Chapter Summaries

The Ten-Tails unleashed catastrophic judgments across the Desert Planet, but Sasuke and Obito fought back as it revealed armor made of Susanoo. Madara attempted to approach the beast, only to be confronted by a Hashirama-faced fission clone with the Rinnegan, while two distant figures sensed its immense chakra.

• Obito used Divine Illumination to destroy the volcanic rocks launched at him, while Sasuke endured the Ten-Tails' attacks and fired a Blaze Release: Tailed Beast Bomb at its source.
• The Ten-Tails survived Sasuke's attack by covering itself in Susanoo armor, and Madara's Six Paths: Ten-Tails Coffin Seal failed to take hold.
• Madara climbed an unburned section of the Ten-Tails' tail, avoiding Sasuke's flames, and encountered a crimson Armored Man created as a fission clone.
• The Armored Man revealed Hashirama's face and Rinnegan, then blasted Madara toward the horizon with a Tailed Beast Bomb fired from his eyes.
• Two distant figures sensed the Ten-Tails' immense chakra and realized it felt as if they were right beside it.

Sasuke discovered that the Ten-Tails’ apparent moon was its Rinne Sharingan and defended himself against its enormous Susanoo-armored palm. He turned his Bone Bamboo forest into thousands of loaded bows, then launched an attack that left the palm forced upward and the arrows flying skyward.

• Madara escaped the Ten-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb and assessed the danger posed by the armored monster, wondering how Sasuke would fight it.
• Sasuke used his Tenseigan to survey the Ten-Tails and realized that the object he had mistaken for a moon was its Rinne Sharingan.
• The Ten-Tails attacked Sasuke with its enormous Susanoo-armored palm, while Madara watched from a distance.
• Sasuke spread Purple Bamboo Dance across the battlefield, growing a vast Bone Bamboo forest that bent beneath the palm but held it above the ground.
• Sasuke turned the bent bamboo into bows, used Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to force the palm upward, and sent more than ten thousand arrows into the sky.

Sasuke severed one of the Ten-Tails’ arms, and Madara absorbed it to gain a powerful Six Paths form. Madara distrusted Black Zetsu’s claims about Idle Transfiguration but spared him because Naruto’s life might depend on him, then sealed him inside a mountain barrier; a portal opened elsewhere in the Desert Dimension.

• Sasuke blasted through the Ten-Tails’ palm and severed its arm with the Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Madara absorbed the severed arm with Six Paths: Ten-Tails Coffin Seal and gained a crimson Six Paths Haori, a Fire-Tipped Spear, and thirteen Truth-Seeking Orbs.
• Madara accused Black Zetsu of lying about Idle Transfiguration, but hesitated to kill him because Naruto’s life might be tied to Black Zetsu’s.
• Madara attacked Black Zetsu with the Fire-Tipped Spear and sealed him inside an Iron Coffin Mountain Seal.
• Yomotsu Hirasaka opened in a place of extreme heat on the far side of the Desert Dimension.

Obito encountered Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Urashiki on the Sand Death Star and fought Kinshiki while planning to catch the others off guard. He used Divine Illumination to erase Kinshiki’s axe, then decapitated him with Kamui.

• Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Urashiki arrived in the desert and found the vast artificial trees Obito had created.
• Obito sensed the three Ōtsutsuki, identified them, and appeared before them.
• Kinshiki attacked Obito with his axe, and the two fought evenly while Momoshiki and Urashiki watched.
• Obito deliberately left an opening, then used Divine Illumination to make Kinshiki’s axe vanish.
• Obito restrained Kinshiki with a Wood Dragon and severed his head with Kamui.

Obito killed Kinshiki and let Momoshiki consume him, transforming into a stronger form. Obito then wounded Momoshiki and destroyed his weapons and halo, leaving Momoshiki calling for Urashiki as Obito drove in to attack.

• Obito killed Kinshiki, and Momoshiki used Takami Musubi to turn Kinshiki’s remains into a chakra fruit and consumed it.
• Momoshiki transformed and ordered Urashiki to stay out of the fight before challenging Obito by name.
• Momoshiki attacked with Bowie God, but Obito used Kamui to make his hand solid inside Momoshiki’s chest and tear a hole through him.
• Obito severed Momoshiki’s polearm with Divine Illumination, then advanced with a Truth-Seeking Orb spear as Momoshiki unleashed a barrage of weapons.
• Obito annihilated the barrage and Momoshiki’s Bowie God halo, then thrust his spear at Momoshiki as Momoshiki called for Urashiki.

Obito fought Momoshiki and Urashiki, who joined forces against him and used their Ōtsutsuki abilities to counter his attacks. Obito revealed that he intended to capture them alive, then prepared to exhaust and injure them with his space-time techniques.

