Chapter Summaries

Meikyō defeated Madara, but Black Zetsu’s betrayal let Ōtsutsuki Isshiki take over Madara’s body and gain the Ten-Tails’ power. After sealing Black Zetsu away, Meikyō faced Isshiki, who proposed cooperation and revealed his interest in the moon; Meikyō pieced together the connection between Kaguya, the Sage of Six Paths, and Isshiki.

• Meikyō sealed Madara’s Limbo Clones and defeated Madara after a prolonged battle.
• Black Zetsu appeared and urged Madara to keep fighting, but Meikyō switched places with Madara and struck at Black Zetsu.
• Black Zetsu pierced Madara’s heart, then revealed Isshiki, who took over Madara’s body and awakened the Kāma’s second state.
• Black Zetsu tried to use Meikyō as a vessel for Kaguya, but Meikyō restrained him and sealed him inside a massive meteor with Planetary Devastation and the Hundred Elephant Seal.
• Isshiki proposed bringing Meikyō to the Otsutsuki Clan or ruling the world together while claiming the moon for himself.
• Meikyō inferred that Kaguya was the Sage of Six Paths’ mother, that Black Zetsu had sought to resurrect her, and that Isshiki had stolen that plan’s opportunity.

Meikyō fought Ōtsutsuki Isshiki in a clash that split the continent, then agreed that Isshiki would remain on the moon and stay out of the Ninja World for one year. After Isshiki retreated, Meikyō told the others about the ancient Ōtsutsuki conflict and revealed that sealed Black Zetsu might provide more information.

• Meikyō and Isshiki agreed that Isshiki would not enter the Ninja World for one year, then tested each other’s strength in a fierce battle.
• Meikyō’s clash with Isshiki carved a vast rift through the continent, while Minato Namikaze, Uchiha Shisui, and Tobirama Senju redirected the shockwave to protect the others.
• Uchiha Fugaku used his Dojutsu to confirm the battle was over, and Meikyō watched Isshiki retreat.
• Meikyō told Fugaku, Shisui, Minato, Kushina, and Tobirama that Madara was dead but Isshiki might become an enemy after their one-year truce.
• Meikyō explained that Ōtsutsuki Kaguya and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki were ancient beings, and that Isshiki accused Kaguya of betraying and sealing him.

Meikyō secured Yagura’s agreement to hand Kirigakure over to Mei Terumī under Konoha’s conditions, then returned to Konoha to lead a meeting about Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and the intelligence needed to defeat him. The meeting turned toward investigating hidden records and captured Akatsuki members.

• Meikyō found the dying Fourth Mizukage, Karatachi Yagura, who explained that Madara’s genjutsu had damaged his mind and that Madara’s death had freed him from control.
• Yagura agreed to abdicate in favor of Mei Terumī and place Kirigakure under Konoha’s direction; Meikyō promised the allied armies would not attack for three days.
• Meikyō returned to Konoha and convened its leaders, assigning Minato and Shikaku to handle the Mizukage transition.
• Tsunade, Minato, and Shikaku discussed ways to find records of Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, while Hiashi offered Hyuga Clan records for the investigation.
• Meikyō considered Shikaku’s theories about Isshiki’s rare appearances and noted that Scorpion and Uchiha Hikari had been captured alive.

Meikyō assigned postwar duties and presented Konoha’s long-term plan to extend its influence across the Ninja World through military control, economic ties, and cultural assimilation. After the meeting, he told Hyuga Hiashi to prepare a file on the Hyūga branch on the moon.

• Meikyō assigned Shisui to oversee the interrogation of Scorpion and Uchiha Hikari, and ordered a sealed island built to contain Black Zetsu.
• Meikyō arranged for Minato and Kushina to oversee Konoha’s affairs in the Land of Water, and sent Fugaku and Torifu to manage the Land of Wind and Sunagakure.
• Meikyō rejected Tobirama Senju’s proposal for direct unification and presented a plan to establish a Ninja Alliance and gradually bring the great nations under Konoha’s influence.
• Meikyō tasked Dan Katō with coordinating the plan’s implementation, and the meeting continued through the day and night as Konoha’s leaders handled postwar matters.
• Meikyō told Hyuga Hiashi that he knew about the Hyūga branch on the moon and instructed him to prepare a file with Shikaku.

