Recaps

Tsunade and Xuandou defeated Kashin Koji in the underground laboratory and demanded to know who had created him and what the base was for. As a hidden spatial portal appeared to observe them, Xuandou called out to whoever was behind it.

• Kashin Koji tried to escape to Mount Myōboku, but Tsunade struck him before he could use the Reverse Summoning Technique.
• Kashin Koji attacked Tsunade, Xuandou, and Eida and Daemon's hibernation pods with Sage Art: Hair Needle Senbon, while Xuandou used Kamui to protect the pods.
• Tsunade and Kashin Koji fought with taijutsu in the cramped underground laboratory, and Xuandou secretly drained Kashin Koji's chakra to speed the fight.
• Tsunade and Xuandou defeated Kashin Koji, and Tsunade demanded to know where he got Jiraiya's genetic cells and what was happening at the base.
• Xuandou noticed a tiny spatial portal watching the room and loudly challenged whoever was behind it to come out.

Xuandou and Tsunade pressured Bagu into opening the hibernation pods containing Daemon and Eida. Bagu chose to open Eida’s pod, and Xuandou’s System Panel identified her as an SS-rank ninja with three Shinjutsu.

• Tsunade guarded Xuandou while he confronted Bagu, who had been pretending to lie injured on the floor.
• Xuandou told Bagu to open the hibernation pods, but Bagu warned that opening them without Lord Bogu’s passwords and procedure could harm their occupants.
• Xuandou directed Tsunade to threaten Daemon’s pod, prompting Bagu to offer to open one himself.
• Xuandou ordered Bagu to open Eida’s pod first, and Bagu entered passwords and operated its controls.
• Xuandou checked his System Panel, which listed Eida’s Shinjutsu as Clairvoyance, Omnipotence, and Charm and rated her SS-rank.

Xuandou discovered that Eida possessed three powerful Shinjutsu and considered using a Conception Card to have a child with her. He arranged for Eida and Daemon to wake from their hibernation, while Tsunade noticed a strange sense of danger around Eida and reported that Kashin Koji had disappeared.

• Xuandou examined the System Panel and learned about Eida's Clairvoyance, Omnipotence, and Omnipotence: All-Killing Ash Bones.
• Xuandou considered giving Eida one of his two Conception Cards, originally reserved for Kaguya.
• Bagu told Xuandou that Eida would need two or three days to wake because she had been given suppressants and sleeping drugs.
• Tsunade advised Xuandou to let Eida wake naturally, and Xuandou ordered Bagu to open Daemon's hibernation pod as well.
• Tsunade told Xuandou that Kashin Koji had disappeared.

Xuandou allowed Kashin Koji to escape with help from Jigen, while keeping Eida and her brother under guard. He moved the entire mountain base into his Yomotsu Space, but the chapter ended when Uchiha Shinji cried out that he had seen a ghost.

• Tsunade noticed Kashin Koji had disappeared, and Xuandou confirmed that someone had helped him escape.
• Xuandou revealed that Jigen had taken Kashin Koji through a Space-Time portal and explained that he hoped Koji would turn against Kara.
• Bagu reported that Daemon’s hibernation pod had opened and warned that the pods should not be moved for two days.
• Xuandou ordered White Zetsu to clear the church and sever the mountain from the ground, then stopped Bagu when he tried to flee with Eida and Dihao.
• Xuandou used Banshō Ten'in to lift the mountain into his Yomotsu Space, then teleported with Tsunade to Uchiha Shinji.
• Uchiha Shinji suddenly shouted that he had seen a ghost, darkening Xuandou’s and Tsunade’s expressions.

Xuandou returned with Tsunade to the Land of Snow, ordered the Ōtsutsuki Sect’s followers arrested, and questioned how the sect had operated there. As Shinji apologized, Xuandou considered whether he could raise Eida’s system rating from SS-rank to SSS-rank.

