Chapter Summaries

Minato Namikaze and Jiraiya confronted Yechen in the Hall of Gods, where they found Kushina Uzumaki alive but gravely weakened. Yechen demanded that Minato join the Gods Alliance and defended his control of the Nine-Tails, leaving Minato without an agreement.

• Orochimaru led Minato Namikaze and Jiraiya to the Hall of Gods, where Minato reunited with the awakened Kushina Uzumaki.
• Minato begged Yechen to return the Nine-Tails and his child, while Jiraiya tried to negotiate and questioned Orochimaru’s obedience.
• Yechen announced that he wanted Minato to join the Gods Alliance, and Orochimaru praised him until Yechen told him to stop.
• Minato pointed out Kushina’s condition and offered to overlook the confrontation if Yechen returned the Nine-Tails and let his family leave.
• Yechen argued that the Nine-Tails was a living being rather than a weapon and condemned the villages’ claims of pursuing peace.

Yechen offered to let the Tailed Beasts choose whether to leave with Minato Namikaze and Jiraiya, while proposing to save Kushina Uzumaki with an Immortal Essence Breath-of-Life Fruit. Minato agreed to Yechen’s terms, and the chapter ended with Orochimaru eager to study Kushina after she consumed the fruit.

• Yechen rebuked Jiraiya and Minato Namikaze for treating the Tailed Beasts as village property and said he would let any who wished to leave go with them.
• Jiraiya questioned whether Yechen would exploit the Tailed Beasts, and Yechen offered to show them the Tailed Beasts and honor their choices.
• Minato Namikaze agreed to Yechen’s terms and asked how he could save Kushina Uzumaki without the Nine-Tails.
• Yechen revealed the Immortal Essence Breath-of-Life Fruit, whose life energy revived Kushina’s appearance and could save her.
• Orochimaru asked for a sample of the fruit, but Yechen refused and said he could study Kushina’s blood after she consumed it.

Kushina Uzumaki recovered after eating the Immortal Essence Breath-of-Life Fruit, and Yechen revealed to Jiraiya that he intended to bring peace to the Shinobi World and wanted the Great Toad Sage to join the Gods Alliance. The group hurried to take Kushina to see her son.

• Kushina Uzumaki ate the Immortal Essence Breath-of-Life Fruit, healed, and rose to Kage Level, while Yechen accepted the cost of saving her.
• Kushina Uzumaki woke, punched Minato Namikaze for agreeing to Yechen's offer, and demanded to see her son.
• Yechen told Minato Namikaze that he sought world peace and told Jiraiya that he was the prophesied savior.
• Yechen asked Jiraiya to invite the Great Toad Sage to join the Gods Alliance as the elder overseeing the Summoned Beasts, and Jiraiya agreed to deliver the message.
• Kushina Uzumaki urged the group to hurry, and Minato Namikaze led Yechen toward their son.

Yechen brought Minato, Kushina, and Jiraiya to the Summoning Hall, where they saw Naruto cared for by the other tailed beasts and learned the Nine-Tails could choose his own future. The Nine-Tails agreed to become a summoned beast, while Minato remained torn over what that meant for Konoha.

• Minato, Kushina, and Jiraiya arrived at the plaza and found Naruto safe with the Four-, Five-, Six-, and Seven-Tails while the Nine-Tails rested nearby.
• Yechen identified the creatures as tailed beasts summoned to the Hall and told Minato that the Nine-Tails' future depended on his choice.
• The Nine-Tails roared at Kushina, but Yechen rebuked him and reassured him that no one would force him to become a vessel's power source.
• The Nine-Tails agreed to become a summoned beast, and Yechen returned Naruto to Minato and Kushina.
• Jiraiya said he had seen hope for peace in Yechen, while Minato struggled to weigh the tailed beasts' freedom against Konoha's interests.

Yechen persuaded Minato Namikaze to let the Nine-Tails remain free, and Minato agreed to join the Gods Alliance after resigning as Hokage, though he intended to protect Konoha's interests. Kakuzu and Yechen then challenged Minato's loyalty by revealing evidence of Konoha's corruption and its role in the Uzumaki Clan's destruction.

• Yechen brought the Nine-Tails into the Summoning Hall, where Kushina Uzumaki, Jiraiya, and Minato Namikaze agreed to let him stay.
• Minato Namikaze agreed to join the Gods Alliance after resigning as Hokage, but warned Yechen he would become his enemy if Yechen's intentions changed.
• Kakuzu presented Minato Namikaze with records of Konoha High Command's black-market dealings, including smuggling, assassinations, and schemes targeting the Uchiha Clan.
• Yechen revealed documents taken from Danzo, including secret techniques stolen from clans and confidential records about the Uzumaki Clan.
• The documents showed how Konoha failed to aid its ally during the Uzumaki Clan's destruction and later took some of its sealing jutsu.

