Chapter Summaries

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.

After Obito escaped with Kamui, Ren explained why he would not pursue him and turned to claim the defeated Eight-Tails. Just as Ren began to subdue it, the beast vanished in a cloud of smoke, leaving only a severed tentacle behind.

• Obito escaped through Kamui, and Ren stopped Itachi from pursuing him because they could not prevent his dimensional retreat.
• Ren told Itachi he had hoped to recruit Obito for the Uchiha, but accepted that Obito’s obsession with Rin Nohara made him unwilling to return.
• Ren decided to focus on the Uchiha’s advancement and claim the unconscious Eight-Tails instead of chasing Obito.
• Ren approached the defeated Eight-Tails and began pressing his Mangekyō’s power into its consciousness.
• The Eight-Tails vanished in a burst of white smoke, leaving a severed octopus tentacle in the crater.

Ren’s forces learned that the Eight-Tails had escaped using a tentacle clone, but Ren chose to invade Kumogakure while it was weakened. The Uchiha advance began, and their forces broke through Black Cloud Pass in less than half a day.

• Itachi examined the severed tentacle, and Ren identified it as an Eight-Tails tentacle clone that had let Killer B escape.
• Ren decided not to pursue the Eight-Tails or confront the Akatsuki Organization, sealed away the tentacle, and considered the Nine Tailed Beasts’ Chakra a path to the Six Paths Realm.
• Nanami Uchiha, Tekka, Hizashi Hyuga, Itachi Uchiha, and the Temple Formation troops arrived, and Ren ordered them to advance on Kumogakure.
• The Uchiha and Hyuga forces pushed through the Land of Lightning, using Ten Thousand Lightning and Byakugan reconnaissance to overcome defenses.
• At Black Cloud Pass, the Temple Formation blasted breaches in the walls, and Tekka Uchiha led the troops through as Sharingan Genjutsu and Fire Release scattered the Cloud Ninja.

After the Uchiha forces captured Black Cloud Pass and advanced toward Kumogakure, the wounded Raikage ordered a mission to Konoha to buy time while the village searched for Bee. In hiding, Bee and Gyuki recovered and identified the masked man who helped them escape as Obito Uchiha.

• Kumogakure's messengers reported that the Uchiha had taken Black Cloud Pass, crossed Thunderbreak Valley, and reached Ring Pass.
• The wounded Raikage wanted to fight, but Darui warned that he would be committing suicide and urged him to recover.
• The Raikage ordered the ANBU, Sensory Unit, and Medical Unit to search for Bee and sent an envoy to Konoha to ask Hiruzen Sarutobi to restrain the Uchiha.
• The Raikage told Kumogakure's forces that he intended to recover, regroup, and settle the score with Uchiha Ren.
• In a hidden stone chamber, Bee and Gyuki discussed how a masked man had helped them escape Ren and concluded that he was Obito Uchiha.

Killer B and Gyuki concluded that Ren’s Existence-Nonexistence Shift could only be countered by true Yin–Yang Release, so their best chance was to exhaust his ocular power. In Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi and the elders reviewed reports of Kumogakure’s defeat and struggled to comprehend the Uchiha Clan’s victory.

• Killer B asked Gyuki how Ren’s Intangibility could be broken, and Gyuki explained that Ren shifted between existence and illusion rather than hiding in another space.
• Gyuki said ordinary attacks, including Tailed Beast Bombs, could not hit Ren while he was intangible, and that only true Yin–Yang Release could force him back into reality.
• Gyuki identified Ren’s dependence on ocular power and Chakra as his weakness, advising Killer B to avoid close combat and wear him down with wide-range attacks, numbers, and terrain.
• Killer B accepted that he and the Raikage would have to stall Ren despite disliking the strategy.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi and Konoha’s elders reviewed reports that the Uchiha Clan had routed Kumogakure’s forces, severely injured the Fourth Raikage, and prompted Kumogakure to request Konoha’s mediation.

Konoha’s leadership discussed Uchiha Ren’s victories over the Raikage and Eight-Tails, his intangibility, and the danger of the Uchiha growing too powerful. Hiruzen Sarutobi concluded that the Hokage position must not fall to the Uchiha, while Danzo began pressing him to act.

• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura received reports that Kumogakure had asked Konoha to restrain the Uchiha offensive.
• Mitokado Homura explained how Uchiha Ren’s Temple Formation and Hyuga reconnaissance had overwhelmed Kumogakure’s defenses.
• Danzo reported that Uchiha Ren had defeated the Fourth Raikage and the Eight-Tails, and described his speed and intangibility abilities.
• Danzo clarified that Ren’s intangibility differed from the masked invader’s space-based technique from Nine-Tails Night.
• Utatane Koharu warned that Uchiha Ren’s growing prestige could let him challenge for the Hokage position, and Hiruzen Sarutobi said the position must never go to an Uchiha.
• Danzo told Hiruzen Sarutobi that Ren had become a serious threat, and Hiruzen asked what Danzo was proposing.