Recaps

Luna welcomed Sakura and Ino into the Uchiha Inner Courtyard after opening the third gate. At the hot spring, Ren stayed with Tsunade and Mabui before sensing Madara Uchiha’s arrival at the Uchiha Wall, where Madara assessed the clan’s defenses and waited for the welcoming bell.

• Luna explained that releasing chakra had not triggered the gates and welcomed Sakura and Ino into the Inner Courtyard.
• Ren relaxed with Tsunade at the hot spring, where Mabui brought food and wine.
• Ren held Tsunade close and explained that Hashirama had dispersed after seeing Konoha stable and Tsunade able to face the future.
• Ren sensed that a special Uchiha had returned, and Madara Uchiha arrived outside the Uchiha District.
• Madara surveyed the Uchiha’s layered defenses and sensed several presences carrying Hashirama’s cells.
• Madara waited before the seven gates, knowing that eighteen peals of the welcoming bell would bring the Clan Leader out to greet him.

Madara tested the Uchiha Wall and opened all seven gates with physical strength alone, triggering the clan’s highest welcoming ceremony. As eighteen bells rang across the clan grounds, Orochimaru oversaw a secret alchemy ritual in the Inner Court.

• Madara identified the gates’ sealing formula as a means of absorbing Chakra and restricting supernatural strength.
• Madara pushed open the first six gates with his bare hands as Uchiha clansmen and Temple disciples watched in disbelief.
• Madara forced open the seventh gate, revealing the Inner Court buildings and activating all seven formulas.
• The Inner Court’s bell rang eighteen times, signaling Uchiha’s highest welcoming ceremony.
• Orochimaru inspected the formulas on a pentagram altar in the Alchemy Workshop and instructed five Uchiha clansmen to keep their Chakra output consistent.

Orochimaru and five clansmen successfully used a shared transmutation array to mass-produce Bloodline Refinement Pills from common ingredients, which could strengthen the Uchiha bloodline over generations. Eighteen welcoming bells then announced a visitor who Uchiha Jian identified as Madara Uchiha, summoned through Impure World Reincarnation, and Jian went to confirm his arrival.

• Orochimaru directed five clansmen as they used a Pentagram Transmutation Array to refine medicinal ingredients into stable Bloodline Refinement Pills.
• Orochimaru explained that the pills were weaker than the Basic Bloodline Tempering Potion but could be made from common, cultivable ingredients and administered across generations.
• Eighteen tolls rang, signaling that someone had pushed open seven Uchiha Walls and received the highest welcoming ceremony.
• Uchiha Jian sensed the visitor’s Chakra and identified him as Madara Uchiha, concluding that someone had used Impure World Reincarnation.
• Uchiha Jian accepted responsibility for the forbidden technique and used a Flying Thunder God Mark to go confirm Madara’s arrival.

The Uchiha rang their bell eighteen times after someone pushed open all seven Gold-Sinking Iron Gates, drawing attention across Konoha and bringing the Inner Court’s powerful defenders to the mountain gate. Madara Uchiha witnessed dozens of Kage-Level auras united by a formation and began urging the Uchiha to use their strength to dominate the Shinobi World.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi explained that eighteen bell peals marked the Uchiha’s highest welcome ceremony, awarded only to someone who opened all seven gates.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sent an ANBU to identify the newcomer while warning him not to approach or spy on the Inner Court.
• Fugaku Uchiha, Uchiha Shisui, and Itachi Uchiha confirmed that someone had opened all seven gates without disrupting their sealing formulas.
• Dozens of Kage-Level Chakra signatures emerged from the Inner Court and synchronized through a formation.
• Madara Uchiha sensed the assembled power and decided that the Uchiha should use it to overturn the existing order of the Shinobi World.

Uchiha Jian confronted Madara with Flying Thunder God and revealed that Hashirama and Tobirama’s Chakra signatures were gathered inside him. He used ten seemingly identical physical phantoms to attack Madara and drove him back with a position-swapping strike.

• Uchiha Jian attacked Madara with Flying Thunder God, but Madara blocked his opening strikes and matched him in close combat.
• Madara sensed Hashirama and Tobirama’s Chakra within Uchiha Jian and recognized Tobirama, while Jian said Hashirama had left the Shinobi World and he was no longer the Tobirama Madara knew.
• Uchiha Jian created ten indistinguishable physical phantoms, and the Temple disciples could not identify the real one even with their Sharingan.
• The ten figures attacked Madara from all sides, and he knocked aside their kunai before grappling with one of them.
• Uchiha Jian’s figures exchanged positions during the fight, allowing a fist charged with True Essence to hit Madara and drive him back more than ten meters.

