Chapter Summaries

Kabuto Yakushi sent Naruto to the Mountainous Cemetery while Hokage Madara and Edo Madara entered the Ten-Tails to find and kill Kaguya. Hokage Madara destroyed Kaguya's weakened soul, but discovered a strange wedge inside his own soul.

• Kabuto Yakushi took control of the Second Hokage, gave Naruto a scroll locating the Secret Base, and released the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu.
• Naruto headed for the Mountainous Cemetery, while Sasuke received a message from Hokage Madara after clearing the Land of Earth.
• Hokage Madara and Edo Madara entered the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and found Kaguya's seal inside the Ten-Tails.
• Kaguya devoured Edo Madara's soul, but Hokage Madara absorbed Edo Madara and used nature energy to destroy Kaguya.
• Hokage Madara found something resembling a wedge inside his soul.

Madara learned from Kaguya’s Kāma that the Ōtsutsuki Clan came from beyond the planet, then reached the Sage of Six Paths’ level of power. He confronted Hagoromo in the sage’s mental space and revealed that he had killed Kaguya.

• Madara examined Kaguya’s Kāma and discovered that it held her memories and that other Ōtsutsuki existed beyond the planet.
• Naruto and Sasuke arrived at the Mountainous Cemetery, where Orochimaru and Kabuto claimed they had helped the Allied Shinobi Forces and urged the brothers to trust Hokage Madara.
• Edo Madara’s body crumbled as the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path surged toward Hokage Madara, who gained white hair and Truth-Seeking Orbs and entered the realm of the Sage of Six Paths.
• Naruto and Sasuke entered the Sage of Six Paths’ mental space, where Madara tore through the space and appeared before them.
• Madara told Hagoromo Otsutsuki that he had killed Kaguya, and Hagoromo sensed Kaguya’s remnants in Madara’s ocular power and realized his intervention was unnecessary.

Madara demonstrated his Six Paths power to the shinobi world and established himself as a sage before imposing a unified political order. The chapter ended with the nations united, ninja serving as a paid standing army, and the Ōtsutsuki threat left to the strengthened Madara, Sasuke, and Naruto.

• Orochimaru declared the war was over, but Madara said one last step remained and rose into the sky above the Mountainous Cemetery.
• Madara unleashed immense chakra and purple lightning across the world, and Karin revealed that the sage in the sky was the Fifth Hokage.
• Madara returned to the Land of Fire with Sasuke, Naruto, Orochimaru, and the others, and the nations settled the war’s aftermath according to his will.
• The five nations abolished their daimyo and united under administrators, while the ninja villages became a unified standing army whose members received regular salaries.
• Orochimaru and Kabuto were confined to the Mountainous Cemetery, Itachi stepped down as Hokage and was honored as the Sage of the Shinobi World, and Naruto became the Sixth Hokage.
• Madara, Sasuke, Naruto, Orochimaru, and Kabuto continued preparing for the possibility of another Ōtsutsuki arrival.