Recaps

Shanks arrived at the Adventurers' Guild after the Empire defeated the other Pirate Emperors, where Whitebeard and Rayleigh welcomed him into the new order. Convinced that the Empire could preserve freedom without piracy, Shanks signed the document ending his status as the last pirate, as the gathered reporters and officials celebrated the new era.

• Garp and Sengoku escorted Shanks to the Adventurers' Guild, where Whitebeard greeted him as the guild's president.
• Marco organized the reporters and invited Garp, Sengoku, and other high-ranking Navy officers into the hall.
• Shanks discovered Rayleigh was the guild's vice president, and Rayleigh explained why Roger had begun the Great Pirate Era and urged Shanks to embrace the new era.
• Rayleigh gave Shanks a document affirming the Adventurer's Oath, and Shanks signed it, becoming the last pirate to renounce piracy.
• The reporters and officials cheered for the Empire, freedom, and their Emperor as Shanks reflected on the seas belonging to everyone.

Hane fused the Pirate World with the Naruto World, gaining immense power as their rules combined and the new world changed. In the Netherworld, the Ten Yama Kings received a mysterious inheritance, and Madara tried to stop Hashirama from accepting it before learning Hashirama believed it was safe.

• Hane transformed into a giant Dharma Body and merged the Pirate World with the Naruto World.
• The worlds’ rules and life forces gathered around Hane, raising his cultivation from the Heavenly Immortal Realm to the True Immortal Realm and increasing his Rule Seeds to sixteen.
• The fused world resumed, and powerful people in both worlds sensed new power: Pirate World fighters gained Chakra, while Naruto World fighters experienced stronger Haki and physiques.
• The Netherworld expanded, and the Sage of Six Paths, Madara, Hashirama, Izuna, Tobirama, the Fourth Minato Namikaze, and Naruto received insight into reincarnation.
• Madara worried the sudden power might be a trap, found Hashirama meditating, and slapped him awake.
• Hashirama told Madara the power was the inheritance of the Hall of Yama and teased him for being worried.

The Sage of Six Paths explained that the Underworld had expanded because the Human Emperor merged the Ninja World with another world, while Madara and Hashirama displayed their new powers. As the Underworld prepared for souls from the Pirate World, monsters from Hueco Mundo invaded, and people in both worlds reacted with awe to the transformation.

• Hashirama showed Madara his Six Paths power and new Mokuton, then joined him at the Sage of Six Paths' summons.
• Senju Tobirama argued with Hashirama, Madara, and the Fourth Hokage over Madara before Naruto also urged him to set aside old grudges.
• The Sage of Six Paths told the Yama Kings that the Human Emperor had merged the Ninja World with a larger world, causing the Underworld's expansion and their new powers.
• More than a dozen Menos Adjuchas and several Menos Gillian crawled from the Underworld Rift and charged toward its center as the Bureaucracy remained unaware.
• The world fusion changed distances and erased the Red Line, replacing it with the Empire's prosperous continent, and people in both worlds revered the one in the Imperial Palace as a god.

Madara saved the Underworld Bureaucracy’s front line from a coordinated Cero attack by Menos and went to investigate the Underworld Rift. He confronted an Adjuchas to question it about the invasion.

• White Fang killed a Gillian that began charging a Cero, but hundreds of Menos then fired Ceros at the ghost officers.
• Madara used Super Shinra Tensei to bury the attacking Menos and protect the front line.
• White Fang told Madara that the monsters had emerged from the Underworld Rift, and Madara left to question them.
• Several Adjuchas hesitated over whether to keep invading, fearing Madara but craving the whole souls in the Underworld.
• Madara appeared before an Adjuchas and stared into its eyes as he prepared to question it.

Madara discovered that the Underworld had connected to Hueco Mundo and reported the new world to the Sage of Six Paths, who ordered defenses and brought the matter to Hane. Hane left his family’s marriage discussion to hear the report, and the Sage asked whether the Underworld should expand into Hueco Mundo, Soul Society, and the World of the Living.

