Chapter Summaries

Tsunade exposed Mōsō’s plot to take over the Land of Birds, revealing that he had murdered Lord Ōsagi and ordered the killing of Sagi. Tokiya revealed her identity and stopped Kōmei from taking his own life after he killed Mōsō.

• Tsunade pressured Mōsō into confessing that he had posed as a monk to manipulate Kōmei and seize control of the Land of Birds.
• Young Master Sagi demanded to know whether Mōsō had killed his brother, and Mōsō realized Tokiya had survived by disguising herself as her twin, Sagi.
• Tokiya explained to Kōmei that Mōsō had murdered Lord Ōsagi and her brother, leaving Kōmei devastated by his mistaken trust in Mōsō.
• Kōmei stabbed Mōsō, and Tsunade knocked away the kunai Mōsō threw at Kōmei before Kōmei killed him.
• Kōmei prepared to cut his own throat, but Tokiya grabbed his arm and stopped him as the blade pressed against his neck.

After Tokiya secured her position as Daimyō, Tsunade and her companions left the mansion, only to be confronted by Shinji, who demanded half their reward and fought Tsunade. Their furious battle wrecked the surroundings while their companions watched under guard.

• Kōmei abandoned his wish to die and agreed to help Tokiya govern the country, while Tokiya rewarded Tsunade and her companions for their work.
• Tsunade left the Daimyō's Mansion with Shizune, Sakura, and Shion, believing Tokiya had misunderstood their identities as secret agents.
• Shinji and Hidan intercepted the group, and Shinji demanded half of Tsunade's reward as a pretext to vent his anger.
• Shinji swapped places with Shizune and struck Tsunade from behind, then she and Shinji traded powerful blows that damaged nearby buildings and ground.
• Hidan blocked Shizune from intervening, while Sasuke kept Sakura back and Tamamo Hotaru watched over Shion as the fight continued.

Shinji used Limitless to make Tsunade’s attacks miss while pretending they had hit him, then kept striking her until she figured out the trick and called a timeout. Tsunade admitted defeat and paid Shinji half the money she was carrying, while still owing him two favors.

• Shinji and Tsunade exchanged powerful blows, but Shinji used Limitless to avoid her attacks and secretly launched himself backward to make it look as if she had hit him.
• Tsunade healed her broken ribs with Medical Ninjutsu and unleashed Heavenly Foot of Pain, creating a huge crater while Shinji again appeared to be struck.
• Tsunade realized that her attacks had not touched Shinji and accused him of pretending to take them so he could keep hitting her.
• Shinji warned Tsunade that he would decide when the fight ended if she threw another punch, and Tsunade stopped herself and admitted defeat.
• Tsunade offered Shinji an IOU, but he refused and made her hand over half the money she had with her.

Shinji and Tsunade each donated money to repair the buildings destroyed in their battle, but Tsunade then swindled a casino and fled with her companions. Meanwhile, Shanhu followed a Nether Bird to the Land of Birds in search of Shion, unaware that Tsunade and the others had already left in another direction.

• Shinji donated the money he had taken from Tsunade and his valuables to the Daimyō's Mansion to rebuild the damaged buildings.
• Tsunade arrived at the Daimyō's Mansion and gave her remaining money for repairs, then regretted it after Tokiya revealed Shinji had already contributed more.
• Tsunade won money at a casino by swindling its patrons, and Shizune fled with Sakura and Shion as the casino's men pursued them.
• Death gave Shanhu a Nether Bird containing a strand of Shion's hair, and Shanhu retreated after her aura cost him several years of life.
• Shanhu followed the Nether Bird into the Land of Birds, while Tsunade and her companions left the region in another direction.

Tsunade’s group crossed into the Land of Rain, where Nagato and Konan secretly monitored them but decided not to attack. Tsunade continued her journey unaware of the Akatsuki’s surveillance, while Shanhu arrived in the country at dawn.

• Nagato detected Tsunade’s group with the Rain Tiger at Will Technique and sent Konan to investigate them.
• Konan watched Tsunade and her companions spend hours eating and drinking at a tavern, then reported that they did not seem to be targeting the Akatsuki.
• Tsunade noticed the sensation of being watched return in the rain, but decided to stay at an inn and continue onward the next day.
• Nagato ordered Konan to monitor Tsunade’s group until they left the Land of Rain, keeping the Akatsuki’s headquarters hidden.
• Shanhu entered the Land of Rain with Nether Bird and complained about the weather.

