Recaps

Uchiha Shrine’s lightning bombardment devastated Kumogakure’s main camp, and Raikage A charged toward the Uchiha position while Mabui ordered a counterattack. The surviving Cloud ninja failed to control the Lightning Cloud, leaving them trapped beneath the ongoing assault.

• Raikage A’s order to activate Lightning Armor came too late, and the first lightning pillar vaporized more than a hundred Kumogakure ninja.
• Successive lightning strikes destroyed the camp and killed or injured its defenders as A tried to break through the bombardment with his fists.
• A erupted in rage, powered up his Lightning Armor, and charged toward the Uchiha position despite Mabui and Darui warning him to wait.
• Cloud ninja urged Mabui to seize the Lightning Cloud and use it to counterattack, so she ordered several hundred Lightning Release specialists to channel Chakra into it.
• The Lightning Cloud swallowed the ninja’s Chakra without responding, and the Cloud ninja realized they could not control it.

Uchiha Shrine’s Temple Formation gave the Uchiha complete control of the thunderclouds and overwhelmed Kumogakure’s Lightning Release. As the Fourth Raikage charged toward Ren’s position, Ren ordered Nanami to summon Kirin, while Zetsu watched and recognized the formation’s significance.

• Kumogakure’s ninja failed to control the thunderclouds and realized that Uchiha Shrine had mastered the lightning above them.
• Hizashi Hyuga spotted the Fourth Raikage charging through the bombardment toward the Uchiha position, and Ren told Nanami to use Lightning Release: Kirin.
• Nanami and the Shrine squads gathered the thunderclouds into a vortex and began forming a massive Thunder Dragon.
• Zetsu surfaced near the battlefield, narrowly escaped a lightning strike with the Mayfly Technique, and Black Zetsu explained the Temple Formation’s power to White Zetsu.

Black Zetsu realized Uchiha Ren’s Temple Formation had amplified Lightning Release: Kirin into a colossal attack and predicted the Raikage had arrived. Raikage A intercepted the dragon and split it apart, leaving Kumogakure’s battered survivors cheering.

• Black Zetsu feared that Uchiha Ren’s Temple squads could threaten the Eye of the Moon plan with their Kage-level Chakra reserves.
• Uchiha Ren used the Temple Formation to amplify Lightning Release: Kirin, forming a massive Thunder Dragon above the battlefield.
• Black Zetsu concluded that Kumogakure’s Raikage had arrived as the reason Ren unleashed such a powerful attack.
• Karu and the surviving Kumogakure ninja despaired at the Thunder Dragon’s power while waiting for the Raikage.
• Raikage A charged into the Kirin with Lightning Release: Horizontal Spiral Dance and cut the dragon into scattered currents.
• Kumogakure’s surviving ninja cheered when Raikage A landed unharmed.

Ren ordered the Uchiha Temple to keep bombarding the Cloud Ninja while conserving its chakra for an invasion of Kumogakure, then confronted Fourth Raikage A himself. Ren moved faster than A could perceive and shattered his Lightning Release Armor with a kick that sent him flying.

• At the Uchiha position, Ren explained that A had built up resistance to lightning and ordered Nanami to continue using Kirin against the Cloud Ninja ranks rather than spend the Temple's reserves on Flaming Meteor.
• Ren announced that the Uchiha's true objective was to invade Kumogakure and seize its wealth and resources, then said he would deal with A himself.
• At the ruined Kumogakure camp, A privately recognized that Nanami's Kirin had nearly overwhelmed his Lightning Release Armor and prepared for another attack.
• Ren appeared before A, who boasted that only Minato Namikaze had ever matched his speed and activated his Super-S-Rank Lightning Release Mode.
• Ren moved too quickly for A to see, shattered his Lightning Release Armor with a kick, and sent him flying.

