Chapter Summaries

At Iwashimizu Hachimangu, Ninth-Dan Saitō and the chief priest discovered that Taira no Masakado had awakened and was destroying the shrine while searching for his head. As Masakado prepared to wipe them out, a gigantic purple arrow arrived, which the survivors believed was a divine intervention by Great Shining Deity Hachiman.

• Ninth-Dan Saitō told the chief priest that Uchiha Naruto had refused his offer of kyudo apprenticeship, and praised Naruto’s extraordinary skill.
• The chief priest and Ninth-Dan Saitō investigated the commotion and found the shrine’s deity statues beheaded, then encountered the headless Taira no Masakado.
• Taira no Masakado accused Great Shining Deity Hachiman of betraying him, beheaded Hachiman’s statue, and joined forces with a nue to trap the shrine attendants.
• Taira no Masakado mounted the nue and gathered power for a devastating strike against Hachiman-gu.
• A gigantic purple arrow streaked in from the northeast and burst into brilliant light above the shrine, prompting the chief priest, the other attendants, and Ninth-Dan Saitō to believe Hachiman had manifested.

Mineko Yuki joined officials investigating the Gion Festival attack, while Uchiha Senmon warned that the Heavenly Realm might be involved and the barrier between Earth and Heaven could be failing. Professor Nagayama identified the attacks as an attempt to destroy Heian-kyo’s grand feng shui formation, and Kyoto prepared for another strike on Hachiman-gu.

• Mineko Yuki arrived at Iwashimizu Hachimangu, where priests argued over which deity had fired the arrow that exorcised Taira no Masakado.
• Officials reported that the white-clad Sharingan user had likely fired the arrow from Yasaka Shrine, and Uchiha Senmon said he might have descended from the Heavenly Realm as the connection between Earth and Heaven weakened.
• Professor Nagayama mapped the destroyed shrines and identified them as nodes of Heian-kyo’s Demon Gate Seal, concluding that the mastermind aimed to break the capital’s grand feng shui formation.
• Kyoto officials asked Uchiha Senmon to come protect the city, but Tokyo officials refused to release him; Senmon instead promised to send other Divine Generals to Kyoto.
• Professor Nagayama predicted that Hachiman-gu would be the next target, so Kyoto ordered shrine repairs, imposed a curfew, and deployed the Self-Defense Forces to protect Hachiman-gu and Yasaka Shrine.

Mineko Yuki and the Self-Defense Forces defended Hachiman-gu against a massive Nue attack led by Taira no Masakado. After Mineko fought Masakado to a stalemate, he began using the Shadow Warrior Secret Technique, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Mineko Yuki and Tosu Hideo rushed to the command center after alarms reported more than a hundred Nue approaching Hachiman-gu.
• Taira no Masakado rode a Nue into battle, and the Nue scattered, crashed into machine-gun positions, and exploded to break through the defenses.
• A black, tentacled flying monster struck Masakado with electricity and knocked him from his Nue, but he survived the Self-Defense Forces' gunfire and destroyed their bunkers with his naginata.
• Mineko Yuki blocked Masakado's attack on Hachiman-gu with Lava Release: Granite, then challenged him to battle.
• Mineko Yuki and Taira no Masakado traded attacks without either gaining the advantage, and Masakado began forming headless duplicates with his Shadow Warrior Secret Technique.

Mineko Yuki and Tosu Hideo used a Hachiman talisman and sealing techniques to defeat Taira no Masakado’s Shadow Warriors and imprison his headless body. As they considered what to do next, Wind God Set suddenly attacked, blasting Tosu Hideo apart.

• Mineko Yuki fought Taira no Masakado’s five Shadow Warriors while Uchiha Senmon explained their origins and told her to stall until Tosu Hideo arrived.
• Tosu Hideo joined Mineko Yuki and summoned three Earth Grudge Fear clones, whose lightning, wind, fire, and tendrils restrained Taira no Masakado and his Shadow Warriors.
• Mineko Yuki threw a talisman of Great Shining Deity Hachiman, which dispelled the Shadow Warriors and exposed Taira no Masakado’s real body.
• Mineko Yuki sealed Taira no Masakado’s headless body inside a mass of volcanic rock using her Ash Stone Sealing Technique and Lava Release: Quicklime Congealing Technique.
• Wind God Set appeared in a violent storm and blasted half of Tosu Hideo’s body apart.

