Chapter Summaries

Takahashi Kazumasa reunited with his family while researchers examined his dust-made body and questioned his identity. In Tokyo, Japan’s leaders struggled to contain the truth about Abe no Seimei’s plan, and the chapter ended when Tosu Hideo awoke.

• At Yokosuka Port, researchers examined Takahashi Kazumasa and found that he had no organs, heartbeat, or need for food, though he could taste ramen and shed tears.
• Takahashi Kazumasa embraced his wife and son, apologized for his death, and wept with them.
• Japanese experts planned to test whether Takahashi Kazumasa was authentic by arranging meetings with people from his life and asking him to finish an unfinished manga proposal.
• At the Prime Minister's Official Residence, officials discussed foreign pressure to study Takahashi Kazumasa and tried to keep Abe no Seimei’s plan to exterminate humanity secret.
• Uchiha Senmon said Abe no Seimei’s appearances in Derna City and Kyoto were likely preparations for his plan, and his assistant announced that Tosu Hideo had awakened.

Tosu Hideo revealed that Abe no Seimei’s Kobe ritual would trap chosen participants in a death game, prompting Uchiha Senmon and government officials to discuss evacuation and possible alliances. After reviewing Takahashi Kazumasa’s resurrection, Uchiha Senmon weighed his family’s safety before Assistant Ichimaru reported that Abbot Kanbara wanted to see him.

• Tosu Hideo told Uchiha Senmon, the Prime Minister, and the United States ambassador that the Kobe ritual would begin within a barrier centered on Kobe Bridge and require chosen participants to kill one another.
• Tosu Hideo explained that ordinary people could summon supernatural souls to fight for them, and that everyone would be annihilated unless all other chosen participants were eliminated before midnight on August 27.
• Uchiha Senmon urged the Prime Minister and the United States ambassador to seek the Taka Organization’s cooperation and asked the ambassador for a Type A specimen capable of using Lightning Release.
• Uchiha Senmon reviewed reports confirming that Takahashi Kazumasa had truly returned through the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai, though his body had no physiological responses.
• Uchiha Senmon considered sending Naruto and Namiru abroad, then Assistant Ichimaru told him that Abbot Kanbara had requested an audience.

Teruzo Kurogane prepared for Abe no Seimei’s approaching death game and discussed resisting it with Might Guy. Tosu Hideo and the Supernatural Konoha Military Police Force tracked Teruzo down, and Tosu asked to meet his Heroic Spirit.

• Teruzo Kurogane stocked his home with supplies and learned that Abe no Seimei’s death game would begin in less than two days.
• Might Guy urged Teruzo Kurogane to seek allies and challenge Abe no Seimei’s plan instead of killing other participants.
• Teruzo Kurogane wondered whether to contact the Supernatural Konoha Military Police Force, but operatives arrived at his home first.
• Tosu Hideo identified Teruzo Kurogane as a suspect connected to the missing judo captain and asked to meet his Heroic Spirit.

Teruzo Kurogane agreed to cooperate with the Supernatural Konoha Military Police Force, but two resurrected Superhumans ambushed them before the barrier opened. The attackers escaped after revealing that they had taken over bodies and intended to kill their way through Abe no Seimei’s death game.

• Tosu Hideo persuaded Teruzo Kurogane that the authorities could help him survive Abe no Seimei’s death game, and Teruzo agreed to work with them.
• Taiseki attacked Tosu Hideo from concealment, but Tosu survived with Earth Grudge Fear and restrained him while Teruzo drew on Might Guy’s power.
• Kakkō broke into the house and freed Taiseki, and the two fled to a rooftop as Tosu and Might Guy pursued them.
• Tosu recognized Kakkō and Taiseki as missing citizens and tried to negotiate, but Kakkō revealed that they had taken over bodies and did not care about their former families.
• Kakkō declared that the resurrected Superhumans had to follow Abe no Seimei’s death game to survive, then he and Taiseki escaped across the rooftops after Tosu ordered his officers not to pursue.

