Recaps

Tsunade became Konoha’s Fifth Hokage and announced a joint development plan with the Uchiha Clan to build Super Amazing City between the Uchiha District and Konoha Main District. The announcement won the villagers’ interest with promises of jobs, trade, and new opportunities.

• Tsunade was formally named Konoha’s Fifth Hokage as villagers and ninja gathered to welcome her.
• Tsunade promised to investigate Root, settle old debts, and reorganize Konoha’s services and defenses.
• Tsunade announced that the Uchiha Clan would fund Super Amazing City between the Uchiha District and Konoha Main District.
• Tsunade described the city’s markets, trade routes, and expected jobs, prompting villagers and ninja to discuss its potential benefits.
• Shikaku Nara recognized that the city could reduce hostility toward the Uchiha Clan by tying the clan’s prosperity to Konoha’s.

At the Fifth Hokage’s inauguration, Uchiha Mabui announced that she had left Kumogakure and pledged loyalty to Uchiha Ren as she took charge of Super Amazing City’s preparations. Three days later, she impressed Konoha’s officials with her organized planning and answered their doubts with a detailed survey map.

• Tsunade announced that Konoha and the Uchiha Clan would cooperate on Super Amazing City, with Mabui overseeing the project for the clan.
• Mabui revealed that she had served as the Fourth Raikage’s personal secretary and senior Jonin before declaring that she had taken the Uchiha name and would obey Ren alone.
• Mabui presented a clear plan for construction zones, roads, supplies, local workers, merchant caravans, and ninja security, impressing Tsunade and Shikaku.
• Three days later, Konoha officials questioned Mabui’s knowledge of the village and whether Kumogakure’s methods would work there.
• Mabui placed a survey map on the table showing old roads, abandoned drainage channels, widening areas, and derelict warehouses between Konoha Main District and the Uchiha District.

Mabui organized Super Amazing City’s preparations so effectively that Tsunade wished she could recruit her, but Mabui remained loyal to Uchiha Ren. Meanwhile, Uchiha Ren summoned the clan’s elites and battlefield veterans to the Naka Shrine, where they awaited an announcement beyond ordinary battle rewards.

• Mabui presented construction supplies, staffing plans, escort arrangements, and merchant review rules, bringing Konoha’s preparations for Super Amazing City into order.
• Tsunade praised Mabui’s administrative abilities to Shikaku but accepted that Mabui’s loyalty to Uchiha Ren made recruiting her impossible.
• Uchiha clansmen gathered at the Naka Shrine and discussed the clan’s victories over Kumogakure, their battle merits, and the Temple Formation.
• Fugaku, Shisui, Itachi, Nanami, Tekka, and other leaders waited as the assembled Uchiha anticipated Uchiha Ren’s purpose for summoning them.

Uchiha Ren addressed the clan after their victory over Kumogakure, honoring those who died or were wounded and warning the Uchiha not to celebrate yet. He declared that he was still not strong enough to match Madara Uchiha’s power to suppress an entire era.

• Ren appeared unnoticed in Naka Shrine, startling Fugaku, Shisui, and Itachi with his improved stealth.
• Ren reminded the Uchiha that they had won the Battle of Kumogakure but said he had called them together not to celebrate.
• Ren named the fallen Uchiha and other wartime companions, then led the shrine in three minutes of silence.
• Ren told the clan that their prestige had been bought with the lives of those who fought and declared that he was still not strong enough.
• Ren compared himself with Madara Uchiha, saying he could defeat the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki but had not reached the level where Madara had once suppressed an entire era.

Ren rallied the Uchiha behind his ambition to end the Shinobi World’s wars and establish a new order under Uchiha rule. After the clan pledged to follow him, he announced that he had created a new technique, leaving everyone confused.

