Recaps

Uchiha Gen defeated the Shinigami and used the Demon Blade Thousand Blades to absorb its power, then demanded the Nine-Tails’ half-world as nourishment for his Fake World. He revealed that he intended to destroy the Will of the World, leaving the Nine-Tails alarmed by the danger this posed to the world.

• Uchiha Gen trapped the Shinigami in flames and pierced its chest with Fuzan, burning its spiritual body from within.
• Uchiha Gen used the Demon Blade Thousand Blades to absorb the Shinigami’s power, transforming the blade as the evil spirit within it devoured its prey.
• Kushina Uzumaki recovered as Minato Namikaze checked that she was unharmed, and Uchiha Gen told the Nine-Tails it was time to hand over its half-world.
• The Nine-Tails warned that the half-world was important, but Uchiha Gen said he wanted it as nourishment for his Fake World.
• Uchiha Gen admitted he could not yet deal with the Will of the World and said he ultimately wanted to destroy it, shocking the Nine-Tails.

Uchiha Gen dismissed Kurama’s fears about destroying the Will of the World and promised he could deal with any resulting collapse. Kushina Uzumaki pressured Kurama into keeping his word, and he handed Uchiha Gen the World Fragment.

• Uchiha Gen said he would relocate the world or seek help from Tree if killing its Will caused it to collapse.
• Kurama objected that Uchiha Gen was gambling with the world’s fate, but Uchiha Gen demanded the World Fragment.
• Kushina Uzumaki urged Kurama to trust Uchiha Gen and mocked him for breaking his promise.
• Kushina Uzumaki declared that Kurama was part of her family and had to follow her household rules, while Minato Namikaze offered no objection.
• Kurama removed his tailed beast chakra from the World Fragment and handed the crystal to Uchiha Gen.

Uchiha Gen used the nine World Fragments to create an independent life-bearing world and became a true creator of worlds. Meanwhile, Shisui Uchiha endured brutal training from Uchiha Ganghuo to prepare for joining Gen’s Hokage Guard.

• Uchiha Gen activated Night of Mitsu and False World, True Realm: Preemptive Body, drawing the World Fragments from all nine tailed beasts.
• Uchiha Gen used the fragments to set his fake world’s laws in motion and create a star system and a life-bearing planet.
• Uchiha Gen’s Mangekyō Sharingan transformed, and he realized a world could exist independently without a Will of the World.
• Uchiha Ganghuo knocked Shisui Uchiha down during training and berated him for hesitating and fighting too slowly.
• Shisui Uchiha complained that he felt nearly dead after relentless daily training and medicinal baths arranged by Uchiha Fugaku.

After Shisui Uchiha awakened his Two-Tomoe Sharingan while resolving to meet Uchiha Gen’s expectations, the story shifted to Konoha after the Third Shinobi World War. Uchiha Gen complained about his new statue, while Tsunade and Uchiha Hikari joked about it and Hikari asked for one of her own.

• Uchiha Ganghuo told Shisui Uchiha that the clan expected him to grow strong enough to stand beside Uchiha Gen and help him.
• Shisui Uchiha vowed not to settle for his current strength, and his Two-Tomoe Sharingan awakened.
• In Year 51 of Konoha, Uchiha Gen stood before the golden statue of himself in Hokage Square and complained that it was over the top and made him look bad.
• Tsunade joined Uchiha Gen and teased him about enjoying the statue, while explaining that she had found someone else to help deliver Mikoto’s baby.
• Uchiha Hikari arrived, praised the statue, and bluntly asked Uchiha Gen to make one for her too.

Sasuke Uchiha and the others waited at the Uchiha Clan Compound as Mikoto gave birth to baby Uchiha Sasuke. His birth brought the family together, and Uchiha Fugaku and Mikoto chose to keep the name Sasuke.

• Uchiha Gen, Tsunade, and Uchiha Hikari arrived at the Uchiha Clan Compound, where Uchiha Fugaku, Uchiha Itachi, and Sasuke Uchiha were waiting for the birth.
• Kushina Uzumaki and Minato Namikaze joined the others as Mikoto went through labor.
• The midwife announced the baby's arrival, and Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Itachi went to see the newborn.
• Uchiha Itachi gently touched baby Uchiha Sasuke and promised to protect his little brother.
• Uchiha Fugaku said that he and Mikoto had decided to name the baby Sasuke, and the family welcomed him into the clan.