• Kazahana Koyuki mistook Xuandou and Tsunade for ghosts, then apologized when she realized who they were.
• Shinji, Nadare Rōga, Fuyukuma Tōu, Fubuki Kakuyoku, and Asama Sandayu greeted Xuandou and Tsunade after witnessing Xuandou’s feat of uprooting a mountain.
• Xuandou ordered Shinji to have the Ōtsutsuki Sect’s followers detained and the sect branded an evil cult throughout the Land of Snow.
• Shinji relayed the orders and sent Nadare Rōga, Fuyukuma Tōu, and Fubuki Kakuyoku to capture the followers.
• Xuandou asked how the Ōtsutsuki Sect had behaved in the Land of Snow, and Shinji knelt to apologize before he could get an answer.
• Xuandou pondered whether he could upgrade Eida’s Dual Cultivation rating from SS-rank to SSS-rank, while Shinji tearfully said he had failed Xuandou’s expectations.

Xuandou questioned Kazahana Koyuki, Asama Sandayu, and Shinji about the Ōtsutsuki Sect’s growing influence in the Land of Snow and its suspicious activities. After Shinji explained that his investigations had found no clear irregularities, Xuandou told him the sect had hidden itself well and that he was not to blame.

• Kazahana Koyuki explained that the Ōtsutsuki Sect had gained local trust through charity, medical aid, and devoted followers, while Tsunade warned that they needed to strike hard.
• Xuandou noted that stolen grain from the Land of Fire had surfaced in the Land of Snow and asked Shinji what he knew about the sect.
• Shinji described how the sect’s preaching first drew crowds with supplies, then spread rapidly through villages and towns after its distributions stopped.
• Tsunade criticized Shinji for failing to uncover the sect’s base or supply sources, and Shinji said he had investigated the followers, leaders, and supply chains many times without finding problems.
• Xuandou told Shinji to get up and said the sect had hidden its activities well, so Shinji was not to blame.

Xuandou and Tsunade uncovered how Boro’s Ōtsutsuki Sect spread Black Haze and used medicine to stage miracles, while Shinji awakened the Mangekyō after blaming himself for failing to stop the deaths. Xuandou reached Yukigakure with the prisoners, where a crowd demanded their release.

• Tsunade declared that Boro had to die, and Xuandou promised to deal with the people who had harmed the villagers.
• Xuandou confirmed that Boro, Bagu, and Mizutome had orchestrated the Black Haze outbreak and deceived followers with medicine called Miracle Power.
• Shinji carried the death register and, overwhelmed by guilt, awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan as the Land of Snow ninjas surrounded the group.
• Xuandou concealed Shinji’s awakening with genjutsu, left a clone to accompany him, and continued toward Yukigakure with Tsunade and the prisoners.
• At Yukigakure’s entrance, a crowd led by a stooped old woman demanded that Xuandou release the Ōtsutsuki Sect’s senior members.

Xuandou confronted villagers whose memories had been altered to make them support the Ōtsutsuki Sect, then used Infinite Tsukuyomi to turn the Shinobi World against the sect. Jigen watched from a mountaintop and warned Boro not to interfere with his plans while he prepared an ultimate weapon against Xuandou.

• Nadare Rōga ordered the Land of Snow ninjas to beat the villagers, but Xuandou stopped them and warned the crowd to go home.
• Xuandou recognized that someone had rewritten the villagers’ thoughts and created false memories, and he told Tsunade that the changes had flaws.
• Xuandou cast Infinite Tsukuyomi, making people across the Shinobi World feel revulsion toward the Ōtsutsuki Sect while preserving their memories so its members could be judged.
• Jigen toasted Xuandou’s moonlight with Boro, who lamented losing his base, statues, and followers.
• Jigen promised to make Xuandou kneel once his ultimate weapon was ready and threatened Boro not to disrupt his plans.

Xuandou discovered that Shunsuke Shimazu had resisted the thought-rewriting Ninjutsu and possessed the potential to become a ninja, despite being seventeen and never having trained because he lacked money. After Nadare Rōga explained that Yukigakure’s academy now welcomed students like him, Xuandou asked Shunsuke whether he wanted to become a ninja.

