Chapter Summaries

Zhi’s squad secretly compromised Kirigakure’s sea-defense nodes while Qing Zhong received falsified reports that everything was normal. After controlling a guarded node and planting a delayed shutdown command in a giant octopus at Node Three, Zhi continued toward the remaining nodes.

• Zhi used Genjutsu: Mirror Flower, Water Moon to copy and replace a node’s communication circuit, leaving its guards trapped in an illusion.
• Kagami monitored the operation and ordered Zhi to proceed to the next node.
• Qing Zhong noticed a brief 0.7% fluctuation at Node Three, but the altered communications and data convinced him the node was normal.
• Zhi’s squad found Node Three connected to a mentally resistant giant octopus, and Zhi chose to implant a delayed command in its chakra circuits.
• When the octopus detected Zhi’s chakra, he borrowed Kagami’s Mangekyō power to subdue it and complete the three-hour shutdown command.

Kagami ordered Zhi’s squad to clear the remaining nodes quickly as the Uzumaki clan chief, Shui Yuan, neared defeat inside the Four Violet Yang Formation. Shui Yuan ordered Long Yi to lead the surviving clansmen to safety, then unleashed his final technique to hold off the Raikage and Kazekage.

• Kagami learned that Shui Yuan’s chakra was declining and ordered Zhi to clear every node within forty minutes.
• Shui Yuan saw his clan’s surviving fighters near collapse and blamed himself for leading them into disaster.
• Shui Yuan ordered Long Yi to use the Teleportation Talisman to take the surviving clansmen through a secret passage to the southeastern coast.
• Long Yi accepted Shui Yuan’s final order and gathered the surviving Uzumaki ninja around the talisman.
• When the Raikage charged after them, Shui Yuan ignited his chakra and unleashed the Uzumaki Secret Technique, Heaven and Earth Share a Lifespan.

The Third Mizukage stopped the Uzumaki clan leader’s attempted self-destruction, absorbed his chakra, and left him defeated as the surviving Uzumaki escaped. Beneath the sea, Uchiha Zhi cleared Kirigakure’s final trap node, and Kagami ordered the squad to attack the Kirigakure command ship.

• The Uzumaki clan leader began releasing his chakra to destroy everyone trapped inside the Four Violet Yang Formation, while Long Yi and the remaining Uzumaki clansmen activated the Transfer Talisman.
• The Third Mizukage entered through a breach after killing the Uzumaki Elder maintaining the formation, then used Water Release: Water Prison Technique to contain the clan leader.
• The Third Mizukage absorbed the Uzumaki clan leader’s rampaging chakra with Water Release: Tranquil Energy Transfer Technique, leaving him powerless as the last Uzumaki vanished in silver light.
• The Four Violet Yang Formation shattered, and the Raikage and Kazekage surrounded the collapsed clan leader while Konoha’s Red Leaf Support Team sailed toward the battlefield.
• Uchiha Zhi reported that he had cleared all seventeen Kirigakure trap nodes, and Kagami ordered the underwater squad to surface and attack the Kirigakure command ship.

Kagami Uchiha’s team destroyed Kirigakure’s eastern naval blockade and opened a safe route for Konoha’s main fleet. With the Four Violet Yang Formation close to collapse, Kagami ordered his exhausted squad to recover and await the coming battle.

• Kagami and his team infiltrated the Kirigakure command ship, incapacitated its officers, and killed Qing Zhong before he could send an emergency alert.
• Uchiha Zhi reported that the command ship and three escort ships were cleared, with over forty Kirigakure personnel killed and two Konoha ninjas lightly injured.
• Kagami ordered the Hyuga ninja to inform the main fleet that the eastern blockade was gone and the shipping lane was safe.
• A Hyuga ninja reported that the Four Violet Yang Formation was collapsing and could hold for no more than ten minutes.
• Kagami refused Zhi’s proposal to land early and ordered the squad to recover while they waited for the main force.

The Konoha Main Fleet arrived at the Land of Whirlpools, but Hiruzen Sarutobi revealed that Lord Hokage had gone ahead alone to aid the Uzumaki Clan Head. Kagami Uchiha led an evacuation mission while Hiruzen organized the main force to secure the coast.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi told Kagami Uchiha that Lord Hokage had left for the main battlefield after receiving the Uzumaki Clan Head's distress signal.
• Hiruzen gave Kagami a map of seven secret assembly points and ordered him to evacuate the civilians and low-ranking ninja to No. 3 Evacuation Bay.
• Kagami divided the eastern force into three teams and sent them toward the assembly points to rescue more than three hundred and fifty people.
• Hiruzen reassured an Anbu operative that he trusted Lord Hokage, then ordered Konoha's main force to establish coastal defenses and a warning line.

