Recaps

Naruto, Sasuke, Minato, and Sara blasted through Anrokuzan’s underground defenses and disabled the Dragon Vein energy pipes, leaving Anrokuzan to prepare for a direct fight. Naruto and Sasuke advanced toward him as the main event began.

• Naruto detonated a directional charge that breached the underground fortress, while Sasuke fought the mechanical spiders with a steel pipe despite being unable to use chakra.
• Naruto destroyed a combined spider construct with another explosive, blasting a passage through three underground levels and forcing Anrokuzan to activate backup defenses.
• The group advanced toward Anrokuzan’s lair, and Naruto ordered Sasuke to destroy the left energy-transfer pipes while he handled the right.
• Naruto and Sasuke detonated both sets of Dragon Vein pipes, disrupting the mechanical guards and allowing Sasuke to cut through them while Naruto seized a guard’s weapon and opened fire.
• Anrokuzan began transforming his mechanical body to enter the battle, and Naruto declared that their warm-up was over.

Naruto, Sasuke, Minato, and Sara fought Anrokuzan after he transformed and used the Dragon Vein to unleash a powerful magnetic field and high-energy rays. They took shelter behind granite pillars, where Minato spotted an overloaded conduit that might be a weakness, but the group remained trapped and weaponless.

• Anrokuzan transformed into a massive armored machine and used a magnetic field to jam Naruto’s gun and rip Sasuke’s swords away.
• Anrokuzan turned the airborne metal debris into a storm and charged his cannons while Naruto warned the others to abandon iron equipment and reinforced-concrete cover.
• Minato led Naruto, Sasuke, and Sara behind granite pillars, which shielded them from Anrokuzan’s sweeping high-energy rays.
• Anrokuzan increased the cannon output, heating the pillars and filling the underground hall with dust and smoke.
• Minato spotted a blackened, cracked energy-transfer conduit connecting Anrokuzan to the core, while Naruto and Sasuke prepared to fight back.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Minato fought Anrokuzan’s machine while Sara overcame her fear and raced to its control center. As Anrokuzan charged his main cannon, Sara activated the console with the Royal Authority Badge, leaving the battle poised for a final confrontation.

• Anrokuzan sent electrified tentacles after Sara, and Naruto jammed one with his injured arm, stopping its gears with his bones.
• Sasuke deflected the other tentacles with chunks of insulating granite, while Naruto urged Sara to reach the control center and cut the machine’s power.
• Sara overcame her fear and sprinted toward the control center as Naruto, Sasuke, and Minato formed a line to protect her from Anrokuzan’s attacks.
• Anrokuzan destroyed the machine’s outer defenses and charged his main cannon, while Naruto, Sasuke, and Minato prepared to hold their ground.
• Sara reached the control console and inserted the Royal Authority Badge into its identification slot, activating the screen.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Sara worked together to stop Anrokuzan after its software controls proved useless. Sara pulled out the Dragon Vein conduit, paralyzing the machine, but a strange vibration from inside it left the danger unresolved.

• Naruto braced a V-shaped stack of lead plates against Anrokuzan's beam as it burned through the granite pillar, suffering severe burns to his back.
• Sasuke hurled rubble at Anrokuzan's sensors, disrupting its targeting system and diverting the beam away from Naruto.
• Sara discovered Anrokuzan had physically locked out the console and, urged on by Naruto, grabbed the scorching main conduit and pulled it loose.
• The severed conduit unleashed Dragon Vein energy and cut Anrokuzan's power, paralyzing its frame as Naruto and Sara collapsed from their injuries.
• A low-frequency vibration came from inside the disabled Anrokuzan, and Minato raised his kunai in alarm.

Naruto, Minato, Sasuke, and Sara escaped the Chaos Virus after it transformed Anrokuzan’s wreckage into an Aberration immune to physical attacks. Naruto proposed detonating the reactor’s cooling pipes to vaporize it and reopen the chakra seal, and the group prepared to fight their way back as the corroded gate began to fail.

• Anrokuzan’s wreckage became an Aberration, and its Chaos tentacles corroded stone while Naruto rescued Sara and Minato helped him bury the creature beneath collapsing rubble.
• The four retreated into a sewage passage, where Naruto identified the creature as the Chaos Virus released by Kabuto Yakushi and warned that the rubble would hold it only briefly.
• Naruto argued they needed to break the seal beneath the core reactor to reclaim their chakra, then revealed backup power lines and Industrial Explosive Tags stored in a chest.
• Naruto proposed blowing up the reactor’s cooling pipes to vaporize the Aberration long enough to open the chakra seal, and Sara agreed to help.
• The Chaos Virus corroded through the metal gate, and Naruto prepared to lead the group back toward the reactor.

