Recaps

Uchiha Kyu arrived at the battlefield in Six Paths Mode, leading the Tailed Beasts against the Allied Forces. His appearance sent the Imperial shinobi cheering as the final battle began.

• Uchiha Shisui revealed that Uchiha Kyu would personally come to the battlefield, and Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade reacted to the news.
• Hyuga Hiashi arrived with Hyuga shinobi and reunited with Hizashi Hyuga while Shikaku Nara discussed the enemy's deployment.
• One-Tail Shukaku appeared under genjutsu control, followed by the Two-Tails, Three-Tails, Four-Tails, Eight-Tails, and Nine-Tails, terrifying the Allied Forces.
• Uchiha Kyu appeared atop the Nine-Tails in Six Paths Mode and declared that the war had begun.
• The Imperial shinobi cheered Uchiha Kyu's arrival, their morale surging.

As the Immortal Empire’s forces charged the Allied Forces, Tsunade accepted the Empire’s coming rule and the battle erupted across the front. Mizunotsuki Feng used the Yuki Clan’s Ice Release against Mei Terumi, fighting to avenge his clan and secure its future within the Empire.

• Tsunade let go of her resentment and prepared to join the Immortal Empire, while Shikaku Nara and the clan heads arranged to earn credit by capturing Allied Forces leaders alive.
• Uchiha Kyu ordered the Imperial ninjas to attack, and the Raikage and Mei Terumi led the Allied Forces into battle.
• Mizunotsuki Feng confronted Mei Terumi, accusing her clan of abandoning the Yuki Clan, then unleashed Frozen Thousand Miles and froze part of the battlefield.
• Tsunade led Imperial ninjas against Mei Terumi as the Mist Ninjas rushed to support their Mizukage.
• After Ye helped him recover, Mizunotsuki Feng returned to battle, killing Mist Ninjas to avenge the Yuki Clan and earn the Empire’s favor.

Uchiha Kyu’s Empire used the nine Tailed Beasts to devastate the Allied Forces while he ordered his shinobi to kill every enemy, including those who surrendered. Uchiha Shisui wounded Ōnoki and pursued him as Iwa Ninja tried to evacuate the Tsuchikage.

• The nine Tailed Beasts rampaged through the Allied Forces after the Sealing Team was eliminated, killing many shinobi and sending the rest fleeing.
• Uchiha Kyu watched from above and explained that Kaguya Otsutsuki could awaken only if he lost control of his body, a chance he would never allow.
• Uchiha Kyu ordered his Imperial shinobi to kill every enemy, and a Uchiha Chunin burned surrendered Allied shinobi alive with Fire Style: Great Fireball Technique.
• Uchiha Shisui used genjutsu against Ōnoki, then severed his left arm when the Tsuchikage broke free.
• Iwa Ninja Anbu moved to protect Ōnoki and help him escape, but Uchiha Shisui killed one of them with a single strike.

Uchiha Kyu killed Ōnoki, and the Stone Ninja forces began to collapse as the war intensified. Tsunade killed the Fifth Mizukage, while the Fourth Raikage exhausted himself in a desperate assault against Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Uchiha Shisui; Shisui and Orochimaru then attacked him as he ran out of chakra.

• Ōnoki fled from Uchiha Shisui, but Uchiha Kyu shot him down with a Truth-Seeking Orb, and Shisui announced the Tsuchikage's death.
• The Stone Ninja lost their resolve and scattered after Ōnoki's death, while Shisui rushed to the battle against the Fourth Raikage A.
• Tsunade defeated the Fifth Mizukage, and an Empire Chunin decapitated her and announced her death.
• The Fourth Raikage A unleashed three powerful attacks, sending Jiraiya flying, shattering Shisui's Susanoo, and cutting Orochimaru in half before Orochimaru emerged using Snake-Shedding Substitution Technique.
• After the Fourth Raikage exhausted his chakra, Orochimaru formed hand seals and Shisui launched a One-Sword Slash.

Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Uchiha Shisui killed the Raikage, while Uchiha Kyu reclaimed the Tailed Beasts as the Allied Forces collapsed. Uchiha Kyu returned to the Immortal Palace, and Shikaku Nara’s men reported a dispute with the Hyuga over the Land of Lightning’s daimyo’s body.

