Recaps

Obito confronted Naruto and Black Zetsu atop the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path on the Desert Planet, surviving Naruto’s Ganges Sand Burial with Divine Illumination. After Obito tried to turn Naruto against Black Zetsu, Naruto attacked and demanded to know where Sasuke was.

• Obito located the source blocking his woodland realm and found the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path in the desert.
• Naruto used Ganges Sand Burial to attack Obito, who cut through the sand with Divine Illumination and approached the statue.
• Black Zetsu sensed a possible ambush and had Naruto use Super Shinra Tensei, forcing Obito to retreat and revealing his position.
• Obito recognized Black Zetsu and tried to tell Naruto that Kaguya could never be revived, but Naruto interrupted him with a giant Kurama fist.
• Obito knocked Naruto’s attack aside and struck a Shadow Clone, then Naruto emerged through a Space Portal and demanded Sasuke’s location as he launched Great Spiraling Ring.

Naruto battled Obito Uchiha while Black Zetsu urged him to feed Obito’s chakra to the Demonic Statue, and Obito resolved to learn the secrets of Naruto’s eyes. After Naruto countered Obito’s attacks and separated their protective constructs with Flying Thunder God: Exorcism, he launched Ōgetsuhime: Ultimate Technique against the exposed Obito.

• Naruto’s attack passed through Obito because of Kamui, but Naruto escaped Obito’s attempt to warp him away with Flying Thunder God.
• Black Zetsu explained Kamui and told Naruto to let the Demonic Statue devour Obito, while Naruto worried about killing an Uchiha clan survivor.
• Obito summoned his Complete Body Susanoo and attacked the Demonic Statue with Kamui Shuriken, but Naruto enlarged his Sage Art: Rasenshuriken to counter them.
• Naruto formed Kurama’s Majestic Attire, and Obito’s Susanoo blades cut through Kurama’s arms.
• Naruto used Flying Thunder God: Exorcism to teleport away both fighters’ protective constructs, leaving Obito exposed.
• Naruto targeted Obito with Ōgetsuhime: Ultimate Technique, Demon-Subduing Shrine.

Naruto drained Obito's chakra and trapped the Demonic Statue as it began transforming into the Ten-Tails, while Obito escaped with a hidden ally who demanded an uninterrupted fight with Naruto. Momoshiki and Kinshiki arrived in Kaguya's land and encountered Urashiki.

• Naruto used Demon-Subduing Shrine to drain Obito's chakra, causing Obito to fall from the sky as the Demonic Statue began transforming into the Ten-Tails.
• Naruto sealed Obito inside a sand pyramid, then used Vortex Flame Formation to surround the Demonic Statue with a vast barrier.
• Obito escaped the pyramid with Amenotokotachi and revealed that the boy accompanying him wanted to fight Naruto alone and asked Obito to prevent anyone else from interfering.
• Momoshiki and Kinshiki arrived at Kaguya's land after following a spatial disturbance, and Urashiki greeted them from the Palace eaves.

Momoshiki and Kinshiki met Urashiki on the moon, where he persuaded them to ally with him against the threat on Kaguya's land. The chapter ended with Black Zetsu watching a white-clad youth arrive in the Desert Dimension.

• Momoshiki insulted Urashiki over losing Karasuki, while Kinshiki redirected them toward learning about Kaguya's land.
• Urashiki explained that a spatial vortex linked the moon to Kaguya's land and that the moon was an artificial celestial body where Kaguya had once been sealed.
• Urashiki concealed what he had learned from Toneri's memories about Sasuke Uchiha and devised a plan to use Momoshiki and Kinshiki against him.
• Urashiki proposed that the three work together, warning that Kaguya might have returned and promising they would not need to fear an attack from him.
• Momoshiki and Kinshiki agreed to ally with Urashiki, while Momoshiki threatened to kill him if he interfered.
• Black Zetsu watched a white-clad youth approach through the sandy haze in the Desert Dimension.

Sasuke and Naruto reunited in the desert, where Black Zetsu had convinced Naruto that Sasuke planned to spread hatred and revive the Ten-Tails. Unable to talk Naruto out of fighting, Sasuke accepted his challenge as the Demonic Statue continued transforming, and their battle began.

• Sasuke greeted Naruto, and they exchanged teasing words that recalled their time on Team 7.
• Naruto defended Black Zetsu and accused Sasuke of pursuing the Demonic Statue to cast Infinite Tsukuyomi again.
• Naruto declared that he would stop Sasuke and use a new Infinite Tsukuyomi to spread peace, while Sasuke realized Black Zetsu had manipulated him.
• Sasuke drew Black Blade: Kusanagi, and Naruto put on Sasuke's scratched forehead protector before both formed the Seal of Confrontation.
• Naruto and Sasuke clashed at high speed, and Naruto used a Flying Thunder God kunai and Kurama's Giant Form to limit Sasuke's movement.