Ren revealed his right Mangyō Sharingan ability, Mirror Flower, Water Moon, when the Raikage's strongest punch passed through him. Hizashi identified the power as a technique that made Ren intangible, while those watching compared it to the masked man's ability during the Nine-Tails' Attack.

• The Raikage pushed his Lightning Release Chakra Mode beyond its limits and prepared a devastating punch against Ren.
• Hizashi warned the Uchiha forces that the Raikage's concentrated Chakra made Ren's life danger, but Itachi insisted Ren had not yet used his Mangyō Sharingan abilities.
• The Raikage struck Ren in the chest, but his fist passed through Ren's body without harming him.
• Hizashi used his Byakugan to see Ren turn into a phantom and identified the technique as his right Mangyō Sharingan ability, Mirror Flower, Water Moon.
• Hizashi and the others recalled the masked man's intangibility during the Nine-Tails' Attack, while Nanami realized Ren had used Idaten in his left eye to move at impossible speed.

Ren used his right-eye technique, Existence-Nonexistence Shift, to evade the Fourth Raikage's punch and kick him into a massive crater. As Kumogakure's survivors struggled to accept the defeat, Black Zetsu recognized that Ren's ability surpassed Kamui in its manipulation of reality and illusion.

• The Fourth Raikage's punch passed through Ren, who shifted back to reality behind him and kicked him into the ground.
• Kumogakure's survivors tried to dispel what they thought was a mass genjutsu, but the crater and the Raikage's defeat were real.
• Hizashi Hyuga saw Ren's body shift between tangible and intangible states, while Tekka Uchiha praised their clan leader.
• Ren's right-eye technique was revealed as Existence-Nonexistence Shift, which altered his own existence at the cost of ocular power and possible blindness from overuse.
• White Zetsu mistook Ren's intangibility for Obito's Kamui, and Black Zetsu explained how Ren's technique differed and avoided Izanagi's permanent blindness cost.

Black Zetsu recognized Ren as a threat to the Eye of the Moon Plan and resolved to have Obito target his eyes. At Kumogakure’s ruined camp, Ren demonstrated his power and invoked the Uchiha’s Six Paths heritage while confronting the wounded Raikage and surviving Cloud Ninja.

• Black Zetsu warned White Zetsu that Ren’s Mangekyō techniques would eventually make him go blind and decided to urge Obito to attack when Ren’s ocular power ran low.
• Ren descended from the sky by rapidly stepping on the air, startling the surviving Cloud Ninja and impressing Hizashi Hyuga, Tekka Uchiha, and Nanami.
• The wounded Fourth Raikage, A, crawled from the crater and angrily accused Ren’s abilities of being unreasonable.
• Ren claimed the Mangekyō Sharingan inherited part of the Sage of Six Paths’ power, causing A and the surviving Cloud Ninja to reconsider the Uchiha’s divine lineage.
• Ren condemned Kumogakure for coveting the Byakugan and Sharingan, then challenged the village to remember the Sage of Six Paths’ might.

Ren overwhelmed the Raikage with rapid Chakra-infused punches, then copied Darui’s Storm Release and unleashed a barrage of beams against the Kumogakure shinobi. The chapter ended with the beams raining down on the Cloud ninja position.

• The Raikage reignited his Lightning Release Armor and charged Ren, but Ren dodged and battered him with a rapid series of punches.
• The Raikage shifted to a defensive Lightning Release Armor, but Ren’s strikes still damaged him internally and left him near defeat.
• Darui fired Storm Release: Laser Circus at Ren and then sent a Storm Release: Black Panther after him, but Ren evaded both attacks.
• Ren analyzed Darui’s Storm Release and copied it, forcing Darui and the other Kumogakure shinobi to combine defenses against his beam.
• Ren formed countless Storm Release light spheres and unleashed their beams on the Kumogakure position.

Ren turned Darui's Storm Release against Kumogakure, using precisely controlled beams to devastate the surviving ninja. Darui questioned how Ren had copied a Kekkei Genkai, and Ren began to explain that his Mangekyō Sharingan was not responsible.

