Chapter Summaries

Ye Liang’s offhand request for a wife sparked a bride selection, while the Son of Heaven recruited Kobashi Shiki’s female assassins to target him. Ye Liang dismissed the applicants, but the final veiled woman revealed herself as Nao.

• Ye Liang told Granny Matsushita that he missed his wife and asked her to find him one, prompting her to announce a bride selection.
• The Son of Heaven told Kobashi Shiki that the Matsushita family’s descendant had escaped and that a fake god was protecting him.
• The Son of Heaven asked Kobashi Shiki to use his female assassins against Ye Liang, and Kobashi agreed.
• Ye Liang rejected the prospective brides Granny Matsushita had gathered and canceled the selection, then dismissed the remaining applicants.
• The last applicant removed her veil, and Ye Liang recognized her as Nao.

Ye Liang seized the Daimyo's Estate and declared himself daimyo of the Land of Ancestors, forcing the Son of Heaven into exile. After settling in and recovering, Ye Liang was awakened by an explosion and heard that a huge divine stone had fallen in the nearby forest.

• Ye Liang slapped the Son of Heaven, demanded compensation for the Matsushita Clan and his own supposed injuries, then claimed the Daimyo's Estate and declared himself daimyo.
• The Son of Heaven ordered his men to kill Ye Liang, but the ministers did not intervene, and Ye Liang drove him from power.
• The next day, Ye Liang saw Kobashi Shiki and Uzumaki Nao off at the capital gates and returned to his villa to recuperate.
• A nighttime explosion woke Ye Liang, who assumed it was lightning and sent soldiers to put out a fire in the mountain forest.
• The soldiers reported that a huge divine stone had appeared, and Ye Liang guessed it was a meteorite before returning to his room.

Ye Liang investigated reports of a white-haired witch in the woods and discovered a weakened Princess Kaguya, newly arrived on Earth. After realizing she would later become a threat, he chose not to kill her and invited her to the Daimyo's Estate.

• Ye Liang appointed Matsushita Ichiro Commander of Warriors after Old Mother Matsushita repeatedly asked him to find her son an official position.
• Old Mother Matsushita told Ye Liang that villagers had seen a white-haired witch with pale skin and eyes that could spot people from far away.
• Ye Liang recognized the reported eyes as Byakugan and went with soldiers to search the woods east of the city.
• After the soldiers returned, Ye Liang fell asleep on a tree branch, where Princess Kaguya found him and drew out some of his Sage Mode Chakra.
• Ye Liang attacked Kaguya, then realized she was weak and that he had traveled to the time when she had just arrived on Earth.
• Ye Liang decided not to kill Kaguya and invited her to the Daimyo's Estate to look at goldfish.

Ye Liang followed Ōtsutsuki Kaguya into the forest and discovered she had retrieved a God Tree seed. He witnessed another Ōtsutsuki, Isshiki, confront Kaguya and warn her about Ye Liang, then watched Isshiki strike at her neck.

• Ye Liang learned that a meteorite had been found near where Kaguya landed and told Old Mother Matsushita to have her son investigate it.
• Ye Liang visited Ōtsutsuki Kaguya, arranged for her room to be furnished, and allowed her to go into the mountains alone.
• Ye Liang secretly followed Kaguya to a burned, ruined forest, where she found and hid a God Tree seed.
• Isshiki appeared and told Kaguya he suspected Ye Liang was an outsider posing as a god.
• Kaguya rejected Isshiki's warning and ordered him to leave, but Isshiki swung his hand toward her neck.

Ye Liang considered what to do with Princess Kaguya now that he had recovered enough to leave, but an invasion by the Land of Others forced him to turn his attention to the battlefield. At Inari Lake, Matsushita Ichiro faced Minister Suzaku’s superior forces and chose to defend rather than retreat while waiting for Ye Liang.

• Ye Liang questioned Princess Kaguya about her plans, accepted that she had come to cultivate the God Tree, and told her to stay and live properly.
• Three months later, Ye Liang’s body had recovered, and he weighed whether to take Princess Kaguya with him before learning that the Land of Others had invaded.
• At Inari Lake, Minister Suzaku revealed Kobashi Shiki’s severed head and declared Lord Sakata the new daimyo of the Land of Others.
• Matsushita Ichiro learned that Ye Liang had not yet arrived and judged that Suzaku’s larger army had hidden ambushers in the forest.
• Matsushita Ichiro rejected his deputy commander’s suggestion to withdraw and ordered his men to stand their ground.

