Recaps

The Uchiha Shrine assembled its forces and sent four squads, including seventeen Kage-level fighters, toward the Land of Rain. The news reached Kumogakure, where the Fourth Raikage concluded that the Shrine might have at least thirty Kage-level fighters if all thirteen squads were similarly strong.

• Uchiha Bori led the Tenth through Thirteenth Squads as they assembled, while spies watched their revealed strength.
• After Uchiha Ren gave permission, Bori ordered the four squads to march toward the Land of Rain, and they departed using the Body Flicker Technique.
• Konoha and foreign spies realized the force included seventeen Kage-level fighters and rushed to report the intelligence to their villages.
• Darui delivered the report to the Fourth Raikage, who heard that the fighters had risen from Jonin to Kage Level in one year.
• The Fourth Raikage estimated that the Uchiha Shrine had at least thirty Kage-level fighters if all thirteen squads were comparable.

Kumogakure investigated the source of the Uchiha Family’s growing number of Kage-level fighters and uncovered the vast reach of its businesses. The chapter left the Fourth Raikage’s officials alarmed that the Uchiha’s wealth and influence could reshape the Shinobi World.

• Kumogakure officials discussed reports that the Uchiha had dozens of Kage-level fighters, and Darui said four Squads would test their strength against the Akatsuki Organization.
• The white-haired elder warned that the Uchiha might have found a way to rapidly strengthen shinobi, and the Fourth Raikage ordered every undercover agent to investigate the Uchiha Family.
• Darui advised the Fourth Raikage to investigate the Uchiha’s public businesses and shipments rather than the guarded Inner Court, and the spies changed their approach.
• Kumogakure spies compiled a list of Uchiha companies, including Wantong Railway Company, Myriad City Trading, Infinite Cement Company, and Electric Light Company.
• Darui reported that Uchiha businesses employed people across the Land of Fire and the Land of Lightning, with nearly one person in every dozen connected to their income.
• Kumogakure officials concluded that the Uchiha’s wealth and connections could already rival those of great-country nobles and might eventually shift the Shinobi World.

Kumogakure learned that the Uchiha earned 1.7 trillion ryo annually and spent nearly half of it on Heavenly Earth Trading’s medicinal herbs, which the villages suspected supported the Temple’s powerful fighters. The Fourth Raikage ordered an intensive investigation, but the supposed secret medicine did not exist.

• Darui told the Fourth Raikage that Heavenly Earth Trading employed over a hundred thousand people, bought medicinal herbs and mountains, and sustained enormous losses while keeping its materials for the Uchiha.
• Darui estimated the Uchiha Family’s annual industrial revenue at 1.7 trillion ryo, prompting the Kumogakure leaders to connect its wealth and herb supplies to the Temple’s seventeen Kage Level fighters.
• The Fourth Raikage and the elders suspected the Uchiha used secret medicine to turn medicinal herbs into military strength.
• Other major forces examined Heavenly Earth Trading’s public herb lists but could not find a pattern or deduce a formula.
• The Fourth Raikage ordered Kumogakure to investigate what Heavenly Earth Trading bought and cultivated, and the village devoted vast resources to studying its herb lists.
• Kumogakure’s investigation was destined to fail because the rumored secret medicine did not exist.

The Akatsuki learned that the Uchiha Shrine could field forty or fifty Kage-Level fighters, including seventeen advancing with four Squads toward the Land of Rain. Obito warned Pain that the Shrine’s strength and Forbidden Techniques had grown dramatically, but argued that only four Squads had come and the clan’s remaining forces could not assist from afar.

• White Zetsu reported that four Uchiha Squads had revealed seventeen Kage-Level fighters and that the clan could mobilize forty or fifty in total.
• The Akatsuki discussed rumors that Uchiha used secret medicine to accelerate its members’ growth, while White Zetsu noted that villages were investigating Heavenly Earth Trading.
• Konan challenged Tobi’s feigned ignorance, and Obito explained that he had sensed Uchiha’s strength-enhancing method a year earlier.
• Obito told the Akatsuki that thirteen Squad captains had used Heavenly Tribulation to severely damage Madara’s Complete Body Susanoo.
• Obito acknowledged that Madara had failed to defeat Ren and argued that Pain still had a chance because only four Uchiha Squads had come to the Land of Rain.

Akatsuki chose to intercept the Uchiha Shrine outside Amegakure rather than let the marching force enter the village. The two sides met on the Land of Rain’s outskirts, where Linghua charged into Sasori’s puppet horde.

