Chapter Summaries

Raikage A led Kumogakure into an attack on Akatsuki but was defeated by Pain and forced to retreat. When the allied forces arrived, their leaders argued instead of advancing, and Raikage A realized the alliance was divided.

• Pain used Almighty Push to repel Kumogakure's charge, while Raikage A cursed him and rushed forward to reclaim the Eight-Tails.
• Kisame intercepted Raikage A, and the Akatsuki members attacked the Kumogakure troops as Deidara, Sasori, Kakuzu, and Hidan inflicted heavy losses.
• Pain drew Raikage A in with Banshō Ten'in and blasted him with the Asura Path's Chakra Cannon, forcing him to order a retreat.
• Elite Kumogakure ninja covered Raikage A's withdrawal, and Pain stopped Akatsuki from pursuing because their true enemies had yet to arrive.
• Ōnoki, Mei Terumī, and Baki argued with the wounded Raikage A after the allied forces arrived, leaving him to conclude that the alliance was not united.

The Akatsuki launched a powerful assault on the five-nation alliance, forcing Yemu to enter the battle. He sent Kakashi and the others to confront Uchiha Itachi while preparing to face the wider threat himself.

• Deva Path Pain attacked Kirigakure assassins with Almighty Push and declared that the world must feel pain.
• Deidara and Kisame devastated the alliance’s forces, while the other Paths of Pain and Konan joined the assault.
• Ōnoki and Mei Terumi entered the battle and urged Yemu to act as the alliance’s strongest ninja.
• Yemu ordered Kakashi to take the others to confront Uchiha Itachi, telling him that Itachi was a double agent and would only put on a show.
• Yemu forced Qingxue Uchiha and Hinata Hyuga to leave with Kakashi, then Kakashi was immediately defeated by Itachi’s genjutsu.

Yemu faced the Six Paths of Pain and overwhelmed their opening attacks with his Tenseigan powers. After defeating four Paths, he remained in battle against Deva Path Pain and the surviving Paths.

• Deva Path Pain challenged Yemu and led him to a deserted area, where the other five Paths surrounded him.
• Deva Path Pain used Shinra Tensei, but Yemu countered with a stronger Shinra Tensei.
• Yemu charged Animal Path, cut its summoned rhinoceros in half with Heavenly Blade, and destroyed Animal Path with his Tenseigan Mode.
• Yemu dodged Asura Path’s missiles and blasted away Preta Path when it tried to absorb his chakra.
• Yemu used Repel to tear apart Human Path and Naraka Path, leaving four of the Six Paths defeated.

Yemu overwhelmed the Six Paths of Pain, alarming the Akatsuki and the Kage watching from afar. As Nagato tried to restore the fallen Pain puppets, Yemu stopped his techniques and dragged Deva Path Pain toward him, leaving Nagato furious and shaken.

• Black Zetsu and Obito watched Yemu defeat four Pain puppets, and Obito decided to let Nagato test Yemu's limits.
• Kisame and Deidara watched the battlefield and reacted with shock at Yemu's power.
• Ōnoki and Mei Terumi observed from a distant plateau and wondered how Yemu could be so strong.
• Darui and the Cloud Ninja praised the Fourth Raikage for surviving his encounters with Yemu, while the Raikage ordered them to remain alert for the Akatsuki.
• Nagato used the Naraka Path to begin restoring the fallen Pain puppets, but Yemu attacked Deva Path Pain with his green chakra prayer beads.
• Deva Path Pain's repulsion and attraction techniques failed to stop Yemu, who dragged him through the air and left Nagato cursing the Rinnegan.

Yemu overwhelmed Deva Path Pain and endured his Chibaku Tensei before destroying it with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion. After gathering enough emotion points, Yemu prepared to end the battle, while Black Zetsu began reconsidering his plans in light of Yemu’s power.

• Yemu kept Deva Path Pain suspended and battered, forcing Nagato to pour his chakra into him until the other five Pains collapsed.
• Deva Path Pain unleashed Chibaku Tensei, drawing in rubble and wreckage as the Fourth Raikage ordered the ninja to retreat.
• Uchiha Itachi asked Naruto where Sasuke had gone, and Naruto said Sasuke had deserted and that Yemu likely knew more.
• Sasuke Uchiha watched Yemu from a hill with Orochimaru, envying his strength as Orochimaru said Yemu had gone beyond what a ninja was.
• Yemu, unaffected by Chibaku Tensei, declared that he would end the fight and shattered the gravitational sphere with Golden Wheel Reincarnation Explosion.
• Nagato coughed up blood from the shock of Yemu’s power, while Obito Uchiha and Black Zetsu considered avoiding a confrontation and waiting for Yemu to die.

Yemu overwhelmed Nagato’s Deva Path and shattered Konan’s attack with Super Shinra Tensei, leaving the Akatsuki’s defeat apparent. The surviving fighters launched a counterattack as Deidara landed among the Stone Ninja.

