Recaps

Ren visited Yakumo Kurama to investigate her worsening headaches and loss of mental control, using his Sharingan to examine her condition. He discovered that her immense, mostly dormant mental power was already overwhelming her frail body, and that further awakening could prove dangerous.

• Kurenai Yuhi brought Ren and Kakashi to the Kurama Clan compound to see Yakumo.
• Kurama Murakumo recognized Ren and nervously welcomed him, while Yakumo grew curious about the young Uchiha Clan Leader.
• Kurenai and Murakumo explained Yakumo's fragile health, powerful genjutsu talent, and recurring mental episodes.
• Ren activated his Three-Tomoe Sharingan and examined Yakumo's body and mind.
• Ren saw that Yakumo's vast dormant mental power was pressing down on her weak body and could overwhelm it as it awakened.

Ren explained that Yakumo’s extraordinary spiritual power was overwhelming her frail body, and that she would need to strengthen her body to survive and use her Kekkei Genkai. He rejected sealing her spiritual power and warned that the power trapped in a seal could accumulate and undergo a dangerous change.

• Ren told the Kurama family that Yakumo’s spiritual power surpassed his as a child and that her dormant Kekkei Genkai could let her genjutsu affect reality.
• Ren warned that Yakumo’s weak body could not withstand her growing spiritual power, and that training would accelerate its collapse.
• Ren said Yakumo would need to temper her body until it could bear her spiritual power, turning her dangerous talent into an advantage.
• Kurenai Yuhi explained that Yakumo could not endure even basic Ninja Academy training, despite treatment from Lady Tsunade.
• Kurenai Yuhi proposed sealing Yakumo’s excess spiritual power, but Ren rejected the idea and warned that the power compressed within a seal could accumulate until it underwent a qualitative change.

Ren explained that sealing Yakumo’s mental energy could cause a fatal outburst and that ordinary training would damage her frail body. He offered to take her as his disciple and teach her the first three stages of the Uchiha’s Tiger Leopard Thunderclap Body Tempering Art, leaving her family to accept a debt of clan merit and future service.

• Ren warned that sealing Yakumo’s mental energy could destroy her body and consciousness, while her past mental breakdown made the danger worse.
• Ren proposed the Uchiha’s Tiger Leopard Thunderclap Body Tempering Art as a way to strengthen Yakumo from within without straining her fragile body.
• Ren explained that the secret technique could help Yakumo bear her mental energy and strengthen her Kurama Kekkei Genkai, but it was a valuable Uchiha inheritance.
• Kurenai Yuhi and Kurama Murakumo offered payment and service in exchange for the technique, but Ren instead asked Yakumo if she truly wanted to become a ninja.
• Yakumo agreed, and Ren offered to take her as his disciple, teach her the first three stages for three thousand clan merit points, and let her repay the debt through future service.
• Kurama Murakumo and Yakumo’s mother accepted Ren’s terms, delighted that Yakumo could become his disciple.

Ren told Uchiha's leaders that the clan's rapid expansion had outgrown its population and proposed incentives for families to have children, along with a childcare center to educate and train the next generation. The leaders agreed that Uchiha could afford the plan and would fund it from its treasury and future business income.

• Yakumo accepted Ren as a second teacher and agreed to serve Uchiha in return for his guidance.
• Ren summoned Fugaku and the elders and explained that Uchiha lacked enough trusted people to staff its expanding businesses, institutions, and operations abroad.
• Ren proposed marriage and childbirth incentives, including financial support, housing, medical care, and help raising children.
• Ren proposed a district childcare center and systematic training to develop children's talents for a range of future roles.
• Fugaku and the elders agreed that Uchiha's wealth could fund the programs, with future revenue from Myriad City, the railway, and international trade supporting continued growth.

