Recaps

Jiraiya explained that the Heritage Holy Lands' Sages would chronicle the Union as independent witnesses, while the assembled factions recognized Konoha's power and stayed silent. Itachi suspected Naruto was a Shadow Clone and kept his focus on the Reshape Organization, whose Rinnegan was the real objective he shared with Obito.

• Uchiha Izumi learned how the tailed beasts' chakra could protect her mind from outside genjutsu interference, and the beasts said they would not probe anyone's thoughts.
• Jiraiya explained that the Heritage Holy Lands' Sages would witness the Union's founding and record its activities for future generations.
• The assembled factions considered Konoha's power, the tailed beasts, and the other villages' agreement with Konoha, then chose not to oppose the Union plan.
• Those present wondered why Naruto Uzumaki was standing as a witness, and Uchiha Itachi suspected that he was a Shadow Clone.
• Itachi kept his identity and intentions concealed, focusing on the Reshape Organization and the Rinnegan that he and Obito wanted.

The Fourth Raikage and Chiyo learned that B and Shukaku were content to remain with the other Tailed Beasts, while Naruto stayed withdrawn and left the Nine-Tails to act independently. At the Konoha meeting, Jiraiya introduced the Equal Spirit Pact as a seal to verify agreements, with Konoha opening it for study before its use in six months.

• B told the Fourth Raikage that he felt at ease among the Tailed Beasts and asked his brother not to worry.
• Shukaku refused Chiyo's request to return to Sunagakure and suggested she focus on persuading Sasori to go back.
• Uchiha Itachi watched the attendees and considered the possibility that the meeting might still leave an opportunity to pursue the Rinnegan transaction.
• Jiraiya observed that Naruto had been unusually quiet and was unsure what the boy was planning.
• The Nine-Tails urged the meeting to move on, and an unidentified speaker challenged whether an official Union could create peace through words alone.
• Jiraiya revealed the Equal Spirit Pact, a Sealing Jutsu that would have Tailed Beasts witness and verify pacts, and said members could study it freely before it entered use in six months.

Jiraiya demonstrated how the Equal Spirit Pact used a barrier to bind Union members to assembly decisions, with the tailed beasts serving as inspectors. The crowd learned that the beasts could enforce decisions but would also have to fulfill ten demands from the Union, while the chapter ended with the Shinobi World’s reliance on the troubled Jinchūriki system explained.

• Jiraiya had Naruto activate the barrier, and the sages helped spread it across the people and the ten tailed beasts.
• The barrier marked people as assembly members and the tailed beasts as inspectors, then explained how chakra locators would reveal anyone who defied a passed decision.
• The crowd discovered that the tailed beasts could punish violations but had to accept ten demands from Union members, except demands that required their destruction.
• The crowd argued over whether Konoha was using the Union to control the Shinobi World and whether the tailed beasts could effectively grant wishes.
• The chapter described how Jinchūriki and tailed beasts suffered under a system that Shinobi Villages nevertheless continued to use for its wartime power.

Jiraiya explained that each tailed beast could grant one request, with access to the ten requests decided through combat. Mei Terumi restrained the furious Land of Water envoy as the delegates reacted to the proposal.

• The daimyo and nobles reconsidered the tailed beasts as valuable weapons after learning how powerful they could make the villages.
• Daimyo Tsuruyama asked how the Union would make requests of the tailed beasts, and Jiraiya said each beast would grant one request.
• Jiraiya revealed that the ten requests would be decided through combat, prompting the Land of Water envoy to accuse Konoha of mockery.
• Mei Terumi advised the envoy to listen, but he insulted her and Kirigakure for cooperating with Konoha.
• Mei Terumi trapped the envoy's head in a Water Prison Technique and warned the Land of Water delegates to calm down.

Jiraiya explained that the tailed beasts had demanded ten battles to choose representatives for pacts, while Konoha sought to unite the shinobi world against the Ōtsutsuki Clan. Kurama revealed his distrust of humanity and unleashed overwhelming chakra, leaving the gathered leaders shaken and the White Snake Sage wondering whether he needed their help at all.

• Mei Terumi stopped the Land of Water's envoys from disrupting Jiraiya's explanation and invited him to continue.
• Jiraiya explained that ten battles would determine who could choose representatives to make pacts with the tailed beasts, with the terms lasting while the Union remained intact.
• Jiraiya said Konoha wanted to unite the shinobi world against a coming Ōtsutsuki crisis, but the tailed beasts themselves had demanded the battles.
• Shukaku accused humans of continuing to scheme and slaughter one another, even in times of peace, and said the beasts wanted the ten strongest humans to emerge.
• Kurama declared that he distrusted humanity and would have empowered Naruto to face the Ōtsutsuki, then realized he had been shouting aloud instead of speaking through the mental link.
• Kurama's chakra overwhelmed the gathered crowd, while Itachi and Obito shielded Kazahana Koyuki and the White Snake Sage questioned whether the Nine-Tails needed the shinobi world's help.