Uchiha Naruto used Susanoo to defeat Set and Taira no Masakado, while Uchiha Senmon prepared to travel to Kyoto to pursue Shion and the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai. Naruto demonstrated a possible weakness in the immortals’ regeneration when Indra’s Arrow struck Taira no Masakado, leaving him unable to move.

• Uchiha Naruto protected Mineko Yuki and Tosu Hideo by cutting apart Set’s storm and killing him with a Susanoo arrow.
• Tosu Hideo survived his injuries when his Earth Grudge Fear Clones restored two of his hearts, while Set and Taira no Masakado re-formed from sand and debris.
• Mineko Yuki and Tosu Hideo received orders to withdraw, and Uchiha Senmon defended that decision before announcing he would head to Kyoto.
• Uchiha Senmon identified Shion as the suspected mastermind behind the attacks and sought the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai.
• Uchiha Naruto fired Indra’s Arrow into Taira no Masakado, pinning him down, and then shot Set as observers noticed the two had not regenerated.

Abe no Seimei confronted Sasuke at Hachiman-gu, where their exchange revealed that she was Kuzunoha’s daughter and likely the legendary Onmyoji herself. After claiming she did not know the Nine-Tails’ whereabouts, Seimei summoned a new opponent using Tosu Hideo as a sacrifice.

• Professor Nagayama theorized that lightning suppressed the immortal dead, prompting Japanese officials to consider buying electromagnetic weapons.
• Abe no Seimei arrived among paper butterflies and spoke with Sasuke, who demanded the Nine-Tails’ location.
• Sasuke identified Seimei as Kuzunoha’s child, and officials concluded that the female Onmyoji was Abe no Seimei.
• Professor Nagayama reasoned that Princess Kaguya had killed Kuzunoha after taking the Nine-Tails, giving Seimei a motive to seal Kaguya away.
• Seimei said she did not know where the Nine-Tails was, then had Set bring Tosu Hideo as a living sacrifice.
• Seimei used the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai to summon a black-eyed miko holding a bow and arrows.

Sasuke Uchiha fought Abe no Seimei and the resurrected Hyuga Miko at Hachiman-gu, while officials watched and learned that Lightning Release could counter the dead. Abe no Seimei destroyed the Rear Demon Gate and opened the full Demon Gate Line, leaving a passage for the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.

• Hyuga Miko emerged from her coffin through the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai, and Uchiha Senmon realized the ritual required a living sacrifice.
• Abe no Seimei restored Hyuga Miko’s body and sent her to duel Sasuke Uchiha, whose Susanoo fought her Demon-Purifying Arrows until Mount Otoko’s peak began collapsing.
• Sasuke Uchiha used Amaterasu against Hyuga Miko and Taira no Masakado, but their dust bodies reassembled through the flames.
• Sasuke Uchiha blinded the watchers with a Lightning Release flash and struck at Abe no Seimei with Chidori, but Hyuga Miko intercepted the attack and Abe escaped into the air.
• Set destroyed Hachiman-gu while Sasuke was occupied, and a pillar of red light rose as the Rear Demon Gate was broken.
• The six nodes of the Demon Gate Seal lit up in a line, opening a crimson road for nonhuman beings as Abe no Seimei declared that the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons would begin.

Abe no Seimei announced that he would unleash the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons at the Obon Festival and revealed that Jiraiya had fallen in battle. After the battle, Tosu Hideo sank into his inner abyss, where Jashin tried to take control of his body, until a pair of scarlet Sharingan appeared.

• Abe no Seimei destroyed nearly all the drones watching him and announced that the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons would descend on Heian-kyo at the Obon Festival.
• Abe no Seimei told Uchiha Senmon that Jiraiya had fallen in battle and said that only he could save humanity from the final calamity.
• Abe no Seimei released the spirits bound in the earthen bodies of Set, Taira no Masakado, and Hyuga Miko, then marked the still-living Tosu Hideo with red light.
• Abe no Seimei's shikigami told the white-clad Sasuke that his true body would await him at the Obon Festival; Sasuke then shot down the government's drone.
• Tosu Hideo awoke in his inner abyss, where Jashin urged him to steal the hearts of the other Twelve Divine Generals and then tried to seize his body.
• As Jashin's tendrils dragged Tosu Hideo into the abyss, two scarlet eyes with three tomoe appeared before him.