• Jiraiya, Orochimaru, and Uchiha Shisui finished off the Raikage, who died from their combined attacks and poison.
• Tsunade treated Jiraiya’s wounds, and Uchiha Shisui credited him with bearing the Raikage’s strongest attack.
• Orochimaru took the Raikage’s body for research, while his head was sent away to claim the reward.
• The Allied Forces fled as the Empire’s shinobi pursued them, and Uchiha Kyu absorbed the nine Tailed Beasts back into his body.
• Uchiha Kyu returned to the Immortal Palace and told Konan that peace would return after the war ended.
• A Nara Jonin told Shikaku Nara that the Hyuga had taken the Land of Lightning daimyo’s body after both groups found it.

Hyuga Hiashi warned his clan to obey the Empire’s strict laws and sought permission to explore the moon, where the Ōtsutsuki Clan lived. Uchiha Kyu tasked the Hyuga with finding a route there and ordered Orochimaru to attempt to summon Hagoromo Otsutsuki.

• Hyuga Hiashi ordered his clansmen not to embezzle battle pensions, warning that the Empire would punish corruption with death.
• Half a month after the war, the Immortal Empire ruled the world, a hundred Uchiha awakened the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, and Uchiha Kyu led the clan in a memorial for its fallen.
• Hyuga Hiashi asked Uchiha Kyu about traveling to the moon and learned that Hamura Otsutsuki’s descendants, the Ōtsutsuki Clan, lived there.
• Uchiha Kyu ordered the Hyuga Clan to search for a passage to the moon and promised Hyuga Hiashi the mission of eliminating its holdouts.
• Uchiha Kyu summoned Orochimaru and told him to try using Impure World Reincarnation to summon Hagoromo Otsutsuki for an ambush.

Uchiha Kyu and Orochimaru prepared to resurrect Hagoromo Otsutsuki without alerting him while Uchiha Kyu built a Dragon Vein-powered illusion realm to manufacture Mangekyō Sharingan. After testing the realm himself, Uchiha Kyu escaped its convincing illusion and realized it still needed improvement.

• Uchiha Kyu and Orochimaru planned to make Hagoromo Otsutsuki mistake the births of Indra and Asura for his chance to return, while Orochimaru sealed and repeatedly checked Hagoromo's corpse.
• Uchiha Kyu built a realistic illusion realm beside the Dragon Vein, and Uchiha Kage and Fugaku Uchiha helped secure the cave and obtain materials.
• Uchiha Kyu completed the realm three days before Uchiha Mikoto and Kushina Uzumaki were due to give birth, then stopped Uchiha Shisui and Fugaku Uchiha from testing it and entered himself.
• The illusion made Uchiha Kyu relive an alternate life in which witnessing Uchiha Itachi kill a clan member awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Kyu used an illusion-reversal effect to escape, judged the realm highly realistic, and concluded that it needed an improvement so clan members could remember how to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.

Fugaku Uchiha, Uchiha Shisui, and Orochimaru worked to find a way to add a memory-restoring genjutsu to the Illusion Realm without destabilizing it. As Kushina Uzumaki and Mikoto went into labor, Uchiha Kyu prepared to confront Hagoromo Otsutsuki and warned Minato Namikaze that the birth was dangerous.

• Uchiha Kyu ordered Fugaku Uchiha to solve the Illusion Realm’s problem within half a month and learned that Mikoto would give birth in three days.
• Fugaku Uchiha brought in Uchiha Shisui and Orochimaru to devise a way to add a genjutsu without changing the Illusion Realm’s basic structure.
• Three days later, Uchiha Kyu pulled Orochimaru away from the Illusion Realm to deal with Hagoromo Otsutsuki.
• Minato Namikaze grew anxious outside the delivery room as Kushina Uzumaki cried out, and Fugaku Uchiha calmed him.
• Uchiha Kyu had Uchiha Kage surround the delivery room and told Fugaku Uchiha to explain the danger to Minato Namikaze.

Uchiha Kyu prepared to ambush Hagoromo Otsutsuki as Minato and Fugaku awaited the birth of their children. When the babies were born, Hagoromo returned in his own body instead of as a soul and was immediately struck by Kyu’s Truth-Seeking Orbs.

