Chapter Summaries

Ye Liang infiltrated Yongning Palace to steal the wooden comb for Izanagi-no-Mikoto, but discovered the sleeping Lord Murakami was dangerously powerful. After another thief was killed trying to take the comb, Ye Liang confronted Izanagi-no-Mikoto and realized he had recruited nearly everyone in the battle for the same theft.

• Ye Liang agreed to steal Izanagi-no-Mikoto's wooden comb in exchange for Chakra and a return to the human world.
• Ye Liang infiltrated the Underworld Heavenly Palace and reached Yongning Palace, where he found the comb being used as a pillow by the sleeping Lord Murakami.
• Lord Murakami pinned Ye Liang's hand while sleeping, and Ye Liang used a feather to free himself before hiding in the rafters when someone approached.
• A second thief entered and tried to steal the comb, but Lord Murakami woke up and slapped him into a pile of minced meat.
• Ye Liang met Izanagi-no-Mikoto and learned he had persuaded several dozen people, including the battle participants, to steal the comb.

Ye Liang learned that Izanagi-no-Mikoto had persuaded all the contestants to steal the Wooden Comb, then drew Number 66 and was paired against a veteran fighter. The matches began with Sakumo Hatake facing Uchiha Shisui, leaving Ye Liang watching the opening bout and waiting for his own.

• Ye Liang learned that Izanagi-no-Mikoto had made stealing the Wooden Comb a tradition and had persuaded this year's contestants to help.
• Old Man Zhiqi urged Ye Liang to retrieve a section of the Wooden Comb, but Ye Liang recognized the ploy and walked away.
• Mother Superior Duzhixu announced the lottery pairings, and Ye Liang drew Number 66 against a white-haired man she warned had once torn eight contestants apart.
• Mother Superior Duzhixu pointed out Uchiha Shisui as a rising star, and Ye Liang realized he might encounter people from the world of the living in the Underworld Realm.
• Sakumo Hatake and Uchiha Shisui entered the arena for the opening match, and Sakumo Hatake turned grave as they faced each other.

Ye Liang realized White Fang and Uchiha Shisui were stalling the tournament to help someone steal the Wooden Comb, then saw Might Duy take it and reveal that he could use the Eight Gates Formation to release Chakra. Might Duy fought the guard while Ye Liang rushed in, hoping to learn the technique.

• White Fang and Uchiha Shisui fought for an hour without showing serious killing intent, and Ye Liang realized they were buying time for the Wooden Comb thief.
• Ye Liang asked Mother Superior Duzhixu for permission to leave the tournament, then spotted Might Duy sneaking into the Eastern Palace and stealing the Wooden Comb.
• The guard awakened and attacked Might Duy, who evaded with the Body Flicker Technique and revealed that he could use Chakra.
• Might Duy opened four gates and fought the guard, while Ye Liang realized the Eight Gates Formation could let him use Chakra and rushed inside to learn it.

Ye Liang and Might Duy fought the fat guard at the Underworld Heavenly Palace, giving Might Duy time to escape. After a signal flare drew the captains away from the competition, Mother Superior Duzhixu questioned Ye Liang about a masked attacker, but he denied involvement.

• Ye Liang attacked the fat guard, then joined forces with Might Duy after learning the Goddess of the Underworld was away.
• Ye Liang and Might Duy stood together against the guard, and Ye Liang used his Triple Stream Bullet Technique to defeat him.
• The wounded guard launched a signal flare, and Ye Liang returned to the competition while Might Duy hid at his lodging.
• Mother Superior Duzhixu and the other captains left the competition grounds, then returned looking for Might Duy.
• Mother Superior Duzhixu asked Ye Liang whether he had been the masked attacker, and Ye Liang denied knowing anything about the attack.

Ye Liang mastered the Eight Gates Formation overnight, allowing him to use Flying Thunder God and travel between the Underworld Realm and the living world. He offered White Fang and Uchiha Shisui a way to escape Izanagi-no-Mikoto’s deal by finding Tobirama and obtaining vessels for their souls.