Ren proposed recruiting outsiders to ease the Uchiha’s immediate staffing shortage and dividing the clan into Inner and Outer Courts to balance bloodline preservation with expansion. The elders resisted allowing marriage with outsiders, but Ren laid out a system that reserved core duties for the Inner Court while letting the Outer Court marry freely and build ties across the Shinobi World.

• Ren proposed hiring capable outsiders for ordinary industrial and administrative roles while keeping core authority and secrets in Uchiha hands.
• Fugaku and the elders approved open recruitment after Ren explained how tiered management and inspections would limit the risks.
• Ren raised the ban on marrying outsiders, prompting the elders to warn that intermarriage could weaken the Sharingan and repeat the Senju clan’s decline.
• Ren proposed placing exceptional graduates of Hidden Dragon Hall in an Inner Court focused on cultivation, combat, and core inheritance, while assigning other members to an Outer Court.
• Ren said Outer Court members could marry outsiders and build lasting connections with clans, merchants, and local forces across the Shinobi World.

Ren secured approval for the Uchiha’s new marriage, recruitment, and child-rearing policies by proposing an Inner and Outer Court system supported by bloodline-tempering potions. As the clan began growing rapidly, Obito and Black Zetsu learned that the Uchiha Shrine’s disciples were advancing at an alarming rate.

• Ren argued that allowing Outer Court members to marry outsiders would reduce inbreeding, and presented the Basic Bloodline Tempering Potion as a safeguard for Uchiha bloodlines.
• Fugaku and the elders approved Ren’s policies, including the Internal-External Division, marriage with outsiders, childbirth rewards, and centralized child-rearing.
• The Uchiha announced the new rules, prompting more marriages, pregnancies, and the expansion of clan nursery classes.
• White Zetsu reported that the Shrine’s disciples had grown stronger after the Battle of Kumogakure, with Nanami Uchiha reaching Kage-Level Peak.
• Obito heard Black Zetsu warn that the Shrine’s members were breaking the Shinobi World’s usual limits, and that their pace of growth was accelerating.

Obito abandoned the Akatsuki Organization’s slow recruitment plan after learning how quickly Ren was strengthening the Uchiha Shrine. He decided to build an army of reanimated fighters instead, leaving the Akatsuki Organization to seek Impure World Reincarnation’s Jutsu Formula and improve its control.

• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu concluded that Ren’s secret training technique had rapidly raised the strength of the Uchiha Shrine.
• Obito scrapped the Akatsuki Organization’s original plan and ordered the immediate collection of the Tailed Beasts, but recognized that the organization lacked enough fighters.
• Obito proposed replacing living recruits with reanimated fighters brought back through Impure World Reincarnation.
• White Zetsu pointed out that Orochimaru was in Ren’s hands, so Black Zetsu explained that they could search Konoha’s records and Orochimaru’s scattered laboratories for the Jutsu Formula and his research.
• Obito and Black Zetsu decided they could use Yin–Yang Release to redesign the control talismans, preserving the reanimated fighters’ combat awareness while preventing disobedience.

Obito planned to build an undead army with an improved Impure World Reincarnation, while Orochimaru and Ren completed Tobirama Senju's resurrection in a body combining Senju, Uchiha, Hashirama, and Ren's cells. Tobirama learned his new bloodline could potentially lead to the Rinnegan and vowed to defeat Madara Uchiha if he returned.

• Obito ordered White Zetsu to search for Orochimaru's laboratories and Konoha's Forbidden Technique scrolls, while Black Zetsu redesigned the Impure World Reincarnation formula for a five-year plan to build an undead army.
• Orochimaru examined his successfully reborn body and revealed that Tobirama had been resurrected in a newly cultivated, living body.
• Tobirama explained that Hashirama's Cells had destroyed earlier bodies until Ren's cells suppressed their uncontrolled growth.
• Ren told Tobirama that his combined Senju and Uchiha bloodlines could grant him Eternal Mangekyō-level ocular power and might eventually awaken the Rinnegan.
• Tobirama recognized that Madara Uchiha might have survived the Valley of the End, and Ren said Madara could still be resurrected through Impure World Reincarnation.
• Tobirama vowed to master his new body's power and defeat Madara himself if Madara returned.

