Recaps

Naruto led Amegakure’s meeting on postwar reconstruction and foreign policy, settling plans to restore war-ravaged lands and develop six islands as military and training facilities. The meeting ended with Hashirama promising to inspect Tobirama’s planned bases, threatening Tobirama’s secret research scheme.

• Naruto opened the meeting and invited the attendees to discuss the war’s aftermath and Amegakure’s foreign policy.
• Hashirama proposed restoring the lands devastated by Indra’s Dōjutsu, while Kakuzu suggested profiting from timber scarcity; Naruto brokered a plan to restore the lands for compensation.
• Tobirama proposed developing six islands gifted by the Land of Water into military bases, and Konan, Red Sand Scorpion, Deidara, and Hidan discussed uses for them.
• Naruto approved turning one island into a taijutsu training ground for the Bushy-Browed Teacher’s clone army and planned to make their original its leader.
• Tobirama secretly welcomed the plan as cover for a forbidden-technique research base, but Hashirama announced he would personally inspect the military bases.

Naruto argued that ninja still had a vital role in combat, despite the power of the Ōtsutsuki, and Hiruzen agreed to share his reasoning with ninja across the villages. He concluded the meeting by affirming that he would protect the world without controlling people’s choices, leaving Asura moved by his answer.

• Hiruzen asked how ninja could find their place after the war, and Naruto rejected the idea that they had become useless.
• Naruto explained that even powerful fighters had vulnerable bodies and that ninjutsu remained strategically valuable when used by skilled ninja.
• Naruto asked Hiruzen to convey his views to ninja whose confidence the war had shaken, and Hiruzen agreed.
• The meeting addressed practical matters, while Asura continued waiting for Naruto to answer how ordinary people should be treated.
• Naruto said people had the right to understand reality and choose how to live, and Asura became teary as Naruto described why he had crossed time to start over.

Naruto ended the meeting by assigning Asura to lead a campaign warning the world about the Ōtsutsuki, then gathered a select group in Obito’s spacetime dimension to reveal what he knew about Kara. The chapter ended as Naruto began projecting the organization’s secrets.

• Naruto asked the gathered ninjas to help inform the world about the Ōtsutsuki threat, and Asura challenged his doubts about persuading people.
• Naruto appointed Asura head of Amegakure’s Publicity Department and promised him support and a two-year deadline.
• Naruto ended the meeting with a guiding principle, and Amamiya Ruri recorded his words.
• Naruto stayed behind with a chosen group and asked Obito to transport them to the spacetime dimension, keeping Jiraiya out of the discussion so he could spend time with his mother.
• Naruto explained that Kara had a member with Clairvoyance and began revealing the organization’s secrets with Six Paths: Holographic Elephant Transfer.

Naruto explained Kara’s origins and Isshiki’s search for a suitable vessel, revealing the dangerous artificial humans who escaped disposal and Amado’s plot against Isshiki. He disclosed that Kashin Koji was a clone made from Jiraiya’s remains, then erased Koji’s image because he no longer existed in the changed timeline.

• Naruto identified Eida’s Clairvoyance and heart-stealing ability, then explained that Eida, Daemon, Kawaki, and Code were artificial humans or future vessels whose apparent ages could be misleading.
• Naruto explained that Kaguya had betrayed Isshiki, who survived by parasitizing the monk Jigen and later founded Kara to find a suitable vessel.
• Naruto described how Amado supplied technology and Victor supplied funds, enabling Kara to create powerful artificial humans, including Eida and Daemon, whom Isshiki had ordered destroyed.
• Naruto revealed that Amado secretly worked against Isshiki and created Kashin Koji from Jiraiya’s remains.
• Naruto removed Kashin Koji’s image, explaining that Koji no longer existed because the group had reached the past first.

Naruto briefed the others on Kara and its Inner members, including possible links to Kirigakure and ways to exploit their personal ambitions. The group realized Naruto’s public claim that he came from the future might have warned Kara, but Obito produced a withered God Tree blossom that could lure its members out.

