Chapter Summaries

Orochimaru joined Akatsuki after demonstrating Impure World Reincarnation, while Nagato dismissed concerns about his motives. In Konoha, Asuma decided to guide Nagato and informed Namikaze Minato of Akatsuki’s plans for Kirigakure; Minato agreed to keep their involvement secret and asked Asuma to help train the Anbu.

• Orochimaru summoned the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist to battle Kakuzu and Sasori, and Jinin Hozuki briefly broke free of the Impure World Reincarnation’s control.
• Deva Path Pain stopped the fight, destroyed the reanimated swordsmen, and asked Orochimaru to join Akatsuki; Orochimaru accepted.
• Konan warned Nagato that Orochimaru might seek the Rinnegan and pass intelligence to Konoha, but Nagato said he could use Orochimaru as a pawn.
• Asuma learned that Orochimaru had joined Akatsuki and considered how to guide Nagato, then decided to let Akatsuki capture the Tailed Beasts and move events toward war.
• After learning Akatsuki planned to move against Kirigakure, Asuma sent the intelligence to Namikaze Minato, who agreed to keep their knowledge and involvement secret.
• Namikaze Minato asked Asuma to help train the Anbu, leaving Asuma dumbfounded.

After celebrating his eighteenth birthday with Tsunade, Yūhi Kurenai, and Shizune, Asuma received Tsunade’s precious necklace and grew closer to her. He later reached level 9 in Electromagnetic Release, discovered that it formed a powerful defensive field, and awakened Electromagnetic Chakra Mode.

• Asuma celebrated his eighteenth birthday with his family and then with Tsunade, Yūhi Kurenai, and Shizune, who gave him clothes and Tsunade’s necklace.
• After the party, Asuma took the drunk Tsunade home, where they spent the night together.
• Asuma spent several days pursuing Tsunade before she punched him out of her house, prompting him to return to training.
• On October 26th, Asuma received his Shadow Clone’s memories and raised Electromagnetic Release to level 9.
• Asuma discovered that his unified Electromagnetic Fields deflected ordinary weapons and most chakra-infused kunai, then activated Electromagnetic Chakra Mode and rose into the air.

After Electromagnetic Release reached Level 9, Asuma unlocked Electromagnetic Chakra Mode and discovered its immense abilities, including absorbing magnetic energy, lifting massive weights, and controlling a Spirit Body. He sensed Ōtsutsuki Shinichi watching him from the moon and resolved to find a way there, then sent Shadow Clones to develop his new powers.

• Asuma tested Electromagnetic Chakra Mode, manipulating magnetic fields within a range of at least five kilometers and absorbing them to increase his stamina and strength.
• Asuma lifted a five-ton metal sphere, then endured the Shadow Clone using Heavy Rock Jutsu to increase its mass to fifty tons.
• Asuma used Electromagnetic Release to seize the Shadow Clone's consciousness and Spirit Body, then absorbed its memories and Chakra.
• After combining Electromagnetic Chakra Mode with Sage Mode, Asuma sensed Ōtsutsuki Shinichi observing him through the enormous Tenseigan on the moon, while Shinichi ended his observation and left the matter to Toneri.
• Asuma checked his improved character and skill levels, considered his long lifespan and the potential of Electromagnetic Release, and created Shadow Clones to continue developing it.

Asuma discovered someone watching him from the moon and decided to investigate, using his newly advanced Electromagnetic Release to travel through space at immense speed. He landed on the moon and began examining its surface.

• Asuma told Minato that he had sensed someone on the moon, and Minato gave him a Flying Thunder God Kunai while arranging a telescope.
• After three days, Asuma told Minato, Tsunade, Jiraiya, Kushina, and Shinya that he would fly to the moon, then explained that his power came from within rather than from bloodline abilities.
• Asuma combined Lightning Style Chakra Mode with Electromagnetic Release Chakra Mode and accelerated through Earth's atmosphere, using lightning, plasma, and cosmic radiation to propel himself.
• Asuma reached speeds of up to 50,000 kilometers per second before slowing to a stable 10,000 kilometers per second, while Minato and the others tracked his journey.
• Asuma landed on the moon's Earth-facing side, observed Earth and the stars, then crouched and touched the lunar ground.