• Madara learned from an Adjuchas that the Hollows came from Hueco Mundo, then erased the Hollows near the Great Rift with his Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Madara reported the connection to the Sage of Six Paths, who ordered Yamas to defend the Great Rift while they awaited the Human Emperor’s orders.
• Hane discussed his upcoming marriage to Izumi with Mikoto and Fugaku, then left after receiving an urgent message.
• The Sage of Six Paths told Hane that the Underworld had connected with Hueco Mundo and asked whether it should merge with Hueco Mundo, Soul Society, and the World of the Living.

Hane sent the Underworld to invade Hueco Mundo while he stayed out of the fight, and Madara led the invasion toward its forbidden center. The chapter ended when Ichigo Kurosaki clashed with Madara, who challenged him to fight.

• Hane ordered the Sage of Six Paths to let the Underworld handle the invasion, and the Sage summoned its forces to attack Hueco Mundo.
• Madara, Hashirama, Naruto, and the newly appointed Yama Gol D. Roger led the ghost envoys through the Netherworld Great Rift into Hueco Mundo.
• Madara overwhelmed a swarm of Menos and compelled an Adjuchas to guide the group toward Hueco Mundo's forbidden central zone.
• At an ash-white castle, Aizen greeted the Espada and calmly suggested they brew black tea despite the approaching enemy.
• Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryu Ishida, and Chad spotted Madara's group and approached to investigate.
• Madara detected the trio, caught Ichigo's Zanpakuto with his hands, and challenged him to fight.

Madara overwhelmed Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryu Ishida, and Chad, then Hashirama invited them to join the Underworld Bureaucracy’s march toward Las Noches. Ichigo and his friends learned that the group intended to invade Hueco Mundo, and Naruto began explaining how the Underworld Bureaucracy managed reincarnation.

• Madara suppressed Ichigo Kurosaki, Uryu Ishida, and Chad with Supreme King Haki and dispersed Ichigo’s Getsuga Tensho with a repulsive force.
• Uryu Ishida identified Madara’s group as ordinary humans, though he could not explain their powers or detect Reishi in them.
• Hashirama invited Ichigo and his friends to travel with the group and openly told them that it planned to invade Hueco Mundo.
• Hashirama led Ichigo, Uryu, and Chad into the Underworld Bureaucracy’s ranks, where Naruto greeted them.
• Naruto told Ichigo, Uryu, and Chad that he was a Yama and described how the Underworld Bureaucracy judged souls and assigned their next lives to one of the Six Paths.

Naruto explained the Underworld Bureaucracy’s reincarnation system and questioned Ichigo about Soul Society, while Madara declared their intention to replace an incomplete Netherworld. The group rescued Nelliel from three Menos, learned they had only been playing with her, and continued toward Las Noches after Minato promised to take her somewhere safe when the mission was over.

• Naruto told Ichigo, Uryu Ishida, and their companion that the Underworld Bureaucracy reincarnated souls and argued that Soul Society’s system left the dead vulnerable to becoming Hollows.
• Ichigo said his work as a Substitute Shinigami was to purify souls lingering in the World of the Living and send them to Soul Society, then grew wary when Naruto questioned whether they planned to invade it.
• Madara said the Underworld Bureaucracy would replace a Netherworld without a complete reincarnation cycle.
• Minato rescued Nelliel from three pursuing Menos, but Nelliel stopped the underworld envoys from attacking them and explained that they had been playing Infinite Chase.
• Nelliel and the three Menos apologized to Madara’s group, and Nelliel later followed Minato and asked him to play with her on the way to Las Noches.
• Minato told Nelliel to wait while the group completed its mission and promised to take her somewhere safe afterward.