As Abe no Seimei’s death game began, Teruzo Kurogane was transported to a secret realm and hunted by Kakkō and Taiseki. After surviving their cave-collapse trap, he opened Might Guy’s Third Gate and killed Taiseki.

• At midnight, Teruzo Kurogane was separated from Tosu Hideo and the security forces and found himself in a strange secret realm.
• Might Guy advised Teruzo Kurogane to find shelter and search for allies, but several days of exploration yielded no useful clues.
• Teruzo Kurogane spotted the invisible Taiseki and followed him into a cave, where Kakkō triggered an Earth Release collapse trap.
• Kakkō and Taiseki assumed Teruzo Kurogane had died and planned to hunt the other participants, but he burst out of the rubble alive.
• Might Guy took control of Teruzo Kurogane’s body, opened the Third Gate, and killed Taiseki with a powerful kick.

Teruzo Kurogane and Tosu Hideo returned from the secret realm, but Might Guy’s Shadow Ninja was gone. Uchiha Naruto discovered that Impure World Reincarnation could create powerful, endlessly fueled Shadow Ninja soldiers and began planning a nationwide detection barrier and army, until Senmon unexpectedly called to him.

• Dark Seimei halted Might Guy and Kakkō, reclaimed Might Guy’s Shadow Ninja from Teruzo Kurogane, and sent Teruzo and Tosu Hideo back to Kobe City.
• Teruzo realized Might Guy’s heroic spirit and Cursed Seal were gone, while Uchiha Naruto used Impure World Reincarnation to revive Taiseki through Kakkō’s body and erase Taiseki’s will.
• Uchiha Naruto confirmed that the reincarnated Taiseki retained his Shadow Ninja fusion and could unleash limitless Chakra, which could power a barrier monitoring all of Japan.
• Uchiha Naruto planned to recruit vessels for an Impure World Reincarnation army by using Abe no Seimei’s fake world-destruction scheme, naming the project the Heavenly Origin Game.
• At the Uchiha Ruins, Uchiha Naruto heard a familiar voice reciting his honorific name and suspected that Senmon was calling him.

Uchiha Senmon secured contact with Taka and asked them to join the fight against Abe no Seimei, while White Seimei warned that Dark Seimei would soon make a major move. The chapter ended with Dark Seimei announcing a deadly live-action game across five Japanese cities.

• Uchiha Senmon confirmed White Seimei's pact and concealed him within a seal on his hand.
• Uchiha Senmon contacted Hagoromo Shiranui using Taka's honorific names, and she agreed to take his alliance proposal to the Five Kage.
• White Seimei told Uchiha Senmon that a hidden variable had changed events and that Dark Seimei would soon act.
• Assistant Ichimaru brought Uchiha Senmon a broadcast in which Dark Seimei announced an August 28 Heavenly Origin Game in five Japanese cities, where losers would die.

Japan’s leaders learned that Dark Seimei’s Heavenly Origin Game would recruit five hundred players across five cities for a deadly contest, and Professor Nagayama concluded that its locations and timing could trigger a nationwide Night Parade of a Hundred Demons. White Seimei privately corrected Uchiha Senmon: the game was meant to summon the Lord of Mount Tai so she could hunt Him and bind Him as a Shikigami.

• Dark Seimei announced that the Heavenly Origin Game would begin on August 28 in five Japanese cities, with players earning supernatural powers by killing one another.
• Japan’s Prime Minister and officials debated stopping the game, but Dark Seimei’s warning about New York and Washington discouraged them from intervening.
• Uchiha Senmon introduced Professor Nagayama, who linked the five cities along the Demon Gate Line and identified September 6 as the old-calendar Obon Festival.
• Professor Nagayama warned that the game could unleash a nationwide Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, and the officials reacted with alarm.
• White Seimei told Uchiha Senmon that the game’s true purpose was to summon and hunt the Lord of Mount Tai, then control Him as a Shikigami.