Shanhu and Mr. Enemy tracked Shion to an inn, where Shanhu attacked her and Sakura before Tsunade intervened. Shanhu set Tsunade on fire, but she charged through the flames and punched him in anger.

• Shanhu and Mr. Enemy continued searching for Shion through the rain while Nagato sensed the intruder and chose to wait before acting.
• The Nether Bird led Shanhu to an inn and crashed through Shion and Sakura's window, where it died after Sakura kicked it away.
• Shanhu confronted Shion and Sakura, and his killing intent left Sakura frozen as he reached for her.
• Tsunade and Shizune burst through the wall, and Tsunade ordered Shizune to take Shion and Sakura away.
• Shanhu engulfed Tsunade in flames, but she emerged and punched him, furious that he had burned her last outfit.

Tsunade fought Shanhu in the Land of Rain, activating the Strength of a Hundred Technique to withstand his lava attacks and protect nearby civilians. She shattered his strongest defense with a single punch, leaving their battle ongoing.

• Tsunade healed with Creation Rebirth, sent Shizune, Sakura, and the others to hide, and went to confront Shanhu.
• Tsunade struck at Shanhu with Heavenly Foot of Pain, but he dodged and retaliated with a barrage of lava fireballs that damaged buildings and killed civilians.
• Tsunade summoned Katsuyu to treat the wounded, then activated the Strength of a Hundred Technique and charged through Shanhu's lava barrage.
• Tsunade reached Shanhu and shattered his Coral Reef defense with Chakra Enhanced Strength: One-Punch Man, sending him flying again.

Tsunade fought Shanhu, who unleashed his Lava Cursed Technique and transformed into a towering Flame Demon God. As the battle threatened the Land of Rain, Konan joined in and was injured by lava before Pain Deva Path arrived to protect her.

• Tsunade battered Shanhu, but Shanhu refused Mr. Enemy's offer to take control of his body and resolved to fight on his own.
• Shanhu unleashed Lava Cursed Technique: Flame Demon God, forcing Tsunade to evade its devastating attacks and search for a weakness.
• Konan joined the battle to draw Shanhu's attention, but her paper attacks caught fire against the Flame Demon God.
• Shanhu fired lava at Konan, injuring her, and Pain Deva Path arrived in time to catch her.
• Konan healed herself and warned Pain Deva Path about Shanhu's strength, while Pain Deva Path rose into the sky with murderous intent.

Nagato sent the Six Paths of Pain to stop Shanhu’s rampaging Flame Demon God in the Land of Rain. Their coordinated assault badly injured Shanhu, but the third eye on his forehead opened and rescued him from the King of Hell’s grasp.

• Pain Deva Path struck the Flame Demon God with Shinra Tensei, knocking it down and astonishing Tsunade.
• Nagato decided to attack Shanhu with the Six Paths of Pain rather than risk destroying the Land of Rain with Chibaku Tensei.
• Pain Animal Path’s Summoning Beasts pinned down the Flame Demon God while Pain Asura Path’s laser cannon pierced its head and chest, grievously injuring Shanhu and destroying one of his arms.
• Pain Naraka Path’s King of Hell tried to pull Shanhu from the Flame Demon God, but Shanhu’s third eye opened and fired a grayish-white beam that severed its tongue and forced it to vanish.

Shanhu survived Pain Deva Path’s Super Shinra Tensei and drew the Six Paths of Pain into his domain, where the domain interfered with Nagato’s control. The battle was poised to turn on the delay in Pain’s reactions.

• Shanhu made the Flame Demon God self-destruct, and Pain Deva Path used Super Shinra Tensei to suppress the lava and limit the damage.
• Shanhu rose from the lava, restored the arm Mr. Enemy had treated, and agreed to expand his domain before handing control over.
• Shanhu launched molten fireballs while Pain Deva Path recovered, and Pain Asura Path attacked him with missiles.
• Pain Deva Path used Banshō Ten'in to pull Shanhu toward Pain Human Path, but Shanhu expanded Twofold Purgatorial Scorching River and trapped all Six Paths of Pain inside.
• Shanhu’s domain disrupted chakra transmission, making it harder for Nagato to control Pain’s reactions.

