Chapter Summaries

The Land of Flame’s army fought the Lightning Country’s forces, with Uchiha Enkō confident that victory was assured. As the battle turned in his army’s favor, the First Raikage launched a surprise assassination against him.

• The Land of Flame and Lightning Country began their final battle beneath Thunderclap City, with the Lightning Daimyo leading his army.
• The Uchiha Cannons blasted gaps through the charging Lightning Country forces, and the Land of Flame’s ninja divided and overwhelmed the enemy ranks.
• Enkō watched the battle and concluded that the Lightning Country’s defeat was only a matter of time.
• The First Raikage secretly infiltrated the Land of Flame’s army and attacked Enkō with a lightning-charged punch, shouting, “Die!”

Enkō survived the First Raikage A’s surprise attack and faced him in battle without using Susanoo. Enkō gained the upper hand, but A let Cold Edge pierce his shoulder so he could close in with another Dark Lightning strike.

• The First Raikage A ambushed Enkō with a lightning-charged punch, but Enkō blocked it and slashed A across the waist.
• Enkō identified A’s Dark Lightning technique and learned that A had arranged a destination for Kumogakure’s remaining ninja.
• A charged Enkō with a lightning-enhanced punch, but Enkō dodged, kicked A in the face, and pursued him with Cold Edge.
• A caught Cold Edge between his palms, but Enkō struck the hilt and drove the blade through A’s shoulder.
• A released the blade and moved in close to punch Enkō with Dark Lightning.

Enkō battled the First Raikage, who used lightning and ballista bolts but failed to defeat him. After Enkō expelled the chakra disrupting his Sharingan, two new opponents joined the fight and attacked him from the side.

• Enkō overwhelmed the First Raikage with sword strikes and hand-to-hand attacks, but the Raikage countered with lightning-wrapped ballista bolts and a series of powerful punches.
• Enkō blocked the Raikage’s third punch with a Fire Release: Rasengan, and the two fighters were hurled apart by the collision.
• The First Raikage claimed victory, but Enkō expelled the lightning chakra he had planted inside Enkō’s body and restored his Sharingan.
• A gray-haired, horned fighter attacked Enkō with a silver-white fan sword, and another opponent taunted him about outnumbering him.

Enkō defeated Kinkaku and Ginkaku while the First Raikage gathered natural lightning for a lethal technique. As the lightning pool formed overhead, Enkō began to perceive natural energy, and the First Raikage unleashed his attack to bury them both in lightning.

• The First Raikage began forming the hand seals for a life-consuming technique that drew natural lightning from the clouds.
• Enkō sensed natural energy in the gathering storm and fought Kinkaku and Ginkaku, using the Flying Thunder God Technique to redirect Kinkaku’s Golden Rope onto Ginkaku.
• Enkō struck Kinkaku with Dojutsu: Heaven's Pobei, fatally worsening his injuries, then killed Ginkaku with a slash to the throat.
• Enkō stood beside the First Raikage and watched the lightning gather, urging him to continue as he tried to comprehend the natural energy.
• The First Raikage unleashed Lightning Release: Lightning Storm Burial as Enkō said he could see the natural energy.

Enkō survived the First Raikage’s final lightning strike, defeated the Lightning Country’s forces, and secured victory for the Land of Flame army. As the army prepared to take Thunderclap City, an unseen group set out to bring a traitor back.

• The First Raikage unleashed Thunderclap Descent, destroying the battlefield and apparently killing himself and Enkō.
• The Lightning Country Daimyo approached the crater and learned from his guards that they believed Enkō was dead.
• Enkō appeared beside the Daimyo and killed his four guards with a subtle gesture.
• The Daimyo asked how Enkō would treat ordinary people, then chose to die rather than cooperate with him.
• Enkō announced victory, and the Land of Flame army began occupying Thunderclap City.
• A group on a distant hill said they had located their target and set out to bring a traitor back.

After the Land of Flame conquered the Lightning Country, Enkō explored the beginnings of Sage Art and accepted a group of Cloud Hidden Village shinobi into his ranks. As Enkō finally fell asleep in the Lightning Daimyo Palace, four mysterious figures appeared and destroyed his residence with a Sage Art.

