Recaps

Naruto recruited Might Guy and Rock Lee to train the Schola Progenium cadets in taijutsu and discipline. After the instructors defeated the Kaguya brothers with pure taijutsu, the brothers joined the demanding training alongside the other cadets.

• Naruto praised Rock Lee and asked him and Might Guy to become instructors for a special unit, and both accepted.
• Naruto introduced Guy and Lee to fifty Schola Progenium cadets as their taijutsu instructors.
• Kaguya Kei and Kaguya Ken refused the weighted run, with Ken challenging Rock Lee to defeat him first.
• Rock Lee knocked Ken down, and Might Guy defeated Kei with taijutsu, impressing both brothers.
• Naruto urged Kei and Ken to join the run, and the brothers picked up their packs and trained with the cadets.

Naruto watched Guy and Lee’s brutal training transform Kei and Ken and unite the Schola Progenium trainees, then visited the First Arsenal, where Ancient Iron unveiled a working Bolter. The chapter left Naruto with a trained force and a newly developed weapon powered by Lightning Release chakra.

• Guy and Lee pushed Kei and Ken through punishing training, gradually replacing their uncontrolled violence with more disciplined fighting.
• The other trainees adopted the cry of “Burn... youth?” and grew into a more united, resilient force over two months.
• Guy and Lee asked to stay as long-term instructors, and Naruto approved their request.
• Guy and Lee presented the trainees with green bodysuits, which Naruto limited to graduation ceremonies and major operations.
• Naruto visited the First Arsenal, where Ancient Iron showed him a Bolter built with purified Chakra Metal and powered by Lightning Release chakra.

Naruto tested a Lightning Release-Type Bolter with Sasuke and ordered Ancient Iron to begin mass-producing the weapon for ordinary fighters. In Otogakure, Orochimaru sent the Sound Ninja Four to lure Sasuke back to him and claimed Sasuke would become his vessel.

• Sasuke fired the Lightning Release-Type Bolter at ten alloy targets, blasting holes in them and leaving a temporary paralysis field called Arc Residue.
• Naruto explained that the Bolter was intended for civilians and ordinary ninjas, then ordered Ancient Iron to lead its production.
• Naruto promised Sasuke that he would have a weapon made exclusively for him.
• Orochimaru ordered the Sound Ninja Four to bring Sasuke back by tempting him with the power he desired.
• Orochimaru declared that Sasuke would become his new vessel and vowed to uncover Naruto's power.

The Sound Ninja Four infiltrated the forest near Konoha but were trapped by Root’s trainees, who overwhelmed them with Bolter fire. Sasuke arrived with a customized weapon and demonstrated its power, leaving the four stunned and Tayuya disarmed.

• The Sound Ninja Four entered the forest, triggering hidden sensory barriers that alerted the Root trainees.
• Ten trainees ambushed the four with Bolters, shattering Jirobo’s Earth Prison Dome and disrupting Tayuya’s sound-based Genjutsu.
• The trainees’ sustained gunfire pinned down the Sound Ninja Four as they prepared to use Curse Mark State Two.
• Sasuke emerged and rejected Tayuya’s offer to join Orochimaru, declaring that Orochimaru did not possess true power.
• Sasuke fired his customized Bolter and destroyed Tayuya’s demon flute, leaving her hand bloodied and the Sound Ninja Four horrified.

Sasuke and his trainees overwhelmed the Sound Ninja Four with gunfire, forcing them to retreat. After examining a recovered bullet, Orochimaru became fascinated by the weapon and decided he wanted to find its creator.

• Sasuke used his Sharingan and custom Bolter to disrupt the Sound Ninja Four's attacks, injuring Kidomaru and shattering Tayuya's wrist.
• Sasuke ordered his trainees to fire on the Four after they activated Curse Mark State Two, and their barrage drove the fighters into retreat.
• Kidomaru used the gunfire to escape with a deformed bullet embedded in his flesh, while Sasuke let the Four flee.
• Orochimaru examined the recovered bullet and recognized its combination of Lightning Release chakra, alloy, and physical force as an unfamiliar art of killing.
• Kimimaro asked Orochimaru to let him bring Sasuke back, but Orochimaru refused and declared that he was more interested in the weapon's creator.