Baku watched Onmyoji construct an altar in the Land of Ancestors while reflecting on how Dream Release could reshape reality. When Jigen appeared and offered him the Rinnegan and an alliance, Baku defeated him effortlessly and discovered that Jigen’s body was a puppet.

• Baku sent Black Zetsu to the Land of Rain and watched the Onmyoji build an altar in the Land of Ancestors.
• Baku reflected that his Dream Release could overturn reality, though his artificial body limited its power.
• Baku ambushed a black-robed stranger, who revealed himself as Jigen and claimed to be a descendant of gods from beyond the stars.
• Jigen showed Baku a pair of Rinnegan and proposed that they work together to exploit the thing inside Yahiko.
• Baku defeated Jigen, judged the offered eyes to be inferior, and identified Jigen’s body as a puppet housing his real body.
• Jigen, pinned beneath Baku’s foot, feared for his life and resolved that he could not die before settling his vendetta.

Baku subdued Jigen and let Qunhun Kui possess his body, while learning that Jigen’s memories held revelations about Kaguya Ōtsutsuki. Uchiha Gen then arrived in Daimyo City after the daimyo censured him for skipping confirmation as Fourth Hokage and threatened to cut Konoha’s funding.

• Baku told Jigen he already knew Tsuchimikado Getsuchō’s true nature and decided to turn Jigen into a tool.
• Baku filled Jigen with black mist that overwhelmed his consciousness and branded his body with the character for “imprison.”
• Qunhun Kui took over Jigen’s body, thanked Baku, and said Jigen’s memories contained shocking information about Kaguya Ōtsutsuki.
• Uchiha Gen walked through Daimyo City with Uchiha Hikari and Tsunade after receiving a letter of censure from the daimyo.
• Uchiha Gen went to see the daimyo, not to back down, but to find out why he dared to threaten Konoha’s funding.

Tsunade took Uchiha Gen and Uchiha Hikari shopping in the daimyo’s city, where Gen recognized a pendant as containing Hashirama Senju’s chakra. At the daimyo’s residence, the group discovered that yōkai had deeply infiltrated it and confronted a blood-scented gatekeeper.

• Tsunade bought several trinkets with Uchiha Gen’s money and gave him a pendant that he recognized as holding Hashirama Senju’s chakra.
• Uchiha Gen accepted the pendant but chose not to wear it, knowing that its previous wearers had died.
• Uchiha Hikari sensed yōki around the daimyo’s residence, and Uchiha Gen said the place had become a yōkai den.
• Tsunade said she had little affection for her noble relatives, while Uchiha Hikari suggested they could erase the residence from the world.
• An old gatekeeper emerged from the residence, and Tsunade sensed a strong smell of blood as he challenged the group over their words against the daimyo.

Uchiha Gen destroyed the Daimyo Residence after Tsunade killed a samurai who had eaten people, then declared Konoha’s war on the entire Shinobi World. He left the gathered nobles and onlookers facing his Perfect Susanoo as he announced his plan to abolish the existing order and unify the world under Konoha.

• Tsunade struck down the samurai after confirming the source of the blood stench on him, while Uchiha Gen judged the people in the residence guilty.
• Uchiha Gen conjured a two-colored Fire Lotus and burned the Daimyo Residence within its boundaries.
• Uchiha Hikari incinerated twelve approaching jonin, and a crowd gathered to accuse the Konoha ninja of killing the daimyo.
• Uchiha Gen declared war on the entire Shinobi World and demanded that all nations, villages, and armed forces submit to Konoha.
• Uchiha Gen formed his Perfect Susanoo above the crowd as the gathered witnesses heard his plan to unify the Shinobi World.

As Konoha prepared for the war of unification Uchiha Gen had declared, Orochimaru discovered that the passage to the moon lay beneath the Uchiha ancestral shrine. He told Uchiha Gen that opening it required Byakugan eye power, leaving them with the need to find a key.

• The nations' daimyo contacted their shinobi villages after Uchiha Gen's declaration, but most villages gave only vague replies.
• Uchiha Gen ordered Konoha's clans and departments to mobilize while the Konoha Military Police Force took charge of the daimyo's assets.
• Orochimaru showed Uchiha Gen a star chart locating the passage between Earth and the moon at the Uchiha ancestral shrine.
• Orochimaru explained that the passage was stable but needed a key, and Uchiha Gen identified the required eye power as the Byakugan.

Uchiha Gen accepted Orochimaru’s proposal to attack Ryūchi Cave and entered it with Uchiha Hikari. After Hikari exposed Tagorihime’s genjutsu, the pair faced the snake sage amid the bones and giant snakes.