Jiraiya finalized the Shinobi War rules before Minato Namikaze revealed that Konoha had found Ōtsutsuki Isshiki hiding in the Shinobi World. The announcement left the Union debating the threat, while its leaders recognized that Konoha believed the world was not yet strong enough to face the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

• Jiraiya explained that the Shinobi War would have ten rounds, with each winner entering a binding spiritual contract with an Inspector, and warned that the fighting would continue until surrender or death.
• The Nine-Tails withdrew his chakra after Naruto told him to stop, and Sage Katsuyu treated those who had fainted during the outburst.
• Jiraiya summoned Minato Namikaze, who confirmed that Konoha had spent half a year tracking an Ōtsutsuki hidden in the Shinobi World.
• Minato identified the Ōtsutsuki as Isshiki and said he had arrived with Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and outranked her.
• The Union members debated how dangerous Isshiki could be, while the Senju Brothers, village Kage, and other experts grew solemn at the implication that the world could not yet fight the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

Minato explained that only Konoha could currently face Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and demonstrated the clan’s power through Sasuke’s genjutsu. Granny Chiyo experienced the illusion and was left shaken by the monster’s terrifying speed and strength.

• Minato told the gathered leaders that Konoha would hold a war council about Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and share its findings with the Union.
• Minato said that other villages should not approach the Ōtsutsuki, prompting Granny Chiyo to accuse Konoha of underestimating them.
• Minato summoned Sasuke and offered to demonstrate an Ōtsutsuki battle through genjutsu.
• Granny Chiyo accepted Sasuke’s challenge, and Sasuke used his Three-Tomoe Sharingan to trap her in an illusion.
• Granny Chiyo collapsed, gasping and drenched in sweat, after experiencing the monster’s overwhelming speed and attacks.

Minato used Sasuke’s genjutsu to convince the gathered representatives of the Ōtsutsuki Clan’s threat, then arranged a group experience of facing them. Itachi agreed to participate and was caught in the illusion as the tailed beasts plotted to make him experience what Sasuke had endured.

• Granny Chiyo admitted that her fear of the Ōtsutsuki was genuine and returned to her place after Minato challenged her doubts.
• Minato announced a group genjutsu experience, and Sasuke used his Mangekyō Sharingan to include the willing participants.
• Itachi accepted Isobu’s invitation and lowered his defenses, then recognized the illusion’s method as the one he had once used to show Sasuke their past.
• Sasuke’s genjutsu enveloped the venue, and Itachi saw the transformed Urashiki charge at him.
• The tailed beasts discussed making Itachi experience Sasuke’s suffering, while Sasuke silently heard their conversation through their linked chakra.

Sasuke used the Tailed Beasts’ chakra to show the conference the terror of fighting Urashiki Otsutsuki, and the experience silenced opposition to Konoha’s planned operation against Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. Menma then offered for the Reshape Organization to join the operation.

• Sasuke’s genjutsu left the participants shaken by the overwhelming power of Urashiki Otsutsuki.
• Minato noticed that Orochimaru woke from the genjutsu with amusement and anticipation, while Pain and the others remained frightened.
• The Tailed Beasts had Zero-Tails record the people considering betraying the shinobi world by contacting the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• Minato announced that Konoha would act against Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and share the operation and its records with the conference.
• Menma proposed that the Reshape Organization participate in Konoha’s operation.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki hid on Earth in Jigen’s fragile body, posing as a monk and feeding chakra to the Ten-Tails through worshippers. After seeing humans use chakra as ninja, he concluded that Kaguya was raising an army and saw a chance to rebuild his strength unnoticed.

• Kaguya ambushed Isshiki, fed most of his body to the Ten-Tails, and forced him to survive by taking over Jigen’s body.
• Isshiki disguised himself as Master Jigen and used genjutsu to make villagers offer their lives as chakra for the Ten-Tails.
• A worshipper died and was dragged underground by pale bark while the congregation praised her as blessed.
• Isshiki reflected that the planet’s life was flourishing rather than being consumed and avoided the emerging powers.
• After witnessing ninja use jutsu, Isshiki decided they were soldiers Kaguya had raised to prepare for a conflict with the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

Isshiki tried to leave his hidden human ranch after sensing an unexplained chakra presence, but two attackers ambushed him. Madara confronted him with the Rinnegan, and Isshiki mistook the pair for agents sent by Kaguya.