Kabuto concluded that Naruto's summoning connected to another world, prompting Orochimaru to make uncovering Naruto's power his new goal. In Konoha, a daimyō's official and the advisors tried to seize control of Naruto's arsenal, until Naruto threatened the official with a Bolter.

• Kabuto compared energy traces from Orochimaru's wound and Naruto's summoning, identifying a shared pattern he named the Spatial Anchor.
• Kabuto told Orochimaru that Naruto had summoned coordinates from another world, and Orochimaru vowed to uncover Naruto's secret.
• A daimyō's official demanded forty percent of the arsenal's profits and access to its weapon blueprints, while Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura backed the proposal.
• The official threatened to investigate Root's mines and freeze its assets if Tsunade refused the demands.
• Naruto entered the Hokage's Office, pressed a Bolter's muzzle to the official's forehead, and said he would agree if the official's head could take a bullet.

Naruto threatened the Daimyō’s officials and drove Koharu and Mitokado Homura from Tsunade’s office, then announced that the Land of Hot Water was Konoha’s next target. He left his team with orders to destroy the Chaos Cult and make the land a Konoha dependency.

• Naruto frightened the Daimyō’s official with a Bolter and threatened the Daimyō with a Tailed Beast Ball.
• Naruto warned Koharu that his sniper was ready, and Tsunade ordered Koharu and Mitokado Homura to leave.
• Naruto told Tsunade that the Daimyō would eventually pressure him again and that compromise would only invite further demands.
• Naruto gathered Sasuke, Neji, Kaguya Kei, Kaguya Ken, Blood Pool Nowaki, Kana, Qianfeng, and Hozuki Suigetsu around a map and named the Land of Hot Water as their next target.
• Naruto described the Land of Hot Water as a refuge for criminals and identified the Chaos Cult as a danger that his team would destroy.
• Naruto ordered the team to turn the Land of Hot Water into Konoha’s dependency, and Sasuke resolved not to remain a bystander.

Naruto led a team into the Land of Hot Water to free the surviving Blood Pool clan members and purge a Chaos cult. After discovering a cult sacrifice in the town’s hidden quarter, the group was spotted by the priest and his followers.

• Naruto promised Nowaki and Kana he would free the surviving Blood Pool clan members in the Valley of Hell, then ordered the team to pursue purification.
• Might Guy announced that he would teach the Eight Gates to Schola Progenium students who passed his extreme fitness test, exciting Kaguya Kei and Kaguya Ken.
• Naruto’s party reached a prosperous border town in the Land of Hot Water, where Naruto recognized signs that its people had been corrupted by Chaos.
• Naruto led the team through alleys to a hidden district marked with Chaos symbols, where a masked priest tortured a bound man during a cult ritual.
• Naruto told the others to remember what a heretic was as the priest noticed them and the cultists turned toward the alley.

Naruto’s forces massacred the Chaos cultists, but Hidan survived their gunfire through ritual-powered regeneration. After Hidan drew Kenta’s blood and began a ritual, Naruto ordered Sasuke and Neji to stop him before he could act again.

• Naruto ordered a Root and Schola Progenium fire team to purge the cultists, and their Bolters killed the bone-masked priest and nearly everyone in the square.
• Hidan rose from the dead, regenerated from his wounds, and charged Naruto’s group while claiming the Chaos God had granted him immortality.
• Naruto warned everyone not to let Hidan’s scythe wound them, and Hidan pretended to die beneath the gunfire.
• Kenta stepped toward Hidan’s apparent corpse, but Hidan sprang out and cut his cheek, taking several drops of blood.
• Hidan used the blood to draw an inverted triangle inside a circle and stepped into the pattern as his skin turned black and white.
• Naruto ordered Sasuke and Neji to restrain Hidan and interrupt his next move.

