Recaps

Utaka gambled on the White Hole to escape the universe, while Uchiha Gen became fused with it through the Formation Disk. Utaka swallowed the White Hole and celebrated as the Galaxy collapsed, believing he was finally returning to Earth.

• Utaka threw the Bagua Array Disc into the evolving Giant Star, and the two waited as it became a White Hole.
• A swarm of insects and void creatures attacked Utaka's home as the White Hole formed.
• The Formation Disk activated, strengthening Uchiha Gen's soul and merging his senses with the White Hole.
• Utaka manifested a huge mouth and swallowed Uchiha Gen and the White Hole, hoping to return to his original world.
• Uchiha Gen detonated the White Hole and shattered his soul into fragments that merged with the Formation Disk and Utaka.
• Utaka watched the Galaxy collapse and shouted that he was going back.

As Uchiha Gen returned from the dead, the universe repaired itself, threatening Utaka’s escape through the darkness. Utaka burned his body and soul to race toward a distant light while Ghost Hands born from ancient resentment closed in.

• Uchiha Gen reappeared inside the Formation Disk, and the universe began reversing its destruction as Utaka’s connection to it returned.
• Utaka burned his body to keep moving toward a faint point of light, while Uchiha Gen warned that Ghost Hands were chasing him.
• Uchiha Gen told Utaka he could hold the Ghost Hands off for only one minute, and Utaka abandoned his soul as fuel to accelerate.
• Uchiha Gen recognized the Ghost Hands as ancient beings’ accumulated resentment and warned Utaka they had come for revenge.
• Utaka dismissed the dead as ants and vowed to kill the Ghost Hands again for fuel.

Uchiha Gen watched Utaka die after he failed to break through the barrier to the modern world, then found himself reborn as a small glowing ball thousands of years later. Princess Kaguya found him and revealed that time had reversed by three thousand years, leaving him with no trace of his former life except her memory of him.

• Uchiha Gen opened a barrier to the Mysterious Space, drawing the Ghost Hands away from Utaka as he tried to reach the modern world beyond the light screen.
• The Ghost Hands engulfed Utaka, and Uchiha Gen fought them to reclaim seventy percent of his charred remains before the universe reset and time began flowing backward.
• Thousands of years later, Uchiha Gen awoke as a small white ball of light on a meteorite, with no response from his former powers and only a remnant of Utaka's soul.
• Princess Kaguya recognized Uchiha Gen and told him the Galaxy had changed after time reversed by three thousand years.
• Uchiha Gen grieved that all traces of his past had vanished, while Princess Kaguya reassured him that she still remembered him and laughed at his new body's strange noises.

After Utaka’s death, Uchiha Gen drifted alone for centuries before landing on a planet that reminded him of Earth. Unable to control his immense power, he wandered into a village, where the village chief took him in.

• Uchiha Gen told Princess Kaguya that their partnership had ended, and she said she would return to the Ōtsutsuki planet and unite her people.
• Time rewound three thousand years, erasing Utaka and Uchiha Gen from history, and Uchiha Gen drifted through space on a meteorite.
• The meteorite crashed onto an azure planet, where Uchiha Gen found that his immense power was fused together and dangerous to use.
• Uchiha Gen shaped himself a human body and wandered into a village, where the villagers mistook his dazed behavior for a problem with his head.
• The village chief offered Uchiha Gen food and led him home despite worrying that taking him in might bring trouble to the village.

Uchiha Gen found refuge with the village chief’s family and gradually emerged from his isolation as he experienced their warm, ordinary home life. After a month in Li Family Village, a sudden rumble interrupted the villagers’ conversation.

• The village chief brought Uchiha Gen home, and he listened as the chief and his wife discussed sheltering him.
• Uchiha Gen reflected on his past losses and recognized that he had become contemptuous and isolated.
• The chief’s eldest son startled at Uchiha Gen, and the family bickered while preparing dinner.
• Uchiha Gen smiled at the family’s warmth, thanked the chief, and accepted a place to stay while saying he could not remain long.
• Over the next month, the villagers grew accustomed to Uchiha Gen, whose presence drew the children and seemed to comfort them.
• A tremendous rumble suddenly startled the villagers as they chatted.

Uchiha Gen agreed to teach Tietou qi and trained him through a freezing night, helping him cross the threshold and absorb a little qi. Tietou recovered indoors the next day, and Uchiha Gen told the village chief's wife that her son was already stronger than her husband.

• Uchiha Gen showed Tietou qi's destructive power by knocking down a mountain, inspiring the boy to ask to learn.
• Tietou pleaded with Uchiha Gen to teach him, and Uchiha Gen agreed after considering the boy's determination and limitations.
• When winter arrived, Uchiha Gen trained Tietou outside in heavy snow while the village chief and his wife worried from indoors.
• Uchiha Gen pushed qi toward Tietou and urged him to control his heart and internal organs until he sensed it.
• After the snow stopped, Tietou warmed up with hot soup, and Uchiha Gen said he had absorbed a little qi and was stronger than the village chief.

After three years of teaching Tietou, Uchiha Gen left the hidden village and traveled around the planet twice on foot. He then set out for the Naruto World, wondering about Utaka’s past and the limits of his own energy-body form.

