Chapter Summaries

Naruto told Konoha’s leaders that Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju had returned alongside a mysterious young man with golden Rinnegan, who revived Boruto and took Code. As the meeting considered the danger of their power, Shikamaru exposed Kawaki’s attempt to kill Boruto, leaving Naruto facing pressure over Kawaki’s place in Konoha.

• Naruto gathered Konoha’s leaders, and Shikamaru announced that Naruto and he had seen Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju, both long presumed dead.
• Naruto recounted how a young man with golden Rinnegan appeared through a Golden Portal, severed and restrained Code, revived Boruto, and left with Code, Madara, and Hashirama.
• Kakashi asked whether Naruto had sensed malice from the visitors, and Naruto described Hashirama as familiar, Madara as cold, and the young man as indifferent to others’ lives.
• Shikamaru argued that Hashirama still seemed to be himself because he had noticed Kawaki’s intent to kill Boruto and asked Naruto whether he wanted help executing Kawaki.
• Naruto tried to stop Shikamaru from discussing Kawaki, but Shikamaru and Mitokado Homura challenged Naruto for protecting someone who had defied the Hokage and attacked the Hokage’s son.

After Madara absorbed the God Tree, Tetsuya offered him other Ten-Tails-related power sources to test, but Madara declined. The group set off for Konoha, only to return to the base, where Tetsuya frightened Daemon again.

• Madara absorbed the incomplete God Tree and said he felt stronger than when he had absorbed one before.
• Tetsuya brought out a Ten-Tails Cub and a Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and proposed testing how they affected Madara.
• Madara refused to absorb either one and suggested saving them for Hashirama or someone else.
• Hashirama and Madara followed Tetsuya toward Konoha, then returned to the base, where they found Eida tending to Daemon and Code still on the floor.
• Daemon hid behind Eida when Tetsuya teased him, and Eida asked Tetsuya to stop frightening her brother.

Tetsuya captured Code and traveled with Hashirama and Madara to Konoha. The village’s leaders prepared for their arrival, but the three appeared atop Kage Rock, where Hashirama and Madara were surprised to find Konoha built inside a giant circular pit.

• Hashirama admitted he had not intentionally turned back to check on Code, and Madara mocked his reasoning.
• Tetsuya swallowed Code with the Box of Ultimate Bliss, planning to put Isshiki’s power to use, and decided against taking Eida and Daemon’s abilities.
• Eida and Daemon stayed behind after Code was taken and Kara had effectively fallen apart.
• Konoha’s senior leaders failed to reach an agreement, chose to trust Naruto’s judgment, and secretly strengthened the village’s defenses.
• Tetsuya opened a portal and brought Hashirama and Madara to Kage Rock, where Hashirama wondered whether Konoha had been built inside a giant pit.

Tetsuya explained how Nagato’s attack had left this world’s Konoha inside a giant crater, then the three set off to visit Naruto. As they crossed the village, Hashirama judged that Konoha had developed little compared with their unified Shinobi World.

• Tetsuya told Hashirama and Madara that Nagato had used Super Shinra Tensei on Konoha while pursuing the tailed beasts, leaving the village in a crater.
• Madara blamed Tetsuya for disrupting his plans in their world, while Hashirama agreed that Konoha’s location seemed harmless.
• Tetsuya and Hashirama decided to visit Naruto and then leave, since their interventions had left this world’s future foes and conflicts uninteresting to them.
• The three entered Konoha, where hidden sentries spotted them and reported their arrival to the Hokage Office.
• Hashirama and his companions walked toward the Hokage Building, and Hashirama concluded that this Konoha had developed slowly without the Shinobi World’s unification.

Naruto and Tsunade met Tetsuya, Hashirama, and Madara at the Hokage Building, where Naruto recognized that Hashirama had come from another point in time. Tetsuya praised Naruto for becoming a dependable Hokage and revealed that Naruto’s memories of Rōran had returned, while Madara dismissed Tetsuya’s claim that he was a nobody.

• An ANBU operative warned Naruto that people resembling Hashirama and Madara were approaching the Hokage Building, and Naruto went to meet them.
• Tsunade joined Naruto at the entrance, hoping to learn whether the approaching Hashirama was truly her grandfather.
• Tetsuya arrived with Hashirama and Madara, and Hashirama confirmed that he was indeed Hashirama Senju.
• Naruto explained that Hashirama likely came from another point in time through something like the ley line.
• Tetsuya praised Naruto as a mature, dependable Hokage and asked whether Minato’s memory seal had worn off; Naruto confirmed that he remembered Rōran.
• Naruto asked Tetsuya who he was, and Madara challenged Tetsuya’s claim that he was a nobody by pointing out his strength against the Ōtsutsuki and Six Paths.