• The villagers of Yukigakure came to their senses and dropped their signs, while Shunsuke Shimazu continued protesting in support of the Ōtsutsuki Sect.
• Xuandou explained that Shunsuke had resisted the thought-rewriting Ninjutsu, and Nadare Rōga ordered Genin to beat him after realizing he had fooled them.
• Xuandou questioned Shunsuke, learned he was seventeen, and asked why he had never tried to become a ninja.
• Shunsuke said he had lacked the money and a mentor to attend Yukigakure’s Ninja Academy, and Xuandou told him that the village and country should bear the shame, not him.
• Nadare Rōga explained that Azure Tide Port had changed the academy’s policies to let children and adults enroll, and Xuandou asked Shunsuke whether he wanted to become a ninja.

Xuandou persuaded Shunsuke Shimazu to become a ninja and assigned Nadare Rōga to train him and investigate the villagers’ abnormalities. As Tsunade prepared to return to Konoha with Xuandou, Kazahana Koyuki stopped them with a request.

• Xuandou pushed Shunsuke Shimazu to declare that he wanted to become a ninja, and Shunsuke asked to become Xuandou’s adoptive son.
• Xuandou declined the adoption and ordered Nadare Rōga to arrange Shunsuke’s training and collect accounts of the villagers’ abnormalities.
• Nadare Rōga sent the villagers to report their accounts, the Ōtsutsuki Sect followers to the dungeon, and Shunsuke to train with Fuyukuma Tōu.
• Tsunade told Xuandou that the purge of the Ōtsutsuki Sect had begun, but its leader Boro remained at large; Xuandou vowed to eliminate him and planned to resurrect those killed by the virus.
• Tsunade urged Xuandou to take her back to Konoha, but Kazahana Koyuki stopped them and said she had a request.

Kazahana Koyuki offered Tsunade an S-rank mission to recover her father’s Hexagonal Crystal Necklace from Kazahana Shinta, who had occupied the ruins of the Land of Whirlpools. Xuandou exposed Koyuki’s concealment about the necklace, but accepted the mission and offered to buy it from her.

• Kazahana Koyuki offered thirty million ryō for Tsunade to recover her father’s necklace from Kazahana Shinta and his ninja at the ruins of the Land of Whirlpools.
• Xuandou recognized the necklace as the key to a Geothermal Device meant to change the Land of Snow’s weather and questioned Koyuki about its purpose.
• Xuandou challenged Koyuki’s claim that the necklace was ordinary, while Tsunade and Asama Sandayu grew suspicious of the mission’s unusually high reward and concealed details.
• Tsunade returned Koyuki’s advance payment and refused the mission, saying Jiraiya’s life mattered too.
• Xuandou accepted the mission despite Tsunade’s refusal and told Koyuki he wanted to buy her father’s keepsake.

Xuandou confronted Kazahana Koyuki over the keepsake her father left behind, suspecting she had used Tsunade and him to find it. He revealed that the inheritance could transform the Land of Snow’s climate and asked whether Koyuki had fulfilled her father’s hopes.

• Kazahana Koyuki refused Xuandou’s offers of money for her father’s keepsake, and Xuandou asked her to lend it to him instead.
• Xuandou accused Koyuki of scheming to exploit his and Tsunade’s names, then used his authority and pressure to intimidate her.
• Asama Sandayū tried to ingratiate himself with Xuandou, but Koyuki called him a traitor and rejected his attempt to placate her.
• Xuandou healed Koyuki’s injured foot and dried her clothes, while Tsunade argued that Kazahana Sōsetsu’s inheritance belonged to the people of the Land of Snow.
• Xuandou explained that the inheritance could turn the Land of Snow into the Land of Spring and asked Koyuki whether she had lived up to her father’s hopes.

Kazahana Koyuki challenged Xuandou’s judgment of her, but Asama Sandayū admitted she had failed her father’s hopes. Koyuki ultimately agreed to lend Xuandou the Hexagonal Crystal Necklace, and the chapter ended with her stumbling as Xuandou caught her.