Naruto’s squad disrupted Hidan’s ritual, but Hidan wounded Kenta through their blood link before Nara Shikage restrained him. Kakuzu arrived to free Hidan and recruit Naruto, whose weapons also caught Kakuzu’s greedy attention.

• Naruto warned Sasuke and Neji not to attack Hidan directly, and Neji destroyed the ritual circle’s ground instead.
• Hidan stabbed his own thigh, causing Kenta to suffer an identical wound, then prepared to pierce his heart.
• Nara Shikage immobilized Hidan with the Shadow Imitation Technique, and Naruto ordered his capture for study.
• Black threads struck Shikage and broke his restraint, allowing Hidan to move again.
• Kakuzu arrived, revealed that Akatsuki had urgently sent him to recruit Naruto, and eyed the squad’s weapons greedily.

Kakuzu stopped Hidan from pursuing Naruto’s retreating squad and left with the spoils after receiving news of a new Akatsuki mission. Back at their base, Naruto reframed the encounter as a successful reconnaissance, ordered an investigation into Kakuzu and the bounty network, and assigned Neji to scout Valley of Hell with Nowaki and Kana.

• Kakuzu extinguished the square’s torches and attacked Naruto’s squad with black threads, but Naruto ordered a flashbang-and-smoke withdrawal under Plan Three.
• Two Root members dragged the injured Kenta to safety while Naruto covered the retreat and told Kenta to submit a one-thousand-word self-criticism report for breaking discipline.
• Kakuzu restrained Hidan, collected the fallen scythe and valuables from the battlefield, and announced that the organization had a new mission.
• At the abandoned hot spring inn, Naruto described the operation as a successful armed reconnaissance and identified Kakuzu as an S-rank rogue ninja with ties to Akatsuki and the underground bounty network.
• Naruto ordered his intelligence networks to investigate Kakuzu and the Bounty Stations, then sent Neji with Nowaki and Kana to reconnoiter the outskirts of Valley of Hell.

Neji, Nowaki, and Kana found the Valley of Hell sealed and heavily guarded, while Naruto uncovered the Blissful Pure Land’s scheme of creating illness and selling false cures. Naruto, Sasuke, and Hozuki Suigetsu infiltrated the church in the Land of Hot Water’s capital, where a priest approached them.

• Neji used his Byakugan to spot chakra traps and hidden guards around the Valley of Hell, then found the siblings’ former escape passage blocked by a sealing slab.
• Neji reported the sealed passage to Naruto, who reassured Nowaki and Kana and urged them to proceed carefully.
• A Root ninja gave Naruto intelligence about the Blissful Pure Land, whose church sold costly Holy Water to people suffering from a mysterious illness in the capital’s slums.
• Naruto suspected the church and the daimyo were connected to the Valley of Hell, so he ordered Sasuke and Hozuki Suigetsu to disguise themselves as wealthy merchants seeking treatment.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Hozuki Suigetsu entered the Gate of Heaven church and saw ecstatic followers alongside desperate sick people begging before a statue.
• A priest in white robes approached the three infiltrators and asked what suffering had brought them to the Blissful Pure Land.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Hozuki Suigetsu infiltrated a church in the Land of Hot Water and discovered its priest exploited the desperate poor. After Sasuke stopped the priest from abusing a boy, he used the Sharingan to force the priest to confess.

• Naruto, Sasuke, and Hozuki Suigetsu posed as wealthy travelers and paid the priest for a place in the church’s meditation chamber.
• Naruto watched as a poor brother and sister begged the priest for Holy Water to save their mother, and the priest demanded the boy undergo a Purification ritual.
• Sasuke seized the priest before he could touch the boy, while Naruto gave the siblings money and told them to take their mother and leave the country.
• Sasuke dragged the priest into the meditation chamber and used the Sharingan to break down his defenses until he agreed to reveal everything he knew.