• Yemu pinned Deva Path Pain down, destroyed its head, and severed Nagato’s connection to the puppet.
• Konan attacked Yemu with a storm of explosive tags, while Kakuzu realized Deva Path Pain was only a puppet and declared the Akatsuki finished.
• The Fourth Raikage ordered the Cloud Ninja to charge and counterattack, and Shikamaru, Choji, Rock Lee, and Tenten watched Yemu’s overwhelming strength.
• Yemu unleashed Super Shinra Tensei, destroying Konan’s explosive tags and blasting her into rubble, convincing her that the Akatsuki could not win.
• Deidara fled the force field and landed among the Stone Ninja, where Kurotsuchi greeted him.

After the Akatsuki retreated, Yemu rejected the Kage’s demand to redistribute the tailed beasts and declared the shinobi world beneath him. Black Zetsu and Obito moved to seize the tailed beasts while the Allied Shinobi Forces faced the prospect of another war.

• Deidara stopped resisting Ōnoki and Kurotsuchi, then watched Yemu and questioned whether he was stronger than the Akatsuki leader.
• The Akatsuki retreated as Yemu returned to the four Kage, who praised his strength and the Fourth Raikage proposed dividing the tailed beasts.
• Yemu refused to share the tailed beasts, provoking the Fourth Raikage, Ōnoki, and Mei Terumi to accuse him of threatening the shinobi world.
• Black Zetsu told Obito Uchiha that Yemu’s defiance would help their plans, and they set out to retrieve the tailed beasts.
• Yemu faced the Kage and gathered shinobi, called them all trash, and left them stunned and furious.

Yemu declared that he would unify the Shinobi World and refused to let Konoha or the other nations stop him, widening the divide between him and his former allies. Naruto tried to reason with him, but Yemu blasted him away, while Qingxue Uchiha and Hinata Hyuga chose to stand by Yemu.

• Yemu’s declaration provoked the Fourth Raikage, Mei Terumi, and Ōnoki, while Qingxue Uchiha and Hinata Hyuga stepped forward in support of him.
• Kakashi Hatake admitted that Konoha could not control Yemu, and Ōnoki’s accusations deepened the distrust between the allied nations.
• Yemu warned that he would fight Konoha too if it tried to stop him, dividing Konoha’s ninja over his plan to unify the Shinobi World.
• Naruto Uzumaki challenged Yemu and tried to talk him out of starting a war, but Yemu called him naive and blasted him away with Repulsive Force.
• Qingxue Uchiha and Hinata Hyuga approached Yemu and pledged to stand with him, even if the entire Shinobi World opposed them.

After the Kage’s campaign against Yemu ended without a fight, they discovered the tailed beasts had vanished from Akatsuki’s base. Obito recruited Orochimaru to oppose Yemu, while Tsunade and Kakashi faced the looming question of which side Konoha would take.

• Ōnoki and Mei Terumi pretended they needed time to consider Yemu’s offer, and Yemu gave them one week to respond before visiting their villages himself.
• The Kage searched Akatsuki’s underground base for the tailed beasts but found the sealing formation destroyed and the beasts missing, so the allied forces withdrew in frustration.
• Obito Uchiha entered Orochimaru’s laboratory, offered an alliance against Yemu, and promised Orochimaru Konoha and Yemu’s remains if they won.
• Orochimaru accepted Obito’s proposal, and Sasuke questioned him about joining forces against Yemu.
• Kakashi told Tsunade that Yemu intended to unite the Shinobi World, and Tsunade worried the nations would surround Amegakure.
• Kakashi asked Tsunade whether Konoha should fight alongside the other nations against Yemu or oppose them.

Tsunade refused to commit Konoha to Yemu’s fight, while Yemu summoned the forces he had secretly gathered in Amegakure. His hidden organization assembled under his command and began moving toward Kirigakure’s border.

• Tsunade told Kakashi that Konoha would not be forced to help Yemu, though she would not stop individual ninja from joining him.
• Yemu told Hinata that he would fight the shinobi world without Konoha’s support, and Hinata left to deliver his message.
• Qingxue told Yemu that the Land of Iron could shelter them if they failed, but Yemu activated a black Token to summon his forces.
• Ino was inexplicably drawn toward Amegakure, and Shikamaru and Choji set off after her as other figures across the shinobi world headed there too.
• Zabuza, Haku, Gekko Hayate, Neji, Baki, and their squads assembled with more than a hundred ninja and five hundred puppets beneath Yemu’s command.
• Yemu ordered the assembled forces to disperse, and they moved toward Kirigakure’s border.

Yemu faced the allied shinobi army outside Amegakure and effortlessly shattered their first attacks with his power. As the assembled leaders realized the battle might be beyond them, the chapter ended with the Fourth Raikage looking up in horror at the sky.

