Recaps

Hiruzen and Danzo tried to form an alliance against Uchiha Mu, but the Kage's disputes over strategy and funding broke the talks apart. After learning the other villages had no firm plan to attack, Uchiha Mu lowered the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation's alert level while keeping its guard up.

• Hiruzen, Danzo, and Tobirama Senju negotiated with the other Kage, who agreed to divide their attacks across the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation, Sunagakure, and the Uzumaki Clan.
• The Kage rejected a large army in favor of elite squads on the main front, and Danzo suggested targeting civilians before Tobirama Senju stopped him.
• The Raikage, Tsuchikage, and Mizukage said their villages could not afford another war, prompting Tobirama Senju, Hiruzen, and Danzo to leave the conference.
• The other Kage abandoned the alliance, while the Raikage considered fighting Konoha and learned his chances had fallen to zero.
• Uchiha Mu monitored the conference through White Zetsu, decided he had overestimated the other villages, and ordered his forces to lower their alert level without dropping their guard.

Hashirama Senju asked Uchiha Mu why wars persisted without hatred, and Mu explained how population growth, scarce resources, and political interests drove conflict. Hashirama returned to the Underworld after asking Mu to treat Konoha’s people as well as he treated his own, while Mu prepared to expand his influence across the shinobi world.

• Hashirama Senju confronted Uchiha Mu about the causes of war between villages that held no hatred for one another.
• Uchiha Mu explained that growing populations strained clan territories and village resources, while daimyo kept funding limited and wanted shinobi to remain weapons.
• Madara Uchiha listened outside, spoke with Keiko Uzumaki about Mu’s respect for him, then left to visit his students Kyu and Naoki.
• Hashirama asked Uchiha Mu to treat Konoha’s people as well as he treated the people of the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation, then released Impure World Reincarnation and returned to the Underworld.
• Uchiha Mu decided to keep selling weapons and use economic and cultural influence to bring the other shinobi villages under his control.

Hiruzen and Danzo coordinated a desperate attack against Kumogakure, leading to the Raikage’s death and Konoha’s victory on their front. Danzo’s surviving raiders remained trapped inside Kumogakure as Hiruzen moved to confront Iwagakure.

• The Raikage launched a brutal assault on Konoha, and Danzo volunteered to lead a surprise raid on Kumogakure while Hiruzen held him at the front.
• Danzo led a squad including Hyuga ninja through Kumogakure’s defenses, destroying supplies and settlements before infiltrating the village and causing widespread chaos.
• Hiruzen fought the Raikage until news of the attack reached the battlefield, and Kagami joined him to prevent the Raikage from withdrawing.
• The Raikage ordered his forces to return to Kumogakure, but Konoha pursued them; surrounded and wounded, he killed a ninja and blew himself up rather than be captured.
• Hiruzen left some ninja at the battlefield and led the rest toward the Iwagakure front, while Danzo and six surviving raiders struggled to escape Kumogakure.

Uchiha Mu eliminated Kumogakure shinobi fleeing to the Land of Iron, while Iwagakure and Kirigakure prepared to unite against his growing power. He defeated the Land of Iron’s general and Mifune, arranged for White Zetsu to impersonate them, and departed for Kumogakure.

• Uchiha Mu killed the Kumogakure shinobi trying to return home and explained that his loans gave him a pretext to take control of the village.
• Mū and Ōnoki resolved to unite with Konoha and Kirigakure, while Mū sent shinobi to secretly take money from the Land of Lightning’s daimyo and nobles.
• Mustache urged Kirigakure to prepare for a final war, but the Kaguya Clan’s leader advised waiting to see what happened to Kumogakure.
• Uchiha Mu defeated the Land of Iron’s general and Mifune after learning that the general had discussed a campaign against him.
• Uchiha Mu killed the general and Mifune, ordered White Zetsu to impersonate them, and left for Kumogakure.

After Danzo's attack left Kumogakure devastated, Uchiha Mu arrived to enforce his trade demands and announced that he would help rebuild the village. A accepted Mu's terms and ordered the civilians gathered, leaving Kumogakure under growing pressure from the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation.

