Chapter Summaries

Naruto and the others defeated Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and returned to a cheering Hueco Mundo, while Uchiha Huayue and Orochimaru began a plan to draw parallel worlds into reality. Ino then woke in her childhood room beside a stranger who called her a guest from another world.

• Neji destroyed the Sealing Cauldron, and Isshiki branded Karin with Karma before his body disintegrated.
• Naruto and the others returned to Hueco Mundo, where citizens celebrated their victory.
• Ōnoki, the Fourth Raikage, and Mei Terumi reflected on the battle and their changing world.
• Orochimaru and Uchiha Huayue activated the Karma Divine Tree and discussed using parallel worlds to pursue immortality and empower humanity.
• Ino woke in her childhood room beside an unfamiliar person, who told her she was a guest from another world.

Ino awoke in a future where her parents were young again and the shinobi mission system had been abolished, then learned she had arrived from another world. Naruto and the others brought her to Hueco Mundo, where Orochimaru sent her to meet their teacher, whose familiar face she saw as she opened the laboratory doors.

• Ino woke in her childhood home and discovered her mother and father were young, while her parents grew wary when she asked about village missions.
• Inoichi realized she was his daughter from another world, and Naruto arrived with masked patrol members to investigate.
• Ino told Naruto about his future marriage and children, while he explained that the Fourth Great Ninja War had ended and described the new order under his teacher.
• Naruto took Ino to Hueco Mundo, where Orochimaru identified her as a soul from another world and directed her to the teacher's laboratory.
• Ino entered the laboratory on Hueco Mundo's top floor and saw a familiar face.

Huayue told Timid Ino that he could not send her back to her original world, then discovered that her arrival had left Married Ino carrying a new life. As he arranged care for both Inos and prepared to transfer Karin’s Karma into White Zetsu, he left to visit Mabui and Yugito with Samui.

• Huayue introduced himself to Timid Ino and said he had no way to return her to her original world, though he could help her continue existing independently.
• Married Ino met Timid Ino, then Sakura and Hinata discovered that Married Ino was pregnant with a life unlike her own.
• Huayue ordered the medical department to prepare soul-stabilizing medicine and promised to resolve the situation before the new life was born.
• Samui reported that Karin’s Karma was ready to be transplanted into White Zetsu, and Huayue ordered the transfer and surveillance for the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Samui showed Huayue Tenten’s unusual gifts, and he invited her to visit Mabui and Yugito.
• Huayue, Samui, Mabui, and Yugito gathered at Huayue’s residence, where Mabui asked Samui about the bells she had begun wearing.

Huayue visited Tsunade and Shizune in Konoha’s old district, then confronted Tsunade over her casino debt. The next morning, Tsunade tried to hide what had happened by claiming she had won a set of wind chimes, and the group met for a hike with Shizune still puzzled by the bells.

• Huayue visited Shizune and asked why Tsunade had kept the old furniture despite the resettlement compensation.
• Tsunade came home drunk, pretended to fall asleep when she learned Huayue was there, and later woke to find him confronting her about her casino debt.
• Huayue demanded repayment or another way to settle the debt, and Tsunade agreed to his conditions while trying not to wake Shizune.
• Shizune heard bells during the night, then found wind chimes in the living room the next morning as Tsunade claimed she had won them at the casino.
• Tsunade invited Shizune to hike with Samui and the others, and Shizune heard more bells when the group met near Konoha.

Huayue found the Otsutsuki time-reversal treasure Karasuki and considered the threat it could help him face, while Tsunade woke in a changed world and realized she might not belong there. The chapter left Tsunade telling Shizune that she was from another world.

• Huayue reflected on the peaceful world and spoke with Kisame Hoshigaki, whose account of life without conflict sparked an idea.
• Kisame presented a turtle-shaped device recovered by Hueco Mundo's deep-sea team, and Kaguya identified it as Karasuki, an Otsutsuki treasure that could turn back time.
• Kaguya warned Huayue about the other Otsutsuki, and Huayue reassured her that he would handle them.
• Tsunade woke in Hot Spring Town with a younger body and unfamiliar surroundings, then discovered strange garments and bells in her room.
• Tsunade asked Shizune her age and learned that the Fourth Great Ninja War had ended four years earlier in the Land of Snow.
• Tsunade told Shizune that she seemed not to be from this world.

Tsunade learned that she had arrived in a future world where Hueco Mundo had unified the nations and transformed society. After seeing modern Konoha, she struggled to understand how the world had changed so drastically and who Uchiha Huayue was.

