Chapter Summaries

Yu returned to the battlefield in a Dao Body and fought Root King, who unleashed a technique that restored and amplified his heavenly path to its limit. Their clash ended with Root King preparing to destroy the battlefield and every parallel spacetime, while Yu and Kamui moved to stop him.

• Yu shattered Root King's Heavenly Sogume, sealed his power with a Byakugan pressure-point strike, and blasted him backward with a one-inch punch.
• Yu explained that he had become a Dao Body, able to use all of his heavenly path power, while Root King revealed his plan to settle the Primordial Heaven Technique and later steal Yu's and Basara's heavenly paths.
• Root King activated Ōsuro Wakaki-no-Mikoto, restoring his heavenly path to its limit and breaking the Heaven Gate limiter, then caught Kamui: Lightning Cutter and fought Yu evenly.
• Root King declared that he would destroy the battlefield spacetime and every parallel spacetime with World-Destroying: Almighty Push.
• Yu clasped his palms together, and Kamui attempted to stop Root King with Yumotolu: Omniversal Time Stop.

Chapter Summary: “Ragnarok, Dust Settled”

Key Plot Points and Events

• Riu’s Almighty Push destroys the battlefield’s chaotic space-time boundary and threatens to annihilate the entire dimension.
• To prevent immediate destruction, Riu activates Yumotolu, a Beyond-the-Domain technique that freezes all matter and movement at the instant before annihilation. Root King remains unaffected.
• Root King unleashes his Diamond Body at seventeen-tenths power, forcing Riu to rely on the absorbed Shikigami and Bishamonten-no-Mikoto, which reflects damage through Root King’s health bar.
• Root King realizes that Riu has absorbed the beings trapped in his space-time dimension and is using their Shikigami. He then launches Tensuhado Comet of Deification, rapidly draining Riu’s Taketamayorihime-no-Mikoto health bar.
• Following Kamui’s strategy, Riu uses Divine Purification Push to clear the attack, combines the Heaven Sword with a golden cube from Kamui’s dimension, and forms the Divine Measure Heaven Sword.
• Riu uses Ghost Yank and Flying Raijin to bring Root King into range, then floods him with hundreds of millions of duplicated Deification attacks through Yomotsu Hirasaka.
• Root King counters with Amanosakahoko, transferring the attack into Riu. Although Riu survives by using Divine Purification and his Shikigami’s health bar, the bar eventually shatters.
• As Root King attempts to kill Riu directly, Riu activates Heavenly Shinobi Exemption, rendering Root King’s attack completely ineffective.
• Riu explains that this ability consumes almost no Heavenly Path Power, allowing him to remain invulnerable until Root King’s Deva Path amplification naturally expires. Root King recognizes that he has lost.

Character Developments

• Riu demonstrates greater strategic maturity and resource management. Rather than relying solely on overwhelming force, he combines defensive abilities, deception, teleportation, and a carefully preserved “backup plan.”
• His use of Heavenly Shinobi Exemption reveals that he has identified Root King as an ally, allowing him to exploit the ability’s full defensive potential.
• Riu also shows concern for the future, admitting that his backup plan will erase Root King’s Deva Path while preserving the possibility of rebuilding stronger powers later.
• Root King displays overwhelming strength and desperation, exhausting his Deva Path amplification in an all-out offensive. Despite recognizing that victory is impossible, he remains calm and accepts defeat with dignity.
• Rather than dying or allowing his accumulated power to be destroyed, Root King reveals an escape route into High-Dimensional Space-Time. He sacrifices everything tied to the two-dimensional world in exchange for reincarnation in the three-dimensional world.
• Root King ultimately accepts that he has lost this world, while maintaining hope that he may become victorious in other worlds.

Significant Themes

• Victory versus survival: Riu wins the battle, but Root King avoids true death by abandoning his current existence and beginning again elsewhere.
• The limits of power: Even Root King’s immense strength and Deva Path amplification cannot overcome a perfectly sustained defensive technique.
• Sacrifice and reinvention: Root King gives up his identity, powers, and place in the two-dimensional world to preserve the possibility of a new beginning.
• Freedom and consequence: Riu obtains the freedom he sought, but must now deal with the destruction and disorder left behind by the battle.
• Unpredictability and fate: The conclusion defies the expected final-battle structure. Root King’s defeat becomes an escape rather than a death, leaving the outcome both decisive and unresolved.
• Acceptance of failure: Root King treats his defeat as the final answer for the world of his birth, showing resignation rather than bitterness.

Character Interactions

• Kamui acts as Riu’s tactical adviser, warning him to survive until Root King’s amplification ends and proposing the use of the Divine Measure Sword.
• Riu and Kamui coordinate their abilities precisely, combining Kamui’s dimensional control with Riu’s purification, teleportation, and Shikigami techniques.
• Root King recognizes and analyzes Riu’s methods throughout the fight, correctly identifying the source of Riu’s expanded abilities and attempting to overwhelm his defenses.
• Riu and Root King exchange increasingly philosophical dialogue near the battle’s conclusion. Riu believes he has secured a complete victory, while Root King reveals that he has planned an escape beyond the current dimensional system.
• Root King grants Riu the freedom he wanted before departing, while Riu is left victorious but troubled by the unexpected outcome and the enormous destruction surrounding him.

Ending

Root King’s body collapses, and his soul departs through the Rinne Reincarnation Eye to be reincarnated in the three-dimensional world. His Deva Path amplification ends, leaving only a fraction of its former power. Time resumes, and the resulting explosion destroys the void—except for Riu’s Godfolk. Riu remains alive, victorious, and free, but is left to clean up the aftermath of the battle and contemplate Root King’s unconventional escape.