Tetsuya, Hashirama Senju, and Madara Uchiha visited Konoha, where the village’s leaders struggled to face the two legendary founders. As Tetsuya prepared to leave after offering brief answers, Naruto asked why they had come and whether they only intended to save Boruto.

• Naruto and Tsunade led Tetsuya, Hashirama Senju, and Madara Uchiha to the Hokage Building’s conference room.
• Konoha’s High Command sat in silence as Hashirama and Madara took the seats at the head of the table.
• Hashirama recognized Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura, and Madara mocked them for holding onto power despite their age.
• Tetsuya judged Konoha to have no capable leaders left, while Naruto wondered whether Tetsuya considered the village a joke.
• Tetsuya said the group had come because Hashirama wanted to see Konoha and offered to answer only a few questions before leaving.
• Naruto asked Tetsuya whether they had come only to save Boruto.

Tetsuya explained that he had come because of Naruto's wish and had taken Kara's God Tree, warning Konoha that it lacked the strength to handle threats like the Ōtsutsuki. As Konoha's leaders debated what to do about Kawaki, Boruto and Kawaki disappeared, and Tetsuya stayed behind to watch their confrontation.

• Naruto questioned Tetsuya, who said Naruto's wish to revive Boruto had brought him and his companions there.
• Tetsuya revealed that they had taken Kara's God Tree as upgrade materials, and warned that Konoha could not handle the dangers it might bring.
• Tetsuya told Naruto that Boruto and Kawaki posed serious threats because Boruto carried Momoshiki and Kawaki had Isshiki's power.
• Utatane Koharu and Mitokado Homura argued that Kawaki should be expelled or killed, while Naruto hesitated to act against him.
• An Anbu ninja reported that Boruto and Kawaki were missing, and Naruto and the others rushed out to find them.
• Boruto and Kawaki faced each other on Kage Rock as Tetsuya stayed behind with his companions to watch.

Kawaki and Boruto fought atop Kage Rock while Naruto rushed to stop them. Tetsuya isolated the battlefield with an Izuna Clone, leaving Naruto unable to reach the boys as their battle grew more lethal.

• Kawaki attacked Boruto, determined to kill him to protect Naruto, and Boruto fought back using Momoshiki's power.
• Naruto learned the boys were fighting at Kage Rock and hurried there with others searching for them.
• Tetsuya explained to Hashirama that Momoshiki's power had fueled Boruto's revival, while Hashirama guessed Kawaki resented Boruto as a rival heir.
• Tetsuya created an Izuna Clone, which cut out the space containing Kage Rock and prevented the approaching ninjas from reaching it.
• Naruto tried to reach the fighting boys and call for them to stop, but neither he nor his voice could reach them.

Tetsuya watched Boruto defeat Kawaki, then silenced Momoshiki and taught Boruto how to confine him. After removing Isshiki’s power from Kawaki, Tetsuya vanished, and Naruto reached the boys.

• Tetsuya, Hashirama, and Madara discussed the difference between Momoshiki’s and Isshiki’s powers and how Boruto had received his Karma.
• Boruto shattered Kawaki’s Black Cubes and defeated him, then refused to kill him despite Momoshiki urging him to act like an Ōtsutsuki.
• Tetsuya appeared and silenced Momoshiki, then taught Boruto a jutsu that locked him inside the Black Room.
• Tetsuya extracted Isshiki’s power from Kawaki, leaving him an ordinary person, and vanished before Boruto could learn who he was.
• Naruto climbed onto Kage Rock and rushed toward Boruto and Kawaki.

Tetsuya explained that his actions came from his own self-righteous desire to shape the shinobi world, then offered Shinada part of Isshiki's power. Shinada accepted the dangerous gift and began transforming as Tetsuya ensured he would survive.

• Tetsuya told Madara and Hashirama that he crippled Kawaki because he disliked Kawaki's self-righteousness and admitted that his own choices were self-righteous too.
• Tetsuya invited Hashirama and Madara to have tea and said he would soon help them reach the Six Paths level.
• Tetsuya called Shinada to join them and offered him a glowing portion of Isshiki's power extracted from Kawaki.
• Tetsuya warned Shinada that accepting the power would be painful and risky, but promised to keep him alive.
• Shinada accepted the power, and his skin turned white as black markings and horns began to appear.