• Might Duy hid in Ye Liang’s room and gave him the Wooden Comb, then agreed to teach him the Eight Gates Formation.
• Ye Liang learned the Eight Gates overnight, opened the First Gate, and successfully used Flying Thunder God to teleport to a seal he had made.
• Ye Liang left Might Duy hidden beneath the bed and visited White Fang and Uchiha Shisui, who had secretly made a deal with Izanagi-no-Mikoto.
• Ye Liang warned White Fang and Shisui that Izanagi-no-Mikoto could not be trusted and offered to use Flying Thunder God to return them to the living world.
• Ye Liang explained that they needed vessels to keep the Underworld Realm from pulling their souls back, and proposed finding Tobirama to perform Impure World Reincarnation.

Ye Liang traded the wooden comb to Izanagi-no-Mikoto for help escaping the Underworld Heavenly Palace, finding his relatives, and rescuing a squirrel. After the Goddess of the Underworld arrived, Izanagi-no-Mikoto took the comb and fled, while Ye Liang gathered Hashirama, Tobirama, and Uncle White Fang in his room as the other contestants pursued Izanagi-no-Mikoto.

• Ye Liang summoned Izanagi-no-Mikoto and secured promises to help them escape, find Hashirama Senju, Tobirama Senju, and Minato Namikaze, and rescue a squirrel from the Ancient Underworld Palace.
• The Goddess of the Underworld returned to the Underworld Heavenly Palace with Izanagi-no-Mikoto, who sealed the side hall and killed its guards.
• Izanagi-no-Mikoto gave Ye Liang Hashirama and Tobirama but said he could not find Minato Namikaze.
• Ye Liang handed Izanagi-no-Mikoto the wooden comb, and Izanagi-no-Mikoto hurried beyond the clouds as the other contestants chased after him.
• Ye Liang brought Hashirama, Tobirama, and Uncle White Fang into his room and called for Might Duy.

Ye Liang used the Flying Thunder God Formation to escape the Underworld Realm with Hashirama, Tobirama, and the others, who returned to reanimated bodies in Konoha. Months later, worried about Nanako, Ye Liang went back to the Underworld Realm and found it devastated and Peach Blossom Village deserted.

• Ye Liang prepared Flying Thunder God kunai and explained that Tobirama would need to use Impure World Reincarnation as soon as they reached the living world.
• The Goddess of the Underworld attacked Izanagi-no-Mikoto's spatial barrier with a gigantic Underworld Beast after discovering the Wooden Comb was stolen.
• Ye Liang activated the Flying Thunder God Formation and teleported himself, Hashirama, Tobirama, White Fang, and the others to the Uchiha old estate in Konoha.
• Tobirama used Impure World Reincarnation to restore everyone's bodies, and Ye Liang told Hashirama that Danzo had wiped out the Uchiha clan.
• Several months later, Ye Liang returned to the Underworld Realm because he could not stop worrying about Nanako.
• Ye Liang found the Great Wilderness and several villages deserted, and Mother Superior Duzhixu was gone from Peach Blossom Village.

Ye Liang learned that Izanagi-no-Mikoto had broken the Underworld Emperor’s seal, destroying the Underworld Realm, and went to the Underworld Heavenly Palace. There, Izanami-no-Mikoto explained that she had brought Ye Liang to the realm as the Child of Destiny, before the Underworld Emperor appeared and revealed a shocking past involving her, Izanagi-no-Mikoto, and his guard.

• Ye Liang found Uzumaki Nao hiding in Peach Blossom Village and learned that Izanagi-no-Mikoto had used the Wooden Comb to open the Underworld Palace and free the Underworld Emperor.
• Uzumaki Nao told Ye Liang that the Goddess of the Underworld and the realm’s leaders had fought the escaped Emperor, leaving the realm shattered and its people scattered.
• Ye Liang prepared his powers and weapons, then traveled to the Underworld Heavenly Palace to confront the Underworld Emperor.
• At the palace entrance, Ye Liang found Izanagi-no-Mikoto and Izanami-no-Mikoto bound to pillars, and Izanami-no-Mikoto revealed that she had sought the Child of Destiny to change the Underworld Realm’s future.
• The White-Haired Ghost emerged with a severed head and accused Izanami-no-Mikoto of having a husband and Izanagi-no-Mikoto of carrying on with his guard.

