Chapter Summaries

Jiraiya confronted Orochimaru over his experiments and attempted to persuade him to return to Konoha, but the former friends fought instead. Jiraiya revealed his Sage Mode and gained support from Minato Namikaze and the Mount Myōboku sages, while a white-haired, golden-eyed girl joined the battle against Orochimaru.

• Orochimaru rejected Jiraiya’s plea to return to Konoha and declared that he would sever their bond.
• Orochimaru trapped Jiraiya with poisoned snakes, but Jiraiya used an Earth Clone and Sage Art: Great Fireball to counterattack.
• Orochimaru emerged from the scorched ground in Sage Mode, unharmed, and mocked Jiraiya’s threat to defeat him.
• Minato Namikaze ambushed Orochimaru with a Rasengan, but Orochimaru dodged the attack with a snake tail.
• Jiraiya summoned Sage Fukasaku and Sage Shima, while Orochimaru climbed a tree to prevent their fusion with Jiraiya.
• A white-haired, golden-eyed girl descended from the sky and struck Orochimaru with a Chakra shockwave.

Karen Hyuga, Minato, and Jiraiya pursued Orochimaru, but his powerful Sage Art let him escape to the Valley of the End. There, Kirito Tonsaka confronted him before Orochimaru transformed with the Eight Branches Technique to begin their fight.

• Karen Hyuga, Minato, and Jiraiya attacked Orochimaru, but Orochimaru restrained Minato and struck back with Sage Art: Five Elements: Great Combined Bullet.
• Karen Hyuga tracked Orochimaru east, and she, Minato, and Jiraiya pursued him through the forest.
• Orochimaru reached the Valley of the End expecting Madara Uchiha to protect him, but Kirito Tonsaka was waiting there instead.
• Kirito Tonsaka told Orochimaru he would kill him, and Orochimaru transformed into an eight-headed serpent with the Eight Branches Technique.

Kirito defeated Orochimaru’s Eight-Headed Serpent form and destroyed the fleeing snakes, while Madara watched without intervening. Though the battlefield gave no sign Orochimaru survived, a black-haired young man awakened in an underground laboratory, suggesting Orochimaru’s return.

• Orochimaru attacked Kirito with the Eight-Headed Serpent, but Kirito’s Rock Golem and Wood Release overwhelmed him and destroyed six of his heads.
• Orochimaru shed his damaged body and transformed into a smaller serpent, but Kirito bound it with a concealed Wood Release sealing technique.
• Madara Uchiha watched from the sky and chose not to rescue Orochimaru, while Black Zetsu urged him to save the captured shinobi.
• Orochimaru escaped his bindings by scattering into countless white snakes, but Kirito crushed and burned them, and his Soul Signature disappeared.
• Kirito returned to Konoha with Karen Hyuga, while Jiraiya stayed behind to mourn Orochimaru and Minato questioned whether his former teacher was truly dead.
• In an underground laboratory beneath the Land of Rice, a black-haired young man awakened as a strange man held a suffering white snake.

Madara Uchiha found Orochimaru’s hidden revival and watched him reclaim his identity, while Tsunade responded to Orochimaru’s defection and its fallout across the Shinobi World. At the Flying Fortress, Kirito’s Uchiha Clone successfully purified a fused Byakugan but failed to push a Three-Tomoe Sharingan through its final stage of evolution.

• Madara Uchiha crushed the white snake carrying Orochimaru’s soul, and the revived man insisted that he was still Orochimaru.
• Tsunade reassured Minato Namikaze, assigned him to help Kirito, and ordered Anbu teams to investigate Orochimaru’s laboratories.
• Orochimaru’s defection and the spread of Hero’s Water stirred unrest and conflict across the Shinobi World.
• Kirito’s Uchiha Clone used Zero-Tail to absorb Dark Emotion from Tenjin Hyuga’s fused Byakugan, leaving the eye purified and closer to becoming a Tenseigan.
• Kirito’s Uchiha Clone had Zero-Tail transfer Dark Emotion into a Three-Tomoe Sharingan, but the Sharingan remained stuck before its final evolution.

Kirito used Zero-Tail to channel the Dark Emotion within Madara Uchiha’s Rinnegan into a Three-Tomoe Sharingan, successfully creating a Mangekyō Sharingan. Madara sensed the interference and sent Orochimaru northwest with the revived Third Mizukage to investigate the location of his other Rinnegan.