• Danzo's surviving group escaped their pursuers while Hiruzen and Tobirama joined the battle against Kinkaku and Ginkaku, who continued fighting despite the Raikage's death.
• Uchiha Mu reached Kumogakure and demanded that it stop obstructing trade from the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation and stop taking an additional cut.
• Uchiha Mu entered the ruined village and ordered its officials to gather the civilians, claiming he would build them houses for free.
• The lead shinobi told A that Mu had come to collect his debt and described his demands, prompting A to consider resisting before remembering the Second Raikage's warning.
• A agreed to comply, ordered the civilians gathered, and sent a shinobi to seek money from the Daimyo or take it from nobles.

Uchiha Mu took control of Kumogakure’s debt and offered aid to rebuild the war-damaged village, while demonstrating the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation’s prosperity to its leaders. A and the lead shinobi decided to submit for now, strengthen Kumogakure with Uchiha Mu’s support, and seek independence after his death.

• Uchiha Mu showed the villagers the contract mortgaging Kumogakure and struck A when he challenged its authenticity.
• Uchiha Mu offered economic aid, affordable supplies, home rebuilding, and a Service Office, then used shadow clones and Wood Release to build houses.
• Uchiha Mu brought A and the lead shinobi to the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation, where they saw its modern streets and heard an old resident describe its development.
• At the Ninja Academy, A and the lead shinobi watched children fight a miniature tailed beast and recognized the gap between their villages.
• A and the lead shinobi agreed to submit to Uchiha Mu, use his money to develop Kumogakure, and rebel after his death.

Uchiha Mu secured Kumogakure’s cooperation through debt, aid, and economic ties, while his influence over its civilians grew. Alarmed by Kumogakure’s submission, Konoha, Iwagakure, and Kirigakure formed a rival alliance, leaving the shinobi world divided into two great alliances.

• A asked Uchiha Mu to establish friendly relations, but Uchiha Mu insisted that Kumogakure could only cooperate as a debtor and arranged for Kakuzu’s trading company to visit.
• Uchiha Mu explained to Keiko Uzumaki that lending Kumogakure the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation’s currency would tie its economy to his nation, while his clone observed civilian discontent and screened banned films.
• A agreed to comprehensive cooperation and extended debt repayments, and Uchiha Mu canceled Konoha factory orders in favor of building factories in Kumogakure.
• After A announced his succession as Third Raikage and the alliance, Uchiha Mu killed shinobi who challenged him, while spies carried news of Kumogakure’s submission to other villages.
• Konoha’s leaders discussed uniting against Uchiha Mu, while Mū and Ōnoki weighed Iwagakure’s financial crisis and the need for an alliance.
• Konoha, Iwagakure, and Kirigakure announced their alliance, dividing the shinobi world into two rival blocs alongside Uchiha Mu’s Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation, Sunagakure, and Kumogakure.

Uchiha Mu and his allies prepared for a possible new war as Konoha, Iwagakure, and Kirigakure formed an alliance against the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation. The villages entered a fragile peace, while Sunagakure and the former Land of Whirlpools considered how to survive if Uchiha Mu could not protect them.

• Uchiha Mu gave Keiko Uzumaki gold to back the nation's currency, discussed their daughter Uchiha Kyu, and planned for peace and future dealings with Kumogakure.
• Iwagakure and Kirigakure withdrew from the Land of Fire fronts and expelled the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation's businesses, while Konoha abandoned its own profitable ties to preserve the alliance.
• Mū and Ōnoki decided to seek money from nobles to support Iwagakure's excess shinobi after the village ended its cooperation with the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation.
• Sha Yi and Sunagakure's leaders approved a beef jerky trade and continued developing the village, while Chiyo and Ebizo secretly prepared to seize power if Uchiha Mu was defeated.
• Uzumaki Shana and Uzumaki Men assessed the former Land of Whirlpools' vulnerable position between Konoha, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure and planned to rely on early warning and Uchiha Mu's support.

Madara Uchiha waited for Naoki to finish training while Uchiha Mu and Keiko Uzumaki organized joint Chunin Ninja Exams to strengthen ties across their sphere of influence. As visitors began arriving, Zhengyi returned to the Orphanage and reunited with Xiao Lin.

• Madara Uchiha offered Uchiha Kyu a spar, but she refused and played Chinese Chess with him instead.
• Uchiha Mu and Keiko Uzumaki planned joint Chunin Ninja Exams for their allied villages and small countries, inviting commoners to travel as well.
• Hanzō and Miko Shingetsu agreed to send people to the exams, while other villages and rival nations learned of the event and watched it closely.
• Uchiha Mu prepared a large venue and events, then sent shadow clones to guide arriving visitors as Hyuga Lingnai dealt with the strain on security and order.
• Zhengyi returned to the Orphanage, where he reunited with Xiao Lin and learned she would soon work in a government archives room.