• The Fourth Raikage questioned Orochimaru's presence and challenged the mysterious White Masked man, whom Orochimaru called his lab assistant.
• Obito Uchiha and the Fourth Raikage urged the allied forces to attack Yemu, while Konan asked Nagato what they should do after the Akatsuki's defeat; Nagato said they would wait and turn hunter against prey.
• Yemu stood on Amegakure's wall as five hundred Cloud Ninja combined their lightning into a dragon, which he restrained and shattered with his Tenseigan power.
• Ōnoki launched Dust Release at Yemu, but Yemu's gravity forced him down before he could complete the attack.
• The allied shinobi called out in alarm as the Fourth Raikage looked up and turned deathly pale.

Yemu summoned more than ten meteors to shatter the Allied Shinobi Forces’ morale, then ordered the Shadow Organization to attack and rout the remaining troops. The battle ended with the allied army collapsing as it realized the Shadow Organization and its allies were overwhelmingly strong.

• The Fourth Raikage, Mei Terumi, Kurotsuchi, and Ōnoki watched as more than ten enormous meteors formed overhead, and Ōnoki ordered the allied troops to retreat.
• The meteors struck the battlefield, devastating the army and causing the fifty thousand allied troops to flee in terror.
• Yemu declared that the shinobi world needed only his voice and ordered the Shadow Organization to attack.
• Zabuza led an assault that broke enemy formations, while Haku’s squad incapacitated targets and Neji and Ino coordinated reconnaissance and communications.
• Baki led Sunagakure ninja in a Wind Release attack that destroyed the enemy flank and joined the allied assault with Konoha.
• The major villages’ forces collapsed, recognizing that the Shadow Organization was powerful and that the Sand Ninja had joined Yemu.

With the Allied Shinobi Forces collapsing before Yemu, Orochimaru used Impure World Reincarnation to summon powerful shinobi from the past. The Fourth Raikage, Mei Terumi, and Ōnoki recognized the resurrected warriors as the Third Raikage, Hozuki Gengetsu, Mu, and the Fourth Kazekage Rasa, while Orochimaru declared the war was far from over.

• The Fourth Raikage, Mei Terumi, and Ōnoki admitted that Yemu had overwhelmed the allied army and considered retreating.
• Orochimaru dismissed the Kage’s despair and summoned more than ten coffins with Impure World Reincarnation.
• The Third Raikage emerged and vowed to fight again to wipe away the Land of Lightning’s disgrace, shocking the Fourth Raikage.
• Hozuki Gengetsu and Mu emerged from the next coffins, and Mei Terumi and Ōnoki recognized the legendary shinobi.
• The final coffin opened to reveal the Fourth Kazekage, Rasa.

Orochimaru summoned Hozuki Gengetsu, Second Tsuchikage Mu, and the Third Raikage through Impure World Reincarnation and ordered them to fight the Shadow Organization. The Third Raikage attacked Zabuza, who revealed his Hidden Mist Chakra Mode and prepared to test his training against him.

• Hozuki Gengetsu and Second Tsuchikage Mu recognized each other as sworn enemies before Orochimaru reminded them they shared a target and ordered them to attack the Shadow Organization.
• The Third Raikage activated his Lightning Release Armor and charged into battle while Mu asked Ōnoki what had happened on the shattered battlefield.
• Yemu saw the Third Raikage approaching Zabuza's squad and decided to intervene, noting that he had earned enough emotion points for his third-stage advancement.
• The Third Raikage attacked Zabuza, who blocked his punch with Kubikiribōchō but was driven back and recognized his opponent as the legendary Third Raikage.
• Zabuza unleashed his Water Release and formed Hidden Mist Chakra Mode, astonishing the Third Raikage as he prepared to fight back.
• Yemu watched from above with his purple Tenseigan and approved of Zabuza's newly developed chakra mode.

Yemu entered the battlefield and confronted the reanimated Third Raikage, whose speed had overwhelmed Zabuza. Elsewhere, the reanimated Fourth Kazekage Rasa challenged Baki after finding him fighting for Yemu.

• The Third Raikage repeatedly outsped Zabuza and forced him to rely on Hidden Mist Chakra Mode to evade his attacks.
• The Third Raikage destroyed Yemu's puppets to rescue a Kumogakure Chunin, then turned toward nearby Kirigakure Ninja.
• Yemu descended onto the battlefield and used an unknown ocular power to immobilize the Third Raikage as Orochimaru ordered him to attack.
• The Third Raikage activated his Lightning Release Armor at full power while the Fourth Raikage watched anxiously from the rubble.
• The reanimated Rasa found Baki fighting for Yemu and accused him of betraying the Land of Wind.
• Baki declared his loyalty to Yemu, and Rasa summoned golden sand to fight him.

