Chapter Summaries

Naruto’s team investigated a massacre in the Land of Wind and discovered that the revived Jashinism was behind it. After Second Pillar defeated a group of cultists and learned how they had been recruited, he opened a Space-Time Door to pursue a source of further information.

• Naruto joined Second Pillar, Neji, and their teams to investigate the massacres and disappearances linked to the Land of Water and the Land of Wind.
• At a destroyed oasis village, Ino found that a skilled ninja had died with his heart shattered despite having no wounds to his chest or back.
• Second Pillar and Neji identified Jashinism as the likely culprit and warned that its return could be connected to the Evil God behind the cult.
• After a scout reported another attack, Second Pillar reached the village first, killed the black-robed attackers, and captured one with Sharingan Genjutsu.
• Second Pillar learned that overseas islanders had been taught Jashinism’s doctrines and secret techniques, then opened a Space-Time Door to seek more information.

Naruto and his allies raided Jashinist strongholds, captured prisoners, and traced the cult to a massive underground base in the Land of Bears. As the team confronted the base’s leader, he revealed a sinister power and appeared behind Nawaki, reaching for his neck.

• Naruto’s team defeated the Jashinists on an island, captured survivors, and learned that the cult’s leader had trained at a stronghold in the Land of Bears.
• Naruto’s group searched the Land of Bears while Second Pillar returned to Alliance headquarters, where Kakashi ordered reinforcements sent to support the search.
• Hyuga Kyoko found a hidden base beneath a mountain, and Naruto’s team used Flying Thunder God to join Neji’s group and attack it from two entrances.
• Nawaki’s Wood Release overwhelmed the base’s defenders, while Neji subdued the guards and the teams reunited inside the underground complex.
• Neji tried to read the base leader’s memories, but the man broke free, displayed strange black markings, and warned that he sensed a familiar aura in Nawaki.
• The leader vanished and reappeared behind Nawaki, reaching toward his neck as Naruto and Neji shouted a warning.

Nawaki, Naruto, Neji, and their allies fought an avatar of the Evil God, but discovered that he could transfer damage and escape through his followers. After Asuma learned of the threat, he launched a worldwide search while Kakashi mobilized the Alliance to hunt down Jashinism.

• Nawaki’s team attacked the Evil God’s possessed body, but its damage transfer and resistance defeated their Wood Release and other attacks.
• Second Pillar struck the Evil God with lightning, allowing Naruto to move the others to safety before Second Pillar sealed the body with Planetary Devastation.
• The Evil God escaped through his followers’ Cursed Seals, and Kakashi brought the team back to Alliance headquarters with the captured body.
• Asuma learned that Jashinism had destroyed oases in the Land of Wind and ordered Kakashi to mobilize the Alliance against its followers.
• Asuma connected to the Immortal Trees across the ninja world and located hidden cult strongholds as Alliance ninja boarded War Fortresses.

The Allied Shinobi used their War Fortresses to attack Jashinism strongholds, displaying the weapons’ overwhelming power. As Lord Asuma monitored the battles, Ōtsutsuki Kamishiki appeared in Konoha, where Tsunade confronted a black-robed intruder whose damage-transfer ability left her searching for a way to defeat him.

• Kakashi led an assault on the Jashinism stronghold in the Land of Snow, where Might Guy and Neji’s teams cleared the mountain, but the Evil God did not appear.
• Uchiha Itachi ordered the War Fortress to bombard the Land of Specters stronghold with Chakra Cannons, devastating the forest and its Jashinism followers.
• Gaara, Naruto, and Nawaki discovered that Jashinism followers had occupied the Land of Water island, so Gaara ordered the War Fortress to destroy it and sink a fleeing submarine.
• Lord Asuma monitored the War Fortresses’ attacks, then sensed that someone had raided his home base.
• Ōtsutsuki Kamishiki appeared in the Konoha Sage Domain as Tsunade, Shizune, and Yūhi Kurenai arranged to evacuate civilians.
• Tsunade confronted a black-robed man in an izakaya, but her wood attacks could not overcome his ability to transfer damage, so she prepared to test her ocular technique against him.

Tsunade wounded the Evil God’s puppet but could not kill him, while Asuma located the Evil God’s otherworldly space. After the Alliance eliminated every Jashinism stronghold, Asuma, Tsunade, and Yūhi Kurenai entered the space and discovered that its people practiced ritualized deadly combat.

• Tsunade used her Rinnegan technique to inflict her own heart injury on the Evil God’s puppet, but she concluded that killing him required finding his true body.
• Senju Tobirama, Namikaze Minato, Yūhi Kurenai, Shizune, and others discussed ways to counter the Evil God as Ōtsutsuki Kamishiki announced that Asuma had found his true body.
• Asuma waited while the Alliance uprooted Jashinism strongholds, and he sent Tsunade, Yūhi Kurenai, Shizune, and his Clone avatars to protect the War Fortresses from the Evil God’s attacks.
• After half a month, Asuma opened a Space-Time Door and entered the Evil God’s otherworldly space with Tsunade and Yūhi Kurenai.
• Asuma, Tsunade, and Yūhi Kurenai watched two villages’ fighters battle to the death before spectators, then Tsunade urged Asuma to destroy the Evil God.

