Chapter Summaries

Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju joined the daimyo and Kage as they prepared an Allied Shinobi Forces campaign against Naruto Uzumaki’s Akatsuki, though Hashirama hoped to stop the fighting peacefully. Hashirama eagerly awaited Madara’s arrival, but the person who emerged from a space-time vortex was Obito.

• The daimyo approved forming the Allied Shinobi Forces, while the Land of Wind’s daimyo objected and feared his country would be carved up.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju arrived at the conference and joined the Kage in discussing the war against Akatsuki.
• Hashirama proposed persuading Naruto Uzumaki to return the Tailed Beasts and end the conflict peacefully.
• Tobirama stated that the forces should eliminate Akatsuki and rescue the Konoha shinobi, while warning the Kage not to send Genin into battle.
• The Kage agreed not to bring Genin, and Hashirama asked when Madara would arrive.
• A vortex opened in the conference room, and Hashirama excitedly called out to Madara, only for Obito to appear.

Obito arrived at the Allied Shinobi Forces meeting, where Hashirama mistook him for Madara before Tobirama corrected him and restated the plan to attack Akatsuki Village. Naruto appeared unnoticed and proposed a Ninja World Martial Arts Tournament to decide who would rule, then announced that every country could enter up to ten fighters.

• Hashirama questioned Obito as if he were Madara, but Tobirama identified him as someone else, and Obito said he wanted the Ten-Tails.
• Tobirama outlined a plan for the villages to attack Akatsuki Village in an uninhabited area, focusing on eliminating Akatsuki.
• Naruto revealed he had been sitting unnoticed in the meeting room and proposed a tournament where each faction's strongest fighters would compete for a wish.
• Naruto created an illusion of the arena and explained that ten fighters per side would battle until one remained, with all others bound to obey the winner.
• A challenged Naruto's proposal, and Naruto released overwhelming chakra that shattered the meeting room and frightened the Raikage.
• Naruto told Tobirama he was setting the rules and said every country could enter up to ten fighters in the tournament.

Naruto’s Ninja World First Martial Arts Tournament drew factions from across the world, including powerful and unexpected entrants, as Naruto prepared the Valley of the End for the contest. Two months later, he announced the tournament to the entire Ninja World and declared it officially begun.

• Fourth Raikage A angrily reacted to the tournament rules, and Darui, Mabui, and C explained that Naruto’s Rinnegan genjutsu had prevented the Allied Forces from refusing them.
• Factions from the Five Great Nations and smaller lands registered, and Naruto found Jigen, Sasuke Uchiha, Otsutsuki Toneri, Uchiha Obito, and Mount Myoboku’s toads among the entrants.
• Naruto told Nara Shikaku that losing factions would have to disband and chose the Valley of the End as the battlefield.
• Hiruko and the scientific division prepared a Ninja World-wide holographic projection, while Earth Release: Iron Prison walls enclosed the battlefield.
• Two months later, Naruto addressed the Ninja World through the projection and declared the Ninja World First Martial Arts Tournament begun.

Might Guy knocked out Kusagakure’s ten Jonin as Kakashi’s scouting team entered the tournament, while Naruto announced that losing factions had to dissolve. After killing the Grass Shadow, Naruto summoned nine monsters and ordered them to destroy Kusagakure.

• Might Guy charged the ten Kusagakure Jonin with Leaf Great Whirlwind and defeated them before they could react.
• Kakashi scolded Guy for abandoning stealth, while Yamato struggled to hold back laughter.
• Naruto appeared before the Grass Shadow and declared that factions that did not win the tournament had to dissolve or face destruction.
• The Grass Shadow protested that the rules were unfair, and Naruto asked whether he intended to resist.
• Naruto pierced the Grass Shadow’s heart with a Chidori Blade, summoned Nine-Faced Supoci, and ordered them to destroy Kusagakure.

Naruto demonstrated his power by splitting the Yang Nine-Tails into nine beasts that destroyed Kusagakure, then warned that only one armed force would remain after the tournament. As Nagato summoned the Six Paths of Pain and Orochimaru Lu Ran unleashed thousands of Impure World Reincarnation ninja into the arena, Naruto watched the Land of Wind contestants without intervening.

• Naruto split the Yang Nine-Tails into nine Masked Beasts, which slaughtered Kusagakure's ninja and reduced the village to ruins with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Naruto declared that teams who lost the tournament must disband their organizations, and spectators realized the matches would determine the survival of their factions.
• Might Guy returned with Kakashi and Yamato to Akatsuki Village's camp, where Tsunade and Jiraiya discussed gathering intelligence and choosing where to strike.
• Nagato summoned the Six Paths of Pain, drawing outrage from spectators who thought he had exceeded the contestant limit.
• Orochimaru Lu Ran summoned thousands of ninja through Impure World Reincarnation and ordered them to attack everyone in the arena.
• Naruto let the chaos unfold and turned his attention toward the Land of Wind contestants.

