Chapter Summaries

Pain confronted White Zetsu outside Amegakure and declared that he would go to war with Uchiha Ren after rejecting the ultimatum. He used the threat of losing or destroying the Rinnegan to force Tobi and Black Zetsu to join the fight.

• Pain used Shinra Tensei to blast several White Zetsu out of hiding underground.
• Pain demanded to see Tobi, but White Zetsu said Tobi was busy dealing with bounty hunters and could not come.
• Pain used Banshō Ten'in to seize a White Zetsu and announced that Akatsuki would not surrender its members or accept Uchiha's orders.
• Pain blamed Tobi and Black Zetsu for starting the conflict and demanded that Tobi take action, threatening that the Rinnegan would be lost if he fell to Uchiha Ren.
• Pain released the White Zetsu and returned to Amegakure, leaving them to relay his warning to Tobi.

Obito and Black Zetsu planned to exploit the coming battle between Nagato and Uchiha Ren to reclaim the Rinnegan, but first warned Nagato that his failing body made victory unlikely. Nagato asked whether Obito had a solution, leaving the discussion unresolved.

• Black Zetsu told Obito that Nagato had refused to surrender Akatsuki and would fight Uchiha Ren, putting the Rinnegan at risk.
• Obito recalled Ren's overwhelming power and doubted Nagato could escape if Ren used his Susanoo Empowered Deification Technique.
• Black Zetsu argued that Nagato might win by forcing Ren to maintain the technique until its physical burden wore him down, while Obito and Black Zetsu waited to seize the Rinnegan if both sides were crippled.
• Obito and Black Zetsu went to Nagato's sealed chamber in Amegakure, where Obito warned that Nagato's deteriorated body and divided use of the Rinnegan would leave him vulnerable.
• Nagato asked Obito whether he had a solution.

Obito offered Nagato a transplant of Hashirama's Cells, explaining that they might restore his body but could also consume him. Meanwhile, Ren trained in seclusion, using his newly advanced perception to refine his physical power.

• Obito showed Nagato and Konan Hashirama's Cells and explained that they could restore Nagato's legs, life force, and ability to use the Rinnegan directly.
• Obito warned that the cells could overwhelm Nagato's body, and he left the decision to Nagato.
• Uchiha guards sealed off Ren's compound while he practiced his fist art, producing powerful vibrations without using Chakra.
• Ren used his enhanced Mind-Spirit Power to perceive minute vibrations and changes within his own body.

After recovering from the damage caused by his battle with Madara Uchiha, Ren discovered that using the Susanoo-Enhanced Deification Technique had permanently harmed his foundation despite breakthroughs in all three of his cultivation methods. With Amegakure ignoring his ultimatum, he ordered the Temple to begin its original plan and set out with the Uchiha forces.

• Ren recovered by consuming a third of the Uchiha Treasury, breaking through to the fifth level of the Tiger Leopard Thunderclap Body Tempering Art and advancing his other cultivation methods.
• Ren used his Mind-Spirit Power to detect lingering damage to his bones, meridians, cells, and internal organs, and decided to reserve the Susanoo-Enhanced Deification Technique as a trump card.
• Ren reflected that the Uchiha and the Temple had grown strong enough that he no longer needed to bear every battle's burden alone.
• A First Squad ninja reported that Amegakure had ignored the ten-day ultimatum and handed no one over, so Ren ordered the Temple to set out according to the original plan.
• The Uchiha Inner Courtyard gates opened, and the Tenth Squad emerged as spies observed that even its weakest members had reached Elite Jonin.

Four Uchiha Shrine squads assembled to march against the Akatsuki Organization, revealing seventeen Kage-Level fighters and dozens of Elite Jonin. Spies realized the Temple’s full strength could be far greater, while Uchiha Ren emerged to lead the force.

• The Tenth Squad captain released nearly Kage-Level Peak pressure, and the Eleventh Squad followed with Kasumi Uchiha and several Kage-Level members.
• The Twelfth Squad and Thirteen Squads joined the formation, bringing the four squads’ openly displayed Kage-Level fighters to seventeen.
• Spies from several villages recognized the Temple’s strength and rushed to send urgent reports across the Shinobi World.
• The four squads declared themselves assembled as Uchiha Ren emerged from the Inner Court to lead the expedition against the Akatsuki Organization.
• Spies speculated that the nine other squads and the Uchiha clan’s absent fighters could raise the Temple’s total strength far beyond what they had witnessed.

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.