Ye Liang confronted the Underworld Emperor after learning he had killed the Underworld’s residents, and Izanami-no-Mikoto explained how she and Izanagi-no-Mikoto had once sealed him. The Underworld Emperor transformed into a giant resembling the Death God, leading Ye Liang to suspect he had consumed Minato Namikaze.

• The Underworld Emperor threatened Ye Liang and admitted he had killed the Underworld’s captains and other residents who defied him.
• Izanami-no-Mikoto told Ye Liang that the Underworld Emperor had kidnapped her, and that she and Izanagi-no-Mikoto had sealed him with the Wooden Comb after defeating him.
• Ye Liang attacked the Underworld Emperor with the Sword of the Thunder God and sent Izanami-no-Mikoto away using a Flying Thunder God kunai.
• Izanagi-no-Mikoto stayed to fight the Underworld Emperor and combined the Wooden Comb with the Eight-Shaku Yasakani Magatama to create a sword.
• The Underworld Emperor transformed into a giant resembling the Death God, and Ye Liang realized he might have consumed Minato Namikaze.

Ye Liang trapped the Underworld Emperor in a powerful sealing formation and gathered a massive lightning strike to attack him. Izanagi-no-Mikoto briefly slowed the Emperor, giving the thunder time to fall as the formation began to break.

• The Underworld Emperor transformed into a Death God and attacked Ye Liang, who blocked his air cannon with Rashomon and struck back with the Sword of the Thunder God while Izanagi-no-Mikoto threw his Eight-Shaku Magatama Sword.
• The Underworld Emperor feigned injury, then attacked Izanagi-no-Mikoto; Ye Liang teleported them to safety with Flying Thunder God and left Explosive Tags behind.
• Ye Liang used the smoke to set up an Improved Four Red Yang Formation with eighteen kunai and drew sky thunder toward the Underworld Emperor with the Sword of the Thunder God.
• The Underworld Emperor began tearing through the formation with brute force, while Izanagi-no-Mikoto used Eight-Shaku Magatama—Seal to slow him before retreating from exhaustion.
• The gathered thunder crashed down on the Underworld Emperor just as cracks appeared in the formation.

Ye Liang pursued the weakened Underworld Emperor into the canyon, where Demonic Blade Onikiri merged with Izanagi-no-Mikoto's sword into a Chaos Demonic Blade. The Underworld Emperor tricked Ye Liang into entering the palace and swallowed him into a void space, where Ye Liang found several people the Emperor had captured before.

• Ye Liang chased the injured Underworld Emperor into the canyon, but the Emperor escaped through monster-filled terrain that threatened to help him recover.
• Izanagi-no-Mikoto gave Ye Liang his sword, and it merged with Demonic Blade Onikiri to form the Chaos Demonic Blade.
• Ye Liang used the new blade to drive back the Underworld creatures and reach the ancient Underworld Palace.
• Ye Liang entered the palace, which transformed into the Underworld Emperor, who revealed that he had swallowed Ye Liang.
• Ye Liang awoke in a void space inside the Underworld Emperor and found Mother Superior Duzhixu, Minato Namikaze, and Old Man Zhiqi trapped there.

Ye Liang and Minato Namikaze organized a Flying Thunder God Formation to escape the Devouring Space and stop the Underworld Emperor from healing by draining its captives. Ye Liang powered the formation to bring out the trapped experts, who appeared above the Underworld Emperor as the chapter ended.