• Obito and the Akatsuki members judged that Pain and the Six Paths could counter the Uchiha’s strength and agreed to fight them.
• Pain ordered Akatsuki to leave Amegakure and meet the Uchiha Shrine on the outskirts.
• Obito used his spatial vortex to transport the Akatsuki members toward the Shrine’s route.
• Linghua detected the approaching Six Paths of Pain and hundreds of puppets as the Shrine’s squads marched through the wilderness.
• Deidara and Sasori arrived, and Sasori sent his puppet horde charging at the Uchiha formation.
• Linghua rushed into the horde and shattered the first puppet with a punch, sending metal fragments through several others.

Uchiha Linghua destroyed Sasori’s puppets and survived Deidara’s Explosive Clay blasts without injury, using Armament Haki to shield herself. She charged back into the puppet horde as explosions continued to erupt, leaving Deidara increasingly grim.

• Linghua smashed Sasori’s puppets with her bare hands, revealing the Explosive Clay Deidara had planted inside them.
• Deidara detonated the clay and engulfed Linghua’s position in a series of explosions.
• Scouts from the major shinobi villages assumed Linghua had been defeated, while the Thirteen Squad members remained calm.
• Linghua emerged unharmed, and a sensory shinobi identified the Chakra coating that protected her as Armament Haki.
• Deidara grabbed more clay and vowed to show Linghua the power of real explosions.
• Linghua charged into the puppets, dodged attacks, and fought through repeated detonations as Deidara’s expression darkened.

Uchiha Linghua survived Deidara’s C3 No. 18 explosion and activated the Azure Dragon Armament Cursed Seal, combining its power with her Lightning Release and Armament Haki. The scouts identified it as one of only thirteen seals reserved for the Uchiha Shrine’s Thirteen Squad Captains.

• Deidara dropped and detonated C3 No. 18 on Linghua, destroying Sasori’s puppets and engulfing the battlefield in a massive explosion.
• Sasori sensed that Linghua’s Chakra had not vanished, even as Deidara and the onlookers assumed she had been gravely hurt or killed.
• Linghua unleashed the Azure Dragon Cursed Seal, bursting through the smoke with lightning and flames around her.
• Linghua stood unharmed in the crater as the seal spread across her body and fused with her Lightning Release Chakra and Armament Haki.
• A Kirigakure Ninja identified the seal as the Uchiha Clan’s Azure Dragon Armament Cursed Seal and explained that only thirteen existed, one for each Thirteen Squads captain.

Uchiha Linghua unsealed the Azure Dragon Cursed Seal and used electromagnetic cannons to overwhelm Deidara. Deidara’s clay bird exploded, and Linghua killed him with a final lightning blast.

• The scouts learned that Uchiha Linghua’s Azure Dragon Cursed Seal enhanced her Lightning Release, strength, and Chakra control.
• Linghua acknowledged Deidara’s C3 explosion had been powerful enough to threaten her, then unsealed the cursed seal.
• Linghua used lightning to gather iron sand and metal fragments and shape them into electromagnetic cannons.
• Linghua fired the cannons, destroying Deidara’s clay bird and wounding him as he tried to escape.
• The clay bird exploded in midair, and Linghua’s final bolt struck Deidara, killing him.

After Uchiha Linghua killed Deidara with her electromagnetic cannons, the Six Paths of Pain attacked her together. Deva Path Pain repelled her barrage with Shinra Tensei, and the battlefield realized he wielded the legendary Rinnegan.

• Uchiha Linghua's swift defeat of Deidara stunned the scouts and Akatsuki, while Sasori halted when her cannons targeted him.
• Deva Path Pain revised the Akatsuki's assessment of Linghua and ordered all six Paths to attack together.
• Linghua aimed her electromagnetic cannons at Deva Path Pain and fired a barrage as the Six Paths charged.
• Deva Path Pain used an invisible repulsive force to destroy the cannons and deflect the electromagnetic beams.
• A Konoha elder identified Deva Path Pain's eyes as the Rinnegan, and the others recognized his technique as Shinra Tensei.

Uchiha Linghua and her allies fought the Six Paths of Pain, destroying summoned beasts and clashing with Pain's abilities. The chapter ended with Linghua's punch meeting Deva Path Pain's Shinra Tensei in midair, as the collision tore apart the surrounding ground.