• Enkō suppressed a flare-up of his injury and practiced controlling natural energy while Mad Fang warned him about the risks of forming Sage Chakra.
• A group of Cloud Hidden Village shinobi approached Enkō to join the Land of Flame, and he agreed to settle them and their families in Thunderclap City.
• Enkō learned that most of the remaining Cloud Hidden Village shinobi had gone to Konoha under an agreement with the Raikage.
• Enkō worried that Konoha would be a troublesome opponent and fell asleep in the Lightning Daimyo's former residence.
• Four mysterious figures appeared on the roof of the Lightning Daimyo Palace, and a woman used Sage Art: Gen to reduce Enkō's residence to dust.

Enkō fought the four sisters Ling Ji, Ze Ji, Fu Ji, and Yao Ji, Ryūchi Cave’s enforcement squad, after they came to reclaim Mad Fang. The battle left Enkō disarmed in midair as a burst of white smoke engulfed him and the sisters.

• A blast at the Daimyo Palace drew attention as Enkō confronted the four veiled women, who identified Mad Fang as their target.
• Mad Fang explained that Lingze Fuyao were the White Snake Sage’s personal guard and warned Enkō that opposing them would put him on Ryūchi Cave’s blacklist.
• Enkō refused to hand over Mad Fang, and Fu Ji launched a lightning attack that he dodged before he struck all four sisters with a sweeping sword slash.
• Enkō cut Fu Ji in half, but she escaped the fatal blow with Ryūchi Cave’s Serpent Substitution Style.
• Ling Ji attacked Enkō with a fire serpent, and Ze Ji and Yao Ji followed him into the air, where Ze Ji’s water sleeves disarmed him and Yao Ji fired a water arrow.
• A black snake pattern flashed on Enkō’s hand, and white smoke suddenly enveloped him and the two sisters in midair.

Enkō fought the four sisters, but Ling Ji began using Sage Art: Qian at the cost of her life. As Enkō prepared to face the technique, Ling Ji revealed that her target was Mad Fang.

• Enkō and Mad Fang knocked Yao Ji and Ze Ji into the ground, prompting Yao Ji to call for Ling Ji to use a powerful technique.
• Fu Ji supplied Ling Ji with chakra while Ze Ji and Yao Ji fought Mad Fang, and Enkō hurled his Susanoo spear at Ling Ji.
• Ling Ji stopped the spear with Sage Art: Kun, but Enkō forced it forward until Fu Ji transferred nearly all her chakra to Ling Ji.
• Ling Ji gathered natural energy into a vast vortex and began using Sage Art: Qian despite its deadly cost outside Ryūchi Cave.
• Enkō prepared to confront Ling Ji's technique, but she pointed toward Mad Fang and declared that eliminating him was her mission.

Ling Ji used the “Qian” word of the Eight Trigrams Sage Words to pin Mad Fang down, but Enkō turned the battle by hurling Ze Ji and striking Yao Ji with Ze Ji’s tail. Ling Ji exhausted herself and collapsed, leaving the fight amid the city’s ruins.

• Ling Ji gathered natural energy and used the “Qian” word to crush Mad Fang into the ground.
• Ze Ji and Yao Ji attacked Mad Fang, but Enkō seized Ze Ji’s tail with the Perfect Susanoo and flung her through the city.
• Enkō used Ze Ji’s tail to strike Yao Ji and send her crashing into the street.
• Mad Fang began rising despite Ling Ji’s suppression and urged her to stop before she died.
• Ling Ji coughed up blood, ran out of chakra, and collapsed as the storm over Thunderclap City subsided.

After Enkō defeated the women sent to capture Mad Fang, he let them leave and promised to visit Ryūchi Cave. The White Snake Sage divined Enkō’s future and saw a red light, a sign of great misfortune.

• Mad Fang told Enkō to let Ze Ji, Yao Ji, Fu Ji, and Ling Ji go, and Enkō warned them he would visit Ryūchi Cave.
• Mad Fang explained that killing the women could alter their destinies and affect his and Enkō’s own fates.
• Ze Ji and Yao Ji reported their failure to the White Snake Sage, who ordered the four women to recover in Sage Snake Pool and ended the matter with Mad Fang.
• The White Snake Sage recognized Enkō as the likely person who had changed the world’s fate and divined his future with a snake scale.
• The scale shone red, and the White Snake Sage looked forward to Enkō’s visit as a sign of great misfortune.