• Shizune helped Tsunade recover from the lightning-like shock and listened as Tsunade explained that she had come from a world twenty years in the future.
• Tsunade learned from Shizune that the ninja villages and major nations had been abolished under Hueco Mundo, while nobles and daimyos retained only ceremonial titles and stipends.
• Shizune brought Tsunade outside, where she encountered Mabui and others wearing strings of bells and heard that other worlds, including the Limited Tsukuyomi world, were real.
• Shizune pointed out that the old Konoha was now a protected historical site, and Tsunade saw a vast modern city in its place.
• Shizune credited the city's development to Uchiha Huayue and Hueco Mundo's officials, leaving Tsunade astonished that she had never heard of him.

Tsunade learned how radically this peaceful world differed from her own and rushed to find Uchiha Huayue so she could return home. In Hueco Mundo, she met her meek alternate self and their very different Shizunes, leaving her convinced the world was too strange to stay in.

• Shizune, Mabui, and Yugito explained that Uchiha Huayue had ended the wars and that this world had entered an era of peace, unlike the future Tsunade remembered.
• Tsunade saw Konan in Konoha and learned she was an intelligence director, while Kakashi told her Obito was alive and helping people in the Ninja World.
• Tsunade asked about Jiraiya and learned he had died during Nagato's attack on Konoha while trying to correct his mistake.
• Mabui told Kakashi that Huayue had found this world's Ino and was making a Gigai for her, prompting Tsunade to demand directions to Hueco Mundo.
• Shizune brought Tsunade to Hueco Mundo, where they met Limited Tsunade and Limited Shizune, whose contrasting temperaments left Tsunade eager to return home.

Huayue trapped Hokage Tsunade in Hueco Mundo and explained that her original world could not be reached, while creating Gigai bodies for the two Tsunades already there. Days later, Hokage Tsunade challenged her counterparts’ acceptance of Huayue’s rule, as Huayue examined the Otsutsuki treasure Karasuki.

• Hokage Tsunade demanded that Huayue send her back to her own world, but he trapped her in the throne hall.
• Huayue placed Hokage Tsunade in a Culture Vessel and created a matching Gigai for her soul.
• Huayue explained that this world absorbed other worlds like a black hole, and the three Tsunades reunited.
• Hokage Tsunade criticized Limited Tsukuyomi Tsunade for sacrificing herself for peace and rejected relying on Huayue’s power.
• Huayue examined Karasuki and saw a series of inexplicable scenes.

Orochimaru detected unknown spacetime fluctuations that damaged the Karma Divine Tree, and Huayue investigated the data before visiting people in Konoha. Back in Hueco Mundo, Huayue urged Orochimaru and Sanzu Amado to explore the newly detected world in person.

• Orochimaru severed the instrument transmitting unknown spacetime fluctuations, destroying much of the Karma Divine Tree while saving its azure fruit, then sent the recorded data to Huayue through Hinata.
• Huayue examined the data, visited Konan and her child, and gave Konan a Sage Talisman before leaving.
• Huayue reunited with Anko in Konoha, but Pakura interrupted them and took him away for a few days.
• After saying farewell to people in Konoha, Huayue returned to Hueco Mundo, where Orochimaru and Sanzu Amado discussed the unknown world shown by the instrument.
• Huayue told Orochimaru and Sanzu Amado to go see the newly discovered world for themselves.

Uchiha Huayue crossed into another world through the Karma World-Crossing Gate, leaving his allies and loved ones uncertain when he would return. He arrived amid a storm above Hachinosu Island, where pirates spotted him falling from the sky.

• Orochimaru and Sanzu Amado gave Huayue a Kusanagi Sword pocket watch and warned him to be careful before he entered the Karma World-Crossing Gate.
• After Huayue vanished, Gaara, Temari, Hinata, Yuhi Kurenai, Kaguya, Haku, and Eida sensed his departure and reacted with grief, worry, or disbelief.
• Haku ordered everyone to leave Hueco Mundo and barred entry until Huayue returned.
• On Hachinosu Island, Caesar went fishing as pirates mocked him, then a lightning bolt struck him just as he hooked a Sea King.
• The pirates saw a figure falling from the sky and recognized a chance to make a fortune.

Huayue escaped his Seastone cage on Hachinosu Island and confronted Kaido at the Rocks Pirates’ banquet to retrieve his pocket watch. He incapacitated Kaido with his Execution technique, and Charlotte Linlin attacked him in response.