Shanhu trapped the Six Paths of Pain in his domain and nearly destroyed Deva Path, but Nagato’s counterattack with Chibaku Tensei and the King of Hell turned the battle against him. As Shanhu was pulled off the ground, Mr. Enemy spoke to him, and Shanhu accepted the outcome in silence.

• Shanhu used Maximum Technique: Pillar to destroy Asura Path, prompting Nagato to abandon the other Pains and focus his chakra on Deva Path.
• Shanhu struck Deva Path with another lava pillar, but Deva Path used Shinra Tensei to repel the lava at the cost of his lower legs.
• Nagato launched Chibaku Tensei as Shanhu attacked again, while the invisible chameleon pulled Deva Path out of the lava and sent him to the King of Hell for restoration.
• Chibaku Tensei began dragging Shanhu and the ground toward the sky, and Deva Path used Banshō Ten'in to snap Shanhu’s lava chains.
• As Shanhu began to rise, Mr. Enemy told him that he had been given a chance, and Shanhu fell silent and calmed down.

Nagato tried to kill Shanhu by detonating Chibaku Tensei, but Mr. Enemy escaped through a spatial rift. Nagato then attacked Tsunade, while Shanhu followed the sulfur scent left by Shion and the other women.

• Mr. Enemy failed to destroy Chibaku Tensei's core, but broke through its sealing with repeated Guixu blasts as Nagato realized Shanhu was still alive.
• Nagato detonated Chibaku Tensei, and Mr. Enemy expanded his domain to shield Shanhu before escaping through a spatial rift.
• Nagato concluded Shanhu had died and sent the Five Paths of Pain after Tsunade.
• Pain Deva Path pulled Tsunade in with Banshō Ten'in, then repelled her punch with Shinra Tensei, breaking her right hand before her Strength of a Hundred healed it.
• Tsunade counterattacked the Five Paths of Pain, while Shanhu searched for Shion and the other women by following their sulfur scent.

Shizune, Sakura, and Shion treated wounded civilians in a shelter in the Land of Rain until Shanhu arrived, demanding that Shion come with him. As Shizune and the civilians prepared to defend her, Shion offered to go with Shanhu if he spared everyone else.

• Shizune, Sakura, and Shion treated wounded people in a factory shelter, and Sakura improved under Shizune's guidance.
• Shanhu broke into the factory, killed the Rain Ninja guards, and demanded that Shion come with him or he would kill everyone there.
• Shizune stood between Shanhu and Sakura and Shion, while the civilians united to protect the women who had treated them.
• Shion stepped forward and agreed to go with Shanhu and answer his questions if he left the others unharmed.

Shanhu abducted Shion after she offered herself to protect the others, while Nagato withdrew his forces after learning what had happened. Tsunade decoded Shion’s clues and set out to search the Land of Demons, while arranging for Akagi Shinji’s group and Konoha to investigate the Land of Swamps.

• Shion went with Shanhu to keep him from harming the others, and he broke through the Space Barrier and vanished with her.
• Pain Deva Path questioned a surviving Rain Ninja, learned how Shizune and Sakura had helped the wounded and that Shion had willingly sacrificed herself, then spared them and withdrew the Pains attacking Tsunade.
• Tsunade found Shizune and Sakura treating villagers and learned that Shanhu had taken Shion.
• Tsunade recognized Shion’s words as clues to the Underground Palace in the Land of Demons and the Ancestral Hall in the Land of Swamps.
• Tsunade chose to search the Land of Demons, ask Akagi Shinji’s group to investigate the Land of Swamps, and send the information to Konoha for help.

Shanhu and Mr. Enemy forced Shion to work on the seal containing the demon, giving her ten days before they would torture her. After Tsunade requested help rescuing Shion, Shinji changed course for the Land of Swamps, while Tsunade hurried toward the Land of Demons with Shizune and Sakura.

• Mr. Enemy returned control of the body to Shanhu, who demanded that Shion undo the seal and threatened to kill her when she said she could not.
• Mr. Enemy stopped Shanhu from strangling Shion, and Shanhu gave her ten days to undo the seal before threatening to torture her.
• Shion pretended to connect with the seal, using a purple-black light to hide what she was doing as she secretly hoped for rescue.
• After Tsunade requested help, Shinji decided to pursue Mr. Enemy and Shanhu and redirected his group toward the Land of Swamps.
• Tsunade traveled toward the Land of Demons with Shizune and Sakura, promising she would rescue Shion and vowing to give up drinking if she failed.