After Kumogakure ninja appeared on the Land of Earth's front, Reto ordered Sunagakure to take advantage of the distraction and launch a costly assault on the Hyuga-led army. As the Land of Wind celebrated its advances, Tobirama arrived alone as the Land of Fire's reinforcements and hinted at a deadly counterattack.

• Reto told Sunagakure's commanders that the Land of Lightning had fallen and Uchiha Enkō might soon reach the Land of Fire battlefield.
• Reto learned that a Kumogakure unit had ambushed the Land of Earth's army and decided Sunagakure should exploit the opportunity to advance.
• Reto led the Land of Wind's army in two large assaults, forcing the Hyuga-led Land of Fire army to retreat twenty li.
• Hyuga Yuto found that Tobirama had arrived alone and questioned whether he was truly the reinforcements.
• Tobirama looked toward the Land of Wind's camp and asked Hyuga Yuto if he had ever seen a feast for the dead.

Tobirama used the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to send the dead Iwagakure Demolition Corps into the Land of Wind camp under Zhen’s lead. Shamon saw through the deception and surrounded them, but the reanimated ninjas began using Tobirama’s explosive-tag jutsu.

• A Land of Wind patrol spotted nearly forty approaching ninjas dressed as Iwagakure’s Demolition Corps, and Shamon recognized their leader as Zhen after receiving a letter.
• Hyuga Yuto watched from a distant mountaintop as Tobirama explained that the Iwagakure ninjas were dead and had been revived with the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
• Tobirama said the jutsu preserved about thirty percent of the dead ninjas’ strength and hinted that he had created a complementary technique.
• Shamon led Zhen and the group into the camp, then revealed that the Demolition Corps had been captured by the Land of Fire a week earlier and ordered his forces to attack.
• Zhen’s group began forming hand seals to use the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags technique.

Tobirama and Hyuga Yuto discussed the limits and risks of using Impure World Reincarnation to unleash Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags. After Shamon’s camp was devastated by the first blast, the resurrected Iwagakure shinobi prepared to detonate the technique again.

• Tobirama demonstrated how more than forty Impure World Reincarnation shinobi could use Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags to devastate a camp.
• Hyuga Yuto offered to find living sacrifices to create more reincarnated fighters, but Tobirama explained that he could control only about fifty and feared Uchiha Enkō might disrupt his control.
• Tobirama told Yuto that he had another plan for dealing with Uchiha Enkō and said they would first eliminate other threats.
• Shamon survived the explosion by sheltering himself in underground sand and mourned the heavy losses at the Land of Wind camp.
• As Shamon ordered survivors to treat the wounded and remain on guard, the dust gathered into the forms of the forty-odd Iwagakure shinobi.
• Shamon screamed for everyone to run as the resurrected shinobi formed hand seals and began Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags again.

Reto defended Sunagakure's camp from Tobirama Senju's Impure World Reincarnation Demolition Corps and discovered that sealing techniques could contain them. Tobirama withdrew his remaining forces, but Reto tracked him and Hyuga Yuto down and attacked them.

• Reto arrived at the Land of Wind camp and used wind blades to stop the Demolition Corps from detonating its Explosive Tags.
• The reanimated fighters scattered, and Zhen's Human Bomb ability injured several Sunagakure ninjas who tried to stop them.
• Reto trapped nearly ten Impure World Reincarnation bodies in a sealed sphere of sand, leading him to order the sealing unit to prepare for future attacks.
• Tobirama recalled the remaining reanimated fighters in coffins after Sunagakure discovered sealing as a countermeasure.
• Reto tracked Tobirama and Hyuga Yuto and attacked them with a wind blade.

Hyuga Yuto and Tobirama Senju confronted First Kazekage Reto, then escaped before his reinforcements arrived. Reto and Zamonemon decided to seek Uchiha Enkō’s help against Tobirama as Enkō approached the Land of Fire border.

• Reto attacked Tobirama and Yuto with a wind storm, but Yuto redirected it and Tobirama combined it with a water technique.
• Tobirama realized Reto was stalling until reinforcements arrived and used his space-time ninjutsu to escape with Yuto.
• Reto told Zamonemon that Tobirama had summoned the dead and possessed a space-time technique.
• Zamonemon proposed asking the Hidden Stone ninja and Uchiha Enkō for help, and Reto agreed to seek Enkō’s support.
• Enkō neared the border of the Land of Fire.