• Isshiki recalled that a mysterious Blond-Haired Man had dissolved into pure chakra, which he fed to the Ten-Tails.
• Isshiki ordered the Ten-Tails to devour the worshippers before they left, but strange plant vines attacked him and tangled with the Ten-Tails' tendrils.
• Isshiki spotted two figures on the eaves and charged them, but one used Shinra Tensei to blast him into the ground.
• Isshiki recognized the Rinnegan and assumed Kaguya had sent the attackers after him.
• Madara descended to confront Isshiki while Hashirama warned him not to let his guard down.

Madara Uchiha and Hashirama joined forces against Isshiki, using explosive tags, Wood Release, and a massive fire formation to trap and attack him. Isshiki revealed his Kāma form and struck them down, but the two revived and continued fighting as Madara summoned a cluster of meteorites.

• Madara used his Rinnegan ability to evade Isshiki’s attack and turned into tiny explosive tags that blasted him.
• Isshiki dispelled the explosions and revealed his first-stage Kāma form, then tore off Madara’s head and split Hashirama’s body in two.
• Hashirama activated Advent of a World of Flowering Trees, while Madara’s severed head restrained Isshiki and unleashed Great Fire Annihilation Formation.
• Hashirama used Fivefold Rashomon and wooden men to protect civilians from the flames.
• Madara regenerated and summoned multiple meteorites with Maximum power, Tengai Shinsei.

Madara and Hashirama used a coordinated assault to wound Isshiki, but he regained his composure and pinned Madara with chakra-disrupting rods. Isshiki opened a space-time portal to escape, forcing Madara to reveal his Limbo Clones to restrain him.

• Madara and Hashirama launched Tengai Shinsei, but Isshiki shrank the meteors before they could hit him.
• Madara's hidden clone struck Isshiki with Light Fang, cutting his face, and Isshiki realized the pair had anticipated his abilities.
• Isshiki calmed himself, recognized that Madara and Hashirama were dead men in bodies that could recover, and pinned Madara's hands with black rods.
• Hashirama dodged Isshiki's attack, and Madara realized Isshiki was using the opening to flee through a space-time portal.
• Madara revealed his Limbo Clones, which grabbed Isshiki as he tried to enter the portal, but Isshiki dismissed them as a minor threat.

Madara and Hashirama fought Isshiki while Minato and Tobirama pursued the Ten-Tails, which fled after Hashirama found it underground. Madara and Hashirama combined their Perfect Susanoo with Hashirama’s thousand-armed Guanyin, awakening the colossal Senjutsu: Majestic Attire: Susanoo—Infinite Hands before Isshiki.

• Madara used a Limbo Clone to escape Isshiki’s Black Rods and activated Susanoo, but Isshiki’s strike cracked its armor.
• Hashirama summoned the Gate of the Great God and used Wood Release Clones to restrain Isshiki while the real Hashirama searched underground.
• Hashirama, Tobirama, and Minato emerged from beneath the village after finding the Ten-Tails, which fled as Minato and Tobirama chased it.
• Madara and Hashirama blocked Isshiki as he charged toward the fleeing Ten-Tails, then unleashed Perfect Susanoo and True Several Thousand Hands.
• Madara’s Susanoo armored Hashirama’s thousand-armed Guanyin, awakening the Senjutsu: Majestic Attire: Susanoo—Infinite Hands.

Hashirama and Madara combined Senju Asura with Susanoo to batter Isshiki and tried to seal him with Planetary Devastation when they realized he was absorbing senjutsu chakra. Meanwhile, Tobirama and Minato contained the Miniature Ten-Tails, but Tobirama grew suspicious because the Reshape Organization was behaving too quietly.

• Madara and Hashirama attacked Isshiki with Senju Asura’s Susanoo-enhanced Taijutsu, smashing him into a mountainside and pulverizing the surrounding terrain.
• Madara and Hashirama realized Isshiki was absorbing senjutsu chakra and could not be killed outright because his remaining lifespan determined whether he would die.
• Madara used Planetary Devastation to gather the broken ground around Isshiki while Hashirama intensified the assault, attempting to seal Isshiki with Senju Asura.
• Tobirama and Minato trapped the Miniature Ten-Tails inside the Four Red Yang Formation and began shrinking the barrier while Minato’s clones guarded the area.
• Tobirama checked whether the Reshape Organization had acted, learned its Leader remained in Konoha, and wondered why the organization was staying so quiet.