Uchiha Senmon discovered Jashin inside Tosu Hideo and secretly protected his own identity while seeking Abe no Seimei’s Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai to resurrect Mikoto. At a government crisis meeting, officials struggled to prepare for Abe no Seimei’s planned Night Parade of a Hundred Demons until they received news that Sugawara no Michizane had manifested and a cursed blade had descended.

• Uchiha Senmon saw Jashin within Tosu Hideo, broke its tendrils, and used Sharingan Genjutsu to keep Tosu from exposing his secret.
• Uchiha Senmon decided to prioritize obtaining Abe no Seimei’s Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai so he could bring Mikoto back to life.
• Uchiha Senmon attended an emergency meeting where Japan’s leaders reviewed Abe no Seimei’s attacks and debated whether to evacuate Kyoto before the planned Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.
• Uchiha Senmon warned the officials that his force could not defeat Abe no Seimei and said Tosu Hideo was their only available lightning user.
• An assistant announced that Sugawara no Michizane had manifested divine power at Kyoto Tenmangu Shrine and that a cursed blade had appeared.

Two lightning-charged demon blades descended at Kitano Tenmangu Shrine, killing an office worker who tried to claim one. Uchiha Senmon arrived to investigate and was preparing to remove the blades when the worker’s charred body revived, declaring itself to be Sugawara no Michizane.

• A pair of demon blades struck the shrine grounds, and a young office drone was electrocuted when he tried to pull one free.
• Kyoto police and the Supernatural Konoha Military Police Force sealed the shrine, and Uchiha Senmon arrived to inspect the blades.
• Uchiha Senmon identified their lightning power and considered using them against Abe no Seimei, then prepared to extract them with Wood Release.
• When Uchiha Senmon tried to move the dead worker’s body, electricity surged through it and the corpse rose into the air.
• The revived figure opened its eyes and declared, “I am Tenman Daijizai Tenjin Sugawara no Michizane.”

Sugawara no Michizane manifested through a civilian to warn Uchiha Senmon about Abe no Seimei and the Heavenly Realm’s war against the Akatsuki. Senmon tamed the demonic blades Kiba and learned that Sasuke Uchiha would help him oppose Seimei’s plans.

• Sugawara no Michizane possessed a civilian, disabled nearby electronics, and told Uchiha Senmon that the gods could not intervene because they were fighting the Akatsuki in the Heavenly Realm.
• Sugawara no Michizane revealed that Pain had killed Jiraiya and warned that Abe no Seimei’s Night Parade of a Hundred Demons must be stopped in one month.
• Sugawara no Michizane identified the demonic blades Kiba as weapons capable of countering Seimei’s Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai, and Senmon agreed to test them alone.
• Senmon endured a devastating lightning storm and split a massive bolt with Kiba, proving that he had tamed both blades.
• Sugawara no Michizane said that Sasuke Uchiha would lend Senmon a hand, then left the civilian alive for Senmon’s agents to take to the hospital.

As Japan’s forces prepared to fight Abe no Seimei’s Night Parade of a Hundred Demons in Kyoto, Major General Gokisuke deployed troops along the Demon Gate Line and expected the attack to begin near Mount Hiei. At dusk, strange cries and ghostly figures appeared near an outpost, leaving two soldiers frozen as the danger reached them.

• Major General Gokisuke reviewed the defenses, confirmed that nine of the Twelve Divine Generals had arrived, and noted that Uchiha Senmon was stationed at Yasaka Shrine.
• Gokisuke ordered detained foreigners released, then studied the maps with staff officers and identified Mount Hiei Enryaku Temple as the most likely starting point of the Night Parade.
• Gokisuke prepared his troops to fight the demons as a war, with artillery and bombers positioned near Mount Hiei.
• At an outpost in Shimogyo Ward, Imanishi offered a stolen gold watch to a nervous fellow soldier and brushed off his fears about the Night Parade.
• As dusk fell, thick mist and strange cries appeared at the end of the street, and ghostly shadows moved within it while the two soldiers froze.

