Chapter Summaries

Sasuke and the others found the ashes left by Otsutsuki Hara’s attack, then Sasuke was forcibly returned to the future as the disrupted timeline corrected itself. Andy revealed that he had sent the time travelers back, then scolded Tabby for bullying a newcomer.

• Sasuke asked Tsunade to tell him everything the Sky Screen had revealed, but a powerful chakra surge interrupted them.
• Sasuke, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Hiruzen Sarutobi found only ashes in the wilderness, and Sasuke identified the attack as All-Killing Ash Bones.
• Sasuke began to vanish as space-time rejected him, and Jiraiya told him that Itachi had stayed in Konoha.
• Uchiha Itachi arrived just as Sasuke disappeared, leaving him standing silently where Sasuke had vanished.
• Andy said he had sent the time travelers back to their original timeline, then told Tabby to stop bullying the white rabbit.

Hagoromo Otsutsuki questioned the Sky Screen’s revelations and decided to prepare the Shinobi World for the Ōtsutsuki threat. When the Sky Screen returned showing his younger self, he feared it would expose or invent shameful details, while people across the Shinobi World anticipated a story about Indra and Asura.

• Hagoromo Otsutsuki struggled to make sense of the Sky Screen’s revelations about Imu, Joy Boy, and ancient history.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki resolved to plan ahead and protect the Shinobi World from the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
• The Sky Screen reappeared in the Pure Land and the living world, showing a young Hagoromo Otsutsuki.
• Hagoromo Otsutsuki feared the Sky Screen would expose his mistakes or slander him.
• People across the Shinobi World recognized young Hagoromo and anticipated a story about Indra and Asura’s rivalry.

After the war, Hagoromo repaired the devastated Shinobi World and told villagers that understanding could bring peace. A young man challenged his ideal by pointing to class oppression and conflicting interests, leaving Hagoromo newly aware of those barriers as he continued on his way.

• Hagoromo vowed to restore the ruined land and find Hara, whom he feared would revive Kaguya, then used natural energy to heal the earth as he traveled.
• Hagoromo told a group of villagers that spiritual practice meant helping and understanding others so conflicts could be resolved.
• A young man argued that mutual understanding was impossible while the powerful exploited the poor and their interests clashed.
• Hagoromo recognized that class oppression and plunder, as well as hatred, fueled the world's wars, but insisted that people had to try before declaring peace impossible.
• The young man briefly reconsidered his pessimism, but a white-haired elder warned him that resisting the powerful would bring death or enslavement, and his hope faded.

The Sky Screen showed Hagoromo Otsutsuki traveling the Ancient Land and preaching peace through mutual understanding, while people across the Shinobi World connected that ideal to Naruto Uzumaki and debated how class interests and oppression made it difficult. In the Pure Land, the Sage of Six Paths rejected the Sky Screen’s scenes as false and reaffirmed his belief that Naruto, the Child of Prophecy, would bring peace through understanding.

• The Sky Screen showed Hagoromo Otsutsuki restoring the land, helping survivors, and continuing to preach peace as he traveled.
• People across the Shinobi World linked Hagoromo Otsutsuki, Hashirama Senju, and Naruto Uzumaki through their shared pursuit of mutual understanding.
• Shinobi argued that oppression and conflicting interests between the powerful and the poor made mutual understanding insufficient to end war.
• The Sage of Six Paths said the Sky Screen’s scenes were not his true past, but insisted that mutual understanding remained possible despite the young man’s criticism.
• The Sage of Six Paths declared Naruto Uzumaki the Child of Prophecy and dismissed the images of Naruto controlling and exploiting the Shinobi World as fabrications.
• The Sage of Six Paths reaffirmed that accepting and understanding one another was the only true path to peace.

Hagoromo Otsutsuki formed ninshu to spread understanding and peace, drawing the attention of the Five Elders. Imu ordered the Celestial Dragons to withdraw secretly from the Shinobi World and vowed to return to watch over it.

• Hagoromo gathered followers and established ninshu as a force dedicated to goodwill and resolving disputes.
• The Five Elders worried that ninshu could threaten the Celestial Dragons' rule, though they learned Hagoromo had not taught his followers chakra.
• Imu appeared before the Five Elders and identified Hagoromo as the world's new unpredictable threat after Kaguya's defeat.
• Imu ordered the core Celestial Dragons to evacuate the Shinobi World in secret.
• Imu declared that he would return to keep his covenant to watch over the world.