• Naruto explained that Kara hid in another dimension, raised a juvenile Ten-Tails, and sought to grow a God Tree and harvest its Chakra Fruit.
• Naruto described Deepa, Victor, and Boro, prompting Tobirama to connect Boro’s virus techniques to the First Mizukage’s Plague Release.
• Naruto suggested that Victor and Boro could provide a route into Kara, but Itachi warned that Kara might have become more cautious after Naruto publicly revealed his return from the future.
• Naruto explained the Inner members’ individual motives, and Itachi proposed using a tempting bait to draw them out against Isshiki’s orders.
• Obito retrieved a withered God Tree blossom from his spacetime dimension and proposed quietly placing it on the Black Market to attract Victor and Boro.

Naruto and the others planned to use a God Tree flower as bait to uncover Kara’s headquarters, while he explained Eida and Daemon’s history and Amado’s role. The meeting ended with Naruto determined to kill Isshiki and wary of what Amado would do.

• Tobirama, Konan, Orochimaru, and Shisui discussed how to plant the God Tree flower as bait without linking it to Amegakure, and Naruto explained why Eida would not reveal what she saw to Isshiki or Amado.
• Naruto told the group that Eida fell in love with his son because her Heartsteal ability did not affect Ōtsutsuki, and that she and Daemon eventually agreed not to fight.
• Naruto explained that Amado removed the siblings’ abilities, later helped Konoha, and ultimately fled with Delta before the Shinobi World was destroyed, though Naruto found their spaceship wreckage afterward.
• Naruto said the group should use Boro and Victor to find Kara’s headquarters and decide later whether to spare Amado, whose actions would affect how Konoha treated him.
• Naruto declared that Isshiki must die and secretly resolved to feed him to the Ten-Tails, then ended the meeting as the holographic figures vanished.

Naruto and Kakuzu used Ōmononushi to duplicate gold, then devised the Golden Country Plan to make gold essential for worldwide fortifications. Kakuzu also argued that Ninja should eventually issue currency, and Naruto asked him to secretly put a God Tree flower on the black market.

• Naruto secretly met Kakuzu at a cave in Amegakure and showed him the gold bar Kakuzu had commissioned.
• Naruto used Ōmononushi to duplicate the gold, filling the chamber with hundreds of tons while Kakuzu reveled in the riches.
• Kakuzu warned Naruto that abundant gold would lose value, then proposed making gold the required material for defensive fortifications across the Shinobi World.
• Kakuzu explained that the Five Great Nations' weakening authority threatened their currencies and argued that Ninja should issue currency instead.
• Naruto gave Kakuzu a scroll containing a sealed God Tree flower and told him to sell it on the black market without revealing their connection.

Naruto returned to bed after assigning Kakuzu a task and comforted his pregnant wife, Hinata. Meanwhile, Amamiya Ruri and her advisers debated Naruto’s sixteen-character maxim, which Kabuto Yakushi interpreted as a secret plan to turn ordinary people across the world into ninja to prepare for the Ōtsutsuki.

• Naruto used Flying Thunder God to return to the bathroom, startled Hinata, and then settled beside her in bed, where they went to sleep together.
• After the meeting in Amegakure, Amamiya Ruri gathered Kabuto Yakushi, Violet, and the other advisers to discuss the meaning of Naruto’s sixteen-character maxim.
• Violet interpreted the maxim as a call for postwar recovery and Amegakure’s expansion, but Amamiya Ruri argued that it pointed to a larger ambition.
• Amamiya Ruri concluded that Naruto intended to use Amegakure as a base to secretly expand the Land of Rain’s influence and conquer the world.
• Kabuto Yakushi argued that the maxim meant ordinary people would be awakened as ninja so they could unite against the Ōtsutsuki, and Amamiya Ruri praised his interpretation.