• Nanami, Tekka, and other Uchiha praised Ren and declared that he would surpass Madara.
• Ren used his damaged Mangekyo to guide the Uchiha’s emotions toward unity before teaching them the three great arts.
• Ren told the clan he would lead the Uchiha to dominate the Shinobi World, end its wars, and govern its order.
• Nanami, Tekka, Fugaku, Shisui, Itachi, the elders, and the other Uchiha knelt and pledged to follow Ren.
• Ren signaled for the clan to rise and announced that he had created a new technique during seclusion, leaving the Uchiha bewildered.

Ren demonstrated the Tiger-Leopard Thunderclap Body-Tempering Technique to the Uchiha clan, showing how its controlled vibrations strengthened the whole body. He revealed that the method had nine levels and could refine even the eyes, leaving the clan focused on its potential to reduce the strain of using the Sharingan.

• Nanami asked Ren what kind of technique he had developed, and Ren introduced it as the Tiger-Leopard Thunderclap Body-Tempering Technique.
• Ren demonstrated the technique, using coordinated movements and controlled internal vibrations to temper his body.
• Shisui, Fugaku, and Itachi recognized that the method could strengthen the body's organs as well as its muscles and bones without causing damage.
• Ren revealed that the technique had nine levels and could strengthen sinew, bone, organs, skin, blood, and vitality.
• Ren said the technique could refine the eyes, prompting the Uchiha to consider whether it could ease the strain their Sharingan caused.

Ren revealed that the Tiger-Leopard Thunderclap Body-Tempering Technique could strengthen Uchiha eyes enough to prevent and gradually repair Mangekyō-related blindness. The Uchiha celebrated the solution, and Ren ordered the Grand Elder to organize and spread the technique’s first stage throughout the clan.

• The Grand Elder warned Ren and the Uchiha that Mangekyō use damaged its wielders’ eyes and that the clan could face enemies if its strongest fighters went blind.
• Shisui, Fugaku, and Itachi asked whether the Tiger-Leopard Thunderclap Body-Tempering Technique could protect or repair Mangekyō eyes.
• Ren explained that the technique strengthened the eyes and said continued training could eliminate the risk of blindness and gradually repair existing damage.
• The elders and clansmen celebrated the prospect of overcoming the Mangekyō’s flaw, while Ren credited the Uchiha’s own efforts for finding this path.
• Ren told the Grand Elder to organize, teach, and supervise the technique’s first stage so every Uchiha could begin practicing it.

Ren introduced the Great River Qi Refinement Method to the Uchiha clan, demonstrating that it could cultivate dense, stable True Essence far beyond ordinary Chakra. The clan recognized its potential to improve combat power and formations, and the Great Elder pressed Ren about what else the method could do.

• The Great Elder organized clan-wide training and progress records for Ren’s Tiger-Leopard Thunderclap Body-Tempering Technique, while Tekka and Nanami offered help with instruction.
• Ren revealed that Tiger-Leopard Thunderclap was only his first method and introduced the Great River Qi Refinement Method.
• Ren displayed a dense blue energy that he called True Essence, and Fugaku, Shisui, Itachi, Nanami, and the others recognized that it was not ordinary Chakra.
• Ren explained that True Essence was more stable, powerful, economical, and self-renewing than Chakra, improving endurance, ninjutsu, genjutsu, and Temple Formations.
• The Great Elder asked Ren whether the Great River Qi Refinement Method had potential beyond tempering Chakra.

Ren explained that the Great River Qi Refinement Method let the Uchiha refine spiritual energy into True Essence and surpass their former Chakra limits, making Kage Level and even Super-Kage attainable. He revealed that combining it with body and spirit cultivation could lead the clan toward Six Paths Level, leaving the Uchiha ready to follow a new cultivation path.