• Kazahana Koyuki demanded that Asama Sandayū say whether she had lived up to her father’s hopes, and he reluctantly said she had failed him.
• Koyuki protested that Xuandou and Tsunade had never met her father, but Xuandou claimed his power and status gave him the right to judge her.
• Asama Sandayū praised Xuandou and his daughters, gave Xuandou gifts and presented Tsunade with a gold mahjong set.
• Asama Sandayū secured Koyuki’s agreement to lend Xuandou the Hexagonal Crystal Necklace, which Kazahana Shinta held in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Xuandou returned Koyuki’s thirty million ryō and paid her twenty million ryō in rent for the necklace.
• Koyuki stumbled on the frost-covered grass, and Xuandou caught her around the waist.

Xuandou teased and struck Kazahana Koyuki after catching her, then evaded her retaliation and left her demanding help. Asama Sandayū fled to find a medical ninja, and Xuandou ordered Koyuki to sit on his lap for another harsh lesson.

• Koyuki fell into Xuandou's arms after her glass slipper shattered, and he held her while teasing her.
• Xuandou struck Koyuki, and she angrily swung her elbows at him; he dodged, causing her to fall onto the grass.
• Asama Sandayū helped Koyuki up, but dismissed her accusation that Xuandou had bullied her and hurried away to find a medical ninja.
• Xuandou made a wooden seat, sat down, and ordered Koyuki to climb onto his lap.

Kazahana Koyuki sought Tsunade's protection from Xuandou, but he subjected both women to his punishment instead. Afterward, Xuandou's system recognized Kazahana Koyuki as his nineteenth cultivation partner and awarded an A-Rank Family Chest, which he claimed but had not yet opened.

• Kazahana Koyuki begged Tsunade to protect her from Xuandou.
• Xuandou accused Tsunade of harboring Kazahana Koyuki and declared that both women would be punished.
• Tsunade urged Xuandou to punish Kazahana Koyuki first, and he continued until Kazahana Koyuki lost consciousness.
• Xuandou turned to Tsunade next and later slept with both women in his arms.
• Xuandou received a system notification identifying Kazahana Koyuki as cultivation partner No. 19 with an A-Rank aptitude rating.
• Xuandou claimed an A-Rank Family Chest and received a prompt asking whether to open it.

Xuandou used an S-rank Side Quest Card and repeatedly reversed time to choose an SS-rank quest to create a Water Release resurrection jutsu. He planned to use Shiwa’s unused S-rank Ninjutsu Creation Card to complete it, then turned his attention to Tsunade and Kazahana Koyuki.

• Xuandou used the card and received an incomplete SS-rank quest to eliminate Kara, but disliked its limited reward and its exclusion of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki.
• Xuandou used Tokitsumori to reverse time and retry the card, eventually selecting the quest to create an S-rank Water Release resurrection jutsu.
• Xuandou decided the Life Reincarnation Cards would help revive fallen ninja and provide a safeguard for those closest to him.
• Xuandou planned to use Shiwa’s unused S-rank Ninjutsu Creation Card to create the required jutsu.
• Tsunade woke beside Kazahana Koyuki, and Xuandou pounced toward them.

After teasing Kazahana Koyuki over her sleep talk, Xuandou met with Uchiha Shinji, who asked to resign and pursue the culprit behind the chaos in the Land of Snow. Xuandou backed Shinji’s investigation, learned about his Mangekyō abilities, and watched him activate the Winter Domain.