Uchiha Naoki mastered Sage Mode and learned he would compete in the joint Chunin Ninja Exams, while his family prepared to host the event. After talking with his mother, Naoki chose to pursue his own path by helping protect the nation, and the chapter ended with the family sharing dinner together.

• Uchiha Naoki demonstrated Sage Mode and an Ultra-Big Ball Rasenshuriken powerful enough to impress Madara.
• Madara told Uchiha Naoki and Uchiha Kyu that they would compete in joint Chunin Ninja Exams organized by Mu, with a mystery reward for the top ten.
• Uchiha Naoki reunited with Hyuga Lingnai, who encouraged him to choose his own path, and he decided to help protect the nation by learning to manage its people and resources.
• Uchiha Kyu returned to Uchiha Mu, agreed to enter the exams for a promised reward, and made him seal the promise with a little-finger oath.
• Uchiha Mu said the exam arena was finished and the event would be livestreamed, then he brought Keiko Uzumaki home for a family dinner.

Uchiha Mu opened the Chunin Ninja Exams with a written test that exposed differences between the villages and stirred debate among the Uchiha and Hyuga clans. Zhengyi placed first, and the chapter ended with the candidates preparing for the combat stage while the villages began taking interest in miko faith.

• Uchiha Mu delivered his opening speech and began the exams, while Black Zetsu planned to gather intelligence and foment conflict in the Konoha Alliance.
• The candidates used their abilities to complete the difficult written test, and Zhengyi joked with Uchiha Naoki about gathering intelligence before describing his reforms in Amegakure.
• The live results showed Zhengyi in first place, Uchiha Naoki second, and Uchiha Kyu sixth, while several Sunagakure clan shinobi struggled with the test.
• Uchiha Setsuna challenged En Uchiha to defeat Uchiha Mu's daughter, and Hyuga Tenka argued that the Hyuga should investigate the possibilities of combining Hyuga and Uchiha bloodlines.
• Miko Shingetsu and her daughter performed for the audience, prompting village leaders to consider using faith to unite their people.
• Uchiha Kyu and Uchiha Naoki eagerly anticipated the combat stage, with Kyu aiming to claim Uchiha Mu's reward and Naoki intent on facing Zhengyi.

Uchiha Kyu advanced through the tournament with powerful techniques and an unexpected combination of Uchiha and Uzumaki abilities, while Zhengyi also secured a place in the top sixteen. The chapter left Uchiha Kyu one win from the top ten and showed the gathered clans reconsidering their rules about marriage between clans.

• Uchiha Kyu easily won her opening match with genjutsu, prompting the commentator to tease her and the audience to complain that the fight was too quick.
• Uchiha Kyu defeated Rei of the Yuki Clan after overpowering her ice techniques with shadow clones, combined Fire and Wind Release, and Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Uchiha Kyu advanced through the tournament as spectators from rival villages worried about the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation's talented genin, including Uchiha Naoki and Zhengyi.
• Uchiha Kyu defeated Haruhito Uzumaki in a clone-heavy battle, revealing that she could use both the Sharingan and Adamantine Sealing Chains.
• Uchiha Kyu advanced to the individual top sixteen, while Zhengyi defeated a Sunagakure genius with Flying Thunder God and secured his own place in the round.

Uchiha Naoki defeated Mile with an invisible Sage Mode attack, and Uchiha Kyu and Orochimaru won their top-sixteen matches. The top-eight competition continued, leaving the remaining contestants studying Orochimaru’s strange techniques.

• Uchiha Naoki matched Mile’s weighted Steel Fist with Gentle Fist, then entered Sage Mode and knocked him out of the arena with an invisible attack.
• The Hyuga clan watched Naoki’s unusual Gentle Fist and sent Hyuga Jieyi to approach Hyuga Lingnai in the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation.
• The top sixteen were determined, with no Sunagakure contestants advancing, and Uchiha Kyu defeated Rōran’s Asakusa after using her Sharingan and genjutsu against his puppets.
• Asakusa confessed to Uchiha Kyu after the match, but she rejected him and left the arena.
• Orochimaru defeated Sha Hui Uzumaki by using substitutions and concealing his chakra, then agreed to trade his technique for her blood.

