Chapter Summaries

Ren led Konoha’s assault against the Sha Ninja, using the Baleful-Slaying Sword to cut through their forces while avoiding large-scale ninjutsu that could hit his own side. The battle ended with Ren facing Law, whose Absolute Protection failed to stop Ren’s attack.

• Ren charged into the battlefield with the Baleful-Slaying Sword, and its growing Zhu Xian Sword Intent made his attacks increasingly deadly.
• Jiraiya, Minato, and Fugaku Uchiha joined the fighting as Konoha’s shinobi and the Sha Ninja became entangled in close combat.
• Ren destroyed a puppeteer’s puppet and killed the puppeteer after taunting him about Puppet Technique.
• Law called for the Sha Ninja to join the fight, and Ren declared that Law would die there.
• Ren crossed the battlefield and cut through Law’s Magnet Release—Absolute Protection, leaving a gash across his abdomen.

Ren fought Law and two other Sand Ninja Village fighters, cutting through their attacks and surviving their combined assault with Susanoo wings. He emerged unharmed and challenged the three of them to do better.

• Ren severed Law’s Gold Dust defense and nearly killed him, then cut apart Law’s Gold Dust Binding Assault.
• Ren used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to distract Law and strike at his throat, but Law escaped with a Gold Dust Substitute as a puppeteer intervened with Chikamatsu’s Ten Puppets.
• Law and two other Sand Ninja Village fighters joined forces, attacking Ren with Gold Dust, poison, Fire Release, and Water Release.
• Ren endured the combined assault without injury, revealed his Susanoo wings, and taunted the three fighters.

Ren defeated Rasa, Chiyo, and Ebizo before confronting the rampaging One-Tail, Tsuru. After discovering his Susanoo wings could not fully withstand a Tailed Beast Bomb, he began gathering Natural Energy into the Baleful-Slaying Sword.

• Ren shattered Chiyo's puppet shield and Rasa's Gold Dust Giant with gale-force Susanoo wings, sending both into the desert.
• Ren killed Ebizo with the Baleful-Slaying Sword after recognizing him as Chiyo's younger brother.
• Jiraiya warned the others to retreat as Tsuru gathered and fired a Tailed Beast Bomb at Ren.
• Ren's wings blocked the attack but developed cracks, leading him to decide he needed to strengthen Susanoo's defense.
• Ren evaded Tsuru's Tailed Beast Balls and used the Baleful-Slaying Sword to absorb Natural Energy, which Fukasaku distinguished from Sage Chakra.

Ren drew on the Zhu Xian Sword Intent in his soul and used the Baleful-Slaying Sword to cut off Shukaku’s head and split his Tailed Beast Ball. The chapter ended with Ren discovering that the Sword Intent could draw in and devour Natural Energy as his sword light sliced through Shukaku’s attack.

• Ren raised the Baleful-Slaying Sword and split the Tailed Beast Ball that had been sent toward him.
• Ren swept a vast sword light across Shukaku’s neck and severed his head.
• Shukaku awakened, roared at Ren, and gathered Chakra in his head to form another Tailed Beast Ball.
• Ren drew out the Zhu Xian Sword Intent, releasing terrifying fiendish qi that silenced the battlefield.
• Ren’s sword light absorbed Natural Energy and sliced through Shukaku’s Tailed Beast Ball like tofu.

Ren defeated Shukaku with the Zhu Xian Sword Intent but injured himself with its backlash, then learned that Kirigakure had mobilized every clan for the Third Shinobi World War. Madara planned to use the clans to test Ren on the battlefield in the Land of Whirlpools.

• Ren unleashed the Zhu Xian Sword Intent, carving a vast canyon and forcing Shukaku to retreat, but the technique injured him as well.
• Ren returned to Kikyo Mountain and left the Sand Ninja front to Jiraiya while he recovered from his internal injuries.
• Jiraiya explained that the Sand Ninja had lost several key fighters and that Konoha should hold its position.
• Ren received intelligence that every Kirigakure clan had mobilized, and he left the Sand Ninja front to head toward Orochimaru's side.
• White Zetsu reported that Kirigakure's clans had entered the battlefield in the Land of Whirlpools, and Madara said he wanted them to test Ren.

Ren encountered repeated Kirigakure ambushes while traveling to Orochimaru, including an attack by members of the Scale Clan, and learned that his location had been exposed. He continued through the assassins and confronted an elder of the Kaguya Clan.