• Ren explained that the Great River Qi Refinement Method absorbed spiritual energy and refined it into True Essence, unlike the temporary power of Senjutsu.
• Ren told the Uchiha that continued cultivation could break their Chakra limits and make Kage Level and Super-Kage attainable.
• The Uchiha reacted with excitement, while Fugaku recognized that Ren's method could strengthen the whole clan rather than only a few geniuses.
• Ren described the Heart Sea Spirit Refinement Art and said that uniting body, energy, and spirit could let the Uchiha reach the Sage of Six Paths' level.
• Ren declared that the Uchiha would advance along all three paths and no longer depend on hatred, battlefield sacrifices, or a handful of geniuses.

Ren announced that Uchiha War Hall members and clanspeople with significant contributions could cultivate the first three stages of the Great River Qi Refinement Method. The grand elder warned that the foundational method was too dangerous to share freely and urged Ren to restrict access or bind cultivators with a Cursed Seal.

• Ren made the first three stages of the Great River Qi Refinement Method standard training for the Uchiha War Hall and offered special permission to clanspeople with battle merit or major contributions.
• Ren assigned Nanami, the grand elder, and Tekka to review records so that deserving clanspeople would receive permission without favoritism.
• Nanami promised to reassess the records, and clanspeople celebrated that their work for the clan could earn them access to the method.
• The grand elder objected, warning that enemy villages, spies, and traitors might steal the method and use it to threaten the Uchiha.
• The grand elder advised Ren to limit cultivation to trusted core members or require a Cursed Seal before allowing others to learn the method.

Ren introduced a soul-based Cursed Seal to protect the Great River Qi Refinement Method and used Consciousness Power to teach its first three levels to the Uchiha. As the clan began its transformation, the Akatsuki Organization reviewed Ren’s victory over Kumogakure and reconsidered the Uchiha’s threat and value to their plans.

• Ren reassured the Uchiha that the Great River Qi Refinement Method would be widely taught, then proposed protecting its secrets with a Cursed Seal.
• Ren used the Contract Ghost-Faced Yama Technique to bind practitioners against revealing the method, and Tekka, Nanami, the Great Elder, and other Uchiha accepted the seals.
• Ren transmitted the first three levels of the Great River Qi Refinement Method directly into the practitioners’ minds, helping them understand how to circulate Chakra.
• Reports of Ren’s victory over Kumogakure spread, drawing the attention of rogue groups and the Akatsuki Organization.
• Pain convened the Akatsuki to discuss how Ren’s ability to control Tailed Beasts affected their plan, while Orochimaru showed greed for the Uchiha’s Mangekyo and secret techniques.

Akatsuki discussed Uchiha Ren’s growing power and the danger of targeting his clan, while Zetsu revealed the abilities behind Ren’s victories. The chapter left the organization stunned by Ren’s apparent intangibility and unsure how he could be killed.

• Kakuzu proposed infiltrating Konoha to steal Sharingan, but Jūzō, Kisame, and Konan warned that the Uchiha were too dangerous to underestimate.
• Orochimaru explained how Uchiha Ren had reorganized the clan, purged Danzo, forced Hiruzen Sarutobi to step down, and led the Uchiha to defeat Kumogakure.
• Orochimaru revealed that Ren, Fugaku, Shisui, and Itachi all wielded Mangekyō Sharingan and possessed Kage Level combat strength.
• Zetsu said he had witnessed Ren’s battle in the Land of Lightning and described Idaten, which let Ren outpace the Fourth Raikage.
• Zetsu revealed Ren’s second ocular technique, Intangibility, which let attacks pass through his body and left Hidan and Jūzō wondering how he could be killed.

Pain ordered Akatsuki not to provoke Uchiha Ren, but Orochimaru secretly recruited Kakuzu and Sasori to infiltrate Konoha and target Itachi Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan. The three agreed to proceed, planning to seize their prize and retreat if Ren appeared.

