Recaps

Ren defeated Hashirama and revealed his plan to enforce peace above the Five Great Countries, while explaining the origins of the shinobi clans and recruiting Tobirama. After the battle, the Uchiha Shrine crushed the Dark Exchange House’s operations in the Land of Fire, and Tsunade confronted the Daimyo Court by redirecting Konoha’s work and investments.

• Ren defeated Hashirama with Layered Evening Elephant, then declared that he would impose a unified order above the countries and villages to prevent wars.
• Ren explained the histories of Kaguya, Hagoromo, Indra, and Asura, and revealed that Madara was Indra’s reincarnation while Hashirama was Asura’s.
• Ren offered Tobirama a place in the Uchiha Shrine and a way to overcome his body’s limitations, and Tobirama tacitly accepted the possibility of joining.
• Itachi sealed Hozuki Gengetsu and Shisui helped seal the Third Kazekage, while Tsunade reunited with Hashirama and told him she was the Fifth Hokage.
• Ren ordered the Uchiha Shrine to destroy the Dark Exchange House’s outposts in the Land of Fire and seize its assets, prompting the Daimyo and nobles to demand punishment and compensation from Tsunade.
• Tsunade announced major Uchiha investments in railways and Myriad City, then said Konoha would suspend its employment cooperation with the Daimyo Court indefinitely while continuing to defend the borders and respond to major rebellions.

Ren’s strength and the Uchiha’s growing influence reshaped relations with the Daimyo Court and the other villages, while Ren brought Orochimaru into the clan’s research. The arc left Ren heading to meet Kurama Yakumo, with Kakashi and Kurenai, as Hiruzen warned Asuma not to provoke him.

• Tsunade broke Konoha’s dependence on the Daimyo Court’s mission distribution by announcing the Uchiha’s funding agreement, then revealed that Ren had defeated Hashirama and warned the court of his power.
• Tobirama told Tsunade that he planned to join Ren’s Temple, and Ren outlined a future in which Konoha would be a sacred land while villages kept local authority and partnered with the Uchiha.
• After the Valley of the End’s destruction confirmed Ren’s victory, Nanami led an Uchiha squad into the Land of Earth and persuaded Ōnoki to assign Iwagakure the purge of its Dark Exchange Houses.
• Obito warned Nagato that Ren could threaten the Six Paths of Pain, so Nagato sent Konan to accept the Uchiha mission while keeping the Akatsuki hidden.
• Ren recruited Orochimaru to conduct research under strict rules, offered him access to the bloodline potion formula, and introduced him to the Great River Qi Refinement Method as a possible path to longer life.
• Ren distributed bloodline tempering potions to the Shrine’s captains as villages across the Shinobi World raided Dark Exchange Houses, and Kakashi and Kurenai then asked him to help with their problems.
• Kurenai described Kurama Yakumo’s genjutsu talent and worsening mental instability, and Ren agreed to examine her while warning that Tsunade would need to address her physical illness.
• Hiruzen warned Asuma that Ren could only be faced head-on by the First at his peak or Madara in his prime, while Ren set out with Kakashi and Kurenai to visit Yakumo.

Ren strengthened the Uchiha Shrine through new clan policies, training, and appointments while Obito and Black Zetsu revived Madara and revealed the scale of Ren’s power to him. Madara set out to investigate the Inner Court as Yaonai and Luna showed Sakura and Ino its formidable gates.

• Ren examined Yakumo, diagnosed the strain her dormant spiritual power placed on her fragile body, and offered to train her with the Uchiha’s Tiger Leopard Thunderclap Body Tempering Art after she agreed to become his disciple.
• Ren proposed an Inner and Outer Court structure, open recruitment for ordinary roles, marriage and childbirth incentives, and centralized childcare, and Fugaku and the elders approved the policies.
• Black Zetsu and White Zetsu reported the Shrine’s rapid growth to Obito, who abandoned the Akatsuki’s original plan and chose to build an undead army using Impure World Reincarnation.
• Ren gave Tobirama a living body and the name Uchiha Jian, appointed him to lead the Forbidden Techniques Department, and made Orochimaru chief elder of the Secret Medicine Department.
• Obito and Black Zetsu resurrected Madara in an Impure World body and recounted how Ren had defeated Hashirama, conquered Kumogakure, and led the Uchiha Shrine to unprecedented strength.
• Madara learned that Ren’s intangibility and cultivation method made him exceptionally difficult to defeat, then decided to investigate the Uchiha Inner Court despite Black Zetsu’s warning that Ren would notice.
• Yaonai took Sakura and Ino to the Inner Court gates, where she explained their weight and security, and Ino gave up on visiting Sasuke after learning the requirements for a prospective wife of a core member.
• Sakura and Ino tried to open the four-ton gate but were thrown back by its sealing formulas, while Luna used the Tiger Leopard Thunderclap breathing technique to push open the sixteen-ton third gate.

Madara returned to the Uchiha District and challenged the clan, overwhelming its defenders until Ren intervened. Ren unveiled a technique that merged Complete Body Susanoo into his own body, leaving the story poised for his close-quarters fight with Madara.

• Madara arrived at the Uchiha District, opened all seven gates, and received the clan’s highest welcoming ceremony.
• Uchiha Jian confronted Madara and used Shifting Phantom to strike him, but Madara summoned Complete Body Susanoo and overwhelmed the defenders.
• Nanami and twelve Squad Captains activated Heavenly Tribulation, whose Thunder Dragon damaged Madara’s Susanoo before he split the first stage of the attack and threatened the captains.
• Ren appeared to protect the captains and halted Madara’s Susanoo blade with Hundredfold Strike and Spacequake, then broke it with Armament Void-Shake.
• Madara attacked the Inner Court while Ren was intangible, forcing Ren to abandon that defense after Fugaku, Shisui, and Itachi were defeated trying to stop him.
• Ren summoned Complete Body Susanoo, then drew its power into himself through the Susanoo-Enhanced Deification Technique.
• Ren explained that his transformed body retained Susanoo’s strength and protection without its giant form, while Madara recognized that Ren had achieved what he himself could not.