Asuma entered the moon and battled the forces guarding the Tenseigan, while sensing Ōtsutsuki Kaguya sealed within it. He confronted Ōtsutsuki Shinichi and declared that he had come to set Hamura's destiny right.

• Ōtsutsuki Shinichi sensed Asuma's arrival and decided to remove him as an obstacle to Toneri.
• Asuma sensed Ōtsutsuki Kaguya's consciousness sealed inside the moon and resisted her attempt to tempt him into destroying it.
• Asuma entered the moon's interior and blasted through its puppet defenders as he approached the artificial sun.
• Asuma fought through Ōtsutsuki Shinichi's golden beam and repelled Shinichi's attempt to control his mind and attack him.
• Ōtsutsuki Shinichi confronted Asuma, and Asuma declared that he had come to set Hamura's destiny right.

Asuma confronted Ōtsutsuki Shinichi and destroyed the Hamura statue before attacking the Tenseigan. He shattered the giant eye with his Heavenly Dragon Vacuum Wave, leaving countless Byakugan floating in its place.

• Asuma argued with Ōtsutsuki Shinichi over the lunar clan’s plan to destroy and remake the world, and Shinichi vanished when he realized he could not stop Asuma.
• Asuma summoned a Wood Golem and smashed the Ōtsutsuki Hamura Statue, restraining it with a Wood Dragon as it regenerated.
• Asuma tested the Tenseigan with a Scorch Release Rasenshuriken, but the eye absorbed the attack.
• Asuma opened the Eight Inner Gates and launched his Heavenly Dragon Vacuum Wave at the Tenseigan.
• Asuma’s attack shattered the Tenseigan and the meteorite, while Ōtsutsuki Shinichi was blasted away and countless Byakugan scattered through the air.

Asuma returned from the moon after taking control of Ōtsutsuki Shinichi and securing the Byakugan, then explained the history of Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and the Moon Eye Plan to Konoha’s leaders. The group resolved to prepare for a future war against Uchiha Madara and Kaguya, though Asuma warned that Kaguya could eventually revive as long as she remained sealed rather than destroyed.

• Asuma sealed the Byakugan, while Clone Uka altered Ōtsutsuki Shinichi’s memories and made him Asuma’s servant along with his son, Ōtsutsuki Toneri.
• Asuma returned to Konohagakure, where Tsunade, Jiraiya, Minato, Kushina, and Sarutobi Shinya welcomed him and asked about his discoveries.
• Asuma explained that the lunar Ōtsutsuki descended from Ōtsutsuki Hamura and recounted how Hamura and the Sage of Six Paths sealed their mother, Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, on the moon.
• Asuma revealed that Kaguya’s Infinite Tsukuyomi created the White Zetsu and that Uchiha Madara’s Moon Eye Plan could be intended to undo her seal.
• Asuma warned that Kaguya could eventually revive through Chakra even if the Moon Eye Plan failed, and Kushina and Minato urged everyone to prepare for the coming war.

Shimura Dan cultivated Scorch Release, prompting Asuma to expand the Bloodline Class, while Asuma entered seclusion and finally achieved Wood Style Kekkei Mōra. He celebrated Shizune’s birthday with his family, then demonstrated the new power’s ability to drain life force directly from plants.

• Shimura Dan awakened Scorch Release, and Asuma agreed to expand the Bloodline Class and take him as a disciple.
• Asuma sent Byakugan to his laboratory for research, then returned home to cultivate Wood Style Kekkei Mōra.
• Asuma emerged from seclusion on Shizune’s eighteenth birthday and celebrated with Tsunade, Kurenai, and Shizune.
• Asuma told Tsunade that his lifespan had exceeded five hundred years and that his life essence was still transforming.
• Asuma took the three women to a deserted island and absorbed life force from its plants, demonstrating a new ability of his Wood Style Kekkei Mōra.

Asuma demonstrated his Kekkei Mora Wood Style by creating the Immortal Tree, which absorbed and released Natural Energy while transforming a barren island into a lush forest. He said the technique could restore the Land of Wind and decided to create a Sage Domain in Konoha for Tsunade, Kurenai, and Shizune to train in.