Chapter Summary — “Years Peaceful, World Secure!”

Key Plot Points and Events

• The war of the gods ends with the destruction of the parallel spacetime. Takamagahara, the Reed Plain Country, and the Netherworld merge into one unified world.
• Yu creates a temporary divine kingdom inside a golden crystal sphere to shelter the surviving Godfolk, since Kamui’s exhaustion has severed his connection to his Shikigami.
• Kamui deliberately refuses to help Yu, believing Yu has relied too heavily on borrowed power and must learn to stand alone. A flashback reveals Takamimusubi-no-Kami’s original plan: a Supreme God must eventually arise to prevent the Deva Path from being consumed by “loss.”
• Kamui realizes that Root King was never the true candidate for Supreme God. Root King possessed great aptitude but lacked universal love, abandoning the world for the sake of his own clan.
• Yu spends 1,500 years developing the Supreme Yoga Esoteric Vehicle, a divine art that strengthens the individual rather than merely expanding the Deva Path. Although he eventually surpasses Root King’s peak power, he discovers that power alone cannot produce true transcendence.
• Yu concludes that he must abandon his existing achievements. He appoints Naruto as the new Human Progenitor God, allowing Naruto to inherit Yu’s position.
• Ryushiki is restored to physical form and promoted to Heavenly Progenitor God. Yu promises to revive the fallen Ōtsutsuki once Ryushiki reaches Heaven’s Only God. Ryushiki accepts, eventually becoming Tornado’s secondary husband alongside Keduo.
• After relinquishing his attachments, Yu continues meditating beneath the Bala Tree. In the tenth millennium of the Ninja Kingdom calendar, he finally sees through all illusions and ascends beyond the Only Realm.
• Yu meets Takamimusubi-no-Kami, the will of the Naruto World and the force behind Yu’s transmigration. Takamimusubi confirms that Yu was the long-awaited candidate for Supreme God.
• Takamimusubi prepares to leave for Yu’s original world, where he will become a dandelion and live without attachments. Yu intends to visit his former home but not interfere with its affairs.
• Yu briefly visits his old friend Obito in the ordinary world. Obito has abandoned his former obsessions, married Ma Shulin, raised a family, and embraced a difficult but meaningful life.
• Seeing Obito happy and fulfilled, Yu returns peacefully to his own world, bringing the story to its conclusion.

Character Developments

• Yu evolves from a powerful figure dependent on Shikigami and accumulated strength into an independent Supreme God. His ultimate breakthrough comes from surrendering power, status, and emotional attachments rather than gaining more strength.
• Kamui shifts from an active guide to a distant mentor. He intentionally withdraws to force Yu’s growth and finally recognizes Yu as the true successor to Takamimusubi’s hopes.
• Takamimusubi-no-Kami is revealed as the cosmic will behind the world and Yu’s transmigration. Having fulfilled his duty, he prepares to relinquish his existence and pass responsibility to Yu.
• Naruto inherits Yu’s role as Human Progenitor God, fulfilling his destiny as the story’s “protagonist.”
• Ryushiki gains freedom, regains his physical form, and accepts divine responsibility in exchange for the revival of his people. His relationship with Tornado and Keduo becomes an unconventional but happy family arrangement.
• Obito achieves peace in an ordinary human life. He has overcome his former resentment and ambition, becoming a loving husband and father who works hard to support his family.
• Root King is retrospectively judged as powerful but spiritually incomplete. His inability to love all living beings prevents him from becoming Supreme God.

Significant Themes

• True transcendence requires letting go. Yu cannot advance through strength alone; he must abandon the “boat” of his existing power and achievements.
• Love and wisdom define supreme divinity. The Supreme God must embrace all beings, not merely protect one’s own clan or interests.
• Power is not the same as worthiness. Root King’s immense power cannot compensate for his limited compassion.
• The cycle of inheritance and responsibility. Takamimusubi passes the world’s future to Kamui, Kamui guides Yu, and Yu entrusts divine authority to Naruto and Ryushiki.
• Peace after conflict is meaningful only through ordinary life. The ending emphasizes family, work, friendship, and personal happiness rather than grand divine battles.
• Acceptance of impermanence and loss. The story resolves the problem of “loss” not by endless accumulation, but by creating a being capable of preserving the world through wisdom and universal love.

Important Character Interactions

• Kamui and Yumotolu: Kamui explains why he has withdrawn from Yu, emphasizing that Yu must mature independently.
• Takamimusubi and young Kamui: Their flashback establishes the origin of the Supreme God’s mission and Kamui’s lifelong attachment to his creator.
• Yu and Naruto: Yu transfers the Human Progenitor God position to Naruto, affirming Naruto’s destined role and allowing Yu to abandon his former identity.
• Yu and Ryushiki: Yu frees Ryushiki from servitude, offers him divine status, and uses the promise of resurrection to persuade him to accept responsibility.
• Yu and Takamimusubi: Their final conversation confirms Yu’s identity as the chosen Supreme God and marks the transfer of the world’s future from creator to successor.
• Yu and Obito: Yu silently visits Obito, who has found happiness and purpose in ordinary life. Their meeting demonstrates that both have moved beyond their former struggles.

Ending

The novel ends with Yu becoming the Supreme God, Takamimusubi departing, the surviving gods rebuilding their lives, and Obito happily raising his family. Yu’s final peaceful visit to his old friend confirms that the war is truly over: years are peaceful, and the world is secure.