• Pain judged Uchiha Ren too dangerous to recruit or oppose and ordered Akatsuki members not to act against him without reassessing their plans.
• Orochimaru approached Kakuzu and proposed cooperating to steal Sharingan from Konoha’s Uchiha clan.
• Orochimaru revealed that Sasori had joined their team, and the three discussed Konoha’s defenses and their escape plans.
• Orochimaru identified Itachi Uchiha’s Mangekyō Sharingan as his main target, while Kakuzu and Sasori considered the risks and rewards.
• Sasori agreed to go to Konoha with Orochimaru and Kakuzu to capture Itachi’s body or take his eyes.

Obito arranged for Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and Sasori to wear down Ren’s Mangekyo, seeing Ren’s rapid growth as a threat to the Tsukuyomi Plan. In Konoha, the Super Amazing City project gained momentum when the Uchiha revealed a durable pourable building material that could transform construction.

• Obito admitted that he had tempted Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and Sasori into going to Konoha to force Ren to use his Mangekyo repeatedly and risk blindness.
• Obito told Black Zetsu and White Zetsu that he could use Kamui to intervene and treated the Akatsuki members as expendable pawns, provided Nagato remained safe.
• Tsunade, Shikaku Nara, Mabui, and Nanami reviewed the five-hundred-million-ryo Super Amazing City plan and prepared to begin construction once the blueprints were finalized.
• An Uchiha clan member demonstrated a gray powder mixed with sand and water, forming a block that withstood repeated hammer strikes.
• Tekka told Ren the new material could change how Super Amazing City was built, while Mabui began recalculating the project’s resources and schedule.

Ren raised the Super Amazing City budget from five hundred million to five billion ryo and ordered its plans redesigned around reinforced concrete. He intended the city to become a durable commercial hub and a showcase that would attract concrete buyers from across the Shinobi World.

• Ren scrapped the original five-hundred-million-ryo plan and proposed investing five billion ryo in stages.
• Tsunade and Shikaku questioned the increase, while Ren explained that wooden buildings were too limited and vulnerable to fire for the city he envisioned.
• Mabui calculated that reinforced concrete would raise initial costs but improve fire resistance, durability, maintenance, and room for expansion.
• Tsunade and Shikaku agreed that the Hokage Tower would not oppose the investment, and Mabui began drafting a new budget as Nanami ordered expanded concrete trials.
• Ren directed the planners to redesign the main structures, roads, drainage, warehouses, and fire protection to higher standards.
• Ren said Super Amazing City would demonstrate concrete's advantages to merchants and visitors, drawing buyers to the Uchiha.

Ren secured approval for a five-billion-ryo investment in Super Amazing City and expanded recruitment, turning the project into a boom that drew workers and merchants to Konoha. Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and Sasori entered the bustling village, and Orochimaru began contacting his old informants.

• Ren persuaded Tsunade and Shikaku to approve the investment and organize the city's roads, security, labor, and merchant registration.
• Mabui expanded recruitment across the Land of Fire, and workers and merchants flooded Konoha as construction began.
• Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and Sasori entered Konoha and found the village thriving around Super Amazing City.
• Kakuzu learned that the Uchiha had invested five billion ryo and that the Land of Lightning owed them 678 billion ryo in reparations.
• Orochimaru visited his hidden contacts, who warned him that Konoha had changed.

Orochimaru learned that Ren had exposed Konoha’s past failures and forced Hiruzen Sarutobi from office, reopening old wounds about his own defection. As Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and Sasori discussed Konoha’s postwar finances, Orochimaru concluded that Ren took victory’s spoils and used them to reshape the order.

• Orochimaru received reports of Ren’s victories, revelations about Konoha’s leadership, and Hiruzen Sarutobi’s removal, and he recalled how the village had driven him toward defection.
• Kakuzu questioned why Konoha was not wealthy despite winning three Shinobi World Wars, and Orochimaru blamed Hiruzen Sarutobi’s reluctance to demand reparations.
• Kakuzu argued that inadequate reparations burdened ordinary ninja and allowed defeated nations to recover and fight again, while Sasori silently reflected on war’s lasting losses.
• Kakuzu praised Ren for demanding heavy reparations from Kumogakure, saying the payments would make it harder for the village to wage war again.
• Watching Super Amazing City’s construction, Orochimaru said Ren differed from Hiruzen Sarutobi and Danzo because he took the benefits of victory and used them to reshape the order.

