Chapter Summaries

Obito used the Black Stone’s resonance to locate and erode Shikkotsu Forest’s barrier, while the Sage of Six Paths warned that the moon’s seal was being corrupted by darkness. The barrier then suffered a massive attack, and Hagoromo declared that the seal had broken.

• Obito’s attempt to locate Shikkotsu Forest stirred its natural energy, and the Katsuyu Sage shielded Ling and the Black Stone while warning that the barrier’s erosion was inevitable.
• The Sage of Six Paths appeared and showed Ling and the others that pale matter was corrupting the moon’s seal and the Tenseigan within it.
• Hagoromo said Toneri had escaped the moon’s castle with part of the Tenseigan’s core and was heading toward the Allied Forces headquarters.
• Hagoromo told Ling that the Black Stone, the Beacon, and Hamura’s Contingency Plan might help stop the projector connected to the darkness.
• A powerful energy shock shattered much of Shikkotsu Forest’s barrier, and Hagoromo vanished after declaring that the seal had broken.
• The moon flared with intertwined pale-white and pitch-black destruction as the barrier began to collapse.

As Shikkotsu Forest collapsed under the spreading corruption, Ling rejected Kakashi’s plan to flee and decided to connect his consciousness to the laws to oppose Obito. Just as a vortex began devouring the forest, Ling touched the Beacon between his brows.

• The Katsuyu Sage warned Ling and the others that the shield and the foundations of the Sacred Land were being erased.
• Kakashi urged everyone to return to Allied Forces headquarters, but Ling broke free and argued that they had to remove Obito from the laws.
• Ling asked the Katsuyu Sage whether the Black Stone and Beacon could let him connect his consciousness to the laws, and the sage warned that he could be lost forever.
• As Shikkotsu Forest fractured and a pale vortex appeared, the Katsuyu Sage unleashed chakra to protect the group.
• Ling chose to risk his life and slammed his fingertips onto the Beacon between his brows.

Ling entered the chaotic space within the Sacred Lord’s laws and tried to use the Beacon and Black Stone to restore its order and expel Obito, who attacked him after noticing his presence. As Kaguya Otsutsuki descended upon Allied Forces headquarters, Ling sensed that her arrival disrupted the laws and Obito’s control.

• Ling used the Beacon and Black Stone to withstand the corrupted laws and identify Obito’s consciousness as a parasite within them.
• Ling tried to strengthen the remaining threads of order, but Obito noticed him and unleashed a violent attack.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki emerged from the pale vortex above Allied Forces headquarters as Hashirama and the others prepared to fight.
• Kakashi held the unconscious Ling while Tobirama said Ling’s consciousness had remained inside the laws, and Sakura and Tsunade reacted with alarm.
• When Kaguya arrived, Ling felt the law-space and Obito’s consciousness hitch, as if a more powerful component had disrupted them.

Young Hashirama, Madara, and Tobirama were pulled from the past to reinforce the Allied Forces against Kaguya and the pale vortex. Their arrival disrupted Obito’s ritual and created an opening for Ling, while the two Tobiramas formed a plan to interfere with the law sustaining the vortex.

• Kaguya effortlessly erased the Allied Forces’ attacks and prepared to strike Hashirama with an All-Killing Ash Bones beam.
• A rift tore open, bringing young Hashirama, Madara, and Tobirama from Konoha Year One to the battlefield.
• The reanimated Tobirama realized the Beacon had pulled the three from the past, while young Tobirama identified Ling’s safeguard activating and assessed the threats.
• Young Madara’s Susanoo forced Kaguya to dodge, as young Hashirama attacked the pale vortex with True Several Thousand Hands and the Allied Forces covered them.
• Young Tobirama reinforced Ling’s failing consciousness link, then coordinated with his reanimated self on using the Black Stone and their Flying Thunder God coordinates to disrupt the vortex’s laws.
• The reinforcements threw the Consciousness Abyss into disorder, strengthening Ling’s consciousness and revealing an opening against Obito.