• Deva Path Pain repelled Linghua's electromagnetic cannons with Shinra Tensei, then Animal Path summoned Yatagarasu and Hellhound while Naraka Path summoned King of Hell.
• Linghua caught Yatagarasu by the throat and crushed it with her Gravity Multiplier technique.
• Uchiha Bori cut Hellhound apart with Wind Release, and the beast split into two; Uchiha Boyangta crushed one with Earth Release and punches until its Chakra dispersed.
• Asura Path attacked Boyangta with missiles and flamethrowers, then launched another missile as Boyangta raised earth walls to defend himself.
• Deva Path Pain used Banshō Ten'in to pull Linghua toward him, and Linghua accelerated into a punch that collided with his Shinra Tensei, devastating the battlefield around them.

The Uchiha Shrine and Akatsuki Organization clashed across the battlefield as the Six Paths of Pain revealed their Rinnegan abilities. Uchiha Ren emerged from the Shrine’s ranks and used Amaterasu against Pain’s summoned beasts, leaving the battle’s observers stunned by his arrival and power.

• Uchiha Linghua clashed with Deva Path Pain, whose Shinra Tensei stopped her combined attack and whose Rinnegan abilities turned the fight in his favor.
• Uchiha Bori, Bo Yangtai, and the four Squads fought the Asura Path, Akatsuki’s summoned beasts, and puppets as the war spread across the battlefield.
• Deva Path Pain and the other five Pain puppets revealed six pairs of Rinnegan, alarming the ninja watching the battle.
• Uchiha Ren emerged from behind the Uchiha Shrine’s ranks and used Amaterasu to engulf the Hellhounds and another summoned beast.
• Animal Path Pain tried to recall the burning Hellhound, but Amaterasu continued consuming it as the assembled ninja recognized Uchiha Ren as the War God.

Ren and Itachi faced the Six Paths of Pain after Ren’s Amaterasu was absorbed by Preta Path. Itachi summoned Complete Body Susanoo, but Deva Path shattered its arm with a concentrated Shinra Tensei, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Obito warned Pain that Ren’s enhanced Mangekyō Sharingan made his Amaterasu far more powerful than before.
• Ren’s Amaterasu struck all six Pain bodies, but Preta Path absorbed the flames while Deva Path used Shinra Tensei to contain the attack.
• Ren sent the four Squad captains to hold off the other Akatsuki members and stayed with Itachi to fight Pain.
• Itachi concluded that Tsukuyomi might not affect Pain’s puppet bodies and summoned Complete Body Susanoo.
• Deva Path met Susanoo’s punch with a concentrated Shinra Tensei, shattering its fist and arm.

Itachi fought the enhanced Six Paths of Pain with his armored Susanoo, revealing the Yata Mirror and Totsuka Blade. Deva Path Pain then used Banshō Ten'in to pull Itachi and parts of the battlefield into the air, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Ren watched Deva Path Pain smash through Itachi's Susanoo and chose to let the battle continue so he could see Nagato's Rinnegan in action.
• Itachi restored his Susanoo, armored it, and revealed the Yata Mirror and Totsuka Blade, prompting the watching shinobi to identify their powers.
• The Six Paths of Pain coordinated their attacks against Itachi, while Ren explained how their combined abilities made them a formidable threat.
• Deva Path Pain used Banshō Ten'in to lift the ground, debris, and Itachi's Susanoo into the air, while the Animal Path summoned the Asura and Preta Paths back to safety.

Itachi used Fourth-Stage Susanoo to solidify the Totsuka Blade and split the core of Deva Path Pain’s Planetary Devastation with one strike. As the jutsu collapsed and its debris rained down on the battlefield, the watching ninjas marveled at Itachi’s power.

• Deva Path Pain’s Planetary Devastation pulled Itachi’s Susanoo into the air while the Totsuka Blade failed to reach the black core.
• Itachi expanded Susanoo into its fourth stage and merged the Yata Mirror’s power into the Totsuka Blade, making the sword solid.
• Deva Path Pain increased the gravitational pull and sent the other Paths to attack, but Itachi raised the Totsuka Blade and cut through the rocks, missiles, and summoned beast.
• Itachi struck the black core and split it, causing Planetary Devastation to collapse and its gravitational pull to fade.
• Konoha, Kumogakure, Sunagakure, and Uchiha Shrine fighters watched the falling debris and reacted with shock to Itachi’s feat.

Nagato appeared on the battlefield and concentrated the Six Paths of Pain’s power into Deva Path Pain, who unleashed a new technique against Itachi. The attack shattered the Yata Mirror and tore through Susanoo, leaving Itachi’s defense badly damaged.