• Darui ordered the Kumogakure ninja to form defenses as Ren sent a vast barrage of Storm Release beams at them.
• Ren's beams curved, split, and pierced the Cloud Ninja's defenses, killing or incapacitating most of the elite fighters.
• Hizashi Hyuga, Tekka Uchiha, and Nanami watched from thirty-five kilometers away and reacted to Ren's battlefield control.
• Darui protected the injured Raikage and ordered him not to charge Ren again as only a handful of Kumogakure ninja remained standing.
• Ren praised Storm Release's abilities, and Darui asked how he had replicated a Kekkei Genkai after seeing it once.
• Ren told Darui that he had not needed a visual jutsu or his Mangekyō Sharingan to replicate Storm Release.

Ren explained how he replicated Storm Release, then overwhelmed the Raikage’s life-burning attack with his immense chakra. The Raikage ordered the surviving Kumogakure ninja to retreat as Ren manifested a massive armored Susanoo wielding a bow and sword.

• Ren demonstrated Storm Release and told Darui that precise chakra control allowed him to fuse nature transformations without a bloodline.
• The Raikage entered an explosive Lightning Release mode and launched a rapid assault on Ren, despite Darui warning him about the technique’s deadly cost.
• Ren blocked the Raikage’s attacks, refused to copy his harmful technique, and blasted him backward with a surge of chakra.
• The wounded Raikage ordered the surviving Kumogakure ninja to retreat as Ren’s chakra formed a giant skeletal warrior.
• Ren’s skeletal chakra avatar gained flesh and armor, becoming a half-bodied armored giant armed with a colossal bow and spiraling sword.

Ren unleashed Susanoo and nearly killed Raikage A with its Spiral Longsword, but Killer B arrived in his Complete Tailed Beast Transformation and saved him. Ren then pierced the Eight-Tails with another Spiral Longsword, leaving Killer B wounded but standing and insisting he could keep fighting.

• Hizashi Hyuga, Tekka Uchiha, Nanami, and the Kumogakure shinobi witnessed Ren summon Susanoo and recognized the Uchiha's ultimate ocular technique.
• Ren fired Susanoo's Spiral Longsword at Raikage A, but a Tailed Beast Bomb intercepted it and allowed the Raikage to escape.
• Killer B arrived in his Complete Tailed Beast Transformation and launched a Tailed Beast Bomb at Ren.
• Ren fired another Spiral Longsword through the Tailed Beast Bomb, striking the Eight-Tails in the left shoulder.
• Killer B endured the wound and told Raikage A that he could still hold on.

Killer B arrived to support Raikage A and blocked Ren’s Spiral Longsword, but the two recognized how dangerous Ren’s powers were. As the Uchiha position endured the shockwave from their clash, Nanami worried about what had happened to the Clan Head.

• Killer B pulled Ren’s Spiral Longsword from the Eight-Tails’ shoulder, then released his Complete Tailed Beast Transformation beside Raikage A.
• Killer B explained that Mabui had sent Darui to support the Raikage and that he rushed to the canyon after learning the Uchiha Clan had declared war on Kumogakure.
• Raikage A admitted that Ren’s speed, techniques, and Susanoo made him a formidable opponent, while Killer B described Ren’s ability to turn intangible.
• Raikage A warned Killer B not to look into Ren’s eyes, and Gyuki revealed that Ren’s ocular power surpassed Madara Uchiha’s and could control Tailed Beasts.
• Thirty-five kilometers away, the clash’s shockwave battered the Uchiha position, where Tekka Uchiha steadied the formation and Nanami Uchiha worried about the Clan Head.

Hizashi reported that Ren had blocked the Eight-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb, while Nanami prepared to lead reinforcements to the battlefield. Itachi stopped her from abandoning the Temple Formation and revealed that he had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, leaving the others stunned.