Uzumaki Long Yi led the surviving clansmen through a secret passage as Nangō Kumoi arrived and promised to save the Uzumaki Clan Head. Kumoi teleported to the battlefield, leaving Long Yi to guide the evacuees toward Konoha while the Raikage, Kazekage, and Mizukage confronted the dying clan head.

• Long Yi organized the surviving Uzumaki clansmen and led their evacuation toward Extraction Point Number Three.
• Nangō Kumoi appeared in the tunnel and assured Long Yi that Konoha would protect the Uzumaki Clan.
• Long Yi gave Kumoi the clan head's talisman, whose lingering chakra imprint revealed the clan head's location.
• Kumoi used his improved Flying Thunder God jutsu to teleport to the clan head, ordering Long Yi to lead the evacuees safely to Konoha.
• The Raikage, Kazekage, and Mizukage surrounded the paralyzed Uzumaki Clan Head and demanded the location of the Uzumaki Sealing Jutsu's secret treasury.

Nangō Kumoi arrived at the Uzumaki Clan’s battlefield and confronted the Raikage, Kazekage, and Mizukage. He revealed a new technique and redirected the Raikage’s powerful attack, leaving their fight underway.

• The wounded Uzumaki Clan Head refused to surrender his clan’s legacy, and the Raikage moved to seize his memories.
• Nangō Kumoi struck the ground between the Kage and the Uzumaki Clan Head with Heaven’s Bright Flash, forcing the three Kage back and protecting the old man.
• Kumoi reminded the Raikage that they had met at the Second Raikage’s funeral, then rejected the Raikage’s offer to let Konoha withdraw.
• Kumoi split into four solid figures with Shadow Dance and charged the Raikage, Kazekage, and Mizukage while guarding the Uzumaki Clan Head himself.
• Kumoi met the Raikage’s Four-Finger Nukite with Earth-Shattering Heaven, then redirected the attack into the ground and sent the Raikage staggering.

Kumoi fought the Kazekage and Mizukage with three independent clones while guarding the wounded Uzumaki Clan Head, as the Allied Forces evacuated the clan to Konoha. At the ruined Uzumaki stronghold, Ōnoki searched for hidden secrets while Danzo sent Anbu to distract Iwagakure and dispatched Root to find sealed chambers.

• Kumoi's clones fought the Kazekage and Mizukage while Kumoi used Yang Release to keep the Uzumaki Clan Head alive and assured him the evacuation was underway.
• Ōnoki divided Iwagakure's forces into three search teams and moved toward an ancient sealed door in the Central Hall.
• Danzo ordered the Anbu to harass Iwagakure's outer search team, despite the Anbu captain questioning the mission.
• Danzo sent Jia Three and Root teams to search around the Central Hall for sealing nodes and secret chambers, ordering them to eliminate any obstruction and leave no traces.

Danzo and Ōnoki both sought the Uzumaki Clan’s hidden treasury, and Ōnoki found a sealed chamber beneath the ruins. When he left to join the Kage-level battle, Danzo slipped through the damaged seal and entered the chamber.

• Danzo resolved to find the Uzumaki treasury for Root and vanished into the ruins’ shadows.
• An Iwagakure jonin reported a hidden chakra node beneath the eastern side hall, and Ōnoki discovered its layered seals.
• Ōnoki used Dust Release to breach the seal, but the Uzumaki barrier resisted and began repairing itself.
• An Iwagakure sensory ninja warned Ōnoki that the Mizukage and other Kage-level fighters were battling nearby, so Ōnoki ordered the Sealing Corps to guard the wall and left.
• Danzo used Root’s Yin Release: Reality-Illusion Transformation Technique to slip through the breach before it closed, entering the hidden chamber unnoticed.

Danzo entered the Uzumaki vault and used his expertise in soul-binding techniques to make contact with a forbidden scroll. As he began working to break its seal, Nangō Kumoi's battle against the three Kage intensified over the sea.

• Danzo found that the twelve scrolls in the secret chamber were protected by seals that made them untouchable to him.
• Danzo used a Root analysis talisman to identify the worn dark-gray scroll as an unorthodox forbidden technique linked to soul-binding.
• Danzo simulated soul fluctuations until the scroll became tangible, then prepared to break its protective seal and read it.
• The Mizukage unleashed an enormous Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique against Nangō Kumoi, raising a waterspout more than three hundred meters across.

Hozuki Gengetsu flooded the battlefield to disrupt Nangō Kumoi’s clones, then rescued the exhausted Raikage and Kazekage and urged them to recover. As the waves receded, Gengetsu advanced alone to face Kumoi while the other two Kage prepared to rejoin the fight.