Naruto, Minato, Sasuke, and Sara became trapped in the cooling pool as the Aberration pursued them, and Naruto was impaled while trying to destroy the Dragon Vein pipes. Sara awakened her royal bloodline, unleashing Dragon Vein energy that healed Naruto and broke the spacetime shackles on him, Sasuke, and Minato; they faced the retreating Aberration, ready to fight.

• Minato, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sara fled toward the cooling pool while Minato’s explosive tags and Sasuke’s cluster charge failed to stop the Aberration.
• With the Aberration blocking every escape, Naruto shoved Sara toward Minato and leaped into the tendrils with the explosive case, but a tendril pierced his abdomen and the case failed to detonate.
• The Nine-Tails awakened inside Naruto and fought against the spacetime seal as Sara broke free of Minato and jumped to catch him, declaring that she would not let him die.
• Sara’s royal bloodline connected with the Dragon Vein, whose golden energy destroyed the tendril, healed Naruto, and combined with the Nine-Tails’ chakra to break the spacetime shackles.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Minato regained their power, and the Aberration recoiled as Naruto formed a Rasenshuriken and Sasuke and Minato prepared to attack.

Naruto and Sasuke unleashed their full power against the Aberration in the underground hall, while Minato protected Sara. They completely destroyed the Chaos creature, leaving the residents of the Ancient Kingdom of Roran to witness pillars of golden and purple light rise above the city.

• Naruto healed his fatal wound with the combined power of the Nine-Tails and the Dragon Vein, then moved Sara toward Minato.
• The Aberration absorbed metal and rubble, grew into a massive monster, and sent hundreds of corrosive tentacles toward Naruto, Sasuke, and Minato.
• Sasuke summoned his Complete Body Purple Susanoo and severed the tentacles before pinning the Aberration beneath its foot.
• Naruto entered Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and struck the Aberration's core with a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, which erased the Chaos Virus.
• Residents of the Ancient Kingdom of Roran felt the underground shock wave and saw golden and purple pillars of light rise over the city.
• The chakra storm faded, leaving only metal powder where the Aberration had stood.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Minato stopped Anrokuzan’s final attempt to destroy Rōran by containing the corrupted Dragon Vein and destroying its Chaos core. With the Dragon Vein restored and Sara’s people safe, Minato left a hidden safeguard in the sealing array.

• Anrokuzan fused his remaining consciousness with the Chaos Virus and triggered the Dragon Vein’s self-destruct sequence, threatening Rōran and everyone within a hundred li.
• Sasuke used Amaterasu to block the corrupted energy from spreading beyond the reactor, forcing it to compress around the core.
• Naruto formed a Super Big Ball Rasengan, and Minato used Flying Thunder God to carry them through a blind spot in the Chaos shell.
• Naruto and Minato combined their chakra into a Taiji Rasengan and destroyed Anrokuzan’s Chaos core, calming the Dragon Vein.
• Minato placed a marked Kunai in the sealing array as a hidden safeguard, while Sara wept with relief that Rōran and its people were safe.

Naruto and Sasuke resisted a space-time rift long enough to extract Dragon Vein energy, then prepared to return to their own era. Minato erased Sara’s and Team Minato’s memories before Naruto and Sasuke entered the passage home.

• Minato sealed the array’s central point as Naruto and Sasuke recovered from defeating Anrokuzan.
• A space-time rift opened when Naruto reached for the Dragon Vein Core, and Minato rescued Sara from its pull.
• Naruto used the kunai as a space-time anchor while Sasuke restrained the Dragon Vein Core with Lightning Release chains.
• Naruto extracted and sealed some of the core’s energy in a lead-lined scroll, causing the rift to stabilize.
• Minato cast the Memory-Erasing Seal on Sara and Team Minato, while Sara bowed farewell to Naruto.
• Naruto and Sasuke entered the passage to return to their village, and the rift closed behind them.

Naruto and Sasuke returned to Konoha expecting chaos, but found the former Hokage keeping order while Shikamaru struggled with the administrative workload. Naruto delivered the Dragon Vein Core from Rōran, resolving Konoha’s reactor fuel crisis and enabling a wider industrial upgrade.