The Sage of Six Paths stabilized Ling's collapsing consciousness and transferred the power of Asura and Indra toward Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, awakening their Six Paths abilities. Ling began weaving the world's order against Obito's corruption as Hashirama and Madara prepared to fight Kaguya, who recognized their power and turned her killing intent on them.

• The Black Stone emitted a powerful white light that soothed the battlefield and brought the Sage of Six Paths into Ling's consciousness.
• The Sage explained that Asura's and Indra's chakra was resonating with and flowing back to Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, then bestowed their bloodline power upon them.
• Hashirama awakened a golden Six Paths-enhanced Sage power, while Madara's Mangekyō Sharingan transformed into a Six-Tomoe Rinne Sharingan.
• With the Sage's guidance and the resonance of Hashirama and Madara's powers, Ling began weaving fragments of order to resist Obito's gray torrent.
• Hashirama summoned an empowered True Several Thousand Hands, and Madara called down a meteor with Tengai Shinsei.
• Kaguya identified their power as that of her unfilial son and fixed Hashirama and Madara with killing intent.

Kaguya unleashed her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack against Madara while the Pale Vortex intensified, threatening to erase the battlefield and overwhelm Ling’s resistance within the Consciousness Abyss. The Tobiramas, Madara, and Hashirama attacked the vortex together to disrupt its connection to Ling and buy him time.

• Kaguya opened a dimensional portal and battered Madara’s Susanoo with her Eighty Gods Vacuum Attack, while her power disintegrated Hashirama’s forest techniques.
• The Pale Vortex surged with erasure energy, disrupting shinobi across the battlefield and weakening Hashirama and Madara as Obito’s consciousness pressed Ling inside the Consciousness Abyss.
• Ling pushed the Beacon and Black Stone to their limits as the gray torrent threatened to overwhelm the silvery-white threads of order.
• Both Tobiramas used Space-Time Sealing Jutsu: Twin Poles: Tracing Dust to target the vortex and the point linked to Ling’s consciousness.
• Madara used Amenotejikara to twist the vortex’s spatial structure, and Hashirama struck the distorted area with golden Gates of the Great God.
• Kaguya watched Ling and the brightening Black Stone with a flicker of confusion or scrutiny.

Kaguya tried to take the Black Stone as Obito's expanding erasure domain threatened the battlefield, but the relic awakened and checked the domain. Ling opened his eyes as an ancient will within the stone pronounced judgment on Obito.

• Kaguya recognized the Black Stone as a relic from the Valley of Slumber and became interested in its ability to withstand the erasure.
• Obito burned his own existence to seize greater control of the law, causing the erasure domain to expand and endanger the Allied Forces.
• The younger Tobirama called for the Black Stone to anchor a temporary order barrier while Hashirama, Madara, and the two Tobiramas tried to contain the threat.
• Kaguya bypassed the others and reached for the Black Stone, but Kakashi, Tsunade, and Sakura failed to break through her defensive force field.
• The Black Stone awakened, repelled Kaguya, and slowed the erasure domain with a pillar of light.
• Ling opened his eyes as an ancient will spoke through him and sentenced the thief who profaned the laws to eternal slumber.

Ling’s Black Stone briefly stabilized the erasure passage, allowing the Tobirama Senjus to tear Obito’s consciousness from the vortex, but Obito’s final sacrifice opened a flaw in the laws and unleashed the Sacred Lord’s erasing power. Kaguya began absorbing that power and claimed Ling and the Black Stone as hers.

• Ling used the Black Stone’s pillar of light to hold back the erasure domain while his body began to fail.
• The two Tobirama Senjus used Twin Poles: Tracing Dust-Reverse to strip Obito’s parasitic consciousness from the vortex, halting the erasure domain.
• Obito’s consciousness collapsed into a black point, opening a flaw in the laws that exposed a direct outlet for the Sacred Lord’s erasing power.
• The Black Stone’s pillar went out, Ling fell unconscious, and Sakura caught him as the stone cracked.
• Kaguya reached into the flaw and began absorbing its absolute nothingness into her chakra.
• Kaguya declared that Ling and the Black Stone belonged to her.