• Madara assigned Black Zetsu to direct the coming war and White Zetsu to gather intelligence, then ordered White Zetsu to find promising Uchiha in Konoha.
• Ren detected six Scale Clan members lying in ambush and killed the first attacker with the Baleful-Slaying Sword.
• Ren ordered the Shadow Guards to behead the remaining Scale Clan attackers and seal their bodies for experiments.
• A Shadow Guard reported that Kirigakure had prepared multiple ambushes along Ren’s route, and Ren suspected White Zetsu and Black Zetsu had revealed his whereabouts.
• Ren fought through further assassination attempts and challenged an elder of the Kaguya Clan, who acknowledged Ren’s strength.

Ren defeated an elderly Kaguya clan attacker and recognized that he needed to master Sage Mode to safely wield his Black Flame Rasengan. He reached Orochimaru’s camp as Konoha and Hidden Mist continued a battle of attrition, where Orochimaru noted that the strongest fighters had yet to enter the war.

• Ren challenged the elderly Kaguya man’s belief in Yagura’s promise, then destroyed his bone forest with Black Flame Rasengan—Flame Emperor and ordered the unconscious man sealed.
• Ren saw that the Black Flame Rasengan had cracked and melted his Susanoo, and concluded that he needed to master Sage Mode to stabilize the technique.
• Ren and the Shadow Guards headed to Orochimaru’s camp, carrying the captured Kaguya man.
• Orochimaru and Ren observed Konoha and Hidden Mist trading weapons and ninjutsu across a wide no-man’s-land.
• Orochimaru explained that the battle was still a war of attrition and that the Jonin-level fighters had not yet joined the fighting.

Ren summoned nineteen powerful beasts and unleashed them against the Hidden Mist’s massive army, while Yagura used a waterfall technique to counter the attack. The battlefield descended into slaughter as the beasts tore through the Mist Ninja ranks.

• Ren ordered the Konoha ninja to retreat before he confronted the Hidden Mist’s cannon fodder.
• Ren used the Summoning Technique to call seven giant dogs, eight snakes, Katsuyu, and three apes to the battlefield.
• Ren ordered the beasts to attack and unleashed a massive Fire Release, which Arcanine’s flames strengthened.
• Black Zetsu urged Yagura to use the Three-Tails’ power and countered with the Great Waterfall Technique.
• The summoned beasts charged into the Mist Ninja ranks, killing them with fire, poison, wind blades, earthquakes, and brute force.

Ren unleashed Lightning Release—Roar of Ten Thousand Dragons against the Hidden Mist forces after his Summoning Beasts attacked their camp. The lightning devastated the battlefield, leaving the Mist Ninja with nowhere to escape.

• Ren used his Summoning Beasts to cut through the Hidden Mist forces, then gathered lightning in the storm clouds above.
• Black Zetsu recognized the danger and retreated with Yagura, while the Hidden Mist elites followed.
• Ren summoned thousands of Thunder Dragons and sent his seven giant hounds and Manda away from the battlefield.
• Ren brought the Thunder Dragons down on the Mist Ninja, causing widespread destruction as Black Zetsu and the Hidden Mist higher-ups fled.
• Ren expended thirty percent of his Chakra while the remaining Mist Ninja struggled to survive amid the lightning.

Ren and the shinobi fled as a hidden sealing array beneath the Land of Whirlpools awakened and began consuming lives. The array killed thousands from both sides, while Ren remained protected by Susanoo and sensed their life force gathering.

• After Ren killed thousands of Hidden Mist shinobi, Yagura ordered his forces to retreat.
• Ren sensed danger beneath the ground and ordered everyone to leave the Land of Whirlpools, and Orochimaru and Yagura also commanded their forces to withdraw.
• The ground split into ravines that formed a vast red-lit sealing array beneath the Land of Whirlpools.
• The array devoured the dead and turned slower-fleeing ninjas into bones and ash, killing over a thousand Konoha shinobi and several thousand Kirigakure shinobi.
• Ren suspected the array was the curse Kushina had mentioned, while Susanoo shielded him and his Mangekyō Sharingan sensed life force gathering.

The Uzumaki Clan's ancient Sealing Jutsu transformed the Land of Whirlpools into a blood-red wasteland and unleashed a vast army of laser-firing puppets. Ren fought back with Susanoo and the Devouring Heaven Demonic Jar as the puppets' assault continued.