Yechen revealed evidence of Konoha’s past failures, deepening Kushina Uzumaki’s anger and disillusionment. He urged Minato Namikaze to pursue peace through strength with the Gods Alliance, and Minato chose to try, with Jiraiya agreeing to help.

• Kushina Uzumaki rejected Yechen’s documents, but Jiraiya confirmed that Konoha’s leaders had debated whether to help the Land of Whirlpools.
• Kushina Uzumaki pushed Minato Namikaze aside and sat down in silence, showing her disappointment in Konoha.
• Yechen brought up Konoha’s White Fang and blamed the High Command’s tacit acceptance of the condemnation that led to his death.
• Yechen offered the Gods Alliance’s support for Minato Namikaze’s reforms and argued that peace required strong leadership and military force.
• Minato Namikaze agreed to work with Yechen, explaining that he wanted to serve Konoha as a community rather than any one person or clan.
• Jiraiya agreed to help Minato Namikaze try Yechen’s path.

Minato Namikaze pushed through sweeping reforms in Konoha and defeated an attempt to remove him, while Yechen helped Mei Terumi take control of Kirigakure and obtained the Three-Tails. After returning to Konoha, Yechen considered his remaining tailed-beast targets and went home to rest.

• Minato Namikaze purged and reorganized Konoha's Anbu and Guard Corps, faced resistance from powerful clans, and gained support from Yechen, the Uchiha Clan, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi, Utatane Koharu, and Mitokado Homura confronted Minato Namikaze, who answered their accusations by listing their clans' past misconduct.
• Konoha's vote to remove Minato Namikaze failed after his supporters, including civilian jonin, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya, rallied behind him with Yechen's help.
• Mei Terumi launched a coup in Kirigakure with the Gods Alliance's support, and Obito Uchiha avoided confronting Yechen, allowing Mei to become the Fifth Mizukage.
• Yechen obtained Isobu, the Three-Tails, and returned to Konoha with six tailed beasts, considering how to acquire the remaining ones without harming their jinchūriki.
• Yechen returned home and fell asleep.

Yechen watched the Gods Alliance negotiate cooperation between Konohagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure, then urged their leaders to seek control of their nations’ economies rather than argue over small gains. His proposal left the alliance considering a far broader expansion of its power.

• Yechen saw Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji growing up in safer circumstances, and planned how to obtain the remaining tailed beasts.
• Seven days later, the Gods Alliance met to discuss trade, information sharing, and resource exchanges between the three great hidden villages.
• The village leaders and Kakuzu argued over the distribution of benefits during the seven-day meeting.
• Yechen ended the arguments by asking where the greatest gains lay, and Mei Terumi suggested the countries themselves.
• Yechen proposed that the villages take control of their nations’ economies and replace the governments that ordered them around.

Yechen proposed making the Ninja Villages equal to the great nations by offering them resources at half the price they currently paid. The leaders were intrigued, but changing the villages’ subordinate status would require time and broad support; Kumogakure, Kirigakure, and Konoha had already formally allied.

• Yechen explained that the villages depended on the great nations for resources and authority, making rebellion risky and difficult.
• Mei Terumi hesitated over Yechen’s proposal because losing the great nations’ financial support could bankrupt the villages.
• Yechen offered to supply the villages with whatever resources they needed at half the current price.
• The Third Raikage, Minato Namikaze, and Mei Terumi reacted with surprise and excitement, while Orochimaru wondered how Yechen could afford it.
• Yechen told the leaders to register their requests with Kakuzu and said they would discuss their future development.
• The leaders considered how to change the villages’ relationship with the great nations, while Kumogakure, Kirigakure, and Konoha prepared to formalize their alliance with a signing ceremony.

Yechen cultivated in seclusion as his Wood Release and Flying Thunder God Technique evolved, greatly expanding his abilities. After seeing Konoha thrive under its life-and-death alliance with Kumogakure and Kirigakure, he returned to seclusion.