Madara and his allies reached Las Noches, where Hashirama defeated its guardian and Madara confronted Aizen. Madara rescued Orihime and destroyed Las Noches with a repulsive force, leaving the Espada and others scattered around the crater.

• Madara ordered Hashirama to defeat Lunu Ganga, who fled from Hashirama’s Wood Human before Madara struck him down.
• Aizen and the Espada saw the invading force, and Aizen noticed Madara watching Las Noches.
• Madara sensed Orihime Inoue inside a secret chamber and went there to take her with him.
• Aizen activated Kyoka Suigetsu against Madara, but Madara resisted the illusion and unleashed a repulsive force that demolished Las Noches.
• Ichigo Kurosaki and the others found Madara standing in the crater beside the collapsed Orihime.

Ichigo reunited with Orihime after Madara saved her, but Aizen’s return forced Madara to face him in Hueco Mundo. Madara’s immense power and attacks pushed Aizen to abandon his composure and use his full strength.

• Ichigo found Orihime and embraced her, while Madara told them to leave so he could continue fighting Aizen.
• Aizen emerged from the ruins and knocked Ichigo into them when Ichigo attacked; Orihime healed Ichigo, and Hashirama stopped him from joining the battle.
• Madara released his Conqueror’s Haki, overwhelming the nearby fighters and causing Orihime to faint before Hashirama shielded her and Ichigo.
• Aizen countered Madara’s Great Fireball Technique with Danku and tried to seal him with Black Coffin.
• Madara shattered Black Coffin with Complete Susanoo and sent a slash that split a distant mountain, prompting Aizen to prepare to fight with all his strength.

Madara trapped Aizen and the Espada in Infinite Tsukuyomi, but the Hōgyoku freed Aizen and enabled him to transform and strike Madara. Madara rose in his Six Paths form, ready to continue the battle.

• Madara used Infinite Tsukuyomi on Aizen and the Espada while Hashirama and the others kept Ichigo and their companions from looking at the moon.
• Aizen and the Espada fell into the illusion, but the Hōgyoku awakened Aizen and freed him from its effects.
• Aizen transformed with the Hōgyoku and attacked Madara, sending him crashing across the ground.
• Madara stood up and answered Aizen by taking on a Six Paths form, with white Hagoromo, a Rinnegan, and six Truth-Seeking Orbs.

Uchiha Madara defeated Aizen and offered him a chance to witness a broader world of power, which Aizen accepted. Madara then erased the Espada and prepared to return with the Underworld Bureaucracy to begin its work in Hueco Mundo.

• Uchiha Madara used his black defense and Observation Haki to counter Aizen’s attacks and repeatedly wound him.
• Aizen’s injuries healed, but Madara kept striking him until Aizen’s anger and confidence crumbled.
• Uchiha Madara offered Aizen a chance to see a broader sky, and Aizen accepted after asking why Madara was so strong.
• Ichigo Kurosaki confronted Madara for sparing Aizen, but Madara challenged Ichigo to defeat Aizen himself.
• Uchiha Madara erased the Espada with his Truth-Seeking Orbs, then told Hashirama that the Underworld Bureaucracy would return to begin cleansing Hueco Mundo’s souls.

After subduing Aizen, the Underworld Bureaucracy group invited Ichigo and his companions to visit and join as Netherworld Envoys. The group reached the Underworld, where its power transformed Nelliel, and Madara led them to meet the Sage of Six Paths, leaving Aizen eager and uneasy about the forces governing this realm.

• Hashirama invited Ichigo and his companions to visit the Underworld Bureaucracy, and Naruto explained how mortal Netherworld Envoys could receive aid through Divine Descent.
• Ichigo and the others agreed to travel to the Underworld Bureaucracy, while Aizen wondered what the Human Emperor's role was in its rules.
• Hashirama used Mokuton: Super Deep Forest Emergence to raise the group up the mountain beneath the Underworld Rift and into the Underworld.
• The Underworld's soul-nourishing power caused Nelliel to grow into a young girl, surprising Minato and Aizen.
• White Fang greeted Madara, who ordered a troop handover and led Ichigo, Aizen, and the others to meet the Sage of Six Paths.