• Kirito concluded that the Sharingan needed high-grade Dark Emotion to evolve, then brought Madara Uchiha’s sealed Rinnegan to Zero-Tail.
• Zero-Tail extracted Dark Emotion from the Rinnegan, but the eye’s Dark Chakra began consuming Zero-Tail until Kirito restrained it with Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Kirito ordered Zero-Tail to transfer the Dark Emotion into the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, which evolved into a Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Madara Uchiha felt pain in his Rinnegan and suspected Kirito had interfered with his other eye, then ordered Orochimaru to go northwest.
• Black Zetsu brought Orochimaru to Madara, where the Third Mizukage appeared alive with a Rinnegan and a Mangekyō Sharingan.

Toneri Otsutsuki monitored the Shinobi World from the moon and learned that Madara Uchiha had another Rinnegan observer to contend with. Meanwhile, Kirito completed a working Space-Time Array and advanced his plans to obtain the Tenseigan and create a Rinnegan, while his Uchiha Clone successfully transplanted an evolved Mangekyō Sharingan.

• Toneri Otsutsuki detected spatial fluctuations near the moon’s ancestral land, watched Madara Uchiha through the Giant Tenseigan, and broke off his observation when Madara sensed him.
• Toneri redirected the Giant Tenseigan toward Hattori Masanari in Amegakure and considered how he might obtain high-purity Byakugan to wield the Giant Tenseigan fully.
• Kirito and the Sealing Unit completed a Space-Time Array capable of operating 108 load-bearing pillars, and Kirito learned that the Sharingan evolution experiment had also succeeded.
• Kirito assessed his chances of obtaining the Tenseigan and eventually creating a Rinnegan through evolved Mangekyō Sharingan and the Power of All Things.
• The Uchiha Clone transplanted an evolved Mangekyō Sharingan, suppressed its destructive influence, and gained several ocular techniques.

The Uchiha Clone escaped Madara Uchiha and Orochimaru by fleeing with the Rinnegan, but they destroyed his Flying Fortress before he returned. In Konoha, Kirito resolved to prepare for war against the four Great Ninja Villages, and Tsunade reviewed his plan to rapidly strengthen ordinary people.

• The Uchiha Clone identified Susanoo's Enhancement as a Mangekyō Sharingan technique, then sealed the Rinnegan and fled when Madara Uchiha and Orochimaru approached the Flying Fortress.
• Madara Uchiha and Orochimaru attacked and destroyed the Flying Fortress, triggering a space-time black hole that swallowed much of it.
• The Uchiha Clone returned to the ruined base and regretted that Madara Uchiha had destroyed it instead of entering its trapped laboratory.
• Kirito considered Madara Uchiha's growing forces and the military plans of the four Great Ninja Villages, then decided Konoha needed to prepare to crush them before they became stronger.
• Tsunade read Kirito's Reinforcement Plan, which proposed using a simplified Cursed Seal Technique and supplementary drugs to raise ordinary people to Genin or Chunin strength quickly.

Tsunade presented Kirito's Reinforcement Plan to Konoha's five elders, who argued over its risks and benefits. Four opposed implementing it in full, so Tsunade asked whether they would approve carrying out only part of the plan.

• Tsunade distributed Kirito's Reinforcement Plan to Hiruzen Sarutobi, Momoka Senju, Torifu Akimichi, Kazuma Hyuga, and Chizuru Uchiha for their opinions.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Momoka Senju, and Kazuma Hyuga warned that the plan's cost and the threat of the other villages discovering it made full implementation too dangerous.
• Chizuru Uchiha argued that Konoha needed to strengthen itself and clashed with Torifu Akimichi before Tsunade stopped their confrontation.
• Tsunade rebuked Chizuru for dismissing the elders' concerns, and Hiruzen Sarutobi ultimately opposed implementing the full plan.
• Tsunade asked the elders whether implementing only part of Kirito's plan would be feasible, and Hiruzen Sarutobi asked which part she meant.

Kirito redirected his Reinforcement Curse Mark plan toward Amegakure after Konoha’s leaders approved only a simplified version. Meanwhile, Orochimaru cultivated a Seven-Tails Chakra fragment in Takigakure, but Black Zetsu rejected it as a substitute for a real Tailed Beast.