The Night Parade of a Hundred Demons appeared across Kyoto, but the Self-Defense Forces easily slaughtered its monsters, surprising livestream viewers and military commanders. Major General Gokisuke planned to leave the remaining monsters to his forces while the Twelve Divine Generals prepared for Abe no Seimei, though reports revealed that powerful creatures and a procession linked to Oda Nobunaga had appeared.

• Imanishi fired on the Night Parade with his rifle and grenade, scattering the monsters at his post as their remains dissolved into black liquid.
• Amami Katori began livestreaming from Kyoto to revive her popularity and welcomed the wealthy viewers [Uchiha's Title as the Strongest Is Real] and Naruto Uzumaki.
• The Night Parade appeared on the streets below Amami Katori, and a Flying Head attacked her window before armed drones and Self-Defense Forces troops destroyed the monsters.
• Major General Gokisuke celebrated the Self-Defense Forces’ victories and told staff to inform Director Uchiha that his forces could handle the monsters while the Twelve Divine Generals saved their strength for Abe no Seimei.
• Major General Gokisuke authorized artillery against a skeletal whale and Earth Spider, then received word that a procession of the dead suspected to belong to Oda Nobunaga had appeared at Honno Temple.

Amami Katori livestreamed the March of the Dead emerging from burning Honno Temple as viewers identified its skeletal commander as Oda Nobunaga. The Self-Defense Forces destroyed the physical undead with drones, and Doctor Satomi absorbed the ghost soldiers, but the scattered bones then melted into black liquid and formed mysterious patterns.

• Amami Katori filmed the burning Honno Temple, where a skeletal knight and an army of skeletal and ghostly soldiers emerged, prompting viewers to call the knight Oda Nobunaga.
• The Self-Defense Forces attacked the March of the Dead with drones, destroying the skeletal soldiers and blasting the skeletal knight apart.
• Viewers doubted the knight had really been Oda Nobunaga after seeing how easily the drones defeated him.
• Doctor Satomi arrived by helicopter and used Dark Release: Inhaling Maw to absorb the hundreds of ghost soldiers.
• After Doctor Satomi reported the March of the Dead subdued, the scattered bones melted into black liquid that formed mysterious patterns.

Uchiha Senmon traced the black sludge left by defeated monsters to Abe no Seimei, who was conducting a forbidden ritual beneath Honno Temple. As the Twelve Divine Generals gathered, Abe no Seimei summoned nine masked Shikigami to face them.

• Uchiha Senmon noticed that the monsters' black remains resembled the cursed mud associated with Princess Kaguya and followed their energy to Honno Temple.
• Uchiha Senmon exposed Abe no Seimei's barrier beneath the temple ruins and learned that Seimei's ritual was drawing his soul deeper and bringing his body closer to a demon's.
• Uchiha Senmon attacked the barrier with Wood Release but could not break it, while Abe no Seimei warned that his displayed strength was insufficient.
• Mineko Yuki, Doctor Satomi, Higashiyama Kaname, Kurosaki, and the other arriving Twelve Divine Generals joined Uchiha Senmon outside the barrier.
• Abe no Seimei summoned nine masked Shikigami with the Summoning Technique: Nine Mask Svāhā.

Abe no Seimei’s nine shikigami overwhelmed the Supernatural Konoha Military Police Force, while Uchiha Naruto watched from Tokyo and prepared to reveal the true power of Impure World Reincarnation. As the battle continued, Abe no Seimei promised to explain the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai.

• Abe no Seimei summoned nine masked shikigami and set them against the Supernatural Konoha Military Police Force, whose fighters were quickly outmatched.
• Uchiha Senmon used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to rescue the fallen Superhumans and restrain several shikigami, but he doubted he could defeat Abe no Seimei before Sasuke Uchiha arrived.
• Amami Katori considered fleeing her livestream, then stayed after Uchiha Naruto donated 1,000,000 yen under the name Naruto Uzumaki.
• Uchiha Naruto revealed that Abe no Seimei was a Servant he controlled and that he planned to use Impure World Reincarnation to resurrect the dead before the world, leading toward the Battle of Kobe.
• Uchiha Senmon and Mineko Yuki questioned Abe no Seimei about the destruction in Kyoto, and Abe no Seimei rose from the black mud and offered to reveal the mystery of the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai.