Uchiha Naoki defeated Godspeed Zhengyi in the quarterfinals after revealing Sage Mode, and Hyuga Tenka pushed the Hyuga Clan toward reforms to keep the Byakugan from being associated only with the Uchiha. As the exams advanced, Uchiha Mu planned to send Naoki and Kyu to the Land of Demons, while the other villages faced growing doubts about their future.

• Uchiha Naoki used Sage Mode to detect Zhengyi’s Flying Thunder God jumps and defeated him in the quarterfinals.
• Hyuga Tenka confronted the Main Family elders and proposed opening the clan’s techniques to the Branch Family and allowing more inter-clan marriages.
• Uchiha Kyu lost her quarterfinal match to Satoshi Uzumaki, while Uchiha Naoki offered to teach Zhengyi how to train in Sage Mode.
• Uchiha Mu decided to send Uchiha Naoki and Uchiha Kyu to the Land of Demons after the exams for experience.
• Uchiha Naoki defeated Kobayashi in the semifinals, while Ōnoki and Mū worried that Iwagakure could not withstand the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation’s growing influence.
• Kirigakure increased its efforts to send clan descendants to the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation as a safeguard against its own decline.

Uchiha Naoki won the team and arena competitions, and Uchiha Mu introduced Ninja Football as the next event. Watching the broadcast, Kagami Uchiha realized it also showed ordinary people how well they lived in the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation, prompting Tobirama Senju to recognize the risk of people leaving Konoha.

• Uchiha Mu awarded the top competitors, gave Zhengyi tailed beast chakra from Chōmei, and helped him enter Sage Mode.
• Uchiha Naoki won the team and arena championships, after which Uchiha Mu introduced Ninja Football and the Hundred-Clan team faced Sunagakure.
• Tobirama Senju, Hiruzen, Danzo, and Kagami Uchiha discussed holding their own Chunin Ninja Exam and considered creating a hand-based ball game.
• Kagami Uchiha saw ordinary Uchiha civilians preparing to leave for the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation because they felt unwanted in their clan.
• Kagami Uchiha told Tobirama Senju that the broadcasts highlighted ordinary people's quality of life, and Tobirama realized this could persuade civilians to leave.

Tobirama Senju and the other villages tried to stop people from leaving for the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation, while Uchiha Mu’s growing city attracted newcomers and flourished. After the Chunin Ninja Exams ended, Uchiha Mu upgraded his system, gained the ability to fuse chakra, and began planning to control the great nations’ daimyo while undermining Iwagakure’s leaders.

• Tobirama Senju ordered clan heads and disciples to monitor people discussing the livestream, banned it, and notified Kirigakure and Iwagakure.
• Ōnoki pursued Iwagakure villagers who were leaving with their money, while Kirigakure sealed its coastline to prevent departures.
• Uchiha Mu and his allies built soccer fields as the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation prospered, and White Zetsu reported that dozens from Konoha and over a hundred from Iwagakure had tried to leave.
• Uchiha Mu told White Zetsu and Black Zetsu to search for a route to the moon so they could reach Kaguya.
• After the children left to take posts in the Land of Demons, Uchiha Mu upgraded his system and received Chakra Fusion, technological rewards, and one million gold coins.
• Uchiha Mu decided to control the Land of Wind’s daimyo and ordered White Zetsu to expose Iwagakure’s actions to strip its leaders of popular support.

Iwagakure’s plan to use the Four-Tails to reduce its population collapsed when White Zetsu’s photographs exposed Ōnoki’s role. Mū placated the outraged villagers by admitting the scheme and directing blame at Ōnoki, who left the village as a Missing-nin; Mū then recognized that Uchiha Mu had engineered the exposure.

• The Four-Tails learned that Iwagakure had been sending Shinobi to die and turned away, but Ōnoki attacked it and triggered a deadly rampage.
• White Zetsu circulated photographs showing Ōnoki leading the Tailed Beast against Iwagakure Shinobi, prompting villagers to march on the Tsuchikage Office.
• Mū admitted that Ōnoki had proposed sacrificing villagers to ease the village’s financial burden, presented records of his efforts to secure funds, and urged those who wished to leave to support themselves elsewhere.
• Mū took responsibility for the village’s stability while Ōnoki accepted exile and declared that he would become a Missing-nin.
• Mū examined the photographs and realized that Uchiha Mu had arranged their exposure, then warned Iwagakure’s senior officials that they could lose everything if the village fell.