Uchiha Senmon learned that Dark Seimei intended to use the Heavenly Origin Game as a blood-sacrifice ritual to summon the wounded Lord of Mount Tai, and Japan prepared for the danger while countries and would-be players reacted to the announcement. As the game opened across five cities, dark-red barriers appeared, and Hagoromo Shiranui invited Senmon to join Taka.

• White Seimei explained that Dark Seimei planned to use the Heavenly Origin Game’s five barriers and the players’ deaths to summon the Lord of Mount Tai, whom she hoped to enslave as a Shikigami.
• Uchiha Senmon and Japanese officials discussed breaking through the five barriers, while the government arranged evacuations and deployed forces around the selected cities.
• Hagoromo Shiranui agreed that Taka would cooperate with Uchiha Senmon, then asked him to join the organization.
• Abe no Seimei’s announcement spread worldwide, prompting foreign governments and aspiring players to seek access to the game as Japanese residents fled abroad.
• On the eve of the game, Self-Defense Forces personnel guarded evacuated Karuizawa as dark-red barriers rose over all five cities, marking the start of the divine descent ritual.

The Heavenly Origin Game began across five barriers, drawing desperate people and government forces into a deadly contest for supernatural powers. As the fighting escalated, Uchiha Senmon arrived at the Sendai Barrier to dismantle it and entered despite being warned that doing so would make him a player.

• A Self-Defense Forces squad leader inside the Karuizawa Barrier learned the game’s rules and was offered the chance to withdraw.
• A vagrant accepted player status, gained a Rock Fist power, and set out to survive and take revenge on those who had betrayed him.
• Uchiha Naruto filled the player slots in all five barriers and matched each player with a Shadow Servant, while fighting and government intervention intensified.
• Uchiha Senmon arrived outside the Sendai Barrier and declined an offer of protection from an elite unit.
• A black fox Shikigami told Uchiha Senmon he would gain player status if he entered, and he stepped into the barrier anyway.

Uchiha Senmon entered the Sendai division of the Heavenly Origin Game to stop its players from killing one another and undermine Abe no Seimei’s ritual. After killing Kidomaru and capturing many players, Senmon was marked as a target, and two formidable players arrived to face him.

• Uchiha Senmon entered Sendai as player Konoha and learned that Rasa led the rankings with 110 points while only 29 players remained.
• Senmon found Kidomaru in a web-filled underground garage, killed him with the Sharingan and a Kiba blade, and gained 10 points.
• Senmon captured seven or eight players using his Sharingan and Wood Release, then learned that 27 players remained in the barrier.
• Abe no Seimei marked Konoha as a target, offered 100 points and immediate freedom to whoever killed him, and revealed his location to all players.
• Senmon used the arriving players to capture more of them, then faced a wine-red-haired woman and a huge man who seemed more capable than the others.

Uchiha Senmon defeated Fuka and overwhelmed Suikazan Fuguki before confronting Rasa, who revealed that the ritual behind the Heavenly Origin Game was not the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai but the Living Corpse Reincarnation.

• Uchiha Senmon reflected Fuka’s Binding Technique with his Sharingan and immobilized her.
• Uchiha Senmon copied Suikazan Fuguki’s Great Waterfall Technique and submerged him in the resulting torrent.
• Rasa attacked Uchiha Senmon with a storm of gold dust, and Uchiha Senmon recognized him from the Pipe Fox Shikigami’s rankings.
• Uchiha Senmon tried to persuade Rasa to stop killing, but Rasa said Abe no Seimei was an impostor and questioned him about the ritual.
• Rasa declared that the Heavenly Origin Game was performing the Living Corpse Reincarnation, not the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai.

Uchiha Senmon defeated Rasa in the Sendai Barrier after surviving his Gold Dust Burial with a surprise Wood Release attack. With Rasa subdued and the barrier under control, Senmon wondered whether the Twelve Divine Generals and Taka had dismantled the other barriers.

