Chapter Summaries

Jiraiya and Konan escaped the destruction of Kara’s Kucha facility, and Jiraiya suspected that Amado had ordered the blast. Amado confirmed the facility was expendable, then discovered that Delta had abandoned her mission to investigate giant trees.

• Jiraiya and Konan escaped the collapsing Kucha facility with the help of a giant frog.
• Jiraiya guessed that the masked man’s remote commands and advanced cloning technology pointed to Kara scientist Sanzu Amado.
• Amado watched the explosion through Mirror Drones and reasoned that the facility was no longer needed because Kawaki and Code were the Vessels.
• Delta confronted Amado about the destroyed facility while he reminded her to eliminate Jiraiya and Konan.
• Delta revealed that she had been tracing the giant trees to their source, and Amado ordered her to stop immediately.

Amado persuaded Delta to put her investigation aside and pursue Jiraiya and Konan, promising her freedom afterward while secretly planning to put her to sleep. Jiraiya and Konan stopped in a wooded mountain area, but an explosion interrupted their conversation.

• Delta refused to abandon her investigation near the Land of Fire until Amado coaxed her into prioritizing her mission to find Jiraiya and Konan.
• Amado promised Delta she could explore or take a vacation after completing the mission, then decided to put her to sleep afterward.
• Jiraiya and Konan reached a wooded mountain area, where Konan washed and changed while Jiraiya sent an intelligence scroll by mechanical bird.
• Jiraiya joked about visiting a hot spring inn and finding a busty blonde, blue-eyed woman, and Konan rejected his suggestion.
• An explosion suddenly interrupted Jiraiya and Konan.

Jiraiya and Konan confronted Delta, an artificial human from Kara, and tried to kill her with a modified Explosive Flame Formation. Delta escaped by severing her leg and regenerating it, then prepared to attack them in earnest.

• Delta crashed into the ground near Jiraiya and Konan, and Jiraiya identified her as an Inner member of Kara based on Orochimaru’s intelligence footage.
• Delta confirmed Jiraiya and Konan as targets and taunted them while Jiraiya distracted her and Konan prepared a trap.
• Konan used Explosive Flame Formation to snare Delta’s boot and set off Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags after Amado warned Delta to remove them.
• Delta severed her trapped leg to escape the minute-long barrage, regenerated a new leg, and threatened to tear Jiraiya and Konan apart.

Jiraiya and Konan fought Delta, but Delta badly wounded Jiraiya and broke free of their traps. Before Delta could kill him, Jiraiya revealed that he had spotted Amado Sanzu watching through a Mirror Drone and confronted him about Jigen.

• Delta attacked Jiraiya, who caught her punch and countered with his modified arm and a Hidden Dragon Hand wood dragon.
• Konan restrained Delta with paper and prepared explosive tags, but Delta used a concealed mechanism to scatter them and drove her extended leg through Jiraiya's abdomen.
• Jiraiya urged Konan to escape, but she stood between him and Delta; Jiraiya then knocked Konan unconscious to protect her.
• Jiraiya pointed out the Mirror Drone and accused Amado Sanzu of destroying Jigen's laboratory base in the Ancient Kingdom of Kucha and sending Delta to meet them.
• Delta lunged at Jiraiya after he mentioned Jigen, but a command through her earpiece ordered her to stand down.

Jiraiya tried to bargain with Amado for his and Konan’s lives, offering help resurrecting Akebi in exchange for Amado’s defection. Amado exposed the offer as a lie and asked whether Jiraiya had finished repairing his wound, leaving Jiraiya in immediate danger.

• Delta stopped attacking Jiraiya when Amado ordered her to put her headset on speaker so he could speak with him.
• Jiraiya told Amado that Sasuke Uchiha and his forces were not his enemies, and revealed that he knew Amado’s surname was Sanzu.
• Jiraiya offered to help Amado resurrect Akebi if he abandoned his allegiance, hoping to save Konan and himself.
• Delta realized Jiraiya was trying to turn Amado against Isshiki and threatened to kill Jiraiya, but Amado asked to question him first.
• Amado accused Jiraiya of making a false promise because he could not speak for Sasuke or his forces, then asked whether Jiraiya had finished repairing his abdominal wound.