Jigen summoned Kara’s Inner Circle, ordered them to suspend their activities and search for a vessel while staying hidden, and Amado discovered Naruto’s bait but chose not to alert Jigen or contact Naruto’s side. Amado waited to see how the conflict unfolded, hoping Eida and Daemon might become leverage against Jigen.

• Jigen asked Amado about developments outside and, suspecting Naruto knew about him, concluded that his future self might have died because he failed to find a suitable vessel.
• Jigen summoned Delta, Deepa, Victor, and Boro, heard about their plans, and ordered them to pause their work, search for vessel candidates, and avoid appearing in public.
• Amado used Eida’s Clairvoyance to see Naruto hand the God Tree’s flower to Kakuzu and realized Naruto’s side was using it as bait for Kara.
• Amado considered contacting Naruto’s side but deleted the image and kept the discovery from Jigen, choosing to wait rather than reveal Kara’s location.
• Amado hoped Jigen would recognize the danger and keep Eida and Daemon, whose creations might give him leverage.

At the Five Kage Summit, Kakashi and Shikaku argued that ninja villages needed focused training and proposed seeking financial support from the Daimyo or, if negotiations failed, leaving the great nations’ control. The summit ended bitterly, but the Kage and Mifune gathered outside Amegakure the next day, where the gates opened.

• Kakashi told the Five Kage that the Ōtsutsuki threat made reform of the ninja system urgent, and Shikaku proposed two paths: negotiate support from the Daimyo or seek new places to develop outside the great nations’ control.
• A and Ōnoki rejected the prospect of abandoning commissioned missions or leaving their nations, while Gaara defended Naruto and announced he would go to Amegakure.
• Gaara left the summit with Kankuro and Temari, and Mei Terumi soon departed as well.
• Ōnoki pointed out that the Land of Lightning’s succession crisis left A unable to negotiate reforms, and A insisted he would never join Amegakure.
• The following evening, Gaara, Kakashi, Mei Terumi, and Ōnoki met A and the arriving Kumogakure group outside Amegakure; A said he had come to demand the release of Omoi, Samui, and the others.
• Mifune arrived with samurai, claiming they had followed the Kage out of concern for their safety, and Amegakure’s gates opened.

Naruto and the Five Kage agreed on preliminary steps toward relocating the ninja villages to Amegakure, while Kakashi persuaded Itachi to advise Konoha’s mental health unit and reveal the truth about the Uchiha massacre. Sasuke set out to resolve the crisis in the Land of Lightning, as Victor learned that a flower of the God Tree would be auctioned there.

• Naruto and the Five Kage agreed that the Kage would negotiate with their Daimyo while Amegakure prepared to receive the villages, and Naruto promised a solution to their funding concerns.
• The Raikage reunited with Darui, released Omoi, Samui, Karui, and his other followers, then sent Dodai to arrange Kumogakure’s relocation and entered Hell Valley to train.
• Kakashi asked Itachi to advise Konoha’s mental health ninja unit and clear his name, and Itachi agreed after Shisui urged him to reveal the truth.
• Shikaku prepared to take Anko back to Konoha to expose Danzo’s slander against Naruto, and he and Kakashi were surprised by how much weight Anko had gained.
• Sasuke set out for the Land of Lightning to place Itachi’s chosen successor on the Daimyo’s throne and repair the crisis he had caused.
• Victor learned from Lou that a flower of the God Tree would appear at a Black Market auction in the Land of Lightning and decided to pursue it.

Victor recruited Deepa and tried to recruit Boro to help him defy Jigen by obtaining a God Tree Flower, which he believed could grant him true immortality. After Victor won the flower at an auction, Naruto appeared in the hall, and Victor’s chakra alarm warned him of an enormous chakra signature.