• Rasa rejected Uchiha Senmon's attempt to avoid a fight and unleashed Gold Dust Burial, burying him beneath a torrent of gold dust.
• Uchiha Senmon used Wood Release: Deep Forest Emergence to transform the dunes into a forest and bind Rasa with a Wood Dragon.
• Rasa's power was drained by the Wood Dragon, and he passed out as Senmon crawled free, wounded and exhausted.
• Uchiha Senmon realized the battle had brought his Wood Release close to a new pinnacle and declared the Sendai Barrier subdued.
• Uchiha Senmon looked toward the barrier's dark red curtain and urged the Twelve Divine Generals and Taka to dismantle the other barriers.

Uchiha Naruto summoned Rashomon at the five barrier sites, while the barriers collapsed and revealed five sealed gates. Uchiha Senmon learned that the gates were protected by a Five-Seal Barrier and faced the resurrected Jiraiya in Sendai.

• Uchiha Naruto summoned five scrolls of prepared ritual arrays and used his Mangekyo Sharingan to summon Rashomon.
• The Sendai Barrier vanished, and a massive Rashomon bearing a prohibiting talisman rose from the ground.
• Uchiha Senmon discovered that all five barriers had collapsed and Rashomon had appeared at each site, then found his attacks blocked by the Five-Seal Barrier.
• White Seimei explained that each barrier had a nearby backdoor talisman that could dispel its corresponding seal.
• A wooden coffin emerged before the Sendai Rashomon, and Uchiha Senmon recognized the resurrected man inside as Mr. Jiraiya.

Uchiha Senmon questioned the resurrected Jiraiya about the coming apocalypse and learned that the Nine Tailed Beasts had destroyed the Age of Gods and were about to awaken again. Forced to fight by the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai, Jiraiya entered Sage Mode and began unleashing Sage Art: Goemon.

• Jiraiya recognized that Uchiha Senmon had Sharingan and asked what had happened since his death.
• Uchiha Senmon explained that an impostor controlling Abe no Seimei had resurrected Jiraiya and sought to enslave the Lord of Mount Tai.
• Jiraiya revealed that the Nine Tailed Beasts had destroyed the Age of Gods and threatened to destroy the three realms again when they awakened.
• Jiraiya's body came under the ritual's control, and Uchiha Senmon bound him before Jiraiya broke free and attacked in Sage Mode.
• Uchiha Senmon struck Jiraiya with Lightning Release, but Jiraiya used the Uchiha Gunbai to reflect the attack and explained that it could repel release techniques.
• Jiraiya entered a more perfect Sage Mode with two toad sages on his shoulders and began Sage Art: Goemon, warning Uchiha Senmon to dodge.

Uchiha Senmon defeated Jiraiya after unlocking the full power of Wood Release and using Seimei to escape Jiraiya’s genjutsu, then learned of the Child of Prophecy and Jiraiya’s connection to Uchiha Itachi. Jiraiya passed on, while at Karuizawa Hidan attacked Mineko Yuki and drove a spike through his own heart.

• Uchiha Senmon survived Jiraiya’s Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan by awakening the Wood Golem Technique, then was trapped by Jiraiya’s Toad Confrontation Chant genjutsu.
• Seimei broke the genjutsu, allowing Uchiha Senmon to paralyze Jiraiya with Kiba and win their fight.
• Jiraiya told Uchiha Senmon about the Uchiha Child of Prophecy and revealed that Uchiha Itachi could be trusted with the information he had gathered.
• Seimei undid the Ritual of the Lord of Mount Tai, and Jiraiya urged Uchiha Senmon to trust Itachi before passing on.
• At Karuizawa, Mineko Yuki confronted Hidan while Tosu Hideo lay wounded nearby, and Hidan stabbed himself through the heart.