Uchiha Jian used Shifting Phantom to overwhelm Madara with resilient clones that could exchange positions through Flying Thunder God. Madara acknowledged Jian’s strength, then unleashed a far greater surge of chakra as the battle escalated.

• Shisui explained that Shifting Phantom clones were sustained by True Essence, carried Flying Thunder God coordinates, and could switch places while retaining most of Uchiha Jian’s strength.
• Uchiha Jian’s clones repeatedly swapped positions to evade Madara’s counters and attack from all sides, exploiting their resilience to keep him on the defensive.
• The clones trapped Madara in a barrage of attacks, and Jian struck him from behind before another clone sent him crashing across the battlefield.
• Madara praised Shifting Phantom and said Tobirama had fused Shadow Clones with space-time ninjutsu, while Jian insisted he was now Uchiha Jian.
• Madara admitted he had underestimated Jian, then unleashed a tremendous surge of chakra that halted the remaining nine clones and cracked the ground.

Madara Uchiha revealed his immense power by summoning Susanoo, forcing Fugaku to activate the Uchiha Inner Court’s highest-level defensive formation. Ren arrived at Seireitei as dozens of Kage Level Chakra signatures rose throughout the clan territory, leaving the confrontation poised to escalate.

• Madara Uchiha summoned a towering Susanoo that shocked the Uchiha clansmen and drove Uchiha Jian to retreat beyond its attack range.
• Fugaku ordered the Inner Court’s highest-level defensive formation activated, sealing the clan territory and shielding its important buildings.
• Ino asked Yaonai about the eighteen bells, and Yaonai explained that they marked the highest guest-welcoming ceremony after all seven Uchiha Walls had been opened.
• Ino and Yaonai saw Madara’s Susanoo from Seireitei, where Yaonai identified it as a Mangekyo power unlike any she had seen before.
• Ren arrived with Tsunade and Mabui, warned Yaonai and Ino to stay in Seireitei, then vanished toward the battlefield.
• Madara surveyed the Inner Court’s defenses and sensed dozens of Kage Level Chakra signatures rising across the clan territory.

Madara saw that Uchiha Ren had built a prosperous, powerful clan whose members felt safe and proud, challenging Madara’s belief that peace was impossible. As Madara attacked to prove his ideals right, Uchiha Jian used Wood Release: Hands of the Buddha, but Madara’s Susanoo cut through the wooden hands.

• Madara observed the Uchiha evacuating calmly and recognized how much the clan had grown under Uchiha Ren.
• Fugaku told Madara that Ren had freed the Uchiha from Konoha and given them the strength to decide their own future.
• Madara rejected Fugaku’s confidence in the clan’s stability and resolved to destroy its prosperity to vindicate his Eye of the Moon Plan.
• Uchiha Jian challenged Madara and unleashed Wood Release: Hands of the Buddha, which seized Susanoo from every direction.
• Madara’s Susanoo formed chakra blades and sliced apart the wooden hands, and Madara mocked Uchiha Jian’s Wood Release.

Uchiha Jian’s Wood Release restrained Madara briefly, but Madara revealed his own mastery of Wood Release and summoned Complete Body Susanoo. The defenders realized his immortal Impure World body, endless Chakra, and Divine Foresight made him far more dangerous than they had expected.

• Uchiha Jian used Wood Dragons to bind Susanoo and drain its Chakra, but Madara countered with stronger Wood Dragons and tore the restraints apart.
• Uchiha Jian deduced that Madara had used his battle with Hashirama to seize his brother’s cells, while Madara mocked the defenders for underestimating him.
• Madara expanded his Susanoo into its Complete Body form, towering over the Uchiha Inner Courtyard with four Chakra swords and spread wings.
• Fugaku, Shisui, Itachi, and the Squad Captains recognized that Madara’s Impure World body could restore his Chakra and that they needed to seal him or overwhelm him with a decisive attack.
• Shisui warned that Madara’s Divine Foresight would make it difficult for Uchiha Jian to build up the Hundredfold Strike against him.

Madara Uchiha mocked the Shrine for relying on Ren, and Uchiha Jian attacked him with Wood Release. Madara’s Complete Body Susanoo destroyed the forest and Wood Golem with one sword strike, leaving the Inner Court devastated and the Uchiha clansmen stunned by his power.