Ren appointed Uchiha Jian and Orochimaru to lead the Forbidden Techniques and Secret Medicine departments, then transmitted the first three levels of the Great River Qi Refinement Method directly into their minds. After testing the method, they recognized how True Essence Chakra fundamentally surpassed ordinary chakra and understood how the Uchiha Shrine had rapidly produced so many Kage Level experts.

• Ren gave Tobirama the new name Uchiha Jian and appointed him chief elder of the Secret Arts Hall's Forbidden Techniques Department.
• Ren appointed Orochimaru chief elder of the Secret Medicine Department and tasked him with developing affordable Bloodline Tempering Potions.
• Ren transmitted the first three levels of the Great River Qi Refinement Method and his cultivation insights to Uchiha Jian and Orochimaru.
• Uchiha Jian tested the method and produced a strand of True Essence Chakra that changed chakra natures more smoothly than ordinary chakra.
• Orochimaru and Uchiha Jian concluded that True Essence Chakra strengthened both its user's power and body, explaining the Uchiha Shrine's many Kage Level experts.

Ren explained how the Great River Qi Refinement Method could lead shinobi from Kage Level to Super-Kage and beyond, with its later stages turning spiritual energy into the cultivator’s own power. He established that access to higher cultivation methods and resources would depend on merit earned through contributions to the clan.

• Ren said the method’s first three levels could help most Jonin break through to Kage Level and explained that Genin and Chunin could cultivate it to build stronger foundations.
• Ren explained that the Fourth Level refined the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into True Essence, distinguishing the method from Sage Mode’s temporary use of natural energy.
• Uchiha Jian recognized that the method provided a path for shinobi to advance beyond Kage Level, while Orochimaru concluded that its ongoing transformation could lead to immortality.
• Ren told Uchiha Jian and Orochimaru that the Fourth Level and later methods would require clan merit earned through research, technique development, training, or other contributions.
• Uchiha Jian praised the merit system, and Ren clarified that clan members, outside shinobi, and merchants could all earn rewards by creating value for the clan.

Orochimaru explained how Ren’s Merit System kept the Uchiha striving to improve, while Obito and Black Zetsu summoned Madara Uchiha through Impure World Reincarnation. Madara discovered they had revived him without permission and demanded an explanation for changing his plan.

• Orochimaru praised Ren for using the Merit System to keep the Uchiha clan motivated and strong.
• Obito and Black Zetsu completed a refined Impure World Reincarnation ritual using a powerful White Zetsu and Madara Uchiha’s preserved genetic sample.
• Madara Uchiha awakened in an Impure World body and realized he had been summoned back instead of truly revived with Rinne Rebirth.
• Madara questioned Black Zetsu about why he had not used Rinne Rebirth, and Black Zetsu blamed an unexpected crisis in the Shinobi World.
• Madara demanded that Obito and Black Zetsu explain why they had changed his plan without permission, threatening everyone involved with consequences.

Madara Uchiha emerged through an unusually powerful Impure World Reincarnation, and Obito and Black Zetsu feared his strength might make him uncontrollable. Obito revealed that a fifteen-year-old Uchiha had defeated Hashirama head-on, leaving Madara astonished.

• Madara released a massive surge of chakra that shattered the altar and nearly brought down the underground space.
• Obito and Black Zetsu assessed Madara's enhanced Impure World Body and worried that his will might overcome the control seal.
• Black Zetsu told Madara that a fifteen-year-old Uchiha had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and mastered the Complete Body Susanoo.
• Obito explained that the junior had blocked Hashirama's Top Transformed Buddha and destroyed Hashirama's Impure World Body in a fair fight.
• Madara's fury subsided, and he repeatedly questioned how a fifteen-year-old could have defeated Hashirama.