Uchiha Mu killed Ōnoki, then stopped Mū from massacring nearly two thousand Iwagakure shinobi who were leaving the village. After Uchiha Mu defeated Mū and exposed his actions, the survivors chose to go to the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation, while more villagers arrived to learn what had happened.

• Mū and several Iwagakure leaders decided to hire underworld shinobi to kill those leaving the village and planned to bring Ōnoki back first.
• Uchiha Mu admitted to Ōnoki that he had exposed his crimes, then killed him with Dust Release when Ōnoki accepted his death.
• Nearly two thousand Iwagakure shinobi left the village, and Mū waited outside to kill them with Dust Release.
• Uchiha Mu blocked Mū's attack, revealed his identity, and exposed his plan to the fleeing shinobi.
• Uchiha Mu manifested Perfect Susanoo and killed Mū with one sword stroke, convincing the survivors to head for the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation.
• More Iwagakure shinobi came to investigate the commotion, and those who had witnessed the confrontation began explaining what had happened.

Uchiha Mu took control of Iwagakure by blaming the Tsuchikage for attacking departing shinobi, then installed Great River as the Third Tsuchikage and began directing the village. Reports of Iwagakure’s takeover reached other villages, where Third Raikage A chose to step down and Mizukage Mustache confronted the weakening of Kirigakure.

• Uchiha Mu showed Iwagakure’s officials photographs of Dust Release attacks, then brought them to the village without notifying Konoha.
• White Zetsu gave Uchiha Mu intelligence on Iwagakure and revealed that the officials had killed the village’s loyalists, so Uchiha Mu ordered him to kill the officials later.
• Uchiha Mu addressed Iwagakure’s crowd, portrayed the Tsuchikage as a traitor, and appointed Great River as the Third Tsuchikage.
• Uchiha Mu promised to fund Iwagakure, warned officials against skimming money, and issued orders while converting the village to Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation currency.
• After receiving reports from Iwagakure, Third Raikage A said he would step down, train, and become the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki.
• Mizukage Mustache summoned Kirigakure’s officials and clan leaders to determine whom he could trust.

After Iwagakure fell to Uchiha Mu, Kirigakure and Konoha weighed the threat while the Land of Fire’s daimyo sought economic pressure against him. Uchiha Mu answered the funding cuts by seizing the Land of Earth’s treasury and ordering the money spent in the Black Market.

• Mustache questioned Kirigakure’s leaders about Uchiha Mu’s occupation of Iwagakure, and the Yuki Clan’s leader argued that Kirigakure could neither justify nor survive a war against him.
• Tobirama Senju and Konoha’s leaders rejected an attack without a legitimate cause, then agreed to make some clan techniques and other jutsu available through a new Ninja Academy genius class and mission points.
• The daimyo of the Land of Fire approved increased funding for Konoha and coordinated with other daimyo to cut support to shinobi villages, while warning Konoha not to produce another Uchiha Mu.
• After the Land of Earth’s daimyo cut funding to Iwagakure, Uchiha Mu brought Iwagakure’s senior officials to the capital, where they killed nobles and seized nearly five billion.
• Uchiha Mu told the officials to spend the seized money quickly in the Black Market and sent a White Zetsu to impersonate the daimyo.

Uchiha Mu seized control of the Land of Earth, stripped its nobles of their wealth, and began stabilizing Iwagakure while promoting his culture there. Back in the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation, Orochimaru developed scroll-based scientific ninja tools, and Mu surveyed the growing economy before deciding he needed to negotiate with the Land of Fire’s daimyo.

• Uchiha Mu explained that Iwagakure had to exchange the nobles’ seized wealth on the black market before news spread, while the nobles pleaded to the replaced daimyo and were forced to sign predatory terms or thrown out.
• Uchiha Mu left White Zetsu Great River and his clones to feed Iwagakure, build housing, and promote the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation’s culture, while Keiko Uzumaki warned that his actions would deepen distrust and he chose to consolidate before expanding further.
• Orochimaru and a researcher demonstrated scrolls that released ninjutsu instantly, and Uchiha Mu tested one and urged them to develop a smaller, switch-operated bracelet tool that civilians could use.
• Uchiha Mu toured factories and fields, advised Dashu to fertilize depleted soil, and invited former refugees from the Land of Rain to attend free farming classes.
• Uchiha Mu concluded that Iwagakure’s development was essential to raising the happiness index and decided he needed to visit the Land of Fire to speak with its daimyo.