Baki overwhelmed the reanimated Fourth Kazekage Rasa with his Wind Release Chakra Mode, while Yemu sent the Third Raikage crashing into a hill with Almighty Push. The Third Raikage rose from the rubble, recognizing that Yemu was far stronger than he had expected.

• Baki split Rasa’s Gold Dust Storm with Wind Release: Vacuum Slash and mocked the reanimated Kazekage.
• Rasa unleashed a barrage of gold dust spikes, but Baki activated Wind Release Chakra Mode and destroyed the attack with a storm dragon.
• Baki’s wind dragon broke through Rasa’s Gold Dust Barrier and swept him away, impressing the Sand shinobi who followed Baki and joined Yemu.
• Ōnoki and Orochimaru watched Baki defeat Rasa, and Ōnoki remarked that Mu was the one to look to in a real battle.
• The Third Raikage charged Yemu with Four-Finger Nukite, but Yemu repelled him with Almighty Push and smashed him into a rocky hillside.
• The Third Raikage rose from the rubble and acknowledged that Yemu was much stronger than he had predicted.

Yemu activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode and his Martial God Body to overwhelm the reanimated Third Raikage with taijutsu. He buried the Raikage underground with a finishing strike, leaving the watching shinobi stunned by his strength.

• The Third Raikage recovered from Yemu's Repulsive Force attack and charged at him with One-Finger Nukite.
• Yemu activated Tenseigan Chakra Mode, and his Chakra Prayer Beads forced the Third Raikage to evade instead of attacking.
• Yemu activated his Martial God Body and struck the Third Raikage with a series of powerful punches and kicks.
• The Allied Shinobi Forces, Mei Terumi, Ōnoki, and the Fourth Raikage watched in shock as Yemu battered the Third Raikage.
• Yemu finished the Third Raikage with Falling Thunder Strike, driving his reanimated body deep underground.
• Hozuki Gengetsu and Mu saw the beating and complained that Yemu's raw strength was far too overwhelming.

Yemu fought the reanimated Third Raikage while his shadow clone engaged Hozuki Gengetsu and Mu, drawing the Allied forces into a coordinated attack. The chapter ended with Yemu arriving before five opponents after crushing the Third Raikage and challenging them for daring to fight “God.”

• Yemu created a shadow clone to keep Hozuki Gengetsu and Mu occupied while he continued fighting the Third Raikage.
• Hozuki Gengetsu and Mu attacked Yemu's clone as the Fourth Raikage, Ōnoki, and Mei Terumi moved to support the battle.
• Mei Terumi, Ōnoki, the Fourth Raikage, Hozuki Gengetsu, and Mu surrounded Yemu's clone, seeking a victory to restore the Allied forces' morale.
• Yemu's clone revealed that the real Yemu was approaching and dispelled itself.
• Yemu arrived holding the shattered body of the Third Raikage, dropped it before the five fighters, and asked whether they wanted to challenge “God.”

Yemu effortlessly defeated the Five Kage-level fighters and shattered the Allied Shinobi Forces’ morale. Orochimaru summoned Madara Uchiha, who recognized Yemu as his sole opponent and prepared to face him.

• The Fourth Raikage, Mei Terumi, Ōnoki, Mu, and Hozuki Gengetsu launched a coordinated attack on Yemu, but he destroyed their techniques and knocked them all down.
• Yemu’s victory left the Five Kage-level fighters injured and the Allied Shinobi Forces terrified, while Kakashi Hatake, Might Guy, Shizune, and Shikamaru Nara watched from a distant hill.
• Orochimaru arrived and told the defeated fighters that the truly powerful opponent had not yet appeared.
• Orochimaru used the Impure World Reincarnation Jutsu to summon Madara Uchiha.
• Madara Uchiha assessed the battlefield, learned that the others had failed to defeat Yemu, and looked toward him as his sole enemy.

Orochimaru summoned Madara Uchiha through Impure World Reincarnation, and Madara challenged Yemu after taking an interest in his Tenseigan. Yemu countered Madara’s attacks and stopped his Susanoo blade, prompting Madara to prepare to fight seriously.

• Orochimaru revealed that he had summoned Madara Uchiha, shocking Ōnoki, the Fourth Raikage, and the watching ninja.
• Yemu descended before Madara, who asked about his unusual eyes, but Yemu told him to survive their fight before asking his name.
• Madara charged Yemu with a punch, but Yemu’s Tenseigan repulsive force blasted him into a crater.
• Madara used Majestic Destroyer Flame, but Yemu drew the flames into the sky and blasted them apart with Banshō Ten'in and Shinra Tensei.
• Madara formed Susanoo and attacked with its blade, but Yemu’s six chakra prayer beads stopped the strike.
• Madara acknowledged Yemu as a worthy opponent and pressed his palms together to fight seriously.