Ishikawa decided to ask the Land of Fire to protect Iwagakure’s rear so his forces could send reinforcements to the third battlefield. On the second battlefield, Kurama Qiye volunteered to lead a dangerous mission to destroy Kannabi Bridge, but someone outside the tent offered to go in his place.

• Ōnoki and other Iwagakure shinobi urged Ishikawa to send them to the third battlefield, but Mu warned that doing so would weaken their current front.
• Ishikawa decided to send a team led by Mu to the third battlefield and entrust the rear defense line to the Land of Fire.
• Kurama Qiye proposed B Plan: send a team behind enemy lines to destroy Kannabi Bridge and cut off the Land of Earth’s supplies.
• Kurama Qiye told Ise Uzumaki that he would lead the mission and leave command of the second battlefield to him.
• An unidentified voice outside the tent offered to take Kurama Qiye’s place on the mission.

Mito set out on a mission toward Kannabi Bridge and agreed to bring Danzo, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu after they insisted on helping Konoha. Near the bridge, Danzo and Homura encountered two enemy ninja, and one of them spotted their hiding place.

• Mito persuaded Ise and Kurama Qiye that she could return safely, then departed for her mission.
• Danzo, Mitokado Homura, and Utatane Koharu asked to join Mito, and she agreed on the condition that they follow her orders.
• The four-person team bypassed the main battlefield and traveled through the Land of Earth's defensive line to within five li of Kannabi Bridge.
• Mito sent Danzo and Mitokado Homura ahead to scout after deciding not to risk using the Mind's Eye of the Kagura near the objective.
• Danzo and Homura hid in the grass as two enemy ninja approached, but one spotted them and their eyes met.

After the Land of Earth traded the Lonely Mountain Wasteland for reinforcements, Kagami Uchiha and Might Yuan guarded the rear line and encountered Danzo, Enkō, and Mitokado Homura. The fight left Danzo injured, but he refused to retreat and challenged Kagami again.

• Madara demanded the Lonely Mountain Wasteland in exchange for aid, and Ishikawa agreed to hand it over.
• Kagami Uchiha and Might Yuan patrolled near Kannabi Bridge, where Kagami sensed Danzo and Enkō hiding in the bushes.
• Danzo attacked Kagami and Might Yuan with Wind Release, but Kagami awakened his Sharingan and countered Danzo and Mitokado Homura.
• Might Yuan struck Danzo with Flame's Mighty Whirlwind, sending him flying and injuring him.
• Danzo refused Enkō's suggestion to retreat, identified himself as Shimura Danzō, and challenged Kagami to continue fighting.

Kagami Uchiha and Might Yuan fought Danzo and Mitokado Homura, using their teamwork to target Homura. Just as Might Yuan’s attack seemed about to kill him, Mito intervened, and she faced a mysterious purple-haired figure who had once admired her.

• Kagami Uchiha and Might Yuan split the fight, with Kagami engaging Danzo while Might Yuan faced Mitokado Homura.
• Kagami matched Danzo’s Wind Release and overwhelmed him with Fire Release before using a Shadow Clone to distract him.
• Might Yuan opened the Fifth Gate and charged Homura while Kagami’s clone blocked Homura’s escape.
• Mito appeared and caught the unconscious Homura, stopping Might Yuan’s devastating kick.
• Mito recognized the purple-haired figure as someone sent by the Land of Flame, and the figure said she had once regarded Mito as her idol.

Juri faced her former idol, Uzumaki Mito, as Mito tried to reach Kannabi Bridge and complete her mission. The two prepared to fight, with the approaching patrol squad giving them only a short window before reinforcements arrived.

• Mito emerged from the pit, left the unconscious Enkō with Danzo and Utatane Koharu, and confronted Juri.
• Juri urged Mito to abandon the mission and leave, but Mito refused to give up while there was still a chance to destroy Kannabi Bridge.
• Juri warned that a patrol squad was already approaching and said Mito would need to defeat her within fifteen minutes.
• Juri criticized Mito's extreme Will of Fire and drew her sword as Mito took a fighting stance.
• Kagami, Danzo, and the others moved aside to watch Juri and Mito face off.