Tobirama and Minato questioned why the Reshape Organization had revived Madara Uchiha, while the Union approved the plan for him to fight the Ōtsutsuki. The Organization announced Madara's successful resurrection and cooperation with Konoha, but Tobirama realized the revival was not Impure World Reincarnation.

• Tobirama and Minato considered the Reshape Organization's motives and reviewed the Union's decision to revive Madara without harming innocents.
• Hashirama had persuaded Tobirama not to stop the proposal, believing Madara could learn the truth about Kaguya Ōtsutsuki and Black Zetsu and potentially join them.
• The Union approved the Reshape Organization's proposal to revive Madara and have him fight the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• The Reshape Organization announced that it had successfully revived Madara and would work alongside Konoha.
• Tobirama saw Madara appear before Konoha and recognized that he had not been revived through Impure World Reincarnation.

At the Konoha Joint Conference, everyone watched Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha battle Ōtsutsuki Isshiki through a projection, and many assumed the two legends had the upper hand. Menma revealed that Hashirama and Madara had actually been immobilized by tiny Black Rods, leaving the battle's outcome uncertain.

• Nagato recognized the projection's resemblance to Hiruko's Jutsu and wondered why Hiruko had disappeared with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path.
• Jiraiya questioned Naruto about Minato's lack of contact, and Naruto claimed that Minato had told him to keep watching the Reshape Organization.
• Jiraiya worried that Isshiki seemed weaker than Kurama's information had suggested, while Orochimaru admired Madara's power and questioned the battle's apparent outcome.
• Menma pointed out that Hashirama and Madara were not moving because they had been trapped by tiny Black Rods.

Madara bluffed that Kaguya had sent him and Hashirama to test Isshiki, then offered intelligence and a deal to secure their lives. Isshiki considered Madara’s claims as Madara proposed exchanging Hashirama for the Ten-Tails.

• Hashirama lay immobilized by Black Rods as Isshiki appeared in his true form and reached to absorb him.
• Madara used Banshō Ten'in to pull Hashirama away from Isshiki’s grasp.
• Madara warned Isshiki that absorbing Hashirama would bring regret, then claimed Kaguya had told them about Isshiki.
• Isshiki hesitated as Madara suggested Kaguya knew he was alive and had sent them to investigate his weakened condition.
• Madara offered information about Kaguya and the Ten-Tails in exchange for being allowed to live.
• Madara told Isshiki that Hashirama’s younger brother had taken the Ten-Tails and proposed trading Hashirama for it.

Naruto arrived in a red-and-white chakra cloak and rescued Hashirama and Madara while confronting Isshiki. Naruto’s Yin-Yang Release overwhelmed Isshiki, whose consciousness and lifespan ended when Naruto struck him with Rasengan Galaxy.

• Madara stalled Isshiki by arguing that people would betray their principles to protect loved ones.
• Naruto appeared and carried Hashirama and Madara away from Isshiki, dissolving the Black Rods that blocked their chakra.
• Isshiki attacked Naruto from behind, but Naruto blocked his punch without turning around.
• Naruto’s chakra invaded Isshiki’s body, draining his energy and lifespan as Naruto severed his limbs.
• Naruto drove Isshiki into Daikokuten with a black-and-white Rasengan and ended his consciousness and lifespan with Rasengan Galaxy.

The Union’s members witnessed Naruto Uzumaki effortlessly kill Ōtsutsuki Isshiki after Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha failed to defeat him, leaving them stunned by the gap in power. Jiraiya used the demonstration to explain the Shinobi War’s purpose, and the factions embraced Konoha’s plan to unify the Shinobi World and compete for the chance to fight alongside Naruto.

• The Union’s participants watched Naruto kill Isshiki with ease after Isshiki had withstood Hashirama and Madara, and they struggled to comprehend Naruto’s strength.
• Orochimaru noticed Menma’s unshaken expression as Menma told the Tailed Beasts to prepare for the Reaper Death Seal Release.
• The Tailed Beasts discussed Naruto’s power and the upcoming Shinobi War, while Zero-Tails hoped to find a partner through it.
• Jiraiya told the Union that Isshiki’s threat showed why the Shinobi World needed to prepare, and confirmed that Konoha would make its training methods public.
• Jiraiya explained that the Shinobi War would select people to fight alongside Naruto, prompting the factions to recognize the value of competing and accept Konoha’s Union system.