• Uchiha Gen told Tietou he was leaving, and Tietou returned home to tell the village chief.
• Tietou told his father that he wanted to leave the mountains someday, and the village chief asked him to leave a descendant first.
• Uchiha Gen wandered the planet, circling it twice and reflecting on its Qi system and the differences from Earth.
• Uchiha Gen decided to return to the Naruto World and wondered whether another Ōtsutsuki maiden would defect without Princess Kaguya.
• Uchiha Gen traveled through space on a small planet and considered his energy body’s limits and the light barrier Utaka had struck.
• Uchiha Gen revealed that he had preserved a fragment of Utaka’s soul in the Formation Disk and resolved to awaken it if he returned.

After returning to Naruto Planet a century-long journey, Uchiha Gen surveyed its ancient past and found a world still rife with small-scale wars. He traveled through the Land of Fire for ten years and reached Kyoto, the Nakatomi clan’s modest capital.

• Uchiha Gen returned to Naruto Planet, left his asteroid in a distant orbit, and scanned the world from the Land of Fire.
• Uchiha Gen watched masked fighters defeat a samurai force, then continued on after criticizing the samurai’s tactics.
• Uchiha Gen encountered another small battle and wondered whether the era lacked countries altogether.
• Uchiha Gen spent ten years traveling through the Land of Fire and found it divided among thirty-eight rulers.
• Uchiha Gen arrived at Kyoto, where he noted that the powerful Nakatomi clan controlled only three cities.

Uchiha Gen entered the Nakatami Clan's city by bribing a guard, then built a secluded home in the southern forest. Nakatani Ichiro and his uncle discussed taking Gen, while Gen observed them and realized the city was not as peaceful as he had hoped.

• Uchiha Gen bribed a gate guard with gold and entered the city under the surname Fujiwara.
• Uchiha Gen explored the city, learned its layout, and built a wooden villa in a remote woodland area.
• Nakatani Ichiro's ministers warned him that rival families had joined forces and urged him to let the Masked Legion recover.
• Nakatani Ichiro asked his uncle about the beautiful person living in the southern forest and suggested taking them.
• Nakatani Ichiro's uncle hinted that arranging the encounter would require payment, and Gen watched their conversation from the forest.

Uchiha Gen trapped Choichiro’s close minister and his guards in an illusion that made them wander the forest in circles, then watched them flee. After the minister returned, Choichiro challenged his explanation, and the minister proposed an early winter hunt to prove his honesty.

• Uchiha Gen covered the forest with a harmless Illusion Formation that trapped intruders in an endless jungle.
• Choichiro’s close minister led more than a dozen guards into the forest to search for Uchiha Gen.
• The minister and Sasaki realized they had been walking in circles and found their previous campfire the next morning.
• The minister and his guards fled the forest, and Uchiha Gen decided they were not people with fate.
• Choichiro questioned his uncle minister’s account, and the minister offered to hold the winter hunt early and grant Choichiro one condition if he had lied.

Choichiro followed a path that only he could see through the forest and found Uchiha Gen waiting at a hidden cabin. Gen offered him one wish in exchange for his fate, and Choichiro asked to invite him to the palace.

• Choichiro joined the winter hunt and spotted a strange bird that none of his companions could see.
• At a fork in the forest, Choichiro saw a path that was invisible to the others and led the hunting party along it.
• Uchiha Gen watched Choichiro approach, reasoning that the ruler’s national fortune might let him see through the illusion.
• Choichiro reached the cabin, became captivated by Uchiha Gen, and asked whether he could invite him to the palace.
• Uchiha Gen agreed to grant Choichiro’s wish in exchange for the fate upon him.

Uchiha Gen visited Choichiro’s palace, learned that Choichiro could pass through his Illusion Formation, and began to suspect the moon revealed an unknown event in the world’s past. When Choichiro came to the forest cabin begging for another chance, Gen demanded the thing most important to him and took his compass, which began to glow with colorful light.

• Choichiro offered Uchiha Gen a horse, but Gen floated toward the palace and left Choichiro obsessing over him.
• At the palace, Gen told Choichiro to call him Fujiwara, then discovered the guard who had admitted him had been killed.
• Gen noticed the moon and realized something unknown must have happened in the thousand-plus years before the present era.
• The next morning, Gen saw Choichiro ride straight through the Illusion Formation to the cabin and realized Choichiro could ignore it.
• Choichiro begged Gen for another chance, and Gen asked him to give up the thing most important to him.
• Choichiro handed Gen his compass, which began emitting colorful light.

Uchiha Gen helped Choichiro restore his country and watched him found the Longyan Empire before breaking through the dimensional barrier and returning to the modern era. He emerged in a world overrun by monsters and found people being slaughtered in the streets.

• Uchiha Gen granted Choichiro three hundred years of life, immunity to illness, and an enhanced memory so he could pursue his goal of restoring his country.
• Uchiha Gen fused the compass with the Formation Disk, sensed that they had begun separating from him, and chose to spend his remaining time watching Choichiro fulfill his ambition.
• Ten years later, Choichiro told Uchiha Gen that he had completed his coup and planned to unify the country.
• Fifty years later, Choichiro founded the Longyan Empire, then led its people through a three-year beast tide and brought Uchiha Gen a Blood Bone Flower.
• Uchiha Gen gave Choichiro a seed that would let his bloodline absorb Natural Energy, then struck the dimensional barrier and passed through as the compass and Formation Disk separated from him.
• Uchiha Gen returned to the modern era, opened the curtains, and saw monsters attacking people in the streets.