Chapter Summaries

On the journey to Ryūchi Cave, Orochimaru explained that Hashirama Senju’s innate senjutsu came from the God Tree and was called Sunlight Senjutsu. Sasuke began learning how to awaken it and realized his eyes might let him surpass Hashirama’s limits.

• As the group traveled toward Ryūchi Cave, Orochimaru explained that Sasuke would need to absorb State Four to fully release Hashirama Senju’s power.
• Orochimaru told Sasuke that Hashirama’s senjutsu was innate and derived from the God Tree’s ability to transform natural energy into chakra.
• Orochimaru named Hashirama’s art Sunlight Senjutsu and explained that his forehead marking represented a Sunlight Totem.
• Orochimaru instructed Sasuke to imagine himself as a tree absorbing sunlight, and Sasuke tried the exercise but could not yet sense the energy.
• Orochimaru asked what Sasuke had that Hashirama lacked, and Sasuke identified his eyes and the God Tree’s flower as the basis for surpassing Hashirama.

Sasuke, Kabuto, and Itachi reached Ryūchi Cave to seek its Sage Medicine, while Orochimaru departed after preparing for their future plans. Meiki offered Sasuke a deadly fake pill and rejected his request, so Sasuke resolved to force his way in.

• Orochimaru left Sasuke, Kabuto, and Itachi at the mist leading to Ryūchi Cave, giving Sasuke a gift for the White Snake Sage and promising to restore Kabuto’s eye and help Itachi.
• Sasuke described his later visit to Ryūchi Cave and warned Kabuto that the trials would be difficult and that the White Snake Sage would watch their every move.
• Meiki greeted the group at a fork and directed Kabuto down the path to face the trials while Sasuke stayed with Itachi.
• Meiki flicked Sasuke a dangerous silver pill and claimed it was the Sage Medicine, but Sasuke recognized that it was not the cure he sought.
• Meiki mocked Sasuke and ordered him to leave with the ailing Itachi, and Sasuke prepared to force his way into Ryūchi Cave.

Sasuke subdued the Snake Princess and learned he had to cross Ryūchi Cave without killing any of its snakes to earn a meeting with the White Snake Sage and obtain medicine for Itachi. Carrying Itachi, he broke through three hundred controlled giant snakes with Susanoo’s blunt sword and came face-to-face with four fourth-generation Snake Kings, including Aoda.

• Sasuke used a clone trick and his Sharingan to discover the Snake Princess’s Seven Inches weakness, then subdued her and demanded to be taken to the White Snake Sage.
• The Snake Princess told Sasuke to follow the right-hand fork and defeat the snakes from the Ten Thousand Snake Caves, warning that he must not kill any of Ryūchi Cave’s descendants.
• Sasuke knocked the Snake Princess unconscious, carried Itachi on his back, and set off down the right-hand fork.
• Sasuke found three hundred giant snakes blocking his way, extinguished his black flames when he realized they were being controlled, and fought them with Susanoo’s blunt sword without killing them.
• After clearing the snakes, Sasuke recognized the four fourth-generation Snake Kings and greeted Aoda.

Sasuke fought Ryūchi Cave’s Fourth Snake Kings while carrying Itachi, defeating Garaga and escaping White Scale’s attempt to swallow him. Black Charcoal pursued Sasuke into the sky and shattered Susanoo’s sword, revealing its descent from the legendary Feathered Serpent God.

• Aoda, Garaga, White Scale, and Black Charcoal confronted Sasuke and tried to stop him from advancing.
• Sasuke wounded Garaga, then grabbed his fangs and slammed his head into a mountain wall, knocking him unconscious.
• Aoda restrained Sasuke while Garaga bit Susanoo, but Sasuke regenerated it and overpowered Garaga before White Scale engulfed them in a mass of snakes.
• Aoda escaped by shedding his skin and burrowing underground, while Sasuke broke free of White Scale’s body with white cursed wings and flew off carrying Itachi.
• Aoda urged Black Charcoal to pursue Sasuke, and Black Charcoal flew after him and broke Susanoo’s sword with a single clash.
• Aoda revealed that Black Charcoal descended from the Feathered Serpent God, Ryūchi Cave’s First Snake King.