Meikyō arrived in a 2009 Marvel world where Tony Stark and the Avengers did not exist, and began searching for useful resources. He traced a violent spatial-temporal disturbance to Kingpin’s experiment, where Spider-Man was thrust headfirst into a rift as Meikyō appeared nearby.

• Meikyō crossed into the Marvel world, met Spider-Man, and disguised himself to gather money and information.
• Meikyō learned that this world had no Tony Stark or Avengers, and that its known heroes were Spider-Man and elderly Captain America.
• A blackout and intense spatial-temporal disturbances led Meikyō to Kingpin’s facility, where Doctor Octopus warned that the experiment was connecting several unstable time-spaces.
• Kingpin ordered Doctor Octopus to continue the experiment as Spider-Man fought Norman and Vulture.
• Kingpin joined the fight, and Norman seized Spider-Man and pushed his head into the spatial-temporal rift while Meikyō appeared behind Doctor Octopus.

Meikyō recognized the world as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and stopped Kingpin from killing Peter Parker after the dimension-travel machine exploded. He ordered Kingpin, Doctor Octopus, and Spider-Man to repair the machine and explain parallel universes, while Kingpin and Peter prepared to pursue their own plans.

• Meikyō restrained Doctor Octopus as Kingpin’s dimension-travel machine exploded, and he recognized Miles escaping with Peter Parker’s USB drive key.
• Meikyō hypnotized Doctor Octopus, stopped Kingpin from killing Peter, and demanded that she and Kingpin rebuild the machine.
• Kingpin agreed to rebuild the device, while Peter warned Meikyō that meddling between universes could cause catastrophic consequences.
• Meikyō made Kingpin and Peter stay together and forbade them from fighting until he left, then ordered them to explain parallel universes and the machine.
• Kingpin left to gather materials and investigate Peter’s identity, while Peter returned briefly to prepare and Doctor Octopus began analyzing the experiment data.

Meikyō listened as Peter Parker and Doctor Octopus debated the nature of time, parallel universes, and the risks of connecting them, then watched Doctor Octopus activate the repaired machine. He entered the multiverse rift after recording how the device worked, leaving Spider-Man and his allies to fight Kingpin’s forces.

• Spider-Man returned without the books, and Peter Parker explained his theories about time and the multiverse to Meikyō and Doctor Octopus.
• Peter Parker warned Doctor Octopus that connecting two parallel universes could cause a catastrophic collision, while Doctor Octopus argued that the danger was uncertain.
• Doctor Octopus repaired the machine, and Kingpin prepared to use it to reunite with his family as Meikyō prepared to return to his universe.
• Doctor Octopus activated the machine, which connected to nine parallel universes while Meikyō’s Rinnegan endured the energy drain.
• Meikyō stepped into the multiverse rift after recording the machine’s operation, while Spider-Man restrained Kingpin and fought him alongside six Spider-Men against Kingpin’s allies.

Meikyō crossed into another universe during the battle of New York and met Wong and the Ancient One at Kamar-Taj. After learning that the Infinity Stones could not function in his home universe, he sought to study the Time Stone, and the Ancient One offered him the right to use it for up to five years.

• Meikyō entered a neighboring spacetime through a door and arrived at Kamar-Taj, where Wong identified him as a visitor from another universe.
• Wong took Meikyō to the New York Sanctum, where he met the Ancient One during the Chitauri invasion and learned that Bruce Banner and Steve Rogers had just visited her from five years in the future.
• Meikyō explained that he wanted to study the Infinity Stones so he could recreate their power, and the Ancient One warned that the Stones only worked in their own universe and that taking them could draw the attention of timeline regulators.
• Meikyō asked to observe the Ancient One using the Time Stone, and she offered to let him use it for up to five years as she considered retiring early.
• The Ancient One said she trusted Meikyō because she had seen his effects on the world over the next nine years and seven months, including his potential to prevent harm.

The Ancient One recruited Meikyō as a prospective successor and taught him magic, which he mastered with extraordinary speed. When Mordo reported that the Seven of Semmler had begun a ritual to summon Shuma-Gorath in Rabat, Meikyō and The Ancient One went to confront the threat.