• Orochimaru told Uchiha Gen that Byakugan could evolve and proposed wiping out Ryūchi Cave for its senjutsu reserves and summoning beasts.
• Uchiha Gen agreed to visit Ryūchi Cave and brought Uchiha Hikari with him.
• A snake attacked Uchiha Hikari with venom, and she burned it with Amaterasu.
• Uchiha Gen and Uchiha Hikari reached Tagorihime, who tried to lure them with an illusion.
• Uchiha Hikari used Tsukuyomi to shatter Tagorihime’s genjutsu, revealing piles of human bones and the giant snakes surrounding them.
• Tagorihime’s disguise was exposed, and Uchiha Hikari insulted her appearance, provoking her anger.

Uchiha Gen defeated Ryūchi Cave’s three snake princesses and captured them in his fake world. He confronted the White Snake Sage at her temple and demanded that she submit or be forced to submit.

• Tagorihime attacked Uchiha Gen after he insulted her, but he destroyed her maze and captured her with his Mangekyō Sharingan.
• Ichikishimahime and Tagitsuhime confronted Uchiha Gen, and he captured both of them before they could fight back.
• Uchiha Gen and Uchiha Hikari walked through Ryūchi Cave toward the White Snake Sage’s temple.
• The White Snake Sage apologized for the elders’ behavior through a genjutsu avatar, but Uchiha Gen rejected her apology and demanded that she become his dog.

The White Snake Sage revealed her colossal true body and attacked Uchiha Gen and Uchiha Hikari, hoping to devour Hikari and become a dragon. Hikari resisted the Sage’s petrifying eye technique, leaving the fight underway.

• The White Snake Sage emerged from beneath Ryūchi Cave and recognized Uchiha Hikari as a Seed whose power could help her transform into a dragon.
• Uchiha Hikari asked Uchiha Gen if she could kill the White Snake Sage, and he told her to leave the Sage half-dead so they could capture her.
• Uchiha Gen attacked with Susanoo’s black-flame spear, but the White Snake Sage healed the wound with Sage Art: Inorganic Reincarnation.
• Uchiha Hikari rushed the White Snake Sage, who used Sage Art: Rock-Binding Eyes to try to petrify her.
• Uchiha Hikari remained unharmed, and the White Snake Sage realized her technique had failed against Hikari’s Mangekyō Sharingan.

Uchiha Hikari fought the White Snake Sage as the Sage transformed into a dragon and poured her strength into trying to devour Hikari. The battle devastated Ryūchi Cave, and the White Snake Sage suffered a devastating Amaterasu attack as her transformation’s time limit ran down.

• The White Snake Sage attacked with her massive body, but Uchiha Hikari blocked the blow with Wood Release, shocking the Sage.
• The White Snake Sage used Dragon Transformation Art, drawing on Ryūchi Cave’s earth veins and gaining a powerful dragon form with an eight-minute-and-twenty-second limit.
• The White Snake Sage struck at Hikari, who evaded and set the Sage’s claws ablaze with Amaterasu; the Sage used Organic Reincarnation to heal while fighting through the flames.
• The White Snake Sage unleashed poisonous Dragon Breath and relentless physical attacks, while Hikari countered with wooden barriers and spikes as their battle wrecked Ryūchi Cave.
• As the transformation’s limit approached, the White Snake Sage poured her golden aura into her body and launched a life-risking tail strike; Hikari gathered the Amaterasu flames into black nails that pierced between the Sage’s scales, causing severe pain that her healing could not stop.

Uchiha Gen subdued the White Snake Sage and looted Ryūchi Cave as Konoha began absorbing the other great villages. The chapter then introduced Mei Terumi’s promising youth in Kirigakure, ending with the outbreak of war that shattered her expectations.

• Uchiha Gen used his power to control the White Snake Sage, healed her with a Senzu Bean, and stored her in the fake world.
• Uchiha Gen searched Ryūchi Cave and took its sage arts, materials, and other useful possessions.
• Pakura, the Third Tsuchikage, and the Third Raikage announced their villages would merge into Konoha, while Madara Uchiha left Kirigakure untouched.
• Mei Terumi recalled her rare kekkei genkai, her training under Genji, and her rise to become Kirigakure’s youngest Elite Jonin.
• Mei Terumi described her hopes of ending Kirigakure’s bloody era and building a peaceful future before a war swept across the Shinobi World.