After the Sky Screen revealed that Imu had planned to withdraw from the Shinobi World out of fear of Hagoromo, people debated Ninshu’s origins and Hagoromo’s influence. In Konoha’s Hokage Office, Tsunade argued that peace had always been enforced by overwhelming strength, leaving Jiraiya questioning his lifelong faith in the Ninja Way.

• People across the Shinobi World reacted to Imu’s retreat and wondered why Hagoromo had eventually begun spreading chakra.
• Tsunade criticized Hagoromo for relying on ideals instead of using his power to reshape the world, while Hiruzen and Jiraiya defended him.
• Tsunade argued that Naruto’s peace had come from his and Sasuke’s strength, not from mutual understanding.
• Tsunade compared Naruto’s peace to the First Hokage’s rule and blamed powerful leaders for failing to end oppression and hatred.
• Jiraiya fell silent as Tsunade’s argument shook his faith, and Hiruzen sighed with weary, complicated feelings.

As his life waned, the Sage of Six Paths resolved to pass on his ideals and confront the Celestial Dragons’ role in the world’s oppression. Unable to meet Imu, he secured the Five Elders’ promise to withdraw the Celestial Dragons and leave the world’s future to Ninshu.

• The aging Sage of Six Paths worried that Hara might return and decided to leave someone who could carry on his mission for peace.
• He told his sons, Indra and Asura, to inherit his ideals of caring for others and protecting the Shinobi World.
• After concluding that the Celestial Dragons’ rule perpetuated oppression and conflict, the Sage of Six Paths traveled alone to their Holy Land to meet Imu.
• The Five Elders claimed Imu had left the world, but the Sage of Six Paths’ scrutiny made them admit the Celestial Dragons had retreated to the Outer Pocket World.
• The Five Elders promised to withdraw the Celestial Dragons’ forces for good and place the world and its people in Ninshu’s hands.

Hagoromo accepted the Five Elders’ plan to withdraw the Celestial Dragons from the world but refused to let Ninshu oversee the transition. He chose the Holy Land’s enslaved people to maintain order instead, while the Five Elders secretly mocked his decision.

• Hagoromo expressed surprise at the Five Elders’ hidden escape route to a pocket world, and they downplayed its importance.
• The Five Elders asked Ninshu to oversee the transfer of authority during their withdrawal, but Hagoromo refused.
• Hagoromo proposed freeing the Holy Land’s enslaved people and appointing them to maintain order across the world.
• The Five Elders agreed to let Hagoromo take the enslaved people, concealing their resentment and suspicions.
• Hagoromo left the Celestial Dragons’ hall, and the Five Elders mocked him for wanting only the slaves they had abandoned.

The Five Elders revealed their plan to let the Sage of Six Paths’ former slaves govern the world, while the Sky Screen’s audience concluded that those slaves became the Shinobi World’s Daimyō and nobles. The Sage of Six Paths watched the fabricated account spread, realizing the world would now blame him for sowing a thousand years of conflict.

• The Five Elders said they would withdraw and wait for the world order established by the Sage of Six Paths to collapse into conflict.
• People across the Shinobi World agreed that former slaves who gained power might oppress others, especially without the Sage of Six Paths to restrain them.
• A scholar connected the Celestial Dragons’ former slaves to the Shinobi World’s Daimyō, nobles, and secular rulers.
• Tsunade condemned the Sage of Six Paths for empowering the slaves, while Hiruzen Sarutobi and Jiraiya reacted in silence.
• In the Pure Land, the Sage of Six Paths recognized that the Sky Screen’s account was fabricated but feared everyone would believe he had caused a thousand years of war.

Indra and Asura went into the mountain woods to play, where Asura was badly injured by a wild black bear. Indra returned in time to defeat the bear and save his brother, but his expression turned cold as he looked down at Asura.

• Indra raced ahead while Asura struggled to keep up, and Asura stopped to rest after becoming exhausted.
• Asura discovered Indra was missing and headed deeper into the woods, where his puppy alerted him to a huge black bear.
• The bear struck Asura and left him helpless on the ground as it advanced to attack him.
• Indra returned, evaded the bear's attacks, and beat it down with a series of powerful punches.
• Asura praised Indra, who smiled proudly before turning a cold, malicious gaze toward his injured brother.