Kakashi sensed a sinister presence while attending a class reunion and followed three disguised figures into a secluded alley. He discovered that their leader was Orochimaru, who had come to Konoha with detailed knowledge of Kakashi and the village.

• Guy dragged Kakashi to a Ninja Academy class reunion at an old barbecue restaurant.
• Kakashi sensed a cold, sinister presence outside and spotted three suspicious figures passing by.
• Kakashi left the reunion and secretly followed the figures through Konoha's crowded streets.
• The three figures vanished after turning into a narrow alley, then appeared behind Kakashi and blocked his escape.
• Kakashi recognized Orochimaru, who identified Kakashi and recited details about his background.

Kakashi confronted Orochimaru, Sasori, and Kakuzu in a Konoha alley and realized the three S-rank rogues were targeting his transplanted Sharingan. Sasori’s hatred of Hatake Sakumo drove him to claim Kakashi as his prey, and the chapter ended with the three preparing to take Kakashi’s eye by force if necessary.

• Kakashi confronted Orochimaru, Sasori, and Kakuzu and identified them as three dangerous S-rank rogues.
• Orochimaru revealed that Kakashi’s Sharingan had been transplanted, prompting Kakuzu to consider its value and possible use.
• Sasori recognized Kakashi as Hatake Sakumo’s son and declared that Kakashi was his target because Sakumo had killed Sasori’s parents.
• Kakashi assessed his poor odds against the three rogues and realized his Sharingan’s Chakra drain made a prolonged fight especially dangerous.
• Kakuzu warned that a loud battle could draw Uchiha Ren and Konoha’s defenses, but Sasori insisted they could attack before reinforcements arrived.
• Sasori and Orochimaru agreed to take Kakashi’s Sharingan, or destroy it if they could not seize it.

Kakashi faced Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and Sasori in a sealed alley, using his Sharingan and a lightning-coated kunai to withstand the Third Kazekage puppet’s Iron Sand. He cut through the Iron Sand with his Chidori Blade as Sasori’s hatred of White Fang and Kakashi intensified.

• Kakashi resisted the three S-rank rogue ninja’s killing intent and formed a compressed lightning blade on his kunai.
• Sasori summoned the Third Kazekage as a Human Puppet, revealing that he had killed him and turned him into a puppet.
• Sasori unleashed a storm of Iron Sand needles while Orochimaru blocked Kakashi’s retreat and Kakuzu watched.
• Kakashi used his Sharingan to dodge the Iron Sand and cut through needles with his lightning blade.
• Kakuzu recognized Kakashi’s technique as a Chidori Blade that disrupted the Iron Sand, while Orochimaru praised Kakashi’s skill.
• Sasori grew more hateful as the others praised Kakashi, whom he associated with White Fang.

Kakashi broke through Sasori’s Thousand Hands Manipulation with the Lightning Cutter, only to discover he had struck a puppet substitute. Sasori expanded the fight into an open battlefield and kept attacking as Kakashi’s chakra dwindled.

• Sasori unleashed Thousand Hands Manipulation, surrounding Kakashi with weapon-laden mechanical arms.
• Kakashi used the Lightning Cutter to destroy the puppet arms and charge at Sasori, while Orochimaru and Kakuzu retreated.
• Kakashi struck a puppet substitute instead of Sasori, who revealed his real body and resumed controlling the Third Kazekage Human Puppet.
• Sasori spread Iron Sand through the alley, destroying its walls and opening the area into a battlefield.
• Sasori attacked Kakashi with Iron Sand Giant Needles, and Kakashi dodged while growing increasingly exhausted.
• Sasori formed an Iron Sand Giant Pillar and smashed it sideways toward Kakashi.