• The Ancient One offered Meikyō a probationary path to becoming Sorcerer Supreme, and he agreed to help after resolving the danger in his own universe.
• The Ancient One explained how the Time Stone and Cosmic Cube could be recovered and told Meikyō about past Sorcerer Supremes and their duties.
• Meikyō learned most of The Ancient One’s spells in thirty days, including Astral Projection, and she warned him about dangers in the astral plane.
• Mordo reported that the Seven of Semmler had stolen the Book of Cagliostro and planned to summon Shuma-Gorath, an Old One who had nearly killed The Ancient One before.
• The Ancient One, Meikyō, and Mordo traveled to Rabat, where Kaelen warned that the summoning ritual had begun and black fog covered downtown.

Meikyō and the sorcerers tracked Shuma-Gorath’s summoning altar beneath Rabat and attacked the Seven of Salem, who were channeling the Old One’s power. Meikyō overwhelmed most of them, but Vertigo unleashed a spell from the Book of Cagliostro that threatened him.

• The Ancient One ordered the sorcerers to contain Shuma-Gorath’s minions while she held back the demon’s projected power, and Mordo led the others toward the sealed altar beneath Rabat.
• Meikyō dispelled the black fog’s corruption from Kaelen, then used Shadow Clones to find the altar and opened a Teleportation Circle to reach it.
• Meikyō punched through the ground to the underground chamber, where the Seven of Salem chanted around a statue that channeled Shuma-Gorath’s power.
• Meikyō attacked the Seven of Salem, drove off their opening assault, and used his abilities to defeat several of them.
• Vertigo used the Book of Cagliostro to invoke the Eye of Set, firing a powerful bolt of black lightning at Meikyō.

Meikyō defeated the Seven of Salem, but Vertigo and Gadler’s final sacrifice strengthened Shuma-Gorath’s existing power projection instead of attacking him. After Meikyō and the sorcerers sealed the Eye Beast Statue and learned that The Ancient One was fighting Shuma-Gorath above, Meikyō prepared to join the battle.

• Meikyō killed Brutacus, Vacuum, and Thornn while Vertigo and Gadler watched the Seven of Salem fall.
• Vertigo and Gadler sacrificed their flesh, blood, life force, and souls to invoke Shuma-Gorath’s power, but the spell strengthened his existing projection in the sky.
• Mordo, Wong, and the other sorcerers arrived, and Wong explained that the Eye Beast Statue could not be destroyed or moved by ordinary means.
• Meikyō joined the sorcerers in casting Oshtur’s Imprint, sealing the Eye Beast Statue and cutting off its ability to provide Shuma-Gorath with coordinates.
• Kaelen reported that The Ancient One had drawn Shuma-Gorath into the sky, and Meikyō saw their battle through his Rinnegan and prepared to go up and fight.

Meikyō joined The Ancient One in defeating Shuma-Gorath’s projection, then helped Kamar-Taj conceal the battle from the people of Rabat. Back at Kamar-Taj, he planned how to find and study the remaining Infinity Stones.

• Meikyō handed Wong the Book of Cagliostro and joined The Ancient One’s fight against Shuma-Gorath.
• Meikyō and The Ancient One drained Shuma-Gorath’s projected power until its avatar vanished.
• The Ancient One returned to rest, while Wong, Mordo, Hamir, and Meikyō organized the response to the battle.
• Meikyō helped Hamir and the mages cast a mass illusion that made Rabat’s residents believe an earthquake had caused the damage.
• Meikyō returned to Kamar-Taj and considered how to access the Reality, Power, and Soul Stones, along with the Time and Mind Stones.

Meikyō sought a powerful reactor to supply his gravity training facility, but worried that taking one from Tony Stark could disrupt Marvel’s timeline. The Ancient One introduced him to a Sorcerer Supreme Tony Stark from another universe, who offered reactors in exchange for Meikyō’s help and revealed his personal reason for targeting Dormammu.