• Asuma explained that his Wood Release could absorb life force and Chakra, and Tsunade recognized that it shared traits with the Ten-Tails and God Tree.
• Asuma used Sage Art: Wood Release—God-Tree Realm Birth to grow a giant tree and spread a forest across the barren island, absorbing the surrounding Natural Energy.
• Tsunade, Kurenai, and Shizune found that the Immortal Tree could convert other resources into Natural Energy, release it, and restore plants beneath its branches.
• Asuma told Kurenai that he could transform the Land of Wind's deserts into fertile land, and Tsunade said she believed he could unify the shinobi world.
• Asuma decided against establishing an overseas research base and announced that he would create a Sage Domain in Konoha.

Asuma planned to establish the Sage Domain in Konoha as a sanctuary where ninjas could train in Sage Mode. After choosing a site and discussing plans with Tsunade, Yūhi Kurenai, Shizune, Namikaze Minato, Uzumaki Kushina, and Uzumaki Miri, he prepared to build it and invite the village's ninjas to train there.

• Asuma announced that he would create the ninja world's fourth sage sanctuary, called the Sage Domain, using the Immortal Tree to help ninjas master Sage Mode.
• Asuma, Tsunade, Yūhi Kurenai, and Shizune chose a forested area between Konoha's training grounds and the Forest of Death as the Sage Domain's location.
• Asuma said he would transform the site with his jutsu and build an underground Laboratory Base, while Tsunade planned to keep the Senju Ancestral Home as a secondary base.
• Asuma visited Namikaze Minato and learned that Uzumaki Miri had become a Hokage assistant; he told them about his Kekkei Mōra and invited Uzumaki Kushina and Uzumaki Miri to try his Sage Mode training.
• Namikaze Minato approved the location, and Asuma promised that the village's ninjas could be among the first to train at the Sage Domain; Minato suggested calling Jiraiya back to Konoha.

After unlocking his second Kekkei Mōra technique, Asuma expanded his Sen tree across the forests around Konoha and built an underground laboratory. He captured three White Zetsu, failed to summon the First and Second Hokage, and began planning further changes to his Sage Domain.

• Asuma received a million experience points and achievement rewards, increased his Constitution, and unlocked the Kekkei Mōra technique Heavenly Wood Divine Needle.
• Asuma used God-Tree Realm Birth to spread the Sen tree through the surrounding forests and create a hundred-meter-deep underground laboratory beneath Konoha.
• Asuma's roots uncovered and captured three White Zetsu hiding underground.
• Asuma tried to use Impure World Reincarnation to summon the First and Second Hokage, but the technique failed because Orochimaru had likely claimed them first.
• Asuma sent the White Zetsu to his laboratory and planned to add plants, homes, training areas, lakes, and wildlife to his Sage Domain.

Tsunade, Shizune, and Yūhi Kurenai visited Asuma’s flourishing woodland sanctuary, where he explained how his advanced Yin Release Genjutsu manipulated both spiritual consciousness and the senses. He taught Kurenai the principles for developing a layered dream technique, which he named Dream Space.

• Tsunade, Shizune, and Yūhi Kurenai admired the out-of-season flowers and rare medicinal herbs growing around Asuma’s waterfall and Immortal Tree.
• Asuma revealed that his One Thought Bloom technique used Genjutsu and Wood Release to make plants bloom, then explained how his Genjutsu altered spiritual consciousness to affect the senses.
• Yūhi Kurenai and Tsunade reasoned through how spiritual changes could affect the body, while Asuma said Kurenai had the skill to reach that level.
• Asuma explained how to use a target’s subconscious dreams to create realistic illusions and layer dreams within dreams, making the Genjutsu harder to recognize and dispel.
• Yūhi Kurenai resolved to develop the technique, and Asuma named it Dream Space.

Asuma tested the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu and discussed resurrection with Tsunade before bringing his family and allies to the Sage Domain to train in Sage Mode. Shinya mastered Sage Mode, and Asuma recognized that its markings resembled Hashirama’s but were shaped by the Immortal Tree.