• Kazahana Koyuki murmured in her sleep that Xuandou should hit Tsunade first, leaving Tsunade embarrassed when Xuandou recognized the words from the previous day.
• Xuandou warned Kazahana Koyuki to keep her distance from Tsunade while they walked to Yukigakure’s entrance.
• Uchiha Shinji asked Xuandou to let him resign so he could track down the true culprit behind the chaos in the Land of Snow.
• Xuandou approved Shinji’s plan to investigate the Ōtsutsuki Sect’s supplies and wealth, and promised the Uchiha would support him.
• Shinji revealed that his left eye’s Winter could freeze bodies, souls, and chakra, while his right eye’s Mirror Sequence linked marked targets and let them communicate and transfer chakra.
• At Xuandou’s request, Shinji activated Winter, spreading a freezing domain over the entrance to Yukigakure.

Xuandou tested Shinji’s two Mangekyō Dōjutsu, and the second caused a painful backlash when Shinji linked to the vastly stronger Rinnegan. After arranging care and handling affairs in the Land of Snow, Xuandou gathered Hinata, Ino, and Sakura to give them an important mission.

• Xuandou endured Shinji’s soul-freezing Dōjutsu and praised its danger before asking to see Shinji’s second ability.
• Shinji’s right eye backfired when he linked to Xuandou, and Xuandou and Tsunade treated him while Xuandou sensed a fleeting Rinnegan presence in Shinji.
• Shinji explained that his right eye relayed and encoded information through his Mangekyō Dōjutsu Mirror Sequence, and Xuandou warned him not to link to stronger targets.
• Xuandou took Tsunade to Konoha, returned Kazahana Koyuki to Azure Tide Port, and arranged for Shinji to continue overseeing the Land of Snow.
• Xuandou and the senior leadership dispatched an Uchiha Jōnin to oversee work in the Land of Snow.
• Xuandou visited Hinata, Ino, and Sakura at the Imperial Palace and told them he had an important mission for them.

Xuandou told Hinata, Ino, and Sakura that he had a mission for them, while the three discussed their heavy workloads and teased him about his growing number of wives. The conversation ended with Ino and Sakura playfully teasing Hinata after she defended Xuandou.

• Hinata, Ino, and Sakura reacted with excitement when Xuandou announced a mission.
• Ino and Sakura asked whether the mission would take them far away and complained about their workloads.
• Sakura explained that the Ninja Hospital had become busier because medical staff had to treat patients and train new Medical Ninjas.
• Ino and Sakura teased Xuandou about bringing home another wife and told him to work harder.
• Xuandou praised Hinata for not complaining, and Hinata defended him before Ino and Sakura playfully teased her.

Xuandou used an S-Rank Ninjutsu Creation Card and repeatedly rewound its results until he created Underworld Tide: Return of the Dead, a resurrection technique with serious costs and drawbacks. Completing the SS-rank mission earned him 27 Life Reincarnation Cards, which he planned to use to bring legendary shinobi back under his command.

• Xuandou handed Hinata, Sakura, and Ino the mission scroll for retrieving the Hexagonal Crystal and ordered them to prepare for an S-rank mission in the Land of Whirlpools.
• Xuandou used the S-Rank Ninjutsu Creation Card and rejected the generated medical ninjutsu, then repeatedly rewound through hundreds of taijutsu and ninjutsu results.
• On his 351st draw, Xuandou obtained Underworld Tide: Return of the Dead, which resurrected the dead through a ritual but consumed the caster’s life energy and chakra and left the recipient cold and unable to use Fire Release Ninjutsu.
• Xuandou accepted Underworld Tide: Return of the Dead and completed the SS-rank mission, earning 27 Life Reincarnation Cards.
• Xuandou withdrew the cards and imagined using them to bring Tobirama Senju, Uchiha Izuna, Minato Namikaze, and Hatake Sakumo back to serve him.

Xuandou learned that Madara had taken Izuna’s remains with him when he left the Uchiha, so finding Izuna’s resting place would require asking Madara. Xuandou returned to Konoha to resurrect Tobirama and Minato first, then visited Tsunade as she worked through the village’s rebuilding paperwork.