Sasuke fought his way through Ryūchi Cave’s serpents and reached the Temple with Itachi on his back. He met the White Snake Sage and greeted her, while his purpose there remained unresolved.

• Sasuke used Amaterasu against the Black Charcoal Serpent, then borrowed Itachi’s Yata Mirror to repel its feather barrage and strike it down.
• Sasuke flew to the Temple, where the Gold-Ring Snake King and Silver-Ring Snake King attacked him with Sage Arts.
• Sasuke countered with Fire and Water Release, then bound the two Snake Kings with wood dragons that drained their sage power.
• The White Snake Sage ordered Gold-Ring and Silver-Ring to stop fighting and invited Sasuke inside.
• Sasuke passed the Snake Princesses and entered the main hall, where he bowed to the White Snake Sage and introduced himself.

Sasuke brought Itachi to Ryūchi Cave seeking medicine, and the White Snake Sage tested Itachi’s loyalty to Sage Katsuyu before agreeing to save him. Itachi took the Sage Medicine and recovered, while the White Snake Sage considered giving Sasuke a special treasure as thanks for his respectful conduct.

• Sasuke presented Orochimaru’s gift, and the White Snake Sage recognized Itachi as Sage Katsuyu’s disciple.
• The White Snake Sage offered Itachi medicine and Ryūchi Cave training if he became her disciple, but Itachi refused to abandon his debt to Katsuyu.
• The White Snake Sage revealed that she had been testing Itachi and asked Sasuke for the Sage Medicine Embryo he had kept from Tagorihime.
• The White Snake Sage infused the embryo with Ryūchi Cave Sage Power, turning it into medicine that Itachi swallowed and restoring his health.
• Sasuke knelt to thank the White Snake Sage, who admired his humility and considered giving him a special treasure.

Kabuto fought the Cobra King in Ryūchi Cave’s Trial and used precise Wood Release and poison to defeat the vastly stronger snake. He advanced toward the temple as Sasuke, Itachi, and the White Snake Sage watched.

• The White Snake Sage showed Sasuke and Itachi Kabuto’s Trial, where the Cobra King attacked him with rocks and wind.
• Kabuto survived the Cobra King’s assault with Body Flicker, Wood Release, and concealed Explosive Tags, though his left arm was injured.
• The Cobra King used Sage Art: Stone Manipulation and sensed Kabuto underground, breaking through Kabuto’s defenses.
• Kabuto created a Miniature Wood Dragon to clamp the Cobra King’s jaws shut, then poisoned him with Twin-Life Blossom.
• Kabuto watched the Cobra King collapse and headed toward the temple as Sasuke, Itachi, and the White Snake Sage reacted to his victory.

Kabuto received Sage Power from the White Snake Sage and began training to master his violent emotions as a weapon. The White Snake Sage revealed her delight over Orochimaru’s Rejuvenation Pill, while Jiraiya arrived at Mount Myōboku and was not recognized by the Great Toad Sage.

• The White Snake Sage injected Kabuto with Sage Power, transforming his body and stirring violent emotions.
• The White Snake Sage advised Kabuto to harness his fury and sent him with Tagorihime to train at Dragon Transformation Sage Mountain.
• Tagorihime petrified Kabuto and swallowed him, while the White Snake Sage told Sasuke that Kabuto would need to mate with Shinji to learn that technique.
• The White Snake Sage transformed into an old woman, admired Orochimaru’s Rejuvenation Pill, and said she had long been unable to make it herself.
• Jiraiya visited the Great Toad Sage at Mount Myōboku, who stared at him and asked who he was.

The Great Toad Sage prophesied that Sasuke Uchiha and another guardian deity would lead ten Celestial Ninja against a supreme god, and told Jiraiya that a crucial choice of his would improve their odds of victory. Later, Orochimaru tracked Kāye to a village in the Land of Rivers and used the Nine-Tails’ chakra cloak to intercept him as he tried to flee.