• Yechen continued cultivating while 99 Shadow Clones trained his skills, and his Wood Release: Samsara of Myriad Forms evolved to the fourth stage, ten thousand trees welcoming spring.
• A month later, Yechen's Flying Thunder God Technique evolved to Spatial Traversal: Nascent Domain, allowing him to make short-range spatial jumps and rapidly place marks within a domain.
• Yechen tested the new technique and found that he could jump more than ten thousand meters, though longer distances consumed too much energy.
• Konoha, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure formed an unconditional life-and-death alliance, alarming the other two great shinobi villages.
• The Three Great Shinobi Villages opened most clan Ninjutsu to their shinobi, and their economies and populations developed rapidly with support from the Gods Alliance.
• Yechen saw Konoha's progress, rested for three days, and returned to secluded cultivation.

During two years of secluded cultivation, Yechen evolved several skills and reached the attribute limit imposed by his current cultivation realm. He evolved Impure World Reincarnation and bought a Soul Crystal, intending to use the jutsu to bring Ito Miyuki back.

• After six months of seclusion, Yechen evolved Gold Release: Ten Absolute Dominions into Raging Gold Dust Storm.
• Nine months into his seclusion, Yechen evolved the Uchiha Great Fire Flame Formation into Dragon Flame Formation.
• After a year, Yechen raised all three basic attributes to 33,000, but the system stopped him from adding more points until he advanced his cultivation realm.
• As he continued cultivating, Yechen evolved Fire Release: Soul-Devouring Ghost Flame into Fire Release: Stellar Detonation-Firmament Shatter, raised Amaterasu, Kotoamatsukami, and Void Slash to level 3, and unlocked the first stage of Impure World Reincarnation.
• Yechen found a Soul Crystal in the Myriad Forms Mall, bought one for 10,000 evolution points, and planned to use it to reincarnate Ito Miyuki.

Yechen and Orochimaru completed a new form of the Impure World Reincarnation and revived Ito Miyuki, whose soul retained her memories and independent consciousness. Miyuki reunited with Yechen, while he agreed to let Orochimaru study her after she had time to adjust.

• Yechen and Orochimaru spent three months researching and experimenting to complete a new Impure World Reincarnation body.
• Yechen used Ito Miyuki's body and a Soul Crystal to summon her soul and reincarnate her.
• Ito Miyuki awakened, recognized Yechen, and rushed into his arms after six years apart.
• Orochimaru examined Miyuki's improved body and asked to research her, but Yechen told him to wait until she had adjusted.
• Yechen introduced Orochimaru to Miyuki, who hid behind Yechen when Orochimaru's manner frightened her.

Uchiha Ye Chen took Ito Miyuki around Konoha, where she reunited with her parents after being given a new life. Ye Chen then went to eat ramen and spent time with Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha.

• Uchiha Ye Chen and Ito Miyuki walked through Konoha and reminisced about the village’s changes.
• Ito Miyuki recognized her parents’ home, and Ye Chen encouraged her to go inside while he waited outside.
• Ye Chen left for Food Street and ordered ten bowls of ramen from Teuchi.
• Naruto Uzumaki surprised Ye Chen at the ramen shop, and Ye Chen pulled him onto his lap and tickled him.
• Sasuke Uchiha greeted Ye Chen respectfully as the other children gathered nearby.

Yechen treated Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata, and Neji to ramen, then their parents arrived and joined them at the shop. He encouraged Hinata to eat despite her clan’s strict rules and brushed off Kushina’s offer to find him a girlfriend.

• Yechen invited Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata, and Neji to eat ramen with him.
• Naruto excitedly ate the chashu ramen Yechen had set aside for him, while Hinata carefully restrained her appetite.
• Minato, Kushina, Fugaku, Mikoto, Hiashi, and Hizashi arrived at the shop as the children ate.
• Naruto ran to Kushina, while Sasuke, Hinata, and Neji formally greeted their parents.
• Yechen urged Hinata to keep eating after Hiashi approved her return to the table.
• Kushina teased Yechen about finding a girlfriend, and he declined her offer to introduce someone.

Yechen rejected Minato Namikaze’s request to take ordinary students, then proposed training gifted children as inner disciples of the Gods Alliance. He left Minato to select promising youngsters and suggested that Konoha, Kirigakure, and Kumogakure contribute their secret techniques.

• Hinata Hyuga ate two bowls of ramen, while Yechen ate fifteen and drew Naruto Uzumaki’s teasing.
• Minato Namikaze asked Yechen to take on promising students from the academy, but Yechen refused to lead disciples.
• Yechen realized Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha could become powerful if they trained from childhood.
• Yechen proposed taking talented children as his inner disciples and training them through the Gods Alliance.
• Yechen told Minato Namikaze that Kirigakure and Kumogakure should contribute secret techniques, and that Konoha would need to offer its share too.