Madara learned that the Uchiha Clan had changed greatly since he left the Shinobi World, including producing four Mangekyo wielders. He remained interested in the clan's new strength, though he had not yet learned its full extent.

• Madara questioned White Zetsu about Uchiha Ren, his abilities, and the current state of the Uchiha Clan.
• White Zetsu explained that the Uchiha had been suppressed by Konoha but had established the Uchiha Shrine and cultivated Kage Level experts.
• White Zetsu told Madara that only seven or eight years had passed since his true death, and Madara doubted that the clan could have changed much in that time.
• White Zetsu revealed that the Uchiha had at least four Mangekyo wielders: Uchiha Ren, Fugaku Uchiha, Uchiha Shisui, and Itachi Uchiha.
• Madara confirmed the report and acknowledged that the Uchiha had not fallen completely into decline.

Madara learned how Uchiha Ren became clan leader and heard Obito recount Ren’s battle against Hashirama’s Impure World Body. The account ended with Hashirama conceding after Ren destroyed his body alone.

• Madara dismissed ordinary Mangekyo users and asked Obito about Uchiha Ren, the junior who had defeated Hashirama.
• Obito and Black Zetsu described Ren as a monstrous prodigy who became Uchiha Clan Leader after impeaching Fugaku at fifteen.
• Obito explained that Orochimaru summoned Hashirama through an improved Impure World Reincarnation, allowing him to fight with most of his strength and full consciousness.
• Obito recounted how Ren’s Complete Body Susanoo fought Hashirama’s True Several Thousand Hands and Top Transformed Buddha, devastating the Valley of the End.
• Obito said Ren blocked Hashirama’s attacks, destroyed his Impure World Body with space-warping taijutsu, and fought without assistance until Hashirama admitted defeat.

Madara learned that Uchiha Ren had united the clan under the Uchiha Shrine, whose training and formations created a growing force capable of challenging Konoha. He approved of Ren’s openly displayed strength, then learned that Ren had also revealed secrets of the Sage of Six Paths to the clan.

• Madara heard that fifteen-year-old Uchiha Ren had defeated Reanimated Hashirama with Complete Body Susanoo and became interested in meeting him.
• White Zetsu and Obito explained that Ren had united the Uchiha and established the Uchiha Shrine, with thirteen Squads and several Kage Level Captains.
• Obito and White Zetsu described Ren’s training method and Formation Secret Art, which strengthened Shrine members and let teams combine their power.
• White Zetsu and Black Zetsu said Ren publicly demonstrated all thirteen Squads before Konoha’s leaders and major clans, forcing Konoha to withdraw restrictions and surveillance.
• Madara praised Ren’s boldness, and Black Zetsu revealed that Ren had also shared secrets of the Sage of Six Paths with the Uchiha.

Obito and Black Zetsu told Madara that the Uchiha and Senju shared the Sage of Six Paths as an ancestor, then described how Uchiha Ren had defeated Kumogakure without using Complete Body Susanoo. Madara learned that the Uchiha Shrine’s formations and Ten Thousand Lightning had driven the invasion, leaving him impressed by the clan’s large-scale combat system.

• Black Zetsu explained that the Uchiha descended from Indra and the Senju from Asura, citing Madara’s Rinnegan as proof of their shared origins.
• Obito revealed that he and Black Zetsu had provoked Kumogakure into testing Ren because they feared the Uchiha Shrine’s growing strength.
• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu reported that Ren declared war after Kumogakure targeted the Uchiha, then forced the village to surrender and pay enormous compensation.
• Madara learned that Ren had not used Complete Body Susanoo during the war and demanded to know how the Uchiha had won.
• Obito described how four-person squads used Formation Secret Art and Ten Thousand Lightning to break Kumogakure’s defenses and advance into the Land of Lightning.