Jiraiya fought Delta to protect Konan, but her new Air Cannon left him unable to resist. Nagato arrived just before Delta could kill them, revealing a Mangekyō Sharingan and Six-Tomoe Rinnegan as he prepared to fight.

• Jiraiya used Sage Art: Hotei Rasengan against Delta, but her Scientific Eye absorbed it, and he retreated with Konan.
• Jiraiya struck Delta with Frog Kata, then trapped her in the Underworld Swamp and crushed her beneath a summoned lodging-rock toad before binding the area with Wood Release.
• Delta escaped Jiraiya's traps with Amado's Air Cannon, and Jiraiya, exhausted and out of options, shielded Konan as she attacked.
• Nagato appeared before Delta could kill Jiraiya and told him that the Tale of Jiraiya the Gallant had only just begun.
• Nagato revealed his Mangekyō Sharingan and Six-Tomoe Rinnegan, then used Almighty Push against Delta.

Nagato rescued Jiraiya and defeated Delta with an intensified Shinra Tensei, then learned that Orochimaru had sent more reinforcements. Artificial Human Samui Unit-01 arrived as the next fighter.

• Delta charged Nagato, but Amado explained Shinra Tensei's five-second interval and another weakness through her earpiece.
• Delta anchored her extended legs into the ground to resist Shinra Tensei, forcing Nagato to amplify the technique and blast her away.
• Jiraiya praised Nagato and forgave him, allowing Nagato to face his past without shame.
• Nagato explained that Tobirama had intercepted Jiraiya's intelligence and that Orochimaru was organizing further reinforcements.
• Artificial Human Samui Unit-01 arrived in a rainbow streak and complained about feeling burdened.

Delta returned to fight Nagato after surviving his maximum-power Shinra Tensei, while Nagato resolved to grow stronger and join the coming final battle. Nagato dodged Delta’s attack with his Sharingan and struck toward her back with the Human Path.

• Delta argued with Amado, learned that Nagato’s maximum-power Shinra Tensei had a long cooldown, and repaired her damaged body.
• Amado told Delta to release her true body, and a triangular drone emerged from her back to restore surveillance for him.
• Jiraiya carried Konan away while Nagato chose to face Delta alone and test his restored body.
• Nagato recalled choosing to become one of Itachi’s Ame-no-Uzume shikigami and resolving to become a Celestial Ninja.
• Delta charged Nagato with hooked claws, but he dodged with his Sharingan and attacked her with the Human Path.

Nagato subdued Delta by countering her Scientific Eye, but Amado tricked him into retreating by invoking a devastating attack Delta did not yet possess. Amado then decided to make Delta a hostage so he could use the incident to turn Jigen against their enemies.

• Delta attacked Nagato, but he trapped her with his Asura Path armor and aimed a chakra energy cannon at her.
• Delta absorbed the cannon’s energy with her Mechanical Eye, but Nagato used the Preta Path to drain the stored chakra and render the eye ineffective.
• Nagato threatened to destroy Delta’s drone, and Amado told her to claim she would use her Destructive Laser.
• Nagato retreated after recognizing the attack’s danger, then realized Amado had exploited the gap between their information.
• Amado decided to let Delta be captured as a hostage and use the resulting incident to provoke Jigen.

Delta ignored Amado’s attempt to make her retreat and continued fighting Nagato, who used ninja techniques and misdirection to counter her attacks. The chapter ended with Nagato striking Delta in the chest with a Summoning Technique.

• Amado warned Delta that Nagato was stronger than expected and told her to escape, but Delta crushed her earpiece before he could issue a shutdown command.
• Delta resumed her attack, launching herself into the air and raining rapid leg spear strikes down on Nagato.
• Nagato used smoke and flash bombs to distract Delta, then tricked her with a Substitution Technique and a Clone Technique.
• Delta used her drone to spot Nagato’s follow-up attack and blocked his mechanical arm, but Nagato escaped again by transforming the arm into a clone.
• Nagato charged while completing hand seals, evaded Delta’s straight-line strike, and hit her in the chest with a Summoning Technique.

Nagato forced Delta to stop her self-destruct sequence by threatening the drone that housed her true self, then tried to destroy her cloned body. Artificial Human Samui Unit-01 saved Delta by decomposing Nagato’s laser, and Nagato pulled the drone back before Samui kissed Delta.