Madara explained the Underworld Bureaucracy’s afterlife process and its merit-based system of justice to Ichigo and the others as they toured the Netherworld. After seeing its judges and the Eighteen Levels of Hell, the group arrived at the Sage of Six Paths’s residence.

• Madara introduced the Gates of Hell, Yellow Springs Road, River of Forgetfulness, Bridge of No Return, Soul-Washing Soup, and Three Lives Stone to Ichigo and the others.
• Uryu Ishida asked how the Underworld Bureaucracy prevented judges from abusing their authority, and Madara explained that fair judgments earned Merit while injustice brought Karmic Force and punishment in the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
• Madara told the group that Merit could raise a ghost official’s rank and strength, prompting Aizen to privately decide he could become a good person to gain power.
• The group continued to the Sage of Six Paths’s residence, observing judges try criminals and learning that judgments were based on actions in life rather than purity of heart.
• Ichigo and the others saw the torment of the Eighteen Levels of Hell and arrived at the Sage of Six Paths’s residence.

The Sage of Six Paths learned that Hueco Mundo’s souls needed the Underworld Bureaucracy’s help and warned Aizen that the Hōgyoku was consuming his future. Meanwhile, Hane tried to teach Small World caution around Sea Kings during a family voyage, then vanished after sensing a familiar aura.

• Madara brought Ichigo, Aizen, and the other original souls of Hueco Mundo to the Sage of Six Paths and asked him to handle its twisted souls.
• The Sage of Six Paths told Madara he could not restore missing soul fragments alone and would report the problem to the Human Emperor.
• The Sage of Six Paths revealed that the Hōgyoku consumed Aizen’s future, then advised him to cultivate Haki if he wanted to remove it.
• Hane’s family traveled underwater as Small World admired a Sea King and Sasuke indulged her.
• Hane warned Small World that Sea Kings could eat her, making her cry before she stopped when he threatened to bring her closer to one.
• Hane sensed a familiar aura and vanished from the ship.

Hane gave the Sage of Six Paths a Nine-Dragon Jade Seal and sent him to handle Hueco Mundo’s mutated souls while he prepared to fuse the worlds. As Ichigo and his companions returned to Hueco Mundo, they witnessed the Lord of the Underworld transform the Menos back into individual souls.

• Hane gave the Sage of Six Paths the Nine-Dragon Jade Seal so the Underworld Bureaucracy could contact him without traveling to the human world.
• The Sage of Six Paths promised Aizen a vacant Yama King position if he helped complete the fusion with Soul Society, then set out with Madara and Aizen.
• Ichigo, Uryu Ishida, and Orihime Inoue discussed their Netherworld Envoy Tokens as they examined them in Hueco Mundo.
• A gigantic, six-armed figure appeared above Hueco Mundo and drew the Menos into six black holes.
• The black holes released streams of broken human souls, revealing that the Lord of the Underworld had reversed the Menos into individual souls.

The Sage of Six Paths used the Nine-Dragon Jade Seal to merge Hueco Mundo with the Underworld, severing its connection to Soul Society and the World of the Living. As Yamamoto Genryūsai ordered the Gotei 13 to prepare for danger, Ichigo Kurosaki and the others used their Netherworld Tokens to return to the World of the Living.

• The Sage of Six Paths summoned the Nine-Dragon Jade Seal, and Hueco Mundo rose and merged with the Underworld as souls recovered and its ghost officials gained the ability to summon soul-bound weapons.
• The tremor reached Soul Society, where Yamamoto Genryūsai realized Hueco Mundo had broken away and summoned the captains of the Gotei 13.
• Yamamoto Genryūsai ordered the captains to investigate Hueco Mundo’s disappearance and prepare for battle, while Mayuri Kurotsuchi asked whether Ichigo Kurosaki and his companions knew what had happened.
• Ichigo Kurosaki and the others found that Kisuke Urahara’s Garganta passage had vanished, so the Sage of Six Paths told them to use their Netherworld Tokens to return.
• Ichigo Kurosaki and the others infused their Netherworld Tokens with Reishi and reappeared before Kisuke Urahara.