• Nanami Uchiha and the Shrine disciples defended Ren’s leadership and surrounded Madara Uchiha despite his Complete Body Susanoo.
• Uchiha Jian used Wood Release, Deep Forest Emergence, to cover the Inner Court with a vast forest and summon a Wood Golem.
• Madara drew his blue greatsword and cleaved through the forest, shattering the Wood Golem and cutting a massive slash across the battlefield.
• The Four Red Flame Formation blocked the weakened blade of light from reaching the rear mountain, though the shock waves stripped away its surrounding rocks.
• Fugaku and the other Uchiha clansmen saw the devastation and recognized the overwhelming power of Madara’s Eternal Mangekyo Complete Body Susanoo.

Madara Uchiha’s Complete Body Susanoo overwhelmed Uchiha Jian, so Nanami and the other twelve Squad Captains formed the Temple Formation to combine their power. Madara recognized the formation’s strength but warned that its unstable circulation could destroy them from within.

• Uchiha Jian escaped Madara’s sword strike with Flying Thunder God and realized Madara was stronger than he remembered.
• Nanami and Yao Wu Uchiha decided the thirteen Squad Captains should use the Temple Formation against Madara.
• The thirteen Squad Captains synchronized their breathing, senses, and True Essence, channeling their combined power through Nanami.
• Madara examined the formation and acknowledged its strength while questioning whether their bodies and meridians could withstand it.
• A Squad Captain defended the Temple Formation, saying the Clan Leader and Forbidden Technique Division had repeatedly improved it.

Nanami Uchiha activated the Forbidden Technique Heavenly Tribulation Cloud Surge through the Temple Formation, summoning enormous thunderclouds that absorbed natural energy above Konoha. Uchiha Jian warned that the technique’s immense power was meant for True Essence and the formation, not ordinary Kage Level ninjas.

• Madara pressured the Temple Formation, but Nanami stabilized the thirteen people’s True Essence by letting it flow through her as part of the formation.
• Nanami Uchiha completed the technique’s circulation and announced the Prelude to Heavenly Tribulation: Heavenly Tribulation Cloud Surge.
• Crimson light pierced the sky as thunderclouds spread from the Uchiha District across Myriad City and Konoha, alarming civilians, students, and shinobi.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi sensed the clouds absorbing natural energy and determined that they were far more powerful than Ten Thousand Lightning or Kirin.
• Uchiha Jian explained that he had rebuilt Ten Thousand Lightning into Heavenly Tribulation, which used True Essence and the Temple Formation to gather natural energy without drawing it into the caster’s body.
• Uchiha Jian ordered everyone to retreat and warned that ordinary Kage Level ninjas could not safely activate the Forbidden Technique.

Madara attacked the thirteen Squad Captains before Nanami Uchiha could finish the Heavenly Tribulation, but Temple disciples sacrificed their defenses to buy her time. Nanami unleashed the Thunder Dragon, whose lightning began dismantling Madara’s Complete Body Susanoo, though Uchiha Jian warned that the strike was only beginning.

• Madara ordered Complete Body Susanoo to strike Nanami and the thirteen Squad Captains before her Forbidden Technique was ready.
• Ten Temple disciples layered their Crimson Flame Shields to protect the captains, and the barriers fell one by one under Susanoo’s blows.
• Nanami completed the Heavenly Tribulation and summoned a gigantic Thunder Dragon from the Lightning Cloud.
• The Thunder Dragon’s lightning struck Madara and began shattering Complete Body Susanoo’s armor and blades.
• Uchiha Jian told everyone to retreat, while Shisui and Itachi recognized that the lightning was dismantling Susanoo’s Chakra structure.

Obito and Black Zetsu watched the Uchiha Temple’s Heavenly Tribulation technique batter Madara Uchiha’s Complete Body Susanoo and learned how Tobirama Senju had created the forbidden technique. Madara repeatedly repaired Susanoo through his Impure World Body, acknowledged the modern Uchiha’s strength, and declared that their attack still could not defeat him.

• Obito and Black Zetsu watched from a high wall as the Uchiha Temple’s Heavenly Tribulation attacked Madara.
• Black Zetsu explained that Tobirama Senju had combined Ten Thousand Lightning, formations, and Chakra True Essence to create the forbidden technique.
• Obito worried that their plans would fall apart if Madara lost, but Black Zetsu insisted Madara had endured battles against Hashirama and would not be defeated by one attack.
• Madara poured chakra into Complete Body Susanoo, repeatedly repairing its armor and weapons as the lightning destroyed them again.
• Uchiha Jian and the Squad Captains struggled to maintain the protective formation while Madara praised the modern Uchiha’s strength and said they still could not defeat him.

Madara used Complete Body Susanoo to cleave apart the Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Dragon and split the Lightning Cloud, then attacked the thirteen Squad Captains before they could complete the second stage. The Temple’s Crimson Flame Shields shattered, leaving Nanami Uchiha and the others exposed to Susanoo’s descending sword.

