Chapter Summaries

Retsuo left Konan in Jiapan’s care and headed toward the Land of Water to harvest negative emotions, while Jiraiya and Konoha’s allies prepared for war against the Akatsuki Organization. The chapter ended with Jiraiya considering how to counter the enemy’s devastating large-scale technique.

• Konan reflected on how she had changed and realized she could not return to her past, while Baibian Huashan simmered soup nearby.
• Retsuo decided he could not abandon Konan, but Jiapan offered to stay and care for her after transforming into an orange cat.
• Retsuo explained that the five Pains were formidable, though he believed he could defeat them without the Deva Path if he used Chōmei’s power.
• Retsuo flew toward the Land of Water as Konoha prepared for war and Jiraiya worried about the Akatsuki Organization’s strength.
• Kato Shizune outlined Konoha’s need to defend both the village and Mount Myōboku and prepare for the enemy’s large-scale technique.
• Jiraiya gestured to Kakashi to present one of the two possible responses to the enemy technique.

Konoha prepared to attack Amegakure while Nagato rushed back from the moon after learning of the threat. As six thousand Konoha shinobi set out under Sarutobi Hiruzen, Retsuo abandoned his trip in the Land of Water and hurried back to Konoha.

• Kakashi reported that the Hayagrīva project could reproduce Nue but needed approval to collect more emotions, while a wide-area technique from Retsuo might counter Dark Chakra's effects.
• Sarutobi Hiruzen proposed undermining Amegakure by winning over its rogue ninjas rather than fighting it head-on.
• Nagato returned from the moon after the Hell Path's destruction, ordered Deva Path Pain to conserve Chakra, and learned that Konoha was preparing to attack Amegakure.
• Retsuo continued his harvesting trip in the Land of Water as Yagura sent a liaison to support the Five Great Nations' unified action.
• Konoha assembled six thousand shinobi under Sarutobi Hiruzen and began its march toward Amegakure.
• After the news of Konoha's advance reached the Land of Water, Retsuo ended his trip and used the Flying Thunder God to return to Konoha.

Retsuo and Jiraiya learned that Nagato had annihilated Konoha’s four-thousand-shinobi vanguard and killed Sarutobi Hiruzen with a devastating attack from the sky. Tsunade’s rear guard returned safely, but the survivors and villagers mourned the crushing defeat, while Retsuo feared for his uncle Uchiha Sen.

• Retsuo returned to Konoha and handed Jiraiya Lord Mizukage’s letter as they discussed Tsunade and Shisui going to war.
• A Swift Eagle delivered a military report, and Jiraiya collapsed after learning the vanguard had been wiped out.
• Jiraiya, Might Guy, and Retsuo read that Nagato had crushed four thousand shinobi with an attack from the sky and obliterated Sarutobi Hiruzen.
• Jiraiya saw Nagato’s message that he would make Konoha feel pain and collapsed again.
• Tsunade returned safely with the rear guard, and the silent villagers watched her procession in grief.
• Retsuo saw Konoha’s clan leaders mourning and worried that his uncle Uchiha Sen had been among the vanguard.

After the vanguard was wiped out, Shisui awakened a stronger Susanoo, and Retsuo was asked to establish Flying Thunder God links with the other great villages. Retsuo refused most of the request and teleported to Kirigakure, where a targeting mistake sent him beside Ringo Ameyuri’s bed.

• Shisui activated Susanoo in grief over the vanguard’s deaths, and Fugaku urged him to stop wasting his power.
• Retsuo learned that more than thirty Uchiha, including eight Jōnin and an Elite Jonin, had died, while Yulong remained safe on a secret mission.
• Jiraiya asked Retsuo to visit the other four shinobi villages and leave Flying Thunder God Marks, but Retsuo said he could not place marks without limit.
• Retsuo revealed that he had already left a mark in Kirigakure and teleported there to deliver a report to Yagura.
• Retsuo appeared beside Ringo Ameyuri’s bed by mistake, dodged her attack, and hurried away after claiming he had intended to reach the Mizukage Building.