Naruto's team uncovered Minister Fujita's scheme to poison the slums and exploit the Chinoike Clan, then tracked a supply convoy from the Valley of Hell. Naruto abandoned his plan to approach Fujita and prepared an ambush at A Line of Sky Canyon.

• Sasuke forced the priest to reveal that Minister Fujita used poison from the Valley of Hell and fake Holy Water to profit from the sick, and Naruto ordered Suigetsu to dispose of him.
• Naruto sent a Shadow Clone to help the brother and sister leave the area, while believers gathered at the church the next morning and waited in vain for the missing priest.
• Neji spotted a disguised convoy leaving the Valley of Hell and reported its route and destination to Naruto.
• Naruto matched the convoy's destination to Fujita's secret hot spring estate and ordered Sasuke and Suigetsu to ambush it at A Line of Sky Canyon.
• Sasuke, Suigetsu, Root elites, Schola Progenium members, and Naruto's Shadow Clones concealed themselves in the canyon as Naruto watched from a cliff.

Naruto’s team ambushed a Konoha convoy transporting blood plasma and discovered a Ketsuryūgan girl hidden in its cargo. The chapter ended with Naruto helping Sasuke and the Blood Pool siblings break the surviving captain’s resistance so they could interrogate him.

• Suigetsu and Sasuke launched a surprise attack on the convoy in A Line of Sky, while Naruto’s other subordinates joined the assault.
• The attackers wiped out the escort in three minutes, leaving Jonin captain Kageyama barely alive.
• Sasuke and Suigetsu found jars of blood plasma and a terrified red-eyed girl hidden beneath a carriage floor.
• Nowaki and Kana recognized the girl’s Ketsuryūgan and realized their clansmen were being held in the Valley of Hell and bled for transport.
• Naruto asked Sasuke to interrogate Kageyama, then combined Nine-Tails chakra with Sasuke’s Sharingan and the siblings’ Ketsuryūgan to shatter the captain’s resistance.

Naruto used Kageyama's memories and Minister Fujita's signed authorization to infiltrate Blissful Garden with Sasuke and Suigetsu. Inside, he heard Fujita reveal a plan to defraud people through a fake investment fund, and the chapter left the team undercover in the estate.

• Sasuke and Naruto broke through Kageyama's mental defenses with Genjutsu, extracting the estate's map, guard schedules, and the secret room's location before Kageyama became brain-dead.
• Naruto ordered the bodies disposed of and gave Hui chocolate and water; Nowaki and Kana comforted her before a Shadow Clone escorted her and the other captives to Neji's safe point.
• Naruto planned to disguise himself as Kageyama and enter Blissful Garden with Sasuke and Suigetsu posing as guards, using Fujita's authorization slip as cover.
• The guards admitted Naruto, Sasuke, and Suigetsu to the estate, where Minister Fujita was raging over the food and welcomed the disguised Naruto as a trusted subordinate.
• Minister Fujita told Naruto he planned to use the Blissful Pure Land Church to promote the Moon Beauty Fund, lure investors with fake profits, and disappear with their money.

Naruto exposed Minister Fujita's collusion with the Daimyō and seized control of Blissful Garden, while Fujita confessed that the Daimyō orchestrated the country's exploitation. The chapter ended in Valley of Hell, where a Chinoike boy and his mother endured captivity and blood extraction.

• Naruto tricked Fujita into revealing that the Daimyō supported Blissful Pure Land and wanted the country to fall into chaos.
• Naruto, Sasuke, and Suigetsu incapacitated Fujita and secured Blissful Garden without allowing anyone to raise an alarm.
• Naruto's Shadow Clones took control of the estate, and Sasuke released Fujita from his Genjutsu.
• Fujita confessed that the Daimyō had devised the Valley of Hell toxins, Blissful Pure Land doctrines, and Moon Beauty Fund to build his own divine kingdom.
• Naruto took Fujita's identity seal and travel permits and ordered a Shadow Clone to claim that Fujita was ill and receiving no visitors.
• In Valley of Hell, a Chinoike boy asked his mother why they were imprisoned and bled, and she told him it was their fate.

