Chapter Summaries

Ren mastered the Rinnegan Replenishing Heaven Technique and settled into family life as the Uchiha expanded during a period of peace. Meanwhile, Obito uncovered the history of the Ōtsutsuki and the battle between the Sage of Six Paths and Kaguya, then hid as someone emerged from a black hole.

• Ren spent half a year refining a split-spirit seed and successfully sent it into the Reincarnation Space.
• Ren stabilized his cultivation, spent time with the women by his side, and welcomed two boys and a girl into the Uchiha Inner Courtyard.
• The Uchiha expanded its businesses and strengthened its forces while the World Peace Treaty brought stability, though the family's fortune still lacked a transcendent powerhouse to reach one million.
• Obito examined projections of the Ōtsutsuki Clan, failed to revive Madara Uchiha with the Rinnegan, and began investigating Black Zetsu's origins.
• Obito uncovered the ancient battle between the Sage of Six Paths and Kaguya Otsutsuki, followed clues into a strange space, and concealed himself when a black hole opened.

Obito witnessed Ōtsutsuki Isshiki drain the Ten-Tails and learned how Kaguya had betrayed him a thousand years earlier. After Isshiki left, Obito absorbed the Ten-Tails’ chakra, enduring its destructive force as he began to refine it.

• Obito hid in a spatial rift and watched Ōtsutsuki Isshiki approach the captive Ten-Tails.
• Isshiki explained that Kaguya had betrayed him a thousand years ago, and that he had survived by inhabiting Jigen and draining the Ten-Tails.
• Isshiki extracted a vast amount of chakra from the Ten-Tails, then left through a black passage.
• Obito emerged from hiding and decided to absorb the Ten-Tails’ remaining chakra to grow stronger.
• Obito’s body began to break under the chakra’s force, but Hashirama Cells, his Mangekyō Sharingan, and Yin-Yang Release helped him refine and absorb it.

Obito awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan after absorbing Ten-Tails chakra and resolved to become powerful without serving as anyone’s pawn. In Konoha, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura graduated and were assigned to Team 7, whose instructor became a point of concern when Uchiha Ren volunteered for the role.

• Obito’s transplanted Sharingan evolved into a Mangekyō after he absorbed Ten-Tails chakra, and he decided to keep drawing power from the beast.
• Naruto celebrated graduating from the Ninja Academy, while Sasuke and Sakura also completed their graduation.
• Sakura saw that Naruto, Sasuke, and she had been assigned to Team 7.
• The Third Hokage, Tsunade, and Shikaku discussed the difficulty of finding a suitable instructor for Team 7.
• A message from the Seireitei revealed that Uchiha Ren had volunteered to instruct Team 7, prompting the Third Hokage to suspect he wanted to approach Naruto for the Nine-Tails.