Kakashi fought Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and Sasori until Sasori's Iron Sand World Method poisoned and immobilized him. Just as Sasori's Iron Sand was about to kill Kakashi, an unseen force stopped the attack and began wresting control of the battlefield from Sasori.

• Kakashi used the Lightning Cutter to split the descending Iron Sand Giant Pillar, but the effort left him badly weakened.
• Sasori unleashed the Iron Sand World Method, surrounding Kakashi with unpredictable Iron Sand attacks as Ren sensed the battle and hurried toward it.
• Kakashi dodged repeated volleys until an Iron Sand graze poisoned his arm and spread numbness through his body.
• Sasori aimed an Iron Sand Cone at Kakashi's forehead while Kakuzu demanded that the Sharingan be spared and Sasori invoked White Fang.
• The Iron Sand World Method suddenly froze in midair and began slipping from Sasori's control as Orochimaru sensed a powerful, stable Lightning Release approaching.

Uchiha Ren arrived on the battlefield and used Lightning Release to wrest control of Sasori’s Iron Sand, revealing how his electromagnetic technique worked. He formed the sand into charged projectiles and prepared to fire them at the Akatsuki members.

• Ren appeared amid the ruins and took control of Sasori’s Iron Sand, easing Kakashi’s predicament.
• Orochimaru identified Ren as the shinobi who had defeated the Fourth Raikage and forced Kumogakure to surrender.
• Ren revealed that his Lightning Release generated a precise electromagnetic field, allowing him to suppress the Third Kazekage puppet’s Magnet Release and sense the Akatsuki members hidden in the village.
• Black Zetsu explained to Obito that Ren’s control required extraordinary chakra control and spiritual perception.
• Sasori tried to reclaim the Iron Sand, but Ren dispersed the puppet’s remaining Magnet Release chakra and compressed the sand into lightning-coated pellets.
• Ren named his attack Super Electromagnetic Cannon and prepared to launch the projectiles.

Ren used a Super Electromagnetic Cannon to devastate Sasori and the Third Kazekage Human Puppet, while Kakuzu, Orochimaru, and the hidden Akatsuki members assessed his technique. With Sasori crippled, Kakashi warned Ren that Orochimaru and Kakuzu remained dangerous and were targeting his Sharingan.

• Ren compressed and accelerated Iron Sand with an electromagnetic field, blasting through Sasori and destroying much of the Third Kazekage Human Puppet.
• Orochimaru analyzed the Super Electromagnetic Cannon, while Kakuzu, Obito, and Black Zetsu reacted to its power and precision.
• Ren considered the technique's limitations, including its long charge time and need for precise control and mind-sense targeting.
• Kakashi compared Ren's Lightning Release to his own and warned him about Orochimaru, Kakuzu, and their interest in the Sharingan.
• Kakuzu stared greedily at Kakashi's Sharingan as the remaining enemies focused on the eyes and Ren's abilities.

Ren sealed the chakra-draining Sharingan in Kakashi’s left eye with a protective Cursed Seal rather than taking it. Kakashi was freed from the eye’s constant burden, while the seal would destroy it if anyone tried to steal it.

• Ren recognized Kakashi’s Sharingan as Obito Uchiha’s eye, and Kakashi explained that Obito had given it to him at Kannabi Bridge.
• Kakashi said he would not resist if Ren decided to reclaim the eye, while Obito feared losing the other half of Kamui.
• Ren pressed a Cursed Seal onto Kakashi’s brow, suppressing the Sharingan until his left eye returned to normal.
• Ren explained that the seal stopped the eye’s daily chakra consumption and would destroy it if anyone tried to remove it.
• Kakashi felt the strain of carrying the eye lift, and Kakuzu’s expression darkened at the seal’s protection.