• Huayue learned he was imprisoned on Hachinosu Island among defeated challengers to Rocks and used his powers to shatter the Seastone cage.
• Huayue asked a lame pirate where his clothes and pocket watch were, then crushed the surrounding pirates with a sudden increase in gravity.
• Huayue found his pocket watch beneath Kaido’s foot and demanded that Kaido return it.
• Kaido tried to destroy the watch with a Haki-infused stomp, but Huayue’s barrier stopped the blow.
• Huayue activated Execution, causing Kaido to collapse, and took back his pocket watch.
• Charlotte Linlin attacked Huayue with Emperor Sword: Elbaf’s Spear, and Huayue answered with Sage Art: Tailed Beast Bomb Rasenring.

Uchiha Huayue arrived on Hachinosu and demonstrated overwhelming power, blasting Charlotte Linlin away before trapping her in a black cube. When Rocks D. Xebec demanded to know his ambition, Huayue said he had none and was currently interested in planting trees.

• Huayue struck Charlotte Linlin with a Tailed Beast Bomb, sending her crashing into the coast and devastating Hachinosu’s harbor.
• The Rocks Pirates and the watching pirates reacted to Huayue’s power, while Rocks demanded to know what he wanted from the sea.
• Linlin returned and attacked Huayue with Emperor Sword: Shatter Blade, but he caught the flaming blade between two fingers.
• Huayue used Divine Art: Thief of No-Space to make Linlin vanish into a tiny black cube, then introduced himself as Uchiha Huayue.
• Rocks D. Xebec demanded to hear Huayue’s ambition, and Huayue answered that he was currently thinking about planting trees.

Uchiha Huayue joined the Rocks Pirates after Rocks invited him to help seize the world, and the Marines learned of the new officer. Huayue discovered and incapacitated a Marine spy as the Marines prepared an emergency response.

• Rocks invited Huayue to join the Rocks Pirates and revealed his plan to attack God Valley for its Celestial Dragons and Devil Fruits.
• Huayue accepted after describing the coming slaughter as fertile ground for his garden, and Rocks announced him as a new officer.
• A pirate secretly signaled a Marine surveillance ship that Huayue had joined the crew.
• The Marine Vice Admiral reported Huayue's strength to Fleet Admiral Sora, who called an emergency meeting with senior Marines, including Garp and Sengoku.
• Huayue caught the disguised Marine spy near the banquet and made him lose consciousness.

Huayue learned about the Marines and the world’s powers through his disguised spy, while Marine Headquarters prepared for a possible Rocks Pirates attack. At God Valley, Kuma and Emporio Ivankov planned to steal a flying Devil Fruit so they could escape with their comrades before the Celestial Dragons’ hunt.

• Huayue used the Marine spy as his eyes and ears after learning about the Marines, Haki, the Marine Six Powers, and Devil Fruits.
• Kong warned Marine officers that the Rocks Pirates might soon attack and ordered Marines across the Four Blues to stay alert.
• Kong received a call from Figerland Garling and agreed to station Marines outside God Valley during the Celestial Dragons’ hunt.
• Onigumo’s Marines drove ships away from God Valley, and Black Arm Zephyr arrived to take command of the operation.
• Kuma and Emporio Ivankov decided they needed to seize either the Paw-Paw Fruit or the Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Azure Dragon Form, to escape God Valley with their comrades.

Rocks led his crew toward God Valley to seize the Celestial Dragons and their Devil Fruits, while the officers questioned his motives and guarded their own interests. Huayue agreed to join forces with Flame Flower and revealed that his seed was the God Tree, a symbol of eternal life and immortal power.

• Rocks summoned his officers and announced that the Celestial Dragons had arrived at God Valley with Devil Fruits offered as prizes, then declared his plan to attack them and the World Government.
• Kaido and Charlotte Linlin showed the effects of their recent ordeals, while Whitebeard, MISS Bakkin, John, Golden Lion, and Wang Zhi voiced their concerns and competing ambitions.
• Huayue said he had no interest in the Devil Fruits, and Rocks ordered the fleet to sail for God Valley as the officers wondered about his hidden purpose.
• Rocks watched Huayue warily and privately resolved to claim eternal life for himself, while Huayue handled a seed and considered what it would become.
• Flame Flower privately warned Huayue that Rocks could not be trusted and proposed an alliance, which Huayue accepted before identifying the seed as the God Tree.

Huayue told the Rocks Pirates the legend of the Rabbit Goddess and the seed, but they dismissed his story as a fantasy. As the Roger Pirates clashed with Garp and Sengoku in West Blue, the Celestial Dragons and God's Knights arrived at God Valley, where Figarland Garling announced the start of the grand event.