• Asuma told Tsunade that his attempt to summon the First and Second Hokage with White Zetsu sacrifices had failed, suggesting their souls were sealed or the jutsu had already been used.
• Asuma and Tsunade discussed the Rinnegan as a means of reviving the dead and agreed to try to revive Nawaki once Asuma’s clone evolved one.
• Asuma moved the Laboratory Base’s important sections to the Immortal Tree Base while his Shadow Clones handled the relocation.
• Asuma showed Minato, Kushina, Sakumo, Jiraiya, Hiruzen, Shinya, Miri, the advisors, Naruto, and Karin how the Immortal Tree’s vines helped ninja sense and safely control Natural Energy.
• Shinya sensed Natural Energy with the Immortal Tree’s help and, after continuing his practice, awakened Sage Mode before the others.
• Asuma noticed that Shinya’s Sage Mode markings resembled Hashirama’s and concluded that the Immortal Tree had influenced their appearance.

Asuma began training Sarutobi Shinya, Uchiha Shisui, Shimura Dan, Naruto, and Karin in Sage Mode and chakra control beneath the Immortal Tree. Uchiha Shisui mastered Sage Mode, while Naruto and Karin ended the day learning the Transformation Technique.

• Sarutobi Shinya celebrated mastering Sage Mode, and Namikaze Minato arranged for Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura to assess the Forest of Death as a potential source of Summoned Beasts.
• Asuma chose to pursue a Yin and Yang Release Genjutsu-type Kekkei Genkai aimed at creating Dream Space, then taught Sage Mode to Uchiha Shisui and Shimura Dan.
• Asuma challenged Naruto and Karin to stand on water, promising powerful ninjutsu to whoever succeeded first, and urged Naruto to protect Karin.
• Uchiha Shisui mastered Sage Mode and reported that it enhanced his ocular power and Yang Style, while Shimura Dan continued struggling to control Natural Energy.
• Asuma trained Naruto and Karin in chakra control throughout the day, then taught them the Transformation Technique as a reward.

In Konoha Year 52, the Hyuga Clan arranged for Neji and Hinata to meet Asuma in hopes that one of them would become his disciple. After the children left to play, Asuma asked Hiashi whether he knew the Hyuga Clan’s origins.

• Namikaze Minato reorganized the Konoha Military Police Force, opening its divisions to members of other clans and civilian ninja and reducing the Uchiha Clan’s special status.
• Hizashi Hyuga asked Hiashi Hyuga to have Asuma teach Neji, and Hiashi decided that Neji and Hinata would both be considered for the chance.
• Hizashi brought Neji to Hiashi, who took Neji and Hinata to meet Asuma in the Sage Domain.
• Asuma asked Naruto and Karin to take Neji and Hinata aside while he spoke with Hiashi.
• Asuma asked Hiashi whether he knew the origins of the Hyuga Clan, including its connection to the Sage of Six Paths’ younger brother and the lunar Ōtsutsuki Clan.

Asuma learned about the Hyuga Clan’s origins and the Byakugan’s potential, then took Neji as his disciple and arranged for Kurenai to train Hinata. After Clone Kakuzu reported plans to target the Fourth Mizukage, Asuma instead planted an Immortal Tree on a deserted island and resolved to spread them across the globe.

• Hyuga Hiashi told Asuma that the Hyuga Clan descended from Ōtsutsuki Hamura, and Asuma revealed that the moon’s Ōtsutsuki also possessed the Byakugan and had created the Tenseigan.
• Asuma accepted Neji as his disciple, left Hinata with Kurenai, and explained that the Byakugan could develop beyond perception and might be enhanced through Yin Release and Yang Release.
• Kurenai agreed to take Hinata as her disciple, and the next day she and Asuma formally accepted Hinata and Neji, respectively.
• Asuma asked Namikaze Minato to find promising commoner candidates for him to teach.
• When Clone Kakuzu reported that their group was preparing to move against the Fourth Mizukage, Asuma chose not to go and instead planted an Immortal Tree on a deserted island.
• Asuma’s Immortal Tree began converting sunlight, seawater, and the planet’s magnetic field into Senjutsu Chakra, and he set his goal of planting trees across the globe.