Kirigakure's youngest elite jonin watched Might Duy devastate the battlefield and realized Konoha's power had shattered her dreams. Meanwhile, Hatake Sakumo seized the Mizukage's office and confronted the Madara Uchiha controlling Karatachi Yagura.

• Kirigakure's young elite jonin rushed to the front expecting to make her name, but froze when a Konoha ninja's blood-colored steam and taijutsu overwhelmed Kirigakure's forces.
• Might Duy, aided by Hyuga Hiashi, finished clearing Kirigakure's last combat zone and learned that Minato and the Uchiha Clan's ninja were clearing the others.
• Hatake Sakumo sat in the Mizukage's chair and held Karatachi Yagura in check with his sword domain.
• Hatake Sakumo revealed he had come to speak with Madara Uchiha, and Karatachi Yagura's eyes changed to Three-Tomoe Sharingan as Madara took control.

Hatake Sakumo confronted Madara Uchiha, acting through Karatachi Yagura, about the awakened Will of the World and warned that Madara’s plan could help it. He revealed that Uchiha Gen had proposed another approach: kill the Will of the World.

• Hatake Sakumo told Madara Uchiha that the Will of the World was already awake and was using him.
• Madara moved Hatake Sakumo into a Shinobi World from another timeline and threatened to kill him, but Sakumo explained why his death would trigger the Seeds and expose the Will.
• Hatake Sakumo questioned whether Obito Uchiha’s Kamui was more than a divine technique and warned that Madara’s plan to merge and elevate the worlds might benefit the Will.
• Hatake Sakumo said Uchiha Gen had proposed a different approach, and Madara asked what he intended to do.
• Hatake Sakumo revealed that Uchiha Gen wanted to kill the Will of the World.

After Konoha took control of all Five Great Nations, it demanded that the smaller nations join its administration and declared the abolition of the daimyo system. At the Valley of the End, Uchiha Gen challenged Madara Uchiha to a fight, risking the balance between them.

• The Land of Water surrendered and joined Konoha, while Karatachi Yagura vanished without a trace.
• Konoha announced that it would bring the smaller nations under its administration and abolish the daimyo system, prompting the smaller nations' daimyo to seek an armed force against it.
• Uchiha Gen and Madara Uchiha met at the Valley of the End and unleashed their Naruson Domains against each other.
• Madara Uchiha explained that the world's will was a self-aware concept that could only be erased with a divine technique, and Uchiha Gen claimed they possessed one before clarifying that he meant something beyond a divine technique.
• Uchiha Gen ignited his Green Flame and provoked Madara Uchiha into fighting, and Madara warned that the battle's outcome would break the balance between them.

Uchiha Gen and Madara Uchiha began a battle in a star-filled realm, pitting Gen’s control of causality against Madara’s command of time. Madara erased the effects of Gen’s attacks, including a star hurled at him, and insisted that material destruction could not threaten him.

• Madara Uchiha transported the fight into a starry expanse and transformed into his prime form as Uchiha Gen declared himself an Uchiha.
• Uchiha Gen unleashed the Green Lotus Core Flame, but Madara rewound the flames with his control over time.
• Gen used causality to bind the flames to Madara, who erased the future event in which they struck him.
• Gen pulled a star from its orbit and hurled it at Madara, who erased the moment of impact and stopped the attack.

Uchiha Gen used causality and accelerated time to attack Madara Uchiha with a swarm of black holes, but Madara erased the moment of impact. Gen’s Golden Experience Requiem nullified Madara’s erasure and shattered his attempt to force a future where Gen lost.

• Uchiha Gen established [Same-Moment Fate Alteration], redirecting the effects of injuries he suffered onto Madara Uchiha.
• Uchiha Gen accelerated time in a nebula to create dozens of black holes and sent them toward Madara along the causal threads.
• Madara Uchiha froze time across the star field and erased the event of the black holes damaging him.
• Uchiha Gen activated Golden Experience Requiem, returning Madara’s successful erasure to zero and causing the star field’s timelines to clash.
• Madara Uchiha tore out future branches in which Gen lost and tried to merge them into the present, but Golden Experience Requiem shattered every vision of Gen’s defeat.

Uchiha Gen and Madara Uchiha battled across time and space, with neither able to overcome the other’s defenses through causality alone. As Madara unleashed a storm of attacks, Uchiha Gen awakened Ryūjin Jakka’s Bankai and met him with a flame-covered Perfect Susanoo.