• Uchiha Kyu reassured Minato Namikaze and Fugaku Uchiha that Hagoromo Otsutsuki could not threaten the Immortal Empire.
• In the Pure Land, Hagoromo Otsutsuki learned about Uchiha Kyu and planned to eliminate him, while wondering why he could not find Gamamaru’s soul.
• As Minato and Fugaku waited anxiously through the difficult births, Uchiha Kyu and Orochimaru prepared to attack Hagoromo’s body when the children arrived.
• Two infants were born at the same time, and Fugaku, Minato, and Tsunade hurried the newborns and their mothers away from the danger.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki revived as the Truth-Seeking Orbs attacked him, then realized he had returned in his own body rather than as a soul.

Uchiha Kyu and Orochimaru killed Hagoromo Otsutsuki by trapping him in a collapsing body and destroying his soul with Space-Time: Annihilation. Afterward, Orochimaru asked to confront his counterpart in the world within the Dragon Vein, and Uchiha Kyu left to reassure the others waiting outside.

• Orochimaru trapped Hagoromo Otsutsuki's soul inside his body with a modified Spirit Transformation Jutsu as the body collapsed.
• Uchiha Kyu used Space-Time: Annihilation to tear apart Hagoromo Otsutsuki's body and soul, preventing his revival.
• Uchiha Kyu and Orochimaru waited a minute, confirmed Hagoromo Otsutsuki was gone, and discussed the world within the Dragon Vein.
• Orochimaru said he intended to kill his counterpart, and Uchiha Kyu left the room without interfering.
• Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Shisui, Hyuga Hiashi, and Minato Namikaze gathered around Uchiha Kyu and asked what had happened to the Sage of Six Paths.

After Uchiha Kyu declared the world safe following Hagoromo Otsutsuki’s defeat, he celebrated with his allies and persuaded Uchiha Shisui to consider finding a partner and starting a family. The conversation ended in a toast to the Uchiha who had died before they could enjoy the peace they helped secure.

• Uchiha Kyu told Hyuga Hiashi and the others that Hagoromo Otsutsuki had been defeated and invited them to celebrate Fugaku and Minato’s new children.
• Hyuga Hiashi asked Minato how fatherhood felt, and Minato said raising and protecting a child had given him a new responsibility.
• Uchiha Kyu noticed Uchiha Shisui was single and took him aside to persuade him to find a partner and have children.
• Uchiha Shisui objected that women could interfere with his training, but Uchiha Kyu described the comforts of having a family and offered to ask Mikoto to find him someone.
• Uchiha Kyu and Uchiha Shisui poured wine onto the ground in remembrance of the clansmen who had died before seeing the peace they helped create.

Uchiha Kyu considered how the Uchiha Clan’s sacrifices should be remembered, while Hyuga Hiashi decided to seek approval to abolish the Main and Branch Family system. At a banquet celebrating Minato Namikaze and Fugaku Uchiha having sons, Uchiha Kyu began speaking about the world beyond the Dragon Vein.

• Uchiha Kyu proposed recording the Uchiha Clan’s sacrifices and achievements for future generations, and Uchiha Shisui agreed before leaving for the evening.
• Hyuga Hiashi urged Hizashi Hyuga to search for a passage, calling it key to the Hyuga Clan’s future, but kept his knowledge of the Tenseigan secret.
• Hyuga Hiashi told Hizashi Hyuga he wanted to abolish the Main and Branch Family system, and Hizashi agreed to support him.
• Hyuga Hiashi said he would seek His Majesty’s approval before attempting to change the clan’s system.
• Uchiha Kyu arrived at the banquet celebrating Minato Namikaze and Fugaku Uchiha having sons, then announced that the guests had long coveted the world beyond the Dragon Vein.

Uchiha Kyu planned an expedition through the Dragon Vein to reclaim Konoha’s foothold in the parallel world, appointing Fugaku Uchiha to lead the vanguard. The clans competed to join and funded the campaign, while Fugaku returned home late, exhausted but excited.