• Urashiki attacked Obito from behind with his Fishing Rod, but Obito's Phasing made the strike and Momoshiki's black rods miss.
• Momoshiki swallowed three chakra pills to heal his chest wound, then unleashed Inukai no Mikoto against Obito.
• Obito used Blade Reversal to sever the canine heads and Kamui Shuriken to disrupt their regeneration.
• Momoshiki and Urashiki agreed to share the chakra from a giant creature nearby, and Urashiki used his time-rewinding Rinnegan to anticipate Obito's moves.
• Obito regenerated his missing arm and sent wood vines and Tailed Beast Bombs at Urashiki, while Momoshiki absorbed the blasts with Takami Musubi.
• Obito revealed that his mission was to capture the Ōtsutsuki alive by exhausting them and inflicting injuries they could not easily recover from.

Obito outlasted Momoshiki’s bombardment and used Limbo shadows and Divine Illumination to overcome him. The chapter ended with Obito pinning Momoshiki down and impaling him with six Truth-Seeking Orb spikes.

• Momoshiki repeatedly bombarded Obito’s Kamui hiding place with amplified Tailed Beast Bombs and prepared to extract his chakra when his phasing ran out.
• Urashiki opened Yomotsu Hirasaka portals to redirect the explosive energy as Momoshiki attacked Obito at the end of his phasing countdown.
• Obito swapped places with a Limbo shadow and used Limbo: Border Jail to ambush Momoshiki with five shadows, sending him into the lava-like sand.
• Obito used Divine Illumination to annihilate Momoshiki’s remaining Tailed Beast Bombs and lava statue, while his chakra remained undiminished.
• Obito seized Momoshiki and used Limbo: Six Paths Samsara to impale him with six Truth-Seeking Orb spikes, defeating him.

Obito spared Momoshiki, who revealed that Urashiki possessed a dangerous artifact, while Obito used his abilities to trap and absorb Momoshiki. Obito reasoned that Urashiki's artifact might seal targets by freezing time and prepared to face him cautiously.

• Momoshiki dared Obito to kill him, but Obito refused and sealed him inside his eye.
• Urashiki tried to escape through Yomotsu Hirasaka, but Obito's Rinne Sharingan seal closed the passage and trapped him.
• Momoshiki recognized Obito's many abilities and warned that Urashiki's trump-card artifact could kill him, but refused to explain it.
• Obito absorbed Momoshiki and reasoned that Urashiki might possess a time-freezing sealing artifact connected to Toneri's disappearance.
• Obito stopped speculating and prepared to face Urashiki with caution.

Obito analyzed the limits of Urashiki’s time rewind and used the Limbo Realm Technique to trap him in a restricted world. Urashiki was left pinned as four Limbo shadows prepared to attack him for three minutes.

• Urashiki used time rewind to evade Obito’s attacks and destroy one of his Limbo shadows.
• Obito deduced that Urashiki could alter his own actions but could not escape an environment imposed on him.
• Obito summoned four Limbo shadows and used himself in place of the fallen shadow to activate the Limbo Realm Technique.
• The technique trapped Urashiki and Obito in a gray world where both could barely move, while the four shadows remained free to attack Urashiki.

Obito trapped Urashiki in the Limbo Realm Technique and used four Limbo Shadows to batter him until he transformed by consuming his Rinnegan and treasures. The technique then ended, leaving Urashiki furious at Obito after learning its three-minute duration had been a bluff.

• Obito's four Limbo Shadows repeatedly attacked Urashiki, who rewound time to preview their assault but could only block the first strike before the barrage continued.
• After 480 coordinated strikes, Urashiki escaped the Shadows with Paper Crane Body Flicker, but remained inside the Limbo Realm Technique's barrier.
• Urashiki swallowed his blue Rinnegan, Fishing Rod, and Fish Basket to transform into a powerful crane-like form.
• As the Limbo Shadows approached, Obito released the technique, revealing that its three-minute duration had been a bluff and that his limit was two minutes and thirty seconds.
• Urashiki realized he had consumed his eyes and treasures to survive a pursuit Obito had only staged as a token effort, and he angrily threatened him.

Obito and transformed Urashiki traded increasingly powerful attacks until Urashiki bound Obito and activated his hidden Black Box. The chapter ended as Urashiki's Time Freeze threatened to seal Obito away.