• Hozuki Gengetsu unleashed a massive Water Release that swept the Raikage, Kazekage, and Allied Forces ninja into the flood.
• Gengetsu protected the Raikage and Kazekage in water bubbles and carried them to a reef, explaining that Kumoi’s clones were too dangerous to fight while exhausted.
• The Kazekage and Gengetsu described the clones’ unusual abilities and agreed that the three Kage needed to join forces against Nangō Kumoi.
• The Raikage and Kazekage took Kirigakure’s Sea Soul Pills and began recovering while Gengetsu faced Kumoi.
• As the water receded, Gengetsu walked up the waves toward Kumoi, preparing to lead the next round of battle.

Third Hokage Nangō Kumoi battled the Third Mizukage, countering his water techniques with lightning and fire before the Mizukage engulfed the beach in a tracking toxic mist. Kumoi answered by unleashing a widespread lightning attack, but the fight remained unresolved.

• Kumoi gave the dying Uzumaki Clan Head a Bloodline Resonance Talisman and told him to activate it when signaled.
• Kumoi used Qi Slash and Lightning Flash—Thunder Roar to break the Third Mizukage's Hydrification Technique and badly burn his arm.
• The Third Mizukage attacked with five Uzumaki-enhanced water dragons, but Kumoi incinerated them and forced him to defend against Great Fire Annihilation with three water walls.
• The Third Mizukage released a toxic mist that blocked sight and perception, disrupted chakra, and tracked Kumoi's aura.
• Kumoi activated Ray's Power and used Extreme Lightning Chidori: Scatter Blossom to send lightning arcs through the mist.

Kumoi survived the Third Mizukage’s chakra poison when a hidden power of Purification cleansed his pathways, then struck the Mizukage down with a devastating punch. As Kumoi looked toward the recovering Raikage and Kazekage, Hiruzen Sarutobi put the Konoha fleet on alert after an unidentified force appeared in the fog.

• The Third Mizukage revealed that his Chakra Parasitic Poison had infiltrated Kumoi’s chakra pathways and prepared to kill him.
• A hidden seal awakened inside Kumoi, purifying the poison and restoring his chakra flow.
• Kumoi used Gaia’s power to launch a point-blank punch that shattered the Third Mizukage’s defenses and blasted him into distant reefs.
• The wounded Third Mizukage struggled to rise as Kumoi noticed that the Raikage and Kazekage had recovered to seventy percent of their strength.
• An Anbu ninja reported an unidentified fleet with at least sixty ninjas near the Konoha Main Fleet, and Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered the ships to combat readiness.

Kagami Uchiha returned to the Konoha Fleet with 243 Uzumaki survivors after clearing the eastern sea route, and Hiruzen Sarutobi arranged their care and return to Konoha. When Allied Forces pursuers approached the fleet, Hiruzen ordered a counterattack.

• Kagami Uchiha presented his credentials to Konoha's maritime patrol and led five transport ships into the fleet's inner defenses.
• Kagami reported that his mission had cleared the eastern blockade, sunk four Kirigakure command ships, and rescued 243 Uzumaki survivors.
• Long Yi Uzumaki told Hiruzen Sarutobi that the Uzumaki Clan Head had stayed behind to hold off the Raikage and Kazekage while the survivors escaped.
• Hiruzen ordered medical aid and supplies for the survivors and arranged for three warships to escort them to Konoha.
• Kagami reported Allied Forces pursuers, and an Anbu warned that about fifty enemy shinobi were approaching under a suspected Iwagakure Demolition Unit Jonin.
• Hiruzen ordered the First and Third Combat Squadrons to counterattack and leave no enemy survivors.

Hiruzen Sarutobi’s fleet ambushed and routed an Allied Forces pursuit squad near the Land of Whirlpools, while Nangō Kumoi’s battle against the three Kage continued. The chapter ended as the Raikage, Third Mizukage, and Third Kazekage prepared to attack Nangō together.

• An Iwagakure Jonin led eight Allied Forces speedboats into Konoha’s ambush, where Akimichi, Yamanaka, and Nara techniques disrupted and overturned the fleet.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Konoha’s Uchiha, Hyuga, and other clan squads to attack, and their coordinated assault drove the surviving Allied Forces ninjas into the fog.
• After ten minutes of fighting, Konoha had suffered no fatalities, and Hiruzen ordered the army to treat the wounded, replenish supplies, and prepare an evacuation fleet.
• The Third Mizukage recovered from Nangō Kumoi’s devastating punch and told the Raikage and Third Kazekage that Nangō had purified his poison.
• The three Kage agreed to attack Nangō together and coordinate carefully to counter his clones and energy conversion.

Third Hokage Nangō Kumoi used a strange force-based martial art to repel the Third Raikage, Third Kazekage, and Third Mizukage, who then unleashed a combined attack against him. As acid water, sealing Iron Sand, and a thundercloud’s lightning converged, Kumoi began forming a Lightning Release technique.