• Nagato told Delta to surrender, but she started a self-destruct sequence and sent her drone fleeing.
• Nagato realized Delta was delaying detonation so her true self could escape and threatened to shoot down the drone.
• Delta stopped the self-destruct sequence, and Nagato fired his Asura's Attack at her cloned body.
• Artificial Human Samui Unit-01 stepped in front of Delta and decomposed Nagato’s laser with Six Paths Yin-Yang Release.
• Nagato used Super Banshō Ten'in to drag the drone back, while Samui kissed the bewildered Delta.

Amado told Jigen that Jiraiya had destroyed Kara’s experimental base and that Nagato had captured Delta. He revealed that the Infinite Tsukuyomi had already been cast and that nearly five people in the present shinobi world had awakened the Rinnegan, leaving Jigen stunned.

• Amado reported that Jiraiya had destroyed Kara’s experimental base in the Ancient Kingdom of Kucha.
• Jigen dismissed the destruction as a loss that could be repaired until Amado revealed that Delta had been captured.
• Amado told Jigen that Nagato, Jiraiya’s student, had defeated Delta with his Rinnegan.
• Amado warned Jigen that the Infinite Tsukuyomi had already been cast, though not by Black Zetsu.
• Amado revealed that nearly five people in the current shinobi world had awakened the Rinnegan, and Jigen rose in shock.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki entered Mount Myōboku seeking Gamamaru and fought the toads who tried to stop him. Gamamaru agreed to meet him, while revealing that Isshiki was destined to die in three days and pass on a white Kāma.

• Isshiki surveyed the God Tree consuming the Land of Wind and concluded that Black Zetsu had not yet acted.
• Isshiki used Kāma to enter Mount Myōboku and introduced himself to the Toad Wrestlers as the old monk One-Inch Monk.
• Gamabunta, Gamaken, and Gamahiro challenged Isshiki, but he destroyed their attack with Divine Air Strike and used Sukunahikona to shrink their weapons and blind them.
• Isshiki threatened to destroy Mount Myōboku unless Gamamaru came to see him.
• Gamamaru told Fukasaku and Shima that Sasuke could not defeat Isshiki and that Isshiki would die in three days after passing on a white Kāma.
• Gamamaru agreed to meet Isshiki, whom he identified as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.

Jigen met the Great Toad Sage, Gamamaru, and invoked an old debt to secure honest answers about the strange changes in the shinobi world. He learned that Sasuke Uchiha was behind them but could not serve as his Vessel, leaving Jigen disappointed and uninterested in Sasuke.

• Jigen reminded Gamamaru that he had concealed the surviving native inhabitants of Takamagahara and asked him to repay that debt by helping him once.
• Gamamaru had Fukasaku and Shima light the Fate-Seeking Incense, promising to answer anything he knew while it burned.
• Gamamaru identified Sasuke Uchiha as the person who caused the strange changes in the shinobi world.
• Gamamaru told Jigen that Sasuke was the latest incarnation of Indra and that Naruto Uzumaki, born the same year, was Asura's latest incarnation.
• Jigen asked whether Sasuke could bear his Kāma until its power fully unfroze, and Gamamaru answered no.
• Jigen lost interest in Sasuke as a Vessel, unaware that Sasuke could bear the Kāma but would never let it fully unfreeze.

Jigen questioned the Great Toad Sage about Sasuke Uchiha, possible threats, and whether anyone could serve as his Vessel. Gamamaru revealed that a suitable Vessel existed, but the incense burned out before he could name them.

• Jigen reasoned that only one complete Six Paths wielder could threaten him and asked whether Sasuke Uchiha had been influenced by someone from his clan.
• Gamamaru explained the Ōtsutsuki ancestry of Sasuke and other clans, then denied that anyone had possessed or influenced Sasuke.
• Jigen asked whether other Rinnegan wielders, hidden Ōtsutsuki, or clones could provide him with a Vessel, and Gamamaru answered no.
• Jigen wondered whether Jiraiya's visit had been accidental and worried that Delta's capture could expose Kara's intelligence.
• Jigen asked whether anyone in the shinobi world could be his Vessel, and Gamamaru said yes before forgetting the question as the incense burned out.

