Recaps

As the Fourth Shinobi World War dragged on, Hidden Xuan Village prospered by taking missions and expanding its Uchiha population. Mei Terumi arrived with Chōjūrō to ask Xuandou for help overthrowing Karatachi Yagura, and Xuandou agreed while asking what she would pay.

• Hiruzen recalled Konoha's ninja and divided them into three forces, but the war settled into a restrained stalemate as the major villages plundered and Konoha avoided battle.
• Xuandou raised mission fees as Hidden Xuan Village's Uchiha took advantage of the shortage of ninja, building a fearsome reputation and completing nearly all their missions.
• Three years later, the Uchiha clan had grown to 6,569 people, including 3,491 ninja, while Konoha's territory had shrunk and the war continued.
• Mei Terumi and Chōjūrō entered the Mission Hall and asked Xuandou to support their effort to overthrow Karatachi Yagura in Kirigakure.
• Xuandou received a quest to help Mei Terumi become the Fifth Mizukage and agreed to assist, then asked what price she would pay.

Mei Terumi tried to secure Hidden Xuan Village’s support for Kirigakure’s uprising with an alliance and trade offer, but Xuandou rejected those promises as insufficient. When he demanded “you,” she took it as a request for her body and offered herself after Kirigakure’s affairs were settled.

• Mei Terumi offered Xuandou a military alliance and opened Kirigakure’s port to trade with Azure Tide Port.
• Xuandou rejected her offer, arguing that written agreements and promises had no binding force in the Shinobi World.
• Xuandou told Mei Terumi and her companion to leave if Kirigakure expected Uchiha support for nothing.
• Mei Terumi asked Xuandou what he wanted, surrendering control of the negotiation.
• Xuandou said he wanted Mei Terumi, and she offered her body once Kirigakure’s affairs were settled.

Xuandou demanded that Mei Terumi agree to bear his child and accept a Seal in exchange for his help overthrowing Karatachi Yagura and becoming Mizukage. After Mei Terumi accepted, Xuandou sent Chōjūrō out and began preparing to place the Seal, but she objected when he lifted her clothes.

• Xuandou told Mei Terumi that she had to bear his child and receive a Seal to secure their agreement.
• Mei Terumi weighed the danger in Kirigakure against Xuandou's strength and agreed, asking him to help her overthrow Karatachi Yagura and become Mizukage.
• Xuandou sent Chōjūrō out of the office and locked the door.
• Xuandou instructed Mei Terumi to lie on the desk so he could place the Seal on her lower abdomen.
• Mei Terumi stopped Xuandou from lifting her clothes further and demanded to know whether he intended to undress her completely.

Xuandou applied a seal to Mei Terumi and agreed to help Kirigakure, while planning to use the mission as a chance to eliminate Obito. Three days later, Xuandou prepared to depart with a newly forged chakra-sealing blade whose effect on Obito remained uncertain.

• Xuandou applied a seal to Mei Terumi, who accepted the arrangement and said she would have everything ready in three days.
• Mei Terumi took Xuandou’s Flying Thunder God Kunai and left for Kirigakure with Chōjūrō.
• Xuandou considered Kirigakure’s impending revolution and decided that taking down Obito was another reason to get involved.
• Xuandou inspected the chakra-sealing blade forged by Kajiya Tarō and wondered whether it could prevent Obito from using Kamui.
• Three days passed.

Xuandou joined Mei Terumi’s Revolutionary Army in a secret Kirigakure base and recognized Kisame Hoshigaki among its members. He suspected Kisame was secretly working for Obito, putting the revolution and its recruits in danger.

• Xuandou, Shisui, and Itachi used Flying Thunder God to travel to Mei Terumi’s secret base outside Kirigakure.
• Mei Terumi introduced Xuandou to the assembled clans, intelligence team, and young Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, including Ao and Chōjūrō.
• Xuandou recognized Kisame Hoshigaki, who greeted him and claimed to have joined the Revolutionary Army.
• Xuandou suspected Kisame was Obito’s undercover agent and feared Obito already knew about Mei Terumi’s plans.

Xuandou warned Mei Terumi that Kisame was a mole, so she changed the revolution’s schedule and planned to strike that night. When Kisame attacked Mei, Itachi blocked his blow, while Obito ambushed Xuandou from behind and stabbed him in the heart.