At the Martial Arts Tournament, the Land of Wind's supposed team splintered into three rival factions, and Toneri tried to use the contest to learn what was calling to the Tenseigan. Naruto secretly fed the moon's Tenseigan Byakugan until it evolved, sealed it away, and left Toneri racing toward the sky after losing his connection to it.

• Obito called himself Madara Uchiha and tried to command Jigen's group and Toneri, but they ignored him.
• Deepa attacked the arena indiscriminately; Obito turned intangible, Sasuke used Susanoo to block the cubes, and Toneri repelled them with a force like Shinra Tensei.
• Toneri headed toward Akatsuki Village to seek Hyuga Hiashi's Byakugan, while Naruto realized the Tenseigan's power could still be used without being installed in Toneri.
• Naruto traveled to the moon, fed the enormous Tenseigan the Byakugan he had brought from another world, and sealed the evolved eye in a bottle.
• Toneri felt his connection to the Tenseigan break and flew toward the sky, realizing that his home had been robbed.

Toneri absorbed Ōnoki’s Dust Release and crushed much of the arena with lifted stone walls, while Jigen recognized his Ōtsutsuki power and ordered Kara not to interfere. As Toneri tried to leave, Naruto blocked his way, and Toneri’s deflected attack flattened a vast forest.

• Kurotsuchi and Ōnoki attacked Toneri with Dust Release, but Toneri absorbed the technique with the Tenseigan.
• Toneri lifted the arena’s stone walls and dropped them on the Hidden Stone Village shinobi, who escaped into a sealed pit.
• Jigen identified Toneri’s power as connected to the God Tree and told Code and Kara to keep moving toward Pain instead of capturing him.
• The Land of Wind’s Daimyo and ministers celebrated Toneri’s strength, while the other villages worried about facing him.
• Naruto blocked Toneri’s path with Yomotsu Hirasaka and knocked away his attack with Yin-Yang Release chakra, causing it to flatten a vast forest.

Naruto provoked Otsutsuki Toneri by offering to return the Tenseigan if Toneri won the competition, and Toneri’s attack turned the hidden contestants’ tournament into a chaotic battle royale. Naruto watched from the Konoha camp as Toneri hunted contestants across the arena.

• Naruto emerged from Yomotsu Hirasaka and told Toneri that he had severed Toneri’s connection to the Tenseigan to protect him from the consciousness inside it.
• Toneri recognized Naruto’s Rinnegan and attacked with Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, but Naruto teleported beside Tobirama Senju and avoided the blast.
• Kurotsuchi urged Ōnoki to apologize to Toneri, while Darui asked Killer B if he still planned to enter the arena; Killer B refused.
• Toneri dove into the forest searching for Naruto and killed contestants, turning the battle of attrition into a free-for-all.
• Land of Demons ninja trapped and attacked Land of Iron samurai, while Toneri hurled chunks of granite at Mifune and the others.
• Naruto watched the chaos from the Konoha camp and joked that he had called everyone for a martial arts tournament, then said he wanted to stir up a real fight before Ōtsutsuki Isshiki revived.

Orochimaru summoned four reanimated Kage, including Minato, while Naruto confronted Shimura Danzō. Naruto repeatedly killed Danzō, then trapped him in an endless death loop with Izanami.

• Orochimaru summoned the Third Raikage A, Mu, Hozuki Gengetsu, and Minato Namikaze from coffins.
• Naruto knocked Torune aside and faced Danzō, who tried to kill him with Fū Yamanaka’s Mind Transfer Puppet Technique.
• Naruto overwhelmed Fū’s spiritual power and killed Danzō repeatedly with different attacks as his Sharingan-powered recoveries ran out.
• Danzō seized Konan as a hostage, but Naruto made her vanish and killed him again.
• Naruto trapped Danzō in an endless cycle of death with Izanami.

Naruto trapped Danzo in an inescapable Izanami and watched Mifune battle the Tenseigan's clay giant while speculating that his world belonged to Dragon Ball's universe. As Naruto worried about the power of its strongest beings, Toneri found him and attacked with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

• Naruto left Danzo trapped in Izanami and rode a sand dragon toward the chaotic arena.
• Mifune used One-Sword Style: Iaido: Sky-Splitting Slash to cut off one arm of the clay giant.
• Naruto compared the samurai's swordsmanship to the Pirate World's Haki and concluded that the planet likely belonged to Zeno's universe.
• Naruto contemplated growing stronger with the God Tree and Super Shenron Dragon Balls, while fearing the power of Dragon Ball's top fighters.
• Toneri spotted Naruto and attacked him from the ground with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.