Ichigo told Kisuke Urahara that the Underworld Bureaucracy had taken over Hueco Mundo, then demonstrated its power by summoning Hashirama Senju. After Ichigo wounded Kisuke in a test, Kisuke accepted that the Bureaucracy surpassed Soul Society and feared a major threat might be coming.

• Rukia and Renji arrived at the Urahara Shop and found Orihime clinging to Ichigo, creating an awkward confrontation.
• Ichigo explained that the Underworld Bureaucracy had rescued Orihime and occupied Hueco Mundo, and described its reincarnation system and power to Kisuke, Rukia, Renji, and the others.
• Kisuke asked Ichigo to demonstrate his summoning power, so Ichigo used the Human Netherworld Envoy's Token to summon Hashirama Senju, the Second Yama King.
• With Hashirama's power, Ichigo predicted Kisuke's attacks, dodged them, and unleashed a sword aura that split a mountain while grazing Kisuke's waist.
• Kisuke ended the test convinced that the Underworld Bureaucracy's power exceeded Soul Society's and worried that it might become Soul Society's greatest enemy in ten thousand years.

Madara and the Underworld Bureaucracy entered Soul Society through a gate in impoverished Rukongai District 89. Minato gave hungry children Yin Qi Pills and showed the gathered souls that entering the gate would ease their hunger, prompting one soul to rush inside.

• Madara led the Underworld Bureaucracy into District 89 and ordered the souls to be settled inside.
• Enju and her younger brother Shirou, who had died in a house fire, struggled with hunger and thirst.
• Minato offered Enju and Shirou Yin Qi Pills, restoring their strength and ending their hunger.
• Hungry souls gathered around Minato and begged him for food.
• Minato explained that the gate's Yin Qi eased their hunger and invited them to enter the Underworld Bureaucracy.
• The soul nearest the gate rushed through, eager to escape his hunger.

Souls across Rukongai migrated toward the Gates of Hell as yin energy spread through Soul Society. Byakuya Kuchiki and Toshiro Hitsugaya investigated and reached the gate, where an attendant ordered them to join the line.

• The spreading yin energy drew souls from Rukongai toward the outer districts and darkened the sky above them.
• Byakuya Kuchiki learned that souls were migrating and led the Sixth Division to investigate after a patrol squad failed to return.
• Byakuya Kuchiki questioned migrating souls and learned they felt increasingly comfortable as they traveled toward the border.
• Toshiro Hitsugaya and Rangiku joined Byakuya Kuchiki, and the two captains advanced toward District 80 as the crowds grew.
• Byakuya Kuchiki and Toshiro reached District 89, saw the Gates of Hell and its black-uniformed guards, and were told to get in line.

Byakuya Kuchiki and Toshiro fought the Underworld’s ghost guards, whose soul-suppressing weapons and Ninjutsu bypassed their Reiatsu. As they gained the upper hand, Gol D. Roger emerged from the Underworld gates, destroyed Toshiro’s ice dragons, and challenged them while unleashing his Conqueror’s Haki.

• Byakuya Kuchiki was injured when he clashed with a ghost guard’s Soul-Beating Whip, and the ghost guards attacked him and Toshiro with weapons that inflicted strange effects on their souls.
• Byakuya Kuchiki and Toshiro avoided contact with the ghost guards’ weapons, but a barrier and volleys of Ninjutsu forced them to defend themselves.
• Byakuya Kuchiki shattered the barrier and cut into the ghost guards with his cherry blossoms, while Toshiro sent two ice dragons toward them.
• A terrifying aura poured from the Underworld gates, and black sword auras shredded Toshiro’s ice dragons.
• Gol D. Roger emerged from the gates, declared that he was guarding them, and released a wave of Conqueror’s Haki that pressed down on Byakuya Kuchiki and Toshiro.