Ye Liang rescued Matsushita Ichiro after the Land of Others defeated the Land of Ancestors forces, then headed home with him. At the border, they found a village burning after an unknown group of soldiers attacked.

• Matsushita Ichiro prepared to counter the Land of Others ambushers, but his adjutant Inoue defected and led axemen away, allowing the attackers to surround the Land of Ancestors soldiers.
• The Land of Others defeated Matsushita Ichiro's forces and captured him, while Minister Suzaku killed the defecting adjutant with an arrow.
• Ye Liang arrived, repelled Minister Suzaku's archers with Shinra Tensei, and killed the surrounding soldiers with Iron Sand and a Great Fireball Technique.
• Ye Liang told Matsushita Ichiro to go home with him, but they found a village burning at the border of the Land of Ancestors.
• A villager begged Ye Liang to save the village and said that many soldiers had attacked from outside.

Ye Liang realized that the attacks on the villages were a diversion, while soldiers searched the Daimyo's Estate for Kaguya. Kaguya escaped with Aino but exhausted her ocular powers and was cornered by Jigen's disciples.

• Ye Liang and Matsushita Ichiro found that attackers had set fires in the villages and headed for the capital, and Ye Liang realized the attacks were a diversion.
• Old Mother Matsushita hid Kaguya in a cellar, but soldiers searching the Daimyo's Estate found her after Aino screamed at a rat.
• Kaguya used hypnosis to escape the soldiers with Aino, but the effort drained her strength and an arrow grazed her arm.
• Three leaders and their soldiers surrounded Kaguya and Aino outside the estate, and Kaguya's eyes bled as she lost the ability to use her ocular technique.
• Jigen's disciples prepared to kill Kaguya for a promise of eternal life, and the old man revealed that their Grand Master was Jigen.

Princess Kaguya and her maid were captured by hostile daimyo, but Matsushita Ichiro arrived and began fighting them while Ye Liang watched from nearby. When a monk attacked Ichiro with a Truth-Seeking Orb, Ye Liang destroyed it and confronted the hidden monk above the clouds.

• The old man ordered soldiers to seize Kaguya’s maid, and Kaguya realized the soldiers meant to assault her.
• Matsushita Ichiro rescued the maid, defeated the soldiers, and used Shinra Tensei to send two middle-aged daimyo flying.
• Ichiro addressed Kaguya as his lady and advanced on the enemies who had killed his father and seized Matsushita territory.
• Kaguya spotted Ye Liang near the estate, and he warned her that a strange presence was nearby.
• A monk above the clouds threw a Truth-Seeking Orb at Ichiro, but Ye Liang crushed it and revealed the monk’s location.

Ye Liang was drawn into the Purple Gold Gourd while Matsushita Ichiro fought the monk at the Daimyo's Estate. The monk then pursued Princess Kaguya and her maid, revealed as Isshiki, and seized Aino as Kaguya begged him to let her go.

• Ye Liang followed the monk into Corpse Sinking Lake, where the Purple Gold Gourd's suction pulled him in.
• At the Daimyo's Estate, Matsushita Ichiro killed two men and confronted the last elder, who summoned the monk with a flute.
• The monk's Truth-Seeking Orb attacks could not break the seal protecting Matsushita Ichiro, which Ye Liang had powered with chakra from more than ten clones.
• Princess Kaguya and Aino fled the estate, but the monk caught up with them.
• Kaguya identified the monk as Isshiki, and he used Amenominaka to seize Aino, prompting Kaguya to plead for her maid's life.

Monk killed Aino to provoke Kaguya into merging with the Ten-Tails, then attacked her until Ye Liang emerged from the red gourd and drove Monk away. Ye Liang trapped the rampaging Ten-Tails and began using Impure World Reincarnation to bring Aino back, hoping to restore Kaguya's sanity.

• Monk killed Aino, and Kaguya transformed into the Ten-Tails after losing control of herself.
• Monk fought the Ten-Tails with Truth-Seeking Orbs while she devastated the Land of Ancestors with Tailed Beast Bombs.
• Ye Liang broke out of the red gourd, learned Kaguya had fused with the Ten-Tails, and confronted Monk, who fled.
• Ye Liang contained the Ten-Tails inside a Four Red Yang Formation and realized Aino's death had triggered Kaguya's transformation.
• Ye Liang used Impure World Reincarnation on Aino's corpse and saw Aino's soul floating above it.

Ye Liang used Impure World Reincarnation to revive Aino by healing her broken neck, then brought her before the sealed Ten-Tails, hoping she would help awaken Kaguya. When Aino angered the Ten-Tails, Ye Liang shielded her and used Sexy Jutsu.