Obito and Black Zetsu explained how Ren defeated the Fourth Raikage, Killer B, and Hashirama with Idaten and Hundredfold Strike, then revealed his other Mangekyo ability: switching his body between reality and illusion. Madara realized Ren’s intangibility was not a space-time transfer like Kamui and was left questioning how the ability worked.

• Obito told Madara that Ren defeated the Fourth Raikage and Killer B without using Susanoo, relying on his Mangekyo dojutsu.
• Black Zetsu explained that Ren used Idaten to speed up his attacks and stack Chakra Enhanced Strength into powerful strikes.
• Black Zetsu revealed that Ren had advanced from Twentyfold Strike at Kumogakure to Hundredfold Strike, which defeated Hashirama.
• Obito revealed that Ren’s second Mangekyo dojutsu was a self-genjutsu that let him switch between reality and illusion, making attacks pass through him.
• Madara realized Ren’s intangibility was not a space-time transfer like Kamui and asked whether Ren transferred his body into another dimension.

Obito, Madara, and Black Zetsu discussed how Ren’s Self-Genjutsu let him become intangible and why it was nearly impossible to counter. They identified strain on his ordinary Mangekyō Sharingan as a limitation, but Obito rejected exhausting Ren’s eyes as the worst option.

• Obito explained that Ren remained in the same place when intangible, but physical attacks passed through him and he could not affect the outside world.
• Madara proposed using Divine Foresight to attack Ren as he became tangible, but Obito said Ren could switch back to intangibility too quickly for the plan to work.
• Madara and Black Zetsu concluded that they knew no current way to break Ren’s ability, though Black Zetsu suggested Six Paths-level Yin–Yang Release might work in theory.
• White Zetsu observed that Ren could evade even stronger enemies and escape at will, and Madara acknowledged that the combination of Ren’s powers made him nearly invincible.
• Black Zetsu pointed out that repeated use of Self-Genjutsu would damage Ren’s ordinary Mangekyō Sharingan and eventually cause blindness.
• Madara suggested forcing Ren to use his eyes until they failed, but Obito rejected that as the worst option.

Obito and Black Zetsu explained to Madara that Ren's greatest threat was not just his current strength but a universal cultivation method driving rapid breakthroughs across Uchiha Shrine. Madara accepted that the Temple's repeated collective advances pointed to a cultivation path capable of surpassing the Shinobi World's established limits.

• Obito warned Madara that Ren could evolve his Mangekyo and that Uchiha Shrine's strength was growing at an extraordinary rate.
• Black Zetsu claimed Ren possessed a universal cultivation method that could help ninja advance from Jonin through Kage Level and toward Super-Kage.
• Madara argued that no such systematic path could exist, citing the limits of bloodlines, secret techniques, and his own failed efforts to create one.
• Black Zetsu described how Uchiha Shrine's members improved after fighting Kumogakure and later purged the Dark Exchange House and bounty hunters.
• Obito reported that groups of Temple members broke through Jonin and Kage Level bottlenecks in a short time.
• Madara concluded that Ren must possess a special cultivation Secret Technique capable of breaking the Shinobi World's power limits.

Madara learned that Ren had transformed the Uchiha into a rapidly strengthening force whose true numbers and abilities were hidden inside a heavily defended Inner Court. Unable to obtain reliable intelligence, Madara decided to investigate in person despite Black Zetsu’s warning that Ren would be alerted.

• Madara questioned Black Zetsu about the Shrine’s head count, Squad strength, and hidden Kage Level members, but Black Zetsu could not confirm the information.
• White Zetsu explained that Ren had divided the Uchiha district into an open Outer Court and a restricted Inner Court containing the Shrine and the clan’s core facilities.
• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu reported that underground defenses blocked infiltration, while Obito’s Kamui was detectable by Inner Court guards.
• Obito revealed that Tobirama Senju had been resurrected as Uchiha Jian and could use Flying Thunder God to respond to spatial fluctuations.
• Madara reviewed the Uchiha’s Mangekyo users, cultivation techniques, and growing Squads, then decided to investigate the Inner Court himself.
• Black Zetsu warned Madara that approaching the Inner Court would likely alert Ren.