Retsuo learned that Nagato had taken Konan and four hundred Amegakure ninjas to the moon, and he headed there to confront him. Jiraiya assembled a Konoha strike team to infiltrate Amegakure while Retsuo prepared to make Nagato feel pain.

• Pain declared war on the Five Great Nations, stirring resentment toward Yagura in Kirigakure.
• Jiraiya told Fugaku he planned to send Konoha’s Kage-level squads into the Land of Rain to decapitate the enemy, and Fugaku agreed to join.
• Jiraiya and Fugaku planned to recruit Retsuo and Hiashi, while the Konoha force assembled under Jiraiya’s command and left Kakashi in charge of the rear.
• Retsuo summoned Jiapan, learned that Nagato had taken Konan and four hundred Amegakure ninjas to the moon, and went to the Earth-Moon Passage to confront him.

Retsuo returned to the Moon Village disguised as Konan, hoping to gather information and confront Nagato while he was weakened. After spotting the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, Retsuo considered how the Otsutsuki might help destroy it, but admitted he had little chance against a fully healthy Nagato.

• Retsuo transformed into Konan and fooled Aoi Rokushō during a patrol near the tunnel exit.
• Retsuo told Chōmei that he had come to fight Nagato and explained why he could not tell Jiraiya about the Tenseigan.
• Retsuo and Chōmei observed the Moon Village’s defenses and found the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path beside the mountainside.
• Retsuo decided that destroying the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path could strike Nagato deeply and thought the Otsutsuki might be able to do it.
• Chōmei asked Retsuo how he would fare against a healthy Nagato, and Retsuo said his chances were less than one in ten.

Retsuo, disguised as Konan, discovered that the Akatsuki Organization was guarding a lunar grotto and used the opportunity to confront Black Zetsu. He revealed that he knew something was wrong with the sun, and Black Zetsu fled.

• Chōmei urged Retsuo to use the opportunity to kill Nagato, but Retsuo said Nagato was too difficult to find and asked about Konan.
• Retsuo spotted Jūzō Biwa, Ryū, and Hozuki Mangetsu working on a barrier outside a grotto, then sensed Zetsu nearby.
• Jūzō Biwa told Retsuo that Black Zetsu had been monitoring the grotto, prompting the Akatsuki Organization to build a barrier and investigate it.
• Retsuo recognized the grotto as the Ōtsutsuki Main Family’s burial ground and took over the barrier work, sending Jūzō Biwa, Ryū, and Hozuki Mangetsu away.
• Retsuo called Black Zetsu out and told him that he and Madara could not hide that something was wrong with the sun.
• Black Zetsu realized Retsuo might expose the truth to the Ōtsutsuki on the moon and escaped underground.

Obito infiltrated the Ōtsutsuki’s artificial sun but was caught and fought with Kamui restricted by their space-time technique. After his firestorm destroyed a castle and left him battered, Black Zetsu’s Dark Chakra changed the sky, prompting the puppet-controlling Ōtsutsuki to prepare a technique of her own.

• Black Zetsu worried that Obito had failed to make progress inside the artificial sun and that Konan’s words might have exposed him to the Ōtsutsuki.
• Obito was surrounded in a castle by three Ōtsutsuki, one controlling a puppet, and found that their seals had greatly slowed Kamui.
• Obito used Fire Release—Violent Storm Dance, but the puppet-controlling Ōtsutsuki used Space—Eject to disrupt his intangibility and trap him in his own attack.
• Obito escaped the collapsing castle battered and low on Chakra, while the Ōtsutsuki waited outside with a replacement puppet.
• The sky turned blackish yellow as Black Zetsu used Dark Chakra, and the puppet-controlling Ōtsutsuki recognized the technique and began forming seals of her own.

Obito and Black Zetsu discussed their disastrous encounter with the Otsutsuki and realized a graveyard in Sun Castle might hold a powerful secret. Black Zetsu went to investigate, where Uchiha Retsuo confronted him and trapped his attack in a Yin Release Barrier.