• The Great Toad Sage told Jiraiya that Mu would awaken in twenty-nine years and four months and that two Ninja Guardian Gods would lead ten Celestial Ninja into battle against God.
• Jiraiya said he suspected Sasuke Uchiha was the Child of Prophecy and asked what a Celestial Ninja was; the Great Toad Sage explained that the prophecy described a future that could still be changed.
• The Great Toad Sage warned Jiraiya that many would die and said a future choice by Jiraiya could raise their chance of victory by ten percentage points.
• After half a month, Orochimaru, Karin, and Yamato tracked Kāye to a village in the Land of Rivers, where Orochimaru explained that Kāye’s sensing ability let him evade Root.
• Karin sensed Kāye as Orochimaru activated the Nine-Tails’ golden chakra cloak, and Orochimaru intercepted the old man as he attempted to flee by Body Flicker.

Orochimaru confronted Kāye and demanded Kagami Uchiha’s eyes, but after overpowering him and threatening the village, he explained that he had come to understand Kāye’s past rather than take the eyes by force. Kāye recalled how Kagami’s death drove him to abandon Konoha and hide with the eyes, leaving his fate in Orochimaru’s hands.

• Kāye used Adamantine Sealing Chains, Wood Release, and Susanoo to restrain Orochimaru, accusing him of killing Danzo to learn where Kagami’s eyes were hidden.
• Orochimaru broke free with the Hundred-Release Seal and countered Kāye’s Susanoo with the Nine-Tails, threatening the village with a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Kāye dismissed Susanoo and begged Orochimaru to spare the villagers, offering his life and Kagami’s eyes.
• Orochimaru told Kāye that he understood why he had joined Danzo’s Root and later fled Konoha under the weight of expectations.
• Kāye remembered how Danzo recruited him, how Kagami asked him to protect his eyes, and how Kagami died after Danzo’s assassination attempt.
• After Kagami’s death, Kāye lost faith in his place in Konoha and fled with Kagami’s eyes, intending to disappear from the world.

At Ryūchi Cave, Itachi completed his Shikkotsu Forest senjutsu training and tested a powerful clone technique against Sasuke. Meanwhile, Orochimaru received Kagami’s eyes from Kāye, who ended his life, and then prepared to retrieve Sasuke and the others before the Five Kage Summit.

• Itachi used his newly mastered senjutsu and Mirror Image Clone to trap Sasuke between two Susanoo Yata Mirrors.
• The White Snake Sage watched the brothers spar and complained that Orochimaru’s Rejuvenation Pill had made her eighteen instead of eight.
• Orochimaru asked Kāye for Kagami’s eyes, and Kāye handed them over despite his hesitation.
• After learning that Tsunade had become Konoha’s Fifth Hokage, Kāye set himself alight and died, leaving Orochimaru to watch a seed drift away.
• A sunflower bloomed in Konoha’s Flower Field as Orochimaru reunited with Karin and Yamato and said they would bring Sasuke and the others back for the approaching Five Kage Summit.

Sasuke received Ryūchi Cave’s full Summoning Contract and a painting containing the Feathered Serpent God’s divinity from the White Snake Sage. After learning how the god’s power could be inherited, Sasuke accepted the painting and left with Kabuto and Itachi, where Orochimaru began restoring Kabuto’s right eye.

• The White Snake Sage gave Sasuke Ryūchi Cave’s full Summoning Contract, and he signed it after learning she knew Manda had died protecting him.
• Tagitsuhime brought Sasuke a painting of Black Feather, and the White Snake Sage explained that its divinity could pass to a chosen serpent such as Black Charcoal.
• The White Snake Sage said the painting required a hundred thousand sincere full prostrations to awaken, and Sasuke declined to perform them himself.
• The White Snake Sage revealed that Orochimaru and Kabuto Yakushi could not awaken the painting because of their ties to other gods, and she called Kabuto her son-in-law.
• Sasuke accepted the painting and left Ryūchi Cave with Kabuto and Itachi, where Orochimaru used Kagami’s Mangekyo to begin restoring Kabuto’s right eye.