• Madara reinforced Complete Body Susanoo and split the lightning pillar, Thunder Dragon, and Heavenly Tribulation Cloud with one sword strike.
• Uchiha Jian and the Temple members realized Madara had destroyed the first stage of the Heavenly Tribulation, while the second stage continued forming inside the split Lightning Cloud.
• Madara declared the battle over and swung at the thirteen Squad Captains, who remained bound by the Forbidden Technique.
• Dozens of Temple experts formed layers of Crimson Flame Shield to protect the captains while Nanami Uchiha continued controlling the Heavenly Tribulation Cloud.
• Madara’s sword shattered every Crimson Flame Shield, leaving Nanami Uchiha and the other twelve captains unable to defend themselves as the blade descended.

Uchiha Ren appeared just as Madara Uchiha’s Complete Body Susanoo threatened Nanami Uchiha and the other captains. Ren stopped the descending great blade with his Hundredfold Strike, leaving it covered in cracks.

• Madara Uchiha charged his Susanoo’s light blade to finish off Nanami Uchiha and the other captains before the second stage of the Heavenly Tribulation descended.
• Uchiha Ren suddenly appeared between the blade and the captains, drawing cheers from the Uchiha clan and attention from Madara, Obito, and Black Zetsu.
• Madara recognized Ren’s extraordinary speed and challenged him, while Ren remarked that the light blade was too dazzling for the clan’s children.
• Ren compressed dozens of attacks into one punch and unleashed Hundredfold Strike and Spacequake against the Susanoo Light Blade.
• Ren’s punch halted the blade in midair and spread dense cracks across it, astonishing Obito, the Temple disciples, and Nanami.

Ren used the Sky-Shaking Strike to penetrate Madara’s Susanoo, but Madara restored and strengthened its light blade with ocular power. Ren then coated his fist in Armament Haki, preparing a stronger attack as Madara faced him with renewed battle intent.

• Shisui and Black Zetsu explained that Ren’s Sky-Shaking Strike used internal vibrations to bypass Susanoo’s defenses and dismantle its structure from within.
• Madara poured ocular power into the cracked light blade, restored it, and drove it down harder against Ren.
• Ren realized his current Hundredfold Strike could not overpower Madara directly and covered his right fist in black Armament Haki.
• Ren combined Armament Haki with the Hundredfold Strike to contain its recoil and intensify its force, while Madara sensed the threat and prepared to fight.

Ren clashed with Madara’s Complete Body Susanoo, using Armament Void-Shake to meet its Susanoo Light Blade head-on and leave the spectators stunned. The Temple disciples emerged from the destruction more determined to follow Ren’s path of cultivation.

• Ren charged Madara’s Susanoo Light Blade with Hundredfold Strike and Armament Void-Shake, and the collision shook the Blood-Colored Guardian Formation and blasted the spectators away.
• Itachi and Fugaku watched the clash, and Fugaku realized that his improved strength had only let him see how far Ren remained beyond him.
• The collision’s residual force threw Nanami and the other twelve squad commanders into the air after they had halted the Heavenly Tribulation Cloud Surge.
• Nanami and the Temple disciples saw Ren block Madara’s blade without Susanoo, and they praised their Clan Leader’s strength.
• Nanami and the squad commanders vowed to keep cultivating until the Temple could reach the level of the true top powerhouses.

Ren used Hundredfold Strike, Armament Haki, and Void-Shake to shatter Madara's Susanoo Light Blade and send it flying. Obito warned that the blade had already been weakened, so Ren had not yet proven he could defeat Madara's Complete Body Susanoo.

• Madara challenged Ren to use his Susanoo and claimed his blade had lost power after breaking through Heavenly Tribulation and Crimson Flame Shields.
• Ren gathered his strength and unleashed Hundredfold Strike with Armament Void-Shake against Madara's Susanoo Light Blade.
• Ren shattered the blade and blasted it from Complete Body Susanoo's hand, making it crash into the distant ground.
• Black Zetsu recognized the technique's effects and called Ren a monster for combining multiple powers and enduring their recoil.
• Obito said Ren's blow was his strongest yet but cautioned that Madara's blade had already been weakened, so the battle's outcome remained uncertain.

Madara acknowledged Ren as his opponent, then unleashed a more powerful Susanoo sword. Ren charged into its path and used existence-nonexistence intangibility to let it pass through him, while the blade devastated the Inner Court and struck the Uchiha Family's Sacred Mountain.