Gol D. Roger confronted Toshiro and Byakuya after they denounced the Underworld Bureaucracy, then overwhelmed them with his Tyrant Blade. Aizen emerged from the Bureaucracy’s gates and declared that its forces, not he, would deal with the Soul Society.

• Roger drew Tyrant and challenged Toshiro and Byakuya to test their strength.
• Toshiro and Byakuya unleashed their Bankai, but Roger scattered Byakuya’s Senbonzakura Kageyoshi and struck him away.
• Roger severed Toshiro’s Bankai Zanpakuto and wounded him with a single attack.
• Roger told the defeated captains to return to the Soul Society, while Byakuya warned that more Death God captains would oppose him.
• Aizen emerged from the Underworld Bureaucracy’s gates and told Toshiro that its forces would deal with them.

Madara declared that the Underworld Bureaucracy would take over the Soul Society and challenged its captains to defeat him. After breaking Kenpachi Zaraki’s Zanpakuto with two fingers, he entered Six Paths Mode and unleashed Super Tengai Shinsei.

• Madara emerged from the Underworld Bureaucracy with Hashirama, Naruto, and others, while Roger said the real battle had only just begun.
• Shunsui Kyoraku and the other captains reached the ruined 89th District and found Byakuya Kuchiki and Toshiro badly injured, with Aizen among the enemy group.
• Madara told the captains that the Underworld Bureaucracy would requisition the Soul Society and offered to withdraw if they could defeat him.
• Kenpachi Zaraki attacked Madara, who dodged his strikes and caught his Zanpakuto between two fingers.
• Madara snapped Kenpachi’s Zanpakuto, entered Six Paths Mode, and unleashed Six Paths, Super Tengai Shinsei.

Madara summoned a colossal meteor over the Soul Society, but Yamamoto Genryūsai shattered it with Ryūjin Jakka and Hashirama saved the districts below by catching the fragments with trees. Madara then fought Yamamoto, whose flames were overwhelmed by Shinra Tensei, and a Truth-Seeking Orb erased Yamamoto’s right arm.

• Madara summoned a gigantic meteor and challenged the Soul Society captains to stop it.
• The captains unleashed their Bankai, but their attacks could not destroy the meteor.
• Yamamoto Genryūsai used Ryūjin Jakka to break the meteor, and Hashirama intercepted its falling fragments with Super Deep Forest Emergence.
• Madara asked the captains whether they still doubted the Underworld Bureaucracy, and Yamamoto confronted him.
• Madara repelled Yamamoto’s flames with Shinra Tensei and sent the captains flying.
• Madara’s Truth-Seeking Orbs pursued Yamamoto and erased his right arm when one grazed him.

Madara summoned Yama’s Blade and used its authority over souls to force Yamamoto Genryūsai and the Soul Society’s Death Gods to kneel. The chapter ended with Madara holding the defeated Yamamoto beneath his blade and finding the victory boring.

• Yamamoto Genryūsai recovered Ryūjin Jakka and released Bankai, Zanka no Tachi, filling the Soul Society with deadly heat.
• Madara summoned Yama’s Blade from the Netherworld Mirror Lake, turning the scorching sky dark and cold as ordinary souls prostrated themselves before him.
• Yamamoto Genryūsai struggled against the blade’s supernatural authority but was forced to kneel before Madara.
• Madara explained that Yama’s Blade embodied the Underworld Bureaucracy’s authority over souls, life, death, and reincarnation.
• The captain of the 12th Division and the other Death Gods also knelt, while Madara pressed Yamamoto’s head to the ground and dismissed the victory as boring.