Uchiha Naoki took charge of developing the Land of Demons, identifying Miko culture as a way to unite the Hundred-Clan Shinobi Nation while arranging new industrial plans. After gaining local support and help from Uchiha Kyu, he ended the chapter exhausted but determined to lead the effort.

• Uchiha Mu reassured Keiko Uzumaki that the children’s handover in the Land of Demons should be complete and that the region would be manageable.
• Uchiha Naoki discussed expanding Miko culture with Uchiha Kyu, contacted Orochimaru about factory inventions, and toured local workplaces to learn about residents’ needs.
• Uchiha Naoki cleared forest for a factory, then learned from the manager that the timber could have been sold to Kakuzu.
• Uchiha Naoki asked Shingetsu to train new Miko, and she agreed while insisting that anyone taking the role meet her standards.
• Uchiha Kyu helped Uchiha Naoki recognize that promoting Miko culture could give residents a shared purpose, and he gathered officials to make it the Land of Demons’ main project.
• Uchiha Naoki secured the officials’ agreement and assigned tasks, then confided in Uchiha Kyu that he was exhausted; she encouraged him and massaged his shoulders.

Uchiha Naoki began recruiting Miko for shrines in the Land of Demons, while Zhengyi recruited candidates in Amegakure and learned that Uchiha Mu had taken the Land of Earth. Concerned that the conquest would provoke the Daimyo and strengthen Konoha, Zhengyi and Hanzō planned to prepare, while Naoki secured funding from his mother.

• Uchiha Naoki woke to find Miyan holding his hand, and Uchiha Kyu teased him about her before Miyan left to make breakfast.
• After learning that residents of the Land of Demons had refused to become Miko out of reverence, Uchiha Naoki recruited several girls by offering good pay and contacted friends and Uchiha back home for more candidates.
• Zhengyi recruited Miko candidates in Amegakure, including Xiaoyu, who agreed after hearing she might meet Uchiha Mu.
• White Zetsu told Zhengyi that Uchiha Mu had taken the Land of Earth, and Zhengyi warned Hanzō that the Daimyo might fund Konoha and that Amegakure needed to prepare for trouble.
• Uchiha Naoki explained his Miko plans to his mother, who agreed to provide funding and advised him to keep his investment separate from public money.

Uzumaki Men and Uzumaki Shana discussed how Uchiha Naoki’s miko venture could build cultural ties, then assessed the danger posed by the daimyo opposing Uchiha Mu. Mu warned the Daimyo of the Land of Fire not to break political rules, then went to the Land of Earth to secure the treaty selling the country.

• Uzumaki Men and Uzumaki Shana found that only eight Uzumaki had volunteered for Naoki’s venture and discussed its potential to connect ordinary people across villages.
• Uzumaki Men and Uzumaki Shana reviewed intelligence about the daimyo’s opposition and decided to focus their defenses on Kirigakure while Shana would speak to Teacher about Konoha.
• Uchiha Mu visited the Daimyo of the Land of Fire and explained that the Land of Earth’s daimyo had agreed to sell his country after its nobles were stripped of their wealth.
• The Daimyo of the Land of Fire reasoned that Mu would not kill or replace him, then ordered his people to confirm what had happened in the Land of Earth.
• Uchiha Mu traveled to the Land of Earth, stopped White Zetsu’s crude entertainment, and had him sign and circulate the treaty selling the country.

Uchiha Mu maneuvered the Land of Earth’s daimyo and nobles into accepting the country’s sale, then used an assassination plot to eliminate the nobles who resisted. After taking control, he returned to rebuilding Iwagakure and sought more talent to govern the vast territory.

• White Zetsu pressured the Land of Earth’s officials to accept the signed sale, while the nobles outside vowed to stop it and secretly hired an assassin to kill the daimyo.
• Uchiha Mu delayed the public announcement, warned White Zetsu and an official about the assassination attempt, and waited for the nobles to act.
• Uchiha Mu captured the missing-nin hired to assassinate the daimyo and ordered him to kill the nobles who had commissioned the job.
• Uchiha Mu continued rebuilding Iwagakure, pressed its former leaders to exchange Land of Earth currency for supplies, and learned that life had improved for villagers.
• Uchiha Mu summoned Two-Tails Matatabi and asked her to tell Keiko to recruit people to help develop the Land of Earth.