Toneri unleashed devastating attacks on the Ninja World, but Hashirama and Pain intervened to stop him. Pain redirected Toneri’s meteor shower and confronted him, ending the chapter as their techniques collided.

• Toneri’s golden sword split the earth and shattered the arena barrier, then he prepared to cut apart the Ninja World.
• Hashirama attacked Toneri with Wood Release, and his Sage Art struck Toneri away after repelling the weapon made from Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Kokuō and Killer B fired Tailed Beast Bombs at Toneri, but Toneri absorbed them and regained Tenseigan Chakra Mode.
• Toneri summoned a vast meteor shower over the Land of Fire, and Pain used Planetary Devastation to pull the meteors back into the sky.
• Pain confronted Toneri and threatened to kill him if he continued attacking the Ninja World.
• Toneri used Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion as Pain answered with Shinra Tensei, and their forces collided in a massive explosion.

Toneri and Pain fought to a stalemate until Toneri destroyed the Deva Path, while Nagato’s chakra dwindled. Ōnoki then sent Hidden Stone ninja into the battle, only for the supposedly dead Third Raikage A to appear and charge their forces.

• Pain and Toneri exchanged attacks in midair, with Pain using Black Rods, Strange Arm Rockets, summons, and Shinra Tensei against Toneri’s Tenseigan abilities.
• Nagato’s chakra drain left Pain at a disadvantage, and Toneri split the Deva Path in half with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Toneri searched the battlefield for Naruto, believing Pain was a clone Naruto had created.
• Ōnoki sent Hidden Stone Village ninja into the battle and dismissed Akatsuki as defeated, prompting the Fourth Raikage A to accuse him of breaking the rules.
• The Third Raikage A appeared from the forest and charged into the Hidden Stone forces with Hell Stab: Four-Finger Nukite.

The resurrected Kage gathered in Iwagakure and learned that Tobirama Senju had summoned them, while Minato Namikaze discovered that Naruto Uzumaki had destroyed Konoha. Minato was left reeling after Hashirama Senju explained that he could have saved himself, Kushina, and Naruto by sealing the Nine-Tails back into Kushina.

• The Third Raikage fought his way through Iwagakure until Mu arrived and warned him to target someone else.
• Minato Namikaze tried to calm the Kage, and Mu accused Konoha’s Second Hokage of resurrecting the dead.
• Tobirama Senju arrived with Hashirama Senju, and Hozuki Gengetsu confronted Tobirama about bringing them back.
• Tobirama told Minato that Naruto Uzumaki had destroyed Konoha, leaving Minato shocked.
• Minato explained how he split the Nine-Tails and sealed it into himself and Naruto, and Hashirama said he could have sealed it back into Kushina Uzumaki.
• The Fourth Raikage said Hiruzen Sarutobi had been unable to stop Naruto and claimed that not even bone fragments of him remained.

Obito tried to capture Han and Killer B while promising Sasuke that the Rinne Rebirth could restore the Uchiha Clan, but Minato exposed and attacked him. After Obito escaped, he agreed to connect to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, advancing Black Zetsu’s plan.

• Ōnoki learned that a masked Akatsuki man had taken Han, the Five-Tails’ Jinchuriki.
• Sasuke ambushed Han in Kamui space, and Obito promised him he could revive the Uchiha Clan by becoming the Ten-Tails’ Jinchuriki.
• Obito tried to pull Killer B into Kamui, but Minato struck him with a Rasengan and tried to remove his mask.
• Obito phased through the pursuing ninjas and escaped to Kamui space, where he ordered someone to tell Black Zetsu he would connect to the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Black Zetsu welcomed Obito’s decision and looked toward the rift Toneri had created, preparing to seek his father’s help.

Naruto learned that Obito had captured the Five-Tails and obtained Sasuke Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan, then ordered Black Zetsu to bring Sasuke to him. He emerged into the battle and revealed his own Six Paths Power, leaving Toneri trapped in his grasp as he drained Toneri’s chakra.

• Black Zetsu told Naruto that Toneri had retreated, the Five-Tails had been captured by Obito, and Obito had obtained Sasuke Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Naruto ordered Black Zetsu to bring Sasuke to him, and Black Zetsu relayed the order to Obito.
• Obito dismissed Naruto’s command and headed toward Sasuke, believing he could become the Ten-Tails’ Jinchuriki.
• Naruto flew from the rift and returned to the arena, where several factions were fighting outside the tournament rules.
• Otsutsuki Toneri charged Naruto, who activated his Six-Tomoe Rinnegan and Six Paths Sage Mode, revealing his own Six Paths Power.
• Naruto vanished from Toneri’s perception, seized him by the throat, and drained his chakra while explaining that Senjutsu made him one with nature.