After Isshiki’s defeat, Naruto and Tobirama removed the Black Rods from the others and returned the Ten-Tails to containment. Madara refused to return to Konoha and declared that he would live for revenge.

• Minato inspected Isshiki’s remains and found that they turned to ash, while Tobirama removed the Fire Eye used to broadcast the battle.
• Naruto broke down the Black Rods embedded in Hashirama and Madara, allowing their immortal bodies to regenerate as Tobirama collected the rods for research.
• Naruto left with the Ten-Tails after Minato agreed to settle the villagers, and Tobirama marveled at Naruto’s Flying Thunder God.
• Madara rejected Hashirama’s invitation to return to Konoha, then admitted that the truth about the Infinite Tsukuyomi had shattered his ideal.
• Madara announced that he would live for revenge, and Tobirama and Hashirama reacted with alarm.

After the Konoha Meeting, the leaders prepared to learn Konoha’s technologies and face the coming Ōtsutsuki threat. Menma revealed that the God of Ōtsutsuki had an equal who caused his death, and Minato ended the discussion by asking whether Menma remembered his previous life.

• The meeting’s attendees left to make arrangements, prioritizing Konoha’s shared technologies and the coming Shinobi War, where they could form spirit pacts with tailed beasts.
• Minato explained that Konoha had shown Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha fighting Ōtsutsuki Isshiki before Naruto defeated him, to warn the shinobi world without driving it to despair.
• Menma told Konoha that the God of Ōtsutsuki commanded Divine Arts and had only reawakened in this spacetime, then revealed that another god had caused his previous death.
• Little Nine-Tails insisted that Naruto and he would defeat the God of Ōtsutsuki themselves, while Menma said the other god was no longer in this spacetime.
• Minato stepped between Naruto and Menma and asked whether Menma had memories of his previous life.

Menma revealed that Naruto had the potential to become a god because of the Six Paths Samsara Jutsu, and offered the Reshape Organization’s help while reaffirming its goal of recreating the world. Naruto rejected using coercion or war to reach godhood, so Konoha planned to gather allies around him through the Konoha Meeting, Tailed Beast Spirit Pacts, and a Shinobi War.

• Menma told Minato and the Hokages that Naruto’s Six Paths Samsara Jutsu had touched the realm of gods and given him the potential to become one.
• Menma offered his and the Reshape Organization’s assistance but said their main goal remained recreating the world to bring back the other god.
• Minato and the other Hokages considered uniting the Shinobi World by force to help Naruto become a god, but Naruto refused to pursue godhood through oppression and war.
• Hashirama supported Naruto, and the Hokages agreed to respect his wishes while continuing with the Konoha Meeting.
• The Hokages decided to form a powerful team around Naruto by using Tailed Beast Spirit Pacts and selecting candidates through a Shinobi War.

As Konoha prepared for the Shinobi War, Konohamaru learned about the competition to partner with a tailed beast and went looking for his grandfather, the Third Hokage. He stole a letter addressed to him from Asuma and discovered it was his grandfather’s last will and testament.

• Konohamaru learned that the Shinobi War competition would let its winner fight alongside a tailed beast, so he abandoned his Corps’ challenge against Hanabi’s group.
• Ise Udon fainted when the Konohamaru Corps expected him to lead the fight against Hanabi, and the boys panicked over who would face her.
• Konohamaru went to the Ninja Academy and then the Sarutobi Clan residence, but could not find the Third Hokage.
• Konohamaru caught Asuma hiding a paper in his room and tried to take it, but Asuma tossed him outside and shut the door.
• Konohamaru used the Transformation Technique and the Flying Thunder God Technique to steal the paper from Asuma, revealing that it was his last will and testament, addressed to Konohamaru.

Konohamaru realized that Hiruzen was still alive after reading his grandfather’s will and hurried toward the Uzumaki residence. Above Kage Rock, Hiruzen told Tobirama he intended to sacrifice his remaining life for the village’s future, and Tobirama agreed to help him use Sunagakure’s Life Reincarnation technique.

• Konohamaru read Hiruzen’s will and concluded that his grandfather could not have died while life at home remained normal.
• Konohamaru hurried toward the Uzumaki residence after realizing Hiruzen was alive.
• Hiruzen told Tobirama that Danzo’s curse and his own past wrongs had left him determined to atone by aiding the next generation.
• Hiruzen explained that he planned to use Sunagakure’s Life Reincarnation technique, which he had secured through an agreement with Chiyo.
• Tobirama accepted Hiruzen’s decision and asked how he intended to proceed.