• Hizashi used his Byakugan to report that the Eight-Tails had attacked Ren with a Tailed Beast Bomb, which Ren’s Susanoo blocked and pierced with a sword.
• Nanami ordered Temple Squad One and Squad Two to support Ren, fearing that he could not face the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails alone.
• Itachi stopped Nanami, arguing that she needed to stay and command the Temple Formation while he went to support Ren.
• Nanami warned Itachi that his age and Three-Tomoe Sharingan would make him a liability on a battlefield against the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails.
• Itachi revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, shocking Nanami, Tekka Uchiha, Hizashi Hyuga, and the others.

Itachi awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan after learning of Shisui’s willingness to sacrifice himself, and Nanami sent him to support Ren. Obito arrived to observe Ren’s battle, where Ren dispelled Susanoo and launched a swift attack on the Eight-Tails.

• Itachi explained that Ren revealed Danzō’s plot and that Shisui had prepared to die to prevent war between the Uchiha and Konoha.
• Itachi said the pain of Shisui’s resolve pushed him to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Nanami ordered him to support Ren on the front line.
• Obito appeared at a cliff with Black Zetsu and White Zetsu, assessed Ren’s Susanoo and intangibility, and declared that Ren was no match for him.
• Ren dispelled Susanoo as the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails prepared to attack, prompting Kumogakure’s forces to believe he was exhausted.
• Ren explained that he had dismissed Susanoo to conserve Chakra, activated Idaten, and charged toward the Eight-Tails.

Ren used Idaten to evade the Eight-Tails' barrage of Miniature Tailed Beast Bombs and reached Gyuki, where his Mangekyō Sharingan began suppressing the Eight-Tails' consciousness. Killer B realized Ren was attempting to take control of Gyuki's body.

• Killer B and Gyuki fired more than a dozen Miniature Tailed Beast Bombs to surround Ren, while Raikage A and Darui praised their attack.
• Ren activated Idaten and dodged every Tailed Beast Bomb, moving through the explosions without slowing down.
• Hizashi Hyuga and Nanami Uchiha watched Ren's speed, while Obito and Black Zetsu discussed Idaten's power and its danger.
• Ren reached Gyuki and stared into its eye with his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Gyuki froze as Ren's ocular power suppressed its consciousness, and Killer B recognized that Ren was trying to seize control of its body.

Ren nearly seized control of the Eight-Tails with his Mangekyō Sharingan, but Killer B escaped by dispelling his Tailed Beast Transformation. The revelation terrified Kumogakure and drew Obito’s attention to Ren as a threat to the Akatsuki’s plans.

• Ren’s ocular power nearly suppressed the Eight-Tails, but Killer B bit his tongue, broke his focus, and dispelled his Tailed Beast Transformation before Ren could take control.
• Obito recognized that Ren had been controlling the Eight-Tails and judged his ocular power comparable to his own, while Black Zetsu and White Zetsu reacted to the revelation.
• Killer B warned Raikage A that Ren’s eyes could control Tailed Beasts, and A connected the danger to the legend that an Uchiha had controlled the Nine-Tails during its attack on Konoha.
• Gyuki told Killer B that Ren had nearly taken his will and warned him never to look directly into Ren’s eyes again.
• Ren paused when the connection to the Eight-Tails was severed, leading the surviving Kumogakure ninja and Raikage A to believe Killer B had broken free, though Killer B knew how close they had come to losing control.

Ren explained why he could not control Killer B and Gyuki, then struck Killer B with one punch. When the Raikage and Eight-Tails attacked him together, Ren became intangible, leaving Obito to recognize that his ability worked without entering an alternate space.