Yechen took the children out to eat, introduced them to Ito Miyuki, and later punished Jiraiya for peeping at women in Konoha Hot Springs. The chapter left Minato Namikaze considering whether Konoha's children should join the Gods Alliance as inner disciples.

• Minato Namikaze asked for time to consider Yechen's offer, and Yechen took Hinata Hyuga, Naruto, Sasuke Uchiha, and Neji Hyuga out for food.
• Minato Namikaze explained the Gods Alliance to Uchiha Fugaku and the Hyuga clan leaders, who were stunned by its size and reach.
• Yechen and the children met Ito Miyuki, and their concern over her appearance helped them grow closer to her.
• Yechen returned the children to their parents, urged Minato Namikaze to decide soon, and let Ito Miyuki spend more time with her family.
• Yechen spotted Jiraiya peeping at women in Konoha Hot Springs and struck him with a sand needle, causing chaos at the bathhouse.
• Yechen returned home late that night and went straight to sleep.

Yechen saw how relations between the Uchiha Clan and Konoha had improved, then learned that the Ninja Academy was holding its Chunin Exams. More than a month later, the Nine Heavens Evolving Heaven Palace hosted an assessment for talented children from several shinobi villages hoping to become inner disciples.

• Yechen walked through a lively street shared by Uchiha and other villagers, reflecting on how the Nine-Tails' Rampage, the Uchiha Clan's aid, and Danzo's absence had eased tensions.
• Yechen visited the Ninja Academy and learned from a Chunin that Konoha was holding the written test for its Chunin Ninja Exams.
• Yechen continued exploring Konoha and observing ordinary life.
• More than a month later, children from Konohagakure, Kumogakure, and Kirigakure arrived at the Nine Heavens Evolving Heaven Palace to take the inner disciple assessment.
• Yechen had arranged for visitors from other factions to enter through a teleportation barrier that prevented people with ulterior motives from getting in.

At the Gods Alliance’s Inner Disciple test, the Five Great Hidden Villages and other factions gathered to learn about the organization. The tailed beasts appeared and overwhelmed the crowd, ending with the Nine-Tails asserting its dominance over the plaza.

• Minato Namikaze admitted to Hiruzen Sarutobi that he had joined the Gods Alliance, while Utatane Koharu accused him of betraying Konoha and threatened to remove him as Hokage.
• Ōnoki and Fourth Kazekage Rasa attended the test to learn more about the Gods Alliance.
• Four-Tails Son Goku appeared in the plaza, frightening the crowd and prompting some people to try to flee.
• Five-Tails Kokuō, Three-Tails Isobu, Six-Tails Saiken, and Seven-Tails Chōmei arrived and encircled the plaza.
• The Nine-Tails appeared with a roar that suppressed the other tailed beasts’ auras.

Uchiha Ye Chen welcomed the gathered shinobi to the Nine Heavens Evolving Heaven Palace and officially began the Gods Alliance’s Inner Disciple test. Children from several villages stepped forward to compete, including familiar future Konoha shinobi and gifted participants from Kumogakure and Kirigakure.

• Ye Chen descended before the gathered shinobi, whose leaders and experts bowed to him as the six tailed beasts gathered beside him in smaller forms.
• Naruto recognized Kokuō as Little Puppy, and the tailed beast gave him a bottle of Watermelon Juice before returning to Ye Chen’s side.
• Ye Chen welcomed everyone to the Gods Alliance headquarters and declared the Inner Disciple test officially underway.
• Children between three and eighteen years old stepped forward to take the test, including Hinata Hyuga and several who would become the Konoha 12.
• Kumogakure sent ten gifted young shinobi, including Killer B and Darui, while Chōjūrō was among Kirigakure’s participants.

Yechen selected new inner disciples for the Gods Alliance and used its cultivation resources and bloodline-enhancing fruits to attract powerful clans. He negotiated alliances with Ōnoki and Rasa, gaining their agreement to send shinobi and arrange for Gaara while promising trade, resources, and places for their villages.

• Yechen tested the candidates, admitted those who passed as inner disciples, and showed them cultivation resources and his advanced dōjutsu.
• The great clans, including the Hyuga and Uchiha, sought to join the Gods Alliance to gain access to bloodline-enhancing fruits.
• Yechen awarded each new disciple a Spirit-Transforming Fruit and put Kakuzu in charge of Alliance missions and rewards.
• Yechen negotiated with Ōnoki and Rasa, offering trade, resources, and disciple places in exchange for their villages sending powerful shinobi.
• Rasa agreed to provide Gaara, the One-Tail Jinchuriki, after Yechen promised not to kill him and allowed him to join the inner disciples.