Mineko Yuki and Tosu Hideo fought Hidan to destroy Rashomon, but Hidan used a blood-based curse to inflict his injuries on Tosu. Tosu appeared to lose all four lives before a hidden Lightning Release clone immobilized Hidan, and Tosu rose with five hearts.

• Mineko Yuki and Tosu Hideo confronted Hidan beneath Rashomon and planned to destroy the gate while avoiding his Immortal Body.
• Hidan cut Tosu with his Bloody Triple-Bladed Scythe, then used Tosu’s blood to activate a curse that mirrored Hidan’s self-inflicted wounds onto him.
• Mineko Yuki stopped attacking when she realized that hurting Hidan would also injure Tosu, while Hidan stabbed himself repeatedly and destroyed Tosu’s Earth Grudge Fear Clones.
• Hidan stabbed his own throat, and Tosu collapsed as Mineko Yuki believed his four lives were gone.
• A concealed Earth Grudge Fear Clone emerged and pinned Hidan with Lightning Release: False Darkness, allowing Tosu to stand again with five hearts.

The U.S. military failed to destroy Sakurajima’s Rashomon, and Konan annihilated most of the attacking F-15 squadron. Jeanne and Toru Yamashita confronted Konan, and Jeanne unleashed her Sixth Gate technique as the battle reached its climax.

• U.S. F-15 fighters bombarded the Rashomon, but the Five-Seal Barrier repelled every missile.
• Konan transformed into paper and Explosive Tags, destroying nearly the entire squadron of F-15 fighters.
• Jeanne and Toru Yamashita arrived, and Konan attacked them with waves of explosive paper.
• Toru Yamashita struggled to keep pace with Konan’s assault, so Jeanne activated her Curse Mark and opened the Sixth Gate.
• Jeanne accelerated through Konan’s paper defenses and launched Morning Peacock at her.

Jeanne and Toru Yamashita broke the seal on Rashomon, but the gate swallowed fighters from both Sakurajima and Karuizawa into a strange realm above a sea of lava. Uchiha Senmon rescued the others there, where Sasuke Uchiha arrived and Senmon’s Sharingan revealed a startling secret about his identity.

• Jeanne opened the Sixth Gate and, with Toru Yamashita, restrained Konan and removed the sealing talisman from Rashomon on Sakurajima.
• Tosu Hideo killed Hidan, but Rashomon opened and swallowed Tosu and Mineko Yuki before crumbling away.
• Uchiha Senmon caught Mineko and Tosu with Wood Release in a hidden realm above boiling lava, then reunited with Jeanne and Yamashita, who had also been transported there.
• Senmon concluded that the Rashomon gates had sent them all to the same hidden realm, while Mineko wondered whether the remaining gates could provide a way out.
• Sasuke Uchiha arrived and demanded Senmon’s Uchiha Gunbai, but let him keep it for the time being.
• Senmon revealed his Sharingan to Mineko, Tosu, and Yamashita, promising to explain his secret after the crisis.

Uchiha Senmon and his companions reached Ashiya Doman’s temple and learned that the being impersonating Abe no Seimei had stolen his body and most of his soul. Ashiya Doman began the final stage of his plan by summoning a colossal Yamata no Orochi to subdue the Lord of Mount Tai.

• Uchiha Senmon led the group across the lava sea to the temple, where the white-clad Sasuke cut through its walls with a Chidori Sharp Spear.
• White Fox Seimei revealed himself as the real Abe no Seimei, and Ashiya Doman admitted he had taken Seimei’s body, power, and most of his soul.
• Ashiya Doman claimed he planned to make humanity immortal out of love, while Uchiha Senmon challenged his motives and resisted his provocation.
• Ashiya Doman unleashed his evil aura and summoned several enormous purple dragon-serpents from beneath the lava.
• Ashiya Doman identified the creatures as his trump card, a Yamata no Orochi powerful enough to rival the Nine-Tails Demon Fox.