After Shinada survived his transformation, Tetsuya discussed breaking through to Six Paths level with Hashirama and Madara, then Jigen arrived with news about his future and a star map of Ōtsutsuki activity. Jigen absorbed Code, who had served another-timeline Isshiki, and offered to help Tetsuya search the universe for the Ōtsutsuki Clan.

• Shinada endured the transformation until its final stage before passing out, and Tetsuya had him returned to his room after strengthening his constitution.
• Tetsuya told Hashirama and Madara they would find a way to help Hashirama reach Six Paths level and then travel beyond the Shinobi World.
• Jigen arrived and explained that he had foreseen his own death, but meeting Tetsuya had changed that future.
• Tetsuya released Code from the Box of Ultimate Bliss, and Jigen welcomed him before absorbing him to replenish some of his power.
• Jigen said he had recovered about seventy percent of his strength and offered Tetsuya a star map showing where Ōtsutsuki had planted God Trees.

Tetsuya settled the Shinobi World's affairs and left Shinada in charge while he joined Izuna, Jigen, Hashirama, and Madara on a barren planet. After Hashirama and Madara destroyed another planet during their spar, Jigen revealed a star map, and Tetsuya announced that they would begin hunting the Ōtsutsuki.

• Shinada reported that the Federation had taken over the New Continent and described its assimilation, development, and exploration efforts.
• Tetsuya told Shinada he would be away and gave him a scroll containing a Shadow Clone to handle serious problems.
• Tetsuya passed through the Golden Space-Time Gate and met Izuna and Jigen on a barren planet.
• Hashirama and Madara returned from their spar, which had destroyed the planet where they fought.
• Jigen projected a star map with several marked planets, and Tetsuya announced that they would begin hunting the Ōtsutsuki.

Tetsuya and the others traveled to a star system marked on the Ōtsutsuki star chart, hoping to hunt the clan, but found their target planet lifeless after a God Tree had drained it. They left for the next planet, hoping to save it from the same fate.

• Tetsuya and the others made repeated Space-Time jumps to reach the nearest marked planet, and Jigen explained that he and Kaguya had once found the Shinobi World by following the Ōtsutsuki Clan's directions.
• Izuna suggested that everyone except Jigen enter their Six Paths Forms to disguise themselves as Ōtsutsuki before visiting the planet.
• Tetsuya sensed that the planet's natural energy was nearly depleted, and Jigen confirmed that an Ōtsutsuki had already grown a God Tree and left with its fruit.
• Tetsuya brought the group to an island formed from a collapsed mountain, where they saw the crater left by the God Tree.
• Hashirama mourned the planet's destruction, and Madara urged everyone to move on and try to save the next target planet.

Tetsuya told the group a story about a criminal sent to explore the universe, whose distant homeworld eventually recognized him as a hero and pioneer. After sharing the story beneath the rising satellites, the group resumed its journey toward the next target planet.

• As the group rested beside a green sea, Tetsuya began telling a story about a man offered a choice between execution and exploring the universe.
• Tetsuya explained that the protagonist used freezing technology to travel through space and send data back to his homeworld, while messages between them grew increasingly delayed.
• Madara compared the protagonist’s hibernation to how he had survived in the Mountain Graveyard, and confirmed that he had faked his death after his final battle.
• Tetsuya told how the protagonist learned his former lover had moved on, continued exploring, and was called a hero and pioneer by his homeworld before contact ended.
• When Hashirama asked what happened next, Tetsuya admitted he had forgotten the ending, then urged everyone to continue toward their next target planet.

Tetsuya and his group arrived at Planet 14, where its unusually weak natural energy suggested an Ōtsutsuki was still cultivating a God Tree. They sent Izuna and Hashirama to confront the enemy, then found people captured and drained by the tree.

• Tetsuya opened a gate to Planet 14 and sensed that its natural energy was weak for such a large world.
• Tetsuya concluded that a God Tree had drained the planet and that the Ōtsutsuki who planted it might still be there.
• Jigen explained that the enemy might have unfamiliar Rinnegan abilities, so Tetsuya agreed to send two fighters.
• Madara chose Izuna and Hashirama to go first, and Tetsuya opened a gate to the planet's surface.
• Tetsuya saw an enormous God Tree with people hanging from its branches, drained of their power.

