Chapter Summaries

Toru Kujyo overwhelmed Nagato with an extraordinary attraction and a chaotic five-element explosion, but Nagato survived by absorbing the blast with the Preta Path. Toru then called down a meteor shower, and Nagato and Tobi met it with Wood Release as the meteors collided with their forest.

• Nagato’s five shadow clones and original body attacked Toru Kujyo with five nature transformations, but Toru used Banshō Ten'in to drag Nagato toward a Dust Concealment Technique explosion.
• Nagato absorbed the chaotic five-element blast with the Preta Path, though the Tobi Armor nearly reached its limit.
• Toru Kujyo summoned a meteor shower that sent the survivors into despair.
• Nagato and Tobi combined their chakra to use Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence against the falling meteors.
• The forest and the meteors collided in a world-shaking crash.

The meteor bombardment devastated the battlefield, leaving the Cloud Ninja and Akatsuki struggling to survive amid the destruction. As a mountain-sized meteor descended to finish them, Nagato halted its fall with Shinra Tensei.

• The first impact unleashed a shock wave that swept up the Cloud Ninja and battered the Akatsuki members.
• Blazing meteors repeatedly struck the surging sea of trees, shaking the battlefield and sending destructive winds as far as Amegakure.
• After the bombardment stopped, Darui and Fourth Raikage A emerged from the rubble, but a sensory ninja could not detect the survivors through the chaotic chakra.
• A colossal meteor over a kilometer wide descended through the dust cloud, terrifying Killer B and the other survivors.
• Nagato raised his hand and used Shinra Tensei, stopping the mountain-sized meteor's downward momentum.

Nagato destroyed three supermassive meteors with repulsive force, the True Several Thousand Hands wooden Buddha, and the Five Release Flame Pillar. The battle appeared to end with Toru Kujyo unharmed, while Nagato and the Tobi Armor were nearly out of chakra.

• Nagato shattered the first meteor with repulsive force and hurled its fragments into the sky.
• Nagato summoned the wooden Buddha and punched the second meteor apart as Deidara watched in shock.
• Nagato used the Five Release Flame Pillar to ignite the third meteor from within, creating a multicolored explosion.
• The meteor shower ended, and Toru Kujyo descended through the clouds without a scratch.
• Nagato's wooden Buddha crumbled, leaving him kneeling and exhausted as he stared at Toru Kujyo.

Toru Kujyo and Nagato fought to exhaustion until Toru’s Tenseigan suddenly absorbed a huge reserve of chakra and became more powerful. Toru vanished after revealing that he knew Nagato’s secrets, while Hinata saw that Toru’s original body had been left dangerously weak.

• Toru Kujyo considered targeting Amegakure to force the exhausted Nagato to defend his home and Konan.
• Toru suddenly clutched his eyes as stored chakra flooded into his Tenseigan, transforming it and increasing its power.
• Toru named Nagato and identified the armor and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, then declared their contest had only begun before vanishing.
• Nagato collapsed from exhaustion, while the Fourth Raikage ordered the surviving Cloud Ninja and spies to flee the battlefield.
• Hinata watched the fight from a cave and saw that Toru’s original body was nearly out of chakra.

Hinata worried about Toru Kujyo’s original body, and his Wood Clone reassured her while remaining by her side. Meanwhile, reports of Nagato and Otsutsuki Toneri’s battle spread through the shinobi world, leaving Ōnoki and Iwagakure facing the threat of powers beyond their reach.

• Toru Kujyo reassured Hinata that his Wood Clone would remain unaffected by his original body’s weakened state and promised to protect her.
• Spies across the Land of Rain sent urgent reports identifying Nagato’s Rinnegan and Wood Release and Otsutsuki Toneri’s Tenseigan and meteor-summoning power.
• The shinobi villages came to regard Nagato as the world’s strongest and the Akatsuki as a force capable of opposing the entire world.
• Ōnoki studied a photograph of the wooden Buddha battling a meteor and concluded that his Dust Release was insignificant beside the power shown.
• Kitsuchi told Ōnoki that the intelligence had been confirmed and identified Nagato as the Child of Prophecy Hanzō had mentioned.
• Kurotsuchi asked whether Iwagakure should seal its borders to avoid provoking the powerful monsters.

Reports of Nagato’s Rinnegan and Wood Release, along with Toneri’s arrival from the moon, alarmed the Five Great Shinobi Villages. The chapter ended with Tsunade questioning how Nagato had awakened powers tied to the Sage of Six Paths and the Senju.

• Onoki warned that the new conflict between powerful forces could crush even villages that tried to hide, and said Iwagakure had to find its place in the chaos.
• Mei Terumi and Genji discussed Toneri, the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, then Mei ordered Kirigakure to increase surveillance of Konoha’s Byakugan.
• Chiyo and Ebizo concluded that Sunagakure was too weak to withstand the emerging powers and hoped Nagato and Toneri would weaken each other, or that Konoha’s Wood Release prodigy would grow stronger.
• Tsunade questioned Jiraiya about Nagato’s Rinnegan and Wood Release, wondering how an Uzumaki could possess powers associated with the Sage of Six Paths and the Senju.

While Toru Kujyo recovered from using the Tenseigan, Hinata cared for him in his underground base. She secretly photographed him being fed medicinal porridge, leaving him worried that the pictures would damage his fearsome image.

• Hinata fed Toru Kujyo medicinal porridge while he rested blind and weak in bed.
• Toru Kujyo heard a camera click and asked Hinata what she was photographing.
• Hinata said he looked special and worth remembering, then put the camera away.
• Toru Kujyo privately suspected Hinata was collecting blackmail material.

While recovering underground with Hinata, Toru Kujyo's Tenseigan completed its second-stage evolution and awakened Tenresho, granting him powerful new abilities and an expansive field of vision. He shared their memories with Hinata through the Spirit Orb, leaving them quietly watching the story of their relationship together.

• Hinata cared for Toru Kujyo as he recovered, while a wood clone played his role beside Kakashi in Konoha and a shadow clone relayed information to him underground.
• After a week of recovery, Toru Kujyo's Tenseigan evolved, awakening Tenresho and transforming his eyes.
• Toru Kujyo discovered that Tenresho gave him Yin-Yang Release, the Spirit Orb, and the Chakra Orb.
• Toru Kujyo used his enhanced sight to look across the Shinobi World and find Otsutsuki Toneri on the Moon.
• Toru Kujyo embraced Hinata and used the Spirit Orb to show her memories of their life together.