• Naruto and Sasuke emerged battered into the Hokage conference room, where Tsunade, Hashirama, and Tobirama were calmly maintaining order.
• Tobirama reprimanded Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu for delaying Chakra-Conducting Metal deliveries, and the advisors then hurried to serve Naruto tea and a towel.
• Shikamaru confronted Naruto with a huge stack of pending documents and demanded that he take over the approvals.
• Naruto placed the sealed Dragon Vein Core of Rōran on the desk and announced that it could power Konoha’s industrial system for fifty years, resolving the Third Reactor’s fuel crisis.
• Tobirama proposed restarting the Heavy Chakra Railgun project, and Naruto declared that Konoha would expand its industrial power to crush the Shinobi World’s old order.

After returning from Rōran with the Dragon Vein Core, Naruto rested in his office, where Hinata discovered Queen Sara’s scent on his clothes and pressed him for an explanation. Once the awkward confrontation eased, Naruto resumed directing Konoha’s industrial recovery and prepared for threats along the Land of Wind and Land of Rivers borders.

• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama Senju took the Dragon Vein Core to the Arsenal’s core laboratory, while Shikamaru Nara collapsed after finishing emergency orders.
• Naruto returned to his office with Sasuke and coughed from lingering space-time energy in his chakra pathways.
• Hinata found Queen Sara’s perfume and tears on Naruto’s clothes, activated her Byakugan, and demanded to know what happened in Rōran.
• Naruto tried to explain his interactions with Sara, but Sasuke denied knowing anything and fled through the window.
• Hinata soothed Naruto as he ate, then urged him to have his space-time chakra residue examined by Lady Tsunade.
• Naruto ordered the Engineering Department to finish the Third Reactor’s fuel replacement and told Hinata to watch the Land of Wind border, while he prioritized sending Chakra-Conducting Metal to the Land of Rivers frontline after Kabuto Yakushi’s appearance.

Kabuto Yakushi tried to corrupt Colonel Ka’s convoy with the Chaos Seed, but Colonel Ka dismissed it as a useless, counterfeit battery. After Konoha identified extreme materialism as a defense against Spiritual Pollution, Kabuto headed toward Iwagakure to target traditional ninja instead.

• Shikamaru spotted Kabuto Yakushi approaching Colonel Ka’s convoy and raised the alarm, prompting Naruto to prepare a long-range strike.
• Kabuto released Chaos mist and preached about the Warp, but Colonel Ka rejected it and demanded to know whether the seed could power his engines.
• Colonel Ka offered Kabuto one hundred bucks for the seed as cabin lighting, and Kabuto’s Spiritual Pollution failed to affect him.
• Kabuto withdrew into the sand as Colonel Ka resumed the convoy’s journey toward the Land of Birds.
• Naruto ordered Konoha to study the Chaos Seed, strengthen surveillance, and teach basic physics as a defense against Chaos.
• Kabuto resurfaced far away and decided to seek out despairing traditional ninja in Iwagakure.

Kabuto’s Mutant White Zetsu attacked Colonel Ka’s convoy, but Ka’s mercenaries held them off with heavy firearms until Kabuto ordered a retreat. Naruto marked Ka’s force as a potential ally against Chaos, while Hashirama and Tobirama discussed the destructive power of Konoha’s industrial weapons.

• Kabuto sent Mutant White Zetsu to ambush Colonel Ka’s convoy after deciding to force the Chaos Seed into Ka.
• Colonel Ka rallied his panicked mercenaries, and his forces used machine guns, rockets, and the Golden Tank to repel the Mutant White Zetsu.
• Kabuto noticed Konoha’s reconnaissance drone and withdrew the surviving White Zetsu before his forces suffered further losses.
• Naruto reclassified Colonel Ka’s force as a potential recruitment target and ordered Konoha to contact him with an offer of retired heavy weapons.
• Colonel Ka ordered his adjutant to collect the White Zetsu remains and sell them to buy bigger guns.
• Hashirama asked Tobirama whether industrial weapons could surpass their battle at the Valley of the End, and Tobirama argued that mass-produced Chakra Railguns could overwhelm even Madara’s Complete-Body Susanoo.

Colonel Ka’s exhausted convoy was rescued when General Quan’s mechanized army crushed Kabuto’s Mutant White Zetsu attack. Kabuto escaped underground and followed a secret summons from Orochimaru as Konoha’s industrialized forces expanded their reach.