• Aino's soul initially failed to return to her body, so Ye Liang realized her broken neck had to be healed before she could revive.
• Ye Liang healed Aino's neck, and she successfully returned to her body and came back to life.
• Ye Liang carried Aino to the sealed Ten-Tails, whose eyes focused on her and whose voice called her by name.
• Aino threw dirt into the Ten-Tails' eyes, provoking it to attack her with its tail.
• Ye Liang used Flying Thunder God to protect Aino, endured the tail strike, and grabbed the Ten-Tails' tail.
• Ye Liang formed hand seals and used Sexy Jutsu, creating a naked Aino in front of the Ten-Tails.

Ye Liang rescued Kaguya, learned why Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had revived, and accepted Kaguya’s Ten-Tails. He healed and resurrected the Daimyo's Estate’s victims, then left the Land of Ancestors with Kaguya to prepare for Isshiki’s next move.

• Ye Liang emerged from the Ten-Tails with Kaguya, and the creature transformed back into her human form.
• Kaguya explained that Isshiki could revive because the Otsutsuki were difficult to kill unless their consciousness was destroyed, and she offered Ye Liang the Ten-Tails.
• Ye Liang healed the wounded civilians and used Impure World Reincarnation to return the recently dead to life.
• Ye Liang told the crowd, “Believe in Brother Ye, and gain eternal life,” then gave Matsushita Ichiro instructions and left the Land of Ancestors with Kaguya.
• Ye Liang and Kaguya reached a secluded lake, where he formed a Water Release barrier around them.

Ye Liang absorbed the Ten-Tails, then left Kaguya behind and traveled to the Land of Others to kill Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. There, after hearing about Lord Sakata’s persecution of foreigners, Ye Liang was betrayed and stabbed by the old man who had offered him shelter.

• Kaguya chanted an Otsutsuki prayer to transfer the Ten-Tails into Ye Liang, who trapped its energy in an iron gourd while the System destroyed its destructive will with rocket launchers.
• Ye Liang and Kaguya emerged from the lake exhausted and spent the night resting together.
• Ye Liang left Kaguya in the past, entrusted the Land of Ancestors to Matsushita Ichiro, and set off to kill Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Ye Liang reached the Land of Others and learned from an old man that Lord Sakata had executed foreign merchants and targeted outsiders.
• Soldiers arrived at the old man’s farmhouse, and the old man stabbed Ye Liang in the waist before accepting money from the soldiers.

Ye Liang infiltrated the Land of Others by possessing a medic and investigated the strange rule of sending outsiders to the palace as “Breeding Pigs.” He uncovered a connection between the Land’s ruler, Sakata Gintoki, and the mysterious Lady Rumiko, then saw his own body brought into the estate on a stretcher.

• Ye Liang woke in a cellar, discovered that the soldiers were delivering weakened men as “Breeding Pigs,” and watched one captive die by biting off his tongue.
• Ye Liang knocked out a medic, used the Mind Body Switch Technique to control him, and disguised himself to investigate the capital.
• Ye Liang learned that Sakata Gintoki had seized the Land of Others after the former lord, Kobashi Shiki, died under mysterious circumstances.
• Ye Liang entered Sakata Gintoki’s villa as a medic and found Lady Rumiko’s room filled with a powerful death aura.
• Ye Liang saw Rumiko appear as a rotting corpse, but she suddenly became healthy and claimed she needed more “Breeding Pigs” as medicine.
• Ye Liang left Rumiko’s chambers as soldiers carried his real body into the estate on a stretcher.

Ye Liang discovered that Rumiko was a corpse secretly draining men’s vital essence and killed her, then disguised himself as Rumiko to avoid alerting Ōtsutsuki Isshiki. At Sakata Gintoki’s birthday banquet, Isshiki arrived disguised as the monk Jigen, and Ye Liang held back to keep him from escaping.

• Ye Liang returned to Rumiko’s room, found her draining his vital essence, and killed her with the Chaos Demonic Blade.
• Ye Liang found white hair carrying Ōtsutsuki power among Rumiko’s remains and disguised himself as a woman using the Sexy Technique.
• At Sakata Gintoki’s birthday banquet, a drunken minister accused Sakata of unlawfully taking the daimyo’s position, and Sakata had him and another minister expelled.
• Disguised as Rumiko, Ye Liang joined the banquet and heard Sakata speak of capturing travelers as breeding pigs.
• A monk arrived at the estate, Sakata welcomed him as Teacher Jigen, and Ye Liang recognized him as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.