• Madara Uchiha escaped Uchiha Gen’s attack by shifting his existence to a point in the past, but Uchiha Gen’s causality threads pursued him across time.
• Madara Uchiha created a gigantic double-layered Susanoo and forged two flaming truncheons from distant stars, using them to destroy Uchiha Gen’s black holes.
• Uchiha Gen used Same-Moment Fate Alteration to inflict the consequences of Madara Uchiha’s own attack directly upon him, cracking his Susanoo and causing him pain.
• Madara Uchiha accelerated his time and launched countless truncheon strikes at Uchiha Gen.
• Uchiha Gen awakened Ryūjin Jakka’s Bankai, Worlds’ Ashes, formed a Perfect Susanoo, and covered it in three-colored flames.
• Uchiha Gen’s flame-armored Susanoo formed a blazing tachi and swung it at Madara Uchiha’s incoming attack.

Uchiha Gen and Madara Uchiha finished their spar, and Madara explained why he had placed his Rinnegan in Nagato: to use Nagato’s Uzumaki bloodline to anchor coordinates to an unknown world. The chapter left Uchiha Gen learning that Madara and others were seeking new paths by contacting or invading other worlds.

• Uchiha Gen and Madara Uchiha fought a fierce spar with their Perfect Susanoo in the starry void.
• Madara Uchiha admitted that Uchiha Gen’s green-flame killing technique could defeat him in a real fight.
• Uchiha Gen asked Madara Uchiha why he had placed his eyes in Nagato.
• Madara Uchiha revealed that he had hidden Nagato’s presence and used his eyes to anchor coordinates to an unknown world through the Uzumaki bloodline.
• Madara Uchiha explained that the Uzumaki Clan had made contact with beings from another world and that Nagato was an ideal vessel because of his heritage and the life force absorbed by shinigami.

Uchiha Gen explained his plan with Madara Uchiha to make the Will of the World take physical form so they could oppose it, while Madara questioned whether their future selves would succeed. After returning to Konoha, Gen lost the borrowed power and found it was six o’clock.

• Uchiha Gen told Madara Uchiha that the Rinnegan might draw the Shinigami to Nagato and help locate its world, while also guiding Nagato to useful people.
• Uchiha Gen said they needed to make the Will of the World take physical form before they could try to erase it, and Madara Uchiha asked whether their future selves had already succeeded.
• Uchiha Gen warned that the Will of the World would be invincible in its own world once it manifested, and said the two boys about to be born could help them.
• Uchiha Gen transported himself and Madara Uchiha to the Valley of the End, then vanished after telling Madara to wait.
• Uchiha Gen appeared in Konoha's Hokage's Office, lost his future self's borrowed power, and saw that the clock showed six o’clock.

Uchiha Gen celebrated gaining Same-Moment Fate Alteration with a quiet meal at Yakiniku Q, where he unexpectedly encountered his former teammate Asuma Sarutobi. Asuma apologized for his father Hiruzen Sarutobi’s actions, leaving Gen facing a subdued and troubled old friend.

• Uchiha Gen acquired the talent Same-Moment Fate Alteration and reflected on its ability to link fates and transfer harm.
• Uchiha Gen went alone to Yakiniku Q to celebrate, and the Akimichi owner welcomed him warmly.
• Uchiha Gen enjoyed his meal and thought about how Konoha’s clans had benefited from the territories he had gained.
• Asuma Sarutobi arrived looking exhausted and disheveled, and Uchiha Gen recognized his former teammate.
• Uchiha Gen told Asuma to avoid drinking and smoking, and Asuma apologized for his father, Hiruzen Sarutobi.

Uchiha Gen comforted Asuma Sarutobi as he struggled with his father’s legacy and encouraged him to travel before returning to teach. Later, Minato Namikaze rushed to Uchiha Gen’s home to announce that Kushina might be going into labor, while Tsunade stayed focused on a game and Uchiha Gen read Uchiha Hikari’s novel.

• Asuma Sarutobi confessed his grief, resentment, and doubts about the Will of Fire to Uchiha Gen.
• Uchiha Gen told Asuma Sarutobi that he was not responsible for Hiruzen Sarutobi’s mistakes, offered him grilled meat, and suggested he travel before becoming a Jonin team leader.
• Uchiha Gen spent a quiet stretch of time relaxing at home while reading Uchiha Hikari’s novel as she awaited his assessment.
• Minato Namikaze burst into Uchiha Gen’s home and told Tsunade that Kushina might be going into labor.
• Tsunade brushed off Minato Namikaze’s alarm and kept playing a video game with Uchiha Gen, who read while operating his controller with his feet.