Shion stalled Shanhu by insisting she needed more time to weaken the ancestral hall’s sealing, while Shinji’s group searched the Land of Swamps for the remote hall they believed held her. A local guide led them deep into the forest toward a place said to have been built around a sealed demon.

• Shanhu questioned Shion after eight days without visible progress, and she repeated that she needed more time to weaken the sealing.
• Shanhu warned Shion that she had only two days left before he would make her regret failing.
• Shinji hired a local guide and told him to find remote ancestral halls rather than popular destinations.
• Shinji bent a kunai with his strength to frighten the guide into behaving honestly.
• The guide recalled a tale of a powerful Miko who sealed a demon in an ancestral hall and led Shinji’s group by boat deep into the forest.
• The guide stopped the boat and warned the group that the real danger began on foot.

Shinji and his companions followed Darkskin to a shrine that proved to be the wrong location, then tracked the ominous Chakra to the place where the monster was sealed. There, Shinji forced Shanhu to release Shion, and the bell around her neck exploded, awakening her true power.

• Darkskin led Shinji and his companions through dangerous terrain to a dilapidated shrine, but Shinji confirmed it was not the place he sought.
• Shinji detected ominous purplish-black Chakra elsewhere, paid Darkskin, and continued toward the monster’s sealed body with his companions.
• Shanhu held Shion hostage when Shinji’s group arrived, but Shinji dismissed the threat and fired a drop of blood at her.
• Shanhu flung Shion aside to evade the blood bullet, which struck her bell and triggered an explosion that destroyed the shrine.
• Shion felt a shackle break within her as her true power began to awaken.

Shion’s restored power broke the seals on both her abilities and the monster’s body, but Mr. Enemy took control of the monster before she could reseal it. Shinji fought him with Cursed Speech and transformed him into a Calabash Kid.

• Shion’s shattered bell released Miroku’s power, which also broke the shrine seal and freed the monster’s body from its coffin.
• Shion used the fallen nails and her Miko sealing jutsu to pin the monster down, but Shanhu’s forehead eye helped Mr. Enemy enter its body.
• Mr. Enemy destroyed the sealing implements and tried to swallow Shion, but Shinji rescued her and attacked with Blood Manipulation: Supernova and Cloak-Breaking Strike.
• Shinji used Cursed Speech to force Mr. Enemy to kneel, split into five pieces, and transform into Calabash Little Diamond.

Shinji overwhelmed Mr. Enemy, who had possessed the monster, but the creature split into living sludge offspring that threatened everyone nearby. As the others struggled to destroy them, Shinji used Limitless to draw the scattered sludge toward a targeted Blue.

• Shinji erased Mr. Enemy’s Guixu with Hollow Technique: This and blasted apart much of the monster’s body.
• Mr. Enemy began regenerating, but his body burst into countless living sludge droplets before Shinji could attack again.
• Shion warned everyone that the droplets could devour life and evolve, while her witchcraft destroyed the offspring approaching her.
• Hidan and Sasuke failed to destroy the sludge with their weapons and ninjutsu, and Shinji’s attack forced Shanhu to escape underground with Lava Substitute Dive.
• Shinji created a tiny Blue that pulled designated targets toward its center, aiming to control the scattered sludge.

Shinji trapped Mr. Enemy in a sealing domain and blasted him away, but the missing system notification told him the Demon was still alive. A hidden offspring had already slipped into Blackie, while Shinji searched for the enemy and pretended he had won.

• Shinji gathered the sludge around Mr. Enemy, trapped him in Three Thousand Cursed Realms, and sealed his body, abilities, and thoughts.
• Shinji used Hollow Technique: This to shatter the sealing domain and make Mr. Enemy disappear, but received no system notification confirming the kill.
• While Shinji expanded his domain, Blackie watched from behind a tree as a Demon offspring entered his body and concealed its presence with the Annihilation Cursed Technique.
• Shinji told Shion that he had killed the Demon and mocked claims about the strength of people from that era, while secretly searching for the surviving enemy with the Heavenly Blue Eyes.