Kabuto regained his sight through Amaterasu-Ōmikami and inherited Ke’s other eye, while Itachi received Shisui’s eyes through a bloodline transference ritual. Orochimaru explained how Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan inheritance worked and planned Sasuke’s Seventh Battle around the approaching Five Kage Summit and Obito’s actions.

• Kabuto used Amaterasu-Ōmikami to restore sight to his Izanagi-blinded eye, and Orochimaru told him to inherit Ke’s left eye as well.
• Orochimaru implanted Hashirama cells into Itachi, and Kabuto brought Shisui’s preserved body to Blue Moon Island.
• Orochimaru performed Bloodline Transference, allowing Shisui’s soul to say farewell to Itachi before returning to the Pure Land, and Kabuto transplanted Shisui’s eyes into Itachi.
• Orochimaru explained that a donor’s death was required for the recipient to inherit the sealed Eye Power and awaken the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Orochimaru told Kabuto that Sasuke’s Seventh Battle would have separate matches against the Five Kage and Obito, with the order depending on whether Obito found Killer B.

Suigetsu and Jugo used Orochimaru’s forbidden technique to pull Nagato from Obito’s space-time dimension, where Nagato revived himself by eating the Eight-Tails’ tail. Nagato mistook them for Obito’s men and prepared to attack before Suigetsu claimed Sasuke had sent them to rescue him.

• Suigetsu befriended Tobi and persuaded him to open his body, but Obito interrupted and announced that the White Zetsu had located the Eight-Tails.
• Obito sent Suigetsu and Jugo into separate locations in his space-time dimension, then told Tobi he planned to dispose of them after the hunt.
• Suigetsu and Jugo used Nagato’s blood, Shinigami masks, and Death Release: Soul-Reaping Chains to summon Nagato onto the Eight-Tails’ abandoned tail.
• Nagato devoured the tail, absorbed its chakra with the Preta Path, and restored his body, though he still could not walk.
• Nagato recognized Suigetsu and Jugo as Obito’s lackeys and raised his hand to attack, so Suigetsu shouted that Sasuke had sent them to rescue him.

Nagato learned the truth about how Obito and Madara had used him and agreed to help Sasuke by retrieving Fugaku’s eyes from Obito’s hidden cache. As Nagato searched the dimension, Obito released Suigetsu and Jugo to help Kisame fight Killer B on a sealed island.

• Jugo and Suigetsu convinced Nagato that Sasuke had sent them to save him, and Nagato reflected on how Obito and Madara had manipulated him.
• Jugo told Nagato that Obito had taken Fugaku’s eyes to a hidden place in the space-time dimension, and Nagato agreed to retrieve them for Sasuke.
• Nagato used Asura Path Mirror Drones to locate a Hidden Door, then flew toward it with his rocket aircraft while Suigetsu and Jugo prepared to return outside.
• Kisame confronted Killer B on a deserted island, and Killer B taunted him with a song as they prepared to fight.
• Obito released Suigetsu and Jugo beside Kisame, then raised the Uchiha Flame Formation around the island and watched the battle begin.

Kisame, Suigetsu, and Jugo attacked Killer B inside the barrier, but B’s speed and power quickly overwhelmed their opening assault. After Samehada drained much of B’s chakra, he began transforming into his full Eight-Tails form, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Suigetsu and Jugo joined Kisame, took up their swords, and agreed to follow his lead against Killer B.
• Killer B entered State Two and charged, dodging Kisame’s Samehada slash before knocking Kisame aside and striking Suigetsu.
• Suigetsu liquefied his body to trap Killer B, allowing Jugo to break his exoskeleton with Kabutowari and strike his neck.
• Killer B prepared a point-blank Tailed Beast Bomb at Jugo, but Suigetsu hit him and deflected the blast into the sky.
• Kisame slashed Killer B with Samehada and drained his chakra, prompting B to summon eight tentacles and begin transforming into his full form.