• Nagato emerged from the rain and told Konan he wanted to see the Uchiha Clan’s power for himself.
• Nagato transferred the power of the other five Paths into Deva Path Pain and named the technique Shinra Tensei: Heaven-Shattering Form.
• Deva Path Pain appeared at Susanoo’s head and struck Itachi with a fist that compressed multiple Repulsive Forces.
• Deva Path Pain’s punch shattered the Yata Mirror and broke through Susanoo’s chest armor, sending the Totsuka Blade flying.

Deva Path Pain shattered Itachi’s Susanoo with a devastating punch, but Itachi survived through Ren’s technique, Existence-Nonexistence Shift. Ren recognized that Obito and Black Zetsu might interfere, so he sent Itachi to keep Obito occupied while the battle continued.

• Deva Path Pain destroyed Itachi’s Fourth-Stage Susanoo and Yata Mirror, but the attack’s recoil also shattered his own right arm.
• Naraka Path Pain and Asura Path Pain restored Deva Path Pain’s arm while the others searched for Itachi beneath the wreckage.
• Itachi appeared beside Ren unharmed, and Ren explained that Existence-Nonexistence Shift had made Itachi intangible and left only a Void Clone exposed to the punch.
• Ren said the enhanced Six Paths of Pain were stronger than expected, and Deva Path Pain vowed that Itachi would not escape next time.
• Ren warned that Obito and Black Zetsu could interfere, then ordered Itachi to keep Obito occupied without trying to kill him.

Ren stepped forward to challenge Deva Path Pain, but Nagato summoned Deva Path away before they could fight. Ren then launched Asura Path into a distant mountain with a single blow, leaving the battlefield stunned by his raw speed and strength.

• Ren approached Deva Path Pain and declared that it was his turn to fight, while Nagato sensed the pressure through his puppet.
• Nagato ordered Animal Path to summon Deva Path back, preventing Ren from facing him alone.
• Nagato sent Asura Path and Preta Path to attack Ren together.
• Asura Path fired rockets and lunged at Ren with a concealed Chakra Cannon blade, but Ren struck him away with one hand.
• Asura Path crashed into a distant mountain and split its cliff face, while observers realized Ren had moved through raw speed rather than a technique.

Ren used pure physical strength to devastate the Asura Path and Preta Path, revealing that he had reached the Quasi-Six Paths Early Stage. As Itachi confronted Obito, Nagato summoned a soul-draining phantom dragon and sent it toward Ren.

• Nanami revealed that Ren had reached the Quasi-Six Paths Early Stage after his body transformed following his fight with Madara Uchiha.
• Ren struck the Asura Path with a punch, crushing half its body and leaving it unable to recover immediately.
• Ren's second punch overwhelmed the Preta Path's Absorption Seal, destroyed the King of Hell, and badly damaged the Preta Path.
• Obito and Black Zetsu watched Ren's strength, while Itachi appeared and challenged Obito to fight him.
• Nagato used Rinnegan Soul-Seizing through the Human Path to summon a phantom dragon of soul power and launch it at Ren.

Ren countered the Human Path’s soul-seizing attack with Uchiha’s Majesty, destroying the Soul Dragon and injuring Nagato through the Rinnegan connection. As the remaining Paths moved to support the Human Path, Ren vanished at the speed of light and struck its skull before it could attack again.

• The Human Path launched Rinnegan Soul-Seizing at Ren, and Ren answered with Uchiha’s Majesty, unleashing a Mangekyō pressure that suppressed souls across the battlefield.
• The Mangekyō Sharingan trapped and shattered the Soul Dragon, causing the Human Path’s eyes to bleed and transmitting pain to Nagato.
• Nagato ordered the other Paths to support the damaged Human Path and planned to overwhelm Ren before he could use his soul technique again.
• Ren challenged Deva Path Pain about the speed of light, vanished, and appeared before the Human Path.
• Ren punched the Human Path’s skull before it could complete another soul attack.

Ren used overwhelming physical speed and strength to defeat all six Paths of Pain before they could use their abilities. Nagato, Konan, Obito, and Itachi watched as Ren stood unharmed among the fallen bodies.

• Ren struck Human Path Pain so quickly that the Rinnegan could not track him, sending him crashing into a mountainside.
• Ren broke Naraka Path Pain's body and crushed Animal Path Pain into the ground before the two could complete their techniques.
• Ren evaded Deva Path Pain's Shinra Tensei, then overwhelmed him and defeated the remaining Pains with rapid attacks.
• Nagato watched through Deva Path Pain as Ren defeated all six bodies without using Deification Technique, Susanoo, or his forbidden soul technique.
• Konan trembled at the defeat, while Obito judged that Ren had grown stronger and warned Itachi that the Rinnegan might not suppress him if he kept growing.