• Kirito accepted Konoha’s decision and sent the White Zetsu Clone instructions to implement his plan in Amegakure through Konan and Hanzō.
• The White Zetsu Clone continued training with Sage Slug and explained his progress developing Medical Forbidden Jutsu: Body Activation to divide his body safely.
• Orochimaru studied a revived Divine Tree Fragment and examined a giant cicada wing cultivated from Seven-Tails Chakra in his Takigakure laboratory.
• Black Zetsu confronted Orochimaru about his stalled Impure World Reincarnation research, and Orochimaru claimed he was developing a method to cultivate Tailed Beasts.
• Black Zetsu dismissed the cicada wing as mere Tailed Beast Chakra without a soul and warned that it could not replace the real Tailed Beasts needed for the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.

Orochimaru accepted Madara Uchiha’s demands after Black Zetsu gave him a scroll about Yin-Yang Release, which he hoped could improve his experiments and free him from the Reincarnation Curse Mark. Black Zetsu then used White Zetsu to stabilize Hiruko’s failing body and warned him against trying to absorb them, before Hiruko asked what Madara wanted him to do next.

• Orochimaru told Black Zetsu he would research the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu if he received an assistant, funding, and test subjects.
• Black Zetsu gave Orochimaru a scroll containing incomplete but genuine information about Yin-Yang Release, and Orochimaru agreed to work diligently for Madara Uchiha.
• After Black Zetsu left, Orochimaru considered using Yin-Yang Release to address the soul damage caused by his Living Corpse Reincarnation.
• Hiruko’s Chimera Technique side effects caused his body to collapse, but Black Zetsu sent three White Zetsu to repair and stabilize him.
• Black Zetsu warned Hiruko that absorbing White Zetsu could turn him into a tree, and Hiruko asked for Madara’s new orders.

Black Zetsu ordered Hiruko to work with Orochimaru on improving the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu, then forced Akasuna to accept new orders by activating the White Zetsu inside his puppet body. Akasuna submitted, while Hiruko eagerly anticipated his coming rivalry with Orochimaru.

• Black Zetsu ordered Hiruko to cooperate with Orochimaru on the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu within a year, and Hiruko submitted after being promised the other half of Yin-Yang Release.
• Hiruko objected to working with Orochimaru, but Black Zetsu told him to settle their rivalry himself as long as Madara Uchiha’s plan was not delayed.
• Akasuna inspected the thousand-plus Humanoid Puppets produced at his workshop in the Ancient City of Loulan, confident they could help Sunagakure defeat Amegakure and Iwagakure.
• Black Zetsu arrived before the agreed time to deliver new orders, but Akasuna refused to listen and tried to leave.
• Black Zetsu activated the White Zetsu inside Akasuna, immobilizing him and draining the Chakra from his Chakra Core until Akasuna begged to comply.

Black Zetsu delivered Madara Uchiha’s order for Akasuna to prepare Sunagakure to attack Iwagakure, while Ōnoki considered a secret meeting with Hattori Masanari to improve Iwagakure’s position. In Amegakure, Hattori Masanari arranged for Kitsuchi to meet Ōnoki and secretly watched Yahiko, whose recent behavior had made him suspicious.

• Black Zetsu told Akasuna that Madara Uchiha wanted him to attack Iwagakure once his puppet count reached three thousand, and Akasuna asked to kill Ōnoki himself.
• Ōnoki reflected on Iwagakure’s lack of high-end fighters and received Hattori Masanari’s request to resume trade between the Land of Rain and the Land of Earth.
• Ōnoki instructed Kurotsuchi to arrange a border meeting with Hattori Masanari through Kitsuchi.
• Hattori Masanari’s White Zetsu Clone told Kitsuchi to leave the Land of Rain safely, then ordered Yahiko to follow and protect him.
• Konan worried that meeting Ōnoki could anger Konoha, but Hattori Masanari reassured her and teased her about Yahiko.
• Hattori Masanari secretly monitored Yahiko with the Byakugan and wondered why he had lingered outside the village instead of following Kitsuchi promptly.

