Chapter Summaries

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.

Kushina Uzumaki gave birth to Naruto while Minato Namikaze waited anxiously nearby. As a sinister presence appeared and Naruto’s soul began taking shape, Uchiha Gen and Madara Uchiha discussed using the newborn’s connection to Asura’s chakra and the Shinigami to locate their world.

• Uchiha Gen defeated Tsunade in Orochimaru’s game, then joined Tsunade and Minato Namikaze to visit Kushina Uzumaki.
• Kushina Uzumaki entered the delivery room with Minato Namikaze beside her, resolving to protect Naruto from the suffering she had once been destined to face.
• Uchiha Gen, Tsunade, and Uchiha Hikari waited outside until Naruto’s cry was followed by a cold, sinister presence.
• Madara Uchiha appeared and sensed a soul taking shape in Naruto’s Mindscape.
• Uchiha Gen drew the Demon Blade and said the Shinigami seemed bound to the Uzumaki bloodline.
• Madara Uchiha proposed tracing the chakra Asura had sent to reincarnate through Naruto to find the coordinates of the Shinigami’s world.

Uchiha Gen dismissed Madara Uchiha’s warning about the deity’s plans, while Konoha continued consolidating its rule over the shinobi world. Five years later, Yahiko, Nagato, Konan, and Hanzo of the Salamander arrived in Konoha to arrange Amegakure’s merger and were struck by the village’s prosperity.

• Madara Uchiha warned Uchiha Gen that the deity had begun acting, that Shimura Danzō had joined it, and that it possessed a creation of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki’s Yin-Yang Release.
• Uchiha Gen refused to monitor the timeline, insisting that he was the strongest and had no reason to worry about the deity’s plans.
• Over five years, Konoha unified the Five Great Nations and dismantled the other shinobi villages, while Amegakure remained under Yahiko’s leadership.
• Yahiko, Nagato, Konan, and Hanzo of the Salamander entered Konoha to arrange Amegakure’s merger and saw its orderly, prosperous streets.
• Yahiko marveled at Konoha’s peace, while Nagato watched with mixed feelings and Hanzo calmly accepted the village’s close surveillance.