• Obito created eighteen Truth-Seeking Orbs and prepared to fight Urashiki without underestimating him.
• Urashiki attacked with air blades and feather arrows, breaking Obito's Truth-Seeking Orb shield before Obito countered with Shinra Tensei and Six Paths: Hell's Chaos.
• Obito and Urashiki unleashed a Ten-Tails Tailed Beast Bomb and Amenosubaruhoshinomikoto: Soul Control, then rushed through the collision's flames to clash at close range.
• Urashiki crushed Obito's sword, bound him with Amenosubaruhoshinomikoto: Weaver Girl, and drew out his Black Box.
• Urashiki activated Time Freeze and declared that Obito would sleep in the Dragon Palace for ten thousand years.

Obito outsmarted Urashiki’s Time-Stop Box and restored his chakra and dōjutsu with Amenotokotachi. After blocking Urashiki’s escape and countering his final attacks, Obito unleashed the Heaven-Proud Rasengan, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Urashiki trapped Obito in the Time-Stop Box and boasted that he could escape once its spatial restriction ended.
• Obito revealed that he had used a Limbo Shadow as a decoy and restored his condition with Amenotokotachi, then ended Yomotsu Hirasaka Seal.
• A Limbo Shadow interrupted Urashiki’s attempted space-time escape, and Obito revealed he had deduced Urashiki possessed the Time-Stop Box from clues about Karasuki’s disappearance.
• Urashiki attacked with Ama no Hoko and Amenosubaruhoshinomikoto: Ryugu, while Obito countered with Blade Reversal.
• Obito formed the Heaven-Proud Rasengan to confront Urashiki’s final attack.

Obito defeated Urashiki, took his golden Rinnegan, and learned that the Ōtsutsuki clan had powerful figures connected to Shi Mei. With the battle against the three gods over, Obito said everything was ready and they only needed a gust of wind.

• Obito stopped the Aotian Rasengan from killing Urashiki, then used Blade Reversal to cut him in half.
• Urashiki launched chakra rods and tried to escape, but Obito blocked his attacks and used Southern Jambudvipa to pierce both Byakugan.
• Obito gouged out Urashiki's golden Rinnegan and told him that he and his companions aimed to bring Shi Mei down.
• Obito destroyed Urashiki's throat and left him to be swallowed by the space-time vortex.
• The battle ended with Obito having defeated Kinshiki Otsutsuki, Momoshiki Otsutsuki, and Urashiki Otsutsuki, and he said they needed only a gust of wind.

Sasuke fought the Ten-Tails’ Hashirama-faced fission bodies and revealed Yomotsu Hirasaka: Body as the Passage, which let him divert their Tailed Beast Bombs through his body. Obito realized the technique might leave Sasuke vulnerable to a Yomotsu Hirasaka Seal.

• Sasuke battled ten weapon-master Pillars, killing the Sword Pillar and using Amenotejikara to make the Saber Pillar die between the Spear and Halberd Pillars.
• Sasuke decapitated the Whip Pillar and held off four other Pillars as the middle ring prepared a coordinated attack.
• Thirty Pillars used Flying Thunder God Marks to attack Sasuke while sixty others aimed Tailed Beast Bombs at him.
• Sasuke summoned Hōsuseri-no-Mikoto’s Nine-Tails guardian, then dismissed it as the sixty Tailed Beast Bomb beams struck him and passed through his body.
• Obito deduced that Sasuke had used his body as the passage for Yomotsu Hirasaka, and wondered whether a Yomotsu Hirasaka Seal could kill him.

Sasuke countered the Ten-Tails’ attacks and broke through its defenses, then charged toward the Rinne Sharingan to exploit its weakness. As he raised his Golden Wheel Reincarnation sword, the Ten-Tails revealed a technique that Sasuke recognized as Sarada’s Ōhirume.

• Sasuke used Yomotsu Hirasaka to redirect the Ten-Tails’ barrage of sixty Tailed Beast Bombs, then killed the Pillars with Ashubha and black flames.
• The Ten-Tails attacked Sasuke with armored tail-hands and Chibaku Tensei cores, using airborne sand to batter his armor and disrupt his Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Sasuke carved out space to form ten Tailed Beast Bombs, fitted them with fragments of his Golden Wheel Reincarnation sword, and destroyed the gravitational cores.
• The falling sand and debris launched Sasuke from the Ten-Tails’ Forehead Chamber, and he flew toward the creature’s Rinne Sharingan to attack its weakness.
• Sasuke used Amenotejikara to evade Pillars as he approached the Ten-Tails’ eye, but the eye opened and formed eight black orbs that he recognized as Sarada’s Ōhirume.

Sasuke and Obito fought the mutated Ten-Tails, discovering that its Rinne Sharingan could comprehend and copy dōjutsu it witnessed. They looked for a way to exploit the Flame Guardian Spirit, while Sasuke suspected the Ten-Tails had also gained Uchiha Hikari's Yachihoko.