• Black Zetsu begged Obito to return him to the Shinobi World so he could regain half a White Zetsu body, then explained how the Otsutsuki had discovered him and harmed Obito.
• Obito blamed Black Zetsu for ignoring Konan, while both worried that the Otsutsuki on the moon could interfere with the Moon Eye Plan.
• Black Zetsu remembered a graveyard in a cavern and suspected it held a secret connected to Konan's unexpected appearance.
• Black Zetsu used Nue to repair his damaged body with Dark Chakra, then went alone to explore the cavern.
• Black Zetsu found Uchiha Retsuo standing in the newly lit graveyard and attacked him with Nue's Black Sharks.
• Uchiha Retsuo opened a Yin Release Barrier that collected all the Black Sharks.

Black Zetsu merged with Nue and confronted Uchiha Retsuo, boasting about his mastery of Dark Chakra. Shinnō arrived at the ancient tomb, revealing that he had joined the Akatsuki Organization and calling Zetsu and his allies traitors.

• Black Zetsu called Nue back and used hand seals to make it enter a berserk state as Retsuo watched, hoping to study its Dark Chakra.
• Black Zetsu stepped into Nue, transforming its body, then asked Retsuo where his Dark Chakra came from.
• Retsuo credited Doctor Shinnō and identified Black Zetsu as the figure who had accompanied the man calling himself Uchiha Madara.
• Black Zetsu claimed Shinnō was unworthy of his shoes and prepared to demonstrate how to use Dark Chakra.
• Shinnō descended into the ancient tomb in an Akatsuki Organization robe, confronted Black Zetsu, and called him and his allies traitors.
• Shinnō observed Retsuo's unusual state and saw the chance to use him in his plans for the Zero-Tails.

Uchiha Retsuo tested Black Zetsu’s Night Ghost Barrier and discovered that it trapped attacks in the Gozu Tennō Space without severing their connection to him. Retsuo detonated his Yin Garo inside the space, leaving Black Zetsu dancing while Retsuo brooded over the similarity to his own barrier technique.

• Black Zetsu taunted Shinnō and used Night Ghost to swallow the light and send Retsuo’s Great Fireball through the Gozu Tennō Space.
• Shinnō examined the barrier with his head-mounted displays and offered to explain Black Zetsu’s true nature, but Retsuo chose to test it himself.
• Retsuo sent Yin Garo into Night Ghost and realized the attack could move freely inside the space while remaining linked to him.
• Retsuo recognized that Black Zetsu had developed Night Ghost using ideas related to Retsuo’s barrier and space-time techniques.
• Retsuo ordered Yin Garo to explode inside the Gozu Tennō Space, making Black Zetsu dance while Shinnō laughed.

Retsuo fought Black Zetsu and Shinnō, whose strange abilities disrupted his defenses and erased his Fire Dragon Flame Bullet. Retsuo blasted Shinnō with Great Ball Yin Garo, but Shinnō emerged unharmed beneath a mysterious Chakra cloak that Black Zetsu suspected was the Zero-Tails.

• Retsuo stayed wary of Shinnō while Black Zetsu recovered in Nue's body and prepared to attack again.
• Shinnō used a black beam from his head-mounted display to destabilize Ox-Head and Horse-Face, while Black Zetsu launched Fish-Sense Lightning at Retsuo.
• Jiapan caught a black shark, and Seven-Tails gave her a Tailed Beast Cloak that let her fight without being overcome by violent emotions.
• Retsuo blocked Black Zetsu's torpedo with his Yin Release Barrier, but Shinnō caught and disintegrated Retsuo's Fire Dragon Flame Bullet with a green-coated hand.
• Retsuo made Great Ball Yin Garo explode beside Shinnō, blasting him away, while Little Black subdued the torpedo and Black Zetsu lost control of its technique.
• Black Zetsu saw that Shinnō had survived inside a Chakra cloak and wondered whether it was the Artificial Tailed Beast Zero-Tails.