• Victor decided to attend the Land of Lightning auction and persuaded Deepa to accompany him, then leaked the God Tree Flower’s location to Boro.
• Victor traveled to the Land of Lightning, convinced the flower could help him achieve true immortality.
• At the auction, Victor confirmed the flower was genuine and won it with a bid of ten billion.
• Naruto and Kakuzu watched the auction footage in Amegakure and waited for Victor to pay before making their move.
• Victor paid for the flower and prepared to leave while Deepa went to the restroom.
• An Amegakure Anbu used a Flying Thunder God Kunai, and Naruto appeared in the auction hall as Victor’s chakra alarm sounded.

Naruto defeated Victor after Victor tried to escape and attacked him with multiple techniques, then extracted information from Victor’s mind and killed him. Outside the venue, Obito confronted Boro, while Deepa encountered a long-haired man in the corridor.

• Naruto blocked Victor’s escape, and Victor detonated Explosive Tags hidden in the flower box before trying to use the venue’s occupants as hostages.
• Naruto countered Victor’s Fire, Earth, Water, and Lightning Release techniques, then captured him with Banshō Ten'in.
• Naruto used the Human Path to read Victor’s mind and extract his soul, killing him.
• Boro sensed Victor’s chakra disappear and tried to leave, but Obito appeared and identified himself as Boro’s grim reaper.
• Deepa slaughtered people in a corridor, then stopped when a long-haired man approached and called him the Fighting Clown.

Madara defeated Deepa in the corridor while Obito captured and killed Boro after discovering Kara’s secrets. After Naruto, Obito, and Madara regrouped and shared intelligence, they decided to investigate the two spatial coordinates one at a time.

• Deepa attacked Madara with carbon stones and hardened claws, but Madara dodged his strikes and trapped him with Susanoo before burning him to death with Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame.
• Boro’s viruses and explosions failed to harm Obito, who identified the Regeneration Core and used a time-reversal technique to capture him.
• Obito questioned Boro about Kara’s Headquarters, then used Planetary Devastation, Kamui, and Human Path to extract his intelligence and kill him.
• Naruto, Obito, and Madara regrouped and exchanged the locations they had learned from Victor and Boro.
• Obito noted that the intelligence revealed two spatial coordinates, and Naruto proposed checking them one at a time.

Naruto, Obito, and Madara explored a Kara space, discovering records of the Ōtsutsuki and the Ten-Tails. A replay revealed that Amado had arranged Kara’s retreat and left the Ten-Tails behind as a test of Naruto’s intentions.

• Naruto pressed two horn emblems on the wall and viewed images of Kaguya and Isshiki.
• Naruto told Obito and Madara that the wall had also recorded Momoshiki, Kinshiki, Urashiki, and Ryūshiki, whom he believed might have been stronger than Shinshiki.
• The three found Kara’s juvenile Ten-Tails, and Madara said they should take it with them.
• Naruto opened a portal to Kara’s other location, but found it deserted; Obito used his past-replay ability to view the evacuation.
• In the replay, Amado warned Jigen that Naruto could reach them with Yomotsu Hirasaka, urged him to retreat, and left the Ten-Tails as a gesture meant to learn where Naruto stood.
• Naruto called Amado an old fox after the replay ended.

Naruto settled the Ten-Tails in the Samsara Grotto to grow a God Tree without draining the shinobi world's vitality, while Kara prepared a new fighting force. Delta secretly flew toward the Land of Rain to assassinate Naruto, who recognized her and went out to intercept her.

• Naruto brought the Ten-Tails to the Samsara Grotto and gathered Strange Fruit before leaving.
• At Kara's new Headquarters, Amado introduced Eida and Daemon, and Jigen accepted them as Inner Circle members.
• Delta wrecked Amado's Laboratory, then secretly left Kara's base to kill Naruto in the Land of Rain.
• Hinata detected Delta with the Tenseigan Satellite, and Naruto recognized her and went to meet her.

Naruto ambushed Delta at the abandoned Underground Black Market auction house and defeated her with Utakata’s Bubble Technique. Delta’s Mirror Drone survived the battle, leaving open the possibility that she could return in a spare body.