• Meikyō considered borrowing the Time Stone from The Ancient One to find a safe time to approach Tony Stark and study the Mind Stone.
• Wong brought Meikyō to The Ancient One, where he met a blue-and-gold armored Tony Stark from another universe who served as its Sorcerer Supreme.
• The Ancient One explained that Stark might provide the energy source Meikyō needed, provided Meikyō offered equivalent compensation.
• Stark offered two Arc Reactors and their manufacturing facilities: one in exchange for Meikyō succeeding him as Sorcerer Supreme in five years, and another in exchange for helping destroy Dormammu’s Fardeen true form.
• Stark revealed that Dormammu had joined forces with Thanos in his universe, and that although he had saved Pepper, Dormammu’s power had corrupted their unborn daughter, Morgan.

Meikyō negotiated with Tony Stark over helping save Morgan from Dormammu, agreeing to pursue greater power in exchange for Arc Reactor technology and future access to Infinity Stones. Stark left Meikyō with two reactors and their blueprints, while Meikyō had four years to become powerful enough to challenge Dormammu.

• The Ancient One explained that Stark could not remove the Dark Energy bound to Morgan, and Stark revealed that he had altered his universe’s timeline to save Pepper and Morgan.
• The Ancient One told Meikyō that mastering the laws of the Infinity Stones could let him cross the threshold to multiversal power, and Meikyō considered whether his Rinnegan could reach that level.
• Meikyō agreed to Stark’s first condition and requested Arc Reactor technology, promising to serve as Sorcerer Supreme and train a successor if he failed to reach multiversal strength within four years.
• Stark explained how multiversal beings could alter spacetime without disrupting its continuity, and the Ancient One criticized him for meddling with his timeline.
• Wong brought food, and Stark revealed his magical Iron Man clone before giving Meikyō two Arc Reactors and blueprints for two generations of reactors.

The Ancient One guided Meikyō through the Eye of Agamotto to a future Hydra experiment with the Mind Stone, where he saw the twins who would become powerful beings. After returning to the present, Meikyō demonstrated a growing command of time, and the Ancient One explained how mastering the Infinity Stones could let him contend with multiversal gods.

• Tony Stark teleported away, and the Ancient One and Meikyō shared a meal prepared by Wong.
• The Ancient One told Meikyō that Thor would bring the Space Stone within half a year and prepared to use the Eye of Agamotto to find a Mind Stone opportunity.
• Meikyō gave the Eye of Agamotto a drop of blood and learned to send his Astral Projection into the time stream with the Ancient One.
• The Ancient One and Meikyō observed Baron Strucker's Hydra laboratory in November 2012, where Hydra reported that twin test subjects had survived the Mind Stone's radiation and changed.
• Meikyō said he would return in two months to study the Mind Stone, then demonstrated slowing a teacup's fall and discussed his new understanding of time.
• The Ancient One explained that mastering the Stones could help Meikyō reach multiversal power, but warned him not to replace the universe's underlying framework too soon.

After learning about the Time Stone from the Ancient One, Meikyō returned to the One-Punch Man World and helped Genus investigate Boros’s jump engine. He gave Genus Arc Reactor technology and planned to bring Tatsumaki to test a gravity training chamber, while Fubuki considered ways to strengthen herself.

• The Ancient One told Meikyō she would demonstrate how to use the Time Stone every three days, and he returned to the One-Punch Man World after their next session.
• Meikyō surveyed the Hero Association and NEO Organization, then observed Genos fighting the Forest King while Saitama relaxed at home.
• Genus brought Meikyō to his laboratory and used his spatial abilities to analyze Boros’s jump engine.
• Meikyō gave Genus an Arc Reactor and its manufacturing documentation, and Genus agreed to prepare a gravity training chamber for Tatsumaki.
• Fubuki asked Meikyō about physical training, and he advised her to build a foundation with martial artists before learning from him.
• Meikyō reminded Fubuki that Tatsumaki would arrive soon, prompting her to hurry into her clothes.

Meikyō and Tatsumaki tested Genus’s Black Hole Class Gravity Training Room, while Meikyō arranged for Bruce to help gather vitality for training. He then asked Genus to forge him a durable, heat-resistant sword, and Tatsumaki identified a rare metal that might meet his needs.