• Uchiha Kyu explained that the vanguard would reclaim the Dragon Vein and establish a defensive line, then invited volunteers to join.
• Fugaku Uchiha volunteered to lead the force, and Uchiha Kyu accepted him after the others raised no objections.
• Uchiha Kyu ordered Fugaku to choose the members, with unconditional conscription across the Empire and a minimum strength of Chunin.
• Minato Namikaze resolved to join the expedition, while the gathered clan leaders sought places for their people in the vanguard.
• After Uchiha Kyu left the banquet with Konan, Fugaku said the Empire lacked funds, prompting the clans to offer their wealth to support the war.
• Fugaku accepted the clans’ contributions, which could supply a force of over ten thousand for a year, and returned home in the middle of the night, tired but excited.

Uchiha Kyu accepted the clans’ nearly three billion in funds and assigned Fugaku Uchiha to negotiate a merger with the Uchiha Clan in the Dragon Vein World. As preparations for the invasion began, Kakashi, Might Guy, and other young shinobi signed up for the vanguard, while Shikaku Nara revealed he would join too.

• Fugaku Uchiha reported that the clans had contributed nearly three billion, and Uchiha Kyu approved his plan to negotiate a merger with the other world’s Uchiha Clan.
• Uchiha Kyu said he would let the invasion continue so Uchiha clansmen could awaken their Sharingan through battle.
• Kakashi and Might Guy decided to join the vanguard to earn money, and Kurenai Yuhi and other young shinobi prepared to sign up as well.
• Shikaku Nara explained that the clans’ payment served as a guarantee because Uchiha Kyu knew their plans to merge with their counterparts in the Dragon Vein World.
• Shikaku Nara announced that he planned to join the vanguard and asked Choza Akimichi and Inoichi Yamanaka whether they would join him.

The Immortal Empire’s clan leaders prepared for a vanguard mission while keeping their clans obedient, and Uchiha Kyu reassured Konan that he had deliberately prevented her from becoming pregnant. Half a month later, Uchiha Itachi wanted to join the vanguard, while Uchiha Shisui and Orochimaru completed work on the Illusion Realm.

• Inoichi Yamanaka and Choza Akimichi insisted on joining Shikaku Nara’s vanguard, and the clan leaders arranged for their clans to behave while they were away.
• Uchiha Kyu learned that Konan’s gloom came from worrying she could not bear a child, then told her he had taken precautions and agreed to leave it to nature.
• Uchiha Itachi devoted himself to caring for infant Sasuke Uchiha and asked to join the vanguard, but Fugaku Uchiha told him to wait until the second wave and awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Uchiha Shisui finished improving the Illusion Realm with Orochimaru, who swallowed his scroll of notes and planned to seal away his memories of the forbidden grounds.

Uchiha Kyu approved the Illusion Realm’s use to help clan members awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan and ordered the Uchiha to prepare for war in another world. A week later, Fugaku Uchiha led a vanguard of twenty Mangekyō users through the Dragon Vein, where their Susanoo swept away Konoha’s forces near Roran.

• Uchiha Kyu authorized the Illusion Realm and told Uchiha Shisui to have older Three-Tomoe users test it first.
• Uchiha Okamoto and Huo Uchiha entered the Illusion Realm and awakened their Mangekyō Sharingan without investigating how it had happened.
• Uchiha Shisui arranged for Uchiha Kage to awaken his Mangekyō Sharingan and gave him eye drops.
• A week later, Fugaku Uchiha arrived at the Land of the Dragon Vein with a prepared vanguard to conquer another Parallel World.
• Fugaku Uchiha led twenty Mangekyō Sharingan users, including Uchiha Okamoto and Huo Uchiha, whose Susanoo overwhelmed Konoha’s forces near the Dragon Vein in the Ancient Kingdom of Roran.

The Immortal Empire's vanguard established a base near the Dragon Vein as Konoha sent five thousand troops to seize it. Minato Namikaze led the Imperial forces into battle against his counterpart, and Kakashi and Might Guy broke through Konoha's formation.