• Delta flew toward Amegakure to kill Naruto, but a Yomotsu Hirasaka portal diverted her to the Land of Lightning’s Underground Black Market, where Naruto was waiting.
• Naruto used his oversized Bubble Technique to destroy the auction house and forced Delta to deploy her Mirror Drone as a backup core.
• Delta absorbed Naruto’s bubbles with her eye, attacked with her extending leg, and fired her Destruction Laser, but Naruto evaded or withstood each attack.
• Naruto explained that Delta’s laser was an inferior imitation of the Tenseigan’s Golden Wheel Life-Extinguishing Light and overwhelmed her eyes with too many bubbles to absorb.
• Naruto trapped Delta inside a huge bubble and detonated it behind a Truth-Seeking Orb barrier, decisively defeating her.

At Kara's base, Naruto pursued Delta's Mirror Drone and forced Amado to negotiate, then swallowed the drone as collateral. Amado agreed to betray Kara and prepare to leave with Eida and Daemon.

• Amado watched Naruto chase Delta's Mirror Drone and panicked when he realized Naruto could follow it to Kara's headquarters.
• Amado stopped the drone and negotiated with Naruto, who refused to halt his pursuit of Isshiki without collateral.
• Amado agreed to turn against Kara and reveal Jigen's location if Naruto let Delta return safely.
• Naruto captured and swallowed the Mirror Drone, while Amado prepared to leave Kara with Eida and Daemon.

Amado confronted Jigen, revealed that he was Isshiki, and escaped Kara's base with Eida and Daemon after using Daemon's Reflection and a series of bluffs to deter him. Isshiki opened a Space Gate and arrived above the Hidden Leaf Village, near the Hyuga Clan's residential district.

• Amado tried to leave Kara's base with Eida and Daemon, but Jigen confronted him and warned him to abandon his betrayal.
• Amado accused Isshiki of never intending to share the God Tree's Chakra Fruit and declared that he would no longer serve him.
• Jigen attacked Amado, but Daemon's Reflection turned the attack back on Jigen and pinned him with Black Receivers.
• Amado threatened to summon Naruto Uzumaki and claimed a bomb would destroy Jigen's body, forcing Isshiki to let Amado, Eida, and Daemon board their spaceship and leave.
• Afterward, Amado admitted the bomb was a bluff, while Eida and Daemon learned that Isshiki might have seen through it.
• Isshiki opened a Space Gate and emerged above the Hidden Leaf Village, looking toward the Hyuga Clan's residential district.

Jigen attacked the Hyuga compound to abduct Neji, but Kakashi decapitated him, triggering Isshiki’s reincarnation. In Amegakure, Naruto prepared defenses against Isshiki’s abilities and led the ten Hei Taro brothers to confront him.

• Jigen entered Neji’s home and tried to take him, but Hizashi attacked to protect his son.
• Jigen defeated Hizashi and Hiashi, and Neji agreed to go with him to stop further harm.
• Kakashi arrived and used Kamui to sever Jigen’s head, setting Isshiki’s reincarnation in motion.
• Naruto prepared Dogu Agaryu and gave his protective mask a soul, naming it Hannya.
• Naruto and the ten Hei Taro brothers set out to face Isshiki.

Isshiki massacred Konoha’s defenders and escaped with Neji, forcing Naruto to choose between rescuing the dead and pursuing him. After Naruto chose to restore the fallen first, he traced Isshiki to his separate space and confronted him there.

• Isshiki used his shrinking ability and Daikokuten to defeat Konoha’s defenders, crush Kakashi’s legs, and kill many people before escaping through a Space Gate with Neji.
• Naruto and Obito arrived, and Obito reversed time to revive the dead and restore Kakashi’s legs before Naruto healed Hiashi’s eyes.
• Naruto learned Isshiki had placed a Kāma on Neji and explained that Amado could eventually purify it so Neji could gain Isshiki’s power without losing his identity.
• Naruto traced Isshiki’s chakra to his separate space and told Obito and Madara to wait elsewhere while he went to kill Isshiki.
• Isshiki sealed Neji beneath a sealing tool as Naruto arrived, and Isshiki reflected on Pear and addressed Naruto as the Star of Prophecy.