Madara set out to investigate Ren and the Uchiha Shrine while Yaonai took Sakura and Ino to Myriad City and the Uchiha District. At the Inner Court’s enormous gates, Yaonai explained that entry depended on strength, leaving Sakura and Ino stunned by the gates’ immense weight.

• Madara continued toward his meeting with Ren, and Obito and Black Zetsu let him proceed with their plan.
• Yaonai met Sakura and Ino, and the three explored Myriad City before Sakura and Ino asked to visit Sasuke.
• Yaonai explained that Sasuke lived in the restricted Inner Court and offered to try to take them inside using her strength.
• Yaonai showed Sakura and Ino the seven nested Sunken Gold Iron gates and explained that each successive gate was heavier.
• Sakura failed to move the smallest gate, and Ino was shocked to learn that its two sides weighed four tons in total.

Ino and Sakura learned that entering the Uchiha Inner Courtyard by climbing the walls would trigger an immediate, potentially lethal response, while bringing them in normally required Yaonai to open a sixteen-ton gate. Yaonai removed her wristguards, revealing their immense weight and leaving the girls stunned.

• Ino and Sakura considered climbing over the wall after failing to move the smallest gate, but Yaonai warned that the Sensing Barriers would treat unauthorized entry as a declaration of war.
• Yaonai explained that guards would suppress intruders before questioning them, and Ino and Sakura abandoned the idea of climbing in.
• Yaonai said that bringing two guests required opening a gate weighing sixteen tons in total, prompting Ino to suggest they leave.
• Yaonai removed her wristguards, which crashed into the ground and formed deep pits, stunning Ino and Sakura.

Yaonai revealed that she had been wearing about three tons of weights and explained that the Uchiha Inner Court required strength to enter. Ino gave up on pursuing Sasuke after learning the threshold, but Sakura tried to push open the four-ton gate once more.

• Yaonai removed her weights, and their impact left deep pits in the ground, shocking Sakura and Ino.
• Yaonai said the weights totaled about three tons and explained that she could push open the first gate even while wearing them.
• Yaonai explained that she had to remove the weights to push open the third gate and prove she could protect Sakura and Ino.
• Yaonai said a prospective wife of an Inner Court core member had to be able to push open the first gate, and Ino decided she no longer liked Sasuke.
• Sakura returned to the four-ton gate and said she wanted to try pushing it open again.

Sakura and Ino tried to push open the Sunken Gold Iron gate, but its seals repelled their Chakra-fueled effort and injured Sakura. Yaonai caught them and explained that only physical strength could open the gates, leaving Sakura in pain with a possible arm injury.

• Sakura repeatedly tried and failed to push the four-ton gate using her strength and Chakra.
• Ino joined Sakura, and together they briefly moved the gate before its sealing Patterns reflected their force and threw them backward.
• Yaonai caught Sakura and Ino, then explained that the gates’ sealing Jutsu Formulas neutralized Chakra and that only physical strength could open them.
• Ino noticed Sakura was pale and trembling, and Yaonai examined Sakura’s injured arm.

After Sakura hurt her arm trying to open the first Sunken Gold Iron Gate, Luna set out to open the sixteen-ton third gate herself. She succeeded, leaving Ino and Sakura stunned by the strength of the academy’s top girl.

• Yaonai examined Sakura and said her arm had suffered a minor bone concussion, so Ino helped her sit and rest.
• Luna told Ino and Sakura she would open the third Sunken Gold Iron Gate, despite their warnings that it weighed sixteen tons.
• Luna unleashed her Chakra and revealed her Three-Tomoe Sharingan, overwhelming Ino and Sakura with her power.
• Luna used the Tiger Leopard Thunderclap breathing technique and pushed the third gate open.
• Luna turned to Ino and Sakura, who stared in disbelief at the opened gate.