• Kabuto surrounded Colonel Ka’s convoy with a vastly larger force of Mutant White Zetsu after its ammunition ran low.
• Colonel Ka fired the Golden Tank’s last shells, then ordered his guards to prepare for close combat.
• General Quan arrived with Land of Rivers armored forces and used autocannon fire and artillery to destroy the White Zetsu army.
• Kabuto abandoned the battle and fled underground, while General Quan received approval to bring Colonel Ka and his men into Konoha’s mechanized army.
• A summoned snake delivered Orochimaru’s secret coordinates and a meeting time, and Kabuto changed course to reach them.

General Quan forced Colonel Ka’s desert fighters to accept Konoha’s reorganization, while Naruto and Shikamaru assessed Kabuto Yakushi’s next likely targets and prepared to expand their arsenal against Chaos. The chapter left Konoha bracing for mutations among traditionalist ninja in Iwagakure and Kumogakure.

• Colonel Ka refused to let General Quan dissolve his unit and threw a tantrum, demanding that his fighters remain an independent Golden Regiment.
• Shikamaru tried to authorize concessions for Colonel Ka, but General Quan cut off the communications and beat Colonel Ka into submission.
• General Quan crushed Colonel Ka’s gold chain beneath an armored vehicle, prompting the mercenaries to surrender and Colonel Ka to sign the reorganization agreement.
• General Quan dispersed Colonel Ka’s fighters among Land of Rivers units and led the convoy toward the frontline base.
• Shikamaru told Naruto that Colonel Ka’s force had been integrated, and Naruto warned that Kabuto Yakushi might target traditionalist hardliners in Iwagakure and Kumogakure.
• Naruto ordered Konoha to accelerate Arsenal upgrades and mass-produce Orochimaru’s Scavenger biological ammunition to counter Chaos.

General Quan led the Land of Rivers Heavy Combined Arms Battalion toward the Rōran Ruins, where the army was ordered to establish an energy extraction and defensive base. After Colonel Ka’s Golden Tank broke down and his contraband was destroyed, reconnaissance found signs of Mutant White Zetsu and snake summoning beasts, prompting General Quan to order a defensive formation.

• Colonel Ka’s Golden Tank broke down during the march, and his mercenaries disrupted the convoy by rushing to repair it.
• General Quan had the mercenaries disarmed, ordered the tank towed away, and destroyed the contraband found inside it.
• General Quan showed Colonel Ka Naruto’s order directing the battalion to establish a frontline energy extraction and defensive base at the Rōran Ruins.
• The battalion reached the ruins, where reconnaissance found Mutant White Zetsu bone spikes and lingering chakra from snake summoning beasts.
• General Quan suspected Kabuto Yakushi had allied with figures from the old era and ordered the battalion to halt and build a circular defensive formation.

Kabuto tested Orochimaru’s loyalty before accepting his offer to implant the Chaos Seed into an Uchiha vessel. Naruto Uzumaki revealed that Konoha had anticipated their collaboration and was tracking the experiment, while its forces fortified the Rōran Ruins and aimed their railguns at the cavern.

• Kabuto threatened Orochimaru with the Chaos Seed, but Orochimaru defended his research ambitions and claimed he had helped Konoha to gather artillery data for the Uchiha vessel.
• Orochimaru destroyed the Chakra Shielding Core and cut off his contact signal, persuading Kabuto to hand over the Chaos Seed.
• Naruto Uzumaki confirmed to Shikamaru that Konoha’s Fishing Plan had made Orochimaru a double agent and allowed them to track the Chaos Seed’s movements.
• General Quan’s heavy unit raised Konoha’s flag at the Rōran Ruins and built a fortified position in the desert.
• Kabuto implanted the Chaos Seed in the Uchiha body, and he and Orochimaru began their experiment as Konoha’s railgun coordinates locked onto the area.

Orochimaru and Kabuto completed the cultivation of a Chaos-infused Uchiha vessel, while Orochimaru secretly embedded a control valve in its nervous system. Kabuto prepared to use the vessel against Konoha, unaware that Orochimaru retained the power to disable it.

• Kabuto demonstrated Chaos's mutating power on a white mouse and argued that it surpassed Orochimaru's scientific research.
• Orochimaru used machinery and chemical reagents to stabilize Chaos energy and fuse it with Obito's and Hashirama's cells.
• While Kabuto watched the fusion, Orochimaru secretly injected a gene-edited Curse Mark into the corpse's spinal fluid to control its motor neurons.
• The completed vessel awakened with Mangekyo patterns in its eyes, and Orochimaru announced that its cultivation had succeeded.
• Kabuto declared that the vessel would let him overwhelm Konoha, while Orochimaru confirmed that his hidden control valve was working.