Indra killed the black bear that had gravely injured Asura and rushed his unconscious brother back to Ninshu. Watching the scene, the Shinobi World debated how the brothers later became enemies, while Tsunade argued that ideals needed power to protect them and Itachi recognized Indra’s resemblance to Sasuke.

• Indra killed the black bear, then found Asura unconscious and severely injured.
• Indra carried Asura on his back and sprinted toward Ninshu as the Sky Screen showed his desperate rescue.
• Ninja and civilians watching the Sky Screen wondered how the brothers’ childhood affection turned into a thousand-year feud.
• Tsunade criticized Asura’s weakness and argued that ideals without power were worthless, while Hiruzen conceded that kindness needed strength to protect it.
• Itachi recognized that young Indra resembled Sasuke and reflected that Indra had once been a pure-hearted boy who only wanted to protect his brother.

After Asura nearly died in a bear attack, Indra resolved to gain power to protect his little brother, prompting the Sage of Six Paths to reconsider spreading chakra. The chapter leaves the Sage worried that Indra’s fierce desire for strength could become an obsession.

• The Sage of Six Paths healed Asura after Indra brought him back to Ninshu, then heard how the bear had attacked them.
• Indra blamed himself for Asura’s injuries and vowed to become strong enough to protect him.
• The Sage of Six Paths praised Indra’s desire to protect his brother and said power mattered when used to protect loved ones.
• The Sage of Six Paths reconsidered his decades-long refusal to spread chakra and told Indra and Asura to meet him after Asura recovered.
• Alone in the Main Hall, the Sage of Six Paths worried that Indra’s fear of helplessness could turn his desire to protect into an extreme obsession with power.

The Sage of Six Paths prepared to teach Indra and Asura chakra, while the Sky Screen’s version of the past sparked debate across the Shinobi World. As the brothers arrived at Ninshu’s Main Hall, Asura vowed to become strong enough to protect Indra.

• Viewers across the Shinobi World argued over Indra’s desire for power and the Sage of Six Paths’ concerns about his temperament.
• In the Pure Land, the Sage of Six Paths reflected that the Sky Screen had invented his doubts and that Indra had mastered chakra from a young age.
• The Sage of Six Paths reaffirmed that kindness mattered more than talent or fighting ability, which was why he hoped Asura would inherit his will.
• After Asura recovered, Indra and Asura went to Ninshu’s Main Hall to meet their father.
• The Sage of Six Paths announced that he would teach them true power, and Asura promised to study hard so he could protect Indra.

The Sage of Six Paths taught Indra and Asura to use chakra, then tried to share Ninshu with his disciples, but none of them could produce chakra. Asura helped the struggling disciples while Indra scorned them, and the Sage was left wondering why ordinary people could not train.

• Indra insisted he could protect himself and asked the Sage of Six Paths to teach him to wield his power, while Asura argued that people needed to help one another.
• The Sage of Six Paths taught his sons how chakra was created, and Indra mastered it almost immediately while Asura learned only after many attempts.
• The Sage of Six Paths decided to teach chakra to Ninshu's disciples and people seeking kindness and peace.
• The disciples failed to extract chakra despite repeated efforts, and Indra grew more contemptuous of them.
• Asura patiently guided the disciples through their training and encouraged them to keep trying.
• The Sage of Six Paths wondered why his sons could use chakra while none of his ordinary disciples could.

The Sage of Six Paths sought Gamamaru’s help after ordinary Ninshu disciples failed to cultivate chakra. Gamamaru explained that humans lacked the Ōtsutsuki’s innate capacity for chakra and agreed to study Hagoromo’s chakra and methods, while Hagoromo left to continue searching for a solution.

• The Sage of Six Paths reflected that he had spread chakra to connect people’s hearts and end hatred, not to pass down power.
• Hagoromo left Ninshu in the care of his disciples and sons, then traveled alone to Mount Myōboku to ask Gamamaru why ordinary people could not cultivate chakra.
• Gamamaru explained that chakra came from the Ōtsutsuki Clan and that human bodies could not naturally contain or control it.
• Gamamaru agreed to study the chakra and cultivation methods Hagoromo left with him, hoping to find a way for humans to cultivate chakra.
• Hagoromo thanked Gamamaru and left Mount Myōboku to search the world for another solution.