Naruto killed Toneri and displayed a presence-erasing fighting style that Mu recognized as an advanced form of automatic movement. He demanded the Eight-Tails, killed the Third Raikage when he intervened, and threatened to destroy the battlefield; the Fourth Raikage then launched a lightning-fast attack at Naruto.

• Naruto drained Toneri's life force and killed him, then concealed his presence so completely that Toneri had been unable to sense him.
• Mu recognized Naruto's concealment and movement as an extraordinary technique that let his body react without conscious commands.
• Naruto appeared among the Kage Level powerhouses and demanded that they hand over the Eight-Tails.
• The Fourth Raikage attacked Naruto, but the Third Raikage kicked his son away and was pierced through by Naruto's Truth-Seeking Orb.
• Tobirama Senju explained that the Third Raikage should revive through Impure World Reincarnation, then realized Naruto had prevented it from happening.
• Naruto aimed black Tailed Beast Bombs at the battlefield and demanded the Eight-Tails, prompting the Fourth Raikage to rush at him with a lightning-powered strike.

Naruto overwhelmed the Fourth Raikage and unleashed nine Tailed Beast Bombs, devastating the battlefield despite Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Minato Namikaze trying to contain them. Hashirama summoned True Several Thousand Hands in rage, while Naruto noticed the cheat seller arriving in the sky.

• Naruto caught the Fourth Raikage’s chop and slammed him into the ground with overwhelming strength.
• Killer B attacked Naruto with a Tailed Beast Bomb, and Naruto countered with nine enlarged bombs.
• Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Minato Namikaze intercepted five bombs, but the others detonated and devastated the battlefield.
• Hashirama Senju’s Wood Release protected some survivors, while Killer B shielded the injured Fourth Raikage, Darui, C, and the other contestants.
• Naruto told Hashirama Senju that he wanted strength and claimed the thousands killed would help bring future peace.
• Hashirama Senju summoned True Several Thousand Hands, and Naruto looked toward the sky and announced that the cheat seller had arrived.

Naruto defeated Hashirama Senju and his True Several Thousand Hands with Ultimate Susanoo, leaving the Kage convinced they could not stop him. Killer B then chose to face Naruto alone, knocking the Fourth Raikage aside and calling on him to take Gyūki.

• The Sage of Six Paths restored Hashirama Senju to his full strength, and Hashirama summoned the True Several Thousand Hands to confront Naruto.
• Naruto formed Ultimate Susanoo, wielded four Indra's Swords, and cut Hashirama and the Thousand-Hand Guanyin into pieces, freeing Hashirama's soul from Impure World Reincarnation.
• Tobirama Senju and the Kage watched Naruto's victory in shock, while Killer B recognized that he had no chance of resisting Naruto with Gyūki's power.
• Killer B stopped the Fourth Raikage from attacking Naruto and said he would trade himself for peace.
• Killer B and the Fourth Raikage fought with Double Lariat, and Killer B overpowered and sent the Fourth Raikage flying.
• Killer B challenged Naruto to take Gyūki from him, and Gyūki's chakra surged across the battlefield.

Naruto brutally defeated Minato, released the Nine-Tails from his seal, and destroyed Minato's Impure World Reincarnation body. As the Fourth Raikage tried to escape with Killer B, the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path appeared and began extracting the Eight-Tails.

• Naruto repelled Gyūki with Shinra Tensei and attacked Minato, blaming him for turning his newborn son into a weapon of war.
• Naruto used a soul attack to torment Minato, pursuing him through his Flying Thunder God teleports and beating him repeatedly.
• Naruto choked Minato, declared that the consciousness belonging to Naruto had been erased, and released the Eight Trigrams Seal.
• The Yin Nine-Tails emerged from Minato and fell under Naruto's control before Naruto destroyed Minato's body and soul, which turned into a White Zetsu.
• The Fourth Raikage tried to leave with Killer B, but the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path burst from the ground and its chains began extracting the Eight-Tails.

Obito and Nagato advanced the Eye of the Moon Plan by extracting the Eight-Tails and summoning Madara Uchiha, while Naruto arrived with the Yin Nine-Tails and challenged Madara. The chapter ended with Obito releasing Sasuke and Madara punching him.

• Obito extracted the Eight-Tails from Killer B, fed the chakra and the Six Paths Ninja Tools containing Kinkaku and Ginkaku to the Demonic Statue, and announced his plan to end hatred.
• Black Zetsu controlled Nagato into using the Outer Path — Samsara of Heavenly Life Technique, which summoned Madara Uchiha.
• Madara recognized that the Nine-Tails was missing, and Naruto arrived atop the Yin Nine-Tails and extinguished Madara's Fire Release with one claw.
• Black Zetsu revealed that Naruto had awakened the Rinnegan, while Naruto demanded that Madara trade Sasuke for the Nine-Tails.
• Obito released Sasuke from another dimension, and Madara punched him as he tried to understand the battlefield.