• Madara recognized Ren's strength, methods, and achievements and declared that he was qualified to be his opponent.
• Madara formed a stronger Susanoo sword and swung it down at Ren.
• Ren charged toward the blade and let it pass harmlessly through his body using existence-nonexistence intangibility.
• Obito explained that Ren had become intangible rather than transferring himself to another space, and that ordinary attacks could not hit him.
• The Susanoo sword split the Inner Court's ground and destroyed buildings, walls, and forests before striking the Sacred Mountain, prompting calls to activate its defenses.

Madara threatened the Uchiha Inner Court and Sacred Mountain to force Ren into a direct fight, while the defensive barrier neared collapse. After Madara swept aside Fugaku, Shisui, and Itachi's Susanoo with one strike, Ren chose to become tangible and face him head-on.

• The elders strengthened the crimson barrier after Madara's sword beam cracked it and nearly broke through the Sacred Mountain's defenses.
• Madara threatened to keep attacking the Inner Court whenever Ren turned intangible, and he dismissed the Uchiha clan members' protests.
• Fugaku, Shisui, and Itachi summoned their Susanoo and blocked Madara's path to the Sacred Mountain.
• Madara swept his light blade sideways, shattering parts of all three Susanoo and sending them crashing hundreds of meters away.
• Ren realized his abilities could not protect the Inner Court from Madara's attacks, released his intangibility, and prepared to fight head-on.

Ren summoned his crimson Complete Body Susanoo to face Madara’s blue one, forcing the Uchiha clan members to retreat from the battlefield. After Madara judged Ren’s Susanoo poorly suited to close combat, Ren began the Susanoo-Enhanced Deification Technique.

• Ren formed a crimson Complete Body Susanoo, matching Madara’s blue Susanoo in the Uchiha Inner Courtyard.
• Fugaku, Shisui, Itachi, and the others evacuated the wounded and retreated from the clash between the two giants.
• Madara praised Ren’s ocular power but argued that Ren’s Susanoo was less capable in close combat than his own.
• Ren acknowledged the weakness, then said he would not use the Susanoo to fight next.
• Ren performed hand seals and activated the Susanoo-Enhanced Deification Technique, causing his crimson Susanoo to tremble and shine.

Ren fused his Complete Body Susanoo into his flesh, bones, and meridians, transforming its immense power into part of himself. Madara recognized that Ren had surpassed him in mastering Susanoo.

• Ren drew the Complete Body Susanoo into himself, leaving only crimson divine light coursing around his human form.
• Obito, White Zetsu, and the Uchiha clansmen watched in shock as Shisui and Fugaku admitted they could not explain the transformation.
• Itachi explained that Ren had fused the Susanoo's power with his body rather than merely compressing it.
• Madara realized Ren had achieved what he could not and felt that the younger Uchiha had surpassed him.

Black Zetsu explained the near-impossible control and physical endurance required to merge Complete Body Susanoo into the body, confirming that Ren had achieved the feat without outside help. As the power continued to circulate within Ren, Black Zetsu predicted that it would greatly enhance his strength, speed, defense, and close-quarters combat.

• Black Zetsu identified complete control of Susanoo's Yin Release Chakra and enough physical endurance as the two hurdles to merging Complete Body Susanoo into the body.
• Black Zetsu confirmed that Ren had used no external assistance and that all the power came from him alone.
• Black Zetsu explained that Ren had compressed Susanoo's power into himself, removing the giant form's weaknesses while retaining its strength.
• Black Zetsu said Ren could unleash Susanoo's power through any part of his body and gain greater protection while using his existing close-combat techniques.
• Nanami Uchiha and Yao Wu Uchiha marveled at Ren's unprecedented technique, and Nanami said enemies would have to defeat Ren himself to destroy Susanoo.

Ren demonstrated Susanoo Empowerment Deification by merging Complete Body Susanoo’s power into his own body, leaving Madara to confront a breakthrough he had failed to achieve throughout his life. The chapter ended as Madara’s battle intent rose against Ren’s newly transformed power.

• Yao Wu, Nanami, and the Temple disciples discussed how Ren’s technique traded Susanoo’s size and range for terrifying close-quarters strength, and Nanami urged them to train toward it.
• Fugaku, Itachi, Uchiha Jian, and Shisui recognized that Ren had changed how Susanoo’s power could be understood and that his strength could no longer be judged by his external aura.
• Madara studied Ren with Divine Foresight but could not clearly predict the outcome because Ren constantly adjusted the flow of power within his body.
• Madara asked Ren how he had thought to infuse Complete Body Susanoo into himself, and Ren explained that it depended on control and carrying capacity.
• Ren formed a fist covered in concentrated Susanoo power and declared that he no longer needed Susanoo’s massive form, while Madara realized Ren had achieved what he himself had failed to accomplish.