Kisame defended against Killer B’s Eight-Tails attacks inside the Uchiha Flame Formation while Nagato entered a hidden chamber in the space-time dimension. Nagato disabled its seal and retrieved the cabinet containing Fugaku’s Sharingan, leaving the battle to Suigetsu and Jugo.

• Killer B fired a Tailed Beast Bomb, and Kisame countered it with the Great Shark Bullet Technique before shielding Suigetsu and Jugo from the blast with a Super Water Formation Wall.
• Killer B used Tailed Beast Eight Scrolls: Slash, forcing Kisame to defend with Great Exploding Water Colliding Wave as Obito watched the barrier’s damage.
• Nagato reached the Hidden Door, discovered that a sealing jutsu prevented him from moving its blocks, and used the Preta Path’s Absorption Seal to disable it.
• Nagato dismantled the blocks, found a chamber filled with Sharingan, and used Banshō Ten'in to retrieve the cabinet labeled Fugaku.

Suigetsu and Jugo fought Killer B and the Eight-Tails to create an opening, but Jugo sacrificed himself to protect Suigetsu. Suigetsu awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, and Izumi’s paired eye transformed as well.

• Sasuke worried about Suigetsu and Jugo’s mission and waited for them to activate the Flying Thunder God Kunai.
• Kisame summoned a thousand sharks while Suigetsu and Jugo attacked the Eight-Tails; Suigetsu trapped it with Nuibari’s wires, but it tore free.
• Suigetsu charged the Eight-Tails with Shibuki’s explosive technique, enraging Killer B, who prepared a Tailed Beast Bomb.
• Jugo used his Cursed Seal to launch himself into the Tailed Beast Bomb and shield Suigetsu, suffering fatal injuries.
• Suigetsu grieved over Jugo and awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan, while Izumi’s paired eye transformed in unison.

Suigetsu prepared to summon Orochimaru to save the mortally wounded Jugo, but Kisame used Samehada to restore Jugo with the Eight-Tails’ chakra. Jugo awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan and used Vasavatti to make the Eight-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb explode, leaving the group forty seconds to finish the fight.

• Suigetsu carried the dying Jugo and prepared to use Orochimaru’s Flying Thunder God Kunai, but Kisame told him to put Jugo down.
• Kisame used Samehada to transfer the Eight-Tails’ chakra into Jugo, rapidly regenerating his missing body.
• Kisame said the near-death crisis had awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan in Jugo and Suigetsu, and Jugo figured out how to discern his dōjutsu.
• Jugo used Vasavatti to make Killer B’s partly formed Tailed Beast Bomb explode in the Eight-Tails’ mouth, injuring the Eight-Tails.
• Jugo explained that Vasavatti caused possible misfortunes to occur for one minute and urged the others to finish the fight within the remaining forty seconds.

Kisame and Suigetsu defeated Killer B and the Eight-Tails, with Suigetsu discovering that his right-eye dōjutsu granted good fortune. As Obito moved to capture the unconscious Killer B, Suigetsu attacked him, but his blade passed through Obito.

• Kisame blinded the Eight-Tails in one eye and battered him with Samehada while Suigetsu survived Killer B's Tailed Beast Bomb by merging with underground water.
• Suigetsu realized his right-eye dōjutsu was Bishamonten, which granted extraordinary good fortune, and rammed the Eight-Tails into the Uchiha Flame Formation.
• Suigetsu forced a Tailed Beast Bomb into the Eight-Tails' throat with a Super Water Gun, causing it to explode inside him and end his Tailed Beast Transformation.
• Killer B collapsed unconscious, Kisame and Obito declared the battle won, and the Uchiha Flame Formation lowered.
• Obito approached Killer B to capture him, but Suigetsu attacked with Shibuki and the blade passed through Obito's body.