving Yu backward.
• As Yu’s unstable tricolored Chakra cloak begins to fail, he decides to end the battle quickly. He concentrates red Chakra into a blood-red Shock Release halo and launches Shock Release: Dimensional Quake, claiming it surpasses Dragon Abyss Palm.

Character Developments

• Yu reaches a new level of power by mastering primordial Chakra. He gains extraordinary strength, healing, and instantaneous spell-casting, making him capable of suppressing Ryushiki in taijutsu.
• Yu also reveals mastery of Psychic Casting, a technique beyond the Ōtsutsuki clan’s Effortless Casting. However, his transformation is difficult to control and threatens to collapse if the battle continues.
• Ryushiki proves himself highly adaptive and tactically intelligent. He quickly identifies the mechanics behind Yu’s teleportation and attempts to counter them by avoiding unnecessary use of Fudouni Fate.
• Despite his superior Chakra Mode and powerful techniques, Ryushiki is visibly shocked by Yu’s strength and regeneration. He is forced to abandon his initial strategy and rely on large-scale attacks such as Dragon Abyss Palm.

Significant Themes

• Power versus stability: Yu’s primordial Chakra grants nearly unparalleled abilities, but its instability illustrates the danger of using power beyond one’s ability to control it.
• Adaptation in battle: Both fighters constantly analyze and counter one another, turning the fight into a contest of strategy as much as strength.
• Evolution beyond established limits: Yu’s quark-state Chakra and Psychic Casting surpass the traditional abilities of the Ōtsutsuki and later ninja generations.
• The unity of opposing forces: The red, green, and blue Chakra powers represent strength, healing, and technique; together, they create Yu’s godlike but volatile state.

Character Interactions

• Ryushiki openly challenges Yu to demonstrate the quality of his newly enhanced taijutsu, only to be physically overwhelmed.
• Yu repeatedly exploits Ryushiki’s Fudouni Fate, using spells and instantaneous movement to appear beside him and deliver devastating strikes.
• Ryushiki counters with tactical deception, defensive maneuvers, All-Killing Ash Bones, Tenseigan beams, and Dragon Abyss Palm.
• Their exchange gradually shifts from Ryushiki testing Yu’s power to Ryushiki trying to survive and neutralize Yu’s unpredictable abilities.
• The chapter ends with Yu taking the initiative once more, preparing a decisive Dimensional Quake to overpower Ryushiki’s strongest palm technique.

Chapter Summary: “Millennial Calamity, a Flash Before Death!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Yu unleashes Shock Release: Dimensional Quake against Ryushiki. The attack collapses space-time, generates universe-spanning shockwaves, and devastates Mitsuki Country.
• Ryushiki’s Fudouni Fate fails to activate because Dimensional Quake leaves no space for evasion. The resulting vibrations cause the planet’s crust to split, magma to erupt, and the world to approach total destruction.
• Ubiji attempts to preserve Mitsuki Country by using the earth-controlling Shikigami Kaeshine-no-Mikoto to stabilize the planet’s core. However, he admits he cannot prevent the destruction of the nearby moon.
• As the quake escalates to the level of Divine Planetary Devastation, Kaguya uses the Divine Tree’s remaining substance to replenish her chakra and activates Amenominaka, transporting herself and the three Great Sages into Origin Sphere Space.
• Even Kaguya’s alternate dimension is affected by the vibrations, demonstrating the extraordinary range of Dimensional Quake.
• The shockwaves also disturb distant regions, including the Netherworld and Takamagahara. Tongtong reacts ominously in the Netherworld, while Masato and Kibutsuji recognize that the disturbance may indicate Ryushiki is in serious danger.
• Once the attack ends, Mitsuki Country has become a sea of magma. Ryushiki survives, though his Rinne Tenseigan Chakra Mode is exhausted and Fudouni Fate can no longer be used.
• Ryushiki reveals that he is willing to expend his remaining Soul Rings and die soon afterward if it means killing Yu. He abandons his interest in the fruit and focuses entirely on revenge.
• Ryushiki transforms into his Second-Stage Human-Dragon Form, regaining the full power of his Diamond Body while becoming faster and more agile. His explosive strength surpasses even his previous level.
• Yu and Ryushiki launch another direct clash: Dimensional Quake against True: Dragon Abyss Palm.

Character Developments

• Yu demonstrates overwhelming destructive power but recognizes that defeating Ryushiki may require sacrificing Mitsuki Country and relying on Ubiji to limit the collateral damage. He becomes increasingly anxious upon realizing Ryushiki still possesses hidden strength.
• Ryushiki loses access to his defensive Fate ability but remains composed. His determination becomes suicidal: he is prepared to die immediately after killing Yu rather than allow Yu’s fruit to mature.
• Ubiji acts as a protector and strategist, using his ocular power to stabilize the planet and preserve its core. His support allows Yu to fight without completely abandoning Mitsuki Country.
• Kaguya shows concern for the three Great Sages and uses the Divine Tree to restore her chakra before evacuating them. She also realizes that Yu’s attack transcends ordinary dimensional boundaries.
• Masato displays pride in his own Eight Inner Gates abilities and declares that he—not Ryushiki—is the one destined to kill him. Kibutsuji provides a more cautious assessment, recognizing the unprecedented scale of the disaster.

Significant Themes

• Destructive power and its consequences: Yu’s attack is powerful enough to threaten an entire planet and affect multiple realms, emphasizing that victory may come at the cost of catastrophic destruction.
• Sacrifice and desperation: Both Yu and Ryushiki are willing to risk everything. Yu endangers Mitsuki Country to defeat his enemy, while Ryushiki accepts his own imminent death for revenge.
• Limits of ultimate abilities: Fudouni Fate can negate fatal damage, but it requires immense chakra and cannot withstand endless, unavoidable destruction.
• Protection amid catastrophe: Ubiji and Kaguya attempt to preserve others and the world while Yu and Ryushiki focus on their personal battle.
• Pride and rivalry: Ryushiki’s confidence, Masato’s ambition, and Yu’s determination all reflect the characters’ refusal to yield, even when the battle reaches apocalyptic proportions.

Important Character Interactions

• Yu and Ryushiki: Their confrontation becomes increasingly personal, with Ryushiki mockingly calling Yu his “father-in-law” while revealing his final transformation and intent to die alongside him.
• Yu and Ubiji: Yu relies on Ubiji to protect Mitsuki Country while he concentrates on defeating Ryushiki.
• Ubiji and Kaguya: Ubiji urges Kaguya to save the three Great Sages, prompting her evacuation into Origin Sphere Space.
• Masato and Kibutsuji: They discuss the unprecedented vibrations and compare them with Chuanlong’s earlier Eight Gates feat. Masato’s confidence contrasts with Kibutsuji’s concern over Ryushiki’s absence.
• Kaguya and the Great Sages: Kaguya prioritizes their survival and uses Amenominaka to remove them from the collapsing battlefield.