• Shikaku Nara, Choza Akimichi, and Inoichi Yamanaka discussed the Uchiha's many Mangekyō Sharingan and their own clans' plans.
• Uchiha Fugaku asked Shikaku Nara for advice on securing a rear base, then ordered the vanguard to work in groups and beware of Minato Namikaze's Flying Thunder God.
• Minato Namikaze led a thousand Imperial vanguard members against Namikaze Minato and Konoha's five thousand troops, which Hiruzen Sarutobi had sent to test the Empire's strength.
• Might Guy warned Kakashi about an attack, and Kakashi killed a Konoha Jonin with White Fang Swordsmanship.
• Kakashi and Might Guy fought together, tore open Konoha's attacking formation, and helped the vanguard split the Konoha forces in two.

Namikaze Minato’s forces were routed by the Immortal Empire’s Uchiha, and Fugaku Uchiha established a forward base while planning further operations against Konoha. Uchiha Kyu refused to evacuate the Uchiha Clan from Konoha, instead ordering a bloody purge of those who remained loyal to the village.

• Namikaze Minato ordered his forces to narrow their attack, but the battle continued as the Empire’s Uchiha overwhelmed Konoha’s ninja.
• Namikaze Minato ordered a retreat, and Fugaku Uchiha commanded his forces to pursue the fleeing Konoha ninja.
• Shikaku Nara proposed infiltrating Konoha to destroy it from within, and Fugaku Uchiha approved the plan and reported that the Empire had secured a forward base.
• Uchiha Kyu told Fugaku Uchiha to keep the war within sustainable limits, then learned that agents had contacted Uchiha Kyugaku and offered to move the Uchiha Clan to the Empire.
• Uchiha Kyu refused to bring the Uchiha Clan out of Konoha and directed Uchiha Kage to eliminate those who remained loyal to the village.

Uchiha Kyugaku decided to lead his clan out of Konoha as the village’s suspicions and the Empire’s advance left them with no safe path forward. After Namikaze Minato returned defeated, Kyugaku ordered the Uchiha to move toward their dawn beyond the village.

• Uchiha Kyugaku accepted that a peaceful escape was impossible and ordered preparations to leave, while Uchiha Kage sent two Mangekyō Sharingan shinobi to monitor him and kill him if necessary.
• Fugaku Uchiha and Shikaku Nara decided the captured Konoha shinobi were a burden, and Fugaku ordered them killed after the battle ended.
• Shikaku Nara’s forces took control of the Ancient Kingdom of Roran, executed its Queen and officials, and conscripted its population to build an Imperial forward base.
• An Uchiha shinobi warned Uchiha Kyugaku that Namikaze Minato had been defeated, prompting Kyugaku to act before the news spread further.
• Namikaze Minato returned to Konoha after two days of flight, and news of his defeat plunged the village into grief.
• Uchiha Kyugaku addressed his armed clan and ordered them to move outside the village.

The Uchiha Clan rebelled against Konoha, but Uchiha Kage’s forces and defectors from other clans arrived to help them break through the village’s defenses. As Uchiha Kyugaku led his clansmen toward an opening, Orochimaru slipped into Konoha for his own reasons.

• Sarutobi Yuezan received word that the Uchiha Clan had rebelled and ordered Anbu to summon the advisors and Namikaze Minato.
• Uchiha Kyugaku urged his clan to hold on for reinforcements while Uchiha Kage’s forces monitored the battle and waited for the right moment to act.
• Uchiha Kyugaku revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and confronted Sarutobi Yuezan and Namikaze Minato as the Uchiha fought while surrounded.
• An explosion at Konoha’s entrance let Uchiha Kage and Mangekyō Sharingan-wielding Uchiha forces, accompanied by brainwashed Kage Guard Unit members from other clans, attack the village shinobi.
• Uchiha Kyugaku used Susanoo to hold off Sarutobi Yuezan and Namikaze Minato while his clansmen fled through the gap, and Orochimaru slipped into Konoha.

Uchiha Kyu ordered Genin to enlist in an imperial campaign to open new territory, while considering how to expand across parallel worlds and grow stronger. The recruitment drew a vast queue, and Uchiha Sora and Uchiha Akira ended up helping process registrations.