• Ren watched the Sealing Jutsu send a crimson pillar toward the moon, turning it red and spreading deadly light across the Land of Whirlpools.
• The red light killed all remaining life in the land, including at least three thousand of Ren's village's ninjas and five thousand from Kirigakure.
• Countless blood-red puppets appeared and fired lasers at Ren, who defended himself with Susanoo.
• Ren transformed Susanoo into its complete form and slashed through the lasers, but the puppet army multiplied to around a million.
• Ren flew into the sky, fired Yasaka Magatama, and used the Devouring Heaven Demonic Jar to absorb the incoming lasers.

Ren fought an immense Uzumaki sealing jutsu in the Land of Whirlpools, absorbing its chakra while fending off millions of puppets and lasers. After a pillar of red light nearly struck him, Ren ordered the armies to retreat to the Land of Waves, and Kirigakure also withdrew when the sealing jutsu remained active.

• Ren used the Devouring Heaven Demonic Jar to absorb the puppets’ red lasers and convert their energy into Chakra while attacking with Susanoo techniques and wind blades.
• The lasers multiplied into millions, trapping Ren in a stalemate until they gathered at the central altar and fired a powerful beam at him.
• Ren used Flying Thunder God to escape the beam, then told Orochimaru to retreat with the army to the Land of Waves.
• Orochimaru ordered Hyuga Hiashi to lead the retreat as Ren declared the Land of Whirlpools a forbidden land.
• Black Zetsu controlled Yagura and withdrew Kirigakure after its scouts found the sealing jutsu still active and attacking intruders.

Ren investigated the secrets beneath the Land of Whirlpools and discovered that its blood-draining Sealing Jutsu was powered by the God Tree. He entered an underground cavern and found the tree itself Devouring blood-red energy.

• Both forces retreated to the Land of Waves and recovered after the Uzumaki Clan's Sealing Jutsu killed many of their ninja.
• Ren entered the Land of Whirlpools and discovered that its wandering puppets were Human Puppets made from people.
• Ren's necklace, which had belonged to Kushina and been given to him by Reiko Uzumaki, stopped the puppets from attacking him.
• Ren reached the altar, identified the God Tree in its inscriptions, and blasted through the stone slab to enter the space below.
• Ren found a massive part of the God Tree Devouring blood-red energy and recognized it as the God Tree.

Ren discovered a God Tree beneath the Uzumaki Clan and was interrupted by the spirit of Uzumaki Sura, who identified himself as Asura. Asura questioned Ren about his inherited Chakra, then sensed the Uzumaki Clan’s absence from the Land of Whirlpools and asked where Ren’s necklace came from.

• Ren entered the underground chamber and found that its river and the area around the God Tree devoured Chakra.
• A spirit emerged from the stone tablet, and Ren recognized him as an ancestor of the Uzumaki Clan.
• The spirit introduced himself as Uzumaki Sura, also known as Asura, and recognized Ren’s Uchiha blood and inherited Chakra.
• Asura questioned Ren about how he had erased the will within Indra’s Chakra, but Ren said he did not know.
• Asura sensed that no Uzumaki Clan Chakra remained in the Land of Whirlpools and demanded to know what had happened.
• Asura asked Ren where the necklace around his neck had come from.

Ren learned that Asura had created Sealing Jutsu and built the God Tree to revive himself, then discovered Asura planned to steal his body. Asura used Ren’s necklace to bind him and began pulling out his soul.

• Ren told Asura that his wife, an Uzumaki, had given him the necklace, and Asura recognized it as his own.
• Asura explained that the Sealing Jutsu had been meant to nurture the God Tree with Natural Energy, but the missing Natural Gemstone had caused it to consume human lives.
• Asura revealed that he had founded Sealing Jutsu, slaughtered people to strengthen the God Tree, created soul-infused puppets, and fought his brother before sealing himself into a stone tablet.
• Asura told Ren he wanted to take his body because of Ren’s inherited bloodlines and spiritual power.
• Asura used the necklace’s golden chains to restrain Ren and touched his shoulder to extract his soul.
• Ren recognized the technique as the Reaper Death Seal and struggled against Asura’s soul-pulling Sealing Jutsu.