Naruto used his Truth-Seeking Orbs, malice sensing, and prepared allies to counter Isshiki’s shrinking and combat abilities. Isshiki’s attempt to enter Naruto’s ear was intercepted by the Monkey King, while the author’s note afterward thanked readers for their support.

• Naruto blocked Isshiki’s Black Receivers and defeated him in taijutsu, then sensed him after Isshiki shrank himself.
• Naruto and his nine brothers attacked Isshiki with weapons, and Naruto’s Futsunomitama-powered Tailed Beast Bomb forced Isshiki to return to normal size, though Isshiki shrank the ensuing explosion.
• Isshiki summoned Chibiki Stones to block perception and approached Naruto while shrunk, intending to enter his ear and control his brain.
• Isshiki entered Naruto’s left ear, where the Monkey King, shrunk with Kongō Ruyi Transformation, confronted him; Hei Taro had plugged Naruto’s left ear as an earplug.

The Monkey King fought Isshiki inside Naruto’s ear canal and drove him back outside, where Naruto crushed him beneath a thousand massively weighted stones. The battlefield fell silent after Isshiki’s scream.

• Isshiki battled the Monkey King inside Naruto’s ear canal, but the Monkey King resisted his attacks and narrowly escaped being trapped beneath a sealing mountain.
• The Monkey King used a shrinking cave and his Explosive Flame Chariot to smash Isshiki into the earplug and force him out of Naruto’s ear.
• The battered Isshiki tried to recover, but Naruto multiplied the Thousand-Pull Stones and increased their weight with the Ultra-Added-Weight Rock Technique.
• The falling stones crashed down on Isshiki, and the world fell silent.

Naruto defeated Isshiki by using the living Chibiki Stones to track him and striking with a Truth-Seeking Big Ball Rasengan. He returned to the Samsara Grotto with Isshiki barely alive and announced that he would have the Ten-Tails devour him.

• Isshiki hid among the Chibiki Stones and planned to outlast Naruto’s Dogu Agaryu technique.
• Naruto used Futsunomitama to share vision with the living stones, then sent shadow clones after Isshiki.
• Isshiki exhausted Sukunahikona while shrinking the clones’ Rasengans, and Naruto formed a Truth-Seeking Big Ball Rasengan with the ten Hei Taro brothers.
• A Chibiki Stone grabbed Isshiki’s ankle, allowing Naruto to strike and shatter his body with the Rasengan.
• Naruto put the stones’ souls into dormancy, took Isshiki’s eye, and stored the stones in Daikokuten space.
• Naruto arrived at the Samsara Grotto with unconscious Neji and Isshiki’s mangled body, then told Obito and Madara he would have the Ten-Tails devour Isshiki.

Naruto had the Ten-Tails eat Isshiki, then Obito halted its evolution into a God Tree while Naruto restrained it. The group agreed to protect Neji from Isshiki’s Kāma for now, and Naruto headed to the moon after Kara was defeated.

• Naruto sent Isshiki to the Ten-Tails as food and revealed that Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Urashiki would later serve as its true catalysts.
• The Ten-Tails began transforming, but Obito used Cessation of Arhat to stop its evolution while preserving the nourishment it had absorbed.
• Naruto used Six Paths: Sandalwood Guardian to pin the Ten-Tails down with black wooden stakes.
• Madara discovered Isshiki’s Kāma on Neji, but Naruto and Obito argued that Neji could be protected until Amado purified the mark.
• Madara agreed to spare Neji for now but warned he would act if Isshiki took over his body.
• Naruto uprooted Kara and left the Samsara Grotto to visit the moon.