Asuma explored a desolate continent scarred by the ancient battle between the Sage of Six Paths, his brother, and Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, and found God Tree roots sustaining isolated oases. He began restoring the Forbidden Life Zone with Immortal Trees and planned to collect the remaining roots with Tsunade, Shizune, and Yūhi Kurenai.

• Asuma traveled east across deserted islands, planting Immortal Trees and eventually reaching a vast continent.
• Asuma discovered a barren region riddled with craters and identified it as the battlefield where the Sage of Six Paths and his brother fought Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.
• Asuma found a God Tree root sustaining an oasis, removed it for research, and planted an Immortal Tree to begin restoring the land.
• Asuma told Tsunade, Shizune, and Yūhi Kurenai about the battlefield, and they joined him the next morning to explore it.
• The group found another God Tree remnant in an oasis, which Asuma sealed away before planting another Immortal Tree.
• Asuma said they needed to gather every God Tree remnant, and Tsunade proposed splitting up to search.

Asuma and his companions explored the Forbidden Life Zone, then reached Mount Myōboku and met its sages. The Great Toad Sage Gamamaru praised Asuma’s power and foresaw that he would transform the ninja world.

• Over four days, Asuma and the others found thirteen God Tree fragments and planted twenty-four Immortal Trees across the Forbidden Life Zone.
• After learning their location in the Land of the Wolf, the group explored farther south and found Labyrinth Mountain, which Asuma suspected was Mount Myōboku.
• Gamakō guided Asuma, Tsunade, Yūhi Kurenai, and Shizune through a river whirlpool into Mount Myōboku, where they reunited with Jiraiya.
• Jiraiya showed the group Mount Myōboku, including the petrified toads who had failed to cultivate Sage Mode, and Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima welcomed them.
• Sage Fukasaku brought Asuma to meet Gamamaru, who praised his self-developed Kekkei Mōra and predicted that he would transform the ninja world with unmatched power.

Asuma consulted Gamamaru about fate, then traveled to the Land of Wind to seize the Dragon Vein’s power and bind its consciousness. He suppressed the power beneath Roran and contained some of it in a golden gourd, leaving the Dragon Vein Consciousness in his grasp.

• Asuma asked Gamamaru about the Child of Prophecy and learned that Gamamaru could not see through his fate, while sensing an unusual power within him.
• Asuma returned to Konoha and told Namikaze Minato he planned to use the Dragon Vein to transform the Land of Wind into an oasis.
• Asuma spent a month crafting the Eight Trigrams Sage Gourd from God Tree remains and branches of his Immortal Tree.
• Asuma reached the ruins of Roran, removed the seal on the Dragon Vein, and contained its surging power with Adamantine Sealing Chains and the gourd.
• Asuma used Sage Art: God-Tree Realm Birth to bind the Dragon Vein beneath the earth and learned from its memories that its power was connected to the God Tree and Ōtsutsuki Kaguya.
• Asuma pulled the Dragon Vein Consciousness from the Immortal Tree in the form of a purple sphere.

Asuma discovered a Summoning Island where Nagato selected giant Summoned Beasts and found a young pureblood Uzumaki girl among the researchers. He then found a vast, resource-rich southern continent, planted an Immortal Tree there, and brought Tsunade, Yūhi Kurenai, and Shizune to explore it.

• Asuma kept the Dragon Vein Consciousness sealed in a golden gourd, returned to Konoha, and sent a Shadow Clone to research animals for his experiments.
• Asuma investigated an island near Kumogakure and realized it was a facility that researched and sold Summoned Beasts, where Nagato chose two creatures for a deserted island.
• Asuma discovered a young pureblood Uzumaki girl among the island's researchers and left a Shadow Clone to observe her while he continued planting trees.
• Asuma found a vast, uninhabited continent in the Southern Hemisphere, planted an Immortal Tree there, and named the land the South Sage Continent.
• Asuma brought Tsunade, Yūhi Kurenai, and Shizune to explore the continent, where they watched the sunrise and then plunged into the sea.