• Xuandou secretly warned Mei that Kisame was serving the masked man controlling the Fourth Mizukage.
• Mei changed the revolution’s timing from three days later to that night and asked Xuandou’s group to handle Kisame.
• Kisame attacked Mei with Samehada, but Itachi intercepted the strike as the Kirigakure gathering fell into chaos.
• Obito emerged behind Xuandou and stabbed him in the heart before Shisui could reach him.

Xuandou and Shisui fought Obito and the controlled Fourth Mizukage, but Obito escaped after Xuandou’s sealing blade slowed Kamui. The battle then erupted on the island, where Shisui and Xuandou confronted the Three-Tails while Itachi trapped Kisame in Tsukuyomi.

• Xuandou stabbed Obito with his sealing Ninja Blade, draining his chakra and delaying Kamui, but Obito escaped at the last moment.
• Obito appeared beside Karatachi Yagura and ordered him to stop the rebellion, while Ao exposed Obito as the one controlling the Mizukage.
• Obito forced Yagura to transform into the Three-Tails, whose transformation destroyed the underground hideout and brought the fighters onto the island shore.
• Obito attacked the Revolutionary Army with Kamui as the Three-Tails rampaged, and Shisui used Susanoo to deflect a Tailed Beast Bomb away from the crowd.
• Xuandou used Susanoo to restrain the Three-Tails and try to break Obito’s control over Yagura.
• Itachi trapped Kisame in Tsukuyomi, leaving Kisame swinging Samehada at an illusory opponent.

Itachi and Xuandou helped defeat Obito’s forces and free Yagura, who passed the Mizukage position to Mei Terumi before dying. Xuandou silenced opposition to Mei’s succession, earned mastery of yang release, and balanced the yin and yang powers within him.

• Obito rescued Kisame from Itachi and escaped through his space-time vortex after threatening Xuandou.
• Xuandou’s mental intrusion freed Yagura from control, and the dying Fourth Mizukage passed his office and robe to Mei Terumi.
• Yuki Clan members challenged Mei Terumi’s succession, but Xuandou backed her and Itachi killed the loudest dissenter with Amaterasu.
• Mei Terumi declared herself the Fifth Mizukage and won the crowd’s support as she promised to rebuild Kirigakure.
• The system rewarded Xuandou with mastery of yang release, balancing the yin and yang powers within him.

Xuandou secured Mei Terumi’s rule in Kirigakure and arranged for the Three-Tails to guard Hozuki Island. After returning home, he reunited with Kushina and his son, then invited Rin Nohara to receive a coming-of-age gift.

• Xuandou told Mei Terumi to secure her authority and ordered Itachi to help her deal with anyone who resisted.
• Xuandou ordered Shisui to take the Three-Tails to Hozuki Island, and the beast agreed to guard it rather than be sealed again.
• Xuandou left Kirigakure with Flying Thunder God and returned to the Imperial Palace in Hidden Xuan Village.
• Xuandou embraced his son, Uchiha Hanyu, and reunited with Kushina and Rin Nohara.
• Xuandou learned Rin had turned eighteen and asked her to come with him for a coming-of-age gift.

Xuandou brought Rin Nohara to the Desire Hot Springs to examine how her body had adapted since her resurrection. After she changed into a bikini and entered the bath, he began checking her meridians with chakra.

• Kushina recognized Xuandou's intentions and let him lead Rin Nohara away while she took Hanyu with her.
• Xuandou led Rin Nohara to the Desire Hot Springs and asked her to choose a swimsuit with little fabric.
• Rin Nohara changed into a pink bikini and joined Xuandou in the Clan Head's hot spring.
• Xuandou asked Rin Nohara whether her body had felt sluggish, then began examining her meridians with chakra.

Xuandou and Rin Nohara crossed a boundary in their relationship, while Obito recovered from his injury and pushed Nagato to prepare a coup in Amegakure. Obito resolved to complete the Eye of the Moon Plan and create a world with Rin in it.

• Xuandou finished examining Rin Nohara and kissed her, then teased her that her promised coming-of-age ceremony was about to begin.
• Nagato and Konan discussed Hanzō's decline and agreed that Akatsuki was strong enough to act.
• Obito arrived with Kisame Hoshigaki and ordered Nagato to prepare a coup to seize Amegakure in three days.
• Obito entered the Kamui Dimension to heal the wound Xuandou had inflicted and recalled how Xuandou had sealed his chakra.
• Obito remembered Rin Nohara and vowed to complete the Eye of the Moon Plan so he could create a world with her.