Uchiha Retsuo fought Shinnō and Black Zetsu as they unleashed their strongest attacks, but Little Black absorbed the Dark Chakra wave and disrupted Shinnō’s reincarnation ritual. Shinnō escaped through a skylight while Retsuo realized Black Zetsu could not be allowed to leave.

• Shinnō donned the Zero-Tails Chakra Cloak, and he and Black Zetsu launched their strongest attacks at Retsuo.
• Retsuo used the Yin Release Barrier to counter Black Zetsu’s Genjutsu while Little Black flung the Black Torpedo into Shinnō’s Chakra cannon.
• Little Black reinforced the barrier and absorbed the Dark Chakra wave, while Shinnō’s Zero-Tails Reincarnation Ritual failed and threw his Dark Chakra into chaos.
• Black Zetsu asked Retsuo how he had come to the moon as Shinnō leaped through the skylight to escape.
• Retsuo realized that Shinnō could flee but that Black Zetsu could not be allowed to leave.

Retsuo pursued Black Zetsu, but Black Zetsu escaped and abandoned Nue before Jūzō Biwa confronted Retsuo in the tomb. After the tomb collapsed, Ōtsutsuki Hamura revealed himself and sensed that his mother was stirring.

• Retsuo tried to capture Black Zetsu with the Moon Pulling Technique in Water, but Black Zetsu escaped underground through Nue and left Nue behind.
• Jūzō Biwa confronted Retsuo, who revealed himself after disguising himself as Konan and told Jūzō that Nue was Zetsu’s summoning beast.
• Retsuo used a Great Fireball as a distraction, then escaped through the skylight while Kakuzu fled and Jūzō hurled Nue deeper into the tomb.
• Nue’s impact collapsed the tomb and the surrounding stone cavern, and Hamura lamented the destruction of his resting place.
• Hamura explained that he had remained as a Spirit Body to protect the spirits of the Ōtsutsuki Main Family, then sensed his mother stirring and urged the others to leave.

Ōtsutsuki Hamura warned Retsuo, Minato, and Kushina that the Ōtsutsuki Main Family could discover the Shinobi World and threaten it. He explained the God Tree’s history and began demonstrating the only Space-Time Ninjutsu he knew, Chasing Strike.

• Retsuo activated Minato and Kushina after recognizing Hamura’s Spirit Body inside the Yin Release Barrier.
• Hamura warned that the planet faced destruction, and Retsuo identified the danger as other Ōtsutsuki who might invade from outer space.
• Hamura explained that the Ōtsutsuki Main Family traveled between planets, planted God Trees, and drained worlds for their fruit.
• Hamura revealed that spatial rifts could expose the Shinobi World’s star system to the Ōtsutsuki Main Family.
• Retsuo asked Hamura to teach him Space-Time Ninjutsu, but Hamura said he knew only Chasing Strike and began demonstrating it.

Retsuo and Minato learned that Hamura’s eyes were the Tenseigan and that his descendants had used a crude method to create a weaker version. Hamura asked them to take him along so he could find a new wielder to protect the Shinobi World from future Spatial Rifts, but Retsuo questioned whether anyone would accept that burden.

• Hamura explained that his Space-Time Ninjutsu tracked teleportation passages and that he could not teach it in a conventional way.
• Hamura revealed that he had developed the Tenseigan and that the eyes in his Spirit Body were its dormant form.
• Hamura said his Branch Family descendants had nearly died out and could only create a crude, lower-level Tenseigan by gathering many Byakugan.
• Hamura explained that his direct descendants had repaired Spatial Rifts for a thousand years, but the Branch Family lacked the knowledge and ability to do so.
• Hamura asked Retsuo’s group to take him with them so he could find a new master for his eyes, and Retsuo challenged his assumptions about human nature.