Dark Seimei explained that the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai required the deceased person’s DNA and demonstrated it using Madam Morinaga’s husband’s cord blood. She began the resurrection ritual, but Madam Morinaga realized too late that Dark Seimei had made her the sacrifice.

• Dark Seimei appeared in a corrupted, alluring form and summoned the Nine Masked Beasts as she promised to demonstrate the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai.
• Dark Seimei summoned Madam Morinaga, who provided her husband’s preserved cord blood as the material for the ritual.
• Dark Seimei explained that the ritual needed enough flesh and blood to obtain the deceased person’s DNA, leaving Uchiha Senmon searching for a way to recover Mikoto’s remains.
• Dark Seimei placed Madam Morinaga inside the formation and began chanting while the onlookers watched.
• After Madam Morinaga called for her husband to come back to life, Dark Seimei revealed that those were her last words and activated Impure World Reincarnation.

Uchiha Naruto used Impure World Reincarnation during the livestream, but a mistake with the blood-bank sample revived manga artist Takahashi Kazumasa instead of the intended person. Dark Seimei explained the sacrifice and power requirements of the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai, then declared that the dead would be more useful than the living as she introduced a discussion of humanity’s future.

• Uchiha Naruto summoned a dead man through Impure World Reincarnation, and the audience discovered the revived person was manga artist Takahashi Kazumasa.
• Japanese officials learned Takahashi’s identity, worried over the resurrection’s implications, and ordered Uchiha Senmon to negotiate with Abe no Seimei while seeking to stop the livestream.
• Takahashi Kazumasa mistook his resurrection for being summoned to another world and eagerly imagined the adventure ahead.
• Dark Seimei explained that the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai required a living sacrifice and that stronger sacrifices were needed to revive powerful dead people.
• Uchiha Senmon connected the mistaken revival to the wrong plasma sample and asked Dark Seimei how the ritual related to her plans to save humanity.
• Dark Seimei said the dead were more useful than the living and invited them to discuss the world to come.

Dark Seimei revealed her plan to sacrifice half of humanity to make the rest immortal, then summoned five resurrected Kage Level fighters to enforce it. Uchiha Senmon recognized the final figure in the opened coffin as Mr. Jiraiya.

• Dark Seimei destroyed Takahashi Kazumasa with an Explosive Tag, and he reassembled unharmed because the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai made him immortal.
• Uchiha Senmon arranged for the Self-Defense Forces to escort Takahashi away after Dark Seimei offered him as a demonstration of the ritual.
• Dark Seimei announced that she planned to grant humanity eternal life, beginning with a Japanese trial that would sacrifice sixty million people.
• Dark Seimei declared that Japan could not stop her and raised five coffins containing resurrected fighters, including Kabuto Yakushi, Hyuga Miko, and two unfamiliar Akatsuki members.
• Uchiha Senmon watched the final coffin open and recognized Mr. Jiraiya inside.

Dark Seimei revealed that she had collected an enormous army of supernatural dead and planned a ritual to move humanity to the other shore, then vanished after warning Japan and the United States not to interfere. At New Senso-ji, Yuuji Kanbara decided to flee Japan, but a fading white fox appeared and identified himself as the true Abe no Seimei.

• Mineko Yuki tried to attack Dark Seimei over Jiraiya’s resurrection, but Uchiha Senmon calmed her and questioned Dark Seimei about the coffins.
• Dark Seimei revealed that the five resurrected corpses were only a fraction of her collection and said she would use a ritual to ferry all Japanese people, then the rest of humanity, to the other shore.
• Dark Seimei warned political leaders not to interfere, threatened New York and Washington, and vanished with the Nine Masked Beasts and the coffins.
• At New Senso-ji, Yuuji Kanbara watched a recording of the Kyoto battle and decided to flee Japan to protect his daughter.
• After Yuuji Kanbara bowed before the Lord of Mount Tai’s statue, a glowing white fox appeared and introduced himself as the true Abe no Seimei.