• Huayue recounted the legend of the Rabbit Goddess, but Rocks, Golden Lion, John, and the others laughed and doubted him.
• Flame Flower and Buckin fought, while Huayue watched; Charlotte Linlin and Kaido left, and Huayue unnerved them by appearing beside them and promising to watch their performance.
• Roger and Rayleigh fought Garp and Sengoku in West Blue as the Roger Pirates tried to escape and continue their treasure hunt.
• The Celestial Dragons arrived at God Valley, followed by the God's Knights.
• Figarland Garling addressed the gathered Celestial Dragons and declared that the grand event had begun.

Kong learned that the Rocks Pirates had left Hachinosu Island and that the God Valley Hunting Tournament had been leaked, so he ordered Sengoku and Garp to reinforce the island. As the tournament began, Figarland Garling killed a slave and was penalized, while the Rocks Pirates and Marines headed toward God Valley.

• A Marine spy reported to Kong that the Rocks Pirates had drugged the banquet and left Hachinosu Island three days earlier.
• Kong heard a broadcast revealing the God Valley Hunting Tournament and its Devil Fruit prizes, realized the Rocks Pirates were targeting the Celestial Dragons, and ordered Sengoku to bring Garp to reinforce God Valley.
• Sengoku recalled Garp from his clash with Roger, and the Marines sailed for God Valley; Roger's crew followed, hoping to rob them.
• The Celestial Dragons began the tournament, sending God's Knights to hunt one hundred thousand slaves across God Valley.
• Figarland Garling shot a slave, prompting the referee to deduct 10,000 points and make him wait half an hour before setting out.

Ginny and Ivankov tried to lure pirates to God Valley while the Celestial Dragons’ slave hunt turned increasingly bloody. The Rocks Pirates arrived, and Rocks clashed with Zephyr as the pirates prepared to seize the island’s treasure.

• Ginny sent another signal beyond God Valley, hoping the pirates would come before the Celestial Dragons found her and Ivankov with Kuma.
• Figarland Garling blindfolded himself and joined the hunt, while the Celestial Dragons cheered as the slave casualties mounted.
• A Marine lookout spotted the Rocks Pirates, and Zephyr ordered his fleet to fire on their ships.
• Rocks destroyed the cannon volley with his Haki, then flew toward God Valley as Zephyr confronted him.
• Newgate, Bakkin Stussy, Flame Flower, Gloriosa, John, and Linlin argued over who would claim the treasure.

The Rocks Pirates invaded God Valley, where Golden Lion and Charlotte Linlin attacked the island’s defenders while Newgate’s power shook the land. Huayue stayed outside to protect the pirate ship, and Ginny, Ivankov, and the other slaves set out to seize the Fish-Fish Fruit and Paw-Paw Fruit and escape.

• Huayue declined Gloriosa’s invitation to join the fight, and Golden Lion Shiki, Charlotte Linlin, and Kaido entered God Valley with the Rocks Pirates.
• Figarland Garling ordered the God's Knights to crush the invading pirates.
• Golden Lion killed a Celestial Dragon and attacked the defenders, while Charlotte Linlin used Prometheus’s Heavenly Fire against the God's Knights.
• Newgate unleashed destructive power that split the sea and brought down mountains, and Huayue used gravity to lift the Rocks pirate ship to safety.
• Huayue explained why he would not eat a Devil Fruit, then vanished in azure spiritual particles as the pirates speculated he had elementalized.
• Ginny told Ivankov and Kuma that the Rocks Pirates had invaded, and Ivankov led the slaves toward the Fish-Fish Fruit and Paw-Paw Fruit.

Rocks defeated Zephyr and declared his plan to seize God Valley’s Celestial Dragons and Devil Fruits to become King of the World, then clashed with Figarland Garling. Meanwhile, Charlotte Linlin claimed two Devil Fruits from fleeing Celestial Dragons before Whitebeard arrived.

• Figarland Garling surveyed the battle outside God Valley as Zephyr fought Rocks without forcing him to draw his sword.
• Rocks revealed that he planned to take the Celestial Dragons and tournament Devil Fruits hostage and claim the title of King of the World.
• Rocks struck Zephyr down with Haki World, and his pirates cheered for their new ruler.
• Figarland Garling challenged Rocks, and the two fought with their sword auras threatening to destroy God Valley.
• Saint Mallow found two Devil Fruits and planned to use them to escape, but Charlotte Linlin attacked the Celestial Dragons and claimed the fruits.
• Whitebeard arrived and called out to Charlotte Linlin, who turned toward him in surprise.