Naruto, Sasuke, and Suigetsu uncovered evidence of a human-trafficking operation and used a map to enter the Valley of Hell and rescue the Blood Pool clansmen. The clansmen feared Nowaki and Kana and accused them of being traitors who had brought new demons.

• Suigetsu bypassed the hot spring’s traps and opened the hidden chamber, where the group found a map and a ledger documenting the sale and exploitation of people.
• Sasuke was shaken by the ledger’s records, then resolved to act, and Naruto sent a Shadow Clone to preserve the ledger as evidence.
• Naruto led the group to the Valley of Hell, where he and Neji disabled the entrance and concealed traps.
• Sasuke and Suigetsu defeated the guards while Naruto dealt with stronger opponents as the group descended into the valley.
• Naruto’s group found more than a hundred emaciated Blood Pool clansmen, who recoiled from Nowaki and Kana.
• An elderly clansman called Nowaki and Kana traitors and accused them of bringing demons to drain the prisoners.

Naruto confronted the Chinoike Clan’s distrust by offering them revenge and declaring that they would serve his organization. After crushing the elder’s resistance, he began imposing order on the clan, leaving its members to face a new, militarized future.

• A Chinoike elder denounced Naruto and the Nowaki siblings, voicing the clan’s fear of outsiders and recalling their history of exploitation.
• Naruto admitted he wanted the clan’s bloodline and hatred, then promised the young Chinoike revenge; several clansmen chose to follow him.
• The elder summoned a Blood Pool Flesh Puppet to stop the clan, but Naruto’s chakra claw destroyed it and pinned him to the ground.
• Naruto declared the Chinoike Clan subordinate to the Schola Progenium’s Special Operations Team and the Konoha First Arsenal.
• Naruto summoned over a hundred Shadow Clones, which began feeding, treating, evaluating, and registering the clansmen.

Naruto led the Blood Pool clanspeople out of the Valley of Hell and turned their despair over the daimyō’s bounty into resolve. Rather than flee across the border, he ordered them to march on the Land of Hot Water’s capital.

• Naruto’s Shadow Clones organized the rescued clanspeople, distributed supplies according to responsibility, and escorted them while killing pursuing guards.
• Naruto comforted a crying child, and Sasuke watched, recognizing Naruto’s gentleness beneath his apparent performance.
• Three days later, the Land of Hot Water’s daimyō declared the Blood Pool clanspeople a demonic cult and placed bounties on them, causing panic in their camp.
• Naruto projected a ledger documenting the clan’s exploitation and reframed the bounty as proof that the clanspeople had become powerful enemies rather than helpless livestock.
• Naruto abandoned the plan to flee to the border and ordered the group to march on the capital.

Naruto led the Blood Pool clansmen in a massacre of bounty hunters, then marched on the Land of Hot Water's capital. At the Daimyō's Palace, he and his squad encountered Hidan and Kakuzu, who had been hired to provide protection.

• Red Blood and the Blood Pool clansmen swore revenge, and Naruto ordered Nara Shikage to locate the approaching bounty hunters.
• Naruto's Root ninjas ambushed and killed the thirty-seven bounty hunters, then the Blood Pool clansmen finished off the survivors with their Ketsuryūgan.
• Naruto displayed the bounty hunters' heads along the road to the capital, frightening the Daimyō into hiring S-rank bodyguards.
• Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, Suigetsu, and two Root Jonin infiltrated the Daimyō's Palace using secret passages supplied by Minister Fujita.
• Neji detected Hidan and Kakuzu guarding the courtyard outside the Daimyō's sleeping quarters, and Kakuzu said confronting Konoha's Commissar would cost extra.