Gamamaru studied the primal chakra Hagoromo had left behind while the Shinobi World debated its origins and potential. Orochimaru became determined to investigate Mount Myōboku, and Hagoromo continued searching for a way to let ordinary people cultivate chakra before stopping at a small village to rest.

• Gamamaru began studying the primal chakra Hagoromo had left behind, which the Sky Screen revealed to the Shinobi World.
• Jiraiya praised Gamamaru’s efforts, while Tsunade and Hiruzen Sarutobi remained wary.
• Orochimaru coveted Hagoromo’s primal chakra and made Mount Myōboku a target for investigation.
• Hagoromo continued traveling and searching for a way for ordinary people to extract chakra and connect their hearts.
• After growing weary, Hagoromo entered a small mountainside village to rest.

The Sage of Six Paths witnessed an old man’s death and saw an unseen force carry away his soul. Realizing that the legendary Pure Land might truly exist, he resolved to investigate what happens to souls and chakra after death.

• The Sage of Six Paths listened as a dying old man explained that he feared leaving his family and estate behind more than death itself.
• The old man suggested that unresolved worries might follow people even into the Pure Land, prompting the Sage of Six Paths to question where souls went after death.
• The Sage of Six Paths used the Rinnegan to watch the old man’s soul linger above his corpse before an unknown force pulled it away.
• The Sage of Six Paths concluded that the Pure Land held a great secret and vowed to study it.
• Shinobi watching the Sky Screen discussed how the encounter had stirred the Sage of Six Paths’s own attachments and questions about death.

The Sage of Six Paths discovered how souls entered the Pure Land and devised a way to spread chakra through souls, allowing ordinary people to use it while connecting their minds. He intended the Pure Land as only a last escape route, but the Sky Screen’s viewers suspected his chakra system let him perceive shinobi across generations.

• The Sage of Six Paths revealed his identity to the old man, who then realized the child with him was Sarutobi and decided where to send him.
• The Sage of Six Paths traced the souls of the dead and located the Pure Land, learning how to control his soul’s passage into and out of it.
• The Sage of Six Paths rejected surviving only as a soul and conceived of bestowing chakra seeds through the connection between chakra and souls.
• The Sage of Six Paths resolved to spread chakra as a way for people to share perceptions and emotions, and to observe the Living World from the Pure Land.
• Viewers of the Sky Screen identified Sarutobi as a likely ancestor of the Sarutobi Clan and debated whether the Sage of Six Paths could perceive everyone who possessed chakra.

The Sage of Six Paths returned to Ninshu Headquarters and announced that he had found a way for all his disciples to cultivate chakra. As he prepared to share his chakra in the name of understanding and peace, Indra questioned why his father would give power to everyone instead of him.

• Hiruzen Sarutobi realized that the child who had met the Sage of Six Paths was his clan’s ancestor, while Jiraiya teased him and Tsunade reflected on the cycle of fate.
• The Sage of Six Paths returned to Ninshu Headquarters and saw that only Indra and Asura had learned to cultivate chakra.
• The Sage gathered the disciples and announced that he had found a way for everyone to cultivate chakra, delighting the gathered disciples and Asura.
• Indra called the disciples talentless and questioned why they deserved power, while Asura reminded him they were companions.
• The Sage explained that chakra connected people and that he would share his power and ideal of peace with the disciples.
• Indra wondered why his father would give power to ordinary people instead of him, while Asura said the disciples could use it to protect themselves and others from the remaining Celestial Dragons forces.

The Sage of Six Paths gave chakra seeds to the Ninshu disciples, weakening himself as ordinary people awakened chakra. He then asked Indra and Asura to guide their training, while Indra’s arrogance continued to concern him.

• Indra dismissed the Celestial Dragons as weak and rejected Asura’s belief in unity, and Asura stopped trying to persuade him.
• The Sage of Six Paths used his own power to create chakra seeds and gave one to each Ninshu disciple, allowing them to awaken chakra.
• The disciples celebrated their new power, and the Sage of Six Paths instructed them to adjust to it while they began to cultivate.
• The Sage of Six Paths examined Indra and Asura, praised Indra’s talent, and watched Asura admire his brother without envy.
• The Sage of Six Paths assigned the brothers to oversee the disciples’ training, and Asura eagerly agreed to share what he had learned.