• Ren explained that Killer B and Gyuki shared one will, making them harder to suppress, and threatened to break Killer B's bones before taming the Eight-Tails.
• Raikage A charged Ren, but Ren vanished from his path and punched Killer B into a mountain.
• Killer B burst from the rubble and attacked Ren with the Eight-Tails' tentacles as Raikage A struck from behind.
• Ren became intangible, allowing both the Raikage's fist and the Eight-Tails' tentacles to pass through him unharmed.
• Hizashi Hyuga observed Ren's shift between reality and illusion, while Obito concluded that Ren's intangibility did not require an alternate space.

Obito and Black Zetsu debated how to stop Ren, but Black Zetsu forbade using the Three-Tails before its planned time. On the battlefield, Ren unveiled a ten-punch combination that blasted the Eight-Tails through three mountains, and Killer B prepared to hold him back so the Raikage could retreat.

• Obito planned to use the Three-Tails to trap Ren, but Black Zetsu stopped him because doing so would disrupt other plans and risk giving Ren another Tailed Beast.
• Ren evaded Raikage A and Killer B with his intangible form, then used Idaten to appear beside the Eight-Tails.
• Ren struck the Eight-Tails with ten punches at the same point, blasting it through three mountains and leaving it badly injured.
• The Eight-Tails warned Killer B that Ren's rapid attacks had become devastating and urged him to tell the Raikage to retreat.
• Killer B told Raikage A to withdraw with the remaining Kumogakure shinobi, then joined his Chakra with Gyuki's to hold Ren back.

Ren battered the Eight-Tails with increasingly powerful strikes until he knocked it unconscious, while the injured Raikage A was unable to reach Killer B. Ren stood over the defeated beast and began prying at its eyelid.

• The Eight-Tails used Tailed Beast Sensory Perception to track Ren, but Ren countered its attacks with escalating strikes.
• Ren reached the Eight-Tails' flank, shattered a tentacle, and drove the beast into a crater with repeated punches.
• Ren's Twentyfold Strike crushed the Eight-Tails' chest and knocked it unconscious, leaving Killer B stunned.
• Raikage A tried to reach Killer B, but his injuries forced him to his knees as Darui urged him not to move.
• Hizashi Hyuga saw Ren standing over the defeated Eight-Tails from thirty-five kilometers away, and Nanami celebrated Ren's victory.
• Ren stood on the Eight-Tails' chest, taunted it, stamped down again, and gripped the edge of its eye socket.

Ren tried to control the unconscious Eight-Tails, but Obito intervened and blocked him. Ren exposed Obito as the masked Uchiha behind the Nine-Tails' Attack, then struck with Idaten, only for Obito to evade the kick by phasing into the Kamui Dimension.

• Ren reached for the Eight-Tails' eye to use his Mangekyō Sharingan to control it, while Raikage A and the injured Cloud Ninja watched helplessly.
• Obito emerged from a spatial vortex and kicked Ren away from the Eight-Tails before Ren could open its eye.
• Obito called himself the ghost of the Uchiha, but Ren recognized him as Obito Uchiha and accused him of manipulating Kirigakure and causing the Nine-Tails' Attack.
• Ren condemned Obito as a traitor for attacking Konoha and causing Minato Namikaze's death and the Uchiha Clan's suspicion.
• Ren used Idaten to kick at Obito, but Obito phased into the Kamui Dimension, leaving only a Projection that Ren's attack passed through.
• Obito claimed Ren could not touch him, and Ren called him a cowardly turtle hiding in another dimension.

Ren provoked Obito by attacking his identity and grief over Rin, then exposed him as the masked man behind the Nine-Tails' attack on Konoha. Obito lost control, attacked Ren with Wood Release, and ended the chapter insisting the world deserved to be destroyed.

• Ren mocked Obito for hiding behind Madara Uchiha's identity and called him a coward and a failure.
• Ren told Obito that Rin loved Kakashi and accused him of hating himself for failing to save her.
• Obito unleashed his killing intent and attacked Ren with Wood Release: Cutting Technique, but Ren dodged the wooden spikes.
• Ren used Kakashi's Kamui, Obito's missing body, and the Nine-Tails' attack on Konoha to identify Obito as the masked attacker.
• Obito denied being Obito Uchiha, then declared that Rin, Kakashi, Konoha, and the Shinobi World deserved to be buried.