• Minato Namikaze proposed using the Flying Thunder God Formation, and Ye Liang recruited Mother Superior Duzhixu and Hanzō the Salamander to help cast it.
• Mother Superior Duzhixu explained that the Devouring Space drained the villagers until they became phantoms, then black tentacles attacked them to restore the Underworld Emperor.
• Ye Liang and Mother Superior Duzhixu fought the tentacles while Minato Namikaze prepared the formation, slowing the Underworld Emperor’s recovery.
• Ye Liang told Minato Namikaze to gather the surviving experts and said he would supply the formation with his stored Sage Mode Chakra.
• Minato Namikaze activated the formation, and a vast crowd of trapped people appeared above the Underworld Emperor, who was shocked that they had escaped.

Ye Liang and hundreds of freed ancient warriors overwhelmed the Underworld Emperor, who revealed his name as Nangong Wentian and detonated himself to escape. Ye Liang pursued the fleeing fragment underground, swallowed it by accident, and entered a battle of souls inside his own body.

• Ye Liang unleashed 540 Sage clones, and their attacks let the freed Pure Ones rush from the ruins of the ancient Underworld Palace to fight the Underworld Emperor.
• The ancient warriors attacked the Underworld Emperor in a desperate assault, suffering heavy losses as they weakened him.
• The Underworld Emperor revealed that his name was Nangong Wentian, taunted his attackers, and exploded to escape.
• Ye Liang spotted a reddish glow fleeing beneath the canyon and chased it underground, accidentally swallowing the Underworld Emperor's flesh.
• Ye Liang used Soul Seizing and entered the white space within his abdomen, where he tore flesh from the Underworld Emperor and began fighting him directly.

Ye Liang devoured the Underworld Emperor, reunited with his transformed system, and learned that the plane was losing energy through a nearby channel. After defeating the Underworld Emperor, he and the survivors faced the question of where the dead could go.

• Ye Liang overpowered and swallowed the Underworld Emperor, then sat down to digest his Spiritual Power.
• The system appeared, absorbed the excess Spiritual Power, and transformed from a sphere into a young woman.
• Ye Liang used Krypton Eye and found that his Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Ninja Tools attributes had all reached level seven.
• The system told Ye Liang that the plane's energy was being siphoned away through a channel near the valley, and he agreed to investigate.
• Ye Liang returned to the valley and found the surviving Pure Ones mourning their losses.
• Mother Superior Duzhixu offered to shelter the survivors for a hundred years before helping them reincarnate, while Minato Namikaze offered to use Flying Thunder God to let them see loved ones one final time.

Ye Liang crossed a shattered Space Channel, was torn apart by spatial fragments, and reassembled in a cave near the Land of Hot Water. There he discovered the Akatsuki extracting death energy from the Underworld Realm, then ambushed Konan and knocked out Nagato.

• Ye Liang entered the Space Channel and used Chakra to push aside spatial fragments as he moved toward its exit.
• A gust carried fragments into Ye Liang, shredding his body, and Konan later dumped his remains onto a cave trash heap.
• Ye Liang reassembled with the system’s help and found an Underworld Guide sealed below a passage to the Underworld Realm, with death energy being collected in a bead.
• Konan and Nagato returned to the cave, and Ye Liang hid behind the trash heap before grabbing Konan and threatening her.
• Ye Liang knocked Nagato unconscious with a Rising Dragon Fist and caught Konan’s coat as it flew into the air.

Ye Liang stopped the death aura from leaking, took the death aura pearl, and killed the weakened Underworld Guide before confronting Black Zetsu. Just as Ye Liang prepared to attack Black Zetsu, his System Space began trembling and a sudden sense of dread struck him.

• Ye Liang used his Mangekyō Sharingan to show Konan the devastation the death aura could cause, and she agreed to help him.
• Ye Liang severed the death aura’s channel, moved the pearl into his System Space, and killed the weakened Underworld Guide with the Chaos Demonic Blade.
• Konan warned Ye Liang that Black Zetsu, Deidara, and Kisame had arrived, but Ye Liang stayed to face them.
• Black Zetsu confronted Ye Liang over his plan to revive his mother, Princess Kaguya, and Ye Liang prepared to kill him.
• Ye Liang felt his System Space tremble and experienced a sudden sense of dread.