Yahiko struggled against the mysterious voice manipulating him and resolved to gain power to recover Nagato’s Rinnegan, while Nagato resumed Sage Art training after briefly losing control. In Kirigakure, Karatachi Yagura weighed the growing threat of war and the village’s financial dependence on its hostile Daimyo, then considered settling accounts with those obstructing him.

• A mysterious voice tempted Yahiko to steal Ōnoki’s Dust Release and mocked his ability to recover Nagato’s Rinnegan, revealing how it had lured him into using the Chimera Technique and betraying Amegakure.
• Yahiko resolved to sacrifice anything for greater power and used Ice Style: Thousand-Mile Eye to watch Kitsuchi.
• Nagato’s worry for his companions disrupted his Sage Art training, but Sage Fukasaku struck him with a Black Rod to disperse the uncontrolled Natural Energy.
• Nagato calmed himself and restarted training with more than a hundred Shadow Clones, while Sage Fukasaku wondered why Yahiko had stopped coming to train.
• Karatachi Yagura assessed Kirigakure’s recovery, the other villages’ preparations for war, and the Daimyo’s withheld funding, then considered confronting those who were hindering the village.

Kirito used a Space-Time Array to travel to the moon, where Toneri Otsutsuki killed his Uchiha Clone with a powerful attack. Kirito revived and confronted Toneri, but Toneri recognized that the Sharingan-wielding visitor was not really Kirito Tonsaka and attacked again.

• The Fourth Raikage tested Kumogakure's Chakra Cannon, while Karui warned that its energy demands and risk of exploding made it unsafe for immediate use in a war.
• Kirito learned about the cannon through Kasan, ended his control of her, and instructed her to find its core technology.
• Kirito and the Sealing Jutsu ninja powered the Space-Time Array with a portion of the Yang Nine-Tails, and Kirito's Uchiha Clone entered the channel to the moon.
• Toneri Otsutsuki struck the arriving clone with a blue beam that shattered its Susanoo and killed it, but Kirito revived using a Revival Coin.
• Kirito introduced himself as Kirito Tonsaka, but Toneri rejected the claim and unleashed another blue beam.

The Uchiha Clone fought Toneri Otsutsuki on the moon and used a staged attack to sever his connection to the Giant Purple Tenseigan. With help from the White Zetsu Clone, Kirito’s side captured Toneri and secured the Giant Purple Tenseigan.

• Toneri Otsutsuki overpowered the Uchiha Clone, who recognized Toneri’s Tenseigan Chakra Mode and fought back with Lightning Release Chakra Mode.
• The Uchiha Clone unleashed Complete Body Susanoo enhanced with Lightning Armor and struck toward the Giant Purple Tenseigan, prompting Toneri to defend it.
• After Toneri diverted his attention, the Uchiha Clone used Izanagi to reappear behind him and pierce his heart with a Lightning Style blade, while sealing his Chakra.
• Toneri tried to trigger the Giant Purple Tenseigan’s self-destruction, but the White Zetsu Clone used Flying Thunder God and Adamantine Sealing Chains to stabilize it and sever Toneri’s connection.
• The White Zetsu Clone confirmed that Toneri and the Giant Purple Tenseigan had fallen into his hands.

The White Zetsu Clone used Zero-Tail to purify the darkness from the giant purple Tenseigan, then absorbed it as his Third Eye. Meanwhile, Kirito explained the moon and the Tenseigan to Chizuru and Karen, and promised Karen a chance to try controlling the other giant Tenseigan.

• The White Zetsu Clone learned from Otsutsuki Toneri's memories that outsiders who connected to the giant purple Tenseigan would have their Chakra drained, so he summoned Zero-Tail to purify it.
• Zero-Tail absorbed the darkness inside the giant purple Tenseigan while Konoha ninja arrived on the moon and joined Kirito's Uchiha Clone.
• Kirito told Chizuru Uchiha and Karen Hyuga about Otsutsuki Toneri, the moon, and the Tenseigan, warning them that outsiders risked having their Chakra drained.
• Karen asked to try controlling a giant Tenseigan, and Kirito promised to let her try when they returned.
• After Zero-Tail purified the giant purple Tenseigan, the White Zetsu Clone beat it down, took its Dark Chakra crystals, and sent it back to the Shinobi World.
• The White Zetsu Clone touched the purified giant purple Tenseigan, which shrank and entered his forehead as his Third Eye.