Sasuke released the Infinite Tsukuyomi, waking the world from a shared dream of its destruction, and explained to Tobirama that he had hoped the dream might reveal a future Ten Celestial Ninja among ordinary people. At Mount Myōboku, Jigen accepted Gamamaru’s answer and set out to investigate Orochimaru.

• Sasuke released the Infinite Tsukuyomi, causing the Divine Expansive World Bloom to wither and freeing people across the five nations.
• People compared their memories and realized they had shared a dream of the world’s destruction through Sasuke Uchiha’s eyes.
• Tobirama questioned Sasuke’s decision to involve the entire world, and Sasuke said he hoped one of the Ten Celestial Ninja might come from among its unnoticed masses.
• Sasuke thanked the predecessors who had shaped him, then used Yomotsu Hirasaka to return to Blue Moon Island with Tobirama.
• Jigen questioned Gamamaru about his prophecy, accepted that their bargain was complete, and identified Orochimaru as a useful lead.

Jigen returned to Kara Base and asked Amado for information on Orochimaru, while the resurrected founding Kage met Sasuke on Blue Moon Island. The Raikage, A, challenged Sasuke with a lightning technique, and Sasuke prepared to show what he could do.

• Jigen told Amado to compile everything he knew about Orochimaru and said he would bring Orochimaru back along with Delta.
• Amado wondered whether Jigen had learned Sasuke's secret and resolved to use Jigen as the pledge of allegiance he offered the Sasuke Faction.
• Hashirama, Byakuren, Ishikawa, Reto, and A met Sasuke, and Byakuren embarrassed Ishikawa by revealing stories about his private collectibles.
• The Raikage, A, struck at Sasuke, who blocked the punch and recognized that A's Energy-Gathering Ring drew in natural energy to create lightning.
• A taunted Sasuke about facing his Thunder God's Fist without Susanoo, and Sasuke said he would give A the surprise he wanted.

Sasuke used Shinra Tensei and Chidori to counter A, but the Raikage transformed into a Lightning Beast and struck him with Thunder Beast Descends. Sasuke emerged unharmed inside a skeletal Susanoo reinforced with Shikotsumyaku, as Earth Grudge Fear tendrils began growing around its bones.

• Sasuke dodged A’s Thunder God Fist with Shinra Body Flicker and used Universal Pull: Chidori to pierce his shoulder.
• A transformed into his Lightning Transformation Physique, trapped Sasuke, and expanded into a Lightning Beast.
• A unleashed Thunder Beast Descends, crashing into the ground and leaving a deep crater.
• Hashirama assured Ishikawa and Suigetsu that Sasuke had survived the attack, and the observers saw him unharmed inside a purple skeletal Susanoo.
• A broke one Susanoo bone, and Sasuke’s Earth Grudge Fear tendrils began growing around the bones.

Sasuke faced the First Raikage, A, whose Quake Release could damage Sasuke’s unusual Susanoo. After the other Kage deferred to A, he unleashed his ultimate taijutsu, Great Shockwave, in a gigantic Thunder God form.

• A escaped Sasuke’s tentacles and praised the unusual, free-form Susanoo as Sasuke spread it across the battlefield.
• A used basic Quake Release to send vibrations through the ground and crack Sasuke’s bone defenses.
• A explained that his strongest taijutsu combined Quake Release, Lightning Release, and a taijutsu amplification technique.
• The other Kage declined to join the fight, so A agreed to represent the first Five Kage against Sasuke.
• A activated five Energy-Gathering Rings, transformed into a gigantic Thunder God, and launched Great Shockwave at Sasuke.

Sasuke countered the Raikage’s Great Shockwave with his developing Yomotsu Quick-Absorption Gate, then defeated him with a Byakugan Pressure Point Strike. Reto caught Sasuke with a poison gas barrier, but Sasuke revealed he had seen through the trap with Sharingan genjutsu and subdued him with Susanoo.

• Sasuke used Yomotsu Quick-Absorption Gate to redirect the Raikage’s Great Shockwave into space-time.
• Sasuke struck the Raikage with Byakugan Pressure Point Strike, knocking him out and impressing the other first-generation Kage.
• The Kage ended the sparring, and Reto secretly revealed he had surrounded Sasuke with colorless, odorless poison gas.
• Sasuke revealed that he had noticed Reto’s scheming and trapped him with Sharingan genjutsu and Susanoo.