Kaguya absorbed the breach’s nothingness and overwhelmed Hashirama and Madara, but the Black Stone against Ling’s chest awakened and disrupted her control of space. As Ling’s body and soul began to fail, the stone pulsed again, and Katsuyu sensed that something had awakened through a resonance reaching back to the Sacred Land.

• Kaguya absorbed pure nothingness from the breach, and her power shattered Hashirama’s Wood Dragons and Madara’s Limbo shadows.
• Kaguya compressed Hashirama and Madara in a localized space and moved to seize Ling and the Black Stone.
• The Black Stone pulsed with a deeper power, weakening Kaguya’s spatial control and halting the breach’s expansion for an instant.
• Ling’s soul deteriorated as he conducted the Black Stone’s resonance, while the stone’s power faded.
• The Black Stone beat again, a bloody tear and silvery-white motes appeared at Ling’s eye, and Katsuyu sensed a resonance reaching back to the Sacred Land.

As the rules began collapsing, Ling’s Soul Beacon sacrificed itself to draw the destructive torrents away from the battlefield. Hashirama and Madara guided the torrents toward it, but the Beacon shattered, leaving everyone exposed as the tendrils turned toward them.

• A tremor signaled the collapse of the rules, and the Pale Vortex unleashed chaotic tendrils of nothingness across the battlefield.
• Ling convulsed as his Soul Beacon overloaded and created stable coordinates that drew the torrents toward itself.
• Hashirama and Madara built a double barrier and redirected the torrents toward the Beacon while Tobirama warned it would last only three minutes.
• Kaguya watched the failing Beacon with a complicated expression as its light dimmed and cracks spread.
• The Soul Beacon shattered, and the untargeted tendrils began turning toward the people below.

After the Beacon shattered, the Void Tendrils resumed their chaotic destruction while the Allied Forces struggled to survive. The Black Stone awakened a faint light that steadied Ling’s fading consciousness, and he opened his eyes with a new understanding of how the rules might be repaired.

• The Beacon turned to ash, and Hashirama urged the shinobi to spread out while Madara redirected the chaotic Void Tendrils.
• The two Tobiramas failed to find a core in the tendrils, while Sakura tried to stabilize the unconscious Ling beside the cracked Black Stone.
• A faint glow emerged from the Black Stone, reaching Ling’s consciousness and revealing the world’s wounded bands of order beneath the destruction.
• Ling understood that the rules’ chaos might be a flaw that could be mended, with the Black Stone’s remnants guided by his soul, though the attempt could destroy him.
• The Black Stone began glowing and turning transparent as Ling’s body grew still, and he opened his eyes with a silver-white gaze that startled Kaguya.

Ling used the Black Stone’s remaining dust of order and his own soul to repair the wounds in the world’s laws, stopping the Pale Vortex at the cost of his apparent existence. As Kaguya reached toward the faint imprint he left behind, the others mourned his disappearance.

• Ling recognized that his soul could guide the Black Stone’s dust of order into the wounds in the world’s laws, and he chose to pay the cost.
• The younger Tobirama stabilized space-time around Ling, while Hashirama and the reincarnated Tobirama helped clear a path to the wounds.
• Ling used the stardust of order to repair several wounds, weakening the turbulence and the Void Tendrils as his consciousness faded.
• Ling merged with the largest wound and spent his remaining existence healing it, causing the Pale Vortex and the law turbulence to dissipate.
• Sakura, Hashirama, Madara, and both Tobiramas watched Ling vanish, while Kaguya noticed his faint silver-white imprint and reached toward it.

Ling merged with the shinobi world's rules, erased Kaguya, restored the world and its dead, then returned to Konoha months later. He reunited with Ino, and they walked together through the peaceful village.

• Ling's fading mote reset the damaged world and established a higher order that Kaguya could no longer control.
• A radiant outline bearing Ling's presence erased Kaguya and restored the fallen, wounded, and disabled across the shinobi world.
• Ling's outline faded after healing Ling, and Tobirama said Ling had become part of the world's order.
• Months later, Ling visited Ino at the Yamanaka Flower Shop, and she embraced him in relief.
• Ling told Ino that he had gone home and returned, and they walked hand in hand through Konoha.