Jigen secured Sakata Gintoki’s permission to establish a Buddhist sect, then visited Ye Liang at night and exposed Ye Liang’s false identity. Jigen revealed that a demon lived inside him and explained how a headless figure had entered his body.

• Jigen asked Sakata Gintoki to establish a Buddhist sanctuary, and Sakata granted his request despite the ministers’ objections.
• Jigen exchanged a cryptic look with Ye Liang as he left, and Ye Liang later wondered why Jigen wanted to establish a sect.
• Jigen came to Ye Liang’s room at night, attacked him, and realized he was not Rumiko.
• Ye Liang confronted Jigen about being Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, but Jigen insisted he was a monk and then struggled against a white light inside him.
• Jigen explained that he had found a living headless man in a cave near Tottori Village, and the figure had crawled into his ear.

Ye Liang learned that Ōtsutsuki Isshiki had taken control of Jigen and tracked him to a newly built temple, where Isshiki revealed he had fused with the Ten-Tails' power. Isshiki then proposed traveling with Ye Liang to the Third Civilization and warned that hundreds of Otsutsuki Branch Family members could threaten the world.

• Jigen told Ye Liang that an entity had entered his body and that he had tried to suppress it with an ancestral technique, but Isshiki awakened and escaped.
• Ye Liang spoke with Sakata Gintoki, learned that Jigen's temple was being built at Boqiu Ridge, and discovered that the Land of Ancestors still posed a threat to the Land of Others.
• Ye Liang infiltrated the completed temple and realized that Isshiki, not Jigen, was in control of the monk's body.
• Isshiki told Ye Liang that he had fused with the Ten-Tails' power and could not be killed by Ye Liang's current abilities.
• Isshiki proposed going with Ye Liang to the Third Civilization in exchange for watching over the world, then warned him that hundreds of Otsutsuki Branch Family members could come after them.

Ye Liang questioned Kaguya about the Otsutsuki Clan, then confronted Jigen and promised to protect him while refusing to take Kaguya from her place in history. After returning to the time of the Akatsuki, Ye Liang searched Amenominaka and found Kaguya curled up on a rock.

• Ye Liang asked Kaguya whether the Otsutsuki Clan planned to invade Earth, but her answers convinced him she did not trust him or believe Earth was in danger.
• Ye Liang left Kaguya, subdued Jigen, and warned him not to threaten the world before promising to protect him if the Otsutsuki Clan came after him.
• Ye Liang traveled through time and space to the ruin where he had fought Kaguya, healed the fleeing Akatsuki members, and learned from Konan that Kaguya had disappeared.
• Ye Liang used Flying Thunder God Cursed Seals to locate an entrance to Amenominaka and teleported inside.
• Ye Liang flew over the lava-filled landscape and found Kaguya curled up on a rock.

Ye Liang found that Kaguya no longer recognized him and attacked him, then tracked down Jigen and the weakened Isshiki to learn what had happened. Isshiki accused Ye Liang of abandoning their agreement when the Otsutsuki main family arrived.

• Kaguya failed to recognize Ye Liang and attacked him with Genjutsu, blades, and the Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.
• Ye Liang defended himself with the Chaos Demonic Blade, then followed the trail to Isshiki’s ruined temple.
• An old sweeper revealed that he was Jigen and had watched over the world for three hundred years while waiting for Ye Liang.
• Jigen led Ye Liang to a frail Isshiki, who accused him of breaking their agreement when the Otsutsuki main family came.
• Ye Liang noticed that Isshiki had lost the Ten-Tails’ power and now possessed a black energy resembling death energy.

Isshiki told Ye Liang that the Otsutsuki Main Family had attacked the Land of Ancestors, leaving Kaguya sealed and possibly unable to remember her past. Ye Liang sought help finding her, and the Senju brothers returned battered after encountering a woman they could not defeat.

• Isshiki told Ye Liang that the Main Family had taken his Ten-Tails and cursed him, then recounted how Kaguya was gravely wounded and sealed during the battle in the Land of Ancestors.
• Ye Liang suspected Kaguya’s incomplete revival had caused her amnesia and promised to return for Isshiki if he could access the power of the Third Civilization.
• Ye Liang left Otsutsuki Temple and went to Konoha to ask Hashirama Senju and Tobirama to sense the Underworld Realm’s death energy and find Kaguya.
• Hashirama Senju and Tobirama searched for several days, then told Ye Liang that the woman they found was too powerful for them to defeat.