Ren defeated Asura after Asura tried to seize his soul, binding him in the Soul Hall with Soul Chains. Ren then approached the God Tree Fragment Asura had gathered and sensed a powerful change as its vitality stirred his Chakra.

• Asura reached for Ren’s soul, but Ren’s Zhu Xian Sword Aura severed Asura’s arm and broke the Sealing Chains holding him.
• Ren summoned the Soul Hall and sent Soul Chains to bind Asura and drag him inside, despite Asura opening a passage to the Pure Land.
• With Asura gone, the Sealing Jutsu fell dormant, and Ren crossed the river to claim the God Tree Fragment.
• Ren touched the God Tree Fragment, causing his Chakra to surge as his Mangekyō Sharingan sensed changes in his body.

Ren devoured the God Tree, strengthening his Mangekyō Sharingan and physique while awakening Shikotsumyaku and a powerful black Chakra nature. After testing his new abilities, he entered the Soul Hall to face Asura.

• The God Tree began devouring Ren’s Chakra and life force, but Ren summoned the Devouring Heaven Demonic Jar and absorbed the tree.
• The God Tree’s power changed Ren’s body, strengthened his Mangekyō Sharingan, and fused his fire, lightning, and Yin Chakra into a new nature.
• Ren’s bones awakened Shikotsumyaku and became far stronger as they absorbed the God Tree’s energy.
• Ren fired a black bone through a stone monument and wall, then formed black flames threaded with lightning into a spear.
• Ren entered the Soul Hall, where he saw Hiruzen.

Ren learned that the Sage of Six Paths might seek revenge for his erasure of Indra’s will, but dismissed the threat and revealed his plans to revive Kaguya Otsutsuki and take her power. After confronting Black Zetsu over Kirigakure’s attack on Konoha, Ren discovered that the God Tree’s power had awakened his Byakugan.

• Ren bound Asura with Soul Chains and tortured him for information, and Asura warned that the Sage of Six Paths would come after Ren for erasing Indra’s will.
• Ren told Asura that Madara had begun reviving the Ten-Tails and that he intended to revive Kaguya Otsutsuki and strip away her power.
• Ren confronted Black Zetsu, who explained that Madara was selecting promising candidates from Kirigakure rather than trying to oppose Ren directly.
• Ren threatened Black Zetsu and ordered him to leave, warning that he would send Madara to Hell if the old man interfered.
• Ren examined his eyes and realized that devouring the God Tree had awakened Shikotsumyaku and the Byakugan, not the Rinnegan.

Ren awakened the Byakugan after his bloodline grew close to the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s, while Madara learned that Obito carried Hashirama’s bloodline and selected him as an executor for his plan. Back in the Land of Waves, Ren sensed new trash at the Trash Station but chose to study his new abilities first.

• Ren realized his Sharingan had transformed into the Byakugan and considered how it might evolve into the Tenseigan.
• Madara learned from Black Zetsu that Ren’s eyes had evolved and decided to accelerate their plans.
• White Zetsu identified two-year-old Obito Uchiha as a suitable executor because Hashirama’s bloodline ran through him.
• Madara approved the plan to shape Obito, whose mixed Uchiha and Senju heritage could support Hashirama’s cells and the Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Ren returned to the Land of Waves, sensed new trash, and chose to study his newly awakened abilities before visiting the Trash Station.
• Ren tested his Black Flame against a black bone, but the blade could not cut through it.

Ren returned to Konoha after being summoned and learned that Kumogakure had assembled three controlled Tailed Beasts, the Tsuchigumo Clan, and support from the Land of Iron against his forces. After healing White Fang, Ren prepared to go to the battlefield and ordered Red Queen to extract a corpse in an icy cave.

• Ren tested his newly awakened Shikotsumyaku, then left his battlefield camp for Konoha after receiving a summons.
• Konan told Ren that Tsunade, Mikoto, Reiko, and Kushina were holding the Iwagakure front and had inflicted heavy losses on Ōnoki's forces.
• White Fang reported that Kumogakure had deployed the Two-Tails and Eight-Tails, secured the Seven-Tails from Takigakure, and gained help from the Tsuchigumo Clan and the Land of Iron.
• Ren healed White Fang's internal injuries with Life Bestowal and announced that he would set out for the Kumogakure battlefield.
• Ren appeared in an icy cave and told Red Queen to extract a corpse.