Xuandou mastered earth nature chakra, learned that Rin Nohara was pregnant, and celebrated with her at the Hidden Xuan Village. At the Land of Fire Daimyo's Residence, nobles and merchants condemned Hiruzen Sarutobi for Konoha's failures in the war and demanded that he step down.

• Xuandou claimed an A-Rank Family Chest and gained mastery of earth nature chakra and a Conception Card.
• The system told Xuandou that Rin Nohara had conceived, and he resolved to protect her during her pregnancy.
• At the Daimyo's Residence, the Daimyo confronted Hiruzen about Konoha's repeated defeats and the loss of the Uchiha.
• Nobles and merchants described their losses from invasions and disrupted trade, then demanded compensation and Hiruzen's resignation.

The Land of Fire's Daimyō condemned Hiruzen for Konoha's declining reputation and ordered him to fix the borders within six months or resign. As Konoha's fronts came under greater pressure, Hiruzen chose to deploy the Chinoike Clan's Ketsuryūgan as his trump card, though the chapter left its success uncertain.

• The Daimyō and the nobles criticized Hiruzen, praised the Uchiha's success as escorts, and gave him six months to improve the borders.
• On his return to Konoha, Hiruzen blamed the Uchiha for his troubles and learned from Mitokado Homura that Kumogakure and Iwagakure had deployed jinchūriki against Konoha.
• Hiruzen refused to retreat and ordered Mitokado Homura to conscript the Chinoike Clan and lead them against Kumogakure.
• Hiruzen said he would personally face Iwagakure and left the western front against Sunagakure to fend for itself.
• Hiruzen urged Mitokado Homura to capture Killer B and use him as a bargaining chip, then declared that the Chinoike Clan was his trump card.

Hiruzen struggled to raise troops after the major clans refused to help, so he sent an untested Sarutobi force toward the Iwagakure Battlefield while Mitokado Homura marched north with the Chinoike Clan. At the Northern Front, Homura took command and prepared to deploy the Chinoike shinobi despite their leader’s warnings about their abilities.

• Hiruzen learned that the major clan heads had made excuses to avoid sending troops, then ordered one thousand Sarutobi Clan shinobi to accompany him to the Iwagakure Battlefield.
• Hiruzen saw that the Sarutobi shinobi were undisciplined and inexperienced as Mitokado Homura set out north with two hundred Chinoike Clan shinobi.
• Chinoike Chitose explained that the Ketsuryūgan was best used for coordinated special operations, but Homura ordered the Chinoike Clan to lead the attack.
• Chinoike Chitose objected that his clan could not safely face the enemy alone, but Homura insisted that the Third Hokage had ordered it.
• At the Northern Front, Yamada reported that Kumogakure had about two thousand troops led by the Fourth Raikage and Killer B, while Konoha had just over fifteen hundred.
• Homura rejected Yamada’s suggestion to keep the Chinoike Clan in reserve and declared that he was taking full command of the front.

Mitokado Homura ordered Konoha’s outnumbered troops to attack Kumogakure head-on, using the Chinoike Clan’s Ketsuryūgan to disrupt the enemy. Killer B’s Eight-Tails devastated the clan and routed Konoha’s army, while Yamada organized a retreat after Mitokado fled.

• Mitokado Homura dismissed Yamada’s warnings and ordered the Chinoike Clan to lead a frontal assault on Kumogakure.
• Chinoike Chitose and the Ketsuryūgan users turned several Kumogakure ninja into Human Bombs, disrupting their formation.
• Raikage A sent Killer B into battle, and the Eight-Tails fired a Tailed Beast Bomb into the Chinoike Clan’s ranks.
• Chinoike Chitose failed to control the Eight-Tails, and Konoha’s troops fled as Kumogakure pursued them.
• Mitokado Homura ran south, while Yamada organized a fighting retreat and recognized that Konoha had lost the northern battlefield.

Raikage A led Kumogakure forces to the Iwagakure battlefield, where they ambushed Konoha during Hiruzen Sarutobi’s fight with Han. As A and Killer B closed in to kill the wounded Hiruzen, Jiraiya arrived with Gamabunta and stopped them.