• Xuandou asked Zongyan where Izuna was buried, but Zongyan explained that Madara had removed Izuna and Tajima’s remains from Naka Shrine when he left Konoha.
• Xuandou decided he would have to ask Madara about Izuna’s resting place and returned to Konoha using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Xuandou planned to use a Life Reincarnation Card to resurrect Tobirama Senju and Minato Namikaze before seeking Madara.
• Xuandou saw Konoha being rebuilt by its remaining personnel and Xuanyin ninja, with Uchiha emblems and flags throughout the village.
• Xuandou entered the Hokage’s Office and found Tsunade, Shizune, and Tsunade’s clones handling paperwork while other clones attended to them.

Xuandou agreed to resurrect Tobirama Senju for Tsunade and also brought Minato Namikaze’s body to the Senju Clan Compound. He revived both Hokage with Impure World Reincarnation, and Tobirama immediately attacked him.

• Tsunade convinced Xuandou to resurrect Tobirama Senju by eagerly attending to him and preparing Tobirama’s body at the Senju Clan Compound.
• Xuandou went to Minato Namikaze’s burial place in Konoha Forest and brought Minato’s coffin to the compound using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Tsunade, Shizune, and Tonton waited in the mausoleum while Xuandou opened Tobirama’s and Minato’s coffins.
• Xuandou used two White Zetsu as sacrifices and performed Impure World Reincarnation on Tobirama and Minato.
• Minato cried out in surprise at his resurrection, while Tobirama recognized the technique and charged at Xuandou with a kunai.

Tobirama Senju attacked Xuandou in a fury, but Xuandou’s Yae-gaki armor withstood his strongest assault. Xuandou revealed that he was married into the Senju family, and Tobirama realized the bride was closely connected to Tsunade and Nawaki.

• Tobirama Senju, driven by hatred of the Uchiha, rushed to stab Xuandou while Minato failed to reach him in time.
• Xuandou’s Yae-gaki activated automatically and deflected Tobirama’s repeated kunai strikes.
• Tobirama shattered one layer of Xuandou’s armor with his final blow, but Xuandou emerged unharmed and praised his strength.
• Tobirama asked what kind of monster Xuandou was, and Xuandou insisted he was an ordinary Uchiha shinobi and a son-in-law of the Senju Clan.
• Xuandou put his arm around Tsunade, and Tobirama recognized the tear-streaked face as the worst possible match for his fears.

Tobirama reunited with Tsunade, while Minato learned that Kushina and Naruto were safe after the Nine-Tails’ attack. Tsunade revealed Konoha’s troubled history and Hiruzen’s mistreatment of Minato’s family, leaving Minato stunned when Xuandou disclosed that Kushina was now his wife.

• Tobirama caught Tsunade as she rushed to embrace him and comforted her.
• Minato asked Xuandou about Kushina, Naruto, Konoha, and the Nine-Tails, and Xuandou assured him they were doing well.
• Minato introduced himself to Tobirama as the Fourth Hokage and praised Hiruzen, prompting Tobirama to boast about his students and their legacy.
• Tsunade recounted Konoha’s history and the misdeeds of Hiruzen, Homura, Koharu, and Danzo, enraging Tobirama with the revelation that Danzo had desecrated Hashirama’s remains.
• Minato condemned Hiruzen’s treatment of Kushina and Naruto, and Xuandou revealed that Kushina was now his wife.

Minato learned that Kushina had married Xuandou and grieved the time he had lost with her, but he chose to find out for himself how she and Naruto had lived after his death. Xuandou revealed that he planned to revive Minato and Tobirama perfectly in exchange for their labor, and Tobirama learned that Hashirama had already been revived.

• Minato regretted neglecting Kushina and asked Xuandou why he had been brought back with Impure World Reincarnation.
• Minato said he would investigate Kushina and Naruto's lives himself rather than ask others about them.
• Xuandou revealed that he could revive people perfectly without cost and planned to revive Minato and Tobirama in return for their labor.
• Tobirama asked Xuandou to use the revival on Hashirama instead, offering to give up his own chance.
• Tsunade and Shizune told Tobirama that Hashirama had already been revived, leaving him overwhelmed with excitement at the prospect of seeing his brother.