Hashirama and Izuna attacked the God Tree’s Ōtsutsuki planter, Ōtsutsuki Qi, while Tetsuya, Madara, and Jigen went to inspect the tree and its fruit. The fight continued as the three reached the God Tree’s glowing treetop.

• Izuna opened a Space-Time Gate, and Hashirama struck the resting Ōtsutsuki before Izuna moved him to the other side of the planet.
• Ōtsutsuki Qi introduced himself and used repulsive force against Hashirama and Izuna, but Izuna’s Truth-Seeking Orbs pierced his defense.
• Tetsuya, Madara, and Jigen discussed Ōtsutsuki abilities and agreed to inspect the God Tree’s fruit while the battle continued.
• Tetsuya cut open a cocoon and found a dead creature transformed into something like White Zetsu, and Jigen explained that the God Tree had consumed the planet’s inhabitants.
• Tetsuya, Madara, and Jigen flew toward the God Tree’s summit and sensed powerful energy and white light coming from its treetop.

Tetsuya allowed Jigen, Madara, and the others to share the powerful God Tree Fruit, saying he had no use for it. Meanwhile, Izuna and Hashirama discovered how to counter Shiki Ōtsutsuki’s Spirit Transformation and pressed their attack.

• Tetsuya examined the God Tree Fruit while Madara and Jigen held back, waiting for his approval to take it.
• Jigen asked for a share, and Tetsuya offered the fruit to the four of them, insisting it was useless to him.
• Izuna and Hashirama identified Shiki Ōtsutsuki’s Spirit Transformation and worked out its weaknesses.
• Izuna pierced Shiki with a Truth-Seeking Orb blade, and Hashirama struck him while transformed into Shiki and using Spirit Transformation.
• Shiki dropped his spirit form to dodge Hashirama’s next attack, leaving himself vulnerable as Hashirama and Izuna struck him together.

Tetsuya and the others captured Shiki Ōtsutsuki and examined the God Tree Fruit, while Jigen explained why its power stirred a desire to evolve. After learning that he did not know how to refine the fruit into pills, Tetsuya spent his remaining balance on Husky as the group waited for his plan.

• Hashirama and Izuna defeated Shiki Ōtsutsuki, and Tetsuya sealed him inside the Box of Ultimate Bliss.
• Tetsuya took Hashirama and Izuna to the God Tree Fruit, where they felt a powerful urge to devour it.
• Jigen explained that the urge came from life’s instinct to evolve and described how the Ōtsutsuki Clan refined fruits into pills.
• Jigen admitted he did not know how to make the pills, and Madara urged the group to divide and absorb the fruit.
• Tetsuya paused to consider what to do, then called Husky and spent his remaining balance.

Tetsuya proposed refining the God Tree Fruit into pills, and the others agreed to guard him while he tried. As he began refining, he uprooted the God Tree and added Ōtsutsuki Qi from the Box of Ultimate Bliss, leaving Jigen terrified he would be turned into a pill next.

• Tetsuya told Madara, Hashirama, Izuna, and Jigen that he could use alchemy to turn the God Tree Fruit into pills, and they agreed to let him try.
• Tetsuya summoned a Pill Furnace, activated Sage Mode, and asked the others to guard the area while he refined.
• Tetsuya added medicinal ingredients to the furnace, then uprooted the entire God Tree to preserve the fruit's effects.
• Tetsuya dumped the contents of the Box of Ultimate Bliss, including Ōtsutsuki Qi, into the furnace, and Jigen feared Tetsuya would refine him into a pill next.

Tetsuya refined the God Tree Fruit into four pills, which Jigen, Izuna, Madara, and Hashirama absorbed to restore and strengthen themselves. The group decided to return to the Shinobi World before pursuing Tetsuya’s plan to hunt Ōtsutsuki Shiki’s counterparts in parallel worlds.

• After an unknown amount of time, Tetsuya finished refining the God Tree Fruit into four pills, and its released energy fell as nourishing rain that began restoring the drained land.
• Tetsuya gave one pill each to Jigen, Izuna, Madara, and Hashirama, who absorbed their medicinal power.
• Jigen confirmed that his damaged essence had been restored, while Izuna, Madara, and Hashirama reported feeling greatly strengthened.
• Tetsuya proposed refining future God Tree Fruits into pills instead of eating them directly, and the others agreed.
• Tetsuya decided the group would return to the Shinobi World, then hunt Ōtsutsuki Shiki’s counterparts in parallel worlds.