• Raikage A left five hundred Kumogakure ninja to raid the Land of Fire and led the rest south toward the Iwagakure battlefield.
• Hiruzen Sarutobi fought Han and deflected the Five-Tails’ Tailed Beast Bomb, holding his ground with Enma’s help.
• Raikage A and Killer B attacked Konoha from behind, and A badly wounded Hiruzen with a Lariat.
• A and Killer B trapped Hiruzen and launched their Double Lariat as Enma returned to the Summoning Realm.
• Jiraiya summoned Gamabunta and drove A and Killer B back with a Toad Oil Flame Bullet.

Jiraiya rescued the badly wounded Hiruzen from the battlefield and brought him back to Konoha, where they learned that the northern front had collapsed after Mitokado Homura abandoned his command. As Hiruzen recovered in the hospital, he asked Jiraiya to become the Fifth Hokage.

• Jiraiya used Gamabunta to cover their escape while carrying Hiruzen away from the Raikage and the pursuing Kumogakure ninja.
• Kitsuchi confronted the Raikage, who withdrew his forces, and then ordered Iwagakure ninja to pursue the fleeing Konoha troops.
• Jiraiya found Yamada and the routed Northern Battlefield unit, where Yamada reported heavy losses, the Chinoike Clan's casualties, and Mitokado Homura's flight.
• Hiruzen collapsed after hearing Yamada's report, and Jiraiya ordered the surviving troops to retreat to Konoha and switch to defense.
• Two days later, Hiruzen woke in Konoha Hospital, summoned Jiraiya, and asked him to take the Fifth Hokage position.

Jiraiya refused Hiruzen’s request to become Hokage and persuaded Tsunade to return to Konoha. After Tsunade agreed to become the Fifth Hokage, Hiruzen used his final strength to call Homura and Mitokado amateurs.

• Hiruzen demanded that Jiraiya take over as Hokage, but Jiraiya declined.
• Jiraiya proposed bringing Tsunade back to become Hokage, and Hiruzen agreed.
• Utatane Koharu offered to send three Anbu with Jiraiya, but he rejected the escort and left.
• A month later, Tsunade visited the dying Hiruzen with Shizune and Tonton.
• Tsunade agreed to succeed Hiruzen as the Fifth Hokage, and Hiruzen whispered that Homura and Mitokado were amateurs.

After Hiruzen died, Tsunade became the Fifth Hokage and rallied Konoha’s clans to face the invasion. She removed Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu from their advisor posts and planned to visit the Hidden Xuan Village to negotiate with Uchiha Xuantou.

• Hiruzen died, and Tsunade and Jiraiya attended his funeral in the rain as she took office as the Fifth Hokage.
• Tsunade summoned the clan heads, learned that Konoha’s fronts had collapsed, and secured the clans’ promise to help reorganize its forces.
• Shikaku Nara proposed seeking an alliance with the Hidden Xuan Village, but Mitokado Homura and Utatane Koharu opposed it.
• Tsunade rebuked the advisors, dismissed them from their positions, and broke the meeting table with a punch when Utatane challenged her.
• Tsunade told Jiraiya to remain in Konoha and help her, then announced she would visit the Hidden Xuan Village to speak with Uchiha Xuantou.

Xuandou used the Slave Mark to force Yugito Nii to obey him, and the system announced that she was pregnant. He then sensed the mark on Mei Terumi inside the Hidden Xuan Village, realizing the Fifth Mizukage had arrived.

• Xuandou summoned Yugito Nii to his bedroom after his attempts to persuade her to join the Hidden Xuan Village failed.
• Xuandou activated the Slave Mark and ordered Yugito Nii to take off her armor, and she eventually surrendered.
• The system notified Xuandou that he had impregnated Yugito Nii.
• Xuandou sensed Mei Terumi's Slave Mark within the Hidden Xuan Village and realized she had arrived.

Xuandou met with Mei Terumi, who discussed Kirigakure’s weakened clans and accepted his offer to help strengthen her position. Their meeting turned intimate, and Xuandou earned an S-rank Clan Treasure Chest.