• Uchiha Kage reported that Lord Fugaku had established an impregnable forward base, and Uchiha Kyu asked whether the newly arrived Uchiha had integrated smoothly into the clan.
• After learning the two Uchiha families had merged, Uchiha Kyu ordered that Genin willing to open new territory for the Empire could enlist.
• Hyuga Hiashi announced the recruitment order throughout the Empire.
• Uchiha Akira told Uchiha Sora about the opportunity, and the two hurried to register amid an enormous queue.
• Uchiha Akira and Uchiha Sora signed up early, then helped run a new registration site until they were exhausted and hungry.

The Empire’s conscription drive drew huge numbers of eager recruits, including members of the Hyuga and Uchiha clans, as leaders prepared them for a long war. Uchiha Kyu approved the enlistment despite the expected casualties, and the chapter ended with one hundred thousand recruits selected from two hundred thousand applicants.

• Hizashi Hyuga reported to Hyuga Hiashi that he had registered the clan members called up for the battlefield, and Hiashi urged him to earn merit and stay safe.
• Uchiha Kyugaku agreed to help Uchiha Yuu meet his other self, then told Uchiha Miho he intended to join the fighting and protect the Empire’s peace.
• Uchiha Kyu heard Uchiha Kage’s report and supported the clan members who had volunteered, arguing that battle would make them stronger.
• The Empire selected one hundred thousand conscripts, including seventy thousand Genin, from two hundred thousand applicants.

Uchiha Kyu awakened Kaguya Otsutsuki's consciousness through the Dragon Vein and demanded to learn about the Ōtsutsuki Clan. Kaguya revealed how the clan used Divine Tree Seeds, leaving Uchiha Kyu aware that the seeds were fiercely protected.

• Uchiha Kyu returned to the Land of the Dragon Vein and used its power to restore Kaguya Otsutsuki's consciousness within the Ten-Tails.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki mistook Uchiha Kyu for Indra at first, then learned he claimed to have dealt with her contingency and killed Hagoromo Otsutsuki.
• Uchiha Kyu threatened to seal Kaguya Otsutsuki's consciousness again unless she told him about the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki explained that adult clan members took Divine Tree Seeds to planets and cultivated trees that produced power-enhancing fruit.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki said the clan relentlessly pursued anyone who took a Divine Tree Seed.

Uchiha Kyu learned the coordinates of the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s cosmic realm from Kaguya Otsutsuki and planned to use Orochimaru to prepare a body for her in exchange for keeping her under his control. Meanwhile, a Hyuga ninja reported that the Hyuga Clan had found what they were looking for.

• Kaguya Otsutsuki explained that the Ōtsutsuki Clan feared new rivals capable of consuming Divine Tree Fruits, and Uchiha Kyu concluded that their strength depended on those fruits.
• Uchiha Kyu rejected Kaguya Otsutsuki’s attempt to gain his sympathy and demanded the location of the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s headquarters.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki gave Uchiha Kyu the cosmic coordinates and taught him how to read them, then asked him to find her a body so she could revive.
• Uchiha Kyu ignored Kaguya Otsutsuki’s demands and considered having Orochimaru cultivate a body for her, intending to make her surrender her freedom in return.
• Uchiha Kyu gave the coordinates to Uchiha Kage to safeguard and asked whether Orochimaru had returned.
• A Hyuga ninja told Hyuga Hiashi that the Hyuga Clan had found what they were seeking and confirmed the discovery three times.

Hyuga Hiashi told Uchiha Kyu that he had found the entrance to the moon, where the Ōtsutsuki Clan lived, and asked for help. Uchiha Kyu agreed to accompany him, while Kaguya Otsutsuki recognized the lunar clan as descendants of her son Hamura.

• Hyuga Hiashi summoned the clan and told Hizashi Hyuga that the Ōtsutsuki Clan on the moon shared the Hyuga Clan’s Byakugan.
• Hizashi Hyuga explained that the Hyuga Clan in the other world resisted integration into the Empire, and Hyuga Hiashi reassured him that resolving the lunar matter would raise their standing.
• Hyuga Hiashi visited Uchiha Kyu and reported that he had found the entrance to the moon but lacked the strength to proceed alone.
• Uchiha Kyu agreed to travel to the moon with Hyuga Hiashi, and Uchiha Kage began arranging for the emperor’s departure.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki identified the lunar Ōtsutsuki Clan as descendants of Hamura Otsutsuki who had been tasked with watching over her.