Hamura decided the Hyuga Clan should produce a shinobi capable of inheriting the Tenseigan, while Retsuo arranged for Hamura to stay hidden and learn from him. Retsuo escaped an Akatsuki ambush, and Nagato tried to convince Konan that Madara and Zetsu had manipulated Yahiko’s death.

• Hamura proposed seeking a Tenseigan successor among his descendants, and Retsuo revealed that the Kaguya branch had been wiped out while Minato identified the Hyuga Clan as another branch.
• Retsuo asked Kushina to shelter Hamura and told him to teach her the Space-Time Ninjutsu Chasing Strike.
• Retsuo fled the cavern and encountered Black Zetsu, causing the tomb chamber to explode and collapse.
• Jūzō Biwa and other Akatsuki members confronted Retsuo outside the cavern, but Retsuo used Flying Thunder God to escape.
• Nagato told Konan that Madara and Zetsu had secretly orchestrated Yahiko’s death, but Konan insisted Hanzō and Shimura Danzō were responsible.

Nagato tried to persuade Konan to return to Akatsuki, but the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was attacked and a fleet of warships appeared on the moon. The chapter left Nagato realizing the ships were taking aim at the statue.

• Nagato told Konan that Akatsuki still needed her, and she smiled through tears as they discussed Yahiko’s wish.
• Jūzō Biwa reported that the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path had exploded, prompting Nagato to remotely activate it.
• Nagato and Konan learned that Uchiha Retsuo had entered the cavern disguised as Konan and sent the others away.
• Nagato sensed that the statue had a small hole in its belly and was healing, while Konan offered to confront Baibian Huashan.
• A gate opened beneath the Artificial Sun, and a fleet of flying warships emerged and adjusted their bows toward the statue.

Retsuo persuaded Ōtsutsuki Hamura to use the Giant Tenseigan against the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, while Nagato and the moon’s Ōtsutsuki fought back with Flying Battleships. The attack wounded the statue but left its condition mysterious, and Hisamatsu forbade Hayato and Urasei from using the Tenseigan until they learned how Retsuo had accessed its power.

• Nagato flew into a rage after the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path was attacked, while Retsuo prepared to flee from the approaching Flying Battleships.
• Retsuo convinced Ōtsutsuki Hamura to guide the Giant Tenseigan in striking the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, despite Hamura’s concerns about the consequences.
• Hamura used the Giant Tenseigan to send a Truth-Seeking Orb wrapped in emerald Chakra through the Yin Release Barrier, carving a wound into the statue.
• Nagato launched the Chakra Dragon at the Flying Battleships, which evaded it and bombarded the statue; Retsuo watched as the statue swatted at itself and the dragon destroyed several ships.
• Ōtsutsuki Hayato vowed to punish the attackers and promised Toneri a future trip to Konoha, while Ōtsutsuki Hisamatsu ordered him and Ōtsutsuki Urasei not to use the Tenseigan until they understood how Retsuo had stolen its power.

Retsuo and Hamura used Seven-Tails Chōmei’s Chakra to awaken the Ancestor Statue, which rose from beneath the abandoned ninja village and began moving toward them. The Branch Family watched in shock as the statue appeared, while Ōtsutsuki Hayato recognized that its emergence alongside the Giant Tenseigan meant something important.

• Retsuo asked Hamura how he would defend against the Branch Family’s Giant Tenseigan, and Hamura explained that his remaining power was limited.
• Seven-Tails Chōmei urged Hamura to summon the Ancestor Statue and offered him Chakra; Hamura accepted the Seven-Tails’ Chakra.
• Hamura’s power surged, causing the Flying Battleship to stop attacking and leaving it unstable as the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path struck several ships down.
• Hamura used the borrowed Chakra to raise the Ancestor Statue from beneath the abandoned ninja village and make it walk toward Retsuo.
• Ōtsutsuki Hisamatsu prayed for their ancestor to appear, Ōtsutsuki Urasei worried over the revelation, and Ōtsutsuki Hayato exclaimed that the Giant Tenseigan and Ancestor Statue appearing together meant something.