• Xuandou learned that Mei Terumi was waiting for him in the reception room and went to meet her.
• Mei Terumi told Xuandou that her authority was mostly secure, but Kirigakure’s Hozuki and Yuki clans had been badly diminished.
• Xuandou offered to send Hozuki Mangetsu back to Kirigakure to gather the surviving Hozuki and support Mei Terumi’s position.
• Mei Terumi and Xuandou became intimate, completing his objective.
• Xuandou received an S-rank Clan Treasure Chest and chose to claim it.

Xuandou impregnated Mei Terumi before she left Hidden Xuan Village, then used a Ninja Tool Upgrade Card to evolve his blade into the Time-Stop Demon Blade. A new quest tasked him with seizing a daimyō’s position, offering a Rinne Sharingan Awakening Card as its reward.

• Xuandou claimed an Akimichi Clan secret techniques reward and a Ninja Tool Upgrade Card, then used Partial Expansion Jutsu with Mei Terumi until the system confirmed her pregnancy.
• Mei Terumi recovered, said she had to return to Kirigakure, and left the Imperial Palace with Chōjūrō.
• Xuandou upgraded his ninja blade into the Time-Stop Demon Blade, which could suppress a struck target’s chakra and stop that target’s time for 0.5 seconds.
• The system gave Xuandou a faction-upgrade quest to seize a daimyō’s position and become a nation’s true ruler, with a Rinne Sharingan Awakening Card as the reward.

Xuandou arranged to strengthen Uchiha control over the Land of Hot Water by positioning Uchiha Anbu beside its nobles and merchants while Adachi Yuto appeared gravely ill. The chapter ended with Adachi Yuto's two sons ambushed and killed on their way to the Daimyo's Residence, leaving the succession uncertain.

• Xuandou sent Hozuki Mangetsu to Kirigakure to rebuild the Hozuki Clan and support Mei Terumi's bid to become Mizukage.
• Xuandou ordered Adachi Yuto to summon the Land of Hot Water's political leaders, nobles, and wealthy merchants to a gathering one month later.
• At the gathering, Xuandou announced that Uchiha Anbu would guard the assembled leaders and merchants, then Shisui confirmed that Anbu had been stationed beside each target.
• Adachi Yuto was reported gravely ill and told the political leaders that his two sons should return so a successor could be chosen.
• Unidentified rogue ninja ambushed and killed Adachi Yuto's two sons while they traveled to the Daimyo's Residence.

After rogue ninja attacks spread panic through the Land of Hot Water, Adachi Yuto named Xuandou as his successor, and Xuandou formally became the new Daimyō. The chapter ended with Xuandou receiving a Rinne Sharingan Awakening Card after completing the faction-upgrade mission.

• Rogue ninja attacks and killings spread across the Land of Hot Water, while Uchiha Anbu protected nobles and officials.
• Uchiha Anbu thwarted an attack on Adachi Yuto, and people credited Xuandou with saving the Daimyō.
• Adachi Yuto asked the nobles to choose his successor, and supporters backed Xuandou while the Ashikaga Clan argued for its own candidate.
• Adachi Yuto passed the Daimyō position to Xuandou, who vowed to protect the people and restore order.
• Adachi Yuto died three days later, and Xuandou formally succeeded him at the ceremony in Azure Tide Port.
• Xuandou received a Rinne Sharingan Awakening Card after completing the faction-upgrade mission.

Xuandou awakened the Rinnegan, gaining Yin-Yang Release, powerful new abilities, and the Yae-gaki dōjutsu. He then consolidated his rule as Daimyō by purging rogue ninja and eliminating opponents, winning broad support across the Land of Hot Water.

• Xuandou used the Rinne Sharingan Awakening Card to awaken his Rinnegan, fuse Yin and Yang Release, and manifest a Truth-Seeking Orb and flight.
• Xuandou discovered Yae-gaki, which enhanced his combat abilities and automatically protected him with eight layers of chakra armor, and explored his other Rinnegan powers and Ultimate Susanoo.
• Xuandou read Anbu reports revealing nobles and political figures questioning his succession, including an Ashikaga Clan member who openly rejected it.
• Xuandou ordered a nationwide purge of rogue ninja, bandits, and rōnin, during which his opponents died amid the chaos.
• Within three months, the Land of Hot Water was free of rogue ninja, public support for Xuandou surged, and his doubters fell silent.