• Nangō Kumoi drew on Gaia’s power as the three Kage prepared to attack again.
• Kumoi redirected the Third Raikage’s Hell Stab with fluid movements that stripped away its Lightning Release chakra.
• Kumoi used circular hand motions to divert the Third Kazekage’s Iron Sand Drizzle and the Third Mizukage’s A Thousand Killing Water Needles.
• The Third Raikage attacked with Lightning Storm Barrage, but Kumoi absorbed and disrupted his blows while learning his Lightning Release patterns.
• The Third Mizukage, Third Kazekage, and Third Raikage combined acid water, sealing Iron Sand, and a pillar of lightning in a desperate assault.
• Kumoi formed hand seals and began invoking Lightning Release: Kirin.

Third Hokage Nangō Kumoi defeated the three Kage with his modified lightning technique but was left gravely injured. As he tried to escape with Shui Yuan, Ōnoki ambushed them, forcing Kumoi to use the Flying Thunder God and retreat while Ōnoki turned to the incapacitated Kage.

• Nangō Kumoi unleashed his golden Kirin, overwhelming the Raikage, Kazekage, and Mizukage and leaving all three unable to fight.
• Kumoi ignored Ray and Gaia’s warnings and approached Shui Yuan, the Uzumaki Clan Head, while the clan head’s talisman began glowing with Mito Uzumaki’s chakra.
• Ōnoki ambushed Kumoi and Shui Yuan with Dust Release as Kumoi’s guard dropped.
• Kumoi activated Flying Thunder God: Second Stage and transferred himself and Shui Yuan to a distant reef, though the strain made him cough up blood.
• Ōnoki abandoned pursuit of Kumoi and approached the battered Raikage, Kazekage, and Mizukage.

Hiruzen Sarutobi prepared the Konoha fleet to defend the Uzumaki Clan members from Ōnoki and the Allied Forces. After Hiruzen's coordinated defenses stopped Ōnoki's first Dust Release attack, Ōnoki began charging a stronger technique, and the naval battle was just beginning.

• A Sensory Team ninja warned Hiruzen that Ōnoki was approaching with more than eighty fighters, and a lookout soon spotted the exhausted Nangō Kumoi returning with Shui Yuan.
• Kumoi warned Hiruzen that Ōnoki sought the Uzumaki Clan members and their Sealing Jutsu texts, then Kagami escorted Kumoi to the medical room.
• Hiruzen ordered the Konoha fleet into defensive formation as Ōnoki arrived with ten Allied Forces ships and demanded the Uzumaki Clan members and Sealing Jutsu texts.
• Hiruzen refused to abandon the Uzumaki Clan members, and his layered Earth Release walls and a combined Water Release attack stopped Ōnoki's Dust Release.
• Ōnoki began charging a larger Dust Release technique as Hiruzen prepared for the naval battle to begin.

Black Zetsu and White Zetsu watched the battle and chose to pursue the smaller group of fleeing Uzumaki clan members in the Land of Iron. On the sea, Hiruzen Sarutobi launched a five-nature attack against Ōnoki just as Ōnoki’s chakra began to falter.

• Black Zetsu suspected that Nangō Kumoi’s power and purifying light came from something hidden inside him.
• White Zetsu reported that the fleeing Uzumaki clan members had split into groups bound for the Land of Iron and the Land of Hot Water, and Black Zetsu chose to pursue the smaller group first.
• Ōnoki prepared another Dust Release attack while Hiruzen Sarutobi and the Konoha Fleet struggled to withstand his assault.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and four shadow clones combined five nature transformations into a massive attack aimed at Ōnoki.
• Ōnoki’s chakra faltered before he could complete his Dust Release, and he raised an Earth-Style Rampart as the combined attack closed in.

Hiruzen Sarutobi exploited Ōnoki’s Dust Release cooldown to force the Allied Forces to retreat from the naval battle. The Kage regrouped on the coast, where Ōnoki revealed he had breached the Uzumaki Clan’s true hidden vault, leaving the fate of its contents unresolved.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi summoned Enma and charged Ōnoki during his Dust Release cooldown, forcing Ōnoki to order the Allied Forces to retreat.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi ordered Konoha’s crews to treat the wounded, recover the fallen, maintain security, and prepare a battle report before taking the Third Hokage home.
• The Third Mizukage, Third Kazekage, and Third Raikage regrouped on the coast with Ōnoki and heard that Konoha had won the naval battle.
• Ōnoki explained that Hiruzen Sarutobi had identified Dust Release’s cooldown and forced his retreat.
• Ōnoki revealed that he had found the Uzumaki Clan’s true hidden vault and torn a gap in its seal with Dust Release.