Asuma, Tsunade, and Yūhi Kurenai targeted the Evil God and his cult, trapping followers in Dream Space while Asuma fought the god. Asuma bound the Evil God with Adamantine Sealing Chains and sealed both his body and spiritual consciousness, though the Evil God insisted his followers would eventually free him.

• Asuma, Tsunade, and Yūhi Kurenai decided to seal the alternate dimension’s cult followers in a dream and alter their memories.
• Asuma grew the Immortal Tree, which captured followers across villages, and placed them in the layered Dream Space.
• The Evil God descended into his followers but lost contact with them, then attacked the Immortal Tree and found its roots quickly regrew.
• Asuma and his allies fought the Evil God with Space-Time Storm, Soul Seize, Kamui Mountain, and Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Asuma’s chains prevented the Evil God from escaping through his followers by sealing his spiritual consciousness, but the Evil God claimed his followers would eventually free him.

Asuma sealed the Evil God and returned to Konoha, where he resumed raising his children. Two months later, Uchiha Shisui reported that his Mangekyo was evolving, and Asuma sent him to the moon to accelerate his Rinnegan transformation.

• Asuma trapped the Evil God in Dream Space and had the Immortal Tree drain power from him and his followers.
• Asuma returned to Alliance headquarters and announced that the Evil God had been sealed, strengthening the Alliance ninja's unity.
• Asuma returned to Konoha and raised his young children, including Tsunade's twins Sarutobi Shingetsu and Sarutobi Sengetsu, Yūhi Kurenai's son Sarutobi Shin'nosuke, and Shizune's son Sarutobi Ryūun.
• Uchiha Shisui told Asuma that his Mangekyo had begun evolving through his own cultivation.
• Asuma sent Uchiha Shisui to cultivate beneath the Immortal Tree on the moon and reminded him to continue training his Chakra Nature Transformation and Chakra Control.
• Uchiha Shisui reported that Itachi's Mangekyo and Lightning Style Chakra Mode training were progressing quickly, and that Itachi might awaken the Rinnegan before him.

Asuma and the Alliance began restoring the Forbidden Life Zone, using the Immortal Tree to rapidly spread vegetation and reveal groundwater across the barren region. The chapter ended with ninja releasing animals and insects to establish a thriving ecosystem.

• Ōnoki, the Fourth Raikage, and Mei Terumi urged Asuma to begin developing the Forbidden Life Zone, and he agreed to mobilize the Alliance.
• Asuma returned to Konoha after a three-month trip with Tsunade, the other women, and the children, while Ōnoki and the others completed preparations.
• Asuma activated Sage Art—Wood Style: Deep Forest Emergence, rapidly covering the Forbidden Life Zone with forests, grasslands, and other vegetation.
• Groundwater burst from the earth and formed lakes, streams, and rivers as Ōnoki ordered the Alliance to begin the next stage.
• Alliance ninja released fish, birds, insects, and large animals throughout the region to help establish its ecosystem.
• Senju Hashirama watched the restoration and declared, "This is the power of ninja!"

Asuma Uchiha and his allies completed the transformation of the ninja world, and Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama moved on from the world of the living. In the Sage Era, Shisui Uchiha awakened a Rinnegan whose eye technique was Izanagi, while the new generation pursued Sage Transformation and greater power.

• Senju Hashirama rejoiced at the peaceful ninja world Asuma had built, then his soul broke free of Impure World Reincarnation and departed alongside Senju Tobirama.
• Sarutobi Uchiha explained Truth-Seeking Orbs and their connection to Kekkei Mōra, then praised Asuma Shisui as he awakened green Rinnegan and revealed Izanagi as his eye technique.
• In the fourteenth year of the Great Unification, the nations were reorganized into provinces, the Ninja Grand Alliance disbanded, and the Sage Era began.
• The older generation retired as Kakashi, Gaara, Asuma Shisui, Asuma Itachi, and others became leaders of the Council of Elders.
• A year later, Sarutobi Uchiha sensed Senju Hashirama and Senju Tobirama arriving on the moon, where their souls passed into another dimension.

Asuma and his allies confronted Ōtsutsuki Urashiki on the moon after spotting three Ōtsutsuki approaching the ninja world. Urashiki targeted Naruto’s tailed-beast power and Toneri’s Tenseigan, and the chapter ended with Urashiki transforming and the attackers suddenly disappearing.

• Asuma sent Tsunade and the other women back to Konoha, then gathered his allies to face the Ōtsutsuki.
• Naruto, Second Pillar, and Uchiha Shisui arrived on the moon and joined Ōtsutsuki Toneri and the others as the ninja world raised its alert.
• Ōtsutsuki Urashiki broke free of Asuma Shisui’s Kotoamatsukami, dodged attacks with space-time techniques, and declared his interest in Naruto’s power and Toneri’s Tenseigan.
• Naruto attacked Urashiki while Toneri used the Giant Tenseigan, but Urashiki escaped their strikes and consumed the chakra in his fish basket along with his Blue Rinnegan.
• Ōtsutsuki Urashiki emerged through a Light Gate in a transformed state, and Ōtsutsuki Toneri realized that he and the others had disappeared.