The White Zetsu Clone tested the Tenseigan’s abilities on the moon, then returned to Amegakure as Konoha ninja expanded their search. Back in Konoha, Kazuma Hyuga rejected the Main House Elders’ demand to claim the Giant Tenseigan and warned that the Hyuga Clan had to change.

• The White Zetsu Clone examined the Tenseigan’s seven abilities and tested its repulsion, attraction, and spatial manipulation powers.
• The White Zetsu Clone opened a passage to an icy alternate world, then retreated from approaching Konoha ninja and returned to Amegakure.
• Over several days, Konoha ninja explored the moon and recovered Otsutsuki Clan relics, prompting the Hyuga Clan to debate ownership of the Giant Tenseigan.
• The Main House Elders urged Kazuma Hyuga to claim the Giant Tenseigan and prevent Karen Hyuga and the Branch House from controlling it.
• Kazuma Hyuga refused to claim the Tenseigan, saying it belonged to the village and that the Hyuga Clan had to change as the truth about the Giant Tenseigan became harder to conceal.

Kazuma Hyuga urged the Main House Elders to change the Hyuga Clan’s treatment of the Branch House, warning that Kirito Tonsaka’s support for Karen could overturn the clan’s old order. The elders backed down from open conflict but remained divided, while Karen waited beside the Giant Tenseigan for a chance to break free of the Caged Bird Seal.

• Kazuma Hyuga warned the Main House Elders that Branch House members working under Karen were gaining Kirito Tonsaka’s protection, but they insisted Konoha would not abandon the Hyuga Clan.
• When a young Main House Elder proposed taking the Tenseigan, Kazuma declared it belonged to Konoha and struck him with an Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm.
• The Main House Elders challenged Kazuma’s authority, and he offered to abdicate while insisting the next Clan Head would have to bear responsibility for the clan’s fate.
• An aged Main House Elder ended the confrontation and warned Kazuma that loosening the Branch House’s restraints could bring the Main House’s destruction; the elders left without fighting.
• Kazuma resolved to restrain reckless Main House members, while Karen watched the Giant Tenseigan in the Sealing Unit building and waited patiently for her chance to gain its power.

Madara Uchiha ordered plans accelerated after learning about the Tenseigan, while a border crisis between Iwagakure and Sunagakure left Chiyo missing and pushed Ōnoki to search for her. Chiyo fled toward the Land of Rain, pursued by Akasuna and his Humanoid Puppets, but an immense wall of ice blocked her path.

• Black Zetsu told Madara Uchiha that Konoha had discovered the Tenseigan, and Madara decided to locate and destroy it before it threatened the Moon Eye Plan.
• Madara ordered Orochimaru to focus on cultivating the Nine-Tails and directed Sunagakure to help plunge the Shinobi World back into chaos.
• After Chiyo vanished during a clash on the Land of Earth–Land of Wind border, Ōnoki questioned his commanders, then left Iwagakure to search for her while Kurotsuchi stayed behind.
• Mu watched Ōnoki leave and was compelled by Madara to go to Lava Mountain and help the Oni Organization seize the Three-Tails.
• Chiyo, pursued by Akasuna and his Humanoid Puppets, continued toward the Land of Rain, but Akasuna signaled and a huge wall of ice suddenly blocked her route.

Yahiko attacked Chiyo under pressure from the voice in his mind, but Akasuna rescued her before Yahiko could kill her. The battle threatened to pit Iwagakure against Sunagakure, while Kirito urged Ōnoki to reconsider their secret cooperation.

• Yahiko used Ice Release to wear down Chiyo, who fought back with her puppets and a combined Fire and Wind Style attack.
• Chiyo collapsed from exhaustion and her wounds, but Akasuna arrived and shielded her from Yahiko’s ice wolves.
• Akasuna escaped with Chiyo in an Iron Sand shell, while Yahiko withdrew rather than risk exposing his absence from Amegakure.
• Iwagakure and Amegakure patrols found the ruined battlefield, and Ōnoki arrived to investigate the traces of Chiyo’s fight.
• Kirito denied Amegakure’s involvement and pointed out that Chiyo’s disappearance could be a plot to derail his planned meeting with Ōnoki.
• Ōnoki recognized the suspicious timing, and Kirito urged him to pursue their cooperation despite the risks.