Nagato arrived on the battlefield with his legs restored and unleashed a devastating Super Shinra Tensei that destroyed the surrounding area. Ren remained unharmed by becoming intangible, then realized Obito had altered Nagato with Hashirama's and Madara Uchiha's cells.

• Itachi challenged Obito, but Obito said help had arrived to deal with Ren.
• Nagato descended onto the battlefield and announced he would clear it and fight Ren.
• Nagato unleashed Super Shinra Tensei, blasting away fighters and flattening the battlefield into a vast crater.
• Obito used Kamui to escape with Itachi, while the Six Paths of Pain and others were swept away.
• Ren remained unharmed by turning intangible and recognized the technique as Existence-Nonexistence Shift.
• Ren sensed Hashirama's and Madara Uchiha's cells within Nagato and concluded that Obito had transformed him.

Nagato explained how Hashirama's and Madara's cells restored his legs, stabilized the Rinnegan, and let him wield its power directly. Ren then revealed Nagato's Uzumaki heritage and described the destruction of Uzushio Village, leaving Nagato shocked by how much Ren knew about his past.

• Nagato told Ren that Hashirama's cells restored his legs and awakened the Rinnegan, but caused the eyes to drain and destroy his body.
• Nagato explained that Madara's cells balanced Hashirama's cells and stabilized the Rinnegan, allowing him to survive and use its power through his own body.
• Nagato demonstrated a modified Shinra Tensei and said he could now alter how the Six Paths Techniques worked.
• Nagato challenged Ren over their shared ancestry, but Ren said distant blood ties did not make Nagato an Uchiha.
• Ren called Nagato a descendant of the Uzumaki clan, startling Nagato and Konan by revealing the surname Nagato had kept secret.
• Ren described Uzushio Village as the Uzumaki clan's homeland and recounted its destruction and the clan's scattering.

Ren told Nagato that Madara Uchiha had transplanted his Rinnegan into him and planned to use him for Rinne Rebirth. Nagato questioned Ren’s claim that Madara was still alive and asked why he had not reclaimed his eyes.

• Nagato argued that his Rinnegan could have awakened under extreme circumstances after he lost his parents and home.
• Ren explained that the Rinnegan required the powers of the Uchiha and Senju, and that Nagato could not have awakened it on his own.
• Ren revealed that Madara’s Rinnegan had been transplanted into Nagato, who had been chosen as a vessel because of his Uzumaki life force.
• Ren said Obito and Black Zetsu intended to make Nagato perform Rinne Rebirth so Madara could return to life, leaving Nagato without his eyes or life force.
• Nagato recalled the Rinnegan draining his body and challenged Ren to explain why Madara had not returned to reclaim the eyes.
• Ren answered that Madara was waiting for Nagato to complete his task and would not reveal himself while Nagato still had the Rinnegan.

Nagato attacked Ren with Yin–Yang Senbon that could unravel techniques, forcing Ren to release his Intangibility and dodge. Nagato then trapped him with Planetary Devastation, suppressing his speed and leaving him surrounded by crushing gravity and whirling boulders.

• Nagato launched black Senbon infused with Yin–Yang Chakra, and Ren released his Intangibility to avoid having the technique damaged.
• Ren dodged the Senbon as they tore through the cliff, while a Hyuga ninja identified their power to destroy ninjutsu structures.
• Nagato used Planetary Devastation to draw the crater’s rubble, water, and earth toward a black sphere, trapping Ren in its pull.
• Ren tried to escape with Idaten, but the growing gravity suppressed his speed and boulders blocked his path.
• Nagato declared that Ren’s Intangibility and speed had been countered, then began forming Hand Seals.

Nagato attacked Ren with a Black Light Blade that countered his Intangibility, but Ren awakened the Rinnegan and absorbed the weapon. The chapter ended with Nagato demanding to know how Ren had obtained those eyes.

• Nagato forged Repulsion into a Black Light Blade with Yin–Yang Release to counter Ren’s Intangibility.
• Nagato launched the blade at Ren while Thirtyfold Gravity pinned him down, leaving Kasumi, Itachi, and the others unable to intervene.
• Ren’s Mangekyō Pattern vanished, and six purple rings appeared in his eyes as he awakened the Rinnegan.
• Ren raised a curtain of light that absorbed Nagato’s Black Light Blade and its power.
• Nagato stared at Ren’s Rinnegan and asked how he had obtained it.