Naruto and Sasuke fought across the desert, with Sasuke countering Naruto’s dōjutsu and brutal attacks before Naruto unleashed a barrage that began breaking Sasuke’s Susanoo. As Naruto’s hidden connection to Madara showed signs of resurfacing, Sasuke resolved to find a way to prevent Madara from taking over him.

• Naruto surrounded Sasuke with an enormous Dragon Flame Song formation, but Sasuke used black flames to divert Naruto’s dōjutsu and then swapped Naruto into range for a series of close-combat blows.
• Naruto counterattacked with a miniature Tailed Beast Bomb enlarged by his power and armored Kurama in Susanoo, but Sasuke’s skeletal Susanoo survived the blast with only minor damage.
• Obito watched from a dune as Naruto wondered why Sasuke’s Susanoo bones were so durable and finally noticed that Sasuke and Obito had Rinnegan.
• Sasuke realized Naruto’s pain at hearing Madara’s name suggested Madara’s suppressed consciousness was beginning to awaken, and he decided he needed a fallback plan to keep Madara from replacing Naruto.
• Naruto combined Sage Mode and Kurama Mode and unleashed Sage Art: Infinite Frog Sniper Fist, cracking Sasuke’s Susanoo skeleton under a barrage of enormous fists.

Naruto broke through Sasuke’s Hōsuseri-no-Mikoto with a strange sword technique, but Sasuke’s black flames consumed the Yang Release half of the Nine-Tails and transformed it into a new guardian. Obito realized Sasuke’s replacement Flame Guardian would be far harder to defeat.

• A mysterious voice guided Naruto to awaken dark markings and use Sage Art: Ten Thousand Swords Return to the Source, which tore through Sasuke’s protective black flames.
• Sasuke’s Flame-Breaking Impact burned away most of Naruto’s Kurama cloak, while Naruto’s air swords pierced Sasuke’s Susanoo mantle and injured him.
• Naruto retreated after losing the Nine-Tails’ power, but Sasuke’s black flames shaped themselves into the Nine-Tails Demon Fox.
• Sasuke explained that his Rinnegan-enhanced Hōsuseri-no-Mikoto absorbed the Yang Release Nine-Tails’ soul and chakra, then made the fox his Flame Guardian.
• Obito recognized that Sasuke’s new guardian spirit would be far more difficult to break.

Sasuke drove Naruto into desperation to draw out Madara’s Will, defeating him with the Tenseigan and a time-space attack. As Naruto fell, Madara’s Will took control of his body and announced his return.

• Sasuke taunted Naruto about Jiraiya, provoking Naruto to unleash a powerful black Rasengan.
• Sasuke tested the Rasengan, discovered its mental shock-wave effect, and prepared to end the fight with his strongest attack.
• Sasuke used the Tenseigan’s Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion to split the Rasengan, then used Ashubha and Amenotejikara to pierce Naruto’s chest with his Tachi.
• As Naruto fell and agreed to surrender his body, Black Zetsu tried to stop him, but Madara’s Will overwhelmed the black sea and took control.
• Madara Uchiha emerged through Naruto’s body and declared that he had returned for the final revel.

Madara unleashed his power, used thousands of Shadow Clones to delay Sasuke, and vowed to turn Infinite Tsukuyomi into a true salvation technique. His vow awakened the divine technique Causality Severance, which Itachi detected, while Madara confronted Black Zetsu at the Ten-Tails’ flaming formation.

• Madara split his power into thousands of Shadow Clones and used Black Cursed Art to plunge the desert into darkness, but Sasuke dispelled it with Yang Release.
• Madara’s clones attacked Sasuke as Madara declared that he would defy fate and make Infinite Tsukuyomi a genuine salvation by severing its harmful causality.
• Itachi sensed the divine technique Causality Severance awakening, and he identified its bearer as Māra Madara.
• Sasuke used Earth Grudge Fear: Purple Prison Killing Formation to destroy Madara’s Shadow Clones while the real Madara confronted Black Zetsu at the flaming formation.

Madara defeated Black Zetsu and forced him to explain how Idle Transfiguration could help Madara survive becoming the Ten-Tails’ Jinchūriki. Madara agreed to spare Black Zetsu temporarily, just as Sasuke sensed the Ten-Tails’ arrival.

• Madara trapped Black Zetsu in the sand, consumed part of his Yin-Yang Release body, and formed a Demon-Subduing Spiral Blade that cut him in half.
• Black Zetsu threatened Madara with the Black Cursed Seal, but Madara considered using Rinne Rebirth and frightened him into submission.
• Black Zetsu offered to use Idle Transfiguration to let Madara absorb the Ten-Tails’ power in stages and reduce the risk of being overwhelmed.
• Madara agreed to keep Black Zetsu alive for another forty-five minutes, while Black Zetsu secretly remained intent on using him.
• After Sasuke’s Shadow Clones defeated the last of the Earth Grudge tentacles, cracks spread across the flame barrier and a mysterious light and ancient roar heralded the Ten-Tails.

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.