Naruto and his allies fought Kakuzu and Hidan, with Naruto overwhelming Kakuzu through a huge Shadow Clone assault while Sasuke and Neji kept Hidan at bay. After losing a heart monster and spending chakra, Kakuzu decided the mission was no longer worth its cost and considered retreating.

• Naruto told Kakuzu that his employer, the daimyo, was already dead, while Suigetsu and Sasuke intercepted Hidan.
• Neji reported that Kakuzu had five hearts as Naruto attacked him and evaded his black tendrils.
• Naruto surrounded Kakuzu with more than a hundred Shadow Clones armed with Chainswords and Rasengan, forcing Kakuzu to release his Fire and Wind heart monsters.
• Sasuke used ricocheting shots and Neji struck the ground beneath Hidan, preventing him from landing a hit or obtaining their blood.
• Naruto's clones overwhelmed Kakuzu's heart monsters, badly injuring the Fire Release monster and forcing Kakuzu to spend more chakra to defend it.
• Kakuzu calculated that the mission would leave him with a major loss and considered retreating while watching Naruto's real body.

Naruto offered Kakuzu thirty million ryō to abandon his protection job, then forced him to choose between the payment and a Tailed Beast Ball. Kakuzu accepted and left with Hidan, while Naruto turned toward the daimyō's residence.

• Kakuzu decided to stall Naruto's Shadow Clones until the daimyō fled, hoping to collect the bounty afterward.
• Naruto halted his Shadow Clones and offered Kakuzu thirty million ryō to leave, but Kakuzu refused on the grounds of professional reputation.
• Naruto formed a Tailed Beast Ball and warned Kakuzu that his employer would be destroyed unless Kakuzu took the money and left.
• Naruto began counting down and reducing the offer, and Kakuzu finally accepted the deal.
• Kakuzu bound Hidan and disappeared with him into the night, warning Naruto that the Underground Bounty Exchange would put a high price on his name.
• Naruto dispersed his clones and the Tailed Beast Ball, then walked toward the daimyō's residence as Sasuke and Neji watched in disbelief.

Naruto exposed the Land of Hot Water daimyō’s decoy and found the true ruler hiding underground, where he uncovered a cult using spiritual pollution to control the country. Naruto broke the daimyō’s mental attack and destroyed his faith, then demanded the name of his god.

• Naruto questioned the kneeling stand-in about Minister Fujita’s Moon Beauty Fund and realized the man did not know what it was.
• Neji used the Byakugan to find the true daimyō in a chakra-isolated chamber ninety-seven meters beneath the palace.
• Naruto punched through the palace floor and blasted open the chamber door with Rasengan attacks.
• The true daimyō revealed his allegiance to the God of Bliss and used mental power to project a false paradise at Naruto.
• Naruto resisted the spiritual assault, struck back through the daimyō’s faith, and lifted him by the throat.
• Naruto demanded that the daimyō tell him his god’s name.

Naruto dismantled the Land of Hot Water daimyo’s spiritual-energy scheme, killed him, and installed Jingwan as a puppet ruler. As the new regime outlawed the Blissful Pure Land, Kakuzu reported his failed mission to Pain, while Naruto explained to Sasuke why Konoha needed a stable puppet government rather than annexation or chaos.

• Naruto forced the daimyo to reveal that Heavenweave harvested the people’s pain and despair, then killed him and his twelve bodyguards.
• Naruto made the body double Jingwan choose between ruling as his puppet and dying, and Jingwan agreed to serve him.
• Jingwan announced that cultists and Fujita had plotted a coup, outlawed the Blissful Pure Land, and ordered its property confiscated.
• Kakuzu told Pain and Konan that capturing Naruto and the Nine-Tails exceeded his capabilities, citing Naruto’s resources and coordinated Shadow Clone tactics.
• Naruto told Sasuke that a stable puppet regime would preserve order and keep the Land of Hot Water from becoming a burden to Konoha.