Black Zetsu revived Princess Kaguya by swallowing the Death Aura Orb, and Ye Liang attacked her before she could recover. Kaguya drove off Ye Liang and teleported Kisame and Deidara away; after Nagato woke, a Truth-Seeking Orb hurtled toward him and Konan, but someone kicked it aside.

• Hidan's head and the Death Aura Orb emerged from Ye Liang's System Space, and Black Zetsu seized the orb and swallowed it to revive his mother.
• Black Zetsu exploded, revealing a palm-sized Princess Kaguya, who awakened and used Shinra Tensei to blast Ye Liang into a wall.
• Ye Liang opened the cave ceiling and attacked Kaguya, but she evaded his strikes and overwhelmed him with Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack.
• Kaguya searched for Ye Liang, found Deidara and Kisame, and teleported them away when they claimed to be her allies.
• Nagato woke beside Konan and Hidan, and Kaguya fired a Truth-Seeking Orb toward them before an unseen person kicked it away.

Ye Liang used the Eight Gates’ final technique against Princess Kaguya, but she escaped and left him near death. He fled through time and space, woke in an ancient village, and went outside after hearing the old man scream.

• Ye Liang opened the Eight Gates fully and struck Princess Kaguya with Night Guy, destroying her lower body, then attacked her head with Daytime Tiger.
• Princess Kaguya escaped using Amenominaka, while Ye Liang collapsed from the Eight Gates’ backlash with his right leg shattered.
• Ye Liang used the Time Travel—Big Turtle to escape, rolled through the space channel, and arrived in an unfamiliar era near Konoha Village.
• An old man and his grandson nursed Ye Liang back to consciousness, and he realized his Yin Seal had healed most of his injuries while he slept.
• Ye Liang heard the old man scream outside, and he limped out of the cabin as the Little Boy rushed ahead.

Ye Liang killed the samurai who attacked a village with his killing intent, then healed the wounded old man and questioned the surviving samurai. He traveled toward the Land of Ancestors with Matsushita Ichiro, learned his injuries would take at least half a year to recover, and stopped to rest when Ichiro returned with a pheasant.

• Ye Liang confronted samurai who had attacked a village and killed an old man, killing several of them with his killing intent.
• Ye Liang let the boy decide the surviving samurai's fate, then spared the man and learned he was Matsushita Ichiro, a deserter from the Land of Ancestors.
• Ye Liang healed the old man with the Mystical Palm Technique and Lightning Release, and the old man woke up.
• Ye Liang traveled with Matsushita Ichiro toward the Land of Ancestors and learned it was about half a day away.
• Ye Liang asked the system about his injuries and learned they would take at least half a year to recover.
• Matsushita Ichiro returned from the forest carrying a pheasant while Ye Liang rested.

Ye Liang stayed with Matsushita Ichiro’s family in the Land of Ancestors and learned that the Matsushita Clan had been betrayed and was facing a purge. After Ye Liang used ninjutsu to defeat the soldiers sent to arrest them, the family and villagers revered him as a god and showered him with food, helping him recover.

• Matsushita Ichiro invited Ye Liang to stay at his spacious home, where Ye Liang asked the system about his recovery and wondered why the Naruto World had no Chakra.
• Matsushita Ichiro’s mother told Ye Liang that the Matsushita Clan had once ruled the region but had fallen after a rebellion split the Land of Ancestors.
• Soldiers arrived to arrest Matsushita Ichiro’s family for allegedly colluding with the Land of Others, and the old woman begged Ye Liang to save them.
• Ye Liang killed an attacking soldier with Wind Release and hypnotized the rest of the squad with Genjutsu.
• Matsushita Ichiro’s mother and the household servants hailed Ye Liang as a divine lord, and villagers later brought him tribute as his body recovered from the food.