Obito attacked Ren with Fire Release and Wood Release until Itachi intervened, and Ren left the masked man to him. Itachi revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan, making Obito wary that the boy's ocular technique could counter Kamui.

• Obito unleashed a sea of flames and relentless Wood Release against Ren, who dodged and cut through the wooden attacks.
• Itachi arrived and used Phoenix Sage Flower Claw Red to destroy the wooden spears aimed at Ren.
• Ren identified Obito as the culprit behind Nine-Tails Night and told Itachi to fight him, angering Obito and alarming the Kumogakure soldiers.
• Itachi stepped forward without hesitation and revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Obito recognized the Mangekyō and wondered whether Itachi's ocular technique could counter Kamui.

Itachi trapped Obito in Tsukuyomi and began torturing him in a world where he controlled time, space, and matter. As Obito endured what felt like days of pain, Ren’s preparations and Itachi’s newly strengthened Mangekyō explained how he had become powerful enough to hold Obito.

• Obito tried to evade Itachi, but their eyes met and Itachi cast Tsukuyomi, immobilizing him in a dark world.
• Itachi bound Obito to a Cross and stabbed him with a blunt knife, inflicting unbearable pain while Obito failed to use Kamui or Hashirama's Cells.
• Black Zetsu recognized the genjutsu as Tsukuyomi, while Ren watched without surprise because he had expected Obito and Zetsu to intervene.
• Ren had arranged for Shisui to help awaken and stabilize Itachi's Mangekyō and gave Itachi a Bloodline Tempering Potion that strengthened him and removed the danger of Kekkei Genkai disease.
• Itachi told Obito that one second outside would last seventy-two hours in Tsukuyomi, then continued the torture as Obito's resistance and threats gradually faded.

Itachi trapped Obito in Tsukuyomi, leaving him mentally shattered after seventy-two hours of torture in a single second. Black Zetsu ordered a retreat, but Obito refused to leave, and the battlefield recognized that Itachi’s Tsukuyomi could counter Kamui.

• Itachi revealed that Obito’s single Mangekyo left his mental defenses incomplete, then trapped him in Tsukuyomi for seventy-two hours.
• Obito collapsed in the real world, while Ren praised Itachi and Raikage A and Darui watched in shock.
• Black Zetsu explained to White Zetsu that Tsukuyomi’s mental pain had incapacitated Obito and made Kamui unusable.
• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu tried to retreat with Obito, but Obito stopped them and refused to leave.
• Obito explained that Tsukuyomi had pinned his consciousness before he could activate Kamui, and Raikage A and Darui understood that Itachi’s ability could counter it.

Ren urged Obito to return to the Uchiha, presenting their new power as a Golden Age and offering to end wars through Uchiha dominance. Obito rejected the clan and Ren’s vision, insisting he intended to erase the rotten Shinobi World and would destroy the Uchiha if they stood in his way.

• Obito counted five Mangekyō Sharingan wielders and questioned how the Uchiha had gained such power.
• Ren invited Obito to remove his mask and return to the Uchiha, declaring that the clan had entered its Golden Age.
• Ren credited the Uchiha’s rise to the Senju’s fading fortune and accused Hiruzen Sarutobi of taking another share through his control of Konoha.
• Ren condemned Fugaku’s hesitation and explained that he had seized control of the clan to prevent its destruction.
• Ren offered Obito a plan to unite the Uchiha’s Mangekyō and Temple Formation, suppress the villages, and end war in reality rather than through the Eye of the Moon.
• Obito refused to return, declared that he wanted the Shinobi World to disappear, and threatened to destroy the Uchiha if they opposed him.