• Meikyō and Tatsumaki installed two Arc Reactors in the Gravity Training Room and trained until Tatsumaki reached her limit after one hour and twenty-one minutes.
• Tatsumaki said the room could help her train her Psychic Power, while Meikyō estimated that his own limit was about one hour and forty minutes.
• Meikyō asked Tatsumaki and Fubuki to care for Bruce and let it absorb the vitality of powerful monsters for his training.
• Meikyō asked Genus to forge a sturdy, heat-resistant sword because Ama-no-Ohabari would not always be available.
• Tatsumaki told Meikyō that the Hero Association held an unusually sturdy metal Blast had found, and Genus suggested processing it with space-alloy drill cutters.
• Meikyō demonstrated Amaterasu Black Flame and Blaze Release fire as possible ways to melt the metal.

Meikyō forged a powerful new weapon, then agreed to marry Pakura and Mei Terumī as part of Konoha’s political plans. At the wedding, he began raising important matters with the Fourth Raikage and Whitestone, who feared Konoha would eventually absorb their villages.

• Meikyō and Genus discussed Amaterasu’s unusual heat, and Meikyō used it with Blaze Release to melt the dense metal delivered by the Hero Association.
• Meikyō forged a silver-white weapon modeled on Ama-no-Ohabari and made processing tools from the leftover metal for Genus.
• Tsunade, Dan Katō, and Uchiha Fugaku urged Meikyō to marry the Fifth Kazekage and Fifth Mizukage to ease resistance to Konoha’s influence, and Meikyō agreed.
• Meikyō’s upcoming marriage dominated Konoha and drew the Fourth Raikage and Whitestone to consider marriage alliances of their own.
• At the wedding, Meikyō invited the Fourth Raikage and Whitestone to discuss important matters, alarming them as they feared Konoha’s plans to annex their villages.
• The chapter described how Konoha’s training and the Ninja Alliance were intended to assimilate Sunagakure and Kirigakure while tightening control over Iwa and Kumogakure.

Meikyō forged a powerful new weapon and agreed to marry Pakura and Mei Terumī as part of Konoha’s political plans. At the wedding, the Fourth Raikage and Whitestone worried that Konoha would use the marriages and the Ninja Alliance to absorb their villages, while Meikyō prepared to discuss the Five Great Nations’ future.

• Meikyō explained Amaterasu’s properties to Genus, then used it with Blaze Release to melt the dense metal and forge a weapon in the shape of Ama-no-Ohabari.
• Tsunade, Dan Katō, and Uchiha Fugaku persuaded Meikyō to marry Pakura and Mei Terumī to ease resistance in Sunagakure and Kirigakure and advance Konoha’s political plans.
• Tsunade set the wedding for the following month, and the news prompted Whitestone and the Fourth Raikage to consider arranging political marriages of their own.
• Meikyō welcomed the Fourth Raikage and Whitestone to Konoha for the wedding, then interrupted their attempt to postpone political discussions and asked to address important matters.
• The wedding brought ninja from Sunagakure and Kirigakure to Konoha, where their weakened villages were being integrated through reconstruction work, education, and the planned Ninja Alliance.

The Five Great Ninja Villages signed an agreement establishing the Ninja Alliance, placing the villages under its administration and beginning a new era for the Ninja World. Meikyō then learned that Orochimaru had developed a God Tree-based pill that could strengthen Sage Chakra, and Orochimaru revealed his breakthrough and theories about the long lifespans of the Three Great Sage Regions’ sages.

• Nara Shikaku explained that the Ninja Alliance would govern the villages, restrict their authority, and require them to report large ninja forces and refrain from unjustified wars.
• The Five Great Ninja Villages finalized and signed the agreement, then jointly announced the Ninja Alliance’s establishment; smaller villages and Rogue Ninja began seeking membership.
• Orochimaru showed Meikyō a jade-green pill refined from pieces of the God Tree and explained that Wind God and Thor had tested smaller doses before he took it himself.
• Meikyō read Orochimaru’s test records, which described how the pill purified and increased Sage Chakra and how Orochimaru used a larger dose to break through to a new realm.
• Orochimaru told Meikyō that his lifespan now exceeded five hundred years and suggested that the sages of the Three Great Sage Regions prolonged their lives by hibernating.