• Sasuke stopped Great Sun Mist with Ashubha and tried to strike the Ten-Tails' eye, but its Kamui phasing made his attack miss and Ōhirume dragged him into its black spheres.
• Obito appeared and used Divine Illumination to erase Ōhirume, then agreed to counter the Ten-Tails' phasing while Sasuke attacked again.
• The Ten-Tails annihilated Sasuke's light sword and the Truth-Seeking Orbs with its own Divine Illumination, revealing that it could copy dōjutsu it had seen.
• Sasuke warned Obito not to use unseen Mangekyō or Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan techniques, and noted that Kurama's Flame Guardian Spirit might resist Divine Illumination.
• Sasuke concluded that the Ten-Tails could both comprehend and copy dōjutsu, and suspected its Rinne Sharingan contained Uchiha Hikari's Yachihoko.

Sasuke warned Obito that the Ten-Tails could use Yachihoko to place a controlling Seal through eye contact, and they devised a risky attack to destroy its eye. As the Pillars prepared to fire Tailed Beast Bombs, Sasuke and Obito committed to their plan and Sasuke activated Ashubha.

• Sasuke used mind transmission to warn Obito not to look into the Ten-Tails' eye because it might place a Yachihoko Seal on him.
• Sasuke and Obito planned to use Ashubha to approach the eye, then coordinate the Nine-Tails' Flame Guardian Spirit with Obito's cancellation of the Ten-Tails' Kamui phasing.
• The Ten-Tails and its three hundred Pillars gathered Tailed Beast Bombs, forcing Sasuke and Obito to act.
• Obito accepted the risk of being Sealed, trusting that Sasuke could destroy the eye and subdue the Ten-Tails.
• Sasuke told Obito he was glad to have him as a comrade, then activated Ashubha.

Sasuke and Obito destroyed and sealed the Super Ten-Tails after Obito used Yachihoko to cancel its Kamui Phasing. As Sasuke and Obito surveyed their victory, the Ten-Tails' power seized control of Madara and opened a Rinne Sharingan on his cheek.

• Sasuke used Ashubha and Flame Guardian while Obito canceled the Ten-Tails' Kamui Phasing with Yachihoko.
• Sasuke cut the Ten-Tails into eighty-four thousand pieces and sealed each fragment with the Gates of the Great God and Six Paths Jiazi Lock.
• Sasuke and Obito discussed their victory, and Obito found the Yachihoko mark on his hand remained after Amenotokotachi reset his chakra.
• Madara decided to retreat and strengthen the Ten-Tails' arm within him, but its power suddenly paralyzed him and opened a Rinne Sharingan on his cheek.

Obito, under the Ten-Tails’ control, attacked Sasuke, freed the Ten-Tails from its seal, and revealed its primordial will, Māra, which vowed to purge all living things. Sasuke decided to become a true Ōtsutsuki, while Obito confronted Madara and exposed how he had manipulated him into absorbing his arm.

• Obito attacked Sasuke under the Ten-Tails’ influence, and Sasuke destroyed the Rinnegan embedded in Hashirama’s face on Obito’s chest.
• Obito used the Turing Seal to break Sasuke’s connection to the techniques restraining the Ten-Tails, causing the seals to collapse and freeing its main body.
• Obito identified the Ten-Tails’ primordial will as Māra, who declared that it would purge all living things and warned Sasuke not to interfere.
• Sasuke, depleted and unable to rely on his usual powers, resolved to become a true Ōtsutsuki using Ryūshiki’s Black and White Kāma.
• Obito returned to Madara and revealed that he had deliberately let Madara absorb his arm, disrupting Madara’s plan.

Obito compressed Madara and the Ten-Tails into a new form called Māra, while Sasuke pushed his Kāma thawing past his limits to gain the power needed to save Naruto. The chapter ended with Sasuke completing his transformation into an Ōtsutsuki and facing Māra.

• Obito drew Madara and the Ten-Tails’ scattered flesh together, compressing them into a crimson cocoon as Madara screamed in agony.
• Sasuke continued thawing both Kāma despite the strain, transforming physically and opening the Seventh Gate of Wonder as he resolved to save Naruto.
• The cocoon burst open, revealing Māra in a powerful new form with multiple Rinnegan, six horns, and seventy-two Fire-Tipped Spears.
• Māra transferred the four percent of power he could not digest to Obito and instructed him to use Amenotokotachi and Ōgetsuhime to make it his own.
• Sasuke completed the thawing of both Kāma and became Sasuke Ōtsutsuki, then faced Māra.